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Cornell Graduate Students United Election Results

VOTE TALLY

NO 919 YES 856 NOT YET COUNTED 81

Election results stalled by challenged ballots

By JOSH GIRSKY and ANNA DELWICHE Sun Managing Editor and Sun News Editor

After two and a half hours of counting ballots and over an hour of discussions and deliberations, officials from the American Arbitration Association declined to announce a result in this week’s union recognition election.

Although 856 votes were cast in favor of unionization and 919 were cast against, there were 81 votes that were not counted for various reasons — enough to make up the deficit

for union supporters.

Sixty-five challenge ballots were set aside to be discussed further, while six absentee ballots were not yet opened. In addition, there were 10 unresolved challenge ballots, which were ballots cast by voters that did not mark their intentions clearly.

After three years of organizing, protests, rallies, demonstrations and even at-home sollicitations, graduate students headed to the polls on Monday and Tuesday to vote on See RESULTS page 4

AFT considers contesting results after alleged Cornell misconduct

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun News Editor

The American Federation of Teachers — the union with which Cornell Graduate Students United has affiliated — is considering contesting the results of the union recognition election due to alleged labor law violations

by the University.

AFT published a statement Wednesday saying that it “questions the validity of the Cornell graduate union recognition election held this week” because “the administration committed a glaring swathe of labor law violations in the days leading up to and during the vote.”

The results of the election were ruled too close to call by the American Arbitration Association. In their counting of the ballots early Wednesday morning, 856 votes were cast in favor of CGSU and 919 were cast against. However, 81 challenge votes that are yet to be See AFT page 4

PHOTOS BY CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

At a crossroads | Pro-union activists (above and below) wait outside the room where votes were counted, as University and union representatives discuss challenged ballots.

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A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS Today IAD Seminar: The Impact Of Elections in Institutional Development in Africa 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall Kripalu Yoga 5 - 6:15 p.m., Garden Room, Willard Straight Hall

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Dragon, dragon, dragon | First-year students in the architecture college will be parading an enormous dragon around campus (previous beast seen above) on the 116th Annual Dragon Day. The theme of this year’s event is “Louder Together.”

Drones Direct Action and Justice 5 p.m., Tatkon Center

Global impact | Prof. Ken Opalo, foreign service, Georgetown University, will be speaking as part of the Institute for African Development lecture series on the impact of elections in emerging democracies.

Vital Subjects: Biopolitics and Race in Italy 5 - 6:30 p.m., Guerlac Room, A.D. White House Los Muertos and Q & A with Director GRF Kat 5:45 - 8 p.m., Keeton House

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Tomorrow Dragon Day 1 - 2:30 p.m., Cornell University Arts Quad Deaths of Despair From the Cities to the Hollers 1:30 - 3 p.m., B73 Warren Hall

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Prof Shares Beauty of Math With Students Traumatized by Subject

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Steven Strogatz, math, is leading the charge against students traumatized by mathematics through what he calls his “public communications” of the beauty of math in his TED Talks, in a New York Times series and in his passionate teaching.

“A lot of kids come out not only disliking math, but feeling traumatized by it,” he said. “It’s [a] shame that we so often manage to turn them off, I don’t know quite why it happens, but it does.”

Though Strogatz was admittedly not one of these students with such disdain for mathematics, it was the exhilaration of solving one challenging geometry proof in high school that sealed his math career.

To this day, he still remembers that fateful problem: prove that if two angle bisectors of a triangle have the same length, it’s an isosceles triangle.

“I just started thinking about it, and I couldn’t do it, and that freaked me out a little bit, because I could always do any math problem that any teacher asked if I just kept at it long enough,” he said. “In French class, they would be asking us to conjugate verbs, and I would be thinking about the angle bisectors.”

Furthermore, his teacher, Mr. Johnson, who first posed the problem to his entire precalculus class, had admitted that he himself did not know the solution.

“He was our most impressive math teacher at the school. He had a beard, he went to MIT, he just seemed like a cut above the other math teachers,” Strogatz said.

“And so for Mr. Johnson to say that he didn’t know how to solve this triangle problem — I never heard a teacher say that, or admit something like that.”

These were the days before the internet, so the answer could not easily be researched. After about six months of pondering over the question, Strogatz finally figured it out and went over to Johnson’s house to show him his solution.

During an interview Strogatz pulled out his old high school math notebook, which included a note from 1974

that Mr. Johnson had written to the dean of Strogatz’s high school.

“I’ve been throwing out a difficult geometry theorem to classes and bright math students for 15 years and no one has proved it. Steve came up with a clear and relatively simple proof,” Johnson’s note read. “Congratulations, he has real talent.”

From that point, Strogatz began to draft and attempt to solve his own questions, leading him toward widespread recognition for his research.

On topics ranging from complex nonlinear dynamics to small world networks, Strogatz said that choosing a research topic is an “emotional thing” because of the commitment and sacrifice it requires.

“It’s another relationship that’s going to go on for years: you and your book,” he said.

“You better really want to write that book. It’s hard, so I just have to feel some sort of fever to write something, like I just have to tell this certain story or I have to explain this.”

Currently, Strogatz is working on a book that aims to convey the story of calculus, because he feels that most people who have taken calculus do not fully understand its purpose nor its beauty.

“I see it as this fantastic two thousand year story of great creativity and struggle and drama and enormous scientific importance in changing the world in a lot of ways,” he said. “The kind of stuff I want to get across in the book [is] that calculus is not some pinheaded thing that’s just for the physicists and engineers, but is a big part of culture, and when you start to see that, it makes it more interesting.

It was the publication of his very first book geared toward the general public, exploring how and why systems spontaneously synchronized, that opened up exciting new opportunities for Strogatz.

One “very nice, out-of-the-blue opportunity” for Strogatz was the chance to fly out to California to give a

Details Emerge in Title IX Inquiries

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

For more than two months, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has been investigating Cornell for six unique allegations of Title IX violations — more than any of the 228 postsecondary institutions under investigation, as of Wednesday.

The civil rights office last week released several details related to the most recent investigation, which began on Jan. 25, in response to requests made by The Sun and other news media under the Freedom of Information Act. The most recent investigation is into an allegation that Cornell did not respond quickly enough or equitably to the complainant based on the complainant’s sex.

“You alleged that the University discriminated against you, on the basis of your sex, by failing to respond promptly and equitably to complaints of

sexual assault and retaliation that you and a ... student ... made,” The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights wrote to the complainant in January.

Complainants in the five other active investigations have claimed, among other things, that Cornell discriminated against them based on race, color or national origin; that Cornell escalated a nocontact order to a temporary suspension based on a student's sex; and that Cornell's failure to respond promptly to complaints of sexual assault led to a "sexually hostile environment," The Sun previously reported.

The OCR, as part of an investigation opened in September, is also looking into a complaint that the University “failed to respond promptly and equitably to the complaint of sexual assault.”

Both letters are redacted to exclude certain records in open case files and to protect the identity of the complainants.

See TITLE IX page 4

TED Talk presentation. He said that he had never even heard of the program since this was before it was popular on the internet.

“They had guys filming it and I didn’t really think much of it, and now it's on YouTube or the web and lots of people have watched it, hundreds of thousands of people have watched it, and I wish I had prepared it better because I really was just improvising,” he said.

However, Strogatz said the most exciting thing he ever did in his public communication of math was writing a series for the New York Times over the course of 15 weeks in the summer of 2010.

In his Math 1300: Mathematical Explorations class, Strogatz tries to foster an appreciation for the subject by relating mathematical concepts to other fields that students might be interested in, such as politics or music.

“The goal [of the class] is not to teach a lot of hard math, but more to teach why anyone would love math, what’s beautiful about it or fun, which a lot of students have never had.”

Although personally very passionate about math, Strogatz admitted that he does not think knowing math is particularly useful or practically important for the average person.

“I don’t think it really matters that much if people don’t know math,” he said. “You can get through your life perfectly well without knowing much math.”

Instead, he believes people should learn math to better analyze what is going on in current events and be part of the conversation. It is enriching to human life in the same that Mozart’s musical works or Toni Morrison’s writings, Strogatz explained.

“I feel like that’s the point, that if I get someone to appreciate math who's never going to use it, they’re now let in on the fun,” he said.

After spending his undergraduate years at Princeton and graduate school at Harvard, and then even teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Strogatz was pulled to Cornell where he has remained for 23 years.

“People here are just as smart and hard-working as those places, but we don’t have the egomaniacs you find at those places,” he said. “I just find it very refreshing, how humble and open and friendly everybody is, students and professors.”

Despite all his external success, Strogatz said what he really loves is being a teacher at Cornell.

“It’s been an interesting journey, but in my heart, my main thing is still to be a teacher here at Cornell, that’s what I really care about,” he said.

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AAA Cannot Yet Confirm Results AFT Considers Contestation

81 challenge ballots to be resolved before outcome announced As officials from the American Arbitration Association systematically read aloud yes’s and no’s from the seemwhether they wanted to recognize ingly endless stacks of blue ballots, some Cornell Graduate Students United, with CGSU members and other observers affiliates American Federation of Teachers tried to follow along, furiously tallying and New York State United Teachers, as the votes in notebooks and pieces of scrap paper. their official graduate student union.

