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First-year architecture students celebrated the 115th annual Dragon Day parade on March 25. | Page 3

The Arts and Entertainment department explores the biggest concerts coming to Ithaca in April. | Page 8

The men’s lacrosse team earned its first Ivy win of the season by blowing out Dartmouth. | Page 16

C.U.Class of 2020 Chosen From Record Number of Applicants class — self-identify as minorities. Approximately 49 percent of the Class of 2020 is composed of students of color, including both underrepresented minorities and Asian-Americans, the University said.

Cornell’s Class of 2020 hails from all 50 United States, in addition to Washington D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Admitted students also currently reside in 85

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Managing Editor

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Setting records | Cornell accepted an unprecedented number of underrepresented minorities into one of its most selective classes so far.

Cornell has accepted 14 percent of 44,966 applicants to the incoming Class of 2020, after receiving the highest numbers of applications in the school’s history. For the second consecutive year, a record number of accepted students identify as underrepresented minorities, the University announced “From first-generation students to ... student today.

Only 6,277 students athletes, the Class of 2020 is incredibly talented.” were admitted to the Class of 2020, and all were alertJason Locke ed by 5 p.m. this evening.

Another 4,572 students were placed on Cornell’s wait list, according to the countries from around the globe. Over 10 percent of admitted students are international and University.

Students admitted to the Class of 2020 represent in citizenship status, the student body represents the evolution of Cornell’s demographics, as 1,718 See CLASS OF 2020 page 4 students — or 27 percent of the admitted freshman

TCAT Considers Further Cuts to Summer Service Schedule

By JENNA RUDOLFSKY Sun Staff Writer

The Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit Board of Trustees plans to seek public input before making severe cuts to its summer services, TCAT announced in a press release.

The board met on March 24 to consider additional cuts to its already reduced summer schedule, the release said. The transportation operator will hold open information sessions to discuss the proposed cuts with the public.

The company plans to host two sessions on Cornell’s campus on April 7 and April 8 — in 226 Weill Hall and the community room of Maplewood Apartments, respectively — as 50 percent of TCAT riders in the summer season are

Cornell students, according to the TCAT websites.

Two additional sessions, targeting Ithaca residents, are currently scheduled for April 5 at the Tompkins County Public Library, according to the press release.

TCAT Acting General Manager Alice Eccleston explained the cuts, saying numbers of bus drivers have drastically decreased.

“We have to face a new reality that we cannot promise or advertise a service we cannot fulfill,” Eccleston said in the release.

The transportation operator currently lacks 12 of 82 bus drivers it needs to maintain service in the non-academic year, and has been hiring

Kotlikoff to Head Commencement Due to Rawlings’ Prior Commitment Provost and Acting President Michael Kotlikoff will preside over commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2016 in the place of President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III, according to a University press release.

Rawlings — who will begin his term as Cornell’s interim president on April 25 — will not be able to attend commencement “due to a long-standing prior KOTLIKOFF

commitment,” the release said.

Kotlikoff has served as the University’s acting president since Feb. 19, after President Elizabeth Garrett took a leave of absence to undergo surgery for colon cancer.

The Board of Trustees appointed Rawlings as interim president on March 25, following Garrett’s death earlier in the month.

Rawlings requested that Kotlikoff officiate ceremonies in his place, according to the release.

“Provost Kotlikoff has accepted the invitation and looks forward to celebrating with the Class of 2016 and their families,” the release said.

— Compiled by Stephanie Yan

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All aboard | The TCAT is considering reducing service on approximately 21 routes this summer.

‘Extraordinarily Distinctive’ Rapper Young Thug To Perform at Bailey Hall Atlanta-based rapper Young Thug will perform at Barton Hall on April 17, the Cornell Concert Commission announced in a press release Monday.

Young Thug — whose “eclectic, song-style” rapping was called “extraordinarily distinctive” by Pitchfork — has collaborated with artists including Waka Flocka Flame, Migos and T.I., according to the release. He will release his debut album, Hy!£UN35, this summer.

CCC chose Young Thug because of student interest in a

hip hop artist, according to CCC Executive Director Ma-

YOUNG THUG

son Montgomery ’17.

“We’d heard a lot of feedback from students who wanted

to have a fun hip hop show this semester,” Montgomery said.

CCC Promotions Director Sarah Dellett ’18 added that Young Thug — who has also released several mixtapes in the past year — is “a huge name in rap right now.”

“CCC is excited that Cornell will be an early stop on his Hy!£UN35 tour,” Dellett said.

Tickets for the concert will go on sale Monday, and will cost $13 for students and $20 for the general public, according to Montgomery.

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University Weill Cornell Chooses New Emergency Medical Chief Prof. Rahul Sharma, clinical medicine will now serve as emergency physician in chief at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine for Weill Cornell, according to a University press release. Sharma was previously the executive vice chief of emergency medicine for these institutions.

In the release, Sharma thanked his predecessor in the position for mentoring and inspiring him. “I look forward to continuing to deliver the very best emergency care for those in need,” he said.

Pulitzer-Winning Playwright to Speak, Receive Ph.D. at Cornell

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Fire in the sky | Students wear costumes ranging from traffic barriers to Donald Trump riding a dragon in the annual Dragon Day Parade on March 25.

Hundreds Watch Dragon at Annual Parade

By EVELYN SHAN Sun Contributor

Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Paula Vogel grad will visit Cornell April 12-13, where she will discuss and attend a concert reading of her play and doctoral thesis “Indecent,” according to a University press release. Vogel — who became the first out lesbian to win a Pulitzer with her 1998 play “How I Learned to Drive” — was a graduate student at Cornell in the 1970s but left the university when two members of her doctoral committee departed Cornell, the release said. The Department of Performing and Media Arts will award her doctoral degree upon her visit.

Lectures by ‘Legendary’ Cornell Prof Become Available Online Audio recordings of lectures given by Prof. Emeritus Milton Konvitz Ph.D. ’33, industrial and labor relations, have become available to the public on DigitalCommons@ILR, according to a University press release. The recordings are from Konvitz’s ‘American Ideals’ class — which was so famous that students who could not enroll in the class would often sit in to listen to him lecture, the release said.

Local Ithaca Farmers Market Begins Outdoor Season After being closed for the winter, the Ithaca Farmers Market reopened for its outdoor season on Saturday morning, in its Steamboat Landing location. The opening day featured a presentation on making fire by wilderness skills program Primitive Pursuits, according to The Ithaca Journal. The market will remain open until October, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sundays in May, The Journal reported.

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Hear me roar | First-year architecture students parade a mechanical dragon for the annual Dragon

Hundreds of spectators gathered at Rand Hall on March 25 to watch the Dragon Day parade — an annual event featuring an immense dragon built by first-year students in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning.

