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New York’s first undocumented lawyer César Vargas shares his journey advocating immigrants’ rights. | Page 3

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S.A. Discusses Renovations, Lighting on Slope

By ZACHARY KAPLAN Sun Staff Writer

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Open discussion | S.A. international at-large representative Shivang Tayal ’16, S.A. President Juliana Batista ’18 and U.A. undergraduate representative Matthew Battaglia ’16 discuss improving representation for minority groups at an open forum yesterday.

Students Call for Increased Representation Student Assembly reevaluates minority representation at forum

By ANNE SNABES

Juliana Batista.

“How can we better represent our students?”

Ghandour said. “That’s why we’re having this conversaThe Student Assembly hosted a forum discussing tion, because we think that we, as the Student ways to restructure the S.A. to better represent minori- Assembly, need to be more representative. We acknowlties and underrepresented groups on Thursday evening. edge that we’re not perfect.”

Maha Ghandour ’17, S.A. vice president for pubStudents subsequently raised the issue of the lic relations, said discussion under-representation of of representation began minorities, students with “How can we better represent our disabilities, veterans and when a group of students ap proached the S.A. in students? That’s why we’re having other groups.

March with the aim of Seamus Murphy ’16, Presthis conversation.” increasing representation ident of the Cornell for first-generation college Undergraduate Veterans AsMaha Ghandour ’17 students. sociation, asserted that veterGhandour said this conans — who make up 10 perversation evoked questions about how the S.A repre- cent of the student population — are underrepresented sents all students. As a result of this discussion, the on campus. He described veterans as students of lower S.A. will add a first-generation representative seat, socioeconomic groups and student with disabilities. which has been approved by Acting President Michael Kotlikoff, according to S.A. President See FORUM page 5 Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca Man Charged After Police Find Money, Drugs and Guns in Vehicle Ithaca Police stopped Whyte at the intersection of West Seneca and Albany Ithaca resident Corbin Street on March 28, carrying out an outstanding Whyte, 31, was warrant for his indicted on 15 arrest, according to criminal charges a police departThursday morning ment press release. after police found Police searched $1,000 in cash, his vehicle and prescription pills, found a strong seven guns and odor of burned several hundred marijuana as well as rounds of ammuWHYTE the allegedly nition in his vehicle, according to The Ithaca unlawfully-owned weapons and drug paraphernalia, Voice.

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

according to the press release.

Whyte was charged with seven counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, six counts of thirddegree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, The Voice reported.

Whyte — who is currently being held at the Tompkins See ARREST page 5

The Student Assembly discussed plans to renovate the Schwartz Center plaza in Collegetown and increase lighting on Libe Slope at its meeting Thursday.

After the S.A. Infrastructure Fund Committee gave its final allocation presentation on potential projects, it asked the S.A. to support funding for a variety of campus infrastructure projects based on student proposals. The largest of these requests was for $30,000 of new lighting on the south side of Libe Slope.

If approved by the S.A., the $30,000 allocation will fund just less than half of a University project to install four new gothic style lamp posts along the slope’s south side in the same style as lamp posts installed on the north side of the slope last year, according to SAIF committee member Nicolette Swanbery ’18.

S.A. and SAIFC member Miranda Kasher ’19 explained that due to a lack of lighting “people are afraid of the slope” and additional light on the slope has been “the most common request [we’ve] received.”

S.A. Vice President for Finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 challenged the lighting proposal, arguing that this is a University responsibility.

“It shouldn’t be in the S.A.’s purview and sends a bad message that the S.A. is funding things the University should be funding to increase safety,” Stefanko said.

Kasher disagreed, explaining that with S.A. funds, the new lighting can be installed within the year as opposed to the University’s original three and a half to four year timeline.

The second largest allocation requested by the SAIFC was for a $20,000 allocation to the See FUNDING page 5

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Students attend international coffee hour yesterday at the Big Red Barn.

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Former Johnson First Undocumented N.Y. State School Prof Dies Lawyer Asserts Immigrants’ Rights At 78 After Illness story with his CUNY law school dean, who then helped him obtain private scholarships.

“That’s why I always tell dreamers: César Vargas, one of the first undocumented lawyer to be admitted to the ‘tell your story,’” he said. “There are so New York State Bar, spoke at Cornell many people out there who are willing Law School Wednesday about his jour- to support you. You just need to let ney as an immigrants’ rights advocate them know.”

Vargas also said sharing his story and his role in drafting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (D-Vt.) immigration policy became a powerful tool in mobilizing people around platform. immigration Vargas, the Latino Outreach Strategist “There are so many people reform.

“I remember for the Bernie out there who are willing when I came out to Sanders presidential to support you. You just my friends in law campaign, said that school as undocuhis status as “a dreamneed to let them know.” mented, they told er” — a term derived me ‘Now I underfrom the DREAM César Vargas stand immigration act for undocumentfrom a different ed immigrants who entered the U.S. as young children — perspective. Now I see what it means to greatly impacted the trajectory of his practice immigration law’” Vargas said.

He continued that humanizing peocareer and life.

After Vargas made it through col- ple has been crucial to his work as an lege, he said he applied to law schools immigration reform advocate.

“One of the central components of and received rejections solely due to his fixing this broken immigration system immigration status.

“I remember one school sent me a is seeing people as people,” he said.

After graduating from law school letter saying ‘you need to show social security,’” Vargas said. He added that and passing the bar exam, Vargas said when he told them he did not have a he faced yet another roadblock when social security number, the university he sought admission to the New York replied that they could not accept him. State Bar. Although Vargas explained Furthermore, he said securing the that having passed the bar he probably funds to attend law school posed a sig- could have “flown under the radar” and been given a license to practice law nificant challenge.

Vargas said that he was able to over- without mentioning that he was come these challenges by sharing his undocumented, he wanted to confront

By ELEANOR GOOD

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By BARBARA ESUOSO Sun Contributor

Former Johnson Graduate School of Management Prof. David Ahlers, entrepreneurial management, died in his hometown of Ithaca last Monday after a long illness. He was 78 years old.

After working on Wall Street, Ahlers arrived at Cornell in 1972, where he taught for 13 years and earned his Ph.D. During that time, he directed the Johnson Executive Development Program and participated in the Cornell Research Fund, according to The Ithaca Journal.

Ahlers then co-founded the Cayuga Venture Fund in 1996 — a venture capital fund that invested in upstate New York startups, according to The Journal.

Current Johnson senior lecturer Zach Shulman ’87 J.D. ’90 joined Ahlers in 2004. He described Ahlers as “a truly PROF. AHLERS sweet guy.”

“Dave was instrumental in the formation of Cayuga Venture Fund,” Shulman said. “He was thorough, analytical and levelheaded.”

Johnson Prof. Joseph Thomas, operations management, called Ahlers “nice, interesting and highly intelligent.”

“He was a professor who was committed to his students,” Thomas said. “He brought a strong academic and real-world background to bear on his teaching.”

Thomas added that Ahlers had wide-ranging interests both within business and beyond.

“I remember working with him to utilize something called ‘dynamic programming’ to analyze the best way to win a sailing race,” Thomas said.

Ahlers received multiple teaching awards, including a Cornell Excellence in Teaching award during his second year as visiting professor and the Berens Chair of Entrepreneurial Management, according to The Journal.

“His greatest contribution to Cornell was the benefit his students received from him, in and out of class,” Thomas said.

Ahlers received his B.S. in physics from Ohio State University, his M.A. in operations research from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. in management and computer science from Carnegie Mellon. His thesis won a highly selective award given

by Management Science Magazine and was followed by a book published in 1979, according to a University press release.

A celebration in his honor will be held at Ithaca Yacht Club. The date has not yet been announced, according to The Journal.

the issue of being an undocumented person who wanted to be admitted to the bar.

“I spent almost four years waiting to become a licensed lawyer” Vargas said, alluding to the four year legal battle for certification that followed his graduation.

Although Vargas said he initially regretted his decision to place himself in such a situation, the regret disappeared when he was finally granted the ability to practice.

“The court’s decision was beautiful,” he said, “It said that regardless of where you come from, you can be a lawyer. You can be a professional.”

Vargas said that he counts the court’s decisions as one of his biggest achievements.

“The decision showed me that you might need a license to practice law and appear before a judge, but you don’t need a license to advocate for your community,” he said.

