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Kotlikoff Announces Formation of New Presidential Search Committee

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from different sections of the Cornell community.

“The search committee will be composed in a broad way as the previous search committee was, so it will include a member of faculty, at least one or two associate members of the student body and members of staff as well,” Kotlikoff said.

The committee’s first job will be to visit campuses and

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Students bundle up for a brisk walk to class on Ho Plaza on Tuesday.

The Cornell University Assembly discussed the appointment of President Emeritus Hunter Rawlings, information on potential labor abuses at Cornell’s Weill Medical campus in Qatar and proposed changes to the Campus Code of Conduct at its meeting Tuesday.

“He’s had a lot of experience, obviously, over his Provost and Acting President Michael Kotlikoff anticipated that two terms as President with issues like transitions.”

President Emeritus Hunter Alexander Thomson ’13 Rawlings’ transition will be “very easy and comfortable.”

“He’s had a lot of experience, obviously, over his two interview a variety potential candidates, according to terms as President with issues like transitions happening Kotlikoff.

Kotlikoff also said the president’s office has received now, in the past,” Kotlikoff said.

He added that Jan Rock, a member of The Board of multiple interrogations about Qatar labor issues, following Trustees, will be the new chair of the presidential search See U.A. page 4 committee and that the committee will include members

Ithaca Planning Board Discusses Maplewood,Green Parking Lot

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

The Town of Ithaca Planning Board discussed the Maplewood Apartments development for graduate students and the effort to transform a parking lot into a model green lot at its meeting Tuesday.

According to the development committee for Maplewood Apartments, there were

significant changes to the plans as they developed — such as adding more green space and attempting to create a more gradual transition from the development to the surrounding single family homes.

The new plans are a step in the right direction, according to City Planning Board member C.J. Randall.

“It’s good to see that this is progressing, and that it’s progressing as a result of inter-

Ithaca Man Arrested Fleeing Eddy Street Burglary Scene Ithaca police arrested found parked outside the Nickolas Conklin, 22, after apartment, as well as the susresponding to a burglary in pect’s home, and found eviprogress on Eddy Street early dence from other burglaries in Tuesday morning. each, according to Conklin was the press release. arrested while fleeThe announceing the scene after ment follows an officers secured the unrelated release perimeter, accordthat stated the ing to a police Ithaca Police Department and SWAT department press CONKLIN team stormed an release.

The release said the resi- apartment on West Green dent called police after hear- Street at 5 a.m. on Tuesday ing the sound of breaking morning.

Members served a search glass and later officers were advised en route that the resi- warrant and after securing the dent heard someone in the apartment, found weighing scales, cash and packaging apartment.

After receiving search war- materials often used during rants, officers searched Concklin’s vehicle, which was See ARREST page 5

action with the community,” Randall said.

According to Scott Whitman, the project’s lead planner, the overall sustainability of the site has not been looked at yet because stormwater solutions are “the number one sustainable goal right now.”

“The sustainability features of the site we are looking at so far are mostly related to stormwater, so our goal here is to maintain the same or less impervious surface,”

Whitman said.

The developers indicated a larger focus on environmental sustainability in later stages of the development of the project.

“As we move into the architecture and design, we will have a presentation on more of the sustainable features,” Whitman said.

The board passed the resolution to allow See BOARD page 5

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Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) greets supporters during a campaign stop at the Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha, Wisconsin yesterday, prior to his win in that state’s Republican primary.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Several large illuminated rabbits installed at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza will have round-the-clock security until the exhibit comes down this month.

San Francisco television station KPIX reports Monday that the giant inflatable bunnies are part of a public art installation.

To prevent the kind of vandalism that hit Super Bowl 50 artwork earlier this year, the bunnies will get 24-hour security until the exhibit ends April 25.

The two-story art piece titled “Intrude” by Australian artist Amanda Parer toured much of the world before arriving at the steps of City Hall.

Kate Patterson of the San Francisco Arts Commission says the exhibit is ideal because it’s in a space where people can come and enjoy it and “take what they want from it.”

Man Charged With Leaving Baby In Car at Strip Club LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man has been charged with child abuse for allegedly leaving his baby in the car while he went to a San Fernando Valley

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Auwin Dargin, 24, pleaded not guilty to the charge on Monday. He could face up to six years in prison if convicted.

Authorities say Dargin left his nine-month-old daughter in the car for an hour last month during an afternoon visit to the club.

Authorities say the baby was found by employees of the club and a neighboring business.

Chihuahua Leads Police On Chase Across Bay Bridge SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Chihuahua is in animal custody after leading police on a chase across the OaklandSan Francisco Bay Bridge.

The California Highway Patrol tweeted the small black dog “led us on quite a chase” Sunday and posted a video of it running furiously on the upper level of the bridge while being trailed by a motorcycle officer.

After it was captured, the Chihuahua was taken to a San Francisco animal shelter where staff members named it Ponch, after the CHP Officer Frank Poncherello played

by Erik Estrada in the TV series “CHiPs.” A spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Animal Care and Control said the dog wore a tag decorated with a human skull, but it had no identification. Deb Campbell said the dog was recovering from its misadventure.

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Passionate About Machines,Prof Explains Online Currency Bitcoin

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Ever since he was introduced to his father’s ‘adding machine,’ Associate Professor Emin Gün Sirer, computer science, said he has been fascinated by the inner workings of computing machines and systems.

“Every time I teach, there have been certain revelations about basic things that people have seen all their lives about how computers work that they took for granted, and they never really quite understood,” Sirer said. “[At times during lecture,] I say, ‘Okay, this is how it’s actually done,’ and I love looking up at the crowd and I love seeing that moment — that revelation.”

One of the major areas of Sirer’s study is digital currencies, including Bitcoin and market transactions within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Sirer explained that Bitcoin is essentially “the virtual equivalent of gold.”

“There is a finite supply of it, it’s controlled — the rate at which you can extract it is limited,” Sirer said. “[It cannot] be manipulated by politicians. This

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is appealing to a lot of people.”

Bitcoin was previously thought to be an incentive-compatible system, where following the protocols of the Bitcoin marketplace would provide Bitcoin miners with the most profit, according to Sirer. However, two years ago Sirer jointly published a study describing an alternative method he to mine found Bitcoins that yields higher profits but goes against market protocols. withholding By certain information about the market, certain miners can engage in “selfish mining” and profit at the expense of the other miners, according to Sirer. He added that these selfish miners grow bigger within the system by manipulating the system for their own profit.

“We should not have miners that are too big [in a Bitcoin system],” Sirer said.

“They then become able to violate protocol on their own.

Once we’ve discovered [selfish mining], it’s actually pretty useful because now you can [monitor] the health of a Bitcoin system by looking at how big the miners are.”

Despite this flaw, Sirer said he is still optimistic

about the potential of Bitcoin for online transactions.

He added that one of his favorite features of Bitcoin is that it allows users to create self-enforcing monetary contracts where money is not dispersed until the conditions of the contract are fulfilled.

“There are a lot of aspects of human interaction where I think it would be nice to make programmatic, where money can change hands under automatically set conditions,” he said.

Sirer also emphasized his love for teaching — especially on the topic of operating systems — and demystifying the processes that operate under the hood of a computer.