While nearly all voters simply marked The vote was made possible by an August decision by the National Labor their response on the ballot as instructed, Relations Board ruling that graduates can some chose to add more colorful combe classified as workers in addition to ments to the voting process.

The tension was briefly broken when a their role as students. The decision triggered a contract agreed upon by CGSU ballot was disputed because the voter had and the University in May 2016. The written “stop knocking on my fucking contract established a code of conduct for door.” The voter checked the yes box, so campaigning, the eligible voters and elec- representatives from both the union and the University agreed that the vote could be marked a “yes.”

“A fucking yes,” an arbitrator “Though this particular battle might not joked. have gone as well as we’d have liked, Yet the tension would return quickly and remain until procewe’re still here.” dures were finished at about Jaron Kent-Dobias, grad 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday.

Michaela Brangan, grad, administrative liaison for CGSU, said that after hearing the results tion procedures.

Out of the approximately 2,300 eligi- she was “surprised but not surprised.”

Recognizing that “a lot of people put ble voters, 1,856 cast ballots in the election for a turnout rate of around 80 per- their hearts and souls into this campaign,” Brangan and Jaron Kent-Dobias, cent.

After the last ballot was counted, more grad, emphasized the strength that their than 20 minutes passed before arbitrators movement built.

In fact, Kent-Dobias noted that and representatives from the union and Cornell left the room to discuss the Monday night the graduates had been results in private. More than an hour given a healthcare concession and that passed before any announcement was “early in the campaign, [the University] made changes to the grievance procemade.

Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the dure,” making him hopeful of the power Graduate School Barbara Knuth sent out the union gained through its organizaa statement to the Cornell community tion.

“Though this particular battle might early Wednesday morning detailing the not have gone as well as we’d have liked, inconclusive results of the election.

“It is anticipated that the review we’re still here,” he said. “We’re still process and determination of final out- working for Cornell and we still have a come will occur within the next month,” voice and the platform and ideas that we she said in the statement. “The arbitrator started with.”

However, Kent-Dobias was also just will notify both Cornell and union representatives when the challenged ballots looking one day ahead.

“I have to teach for this institution have been resolved and a final outcome tomorrow,” he said. has been reached.”

Over 50 observers filled G01 Biotechnology Building, where votes Josh Girsky can be reached at were counted, withstanding the tension managing-editor@cornellsun.com. Anna and a noticeably warm temperature, to Delwiche can be reached at observe the results as they came in. adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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OCR Continues Title IX Investigations TITLE IX

OCR from Cornell in the most recent case takes up two pages, but is completely “Please note that openredacted in the documents ing Allegation 1 for investiobtained by The Sun under gation in no way implies an exemption allowing that OCR has made a deterOCR to withhold records mination with regard to its that could interfere with its merit,” a compliance team enforcement of Title IX. leader notes in the Jan. 25 The Education Deletter. partment's Office “ Du r i n g Civil Rights is “Please note that opening Allegation 1 for the investigainvestigating 317 tion, OCR is for investigation in no way implies that cases at 228 posta neutral factsecondary instituOCR has made a determination.” finder, coltions relating to lecting and Title IX, as of Compliance Team Leader analyzing relWednesday, and evant eviCornell is the dence from the com- ly reported. only university with six plainant, the recipient, and As part of the most active inquiries. other sources, as appropri- recent investigation, OCR Only two other colleges ate.” sent Interim President — Kansas State University Part of that fact-finding Hunter Rawlings a letter in and Indiana University at effort took place Feb. 28 which it asked him to “pro- Bloomington — have five and March 1 when four vide to OCR the informa- active investigations. lawyers from OCR visited tion listed on the enclosed Cornell’s Ithaca campus to data request” within 20 days Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs listen to students about of the Jan. 25 letter. can be reached at nbogeltheir experiences with The data requested by burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Title IX Office investigators.

Attendees at those listening sessions said Cornell’s Title IX office had tried to keep their complaints behind closed doors and that Cornell Title IX investigators were slow and unresponsive, The Sun previous-

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resolved rendered the results indeterminate.

“Cornell management sent a clear message in violation of the negotiated code of conduct and federal labor laws that the ends justify the means,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten ’80 in the release. “There should be no place for this kind of outright animus against colleagues in higher education. The administration has failed the entire Cornell community, and Cornell itself.”

The University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In questioning the validity of the election, AFT claims that a pattern of administrative misconduct “chilled voters” and “polluted grad union election results,” particularly in the days leading up to and during the vote.

The misconduct AFT alleges constitute labor law violations that “compromised the ability of graduate students to make a free choice” in the election.

The University and CGSU agreed on a code of conduct for each party’s behavior both during the campaign process and during the election in a contract signed in May 2016 that aimed to ensure a free and

“The administration has failed the entire Cornell community, and Cornell itself.”

Randi Weingarten ’80 fair election.

However, AFT contends that this code “was repeatedly violated by Cornell management.”

“As an alumna of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, I want to say how deeply disappointed I am with the egregious conduct of the university,” Weingarten said. “Cornell flagrantly violated the spirit of both the code of conduct we negotiated and federal labor law.”

AFT specifically points to emails from the University sent in the midst of the voting process — communications that Weingarten said were sent “with the inten-

tion of chilling and intimidating voters.”

The night before the election, the administration sent a special edition announcement to students. The Ask a Dean portion of the announcement responded to a student asking where the University would get the money to pay for added benefits should a union form.

The response from Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth generated concern among union activists.

“All of these funds (external grants, and department and college budgets) are limited,” Knuth said in the response. “It is possible that significantly increased costs for these items could lead to reduced numbers of graduate students at Cornell, but faculty, departments, and colleges would need to make those decisions.”

The next day, graduate students received another email from the administration. Vice President of Human Resources Mary Opperman wrote to inform students that the University “received a report that a number of CGSU/AFT/NYSUT representatives have told eligible voters who don’t support the union not to vote” and that “the student making the report noted he felt threatened by the representatives,” the email read.

Another email sent that night by the University told graduate students that Cornell would cut healthcare costs during the next academic year — an issue that was central to CGSU’s campaign. This was a move that AFT believes served to “induce graduate students to vote against the union.”

For CGSU members, the administration’s actions further demonstrated the need for a union.

“There is a reason graduate workers are organizing all over the country, and that’s because unions are the only way to defend our rights and protect our research,” said Jane Glaubman, grad, in the release. “The administration’s actions show just how keen it is to deny us that power.”

The results of the union recognition will be determined within a month as the AAA works to resolve the validity of the challenge votes.

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

Rawlings Unveils Housing Ratings System

By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Assistant News Editor

Interim President Hunter Rawlings is working to ensure improved safety measures for students, off-campus staff and faculty renters living off-campus housing who he says “deserve no less.”

The ratings system, which is expected to be launched this summer, will “provide students with easy, online access to publicly available information regarding the safety features of a particular unit,” the statement read.

In creating this ratings system, University administrators have worked with the City of Ithaca to create a database that “incorporate[s] into [Cornell’s] existing off-campus housing online database a new, safety-focused online ratings system for all off-campus housing properties,” the statement read.

Rawlings said that they hoped this ratings system would encourage landlords to provide a “safe residential environment” for their tenants.

“The new system will recognize those landlords who are already doing their part, while incentivizing other landlords to voluntarily make safetyfocused enhancements to their proper-

ties,” Rawlings said.

Rawlings explained that together with University leadership, they were motivated by concern that many offcampus housing options lacked basic modern safety features. Rawlings highlighted one such example in fire safety features.

“Fire safety standards are tied to the date a building was constructed,” Rawlings said. “So a building constructed in 1970 must only meet the 1964 fire safety code, rather than the 2015 code.”

While units must now be equipped with sprinklers and smoke detectors that communicate directly with the Ithaca Fire Department, the 1964 fire safety code did not mandate this safety feature.

Drawing from this example, Rawlings expressed hope that the new ratings system would “elevate the overall safety of off-campus housing.”

“The safety of our students’ housing options, both on and off campus, is not only a top priority for me and for University leadership; it is also a principle of the highest order,” Rawlings said.

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.

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veryone makes mistakes. Some are small, like forgetting to floss twice a day. Others can be monumental, like choosing Russell Westbrook over James Harden on your MVP ballot. My mistake fell somewhere in between these two examples. It was a medium mistake, kind of like when Brown rejected me. But, as with most mistakes, it’s never too late to admit you were wrong.

Last April I wrote a column criticizing the swim test requirement that Cornell and a couple other Ivies (not including Brown) continue to uphold. I didn’t really see a point in the whole thing. Was it a fitness test? I’m definitely not fit fam, but I was pretty sure I could do most land-based fitness assessments. The fitness gram taught me that. What was with Cornell’s aquatic obsession?

Out of genuine curiosity and a pressing need to fulfill graduation requirements, I

know the fish was there trying to find her parents or save his son from a dentist. Or maybe the fish didn’t get into Brown.

Colleen began the course slowly, focusing on getting the class comfortable in and under the water, before moving on to different strokes. The first day was honestly the worst. As the youth say, it was brick as fuck out so no one was trying to be anywhere near the water. Colleen had us jump into the shallow end of the pool and bob our heads under the water like eight times each throughout the first class. I’m not exactly sure what Navy Seals do to train, but I imagine it also involves water.

