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Community on Ho Plaza | Students gather at a vigil organized by Japan United-States Association to reflect on the death of Peiran “Joyce” Shi ’19.

Students Share Memories, Reflect at Vigil

By ANNA DELWICHE

was a model of.”

Shi was known by many Cornellians for her dedication and passion to a variety of different disciplines. Eric Shen Following the death of Peiran “Joyce” Shi ’19, ’20 recalled seeing Shi in the mornings before their physics Cornellians huddled together in a semicircle in the middle class, always working on a different subject. of campus as they shared their memories and reflected on Though he admitted that this dedication originally Shi’s legacy as they look forward. intimidated him, as he grew to know her better, he said he Japan United-States Association — an organization Shi then “realized that how colorful she was and how intense was an active member she was going after of — held the vigil everything she could “Joyce would really inspire me to really keep an Wednesday afternoon and trying to do everyopen mind to the cultures around us.” in remembrance of thing.”

Shi, offering CornelHer diverse acadeJulie Chen ’18 lians an open space to mic passions made Shi speak freely as they truly embody the fungrapple the loss of a community member. damental goal of Cornell’s liberal arts college for Shen.

Togo Tamura ’19, president of JUSA and one of the “As a fellow member of Arts and Sciences, when I organizers of the vigil, gave opening remarks, speaking to thought of what our college tries to stand for, she was really the commitment Shi brought to the organization and the every part of it,” Shen said. “She had a bit of art, she had a legacy she left behind. bit of science, she was diverse, she was inclusive.”

“She was the epitome of diversity and inclusion,” Alex Hutchins ’19 described the way Shi carried these Tamura said. “I know that what I can do now is keep smil- passions outside the classroom as a way of forming connecing like how she was smiling and continue accepting others tions with her community. and continuing opening my perspective toward other perspectives. And embody the diversity and inclusion that she See VIGIL page 3 Sun News Editor

Faculty Senate Addresses Financial Aid

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

The Faculty Senate gathered to discuss policies revising financial aid policies, redressing imbalances in judicial proceedings and reaffirming academic freedom on Wednesday afternoon.

Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and chair of the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group, presented a summary of AFAWG recommendations surrounding the issues of fairness and financial sustainability.

“In general, our charges are to monitor admissions policies at Cornell and to monitor over time, financial aid policies procedures at Cornell, both with the aim of maintaining

high quality undergraduate student body access and inclusion to a Cornell education and doing this all within the constraints of Cornell’s resources,” Knuth said.

In terms of fairness, Knuth said this was the “notion of considering the extent See FACULTY page 4 ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Faculty Senate | Barbara Knuth presents a summary from AFAWG.

About 14 months after he was arrested and charged with first degree attempted rape, Wolfgang Ballinger ’17, the former Cornell fraternity president whose arrest made international headlines, was sentenced Tuesday to six years of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor sex offense.

After the victim read a scathing, graphic statement in court, Tompkins County Judge Joseph Cassidy imposed the maximum sentence possible under a plea deal reached between Ballinger and the prosecutor’s office.

The former School of Hotel Administration student and Psi Upsilon president pleaded guilty to forcible touching in February as part of a plea deal that prosecutors said was reached in consultation with the victim.

“This was a decision that BALLINGER ’17 our office took very seriously and with great care, and most importantly with many consultations with [the victim] and her family,” Assistant District Attorney Eliza Filipowski said.

“A victim does not always need to subject herself to that type of scrutiny,” Filipowski said of a trial in which the victim would have to testify, adding that, without the plea deal, the victim would have “nightmares of that scrutiny for years to come.”

The victim, a Cornell student whose name The Sun is withholding, said in court that Ballinger had continued to touch her as she repeatedly said “no.”

“I just wanted it to stop,” she said. “Even a president of a top fraternity is not allowed to violate whoever they please without permission.”

In addition to the six years of probation, Ballinger is also banned from coming in contact with the victim until 2020 and will have to pay $1,250 to the court in fines and surcharges. He will not have to register as a sex offender.

The sex offense occurred in the Psi Upsilon fraternity at 2 Forest Park Ln. on Jan. 31, 2016, when See BALLINGER page 5

STEM Alumnae Honored

By ANNE SNABES Sun Staff Writer

With STEM advancements popping up all over campus and even in New York City, Cornell alumnae are adding laurels to the University’s reputation for excellence in the field. The Profiles in Diversity Journal has recently named two Cornell alumnae as “Women Worth Watching in STEM.” The two women — Anita Meiklejohn ’81 and Lauren Degnan ’92 — work as attorneys for Fish and Richardson, a

globally recognized patent and intellectual property law firm.

Meiklejohn majored in chemistry at Cornell and Degnan majored in mechanical engineering; both use their STEM backgrounds in their current work.

Meiklejohn and Degnan were among the 45 women who received the award in February, according to press release made by PDJ. “Collectively, these leaders are breaking barriers for women See STEM page 5

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Undergrad-Led Course Crushes Enrollment Expectations

By KATHERINE HEANEY and RUBY YU Sun Staff Writers

Though Cornell may be well known for its distinguished professors, this semester a course taught entirely by undergraduate students has redefined the traditional class environment for the University, tripling its expected enrollment and encouraging greater passion in data science among students.