“There are things that if you know how they work, they’re fairly straightforward,” Sirer said. “But most people don’t know how they work, and when we actually discuss these things, people go ‘ah, so that’s how it works.’”

Sirer said these “tricks” exist inside every operating system.

“This is what makes my machine tick, this is how it decides what to do, this is how it creates the illusion of concurrency,” he explained.

Sirer said he also encourages his students and anybody interested in computers to “get their hands dirty” and try things out, to build their own machines and write their own programs. He also stresses that it’s never too late to start in the field of computer science.

“I see a lot of people in our [computer science] program who worry that they come to Cornell and they’ve been exposed to computers for ‘only a few years’ or ‘much later than their friends,’” Sirer said.

“And I have to break it down for them that it just doesn’t matter. You could pick this material up at age 18 [or] 20 and still be competitive.”

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

Bartels Climbing Facility to Add Bouldering Wall facilities have been updated to a degree that the renovations hope to reach.

“It’s been 25 years since the Lindseth The Lindseth indoor climbing facility Wall was built,” Magnus said. “The in Bartels Hall will undergo renovations upgrade is needed because climbing has starting in June to upgrade the rock significantly changed over two decades.

We’re making sure we increase capacity climbing wall.

Andrew McLaughlin, climbing pro- for our sold-out climbing courses. We’re grams coordinator, said he hopes that the also making sure that we catch up to upgrade will increase community partici- what the state of the art is now for climbing.” pation and interest The new design in rock climbing.

“The new design includes an of the Lindseth wall “We would like will encourage difto provide people intentional effort to provide ferent levels of with an increased equitable distribution of terrain climbers to particiopportunity to confor all skill levels.” pate, according to tinue developing Magnus. their skills and, Marc Magnus-Sharpe “The new design hopefully, becomincludes an intening life-long tional effort to proc l i m b e r s , ” vide equitable distribution of terrain for McLaughlin said.

Marc Magnus-Sharpe, director of all skill levels,” Magnus said. “There will Cornell Outdoor Education, added that be routes to the top for beginners and the renovation will help further the main experts alike.”

He also said additions such as a boulmission of COE. “Our goal is that all of these students dering wall will allow more opportunities learn to climb so well that they then go for climbing.

“Bouldering allows you to climb at a outside and become some of the most competent, quality outdoor climbers,” height less than 14 feet without a harness or ropes. You’re never far from the Magnus said.

Magnus explained that rock climbing ground and you can fall into high comhas expanded over the last 25 years, and pression foam flooring, stand up and

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keep bouldering,” he said. “You can come here between classes and climb without having to wait for a friend to belay you.”

Rock climber Raashed Raziuddin ’19 said he is looking forward to the new bouldering wall.

“I’m eager to climb with more of my friends who like bouldering too,” Raziuddin said. “A lot of them tend to go to Noyes because it has better bouldering, but if the bouldering at the renovat-

ed wall will be as good as the design, I'd get to rock climb with all my friends.”

The new wall will feature an increase in variation and square feet of climbable terrain, according to McLaughlin.

“Routes will be set with modular holds which will increase the variety and style of routes,” McLaughlin said. “The geometry of the wall will be more varied than it currently is and include everySee CLIMBING page 5

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Keep climbing | The Lindseth indoor climbing facility will undergo renovations this summer in the hopes of increasing the participation of people of all skill levels.

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U.A.Debates Conduct Code Modification U.A.

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a recent resolution requesting the University to provide specific information on labor conditions at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar.

The University’s most recent response to the assembly is a focused effort to provide all possible data, according to Kotlikoff.

“Understand that there are certain confidential things that we won’t be able to provide, but those things deemed non-confidential, like summary information about employees, employee conditions of employment and the processes that are used to employ individuals, we will provide to the assembly,” Kotlikoff said. Kotlikoff said he does not have all the information on labor practices in Qatar currently, but the University intends to provide this data soon.

“I’m sure it will not satisfy all the requests for data, but we will give the assembly what we are able to give,” he said.

The U.A. tabled a resolution proposing changes to the Campus Code of Conduct — which would alter mainly how the University hanldes temporary suspensions and the no-contact directive — an order that prohibits one person from contacting another person after menacing activity.

Gabriel Kaufman ’18, chair of the U.A. codes and judicial committee, explained that the proposed change to the no-contact directive would create a symmetry in how the directive works, making it binding upon all parties.

“The judicial administrator’s office could not issue a no-contact directive on one member of let’s say a fight that wouldn’t bind on the other member, which would allow the member who issued the nocontact directive to approach the member who was and get them in trouble,” Kaufman explained.

Alexander Thomson ’13, executive vice chair of the U.A., expressed concern about a mutual no-contact directive, calling it “potentially harmful.”

“There must be a clear direction of which party bears the responsibility of maintaining no contact,” Thomson said. “If neither party bears any responsibility for maintaining no-contact the potential abuser is left with the same upper hand that they had going into the process.”

Kaufman also explained that the code change to the temporary suspension clarifies that the process applies to both individuals and organizations and that the last measure of the resolution would create a mechanism for review in terms of temporary suspension.

“The final measure would be an appeals process,” he said. “The code change would create an appeals process for no-contact directive and for temporary suspensions which would require them to be continuously review by a hearing board, to make sure that we don't have people who get temporarily suspended indefinitely.”

Lauren Kelly can be reached at lkelly@cornellsun.com.

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Bartels Climbing Facility Cruz,Sanders Victorious inWis.Primaries Wins bolster two candidates trailing frontrunners To Undergo Renovation CLIMBING

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thing from slab to vertical to severely overhanging.”

Funding for the wall has come largely from the Cornell and Ithaca communities, according to Magnus.

“This wall is 100 percent fundraised by gifts from students, staff, alumni, and friends,” Magnus said. “We’re thrilled, this really is a Cornell-wide and Ithaca community-wide effort.”

Along with renovations, Magnus said he hopes to uphold the wishes of Jon and Virginia Lindseth, the original funders of the wall.

“Jon Lindseth said, ‘I just ask one thing: To do everything possible to make sure that, like the original Lindseth wall, this again is a one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art climbing area,” Magnus said.

Magnus said he expects the wall to be finished sometime this fall.

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at afe25@cornell.edu.

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drug sales, according to a press release.

Officers are interviewing the resident of the apartment and the investigation is ongoing, according to The Ithaca Journal.

Ithaca police officer Jamie Williamson told The Journal that although no arrest was made, the raid was still successful “because we have just developed some sort of information.”

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the Whitman Planning and Design Committee to coordinate the project, allowing the team to move forward with this project.

The board also discussed the Cornell Peterson Parking Lot Reconstruction Project.

According to David Cutter, a University landscape architect, the project aims to convert the current impervious asphalt

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parking lot near the Dairy Bar to a porous pavement parking lot, which will feature sustainable stormwater management practices.

The final site plan approval and public hearing on the project were both postponed to a later date. The project will not apply for site plan approval until this fall.

Kyle Oefelein can be reached at koefelein@cornellsun.com.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) stormed to a commanding victory in Wisconsin Tuesday, denting front-runner Donald Trump’s chances of capturing the GOP nomination before the party’s convention. Democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) triumphed over Hillary Clinton but still faces a mathematically difficult path to the White House.