His position in the Sanders campaign ties in closely with his previous experience of mobilizing to advocate for immigrant rights, according to Vargas.

“To me this campaign is all about challenging the establishment and challenging the status quo of ‘no, this can’t be done,’” he said. “For me, the Bernie campaign is all about coming together and pushing boundaries in order to get real change.”

Eleanor Good can be reached at egood@cornellsun.com.

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Undocumented and unafraid | César Vargas speaks about his experience as the first undocumented lawyer to be admitted to the New York State Bar in a talk Wednesday.

Four Cornell Juniors Awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarship

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

Four Cornellians received Barry Goldwater Scholarships in March for research in the fields of science, math and engineering, according to a University press release.

Cornell was the only Ivy League school to have all four nominees receive the scholarship, according to the release.

Shivansh Chawla ’17, one of the nominees, said having all four nominees — Robert Lee ’17, Charles Wan ’17, Zachary Ziegler ’17and herself — from Cornell win the scholarship affirmed the quality of research at Cornell.

“The research here at Cornell is top notch, so having four fellowship winners really adds to that,” Chawla said.

He added that the application process data I get,” Chawla said.

Lee works in the Cornell Engineering led him to reflect on his own research.

“The essay question that they had was World Health Program where he studies ‘describe a significant problem in your drinking water in rural areas.

“Right now field of study,’ we’re building and really it “The research here at Cornell is top a water monishows what in my field we notch, so having four fellowship winners tor for wells that can track need to work really adds to that.” important on,” Chawla characteristics said.

Shivansh Chawla ’17 of the water to Chawla see if the water studies chemistry and biology and conducts research in is unsafe to drink,” Lee said.

Ziegler studies engineering physics and the Yimon Aye Lab, according to the conducts research with Prof. Jiwoong University.

“I want to help study diseases and Park, chemistry, where he works on the working in Yimon Aye lab is giving me “growth and characterization of 2-D great mentorship, helping my problem materials.” solving skills and critical analysis of the Ziegler added that he plans to continue

significant research in applied physics after Cornell.

“I think my experiences both through engineering physics classes and research are preparing me for interdisciplinary research that I hope will one day have significant impact in the real world,” he said.

Wan called it “an honor” to be recognized as a Goldwater scholar, saying he is happy his hard work has payed off.

“It is fulfilling to receive validation for the work I have put into my passion, and I am grateful to have won the award amidst such talented researchers,” Wan said.

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at aehtasham@cornellsun.com.

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South Sudanese Rebels Secure Capital for Return of Leader JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Armed South Sudanese rebels have begun taking up positions in the capital, a risky but crucial step to end two years of war.

The Associated Press and other journalists on Thursday toured one of the rebel camps where fighters dressed in green fatigues stood in semi-circle formation, chanting call-andresponse war songs and waving their AK-47s in unison.

More than 900 of the rebels have set up camp in two designated sites in Juba as part of a process to secure the city for the scheduled return on April 18 of their leader, Riek Machar.

The fighters will eventually reintegrate into the army, rebel Gen. James Koang, who is overseeing the process, told the journalists.

Some rebels told AP they expect to safely reunite with the troops they’ve battled the last two years.

“We lost so many of our brothers, but now we have seen each other, so I’m happy we shall greet each other,” said fighter Lagu Joseph. “If we meet each other, we will sit together as brothers.”

The rebels here said their bigger concern is living conditions.

They said they only have bedframes but no mattresses and sleep in the open.

During the journalists’ visit, a few of the fighters blew vuvezelas or held tattered South Sudanese flags which flapped in the morning breeze.

There were only a few blue tents, a leaking pipe where soldiers filled mugs to drink, some newly dug pit latrines, and piles of metal bedframes and bundles of grass to be used to make huts.

This camp for the rebels, who are mostly Nuer, is in a few hastily cleared acres (hectares) of land behind a rocky outcrop which looms over Juba. It’s near a sprawling United Nations base where nearly 30,000 Nuer civilians have sought shelter.

The war began here two years ago when clashes broke out between Nuer and Dinka, and targeted killings of Nuer soldiers and civilians, forcing Machar to flee the city.

While some soldiers were returning to the city they once called home, others were arriving for the first time, never having seen so many buildings in a city that has grown so fast that no one knows its population. Estimates run from 300,000 to over a million.

Cease-Fire Between Azerbaijan And Armenia Threatened BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Azerbaijan and Armenia on Thursday accused each other of violating a two-day-old cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, while Russia and Iran joined diplomatic efforts to prevent a war that could destabilize the strategic Caucasus region.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said its troops returned fire after Armenian forces fired mortars and large-caliber machine guns at Azerbaijani military positions and populated areas. The Armenian side accused Azerbaijan of shelling its positions.

The intense skirmishes have threatened to derail the Russiabrokered cease-fire declared at midday Tuesday following the worst violence since a separatist war ended in 1994. That conflict left Nagorno-Karabakh, officially a part of Azerbaijan, under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military.

Armenian forces also occupy several areas outside the Karabakh region.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry has said 31 of its soldiers have been killed since Saturday; Karabakh has acknowledged the loss of 30 and said 101 others have been wounded. Each party put enemy losses in the hundreds, claims that couldn’t be independently verified. Several civilians

also have been killed on both sides.

The fighting has raised fears of a possible regional escalation, with Turkey strongly backing Azerbaijan and Russia obliged by a mutual security pact to protect Armenia.

Russia also has sought to maintain friendly ties with energy-rich Azerbaijan and given it weapons in a bid to shore up its influence in the Caucasus region, a conduit for energy resources from the Caspian Sea to the West.

Russia also has acted as a mediator in the NagornoKarabakh peace talks along with the United States and France, which have dragged on since 1994 without any visible results.

But Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday after a meeting with his Armenian counterpart that “there is no alternative to the current mechanism” for negotiating an end to the dispute, which is under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

It was not clear whether that stance would marginalize Iran's role.

Adding to the uncertainty, Nagorno-Karabakh’s unrecognized president said his side must be involved in any solution.

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Assembly S.A. Debates Restructuring at Forum Considers Attempts to combat underrepresentation of minorities on campus Funding Allocations FORUM

sented,” she said.

Montejo added that the S.A. has difficulty filling the seats of representatives for Kianna Early ’18 suggested supplement- the different schools. ing the S.A. minority representative posi“I don’t need to hear statistics in order tion, arguing there should be representa- to know that people feel underrepresented tives for different minorities like Hispanics because I hear those stories everyday,” and Asians instead of just one minority Montejo said. “As someone who is a Latina representative. student, I felt very underrepresented on main “My this campus up problem with the until my sophorepresentation as “I don’t need to hear statistics in order more year when it stands right I started seeing to know that people feel now is that a more people of underrepresented.” minority reprecolor running sentative is a more peoand Julia Montejo ’17 term,” broad ple reaching out Early said. to different peo“There are so many different minority ple.” communities on this campus.”

Alex Iglesias ’17, who will be the repreJulia Montejo ’17 — who will be one of sentative for the College of Human two S.A. minority representatives next aca- Ecology next year, stressed that school is a demic year — agreed that the minority component of identity, adding that the community must have better representa- S.A. should make changes so each repretion. sentative must get to know its constituen“We had a pretty hard race running for cies. minority liaisons, and that’s because the “By establishing minority specific posiminority community wants to be repre- tions, we may marginalize other groups on Continued from page 1

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SAIFC was for a $20,000 allocation to the $500,000 renovation of the plaza in front of the Schwartz Center.

Kasher said this allocation “would not actually fund any of the $500,000, but would be an additional $20,000 to get student input in.”

SAIFC members also made additional smaller allocation requests for new outlets in Green Dragon, more hand dryers around campus, condom dispensers in Noyes Recreation Center, RPCC, Willard Straight Hall, more bathroom stall coat hooks, and new waste bins and signage to promote recycling on campus.

Zachary Kaplan can be reached at zkaplan@cornellsun.com.

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County Jail without bail — has previously been convicted of two felonies and five misdemeanors, according to The Voice.

On Tuesday, Ithaca City Court Judge Joseph Cassidy upheld Whyte’s no bail hold, but Whyte’s attorney Edward Goehler will file for Whyte’s bail now that Whyte has been indicted, according to The Voice.

