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Library Purchasing Power to Drop Collections budget will not see increase in appropriations

“increase in the cost of books and other materials.”

“Although the University recognizes the importance of keeping our collections strong and is trying The University Library will not see an increase in to protect the collections budget, every year we have appropriations to its collections budget in the com- a flat collections budget it results in a five percent ing fiscal year, which will result in a five percent loss of purchasing power given the economic realities decrease in its purchasing power, according to of the publishing scene,” Kenney said.

Walker also said that because University Librarian Anne Kenney. the library often signed contracts University allocations to the col“Our rankings are going with commercial publishers, it is lections budget — which made up approximately $15.65 million of to continue to slide unless bound by contract to meet the increased costs set by the pubthe $18.5 million collections budwe get increases that lishers. get this fiscal year — will not “Essentially, publisher increase or decrease, according to correspond to inflation...” increases range from somewhere Kizer Walker, director of collecProf. Charles Brittain around three or four percent to tions. seven percent,” Kenney said.

Though Walker said he was glad the appropriation would remain the same as colleges “[There is a] built-in inflationary index in multi-year and divisions around campus prepare for reduced contracts with publishers for journal literature, and allocations during the next fiscal year, a flat budget we are contractually obligated to meet them.” would amount to a five percent cut due to “annual See LIBRARY page 4 increases to subscription costs” and the overall

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Nearly $7M Raised on Inaugural Giving Day

By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

The University raised nearly $7 million during the course of its first-ever Giving Day Wednesday, with approximately 9,680 gifts given as of early Thursday.

With a total of around $1.8 million raised, the Department of Athletics and Physical Education seized first place among competing colleges and divisions. The College of Arts

and Sciences raised about $1.17 million, coming in second place, and the School of Hotel Administration raised $1.13 million, placing third. The colleges raised approximately 26.1 percent, 16.8 percent and 16.2 percent of total funds raised, respectively.

Special challenge match funds were also made available to “unlock” throughout the course of the day. An $8,000 bonus went to the School of Industrial and Labor Relations

for the Young Alumni Challenge, which was unlocked when a goal of 1,000 gifts from young alumni was surpassed.

Additionally, the College of Engineering received $8,000 for the Big Red, White and Blue Challenge, which was unlocked when donors from all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., made their contributions.

Annie Bui can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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In trustees we trust | Two different committees of the Cornell Board of Trustees met yesterday to discuss their goals for the University.

Board of Trustees Reviews Initiatives and Programs During Annual Meeting

By REBECCA BLAIR and PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editors

The Cornell Board of Trustees convened in Statler Hall Wednesday to receive briefings on various University programs and initiatives during the first day of their annual spring semester meeting at the Ithaca campus.

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During the meeting of the Committee on University Relations, trustees were given presentations from members of Cornell’s central administration, government relations departments and community relations department, among others.

During his presentation, Chris Watkins, director of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, called the year he has served in his current position a “mind-blowing experience.” He explained that the extension has been working to support its regional outposts.

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Day Hall Slams‘Ludicrous’Allegations of Islamic State Support

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By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

The University denounced Wednesday a viral video that claimed an assistant dean at Cornell provided advice on how to support and fund terrorist groups and invite them to campus.

In the video, which was released Tuesday, an interviewer from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas poses as a Moroccan student facing racial discrimination at his current university.

Donning a hidden camera and microphone, the interviewer asks Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean of students for student activities,

of our student whether organizations Cornell would that do things be willing to like that all support a over the “humanitarian world.” group in the The video Middle East, next shows the northern Iraq interviewer and Syria.” asking, “If you “I think it did like supwould be ported like important, for COURTESY OF PROJECT VERITAS Hamas or especially these something people in the Going viral | The video featuring the dean, edited and spliced together like that, is Islamic State to convey a certain message, has nearly 180,000 views on Youtube. that a probIraq and Syria, the families — the freedom fight- ages whether it be food, water, lem?”

Scaffido answers in the video ers in particular, and their fami- electronics,” the interviewer says.

In response, the video shows that “the University is not going lies … to maybe just educate, but to maybe send them care pack- Scaffido saying, “There are a lot to look at different groups and

say you’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe in them or something like that.”

“I think the University wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world,” Scaffido adds.

Additionally, the video shows the interviewer asking if it would be possible to bring a “freedom fighter” to campus and provide “a training camp for students.”

“You would be allowed to do something like that,” Scaffido responds. “It’s just like bringing in a coach to do a training on a sports team or something.”

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A peaceful protest by professors, students and townspeople marked the appearance yesterday of marine and army recruiters at Barton Hall.

The protest, organized by the Tompkins County Peace Association (TCPA), a group of local citizens including a number of professors, began at noon as about 150 persons gathered outside Barton Hall.

After hearing a short speech by Rev. Richard Gilbert, in which he noted, “We stable middle class citizens are as much opposed to war as you younger people,” the group filed slowly into Barton Hall where the recruiters had set up information stands.

SDS, which voted last night not “to submerge [the TCPA] movement,” did not officially participate in the protest.

Campus policemen stationed by the army and marine booths looked on as the demonstrators quietly surrounded the marine recruiters. The protesters stood quietly for several minutes, and several of them approached the recruiters, Capt. Karl J. Ege and Capt. William Jones.

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Rev. Gilbert set the tone of the ensuing discussion saying, “The confrontation we seek is a moral one.”

Jones noted that he has experienced protests before, but “this is the first time I’ve been confronted by so many people.”

The demonstrators talked with the recruiters for over a half an hour, discussing issues such as the morality of war and the morality of the draft.

When asked whether he thought war is self perpetuating Jones answered “if we stay in Vietnam and stop the Communist Party then the spread of communism will be less of a threat.”

Jones complained that the American public does not get an impartial view of Vietnam, and he said “the horror and all the bad parts of the war make the paper, and all the good parts do not.”

Ege, a graduate of Princeton University who is considering the Cornell Law School for graduate work, also answered questions asked by the demonstrators.

After about an hour, Rev. Gilbert asked that the protest be shifted to the other end of Barton where the army recruiters were stationed.

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Sesquicentennial Celebrations Will Ramp Up Next Month

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By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

As the University’s Charter Day on April 27 approaches, Student and Academic Services and the Class Councils are planning a month of events leading up to the celebration of the sesquicentennial.

The planned events that lead up to Charter Day include Red and White Wednesday on April 8, brunch at Robert Purcell Community Center on April 12 and a lacrosse doubleheader on April 11, where the men’s and women’s varsity lacrosse teams will compete against Dartmouth and Brown, respectively.

Jonathan Schmidt-Swartz ’15, a co-organizer of the events, said they are aimed to “highlight elements of campus life and get students excited for Charter Day Weekend.”

“The sesquicentennial is a time to reflect on all that the University has accomplished in 150 years and all that there is to accomplish in the future,” said Schmidt-Swartz, who is also a senior news writer for The Sun. John Lowry ’16, president of the Class of 2016, said he wanted to help students feel more connected to the school.

“We came up with 150 things to do at Cornell, adding to the original 161 things [list] and expanding upon it,” Lowry said. “The extra 150 aim to broaden the experiences of members of the Cornell community.”

Lowry said he believes trying to get as many Cornellians involved as possible in the sesquicentennial celebration is important.

“We all have a shared experience here at Cornell, so we are trying to target everyone and get everyone involved,” Lowry said. “No matter what class you are in, you can go back to the past and find an experience very similar to yours. For example, you’ve had brunch at RPCC as a freshman, so we want to bring you back to brunch.”

One key aspect of a Cornell education is applying classroom learning to a “practical end,” Lowry added.

“Among our events is a ‘Student Innovators in Action’ forum to showcase all of the organizations and people in our classes who have done something extraordinary, whether it be in fashion, engineering, business [or] health,” Lowry said. “The idea is to look at what happens outside of the classroom and how you can take what you learn and apply it to the real world. That is what this entire school is about.”

Don Muir ’15, president of the Class of 2015, said the sesquicentennial is an important time to appreciate all that the University has achieved, in addition to fortifying relationships between the student body, administration and alumni.

“It’s a great time for all undergraduate students to come together and embrace Cornell’s tradition of academic excellence and realize everything that Cornell has to offer,” Muir said. “With all [of ] the alumni, trustees and faculty members involved in this initiative, we current and future students will understand what the Cornell community [is] and really develop pride in the school.”

The sesquicentennial kick-off celebration will begin at 5 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall on April 20, where organizations including the Glee Club and Big Red Marching Band will help kick-start the week and engage the Cornell community, according to Muir.

According to Muir, the Class Councils hope to get as many Cornellians involved in the events as possible. “[We want to] do everything in our power to ensure that these program initiatives are highly publicized in order to drive school spirit and participation,” Muir said.

The Class Councils have also been collaborating to spread awareness of the events leading up to Charter Day Weekend, using social media with the hashtag #my150cornell and other on-campus promotion.

Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun.com.

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Sisters of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority host the first ever Lululemon trunk show to support the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in the Physical Sciences Building Wednesday.

KashuaTalks Palestinian-Israeli Identity

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

Sayed Kashua — a Palestinian-Israeli writer who writes in Hebrew about his two cultures — spoke about the everyday challenges he faced living in Israel and continues to face as an Arab citizen of Israel in McGraw Hall Wednesday.