Trump’s defeat capped one of the worst periods of his campaign, a brutal stretch that highlighted his weaknesses with women and raised questions about his policy depth. While the billionaire businessman still leads the Republican field, Cruz and an array of anti-Trump forces hope Wisconsin signals the start of his decline.

“Tonight is a turning point,” Cruz told cheering supporters at a victory rally. “It is a call from the hardworking people of Wisconsin to America. We have a choice. A real choice.”

Cruz, a Texas senator with a complicated relationship with Republican leaders, also cast his victory as a moment for unity in a party that has been roiled by a contentious primary campaign.

But Trump was unbowed. His campaign put out a biting statement: “Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet — he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump.”

Sanders’s sweeping win in virtually every county in Wisconsin, except Milwaukee, gives him greater incentive to keep competing against Clinton. But he still trails her in the pledged delegate count and has so far been unable to persuade superdelegates — the party officials who can back any candidate — to drop their allegiance to the former secretary of state and back his campaign.

At a raucous rally in Wyoming, Sanders cast his victory as a sign of mounting momentum for his campaign.

“With our victory tonight is Wisconsin, we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries,” he declared.

The results in Wisconsin make it likely both parties’ primaries will continue deep into the spring, draping front-runners Trump and Clinton in uncertainty and preventing both from fully setting their sights on the general election.

With an overwhelming white electorate and liberal pockets of voters, Wisconsin was favorable territory for Sanders. In a sign of Clinton’s low expectations in the Midwestern state, she spent Tuesday night at a fundraiser with top donors in New York City.

Clinton congratulated Sanders on Twitter and thanked her supporters in Wisconsin. “To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!” she wrote.

Sanders’ win will net him a handful of additional delegates, but he’ll still lag Clinton significantly.

With 86 delegates at stake in Wisconsin, Sanders will pick up at least 44 and Clinton will gain at least 28.

That means Sanders must still win 67 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates in order to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

While Trump has been the dominant force in the Republican race, he battled a series of campaign controversies in the lead-up to Wisconsin, including his campaign manager’s legal problems following an altercation with a female reporter and his own awkward stumbles in clarifying his views on abortion.

Wisconsin’s Republican establishment, including Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.), has also campaigned aggressively against the businessman.

Exit polls in the state underscored the concerns about Trump that are surging through some corners of the Republican Party. A majority of Republican voters said they’re either concerned or scared of a potential Trump presidency. More than a third said they were scared about what Trump would do as president, and about two in 10 said they were concerned, according to surveys conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.

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Toward a More Representative Student Assembly NEARLY HALF OF THE ACCEPTED STUDENTS in the Class of 2020 are students of color, the University proudly announced last week. While the University’s focus on increasing student diversity is commendable, promoting diversity must extend beyond admission statistics and include efforts to support minority students once they step onto campus. Following this line of thinking, on Thursday, the Student Assembly will host a public discussion on how to restructure to become a more inclusive and representative entity. “Underrepresented students’ voices remain absent due to the systematic exclusion within the current structure,” the S.A. wrote in the discussion’s event description.

“Systemic exclusion” is a problem that can only be adequately addressed with systemic changes. Recent initiatives, like the addition of a first-generation representative, are crucial steps toward promoting diversity, but they are slow and incremental changes.

Underrepresentation of minority interests is an issue embedded within the S.A.’s current structure for representation. For example, the minority representative position may allow the responsibility of addressing minority issues — issues that will be relevant to nearly half of the Class of 2020 — to fall to the few elected to minority positions. Increasing the number of minority representatives can help bolster the voice of often underrepresented groups. However, we must also remember that every person elected to the S.A. is called to act as an advocate for minority students.

Deeper structural issues lurk behind the S.A.’s structural struggle with representation.

Issues like the $350 student health insurance fee and the College of Business highlight the S.A.’s limited ability to convey student concerns to the University administration, contributing to disillusionment and apathy within the student body. If the S.A. is to become a more productive and effective advocate for student issues — especially students who are continually underrepresented on this campus — S.A. representatives must recognize that their work should go beyond passing resolutions and include maintaining connections with minority communities to more effectively shape and implement reform.

In recognizing a need to restructure, the S.A. takes an important, but frustratingly slow, step to engage more students and become a more representative entity — and thus a more powerful voice for students. Before Thursday’s forum, students should think critically about the structural issues that produce “systematic exclusion” and think imaginatively and boldly about productive solutions. We urge the S.A. to seek to better understand the student populations it represents, to listen openly and to respond promptly to the ideas suggested at Thursday’s forum. We also urge the student body to attend and actively participate in this discussion. Problem solving is most productive when it happens from the bottom up, and the responsibility of crafting a stronger and more representative S.A. falls on not just elected representatives but also on every undergraduate student.

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couple weeks ago, I wrote about pickles. But more importantly, I began with a story. The story was one of anxiousness, frustration and boredom: the wait for a sandwich at CTB — an indeterminate purgatory, where time hinges upon the complexity of an order. (If you’re lucky, a cream cheese on Long Island will cost only five precious Cornell minutes. But on a busy Sunday morning, you could stake out a spot at Olin before that Cali Sunrise is ready for p i c k u p ) .

Conventionally speaking, waiting on line is a bad thing. And specififor any cally, Collegetown food establishment, waits should be minimized because of the unique customer base. That is, impatient type-A Ivy League students. But what happens when waiting becomes a part of an experience, something to be expected and cherished, or even, an unavoidable routine?

Everybody has to wait on lines.

Lines can be consequential, as Arizona citizens have noticed more residents per polling location for minorities than whites — which can invariably influence voter turnout. Of all the things that could go wrong with a day, waiting on a line is down there with a buffering House of Cards episode. But it’s a part of life. Social conventions tied to the line have put food on the table for countless comedians. We hate it so much that we’d pay someone to help us laugh it off. But, it’s a refreshing wake up call when we notice others laughing along to a “what’s the deal with those lines at Walmart?” joke. We’re not the only ones. It’s humanizing to be in a situation that demands one to grapple with the idea that the world doesn’t revolve around them.

Cornell researchers in the School of Hotel Administration have found though, that in certain situations, waiting on line can actually enhance a given product, and be a sign of quality.

But, this depends on three factors: preexisting knowledge, ability to evaluate the quality and an individual’s motivation.

Over spring break, while in Austin, Texas, I stopped by Franklin Barbeque.

While only founded in 2009, this BBQ joint has quickly gained notoriety as serving some of the best brisket, ribs and pulled pork in the country.

Anthony Bourdain even visited the place. Not surprisingly then, Austinites and tourists get in line as early as 7 a.m. for an 11 a.m opening, six days a week. Personally, I arrived at 9 a.m. on

a Tuesday, only to find a line extending halfway down the block with selfemployed carpenters, unemployed educators and employees playing hooky, lounging on camping chairs. It was a very liberal line-waiting process, as bathroom breaks and coffee runs were encouraged, and chairs were shared amongst us barbeque aficionados.

There wasn’t all that much restlessness either. The time went by fairly quickly; harmless chit-chat ensued, Snapchat stories were recorded, live music recommendations were made, and the next thing you knew, I had two and a half pounds of Franklin BBQ in front of me on a cafeteria tray.