“Whyte was charged with seven counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.”

Goehler said Whyte is unlikely to accept a plea and should be released on bail pending a trial, according to The Voice.

Whyte could face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty of his current charges, according to Tompkins County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Bonavia.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

campus if they aren’t included,” Iglesias said.

Some students suggested that the minority representative should only be elected by minority students.

“As someone who is graduating this year and has seen multiple minority representative elections, this is something that comes up time and time again.” said Noelani Gabriel ’16. “It’s not a race of how well you understand the issues of your community, it’s a race about how many white folks you know and how many you can get to vote.”

Some students said this problem has to do with changing the quality of the work the S.A. does — not quantity, or adding more S.A. representatives.

“This is a fundamental problem with quality versus quantity. I’m also very interested in seeing a quantitative study of just how well these minority groups are represented in the current structure,” said Will Stone ’18. “We have 28 members right now, and I’m not sure how this matches up with the current Cornell population.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

President Criticizes Republicans for Lack of Confirmation Hearing CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama accused Senate Republicans on Thursday of jeopardizing the “integrity of the judicial branch” by refusing to consider his “extraordinary” nominee to the Supreme Court.

Holding court before Chicago law students, Obama argued that the treatment of judge Merrick Garland will cause the public to lose confidence in the ability of courts at all levels of government to fairly judge cases and resolve controversies.

“Our democracy can’t afford that,” Obama said.

Obama introduced Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, three weeks ago at the White House, but the nomination had stalled long before that sunny March day in the Rose Garden.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had announced hours after Justice

Antonin Scalia’s death in February that the Senate would not hold hearings or vote on any nomination Obama sent to Capitol Hill in an election year.

Obama said that stance is jeopardizing democracy by leading to potential 4-4 ties on cases from the Supreme Court. He also said there potentially are two terms in which the high court will have to issue rulings without a tie-breaking justice.

Obama described that scenario as unprecedented and said the courts have become a troubling extension of America’s broken politics.

“That erodes the institutional integrity of the judicial branch,” Obama told about 300 students, faculty and judges at the University of Chicago Law School, where he taught constitutional law for more than a decade. “At that point, people lose confidence in the ability of the courts to fairly adjudicate

cases and controversies and our licans to meet with Garland. democracy can’t afford that.”

“He will be a unifying force if On the Senate floor confirmed,” Blumenthal said.

Thursday, McConnell said Most GOP senators, includObama would “be telling sup- ing McConnell, have said they porters a politically convenient will not meet with Garland, fairy tale” by though arguing that the Judiciar y “Our democracy Constitution Committee can’t afford [the requires a Senate Chairman vote on his C h u c k treatment of nominee.

Grassley of Iowa has Garland has Garland].” invited the been meeting judge to with Democratic President Barack Obama meet over and Republican breakfast senators on Capitol Hill, but there is no indi- Tuesday. Garland will meet with cation the sessions are influencing other Republicans next week, the political calculus of the Senate including Sens. Kelly Ayotte of Republican leadership.

New Hampshire, Rob Portman He met Thursday with four of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Democrats: Sens. Heidi Heit- Alaska and Jeff Flake of Arizona, kamp (D-N.D.), Sherrod Brown the White House said. And (D-Ohio), Chris Coons (D- South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Del.) and Richard Blumenthal Graham's office said Thursday (D-Conn.). Blumenthal, after that he was willing to meet with his meeting, urged more Repub- the nominee.

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A birthright indeed To the Editor: Recently, Katy Habr wrote a column for The Cornell Daily Sun that attempts to shed light on issues surrounding the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, an all-expenses paid trip for Jewish youth to become connected to the state of Israel.

She criticizes the Birthright program for promoting the notion that diaspora Jews can make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) and gain citizenship, stating that it “entails the exclusion and expulsion of certain other groups.” First off, it is worth noting that anyone, regardless of nationality or religion, can visit Israel with a 3-month tourist visa. This is in stark contrast to the 16 Muslim countries that forbid entry to Israeli passport holders.

Secondly, almost every European nation, in addition to Israel, has Jus sanguinis nationality laws which confer citizenship to people who are members of the country’s ethnic, cultural or religious identity (as opposed to granting citizenship based on place of birth). To defend her claim, Habr has to either categorically denounce the concept of Jus sanguinis, or explain why Israel’s version of this law, given its Jewish national identity, is worthy of questioning but other countries’ are not.

Habr also criticizes Birthright for not taking participants to the Palestinian territories.

There are well-founded reasons behind this policy. Firstly, there are immense security concerns involved with bringing Israeli-led groups to Palestinian territories. To enter Gaza from Israel, a special permit is needed, which is difficult to obtain. Recent polls, like the one conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, show that there is also widespread and bitter hatred of Jews in the Gaza Strip and Area A of the West Bank, which would create dangerous touring conditions. Secondly, since the goal of Birthright is to forge a bond between participants and the land of Israel, visiting Palestinian territories would imply that these regions ought to be annexed by Israel, and that Palestinians have no right to form a state in these areas. This is antithetical to a two-state solution, and would only exacerbate the conflict. Despite what Habr believes, Birthright exposes participants to different facets of the conflict. Trips are made to Israeli Arab villages, and participants have the opportunity to hear about the experiences of Arabs living in Israel proper.

Another fallacy in Habr’s piece is her claim that there are over 5 million Palestinian refugees. In reality, an estimated 700,000 Arabs fled during the 1948 War (in comparison, the Syrian Civil War has generated roughly 6 million refugees). The figure Habr provides defines refugees as including descendants of original refugees, which is a definition used for no other refugee group and restricts the Palestinian population to perpetual refugee status. Many of these descendants of refugees do, in fact, still live in refugee camps, but this can be attributed to their host countries’ active refusal to assimilate them and grant them equal rights. (In 1959, the Arab League passed Resolution 1457, which states as follows: “The Arab countries will not grant citizenship to applicants of Palestinian origin in order to prevent their assimilation into the host countries.”) In other words, Habr stretches the definition of “refugee” in order to inflate Palestinian refugee numbers and demonize Israel.

Habr also states that Israel has rejected U.N. Resolution 194, which outlines how the Palestinian refugee problem should be solved. This is a fair point, except for the fact that it’s patently false. In July of 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a historic deal at Camp David to Yasser Arafat, then Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, which included a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, control over the Temple Mount, a return of approximately 95 percent of the West Bank and the entire Gaza Strip, a $30 billion compensation for the 1948 refugees and Israeli absorption of a symbolic number of Palestinian refugees. The deal was rejected by Arafat, and no counter-offers were made.

The proposed deal would have certainly complied with U.N. Resolution 194, which states that compensating the Palestinian refugees is an acceptable way to resolve the refugee crisis. Moreover, polling data reveals that a majority of Palestinians would accept monetary compensation as a means of solving the refugee crisis. Therefore, it is clear that the Palestinian leadership has chosen to prolong the refugee problem.

I implore Habr and other detractors of Birthright to learn the facts in order to realize that Birthright is a perfectly reasonable program, and that her views on the Palestinian refugee problem and Israeli citizenship policy are misguided.

Evan Kravitz ’19

G OVERNMENT I NJUSTICE The NC “anti-discrimination” law — the party of local government strangling local government.

— A.D. TOUGH W EEK Thirty-two consectuive hours of traveling + shitton of work = Rough post-break start. Not to mention I just wrote a mediocre column; sheesh.

— A.B. I AM NOT A W EIRDO I can’t study my anatomy slides in Olin without feeling uncomfy. It’s for a class, I swear!

— G.P. D EAR W EATHER , I T ’ S A PRIL WHY is there snow on the ground in April? It was so nice before Spring Break!

— G.H. S HOW S OME P RIDE Why on earth do Cornell students wear other Ivy League school apparel around campus? You go to

Cornell, people; be proud of it.

— Z.S. L IBE C AFE I S W HERE E FFICIENCY G OES TO D IE Shouts out to everyone who’s found a tight-knit group of friends at Cornell, seriously, proud of you. But if you and your crew huddle around the coffee in Libe while you chat and make it impossible for anyone else to get their much needed caffeine, I probably hate you.

— S.“This Actually Just Happened” C. O CCUPATIONAL H AZARD Phoebe Keller crushes my soul.

