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Ex-Committee Member Says Disqualification Unfair

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

member late last month. He S.A. presidency.

The committee will first review claimed in a letter to the editor on a report from the judicial codes Monday and in subsequent interA former member of the com- counselor evaluating Devatha’s views that committee members mittee that disqualified Varun claim that the committee applied had improperly failed to recuse Devatha ’19 from the themselves from delibelection Student Assembly preserations last month rules in a idential race said on and, in one instance, biased manMonday that he had “doctored” a vote ner in the resigned from the body count to indicate that decision to because its members members had recused disqualify had worked to “rig” the themselves when they him. The election in favor of actually had not.

Sun revealed Devatha’s opponent.

He said that at least on Monday The explosive three voting members that the McLAUGHLIN ’18 CABBELL ’18 claim, which other should have recused committee members of the Student Assembly disqualified Devatha based on a themselves from the March 28 Elections Committee strongly meme posted by one of his sup- vote to expel Devatha, which denied, comes as the group pre- porters. would not have changed the pares to announce on Tuesday or Austin McLaughlin ’18, who majority opinion, but may have Wednesday whether Devatha or led the elections committee in Dale Barbaria ’19 will assume the spring 2017, resigned as a voting See ELECTION page 4

Sun City Editor

Man Admits to Exposing Self to Student

By BREANNE FLEER and SHRUTI JUNEJA

Facebook post on Monday afternoon that Floyd G. Slater Jr. was arrested on March 6. He

showering before fleeing in an unknown direction, The Sun Sun News Editors previously reported.

Slater, who was in The man responsithe Tompkins County “We recognize this does not minimize Jail on a probation vioble for illegally entering a West Campus lation since February the impact of these crimes on the dormitory and expos16, pleaded guilty to ing himself to a female victims but hopes that ... offers solace.” second-degree attemptstudent in February ed burglary and public Police Chief Kathy Zoner pleaded guilty in lewdness on March 30, Tompkins County according to the Court on March 30. entered Founders Hall on Facebook post.

Cornell University Police February 15 and exposed himDepartment announced in a self to a female student who was See SLATER page 4

Memes soften and strengthen the sting of a ‘tragic situation’

By MEREDITH LIU

mittee and the two candidates — in the Facebook group, “Cornell: Any Person, Any When Cornell students Meme,” whose membership learned that one of the has grown by roughly 120 Student Assembly presidential people since Sunday night. candidates was thrown out of Many of the memes tauntthe race, they ed the fact that reacted with the Devatha was dis“I think we are same thing that qualified over a got him there: making memes meme and the use memes. of the Cornell ... because it is V a r u n logo.

Devatha ’19, one One of the ironic ... it of the two stumemes, posted by [comically] dents running for Gabe Kaufman S.A. president, ’18, S.A. vice portrays a was disqualified of tragic situation.” president by the Student finance, borA s s e m b l y rowed a scene Gabe Kaufman ’18 Elections from Game of Committee on Thrones, where March 28 after a student an executioner, dubbed reported that a meme posted “Elections Committee,” is by one of Devatha’s supporters about to chop the head off of violated elections rules by Ned Stark, dubbed “Varun using the logos of Cornell and Devatha,” with a sword bearthe Hans Bethe House, The ing Cornell’s logo on it.

Sun previously reported.

“I think we are making Devatha is appealing his dis- memes … because it is ironqualification, which he deemed ic,” Kaufman told The Sun. a biased action, delaying the “Because it [comically] porrelease of the election results. trays a tragic situation, which This decision prompted adds color to our lives.” students to create around two In another meme posted by dozen new memes — mostly See MEMES page 5 parodying the elections com-

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By SARAH SKINNER

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Avenue at The vicaround tim was SUSPECT 10:15 pm thrown to on a Sunday night the ground but last month, according See SKETCH page 5 to the department.

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Faculty Respond to Potential Curriculum Shifts

By SAMANTHA STERN Sun Staff Writer

When asked what he hopes for the future of the Arts and Sciences curriculum, Prof. Brian Crane, chemistry and chemical biology, says that he hopes for a curriculum that “excites students, allows them to explore broadly in the arts and sciences, exposes them to new things, prepares them to excel in the modern world and inspires a passion for lifelong learning.”

Crane, a member of the Arts and Sciences curriculum committee along with committee chair Prof. Thomas Pepinsky, government, support the committee’s recent recommendations to alter the college’s curriculum requirements.

The changes would shorten the college’s language requirement, allowing students to take one non-introductory course or two language courses of at least three credits in the same language, as The Sun previously reported. The existing requirement mandates one nonintroductory class or 11 credits in one language.

Additionally with the proposed changes, students would be able to satisfy their language requirement with courses in American Sign Language.

Crane said the key principles underlying their recommendations are that the curriculum should be, “balanced among the disciplines, allow students to explore early, while not over burdening them with requirements and provide exposure to areas that are most crucial for thriving in modern society.”

“We should periodically make sure requirements are those of the current faculty and designed for current students.”

Prof. Ravi Ramakrishna ’88 Prof. Ravi Ramakrishna ’88, mathematics, also supports the proposal as a whole and emphasizes the importance of reevaluating the curriculum periodically.

“I also very much prefer the simpler structure of requirements and the idea of encouraging students to explore earlier in their academic careers,” Ramakrishna

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Lessening language length | The Arts and Sciences curriculum committee made recommendations to create a curriculum that’s more balanced among the disciplines on March 28, which is now being evaluated by faculty.

said. “Since the last review of the Arts and Sciences graduation requirements, the faculty has turned over by well over 50 percent. We should periodically make sure requirements are those of the current faculty and designed for current students.”

On March 28, the committee presented their final report and recommendations to the Arts and Sciences faculty at a faculty meeting.

During the meeting, other faculty members presented their feedback — especially regarding the changes to the language requirement.

Gretchen Ritter, dean of the arts and sciences college, encouraged groups of faculty in an email to collect their ideas regarding the report by “endorsing some or all of the recommendations, or offering alternative proposals,” while thanking the committee and Pepinsky for, “leading a thoughtful and thorough process that has taken so many varied perspectives into account over the past year.”

According to Ritter’s email, Prof. Leslie Adelson,

German studies, and Prof. Sturt Manning, classical archaeology, are creating a draft proposal in response to the committee’s recommendations. This draft proposal will address their concerns with the proposed shortened language requirement and suggest new recommendations.

“The College of Arts & Sciences must preserve its vital commitment to foreign language study for the sake of a liberal arts education across the disciplines, and especially in the age of global citizenship,” Adelson said. “Any further reductions in our language requirements would not serve our students and their futures well.”

Pepinsky — although aware of possible challenges and alternative proposals — is “optimistic, however, that faculty from across the departments and programs in the college will identify areas of common interest,” which will be “the foundation for future growth.”

Samantha Stern can be reached at sstern@cornellsun.com.

Sustainability Director: C.U. Uses 1/1000th of State’s Energy Lecturer shares University’s carbon neutrality plan

By VALE LEWIS Sun Contributor

The University reiterated its plans to achieve its goal of complete carbon neutrality by 2035 on Monday afternoon as part of the ongoing “Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge” seminar series.

Cornell’s plan was outlined by Sarah Zemanick, director of the Campus Sustainability Office, who identified the three main goals of the initiative: eliminating combustion emissions, integrating climate literacy into the curriculum and expanding research on fossil fuel emission.

Cornell’s carbon emissions pri-

marily come from the buildings and not the energy plant on campus, according to Zemanick. This means we have to “be smart about the way we use energy on campus,” Zemanick said, including focusing efforts on decreasing carbon emissions on an individual level.

In order to achieve what Zemanick called a “big” goal, the Campus Sustainability Office created a four step action plan: to avoid, reduce, replace and offset carbon intensive activities.