I left the place happy as a clam, and as satiated as Joey Chestnut on July 4th. Why was I ambivalent to such a ridiculous wait?

We spend two to three years of our lives on line. But we hate it and spend money avoiding it.

Businesses such as Same Ol Dudes LLC have made a business model off lines, charging impatient customers to do the waiting for Shark Tank auditions and iPhone releases. Localities — amusement parks and airports — spend hard-earned resources studying methods to influence the waiting process. Disney wraps their lines around buildings to change the parkgoer’s perception of the wait. Airports, finding that occupied time creates less frustration that unoccupied time, situate baggage claims further from arrival gates. More time spent walking, less time spent waiting.

There are some formal waiting preferences that have been discovered. For example, we prefer to wait with others than alone. And we like to be told why we’re waiting, rather than be left in the dark. It seems that this unavoidable social phenomenon is at the whim of our personal attitude.

In a sense, we are always waiting in life. And as a senior, I can’t help but feel a sense of “waiting” as I gear up for the next phase of life. But underlying the wait is a disposition for the future over the present. Maybe the wait at Franklin’s was bearable because the experience built a heightened sense of present. So instead of moaning at every line, traffic jam or elevator ride as a vacuum of time in between an ambiguous and undefined destination, remember to embrace the journey.

In a sense, we are always waiting in life.

And as a senior, I can’t help but feel a sense of “waiting” as I gear up for the next phase of life. But underlying the wait is a disposition for the future over the present.

Philip Susser is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Katy Habr | On the Margin

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Whose Right?

The Question Of Birthright

any organizations promote Birthright, a free 10-day trip to Israel for Jewish young adults, with the mission of “build[ing] a lasting bond with the land and people of Israel.” These trips are offered in many themes, ranging from hiking trips and art trips to LGBTQ trips. They offer tours of Israel, allowing participants to explore the country, meet Israeli Defense Force soldiers and visit the rapidly expanding settlements. Birthright trips have become extremely popular, attracting more than 400,000 participants since the program’s creation in 1999. Birthright has inspired many similar trips, some of which also focus on creating solidarity between historically oppressed people such as Armenian and Irish communities, and others that focus on bringing certain groups together to their homelands, such as Greek, Hungarian and Icelandic birthright trips.

It is a noble and important idea to unite and foster connections between groups that share a certain identity, especially ones that have been historically oppressed, but it is important to consider the implications of such trips and the people they affect.

Many people who have attended Birthright trips have spoken highly of the experience, arguing it has given them a chance to explore Israel for themselves and deepen their connection with their religion. However, Birthright has faced criticism for multiple aspects of the program, including alleged propaganda efforts. Along with pushing rhetoric that conflates Judaism with Zionism, Birthright trips allegedly shield participants from the realities of life in Gaza and the West Bank and aim to convince participants to relocate to Israel and join the IDF (Birthright does not keep track of how many participants go on to join the IDF but estimates that 20,000–30,000 of its participants have moved to Israel). The program has also received attention for its unapologetic promotion of relationships on the trips, which mix young adults with alcohol and the company of each other for 10 days with predictable outcomes. These efforts are seen as a part of a plan to promote marriage within Birthright participants that will lead to eventual relocation to Israel to reproduce and repopulate in order to remedy the trend of intermarriage, which founders see as a threat.

Many young people choose to go on Birthright, and understandably so. Not many people would turn down a free vacation, especially when it provides a promise of building connections with others that share a common identity and often feel out of place elsewhere. But possible issues with the trip are often not considered, and any cognitive dissonance is quickly justified and explained away, referencing the irresistibility of a free holiday.

In 1948, when the state of Israel was created, about 800,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes. In the six-day war of 1967, around 350,000 more Palestinians were forced to flee. As of 2015, there are over 5 million Palestinian refugees registered with the UN, and one in three refugees worldwide is Palestinian.

In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 194 which states that Palestinian refugees “wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.”

The UN General Resolution 3236 passed in 1974 declared the “right to return” an inalienable right. Furthermore, Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human rights, passed in December 1948, states that “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”

The Israeli government has, however, on multiple occasions denied the right of return to Palestinian refugees, suggesting that Palestinian refugees relocate elsewhere.

In this context, the name of the trip seems to have some implications worth considering. It seems odd that the trip participants, 80 percent of whom are from the USA and Canada, have more of an inherent “right” to a land than do the 5 million refugees, whose families lived in Palestine for generations until they were expelled. The notion of a birthright is neither right nor wrong, but is troubled when it entails the exclusion and expulsion of certain other groups.

Whether or not people choose to go on Birthright is a decision completely up to them, but it is important to evaluate and critically engage with the consequences and possible intentions of the trip that affects other populations in ways bigger than a free vacation. When one of the co-founders of Birthright, Michael Steinhardt, has explicitly denied the existence of the Palestinian people, it is important to open up the discussion surrounding the trip and consider whether or not the issues raised are worth a free vacation.

In response to issues raised with Birthright, some pro-Palestinian groups have offered a counter trip: Birthright Unplugged, which allows Westerners (often Jewish youths) to explore Palestine and meet with civilians living under the occupation. This program does not pretend to be objective, but provides an alternative to Birthright trips for those that wish to see the other side of the story that is almost never told.

Katy Habr is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.

Comments may be sent to kh547@cornell.edu. On the Margin runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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t is really easy to make tent, which really confuses is discrimination based on assumptions about people me. I personally don’t under- skin color. Every person of at first glance. We’ve been stand how I’m white passing color has their own unique strongly socialized to make when all of my facial features way they are discriminated quick judgements about peo- are dark and my hair is so against and part of what may ple we may know nothing curly. I’ve had this conversa- contribute to those differabout. It takes a large amount tion with others who don’t ences is skin color.

Anti-Blackness is a really of effort to actively try to think I can be passing at all, work against all the assump- which makes it evident that big problem even within tions you’ve been trained to it is completely situational communities of color. There make. In a way, it is like even if I’m unaware of how I is the idea that the lighter skinned a person is, the betunlearning what you have am being perceived.

I’ve come to realize that ter they are (which of course been taught, which is something that requires constant as long as I know how I is absurd). It is another way active engagement. This is a identify, then it doesn’t real- we’re socialized to think particularly interesting issue ly matter how I’m labeled by about race and create hierarin regards to people who are others. I know that I’m a chies that even occurs in Latina and I’m a person of communities of color, which white passing.

Different races and eth- color, so it doesn’t really people often think would be nicities are often associated matter if occasionally some- free from discrimination. I with a certain stereotypical one thinks I’m white, and think that within the context look despite both concepts the majority of the times of the United States, we can being more complicated I’ve been perceived as white be assimilated into having than that. The media creates the ideas of I’ve come to realize that as long as I know what it means to be any per- how I identify, then it doesn’t really matter son of color, how I’m labeled by others. I know that I’m so it is hard to a Latina and I’m a person of color, so it deter from those images. doesn’t really matter if occasionally It is another someone thinks I’m white. one of the many catethoughts gories that people try to put has been with white people. discriminatory others in. A person can look It may be on account of the because that is the norm in white, but strongly identify media representation of this society. These standards Latinx people because that can even spread globally on as a person of color.

