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Presidential prospects | Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Donald Trump will host rallies in several upstate New York cities this week before primary voting begins.

Sanders,Trump to Campaign Across Upstate N.Y.

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Managing Editor

Presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Donald Trump have announced plans to host rallies in upstate New York this week.

Sanders will hold both a rally at the Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena in Binghamton this Monday morning and an event at Alumni Arena in Buffalo later that day.

Trump plans to visit Syracuse on April 16 — although the location of the rally has not yet been released — and rally at

Buffalo’s First Niagara Center and a venue “Affluence and Crisis,” on wealth inequaliin Rochester on April 17, according to ty at Binghamton University in 1990, according to syracuse.com.

Bi n g h a m t o n These cam“In upstate New York, I’m like the most University. paign stops are Donald several on the popular person that has ever lived, c a n d i d a t e s ’ virtually. They’re great friends of mine.” Bazley, a volunteer for the tours of New Ithaca and York before the Donald Trump To m p k i n s state’s primary County for voting begins Bernie Sanders Campaign, said he believes on April 19, according to PressConnects.

Thus far, the Sanders is the only candi- Sanders will discuss economic hardships date scheduled to visit Binghamton — facing prevalent in upstate New York.

“I predict that in both places he will where he taught a Masters course called

Sexual Assault Awareness Week Begins Student organizations will collaborate with campus life staff to organize the second annual Sexual Assault Awareness Week this week.

Kendall Grant, one of the student organizers of SAAW, said she hopes the events will give people “greater knowledge, awareness and empathy,” according to a University press release.

Grant said the events build each day “to address the campus climate, who’s at risk, any gaps in current policies and how we can create a better, safer environment,” the University said.

The first event on Monday will be a keynote address by Kate Harding, author of “Asking for it: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture — and What we Can Do About It.” Her book addresses the myth that women who were raped “asked for it” and the pervasiveness of rape in American culture, according to the University.

Events scheduled for the week include an “Art for Awareness Performance Showcase” on Tuesday, a discussion of sexual assault in the LGBT community and a screening of “It Happened Here” — a documentary film by Emmy Award winner Lisa F. Jackson about sexual assault cases from Amherst College, Vanderbilt University and the University of Connecticut, according to the SAAW website.

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address the trade policies that have taken jobs away from those cities, that once had thriving industries,” Bazley said.

Sanders’ announced stop in Binghamton follows a petition circulated in Ithaca last week urging the candidates to visit Cornell, which garnered over 3,000 signatures in under a week.

However, Gus Dusenberry, an Ithaca resident, said this week that he recognizes that Sanders may need to focus his attention on larger cities in upstate New York ahead of primary voting.

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TCAT Explains Its Summer Service Cuts

Attributes bus driver shortage to stricter regulations, training,cost of living

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

The Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit company held four public meetings with the Cornell community to discuss the proposed emergency service cuts and adjustments the organization is making to its summer schedule last week.

TCAT said these changes were necessary due to chronic bus operator shortages, according to a press release.

“We thought we would be able to build up our ranks in time to avoid this, but despite ramped up recruitment efforts we were unable to fill those positions,” said Patty Poist, communications and marketing manager for TCAT. Matthew Yarrow, a service analyst for TCAT, said TCAT has been “down significantly in our operator ranks for some time now.”

Yarrow explained that the number of drivers has decreased to the point where TCAT is about 10 drivers short from the optimal number of operators for their summer routes.

One reason for the shortage is that it is becoming increasingly more difficult to become a bus operator due to stricter regulations and intensive training,

according to Poist.

“You must be 21 to be a bus operator at TCAT, and by that time some people may have chosen different career paths,” Poist said. “There are a lot of regulations you have to follow like getting physicals,

pass random drug and alcohol tests, and getting a [Commercial Driver’s License].”

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Communication Department Celebrates Opening of The Hub Says space will allow undergraduates to ‘connect’ with graduate students and faculty in Mann Library

By JUSTIN PARK Sun Contributor

The Department of Communication celebrated the grand opening of its highly anticipated new workspace on the fourth floor of Mann Library last Friday.

The space is finished after three years of development and planning and is characterized by a theme of collaboration, according to Katherine McComas, Chair of the Department of Communications.

“We were inspired to create a space with an overall theme of ‘connecting people,’ so providing opportunities for different types of engagement is an important concept employed throughout the design,” McComas said.

McComas said the space, called The Hub, was created so that undergraduate students could “come and study and work alongside faculty and graduate students.”

The Hub encourages this theme with its interior design and architecture, as the center has a lot of open space and all of the rooms within The Hub have large floor-to-ceiling window panels, according to Leah Scolere grad, a member of the design committee.

“From the glass, to the shared views of Beebe Lake, department is going to grow closer and more connected to the colorful graphics and writable surfaces, it is a cre- to each other,” she said. “The Hub allows us all to relax ative space — one that invites play, curiosity and makes and chat in our own, collaborative space.” you aspire to contribute to all the amazing research and The Hub will also be convenient for students workteaching that is the Department of Communication,” ing on daily activities, according to Rachel Sherman Scolere said. ’18.

Scolere said graduate students are “I think the setup and use of neupositioned in the center of the space tral colors are ideal for studying,” “We were inspired to to “increase our visibility not only Sherman said. “It’s also really handy or with each other but also with the faccreate a space with an it to be in the library, and have all the professors’ offices nearby.” ulty and our advisors.” overall theme of As the new home for the “Being able to see when our advi‘connecting people.’”

Department of Communication, sors are in and being able to stop by McComas said she expects The Hub with an idea or quick question has Katherine McComas to be a central location for communireally impacted how we think about cation students. collaboration,” Scolere said. “The “Never before did we have a space transparency of the glass and openness of our graduate office spaces makes the work we do where our undergraduates could come and study and more visible and gives us more opportunities for con- work alongside graduate students and faculty,” necting with others around new research or teaching McComas said. “Now they too have a physical home in our department, and we all have a place to gather ideas.”

Elizabeth Villedrouin ’19 expressed her hope that the around the ‘family table.’” new space will promote collaboration.

“I definitely think everyone in the communications Justin Park can be reached at jp2245@cornell.edu.

MiXed Illustrates Diversity of ‘Multiracial Experience’ at Cornell

Under fire

By HENRY KANENGEISER

Axe said the Blend Conference was established to celebrate every mixed person’s individual identity.

MiXed at Cornell — a student organiza“As an organization we’ve found that we tion dedicated to creating community can’t put one definition on what is mixed among mixed race individuals — will host race because it’s so unique to every person,” its first ever Blend Conference in Klarman she said.

Hall this weekend.

The conference will feature keynote The two-day conference will focus on the speeches by professionals, personalities and “awareness of students, as the multiracial well as interac“As an organization we’ve found that we tive experience group and the comcan’t put one definition on what is mixed activities, panmunity’s mar- race because it’s so unique to every person.” els and discusginalization of sions, accordidentity,” and ing to the Erika Axe ’18 its main website. themes are Treasurer engagement and inclusion, according to the Olivia Lee ’18 and Axe said they were both organization’s website. eager to hear Athena Asklipiadis speak about “We wanted to bring together a confer- the difficulties of receiving a bone marrow ence that … brings to light different issues transplant as a mixed race person. and unique experiences that mixed people “She’s coming to talk about why it’s really have,” said Erika Axe ’18, incoming co-pres- important to set yourself up as a registered ident of MiXed. donor, because for some [mixed race] person

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Former Republican House speaker Dennis Hastert leaves a courthouse after his arraignment.

you might be the only option,” Axe sad.