I left my first day of swimming thinking it was going to be the worst class I had ever taken at Cornell. It was at 7:45 p.m. twice a week all the way on North Campus and I was no fish in the water. But in all honesty, swimming has quickly become a class I look forward to. It turns out my friends might have

I left my first day of swimming thinking it was going to be the worst class I had ever taken at Cornell. It was at 7:45 p.m. twice a week all the way on North Campus and I was no fish in the water. But in all honesty, swimming has quickly become a class I look forward to. enrolled in P.E. 1100: Intro to Swimming this semester. As a senior, I was hoping that I could just pass the course and talk my way into getting the instructor to check “pass” next to my name for the swim test as well. I assumed there was no way anyone would realistically stop a senior from graduating just because they couldn’t swim. I was wrong.

My instructor, Colleen, is simultaneously the kindest and most no-nonsense person I’ve ever met. I’m shocked she doesn’t work at Brown. She’s willing to work with anyone at any point in his or her journey to natation, but she definitely expects everyone to take and pass the swim test. With my first option now off the table, I accepted that I would actually have to learn how to swim.

From what I had heard from friends, swimming was easy and could realistically be mastered in one afternoon at the gorges.

Let me just say that that could not be farther from the truth, at least in my case. My first time in the Helen Newman pool was strange. I felt like a fish out of water. It was like me and a fish switched places, except for some reason the fish was previously in an Olympic sized swimming pool. A part of me wonders why that fish was in the pool in the first place, but in my heart I

been right. Swimming wasn’t all that bad.

After getting over the whole being underwater thing, swimming really just came down to moving my legs and arms in unison. I hate to sound like one of those annoying American Dream advocates, but it turns out anything really is possible if you work hard and believe! Just kidding, something something neoliberalism.

I passed my swim test in class on Monday, but I won’t be dropping the course as I had originally planned. I was wrong about the swim test requirement.

Swimming, while definitely not an essential life skill, is genuinely fun. And with Spring Break right around a corner, there really wasn’t a better time for me to learn. Now I can swim with a thousand other Cornellians in Cancun! What more could anyone have asked for in a vacation from Cornell?

If you’re a Cornell student thinking about transferring to Brown to avoid the swim test, let me first tell you that you probably still won’t get accepted. But also, just take the P.E. class and let Colleen work her magic.

Akshay Jain is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences.

He can be reached at aj265@cornell.edu. College Stuff appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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e’re packed together, like sardines in a can. The gentle motion of the subway rocks us back and forth. There’s no service down here, so there’s no excuse to be on our phones. Sitting across from each other, we try to avoid eye contact, even though we can’t help but glance over furtively when we think the other isn’t looking, or catch each other’s curious reflections in the window. I smell the pungent perfume radiating off the woman next to me. There is a small hole in her stockings. She is wearing boots, but I can tell she has a pair of heels in her large handbag to change into later. I can hear the man next to me chewing gum. He has large headphones on and is moving his head up and down, up and down. The woman across from me has two children sitting next to her. She’s fussing with their clothing, trying to get them to sit still. Once in awhile, she’ll peek over and give me a look, as if to say, This might be you one day. I give her a sympathetic

across them on a subway or see them moving furiously through the hallway. Yet there’s a sense of interconnectedness that forms when we are exposed to them continuously, or for extended periods of time.

What are their stories? What do they do? Where are they going? Do they have significant others or families? These questions arise as I sit on the subway, watching the woman I don’t know give me a look that implies that I know more about her than I may think. They come to mind when I pass the dirty Docs and see the copy of Othello she clutches tightly in her arms. These questions run through my head when I sit next to the strangers on the plane, wondering if their drink preferences have anything to do with what they’re like.

I remember first learning about this phenomena, labeled the “proximity principle,” in my high school psychology class.

My teacher explained that the concept of “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is false, since the three factors that influence

What are their stories? What do they do? Where are they going? Do they have significant others or families? These questions arise as I sit on the subway, watching the woman I don’t know give me a look that implies that I know more about her than I may think. smile. I watch the struggle ensue from Lafayette Avenue to 14th Street. She gets off the train and gives me one last glance.

In high school, the loud shrill of the bell indicates that class is over. I walk through the crowded hallways, pushing by backpacks that are more like mini houses than anything else, and avoiding pointy elbows. Walking past the water fountain next to room 238, I see her familiar curly brown hair and dirty Doc Martens. I don’t know her name, or even what grade she is in. We give each other slight smiles as we walk past, the usual exchange at approximately 10:32 a.m. The blurred faces of people I don’t know, but to whose presences I have become so accustomed, move past.

The stale, oppressive air on the airplane is already too much. I shift in my seat, bumping the guy sitting next to me. I think he’s my age. “Sorry,” I mutter, since I’m not sure if he noticed. When the flight attendant comes over, he orders a coke.

“With ice, please,” he adds, even though I can feel the vent blowing frigid air on him (I closed mine as soon as I boarded the plane). He’s also wearing a T-shirt and shorts. I wrap my sweater closer around myself. The older man sitting to my other side orders a V8. I remember reading an article about how tomato juice tastes better at higher altitudes — something about how the change in pressure affects our taste buds. I wonder if he read that article too.

Why is it that I still remember these small interactions, seemingly trivial and unaffecting? There is so much about a person that remains unaccessible when we sit

why people develop relationships are similarity, physical attractiveness and proximity. The proximity principle describes the tendency for humans to form interpersonal relations with those who are close by.

People who encounter each other more frequently tend to develop stronger relationships. The mere exposure effect is related to this principle, since it refers to an individual’s tendency to like novel stimuli more if if they encounter them more repeatedly.

It’s not exactly as if we’re developing deep relationships with the people we sit next to in class everyday, or the ones we spend long rides with. But at the same time, we experience a brief connectedness with others that almost seems tangible. We get a little sliver of another person’s life through the ways we unknowingly communicate — stolen glances, quick observations, short exchanges. These interactions we have with others, on the subway, in the hallways, in a large lecture class or on a plane, show how little we know about others’ lives — we only catch a small glimpse of something we aren’t completely sure of, but can attempt to know and understand.

But above it all, there’s an underlying similarity to our experiences. No matter where we come from or where we’re going, we’re able to find ourselves in the same place at the same time.

Gaby Leung is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gl376@cornell.edu. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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OPINION

Kevin Kowalewski | Democratic Dialogue

Make America Ignore Impending Climate Catastrophe (Again)

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et’s get a few things out of the way.

Climate change is real, and it’s our fault. Human civilization directly causes ten billion tons of carbon dioxide to enter the atmosphere every single year.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen by more than 40 percent. Basic chemistry and physics tell us that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and that higher levels of greenhouse gases will lead to warmer temperatures. In fact, 2016 was the warmest year ever recorded. It broke the record set by 2015, which in turn broke the previous record set by 2014.

There’s no more need to argue these facts. And for a while, we had a government that didn’t. President Barack Obama repeatedly articulated the reality and the stakes of our impending climate crisis. Although more comprehensive efforts to regulate emissions were thwarted by Congress, Obama still managed to make progress.

Recognizing that climate change is a global problem, he successfully negotiated a bilateral agreement to reduce emissions with China, as well as the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement signed by 192 countries.

Domestically, the Obama administration proposed the Clean Power Plan as a way to meet these international commitments.

Certainly, this effort was far from perfect. A truly appropriate response to climate change would involve a system of carbon pricing and a full-scale economic mobilization towards greener sources of energy. But the Clean Power Plan was a start that addressed some of the most potent sources of carbon pollution. It showed that we knew there was a problem.

On the other hand, the current occupant of the White House has previously dismissed climate change as a Chinese hoax.

He has brought a whole team of climate deniers with him. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that President Donald Trump issued an executive order to immediately begin rolling back the Clean Power Plan. Indeed, we were treated to the shameful image of our leaders applauding as they publicly declared their disregard for science, the truth and the future.

The opponents of the Clean Power Plan have repeatedly appealed to its detrimental effects on the coal industry. They are correct that many coal mining towns are mired in an extended economic downturn. Trump, however, is lying to them. He ignores longterm factors such as increasing automation and the decreasing economic competitiveness of coal in order to promise that prosperity will return to troubled communities.

In fact, we’ve seen the same thing over and over again. Trump identifies a problem that exists, and follows it up with policies that exacerbate the issue. The failed American Health Care Act would have slashed Medicaid benefits in coal communities, and his current budget proposes the elimination of the Appalachian Regional Commission. It’s easy to strip bare his professed sympathy for coal workers for what it is. Eliminating the Clean Power Plan won’t help workers; the real benefits will accrue to wealthy coal executives and corporations.

Coal, after all, cannot be the energy source of 21st century America. It is an outdated fuel that fills our air with pollutants and sends us careening toward a warmer planet. Furthermore, if we continue to use

coal, we will necessarily be unable to meet the emissions goals set forth under the Obama administration. With the United States reneging on its own commitments, why should other signatories to the Paris Agreement abide by theirs? Trump’s “America First” policy threatens to dismantle the best framework we have for combating global climate.

Furthermore, at the same time that we destroy the possibility of international cooperation, we are conceding the future of manufacturing and energy to other nations.

If the United States continues to rely on fossil fuels, we will miss out on the opportunities of a green energy revolution. China isn’t making the same mistake. This year, Beijing announced a $360 billion dollar investment in renewable energy that will create 13 million jobs. We should take notice. Solar and wind power are both rapidly growing industries that could revitalize rural America.