Freshman architecture students work together every year to construct the dragon, which is then marched by their class from Rand Hall up East Avenue, onto Ho Plaza and finally onto the Arts Quad — where it faces off with a phoenix made by students in the College of Engineering, according to Aleksandr Dmitrashchuk ’20.

Several parade attendees said this year’s dragon — a massive, metallic teal structure with a moving head controlled by students sitting inside its body — was one of the best in recent memory.

“I love the fact that it’s mechanical, and it’s very pretty, so I think this is one of the best dragons I’ve seen,” said Gretchen Ritter, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Upper-year architecture students, while not directly involved in the construction process, also expressed pride in the freshmen’s accomplishments.

“I got chills when I saw the dragon, and

Day parade.

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Cornell Students Create New Musical Instrument

By JOSH GIRSKY

climbing. “[We thought of ] a ‘magic ring’ which we envisioned could Two Cornell students — be used to turn on lights, send Matthew Skeels ’16 and Steven messages or money to people Dourmashkin grad — have creand do other seemingly magic ated an instrument called actions,” he said. “After Steven Specdrums, which Skeels said he spoke with a friend who plays hopes “will allow people to have the drums, we discovered the access to playing music like perfect use case for our ring: never before.” using it to play the drums anySpecdrums — rings that fit where.” around the user’s finger — play Skeels added that it took him a sound when tapped and Dourmashkin a against a surface. The “[Specdrums] provides an inexpensive, year to develop a sound depends on the surprototype without a intuitive and fun way to start learning solid business plan, face’s color and plays on the user’s smartphone, before they received to play music.” which is connected to the aid from Cornell’s Specdrum by Bluetooth, Matthew Skeels ’16 eLab program. according to the product’s “Steven and I website. were essentially two One of the main benefits to purchase an expensive and great engineers with a really cool Specdrums is its portability, bulky drum set, piano or other invention but without much of according to Skeels. type of instrument,” Skeels said. a business plan,” he said. “Upon “For musicians, this means Skeels said that he and joining eLab, we were given a playing music anywhere,” he Dourmashkin came up with the mentor and were required to said. “For people with no musi- idea for Specdrums while rock attend two boot camps during Sun News Editor

cal background, this provides an inexpensive, intuitive and fun way to start learning to play music.”

Skeels added that he and his team hope the intuitiveness of Specdrums’ user interface will allow anyone interested in music to play music.

“Kids will be able to learn the basics of rhythm and be able to enjoy music at a young age without their parents having to

the fall semester.”

Skeels and Dourmashkin also joined Rev — a business incubator based in Ithaca Commons — in December, which they said has provided them with technology from laser cutters to a 3-D printers.

“We have been able to take our product development to the next level,” Skeels said.

“Working in Rev [also] gives us constant access to many other startups and advisors who we are able to ask questions concerning anything from engineering to business planning and customer development.”

The Specdrums team is currently focusing on building its community before an upcoming crowdfunding campaign, ac cording to the product’s Facebook page.

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

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Class of 2020 Will Be Most Facing Shortage of Diverse in Cornell’s History Drivers, TCAT Will CLASS OF 2020

accept the University’s offer of admission.

The University also predicts that over 60 additional freshmen will enroll in Cornell in of the United States.

January of 2017, as the second class of students Almost 700 admitted students are the first in participates in the First-Year Spring Admissions their family to attend college, according to the program, which was established in 2015. These University. The proportion of women enrolled students have also been notified of their admisat Cornell also increases to 54.7 percent of stu- sions status, according to the University. dents within the Class of 2020.

“Each year, the admitted class raises the bar “This year’s exceptionally large application on what it means to be outstanding, and just pool produced a remarkable class of scholars,” when I think we cannot push further with our said Jason Locke, associate vice goals to broaden and diversify provost for enrollment. “From the incoming class, it hapour first-generation students “Each year, the admitted pens,” said Shawn Felton, to ROTC candidates and studirector of undergraduate class raises the bar on dent athletes, the Class of admissions. what it means to be 2020 is incredibly talented.”

The admissions office anticThose accepted to the ipates that 1,800 prospective outstanding.” incoming freshman class students will visit campus durShawn Felton boasted a median SAT I ing “Cornell Days” from April Critical Reading score of 730 14-25 as they contemplate — the same as last year — but their decision. The University the SAT I Math score increased from 750 to will also host over 400 underrepresented minor760, according to the University. ity students on campus during “Diversity Locke said the Class of 2020 will be “slightly Hosting Month,” forum April 8-27. larger” than previous classes, with the University aiming for a yield of 3,275 freshman enrolled this fall, up from 3,182 last year. Students have Phoebe Keller can be reached at until May 1 to determine whether they will managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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contract drivers to sustain service since November, according to the release. The cost of continuing to use contract drivers — an additional $33,000 per week — is unsustainable for the company, the release said.

The proposed cuts and adjustments are extensive, with multiple cuts affecting approximately 21 routes. Many of these routes would see trimmed schedules, including the loss of both early morning and late night service.

Students said the cuts would likely affect their plans to travel around the city over the summer.

“In terms of getting to places on campus, I don’t think I’ll be affect-

“We will strive to inform the community so that they can plan for their travel needs.”

Alice Ecclecston ed by it since I walk everywhere,” said Miguel Gomez ’19, who said he plans to stay in Ithaca this summer. “However, it’ll definitely affect me if I’m going off campus since over the summer there’s not much to do.”

With aging buses that often require costly repairs, TCAT will continue to face financial problems that affect its approximately 4.2 million riders, the release said.

“Though a reduction in summer service is considered a temporary action, we cannot promise we will not be forced to make cuts for fall service as well,” Eccleston said in the release. “We will strive to inform the community so that they can plan for their travel needs.”

Jenna Rudolfsky can be reached at jrudolfsky@cornellsun.com.

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we’re all just very proud of the freshmen,” said Isa Hübsch ’19.

“It’s a really great bonding experience.”

Building the dragon helps create a community for each class of architecture students, according to second-year architect Ainslie Cullen ’19.

“It’s so great as a class to really come together and build one project and work on one thing as a whole,” Cullen said.

The Dragon Day parade also included band members, drums and a crowd of upper-year architecture students dressed up in costumes that ranged from Donald Trump riding a dragon to bottles of Naked juice.

While the dragon’s actual construction only began March 21, the freshmen have been preparing for four weeks, according to Dmitrashchuk.

“At first we spent about six to 12 hours per day, but for the last one and a half days, we’ve been working nonstop,” Dmitrashchuk said. “We do it in four groups: head, neck, tail, body, and by the end, it’s pretty much everyone working together on everything.”

Paige Wagar ’18, a friend of one of the first years, added that students put a huge amount of work into the project.

“It’s really cool, after hearing about my best friend stay up for hours and hours on end to build [the dragon], to watch her push it,” Wagar said.

