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Employee Assembly Pressures C.U.to‘Ban the Box’ Passes resolution condemning the‘ignorance,’ ‘privilege’ of Union of White Cornell Students

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

The Employee Assembly expressed support for a resolution urging the University to remove questions about previous criminal convictions from its job applications and voted to publish a statement responding to the Union of White Cornell Students at its meeting on Wednesday.

Garrison Lovely ’16, co-founder and president of the Prison Reform and Education Project, spoke about PREP’s efforts to promote the nationwide ‘Ban the Box’ movement at Cornell.

Current legal guidelines stipulate that employers cannot discriminate based on prior convictions alone, which can be difficult to prove, according to Lovely. Moving ‘the box’ to a later stage in the hiring process “isolates conviction itself” as the motivation for rescinding a job offer, he said.

“Employers can deny applicants solely based on their criminal history, but can claim that some other element of the application disqualified the applicant,” Lovely said. “Banning the Box is the only way to guarantee that applicants can prove that a negative hiring decision was made due solely to the applicant’s criminal history.”

The E.A.’s proposed resolution urges the University to join a national movement in removing the conviction question from its job applications. The Student Assembly passed a similar resolution on March 17.

“Cornell is the largest employer in Tompkins County and thus significantly impacts the labor market,” Lovely said.

“The City of Ithaca has banned the box for its job applications, and PREP firmly believes that Cornell should follow suit.”

E.A. members present at the meeting largely supported the resolution, but quesSee EMPLOYEE page 5

“The City of Ithaca has banned the box for its job applications, and PREP firmly believes that Cornell should follow suit.”

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Time for change | Employee Assembly members discuss ‘Ban the Box’ and the need for diversity at their meeting in Physical Sciences Building on Wednesday.

Report: Ithaca Zip Code Kip Thorne on Science Behind Interstellar Is Top Sanders Donor

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The City of Ithaca’s zip code, 14850, ranks eighth on the list of most generous United States zip codes to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (D-Vt.) campaign, according to a USA Today report based on Federal Election Commission data through Jan. 31.

This generosity is largely due to grassroots efforts, Ithaca’s liberal nature and unprecedented enthusiasm from residents, according to local activists.

The report said that 14850 is a top donor zip code to the Sanders campaign — behind cities such as Burlington, Vt., San Francisco, Calif., New

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William Bristow ’16, president of Cornell Democrats, said he believes that among Cornellians, support for Sanders is greater than support for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“Sen. Sanders has received a great deal of support from young voters, and that seems to be the case here at Cornell,” Bristow said.

However, he said he believes Democrats in the Ithaca community favor Sanders more than the Cornell student body does.

Wo r l d - r e n o w n e d astrophysicist Prof. Kip Thorne, theoretical physics, the California Institute of Technology, described how black holes and the recent detection of gravitational waves contributed to his work on Academy-Award winning film, Interstellar, at a lecture Wednesday.

Thorne helped produce Interstellar and cofound the Laser Interferometer G r a v i t a t i o n a l - Wa v e Observatory, which successfully detected gravitational waves for the first time in February, according to the University.

Thorne used Interstellar to explain gravity, black holes and the warping of time and space.

In the film, the black hole Gargantua can slow time due to an “enormous” gravitational pull, which Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts can warp space and time, according to Thorne.

“In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, there’s a planet that’s in orbit near the horizon, near the surface of the black hole,” Thorne said. “On that planet, one hour of time passage is the same as seven years back on earth.”

Thorne also addressed See THORNE page 4

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Making waves | Kip Thorne speaks about black holes, gravitational waves and Interstellar Wednesday in Rockefeller Hall.

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Feeling the Bern | Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) has received significant financial support from Ithacans, according to FEC data.

Sophomore Arraigned for Possession of Cocaine Lehman Schwab ’18 — who was was indicted on multiple drug charges March 25 for possession of cocaine — was arraigned in Tompkins County Court Wednesday, according to the court documents.

Schwab was released on his own recognizance and is currently at a Florida treatment center, where a counselor recommended that he continue treatment, according to the documents.

Police took Schwab into custody on Dec. 4, 2015, after finding nearly 20 grams of cocaine in his suite in Hans Bethe House, according to

a University press release. Officers also found small ziplock bags and a digital scale that they believe were used in drug sales.

Schwab — who reportedly also had “compounds, mixtures or substances” containing at least half an ounce of cocaine — was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance.

A conference between Schwab’s attorneys will take place later this month, according to The Ithaca Voice.

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After two months of deliberation and reconsideration, the Student Assembly will determine the fate of the controversial proposed gay living unit this afternoon.

“We really have nowhere else to go now,” said gay/lesbian/bisexual at large representative Joseph L. Barrios ’93, the author of the proposal. “We’ve had the forum, the poll, debates and meetings, and now it is time to make a decision.”

The proposed Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Living-Learning Unit would be a 60-person program house, open to undergraduates of all sexual orientations, which would function as both a “safe haven” for gay and bisexual students and as a base for outreach programs directed toward the entire campus community. The unit would be housed in Clara Dickson Hall and consist of all single rooms.

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divided upon the issue. Although over two-thirds of the students who spoke at the Feb. 15 forum were in favor of the unit, the results of the poll are inconclusive. While 38 percent support the center, 33 percent opposed it and 28 percent had no opinion on the matter.

Representative Daniel Lee ’95, a staunch opponent of the living unit, said he felt the proposal is a measure destined for failure.

“If we pass the resolution, President Rhodes will veto it again, and that will be the end,” he said, “We want to pass something that’s achievable and productive. Let’s send him something he can swallow.”

As part of his “workable” solution, Lee cited a resolution he introduced last week that calls for the Assembly to replace the living unit with a West Campus support center that will contain all of the programs and support staff of the unit without the living space.

Barrios conceded that if Rhodes were to veto the living center, his action would put a permanent end to the proposal of a gay program house. However, he said he felt there is no reason the Assembly should abandon the progessive policy in fear of displeasing the administration.

“We need to be guided by a principle of hope, not a principle of fear,” he said.

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Justice Attributes Japan’s Cultural Conflict toWestern Contact

Says interaction with United States, Europe altered Japanese views on justice, spirituality, politics

By EVELYN SHAN Sun Staff Writer

Modern Japan’s numerous cultural divisions can be traced to historical contact with Western civilizations, according to Justice Hisashi Owada, former President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

In a lecture in Myron Taylor Hall on Tuesday, Owada explained how Japan’s exposure to the Western international system led to conflict with its previous belief system.

Japan was not a part of the international community until its 1853 encounter with U.S. ships led by Commodore Matthew Perry, according to Owada.