The Cornell Data Science Training Program is a onecredit course offered Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Gates Hall G01. The five undergraduate members of the Cornell Data Science Project Team — Chase Thomas ’19, Dae Won Kim ’17, Jared Lin ’20, Amit Mizrahi ’19 and Kenta Takatsu ’19 — lead the class as instructors.

According to the instructors, they originally planned to launch their course to approximately 40 people, but now have over 150 students enrolled.

“During the first lecture, there wasn’t even enough room to seat everyone,” Mizrahi said. “People were sitting in the aisles. But I guess that was a good problem to have.”

“We met over Skype almost every day over winter break working on the course,” Kim said. “There has been some element of trial and error. We have had to revise slides and instructions that are unclear or too dense. It has been a learning experience for us in how give a lecture and different teaching styles.”

The instructors distinguish their course by focusing on implementation. In fact, students were writing code within the first week.

“Many other data science classes at Cornell teach the theory and the math behind it, but there isn’t really a practical hands-on approach that starts with coding,” Mizrahi said.

This hands-on approach allows the students to gain exposure to data and computer science quickly, even if they

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Meet the professors | The Data Science class with five undergraduate teachers meets at Gates Hall every Wednesday.

have never taken a course of this sort before.

While it is recommended that students take Computer Science 1110: Introduction to Computing Using Python, there is no prerequisite for the course. Students of any class year and major are eligible, even if they have no prior experience with data science.

“The course serves as a gateway to data science for underclassmen or those who may not have that much prior

experience,” Kim said.

“There are even masters students enrolled,” Thomas added.

The teaching process also allowed the instructors themselves to benefit from the course.

“Teaching reinforced our own knowledge,” Kim said.

“I’ve gone back to study the material more so that I am able to better explain it to others.”

Although they experienced minor setbacks in their endeavors, the instructors are beyond satisfied of their progress.

“Since this is our first time teaching the course, we have encountered obstacles such as inconsistencies in assignments,” Kim admitted. “However, we are learning and are overall very happy with where this class has gone.”

Moving forward, the instructors aim to diversify their curriculum and offer more courses.

“We currently teach the computer language R in this course, but we want to expand to Python as well,” Lin said.

“In the future, we hope to create more classes,” Thomas added. “We have so many ideas that rather than asking ourselves ‘what can we do?’ it’s ‘which should we pursue?’”

The team of instructors has received praise not only from the undergraduate student body, but recognition from the College of Engineering.

“Our core team actually received the Albert R. George Student Team Award for our leadership in creating this training program and for the speed with which it was done,” said Thomas.

The course will be offered next semester, but will not be available on Student Center during pre-enrollment.

Students will be able to register for the course during the add-drop period in August.

Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun.com.

Ruby Yu can be reached at ryu@cornellsun.com.

Is Christianity Inclusive of Homosexuality? Vigil Celebrates Shi

By KYLA CHASALOW

boxes.”

He added that “it is our job, as 21st century interpreters of these traIf Jesus were alive in 2017, would ditions, to privilege, in the Bible and he be hanging out at a gay bar? in the Christian tradition, those eleThat’s what a group of reverends, ments that are inclusive and univerprofessors and students discussed at a salist.” panel titled “Christianity and/or/verPanelists Hutton and Ninan both sus Homosexuality” this Tuesday. took a different stance, arguing that “One of the problems in homosexuality is a sin. They also American culture today is we tend to pointed to a misplaced emphasis on speak about groups that we differ homosexuality over other sins. with. We don’t speak to groups that “The Bible says way more about we differ with,” said Reverend pride, greed, love of money and lust Santosh Ninan in his opening than it does about homosexuality,” remarks.

Ninan said.

Ninan’s statement voiced the Hutton elaborated on this view, panel’s overall grouping everyone theme of encouragas “sexual sinners,” ing “exposure to “Jesus is supremely and with the sin associdiverse viewpoints unapologetically queer ... ated with homowithin the sexuality as one Jesus is the Christian tradiamong other sins, tion.” original queer gangster.” including divorce The panel and sex outside Prof. Michael Ferguson brought together marriage. six panelists from a “Yes, I think variety of Christian that homosexual backgrounds to discuss their views on sex, homosexual lust is sinful, but homosexuality and its place in the then I want to be quick to rope Christian faith. In responding to a myself and everyone in this room to series of questions posed by a student say, ‘you know, we’re all in that moderator, they voiced differing boat,’” he said. “We’re all sexual sinviews on homosexuality that some- ners in need of forgiveness and times conflicted with each other. redemption.”

The panel featured Reverends For this reason, Hutton stressed David Kaden, Santosh Ninan, and the importance of increasing “empaDavid McMullin, associate director thy and understanding” and a way of of Cornell United Religious Work. It balancing between “endorsing homoalso featured Prof. Michael Ferguson, sexuality outright and hating homohuman development, Brian sexuals,” he said.

Patchcoski, associate dean and direcNinan expanded on this theme of tor of the Cornell LGBT Resource “empathy and understanding” in the Center, and Ben Hutton ’08, a vol- context of the evolution of his views unteer with Campus Crusade for on homosexuality and faith.