Ritter added that the Dragon Day parade is a unique experience that she believes all students should experience.

“I used to love Dragon Day as a student, and now I love it as a faculty member here,” she said.

“I always tell students, ‘You have to go out and see it.’”

Evelyn Shan can be reached at els279@cornell.edu.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Happy Dragon Day | First-year architecture students animate a mechanical dragon for the annual Dragon Day Parade.

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Crow Tribe Elder and Native American Historian LIFE FINDS A WAY ...

Joe Medicine Crow Dies at 102

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Joseph Medicine Crow, an acclaimed Native American historian and last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Tribe, has died. He was 102.

Medicine Crow died Sunday, Bullis Mortuary funeral home director Terry Bullis said. Services will be announced Monday, he said.

A member of the Crow Tribe’s Whistling Water clan, Medicine Crow was raised by his grandparents in a log house in a rural area of the Crow Reservation near Lodge Grass, Montana.

His Crow name was “High Bird,” and he recalled listening as a child to stories about the Battle of Little Bighorn from those who were there, including his grandmother’s brother, White Man Runs Him, a scout for Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

His grandfather, Yellowtail, raised Medicine Crow to be a warrior. The training began when Medicine Crow was just 6 or 7, with a punishing physical regimen that included running barefoot in the snow to toughen the boy’s feet and spirit.

Medicine Crow in 1939 became the first of his tribe to receive a master’s degree, in anthropology. He served for decades as a Crow historian, cataloging his people’s nomadic history by collecting firsthand accounts of pre-reservation life from fellow tribal members.

“I always told people, when you meet Joe Medicine Crow, you’re shaking hands with the 19th century,” said Herman Viola, curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Indians.

During World War II, Medicine Crow earned the title of war chief after performing a series of daring deeds, including stealing horses from an enemy encampment and hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier whose life Medicine Crow ultimately spared.

“Warfare was our highest art, but Plains Indian warfare was not about killing. It was about intelligence, leadership, and honor,” Medicine Crow wrote in his 2006 book “Counting Coup.”

Soon after returning from the European front, Medicine Crow was designated tribal historian by the Crow Tribal Council.

With his prodigious memory, Medicine Crow could accurately recall decades later the names, dates and exploits from the oral history he was exposed to as a child, Viola said. Those included tales told by four of the six Crow scouts who were at Custer’s side at Little Bighorn and who Medicine Crow knew personally.

Yet Medicine Crow also embraced the changes that came with the settling of the West, and he worked to bridge his people’s cultural traditions with the opportunities of modern society. His voice became familiar to many outside the region as the narrator for American Indian exhibits in major museums across the country.

“He really wanted to walk in both worlds, the white world and Indian world, and he knew education was a key to success,” said Viola, who first met Medicine Crow in 1972 and collaborated with him on several books.

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Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) attends a Sunday campaign event with his family at the Hyatt Regency Green Bay.

Iraqi Forces Take Northern Edge Of Town Held by Islamic State HIT, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi forces took the northern edge of the Islamic State-held town of Hit, west of Baghdad, on Sunday in an operation led by the country’s elite counterterrorism forces, military officials said.

The operation to recapture Hit was relaunched last week, but the troops’ progress has been slowed by hundreds of roadside bombs and efforts to safeguard thousands of civilians trapped inside the town.

“We’ve never had a delay like this on one of our targets,” said Gen. Husham al-Jabri of Iraq’s counterterrorism forces. Al-Jabri carefully plotted progress towards Hit on a map in a temporary operations center just south of the city.

The initial push to take Hit was launched last month, but was quickly put on hold when Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pulled forces back to Baghdad after anti-government protests threatened instability in the Iraqi capital.

After the operation resumed, Iraqi forces had to deal with hundreds of roadside bombs laid by IS fighters along the main roads leading in and out of Hit, forcing convoys to veer off into the surrounding desert terrain. Even there, the forces’ advance was repeatedly brought to a standstill by booby-trapped explosives.

Progress was further complicated by muddy conditions after days of rainfall.

“The roadside bomb is the

only weapon they have left to depend on,” said Ayad Ghazi, a sergeant with one of the leading battalions inching toward the town. Just a few hundred meters ahead of him plumes of orange smoke rose from controlled blasts.

He said it took his men 12 hours to travel just three miles (five kilometers) on Sunday.

While initially used on a limited basis by al-Qaida in Iraq, the predecessor to the Islamic State group, IS now produces roadside bombs on an industrial scale. IS fighters use these bombs defensively, placing the devices to essentially create mine fields to impede advancing government forces. IS also litters cities and towns with the explosive devices to hinder pursuit of their fleeing fighters.

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In response to the issue of divestment from fossil fuels To the Editor: Every prospective student tour group I see on campus has been about hearing how Cornell University still has oil, gas and fracking investments. For Cornell to put a lot of energy into sustainability efforts is wonderful. Such initiatives though, need to have the support of the Cornell Board of Trustees with their decision remove all University investments, to divest, from fossil fuels.

Cornell Trustees have thus far chosen to ignore the advice of experts as well as the representative faculty and student bodies on campus and are only looking at the financial bottom line. Perhaps the Trustees will at some point realize that doing the right thing, de-investment from all fossil fuels, will be good for P.R. and marketing to potential students, while also maintaining the positive bottom line. There are non-fossil fuel investments that have similar returns as oil and natural gas investments. Cornell has already divested from coal — there is no reason to cling to the fossil fuel investments any further into the 21st Century.

I urge every member of the campus community who has concerns about climate change and is proud of Cornell's other efforts on issues of sustainability, to talk to the tour groups on campus. Tell them how Cornell is profiting from climate change. Be sure that students and their families, when considering whether to invest their time, energy, and money into an education at Cornell, hear the term and get a chance to look up the word #DIVESTMENT. Hopefully, incoming students and their families will have follow-up climate change-related questions for the University to address.

To the Board of Trustees: there is a growing resistance to your inaction on this topic. Divestment is the way forward. It's time to complete the picture of Cornell University's leadership on sustainability and climate change. Trustees: now is the time for divestment.

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t is often noted that young American Jews are far more conservative when it comes to the Israeli conflict than they are in any other realm. Non-interventionist across the rest of the world, people of my demographic will gladly support massive military support for the state of Israel, whose governing coalition seems presently disinterested in any immediate peaceful resolution. In a variety of ways, the American left is full of young Jews who find common ground with conservatives on this particular issue. And the explanation that is consistently offered seems simple, that they are aligning with their faith. But upon closer examination this doesn’t really make very much sense.

Israel is not the only issue that is approached from a religious perspective. In countless other ways, American Jews look to their faith, to varying degrees, to guide their view of the world. And like believers in any other faith, they find vastly different interpretations that guide them to diametrically opposing viewpoints. The question we should be asking is not why young Jews choose to bring their faith to the topic of Israel, but rather why they do so in a such a uniform, black and white sort of way.