“When they were exposed to this arrival of the law of nations — which regulates the contact between states and created the normative framework for the law of nations — they did not understand what Commodore Perry and his group were talking about,” Owada said.

“This was a totally new experience and [a] totally novel idea.”

Despite limited global experience, the Japanese accepted the Western concept of normative international rules because of its parallels to Confucian philosophy, Owada said.

“The Japanese came to grasp international relations as a system that consisted of universal principles of justice, which they observed in common with the West,” Owada said. “It was on that basis that the Japanese intellectuals satisfied themselves, as ‘This is something we have to follow.’”

Japan’s ideas of universal justice were dispelled by treaties imposed on the country by Western powers in the late 19th century — which forced Japan to open ports and concede land — according to Owada.

He added that Japan’s modernization and military victories at the start of the 20th century affirmed its status as a civilized nation.

“In my mind, all these processes of modernization in Japan since the beginning of the Meiji era have had some impact upon the mindset of the people and the emotional psyche of the Japanese, as well as all the problems the Japanese have been facing during the postSecond World War period,” Owada said.

Subsequent rejection of a Japanese proposal for the

Treaty of Versailles, growing Japanese-American tensions and the country’s defeat in World War II led to a culture of nihilism in Japan, according to Owada.

“They had been taught and they had been believing in the justice of the war, and they were devastated to find all these value systems which they had believed in had been shattered to pieces,” Owada said. “From that time on, they were told that we should not believe in the past.”

Owada attributed the country’s current internal divides — between pre- and post-war politics, intellectualism and spirituality — to the emergence of nihilism and subsequent reactionary movements.

“The effect of this spiritual shock has left a mark on

the spiritual guidance of people which remains alive today, and this is a fact to emphasize in understanding today’s problems,” Owada said.

Owada advocated that Japan move toward national consensus rather than polarization to solve its cultural crisis.

“There is a good basis for building national consensus and it will take time,” he said. “But if you succeed in not creating national psychological schisms within the country, if you avoid polarizations within the country — I think that is achievable.”

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

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Domestic divides | Justice Hisashi Owada discusses Japan’s introduction to international relations in a Tuesday lecture.

Hotel School Competition Recognizes Two Student Companies

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

Judges for the Cornell Hospitality Business Plan Competition have declared the contest’s first-ever tie between two winning teams — Last Second Beach and Maidbot.

The two teams will each receive

$25,000 for their business plans and entrepreneurial ideas in travel and hotel operations, according to the University.

Although the competition’s funding only provided a $25,000 prize for one team, Dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Prof. Michael Johnson, hotel administration, matched the prize for the other team, according to Maidbot

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founder Alex Levy ’18. mentally under-served.”

Ladha said he was inspired to create “I was a little surprised it ended in a tie, as nothing like that had ever hap- Last Second Beach after his experience pened before,” Levy said. “I was very with booking an all-inclusive vacation happy for [Last Second Beach founder online, according to Demuth. “ K h a l i d Khalid Ladha grad] and approached me last his team, though and June with the idea, as absolutely thrilled Dean “It’s great to see so I have experience Johnson matched the rest much support for working in the leisure of the money.” hotel industry in the entrepreneurship in the Last Second Beach — Caribbean and co-founded last year by Hotel School and at Mexico, where much Ladha and Zach Demuth of the one-price vacaCornell.” grad — is a software tion inventory exists,” platform that simplifies Alex Levy ’18 Demuth said. consumer navigation for The Maidbot team travel purchases, accordcreated a robotic vacing to Ladha. uum cleaner, which The platform focuses on one-price or Levy said he believes could “revolutionize all-inclusive vacations, Ladha said. the hospitality industry” by reducing “It is a mobile-first aggregation plat- room-cleaning turnaround times. form, designed for value-driven con“We were inspired by the technology sumers seeking to book short beach vaca- in The Jetsons and after working as a tions like all-inclusive resorts and cruis- room attendant as part of the SHA cures,” he said. “ It also offers distributors a riculum,” Levy said. new, targeted, lower-cost distribution Although the company is about a channel.” year old, most of its progress occurred Demuth added Last Second Beach is within the last eight months, according unique because it focuses on one-price to Levy.

Levy added that he was “very vacations, which is an underdeveloped impressed” by all the teams that presentsegment of the travel industry.

“While it’s never been easier to book ed at the hospitality competition and travel online via the proliferation of plans to compete again next year.

“It’s great to see so much support for online travel agencies, the one-price vacaentrepreneurship in the Hotel School tion industry has lagged significantly behind, with much of the distribution and at Cornell,” he said. “I’m absolutely still controlled by travel agents and humbled to have had this experience.” wholesalers,” Demuth said. “Our business solves this problem, as well as brings Samantha Acriche can be reached at awareness to an industry that's funda- sacriche@cornellsun.com.

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Physicist Talks Gravity,Black Holes

Interstellar producer details discovery of gravitational waves THORNE

Thorne attributed the project’s success to the work of his colleagues at LIGO. critics who called the science “I’ve gotten a lot of fame as a behind Gargantua ‘impossible,’ result of this discovery, but it’s saying that he modeled Gargantua because I’m associated with a on a spinning black hole to create superb group of people working a viable physical scenario. on the empirical simulations “The whirling and the suburb set of motion of space stabi- “These years have been amazing in experimenters and they lizes an orbit, so you really make me look can get an orbit in what we have learned about the good,” he said. principle as close to Thorne ended his universe.” the [black hole’s event] lecture by celebrating horizon as you wish,” the progress made in Kip Thorne he said. “So it is possithe field of physics ble, although it’s really since Einstein postulatpushing what’s very plausible.” which he said Einstein doubted ed his theory of general relativiThroughout his involvement would ever be detected by ty a century ago. in Interstellar, Thorne said he humans because of their incred“We’re at the end of the first aimed to represent science in ibly small size. hundred years,” Thorne said. the film accurately.

The LIGO project — which “These years have been amazing “The name of the game in took decades and involved over in what we have learned about this movie was to have a movie 1000 scientists, 75 institutions the universe and the next hunthat does not violate any of the and 15 nations — used sets of dred years are likely to be more well-established laws of physics, mirrors to detect the small fluc- amazing.” and it does not,” Thorne said. tuations in spacetime that the “But you can stretch things as waves caused, according to Devon Gilliams can be reached at dgilliams@cornellsun.com. far as you wish as long as they Thorne.

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are allowed. This is allowed, but very unlikely in the real universe.”

Thorne also spoke about his involvement in the monumental detection of gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime that stretch and squeeze space —

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Ithacan Support for Sanders ‘Unprecedented,’Activists Say Attribute successful local fundraising campaign to city’s liberal leaning,citizen involvement BERNIE

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“While there is no doubt that Sanders has a great deal of support locally, it appears that the Cornell student body is more divided between the two candidates,” Bristow said.