— J.G. D ITTO Phoebe Keller also crushes my soul.

— S.H. S KATER H ATER I hate when freshmen around campus carry their skateboards in a mall-grab. So unprofessional.

So classless.

Please improve.

— T.S.

M OOOVE I hate when people get in each other’s way in the dining hall.

— J.C. M OOOVE PART II If you take up the entire sidewalk when you walk, you are the worst.

— J.C. C AN ’ T S TAND C ANINES Why do people bring dogs down to the office? Everybody knows that journalism is for people.

— A.B. L ET ’ S S EE S OME C ONSISTENCY When I ask for bread with my soup at Gorgers, sometimes I get a little bread, and sometimes I get a lot of bread! Why does it vary? I just want a lot of bread all the time.

— P.K. I J UST WANT TO B E YOUR F RIEND Donald Trump makes me mad. I don’t have anything specific in mind, just his general being greatly upsets me.

— E.W.

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OPINION

Daniel Sperling | Barely Legal

Short-Lived Bipartisan Harmony Over Sentencing Reform

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n a legislature largely characterized by inefficiency and polarizing partisan interests, passing sweeping reforms to any existing law is a tall task. However, that impasse was bridged in October 2015, when the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was met with bipartisan support in both houses of Congress.

The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act seeks to address the high United States incarceration rate, which exceeds that of any other country. While the bill would only address federal prisoners (only 8.5 percent of the total number of incarcerated individuals in the country), its introduction could be a harbinger for change to the entire penal system. The bill is currently supported by 28 cosponsors in the Senate (15 Democrat and 13 Republican) and 60 cosponsors in the House (43 Democrat and 17 Republican), which represents uncommon bipartisan

Although the criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform, and the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act enjoys widespread bipartisan support, the disagreement on mens rea has most likely doomed passage of this legislation. support.

The act features an assortment of reforms that mostly target drugrelated crimes, and eases federal sentencing guidelines. For example, one provision reduces a life sentence to a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years for the “three strike rule” involving drug-related crimes.

Additionally, the bill’s drug-related provisions are retroactive, meaning that currently incarcerated individuals would have their sentences reduced.

While the bill was introduced in both houses out of committee (already an enormous feat), it still faces many hurdles. The bill would have to survive the complicated and arduous process of being introduced on the floors of both houses, being reintroduced to committee for revisions, passing both houses in identical form, and obtaining President Barack Obama’s signature. The Senate’s version of the bill already features additional provisions not found in the House’s version, including mandatory minimums for domestic violence, recidivism reduction programs for inmates, limitations on compassionate release and a prerelease custody program.

While the bill made promising gains in a short amount of time, a major barrier has already jeopardized the bill’s passage. A handful of Republicans lead by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) (chairman of the Judiciary Committee with responsibility for originally introducing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act) have demanded a mens rea bill accompany the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. Mens rea is defined as the mental attitude a defendant has at the time of committing any given crime and is codified in the Model Penal Code as acting purposely or knowingly. Although a great number of crimes already encompass a mens rea requirement, the proposed mens rea bill would require mens rea for all federal criminal statutes.

Representative Goodlatte has threatened to let the bill die in committee unless a mens rea bill accompanies the Sentencing and Reform Act, arguing that a mens rea provision is a “critical element to doing justice in this country,” and a requirement to ensuring fairness in the criminal process. However, it seems that corporate interests are also in play, as they would add additional layers of protection for white-collar crime. In fact, in 2015, ten lobbying reports targeted mens rea (including mention in four of Koch Brothers’ reports).

Opponents of the mens rea bill argue that legislation would make it exceedingly difficult for the government to prosecute white-collar crime for recklessness or negligence (mental states that lack the mens rea for conviction in the proposed bill). Deputy U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates stated, “It would provide cover for top-level executives which is not something we think would be in the best interest of the American people.” In other words, an individual could claim that they were not aware of the crime they were committing, and be exonerated under a claim of ignorance despite their pernicious actions.

Unfortunately, as the 2016 election approaches, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that this or any other meaningful legislation will be enacted. In fact, the original Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 has not even been released from committee in either the House or Senate. Although the criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform, and the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act enjoys widespread bipartisan support, the disagreement on mens rea has most likely doomed passage of this legislation. Perhaps the White House said it best, stating “criminal justice reform should only make the system better, not worse.”

Daniel Sperling is a J.D. candidate at Cornell Law School.

Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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“Adding things like ‘first generation representative’ and ‘minority representative’ only serves to segregate these voices and throw them aside to the corner — here are our tokens! Change takes time — it happens incrementally. We have many black and Latino and women and LGBT student leaders. Some of them have been SA President. ‘Special’ positions are not the way.”

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An Amazin’ Mistake

ason Bay, Luis Castillo, the highest amount ever in the World Series. In 2006, Scott Kazmir, Carlos received for a Mets jersey we won the NL East and Beltran — these are just was $53,000 for a Nolan made it to game seven of the a handful of names associat- Ryan Jersey. As of Thursday, National League ed with agony in recent Mets 22 people have made a bid Championship Series. In history. In several weeks, we and the current price for the 2009, we traded in our lovemay have a new name to add jersey has climbed to ly dump known as Shea to the mix, Mike Piazza. On $86,000. By comparison, Stadium to play in our beauApril 30, the actual jersey Kirk Gibson’s jersey from his tiful new ballpark, Citi Piazza wore in the first post- 1988 World Series game, in Field. Yet all these moments 9/11 game, when he hit the which he hit a walk off home had asterisks with them. We infamous go-ahead home run, sold for $300,000, and lost the 2000 World Series to run and gave all Americans on the high end of the spec- the Yankees in five games. something to cheer about, is trum, the oldest known Babe We Lost the National League to be publicly auctioned off Ruth jersey was auctioned Championship Series to the to the highest bidder. for over $4.4 million.

Cardinals in seven games How did this happen? As Will the Mets pay to get (the image of Carlos a Mets fan who has in recent the jersey back? Jeff Wilpon, Beltran’s called strike three memory witnessed, among Mets COO, has shared that seared into our mind) and other embarrassments, two the team is “making a con- finally there’s Citi Field, regular season collapses and certed effort to get the jersey which was criticized on a an entire number of levSp o r t s C e n t e r els including its “Not-Top-Ten” name, its inauFor just a few hours, [Mike] Piazza and the segment devotgural Dominosed to Mets Mets gave something genuine for New Yorkers like logo and its plays in 2009, and Americans to cheer for to temporarily cast dimensions. we have come Then there’s out the heartbreaking anguish. to intuitively the first Mets believe that game after anything is 9/11. In what possible. But even for us, back.” And there is addition- can only be described as one this may be a new low. And al reason for hope, as the of those rare magical for baseball fans in general, current seller, who lent the moments when sports tranasking “how did this hap- jersey to the Mets to keep it scends culture, Mike Piazza pen?” feels like an under- in their museum, is likely a managed to turn every statement. Here’s what we die-hard fan. Then again, American, baseball-lover or know: three years ago the speaking personally as a not, into a Mets fan, with Mets sold the jersey to a Mets fan, we must remind the swing of a bat. For just a memorabilia company. Since you that anything is possi- few hours, Piazza and the then, the jersey has been in ble. Case in point — in the Mets gave something genthe possession of an avid aftermath of the Bernie uine for New Yorkers and Mets collector, who has Madoff scandal, Mets own- Americans to cheer for to allowed the jersey to remain ers Fred Wilpon and Saul temporarily cast out the on display in the Mets team Katz, who were over $600 heartbreaking anguish. Some museum, located in Citi million in debt and facing a might argue that it’s not Field. However, with the lawsuit by the trustee for worth the money to spend to value of the jersey rising Madoff ’s victims, decided to recover Piazza’s jersey. And after Piazza was elected into decrease the payroll by over yes, it’s just a jersey. But to the Hall of Fame, the current 30 percent, the largest me personally, as well other collector decided to sell the amount in the history of Mets fans, and many jersey with Goldin Auctions. baseball, rather than sell a Americans who watched that Depending on the outcome majority stake in the team. game, the jersey is a symbol of the auction, the jersey Perhaps it’s because of this of hope in the eyes of may permanently lose its scandal that Piazza’s jersey despair, and the Mets should rightful home in Citi Field. was sold in the first place. do everything in their power How much will it cost to From 2000 to 2010, there to right their wrong and get it back? It’s unclear. The were four “worthwhile” return the jersey to it’s rightcurrent owner, who’s looking moments that every Mets ful place in Mets and to build a nest egg for his could take away from an American history. family as his three daughters otherwise dismal decade. In enter college, is likely look- 2000, we made it to the Ethan Berkowitz is a senior in the ing for the best value he can playoffs back-to-back for the College of Industrial and Labor get. According to Ken first time in our history and Relations. Views From the 14853 Goldin of Goldin Auctions, went on to play the Yankees appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Conversation With Composer, Percussionist Sarah Hennies

BY KATIE O’BRIEN Sun Staff Writer

Sarah Hennies is an experimental percussionist and composer who runs her own record label, Weighter Recordings. Besides recording and performing her own solo works, she plays in local percussion trio Meridian and has played in various rock bands throughout her career — existing “somewhere between the experimental world and the underground punk world.” Having moved to Ithaca two years ago from Austin, Sarah will be taking part in Naked Noise on Saturday for the first time, playing the vibraphone. Her latest album, Gather & Release, came out on April 5.