Kashua said he began writing in Hebrew when he was sent to a Jewish school for talented children in Israel. He recalled his first week at the school, when he was trying to “fit in” and feel “human” as the hardest week of his life. He said he attempted to fit in with his fellow classmates by changing his clothing and appearance. “[It was] not that I wanted to pass as Israeli. [I just wanted to be] a human being; not a threat. Someone not to be pointed at,” Kashua said.

Recalling his first bus ride, when he was questioned by an Israeli soldier, Kashua said he “learned the meaning of being a threat as a minority in the state of Israel.”

On bus rides home, Kashua said he began reading books about the ArabIsraeli conflict, which deepened his understanding and led to his desire for change.

“I really thought that change [could] happen,” Kashua said.

“The first step is acknowledging Palestinian suffering. …

How can we establish a place that we can share equal and share power?”

Years later, after “running away from Jerusalem in the summer” with his wife and three children, Kashua said he settled in Champaign, Illinois. Although Kashua said living in Champaign was “frustrating at the beginning,” he grew to appreciate it.

He added that upon his family’s arrival to the city, he told his children not to identify their race immediately. “[I told them that] if someone asks where you are from, you say Jerusalem because you don’t need to give away your identity,” he said. “[Depending on] their reaction, you will [then] decide whether to say if you’re Palestinian or Israeli.”

Kashua said he and his wife sent their children to a bilingual school, in an attempt to teach his kids that they live in a democracy and can “love and dream” in this state.

“My thought was that one day, we can share this land as equals,” he said.

However, Kashua said he realized this past summer that achieving an equal state was “impossible,” adding that part of this realization had to do with the fact that it was difficult to get Jewish children to register in the bilingual school.

Kashua said becoming a refugee after the ArabIsraeli war in 1948 was especially difficult and that “it is the worst thing that can happen to people.”

He said he believes that in some sense, he is a refugee because he and his fellow PalestinianIsraelis are disconnected from the rest of the Arab world and separated from their families.

“We are proof that you can be refugees without ever leaving your home,” he said.

Kashua said this feeling was what made him run away from Israel. He said that when a journalist asked if he was “thankful” for Israel, he replied that he did not believe he had a reason to be thankful.

“When I see that there will be no shift in Israel’s policies toward Arabs, it’s going to be a dark future,” he said.

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Opperman Among Top 15 Most Influential Women in Human Resources

By EMILY FRIEDMAN

tracts and the development of programs to increase diversity in employment.

Opperman has also “worked to attract Human Resource Executive named and retain top talent while addressing Mary Opperman, vice presiworkload increases and instident for human resources and tutional knowledge gaps creatsafety services, one of the top ed by the retirement of key 15 most influential women faculty and staff,” according to leading human resources this a University press release. week.

When asked what receiving Some of Opperman’s key the award meant to her, achievements include overseeOpperman said she was “gratiing targeted salary improvefied by the acknowledgement programs, a new human ment,” which she says has a lot OPPERMAN resources information system to do with her colleagues in and accompanying processes redesigns, human resources. the negotiation of bargaining unit con“I am humbled to be included on a list Sun Staff Writer

that includes so many accomplished H.R. leaders,” she said.

Opperman added that she believes the most rewarding part of her job is working through challenges with her team and with people across campus.

“I care so much about the staff and faculty who work here — they are dedicated and committed to our students and the University’s mission,” she said.

Opperman said in the future, she hopes to address issues that arise when increasing workloads and other changes present challenges to the community.

“We will continue to work with our staff and faculty to respond to their needs as we recruit and retain the diverse top

talent so instrumental to [the University’s] success,” Opperman said.

Addressing what the honor meant for the future of female leadership at Cornell, Opperman stressed that many of Cornell’s outstanding leaders are women.

“Talented female leaders — and this includes our faculty and so many staff who lead in many important ways — have the opportunity to grow and use their talents and creativity here at Cornell,” Opperman said. “Cornell is a very interesting place and that is attractive to very talented men and women.”

Emily Friedman can be reached at efriedman@cornellsun.com.

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are welcome at the University, violence is not tolerated on Cornell’s campus.

“Cornell has an unwavering In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, commitment to the free and President David Skorton said responsible exchange of ideas,” the idea that Cornell would he said. “However, we remain welcome terrorist groups such vigilant in maintaining an as the Islamic State and Hamas appropriate balance of freedom on campus is “ludicrous and of expression within accepted boundaries. Of course, inciteabsolutely offensive.”

Skorton described the video ment to violence is not protected and — which has would never been widely “Cornell has an be tolerated circulated online by vari- unwavering commitment on our campus.” ous media outto the free and R e p . lets — as a responsible exchange Tom Reed “s h a m e f u l” ( R - N . Y. ) , of ideas.” product of who repreProject Veritas, President David Skorton sents the which he said Ithaca area, “has been said in a repeatedly vilified for dishonest, deceitful Facebook post Wednesday that he was “disturbed” to see a activity.”

“It is shameful that any indi- video that appeared to show a vidual would pose as a student Cornell administrator “disfacing racial discrimination at cussing a club that would supanother university, ask leading port ISIS and Hamas on … questions on hidden camera campus.”

“This is yet another example about Cornell’s tolerance for differing viewpoints and back- showing the culture of extreme grounds, and then conveniently liberalism and political correctsplice together the resulting ness that is out of control on footage to smear our assistant many college campuses,” he dean and our University,” said.

Skorton said.

Skorton added that while Zoe Ferguson can be reached at many forms of free expression zferguson@cornellsun.com.

materials, books and content,” he said.

Walker also said that because Walker added, however, that the library had undergone budget the library has been taking action cuts, a flat budget has the potento find more cost-effective ways tial to affect more than just purto access and distribute informachasing power. tion so as not to be “at the mercy” “After years of cuts and flat of the larger, commercial publishbudgets, the library has already ers producing electronic journals made significant cuts in all fields and databases. of study,” Walker said. “We will Despite this, Walker said a do all we can to continue provid“quarter of [the] total budget” is ing access to the scholarly still spent on three publishers that resources that Cornell students produce “high-quality journals and faculty need, but another flat that researchers consider very budget year will mean cuts to important.” core material.”

Walker said mainWhile Walker admittaining these resources ted that the flat budget “We’re relying on the new provost and for the coming year is a and a strong library collection, despite the the new president to understand how cause to worry, he said he price tag, remains a remains optimistic for the important and amazing a resource fundamental part of future and grateful for research and teaching our library is.” faculty support of the coland is crucial to lections budget.

Prof. Charles Brittain recruiting and retainKenney said beyond ing high quality faculty the coming year, she members. hopes the collections “It’s hard to get people to to 2010, Cornell’s library ranking budget will see some “modest come here if they feel they aren’t in collections expenditures — as growth” and that she expects the able to do the kind of research ranked by the Association of incoming administration would that they were doing somewhere Research Libraries — dropped also help to strengthen the library else or that they could do at some from 12th place to 19th place in collection. other place that’s trying to recruit North America.

“I believe [President-Elect them,” Walker said.

The University Library was Elizabeth Garrett] understands According to Kenney, the issue able to restore its ranking and is their value,” Kenney said. “I’m of inflated costs from scholarly currently ranked 10th in collec- hopeful that she and whoever publishers is not unique to tions expenditure through the becomes the next provost will Cornell, but is a concern that spending of reserve funds and reaffirm that the library is just at universities across the nation face. reworking of its operations and the core, the heart of the workforce. However, Kenney said University.”

Brittain also said he believes “this approach is not sustainable.”

Kenney added that library new administrators would help staff has decreased over 11 per- maintain the quality of the cent since 2009 and the average library.

“We’re relying on the new professional salaries of library staff has also decreased from 25th provost and the new president to to 39th in ranking between 2004 understand how important and amazing a resource our library is,” and 2014.

Prof. Charles Brittain, classics Brittain said. “That’s why people and philosophy, said the library is are not angry yet. There’s a good a “vital” part of the University chance the incoming administraand that “serious investments” tion will understand. [The would be needed to sustain a library] is maybe the most important intellectual resource that we world-class status.

“Our rankings are going to have on the Ithaca campus.” continue to slide, unless we get increases that correspond to infla- Gabriella Lee can be reached at tion of the costs of electronic glee@cornellsun.com.

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Kenney added, however, that the University Library faced many challenges due to the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 and has still not recovered much of its purchasing power.

“It has been tough for us in terms of collections, because we’ve had a number of slacked budget years for collections, and we have taken our reserve funds to cushion those lean years,” she said. “We’re kind of scraping the barrel now to be able to do that.”

Because of the global recession, Kenney said that from 2009

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Trustees Discuss Outreach TRUSTEES

mittee and property committee discussed the need to allocate $100 million toward maintenance spending over the next 10 years, as a part of the “We have associations in every county,” he board’s continuing “no new space” initiative. said. “They have a great deal of independence to Trustee Paul Salvatore ’81 also reported on the decide how the resources within that county status of three projects that were already approved should be utilized.” by the board.

The cooperative extension has been working to “The Ag[riculture] Quad landscape is still early preempt the influx of faculty retirement expected in the design process,” he said. “We were supposed to take place in the coming years by forming con- to begin work on it in June and have it completed nections with younger professors, according to in August, but we’re pushing it a year. Work Watkins. He added that outreach programs such as should begin in June 2016 and finish that the extension’s internship program and the 4-H August.”