Axe said the creation of the conference was inspired by a similar event run by a mixed race group at Harvard University.

Axe explained the Harvard conference “generated a lot of support from the mixed community, from all the different mixed clubs at other schools” and seemed like a project that could encourage a great discussion of mixed race issues on the Cornell

campus.

MiXed has already coordinated with mixed race groups at other schools, like Northwestern, Swarthmore and Tufts.

Although not all three schools are sending students to the conference, Axe discussed the great strides that they have already made in forming bonds between colleges, and said See BLEND page 5

ILR Women’s Caucus Hosts Gender Equality Summit

By BARBARA ESUOSO Sun Contributor

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Who run the world | Krassimira Hernandez ’15 MILR ’17 speaks at an ILR summit on gender inequality on Saturday.

The School of Industrial Relations Women’s Caucus hosted its second annual summit on Saturday, bringing together female panelists from diverse career fields to discuss the experiences of women in the workplace.

The event entitled “Towards a More Equal Workplace” was designed to facilitate discussion of gender inequality in the workplace by giving its audience insight on how to advance in their career paths as well as hear about other women’s experiences in law, human resources, engineering, consulting and public policy, according to Jennifer Mandelblatt, president of the ILR women’s Caucus.

Janelle Geines, a member of the ILR Graduate Student Organization, said women’s confidence was a major topic of discussion at the summit.

“I think confidence is something that women lack, and it seems to be

the most recurrent topic from this summit,” Geines said. “Knowing that, I’m going to keep trying to support myself and support the women around me to have confidence and advocate for their skills and assets.”

Panelists also answered questions about their respective career fields, and students asked questions about the female experience in their fields of interest. Topics included gender discrimination in top positions, clothing issues, the pressure to be confident but not aggressive or complacent and the intersectionality of race and sexuality as a workplace barrier.

Mandelblatt said she was glad the summit was “a meaningful experience.”

“I think we had phenomenal speakers, from Krassimira Hernandez’s honest and brave opening speech to the breakout sessions and panel discussion,” Mandelblatt said.

As this is only the summit’s second year running, the event still has

farther to advance in creating awareness for gender inequality, according to Mandelblatt.

“This year we really tried to highlight intersectionality, so that the men and women attending could get advice that would resonate with them,” she said. “I think we have more to do with incorporating diversity and intersectionality.”

The ILR Women’s Caucus was formed to create awareness of gender inequality but also to be a support group for its members, according to Mandelblatt.

Mandelblatt added that the summit, the Caucus’ largest event, serves as a first run of the idea of a gender inequality convention.

“This is how we change the world,” Mandelblatt said. “This is how we break down barriers, by coming together and so i think we just need to keep getting people to come together for meaningful conversations.”

Barbara Esuoso can be reached at be89@cornell.edu.

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TCAT Hires Contract Drivers As Short-Term Spring Solution TCAT

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lasts at least six weeks.

TCAT shifts are also very long, and the TCAT works on a seniority system so new drivers get the less desirable shifts, according to Poist.

“We have what is known as a split shift,” Poist said. “[Bus operators] come in the morning, and then don’t drive for four to five hours midday.

After, they go back out in service for rush hour for the evening.”

TCAT may also be having a hard time recruiting drivers due to the high the cost of living in Ithaca, according to Poist.

“It’s very expensive to live in this area, and a lot of our bus drivers have to commute from outside areas, which makes for an even longer day,” Poist said.

Stewart Douglas, transportation supervisor, added that some drivers travel from as far as Syracuse each day.

TCAT’s current solution for the spring involves hiring contract drivers, but this is only a shortterm solution, according to Poist.

“We use a firm in California, which brings in drivers from all over the country,” Poist said.

“They are professionally trained already, but it’s also costly to us because we also house and have a per diem for them. It’s about $33,000 a week for

10 drivers, which is not viable.”

The TCAT board of directors decided to make strategic adjustments and cuts to the summer lines to make up for the driver shortage — because the use of contractors is no longer feasible — according to Yarrow.

“We are looking for inefficiencies and low ridership, when making these decisions,” Yarrow said.

Douglas added that while service cuts are “painful to us and to the public,” they are necessary to provide “reliable, good service to the community.”

TCAT is also aiming to avoid overcrowding and longer splits to make the work more attractive for current and future operators, according to Yarrow.

Poist added that she does not currently know what will happen to the fall’s schedule.

“We are hoping that we can build up our ranks of drivers, but in the meantime, it has been challenging,” Poist said.

Students can refer to the TCAT website for news and route changes and sign up for the Cornell listserv for Special Conditions for news related to buses and other school issues, according to the TCAT company and Cornell Transportation Services.

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

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Republican frontrunner Trump will be introduced in Syracuse by two of his New York campaign co-chairs, Onondaga County Republican Party Chair Tom Dadey (R-N.Y.) and county clerk Lisa Dell, syracuse.com reported.

In an interview with CNN in February, Trump asserted his popularity in upstate New York.

“In upstate New York, I’m like the most popular person that has ever lived, virtually,” Trump

told CNN. “They’re great friends of mine.”

Representative Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) endorsed Trump for president last month, becoming one the first members of New York’s congressional delegation to publicly support the candidate.

The doors for the Sanders’ rally will open at 9 a.m. and Sanders is expected to arrive at 11 a.m. according to News 12. The event is free and open to the public. Details for Trump’s rallies are still being released.

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Resigns MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine’s embattled prime minister announced Sunday that he is resigning, opening the way for the formation of a new government to end a drawn-out political crisis.

In his weekly televised address, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his resignation would be formally submitted to parliament on Tuesday. The same day, parliament was expected to vote to elect the current speaker, Volodymyr Groysman, as the new prime minister.

Yatsenyuk’s Cabinet survived a no-confidence vote in February, but two parties left the governing coalition to protest the failure to oust the prime minister, who is under fire over the worsening economy and slow pace of reforms.

The withdrawal deprived the coalition of its majority in the Ukrainian parliament. If lawmakers had failed to form a new coalition and unite behind a new prime minister, that could have led to early elections, which President Petro Poroshenko had sought to avoid for fear of further destabilizing the situation in the country.

“From today I see my goals as broader than the powers of the head of the government,” Yatsenyuk said. He said he would focus on passing a new electoral law, enacting constitutional and judicial reform, and ensuring “the coalition’s control over the course of the new government.”

Yatsenyuk said the two factions remaining in the coalition — one led by him and the other by Poroshenko — had won the support of a sufficient number of other parliament members to

restore their majority in the 450-seat parliament.

He said Poroshenko’s party has nominated Groysman as his replacement.

Political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko said it was now clear that Groysman would become prime minister, a step that should help to restore stability.

“I am confident that Yatsenyuk consulted with the Western partners and was told that now the matter of political stability in Ukraine needs not games around the post of prime minister but a quick resolution of the political crisis,” Fesenko said.