That being said, I know may be only basis people account of the United States’ from experience that even have for what people of imperialism.

No matter how frustrated being white passing isn’t color “look like.”

Although I’m not white I become due to being missomething definite. I have met people who have and may not be white pass- read, I find that I cannot be thought I was white because ing, I still benefit from the that upset because that is a of how pale I am, so in that fact that my skin is lighter. form of complicated privirelationship, in that space, I How a person identifies lege that I have as a person had the privileges that come doesn’t matter when people of color with lighter skin. It with being white passing. It judge based on perception, also serves as a reminder that is interesting to think about and anti-Blackness in the not all people of color expehow it is always about how United States is rampant. rience the same forms of disanother person perceives me My “issue” of being misread crimination, even if there are rather than the way I per- is actually a benefit because times when they overlap. ceive myself. Another per- my lighter skin prevents me son’s idea of me still manages from being attacked in the Zumba is a sophomore in the College to affect me by providing me way that people with darker Sarah of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at skin continuously are. It is sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out privilege.

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Is the Robot Uprising Actually Going to Happen?

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Science Editor

Siri debuted in 2011 as of the first intelligent personal assistants. Since then, personal assistants have become an integral part of the smartphone experience, providing a way to more efficiently interact with the hand-held device. They can perform simple tasks like taking notes and setting reminders. While this doesn’t seem like much in 2016, these features were groundbreaking a mere five years ago.

Today, Facebook uses facial recognition that makes tagging friends easier, while Netflix and Spotify use learning algorithms to suggest your next favorite movie.

All of these examples show how various areas of artificial intelligence are already having a deep impact on our lives.

So, why are the major advances in the field of artificial intelligence often portrayed as the coming of an impending apocalypse in popular media? How likely is the threat of a robot uprising?

While it is easy, and sometimes even profitable to reach frightening conclusions, the answer itself is not simple. And to reach it, a few things need to be understood.

The first of which is the definition of artificial intelligence. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “a branch of computer science that deals with simulation of intelligent behavior in computers.” Prof. Bart Selman, computer science, said he agreed with this definition but also said that it could be thought of better as a sum of parts.

“The ultimate goal [of artiicial intelligence] is to really model human thinking, human cognition and maybe even go beyond that. But we generally break it down into sub areas,” he said.

He said that it is these sub areas that have had “quite a few successes.” For example, computer vision, has hugely improved the programming of self-driving cars.

These cars are no longer only dependent on GPS to navigate, and now detect other cars and objects in their present environment. Beyond personal assistants on phones and laptops, Google’s introduction of voice editing in Google Docs is an instance of the increased modes of technological interaction beyond typing.

Machine learning, another sub area of AI, has been helping suggest your next favorite song.

So, while the definition might suggest that the goal is to develop a single fully intelligent machine, it would be incorrect to assume that it would necessarily happen.

Innovations are often born out of necessity, and a fully intelligent machine doesn’t necessarily solve any of the

problems that we currently face.

However, combining these sub-areas to help perform various tasks is very much a reality. Selman said that we will see the emergence of partial intelligence first.

“The self-driving car is a good example. It is already working but will be perfected over the next two years,” he said. “So there you have an intelligent task — driving, that will be taken over by a machine.”

Another thing to understand is that people and machines exist in a symbiotic relationship with one another. The Google’s Go player, Alpha Go’s win against the Go grandmaster Lee Sedol was as much a learning opportunity for the players as it was a milestone for AI. “What Alpha Go did is they combined that learning by literally having it play millions of games, and combine that with a previously developed technique in terms of reasoning and game play,”

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Cruising along | Google’s self-driving car travels down a road in California.

Selman said, “Alpha Go is seen as combining the recent advances in AI and is taking them to the next level.”

It learned Go by watching millions of human games, and then some more by playing against itself. It may now be our turn to learn from it.

“There is a certain sense in the community that given how dramatically Alpha Go won, that human Go playing is not close to optimal, and that we have developed a style of play over centuries, that is very good, but

not as comprehensive as it could be.”

Selman points out that this is currently speculation, but probable since better forms of gameplay have developed for other games too.

The human sense of understanding is very different from the way computers currently process information, though it is not for the lack of trying. A lot of human communication is context-based. Selman pointed out that though we tend to think that in communication, most of the meaning is in the words, we forget how much is much is actually unsaid.

“So, in natural language we communicate very little with the amount of words or text we exchange, because we rely so much on this common sense knowledge,” he said. “It’s so obvious, that it’s not possible to get it from the web.”

This kind of understanding is not yet possible for computers. Selman said that while companies are working on it “like crazy, they [computers] don’t really know what a bookshelf is.”

And so to attain this human-like understanding, companies are working on building rich knowledge bases — not databases as they are not just facts — but knowledge, things that are related to each other.

So what would this understanding mean for consciousness of the machine or the program?

The answer to that question depends on how we define consciousness.

“We don’t quite know what conscious is, but it is reasonable to expect that once machines start to get our level of understanding, they might start to ask questions about themselves, and that they are a machine,” Selman said.

So coming back to the question of a robot uprising, while it is not out of the view of possibility, it seems unlikely.

However, this technology and its massive potential for change does raise important questions about the future of our society. How different would the job prospects be in the future if a lot of the work could be done by machines? How would you measure professional accountability in life threatening scenarios? What would automation mean for the military?

As evidenced by the debate that surrounded the FBI’s demand for Apple to unlock a mass shooter’s iPhone, the 21st century’s clash between technology and policy is not easily resolved.

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun.com.

Students Present Research at 14th Annual BioExpo

By SAM KITTERMAN Sun Contributor

Studies on a wide variety of subjects — on the differences between men and women in aging’s effects on skeletal muscle, vector machine learning’s use in mammographic diagnosis of breast cancer, and storm conditions’ effects on bioreactor efficiency — were on display at the 14th annual BioExpo Research Symposium. Allowing students to present research on biological and environmental engineering alike, the program, hosted by the Institute of Biological Engineering was held in Duffield Hall and included a speaker series, dinner, and research judging.

As co-presidents of the IBE— Cornell’s undergraduate society for biological and environmental engineering majors — Charlie Xu ’16 and Annie Chau ’16 led the charge in planning and running this year’s expo. They noted that the entire IBE EBoard put much effort into seeing the program through. The BioExpo, they confirmed, was IBE’s largest event of the year.

Indeed, hard work was on display in more than just the event organization; the primary aspect of the symposium was the research competition,

judged by a panel of faculty and graduate students.

Competing for a top prize of $500, teams and individual students alike showed off a wide variety of work both research-oriented and technological.

Of this latter type, James Busch, Guarang Dimri, Kelsey Krupp and Sonia Patel –– all masters of engineering students within the BEE department –– were at the BioExpo to present work on a newer, safer retractor for open heart surgeries.

Currently, 55 percent of open heart surgery patients end up with a broken rib, while many more continue to feel pain a month after surgery.

Krupp and team see this as the result of outmoded retractors and set out to devise a better design.

After pulling out a 3-D printed model of his group’s redesigned retractor, Busch explained what makes Cornell, and Ithaca, a good environment for the type of research on display at the BioExpo.