Trump, however, has a notorious hatred of wind power. In the past, he has heavily opposed off-shore windmills in order to preserve the view from his properties, even claiming that wind power “personally offends” him. The oldest person ever to assume the presidency has not grown wise with age; his thoughts give no concern to posterity. Ironically, Trump’s short-sighted worldview nearly guarantees that his beloved oceanfront property of Mar-ALago will someday succumb to rising sea levels.

I think that the environmental aspect of the Trump presidency might be his most defining legacy. True, there are several other strong contenders at this early stage, includ-

ing his empowerment of white nationalism, his attacks on constitutional norms and his ongoing ties to Russia. We don’t know how any of these stories will end, and these nearterm controversies will continue to dominate headlines over the next few years. Yet the climate change narrative is terrifyingly predictable. Emissions will rise. The Earth will warm. Life will get harder.

My fear, then, is that the election of Donald Trump may be seen as the final blow against efforts to restrain climate change to a manageable level. You can call climate change “fake news,” but that will not stop it from continuing to happen.

Furthermore, none of this is reversible. Our political system has an affinity to punting issues down the road, but climate change won’t wait for us. Day after day, emissions will increase as we do nothing. Four years from now, it may be too late.

This imminent threat to our planet comes from a sad, disgraceful combination of willful ignorance and greed. Powerful people, like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former CEO of ExxonMobil), have looked the other way for decades.

Politicians have turned a matter of science into a partisan issue. And far too many Americans have allowed themselves to be fooled. If the United States is committed to doing nothing, we are on a glide-path to a level of warming that will cause global suffering and endanger modern civilization.

This is an emergency. We need to treat it like one.

Kevin Kowalewski is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at krk78@cornell.edu.

Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

THROWDOWN THURSDAYS Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

A Christian in Trump’s America I

genuinely find it odd that large swaths of America’s Christian community support President Trump. As a Christian myself, I find the Christian community’s support for Donald Trump to be both contradictory and extremely bizarre. Trump, in many ways, represents the antithesis of everything Christ preached.

Jesus was, in every respect, a humble man. A virtual nomad, he traveled from community to community with nothing but the clothes on his back and the shoes on his feet. As a carpenter in First Century Israel, Jesus had almost no money to spare on luxuries. In almost every conceivable way, Jesus was the direct contrapositive to the man sitting in the Oval Office today.

Nearly everything Trump touches is coated in gold, he brags about his wealth constantly (refer to his 2011 quote in which he stated “part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich”) and claims that he has every answer to the world’s problems (refer to his convention speech in which he stated “I alone can fix it”). Trump is the epitome of the narcissistic self-love that Jesus abhorred and condemned. Jesus’ life of simplicity and humility would seem quite foreign to Mr. Trump, who has spent a lifetime polishing and perfecting his own self-image.

More importantly, however, Jesus’ message was radically different from that of Trump’s. In Matthew 22:39, Jesus stated: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ” –– a far cry from many of Donald Trump’s statements. Trump has called women he dislikes “fat pigs,” made fun of Carly Fiorina’s face, claimed he could grope women whenever he

likes and mocked a disabled reporter –– just to name a few.

How, in any way, do these actions measure up to the example that Jesus set?

The purpose of Christianity is not to make bad people good. Completely living up to Jesus’ example is an impossible endeavor –– no human can ever hope to match the kindness, warmth and grace of Christ. However, there is a difference between not totally exemplifying the love of Christ and completely disregarding the commands of Christ. Donald Trump has consistently shown that he detests the very foundations of Christianity: love, temperance and selflessness. While Jesus commands that we not judge, Trump states that women who receive abortions should be punished. While Jesus asserts that one must be truthful and honest, Trump lies and distorts the truth on a daily basis. And while Jesus says that we must care for the needy, Trump argues that we must end our overseas humanitarian efforts and deport millions of families.

With a man in the White House who so actively opposes everything for which Christ stood, it often seems like the tenants of Christianity are fading from our society.

Though much of Christian America has embraced our bombastic president, I argue that the Christians in this nation must serve as the foil to Trump.

Because Christianity is so rooted in the values that this nation holds dear (selflessness, piety, friendship, courage), Christians must be willing to lead the charge against Trump. It is the Christian community that must act to defend those who are persecuted by the Trump

Administration. From immigrants to Muslims, Trump’s presidency has been defined by his hatred for certain groups of people. But the Bible declares that Christians must love all people –– regardless of gender, race, religion or ethnicity. It is for this reason that the Christian community must actively oppose Trump’s prejudice and protect those who are in the president’s crosshairs.

For those who claim that Trump will protect “Christian America,” I must say that I strongly disagree with you. A Christian America is an America in which its people strive to live the commandments of Christ. We have already seen that Trump does not come close to living by Christ’s commands –– so how can one say that Trump is protecting “Christian America” when he actively opposes everything Christianity stands for?

I firmly believe that if this nation is to thrive over the next four years, the Christian community –– which comprises a majority of this nation –– must be willing to stand up and fight for Christian values. Trump does not come close to representing the love that Christ preached –– and it is for that very reason that Christians must be willing to fight against the hatred that spews out of Trump’s mouth daily. Today, Christian America is silent on (and in some cases is accepting of ) Trump’s demagoguery and insults.

This cannot continue if we are to have a nation whose citizens follow Christ’s teachings to care for one another.

Michael Glanzel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mg786@cornell.edu. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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OPINION

Paul Russell | Russelling Feathers

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Life Advice From Ralph

ast weekend, I opened for an artist I liked at a concert on campus. She came with an entourage: a manager, a guitarist, a pianist and a few other “-ists” and “-ers” with years of experience and talent. Soon after we finished our sets and the instruments were packed up into rent-a-cars, I found myself at a party in Collegetown with the musical team and a number of my friends.

After an hour or two of gyrating in circles to the resident D.J.’s set-list of Drake songs, the group needed a new way to pass the time. I wandered into a side room to find the drummer, Ralph, knee deep in a passionate conversation with a friend of mine. In reality, it was less of a conversation and more of a monologue, but by the look on my friend’s face it was worth a listen regardless. I sat with the two of them to join the fun.

Ralph was telling his life story. Apparently, he approached my friend and asked her if she wanted to hear something that would “blow her mind,” and now here they were, an hour later, maybe halfway through the narrative.

Ralph talked about learning the drums in the third grade, getting kicked out of a music program as a teenager for sassing a teacher, leaving college and somehow becoming an all-star drummer who travels around the country to play for acts like Noname and Chance the Rapper. It was clear that he loved his career and where it was going. Each week he was in a different city, telling a different girl in her twenties how he rose through the ranks of the Chicago music scene.

As I listened to the story, I got the sense that in the back of his mind, Ralph always wanted to be a professional musician.

That said, he never expected that he’d have to get kicked out

For those of us who aren’t yet where we aim to be, Ralph has a bit of advice. He explained it to my friend and me in a story. of a music program and be forced to withdraw from college to get there. It took a decade of ups and downs and a few fits of depression to get him where he is today, and a similar set of turbulent times await him on his journey to his next big goal: playing at Madison Square Garden.

In college, there’s a big temptation to consider every failure in our lives to be evidence that we’re falling behind. But every time I talk to someone who’s tasted even the crumbs of their childhood dreams, I hear the same reverberating message: the trek is always tainted.

Because we have put-together friends with top jobs, impressive abilities and satisfying relationships, we often forget that everybody’s got either a few big slip ups in their past, a few in their future, or both.

But that’s how it should be. And we all know it.

For those of us who aren’t yet where we aim to be, Ralph has a bit of advice. He explained it to my friend and me in a story.

Ralph has a close family member who plays college basketball. He’s an incredible player, and one of the highest scorers on his team, but he’d be even better if he quit smoking weed as often as he does. “I told him,” said Ralph, “you gotta give yourself the best possible opportunity to succeed. And he isn’t doing that.”

Driving home at two in the morning, I thought about whether I’m giving myself the best possible opportunity to succeed. As I considered it, I came to an obstacle: I had to first decide what “success” even means to me. I need to know what I want.

I once read a book called A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller, and in it, there was a quote I’ve remembered for years. In a brief discussion about Star Wars, the author noted: “If I pause the DVD on any frame, I could point toward any major character and say exactly what that person wanted.

No character had a vague ambition. It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.”

Maybe there’ll always be a degree of ambiguity and malleability to my life. But I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt to spend a bit more time thinking about what I want. If I have a good idea of what success looks like in a given situation, I’ll be able to determine whether I’m working towards it or against it. And I’m sure that’ll come in handy.

So, thanks Ralph.

Paul Russell is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at prussell@cornellsun.com. Russelling Feathers appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Letter to the Editor

Re:‘Officials stun Gabe Dean in Division I wrestling finals’ To the Editor: As a former wrestler and I might add a very good one, I can say that the officials got it wrong and the wrong hand was raised at the Division I tournament. The controversial two points given to Bo Nickal for a silly definition of a takedown was really not the right call. But even if this split second call, for what really did not constitute any control were to stand, then the back turn points, which showed much more control and dominance on the edge of the mat, should have been awarded to Gabe Dean. Gabe was also the more dominant wrestler throughout the match even though it was close on points.

Life isn’t always fair.

Jim Weigand

Guest Room | Moumita Basuroychowdhury

The Land of the Canada Goose

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n a complimentary cot, one- elemental salt, everything was still section during orientation going beyond stress management, and we year-old nugget me flew again.