Yatsenyuk became prime minister after Ukraine’s former Russia-friendly president was chased from power in February 2014 following massive street protests. Poroshenko was elected several months later with broad support and a seal of approval from Western leaders.

In recent months, political tensions have risen and some respected reformers have resigned, citing disenchantment with the government's cronyism and entrenched corruption.

Ukraine has remained locked in a bitter tugof-war with Moscow, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and supports a proRussian insurgency in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has killed more than 9,000 people since April 2014 and devastated the nation’s industrial heartland.

In February, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced that her faction was withdrawing from the governing coalition.

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Blend Conference to Illuminate Mixed Race Issues Organizers hope gathering will ‘foster awareness and inclusion,’ encourage discussion on campus BLEND

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she hopes other schools will run their own conferences soon.

“The fact that we’ve been able to talk with multiple different mixed organizations … helps what we do and it helps them get an idea of the different troubles we’ve found along the way to make it an easier process,” Axe said.

Ultimately, the Blend Conference is designed to foster a sense of comfort and community for mixed race people, she added.

“I think we want people to come out of this conference being a lot more secure in defining who they are for themselves and understanding that they’re not alone,” Axe said.

The conference is free and open to anyone who hopes to learn more about mixed race issues, according to Lee. “You can get something from the conference even if you aren’t a mixed race person,” Lee said. “We want everyone to get a chance to hear the panelists and discuss mixed race issues.”

MiXed was also recently recognized for its work on campus. On March 16, MiXed was awarded the James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony. The prize came with a $5,000 reward, which Axe said was used support the Blend Conference and other MiXed programs.

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After the Blend Conference, MiXed hopes to continue to support mixed race people at Cornell and encourage more discussions about race, according to Axe. “We’ve tried to make the goal of this year to be more well known and extending ourselves as a known community on campus,” she said.

Lee and Axe said they were happy with the policies in place at Cornell that affected them as mixed race students.

“I think we’re doing the best we can to foster awareness and

inclusion to get the conversation going because that’s how you ultimately change people’s views and norms,” Lee said.

schools in accommodating mixed race individuals.

“It was one of the few universities that I applied to that gave you the option of checking “We want everyone to get a chance to off more hear the panelists and discuss mixed than one race, which race issues.” is a big issue in the mixed Olivia Lee ’18 race community,” she Axe pointed to undergraduate said.

MiXed at Cornell is in its third applications as a way that Cornell was superior to many other year of existence on campus. Its

mission is “fostering a safe space for students who identify as mixed to share their experiences and create a community,” according to the group’s website.

“Something that is nice about MiXed is that people are so different and have such unique stories,” Lee said. “Most people categorize themselves as one race, so it was cool to find an environment where people understood the same issues as me.”

Henry Kanengeiser can be reached at hhk33@cornell.edu.

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magine if New York bagels weren’t scarce Many people rely on it, even if they don’t in Ithaca — no one would settle for pow- pay for it — especially because they don’t dered eggs on a mediocre CTB bagel ever pay for it. If your open source software doesagain. Imagine if classes had more seats — n’t work, you are in trouble. However, the that would certainly make this week’s course beauty of open source software is that the enroll easier. We imagine a world with less implementation is transparent. You can fix scarcity all the time. Other things, like the problems as they arise or to meet your spelaws of physics, affect our lives. But we don’t cific needs.

And, this system really works. Many usually imagine a world where the atomic weight of hydrogen were different — or at open source projects are significantly better least, I’m not smart enough to imagine it. than alternatives that cost money. Of course, On the other hand, imagining a world with- there’s Linux an open source operating sysout scarcity is easy, and scarcity has a huge tem. Maybe you think that’s the thing hipsters install on their computers — and it is. effects on our lives.

The importance of abundant bagels, or But, it’s also the operating system every corseats in Wines isn’t so apparent. However, poration has installed on their web servers. there are scarce resources that are incredibly Linux is incredibly reliable. At this point, important, like computers. These days com- developing proprietary operating system puters touch everything: finance, medicine, would be more costly than building on top education and government; the list goes on. of Linux. As a result, Linux is free and well Imagine how drastically different the world supported — even if it powers software and would be if computers were less scarce. In services that aren’t free. More importantly, some ways, this thought experiment is the basis of encryption over the web, RSA, is becoming a reality. A computer equivalent to your cellphone would’ve cost mil- Open source projects give you lions of dollars and filled a room access to everything under the 60 years ago. hood but they aren’t necessarily Today you can buy a computer developed with you in mind. for $30. For the most part, hardware no longer inhibits the scarcity of computers. We have open source. Not to mention, the protocol more than enough — at least compared to your computer uses to connect to the internet itself is open source. the past.

Granted, using open source software is On the other hand, software is still scarce — which is a problem because without soft- usually more involved. Open source is not ware a computer is basically a paper weight. for people who want to treat software like a Yes, distributing software is nearly costless. black box — albeit a beautiful aluminum However unlike hardware which involves and glass black box (I’m looking at you costly manufacturing processes, the cost of Apple). Sometimes the black box is useful making software consists almost completely when projects don’t scale well from one perof finding intelligent people to write it — son to another. However, in most cases the and intelligent people are just as scarce as black box is not only limiting, it is dangerthey’ve always been. Luckily, there’s a solu- ous. We trust so much of our lives on softtion to this dilemma: open source. This idea ware. Relying on something you don’t isn’t new, but I think it’s really important so understand has has large implications if it doesn’t work the way you expect. Open I wanted to write about it.

Open source software is software that is source projects give you access to everything distributed freely. Now, this may sound like under the hood but they aren’t necessarily a terrible idea. People are altruistic — but developed with you in mind.

All this to say open source is really only to a certain point. Why would people contribute to software for no reward? The important and something you should look key is that open source software is not only into. You probably use open source software, free, the process behind making it is trans- whether you realize it or not. You should get parent. You can change it. Open source pro- more. Open source has bigger implications jects start when people share code they than just producing free, useful software. wrote for their individual needs. Many Hardware is more available than ever, but times making this software publicly avail- software isn’t. Open source is an important able is more cost effective than selling it. step to unleashing the potential of computSince the source code is publically available, ing. That’s my schtick and I’m sticking too people can adapt the code, and fix problems it. Stay tuned alternating Mondays for more. as they arise.

Obviously, some projects fizzle out. But, some catch on. The most successful open Eric Schulman is a junior in the College of Arts and source projects involve code that everyone Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellneeds and uses, like an operating system or a sun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate secure protocol for connecting computers. Mondays this semester.

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efore spring break, I had a compelling dialogue about diversity at Cornell with trustees and Cornell alumni. It was almost a then-andnow assessment of how far Cornell has come with respect to diversity and inclusion. It had never occurred to me that there is so much value in looking at an intergenerational perspective on challenging issues. It helps those who are interested and invested understand how far we have come as a community. The dialogue was unequivocally thought-provoking considering it survived my Spring Break-induced amnesia and that I am still thinking about it.