Because I do not wear Judaism on my face, most days it does not have to be who I am. Unlike other, more immutable characteristics of personhood, faith tends not to be an identity that is quite so externally visible.

Of course there are exceptions to this for those who wear religious garb, and at the complex intersection of race and religion, this tendency breaks down. But for many, religion is an entirely internal identity. It exists and holds significance exactly to the extent that we choose to allow. If given the opportunity, it bends and reflects the world we see. It is a property of faith that it governs the way in which we understand questions in our lives — that I may read a book or have a debate from the perspective of a Jew is indeed the essence of that faith. It is a certain pair of glasses to wear.

This is the remarkable feature of living in a secular space. Devoid of any external expectation, it can remove many of the ascriptive qualities that religious identity can hold. For certain moral questions I do turn to my faith for some form of guidance. But it is just that.

Faith does not dictate the precise way in which I interpret the world, but rather is just a small part of the equation. There is no external expectation by others that I understand the world with a Jewish mind, and through Jewish eyes. Except when we talk about Israel.

One of the few near-universal experiences of young American Jewry is being expected to know how you feel about Israel. It comes from both the voices of conservative Jewish communities, telling individuals to support the Israeli government, and the conservative elements of the Israeli government, which claim the issue to be highly religious. They also get it from proPalestinian groups, which often expect some sort of denunciation of Israel from the Jews that they talk to. It also arrives implicitly through the connections on college campuses between large Jewish organizations and proIsraeli groups that often make the two appear, to the non-affiliated, as if they are one and the same.

Through the process of being asked, and re-asked, I have begun to feel an acute internal pressure to see this part of the world in a certain way. Whereas in every other arena, my mode of thinking has been the product of a collection of experiences and identities, when it comes to Israel, religion must be in the forefront. If a Jew would have an opinion, then my right to call myself one is tied to finding that opinion.

This, I think, begins to explain why my generation of Jews seems to respond to this issue in such a monolithic way. If religion is the reason for which I am sitting at the table, it is far more likely that is will be the sole factor guiding where I sit. That is, where there are the most Jews already sitting. When American Jews approach the IsraeliPalestinian conflict feeling that their Judaism requires them to do so, we are far more likely to adopt a two-tone approach to the what their faith should mean. It is the presence of expectation, not religion, that explains why my generation acts the way it does.

The question we should be asking is not why young Jews choose to bring their faith to the topic of Israel, but rather why they do so in a such a uniform, black and white sort of way.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

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laurst: The desire to seize that blessed moment of first laughter and experience the gift anew in the form of a second, equally genuine laughing experience.

You won’t find this word on Google anywhere, at least not in the way I’ve used it.

Coupled with “glithering” from my last column, I suppose I’ve been in an inventive mood lately. Quite frankly, that’s the only mood I’ve been in, as far as writing is concerned.

I’m not bereft of emotions, mind you. I have plenty of thoughts. Always do. But not one of them lends itself to a column at this moment. In fact, for the first time in nearly two years, I have nothing to serve as a galvanizing force for me. Blame the indolence of Spring Break.

Still, you can’t invent a word if you don’t have any subsequent plans, right? So I suppose this column will be about laughter, and by association, emotions.

Laughter and happiness are the easiest to defend. The indescribable sensation of laughing has been contorted and compressed into more uninspired clichés than I care to describe here. Thus, I won’t be spending too much time on happiness, if only because

being happy is the best way to gain understanding. I will say this though: the best laughter is the dangerous kind. The kind where you realize you can’t breathe, all the while awash with a strange, addictive euphoria from the sensation. Happiness of this sort is like an ancient, esteemed timeless beast that snags you, transforming your face into 100 percent plastered smile, half-closed eyes and creases galore — an unnatural embouchure that still feels true to even the most dour of us. A relentless, uncontrollable shaking and falling and crying and pseudo-dying takes hold of your body.

Esoteric utterances, shrieks and inimitable ululations force themselves out of your mouth … you get the point.

And then, of course, comes the quiet, suppressed sadness of having hit your pleasure zenith, followed immediately by the silent acceptance that your laughter is dying down.

But we need sadness too!

When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to cry or mourn, we’re bound to cry more and feel more deeply.

This is why those who battle the sadness of others with silver linings often find themselves failing miserably, or perhaps even succumbing to

sadness themselves. Only true empathy can coexist with sadness. People don’t like to admit the truth: that the harrowing journey through your own pain, reified in the form of tears, can have a palliative effect. To an extent, at least.

In the emotional triumvirate from which all other experiences are derived, laughter and happiness can be fed the most. Sadness and tears, on the other hand, can only be fed a little.

Anger, on the other hand, is much more sinister and unstoppable when fed. We feed sadness so that we might purge a significant amount of the least productive tensions housed within our bodies and begin the next step in the process of growth. We feed anger so that we might store as much of those tensions as possible within us until we are unable to escape the trawling entanglements of their sinful, self-destructive web.

There is nothing more frightening than our capacity to become self-propelled by our own rage. Put simply, angry people absolutely love to find ways to remain angry.

They love to feed their anger in as many different ways as possible. They love to send the opposing party hurtling into a frenzied maelstrom in

the hopes that they might also become angry. And there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that an angry person hates more than a calm or happy person on the other side of a conflict/disagreement. This will engender incendiary language, provocative insults and subtle, aggressive-aggressive remarks, all of which are designed to snag the opposing party and lug them back towards the aforementioned maelstrom. The sole purpose of an angry person’s statements is often to trigger a response. Anything and everything will be done in order to give the angry person more or stronger reasons to be angry, feel justified in their relentless anger, give in to its allure and soak/sulk in the milieu of seductive, adrenaline-infused experiences that come with anger.

The key to escaping the anger of someone with whom you want reconciliation is to embrace that most inhuman of traits: humility. To be humble enough to rigorously critique oneself. To be humble enough to listen in earnest. To be humble enough to —no matter how sure you are that you are in the right on this one, that the other person is blowing it out of proportion, that you have made valid

points — be wrong or, even better, to be quiet. Sometimes you just have to say “I cannot win this battle. I know that there is more that could be said or done. I feel that I am in the right. I feel that this is unfair. But I’m going to put all of that aside for the greater good. I’m going to concede defeat. I will absorb every insult, every low blow engineered to procure some kind of antagonistic response from me.” Only then will their anger run its course.

The emptiness that follows this decision can seem unbearable and untenable. It’s incredibly unfulfilling to forgive, to willingly place oneself beneath another (or at least present oneself that way). I get no satisfaction from the act. But the peace and silence that comes with forgiveness and humility is too sweet to deny. For these, I will sacrifice my own hubris and lust — my desire to be heard and triumph in these verbal battles.