T HE SUN: Tell me about yourself as a musician, what do you do and what’s your involvement in the local music scene?

SARAH HENNIES : I’m a percussionist and a composer. I mostly play experimental music and mostly play my own music. I do occasionally play works by other people — I’ve recorded a lot of music by some well-known composers — but I mostly focus on playing my own stuff. I’ve also been a drummer in rock bands for over 20 years. I thought I might stop doing that, because I lived in Austin for 10 years before I moved here and was super involved in the music scene there. When I moved here I was just like, ‘okay, my solo thing is happening pretty well now, I don’t need to

be in bands anymore.’ And within a month I was in two bands here. So I’m somewhere between the experimental world and the underground punk world. I had heard about Bubba before I moved here from some of my friends who were in the band Zorch, and before I moved here I was looking up if there was live music in Ithaca and Ithaca Underground (IU) was the first thing that came up.

in a month of living here I was like, “I’ve got to make a waterfall piece!” I noticed that you could walk up the path in a way that as you got farther away from one waterfall, the sound disappeared really fast. It was sort of like live mixing almost. The other piece I played for the first time in January of last year at an I.U. show that is another piece for vibraphone, and then it uses a type of sound called bilateral stimulation. That’s an alternating left-right percussive sound that is an element in this type of SUN : So you just therapy called EMDR that’s used to treat trauma had an album come and different things like out on April 5, that. It’s this weird talk Gather & Release. therapy that lets you literWhat were some of COURTESY OF SARAH HENNIES ally let go of things. your sources of inspiThat’s not what my piece is doing, but I ration for the album? thought it would be cool to use that as a musiS.H.: The album is two pieces, they’re both cal element. about half an hour long. I wrote both of them SUN : I also understand that you have in Ithaca, one about a year ago, one more recently, less than six months ago. The backing your own record label, Weighter track of most of the first piece is a recording I Recordings—what made you decide to start made walking up Buttermilk Falls with an it? audio recorder in my hand. Someone had S.H.: It’s a really small label, and origiasked me right before I moved here, “Do you find that you’re affected by your surrounding?” nally I only started it to release my own and I was like “No, not really.” And then with- work. Around the same time, around 2010

or so, I had like five albums of music done, and the whole process of asking people to release my work just makes me crazy. I just hate, especially if it’s not someone I know already, I just really hate the process of being like, “Hi, total stranger, will you please spend money on me?” And also it was a speed thing, I was making so much stuff, I was worried that by the time it came out on someone else’s label I wouldn’t be interested in it anymore. So the first release was a CD of mine, and in the time it took me to get the first thing out I just kind of stumbled into finding other places for everything else.

SUN : Let’s talk about Naked Noise. What’s your role going to be?

S.H.: This is my first Naked Noise. I’ll be playing vibraphone, and a lot of what I do with the vibraphone is really long, drawn out textures and events. So I’m just going to show up and plan to do the types of sounds that I normally play, but with the assumption that I’m probably going to do something different also. I was out of town the last two years for both of them. I’m super excited about it, and the group of people they have this year is full of really awesome people.

A longer version of this interview can be found at cornellsun.com.

Katie O’Brien is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kobrien@cornellsun.com.

Talking to Electronic Musician Beau Mahadev ’18

BY TROY SHERMAN Arts & Entertainment Editor

On the surface, it might appear that Beau Mahadev ’18 spends their time wearing two pretty different hats: that of an engineering student on the one hand, and that of an active member of Ithaca’s sprawling DIY scene on the other. As an active volunteer for Ithaca Underground, as the Vice President of Fanclub Collective and as a burgeoning local musician and performer in their own right, Beau has carved out what might seem like a respectable side project apart from their engineering studies. Crafting experimental noise music with synths, circuits and gadgets galore, Beau is part of a larger Ithaca community — itself a subset of an international experimental movement stretching back to at least Varese’s work of the 1920s — of noise-makers and barrier-breakers. This community — Beau included — will be coming together this Saturday, April 9, for Ithaca Underground Naked Noise #7, an annual, can’t-miss noise music event right here in Ithaca. Prior to Beau’s involvement, The Sun had a chance to sit down with them to talk about their history with music, their take on noise and their preparations for Saturday’s event.

THE SUN: First off, what is your history with music. What have you played before, what are you playing now?

BEAU MAHADEV: I started playing music with the piano, mostly just doing classical stuff. I took lessons, and I could read music.

Going from that, I was in some rock bands in high school, but I think what really brought music alive for me was beginning to get into oscillators and simple synthesizers; sound as sound itself, not just as music.

SUN: What instruments and/or gadgets do you play and work with nowadays?

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B.M.: I work mainly with a Korg Kaossilator. I really like it because I think that one of the greatest things about the movement toward digital music has been having controllers that are non-standard. So instead of having a keyboard where you’re forced to follow certain chord structures, a digital controller can be anything. With the Kaossilator it’s just a pad, so that kind of opens up whole new ways of working with sound. I also have some smaller digital synths that I make, but those are more just straight noise oscillators. They don’t have as much melodic power as a korg.

SUN: You said that you played in rock bands in high school. In your transition from the rock band structure to the noise music that you try to make now, were there any people you were listening to or people you still listen to now who have shaped and are shaping what you try to do with your music?

B.M.: Obviously I’m really inspired by early electronic musicians, like Pauline Oliveros and members of the tape music movement. Recently I’ve been really inspired

by Nicholas Collins, who’s a composer who does with CDs what early tape musicians were doing with tape — as in he actually manipulates it and messes with it and tries to prepare it in ways that are counter to the original intent.

SUN: Most people would look at your instruments as more “gadgets” than anything.

Do you think your status as an engineer here at Cornell relates to your music at all?

B.M.: I think they’re super related.

Obviously it’s helped me get a better foundation in my knowledge of just simple circuits; it’s really helpful to be learning about oscillators in a physics class or about voltage and analogue versus digital in an electrical engineering class. I think there’s also a more abstract connection between both. The way computers are

recontextualizing everything and the way that digital music kind of mirrors recontextualization, sonically.

SUN: And why are you doing it?

B.M.: Just the sheer working with all of this information, this ability to do anything, really. I see that in music as well as in what I study — moving away from the limitations of having to have a physical instrument or having to have something with strings that follows specific laws. You can move from that into areas of careful control over theoretical sounds or sine waves or something like that. It’s similar in computer science, where you have such control over information itself and over the structures that you’re using to understand and work with that information.

SUN: So even though what you do is called “noise,” it’s not just random?

B.M.: When we’re talking about it in an information science setting or in a circuitry setting, we’re talking about unnecessary information or information that is not really what you want; margin of error, glitch. Glitch music and noise art is definitely exploring that idea of what we can do with mass amounts of information. All noise is is just information from sounds on every spectrum. It’s an overload of information.

SUN: Would you say you “compose” or “structure” the music you make? How would you say you go about making it?

B.M.: I think that composition is something that’s a lot looser than a lot of people think. Everything is composed in some way.