Christ/Cornell Cru. He said that despite his under“If Jesus were in our midst, he standing of homosexuality as a sin, he would absolutely be hanging out in wants there to be a church “commugay bars and walking in pride parades nity that will open their arms, homes because this is the same guy who in and hearts to welcome same-sex our tradition is God in flesh. This is attracted men and women.” the same guy who embraced people “I grew up with heterosexual privoutside the mainstream,” Kaden said. ilege … but God in his grace allowed “Jesus could think outside of tight me to become friends with two gay

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men in my early 20s. Listening to them and their stories was life changing. I’m ashamed that I carried those homophobic and evil feelings in my heart, but as a Christian, I believe that God forgives,” Ninan said.

As indicated by its title, “Christianity and/or/versus Homosexuality,” the panel also addressed whether Christianity and homosexuality need be viewed as potentiallyconflicting, binary entities.

On this question, Ferguson argued against the Christianity or homosexuality view.

“It is our universal spiritual calling to first, take up the cross and second, queer it,” he said.

“Jesus is supremely and unapologetically queer,” he added. This is a being whose coming out story violates the boundary between virginity and pregnancy, divinity and humanity, spirit and flesh … Jesus is the original queer gangster.”

Reverend McMullin also argued against a binary view, saying the two concepts ought not to be viewed as antithetical.

“I didn’t like the idea of Christianity and homosexuality referred to as an issue and as if there is only one Christianity that exists and as if that word ‘homosexuality’ somehow or other indicates a whole variety of the ways people see life and engage in the way that they love one another,” he said.

Ultimately, the panel was, as Ninan said, a “civil dialogue,” of people speaking to each other from different backgrounds about issues on which they sometimes disagreed.

Reflecting on the value of the panel, Ferguson concluded that in creating a sort of “conversation place,” people can learn to accept their differences. And in doing so, he said “we can go to each other’s churches and worship the same God afterwards.”

Shi’s interest in Japanese culture led her to JUSA and her friendship with Hutchins, who recalled that when they spoke, she “would always say some random fact she had learned about Japan to me,” he said.

Hutchins admitted that he is now “at a loss,” realizing just how unique these interactions were.

He described that talking with Shi was talking to someone who “as soon as they meet you, walk up to you and start engaging with you and there’s no social barrier there that prevents someone from talking about something they’re passionate about,” he said.

“I think that was what was really great about her,” Hutchins added. “She quickly engaged with you about something in which you shared a connection.”

For some students at the vigil, the sudden loss provided a valuable lesson moving forward in their relationships.

“It really makes you bring the perspective to really treasure each and every person in your life because you could lose them at any moment,” said Julie Chen ’18.

“Joyce would really inspire me to really keep an open mind to the cultures around us, how everyone’s different and never frown, always smile even when you run into obstacles.”

At 5:30 p.m., students shared a moment of silence with the bells of the clocktower tolling in the background, reflecting on what their classmates had just shared.

In planning the event, the organizers originally hoped to allow the community to light candles for the vigil. Because the wind prevented this, students instead arranged the candles in a heart for Shi around the insignia of the plaza with flowers in the center of the heart. For the moment of silence, students formed a circle around Shi’s heart.

While the wind whipped across Ho Plaza, the students gathered under the bright sun in the late afternoon. The stark change in weather from the rain just a couple weeks before stood out to Shen and reminded him of Shi as he returned to campus this week.

“The one thing that I did realize after I did come back was: when we left for spring break, it was dark, cold, rainy, gloomy,” Shen said. “But when we came back, I was surprised because it was literally spring. It was warm. There was color in Ithaca. And the weather was perfect. And it hit me once I thought about that, that maybe this was her last present: to leave us with all of her colors.”

Kyla Chasalow can be reached at kec89@cornell.edu.

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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Faculty Debates J.A. Protocol

Senate discusses possible breach of confidentiality by student FACULTY

“This was a much more serious violation of the code of conduct than what the central administration has charged Mitch McBride with to which undergraduate financial aid programs doing,” he said. fairly distribute resources across … the student Bensel went on to emphasize the important body that is demonstrated to have need.” role of the faculty senate in deliberating on these To increase fairness, the committee recom- types of issues. mended widening the income bands for how “What I want to to see us do is not be afraid maximum loans in the annual financial aid or hesitant about bringing these issues before packages are set. These income bands have not our body,” he said. “If we are going to have our been changed appreciably since they were set up conscience and our soul in this University, you in 2008-09, according to Knuth. will not find it in the central administration.

In terms of financial sustainability, Knuth The only place you are going to find it is here. said that this process involved evaluating cost That’s the reason why this resolution is imporcontrol options that Cornell could consider in tant.” case of another economic downturn like the one The resolution will be put to a vote next that occurred in the 2009-12 period. month, and Bensel said it is only a small step in Knuth added “a caveat that none of those redressing the balance between the central options may in fact be implemented if one, administration and the rights and liberties of there isn’t a serious economic downturn like we students. experienced several years ago or if the provost “Whether or not it passes, I urge the faculty and University leadership would decide on dif- senate to become a more open deliberative body ferent revenue or cost streams to achieve the cost in which the area of issues such as these becomes control and not our normal practice,” he touch the finan- “McBride faces a proceeding which was said. cial aid policy Finally, Prof.

Risa and procedures Lieberwitz, industrial and initiated by an official who no longer that we have.” labor relations, elaborated takes responsibility for the allegation.” on the reasoning behind a In addition, Prof.