I will not feed useless anger. That being said, be warned that not all anger is inherently bad. Stay tuned.

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun.com.

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When It Snows in the Desert

’ve showered once in the last 10 days. A camp stove explosion burned off the bottom half inch of hair on the left side of my head. My leg got stuck in quicksand while hiking through neck-deep water in a river.

After walking over 10 miles a day through three national parks in the southwest, the toes on my left foot have definitely seen better days. My dream hike across Zion National Park in Utah was cut short when my three friends and I were forced to evacuate after it snowed a foot during our second night of backcountry camping.

These aren’t things you can plan for.

As someone who backpacks with eight pages of trail notes, GPS coordinates of every water source within two miles of the trail and enough food to keep us alive for a month, I helplessly watched as my dissolved among the grains of desert sand. I was crushed. The adventure I’d spent months planning for would have to wait.

So it goes, and so we adapt. Armed with a black Hyundai rental car that carried us hundreds of miles across the deserts of Southwest, 10 pounds of cheese and three of the best people I know, I forced my stubborn self to accept that a plan is, at best, a rough outline. There will always be unexpected blizzards and camp stove explosions; the best we can do is plan to be flexible.

As far as backpacking goes, there’s a lot to be said about the humility that comes with experiencing physical discomfort every now and then. A scenic view is much more memorable if it

takes a 16 mile uphill hike to get to it.

It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to strip themself of the basic comforts of modern living, let alone enjoy it.

There’s also a lot to be said about living so comfortably that seeking out discomfort becomes a romanticized sort of exploration. As I’m writing this on a pile of napkins at my campsite in the

efit most from a cleaner environment and preserved natural landscapes. The fraction of the population that can afford to take time off from work and access remote natural locations is small.

Even smaller is the fraction of that population that would actually consider camping and hiking to be leisure activities.

This isn’t to say that environmental

While there are wide-reaching positive externalities to combatting climate change for present and future generations, most people must prioritize the far more pressing issue of meeting basic human needs.

Grand Canyon, I keep coming back to thoughts of how many people will never get to experience the outdoors, much less grow to love it like I do. Camping can be counterintuitive in this sense; as much as it forces me to appreciate the most basic elements of my existence, it's easy to forget how lucky I am that it takes sacrificing these comforts in order to even notice them.

In the same vein, there’s something entirely undemocratic about environmental conservation. On average, those who are in the best position to take action on an individual level (people who can afford to buy locally sourced food, change their lightbulbs, switch to energy efficient appliances, etc.) are also the same people who stand to ben-

conservation isn’t a noble cause — it is likely the most important issue our generation faces. At the same time, it's perhaps even more important to realize that while we all benefit from a cleaner environment, this benefit isn’t spread equally among all of us. Even nature isn’t free from class-based inequalities.

People who have the resources to experience the awe of the natural world are, in general, in a better position to contribute to its preservation. Individual responsibility is strong: when you can access natural spaces on a regular basis, you’ll likely be more inclined to care enough to help ensure that these spaces remain intact. While there are widereaching positive externalities to combatting climate change for present and

future generations, most people must prioritize the far more pressing issue of meeting basic human needs and providing for their families before they can devote additional resources toward conserving our planet and its natural resources. This is especially true for low-income families in urban areas, many of whom will spend their entire lives too far removed from nature to ever develop a personal connection with it.

On a large scale, nature isn’t as unpredictable as we might think. It operates in patterns and cycles, an embodiment of the laws that govern math and science. Unlike the events that unraveled my tightly-woven hiking itinerary, inequality with regards to nature and natural resources is something we can plan for. We can redistribute resources, redesign the structures that limit access to natural parks, create more widespread outreach programs and so on. A program to equalize access to natural spaces won’t be able to plan for every possible event that the world, but it is definitely in our best interest to start planning for this uncertain future now.

I can keep postponing my hike across Zion for the majority of my lifetime, but our climate is not afforded this same luxury.

Emily Hardin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at enh33@cornell.edu. Free Lunch appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT April Concerts Preview Ithaca Underground Presents: Naked Noise #7 Saturday, April 9, 9 p.m. at the Community School of Music and Art

It’s no secret that Ithaca is home to a thriving underground music scene. We’ve got hip-hop, punk rock, indie darlings and everything in between, all just crawling out of the woodwork.

One of this town’s strongest areas, however, is noise music. Abrasive to some, vital to others, there’s little arguing that noise music is something to talk about, especially what’s churned out on a constant basis by Ithaca’s own luminaries of the scene. This Saturday, April 9, Ithaca Underground will hold its seventh annual celebration of this town’s staggering strength in the genre of noise. Join the likes of Jake Burchard, Jason Calhoun, Kristina Camille, Heather Fae, Beau Madadev and many, many more as they do their best to unsettle our souls with their synths, screeches, cymbals and assorted sounds. The event will take place at the Community School of Music and Art and will cost only $5.

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San Fermin Wednesday, April 13, 8 p.m. at the Haunt A year after the release of their second album, Jackrabbit, Brooklyn-based, Yale-educated, 8 member-strong baroque-pop outfit San Fermin will be gracing the stage of the Haunt. Known for their highly literate lyrics, adventurous sound and having toured alongside the likes of the National, St. Vincent and the Arctic Monkeys, the band is assured to thrill and surprise with a sound that just can’t be pinned down. Tickets are still available from Dan Smalls Presents.

Haven’t had a nice wholesome musical experience in a while? Looking for a night of bluegrass pickin’ and country kickin’? Well, you’re in luck!

On April 16, blues, gospel and bluegrass stringwielding legends Ry Cooder and Ricky Skaggs will be joined on the State’s stage by country crooner Sharon White. With so much talent packed onto one stage, there’s no way this show could be anything but a rollicking good time. Tickets are still available from Dan Small Presents.

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Undoubtedly one of Ithaca Underground’s strongest lineups of the year so far, Pile and Palehound — two of the indie circuit’s most talked about bands of the past year — will be joined by three of Ithaca’s most talented: Lust, Shore Acres Drive and Teencat. With a lineup so perfectly balanced between hometown talent and big-name alt-stars, there’s no way that this show at the Haunt will be anything less than stellar. Look out for tickets on sale soon.

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Cinema of Transcendence: Knight of Cups

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

“And in the luck of night, in secret places where no other spied, I went without my sight, without a light to guide, except the heart that lit me from inside.”

— St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul Cinema is a miracle. Franchises and multiplexes make us forget, but to watch cinema is to receive profound insight on the inner workings of life and to experience a meditation on the world from another’s point of view. Roger Ebert called the movies a machine for generating empathy.