Youth Development Program have been very sucSalvatore said the delay was caused by complicessful in the last several years. cations with getting the state to approve and One of the extension’s priorities for the coming license contracts for the project. However, he year, Watkins said, is maximizing the potential of reported that an 8,000 square foot red greenhouse staff. has been completed and “will soon be turned over “We need to invest in to the [College of professional developAgriculture and Life ment to make people “We need to invest in professional Sciences] and filled more and more competwith plants.” development to make people itive,” he said.

Salvatore added that In discussing the the conservatory greenmore and more competitive.”

University’s efforts to house’s structure has influence state-level legbeen replaced and is Chris Watkins islation, Charles scheduled for compleKruzansky, director of tion next month. state government relaHowever, he said the tions, said the New York legislative landscape has most formidable project facing the committee in been shaken by the election of a new Speaker of the coming years is the challenge of addressing the Assembly and by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D- maintenance backlog.

N.Y.) “ambitious” budget proposal.

“Given the amount of our growth, we’re not ”It’s sort of quiet in Albany, but behind closed putting that level of maintenance in on a regular doors there’s a lot of fighting going on,” he said. basis,” Salvatore said. “Beginning in 2017, we “[Cuomo] put some policy changes in the budget need to allocate $100 million toward maintenance that really don’t belong in the budget.” for 10 years.”

Zoe Nelson ’04, associate director of state govSalvatore said that $945 million worth of mainernment relations, added that the current budget tenance backlog currently exists, which shows the proposal contains a provision on the adjudication inadequate amount of spending in that area. of sexual assault cases on college campuses.

Various trustees stressed the need for the Dianne Miller, director of federal government University to construct fewer new buildings and relations, said the University has been lobbying instead evaluate which buildings should be Congress in support of several pending pieces of restored, repurposed or demolished. legislation.

“This is where the conversation comes in at a “Two weeks ago we sent a letter to the New University level,” Gary Davis ’76 said. “We may York delegation layout out Cornell’s priorities in need to take some buildings down and build to the appropriations process,” Miller said. replace an existing building. This is not just about The University is currently working with throwing money into a money pit, and I wouldn’t Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to improve recommend that.” legislation governing the way campus sexual The committee also displayed a Powerpoint, assault cases are handled, according to Miller. She which outlined its 2016 budget of $226.3 million. also said the University is lobbying for improved This would result in five-year capital spending financial aid regulations and for transportation that would be worth $220.5 million. reauthorization legislation.

“When you look out at these next four years, “We have the opportunity to get some federal our challenge is to increase funding but also to use funding for the [Tompkins Consolidated Area money, as well as [to] … address program and Transit] to replace its aging fleet of buses,” she said. maintenance needs,” Salvatore said.

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Report: Pilot Locked Out of Cockpit SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — The first half of Germanwings Flight 9525 was chilling in its normalcy. It took off from Barcelona en route to Duesseldorf, climbing up over the Mediterranean and turning over France. The last communication was a routine request to continue on its route.

Minutes later, at 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, the Airbus A320 inexplicably began to descend. Within 10 minutes it had plunged from its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet to just over 6,000 feet and slammed into a remote mountainside.

To find out why, investigators have been analyzing the mangled black box that contains an audio recording from the cockpit. Remi Jouty, the head of France’s accident investigation bureau BEA, said Wednesday that it has yielded sounds and voices, but so far not the “slightest explanation” of why the plane crashed, killing all 150 on board.

A newspaper report, however,

suggests the audio contains intriguing information at the least: One of the pilots is heard leaving the cockpit, then banging on the door with increasing urgency in an unsuccessful attempt to get back in.

“The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer,” The New York Times quotes an unidentified investigator as saying. “And then he hits the door stronger and no answer.

There is never an answer.”

Eventually, the newspaper quotes the investigator as saying: “You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.”

The investigator, whom the newspaper said could not be identified because the investigation is continuing, said officials don’t know why the pilot left. He also does not speculate on why the other pilot didn’t open the door or make contact with ground control before the crash.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, airlines in the U.S. don’t

leave one pilot alone in the cockpit. The standard operating procedure is that if one of the pilots leaves — for example to use the bathroom — a flight attendant takes their spot in the cockpit. It was not immediately clear if European airlines have adopted the same practice.

The names of the pilots have not been released.

French officials gave no details from the recording on Wednesday, insisting the cause of the crash remained a mystery. They said the descent was gradual enough to suggest the plane was under the control of its navigators.

“At this point, there is no explanation,” Jouty said. “One doesn’t imagine that the pilot consciously sends his plane into a mountain.”

Jouty said “sounds and voices” were registered on the digital audio file recovered from the first black box. But he did not divulge the contents, insisting days or weeks will be needed to decipher them.

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Editorial

Dismissing Absurd ‘Journalism’

A VIRAL VIDEO GRABBED HEADLINES Wednesday after expressing the bogus claim that Joseph Scaffido, assistant dean of students for student activities, would welcome the Islamic State and Hamas to Cornell. To justify this claim, a “reporter” with a hidden camera and microphone posed as a student considering transferring to the University for James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. He specifically asked the dean about student life on campus and whether a student organization could be created to support “a humanitarian group in the Middle East, northern Iraq and Syria,” later referencing the Islamic State. The implication that Cornell “welcomes” the Islamic State on campus, as posited by a New York Post headline published Wednesday, is inane.

President David Skorton rightfully described the “journalism” used to produce such a video as “shoddy” and the ideas behind the piece as “ludicrous and absolutely offensive.” The video clip and the following news coverage from The New York Post and other regional publications showcase this purported conspiracy — in which Cornell would harbor terrorists on campus — in a manner that remains absurd. Rather than directly asking whether the University, and more specifically Dean Scaffido, would support the Islamic State or Hamas having an influence on the Hill, Project Veritas employed ‘gotcha journalism’ tactics and misrepresented what was likely an attempt by Scaffido to be welcoming and politically correct to a person he thought to be a prospective Cornellian.

Some will argue that Scaffido should have been more informed and aware of what the interviewer was saying when answering questions about Cornell’s campus. In his statement, President Skorton said he is convinced that Scaffido was “not aware of what he was being asked.” Whether Scaffido should have been more direct with the interviewer rather than erring to the side of political correctness, we believe, is irrelevant given the questionable journalistic practices used to fabricate this ruse. The video’s narration and editing, as well as the interviewer’s leading questions, show a disregard for ethical journalism at the expense of Scaffido.

The publication of such a video serves only one purpose: to unnecessarily vilify an individual for the purpose of creating an inflammatory controversy. Rather than focusing on one of the many issues affecting college campuses across the nation, Project Veritas and its reporters conducted themselves in a dubious fashion and opted for click bait. Rather than shaming Cornell University, O’Keefe’s site only managed to cast doubt on its own credibility.

CLARIFICATION A March 23 news story, “Lawsuit Against Cornell Employee Withdrawn,” stated that John Wender is currently facing a rape, sexual assault and battery lawsuit.

In fact, he is being sued for damages under those allegations made by an anonymous plaintiff.

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o The Cornell Review's, John Pedro: Microaggressions are for real.

The other day, my two best friends and I attended a folk music event, in order to fulfill a program requirement for the Rose Scholars Program. Upon entering the event, it became clear to me that my friends and I were anomalies — as evident as the kink of our hair, the texture of our accents and the colors of our skin. In efforts to reduce the intensity of the awkward spotlight, I behaved contrary to any stereotype that might have been floating around the room: I was complacent.

However, despite my initial apprehension, I ended up truly enjoying the event.

The folks — and especially the music — welcomed us in with open arms. Up until that point, I had never dabbled in folk music, and I was truly hooked. My friend, an African-American sophomore and music aficionado, was equally as enchanted by the atmosphere as I was.

Proceeding the event, we talked amongst ourselves, enamored by this entirely new world of folk music, but as we walked out of the venue, an older white man walked up to us three. Excitedly, he said, “You guys aren’t regulars around here are you?” Regulars?

Shocked, my friend responded, “No, but we should be.” What did he mean by regulars?

Are we not the typical population within Anabel Taylor, a diversely non secular campus building? Or were we Regulars in the sense that, despite a diverse age audience, we were one of the few people of color at the event? “You’d be interested in this event!” He pulled the pamphlet from my hand, quietly searched, and signaled us toward the Black musician.

Of course.

Microaggressions are funny in the sense that the perpetrator is largely unaware of their biases; they are a reflection of the implicit biases inherent within us all. Individually, each member of a society isn’t necessarily to blame.

What makes microaggressions significantly pervasive is that by nature, they have much more to do with the foundational platform used to foster these biases during our early developmental stages — allowing for its enablement in the future — than with the individual themselves. Microaggressions do not only exclusively target racial and ethnic minorities — the definition was extended to encompass unintentional derogatory actions against any member of a marginalized group, including the intersectionalities between marginalized groups (such as transgender and black, women of color, etc.). Microaggressions are indisputably real because they are the residue left over from centuries of an economic and cultural institutions developed to actively discriminate against marginalized people for profit. There are freaking facts, peer reviewed research and statistically significant findings to back up this claim. What I find more amusing than witty jargon is empty rhetoric.