To salvage my academics, I carried should use online/text mediums to across the ocean blue to America. My family moved to Baton the burden of explanation. On the satiate space scarcity. We’ve been tryRouge, Louisiana, where my mom subject of disabilities, one advisor ing to expand Gannett for over a babysat, made diapers out of clothes talked about how her mother often decade after it was first deemed sigand relied on governmental programs made her insecure too. Another asked nificantly undersized for the populalike WIC to keep me fed. The O.G. if I was happy that I had transferred, tion. Many of my peers struggle daily dumpster divers, my parents fur- implying academic hiccups were with ableism. If it’s known that our nished rooms with trashed treasures. result of a lack of effort or intelli- primary medical resource has been Modest beginnings and hard work gence. They barred me from strained to capacity, awareness among gave bloom to comfort. We tumbled enrolling into STEM classes and sug- staff should be reinforced beyond up the East Coast, moving every year gested alternate majors. The kind one-time training.

Calling to abolish the Greek sysof my childhood. I saw America oppressor robs you of opportunity to tem is idealistic, because that vacuum through my neighborhoods, heard it save you from the struggle.

Through offense and bruise, I would be filled with something simion radio stations. By high school, my parents had earned graduate degrees. experienced the cascade of prejudice. lar, and more pertinent, it’s a conduit I owe my ease entirely to their strug- I envied students with the gift of sta- for donors. If this sectarian system bility growing up and the white quantitatively equates to success, we gle.

While Ithaca is rad, the number of women respected more than me. I should go beyond filling a diversity Canada Goose jackets per capita on felt my cheap ephemerality in acceptance quota. Systematic oppression doesn’t molt away. this campus astounds me.

Donors who perpetuate Each jacket, initially made I’ve heard of gluttonous consumers their narrow ideals keep for scientists working on minorities underrepreAntarctica(!), could feed hating their money, but the sented in the most power800 kids. ful echelons of society.

I’ve heard of gluttonous complacency that accompanies no pressure on consumers hating their leaving these sleeping bags lying There’s chapters to be more inclumoney, but the complasive. For instance, the cency that accompanies around at parties floors me. recruitment guides past leaving these sleeping bags rush were majority white lying around at parties social/romantic ties and educational or white-passing. Coupled with that floors me.

On this predominately liberal spaces, and I was torched by people’s representation, there aren't diversity campus, a segregation still thrives. inherent freedom and endowed abili- positions on councils. We should aid Whether a result of self-preservation ty to learn and resist on this campus. minorities in taking advantage of this There’s faith that our campus isn’t mammoth network directly or by or exclusion, the divide between racial groups and socioeconomic just an extension of our country. incentivizing houses to do so. Greek classes persists. In spite of our diversi- Cornell is gilded, like the performa- housing is one of the cheapest housty, social circles and many student tive “humanitarian” douche on ing options. Maybe the dance of perorganizations are largely homoge- Tinder. Sure, we’re diverse, but the spectives will take down the heteronous. The largest one, the Greek sys- support ends there. We still offer scat- normative, classist, misogynistic tem, is a bastion for disparity — the tered rooms and minimal funds to structures still loitering. While many majority of its members being white, minorities; for example, The Center use a few exceptions to naively wealthy and often private school edu- for Intercultural Dialogue, The Asian romanticize the current situation, cated. It’s troubling when you learn & Asian American Center, The IDP, here is the rule.

Nearly all the wonderful people that 80 percent of Fortune 500 exec- SDDI, The African, Latino, Asian, utives, 76 percent of U.S. congress- Native American SPB and The I’ve met here appreciate and cherish men, and 85 percent of supreme LGBTQ+ Resource Center exist in a differences, but are unable to reverse court justices have been in a fraterni- tiny house. Our staff is still 78 per- practices so deeply ingrained in cent white, and over a period of nine Cornell’s history during their time, ty.

It’s difficult to reconcile that with years, the Now Campaign fished leaving administration free to capitalwhat I assumed higher education pre- ~$36 million for Faculty Renewal, ize on turnover. So, I’ll spend my last luded, a disruption of tradition. ~$10 million for Library Collections, summer taking in all of Ithaca’s beauWhile my friends spearhead progres- but ~$4 million for Faculty Diversity ty, groovin’ at Grassroots. I hope one sive initiatives on campus, they live from donors. Education isn’t nearly as day students won’t legally change their ethnic names to attract with people misrepresentative of our powerful as example.

Food insecurity is still a major recruiters, lines won’t be longer numbers. It’s a generational problem that perpetuates poisons like crony- issue, and the only solution to miti- behind female recruiters because ism and institutional oppression far gate it has come from students. We’re “she’ll be easier” and one won’t have still stringing nets across to pass by drunk Ivy Leaguers dancbeyond Ithaca.

Some time ago, I was raped in a bridges/stressing crisis lines in the ing to “Take a Walk.”

For anyone feeling like a tiny fish bedroom, called a flurry of racial slurs nature of a reactive mental health sysand dragged from my quietly oppres- tem instead of hiring more than ~27 in a massive sea, “never attribute to sive America. Kind words from counselors/psychiatrists to serve malice that which is adequately friends cushioned the blow, but two 2,800 students — at NYU, the cost explained by stupidity.” Trust soliof my closest jumped ship because of of one counselor can be covered by darity, and don’t let the bastards grind an innate inability to empathize. My retaining two students. There are you down. reality turned psychedelic. I planned even economic benefits to universities Basuroychowdhury is a senior in a trip to Memphis to listen to blues, supporting their students to gradua- Moumita the College of Arts & Sceinces. Guest Room said I’d stay in a tent and live off of tion since students’ eventual social runs periodically thoughout the semester. canned soup. I was teetering on some contributions entice donors.

Comments may be sent to associateWe should craft a mental-health editor@cornellsun.com. edge, losing my mind. By grace of an

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DINING GUIDE

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The Spring Break Health Initiative

By MIKAYLA KUYKENDALL Sun Contributor

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ll right, Cornellians, it’s about that time — we only have to make it through a couple more days until Spring Break. For me, that means going back home to cornfields and sweet tea with enough sugar to fill a small swimming pool. But I know for a lot of you that means tropical locations and breaking out the dusty swimsuit you thought you would have an opportunity to wear earlier until you realized that Ithaca doesn’t know the appropriate weather patterns for Spring.

As the days leading up to break have been crossed off, I have noticed that Teagle has been a little more crowded than usual, and the salad bar has been getting some extra attention. These recent phenomena are warming the hearts of nutrition majors all over campus. However, I think it’s important to go over some nutrition do’s and don’ts while preparing for that tropical getaway — or even if you’re just going home where Mama doesn’t care what your major is and you better eat everything she makes for you.

This advice is for everyone — girls and guys — because everyone wants to look and feel good for Spring Break.

DO Eat more fruits and vegetables. These will increase your fiber and micronutrient intake while decreasing your sugar, fat and calorie consumption, which helps improve your metabolism

juice contains.

DO Avoid eating tons of sugary or salty snacks. I love binge eating salt ’n’ vinegar chips just as much as anyone, but a diet consisting of only those and Little Debbie Cakes are just not going to help you stay healthy, no matter how much your taste buds thank you for it. Lots of sugar

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and immune system and reduces unhealthy weight gain.

DON’T Replace all of your meals with juice leading up to the day your plane takes off. No matter what Adriana Lima says, there are many things that are wrong with taking this approach, including lack of fiber, calorie deficiency and risk of being hungry due to insulin spikes from all the sugar

makes you feel energized temporarily, but then you’ll experience the “sugar crash,” and too much salt will leave you feeling bloated.

DON’T Skip meals. Three balanced meals a day and a couple of snacks (or six smaller meals if you’re one of those people with a whole lot of self control) is the best way to provide your body

with the energy and nutrients that it needs to function properly.

DO Monitor your progress by seeing how your clothes fit and how your body feels. As you become healthier, clothes will become more comfortable, you’ll have more energy and you won’t have stomachaches from eating prepared foods from 7-11.

DON’T Weigh yourself every day. Your body goes through daily changes (water, hormones, etc.) that cause weight to fluctuate.

Weighing yourself constantly will make you feel as if you’ve made no progress even though you have.

Plus, scales don’t measure body composition — they don’t know that you’re making gains in the now overly crowded Teagle.

DO Monitor your portions.

While many people (me) think that the whole family-size bag of chips is one serving, it’s not.

Watching how much you eat will help you reduce the amount of unnecessary calories in your everyday diet.

DON’T Deprive yourself. A serving of French fries every once in awhile isn’t going to push you back at all. If you want a chocolate chip cookie, please eat it — just

don’t eat 13 of them. Restricting yourself that much usually leads to binge eating, and then you will have a setback in your progress.

Plus, the guilt is so not worth the pleasure that soft cookies with melted chocolate chips bring (oh wait, maybe it is).

No matter what, getting ready for Spring Break is all about being healthy and feeling good in your own skin. Any time you choose an apple over a donut is progress even if you don’t see an immediate change when you look in the mirror. Believe me, I’m a victim of doing seven crunches every couple of weeks and then wondering where my abs are, but this is a journey that lasts much longer than the week leading up to break.