Richard resolution endorsing a stateProf. Richard Bensel Bensel, government on academic freedom ment, brought that will be voted on next up a resolution that “requests that proceedings month. Lieberwitz was one of six senators coin which a senior administrator prosecutes a sponsoring this piece of legislation. member of the Cornell community be open and According to Lieberwitz, this resolution public if the defendant requests that they be holds its importance particularly due to the curopen and public.” rent political climate.

This resolution is in response to a current “The immediate impetus for having a statecase involving Mitchell McBride ’17, in which ment on academic freedom and asking the senthe senior vice provost filed a complaint with ate to endorse it has to do with the political clithe Office of the Judicial Administrator due to a mate we find ourselves in,” she said. “Given the possible breach of confidentiality in his position stress people have felt in academia and elsewhere as a student member of the AFAWG. However … following the election of Donald Trump, she was then told that the complaint could not there’s been a concern with the unleashing of be withdrawn when she tried to do so. McBride some real attacks on academics as well as other is also deprived of counsel during the proceed- kinds of attacks and an increasing chilling effect ings. on individuals in universities … that would “As a result, McBride faces a proceeding include faculty as well as staff and students.” which was initiated by a senior administration Given these circumstances, Lieberwitz said official who longer takes responsibility for the that they thought it was a good idea not only to allegation,” Bensel said. “The substantive issue get Cornell to reaffirm its commitment to acadin the McBride case is whether a verbal order by emic freedom but also to look over its current a senior administration official in an informally policies and determine if they need to be organized working group binds all the partici- revised. pants to confidentiality.”

“So to some extent, there’s absolutely nothing The same senior administration official sent controversial about this, and that’s good news,” an email to all graduate students the night Lieberwitz said. before the unionization election even though he said it was an explicitly forbidden action, Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com. according to Bensel.

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Alumnae Named ‘Women Worth Watching’ STEM

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Degnan majored in mechanical engineering; both use their STEM backgrounds in their current work.

Meiklejohn and Degnan were among the 45 women who received the award in February, according to press release made by PDJ. “Collectively, these leaders are breaking barriers for women in STEM careers and we are honored to recognize them as well as the companies supporting them,” said James Rector, PDJ publisher, in the press release. “Supporting women in STEM is an essential part of a worldwide strategy to innovate, educate and build a more connected world.”

Dengan has noticed the gender gap in STEM since her undergraduate education. When Dengan attended an orientation event for Cornell, she learned that her engineering class was 25 percent women.

She admitted that while this percentage was “a remarkably high number back then,” engineering “historically has been more of a male-dominated field,” something she sees still today in her work. “[In] the world of patent law and patent litigation … there’s a huge benefit of having a technical background, like I have,” she said. “We find in patent-law and patent litigation is also rather maledominated. The editors [of PDJ] saw some value in seeing a woman of my background in patent litigation.”

Dengan added that recently when she worked on a case with a U.K. start-up company, she was able to able to collaborate and connect with another woman in a male-dominated environment.

“The genius behind the technology of this startup company was a women, a physicist,” she said. “She had come up with this truly pioneering invention and had tried to commercialize it. Meanwhile lots of people were likely using her pioneering invention.”

“She said that she knows that in her line of business, women have to be much better than the men to be treated equal,” Degnan continued. “It was like we had a bonding moment that we both had come up in tech fields that were male-dominated.

Meiklejohn said that her work involves talking with clients who have developed new inventions. The work additionally includes a lot of writing, and

Meiklejohn helps more junior lawyers write patent applications for clients.

Meiklejohn said there is a “preponderance of one gender” in patent law. One element that allowed her to advance in her field was that she started working at her firm at the same time as another woman.

“The men at my firm are great, I never felt like I wasn’t being taken seriously, but still it was largely men I was surrounded by,” she said. “It was great to have a woman who started the same day I did in my exact same practice area.”

Her husband also contributed to her career advancement by working part-time, which allowed Meiklejohn more time to devote to advancing in the firm.

“When we had a second child, my husband went to working part-time for many, many years — 16 years — which really helped me climb the ladder in the firm, because it gave me the flexibility to travel, and do other things I needed to do to get ahead,” she said. “Honestly, that was a huge boost to my career. It would have been a lot tougher for me if he hadn’t done that.”

Having a strong mentor additionally played a major role in Meiklejohn’s advancement.

“This mentor who was important to me was a man, not a woman,” she said. “A lot of women think, ‘well I need a woman to be a mentor,’ and in my office, there just wasn’t a senior woman that I clicked with.”

She said her mentor provided her with “great opportunities” and that some women “limit” themselves by only considering female mentors.

“He gave me chances to work on things that were really challenging and he also was someone who was so good at what he did that he inspired me to do my best work,” she continued.

The award has caused Meiklejohn to reflect on the accomplishments of women in her firm, as they have received many awards in recent years.

“We’ve got some great women in our firm who are doing great things and these different awards reflect that,” she said. “We should be proud of it, and we should hold our heads up.”

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

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Ballinger was 21.

In February 2016, Ballinger was arrested and charged with first-degree attempted rape, firstdegree criminal sex act and sexual misconduct, all felonies. He was indicted four months later on one felony charge, first-degree sexual abuse.

The reduction in charges “speaks volumes” about the case, Ballinger’s lawyer said in court on Tuesday as she requested community service for the former Cornell student.

“My client would like to see good come out of this rather than just his name being forever associated with rape,” the attorney, Sarah Wesley, said, asking the judge to assign her client between 500 and 1,000 hours of community service.