To give some context, this was a Breaking Bread event organized by the Center for Intercultural Dialogue. The event brought together students, trustees and administrators to compare their experiences with diversity at Cornell across an intergenerational landscape, over dinner. I think one incredible aspect of Breaking Bread that makes it successful is that we actually sit down and have dinner together. More importantly, we sit down and have dinner with people we would not normally be interacting with and we have conversations that don’t take place very often. A classic Breaking Bread example would be bringing together organizations as seemingly distinct like say, the Black Students Union and C.U. Hillel for a Cornbread and Challah themed dinner wherein some very meaningful conversation would ensue. The reason it works so well is because it taps at something Cornell has not leveraged enough — the potential of alliances.

At Cornell, we have impressive statistics describing diversity and inclusion. We are making impressive strides through initiatives like Global Cornell. We have organizations and safe havens for almost every interest group and committed teams brainstorming on more resources the community needs. We have numerous multicultural organizations and various efforts by student organizations towards diversity and inclusion. As a result, we have various pockets of wonderful work happening on campus but not so much work across them.

A stark reminder of how we can go so much further in terms of alliances is the fact that even today, at Cornell, it is not impossible to

A stark reminder of how we can go so much further in terms of alliances is the fact that even today, at Cornell, it is not impossible to spend four years untouched and unchanged by the potential of diversity. spend four years untouched and unchanged by the potential of diversity.

For instance, it is not unlikely to think of a freshman from a predominantly, white suburban town, who joins a fraternity or sorority in their freshman spring, and spends four years socializing within a bubble that is predominantly white, upper middle-class and heterosexual. On the other hand, it is very possible for four international students from Guangzhou to spend four years at Cornell going to classes and coming home to an apartment where everyone speaks Cantonese, which is a bubble in itself.

There are niche areas created for students from most social identities.

However, informal institutions and norms prevent students from going beyond these niche areas.

Despite all of the reports and panels on diversity and inclusion, it is still the norm that Greek Life is a way of life which is by default associated with a certain set of social identities — white, relatively well-off and heterosexual. This may sound like a blanket statement, but if one does not fit into these default identities and tries to be a part of the college “mainstream,” some adjustments need to be made that are currently glossed over. Fitting into some organizations call for Cornell’s version of “model minority” behavior. For instance, if I am a low-income, racial minority student and I join a sorority, it will strain my relationships with groups related to some aspects of my social identity and may force me to make difficult choices at some point. These are challenging issues that are products of norms and larger historical experiences. However, the only way to change norms is through formal institutions.

One way to challenge norms associated with certain aspects of campus life would be to make intercultural experiences an integral part of our curriculum. Making the Intergroup Dialogue Project a diversity requirement option for CALS is one idea that works. I make this point because it would be rather sad if 20 years later, a Cornell student ruminates about her freshman year roommate from Indonesia and realizes she never really interacted with her. This could perhaps be because she did not know what to say to her or how to relate. This fear that stems from assumptions results in so many lost opportunities. This fear can be challenged through a dedicated attempt to prioritize intercultural maturity as an aspect of the Cornell education and experience. It is something the students will thank the University for as they reflect on how Cornell brought the world to them meaningfully on a very personal level. It is something that I treasure the most about my time at Cornell, but I am aware that I am fortunate that I had the opportunity to build alliances and relationships across differences. I am also aware that these opportunities are not a given for every student at Cornell unless we shift emphasis from creating more safe havens to interactions across them.

Aditi Bhowmick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester. She may be reached at ab738@cornell.edu.

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hen I was applying campus involvement, each form a spoken word piece at a to college, I remem- senior society must grapple Bulldog Days event. The ber hearing from all with its own Big Three: eth- email described a talent show, sorts of people (counselors, nicity, wealth and geographic so I agreed. When I showed teachers, friends’ parents) that origin. This is a messy, sticky up to the event, called I was lucky to be a minority conversation to have. Seniors Mosaic, I realized that it because that would make it initially approach the society wasn’t the traditional Bulldog easier to get admitted to an tap process as a casual, fun Days talent show that I had elite school. They were refer- ordeal: Let’s make a list of attended as a prefrosh; it was ring to affirmative action, as cool, fun people we know and an event explicitly designated if to suggest that the decision ask them to hang out together for “multicultural perforon whether to admit me for a year after we graduate! mance,” meaning non-white would be based solely and The concept seems harmless, performance groups. I realbut by now, seniors under- ized that I wasn’t necessarily explicitly on my ethnicity.

In reality, affirmative stand that it’s much more invited for my talents as a writer or a performer; I was action is implemented at complicated territory. institutions across the world For decades, Yale students invited as a display of nonbecause high-achieving stu- have hailed senior societies as whiteness. They asked me to dents from disadvantaged integral to exposing oneself to perform because Yale wanted backgrounds face inordinate the range of Yale’s student to show off its diversity. I had difficulties in comparison to body. My society experience never felt more tokenized in their peers from urban areas, has facilitated invaluable my life. white families and greater friendships with people who I botched the performance. I wealth. This allows Yale to expand my worldview; but I was mortified by the premise create a student body that is still think that my group and of the event, and I didn’t feel comfortable in more represenfront of the tative of our for world.

They were referring to affirmative action, as if to audience that reason.

Entering senior society suggest that the decision on whether to admit me Though the event was tap season is a would be based solely and explicitly on my organized by mucky process some students for many reaethnicity. of color with sons, and disgood intencussions about tions, I felt race, class and uncomfortable geography play a huge role. others could do a much better incredibly Senior societies are, on the job at addressing the accessi- being showcased explicitly as whole, more representative of bility of senior societies to a non-white performer.

I realize that I walk a difficult white, wealthy students from marginalized groups. urban areas. Many argue It would be unreasonable to line between wanting to be that’s because the majority of ask every senior society to respected for my cultural Yale students fit this demo- meet exact quotas of overall background and not wanting graphic: This is simply Yale College student demo- to be defined by it. I just want graphics, especially since soci- to be treated like a person. untrue.

According to the Office of eties are intimate groups. Societies should be mindful of Institutional Research, only Oftentimes, conversations the backgrounds, identities 52 percent of Yale undergrad- about representation within and makeups of their prospecuates identify as white. This social groups revolve around tive tap groups. That means would suggest that social “adding diversity,” and by we must make a conscious groups constructed entirely “diversity,” people mean to effort to question why certain by students for other students say “non-white” students. people gain admission to a should reflect the array of White students are considered group because they’re “cool” identities and perspectives a baseline population, and while others gain admission that exist on campus. In reali- non-white students are con- because they “add diversity.” ty, senior societies do not sidered additions. Non-white reflect the diversity of Yale’s students have their own merHong is a freshman in the College its, perspectives and values Juliana campus. of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at In addition to balancing beyond meeting quotas. jhh274@cornell.edu. Guest Room interests, personalities and Last year, I was asked to per- appears periodically this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Wavves Crash at Bailey

BY JACK JONES Sun Staff Writer

I remember when Wavves’s King of the Beach came out in the summer of 2010. Wavves was the perfect band for me at the time: they had all the melody and fun of bratty pop-punk, but balanced snotty singalongs with trippier, psychedelic haze. They were somewhere between the critically-lauded experimental indie rock that I wanted to love, and the three-chord power-pop bands that I really did love. I thought they were the peak of careless cool.