Wherever you’re at on your path to health, rock that swimsuit as you sip some exotic beverage out of a whole fruit (oh look, getting those servings of fruit even on vacation) or those sweatpants as you watch the whole series of The Office in one day.

Mikayla Kuykendall is a junior in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences.. She can be reached at mpk77@cornell.edu.

Return to De Tasty: Rain Drop, Hot Pot

By MURALI SARAVANAN Sun Staff Writer

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s I wrote in my last article, I promised y’all that I’d go back to De Tasty Hotpot to try the actual hotpot, and I finally got around to it last weekend. I went with a friend of mine, Alisa, who visited me right after the snowstorm hit. Since hotpot is best in the winter — and particularly comforting when there’s a foot and a half of snow outside — we made the trek to Collegetown to eat lunch at De Tasty.

Alisa is Chinese-American and grew up eating hotpot with her family, so I was excited to hear her critique of the experience and food. We made our way down the

tiny staircase into the restaurant for lunch. It wasn’t very crowded, so we were seated immediately.

Hotpot is a very communal dish and is meant to be shared with the people you’re eating with. To get the full experience, I’d recommend trying it at least once with your friends. On a paper menu, you circle the type of broth you want and choose the meat, noodles and vegetables to go in the soup. After you give your order, they bring out the boiling soup base and place it on a hot plate embedded in the table so that it stays hot. Then they bring out the additional ingredients that you ordered. You use this “hotpot” to cook the ingredients yourself at the table.

We ordered the Special Spicy Hot Soup and the pork combo.

I’d generally recommend getting one of the combos off the menu as they seem to give you the most bang for your buck. The pork combo came with thinly sliced pork, cabbage, corn, tofu, tomato, enoki mushrooms, Earwood mushrooms, baby bok choy and thin vermicelli noodles. In addition, we ordered the sweet potato jelly noodles and pork belly.

Since most of the cooking is done at the table, the food came out in under ten minutes. The pot was split into two sections, which is great if you want to bring vegetarian friends with you, since you can cook the veggies and noodles on one side and the meat on the

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One of the most impressive things about eating hotpot is the visual aspect: There’s just so

hotpot at De Tasty, make sure you order these noodles; I cannot recommend them enough.

The only part of the meal that I didn’t particularly enjoy was the pork belly. I didn’t like the texture and toughness of the meat; it was

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much food stacked up ready to be cooked and eaten. After admiring the view, we dived right in. I tried the pork first after cooking it in the soup for about 30 seconds. It was incredible.

The thin pork slices were extremely tender and infused with flavor from the spicy soup.

The soup was the key part of the meal that held all of it together.

It was extremely spicy — I can handle my spice, but this was a lot even for me — and added so much flavor to everything that we cooked in it. Since it was a Szechuan-style soup, it contained many peppercorns, which made the soup numbingly spicy.

The sweet potato noodles were the best part of the meal. They absorbed the flavor of the soup and had the perfect chewy texture. I found myself searching through the soup at the end looking for any last remaining pieces of the noodles. If you are ordering

thicker than what I’d expected, so keep that in mind when ordering.

Alisa and I spent about $20 each at this eatery. She loved the food a lot, and agreed that the hotpot was authentic. After this experience at De Tasty Hotpot, it has become my favorite sit-down restaurant in Collegetown. The food has great flavor, and hotpot itself is an exciting and unique experience. If you are looking for a new and interesting restaurant experience, go check out De Tasty!

Serves: traditional hotpot and authentic Szechuan dishes Vibe: a casual restaurant for communal eating Price: $$ Overall: Murali Saravanan is a freshman in the School of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at msaravanan@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Kedi: I Need a Cat on My Lap Right Now

BY VIRI GARCIA Sun Contributor

COURTESY OF TERMITE FILMS

We live in a nation that has become obsessed with cats. From cat videos to cat-related DIYs, cats are everywhere and have become the epitome of snarky cuddles and companionship. However, in Istanbul, Turkey, cats are much more than that. The city is teeming with cats and the residents care for some of them, but none of the cats have a master. Kedi follows seven cats’ journeys throughout the city and demonstrates that while they rely on everyone’s kindness for sustenance, they’re still beings with healing powers beyond our comprehension. Ultimately, we rely on them more than they do on us.

Kedi opens with gentle music and aerial scenes of Istanbul in which cats are already visible in the streets.

Following this opening, the audience is shown scenes in which cats are sneaking into crawlspaces, sitting or nuzzling people at cafes for food. Instantly, the theatre was filled with “Awww.” Other movies, such as Secret Life of Pets and the Air Bud series, had a major cuteness factor, but could not compare to Kedi. Other movies show adorable animals in the form of fictional characters, but Kedi depicts how genuinely cute cats are, even as they wander the streets of Istanbul. The film also teaches that while these are all lovable cats, they’re a lot like us, each with a distinct personality.

As the film follows each cat around Istanbul, residents speak about either a specific cat or their personal experience with the city’s feline residents in general.

The first cat introduced, Sari, has a special connection with a shopkeeper, even though Sari is not necessarily her pet. The shopkeeper says that Sari used to lounge around her shop all day until she had kittens. Since then, Sari begs and scavenges for food. She is extremely protective of her kittens, just as any mother would be with her children. Sari demonstrates that cats, just like humans, will do anything to put their family first.

Films often depict animals with human-like characteristics, but these animals are fictional characters. Kedi, however, captures the way motherhood changed Sari through scenes of her begging for food every day in different places and returning to her kittens at night.

Following Sari, the audience is introduced to the rest of the cats, all of which demonstrate characteristics that we can relate to. Residents of Istanbul talk about

their experiences and relationships with cats that have personalities ranging from lovable and spoiled, like Gamsiz, to the “neighborhood psycho,” Psikopat.

In addition to showing that there’s a cat for every personality, Kedi connects the caring community of Istanbul to traditional beliefs and the spiritual healing powers of cats. Several of the residents explain their beliefs that cats absorb negative energy and make one feel purposeful and free. One man describes an incident in which his fishing boat was badly damaged after a storm and a cat led him to a wallet that contained the exact amount of money he needed to pay for the repairs. He goes on to say that anyone who does not believe his miraculous story “is a heathen in my book.”

The stray cats of Istanbul have touched countless lives in unique ways, which Kedi demonstrates through these warm stories. As the film progresses, it continues to make the audience grow increasingly attached to the cats, to the point where I wouldn’t doubt its ability to

convert dog people. Through adorable scenes and stories, Kedi compels viewers to think only of positive experiences with cats and the emotional or spiritual outcomes of these encounters.

Kedi was a warm, cuddly film from beginning to end that built a strong connection with its audience through stories, cuteness and memory. Ceyda Torun, the director and producer of Kedi, says in a letter to the audience that the film is intended to “feel like you have just had a cat snuggle up on your lap unexpectedly and purr endlessly for a good long time,” which I definitely felt. Through magical stories and beautiful cinematography, Kedi gracefully weaves a new understanding of cats beyond the one America has created, which mostly involves YouTube videos and lonely cat ladies.

Viri Garcia is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at vg235@cornell.edu.

The Women in the Room

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

I can tell you that Alicia Hall Moran is a singer with countless biographies woven into her lungs; that Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon are poets of vast interpersonal awareness; that LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is a sensitive purveyor of visual and sonic incisions. But this conveys only who they are on paper and not what they became in person when their forces cross-pollinated in Cornell’s Kiplinger Theater last Tuesday night.

The title of their performance, Throughline, felt like both descriptor and mission statement as they drew lines through the curio cabinets of our minds even while rearranging them, jumping from soul to soul until only a singularity of verbal perfume was left. Amid top notes of citrus and spice, girlhood’s questioning turned into womanhood’s indestructibility and floral mids scented the skin of forgotten children, while a base of grasslands and burnt umber evoked the muck of conflicting narratives from which these four singular artists excavated common themes.

Moran’s voice carried ahistorical futures written in historical registers. Presenting selections from her debut album, Heavy Blue, as well as new songs composed around

the poetry of her sisterly collaborators, Moran spotlighted the nooks of maturation in which understandings take deepest root.

Whether intensifying her mezzo brilliance in the original “Open Door” or modernizing the spirit of John Dowland’s “Flow My Tears,” she proved that emotional celebrities must first unlock their own silence before preaching to the silenced. Throughout her collage of serenades and broken dreams, she pulled at the seams of self-proclamation until “self-” dropped off and fell into the lottery of brighter tomorrows.

Griffiths likewise blurred languages of light and grain, ever the auditory bokeh in our depth of field as listeners. She took Moran’s photorealistic impulses of yearning and spun them into a pastiche of reflections. Her lyrics were odes to lived experience. Through pulling of moon and tide, creation and womb, a life-giving dance took place in everything she embraced. In her world of submarine maternity and spirits within spirits, she rendered birth pangs as tactile substances to be fashioned into words. Like a child looking upon her mother for the first time, every poem was precious and beyond worthy of the swaddling in our attentions.

Van Clief-Stefanon drew a vertical axis to Griffiths’s horizontal, exploring hierarchies of musical impulses, chemical time

signatures and the types of choices that fuel epiphanies of social justice. Her breaths of transitioning spring held their shape despite the infernos of ignorance that have beset our present age, and tipped her scales of allusion toward the popular canon — polishing, for instance, Rihanna’s diamond until its dark matter threw open the wings of an intergalactic politic. Pulling names from the depths of her blood, she homed in on key tones of physical relationships and lifted valor with gloved tongue as an object worthy of study. Flipping over male dominance like a fish in a pan, she captured its briny smoke in her nostrils and exhaled sweet critique.