The enthusiasm of local residents may mean that Ithaca residents make up a larger share of Ithacan donors to the Sanders campaign than students do, according to Bristow.

“I do know of several students who have donated to Sen. Sanders,” he said. “However, I think it’s likely that Ithaca residents make up the overwhelming majority of his donors in the area.”

Ithacan Activism

Donald Bazley, a volunteer for the Ithaca and Tompkins County for Bernie Sanders Campaign, agreed that local Ithacans make up the base of Sanders support in Ithaca. The majority of early involvement in the campaign came from people over 40, according to Bazley.

“I believe that most of the support coming from Ithaca is actually coming from Ithaca residents as opposed to students and professors,” he said. “There may be many faculty behind Bernie, but I also think that many faculty are a part of what I call the ‘establishment left’ and supporting Clinton.”

Members of the Ithaca and Tompkins County for Bernie Sanders Campaign, as well as the Ithaca branch of the Democratic Socialists of America for Bernie Sanders Campaign, said levels of local activism were partially responsible for Ithaca’s large number of donations.

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tioned how the policy would affect temporary employees and its implications for employees in human resources.

Kruser argued that the E.A.’s support of banning the box would be a mostly symbolic gesture.

“I don’t see that there is, in reality, any significant impact on our infrastructure,” he said. “I think it’s more a resistance to change, and I think that that’s something we can help with more support.”

Due to parliamentary procedural regulations — which stipulate that a resolution be sponsored from within the body — the resolution could not be subject to a vote.

The E.A. also voted to release a statement on the Union of White Cornell Students. A draft of the statement was presented at E.A.’s March meeting, where it was subject to critique. The modified version “reflect[s] the conversations we had last time of identifying more directly how this affects staff and faculty as well as the student population,” according to Jeramy Kruser, one of three E.A. members who sponsored the resolution.

The revised statement includes “more explicit and direct action that we can take in response [to the Union of White Students],” Kruser said.

It also emphasizes the assembly’s “alarm” at “the manifestation of white privilege and ignorance apparent in the Union of White Cornell Students Facebook page.”

The resolution adds that the E.A. plans to use the creation of the Union of White Students to create conversation on diversity, privilege and their impacts on people of color.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

trated on voter registration literature, informing people they would have [to] be registered in the Democratic party of be a part of the primary process,” said Theresa Alt, a member of the Ithaca Branch of the DSA for Bernie Sanders.

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Alt added that high levels of activism among Sanders voters encourages people to donate. “[Asking for donations was] not our major focus, although I am sure every time we reminded people of Bernie, some people went to the website,” she said. “The effect of seeing a lot of activity leaves people more inclined.”

Why Ithaca?

Kris Hodges, a volunteer for Ithaca and Tompkins County for Bernie Sanders campaign, said she believes an outpouring of support for Sanders’ campaign has come from Ithacans because of the city’s liberal nature.

“There are probably a little more progressive types of folks around here, [due in part to] the nature of being a college town,” Hodges said.

Many activists said that Sanders’ campaign has seen an unprecedented level of involvement from Ithaca residents.

“The level of passion I see behind Sanders today is something I have never seen in my lifetime, and I am 51,” Bazley said.

Alt added that among Ithaca Democratic Socialist of America movements, working for Sanders’ campaign is the most energized she has ever seen activists.

“There were a couple of previous peaks of excitement: the Jesse Jackson campaign of 1988, and in 1992 to 1993, the fight for single payer health insurance when we ended up with nothing,” Alt said.

“There was a lot of excitement then, but nothing as big as this.”

Hodges agreed that supporters are “really revved up about Bernie, to the point that they are willing to do what they can — in any way that they can — to help him out.”

“So some people can’t give their time, so they give money.

Some people can do both, some people don’t have money so they give their time,” Hodges said. “My sense is that there is much more enthusiasm and willingness to participate than during our activism during the Obama campaign.”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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ne of the things I find most difficult is describing experiences.

Every experience is so unique to the individual going through it, and every emotion is so deeply felt. In my past article, “For Better or For Worse,” I wrote about my upcoming spring break trip to Nicaragua with Bridges to Community and my skepticism with service trips in general. It was only after a tearful Skype session with my parents after my return when I had to abruptly log off because the culture shock I faced was too overwhelming, that I finally understood how much the trip had impacted me.

After spending just over a week in Siuna, Nicaragua, I cannot emphasize enough how important and meaningful a short-term stay can be. I had trust in the program I was going with, but at the back of my mind I couldn’t help but question the extent to which our work

thing to learn about the country in school or read about it on the internet and another to actually visit it in person.

Sleeping in 90 degree weather with no pillow or sheets, making sure my mosquito net was tucked in at night but realizing bugs would still find their way into the bed and “bathing” in the river because there were no bathroom facilities or running water was quite an experience. But so was playing card games at night because there was no Wi-Fi and technological distractions, learning dance moves from community members, realizing how beautiful and untouched the landscapes were and interacting with families everyday. Their lives are different from us, but not inferior. The people I worked with and the others I got to meet are some of the most hardworking, inquisitive and loving people I’ve ever encountered.

It was hard coming back to campus

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would really help and support the community. Was it enough time? How much work could really get done? Would the beneficiaries be appreciative of Americans coming to their community?

Did they want us there in the first place?

I figured out soon enough. Every morning, we woke up at 6 a.m. and chose which work site to go to. After the second day, I started going back to one work site with a family who had a daughter named Daniela. Just like I find it difficult to describe how meaningful this trip was — devoid of any clichés — I find it hard to explain the connection I had with this little girl. Seeing as she only spoke Spanish and I spoke very little of it, I thought a language barrier would hinder our interactions greatly. I didn’t know how it was possible to be so invested in a relationship where words were completely irrelevant and useless. But after Daniela got comfortable with me, we became attached at the hip. In between working on the latrine for her family, I would play “kitchen” with her, using rocks as food and leaves as plates. I taught her handshakes and games while she taught me words in Spanish. We played thumb war and built mini houses together using pieces of wood she found lying around (originally used to build the structure of the latrine). She would run around the house, put on a pair of one of our working gloves and help pick up cement bricks or shovel dirt into buckets that were used for structural purposes.

On top of that, she still had the energy to laugh and play with us. I don’t think I ever stopped smiling.

What surprised me the most was how much her family appreciated our connection. Her mother would bring her camera out and take pictures of us, and whenever she saw me arrive in the morning, she gave me the warmest smile. She knew I wanted to contribute in helping her family have a latrine, but she also knew how much Daniela meant to me and me to her.