Ideally, you can feel your world growing when you watch a special movie. Watching The Tree of Life or Days of Heaven or The Thin Red Line as a young movie enthusiast was such a transcendent experience for me. Those films were more than an emotional experience, and certainly more than entertainment — they managed to impart me with a kind of wisdom that brought me closer to understanding the maddening experience of being alive. Terrence Malick is a director who reminds you of the true possibilities of cinema, how we’ve barely scratched the surface on what it can offer our species as a means of expression that is more vast, intimate and deep than perhaps any other. Malick is my favorite film director.

Nevertheless, I was heartbroken when I walked out of his last film, To The Wonder, about three years ago, stalking out of Cinemapolis in an agitated state of ennui. I didn’t understand it.

Nothing clicked for me. Malick had grown more and more esoteric and experimental with each new film, and finally his work crossed a threshold where I could no longer comprehend it. Clearly, many of the critics are in the same boat —

Malick’s newest, Knight of Cups, stayed a mere week at Cinemapolis and received middling reviews and a consensus of mostly frustration.

There were a few shining voices who called his new film gold, and I knew I was going to see it no matter what the weather, but I grew disheartened with the prospect of losing further respect for my favorite storyteller’s abilities.

For the first third or so of the film, I was very concerned. Here’s the plot: depressed screenwriter Rick (Christian Bale) struggles with issues in his family, marriage and the general tedium of glitzy Los Angeles. To borrow a phrase from Martin Scorsese, in this film, the plot is just a line you can hang things on. What Malick chooses to hang on said line — his own intensely personal worries, obsessions, musings and observations, are the film’s true subject matter. And for the first half hour, I had no idea what Malick was getting at.

The film remained an enigma, my worst fear personified, a gaseous cloud of fog I could not fully grasp.

I did a strange thing midway through the first half; I decided to plug in my earbuds. The images on screen were resonating with me somehow, perhaps on a deeper, more subconscious level, but I could not intellectually decode them. I found that the rambling voiceovers which Malick is famous for were only distracting me from getting at the film’s true meaning. So there I was, listening to my music in the theater, while watching a movie.

A very unusual moviegoing experience, but Malick makes very unusual films. In fact, he makes films in a way nobody else ever has.

Then, halfway through the movie, I had an epiphany. I had grown bored and tired in my seat, my interest was failing and I was just about ready to leave and walk out of the theater, but something clicked.

Ethereal jellyfish behind a wall of glass. Vibrant

green trees hedged and clipped. Gray glass skyscrapers against a gorgeous sunset. Magnificent, flowing water bricked up in a postmodern mansion pool. A pretty face inside a lurid strip club, filled with garish neon lights that contain a certain transient beauty nevertheless.

What is Malick up to? What do these cascading, seemingly unrelated, stubbornly random images have to do with each other? By the end of the film, I believed I knew. The following is my interpretation, backed up with a significant amount of evidence.

To my mind, all of Malick’s work is, on some level, about the struggle of the soul to unite with the greater humanity that connects all things — essentially, God. That’s an extremely ambitious and potentially pretentious idea to make films about, but again, this is Malick we’re talking about. Says Jim Caviezel’s Private Witt in Thin Red Line: “Maybe all men got one big soul everybody’s a part of. All faces of the same man, one big self.” That film dramatizes the immense struggle of every soldier to see the miraculous amidst the barbs, grenades, mortars and carnage of warfare.

Armed with this knowledge, I began to see the connection as I watched Rick and his unstable brother (Wes Bentley) and callous father (Brian Dennehy). The key moment came from watching a pelican crawl along the nondescript, and rather soulless, texture of a beachside dock. Scan the frame in any given moment of this film, and you will inevitably find one element that is an expression of man’s inability to relate to the eternal (glass buildings, Gucci suits, TVs, fancy cars, Hollywood excess) which keep people trapped not only emotionally, but spiritually as well.

Malick posits that such a lifestyle as many of us are accustomed to is one that prevents the soul from achieving transcendence. Scan the frame and you will also find, within the very same shot,

some expression of majestic primal beauty (glistening trees, flowing water, mountains, rock formations, birds fluttering in the sky). The haphazard voiceovers, they do not add to the movie.

Contrarily, they detract — they function as an accurate representation of the distraction our inner voices play in our daily lives. We fill our days with an internal monologue that is often fickle and arbitrary, doesn’t hold water, and is really meaningless. Occasionally, however, there is a snatch of dialogue or narration that truly resonates. Listen to Rick’s father tell him he is proud of his son for outdoing him in life — “That’s the way it’s supposed to be,” says his father — and witness a truly moving scene. Malick’s own father died in 2013, at which time his younger brother had committed suicide (so too had Malick’s other brother in the 1970s). The filmmaker has an overwhelmingly personal agenda here, and you can feel a palpable sense of grieving and a struggle for hope in this film that is thoroughly inspiring.

Rick yearns for spiritual reunion. His soul is in dire straits, he must find his way back from dark to light. This sounds incredibly pretentious to many a filmgoer. Many claim Malick’s refusal to shy away from such elemental subject matter is a hoax and that his films only pretend to great realization and poetry. What do you expect Malick, a lifelong philosophy scholar who specialized in phenomenology, to make movies about? I say the director takes massive risks and they do not always pay off, but in the case of Knight, they do.

In the case of some of his other films, they pay off in spades. Knight of Cups is a wonderful film, and it may even be a great one that I have not fully mastered yet.

Mark Distefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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season with an injury and is just getting used to the intensity of college lacrosse.

“Everything moves faster in college and there’s less room to make mistakes,” he said. “You have to be sharp every day.”

Teixeira seems to have transitioned nicely, given his play over the break, and will certainly be a key force in the Red’s lineup going into the remaining five games of the season.

“We know that if we keep playing to our potential, we can beat anyone and make a run

in the playoffs,” Teixeira said. “Personally, I just want to continue doing my part and hopefully everything else will take care of itself.”

Sticking to the idea of “Cornell lacrosse” will be essential, according to Kerwick.

“Our goals are simple, keep putting great practices together and focus on us,” Kerwick said.

“Our next two are on Schoellkopf and we look forward to playing our best lacrosse down the stretch.”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

UConn to Play for Another Title INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Morgan Tuck scored 21 points and Breanna Stewart added 16 to help UConn rout Oregon State 80-51 in record fashion Sunday night in the women’s Final Four.

The Huskies are one victory away from a fourth consecutive national championship fulfilling Stewart’s goal. A feat never accomplished before in women’s basketball.

If UConn does win on Tuesday night coach Geno Auriemma will have an 11th national championship moving him past vaunted UCLA men’s basketball coach John Wooden for the most all time.

The 29-point victory was the biggest margin of victory in women’s Final Four history, surpassing the 28-point win by Tennessee over Arkansas in 1998.

It was UConn’s 74th consecutive victory, the second-longest winning streak in NCAA and school history.