Cornell uses one-thousandth of the state’s energy, according to Zemanick, so it’s “a good place to See CLIMATE page 4

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Emission conscious | Sarah Zemanick, director of Campus Sustainability Office, speaks Monday as part of the Perspectives on the Climate Change series.

NANDITA MOHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tea time| Representatives of the Southeast Asia Program kick off the week-long celebration of the Southeast Asian Language program by serving tea at Willard Straight Hall on Monday.

Einaudi Center Promotes Asian Language Program Holds week-long celebration to increase awareness

By VIVIAN FAN Sun Contributor

To showcase the University’s Southeastern Asian language course offerings, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is hosting a celebration from April 9 - 13, where Cornell faculty and students can engage in language conversation hours and taste local cuisine.

Cornell offers one of the strongest Southeast Asian programs in the nation, according to Thamora Fishel, director of the Southeast Asia pro-

gram. This event was motivated by undergraduates’ lack of awareness of the University’s Southeast Asian course offer-

“We’ve decided April is a good time to connect the Southeast Asian groups on campus.”

Thamora Fishel ings.

“We are the place to go for Southeast Asian study, ” Fishel said.

“Cornell has great expertise in this area,” James Nagy, administrative assistant of the Southeast Asia Program told The Sun, “we offer Indonesian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Thai, Khmer, and Burmese”.

The week-long program is taking place in April because many Southeast Asian countries are celebrating their new year this month.

To read the rest of the story please visit www. cornellsun.com.

Vivian Fan can be reached at vcf3@cornell.edu.

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try to scale things up” in terms of energy conservation. She also said that Cornell is “uniquely suited” to act as a leader in reducing carbon emissions because of faculty expertise in sustainability and the University’s commitment to the environment.

Zemanick pointed to several systems the University already has in place to reduce carbon emissions, such as “lake source cooling,” as well as many projects they hope to execute in the future, such as “Earth source heat.” This project aims to eliminate fossil fuels for campus heating, which is currently one of the University’s largest sources of carbon emission, according to Zemanick.

Running a research facility in a cold climate is

difficult without “burning something,” Zemanick said, so her team is hopeful that ESH, which uses the heat stored in the Earth’s crust to heat buildings, will allow Cornell to decrease carbon emissions in this area. Zemanick said the team is on track to start

Zemanick acknoweldges that the efforts to reduce carbon emissions are “slow going,” but she is “proud that we are making progress.” testing for this project within five years.

Realistically, however, Zemanick knows that some emissions, such as from commuting and air

travel, are difficult to completely eliminate, so she hopes that the University can offset these emissions through afforestation and other similar programs.

Zemanick acknowledges that the efforts to reduce carbon emissions are “slow going,” but she is “proud that we are making progress.” For example, seven percent of the Ithaca campus’ electricity is created by solar panels, the maximum amount possible under current regulations.

According to the Campus Sustainability Office, Cornell is the top ranked Ivy League school for overall carbon reduction as of 2017 and Zemanick hopes the University can continue to, “bring new ideas and new solutions” to the issue of carbon emissions.

Vale Lewis can be reached at vl283@cornell.edu.

Elections Committee Head Denies Former Member’s Claims of Bias ELECTION

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resulted in the committee not being able to achieve a quorum.

“The committee, rather than the meme, compromised the fairness of the election,” McLaughlin wrote.

Travis Cabbell ’18, the current director of elections and chair of the committee, categorically denied McLaughlin’s claims, saying that all members who needed to recuse themselves did so. He said no reports were illegitimately altered.

“I 100 percent stand by every decision that has been made by this elections committee,” Cabbell said. “Every decision that has been made has been thought out and taken hours of deliberation.”

The judicial codes counselor, Kendall Karr, a Cornell law student, has sent a report evaluating Devatha’s claim of bias to the committee, which will review the report on Tuesday. Karr said her report is detailed and includes an analysis of which entity has the final authority to overturn the disqualification, but she declined to further discuss the contents of her report.

After reviewing Karr’s report, the committee is expected to issue a final decision on Devatha’s disqualification and announce the winner of the election on Tuesday evening or on Wednesday.

If Devatha’s disqualification is upheld, Barbaria will win by default and it may never be known who received the most votes. If Devatha is reinstated, then the winner will be determined based on who received more votes.

Devatha and Barbaria both declined to comment on Monday night.

The spilling of the elections committee dispute into the public sphere follows the revelation on Monday that the committee had disqualified Devatha from the race, after voting concluded, based on a meme

posted by one of his supporters. The meme was posted in a popular Facebook group with thousands of student members and it included two Cornell logos, which the committee ruled were in violation of election rules, according to a copy of a confidential committee document obtained by The Sun. McLaughlin claimed that committee members failed to follow a section of the election rules regarding recusals. The section, which McLaughlin authored in 2016, requires any committee member who serves on an executive board to recuse themselves from a challenge involving a candidate endorsed by the organization.

Of 10 voting members on the committee, three sit on the executive board of at least one organization that endorsed Barbaria. Cabbell, who does not vote, also serves as the interim executive director of the Cornell Lending Library, which endorsed Barbaria.

McLaughlin believes that those three voting members must recuse themselves from any challenges involving Barbaria or Devatha. He said they should not have taken part in the vote to disqualify Devatha, which ended in a six to one decision in favor of ejecting Devatha from the race, with one person abstaining.

Cabbell’s interpretation of the rule, however, according to internal documents, is that the members only need to recuse themselves from hearings of challenges against Barbaria.

Cabbell declined to discuss specific deliberations, citing a confidentiality agreement that he said McLaughlin was violating, but Cabbell noted that he is the final interpreter of the rules because he is the head of the committee.

“Any former [director of elections] or any former elections committee member may have an opinion, but at the end of the day, that final interpretation lies with the

current elections committee,” Cabbell said. est standards of ethics and equality" and “In regards to the way the rule is written that they “have faced harsh public scrutiny and the way the elections committee inter- that has made some kind individuals have preted it, … all the members that needed to stress about one more unnecessary thing.” to recuse themselves did.”

Corona emphasized in an email that she McLaughlin noted that several members of the committee, including Cabbell, are had followed the election rules regarding on the executive board of the Lending recusals and that she did not participate in Library, an organization that endorsed the Lending Library’s endorsement of Barbaria and was formerly run by Barbaria’s Barbaria. Lin did not immediately respond to an email on Monday campaign manager, night.

Jaelle Sanon ’19.

“The biggest takeway Cabbell said he stood “If that doesn’t indiis that it’s going to by all of the committee’s cate a conflict of interest, reports. then I don’t know what be hard for whoever Cabbell also noted does,” McLaughlin said. ends up winning.” that he and the other During a hearing in committee members on which Barbaria was TJ Ball ’19 the Lending Library accused by a student of board — Corona and violating election rules by having a Cornell logo on his website — Malone — did not participate in the orgaan incident that has not been previously nization’s decision to endorse Barbaria.

The director of elections also said that reported — the three members with conflicts did not recuse themselves, McLaughlin “never once” voiced a concern that members were violating the rules until McLaughlin claimed.

McLaughlin claimed that the commit- he resigned from the committee.

In an interview on Monday night, TJ tee’s final report on the matter — which cleared Barbaria in a five to zero vote, with Ball ’19, a Student Assembly member, one abstaining and three recused — was lamented that the lengthy slog of a comdoctored to indicate that the three mem- plex election process will create an “uphill bers had recused themselves when they had battle” for whoever assumes the presidency.

The situation “has not helped the mindactually participated in the deliberations and voted. Cabbell and other committee set of either Varun or Dale coming into the members denied this, saying that the three presidency, that there’s been so much speculation around the outcome due to the members had recused themselves.