For example, take the article “‘Microaggressions’ A Macro Strategy of the Campus Left,” which was published in the Cornell Review. Interestingly enough, the article is a body of a microaggression. The anatomy is completely intact. Specifically, there are three classes of racial transgressions that can also be attributed to other microaggressions against a marginalized group: microinsults, microassaults and microinvalidations. John Pedro’s rhetoric is an example of a microinvalidation, or “communication that subtly exclude[s], negate[s] or nullif[ies] the thoughts, feelings or experiential reality of a person of color.”

I find the issue of invalidation, evident in Pedro’s argument, far more pervasive than polarized ideologies. I refuse to revel within the polarized binary of Left and Right without contemplating the intrinsic faults of a dichotomy. One can’t possibly fathom a world in which issues are, first and foremost, complex, and that they lie within a spectrum. At its premise, using the words “Left” and

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Dear John “Right” invalidates the platform for discussion, and inhibits constructive discourse. The goal begins to deviate from critically addressing the argument, in hopes of developing a constructive solution, to instead attacking, categorizing and ultimately, invalidating the individuals that fall within these fabricated categories; this classification system is as arbitrary as any other hierarchy. Ad hominem.

This isn’t about defeating the stereotypical “Left or Right” or the “Lefts” devising an evil, macro plot to ruin lives. Critical issues demand critical analysis, not silly conspiracies.

Check your ego at the door.

Within my own research, I specifically study the buffering effects on an increasingly internalized positive racial/ethnic identity against two specific kinds of microaggressions: stereotype threat and social identity threat — which is detrimental to intellectual development and performance inhibitors.

While these instances might appear to be “cellular” in comparison to explicit bodies of racism, according to this logic they have the potential to become cancerous throughout a marginalized individual’s ontogeny. Over time, these instances accumulate within the human psyche, becoming chronically internalized. Worst of all, this deteriorating phenomenon is especially prevalent in spaces that need not to be complicating the future aspirations of individuals, against it’s own morals, such as educational institutions like Cornell.

Social Psychologist, Claude Steele was the first to coin the term stereotype threat: “Being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one's group.” Ultimately, within his research, he concludes that stereotype threat has a significant impact on the standardized test performances of African-Americans and women.

This implies that if stereotype threat can adversely impact the standardized test performance of marginalized students, then by association, it affects a number of other factors related to education in general, including college readiness, classroom behaviors, etc. Stereotype threat attacks the identity of the individual, upon realizing that even when attempting to contradict a particular stereotype, they still do so unsuccessfully.

Ultimately, students of color from lowincome neighbors are at the greatest disadvantage. Education, the golden ticket out of poverty, becomes gilded.

What’s most insidious is that these microaggression are subconsciously internalized. Not only is the perpetrator unaware of their position — the receiver is too. Within the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that processes working memory, in the context of an educational space, because working memory acts to inhibit irrelevant information while absorbing relevant information, students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat end up underperforming, in contrast to their white counterparts. Subconsciously, they allocate their time to combatting the stereotype, as opposed to allocating their attention to the particular task at hand.

Personally, I’m aware of my racial/ethnic identity in a positive light and thus I am at a slight advantage compared to my other peers.

The incident at the folk music event left only a scratch, but to someone else, it might have left a scar. Specifically, my younger high schools classmates who will begin to transition from a racially/ethnically homogenous environment, (KIPP NYC College Prep being 98 percent African-American and Latino) to a newly racially/ethnically salient environment, where they will be in the minority — the most vulnerable population to stereotype threat. The question is not about getting to college, for these students, but rather getting through college.

Microaggressions matter.

Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at pmunoz@cornellsun.com. Midas’ Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Lessons From the Israeli Election

hen Israelis voted last week, it was unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog would win. Preelection polls showed the center-left Zionist Union with a small lead over Netanyahu’s center-right Likud. But exit polls showed a dead heat and the final count gave Likud a small, but substantial, lead. And on Wednesday, the results of the election led President Reuven Rivlin to appoint Netanyahu to form the next coalition government of Israel.

One of the biggest complaints about the political system of the United States is that it is dominated by two large parties. And accordingly, the Democratic and Republican Parties are forced to cater to a wide array of groups while simultaneously trying to appeal to the very small number of swing voters. The two parties have mostly incompatible visions for America and thus politics have often been dominated by the loud extremes, and moderated by the important center, even though most voters fall within the mainstream of their parties.

Unlike the United States, Israel is not dominated by two main parties. Although the last campaign seemed to be a two party show, they gained less than half of the vote combined.

Since Netanyahu took more votes, he gets to form the next government, but this won’t necessarily be an easy task. While Likud won the most seats, 30 out of 120, only 23.4 percent of Israelis voted for Likud. He has to find a way to join with smaller parties to make a majority coalition.

Ten parties will have seats

in the next Knesset, ranging from the centrist to the extreme, the secular to the ultra-religious. Netanyahu will need to find a way to get these disparate groups to sit together, to work together and to govern together. His prospective coalition includes the centrist Kulanu, which supports instituting civil same-sex marriage, and the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ), which thinks any toleration of homosexuality will lead to Israel’s destruction.

voters picking a party somewhere near the center. It’s no wonder that the two largest parties represent the center-right and center-left, and the fourth and fifth biggest parties represent the political center. The left-wing and rightwing parties are much smaller and the extremists are almost altogether excluded. For example, the far-right Yachad got too few votes to meet the 3.25 percent threshold. This system leads to more cohesive ideological agreement within the parties and thus Israelis of nearly all political [The Israeli political system] is worlds views are represented some party in the apart from the majority-wins, by Knesset. district-based representation that However, this we have here in the United States. also leads to the dark side of proportional representation — the development of It also must include Likud which has often interest group parties. The primary purpose of pursued a right-wing economic agenda built the ultra-Orthodox parties, UTJ and Shas, is to on tax cuts and deregulation and the ultra- preserve the religious status quo in the country Orthodox Shas, which ran a campaign ad by maintaining the many exemptions which bashing the middle class for not being suffi- ultra-Orthodox Jews enjoy. Additionally, there is the Joint List, an alliance of a group of mostly ciently sympathetic to the poor.

Unlike Americans, when Israelis go to the Arab parties, which seeks to represent the interpolls, they pick the party which they most ests of Arab Israelis. But, because of the relawant to represent them. Any party that can get tively small population willing to vote for the 3.25 percent of the vote nationally will get seats Joint List, the alliance includes a wide array of in the Knesset proportional to the amount of members, from Jewish communists to Arab the vote they received. This is worlds apart intellectuals to Muslim fundamentalists. The from the majority-wins, district-based repre- Joint List has refused to be a part of any government coalition, effectively refusing to govsentation that we have in the United States.

The Israeli system leads to more parties ern.

The way that Israel’s political system is fragwhich span the political spectrum, with most

mented into this many groups may be part of why Netanyahu felt comfortable seemingly abandoning the two-state solution and warning about Arabs “voting in droves:” Because he didn’t have to appeal to a large segment of the population, he was able to focus on appealing to his base.

While our system may not lead to the breadth of representation that Americans may want, it also requires candidates to appeal to a majority of Americans. American candidates, particularly those who run for President, would never succeed warning that a certain segment of the American population was voting, and the major parties have to be responsive to minority populations. Since the Joint List categorically refused to join any coalition, Labor was able to ignore them and Likud was able to attack them. And no one will focus on helping Israeli Arabs, like the Joint List wants.

The main lesson to take away from the Israeli election is that despite the differences between the American and Israeli systems, they actually produce similar results. The next Knesset will look remarkably similar to the previous one, just like most American districts and states vote the same way every election. The only thing that’s changed in Israel is that Netanyahu has a harder job this time around.

He’ll have a more disparate coalition, a worse relationship with the White House and a poorer standing in the world. Israel didn’t vote for change, so nothing will.

Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at erp55@cornell.edu.

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THROWDOWN THURSDAYS Julius Kairey |

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One symptom of the hypersensitivity slowly rotting away at liberal education in America is the recent push for “trigger warnings.” If some students get their way, objectionable material in classroom lectures, discussions and presentations would include warning messages. Giving in to such demands, schools like Oberlin College have instructed faculty to scrub their syllabuses of offensive material that does not “contribute directly to the course learning goals.” Like proponents of the closely-linked “speech code” movement, “trigger warning” advocates equate controversial speech with violence in order to make it seem more regulable. This is a natural extension of a worldview that instructs students to prefer intellectual safety and security over a rigorous educational experience. In this paradigm, the quest for truth is deemed less important than making sure the “wrong” views are not heard.

When listening to the advocates of trigger warnings attempting to make their case, the careful listener is immediately struck by their boundless capacity for self-pity. They incessantly demand that society recognize their pain and acknowledge their status as a “victim.” Underlying this mindset is a paranoid fear that certain “privileged” societal groups are out to get them. Consequently, they cry “oppression” while censoring the speech of others and some universities are letting them get away with it. The same organizations that once wanted to keep administrators out of the business of regulating speech are now begging, even demanding, that they intervene. To give just one example, hundreds of students and faculty at Miami University last year demanded the university cancel a scheduled speech by syndicated columnist George Will.

The irony of this movement is that it bases its claims on the need to protect certain minorities from discrimination.

They most aggressively target speech (and speakers) deemed racist or sexist, supposedly to protect groups they consider particularly vulnerable. Yet, there is a certain bigotry inherent in their line of reasoning. “Trigger warning” proponents unjustly portray minorities as uniquely fragile and incapable of dealing with controversial and hotly contested issues. They are

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Trigger Warning! rarely asked why their own degraded perception of minorities is not tantamount to the racism they so eagerly denounce.