Judge Cassidy rejected that argument and instead imposed the maximum sentence allowed by the plea deal.

“The victim here makes allegations of horrendous criminal conduct by the defendant,” Cassidy said. “The facts or the details … in this case are not going to be heard by a jury.

Cassidy said it is understandable that a victim or prosecutor would not want to take the case to trial, which would be open to the public.

“That’s the nature of our system,” he said.

The victim said Ballinger had introduced himself to her that night using a fake name and proceeded to sexually and psychologically abuse her.

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t seems like it just keeps getting worse.

Just in the past week we’ve heard news that the Great Barrier Reef is in a terminal stage of its existence, a doctor has been beaten senselessly because he would not give up the seat he paid for, a shooting has occurred in a San Bernardino elementary school and sarin gas has been deployed against the people of Syria.

And when I thought the atrocities were over, new and horrifying allegations have arisen that the Chechen Republic has rounded up 100 gay men and interned them in concentration camps.

Not only have they been detained, but also allegedly tortured and in some instances murdered. Disturbingly, even if these claims turned out to be false, a spokesperson for Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, denied that these events have happened because, “You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” meaning that the government believes (or wants to believe) that homosexuality does not exist in their perfect, glorious republic. The statement is beyond chilling; it is reminiscent of statements given by governments that committed genocides in the past.

As someone whose family lived in Germany during Hitler’s reign, news like this is dismaying to say the absolute least.

I remember learning in school about the horrors of the Holocaust, and always there was a narrative that the world would never let this happen again. But it does. It happens all the time. It happened in Cambodia, it happened Rwanda, it happened in Bosnia. It still happens today; there are concentration camps in North Korea right now to which the regime sends anyone who speaks up against the police state.

And now it may be happening in Chechnya. A hundred men may not seem like that many compared to the thou-

sands to millions killed in other pogroms, but it always starts small, and any number is too many. Because if left unchecked, this could become another massacre led by another idiot in a military outfit and the world can feel guilty because it meant well but did nothing to intervene.

I don’t know how to address this alleged human rights violation in Chechnya, any more than I did with the use of chemical weapons in Syria. What I will say is this: don’t stop feeling outraged. I know how nauseating it is to keep up with the news, especially with the polarizing climate today. It would be so easy to just turn off your computer, put down the newspaper and focus on our own lives and days. But we can’t do that, because to be silent is to be complicit. You should be feeling disgust, sadness and rage after reading the news, which means you’re able to empathize. And while it can be unbelievably frustrating to feel so powerless when reading about these atrocities, it’s better than feeling apathetic.

Because that is truly a risk we run in the information age. With the internet, it takes only a few clicks to come across something horrendous, and that can mean we get used to it. In the age of 24/7 news, we are often given little time to process what we just heard. But if we stop feeling anger, if we turn our backs on these stories because they make us feel bad, we’ve given up and left these people to die and those abuses will be as good as forgotten I don’t know how to solve the issues we face today (I doubt many people do), but that does not give us license to stop caring.

Soren Malpass is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smalpass@cornellsun.com. Sorenity Now appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Politicizing Our Superheroes

From Captain America to social contract theory

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mericans love their superhero blockbusters — and what’s not to love? It’s two hours of CGI explosions, men with objectively perfect bodies and feel-good endings reaffirming that good always triumphs over evil. Just as the Ancient Greeks had Hector and Achilles, we have Batman and Superman.

They are flawed and often complicated characters, but ultimately they represent a higher societal virtue that can be universally admired. For Odysseus, it was his tremendous intellect and unparalleled wit; for Captain America, his dedication to country and perfectly linear

arguing that a central authority is necessary to regulate and monitor all people from their brutish disposition.

Therefore, he binds to this idea of moral subjectivism and of a Hobbesian social contract, in which all people sacrifice individual rights for the sake of the state.

Captain America finds himself aligning with consequentialist libertarian and Kantian deontologist thought — that our individual liberties are greater than the state itself, especially when the actions of the state contradict our individual notions of moral correctness.

More specifically, he finds that despite

Most summer flicks are a few hours of escapism in the form of uncomplicated Hollywood drama. When I spend $10 to watch Ride Along 2, I don’t necessarily want to see Kevin Hart and Ice Cube delve into deep debates over how we should fix the gender wage gap or the two-state solution in the Middle East. abdominal muscles.

However, it is because these superheroes represent the greater values of our society that they can become symbols of our politics. It is interesting that superhero movies have become modern political allegories. Most people don’t go to the movie theaters for profound philosophical discussion on Locke and the social contract. Rather, most summer flicks are a few hours of escapism in the form of uncomplicated Hollywood drama. When I spend $10 to watch Ride Along 2, I don’t necessarily want to see Kevin Hart and Ice Cube delve into deep debates over how we should fix the gender wage gap or the two-state solution in the Middle East (on that note, I don’t particularly want to see Kendall Jenner tackle police brutality in a commercial for soft drinks either). However, superhero films can be the perfect medium for philosophical examination. There is usually a clear delineation between the good and the bad guy. But once you break this binary, it presents fundamental questions on age-old moral dilemmas: what is good, what is bad; who gets to decide what is good or bad?