That final report, obtained by The Sun, election committee’s reviewing of the rules indicates that Clady Corona ’19 and Terrill and the challenges,” said Ball, who has Malone ’21, who are on the Lending endorsed Barbaria.

“The biggest takeaway is that it’s going Library executive board, as well as Lucy Lin ’20 — who sits on the executive board of to be hard for whoever ends up winning the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student and becomes president to get the amount Union, which endorsed Barbaria — of respect on campus that they deserve,” Ball said. recused themselves.

Malone said in a letter to the editor on Monday night that the elections committee Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at members had held themselves "to the high- nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

Suspect Admits to Exposing Himself to Female Student in Campus Dorm Culprit faces three to seven years for crime that CUPD highlights as one in ‘series’ of recent, similar reports SLATER

CUPD’s Facebook post also notes that there have been “a series of similar reports in Ithaca He faces three to seven years during the previous six months.” in state prison and up Court documents to five years of postshow that Slater is a regrelease supervision “I was troubled to hear this happened in istered sex offender who and is scheduled to be our community and specifically in one of was convicted in 2013 of sentenced after a prefelony second-degree our residential facilities.” sentence investigation. attempted rape of a 14“I was troubled to year-old girl, as reported Kathy Zoner hear this happened in

by The Ithaca Voice. It our community and was also reported that he specifically in one of our resi- impact of these crimes on the was sentenced to six months in dential facilities,” said CUPD victims but hope that knowing jail and 10 years of probation.

Police Chief Kathy Zoner. “The the defendant is no longer free Slater was previously arrested investigative work by our inves- to victimize others offers some by CUPD in 2015 for allegedly tigators and all other officers solace.” engaging in three lewd incidents Continued from page 1

involved was key to bringing these cases to a successful close and subsequent arrest. We recognize this does not minimize the

on Cornell’s East Campus, as previously reported by The Sun. In one instance, a woman saw a man masturbating in a vehicle, and two other reports were made to CUPD about a man in a vehicle “yelling lewd comments and making lewd gestures toward the victims, both females.”

Regarding the alleged masturbation incident, Slater said in court documents that he had spilled coffee on himself while delivering newspapers on campus and was changing his pants, according to The Ithaca Voice.

Slater did however admit to shouting profanities at two

women who were walking down the sidewalk in two separate incidents while he was driving.

He also said that he had asked if the women would partake in oral or sexual conduct with him, according to The Ithaca Voice.

After those incidents, Slater was arraigned on a class A misdemeanor for public lewdness in the Town of Ithaca Court, The Sun previously reported.

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun.com.

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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University Meme Page Parodies S.A. Elections Memes following elections controversy will encourage more discourse in ‘important topics,’ says meme designer MEME

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trays a tragic situation, which adds color to our lives.”

In another meme posted by Sasha Frolov ’21, a drawn Cornell logo was put next to the campaign poster of Dale Barbaria ’19, the other presidential candidate. “As a massive supporter of Dale I am posting this meme to give my candidate an unfair leg up in the election by using the Cornell logo,” the caption reads.

Some people also showed indifference towards the S.A. and this election turmoil. One of these memes contains a

Rendering of Suspect Made SKETCH

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fought off her attacker and fled before calling for help.

The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 5foot-10-inches tall with an average build. He has light brown or blonde hair and was cleanshaven at the time of the incident.

Ithaca Police described the suspect as between 20 and 30 years old, while Cornell Police referred to him as college-aged.

The investigation is still ongoing, and the Ithaca Police urge anyone with information regarding the incident or the sketch to contact the department at 607-272-3245 for police dispatch or 607-3300000 for the police tipline, or by using the anonymous online tip form.

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Sarah Skinner can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com.

house on fire — labelled “cornell student “I think memes and other kinds of assembly and its elections” — and a viral marketing should generally be woman labelled “99% of cornell,” who is allowed in the S.A. election,” Frolov said. pictured walk“A l t h o u g h ing by the memes have house paying “I think that it is an issue that many peo- c o m p l i c a t e d no attention to ple lack knowledge of the S.A. and lack this election ... the fire in the think caring about its actions and behaviors.” Ithisdon't should background.

Frolov said discount an Brian Gay ’18 that while he entire category of campaign did vote for Barbaria in the election last month, he advertising. made the meme just to make fun of the Brian Gay ’18, who created several of situation and that he saw memes as a good the S.A.- related memes on Monday, conway for the S.A. to reach more people. curred that memes will allow more people

to participate in the discussions of important topics.

“I think that it is an issue that many people lack knowledge of the S.A. and lack caring about its actions and behaviors,” Gay said. “But I believe that creating memes … opens up a discussion about issues that people should regard as important ... in a more interactive, simple format.”

Yuichiro Kakutani ’19 contributed reporting to this article.

Meredith Liu can be reached at meredithliu@cornellsun.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Former S.A. director of elections: Why I resigned after the Devatha decision

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Editorial

Really, Elections Committee?

A MEME? REALLY? When The Sun first commented on the disqualification of Varun Devatha ’19, it did so with the belief that the Student Assembly elections committee would not have made that decision and upheld it on appeal, on such a triviality.

Clearly, our faith was misplaced.

Regardless of whether the offending image, posted in the Facebook group Cornell: Any Meme, Any Study by a supporter unaffiliated with the Devatha campaign, qualifies as “promotional materials” as defined in the elections rules, the suggestion that the meme in any way “comprised the fairness of the election and constituted a material advantage” for Devatha boggles the mind.

Leaving aside the quandary of determining whether there was material advantage, how does a sensibile, impartial arbiter arrive at the conclusion that the logos of the School of Hotel Administration and Hans Bethe House improperly swayed voters? Thousands of students participate in S.A. elections, and in the digital age voters are constantly peppered with campaign materials via their phones, laptops and incessant quarter-carders. Did this one meme strike such a note as to ring out above the cacophony of campaigning, to the point of comprising fairness? Doubtful.

Furthermore, the meme was neither a product of the Devatha campaign nor of coordination with that campaign. Are we to interpret the elections rules so broadly as to encompass the speech of each and every supporter of each candidate? To the 14,000 undergraduates at Cornell? The 21,000 total students?

What if an intrepid digital sailor wished to sabotage a campaign they disliked? The Facebook group has over 27,000 members, many of whom are alumni or never attended Cornell: could any one of them sink a campaign with a well-aimed meme-torpedo?

The ongoing conflagration — may we remind you, sparked by a “Steal his look” post — serves only to embarrass the student body. What a sight: Cornell’s proud tradition of shared governance reduced to a headline ripped from The Onion. Needless to say, episodes like this one do not inspire trust in student government, and only work to weaken the institutions that purport to represent the people.

The fracas has gone on for long enough. Dispense with the challenges, and count the votes.

To the Editor: Last year, I served as the Director of Elections, a position responsible for coordinating Student Assembly elections and running the independent Elections Committee. This year, I resigned from the committee after witnessing its biased deliberations and abuse of power while addressing challenges to the candidacy of Dale Barbaria ’19 and Varun Devatha ’19.

I believe that the committee members failed to act as independent arbiters in disqualifying presidential candidate Devatha, acting behind closed doors to rig a race that should be determined by students. The committee ultimately doctored a vote count, terminating Devatha’s candidacy and de facto choosing the next S.A. president.

As The Sun reported, Devatha was disqualified for a meme in a 6-1-1 vote, followed by a 2-8-1 vote failing to overturn the disqualification the next day. This ruling was controversial itself, but the committee’s discussion was also tainted by its members’ bias. At least four of the 11 Elections Committee members sit on the executive boards of organizations that endorsed Devatha’s competitor, Dale Barbaria ’19.