Stewart wasn’t much of a factor for the Huskies in the opening 20 minutes. The three-time AP player of the year picked up two quick fouls and didn’t score her first points until she hit a turnaround jumper with 3 minutes left in the half. That basket

came in the middle of a 15-2 run to close the opening 20 minutes.

She quashed any thoughts of an Oregon State rally, scoring 14 points in the second half for UConn (37-0). Just as they had done in the previous 73 games, the Huskies won by double digits.

Next up will be either Syracuse or Washington. Either team will have a very tall task in front of them to stop UConn’s historic run. The Huskies have never lost in an NCAA title game.

Tuck was a big reason why UConn was able to build its big lead. Oregon State had 6-foot-6 center Ruth Hamblin guarding her for most of the first half. The Beavers’ center was playing off her, daring Tuck to shoot from the outside. She had 10 of the Huskies first 15 points as UConn jumped out to a 15-6 advantage.

UConn led 32-24 after Jamie Weisner hit a 3-pointer with 5:33 left in the half. Then the Huskies took over.

About the only negative for UConn was that freshman Katie Lou Samuelson broke a bone in her left foot in the first half. She missed practice Saturday because she was feeling under the weath-

Wambach Arrested for Driving While Intoxicated PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Retired World Cup soccer champion Abby Wambach was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence.

Portland police Sgt. Peter Simpson said in a statement Sunday that a sergeant stopped the 35-year-old Saturday night after she reportedly ran a red light in her Range Rover near downtown.

Simpson says Wambach failed field sobriety tests and was arrested. He says she also failed a breath test at the police precinct.

Wambach, who lives in Portland, was booked into Multnomah County Jail early Sunday on a charge of Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants (DUII) - Alcohol. Jail booking records show she was released Sunday on her own recognizance.

Wambach is the leading career scorer — male or female — in international soccer with 184 career goals. She retired in December after 15-years with the

U.S. women’s national team.

She issued a statement on her Facebook page on Sunday morning, writing she was arrested as she was returning home from dinner at a friend’s house.

“Those that know me, know that I have always demanded excellence from myself. I have let myself and others down. I take full responsibility for my actions,” she wrote. “This is all on me. I promise that I will do whatever it takes to ensure that my horrible mistake is never repeated.

“I am so sorry to my family, friends, fans and those that look to follow a better example.”

The Portland Police Bureau said Wambach was “polite and cooperative throughout the investigation.”

Wambach capped her career last summer with the sport’s most prestigious championship when the United States defeated Japan 5-2 in Canada at the World Cup. It was the third World Cup title for the U.S. women, and first since 1999.

er. She started on Sunday, scoring seven points in the first half in 17 minutes. She didn't come out of the locker room for the start of the second half, returning to the UConn bench early in the third quarter with a boot on her foot.

Oregon State’s season came to an end. The Beavers won their first conference tournament title, and reached the Final Four for the first time. Not bad for a program that was in disarray six years ago.

Then coach Scott Rueck came in and the Beavers have been on the rise since.

Sydney Weise scored 13 points to lead Oregon State (325). Hamblin finished with 10 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks. She left with 1:25 left, getting a hug from Rueck.

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mid-play and still making a 3-pointer with just a sock on his left foot in the first half against Virginia, or Villanova’s Mikal Bridges jumping stomach first on a loose ball during the second half against Kansas as the clock ticked down the last few seconds before Villanova sealed their victory and sailed on to the Final Four. These are the sort of moments that make these games fun to watch, and hopefully what Monday night’s game will deliver.

These two teams have made it to the final rather easily, which inspires hopes that this game will not be a torturous blowout but an intense game that comes down to the last second, the kind of game that builds suspense and anxiety in the only way that sports can. The Tar Heels began the year ranked first, and dominated the ACC and their games through the NCAA tournament. They came into the national title game with five consecutive wins by 14 points or more. UNC is lead by senior Brice Johnson (who had 16 points and nine rebounds in the Tar Heels’ win against Syracuse this Saturday). They have effectively overpowered every NCAA tournament opponent with an attack that centers on their frontcourt throughout the tournament.

However, the Wildcats are a different story than the Tar Heels’ other recent opponents.

The Wildcats also displayed their prowess early, as they enjoyed a three-week stretch at No. 1 during the regular season, and in the first round of the NCAA tournament the team made 69 percent of their shots inside the arc and 46 percent of their 3-pointers.

This early on, strong offensive showing demonstrated the threat that the team could bring to UNC. They have the highest field goal percentage in the NCAA tournament since 2008, shooting 55.1 percent as they entered Saturday’s game.

The last time these two teams met was in the opening round of the 2013 NCAA tournament, when the Tar Heels won 78-71.

With teams as strong as these two, Monday night’s game should (hopefully) be an exciting event, two strong offensive teams battling it out to claim the National title.

Sophia Scazzero can be contacted at sscazzero@cornell.edu. Instant Replay appears on Mondays this semester.

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Undefeated no longer | The women’s lacrosse team’s loss to No. 1 Maryland ended the team’s bid for a perfect season on Saturday.

Maryland Hands Red First Loss of Season A

fter setting a Cornell women’s lacrosse record for most victories to start a season, the Red fell to No. 1 Maryland, 17-9 on Saturday. Cornell’s nine goals were the most allowed by the defending champion Terrapins this season. Junior Amie Dickson notched four goals in the loss.

Despite the defeat, the Red is still tied for the lead in the Ivy League and is the only one-loss team in the conference. Princeton also remains undefeated in the league, although the Tigers have only two in-conference wins — Cornell has three.

Princeton picked up three victories over break, narrowly defeating both Delaware, Princeton and Loyola. The Tigers also have posted an in-conference victories over Dartmouth, the sixth-ranked team in the league. Dartmouth lost to Harvard on Saturday, yet defeated Penn earlier in the week. The Big Green is led by midfielder Jaclyn Leto, who currently leads the league in goals with 35 on the season, seven more than the next highest player, Princeton’s Olivia Hompe.

Penn had perhaps the most exciting game of the week, a 14-13 overtime victory over Northwestern. The victory was Penn’s seventh overall of the season, tied for the second most in the league.

— Compiled by Adam Bronfin

Yale and Brown Rank in Nation’s Top Three Y

ale and Brown, both undefeated teams, earned spots in national rankings with the Bulldogs taking the No. 1 overall spot.

Yale continued its perfect season by escaping Penn in an 11-10 overtime nailbiter. The previous weeken, the Bulldogs also eeked past an in-conference foe, defeating Princeton by the same score.

Brown, on the other hand, blew out the Tigers on Friday, pumping 19 goals into the back of the net. It was the second time the Bears scored 19 goals in as many games. Brown currently sports the league’s best offense, averaging almost 18 goals per game, over three more than the closest team.