Take the most recent installation in the Marvel series, Captain America: Civil War. After the catastrophic destruction wrought by Earth’s mightiest heroes in The Avengers, the U.S. government and the United Nations pass legislation to register and regulate the actions of the Avengers. As a result, the Avengers splinter into two teams: Team A is led by Iron Man, Team B by Captain America. Tony Stark believes that government and civilian oversight is necessary for the future of the Avengers, while Captain America asserts that his own convictions and loyalties trump the ever-changing agendas of institutions. Such division raises basic political and philosophical questions on the social contract and civil liberties.

Tony Stark’s logic follows that of Thomas Hobbes — he rejects Captain America’s staunch adherence to his moral compass,

the potential political and civilian ramifications, it is his good will that is more important than the consequences of his actions.

Furthermore, these movies can also become pertinent political statements on more contemporary issues in American political discourse. Civil War directly harkens back to the Bush administration — a time in which the freshly signed PATRIOT Act sought to surveil citizens for the sake of national security and when public opinion on the Iraq War deviated from Washington’s actions.

Similarly, the recent release of Logan is particularly cogent in these early days of the Trump administration. The film, which takes place on the Southwest border of the United States, traces a very similar parallel between the treatment of mutants and Trump’s rhetoric against undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Though the director and actors have commented that Logan was not meant to be an overtly political movie, even they could not deny the germaneness to today’s political climate.

And perhaps that is the point. From a reader-response critical perspective, it is the audience’s reactions and emotions that imbue the work with meaning. We actively seek meaning and relevance in a work of art; by extension, our understanding is indivisible from the message of the movie itself. As the political climate becomes more heated, and the maligned “Hollywood elite” invest more and more money into activist causes and campaigns, you should expect to see more thought-provoking movies in a theater near you. Personally, I am very much looking forward to the new Thor movie, an epic saga in which the Norse god struggles to find his way from Asgard back to the United States after President Trump’s immigration ban.

Jason Jeong is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Jeongo Unchained appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Dwight D. Eisenplower | Bi Monthly

Penile Plethysmography & You “I

nvoluntary measures of sexual attraction and orientation.” That was the line that caught my eye on the website for the Cornell Sex and Gender Lab. The idea, as I understand it, is to hook a person up to electrodes, eye trackers and other sundry apparatuses. Then you show them softcore porn and measure how turned on they get.

Intrigued, I emailed the director of the lab, hoping to be hooked up to these devices and experience the process firsthand. Within a few hours, though, he politely responded saying that he had retired and closed the lab. Not one to be easily discouraged, I continued reading about the subject online. I present here a summary of what I learned.

There are various physiological changes you can monitor — sweatiness (by passing a small current through the skin and measuring its conductivity) and eye dilation (by placing a camera in front of the pupil) are two of the tamer ones.

My favorite measure of sexual arousal, though, is also the most obvious: erection.

It is a stereotype of male arousal that it tends to go one way or the other. That is to say, you’re either turned on or

you’re not. While such platitudes are mostly true, they do overlook the realm of partial tumescence, the delightful stage in-between full erection and full flaccidity. Ask any man and he’ll tell you, upon a moment’s introspection, that his degree of tumescence is more or less a good indicator of his degree of arousal.

Enter the penile plethysmograph, the tool of choice for phallometry.

Phallometry is the process of measuring

measures the girth. The device itself is a ring of rubber tubing which is fit snugly around the penis. The tube contains a small amount of mercury, and a computer logs the electrical resistance of the mercury column throughout the duration of the experiment. As the penis engorges, the column becomes thinner, changing its electrical resistance. To be precise, the resistance of a wire is proportional to its length divided by its cross-

R = arousal R = ( L/A)Hg Cpenis erections over time, and it may take any of several forms.

One type measures the volume of the penis directly, by using an inflatable cuff much like the cuff the doctor puts on your arm when he takes your blood pressure. The major difference is that this cuff goes on your penis. Another variety

C2penis R1/2

sectional area. Assuming a constant volume of mercury, it’s not too hard to show that the resistance is proportional to the circumference of the penis squared. Thus, we can take the square root of the resistance measurement, and record the man’s sexual arousal in units of ohm1/2.

As if all this wasn’t interesting enough on its technological merits, penile plethysmography has strong political implications. Specifically, it is used on convicted sex offenders to judge their likelihood of reoffending. So, for example, the legal system may sit a prisoner down, attach a cuff to his penis, and force him to view imagery of children or of violence. Very Clockwork Orange, very 1984. According to a few sources, phallometry was invented by the Czech government to weed out draft-dodgers who claimed they were gay so they wouldn’t have to enlist. It’s very simple — show them erotic pictures of men and see if anything stirs down there. If not, off to war they go.

Of course, phallometry has perfectly acceptable uses in academia. It can quantitatively measure differences on the spectrum of human sexual orientation, as at Cornell, for example. But I think phallometry could be a big hit as a consumer product for long-distance couples.

Imagine it — phone sex, plus an app to tell you in real time how your man is doing on the other end. Apple, you can have that idea for free. We’ll be waiting.

Dwight D. Eisenplower is a student at Cornell University. Bi Monthly runs every other Thursday this semester. Comments and responses may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

L. H. | Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow

Have You Ever Had a Threesome With your Best Friend?

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t’s 6 p.m. and the sweet scent of Chanel Nº5 embraces my naked body. Next to me, my friend finishes blending her glittery eye shadow, warm sunshine spilling on her bare body through the window. I slip on my skimpy, black sequin dress with nothing underneath and flash a smile to my friend.