Three of these four, including the current Director of Elections, are on an executive board headed by Barbaria’s campaign manager.

These members are allowed to sit on executive boards that endorse candidates, but they are required by Election Rules to recuse themselves from deliberations about these candidates. However, during discussion of challenges to Barbaria and Devatha alike, these four committee members attended the meeting, participated and voted. The committee, rather than the meme, compromised the fairness of the election.

I, among others, told the Director of Elections after these deliberations that committee members had violated the rules by failing to recuse. However, rather than acting to amend this overstep, the committee revised its story. They claimed that these four members actually had recused themselves during the discussion. They even doctored a vote to reflect the new number of members they say were in attendance.

I was at Barbaria and Devatha’s hearings. To say the members recused themselves is a blatant mistruth, disguised under the pretense of confidentiality. When I first became the Director of Elections, I was assured that the integrity and independence of the Elections Committee was paramount. I now believe that those values have been violated.

The mismanagement of Devatha’s disqualification has two important consequences. First, the committee violated its own mission — to impartially oversee undergraduate elections — a key component of shared governance. Second, by enforcing a strict policy of confidentiality, the Elections Committee is able to operate behind closed doors without oversight or accountability.

What institutions are in place when the Elections Committee acts against its prescribed duties?

Devatha is currently appealing his disqualification to the Judicial Codes Counselor, a first for any student campaign at Cornell. Whatever result the counselor determines will be without precedent because no mechanism currently exists to check the Elections Committee.

As a recent Sun editorial argued, transparency is already minimal in Student Assembly elections. The egregious behavior of the Elections Committee only deepens the divide between the student body and the Student Assembly.

Most importantly, the Elections Committee’s intervention nullifies the thousands of ballots that students cast.

Devatha should be released of the Elections Committee’s disqualification.

Students should choose their Assembly president, not an unelected committee behind closed doors.

Austin McLaughlin ’18 former director of elections, Student Assembly (Spring 2017)

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OPINION Letters to the Editor

Re: ‘First Generation Student Union Calls on Cornell to Review Legacy Admissions Practice’

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To the Editor: Earlier this year, the Cornell First Generation Student Union signed onto a letter alongside first-gen, low-income student groups at 12 of our peer institutions. The letter called upon our respective university administrations to disclose and re-evaluate the purpose of legacy preferences in admissions decisions.

A day after the #FullDisclosure campaign launched through an Associated Press press release and an article in The Atlantic, The Cornell Daily Sun reported on our decision to join the campaign. The article was solely based off the #FullDisclosure letter, and an interview with FGSU’s Co-President, Mayra Valadez ‘18 and another Cornell student who is a legacy. This letter aims to clarify and expand upon our arguments for re-evaluating legacy admissions that were not covered or covered sufficiently in the article.

Contrary to The Sun’s framing of our argument, the #FullDisclosure campaign neither aims to discredit the talents or academic qualifications of legacy students, nor denies the benefits of legacy students to Cornell’s yield rate. Rather, #FullDisclosure’s goal is for complete transparency, as aggregate data suggest that legacy preferences in admissions decisions benefit the wealthy.

When Cornell discloses its practices, we can take a closer look at whether this trend is reflected at our school.

A Cornell alumnus and a prominent voice for educational equity is speaking out against legacy preferences in admissions decisions. Harold O. Levy ’74 J.D. ‘79, executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and former Chancellor of New York City Public Schools, recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times. He argued that legacy admissions hamper economic mobility, and that elite colleges “make efforts to open up access to low-income students while at the same time culling applications in ways that give an advantage to the very wealthy.”

FGSU joined onto the #FullDisclosure campaign because we firmly believe it is important that Cornell University, as a landgrant institution, a private university with state-endowed colleges, a research institution with a Center for the Study of Inequality, a recipient of federal financial aid funding via Pell and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, and an institution that was founded on the principle of “any person, any study,” owes it to students, parents and alumni, to fully disclose the role of legacy preferences in admissions decisions.

Mayra Valadez ’18 President, First Generation Student Union

In defense of the Elections Committee To the Editor: I stand in solidarity with the response of Travis Cabbell ’18. In response to the defamatory accusations presented against me and the Elections Committee throughout the course of this past election cycle, I would like to share that the committee and I have held ourselves to the highest standards of ethics and equality. The Elections Committee strives to uphold the process that the Student Assembly has adopted to ensure the fairness and integrity of all elections for all positions. If the individuals in question, community members or Student Assembly members do not like the rules that have been placed before us, I encourage any and all of them to speak up and be active in the process to revise them.

We were given a set of rules to interpret and some cases on which we had to decide, and throughout this entire process, as public servants of the system of shared governance at Cornell with nothing to gain, we have faced harsh public scrutiny that has made some kind individuals have to stress about one more unnecessary thing.

I am disappointed in the ways in which certain individuals have behaved during this past election cycle. I, and the rest of Student Assembly Elections Committee acted with integrity and due diligence in working to uphold the process and fairness of the Student Assembly Elections. Furthermore, we ensured that we, as a body, did not place the importance of the race of any one position over another; we treated each and every case fairly and independently. We only considered the Student Assembly Election Rules and the facts presented at the time during the deliberation of each case. I, and the other members of both the Lending Library and the Elections Committee recused ourselves from the Lending Library vote to endorse Dale Barbaria.

It is unfortunate that the Student Assembly Elections Committee has lost a servant, and has had to face such harsh scrutiny, but I stand firmly behind the decisions of the Elections Committee, and furthermore, the process.

Terrill Malone ’21

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A Note to Soon-to-Be Freshmen

his semester seems to have gone by faster than I would have ever imagined. The last day of classes is in a month and before I even know it, I will be done with half of my college career. It only seems like a couple of months ago that I received my acceptance letter from Cornell and was frantically searching through Youtube videos to see what Cornell’s campus and dorms look like.

While the plethora of videos and pamphlets provided a basic sense of what Cornell University is like — its stunning gorges, amazing dining hall food, diverse student population, freezing cold winters — very few described the student experience. I didn’t know what to expect from the high school-to-university transition or how students discover themselves through Cornell’s often academically and socially overwhelming climate. Here are some of the things that I have realized as a Cornell student and Ithaca resident of two years, as well as pointers I wish I had received before I began this journey.

Cornell really is as beautiful and full of life as the “Glorious to View” online video conveys.

The scenery is breathtaking (although it’s easy to forget when walking back from Uris Library after a long day of studying), the weather is amazing (only for the first couple of weeks), students are compassionate and zealous (before recruiting or prelim season begins), alumni are tremendously dedicated and willing to help (in all of my encounters). Students, faculty and staff really do come from all backgrounds — from students who have lived in Ithaca their entire life to professors who have travelled all over the world for research.

Cornell’s name value is important. While it definitely shouldn’t be the deciding factor, you should know that a Cornell degree brings a great degree of trust to an employer or even someone you meet in a social setting. Some people even treat you differently if they know you’re a student at an Ivy League institution. I’m not telling you to develop some sort of elitist mindset. Just know that Cornell’s name value is something you simply can’t ignore for your life ahead.

Don’t expect to be provided with resources here; you need to earn them yourself. One striking difference between Cornell and other universities based upon tight-knit residential systems is that Cornell can seem neglectful at times. Unlike Harvard where 98 percent of the entire under-

graduate population lives on-campus, you will soon realize that finding housing for the next school year is one of the most gruesome tasks you will face at Cornell. You could try praying to the West campus gods to bestow upon you a good time slot for the housing lottery. If not, best of luck in finding a decent place near campus, since most of the reasonably priced (by Ithaca standards, $1,000 per month is a pretty great deal for two bedrooms in Collegetown) apartments for the next school year are already taken by upperclassmen in September. However, for most concerns, you will probably be able to find the right resources if you go to the right people and search at the right places. You’ll be expected to do the search on your own, but once you go through all of the hassle, you will be provided with what you need in almost all cases.