So I would say that I compose, but I also try to let the sound guide me. I’m not always necessarily thinking about what I specifically want, but I’m hearing something, letting that thing influence what I play. That’s what I like

about working with synths: you play a sound, and a lot of the time you don’t really know what it’s going to sound like. But you’re able to make very small tweaks to certain aspects of that sound; it’s in exploring those small tweaks where I find a lot of pleasure.

SUN: What about Ithaca Underground specifically? How did you start getting involved and what do you do there?

B.M.: I started getting involved with IU when I went to one of my first shows of theirs.

They make it really easy for anyone to go up and talk to people and ask what they can do. I do a lot of their website stuff because that’s a skill set that I have that’s useful to them, and I’ve also started doing sound at some of the shows, which is something that really helps me get a better ear for certain frequencies. Mixing a live show is all about identifying which frequency range you want to bring down or bring up.

SUN: What about Naked Noise specifically? How did you go about preparing for what you’re going to be doing, and what are you expecting out of it?

B.M.: I think that for me the style of playing that’s going to be happening at naked noise is similar to what I already do. I’m part of another project called Winston Bongo which is all very improvisational. I play with a couple other people who also have synths, and we never have a set song or know what we’re going to be doing before we get into it and start bouncing stuff off of each other. I’m expecting Naked Noise to go a lot like that.

Honestly I’ve just been playing with my synths in the basement to prepare.

A longer version of this interview can be found at cornellsun.com.

Troy Sherman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.

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Pulling the Wires From the Wall

he past 20 years or so have witnessed a significant increase in the proliferation of technologies that transform the ways we make, distribute, listen to and think about music. Dangerous combinations of file-sharing and MP3s destabilized the industry. CD players sunk into obsolescence. We lamented the loss of vinyl only to take part in a resurgence of interest in physical media. A lot has changed.

What we don’t often hear about, though, are innovations in the writing and producing of music.

The shifts in this area of audio technology have proven just as important as some of the more widely known adjustments to music’s consumption. If anything, their effect on music has become so strong that we could argue their place in its history deserves a second look, beyond the role of a behind-the-scenes alteration.

The primary technology I’m referencing here are Digital Audio Workstations, or DAWs for short. For clarity’s sake, I’m talking solely about the software element.

Anyone who has tried to make music or even record audio on their computers in any kind of viable fashion will already have loosely familiarized themselves with at least one D A W .

Audacity is a common example.

But for the layman a short introduction might be helpful.

Around the time that digital audio’s popularity and accessibility grew, a parallel movement in our ability to shape, layer, mold, and sequence this audio also occurred. In 1996, two years before the surge of MP3s on the Internet, the German music software company Steinberg released the program Cubase VST 3.0. This application enabled the recording and simultaneous playback of 24 separate audio tracks on an A p p l e Macintosh (Windows came shortly after). Its interface mimicked the traditional studio environment — mixing-console and everything — and it also became the first software to make use of an Arrangement page in which the flow of audio proceeds horizontally while its layers stack vertically. Another revolutionary element to this program was its

price. Even before version 3.0, Cubase’s initial prices aimed at budget-oriented professionals. Mix this aspect with the power Cubase offered, and you have an affordable tool with unprecedented strength.

This developm e n t marked the start of an intense democratization in musicmaking, the reach of which we’re still trying to unders t a n d properly.

Accessible, softwareb a s e d DAWs liberated the ability to THE NEW YORK TIMES produce and record music from the technical knowledge of audio engineers and the often pricey services of studios. While we did have devices like eight-tracks beforehand, that type of equipment was only suited for a specific type of recording.

They didn’t Appearances include, as your average DAW might today, synthesizers, audio effects, samplers, etc. Nor were they able to integrate software produced by third parties, often referred to as plug-ins, plenty of which is given completely free.

Barring software piracy (although in the long run we shouldn’t, as I do support people obtaining these tools howev-

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er they can), these days you can find a copy of FL Studio online for the same price as a Fender Squire Stratocaster.

Comparatively, this equates to the differe n c e between being a band-member and being the entire band, the audio engineer and the songwriter, all for the same amount of money. And even looking past the ensemble set-up, the newfound populism of DAWs introduces a diversity of possible approaches to the process of music creation. The composition of music can now happen without any prior musical training required. It can even happen without physical instruments.

Anything from hip-hop beats to film scores could essentially be made by anyone proficient in the programs.

Although a degree of technical knowledge does become useful, ultimately no monopoly on this knowledge exists. Individuals willing to put in the time and effort can acquaint themselves easily with these pieces of technology.

This capability sidesteps the idea that musical and technical education are

necessities. With the addition of the Internet, knowhow and commonplace practices for DAWs are made available to everyone, and there is certainly no shortage of free, quality online instruction.A cursory glance across the web reveals a vast and varied literature on the subject, definitely an amount and range adequate enough to obtain as good a teaching as any tuition could provide.

I don’t want to sound like I’m selling you something. I’m not really. Still, I think we should consider the fact that the production of music often limits itself via class, race and gender. Music and its making are economically stratified. It’s why historians of hip-hop insist that the New York City blackouts provided opportunities for expensive music production gear such as turntables and mixers to be looted, thus igniting a widespread interest in hip-hop production. This truth is also a key facet in the ethical THE NEW YORK TIMES concerns of DIY and Punk movements. Their arguments are that the expressive quality of music transcends whatever equipment you might use to make it. On some level, that idea is valid.

But what this philosophy ignores is that music production requires equipment, software or instrument or APC, whatever it might be.

This equipment (obviously) costs money, miring our idealistic notions with a harsh and difficult reality.

For the time being, DAWs provide us with the best counter to these issues.

They don’t solve them of course, as many DAWs cost money too, but they work towards THE NEW YORK TIMES giving a larger number of people the means necessary to make music.

This is ultimately what the goal should be: the power of music at everyone’s fingertips, the potential of this technology fully realized. Utopian as it might sound, I believe these digital workstations have improved the future of our music.

Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com. Appearances runs Alternate Fridays this semester.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 Walks, on scorecards 4 Rehab hurdle 7 Calm 13 “Well, __-di-dah!”

14 Deli choice 15 Ducks’ home 16 Some Anne Rice novels 18 Dupes 19 *Assist Charles M. Schulz?

21 Completely 22 Wapiti 23 ID checker 24 “__ any drop to drink”: Coleridge 26 Surface 32 *Free ticket given to Target Field players?

35 Burn soothers 38 Modern reaction to a riot?

39 Group of species 40 *Timepiece at a stag party?

43 Important Philippines export 44 Bros, e.g.

45 Fraction of a joule 48 Not allow to atrophy 50 “My vegetable love should grow / __ than empires ... ”: Andrew Marvell 53 *Law office?

58 Option play option, in football 59 Home of the god Pan 60 Beverage sometimes served with mint 61 Besides 62 Inning trio 63 Botched (up) 64 Model of industry 65 Put into words DOWN 1 Failed miserably 2 Industry leaders 3 Fan letter?

4 Meaning

5 Industry leaders 6 Prepare tuna, in a way 7 Converse, e.g.

8 Take in 9 Quaker pronoun 10 It may be skillfully created by one who’s all thumbs 11 Rests 12 Acute care letters 15 Eponymous skater Paulsen 17 Ring decision 20 One putting on an act 25 Home of Norway’s royal family 27 Bank holding: Abbr.

28 Carafe kin 29 __ Tin Tin 30 Shaggy-tailed bovid 31 First of September?

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SPORTS

Yankees Defeat Astros To Win Series Against Houston

NEW YORK (AP) — He’s a 33rd-round draft pick with a compact body, not exactly the kind of player who profiles as a fast riser in the big leagues.

That shiny souvenir on the top shelf of his locker at Yankee Stadium and a .667 batting average told a much different story.

Tyler White capped off his season-opening impressive series for the Houston Astros with his first homer in the majors, three more hits overall and four RBIs on Thursday in an 8-5 loss to New York.

“I wouldn’t say surprising,” White said, matter of factly.

“Just enjoying the game.”

When the 25-year-old rookie arrived in spring training, it was expected he would start out in the minors, where he produced big numbers at Double-A and Triple-A last year. But White swung his way onto the team, leading the Astros in hits during exhibition play and earning his spot.

White’s first hit came in his major league debut Tuesday, with about 30 family members, friends and his college coach from his 2013 Western Carolina team in attendance. The first baseman/DH got two hits Wednesday and then boosted

that total, leaving him at 6 for 9.