It should hardly be surprising that such policies end up encouraging students to frequently claim offense. The taking of offense is an entirely subjective and utterly manipulable standard, such that a student cannot be made to prove that he really is offended by something he sees or hears. By enabling students to change the behavior of others by demanding to feel safe, students are encouraged to avoid the tough issues raised in class and retreat to the comforts of identity politics and victimization theory. Students must prove themselves

A safe campus is a sterile one where we would lose what makes our universities great: innovative thinking, creativity, and a willingness to boldly reach for the next frontier. capable of an education that prepares them for reality.

Professors have particular cause for concern with the rising popularity of this movement. The burden will naturally fall on them to ensure that students are not “triggered” from the contents of their lectures and assigned readings. This is an impossible task. Faculty members cannot possibly know the varied personal experiences of each student that could cause them to find material particularly objectionable. Should they refrain from giving a hypothetical involving a house fire for fear that a student might have experienced one? How about teaching law regarding violent assault or rape? It will become increasingly difficult for professors to teach and for students to learn in a context that puts student sensibilities above a free academic environment.

It is not entirely true that “trigger warning” proponents want the university to closely regulate all speech. Their speech is exempted. The right not to be censored is only conferred on those with the “correct” ideas. It is precisely the politiciza-

tion and selective application of hypersensitivity that threatens to make our universities closed to those with unpopular ideas.

Imagine the Bible with warnings like “may include homophobia” and novels like Huckleberry Finn with the declaration “may include racism.” And why not make our campus an even safer space by removing such books entirely? After all, who knows if an impressionable young freshman might one day wander into the library, only to be traumatized by these books while innocently browsing the catalog? Do his sensibilities not deserve to be protected?

As “safe spaces” replace debate spaces and arguments and assumptions are insulated from challenge, faculty and students become increasingly unable to teach and learn the realities of the world. Free speech is important precisely because it enables us to progress as a society by debating ideas that are deeply held to be true on both sides. By doing so, our society becomes more enlightened as yesterday’s unpopular minority view can become today’s accepted majority view. Enabling students, or anyone else for that matter, to have a right not to feel offended would permit only inoffensive, stale and politically correct one-sided analysis of ideas that underlie our societies and shape our world.

A safe campus is a sterile one where we would lose what makes our universities great: innovative thinking, creativity and a willingness to boldly reach for the next frontier. Once a free university environment disappears, it is difficult to get it back.

Free speech must be tolerated by the hypersensitive, because it is suited to people who are excited by the risky work of challenging or defending the deeply held ideas of others while being challenged themselves. We can and should respect the sensitivities of others. But the price of oversensitivity is far too steep to pay. The rights of the majority to an open and free discussion of events, both contemporary and historical, must outweigh the rights of a minority bent on censorship.

Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun.com. Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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An ode to America’s fa vorite sandwich as Na tional Peanut Bu tter an d Jelly Da y approaches on April 2

By ZACHARY SIEGEL Sun Staff Writer

I was late to the game, a ripe ten years old, when I had my first PB&J sandwich. Though I loved each independently, the pairing of peanut butter with jelly always grossed me out. But, seeing as it was the only lunch provided on the bus home from summer camp, I had no choice but to reluctantly dig in. Years and countless peanut butter and jellies later, it’s now hard for me to walk past Stocking Hall without stopping in for a couple scoops of the Dairy Bar’s PB&J ice cream.

Peanut butter and jelly mingle together to make one of the most classically American combinations, a combination that means something to almost everyone. Most people have their

preferences: Skippy or Jiff; grape jelly or strawberry jam; crust on or crust off. Yet despite this sandwich’s variety of forms, it is wildly popular: The average person will eat 1,500 PB&J’s before leaving high school, according to the National Peanut Board.

PB&J Factoids

Nationally, 36 percent of Americans prefer strawberry jelly, while 31 percent choose grape.

White beats out whole wheat for bread inclinations, while smooth outweighs chunky peanut butter in the hearts of Americans.

However, much to my dismay while studying abroad, peanut butter is unpopular internationally. I suppose I can understand the lack of peanut butter appeal if it was not a steadfast component of your childhood diet ... luckily for me and 94 percent of Americans, it was.

PB&J Preparation

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ed. I smear a generous amount of Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter on one slice. Then, I scoop jelly on top of that peanut butter; peach jelly, a bit of an underdog, is my favorite. Any jam on hand (except grape, anything but grape) will work. I affix the other slice of bread and eat it — crust on, unsliced PB&J perfection.

PB&J Variations

carnivores among us.

5. Try shredded coconut, Sriracha and citrus marmalade for an adventurous Southeast Asian twist.

9. Certain cheeses complement both the jelly and the nutty butter — my favorites are brie and gruyere.

While I think it’s a bit impossible to get sick of this sandwich, I’m sure a sentiment that many people share is that variations are welcome, and often times are needed. Naturally, I would suggest making the sandwich components — bread, butter, jam — from scratch in order to increase the overall sandwich quality. But bread is tough to make, and it’s COURTESY OF ZACHARY nearly impossible to get it as SIEGEL chewy and fluffy as a storebought loaf. Plus, I’ve never had a homemade peanut butter that I liked — I’m guessing it has something to do with the lack of deliciously perilous processing.

Stovetop jelly, on the The Carnivore’s PB&J | Try pairing crispy bacon with sweet fig other hand, is fantastic jam and toasting your PB&J for an even saltier, savory variation. but requires a lot of equipment to ensure preservation. So, variations must come from additions and manipulations.

When it’s all said and done, 6. Nutella is always a good addition. none of these variations will sur1. Add fresh fruit to brighten pass the simple pleasure of the the sandwich. Banana is tradiclassic PB&J. But they represent a 7. To truly maximize the tional, or match the fruit to re-imagination of the flavors and PB&J’s innovative potential, whatever jelly you’re using. textures — soft bread, salty-sweet cook it! Frying it in a generous peanut butter and fruity jelly. amount of butter browns the 2. Switch up the nut butter The PB&J sandwich is a filling outside while keeping the mid(almond, cashew, sunflower) for breakfast, a classic lunch, a quick dle soft and runny. a refreshing change or for those dinner and a satisfying drunk snack. of us with peanut allergies.

National Peanut Butter and Jelly 8. Try peanut butter and jelly Day is in the middle of Spring 3. Add Ritz crackers for extra waffles or French toast: Place the Break, but I hope you will celebrate crunch. accordingly ... wherever you may be. sandwich in a buttered waffle iron or dip it in a traditional Zachary Siegel can be reached at 4. Peanut butter, bacon and batter (egg, milk and vanilla) zbs8@cornell.edu. fig jam enthralls the hardcore and fry it.

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Jack Jones As simultaneously one of the most candid and most introverted of rappers, Earl Sweatshirt has captured the feel of his new album in its title: I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. Instead of maturing into a more forthcoming and comfortable young celebrity, the grown-up teen prodigy has withdrawn further into his shell, soaking in his misery like a rich man sitting all alone in a huge house, with the door locked and the windows barred. I Don’t Like Shit is full of unease; Earl is anxious about the fame and attention that he so despises, focusing myopically on his grandmother’s death while he simultaneously pushes his mother away and lacerates an ex-girlfriend for her disinterest. On 2013’s Doris, the relentless pessimism and obsessive self-criticism of Earl’s rhymes seemed to perfectly capture a stage in his life.

“I’m indecisive, I’m scatterbrained and I’m frightened, it’s evident,” Earl rapped on Doris’ standout “Chum” (still his best song). As it turns out, however, Earl’s glum paranoia might not be simply the product of a complicated adolescence in the spotlight. It might rather be the inescapable mindset of a seriously depressed and antisocial person.

Earl’s genuine distaste for celebrity is reminiscent of Kurt Cobain, another artist who struggled

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to balance his artistic aspirations with the demands of fame. Cobain followed Nirvana’s critically acclaimed and commercially successful breakthrough Nevermind with the more dissonant and grating In Utero, which many saw as an attempt to challenge and even alienate their fan base. I Don’t Like Shit performs a similar task: After the dense, emotionally complex Doris (which may remain his magnum opus in fans’ eyes), Earl has stripped everything down. The album’s beats are spare and vaguely ominous, perfectly complementing the lashing-out insecurity of the raps. The songs sometimes veer into offbeat jazzy instrumentals, a signature trait of Odd Future productions, but many come to an abrupt, early halt: The album barely breaks half an hour with 10 songs.

It feels even more anti-commercial than Yeezus, the last major rap album to knowingly try to alienate its listeners, and I Don’t Like Shit’s boiled-down, aggressively short songs feel like jabs at the audience.

Earl largely eschews the kind of tongue-twisting cascades of alliteration and wordplay that he made his name with on songs like “Earl” and “Couch.” His style here is more laid-back, but certainly not in a relaxed way. His caginess seems to have bled into his rapping itself, as if he doesn’t want to show us how

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much he can do, for fear of raising the expectations for himself even higher. So instead he files his lines down into hard, short bursts. On the second half of “Grief,” he slows down the tempo to a stoned crawl, which shifts suddenly at the end into an upbeat bit of acid jazz, as if he couldn’t stand to stare the void in the face any longer. We don’t get much of what made him one of the most exciting technically gifted rappers since Eminem; But what we get instead is a fascinating, if unsettling, glimpse into an evasive and aggressive mindset, worried about compromising his artistry and finding solace only in grabbing a glass and pouring “some cold white wine in it.”