“We collaborated with the Cornell Veterinary School, which allowed us to use our retractor on injured animals, and even the anatomy lab at Ithaca College,” he said.

Collaboration with other institutions was a common theme. Diana Herrera ’19 was at the BioExpo to demonstrate work she had done with the Neurological Institute at Columbia University

during the latter half of her high-school career. Her research explores the correlation between the size and location of surgical lesions and the reduction of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder symptoms.

Herrera plans to take the knowledge she gained working at Columbia and apply it to research at Cornell. When asked if she would like to be back at the BioExpo next year, she retorted eagerly and without hesitation, “Hopefully! And with new research to show you!”

Carlie Mendoza ’16, also presented recent work alongside a team of other students, has been working on the development the Cornell Prime Dot, a new generation of silica-based nanoparticles for use on cancer patients. Mendoza explained that the new dots were already being used in clinical trials on patients with brain cancer and melanoma.

Medical research and engineering constituted a large portion of works on display. Spreading knowledge about the theme, Prof. Bruce Ganem, the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise, and Prof. Cole Gilbert, entomology spoke at the event.

Sam Kitterman can be reached at sok26@cornell.edu

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Creative Chaos: Cornell Faculty Art Show 2016

BY JAMES FRICHNER Sun Staff Writer

Art is ambiguous, much like the standards that define it. It can require great effort, but is often accused of being superfluous. It can push boundaries and the limits of the imagination, but is often accused of being derivative or irrelevant. In our world, virtually no art is being produced which is not self-reflexive or at the very least self-conscious, and this is reflected at every turn in the Johnson Museum’s Cornell Art Faculty Show 2016.

The varied collection deals heavily with the problems and difficulties which representation faces in the 21st century, and you will be hard pressed to find anything that truly challenges the norms and beliefs of modern art culture. Yet this is still art, and it still does what art does, striving for an authenticity that surpasses or even arises out of our inescapable postmodern obsession with irony.

There is a common thread in the show of questioning the presumption that chaos or non-conformity cannot also be subsumed into the realm of beauty. One of the first pieces you see upon entering is a painting of a large question mark, aptly titled ?, by Carl Ostendarp.

The offset, unbalanced symbol seems to be mocking the pretensions of the viewer, daring you to make fun of or belittle it and the motivations behind its existence, goading you to like it despite its obviousness. In the back corner stands a sculpture — Where Am I to Live by Roberto Bertoia — which, in its twisted wooden labyrinthine design, evokes the maze of meaning which the individual must navigate in order to build any sort of foundation for living. But look just around the corner and there is another sculpture, this one by Michael Ashkin, which seems to challenge this simplistic narrative with a model house that is both twisted, modern, intertwined with its environment and yet

solid. Aptly titled Artist’s House, it seems to be the answer to the question which Bertoia had posed.

Perhaps for a moment, I mused, I can allow myself to judge these works without the influence of my biases and incomplete knowledge of aesthetics. Then I realized that this, in itself, was just another layer of judgement. But perhaps, the works of the Art Faculty suggest, this is not a bad thing, but crucial to achieving a proper understanding of the work of art.

Other artists double down on presenting layered yet foundationally simple viewpoints to the viewer, allowing the works to be judged for their merits despite the double awareness of artist and viewer that this judgement cannot occur in an unbiased vacuum. Elizabeth Meyer works with woodcuts to shape Toward a Better Babylon, which operates simultaneously as an exploration of the possibilities of woodcuts and a parody of the formalism and unity of concept contained in many classic and even modern woodcuts. And in Morgan Ashcom’s book, Leviathan, he takes things a step further by glorifying the dingy and the slightly deranged individuals who haunt the corners of our American life, those whose uncompromising rejection of the mainstream itself comprises a strict and unyielding aesthetic, one whose rules are no less rigorous. By upholding this as beautiful, he is both normalizing their lives and exploring the intimate relationship which outsiders have with whatever is “normal.” These people may live their lives in a radical fashion, but in normalizing them he is exposing the impossibility of the task which awaits anyone who would truly try to live a life apart. Beauty, it seems, is inescapable. But is that so terrible?

One final thing that is inescapable about the show is its severe Americanness. Almost all of the artists are American, and their sensibilities and concerns reflect a certain cultural awareness, especially in the works of Bill Gaskins and David Snyder. Snyder’s The Guano is a nearly 13-minute exercise in pure satire, proposing a

vast infrastructure project to revitalize the American economy which consists entirely of turning every former Blockbuster into a bat guano production facility.

In his hybridization of the quintessentially American entrepreneurial spirit and the most pie-in-the-sky dreams of the environmentalists, the artist has created a work that is both completely irrelevant to reality but also seems somehow tantalizingly achievable, as if the constant media messaging about American greatness is so hardwired into our brains that any message which adopts its terminology must be believed. One could almost imagine Snyder on Shark Tank hawking his idea with complete seriousness. Gaskin’s two photo works, taken from his series The Cadillac Chronicles, showcase two men who in all the conventional senses should live in separate worlds. But in the obvious love they lavish on their vehicles, which are spectacularly and lovingly maintained, there is a common thread which inspires both great hope and great fear about the forces that both divide and unite us.

It is perhaps fitting that the only artist who is not American — besides the Canadian Bertoia — is Tuscarora Nation member Jolene Rickard, whose combination video and physical piece Yekhihsutkeha?nehk: Our Ancestors represents an acknowledgment of the many ways in which meaning and symbols intersect across timelines and eras, losing their specificity while increasing in depth and resonance. This piece, perhaps more than any other, accurately reflects the chaotic and layered standards which affect any modern artwork.

While perhaps none of the pieces in this show was revolutionary, they were all relevant to our modern struggle for pure meaning in an age of clashing histories and cultures, where any truth you find can be contradicted in five minutes on the Internet.

James Frichner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jsf95@cornell.edu.

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Looking for Meaning in the Library of Babel

he most awe-inspiring site on the Internet is one of the least glamorous. “https://libraryofbabel.info/” doesn’t boast images of staggering beauty, or even any audio or video. What it does contain is one of the closest approximations of infinity ever created by humans.

The site is the creation of Jonathan Basile, and is inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges short story “The Library of Babel.” Borges’s story describes a “universe” that is an endless library. Each room is shaped like a hexagon, and opens onto two more identical rooms, repeating endlessly. Each room contains a set number of bookshelves, each with a set number of books. Each book contains 410 pages, on which are printed 25 characters (a modified 22-letter alphabet, the period, the comma and the space) in random orders. The inhabitants of the library — who are born inside and spend their lives wandering from room to room — believe that the books of the library contain every possible iteration of those 25 characters across 410 pages.

This means that every possible combination of words is contained somewhere in the library.

Borges writes, “Everything is there: the minute history of the future, the autobiographies of the archangels, the faithful catalogue of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, a demonstration of the fallacy of these catalogues…” The story’s narrator describes how the people of the library spend their lives searching for a book of some use, since they know that all possible information can be found in a book somewhere in the library. Of course, nobody ever finds what they are looking for.