Diggs’s visual manifestations were the rhythm section behind the soloists, to which she added her own interdisciplinary foraging as filtered through a tabletop array of electronica. Her backdrops worked at molecular levels, made clear even before the artists laid down a path of composites still aching from the grammar of their integration. Diggs divided the moon like an egg and deferred her camera to three women who shelter all the beauty of the world in their consonance.

The Throughline project sees something beyond the obvious. Experiencing it was akin to seeing a dream you once forgot now being laid bare, newborn edges and all. Its

discourse was so precise that it sharpened the blades of memory until only reality was left by their slice. It was music for those that fortune once threw into a pool of amniotic fluid and walked away disappointed when they didn’t drown. Music for those who’ve since learned that every change of dress is another chance at remembrance. Music that looked us straight in the eyes and said: You want to know what real privilege is? Sharing the duty of those dismantling its infrastructures, throwing away the master’s tools, and rebuilding — letter by letter — the temples of our bodies without warning signs, fire escapes or trigger alarms.

Moran, Griffiths, Van Clief-Stefanon and Diggs were their own microphones, amplified through self-expression — the strongest form of faith — and built on the assertion that nothing is real until spoken, nothing spoken until real. These were the women in the room, voices of a collective body whose signatures imprinted ears and eyes with every individual step forward, and the honor of unfolding said signatures out into this tightly and artfully folded world will stay with us. Perseverant. Honest.

Unafraid.

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tcg32@cornell.edu.

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Had it not been for an injury his sophomore year, McCarron would have played in nearly every game in his career — he missed just one game outside of his sophomore season.

In his senior season, McCarron finished second on the team in points with 25, going on to be named second-team All-Ivy, and to the all-tournament team at the ECAC championships, where he tallied an assist and a plethora of minutes. It was the first time Cornell reached the ECAC finals since 2012, but dropped a 4-1 decision to Harvard.

McCarron also held an eightgame points streak this season — the longest for a Cornell blueliner since 2003.

McCarron is the first one of his class to sign a professional contract, with several others expected to follow suit. He joins seven other Cornellians on AHL teams, most notably Joakim Ryan ’15, a member of the San Jose Barracuda, also in the Western Conference.

On the Griffins, he joins nine other former NCAA student-athletes, including fellow ECACers Mike Borkowski of Colgate, Kyle Criscuolo of Harvard and Matt Lorito of Brown, among more from a variety of conferences and schools.

“I met [some of] them at development camp in the summer … nice guys,” McCarron said.

“Played hard against them for a couple years … They are welcoming me with open arms down here and have been really nice to me, so

appreciate them doing that.”

Another one of McCarron’s new teammates is Dominik Shine, who also signed with Grand Rapids this year, but out of Northern Michigan University.

McCarron and Shine faced off in the Florida College Classic this past December, where Cornell won 5-2. Shine had a goal in the game, and McCarron added three assists.

The two former foes are now roommates in their first year playing professional hockey, McCarron said.

“He is kind of showing me around today,” McCarron added of Shine. “Really good guy, good player and nice having someone in a similar situation as me down here.”

One of McCarron’s new assistant coaches is Mike Knuble, a former Michigan Wolverine who played 1,068 games in the NHL, the first of which for the Red Wings. Knuble also played a single game for the Griffins at the age of 40, where he tallied an assist.

“All the guys that are around the organization have been around pro hockey for a while, so it’s just about learning every day and taking as much in as you can from each guy so I can turn my career into a long pro hockey career,” McCarron said.

Currently, the Griffins sit atop the Central Division — third in the entire league — with a 43-191-4 record and an already clinched spot in the postseason.

Zach Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

Springfield Signs Buckles BUCKLES

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to get into the mix and in the minds of his opponents. The NCAA would penalize Buckles had he ever entered a full on fight.

Now, that is almost encouraged in the AHL. The Toronto native played in at least 25 games each of his four seasons, missing part of his senior year due to injury. Regardless, he finished sixth on the team in points, finding himself on the scoresheet 17 out of 29 games.

Five of his nine senior year goals came in a six game stretch from Jan. 28 to Feb. 17, and he added an assist in that span as well.

He makes it nine total Cornellians in the AHL after McCarron signed Tuesday morning with the Grand Rapids Griffins. Most notably, he enters the Atlantic Division with the Thunderbirds, which consists of

Cole Bardreau ’15 and Reece Willcox ’16 on the Lehigh Valley Phantoms — Philadelphia Flyers affiliate — and Brian Ferlin ’15 on the Providence Bruins — the Boston Bruins’ minor league team.

Buckles joins several other former collegiate athletes on the Thunderbirds’ roster, including products of Denver, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio St. and Wisconsin, among others.

Assistant coaches of the Thunderbirds are Doug Janik and Michael Ryan, who spent time at University of Maine and Northeastern, respectively.

The Thunderbirds currently sit at sixth in the Atlantic Division with a 27-30-9-2 record with one of the lower goal totals in the league. Buckles will look to inflate that stat.

Zach Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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against each other and as soon as they introduced themselves I kind of recognized them as a player,” Gillam said. “There isn’t really any head butting or anything like that. They’ve been great and welcoming me with open arms and have just been a great organization overall.”

Other former collegiate athletes

on the Solar Bears hail from Providence, Minnesota-Duluth, Ohio St., and UNH, among others.

The Solar Bears currently sit at third in the South Division with a 34-24-6-3 record, currently in the midst of a playoff race with the regular season ending April 8.

Zach Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red Looks to Extend Five-Game Winning Streak

Women’s lacrosse resumes non-conference play against Rutgers Saturday in hopes of continuing strong play

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Currently ranked seventh in the nation, the Cornell women’s lacrosse team is on a hot streak and is looking to take down yet another non-conference opponent. The Red hits the road to take on Rutgers this Saturday.

This will be the two teams’ first meeting in three years and their 18th meeting all-time. Cornell leads the overall series 13-4.

The Scarlet Knights (7-4), a member of the Big 10 athletic conference, will provide the Red (6-1) with a valuable opportunity to test its prowess against another national top-30 team.

“What has been very consistently true about Rutgers is that they’re very athletic,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86.

“They’re very tough and hard-working.

They’re always a challenge.”

Cornell will look to extend its fivegame winning streak and preserve its undefeated away record by continuing to stick to the fundamentals.

“We’re still focusing on us a lot,” Graap said. “We’ll try to simulate the Rutgers offense and defense at practice so our players are ready.”

The Scarlet Knights have won every game this season in which they were leading at the half, so a strong start will be imperative for the Red. “It’s our goal to start well because we want to put ourselves in a position to control tempo and to put the other team on their heels a little bit and take them out of their comfort zone,” Graap said.

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Red hot | Cornell has only lost one game this season, where it fell to the Nittany Lions of Penn State by a single goal. The team sits at 6-1 overall. for the Cornell women to be in an attacking mindset, even as defenders they’re sort of attacking the other team and they’re forcing them to adjust.”

Though the Scarlet Knights may be

good at starting games off, the Red has been able to stay calm under pressure and rally back to take the win multiple times this season.

“I do like that we’re scrappy and that

we’ve been able to come from behind with both Columbia and Yale,” Graap said. “But I would also argue that we should be in the driver’s seat a little bit more and not put ourselves down, in which case we have to claw ourselves out of the hole.”

Approaching the halfway point in the season, the Red has established itself as a force to be reckoned with. This squad took down national powerhouse No. 10 USC and won every game thus far except for a narrow one-goal loss to No. 5 Penn State.

Cornell has also been able to win in various different scenarios. The Red has pulled out wins despite trailing at the half or being tied with two minutes left in a game.

“We’re learning lessons along the way,” Graap said. “There’s not a perfect formula. I think it’s good to be able to find ways to win, whether you’re leading at halftime or whether you’re in a deficit.”

Staying true to its motto of “get better everyday,” the Red looks to continue improving and put itself in a good position for the post-season, which includes the Ivy League and, potentially, NCAA tournaments.

“I like to just keep the focus on one game at a time,” Graap said. “[We will] certainly keep the focus on the immediate opponent, which is Rutgers.”

Action gets under at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 1 at High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway, N.J. Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Despite All-time Success in Series, Cornell Knows to Not Overlook Dartmouth

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Think Cornell men’s lacrosse looks forward to playing Dartmouth each year? History suggests that they do, and probably any other year the confidence would be at a level that would allow the team to look at Dartmouth as an easy win.

But 2017 is not a typical Cornell year, and the team knows it cannot take any matchup for granted.

“We can’t overlook anybody right now obviously where we’re sitting.”

Head Coach Matt Kerwick “Anyone can beat anyone,” said junior midfielder Jordan Dowiak. “There’s no real underdog anymore.”

Despite the caution the team holds, no other team in recent history has been able to gang up on Dartmouth (1-6, 0-1) as much as the Red (1-6, 0-2 Ivy).

Cornell’s most convincing win in last year’s sub-.500 season came over the Green, a 19-4

decision on the road in Hanover.

The year before: 8-2 in Ithaca, and before that 19-4, 215, 7-5 and 19-8 — you get the picture.