The album is objectively a success. Even if it doesn’t rise to the heights of Doris, it’s a boldly isolating move by a rapper whose most appealing quality besides his dazzling skill might be his relatability.

Nonetheless, it is unsettling to hear Earl embrace his own unhappiness to the degree that I Don’t Like Shit does. He is making compelling art out of it, but one hopes that he will be able to find at least a little light in the darkness next time.

Jack Jones is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun.com.

originals. Even though I am a fan of classic portrayals of Elliott Smith’s songs, I still appreciate the necessity for Avett and Mayfield to add a spin of their own styles to his music. “A Fond Farewell” is, perhaps, the track that departs the most from Smith’s original vision. Their cover utilizes the original’s lyrics, but their melody strays significantly from home base. At first, I was a bit critical of the alterations made to this track, but after a few more listens, came to appreciate how Avett and Mayfield were able to infuse Smith’s work with a twang of their own style.

While Avett and Mayfield are talented singers, their songs ultimately lack gravity. Smith’s songs are infused heavily with grief, and this is an aspect that I believe they fail to accurately capture. What makes Elliott Smith so dear to me is the emotion and honesty that he infuses within his songs. In many ways, Smith is his songs. Their overarching tone embody the anguish that he experienced during his career, and the tragedy of his painful suicide in 2003. Simply take a moment to watch Smith’s performance of “Miss Misery” during the Oscars in 1998.

He appears, at center stage, a stark figure in a white suit. His eyes scan the crowd in nervous bursts; He seems out of place in the lavish environment of the Academy Awards. When Avett and Mayfield perform, they occupy a completely different persona. In a video of the two performing “A Fond Farewell” on stage, they display an airy and pleasant quality, imbuing Smith’s song with a cheery overtone that is not generally a part of his repertoire. Avett and Mayfield create beautiful covers, but they fail to embrace the pain necessary to truly reflect Smith’s artistry.

The saddest thing about music it that it exists within ones own globe. I’ve come to accept the fact that few may ever glean the same internal twitches and satisfaction from Smith’s “Between the Bars” or “Say Yes” in the same way that I do. However, I’m hopeful that Avett and Mayfield’s album, despite it’s flaws, will encourage more individuals to take a peek into Elliott Smith’s raw, melancholic genius and develop feelings of their own for it.

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Melis Schildkraut A glance at the past few years of my life reveals several different eras of experience and feeling, all united by one common denominator: Elliott Smith. I first discovered his music the summer before my senior year of high school and its melancholic pulsing resonated immediately with the tumultuous feelings enveloping me during that time. Since then, I have continued to share his music with those closest to me, hoping that it would have the ability to move them in the same, tender ways that it has moved me.

In Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield, I have found my compatriots. The indie-rock artists have spent the past three COURTESY OF NPR

years cherry-picking songs from Smith’s discography, creating a 12-song cover album, Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliot Smith, which was released earlier this month. Their reverence for Smith is evident in the carefully arranged renditions of his songs. They add depth to each track through the addition of orchestral instruments.

Smith’s songs were originally written for a solo acoustic guitar and vocals, but Avett and Mayfield layer additional elements over this base. Both artists’ voices are showcased throughout the album; They harmonize with artful and overlapping melodies, alternatingly singing solo and in conjunction with one another.

Their selection of songs astutely represents Smith’s discography. It pulls from a variety of different albums and time periods including many of his signature melancholic tunes as well as more upbeat tracks. The album opens with ”Between the Bars,” a song that characterizes Smith’s longlasting struggle with alcohol dependence. After a quick listen, it’s easy to mistake this track for a love song, although perhaps, in essence, it is one.

However, it characterizes Smith’s relationship with alcohol rather than a relationship with a traditional lover. This is my favorite track of the album.

Avett and Mayfield keep it simple; The track is not overloaded with orchestral noise and the pair’s voices overlap sensitively.

The tracks on this album are split pretty much fifty-fifty with regards to their honesty to Smith’s

Melis Schildkraut is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mas759@cornell.edu.

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With the release of their first studio album on March 20, Big Data is a new electropop act on the rise. Best known for their hit single, “Dangerous,” released on their EP 1.0 in October, 2013, Big Data is a self-described “paranoid electronic music project,” created by and for the Internet, due to “a general distrust for technology and The Cloud.” All of this is explained by Alan Wilkis, a music producer and composer from Brooklyn who, up until now, was remotely known for his remixes of songs by The Who, The Temper Trap and many other groups. As the sole creator of Big Data, Wilkis aspires to analyze and relay the impact of technology on human society: Specifically the way that the Internet has altered modern day society and human experiences.

Although Wilkis is a huge user of the Internet, his goal of Big Data is to have people question how much personal data they are willing to give up. His claim? That people cannot live without technology. He wishes to reveal the simple irony of the situation: People are not able to function without technology, yet are reluctant to share the personal information about themselves that is oh-so necessary to use it.

The album itself includes the work of Wilkus and several collaborators, such as Joywave, Rivers Cuomo and Dragonette. The mood of the album sits as catchy yet cynical, specifically speaking to the world’s worries about and addictions to the Internet age. Though some of the songs

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According to Billboard, Big Data’s hit song “Dangerous” has peaked at the No. 1 spot on the Alternative Songs list and has spent 41 weeks on the charts and counting. And for anyone still trying to decide whether or not to give Big Data a chance, I encourage them to watch the music video for “Dangerous” and see whether they can sit through it without squirming or gasping at what plays out on screen. Unquestionably the most recognizable of their songs, “Dangerous’” music video shows a marketing campaign being created for fictional company, Big Data Shoes, encouraging wearers to commit violent acts. Consumed with plenty of head-butting and blood-splattering, the video is undoubtedly an unsettling depiction of virtual control. Big Data is trying to prove the power of the Internet and how it can track people, hinting at the fact that people are unaware of how “dangerous” the Internet can truly be. If this type of message fits your bill, than listen on: Every other song on this album promises equivalently surprising lyrics and themes.

“The Business of Emotion (feat. White Sea)” is the catchy song that you’ll find stuck in your head long after it’s over. Speaking to the inevitable emotional impact of the Internet, “Doesn’t matter to me cause you’re all the same / Should of never ever forgot / you signed up / now there’s no escape,” this is one of the tamer songs off the album in

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terms of lyrics and melodic appeal. “Clean,” on the other hand, taunts the listener with sarcastic opinions of all these virtual influences: “I’m so clean / I’ve washed it all away.”

Likewise, the most straightforward song off the album, “Snowed In (ft. Weezer),” candidly discusses the motivation to persecute NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

Endless references and emotional connections are presented in 2.0, yet it seems Big Data fails to choose one emotional opinion regarding the power of technology.

Although the entire album speaks to several overarching themes, few songs speak to the same emotions. In fact, many songs evoke multiple emotions. It’s an album full of twists and turns, playing with society’s emotional investment in the Internet age.

And although Big Data seems to be shaming the constant use of technology, a contradiction lies in the fact that Big Data uses technology to make and promote music through social media. According to Wilkis, his song writing is a two-part process: “I try to basically combine guitar with bass with the electronic thing and that’s the human element inside the technological element and that’s what I love.” By combining all of these elements, Wilkis has created what appears to be a flawless formula: Catchy beats, inspiring lyrics and mesmerizing music videos — all of which are relatable to the internet-savvy listener. If you’re a fan of deeply political, Brooklyn-born electronic music, Big Data’s latest album is undeniably worth a listen.

Rachel Mack is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at rmack@cornellsun.edu.

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verything except country.” I remember this being a very fashionable response to “What kind of music do you like?” back in junior high in California. Country wasn’t a cool thing to like: Too safe, too corny, too all-American for an age when kids are excited by anything that claims to challenge authority, like the aggressive punk and rap to which my friends and I gravitated.

“Everything except country,” besides being a non-answer, really only addresses the genre of music that is currently played on “country” radio. These songs are far in sound, style, and substance from the music that formed in the American South as an amalgam of blues and folk. There is really nothing on country radio today that is simply country. Much of it is straight-ahead rock with flourishes of country instrumentation, or “country-pop,” a style that Taylor Swift’s musical evolution has proved succeeds better the farther it moves towards pop.

Of course, current Nashville country’s main offense isn’t its dependence on other genres; it is its complacent, jingoistic and

proudly ignorant themes. The Rhett Akinspenned “Kiss My Country Ass,” made famous by the otherwise mild-mannered and inoffensive Blake Shelton, is a sampler of everything that is wrong with Nashville country: A hostile, belligerent attitude to anyone different than the “backwoods redneck” narrator (see title). It’s a celebration of the “rebel flag flying” from the back of the narrator’s truck, which turns a blind eye to the offensive implications of the flag and the ludicrous balancing act between celebrating oneself as an outlaw and claiming to love the nation, as well as rabid support of the American military. The narrator confusingly tells us we can kiss his country ass both if we’re not “down with [his] outlaw crowd” and if we “don’t love the American flag.”

It saddens me that the term “country” has essentially suffered a hostile takeover by this numbingly repetitive and vapid brand of

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rock. Country can be beautifully wistful without sinking into saccharine clichés and defiantly individualistic, without devolving into bigotry and us-versus-them rhetoric.