These connections we form with people in the community make the experience visiting the country unexpected, but more impactful. For anyone who has visited a developing country, it is one

and hearing people complain about their breaks. I didn’t want to seem conceited or act as if I was superior — if I hadn’t gone on the trip, I may have been the one complaining about what I know now are trivial things. But when I heard someone saying that they didn’t have enough time to buy new spring clothes back home, or complaining about how they didn’t have enough space in their car to bring back more luggage, I couldn’t help but think about where I had just come from. On one of the work days, a Nicaraguan I was working with asked if he could try on my work gloves. Earlier, I had realized none of the workers wore them, even though everything was done by hand and the labor was intense. He put my gloves on and looked at them with an expression of awe and appreciation. He then told me how expensive gloves were in the country, and how hard they were to even come by in the first place. It’s difficult to fathom just how much we have. We complain so frequently about what we don’t have or what we want to have, that we don’t realize the extent to which we have. Gloves are items I pass over in a store, not because I can’t afford them, but because I don’t need them. The amount of consumer goods we have available for us is overwhelming. Yet some of the simplest products are unavailable or unaffordable to people who need them the most. And here we are, constantly complaining.

As Oliver Wendall Holmes said, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” In a short period of time, I was able to see how much our work affected the lives of the beneficiary families and community members. I saw the importance of the relationships we built and the long-lasting impact of them. We have the ability to touch the lives of every person we interact with in a positive way and return home with a new perspective and view on life that we can use to promote change.

Gaby Leung is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached atgl376@cornell.edu. Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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he process of nominating a presidential candidate is long and exhausting.

Successful contenders are those who can maintain a consistent pace; the history of failed campaigns is filled with those who simply peaked too soon. A staggered, localized primary calendar is another way of filtering out the weakest. True to the federal structure of the United States, every state gets a chance to test the candidates. The failure to appeal to a geographically diverse set of constituencies is synonymous with the failure to win the nomination.

At this point, the majority of the states have already voted. But the nation’s attention will now turn to New York. No other state votes between now and the April 19th primary. Further, New York has one of the largest delegate totals of the entire primary.

For us New Yorkers — and us Cornellians — this is our time to get involved. In an election as important as this one, we have no excuse for apathy. All of us should vote.

First, on the Democratic side, I must emphasize that your vote still matters.

Hillary Clinton has built up a large lead in the delegates and popular vote, but her nomination is not assured. Indeed, it would be deeply unwise for supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) to concede the state to Secretary Clinton. Nor should supporters of Hillary Clinton take her advantage for granted. Clinton may have represented New York in the Senate, but Democratic primary voters are not merely basing their decision on familiarity. Clinton is keenly aware of this,

and has launched a comprehensive effort to campaign across the state.

I do not write this column to endorse a particular candidate. I think Hillary Clinton is extraordinarily well-qualified, and understands the specific concerns of New Yorkers.

But I also believe that Sen. Sanders has a captivating vision for change. My concern is not to convince you to support one or the other; it is simply to encourage you to participate.

To be candid, it would surprise me if Clinton did not win New York. However, it is not as simple as winning or losing.

Delegates will be assigned proportionally, meaning that every vote matters. A strong showing could make her candidacy increasingly insurmountable: a narrow victory would keep Sanders competitive. If Clinton voters are complacent, or if Sanders voters are particularly energized, he could even pull off an upset. Regardless of the outcome, I believe New York will play a crucial role in resolving this primary. And once we have a nominee, we must unite behind him or her as our candidate for president. I am confident that both sides will respect the will of the people; make sure that your voice is included.

My views on the Democratic primary are perhaps more relevant. Nonetheless, the Republican primary should not be ignored.

Donald Trump’s campaign has possibly suffered its worst stretch of the election in recent days, including a series of puzzling statements on abortion, assault charges on his campaign manager and a crushing defeat in Wisconsin. It now appears quite possible that

Trump will fail to receive the 1,237 delegates required to win the nomination on the first ballot. To prevent this, he will need to win by large margins in the places most favorable to him —such as New York.

Clearly, Trump enjoys a sizeable lead in his home state. In contrast to Trump’s often contentious relationship with the establishment, the New York Republican Party is firmly on his side. He enjoys the support of more than 30 GOP county chairs. He also boasts endorsements from the state’s congressional delegation, including the congressman who represents Ithaca, Rep. Tom Reed (RN.Y.-23). If New York Republicans — including those in the Cornell community — are uncomfortable with this unification around Trump, now is the time to say so.

The alternatives may not be ideal. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is a conservative firebrand from Texas and an unnatural fit for the New York electorate. Gov. John Kasich (ROhio) has attempted to appeal to more moderate voters, but recent primaries have cast serious doubt on whether or not he remains a viable candidate. His strategy for obtaining the nomination — seizing it from Trump and Cruz at a contested convention — is dubious at best. In this sense, anti-Trump Republicans may be forced to engage in strategic voting.

Overall, however, this is an unusual situation for New Yorkers of both parties. We are not accustomed to playing a role in the picking of presidents. Often, a presumptive nominee has already been chosen before New

York has a chance to vote. In the general election, New York receives little attention due to its comfortably blue status. This environment can make it easy to tune out of the process, perhaps explaining why New York voter turnout in 2014 was a pathetically low 28.8 percent, the fourth-lowest in the country. This is our chance to help reverse that.

April 19th is rapidly approaching. I urge every student who is registered to vote in the New York primary to inform themselves about their choices and how to vote. Locate your polling place in Ithaca — and if you are registered in another part of the state, there is still time to obtain an absentee ballot.

Moreover, if you have questions or need help, reach out to your fellow students in organizations such as the Cornell Democrats or the Cornell Republicans.

This column may seem unoriginal, and I admit that it is not an innovative idea to call for increased voter participation among college students. Yet this point is made so frequently because it is so important. The government will only respond to our concerns if we actually express them — not on Facebook, but in the ballot box. It is never too early to start the good habits of being an involved citizen. What better way to begin than by helping to choose the next President of the United States?

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

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Why I Will Never Vote for Trump

am about as conservative as they come –– I’m pro-life, pro-gun, pro-defense, anti-tax and spend, anti-regulation, pro-tax reform and pro-school choice. I firmly believe that the free market is the best possible route to lift up the poor and working class, and that the nation cannot continue on its reckless spending spree. And it is for this very reason that I will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald J. Trump.

Though there are many different strains of conservatism (libertarianism, populism, classical liberalism), conservatives across the board believe in a few basic principles: government is a necessary evil but should be restrained, a strong military is the best defense against tyranny and, above all, every human-being is endowed with inherent, inalienable rights.