Flash forward 10 minutes. Our shiny stilettos hit the dirty New York pavement as we rushed to meet our Uber. The driver judged us. Hard. We smiled devilishly and began swiping on guy groups on Tinder. While the sun set (just in time to hide our sins), we matched with two hot guys claiming to be club promoters. We arranged to meet the guys after our dinner, but in all honestly, we were mostly excited to get sexy pictures for our Instagram.

I should probably preface this by mentioning that we never actually intended to meet the guys or follow through with any of the acts later that night, but six cocktails and two hours later, my friend and I were on the rooftop of a random Manhattan apartment building. The sound of honking cars pulsed through my head as I leaned on my friend who was talking to one of the guys from our Tinder match. I observed his soft lips move and felt her chest bounce as she laughed at what I presume was a poorly executed joke. His friend offered me a shot of vodka and pulled me over to dance. I twirled under the cloudy Manhattan sky and felt his hands trace the sequins on my dress. To say that I felt invincible would be a naïve exaggeration, but I was thrilled at the idea of a racy rendezvous in the city.

Apparently, getting laid was not the only thing on

these guys’ agenda. As it turns out, club promotion is actually an occupation, and these guys depended on their drunken evening adventures to pay for college. A few drinks in, one of them even told me about his ventures as a male escort during his freshman year, but that’s a story for another day. So we shortly left their apartment in a haze and walked to the club, where we met up with five other girls who seemed to know the guys pretty well.

I know what you’re thinking: “get to the sex part

Seconds later, I found myself in bed… with both of them. My naked body shivered as I felt two sets of hands on me and I kept thinking “what the actual fuck.” I’d always fantasized about having a threesome, but never had I thought that I would have one with one of my oldest friends and a random guy in an AirBnb as a virgin. The whole thing sounds like the plot to a trashy paperback novel.

Yet, as our adventure progressed, I felt closer to my friend than ever before. We knew exactly what each other liked because we had spent years revealing our sexual experiences to one another, so it was easy for me to please her and to guide the guy to do the same. Similarly, she made sure the guy didn’t have sex with me and included me when they had sex next to me. In a strange fashion, the threesome served as a way for my friend and me to connect in an incredibly intimate manner without having to worry about the guy tarnishing our reputation, for we would probably never see him again.

Yeah, I’m not really sure if I’m considered a virgin anymore. If so, I sure know all of the fun loopholes around it. To be honest, the weirdest thing about the threesome was the lack of awkwardness about it. The next morning, my friend and I looked at each other, laughed, and Ubered to our overpriced brunch. However, I will say, I no longer use the term best friend lightly.

My naked body shivered as I felt two sets of hands on me and I kept thinking ‘what the actual fuck.’ I’d always fantasized about having a threesome, but never had I thought that I would have one with one of my oldest friends and a random guy in an AirBnb as a virgin. already.” I will summarize our time in the club as fun and sweaty, but by the end of the night, I felt a thirst for something I couldn’t drink.

As my friend called a cab to take us to our AirBnb, I texted one of the guys the address so he could meet me there. I’m not quite sure what I expected would happen since I’ve never had sex before. My friend, on the other hand, was a sexual goddess, so as our AirBnb host buzzed the guy in at 3 A.M., I waited for them to sexile me out of the room, sleeping mask in hand.

L.H. is a student at Cornell University. Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow is a special guest edition of Sex on Thursdays, which appears every other Thursday this semester. Comments may be sent to associateeditor@cornellsun.com.

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DINING GUIDE

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Dining Guide

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Farmers’ Market at Cornell: NewYear, New Goals

By MICHELLE SHIN Sun Staff Writer

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he Farmers’ Market at Cornell embodies all that Cornell and Ithaca have to offer. From wholesome lunches provided by Groks Rx Kitchen to fresh produce from Dilmun Hill Student Farm, the market offers a variety of foods and produce as well as handmade items. It is a space for students and staff to interact with local farmers, experience a more accessible version of the Ithaca Farmers’ Market and check out the works of other students.

When I visited the market last spring, one of the most unforgettable products available was Cache Food’s granola bites made of ground-up avocado seeds. I am a known avocado fanatic, but I have never thought about the possibility of consuming avocado seeds not only to reduce food waste but also to obtain their antioxidants and polyphenols. I soon found myself striking up a conversation with the founders of Cache Food, three Cornell alumni who decided to launch their zero-waste initiative at the market. It was truly inspiring to personally observe them spring their passions into action while also raising awareness of something rather trivial like an avocado seed. Although I did not see them at the market last fall, there were many other food entrepreneurs like Cache Food, both from Cornell and from Ithaca. The market’s creativity, liveliness and engaging atmosphere keeps me going back every week and makes me excited for its return this week!

The recent construction of the Agriculture Quad has made it difficult to open the space for the market. However, the Farmers’ Market will be back at Cornell starting this Thursday, April 13th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its new location on the Arts Quad.

There are many things to look forward to for the Spring market besides its new location. To learn more about the Farmer’s Market at Cornell and what will be offered this semester, I met up with Market CoManager Hanna Reichel ’17 and Social Media Chair Zoe Friedberg ’19.

THE SUN: What is the history and mission of the Farmer’s Market at Cornell?