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Jack Jones Despite All The Amputations music is made by artists working in the country style. Steve Earle makes a rootsy and rocking blend of country, folk and rock, and has written more great songs about America than anyone other than Bob Dylan and (maybe) Bruce Springsteen.

Lucinda Williams’s uniquely broken voice lends more emotional weight to her spare, poignant lyrics than any over-emoting belter’s. The Drive-By Truckers may be the closest thing to the William Faulkner of music, writing songs that explore the complexity and contradictions of the South through intense and detailed character studies. Uncle Tupelo and its more famous offshoot Wilco transformed the themes and sounds of early, rootsy country into vital and thrillingly rocking music. And these are all artists working outside the world of Nashville; Within, there are some that subvert and challenge the machine they work in, like Kacey Musgraves, Ashley Monroe and Eric Church, who mutters on his most recent album, “The devil walks among us, folks / And Nashville is his bride.”

I’d like to take the remaining space to name three country songs that I think best represent the genre’s potential: Songs that both fulfill and transcend their stereotypes.

Steve Earle, “Guitar Town” Earle spent the rest of his career after this debut stretching the lyrical and stylistic boundaries of the genre. This isn’t Earle’s best song, but it is his most purely country. It fulfills pretty much every sonic and thematic cliché of country and manages to still be a clever and affecting song. “Guitar Town” proves that country can be unabashedly country, and still be great.

Lucinda Williams, “Those Three Days” Heartbreak is a common theme in country music, to the point of stereotype. This song may be the most painful breakup song I have ever heard: Williams’ ex-lover is described entirely in terms of an invading force on the body, an insect and an illness that has “built a nest inside [her] soul.” The album version is good, but the live version from Live @ the Fillmore is one of the most moving and unsettling performances I have ever heard.

When Williams sings “scorpions crawl across my screen / make their home beneath my skin,” you can feel them gnawing at your own.

Kacey Musgraves, “Merry Go Round” The best thing about this beautiful, smart and melancholy song is that it works within the frame of Nashville country, exploding its parameters from the inside. This is a song about real people in real small towns, rather than an ode to an idealized America of “small-town” values. “Follow Your Arrow,” from the same album, more explicitly attacks close-minded traditionalism, but “Merry Go Round” subtly upends country radio’s sepiatoned view of small-town America by depicting a cycle of people suffering from a hypocritical and failing culture.

Jack Jones is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun.com. Despite All The Amputations appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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ith temperatures still near freezing, most Cornellians are still waiting for the spring to kick in on campus.

There are signs of hope. The sun is shining brightly these days. The snow has melted and greenery can be seen around campus. Spring break is the gateway to happier days.

With the warming weather comes another thing to look forward; something that has deep roots in my childhood. Every year since I was about seven years old, the coming of spring has meant that it is time for baseball.

Spring training started in mid-March. This year the official season will start on April 5th in a matchup between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs. And with that, my love of baseball will be sparked again.

However, it is clear that many people do not share that love.

It happens all too often that when I mention my interest in baseball, people tend to point out that the sport is inherently boring, slow-moving or simply is not something that someone should watch in their free time. To be fair, I can see where that argument comes from. Additionally, the argument that baseball is dying as a sport has also developed in recent years. I am writing this to argue that baseball is still very much alive.

For those that love baseball, it comes from a deep understanding of the game. My love from baseball comes from childhood memories of packing my cleats and glove every weekend morning in the spring and heading to the baseball fields at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. It also comes from my first memory of seeing a major league ballpark in person, and walking out of the tunnel at my first ballgame at Yankee Stadium to see the green grass and the crowd that looked way different than what it did on TV. On top of that, it comes from the first time I was able to step out onto the field at Shea Stadium with my little league team and see the crowds coming in before a matinee game.

Moments like those helped to engrain baseball in my heart.

However, baseball also has many interesting components to the action that a non-baseball fan would not notice. When I tried to explain baseball to my Russian relatives, it was very tough to get anyone on the same page. There were too many things to explain: innings, positions, balls, strikes, outs, batting orders, umpires, managers, etc. That is when I realized that there are many intricacies that make the game a fascinating thing.

For example, pitch type and location for various pitchers is something that I like to follow. As someone who pitched in my

Nikita Dubnov Nik’s Knacks playing days, I enjoy watching a good pitching duel by some of the best talents in the MLB. Additionally, details like ballpark factors, which can describe the physical or environmental effect of a ballpark compared to others around the MLB, add another interesting element to the game.

Baseball is also largely run by statistics. There are very detailed statisticians working diligently for all teams to analyze the minor details that could result in the greater probability of a victory. That includes analyzing the effectiveness of a certain batter opposing a certain pitcher, using historical performance as a measure. Furthermore, Sabermetrics have developed out of baseball. This analysis strategy utilizes often overlooked in-game statistics to put together a winning formula. The practice has been called the “search for objective knowledge in baseball,” and it has received both praise and animosity.

Compared to the popularity of high-flying, highlight-reel sports like basketball and football, baseball stands a strong test of acceptance. However, it takes a lot to truly understand everything that goes into the game. Baseball is not dying in the slightest. Attendance is still high and the MLB Commissioner’s Office is making efforts to speed up the game by limiting breaks between pitches and innings. However, if you were to ask me, I would not want the game to change at all.

I have grown up with baseball as a sign of life when the season rolls around every spring. Many memories give baseball a special place in my heart. The memories of getting my first big hit or winning the division championship in my last year of play are not the only things that make me love the game. The simple joys of spending a weekend afternoon under that sun and in the electrifying atmosphere of a Major League ballpark always make me eager to see baseball back. If it is in your heart, baseball will not go anywhere. Baseball is America’s pastime, and it is not going to fail. The sport can be one of the most pleasurable to both watch and play, but that is contingent on whether or not you are willing to take the time to appreciate it.

Nikita Dubnov can be contacted at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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founder and co-president of Cornell’s chapter of Athlete Ally. “We wanted to create an inclusive climate moving forward and change the mates, and developed a relationship once the culture.” women’s ice hockey team moved up to Calgary Since its creation in 2013, Athlete Ally at before the Olympics.

Cornell has brought LGBT ally Brandon “I was doing a bike ride with one of her Ayanbadejo from the Baltimore Ravens to teammates,” Bucsis said. “We met four of five speak, created a You Can Play video series promonths after that at a mutual dinner. I came moting LGBT allies and has done other events out three weeks before this dinner, Charline around campus to promote inclusivity. started to follow me on Twitter and I was like, “Currently, we are working on a We Don’t oh my god, [she was] gay for sure. Of course, Say Campaign [with the Student-Athlete I followed back. We both knew that we were Advisory Council and Red Key Athlete Honor cyberstalking each other. We shook hands and Society] … to stamp out derogatory language,” I texted my mom, I think I am in love with DeProspo said.

Charline Labonte. It was a very special time The We Don’t Say Campaign video camgetting to live Sochi together. I am very lucky.” paign, based off of the You Don’t Say video that came from Duke University, will focus on promoting appropri“So much of our language on the field ate and inclusive language that surrounds athletics. is instituionally homophobic. That “She is just so open and most definitely needs to change respectful with language,” Bucsis said. “I think that’s one of the right now.” issues that people confuse. They think that silence equates to Anastasia Bucsis acceptance. So much of our language on the field is institutionally Athlete Ally, along with the Cornell homophobic. That most definitely needs to University Program Board and Haven, invited change right now.”

Bucsis and Labonte to discuss everything from Both women are currently living in their start in athletics to their personal rela- Montreal, Canada, while Labonte finishes a tionship with one another. Athlete Ally puts masters at McGill University. Bucsis has been on programs like the Olympic panel to work to taking some time off before she begins training change the climate of athletics on the Hill. this summer and Labonte will finish her degree “I started Athlete Ally in the spring of 2013 in the coming months before beginning hockbecause I felt that we needed to make the ey training again.

Cornell athletic community a more inclusive, comfortable, accepting space for LGBT indi- Haley Velasco can be reach at viduals,” said senior Atticus DeProspo, hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

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Cabrera Returns to First Base; Tigers Take Down Marlins 8-4 LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Tigers star Miguel Cabrera played the field for the first time this spring, doing fine at first base as Detroit beat the Miami Marlins 8-4 Wednesday.

Cabrera had been limited to designated hitter duty while recovering from ankle surgery.

Cabrera made a diving stop on a hard grounder by former teammate Don Kelly and threw from the ground for the out at first. Cabrera also fielded a basesloaded grounder and threw home for a forceout.

“I’m just glad to back on the field playing first base,” Cabrera said. “I can play defense and I want to be back at first. I’m seeing the ball, getting my timing down. It’s a good sign.”

Cabrera scared manager Brad Ausmus when he made that dive.

Cabrera said it was just instinct and was laughing when he raised himself up.

Ausmus didn’t think it was so funny at first.

“I liked it a lot, especially when he got up,” Ausmus said. “I was a little more concerned when he went down. Of course I was concerned. He is an important part of this team.”

The former Triple Crown winner went 0 for 2. Cabrera played alongside Victor Martinez, who went 1 for 3.

Cabrera hit third and was followed by Martinez, and Jose Iglesias played his third straight

game at shortstop. Martinez is coming off knee surgery and Iglesias has been recovering from stress fractures in both shins.