In the eyes of most conservatives, the Obama years have served as a direct assault to these ideals. As our respect in the world declines and our debt continues climb, many (myself included) feel that the nation stands at a crossroads after the Obama Administration. Thus, as a conservative, I find it perfectly reasonable to think that the nation needs to find a leader who stands in stark contrast to Obama. Yet Donald Trump cannot be this leader.

One of the hallmarks of conservatism is a deep respect for the Constitution. Conservatives believe that the United States is not a nation of men, but a nation of laws. In fact, the Trump campaign has heavily focused on this sense of law and order. Yet Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims is a direct affront to Constitution. Certainly, Congress and the president have the authority to decide who can and cannot enter the nation based on nationality, criminal history and medical considerations. However, the First Amendment explicitly states that Congress cannot make a law “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” for any individual. In other words, Congress does not have the authority to make laws that focus on an individual’s religion. Based on this, constitutional scholars, such as Stephen Legomsky and William Banks, agree that Trump’s ban on

individuals from a particular religion would violate the Constitution.

But above all, Trump’s ban on Muslims is morally wrong.

For Mr. Trump, the religious teachings of Islam present an inherent security threat to the United States. Yet this attack on a religious/ethnic minority is not new. Throughout history, radical leaders have always attacked religious and racial minorities during times of economic hardship and security fears. From the Jews in tsarist Russia, to the Chinese in 1880s America, people have always made the fallacious claim that somehow a minority group is responsible for the nation’s woes. Personally, I would like to ask Mr. Trump a simple question: have you ever read the Qur’an? Though I do not believe in the teachings of Islam, I have read its holy book, and I can say for a fact that the Qur’an is not a text filled with

Conservatives believe that the United States is not a nation of men, but a nation of laws. In fact, the Trump campaign has heavily focused on this sense of law and order. Yet Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims is a direct affront to Constitution. venom that calls for the extermination of infidels. Those hate-filled views are only held by extremists who twist the words of the Qur’an to fit their own political agenda. For anyone who truly wants to understand the heart of Islam, do not turn to the internet’s polemics for your sources. Instead, actually read the religious texts of Islam. Though I am a proud born-again Christian, and fundamentally disagree with the teachings of the Qur’an, I firmly believe that Islam is not a religion of hatred.

While I consider the proposed ban on Muslims to be incredibly galling, nothing can compare to Trump’s comments

on women. From making fun of Carly Fiorina’s face, to publically discussing Megyn Kelly’s menstrual cycle, to saying women who receive abortions should be punished, Donald Trump is easily the definition of misogynism. It is no wonder that 70 percent of women have a negative view of Trump.

Trump has also shown a stunning lack of competence on basic policy issues. When confronted with the nuclear triad during a December debate, the businessman seemed stumped –– he had no idea what the nuclear triad was. If Donald Trump is to be the Commander-in-Chief and command the most destructive nuclear force on the planet, it would probably be a good idea if he understood how our nuclear weapons system works. Furthermore, Trump has provided zero specifics on how he plans to make his proposed reforms. Trump claims that he will build the strongest military in American history.

But how? What specific combat divisions will he expand? Will he embolden the Sixth Fleet? Will he replace outdated bombers? Who knows? We are essentially being told that we need to look past Trump’s lack of specifics and simply trust that he will figure it out once he gets into office.

I have certainly only scratched the surface of why Donald Trump should be disqualified from being president. I could have discussed Trump’s constant flip-flopping on abortion, gun rights, free trade, NATO involvement and the Middle East in just the past three months (let alone the past thirty years). I could have discussed his poor treatment of his fellow presidential candidates (especially Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) and Jeb Bush), his lack of qualifications, his lack of business success (such as his failings with Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Airlines, a mortgage company, Trump the Game, Trump Liquor and his four bankruptcies) and his utter vulgarity. But it would be impossible to condense that into a short 900 words –– so I’ll just let it speak for itself.

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

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In setting out to write this article, I hoped to identify the items at various campus eateries that provide the most nourishment for the least amount of money. To this end, my first instinct was to relate the prices of foods to their masses. The logic is simple: Foods with large masses tend to physically fill your stomach more than those with smaller masses. But there is one problem with using mass to measure fullness.

You don’t have to be a food scientist to know that drinking 100 g of water is different from eating 100 g of peanuts. Thus, it is critical to analyze the nutritional composition of food to determine how full it will leave you.

As an engineer, I am pretty much clueless when it comes to making sense of different nutritional properties. But one

thing I do know about is the Internet, and I used it to find a formula that computes the “Fullness Factor” of a given food — that is, how much given food will satiate you on a per-calorie basis. Multiplying the Fullness Factor index value by the total amount of calories in a given dish yields a relative measure of how full that dish will leave you. I will be using this metric to quantify the satiety of a given food. If you’re interested, I included the formula used to arrive at the Fullness Factor at the end of the article.

But measuring fullness is only half the story. If a filling item is exorbitantly priced, is it actually worth purchasing? To address this issue, I will be ascertaining how much a given food fills you up in comparison to its price by dividing the Fullness Factor by the cost of that item. This means that items with a higher ratio fill you up more for less money. I have also included the pure Fullness Factor rankings in case you want to purchase the most satisfying item irrespective of its cost.

Note: Nutritional information is provided by Cornell Dining. Not all items/vendors have nutritional information available. In the print version of the article, I have included information on Bus Stop Bagels. Look online for infor-

mation about all items that Cornell Dining has listed on its website.

Evan Kravitz is a freshman in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at esk95@cornell.edu.

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Julia Curley Explosions in the Sky’s new album, The Wilderness, released April 1, challenges the limits of “study music.” Unlike other instrumental albums, The Wilderness takes listeners away from themselves, and their problem sets, to a busy, vibrant, emotional space of — true to its title — uncharted territory.

The Wilderness tells a story better than many lyricists. But, in many ways, the story is written by the listener, who molds each beat to her transient perception. Explosions in the Sky’s daring to blend the serene with the passionate complicates their symphonies not just with the pretexts of rock-and-roll but also with a powerful message that seems, over and over, to undo the album’s calm.

From the moment “The Wilderness” begins with its fast-paced electric guitar and rhythmic tambourine, senses blend.

In a wave of synesthesia viewers feel rather than hear a blend of instruments, notes, beats and melodies. As the track list continues playing, each song floats into the next with admirably careful progression. Explosions in the Sky perfectly names each of their mini-symphonies. As “The Ecstatics” bursts with energy, “Tangle Formations” feels like a web trapping musical insects and “Disintegration Anxiety” contains undifferentiated elements that fade to chaos. Its tracks vary widely in emotion and meaning. While “The Wilderness” feels light and calm, “Logic of a Dream” shifts between threatening forces and tranquility. In one moment, “Colors in Space” feels mystically hopeful; in another, it becomes undone by its own noise — a centrifuge spinning until it soundlessly breaks.