Based on their performance at Bailey Hall on April 8, they’ve lost this quality. Overall, the show was pretty limp, although I’m not entirely sure how much of this was due to the venue versus the band. Wavves played a tight, if not especially energetic set, although bassist JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Steven Pope deserves praise for managing to whip his long, Zeppelin-esque hair around on-beat for the entire hour. Frontman Nathan Williams’s voice sounded a bit thinner live, but still carried the few slower songs they played. Nonetheless, the show felt dead. It didn’t help that Wavves eschewed the variety of their catalogue and played almost only one type of song — three-chord poppunk jams, which are great for about 15 minutes but after that need more contrast than Wavves provided.

I saw Wavves play in 2011 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, on a tour with Best Coast — Williams and Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast dated for years and frequently collaborated — and the setting suited them much better than Bailey did.

Wavves need a space where the audience can mosh and crowd-surf, not one where the General Admission area consists of rows of seats and the specter of an empty auditorium surrounds the show.

Williams has always walked a thin line between relatable spitefulness and outright douchery, and he leaned a bit towards the latter during the show. When he spoke to the crowd, it was always with a sort of condescending sarcasm; when he asked what the Cornell mascot is, he responded, “What the fuck are you talking about?” to somebody’s indiscernible response. Maybe all of this was part of the act, part of what Wavves can do to help keep the spirit of punk alive, but it felt more like genuine dis-

interest in the show and even in the music they had to play. None of the the members said or did much to indicate that they were there for anything more than a check at the end. The second guitarist notably did nothing except stand stock-still and play the entire time, like a terrified junior-high kid with a Fender Starcaster playing “Smoke on the Water” in a seventh-grade talent show. Even if it’s a fiction when bands pretend to be playing for the love of performing, it begins to feel like a necessary fiction when the band doesn’t pretend at all.

On the other hand, the show’s best moment was a result of the band’s irony. After concluding the show with “Green Eyes,” one of their standout songs, the sound abruptly cut to the swelling chorus of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” as the band scurried offstage. The contrast between the song’s overblown sincerity and Wavves’s sardonic coarseness was genuinely hilarious.

Wavves are often a very good band in the studio, and I know from experience that they can translate that energy into a live show. It was demoralizing to see them so out of their element, and so disinterested in trying to overcome that. Hopefully, if they come to Ithaca again, they’ll play at the Haunt, where they might put on a killer show. At Bailey, the show simply happened.

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com.

Surreal Slaps of Reality: Night Vale at the State

BY CATHERINE HWANG Sun Staff Writer

The stage at the State Theatre had a simple set-up — four microphones set up across the stage, a portion partitioned off by an arrangement table for music, a simple curtain as backdrop and speakers strategically placed to reverberate in the eardrums of the audience. Simple, neat and sensible for the live show “Ghost Stories” of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale.

Welcome to Night Vale is a bi-monthly podcast — usually airing the 1st and 15th of every month — COURTESY OF NIGHT VALE which follows the happenings of the fictional desert town of Night Vale through a community radio show hosted by a man named Cecil Gershwin Palmer (voiced by Cecil Baldwin). Started in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the podcast is extremely charming and has a dark, deadpan sort of humor. It constantly plays with the subjects of the surreal, as Night Vale is filled with the unreal and the very, very weird, from the Sheriff ’s (not so) secret police to a recently discovered civilization underground, accessible via the town’s bowling alley. The show is a pretty big deal — in

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2013, Welcome to Night Vale ranked second on iTunes’s top audio podcasts, and the show has consistently grown in popularity since its conception, with its producers appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last October.

“Ghost Stories” was decidedly very Night Vale-esque, following the podcast’s structure of occasional guest speakers and random and strange events. Cleverly structured, “Ghost Stories” captured the attention of the rapt audience; one quickly lost track of real time in trying to determine how the ghost story would finally end, and the effect was particularly amplified by the kind of spooky and science fiction-like background mus0ic by Disparition. It was particularly fantastic to see and hear radio host Cecil in person, whose voice is extremely soothing and emotive — being able to see his gestures and facial expressions evoked from the audience bursts of laughter and periods of silence that perhaps wouldn’t have been so impactful had we just been listening to the story.

“Ghost Stories” as an episode diverged from the regular show, becoming suddenly very real at times. It felt like a comical yet somehow painful punch in the gut, which might sound negative, but it’s not. The show maintained its wonderful surreal weirdness and brought a great deal

of dimension and insight to the characters, by the end by reeling us back into very real parts of the Night Vale world. With these new insights, the episode emphasized that Night Vale and its residents are surrounded by an actual sense of reality, and that their lives follow trajectories in a distinct world, even if that world is not our own.

This, I think, is an integral part of Welcome to Night Vale which makes it so interesting. The show as a whole is absurdly surreal, but it’s clever because everything is part of a long, overarching story with plot arcs, extended jokes and developing relationships. Their universe is very much defined, with authority figures and laws, notions of “normal” lives and people with definitive pasts and stories to tell, however fictional they are.

“Ghost Stories” is no different as it adds to the pieces of our desert town and indirectly points out an essential part of Welcome to Night Vale: that it is fun because it gives us a world that is vastly differently from our own, with amusing and fantastic events and silly and arguably exciting developments. It also pointed out that Welcome to Night Vale is in many ways a comical and quietly subversive commentary on our own norms. In presenting this very different reality, it frames what we perceive to be completely absurd as utterly mundane, casting existentialist tones on the ideas of “reality” and “society” themselves.

Ending on a very high note, “Ghost Stories” was whimsical and quirky to listen to. Cecil’s voice was, as usual, sonorous, deep and soothing, with that extra pizzazz that makes him so fun to listen to as he recounts the daily lives and happenings of Night Vale. As usual, the show faded out with an eclectic mix of an arrangement of sounds of computerized hums and musical instruments, with the trademark final words booming out to a rapt crowd: “Goodnight, Night Vale.”

Catherine Hwang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sh928@cornell.edu.

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oes anybody care?”, John Adams inquires of an empty congress chamber at the climax of 1776, but he may as well ask the same of a modern, post-Hamilton audience settling for the second best founding fathers musical to grace the Broadway stage. It’s impossible to talk about 1776 today without drawing immediate comparison to the groundbreaking hiphop musical that I have tried so hard to avoid talking about in a column but oh well, there it is. It was a comparison that City Center Encores! attempted to lean into with their latest revival of the classic 1969 musical, setting it in a modern context and boasting a “multiracial” cast. But is that a comparison anyone should wish to invite?

Hamilton has fostered a bit of a love-hate relationship with 1776; Lin-Manuel Miranda was clearly inspired by the classic in its personal, unabashedly human treatment of the larger-than-life figures that led the fight for independence, but he also seems to carry some degree of shame by operating in its shadow. Hamilton has tried endlessly to distance itself from what 1776 was, from its diverse cast to its hip-hop-inspired score, and has succeeded for the most part; at any rate, Miranda makes his opinions clear in Act II of Hamilton, when he bellows the best referenceinsult of the show, “Sit down, John, you fat motherfucker!” And yet, in the greatest irony of all, when the cast of Hamilton takes the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theatre — once the 46th Street Theatre — every night, they

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Sit Down,1776 walk in the footsteps of the great Ken Howard, Howard Da Silva and William Daniels, of Boy Meets Girl fame.