Alfredo Simon allowed four runs in 4 2-3 innings, leaving him with a 7.02 ERA in five spring starts for Detroit.

David Phelps, competing for a spot in the Marlins’ rotation, pitched five shutout innings, giving up two hits. Acquired from the Yankees to Miami during the offseason, he’s been sharp in five starts.

Bryan Holaday hit a grand slam for Detroit.

Donovan Solano had three hits, including a home run, for Miami.

Starting Time

Marlins: Phelps isn’t taking a starting job for granted once camp breaks in less than two weeks.

“I’m satisfied that I am doing all I can,” said Phelps, who started 17 games for the Yankees last season. “I am being more aggressive. It’s a new thing here. I am going from a team with a lot of guys fighting for a starting spot to a more laid-back atmosphere.

My job is to pitch and let (management) make the decisions.”

Marlins manager Mike Redmond said he still hasn’t settled on his fifth starter, but Phelps is in the mix.

“I think he is pitching great,” Redmond said. “He is relentless

on the corners. We brought in guys who can start and relieve and he can do both.”

Tigers: Ausmus said he wasn’t putting too much stock in Simon’s struggles this spring.

“He just keeps getting up in the zone,” Ausmus said. “I’m not worried about it. Spring training is all about preparation than performance.”

Up Next

Marlins: Henderson Alvarez will start on Thursday against the St. Louis Cardinals. He is 0-1 with a 5.40 earned run average this spring.

Tigers: Opening day starter David Price will go on Thursday in Lakeland against the Baltimore Orioles.

Bullpen Issues

Tigers relievers Joe Nathan, Joba Chamberlain and Bruce Rondon each pitched a shutout inning. Nathan will make his first back-to-back outing on Thursday against the Orioles and said he hasn’t felt better all spring.

“I felt so good today,” Nathan said. “It felt good coming out of my hand and I knew I could beat guys with my fastball. The difference was night and day compared to the last time out.”

Nathan said he had been spending a lot of time watching film of himself and used it to make adjustments in his delivery.

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Men:Quakers Are Ivy League Contenders After Strong Start T

he Penn Quakers have to be pleased with their start to the season. The Quakers have already knocked off three ranked opponents, defeating No. 73 Utah, No. 72 Boise State and No. 16 Penn State. Penn currently sits at second in the Ivy League standings, just behind Brown. The Quakers fell to the Bears earlier in the season, 3-4, in a tight match that may have featured the two best teams in the Ivy League.

Penn is currently riding a two-game winning streak, with dominant wins over Temple and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Prior to this, the Quakers played four matches in New Mexico. The squad defeated New Mexico State and Georgia State, but fell to No. 45 New Mexico and UT Arlington.

The Quakers have a big Ivy League matchup with Princeton Saturday, followed by a trip to St. Johns. The team will clse out their season with six consecutive Ivy League matches, including a critical match in Providence against Brown.

— Compiled by Shane Lewis

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Swinging away | The Penn Quakers have breezed through a tough schedule and currently sit at second place in the Ivy League.

Women:Dartmouth May Be Class of Conference T he Dartmouth women’s tennis team has started the season on a great note, dropping only one of their first 14 matches. This sole loss came to a Long Beach State squad that has looked equally impressive to start the season.

The Green has already competed against three other Ivy League schools, defeating Brown twice and Princeton and Columbia once each. The team rose to as high No. 23 in the national rankings, but fell out of the Top 25 after their loss to Long Beach State.

Dartmouth looks to be the class of the Ivy League this year, after already defeating last year’s champion Princeton, as well two competitive Brown and Columbia squads.

They are currently on a road trip that has included four matches in

California and will conclude in Texas with a match against Houston.

Conference play then starts up again with seven consecutive Ivy League matches.

— Compiled by Shane Lewis

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Strong start | After finishing in the middle of the Ivy League pack last year, Dartmouth looks poised to take the conference title this season after their blazing start.

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Dean Takes Home 184 lb National Title Red ends season with four All-Americans,fifth-place NCAA Championship finish

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

This past weekend, sophomore Gabe Dean became Cornell’s most recent NCAA champion in wrestling since Kyle Dake ‘13 won during his senior season with the Red. Dean is the 17th Cornell champion in the program’s history. Sophomore Brian Realbuto took second place in his fight at 157 pounds and the team finished in fifth place overall. Junior Nahshon Garrett and senior Chris Villalonga took fifth and sixth place respectively.

Dean’s win came after a strong 43-2 sophomore season with the squad. After coming in third in last year’s NCAA’s, his performance at the tournament this weekend was characteristically solid in all of his matches. Dean saw success in all five fights and won by decision, 6-2, in the finals, taking down Nathaniel Brown of Lehigh en route to claiming the title.

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The champ | Sophomore Gabe Dean takes down an opponent.

for five matches in a row and that weeks after earning Ivy Wrestler of the Year. Garrett earned is not as simple as it sounds.” the same title last year, while the acclaimed Dake won the With the team’s Top-5 honor for the two years prior in 2012 and 2013. Dean finoverall finish and four ished his season on a 28-match win streak.

All-American titles in While Realbuto came in a strong second place, Dean, Realbuto, he said he is not totally satisfied with his win.

“I was happy to achieve All-American status again this year, but losing in the finals was difficult,” he said about falling to freshman Isaiah Martinez of Illinois.

“However, coming so close to my goal this year will definitely drive me to get there next year.”

While his loss was disappointing, Realbuto CONNOR ARCHARD / acknowledges that he did SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER not wrestle as well as he could have and that the Strong performance | Sophomore Brian Realbuto pins his score of the match reflect- opponent. Realbuto finished in second place in the 157lb at the NCAA Championships. ed this.

“After giving up the takedown at the end of the Garrett and Villalonga, head coach Robert Koll has much second period, it really struck me how poorly I to be proud of. Koll, one of the best coaches in Cornell was wrestling,” he said. “I wasn't able to get the athletics history, has had at least four All-Americans on his flow of the match moving in my favor, squad for 10 of his last 11 seasons. He constantly sets and towards the end I felt a bit help- tough but achievable goals for his players and pushes them to wrestle their hardest each and every match. However, less.”

For the Red, the national tourna- with much success comes an expectation of excellence and ment is always a true culmination of a Realbuto’s feelings about the team’s overall finish reflects season and a year’s worth of work. this expectation.

“I really do not think that we maxed out our potential,” While the squad had been training hard the whole season, Realbuto explains that the weeks he said. “This finish was not our best showing and it has leading up to the tournament are all about mental left us feeling hungry to win that title next year.

Realistically, we have enough talent on this team to win a preparation.

“Leading up to the NCAA tournament, the national title and I truly believe we will get there next year most important work put in is mental,” he at Madison Square Garden.” said. “Getting yourself in the right place mentally is the most challenging aspect. Anna Fasman can be reached at You really need to be at peak performance sportseditor@cornellsun.com.

Olympians Bucsis, Labonte Speak About Experiences as LGBT Athletes

By HALEY VALESCO Sun Senior Writer

About six months before the opening of the Sochi Olympics, Russia passed a law barring “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors”. The climate surrounding the 2014 Olympics turned from a positive gathering of international athletes to an event that was surrounded with distaste from across the globe.

President Obama went as far as saying , “Nobody is more offended than me” at a White House press conference in August 2013.

“Sochi was the time of our lives,” Canadian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis said.

“We were at the Olympics together.

Charline was on fire and I was happy with

my skating. It was wonderful but it definitely did feel like there was an elephant in the room. There were a lot of questions on people’s minds.”

According to the International Business Times, 2,800 athletes participated in the 2014 games, representing 88 countries.

Two of those athletes, Charline Labonte, a four-time olympic gold medalist for the women’s Canadian hockey team, and Bucsis, a two-time olympic speed skater for Canada, traveled to Russia as a couple.

During a panel put on by Cornell’s chapter of Athlete Ally, the two athletes discussed their rise to the Olympics, how they got started in their respective sports and what it was like to come out as LGBT

while playing competitive sports. Labonte spoke about how her ice hockey career provided her with LGBT role models that made her coming out process a little easier.

“My friends play hockey, so that’s what I want to do.” Labonte said. “I had boyfriends until I was 18 or 19. I switched to women’s hockey and it was the first time that I met a gay person. I was like she was gay and she’s normal. I came out last June. People were like, how was that?

That was a piece of cake compared to coming out to yourself.”

Bucsis’ story about accepting her sexuality differs from Labonte, as she said her acceptance of her sexual identity was more of a personal struggle.

“I really struggled

to accept it,” Bucsis said. “I think that I knew that I was fundamentally gay beforehand. I really struggled to accept that—I was incredibly lonely, confused, just searching for any direction in my life. I was actually diagnosed with clinical depression in January 2013, right before the Olympics. I attribute that to not loving myself and I couldn’t figure out my identity.”

Bucsis also spoke about her work with Right to Play, an organization dedicated to working with volunteers and partners to use sport and play to enhance child development in areas of disadvantage. The couple spoke about how they met through a friend, one of Labonte’s teamSee ALLY page 14

“I felt that we needed to make the Cornell athletic community a more inclusive space for LGBT indviduals.”

Atticus DeProspo

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Bringing awareness | Olympic athletes Anastasia Bucsis and Charline Labonte discussed LGBT issues in sports at a panel Wednesday.