The last time Cornell lost to Dartmouth was in 2010, a 8-6 stunner in favor of the Green in Gillette Stadium. At the time, Cornell was 7-1 on the season.

And the Green? 2-4. Cornell made it to the national semifinals that year.

It was a blip on the radar in a series where Cornell has been seemingly unable to lose as of late. Just one year before the stunner in Foxborough, Cornell returned to form and took a 196 win in Hanover.

But one thing remains different in this season than in years past; Cornell has not been the usual dominant self the team typically aims to be.

“We can’t overlook anybody right now obviously where we’re sitting,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “The margins now are a lot smaller than they’ve ever been. It doesn’t matter who you’re playing … if you’re not ready and you don’t come out playing hard and playing well you’re going to come out on the short end of it.”

“We’re backing ourselves in a corner right now,” he added.

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Defensive woes | Cornell is at the bottom of the Ivy League in defense, having allowed 105 goals in the 2017 season so far — almost 80 percent of all the goals the Red let up in the entire 2016 season.

The Green — which has had its own share of season troubles — still presents a good opportunity for Cornell to notch its first league win of the season.

Dartmouth touts the lowestscoring offense in the Ivy League with 52 goals — 22 behind the next highest team in Cornell.

The Green’s defense, however, has given up a respectable 86 goals, the almost exact average for the seven Ivy teams.

On the other hand, Cornell has allowed a staggering 105 goals so far this year; almost 80 percent of the goals allowed last year with plenty of games left to play.

But that stat is skewed by the fact that 16 goals were conceded in each of the team’s first five games. Since then Cornell has found its defensive rhythm a bit, holding opponents to 10 or less goals in the last two games.

“We have to find a way to play well at both ends and do that consistently if we are going to pull these games out,” Kerwick said. “We’ve found our way defensively [as of late] and have found our identity there.”

The “scrappy team,” a term Kerwick used to label Dartmouth, is paced by junior attack Richie Loftus’ 14 goals and 19 points. In the net resides freshman George Christopher, who earned the starting role his first year and has put up a .475 save percentage and 76 total saves.

Freshman phenom Jeff Teat leads the way for the young Red in both goals and assists. His 15 goals and 14 assists are team highs in both regards. Classmate Connor Fletcher is next, also with 15 goals and six assist of his own. A third of Fletcher’s season goal total came in the 10-9 loss

to Penn this past weekend.

“Some of those freshmen playing serious minutes for us have done an awesome job,” Dowiak said. “They're playing like older guys even though they only have seven college games under their belts.”

The game against Dartmouth wraps up a three-game homestand for Cornell, which, after Saturday, will play only twice more at Schoellkopf before the end of the regular season. With three Ivy League games left after Saturday — only one more in Ithaca — Dartmouth presents a perfect opportunity to salvage what is left in the season.

“It’s an important one for us,” Kerwick said. “We’re focused on playing our best game of the season on Saturday.”

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

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

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THURSDAY MARCH 30, 2017

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MEN’S HOCKEY

3 Cornellians Sign Pro Deals

Toronto affiliate Orlando Solar Bears signs Gillam

McCarron joins Red Wings AHL affiliate, Grand Rapids Griffins

By ZACH SILVER

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Sun Sports Editor

It is hard to picture a Cornell men’s hockey game without the six-foot-flat Mitch Gillam leading the team onto the ice and standing in the crease come puck drop.

The Peterborough, Ontario, native has been a staple of the program throughout his three years starting in Ithaca, but the team’s loss to UMass Lowell signals the end of Gilliam’s time in a carnelian and white jersey, and thus a new direction for the team in net and for Gillam in a career.

At least for for Gillam, that new direction was made clear Tuesday, when the Orlando Solar Bears — the ECHL affiliate of the Toronto Maple Leafs — announced the senior had been signed to a amateur tryout contract for the remainder of the 201617 season.

His eligibility begins as soon as Tuesday night, though he did not appear in the Solar Bears’ away game against the Adirondack Thunder.

“I feel young again, which is nice,” Gillam told The Sun. “Super exciting to continue my hockey career and pal in the ECHL on an ATO for the Solar Bears, who are a great organization and are affiliated with the Toronto Maple Leafs so who knows.”

Gillam’s play at Cornell began his freshman season, where he appeared in two games. His debut came Nov. 26 that season, where he notched a 24save victory, and also added the first goal by a Cornell goalie on empty net — a moment that lives in Cornell hockey infamy and foreshadowed of the excitement he was to bring.

He leaves college hockey with the most points among goalies with a total of five — the one goal and four assists.

“I could have had a couple more assists if some guys got a few more goals on the breakaway,” Gillam joked. “But it was a great experience and the guys helped me defensively as well so can’t thank them enough.”

Over the course of his final three years, as Gillam earned the starting role each campaign, he guided the Red to 46 wins, 25 of which came this past senior season. He was a key part in guiding Cornell back to its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2012.

Gillam departs from Cornell with a career record of 47-28-17, goals against average of 2.15 and save percentage of .918. His 11 shutouts are the fourthmost in program history. He owns the third-longest shutout streak in regards to minutes in program history, a 213:17 span over the course of four games during his junior season.

“Having [Andy Illes ’14] as a mentor really pushed me to become a starter in the league,”

2016-17 has been quite the year for Patrick McCarron. In the span of his senior season, he has doubled his career point total with career highs in goals (6) and assists (19) while serving as alternate captain for Cornell men’s hockey en route to the team’s first NCAA tournament appearance since 2012.

And to cap it all off, he has been rewarded with a contract to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing professional hockey.

The Grand Rapids Griffins, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings, announced Tuesday they have signed McCarron to an amateur tryout for the remainder of the 2016-17, with a full professional contract coming the following year.

“It was a heartbreaking way to end the college year losing like we did to UMass [Lowell],” McCarron told The Sun as he was getting sushi after his first skate in Michigan. “[But now] just really thrilled to be here, excited and want to learn and take in as much

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Two men, one job | Prior to Gillam’s signing, the Orlando Solar Bears carried only one goalie.

Gillam said. “The last couple years I’ve been able to establish myself as a solid goaltender in the league and hopefully I can keep going up the ranks in each league I play in and for each organization I play for, and hopefully get to the top one day.”

The netminder is the second of his class to sign with a professional organization, as Patrick McCarron signed an AHL contract with the Detroit Red Wings’ organization earlier Tuesday morning.

Gillam enters the Solar Bears’ roster at a time when the team holds only a single goalie on its roster — Ryan Massa, a University of Nebraska Omaha product.

Gillam and Massa faced off once before in game one of two-games series at Lynah in 2014. The matchup ended in a 1-1 tie with Gillam making 38 saves and Massa 29. Massa faced off against current Cornell junior goalie Hayden Stewart in game two, making 32 saves en route to a 2-1 win for the Mavericks.

The Solar Bears also tout two former ECAC foes of Gillam, former RPI Engineers Chris Bradley and Milos Bubela. Gillam has faced off against the two several times throughout his collegiate career, and Bradley has two goals on the Cornellian, while Bubela has added three assists.

Bubela assisted Bradley on the second RPI goal of a 3-3 tie with Cornell in a 2016 contest at Lynah.

“As soon as I walked in with my Cornell gear a bunch of them came over to me and said we played

as I can.”

Though undrafted, McCarron attended the Red Wings’ NHL development camp last summer, and he has been prominent on their radar ever since. He is eligible to appear in a game as early as Wednesday night, but he did not appear in the Griffins’ home game against Milwaukee.

Throughout his career, McCarron has been one of the Red’s most dependable blueliners, often being deployed against the opposing teams’ top lines. This season, especially, he found himself tallying plenty of minutes at even strength, on the penalty kill and the power play.

“I developed into a more complete hockey player, and really had to learn how to play at both ends of the ice,” McCarron said of his time at Cornell. “Didn’t really defend very well when I got to school and I think [head coach Mike Schafer ’86] and [associate head coach Ben Syer] really helped me become a more complete player … and I think I became a better player and a better person in my four years.”

See MCCARRON page 14

-CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Locking it down | McCarron has been one of the Red’s top defender’s See GILLAM page 14

throughout his four years on the hill, earning his chance at the pros.

Buckles Closes With Springfield Thunderbirds, Scores in First Game

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

The Springfield Thunderbirds, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Florida Panthers, announced Wednesday that Cornell men’s hockey senior forward Matt Buckles has been signed to an amateur tryout contract to finish out the 2016-17 season, the team announced Wednesday.

Buckles is in the lineup for the Thunderbirds’ Wednesday night home game against the

Bridgeport Sound Tigers. He instantly made a splash with his first career pro goal 6:58 into the second period.

Buckles is the third member of the current senior class to join a professional organization, as Patrick McCarron’sand Mitch Gillam’s signings were announced Tuesday. However, he is the only one of his class to play with an organization that drafted him — neither McCarron nor Gillam CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR were drafted.

The Panthers selected Buckles Down and dirty | Buckles was never one to hold back, notching 44 in the fourth round with the 98th points across his career at Cornell with his rough style of play.

overall pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft after he was named the Ontario Junior A Hockey League’s Top Prospect by the NHL Central Scouting Service.

Buckles spent four seasons on East Hill, amassing 44 total points — 29 goals and 15 assists.

His 29 career goals paced his senior class, with 12 coming on the power play and five in the postseason.

Buckles made his name with his gritty play style, never afraid See BUCKLES page 14