Don’t buy into the myth of “finding your passion.” Not that it isn’t a good idea to do what you love, but almost all of the people I’ve met aren’t able to find what they’re passionate about in just a couple of years. I’ve even seen people who’ve wanted to become an investment banker since middle school change their minds in college. It’s ok to alter direction and experience as many things as you can, since you will never know what’s right if you don’t try it out. Instead of spending too much time ruminating on what path to choose, act upon it. Just try it out even if you don’t think it’s “your passion”; you never know what might suit you.

Most importantly, don’t let others overwhelm you. The hundreds of corporate or club informational, networking or interview sessions can be intimidating and could even make you feel second-tier, but there lies no value in comparing yourself with others, really. In all honesty, I am also a culprit of having bought into the belief that I may be lesser than those who seem to excel at everything. Yet I have learned over the past few months that as hard as it is to keep ground and do my own thing, you just have to keep yourself busy with your own work and don’t let others overthrow your sense of being. Meet as many people as you can — only then will you realize that not everyone hopes to launch a career in finance, tech or consulting.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a sophomore in the ILR school. She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays.

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Space exploration

NASA TO SEND 2 SATELLITES INTO SPACE DESIGNED BY CORNELL LAB

The 2 projects aim to make space exploration more accessible by implementing cost effective techniques.

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BY CHRISTIAN ONG Sun Contributor

There’s something about outer space that naturally captures our imagination.

From little kids dreaming about becoming astronauts, to full grown adults gazing up at the majesty of the stars, the final frontier timelessly inspires us all. Despite this seemingly natural fascination, few could ever hope to get there because of the exorbitant costs often associated with space flight missions. However, with the advent of 3D printing and work from Space Systems Design Studio – the research lab of Prof. Mason Peck, mechanical and aerospace engineering – this reality is sure to change in the near future.

This past March, NASA selected 11 research groups from across the country to partake in their CubeSat launch initiative, which was a project designed to encourage the development of “CubeSats,” or “nanosatellites.” According to NASA, a typical CubeSat unit measures 4x4 inches, and weighs roughly three pounds. The benefit to launching smaller satellites into space is that they cost less per unit to manufacture and can therefore become feasible projects for smaller research groups seeking to innovate.

Two of the 11 projects chosen by NASA for their technological potential were the Pathfinder for Autonomous Navigation and Alpha CubeSat, both of which are initiatives from Space Systems Design Studio.

Stewart Aslan ’19, who is the project lead of PAN discussed the mission of his group.

“Our goal for the Pathfinder for Autonomous Navigation project is to break down barriers that prevent small

groups like university labs with limited funding from accomplishing complex space missions,” Stewart said.

To achieve this goal, Aslan and his team utilized 3D printing and commercially available parts such as hardware store equipment to construct the body and technological implementations of the CubeSat. Never before has the cost effective 3D printed propulsion system that Aslan’s team designed been successfully implemented into satellite construction. A successful launch of PAN’s CubeSat in early 2019 could potentially be groundbreaking in terms of future implications for 3D printed satellite parts.

Aslan elaborated on the cost impact of his team’s efforts.

“Other small satellite attitude control systems with similar capabilities to ours generally cost close to $100,000 or more.

We have driven that cost down to $2,500 for our mission,” said Aslan.

The Alpha CubeSat team similarly used cutting edge 3D printing tech to manufacture their CubeSat unit, with the added contribution of a newly developed 1m x 1m light-sail designed to work with the microsatellite that would automatically unfold while in space. A light-sail is an extremely thin layer of Kapton – a very thermally stable film layer – that is can be pushed through space by radiation pressure, which is generated by electromagnetic radiation.

The light sail developed by the Alpha team will contain four chip-satellites or “ChipSats” on each corner of the sail, which are an even smaller type of satellite than CubeSats.

Liam Crotty ’17, who is the project lead of Alpha, talked about the group’s chip-satellites.

“Our chip-satellites are the smallest free-flying spacecraft in the world. Each is about the size of a cracker, weighs less than a nickel, and carries a suite of sensors for characterizing its environment,” said Crotty.

Crotty also discussed how the chipsatellites developed by his team could potentially alter the very way in which we explore space.

“Our chip-satellites allow for [localized] sensing of a very large region of space, since they can be distributed over a wide area. Furthermore, they are so cheap that they can be used more recklessly… This is a new paradigm in space exploration.”

With the deadline for the CubeSat project set in early 2019 by NASA, both teams have moved into overdrive in response to this time crunch.

For the PAN team, the bulk of their remaining work lies in preparing their CubeSat for a variety of launch conditions.

“Every component must be tested over

and over in many different situations to make sure that no matter what happens after launch, the spacecraft will function as intended,” Aslan said.

For the Alpha team, they are continuing to tackle the challenge of handling communications systems for the extremely small chip-satellites.

“We simply don’t have much room for solar cells, so it’s hard to generate much power. As a result, our radio transmissions are very weak and it takes a lot of processing power on the part of the receiver to hear the signal” said Crotty. “The team is working on technologies for improving the data rate by doing more sophisticated signal processing in the receiver stations.”

As space equipment progressively becomes cheaper to manufacture and more accessible to the public, one day we all might get to let out our inner astronaut.

Christian Ong can be reached at cbo35@cornell.edu .

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Ready Player One: A Visual Stunner

BY ZACHARY LEE Sun Staff Writer

Trying to adapt Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One was going to be a challenge for any director, even a veteran one like Steven Spielberg. Released in 2011, Cline’s debut was filled with pop culture references that were indicative of the decade it was written in, though he also sprinkled in a plethora of ’70s-’90s references as well. Yet because the film adaptation is gracing screens seven years later, what was seen as contemporary back then is now outdated.

Spielberg thankfully does not force characters from 2018’s popular zeitgeist to interact with the characters Cline used in his novel. Ready Player One is surprisingly able to revel in the nostalgic excess that made the novel so popular in the past, yet it explores thought-provoking themes about virtual reality, climate change and escapism present in today’s society. While the film’s visual thrills tend to outweigh the emphasis on character development, Spielberg invites viewers to get lost in the magical world of collaboration and possibility. To gamers and self-professed nerds alike, this film is a dazzling and magical love letter.

The core plot remains largely unchanged from the novel. In 2045, the majority of the world’s most populated areas have become slum-like cities due to overpopulation and pollution. To escape from life’s hardships, individuals enter into a virtual world called the OASIS, created by James Halliday (Mark Rylance). In the OASIS, people can create new lives for themselves. Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) is a frequent visitor of the OASIS and discovers that Halliday has left a challenge to the world’s inhabitants: those who are able to find his Easter Egg will gain full control of the OASIS as well as Halliday’s fortune. Watts,

alongside a few friends must race to find the Egg before Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) and his company do.

While leads Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke are fine actors in the real world, their virtual counterparts are far more exciting and unfortunately, the film spends more time focusing on the former. You get the feeling that Sheridan’s Wade Watts is supposed to be more obsessed with gaming than he is, but unfortunately his bursts of passion seem more rehearsed and mechanical. Cooke is surprisingly more mellow as Samantha/Art3mis here than she did when she played an emotionless teenager in Thoroughbreds, though she is still able to command the screen effectively during the action sequences. The supporting cast is not as developed, though Ben Mendelsohn’s sneering and greedy Nolan is appropriately charismatic and compelling to watch. His inexplicable hatred of the OASIS and view of it simply as cultural capital clashes well with Wade’s more tender view of it as a second home. Though Mark Rylance only appears in a handful of scenes, his quirky and awkward performance of James Halliday adds some much-needed comic relief.