The monstrous and terrifyingly dull universe imagined in this story can be found in Jonathan Basile’s web-

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site (simply called “Library of Babel”). The site is not a precise reconstruction of Borges’s library; the alphabet is the English alphabet, rather than the modified one of Borges’s stories. An inconsistency in Borges’s description of the rooms, which might be an accident or a subtle trap for only the most attentive readers, has been ironed out. Most importantly, the site does not contain every possible book of 410 pages, 3200 characters to a page. This would mean 1,312,000 different possible combinations of characters. Instead, the site contains somewhere every possible page of 3200 characters, which means around 10^4677 books. In other words, every possible permutation of a page is found somewhere in the library, but not every possible permutation of a full 410-page book.

The online library can be approached the way Borges’s characters interact with their library; by searching for a coherent line, even a word, among pages and pages of gibberish. The site, however, adds a search function. Paradoxically, this makes the library even more tantalizing and infuriating, because we can only Despite All search for what we already know exists. For the Amputations instance, I copied and pasted an entire New York Times Monday article, and found it faithfully reproduced in multiple books, sandwiched by incoherence. It existed in all these places before the writer began to imagine it. But the unwritten poems, pages of novels, and prophecies that the website must contain remain inaccessible.

The library makes truth into a certainly real but maddeningly unreachable god. And even if a page of truth were to be found, those words are contradicted again and again by other pages, ranging from complete

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denials of that truth to only slightly varying alternative accounts. The site simulates the short story’s hell of searching for kernels of significance among masses of meaningless garbage, but translates and updates it into a search for meaning in an Internet-hell where everything is contained but searches can only uncover what one already knows. The creators of the website know fully well the agony the site might cause explorers: their best advice is that readers who “tire of being constantly thwarted looking for meaning among the library’s babble can use reading its jumbled texts as a form of meditation. Eventually your mind learns no longer to search for or expect significance.”

Somewhere in the depths of this website is a page that narrates all of the major events of your life, culminating in the manner of your death. Somewhere is a page that contains every secret that has ever been hidden from you. Somewhere is a page that tells you everything that might have happened if you had made different decisions. Somewhere is a page that tells you exactly where to find all of these things.

Good luck.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com Despite All the Amputations runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SPORTS

Number One Terps Overpower Red W. LACROSSE

Continued from page 16

“We were also able to put up nine goals on them which only one other team has done (Syracuse scored nine in a 14-9 loss).”

Cornell was one of the only undefeated teams left in the nation leading into the game, and is now ranked 20. The Terps retain a consensus number one ranking.

Facing off against such a national powerhouse gave the Red valuable experience, showing them the level of competition they will face on the national stage.

“No doubt Maryland is the number one team in the country.”

Graap said. “They play at a faster pace than we’ve seen all season and their skills and their execution was impressive. Our defensive unit, including our goalie took some time to adjust to Maryland’s speed and power. Their shots were super fast and accurate which allowed them to mount their lead against us in the first half.”

Brittany Marriott, co-captain of the team and one of the anchors of the Red’s defensive unit, had “I don’t think there was one some difficulty conmoment where we felt that taining the Terps’ offense, but was still we couldn’t keep up happy with her team’s with [Maryland].” performance against the defending chamBrittany Marriott pions.

“There is no denying that Maryland has a very talented attack with some really impressive players,” Marriott said. “Even though they scored 17 goals on us I don’t think there was one moment when we felt like we couldn’t keep up with them.”

Although the Red left College Park with a loss, the experience was invaluable for the team.

“It was an amazing and very exciting experience to get to face the defending national champions,” said Marriott. “Our team went into that game looking to enjoy the experience and just have fun playing great lacrosse. We had nothing to lose going into that game and that mindset really helped us to not play scared and instead go in fearless and just have fun.”

The Red’s next matchup is on Saturday, when they finally return to Schoellkopf to face another Ivy League opponent, Dartmouth (5-4, 1-2 Ivy).

“Dartmouth is a very key game for us as we look forward to getting back to Ivy play,” Marriott said. “We have to make sure we take the lessons we learned in the Maryland game, work on them this week in practice, and then execute on game day.”

Although Cornell is definitely a frontrunner in the Ivy League, they need to remain vigilant when they play the Big Green.

“Dartmouth pulled off a great win over Penn earlier this season so they’re dangerous,” Graap said. “We had a tough OT loss to the Big Green in Hanover last year so it will be nice to play them on Schoellkopf.”

Cornell’s Women’s Lacrosse team will face off against Dartmouth College at noon on Saturday.

Jeffery Asiedu can be reached at jasiedu@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Attah Achieves Outdoor Red DefeatsTemple, Personal Record in 400m GOLF

Dartmouth in South Florida Invitational

By ZACH SILVER Assistant Sports Editor

A first place finish in the Cornell Spring South Florida Invitational over Dartmouth and Temple has the men’s golf team feeling confident and optimistic in pursuit of a better finish in the Ivy seemed elusive.

“Golf is a game of confidence so going into future competitions, I think we will have even more of a winning mentality,” said senior captain Brandon Eng.

has been impressive in his first year at Cornell.

“Cen has been the most surprising just because he is a freshman and he is playing very well despite this being his first year playing collegiate golf,” Eng said.. “He is a very steady and consistent player and someone we can count on to play well.”

What has separated this team’s success from last year, according to Eng, is their newly discovered dedication and work ethic that was unparalleled last

“This past weekend was the best performance I have seen by our program in 16 years.”

Head coach James Baughan season.

“I think everyone on the team has been more diligent this year more than any other year with our practice in the off season,” he said. “We need to continue that work ethic and and focus in preparation for the Ivy championship. If we can stay disciplined and continue to put in work on our golf game, I think we have a good chance of winning.”

Going forward, Baughan agreed with Eng that there is still work to be done in order to compete for the Ivy championship.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us to reach our ultimate goal: an Ivy League title,” BRIAN STERN / Baughan said.

SUN STAFF Up next is the PHOTOGRAPHER Princeton Invitational and the team is very opsophomore Mike timistic about Graboyes. The Watchung, N.J., keeping their native won medalist honors for energy alive. the second time this season “I’m defiafter beating Temple’s Brannitely looking don Matthew’s in a threeforward to hole playoff. taking on “Now just a sophoPrinceton this more, [Graboyes] has upcoming already two individual weekend,” Eng wins this year,” Eng said. said. “I know “He can really play and I that in our first think he'll be a key match in Florplayer moving forida, we surprised ward.”

Dartmouth. I Along with think that the Graboyes, Eng course we’re comnoted that peting against f re s h m a n Only the Princeton on fits Jack Cen beginning our team very well | While Cornell and I’d like to them a surprise too.” has seen

“Now that we've actually done it, it is no longer just something that we believe that we can do, but something that we know for a fact that we can do.”

Now that the team have this impressive win under their belt, they are laser focused on keeping the momentum going moving forward.

“This past weekend was the best performance I have seen by our program in the 16 years I have been head coach,” said head coach James Baughan. “I couldn't be prouder of them.”

The most impressive part about the first place finish in Florida was the showing by

success, there is still work left to be done as the Red heads in to Ivy League play.

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

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Tobe Attah clocked in at 47.67 at UC Riverside Invitational ATTAH

booked it.

The final leg seemed close at first, but I gradually pulled away from the Kansas State A-team Riverside meet, but the track and training facil- to solidify us as the winning 4x400m team. Even the announcer exclaimed that something ities were higher quality.