The Wilderness captures nature in its simultaneous energy and placidity. It is a beautiful, chaotic contradiction. It puts music to everything you know to be true and all that you fear in the unknown. The

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album presents a power struggle between order and disorder felt not only in earthly environments but also inside our heads. The energy in each song can be likened to the constant hum of insects and animals, but also to the ceaseless buzzing of thoughts around and within us. The Wilderness’s conscious

lack of lyrics begs the listener to produce her own story — to answer each track’s symphonic questions.

Whether order or anarchy wins out depends on her perception, or even more transiently, her everchanging mindset.

All at once, the album feels alien and nostalgic, hopeful and threatening, serene and tumultuous. In fewer words, The Wilderness captures the essence of our everyday lives. Its daydream-like melodies are easy to listen to and impossible to fully understand.

Like falling asleep in class and waking to a pop-quiz, The Wilderness is both predictable and ceaselessly

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startling. Explosions in the Sky gives a rhythm to the mundane.

Is The Wilderness “study music?” I think yes.

Because, just at the very moment your brain starts to move toward zombie-like murk, the centrifugal bass guitar of “Colors in Space” will awaken you before the soundtrack quickly fades again to a peaceful melody in “Landing Cliffs.”

The album, an amalgamation of double meanings and conflicting emotions not just throughout the track list but within each song itself, lives in many different interpretations. The music can wash over you or it can consume you. It can be merely sound or it can be the meaning of our lives among each other and within nature — ever changing, ever conflicting, ever inspiring.

The Wilderness has converted me, a lover of lyrics, into an Explosions in the Sky fan. Appreciators of Sufjan Stevens’ symphonic quality will treasure The Wilderness. The album wordlessly retains meaning, each mini-symphony a masterpiece of observation and experience.

The message is contingent yet continuously relevant. Like the flux of nature, weather and wilderness, the album morphs to the listener’s ears. To mine, it inspired resilience, because, despite the utter confusion of the electric guitar, the interjections of quieter melodies remind me of enduring peace. And, even with the lonesomeness of a sole tambourine, the album stresses the naturalness of our lives. The melodies synchronize human thoughts with those of the environment. The Wilderness offers a catharsis to eager ears. It is the kind of music you resist unplugging.

Julia Curley is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at jmc628@cornell.edu.

A Revamped Macbeth at Cornell Cinema Last year saw the release of the latest film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel. Gory, passion-driven and gripping, this film captures the vengeful air of Shakespeare’s Scotland well. The film was originally shown at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The audience thought it was so extraordinary that Macbeth received a ten minute-long standing ovation after its screening. Since then, it has received positive reviews across the board, and it has easily become one of my personal favorite Shakespeare adaptations.

The onscreen chemistry between Michael Fassbender (Macbeth) and Marion Cotillard (Lady Macbeth) is phenomenal. Fassbender as Macbeth lets his wife push him around while she convinces him to murder with an icy edge that would make a polar bear shiver. He plays the guilty and hesitant role well, as his body language reflects his psyche; from the start we understand that his intentions do not reflect the values he holds.

Cotillard as Lady Macbeth is manipulative as ever as she goes to great lengths in order to get what she

wants.

The locations used were Bamburgh Castle in Quiraing, Scotland and the Ely Cathedral in England.

The film’s landscape shots are beautiful, creating a vast green aesthetic which fits the setting which Shakespeare created well. The scenes inside the castles were shot beautifully, as well; natural light and candles flood the sets, and the size of the structures — excessive, massive and grotesquely gorgeous — Cornell gives the film a drafty feeling.

The eerie score Cinema also set the tone very well.

Even though reason suggests that every character would have a Scottish accent due to the play’s setting, producer Iain Canning allowed Cotillard to play Lady Macbeth with her native French accent. He claimed it added another layer of intrigue and complexity to her already complex character.

A few scenes in the film stuck out. The scene in which Macbeth is originally told of his prophecy is dreamlike and pastoral as he meets the three seers out in a field. In Lady Macbeth’s famous “out, damn spot!”

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scene, in particular, the director had an interesting choice in setting. As Lady Macbeth kneels in a church and tries to rid her hands of the blood spots that have plagued her as a result of her guilt, a window hangs above her head, cut out in the shape of a cross.

The subplot of Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s dead child — which comprised the opening scene to this movie — was not derived from the source material.

However, it effectively set the dark tone for the scenes of death to come. It almost gave viewers a chance to sympathize with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth: without an heir, there is an urgency to secure their power. Lady Macbeth also talks about her “unsexing” as a woman and how cold she would have been to her children, if she had any. This scene’s addition definitely added to the plot and character development.

Overall, this adaptation is sure to satisfy all of Shakespeare’s fans and more general moviegoers alike.

Macbeth is a well-made film, as it boldly tells a tale of revenge and guilt with an aesthetic just as rich.

Macbeth will be screened at Cornell Cinema on April 9. Tickets are available online or at the theatre.

Marina Watts is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

She can be reached at mwatts@cornellsun.com.

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The Price of Peace and the Eye in the Sky GRIFFIN SMITH-NICHOLS Sun Staff Writer

If Britannia once ruled the waves, America now indisputably rules the skies, and its aerial power is growing ever more precise.

First, the USAAF of 1945, then an adjunct limb of the ground forces, could drop phosphorous bombs with impunity on every exposed inch of Dresden. Two decades later, napalm could be used to raze thin stretches of settled and foxhole-littered jungle in Vietnam, sans, supposedly, excessive civilian loss of life. Now, a house in a Kenyan neighborhood can be pinpointed and destroyed from kilometers above with the latest in predator drone technology. This is as much a moral as it is a technological evolution, and it is a moral dilemma which lies at the heart of Eye in the Sky, given limited release in select theaters in the United States this past month.

The film begins with Colonel Katherine Powell, played tightlipped and fiercely concentrated by Helen Mirren, waking in the dim morning of Surrey, England. She has been tracking a pair of British nationals affiliated with the East African jihadist organization Al-Shabaab for years and is on the verge of a breakthrough: her targets, along with a significant cadre of Al-Shabaab leadership, will all be meeting together in one house to prepare their next bombings.

Given the gravity of this mission, Lieutenant General Frank Benson, the late Alan Rickman’s final onscreen role, seems out of place as he sorts out the headache of buying the right doll for his daughter on his way to a conference room in Whitehall. When he arrives, those observing the mission with him are not military but civic figures — legal, foreign policy and domestic administrative experts. On the other side of the planet, drone pilots Steve Watts, played by Aaron Paul, and Carrie Gershon, played by Phoebe Fox, are likewise chitchatting on their respective backgrounds and aspirations in the Air Force in the heat of the Nevada evening. The criminally under-appreciated Barkhad Abdi wonders aloud at the ridiculous complexity of certain James Bond-ish spy gadgets in use by Kenyan special forces, including a robotic drone camera shaped like a beetle.