Yet what the film lacks in character development it more than makes up for in visual splendor. The OASIS is very much a representation of a virtual harmony where characters from rival franchises can co-exist with (relatively) no consequence. It is impossible to capture all the characters that populate the screen, especially during the film’s final action sequences where it seems like every major franchise has a combatant in the final battle; most of the fun comes from seeing which characters you recognize. Sensory overload is the best way to describe it, but this makes even simple expositional scenes work; while there may be important dialogue, fleeting cameos tempt your eyes to wander.

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For all of this visual eye-candy, the film asks a poignant question: did people’s obsession with video gaming lead to a neglect of the real world and its destruction? Or did the destruction of the world drive people to virtual reality?

Either way, as wonderful as the OASIS is, it was never meant to replace the real world; VR should not have served as a way to numb reality but find a way to solve its problems. Thus, it is strangely fitting that Ready Player One was released on Easter Weekend, a celebration that highlights Jesus’ resurrection and the finding of the greatest treasure: His empty tomb (insert puns about Easter Eggs here too).

In the Gospel of Luke, there is a scene where angels tell the women who came to Jesus’ tomb that “He is not here; he has risen!” The angels encouraged the women to not focus on the empty tomb but on the good news of the resurrection. Likewise, the Spielberg encourages the audience to look past the “empty tomb” of virtual reality; there truly is nothing quite like the real world.

Zachary Lee is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zlee@cornellsun.com.

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Masculinity in Music

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In modern pop and hip-hop music, many male having come out before releasing his emotionally raw onsidering America’s current political climate and the media’s obstinate fixation on criminal artists have glorified hedonistic lifestyle choices as the sophomore album Blonde, and who’s Reddit fan page is motive, it’s not surprising some people might apex of what it means to be a man; as a result, the dom- fittingly named “Boys Do Cry.” These are successful, suggest that the U.S.’s broken conception of masculinity inant narratives in this kind of music have been hyper- influential men who are willing to be open about emotional difficulties, proving that it is admitting weakness could have something to do with recent mass shootings. masculine.

While I certainly believe that aggressive lyricism has that is a true virtue, and that they are no less men While attempting to link the two is a causal leap, and in the wake of tragedy comes the risk of sounding a bit an important place in music in eliciting strong emotion- because of their sexuality.

Moreover, recent discussions of depression in hiptone-deaf, I believe it’s as good of a time as any to begin al responses, portraying this narrative has become so hop may also sugdiscussing masculinity’s modern definition. Furher, we commonplace that it is perceived by gest shifting tides in can use art as a lens to deterimine masculinity’s place in listeners as more of a comprehensive “Male public figures . . . regards to pre-conlife vision than an artistic investigation popular music. ceptions of masWhile many people would argue that women in the into impulsivity. Even when artists actively approaching mental culinity. Artists like U.S. face far more pervasive disadvantages than men deliberately use their lyrics as fodder to those previously and, as a result, conversations on masculinity are subor- emphasize their flow or beat, or depict illness in their work hints that mentioned, in addidinate to those of femininity, there is no implication excessive lifestyle choices in order to be tion to the likes of that I am arguing that men face systematic disadvan- satirical, many people take the lyrics at barriers men feel in discussing Yung Lean, Lil Uzi tage. Moreover, many of those who would argue that face value instead of exploring the these topics are dissolving.”

Vert and Logic, American women face systematic oppression would also artist’s intent (it’s a similar phenomehave become widely argue that masculinity (the patriarchy, toxic masculini- non of high schoolers plastering their Jesse Martens ’18 successful over the ty, etc.) is at least in part to blame. This only reinforces rooms with Wolf of Wall Street past few years on posters). the relevance of this discussion. platforms that allow Artists certainly shouldn’t be Additionally, I don’t intend to disregard transgender responsible for how listeners interpret their music them to highlight their own emotional and mental individuals in this analysis.

“Toxic masculinity” has been flirting with common (think Eminem’s early diatribes against his detractors), struggles. And while stigmatizing mental illness is by no and I am by no means making the means a male only issue, according to a survey conductparlance for quite claim that modern artists are to blame ed by the Mental Health Foundation, men are statistisome time now, but for any broken notion of masculinity cally less likely to reach out for help for mental health as a term does not we have to today or that artists should- concerns than women. Male public figures like those have a definition. n’t make music that depicts or even ele- previously mentioned have actively approaching mental There is truth to vates unhealthy lifestyle choices. illness in their work hints that barriers men feel in disthe notion that an Rather, art often reflects the dominant cussing these topics are dissolving. unhealthy ideal of These artists are proving that we can still be manly beliefs of a time period, so I believe masculinity perGuest Room that we can use popular music to draw and be sad; they’re not reveling in their shortcomings, vades our culture. conclusions about social trends in soci- nor are they glorifying mental illness. Rather, they’re One’s value as a raising awareness, and in the process, expanding hipety. man is dependent Recently, however, more and more mainstream male hop to express the gamut of human emotion — not on his income and occupational status, the extent of his sexual exploits and to what degree he can appear to be artists have been willing to express a wider vision of only the swagger and confidence that has been a hallmasculinity that concedes emotional vulnerability and mark of the genre, but also the self-doubt and alienation phlegmatic in the face of hardship.

This vision of masculinity has had pernicious impli- queer identity, which is imperative to offsetting the uni- that many young men today are feeling. Doing so crecations both for men who unconsciously strive for such lateral perspective of what it means to be a man that ates a more robust image of what it means to be a man, an ideal and for society as a whole. However, insofar as many young men feel they are beholden to. For of somebody who is resilient principally because he is toxic masculinity reflects the postmodern claim that instance, Tyler the Creator is an artist who since his willing to reach out for help, who is confident because masculinity in any form ought to be eradicated, I dis- beginnings as the de-facto leader of the hip-hop collec- he is comfortable enough with his sexuality to be emotive Odd-Future has garnered as much controversy as he tional. Hopefully, in time, men will realize that they agree with the term.

Men today face a false dilemma between pursuing a has popularity — his inflammatory style of rap has been don’t need to be hardened to maintain their identity as superficially hierarchical and unsatisfying vision of what described as both misogynistic and homophobic. By men and will begin to understand that if they don’t it means to be a man or not pursuing masculinity at all. contrast, Tyler’s most recent record, Flower Boy, por- want to, they don’t need to relinquish their masculinity Both options are equally as alienating. Men today need trays a man who isn’t ashamed or afraid to describe his in order to redefine themselves. to know that they can pursue masculinity that values loneliness, his insecurities, and his bisexuality. Jesse Martens is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life determination, discipline and willpower without con- Moreover, Tyler’s friend and co-member of Odd Future Sciences. He can be reached at jtm238@cornell.edu. Guest Room Frank Ocean has in recent years become a queer icon, runs periodically this semester. flating tyrannical oppression.

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Crime and History: A Review of To Die But Once

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

Despite the proverb, I shamelessly judged To Die But Once, Jacqueline Winspear’s latest novel in her Maisie Dobbs British crime series, by the cover.

With its ominous opaque figure front and center, surrounded by airplanes, and the catchy title, I was already hooked. As the fourteenth novel in the series, To Die But Once reads almost mechanically. It’s as if there is a formula to the prose and all Winspear has to do is fill in the plot. But the ease of the novel is not to be construed as pedestrian or uninspired.

Rather, reading it was akin to watching the next episode of a popular television drama: perhaps predictable, but nonetheless gripping.

As the cover evokes, To Die But Once places protagonist Maisie Dobbs in England during World War II. A brief prologue dated 1940 describes teenager Joe Coombes’s daily life working as an apprentice for a painting company that paints RAF facilities with fire-retardant.