The home run ball was in his locker stall postgame, and there was only one downside: His entourage left early and missed the performance.

“He looks like a guy who’s in every at-bat,” manager A.J. Hinch said.

Hinch observed White is able to “keep his heart rate down” at the plate, “but does do damage.”

Mark Teixeira sliced a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the seventh inning and Starlin Castro connected again for New York.

The Yankees took two of three from the team that beat them in the AL wild-card game last October. The game began 12 minutes late because of rain, and the ballpark was far less than half-filled.

Castro kept up his torrid start with a solo home run and a single off the wall, making him 7 for 12. The former Cubs infielder has eight RBIs, the most by any player in his first three games for the Yankees since the stat became official in 1920, STATS said.

Brian McCann also homered for the Yankees, and Jacoby Ellsbury doubled twice.

Nationals Fall to Marlins In Home Opener WASHINGTON (AP) — Miami reliever David Phelps entered after a rain delay and shut out Washington for four innings while delivering his first career RBI at the plate, and the Marlins won 6-4 Thursday to spoil the Nationals’ sloppy home opener in front of a dwindling crowd.

While Phelps (1-0) replaced Adam Conley following a 1-hour, 25-minute break because of a thunderstorm in the second with the score 3-all, Nationals starter Tanner Roark (0-1) surprisingly remained in the game. Roark allowed four runs — three earned, all in the first — and nine hits in four innings.

Bryce Harper was presented with his 2015 NL MVP and Silver Slugger trophies during pregame festivities and hit his second homer of 2016 in the seventh, a no-doubt-about-it solo shot to right off Bryan Morris. Before that swing, Washington trailed by three, and fans had long since started departing.

Harper flied out to deep center to open the ninth against A.J. Morris, who worked around a walk for his first save, striking out Daniel Murphy looking to end it.

Washington had allowed a total of four runs over 19 innings in its first two games, a pair of victories at Atlanta. And Miami came in 02 after a pair of losses against visiting Detroit in which the Marlins never led.

There was all sorts of sunny talk before the year’s first regularseason game at Nationals Park.

Washington general manager Mike Rizzo spoke about optimism. Harper spoke about “the passion, the fire we have as a team.”

And then the day became rather dreary for the locals, in the sky and on the field.

The Nationals were outhit 136. They left 11 runners on base.

They made an error that led to an unearned, go-ahead run off Roark in the third: Catcher Wilson Ramos’ errant toss let J.T. Realmuto take third after stealing second; Realmuto then scored on Adeiny Hechavarria’s hit.

Hechavarria and Martin Prado each drove in a pair of runs, and Jason Bour had two doubles for the Marlins.

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Jordan Spieth used six birdies to take a two-shot lead after a busy Thursday at Augusta National.

Jordan Spieth’s Six-Under 66 Leads The Pack After First Day of Masters AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Jordan Spieth atop the leaderboard might be the latest tradition at Augusta National.

One year later, he’s still the man to beat at the Masters.

Six tough par saves and six birdies sent Spieth to a 6-under 66 on Thursday and a two-shot lead in a strong wind that made Augusta National play tough for just about everyone except the defending champion.

Coming off his wire-to-wire victory last year, Spieth now has five straight rounds in the lead, and six out of the last seven when he was tied or leading. One more and he would match the longest streak since Arnold Palmer in 1960 and the opening two rounds of 1961.

And just like last year, now it’s time for the rest of the field to try to catch him.

“We’re through one round,” Spieth said.

“There’s going to be a lot of different changes.

There are Agoing to be a lot of different birdies,

bogeys and everything in between. We know how to win this golf tournament, and we believe in our process. And if the putts are dropping, then hopefully it goes our way.”

They were dropping, which is why Spieth had the only bogey-free round on a day where the wind made that seem unlikely.

He had a two-shot lead over Danny Lee and Shane Lowry.

The battle among the modern “Big Three” and other top players expected to contend did not take shape.

Jason Day, the No. 1 player in the world and Masters favorite, was on the verge of catching Spieth until a mini-meltdown.

He three-putted for bogey on the par-5 15th, pulled his tee shot into the water on the par-3 16th and made triple bogey, and then sailed the green on the 17th for another bogey.

Just like that, the Australian was back to even par.

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SPORTS

SOFTBALL

Four Ivy League Matches on Deck for Softball Red hopes to pick up more in-conference victories with doubleheaders against Brown and Yale

By KEITH BOLLT

good.”

Farlow also praised Brown’s play on both sides of the ball.

Earlier this week, inclement weather caused the soft“They’re leading the league in hitting,” she said. ball team’s series at Siena (12-11, 0-2 MAAC) scheduled “Their pitching staff is an experienced pitching staff.” for Tuesday to be moved to Wednesday, but later it was After Brown, Cornell travels on to New Haven. The cancelled altogether. Despite this, Cornell (4-16, 1-3 Ivy) Bulldogs do not have the same record as the Bears, but will move on to play doubleheaders against Brown (13- Farlow and Iannucci are anticipating a capable opponent, 10, 2-2) and Yale (9-19, 2-2) this weekend on the road. citing their consistency at the plate, Farlow noted.

“We were frustrated with the Siena cancellation,” said “Both Yale and Brown will be tough competitors, senior catcher Leanne Iannucci. “We look forward to independent of their individual win-loss percentages,” mid-week non-conference games to work on things in an Iannucci said. “We just need to make sure that we are actual game format before we have to play another Ivy playing sharp if we want to be successful against them.”

League team again. Unfortunately, bad weather happens The Red’s corps will be enhanced this weekend by the in upstate New York, and cancellareturn of previously injured players, tions have happened to us before. All including one of three pitchers, “We are going to see an it means is that we just have to focus sophomore Sierra Stone. Stone last that much more during practice for pitched on March 29 against George athletic team that’s hitting the rest of the week.”

Washington, but did not play the ball very well. I think Head coach Julie Farlow ’97 jokagainst Dartmouth and Harvard last ingly called the up-and-down weekend because of her injury. weather conditions around this they’re feeling pretty good.”

“I’m excited because Sierra is time of year “Ithacating.” She back and healthy,” Farlow said.

Julie Farlow ’97 added that that giving players that Cornell’s preparation for the had missed time in-game reps to get upcoming games has been indoors them back up to speed would have been optimal. for the early part of the week due to the weather. Farlow “We would have liked to have played,” she said. “We said indoor practices lend themselves better to focusing had some players who weren’t healthy.” on hitting, and that getting outside would allow the team Cornell plays two games against each of the North to focus on other aspects of their game.

Division Ivy teams before playing four games against their Farlow joked that the team should have taken advanthree fellow South Divisioners. This weekend will be the tage of the weather in January and February and practiced last one against North Division schools. outside then, but the team still has no fear of the forthWith Brown, Farlow expects to see a team that is hit- coming cold. ting well and riding high. Brown is over .500 on the sea“We’re so used to it, it’s not really a problem,” Farlow son and they had a strong pre-conference season this said.

March.

“We are going to see an athletic team that’s hitting the Keith Bollt can be reached ball very well,” she said. “I think they’re feeling pretty at kbollt@cornellsun.com.

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CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN FILE PHOTO

Ivy days | The softball team will play both Brown and Yale twice this weekend. In-conference victories could put the Red into the top of the Ivy League standings.

Women to Play at Home; Men on Road This Weekend TENNIS

absolute end, according to junior Dylan Brown.

“I’ve learned that’s it’s not over until it’s edge, according to Tanenbaum. really over,” Brown said.

The matchup against Brown begins on Brown and his doubles partner Stefan Saturday at noon. The Yale game takes place Vinti were just inches away from a 3-0 lead, the following day at the same time. Both but lost the game, 7-6. Cornell would go on matches will take place to lose the contest, 2-4.

Reis Tennis Center.

This game came The men’s tennis “We played aggresively on after a win for the Red team is also preparing on Friday against the key points and didn’t for two Ivy clashes this Harvard. Brown credweekend against its the team for striking wait for Harvard to make Brown and Yale. This fast and hard. the initial move.” matches marks the “We played aggresRed’s fourth and fifth sively on the key points Dylan Brown Ivy League matchups, and didn’t wait for and the men are hopHarvard to make the ing to improve to a 3-2 initial move,” Brown record, coming off a loss to Dartmouth on said.