Penn sits in third in the league, after defeating Cornell over break. In addition to dropping a game to Yale, the Quakers also lost to Maryland over break. Earlier in the year, Penn scored 20 goals against Princeton, doubling up the Tigers in a dominant showing.

—Compiled by Adam Bronfin

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Big Green, big blowout | The Red posted a dominant victory over Dartmouth to pick up its first Ivy league win of the season on Saturday.

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Cornell Polo Teams Aim for National Titles Emma Eldredge.

Winslow said she feels confident about nationals but knows the competition is particularly tough this year.

“I am definitely confident that we have the talent and After winning Northeast Regional titles in Ithaca, both the Cornell men’s and women’s polo teams are making their ability to win nationals again this year, but we will for sure final preparations before a trip to nationals this week in have some tough competition,” Winslow said.

If Cornell beats Cal Poly on Wednesday, the women will Connecticut. The event, hosted by the University of Connecticut in Storrs, begins April 5 and culminates with face the UVA-Texas A&M winner in the championship match on Saturday at noon. the championship games on Saturday.

Cornell men, on the other hand, The women — last year’s national “I am definitely confident are The not defending champions, but they champs — open up their title defense that we have the talent still feel confident going into their semion Wednesday in the semifinals as the No. 1 seed against California and ability to win nationals final matchup on Thursday at 6 p.m., according to Eldredge.

Polytechnic University at 10 a.m. again this year.”

On the men’s side, six teams make Although Cal Poly has a strong squad, Nationals instead of four like the according to head coach David Eldredge David Eldredge ’81 women’s tournament, and the top two ’81, the Red is happy that its top-seed receive first round byes. Cornell and means avoiding a semifinal matchup Texas A&M finished first and second, so they avoid having against either the University of Virginia or Texas A&M. Eldredge did not dismiss Cal Poly but said he was more to play on Tuesday morning.

The Red narrowly defeated Western Ontario in a nailworried about UVA, whom Cornell defeated in last year’s biting shootout to win regionals. The men will face the winfinals, along with Texas A&M. “Virginia has the same squad back again that they had ner of Westmont College vs UVA. In a similar situation to last year whom we were able to beat by a goal in the national the women, one of Cornell’s two losses this year came at the finals, so I know they’re going to be a very tough team,” he hands of UVA. Eldredge, who also coaches the men, has watched his said. “Texas A&M is a young team this year that has just hit team compete week after week and said he is confident the map but is also really strong.”

One of only two Red losses this season came against about the men’s chances in Connecticut.

“I feel good about the guys because of their composure Texas A&M back in November.

Cornell has been led all year by dominant senior starters and resiliency,” Eldredge said. “I can’t count them out of a Anna Winslow and Elena Wicker along with junior starter game, and no matter who it seems to be, they rise to the

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

ALEJANDRO HERNANDEZ / SUN FILE PHOTO

Horsing around | The polo teams will get a chance to earn national championships this week.

occasion so I feel very good about the men too.”

Leading the way for the men all year has been junior Ignacio Masias and sophomores Ryan Saul and Dan Shaw.

They will all need to step up twice more for Cornell to come out on top this weekend. If the Red defeats the WestmontUVA winner on Thursday, Cornell will play either Texas A&M, the University of Miami or Western Ontario in Saturday’s 3 p.m. championship.

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

Breaking Men Blow Out Big Green for First Ivy Win Down CBB Title Game M MEN’S LACROSSE

By SHAN DHALIWAL

effort wasn’t enough to overcome in the team going into future Ivy League play, according to Teixeira.

Penn’s strong start.

“After the game, [head] coach The Red never trailed against the Big The Cornell men’s lacrosse team [Matt Green and finished Kerwick] continued Ivy League play over the made sure we knew off the 19-4 victory CORNELL @ PENN break, losing to Penn the first week- that how we played with ease. end but picking up a win against against Penn wasn’t “We worked hard 6 9 Dartmouth this past Saturday. The Cornell lacrosse and in practice this week 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Red (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) has five more that we had to have Game: preparing for 2 1 2 4 games left in the regular season, a great week of Penn Dartmouth, and the 1 2 3 Cornell 0 including three more against Ivy practice in order to team spent a lot of opponents. time together away bounce back against CORNELL @ DARTMOUTH During the first weekend of break, Dartmouth,” said from the locker room the Quakers got off to a fast start, freshman attackman since we had a good 19 4 outscoring the Red, 6-0, up until the Anthony Teixeira. amount of free 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH very end of the second quarter. time,” Teixeira said.

And bounce back Game: 8 2 4 Cornell 5 Cornell got on the board late in the they did.

“Of course, we all 1 1 0 half, going into the break, 6-1. wish we played better A hard, focused Dartmouth 2 The Red picked it up in the second week of practice against Penn but we half, outscoring the Quakers, 5-3. Six culminated in the team’s first confer- got back to work and focused on the different players accounted for the ence victory of the season against next game instead of worrying about Red’s six goals, but the strong team Dartmouth and instilled confidence the past.”

Head coach Matt Kerwick emphasized the importance of sticking to “Cornell lacrosse” and how that was lacking in the Penn game.

“We pushed the team hard this week after a disappointing effort in the first quarter at Penn,” he said.

“We challenged the guys to respect our tradition and play Cornell lacrosse from the start. It is a standard of our program to bring a high level of competitiveness and energy everyday [and] it paid off in our effort at Dartmouth.”

Teixeira had an excellent break, picking up a goal and an assist in the Penn game and a career-high three goals and two assists in his first ever start against Dartmouth.

“He is a goal scorer and has great game sense,” Kerwick said of Teixeira.

“We have lacked that this year so I was happy to see his success.”

KARLY KRASNOW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Teixeira missed the fall and early Fabulous freshmen | Ryan Bray was one of five freshmen with multiple points in the

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

arch Madness is now down to the final two, UNC and Villanova. The final showdown is on Monday night and will hopefully be a bit more of a close game than the blowouts from the Final Four — UNC defeating Syracuse, 83-66, and Villanova crushing the Oklahoma Sooners,

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay 95-51. The Wildcats’ win by 44 points is the largest winning margin in a Final Four game in history. Great for Villanova, not so great for the Sooners, as head coach Lon Kruger admitted, “We got whipped in every way.”

This is only the third time in the last 50 years that both national semifinals were decided by 15 points or more. So while it does prove both UNC and Villanova worthy of vying for the national title, it also makes for a boring game.

Though the last two games of the Final Four themselves were not filled with edge-ofyour-seat intensity, there have been some notable highlights leading up to the Final Four. There was North Carolina’s Justin Jackson’s hockey-like assist, a one-handed touch pass to teammate Kennedy Meeks who flushed a two-handed slam to help the Heels maintain their win against Syracuse. And the Orange’s forward Tyler Lydon losing his shoe See SCAZZERO page 13

Red’s victory over Dartmouth.

See M. LACROSSE page 13