1776 is not a very good musical. That’s an objective fact. The score, written at the height of counterculture experimentalism in 1969, seemed positively antique as it played against shows like HAIR, an exercise in nostalgia not just for the Golden Age of Musicals 20 years past, but for what America had been before Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination and the miscellaneous tumults of the decade.

Sherman Edwards, a Brill Building pop songwriter-turned-history teacher, decided to meld his meager musical skills and his obsession with musical history into a bouncy, extremely short score — the cast recording clocks in at a cool, considerate 41 minutes, overture and all — of passable songs that sort

Sean Doolittle Pulp FictSean of all sound the same. In fact, 1776 holds the musical theatre record for most time passed between two notes played, 30 minutes early in the first act; as a popular anecdote goes, pit musicians were actually allowed to get up and leave!

1776’s saving grace is its famed book, possessing what is perhaps the greatest script in the history of musical theatre. 1776 should have been considered an excellent straight

play, encapsulating all the wit and bite of the founding fathers, but the addition of average songs diminished its quality and lent it a wonky, irreverent tone. And yet, Broadway audiences on the cusp of the nation’s bicentennial ate it up; it ran for three years and received the movie treatment, reserved for only the most popular musicals.

It makes perfect sense that City Center Encores! would want to capitalize on all of the Hamilton hype and the dearth of available tickets by reviving 1776 for the modern audience. What theatregoers received, however, was a failed approximation — a misunderstanding — of what Hamilton meant to the theatre community. While it claimed to have a “multiracial” cast comparable to Hamilton, a mere three supporting characters were played by black actors, and those that were were questionable at best and problematic at worst.

When Martha Jefferson, played by Nikki Renee Daniels, took the stage to sing the beloved “He Plays the Violin,” the audience was awestruck; casting Martha Jefferson as black seemingly ignored Thomas Jefferson’s own maligned relationship with slavery and his mistress Sally Hemmings. Later, when George Washington’s envoy is killed in the field of battle dressed in a modern hoodie — a touch of symbolism as subtle as a bat upside the head — singing the heartbreaking “Momma Look Sharp,” the casting manages

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to seem politically/racially charged and entirely apolitical at the same time, as if they knew they were trying to send some message, but weren’t entirely sure what that message was.

Instead of recasting our founding fathers as people of color and recontextualizing our history for oppressed groups, a la Hamilton, 1776 resorted to meaningless stunt casting, without a whit of thought or reason. Instead of making America’s white history accessible to every citizen, 1776 became a bit of white voyeurism. For better or worse, I don’t think we’ll be seeing more of 1776 anytime soon.

Sean Doolittle is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at sdoolittle@cornellsun.com. Pulp FictSean runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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and emotional storylines for TV. Although I don’t know, that could be what it’s really like, the best teams at my high school were probably water polo and swimming, so different worlds. Friday Night Lights was a criticallyacclaimed drama that was extremely popular and lasted for five seasons. It brought the laughs, the tears and it wasn’t cheesy. It was probably the best show about a sports team that ever aired, if you’re going by quality.

Then there’s Blue Mountain State, basically on the other end of the spectrum from Friday Night Lights. It was a raunchy, comedic take of the life of college football players whose lives are a flurry of booze, girls and football. It didn’t really focus on the actual playing of football but more on the parties the team threw, although the few scenes where they showed practices were actually pretty well done. Although it was short-lived, it was a fan favorite and got a second wind of popularity when it was released on Netflix. The show pushes the boundaries of what is “too far” for a joke, in that the answer for that

show was “nothing.” It’s hilarious, although I honestly ended up doing the equivalent of buying a dog and callcannot fathom that if those characters existed in real life, ing it a racehorse. However if you were in the mood to they would actually be capable of being fully functional watch something gymnastics related, I would highly recathletes, students or human beings. But the parties do ommend the movie Stick It. It’s much more accurate and look awesome, and part of me hopes that someone for- is just better in general. eign watches that show and Claiming a level of skill thinks it’s an accurate depicand then actually showing that It brought the laughs, the tears and it tion of how college athletics is level of skill on a show is what wasn’t cheesy. It was probably the best is tricky about doing a show like in America.

And lastly, there was Make about sports, and probably show about a sports team that ever It Or Break It, a show about why there haven’t been that aired. gymnasts that probably no many. But it would be interone has heard about, probably esting if in the future we see because it aired on the network some more shows based on the formerly known as ABC Family right after The Secret Life world of sports, because the amount of of the American Teenager. I only watched all three seasons cop/superhero/good friends just livin’ life shows are because it depicted, or tried to, the life of fictional elite becoming a bit overplayed and it would be nice to see a gymnasts. In a world full of inspirational football and change up. baseball movies (aka sports I would never play), it was nice to see some representation. And although it was terrible, I felt I had to see it through. In a bold move, the Sophia Scazzero can be reached at sscazzero@cornellsun.com. show tried to actually show a lot of skills, but basically Instant Replay runs on Mondays this semester.

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said of the play. “I had the ball in the corner and I saw Ryan out of the corner of my eye and he had his stick up and I zinged it to him and he put it in.”

Harvard responded with two goals, and again the Red faced a two-goal deficit.

About a minute and a half later, Cornell took the lead off of the trio of goals, but it would not be enough to overcome the turnovers.

Following Saturday's loss, Syracuse and its top national 10 ranking loom

on the horizon for Cornell. A win against the perennial powerhouse could be huge in the Red’s quest to earn its spot back in the national rankings.

“Monday, we don’t have much time to dwell on [today’s loss] or spend much time reviewing it,” Kerwick said. “As I told the team in the locker room, that may be the best medicine right now, just turn right around and play one of the best teams in the country.”

Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jimmy Nelson struck out nine in six-plus innings, and the Milwaukee Brewers took advantage of early wildness by Houston ace Dallas Keuchel in a 3-2 win over the Astros on Sunday.

The AL Cy Young Award winner walked four in the first inning and gave up a two-run single to Aaron Hill. Keuchel (1-1) left with two outs in the sixth with a career high-tying six walks, including an intentional pass to Ryan Braun in the fourth.

Domingo Santana added an RBI double in the fourth for rebuilding Milwaukee, which took two of three in the interleague series against the AL West contenders.

Nelson (1-1) settled down after Jose Altuve’s leadoff homer to deep left on the game's first pitch.

Preston Tucker added a solo shot in the fifth for Houston.

Jeremy Jeffress pitched a perfect ninth for his third save. The hard-throwing right-hander got the last out when Tucker hit a hard liner right into Jeffress’ glove.

Jeffress capped three shutout innings for Brewers relievers after Nelson departed following a leadoff walk in the seventh to Colby Rasmus.

The Astros had a couple late chances to bail out Keuchel.

Trailing by a run, Houston had runners on second and third with one out in the eighth after a throwing error by P Taylor Jungmann (0-0) takes the hill in St. Louis for the Cardinals' home opener. It’s the second straight season that the Brewers have been the opponent for home opener at Busch Stadium.

Jets Send Fifth Round Pick to Broncos for Left Tackle Clady and Seventh Round Pick NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets’ search for a new left tackle didn’t take long.

They announced Sunday that they agreed to terms with the Denver Broncos to acquire Ryan Clady to replace the retired D’Brickashaw Ferguson.