Sunday.

With the weather not looking promising The big takeaway from Dartmouth for for outdoor play, the will have to square off the team is to keep fighting until the indoors. This plays into the men’s advanContinued from page 16

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Anyone for tennis? | Both the men’s team and the women’s tennis teams will play four key Ivy League matchups this weekend.

tage, as they have played all but one of their matches so far indoors.

Brown’s facilities consist of just four indoor courts, so the match may take longer than usual. That being said, this gives the men opportunity to support their teammates during the matches, which can create

energy for the player, according to Brown.

Play begins on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Brown and continues the following day at the same time at Yale.

Achindra Krishna can be reached at ak785@cornell.org.

Pence’s Grand Slam Powers Giants to Win Over Dodgers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bruce Bochy shook hands and greeted former player Dave Roberts, then they walked to opposite dugouts this time to manage against each other as NL West rivals.

“Dave and I go back. He played for me, and we just told each other good luck and let's go at it,” Bochy said.

And boy did their clubs do just that in an entertaining first 2016 edition of the Dodgers-Giants

rivalry.

Hunter Pence hit a grand slam in the eighth inning, Joe Panik drove in three runs and keyed San Francisco’s comeback, and the Giants rallied past Los Angeles 12-6 in their home opener Thursday.

“You play all nine innings and you keep going no matter what,” Pence said. “Things turn around.”

A 31-inning scoreless streak for Dodgers pitchers ended in the fifth, one inning shy of the record

to begin a season set by the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals.

Chris Heston (1-0) worked the sixth in relief of Jake Peavy for the victory as San Francisco erased a 4-0 deficit to the delight of a sellout crowd announced at 41,940.

Bochy’s deep lineup gives him multiple options in various situations — and the Giants’ bats came to life late.

In the fifth, Los Angeles finally gave up its first runs of 2016 when the Giants got to Alex

Wood (0-1). Brandon Crawford drew a leadoff walk, pinch-hitter Kelby Tomlinson singled and Denard Span drove in a run with a groundout before Panik’s RBI triple. Buster Posey also doubled in a run.

Angel Pagan hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the sixth.

“We can beat you in many different ways,” Panik said. “We never think that we’re done.”

Joc Pederson hit a two-run homer on the first pitch he saw

from Sergio Romo in the eighth, then Pence connected off Pedro Baez for his sixth career slam and first homer of 2016. Los Angeles' ERA jumped from 0.00 after four innings to 3.09.

The Dodgers challenged a would-be inning-ending double play in the second, questioning whether Panik touched second for the putout. Panik threw to first to retire Wood, who received an RBI groundout on the play after it was overturned on review.

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TENNIS

Red Prepares for Critical In-Conference Match-Ups

Both men and women set to take on Brown,Yale

By ACHINDRA KRISHNA

“We were right there with them,” said sophomore Lizzie Stewart “We needed to play a bit smarter and more aggressive on the important points As cold weather and wind welcomes back in the matches.”

Cornellians, the women’s tennis team looks to chalk The team did not come out of the weekend up two more Ivy win this weekend, when Brown empty-handed however, posting a victory at Harvard and Yale visit Ithaca. The team is coming off a 2-1 on Friday. weekend, with a win against Harvard, and losses to Stewart credits the team’s fighting spirit and enerColumbia and Dartmouth. gy for the win.

This is the second meeting of the season between “Everyone showed so much heart,” Stewart said Brown and Cornell; the first one “We won that match because even was back in February when the “We need to go into the when we were down in the match, Bears came away with the win at no one gave up.” match this weekend the ECAC Indoor Championships.

Given the forecast of inclement The rematch comes allows the Red with a fresh mindset.” weather this weekend, it is likely to possess additional knowledge of the showdown will take place on Dena Tanenbaum both Brown’s strengths and weakindoor courts, which could have a nesses. big influence on the game. Being Even still, the team hopes to leave the past within the confines of four walls can have its advanbehind, and look forward, according to senior Dena tage, with less external factors to worry about, such Tanenbaum. as wind or sunlight.

“We need to go into the match this weekend with Additionally, the team is used to the conditions a fresh mindset and not worry about what happened indoors, as the wonderful weather in Ithaca forces in the last match,” Tanenbaum said. them indoors for practices and games about 95 perThe women are coming off a close loss to cent of the time, could give the women a competitive Dartmouth on Saturday, and they hope to turn See TENNIS page 15 things around in time for Friday’s contest.

Sun Contributor

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Flying high | The women’s tennis team welcomes Brown and Yale to Ithaca this weekend for a pair of key Ivy League games.

BASEBALL

With 2-0 Ivy Record, C.U. Hopes to Defeat League Foes

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The grind of Ivy League play continues this weekend for Cornell baseball as the team hits the road to play a pair of doubleheaders against Brown and Yale.

The Red will look to establish itself as a serious Ivy League contender.

Cornell (8-9, 2-0 Ivy) is coming off a two-game sweep of Harvard (7-15, 0-4 Ivy) in which everything seemed to be going right.

“Pitching, defense and timely hitting were huge last weekend,” said junior infielder Frankie Padulo. “We had some big hits at the right times and the pitchers made big pitches and we backed them up with big plays to get us out of some jams and swing the momentum back into our dugout.”

Head coach Dan Pepicelli and the Red hope to continue this success when they face Brown (7-13, 1-3 Ivy) and Yale (7-18-1, 2-2 Ivy).

“Clutch hitting,” Pepicelli said concerning what his team needs to keep doing. “No doubt about it … we got our hits [against Harvard] at the right time. We did a really good job of situational hitting.”

Against the top two teams in the Red Rolfe Division, Cornell will need to be on top of its game as the the men dip their feet more into the Ivy League, according to Pepicelli.

“It’ll be the the same as we did

this past weekend,” Pepicelli said.

“We’re just trying to learn a little more about Ivy League play. We faced two really good arms this past weekend. I think we know what we are in for.”

Pepicelli also commented on the first difficulties associated with back-to-back Ivy matchups.

“It will be really tough playing both of them on the road,” Pepicelli said. “We are focused on having a couple real good days of practice and then going ahead and being ready for them.”

As for Brown and Yale, there is nothing particular about the two that will make the Red change its approach, according to Pepicelli.

Aside from Yale potentially having strong base running, Cornell is simply focusing on doing what the team does.

“Our expectation at Brown and Yale is simple — we expect to play baseball to our standard every game,” said junior right-handed pitcher Tim Willittes. “[The games] are pretty standard,” Pepicelli said. “Yale likes to run … their stolen base numbers are a little more than average.

Outside that, both of them have their share of starting pitching that we got to try and break through and get to the bullpen.”

Padulo also noted the importance of getting through the opponent’s starting pitchers.

“We had success off of Harvard’s pen, and I think that is a recipe we can have success with against other teams,” Padulo said.

The players agree with Pepicelli

that these games are not much different from other games in the Ivy League. Padulo feels it is anyone’s game, as usual.

“All Ivy League games are hard fought, and we don't expect these to be any different,” Padulo said.

“One of the things that makes the Ivy League exciting is that anybody can beat anybody on any given day, so we have to bring focus and energy and play up to our standard every time we go out there.”

Some unexpected cold and

snowy weather surprised Cornellians coming back from spring break. This change in weather is not ideal for a team trying to stay consistent.

“You are trying to keep the starters in a routine and that interrupts that,” Pepicelli said. “But you just trust that everybody goes through it. It plays on our organization and we try to put it in our advantage since we are a pretty organized group.”

The pitchers for this weekend will be junior right-hander Paul

Balestrieri and Willittes for the first day, and sophomore left-hander Justin Lewis and junior righthander Peter Lanoo against Yale on the second.

Balestrieri was named Ivy League pitcher of the week after striking out seven in seven innings while not giving up an earned run against Harvard. Hopefully, he can bring that solid play against Brown on Saturday.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

“All Ivy League games are hard-fought, and we don’t expect these to be any different.”

Frankie Padulo

COURTESY OF DAVE BURBANK / CORNELL ATHLETICS

Pitcher this | The effort from the pitching staff was important to the Red’s pair of victories over Harvard, according to junior infielder Frankie Padulo.