A seemingly typical mama’s boy, Joe discusses his ernest fears and aversion to joining the army, only to hear a mysterious sound one minute, and be bludgeoned to death the next. The next chapter begins with father Phil Coombes recruiting reliable Maisie Dobbs to find

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As Meanwhile, anticipated, the reader who the search has tuned into ensues for Winspear’s earthe son that lier installthe reader ments is fully knows to be aware of dead after a Maisie Dobb’s mere four dramatic perp a g e s . sonal life.

Maisie is From the forced to death of her navigate husband to a misleading recent miscarclues that riage to lead her to motions to question adopt a daughfalse concluter, Anna, the sions that novel contininvolve a ues the narrafatal fall tive of Dobb’s onto a railpersonal life. way track, The unravelbut the draing of her own matic irony life is mirrored COURTESY OF HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHING from the by the unravelprologue fuels the tension that carries the ling of the historical narrative in the plot through twists and turns that lead novel. The description of England during Maisie to inevitably find the truth. She, World War II is, at times, more apparent of course, cannot be fooled, and is than the crime plot. The depiction of prompted to pursue the suspicious activi- England during the war is often at the ty of the Coombeses and the reason for forefront of the narrative, which toys the mysterious brain lesion in Joe’s autop- with the genre of historical fiction. The

British response to the retreat of Dunkirk and the looming of German encroachment is certainly prevalent in the novel.

Via her duties as an investigator, Maisie is thrown into the complexities of war and money. The novel calls on typical wartime tropes and emotions of anxiety and tension. This aspect of the novel felt somewhat unoriginal. Nonetheless, the novel uses the cliched facets of the mystery and crime genre to its advantage, so why do anything different with its treatment of war? If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

The emotional impact of war is the more compelling plot in To Die But Once, especially once Maisie is forced to confront the realities of the war in relation to her own life, whether that entails her godson’s involvement in Dunkirk or the personal, more internal, anxieties she faces. It is the appeal to Maisie’s character, one that readers have come to know fairly intimately, that drives the continuation of Windspear’s success. Beyond having a strong female lead tackling a fairly romantic period of war and strife, Maisie Dobbs is a vehicle for conveying larger nationalistic pride in Britain that is ever present throughout To Die But Once and all of its forebears.

Victoria Horrocks is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at vrh23@cornell.edu.

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SPORTS

Golfers Finish 4th After Strong 1st Day M. GOLF

by Yale’s James Nicholas, who posted his own 66 on the second day, Graboyes knew he the short holes — playing needed a birdie on the 18th to aggressive when I saw an oppor- seal the victory. tunity and laying back if I deter“On 18, I was surprised to mined it wasn’t a smart play.” see I was tied and needed a Graboyes then went on shoot birdie,” he said. “So instead of an even 35 on the front and he laying up, I hit a driver that and the Red sat comfortably in from 305 [yards] landed three first place. feet from the pin and rolled out The same couldn’t be said for to 60 feet, which I was able to two-putt for the win.”

“I was never in trouble or scrambling boyes because of how well I was driving it on feltGitr awas his a short course.” success off the tee that led Senior Michael Graboyes him to come out on top. “[The best day two, as the Red shot a 293, part of my game was] definitely a full 10 strokes worse than day my driving,” he said. one.

“Generally, when I hit well off “It’s hard to tell from the the tee it loosens up the rest of scoreboard, but conditions were my game and that’s exactly what way tougher the second round,” happened this weekend. I was Graboyes said. “That, combined never in trouble or scrambling with holding the lead overnight, because of how well I was drimade the second day a grind.” ving it on a short course.”

With the team’s struggles on On a short course that played the second 18, the Red fell a full only 6,424 yards, Graboyes was three positions to a tie for able to simply out-drive the fourth, but Graboyes was able competition, reaching the par-4 to keep focus and hold onto his sixth and 18th greens off the tee lead with a 1-under 70 on day on the final day. two.

“Hole 6 was about 290 “Historically this course has uphill and downwind and I low numbers out there,” he crushed a driver perfectly and it said. “So despite the cold condi- went to 15 feet for eagle,” he tions, I knew I couldn’t just said. coast in the last 27 holes. I had Graboyes will attempt to the same exact strategy the keep his momentum going as entire weekend but that first the team prepares for the Yale stretch, everything seemed to Invitational April 14 and 15. fall into place and gave me a ton of confidence the rest of the Tim Morales can be reached at way.”

Able to fend off valiant push tmorales@cornellsun.com.

Continued from page 16

Red Loses 2 Ivy Games Shah, Dua win both doubles matches W. TENNIS

Continued from page 16

nal game plan, but I slowed things down between points to stay calm.”

Coming off of a lone win for the Red against Columbia March 31, senior Madison Stevens played two close matches this weekend. Stevens lost 5-7, 1-6 in the match against Princeton.

Against Penn, however, she was able to improve upon her performance to clinch the Red’s third and final point, winning 5-7, 7-5 (10-7) in a super tiebreaker.

“Against Penn, I really wanted to focus on keeping it close and not letting [Penn’s Jimena Rodriguez-Benito] get the momentum from having won the second set,” Stevens

said.

“In the tiebreaker, I didn’t want to have any regrets, so I really went for my shots and tried to stay aggressive.”

Shah said Stevens’ focus on fearlessness

their nerves.”

The Red is on the road again next weekend, taking on Dartmouth on Saturday and Harvard on Sunday.

“There’s a lot of things that we know

“I want to see a little bit more heart, a little bit more grit and the love of being out there. I hope to see people rise to the occasion and handle their nerves.”

Senior Priyanka Shah and confidence against Penn bode well for her team’s upcoming Ivy matches.

“I want to see a little bit more heart, a little bit more grit and the love of being out there,” Shah said. “I hope to see people rise to the occasion and handle

we have to work on at practice this week,” Stevens said.

“Hopefully, we can implement these strategies to turn a 34 loss into a 4-3 win against Dartmouth and Harvard.”

Caroline Kleiner can be reached at crk74@cornell.edu.

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SPORTS

MEN’S TENNIS

Cornell Drops 2 Close Matchups to Start Ivy Play Red suffers one-point losses to both Princeton and Penn, falls to 0-2 in conference play

By JOSHUA ZHU

Seggerman, Cornell took the game to match point in the decisive third set, but Seggerman scored seven straight points With two tough losses to begin con- to clinch the set and the match. ference play, the Cornell men’s tennis “We came about as close as we could team started its repeat bid for the Ivy against Princeton,” Tanasoiu said. “We League championship on the wrong foot. had match points to win the match in The Red (7-9, 0-2 Ivy) fell to both two separate games, but we were just Princeton (16-9, 1-2) and Penn (13-10, unable to convert.”

2-1) by close one-point margins over the Much of the same story played out weekend. Cornell has now lost seven again in the team’s meeting with Penn. matches by two points or fewer in the The Red split its six singles matches — 2018 season. four of them going to third sets — and the game was essentially decided in a tiebreaker at the third dou“We just need to separate ourselves bles match. from our opponents there with an “Against Penn, we were up a break at all three courts and defaggressive mindset.” initely put ourselves into the position we wanted to be,” Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu Tanasoiu said. “But once again, it was playing passively and “In both of our matches — and it’s without purpose in those moments … been a recurring theme all season — which left things up to chance which we’ve put ourselves into very good posi- [Penn] took advantage of.” tions,” said head coach Silviu Tanasoiu.

Cornell now finds itself at the bottom “We just need to separate ourselves from of the league standings in the young seaour opponents there with an aggressive son. However, there is hope for an mindset and unfortunately we’ve tended upward climb in the standings with an to be passive in the moments that count- improvement in the team’s mental fortied.” tude.