New York sent a fifth-round pick in this year’s draft to Denver for Clady and a seventh-rounder.

Clady also agreed to a restructured deal with the Jets, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press. He was due $9.5 million in 2016 and $10 million in 2017 as part of the five-year, $52.5 million contract signed in 2013, the largest ever for a Broncos offensive lineman. But he received a one-year contract from the Jets that’s worth $6 million in base salary, with $3 million of that guaran-

teed, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team doesn’t release terms of contracts.

The person said the deal also includes an additional option year for a minimum of $10 million that could increase to $13 million based on playing time incentives, and it includes a $2.5 million bonus if Clady remains on the roster next February. He could become a free agent next offseason, however, if the Jets do not pick up the contract option.

Clady gives the Jets a startingcaliber replacement for Ferguson, but he has often been injured. He has missed 30 of the Broncos’ last 48 games over the last three seasons.

When healthy, Clady has been one of the game's best at his

position, making four Pro Bowls since being Denver’s first-round pick out of Boise State in 2008.

“Ryan was a great Bronco who made a tremendous impact on our team during his eight seasons in Denver,” general manager John Elway said in a statement issued by the team.

“In addition to becoming a Pro Bowl player, he was such a positive presence in our locker room and community. Our organization thanks Ryan for his many contributions and wishes him all the best in the next chapter of his NFL career.”

Clady became expendable when the Broncos signed tackles Russell Okung and Donald Stephenson last month. The trade also freed up $8.9 million in salary cap space for the Super Bowl champions.

pitcher Michael Blazek. The reliever got George Springer to fly out to short center and Carlos Correa to bounce out to shortstop to escape the jam.

Tyler Thornburg struck out the last two hitters in the seventh after Rasmus moved to second on a wild pitch.

Keuchel’s control has been an early problem for Houston. The left-hander has been uncharacteristically wild to start the season, having walked four in seven innings during his season-opening, 5-3 victory last week against the Yankees.

Keuchel struck out eight and allowed six hits and three runs.

Trainer’s Room

Astros: Manager A.J. Hinch received a one-word text on Sunday from injured DH Evan Gattis.

“Ready,” Hinch said in relaying the message. Gattis, who is recovering from sports hernia surgery, is scheduled to play Monday at his rehab stint at Double-A Corpus Christi after the day off on Sunday. Team brass will discuss if Gattis will join the team for the home-opening series this week against Kansas City when the Astros return home.

Brewers: C. Jonathan Lucroy got his first day off of the season, with Martin Maldonado getting the start behind the plate.

Up Next

Astros: RHP Collin McHugh (0-1) starts Houston's home opener against the Kansas City Royals in a rematch of an AL division series last season. McHugh took the loss in the Royals’ clinching Game 5, allowing three runs in four innings.

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Turnovers Doom Cornell in Loss to Harvard

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

It was a common sight. A ball thrown just a little too high or just a little too far to the left. An easy ground ball that just did not want to go into the stick of a Cornell player. As the turnovers accumulated so did Crimson goals and the Red fell to Harvard, 12-8, in Ithaca Saturday.

After the teams combined to score just seven goals in the first half, the offenses found their rhythm in the third quarter. Harvard scored the first two in the period, but a trio of Cornell goals over a timespan of a little over two minutes pushed the Red into the lead.

Despite several opportunities to add to its advantage in the third period, Cornell was unable to hang on to the lead for long. Turnovers doomed the Red, allowing Harvard to score twice more in the third and another two through the first nine minutes of the fourth.

“I thought we turned it over on simple exchanges,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “It’s one thing when we turn it over trying to force a crease or feeding your teammate inside. We don’t mind those. But when you have a turnover that is simple on the exchange or on the perimeter, that can hurt you in a tight game.”

In that stretch of goals in the third period, sophomore midfielder Jack Bolen had the first goal, and freshman attackman Ryan Bray added his second of the game, both of the underclassmen’s goals coming on unsettled possessions. Junior face-off specialist Domenic Massimilian added one more just seven seconds after Bray’s goal, giving Cornell its first lead of the game.

Kerwick praised the effort he saw out of his team on fastbreak and unsettled situations.

“We were able to push that 6-on-5 or that 5-on-4 manadvantage,” Kerwick said. “The guys are staying in the play and are looking to try to get that one more pass and put it in the back of the net.”

Critical to the third quarter run was the face-off play from Massimilian, who won 20 of 24 face-offs on the day and scooped up 17 ground balls. His goal was the third of his career.

“Dom was outstanding,” Kerwick said. “That’s one of the best games I’ve seen him play here at Cornell, and he’s had some good ones.”

Massimilian currently ranks in the top 10 in face-off win percentage and ranks second ground balls per game in the nation.

“Dom’s been big for us all year,” said senior midfielder John Edmonds. “Fortunately for us, our mindset is to go

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Ivy blues | For the third time this season, the Red lost to an in-conference opponent. With just one Ivy League win this season, a shot at the Ivy title is in doubt.

out, score and Dom will get it back.”

Massimilian did that all game, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough for the Red to pull off the victory over its Ivy League rival.

Following Cornell’s flurry of goals, Harvard scored four unanswered to give the Crimson a 10-7 lead with 10:06 left in the game.

Junior midfielder Andrew Keith broke the Crimson scoring streak with a bouncing shot that found the top of the net, cutting the Harvard lead to two with 4:11 to play.

But the Crimson took advantage of the Red’s sloppy play and 10-man ride and netted two more goals to finish off the victory, dropping Cornell to 1-3 in Ivy League play.

“Overall, I was really pleased with the effort,” Kerwick said. “I thought the guys played as hard as they could. Our execution wasn’t great at times.”

Harvard got on the board first after Cornell tried to double team Harvard’s Cheek Morgan. Morgan passed out of the double team, finding an open Will Walker who scored the first goal of the game.

The Red tied it up four minutes later off of Edmonds’

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11th goal of the season.

After a stretch of back-and-forth play with men from both teams making the trip up and down the field multiple times, the Crimson finally ended the track meet when Walker gave Harvard back the lead on an unsettled situation coming.

Kerwick has stressed the importance of fastbreak goals all season and said the team has made strides in scoring more goals in these unsettled situations.

“We’ve been pushing transition in practice and we’ve been trying to generate more opportunities there,” Kerwick said. “I think the guys are getting more comfortable with it.”

Cornell would add one more goal in the half, going into the break down by one.

The Red tied up the score in the third period when Edmonds found Bray on the crease for a smooth one-timer goal.

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Dartmouth the ball back a few times.

“Today we could have shot the ball a bit better, I think we were a little undisciing her,” Graap said. “I thought she really plined, false starting on the eight-meter handled that well and got the ball into the and going off sides once,” Graap said. “I would say mistakes like those are uncharacattacking end.”

Graap noted that a key to success is bal- teristic for this team normally. Today, the ancing the playing time of older, more expe- emotion of the moment got to us and we rienced players with the necessity of playing did not execute as sharply. It will never be underclassmen who need to gain that expe- perfect, but I’m glad we kept fighting the whole game.” rience.

With the Red’s fourth in-conference win “We’ve had a few injuries unfortunately in the books, the women in the sophomore class, look to their next contests but I think the young “Today, the emotion of against Penn State and players are starting to take the field and play the moment got to us and Princeton.