At this point, the viewer becomes aware of the startling com-

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plexity and scale of the operation underway: military personnel and special forces operatives on three separate continents are coordinating a mission down to the precision of a millisecond. What ultimately makes the film as compelling as it is, however, is the gut-wrenching realization that this 21st century precision cannot account for every stray particle of chaos in something as fraught with risk as a counter-terrorism raid. This is the aforementioned moral dilemma of the film: when an adolescent girl named Alia wanders into the drone’s kill-zone to sell bread, feet away from Kenya’s most wanted, the British and American operatives must decide whether to almost certainly kill an innocent child or let terrorists planning further attacks slip through their grasp. This is a dilemma that almost none of the film’s characters are up to tackling.

Eye in the Sky is unsparing in its portrait of computerized warfare. Technicians, diplomats and starred-generals shout themselves hoarse searching for loopholes or arguing out legal technicalities to solve the situation (in a grim streak of humor, one British secretary does so whilst suffering an explosive bout of food poisoning). One might be tempted to call this a philosophical quandary, but in truth, there is little to debate over philosophically. Objectively, and according to the tried and true Spock doctrine of “the needs of the many,” the missile should be launched, or the militants in question are free to attack crowded public spaces as they will, killing far more than just one person.

What seems more pertinent to be debated, as portrayed in the film, is how far humanitarian concerns should be accommodated within a military framework. Although the weapons of today are launched by binary sequences, a human finger must still pull the trigger. Daniel Kearns, a former paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, laconically claimed that to engage the United

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States in a conventional war would “be like a 3-year-old child playing chess against Gary Kasparov. They wouldn’t even know what they were supposed to be looking at.” For Aaron Paul’s character Watts, the opposite is the source of his powerlessness: the crystal clarity of the image he receives of Alia selling bread paralyzes him and renders the film’s second half a feverish stew of tension: will he or won’t he fire? If he does, is it worth it?

Are we as a society willing to inflict literal hellfire in the form of a heaven-born missile on people who simply happen to be standing in the wrong place? Is this worth the dehumanizing worldview it gives both to us, the computer-masters, and the nameless people now classified as “collateral?” What Eye in the Sky shows is that the essence of war, and its greedy demand for disregard of human life, stubbornly refuses to be altered, no matter how withdrawn those who pull the trigger are. This is the price of the Pax Americana.

Griffin Smith-Nichols is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at gds82@cornell.edu.

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bring the intensity and the effort, and if you do that and we put the practices together that we think our necessary to win those two things combined are going to give the outcome we want.”

Bray said he greatly appreciates the leadership from the older guys.

“It’s been a great experience so far being able to get out there with a bunch of the older guys,” he said. “It’s been an honor to be able to get out there.”

And their leadership has certainly paid off. With the third most points on the team, Bray has acclimated very nicely to collegiate lacrosse.

Despite the team’s progress, though, the next couple of weeks are going to be the Red’s toughest yet, according to Kerwick.

“Coming off of a good one against Dartmouth, we have to keep that edge and keep that intensity level up if we’re going to have a chance in these next two,” Kerwick said looking forward at the Harvard game which is followed up closely with a clash against upstate rival, Syracuse on Tuesday. “We’re playing against very good opponents.”

Harvard beat the Red the past two seasons and has already beaten ranked opponents Duke and Villanova this season.

“They’re talented, they’re big, they’re fast, so we’re going to have to play our best,” Kerwick said. “I’m very impressed with their team.”

Play begins this Saturday at 3 p.m. on Schoellkopf.

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

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Homecoming | Senior attackman John Edmonds and Cornell will play their first game at home since March 19 when Harvard visits on Saturday.

Rumors Are Ubiquitous in European Soccer Prepare for the Despite what some say, Mourinho would not fit with Manchester United NBA’s Lockout LINSEY

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since then, many suggest his ideal next job would lie just a few hours north in Manchester when the summer rolls around.

Those who suggest Mourinho focus on his pedigree of championships. Mourinho is a proven winner, a man who wins at all costs.

United is all about winning, they say, and Mourinho would get them back a record that reflects this. Another point in favor of Mourinho is that he focuses on defense, which has been poor in recent years at Manchester United and could use a revamping.

Yet, I strongly oppose hiring Mourinho. Yes, Mourinho is a proven winner, but his style is a direct clash with the style preferred by United.

Manchester United has always won championships through a fluid, attacking style of play; Mourinho wins by shutting down the opposition

and trying to steal a goal or two. It is often successful, but not a fit for United. Mourinho does focus on the defense, but that should not be the focal point. United’s midfield (and to some extent, attack) need to be allowed to play with freedom.

Yes, Mourinho is a proven winner, but his style is a direct clash with style preferred by United.

Mourinho would overload them with defensive responsibilities and limit their offensive game. Lastly, Mourinho prefers to play experienced squad regulars over giving younger players a chance. It is often cited that Chelsea failed to promote any players developed by the club to the first team during either of Mourinho’s two

spells as manager. Manchester United, on the other hand, has a tradition of developing their own talent.

Even during this tough season, van Gaal has allowed double-digit club youngsters to play their first United games.

It is clear that Manchester United’s style of play, defense and young players would not benefit from Mourinho’s management. Yet, rumors still fly that he is almost guaranteed to be United’s manager next fall. The rumor mill continues to speculate about future managers, when in reality the current coach has another year on his contract. Mourinho to United could happen, but expect United to struggle under his management if appointed. This rumor is viable but would have harmful effects on the manager and the team.

Kevin Linsey an be contacted at klinsey@cornellsun.com. The Beautiful Game appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Houston’s Colby Rasmus slides safely into home plate in the Astros opening day clash against the New York Yankees. The Astros won, 5-3, in New York.

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out, in 2011, the owners clobbered the players, so why wouldn’t they flex their muscles and do it again? The players gave up their share of the league revenue from 57 percent to about 50 percent. The owners also want a hard salary cap, like the NHL and the NFL, compared to the current “soft” cap, along with non-guaranteed contracts and a 20-year-old age minimum. With Adam Silver as the new face of the owners it behooves them to at least try to fight for some of these issues.

A new matchup is getting ready for the negotiation table: Union leader Chris Paul vs. Commissioner Adam Silver. They both carry so much hope for whom they represent. With these two scenarios it seems as if the likely outcome is a lockout, and the two combined are plenty of reason to worry. You heard it here first: There is a lockout on the horizon. Every few years I love watching millionaires fight billionaires in the world’s most publicized pissing contests.