In my own 400m race, I did not perform absolutely crazy had to happen for us to lose the exactly how I wanted to. I found myself more relay.

After my leg was over, I glanced at the scoretired than usual with about 120m to go, and I board and noticed we could not earn the individual victory. ran a time of Instead, I trudged across the finish line Coach in 47.89 seconds to place third overall. “[Princeton] ran an offi- 3:11.55.

Durant came by to Although coach Durant knew I let us know our cial time of 3:11.92, could have done better, he understood with why I may have performed the way I meaning we edged out standing Princeton. They ran did. The sun may have been my best their time by a shy .37 an official time of friend when I was laying out absorbing 3:11.92, meaning it all week, but it certainly sweltered seconds.” we edged out their my body, diminishing my potential to Tobe Attah time by a shy .37 show a peak performance. seconds.

Coach Durant also assured that my Although the efforts were not in vain. In all of my previous seasons, running a 47 second 400m times were fairly close, I know that if it were a dash seemed like the ultimate goal for myself. head-to-head race against us, Princeton, or any The fact that a 47-high was a “bad day” for me other Ivy League team, we would clearly come only showed how much I have developed as an out on top like usual. The training we do along with the strong core of long sprinters we have athlete.

Either way, the meet was not over for me always sets us up to have a successful 4x400m, after my individual race. I was still expected to and I know we can carry this success all the way to the Outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal run a good anchor leg for the 4x400m relay.

About 20 minutes before our relay, coach Championships at Princeton this year.

As always, be sure to stay updated on the latDurant alerted us that Princeton’s 4x400m ran 3:11 at the Florida Relays, not specifying the est Cornell track and field action. We plan to exact time. He left it up to us ensure that we ran utilize this momentum from our California trip to tell even more legendary athletic stories. a faster time than our rivals.

Being the anchor leg, I had the most accurate judgement of how close we were to their time. Tobe Attah can be reached at Once I received the baton from Larry Gibson, I tattah@cornellsun.com.

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Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 2016

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LACROSSE

Cornell Off to Best Start in Program History

Only losing to defending national champion Maryland,Red is 8-1in spectacular 2016 start

By JEFFREY ASIEDU Sun Staff Writer

While many Cornellians spent the last week enjoying their spring breaks in sunny and serene climates, the women’s lacrosse team (8-1, 3-0 Ivy) was grinding. The team faced off against three different opponents on the road: Brown, Binghamton, and the defending national champions, Maryland. The Red managed to continue

its winning streak against their first two opponents, but were unable to topple Maryland, the current top ranked team in the nation.

The first game of the stretch, an away game against Brown (4-6, 0-3 Ivy), was one of the strongest performances of the season for the Red, who held the Bears to two goals in a 10-2 victory.

The game was especially promising for Cornell, who went into the break hoping to refine some elements of

Making history | With wins against Brown and Binghamton, Brittany Marriott and Cornell are off to thier best start yet.

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN FILE PHOTO

their game that have been rough this year. The competition against Brown surely showed improvements for Cornell. “[We saw the team] holding their attack to two goals, balanced scoring [with] seven players contributing to our ten goals, Joey Coffy’s six draw controls and four [ground balls], Catie Smith with three [caused turnovers], and Olivia Mattyasovszky scoring three goals in her home state,” said head coach Jenny Graap.

When the Red traveled to Vestal, New York. to face off against the Binghamton Bearcats (4-7, 0-1 America East), the story was similar. Cornell dominated itsopponents on both sides of the ball to earn a 14-5 win, cementing the 2016 campaign as the best start in program history with eight wins. “[Against] Binghamton Catie Smith continued to shine in the defensive end coming up with multiple amazing caused turnovers,” said senior co-captain Brittany Marriott. “Amie Dickson also really stepped up in the Binghamton game coming off her back injury and it gave her the experience she needed to have her incredible four goal game she had against Maryland.”

The competition against Binghamton was truly a great all around performance for the Red, who were able to play every healthy player and had 11 different players earn at least one point in the game.

Once the Red made its final trip of the stretch, the grapes finally soured a bit, as their winning streak came to an end. Cornell traveled to College Park, Maryland, to face off against the defending national champions, the Maryland Terrapins (10-0, 1-0 Big Ten).

The game was probably the most exciting of the season so far, and even with a loss, there were many highlights for the Red. “We won the opening draw and scored first…something no other team has done this season,” Graap said.

See W. LACROSSE page 14

Tobe Attah and C.U.Track Take On Southern California A

lmost in the blink of an eye, my third indoor track season came to an end. There were definite highs and lows, but the overall experience felt like all the work we put in as a team was

Tobe Attah Stories from an Athlete well worth it.

Before I knew it, selected members of the Cornell track and field team and I found ourselves on a trip to Southern California. It took almost half a day to travel across the country, but finally landing at the Long Beach Airport was surreal. We were anxious to take advantage of the much needed spring break from Ithaca.

Although it was considered our spring break, we were all still expected to perform at our most optimal levels. Head coach Adrian Durant emphasized the great opportunity we had competing in such ideal outdoor conditions, setting a goal for us to try and qualify for regionals in May. The earlier we attained this goal, the more we could focus on training right to move onto nationals.

Nonetheless, all our coaches gave us plenty of free time to enjoy the California scene and soak in the sun.

Being in sun-deprived Ithaca took its toll on us all year, so relaxing under some vitamin-D rays was a top priority as well.

I was not shy to get acclimated to what SoCal had to offer. Hotel Irvine, the place we stayed for the entire break, was fortunate enough to have bicycle rentals available for guests. Almost every morning, I went on a bike ride to serve as an active recovery as well as explore the Irvine area. Being an Irving, Texas native, it felt like a home away from home … with more palm trees.

Soon enough, the weekend came along and our team travelled to the U.C. Riverside Spring Break Invitational to compete in our first outdoor meet of the season. The scorching weather certainly shocked us competitors who were used to

dealing with below freezing weather, but this did not stop us from showing the west coast schools what we were made of.

Overall, we all performed well. Key victories from the likes of Max Hairston, Bobby Plummer, and myself were the driving factors to earn us the meet win.

In my first place finish, I even managed to run an outdoor personal best of 47.67 in the 400m dash. Also, I ran the 200m dash for the first time collegiately to win my heat, and it was neat to dip my track spikes into a new event for once.

After the win, the next few days were committed to training at Concordia University at Irvine. We had two-a-days, having a light practice at 9 a.m. followed by a more intense training session at 3:30 p.m.

Training sure was tough, but the CUI track team understood the pains of training hard. As I was sprawled out on the ground hyperventilating from repetitive 300m reps, the CUI team made sure to help me up. The small, supportive actions taken by this team really showed their generosity. Things like this as well as even letting us use their training facility made me very appreciative of their team dynamic.

After more training, preparation, and relaxation, we quickly found ourselves encountering the next weekend, where we would all compete at the Bruin Legends of T&F Invitational at UCLA. The weather was similar to the U.C. See ATTAH page 15

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS

Beating the heat| Attah and the Red competed in the 4X400 relay at UCLA in the blistering heat, but managed to get the victory.