“Penn State is a great with maturity,” Graap we did not execute as rival for us and I am looksaid. “As we move foring forward to that game, ward, there’s no doubt sharply.” but the Princeton game that the leadership of will be right on the heels,” the upper class is helpJenny Graap Graap said. “Princeton ing us, but I’m pleased won the conference last that we’re getting strong contributions from sophomores and fresh- year; they’re a team that even in the year we went all the way to the Final Four, they were men as well. It feels pretty balanced.”

The women’s team has never looked national champs. They seem like they’ve stronger thus far, according to Graap, but been a step ahead of us at times even when the coach emphasized that there is plenty of we’re having a great year.”

Both the Penn State and Princeton room to improve.

“Even though our record looks great, I matchups will be away. The Red faces the would say we’re far from perfect,” Graap Nittany Lions on Wednesday at Penn State said. “Some of our execution, notably in our Lacrosse Field followed by Tigers on game against Maryland over spring break, Saturday at Sherrerd Field.

“The game against Princeton means a showed the areas where we absolutely have lot,” Graap said. “It’s on their home field, to improve.”

Despite the great final score, the Red did and I think we need to be fired up and ready falter in a few areas. There were a number a because it’s going to be a fight.” turnovers where the defense was not delivering the ball as accurately as they should to Tobe Attah can be reached at tattah@cornellthe next level of the team, giving sun.com.

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In addition to pitching six innings and giving up one run, New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom also drove in a run in the Mets’ lost to the Phillies.

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W. Polo Secures Second National Title

Down two goals late,Cornell pulls off comeback to defeat Texas A&M

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

For the second time in two years, the Cornell women’s polo team won the national championship. Seeded first overall in the national tournament hosted by the UConn, Cornell defeated Cal Poly along with Texas A&M en route to its remarkable 15th USPA Intercollegiate National Title. The men’s team also traveled to nationals after a surprisingly dominant season, but lost to the UVA in a tough semifinal matchup.

As the No. 1 overall seed, Cornell drew No. 4 Cal Poly in the semifinal and defeated them by a score of 18-10, in what was an impressive Wednesday tune-up match before the finals.

Senior Anna Winslow tallied 11 goals for the Red, and junior Emma Eldredge added four.

Texas A&M’s shootout victory over UVA Wednesday afternoon set up a Saturday meeting between the Red and the Aggies for the title.

After a few days of rest, Cornell was back in action on Saturday. The Red looked fresh and jumped out to an early lead, closing the first chukker up, 4-2. After a back-and-forth second, Cornell took a 7-5 lead into the half. Texas A&M came back in the third, though, and a four goal swing gave the Aggies a critical 10-8 advantage going into the decisive chukker. With all eyes on Storrs, Connecticut, the Red rallied and put up five straight goals to open the period.

“Composure,” said head coach David Eldredge ’81 when asked what made the difference going into the fourth. “We spoke [between chukkers] about their focus on our game plan and their execution.”

It certainly paid off. The Aggies got one back late in the fourth, but Cornell held on for the 13-11 victory. Seniors Winslow and Elena Wicker led the way in scoring with six goals apiece.

Cornell did have high expectations for the season in defending its title, but the team’s coach was still quite proud of the Red’s accomplishment and the way in which the women went about it.

“The women set their goal and achieved it with sportsmanship and honor,” Eldridge said. “I’m very proud of their composure and dedication to their challenge… Their mental toughness was evident throughout the whole year.”

The Cornell men, coming off of a regional title, faced off against UVA on Thursday night in the national semifinal but were unable to close the Cavaliers out in the fourth chukker, losing 13-10 when all was said and done. The Red led, 10-8, after three chukkers, but in a similar turn of events to the women’s championship, UVA rallied for five straight.

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Galloping to gold | The Red earned its 15th national title in program on Saturday by defeating Texas A&M.

Eldredge, also the men’s coach, felt that the Red had its fair share of bad luck in the final chukker.

“We couldn’t buy a bounce of the ball,” Eldredge said. “You have to have some good luck to win along with skill.”

Still, his team’s defiance of all odds throughout the year left him extremely proud.

“The men exceeded expectations and blew my mind in what they accomplished this year,” he said. “Literally, they had half the experience of their opponents, but because of their dedication and belief in themselves and their coach, they succeeded … It was kind of awe inspiring.”

The men will look to make it all the way next season, while the women have their sights set on a three-peat.

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

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The Cornell women’s lacrosse team continued its impressive season, avenging its loss to Dartmouth last year, winning 125 on Saturday. The No. 20 Red (9-1, 4-0 Ivy), remains a top ranked team among other NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse teams.

“It has been a great spring so far. 2016 has really been special,” said head coach Jenny Graap. “I would definitely attribute a lot of our success to the eight seniors.

The class of 2016 has really set the goals for the team. They want

to win, they’re committed, dedicated and even in today’s effort against Dartmouth, I think the seniors really led the way.”

The senior class certainly geared up for this Ivy League game, according to Graap. The effort from the seniors produced the widest margin of victory against Dartmouth since 2002, when the Red overtook the Green by eight goals.

Graap praised the effort from the seniors, notably Emily Tripodi at attack and Brittany Marriott and Catherine Moubayed for their defense of Dartmouth’s Jaclyn Leto. Moubayed also netted her first career goal.

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Ivy undefeated | With a dominant victory over Dartmouth, Cornell moves to 4-0 in the conference.

“I just can’t say enough about the eight seniors,” Graap said.

“They really have led this team successfully and I think the best is yet to come.”

Along with the strong upperclassmen core, the Red also possesses a well-developed pool of younger talent. Most of the goals scored in Saturday’s game were either from juniors or sophomores.

“I think our juniors are doing quite well.” Graap said. “Catie Smith in the back field has really been outstanding and consistent for us throughout, our junior goalie Renee Poullott is so strong in the net for us. And then you turn to the midfield with Kristy Gilbert and the juniors on offense like Catherine Ellis and Amie Dickson.”

The sophomores and freshmen had some key moments of playing time as well. Sophomore Joey Coffy initiated the scoring by putting the Red ahead 1-0 just 1:30 into the contest. No freshmen put any points on the board, but Graap recognized their efforts on offense.

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iven the amount of TV shows there are these days, I’m a little surprised more don’t take a deeper look into the lives of athletes. Based off of just my experience and what I have witnessed in my 16 years as a gymnast, there are so many things that would make for great entertainment (although there has already been a show about gymnastics, but I’ll get to that in a minute.) But then again, maybe there aren’t that many shows because their target audience would probably be watching an actual sports game instead — I don’t know though, I haven’t crunched the numbers yet. But still, I think there is some great material in the world of sports that would make for some pretty compelling TV. There were a few sports shows in the past few years, even

though now they are all now currently off the air. The three that come to my mind are, Friday Night Lights, Blue Mountain State and Make It Or Break It. The first thing about these shows is that they are all wildly different each

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay other. One being a very well done drama based off of a nonfiction book of the same title, one an Animal House type comedy and one that is just bad.

Out of these three, Friday Night Lights was definitely the most accurate to real life. The show was a portrayal of a real high school football team in Texas, with some added drama and emotional storylines for See SCAZZERO page 15