Ben Denson can be contacted at bdenson@cornellsun.com. The B.D. Report appears on Wednesdays this semester.

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Red Hosts Harvard in Ivy Showdown NBA Lockout Looms

C.U.looks to build off 15-goal blowout victory over Dartmouth

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It can take several months of practice and competition for a team to establish consistency and a true identity. With such a young group, the Cornell men’s lacrosse team knew that acclimating all of these new faces would take some time. But with time and patience comes progress, and the team is really starting to show signs of growth and self-consciousness, according to head coach Matt Kerwick.

“I think we know who we are now a little bit better,” Kerwick said. “It’s taken a little bit longer with a new group ... [but] if we can have the effort and execution then we’re going to be in

would be a critical part to carrying over good shape.”

Coming off a dominant 15-goal win the success from last week to this at Dartmouth this past Saturday, the Saturday.

“Obviously we have to keep the Red (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) now turn its attention to Harvard (5-5, 1-1 Ivy). The train rolling,” Peters said. “I think the message is still focus Crimson will come to on those details, Schoellkopf on “The message is still focus on that prepaSaturday. focus on those details, ration, encouraging The Red has guys to go out there shown its resiliency focus on that on their own and do in being able to preparation.” their own work and bounce back from kind have been that’s tough losses with Marshall Peters the message all solid victories, yet the week.” men have yet to Freshman attackman Ryan Bray, string a pair of quality victories together. Following the big win over the who had a pair of goals and assists in Green, junior defenseman Marshall the Dartmouth game, emphasized the Peters stressed that keeping focus importance of this game for maintaining positive momentum.

“This is a really big one for us,” he said. “For us to make a run at the Ivy League championship, ... we need to get a good win here.”

He also said “staying within itself ” will be most important for the Red this week.

“It’s really not about Harvard,” Bray said. “It’s about us. How we work this week in practice and how we go into the game mentally [is] what’s it’s mostly about.”

Staying within oneself is an important theme that Kerwick has addressed throughout the year. He strongly encourages leadership from his senior class and camaraderie between all class years on the team.

“We say to these guys all the time ‘It’s your team, it’s not our team,’” COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS Kerwick said. “It’s up to you guys to

Dominant defense | Junior defenseman Marshall Peters and the rest of Cornell’s defense held Dartmouth to just four goals, as the Red cruised past the Green.

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On the Power of Rumors in Pro Soccer players in the transfer window, the summer and winter periods when players can change clubs.

Understandably, fans are interested in who their favorite teams might sign. The press loves promoting gossip that links big-name players with departures The Beautiful or rich teams Game with huge summer spending sprees. These 24-hour news cycle. deals tend to not actually However, due to the diffi- happen, but they are the culties of communication in most exciting when they do, the information age, most of which leads to their widethis news is unreliable. spread publicity as a possible Newspapers from England foreshadowing of a huge to Thailand delight in print- deal. In the days of increased ing various rumors that money in soccer, floating range from the probable to around astronomical figures the ridiculous. Using a case also leads to more attention study of a certain rumor, I to rumors. When The Daily will examine their inaccura- Mail runs the headline, cies and allude to the “Messi may move to inescapable amount of Manchester City for astrorumors in the soccer world. nomical 200 million Euro Most rumors focus on fee,” eyes around Europe are possible destinations for transfixed on the big-name Global soccer is a sport unlike any other. Its unique worldwide infrastructure and international interconnectedness result in a nearly

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player, famous club and Mourinho made his name in huge cash value. his home country, then Soccer rumors are not proved himself abroad, winlimited to players. Managers ning a treble of titles with increasingly face scrutiny Inter Milan in 2010. He had over their position and face some success at Real constant suggestions over Madrid, a notoriously diffiwho might be appointed to cult place to coach because replace them come the sum- of strict chairman mer. One club facing such Florentino Perez, and then speculation is Manchester he joined Chelsea. At the United, the most successful west London club, he won club in English Premier the Premier League title last League history. While season but had an unpreceManchester United has a proud legacy, the Most rumors focus on team is in the roughest stretch in its illustripossible destinations for ous history. At the players in the transfer moment, the club will window when players can likely lack the qualifications for the prestichange clubs. gious UEFA Champions League.

As a result, many in the dentedly awful title defense press suggest that the club this season. It was so bad may jettison manager Louis that Chelsea’s chairman van Gaal in the summer. Roman Abramovich, comMedia speculation on possi- parable to Perez in terms of ble successors has been ram- his lack of patience with pant but has mostly settled managers, sacked Mourinho on one candidate. in December. Out of work Enter Jose Mourinho, stage left. Portuguese coach See LINSEY page 15

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ive years ago the NBA players union dissolved, the owners lost millions and the league had its first lockout of the millennium.

As David Stern’s hair was graying by the hour, dozens of players went overseas to play in foreign basketball leagues. The NBA’s television providers lost about one billion dollars, and fans had to turn to other ways to get nightly entertainment — like cooking elaborate meals with cultural delicacies, finishing the world’s biggest Lego model or watching the humdrum NHL drag through another season. With the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement set for an optout clause in 2016 — effective by June 2017 — we could see this again.

Ben Denson The B.D. Report The pessimist in me sees most signs leading to another lockout if the league stays true to its mission of achieving a competitive balance. In the ultra-competitively lopsided association, we’ve seen a clear concentration of championships — something commissioner Adam Silver wants to change. And something that fans and small market team owners alike are hoping for — as with so much young talent maturing by the game we’ll see a dynamic change in the league.

Back in 2014 the league got a $24 billion dollar TV contract from ESPN and Turner (TBS and TNT), and the deal kicks in next season. This increases the salary cap by an unexpected $20 million. That is 20 million more dollars to sign ring-hungry Kevin Durant and another $20 million for Carmelo Anthony to share a locker room with LeBron and hold hands with him while riding on his coattails.

Going through every roster move, juicy trade rumors and never-ending speculation, I just can’t find a way where small-market teams don’t get screwed over in this scenario. The league’s best talent will gravitate towards big market teams as any team will make cap space for one of the NBA’s perennial MVP candidates. With players like LeBron hinting at wanting a new “Big Three” in the near future, what is to stop players going wherever they want if teams will pay them to do so? The crux of the argument is that the players will opt for attractive big markets teams like New York, Boston or LA. We will see yet another continued concentration of talent and competition within the association. The players union won’t want to give up all the new money, and,alas, we’ll have a labor dispute.

This is the logical reason for the lockout. Owners will sue because of perceived unfair balance favoring the large market teams. A more fun, emotionallycharged theory is that with the last lockSee DENSON page 15