The Red’s loss in its season opener “I don’t think [a close match] is a against Princeton came in especially dis- matter of tennis ability … because we appointing fashion. Looking to avenge a have put ourselves in good positions to 4-3 loss against the Tigers earlier in the win,” Tanasoiu said. “A lot is just in the season in the ECAC indoor champi- players’ hands to make the mental choice onships, the Red battled to a 3-3 tie of how deliberate they want to be in heading into the deciding third singles close situations.” match. In the match between senior The Red will finish a three-game Daniel Grunberger and Princeton’s Ryan homestand this weekend against

Sun Senior Writer

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Slow start | Cornell came oh-so-close in both of its Ivy matchups last weekend, but lost to Princeton and Penn to start the conference season 0-2.

Dartmouth and Harvard. Both games will be played at 1 p.m. in Reis Tennis Center, with the Red hosting Dartmouth on Saturday and Harvard Sunday.

“Harvard and Dartmouth are two of the best teams in the league ... but

they’re certainly beatable,” Tanasoiu said. “It’ll ultimately come down to raising our mental approach and being more deliberate when the time comes.”

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

BASEBALL

Baseball Loses 3 Straight Games to Ivy-Best Yale Red allows 22 total Bulldog runs in series

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Tough test | Hosting the top team in the Ivy League, Cornell lost three close contests, including an extra-inning affair in game two.

In a three-game set moved around by weather delays, Yale handed Cornell three straight losses in a series in which the Red couldn’t contain the Bulldogs’ bats.

Yale (11-14, 7-2 Ivy) scored 22 combined runs in the three contests to beat the Red (5-14, 1-5) in 7-4, 8-7 and 7-4 games.

In game one, the Bulldogs scored three runs in the top of the third inning and earned a series-opening win behind starting pitcher Scott Politz.

The reigning Ivy pitcher of the year surrendered just one run in seven innings and the 2017 league champion Bulldogs built a comfortable 6-1 lead before a late Cornell rally came up short.

After a three-run third for Yale in game two, the Red responded with a five-spot in the bottom half of the frame.

Despite an impressive offensive performance, bizarre defensive lapses in extra innings doomed Cornell in the middle game.

Knotted up at seven, the Bulldogs tacked on a run in the tenth. The leadoff man — the eventual winning run —

reached on a strikeout and passed ball, and the Bulldogs ended up with runners on second and third after a Cornell error on a sacrifice bunt attempt.

With two runners in scoring position, sophomore reliever Andrew Ellison recorded one out, and got a second by striking out Yale’s Cal Christofori.

But strike three got away and Christofori ran toward first base, allowing Yale’s Harry Hegeman to break for home and score.

In a game three pushed to Monday due to weather delays, Cornell suffered another 7-4 loss. The Bulldogs scored four runs in the sixth to build a 6-1 lead. The Red responded with three runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning, but couldn’t put a rally together in the final three innings.

Junior Josh Arndt extended his hitting streak to 10 games in the loss. At 1-5 in conference play, the Red is in last place in the Ivy League.

Cornell returns to action at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday for a nonconference home game against Binghamton.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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Senior Places 1st at Princeton Tourney

MEN’S GOLF

Cornell places first on tournament’s 1st day,but settles for 4th-place finish

By TIM MORALES

after the first day, posting a tournament-best score of 283, led by Graboyes’ 66, good for A hot start for Cornell in the 5-under par and the best round 12-team Princeton Invitational of the entire tournament. fizzled on day two, but senior Starting on hole 10, M i k e Graboyes Graboyes went 5-under “Everything seemed to on the back shined individually for with fall into place and gave nine the Red at birdies on me a ton of confidence h o l e s Springdale Club Golf 10,12,13,15 the rest of the way. ” this weekend. and 18.

Senior Mike Graboyes The two“The back day, 36-hole nine is really tournament gettable at was highlighted by an individ- Springdale,” Graboyes said. “I ual win by Graboyes and a team hit two really good shots the score of 576, good enough for a first day to an inch, but besides tie with Princeton for fourth that I was taking advantage of place.

See M. GOLF page 15 The Red showed promise

Sun Staff Writer

JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Swing | The Red scored a 283 on day one, the best in the tournament, but faltered on day two to finish fourth overall in the Princeton Invitational.

WRESTLING

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Hahn to Leave Cornell Doubles Pair Shines in Ivy Play

Longtime assistant will become new head coach at South Dakota State

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

Damion Hahn, a coach of the Cornell wrestling program since 2006, is leaving East Hill after accepting an offer to become the new head coach of South Dakota State, FloWrestling reported on Monday.

“I am truly honored to be named the next head coach of wrestling at South Dakota State University and am thrilled for the opportunity to lead a program that has such incredible support from the university and the community,” Hahn said in a press release by South Dakota State Athletics.

Hahn, 37, has been a part of the program during one of its most successful stretches — watching Cornellians earn 12 Ivy League titles, 11 EIWA titles and 11 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships.

Tabbed as associate head coach in 2013, Hahn has guided the Red’s upper weight class wrestlers. Under his tutelage, several Cornell grapplers have won national titles, including Gabe Dean ’17.

Despite coaching the upper weights, all Cornell wrestlers speak incredibly highly of Hahn, including newly-mint-

ed NCAA champion freshman Yianni Diakomihalis.

“Damion’s an amazing coach, and an awesome person,” Diakomihalis told The Sun. “He’s been in the program for my whole wrestling career, and it’s sad to see him go but this is an amazing opportunity for him and he’s going to do great things at SDSU.” This year, Hahn was instrumental in the breakout freshman seasons of Ben Darmstadt and Max Dean, Gabe’s younger brother. Those two wrestlers had exemplary rookie campaigns en-route to becoming All-Americans.

“Only bad thing about being surrounded by talented and successful people is that they often move on to face bigger challenges,” Max wrote on Instagram. “I have been so blessed to get to learn under [Hahn] not only as a wrestler but also as a man.”

As coach of the Jackrabbits, Hahn will make a return to the Midwest, having wrestled at Minnesota from 2000-04.

During his time as a collegiate wrestler, Hahn earned four All-American honors and won two individual national titles.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

By CAROLINE KLEINER Sun Contributor

Cornell women’s tennis played its second and third Ivy League matches of the season this weekend against Princeton and Penn, which resulted in 0-7 and 3-4 losses, bringing the team’s Ivy record to 0-3 this season.

Despite the lopsided loss against Princeton on Friday, senior captain Priyanka Shah and sophomore Ananya Dua prevailed in their doubles match, 6-1, against the 89thranked team in the nation.

“We started very aggressive from the first ball and played solid tennis,” Shah said. “We focused on high percentages and sticking our volleys.

I’m excited to play the next five matches and hopefully come out with five other doubles wins with [Dua].”

Riding on their momentum in doubles on Friday, Shah and Dua again delivered a clean performance against Penn on Sunday, winning 6-2.

This brought their overall record in Ivy play as partners to 2-0.

“I would say that our team dynamic has improved significantly since the first match that we played together [about a month ago],” Dua said.

“Something that contributed to our successful weekend was our energy. From the

first ball, we were aggressive with our strokes, which gave us momentum.”

Shah and Dua were also dominant in their singles matches against Penn. Shah was victorious with a 6-4, 6-4 win, while Dua came back from a

first set loss to win 36, 6-4, 6-2.

“After the first set, I knew that I was still in the match because the games were close,” Dua said. “Before the second set, I decided to stick with my origiSee W. TENNIS page 14

BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Dynamic duo | Mariko Iinuma, above, lost her singles match to Penn’s Ashley Zhu as the Red fell to the Quakers, 4-3, on Sunday.