HANNA: The market is very young. It’s only in its sixth year. When I first came on board, there were a handful of regular vendors like Honeyrock Farms and the Cornell Bread Club. But we really made an effort in the past two years to really integrate a

diverse range of vendors, including both student groups and community vendors.

We also worked to provide a full range of services from fresh produce to prepared foods.

ZOE: The market provides the space and opportunity for students and staff to connect with others and the foods they consume. There is currently a great disconnect among students and the farmers because students tend to eat at dining halls or grab prepared food. The market can help reconnect students with their food as well as their community.

HANNA: The market is so much more

H ANNA: We focus on providing a diverse range of vendors, but we also have to be practical about consumers’ needs. We have had to turn down many vendors in order to tailor to what students would want and to limit competition. The produce we sell has to be grown within 30 miles, which reflects the density of our agricultural supply and opportunity.

ZOE: We are also asking vendors selling prepared foods to use local produce, especially the produce sold by some of the other food vendors at our market.

OmNomOmlettes, for example, will be collaborating with Silver Fox, which is a new

PHOTO COURTESY OF FARMERS’ MARKET AT CORNELL

tion on the Arts Quad! This will bring in a whole new demographic of students and make the market more accessible to more students and staff. The Arts Quad also has a lot more space [than the Ag Quad].

Students will be able to roam around to interact with the vendors, volunteers and other students on campus. Students can also lay out picnic blankets, which they can either bring or also rent from us.

HANNA: There will also be six to seven new vendors this semester. The market reflects the seasonality of the products.

Because it’s not harvest season, we are emphasizing more produced foods for the spring market. The new vendors include OmNomOmlettes, Bickering Twins, IronWood Farm and Silver Fox Farm.

SUN: How did you get involved with the Farmers’ Market at Cornell? How can students join?

HANNA: I joined my junior year as a vendor coordinator. There are usually 10 to 12 volunteers per market, and we are always open to anyone who wants to help out.

ZOE: I first joined by volunteering. As a volunteer, I sat at the main table and answered any questions about the market [and] how to get involved, handing out buttons and stickers [and getting] any supplies or connections that the vendors needed. I was able to interact with the vendors and get to know their stories.

SUN: What is it like to work with the Farmer’s Market at Cornell team?

ZOE: It is a very collaborative team, just like the market’s mission [of] collaboration.

Everyone has a passion for an element of the market, and there is a communal excitement for the growth of the market. A lot goes into holding each market, and every person on the e-board, from the vendor coordinators to volunteer coordinators to

tomato vendor we have. This can help both vendors to collaborate and increase sales.

We are trying to really form a whole community among the vendors.

HANNA: I have seen many vendors who get new ideas or get inspired by our market.

One of the best examples is Crooked Carrot, a local enterprise that does a lot of things with carrots and root vegetables.

They make kimchi, sauces, spreads and jams and have a huge social enterprise platform like teaching schools how to eat healthy vegetables.

“I love how the Farmers’ Market Crooked Carrot was at our market and doing okay, but they activates the space .... It made people were not making skyrocketing smile, slow down, look and interact.” sales. The owner of Crooked Carrot decided to try out a Hanna Reichel ’17 “donut” concept at our market instead. They were so successful at our market that they are now selling publicity, is central to make the market hapthrough The Piggery, Manndibles, Press pen.

HANNA: I definitely second this. The Cafe and catering for large-scale events in Tompkins County. This was made possible team is not structured like so many eby the success with our smaller sample size boards. There is not much of a rigid “hier[of customers]. archy.” It is unlike any of the organizations SUN: Are the prices relatively fair? Are I have worked with. Each person we bring the products more expensive or cheaper onto the team is committed and passionate. than local prices?

We will have positions opening up after this ZOE: The prices semester, so if you’re interested in joining, reflect the local prices for please consider volunteering.

SUN: What do you recommend that produce, and we are doing our best to make it students check out at the market?

ZOE: Just take a walk through the maras accessible as possible.

H ANNA: We are ket and talk to the vendors. Even if you’re working to ensure a not going to buy anything, you can always range of products to a come and experience the market. Taste range of faculty and stu- things, smell things, just enjoy everything dents. We are aware that that the market has to offer.

HANNA: Talk to the vendors! Vendors there is a huge disparity of socioeconomic status love talking to the community — they on this campus. We have love talking to students, faculty and staff, RESTAURANT been having a lot of con- and it is what brings them back every versations on the future time. Every single one of those interacHOME OF THE and the direction of our tions helps to shatter this “town and farmer’s market, and we gown” separation we have. Every smile are pushing for SNAP and every question about how they are and EBT machines at doing, where their farm or operation is our markets. located, where they got their inspiration, 1213 Taughannock Blvd.

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Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be Voted BEST BU RGER in Ithaca!

ZOE: The new loca- reached at mshin@cornellsun.com.

than just providing a service to people who are hungry, but [also serves] to create a vibrant community. Our goal is to make this into a tradition and to hopefully get students to also check out nearby markets outside of campus and become a part of the local food scene.

SUN: What do you love the most about the Farmer’s Market at Cornell?

HANNA: I love to see how the Farmer’s Market activates the space. When I saw the market in action for the first time, I loved its effect on the campus. It made people smile, slow down, look and interact. The best part has been seeing chefs on campus come out and talk with the vendors.

I would like to make a critical note that the Farmers’ Market is not competing with the dining halls in any way. In fact, I tend to see chefs stopping by and talking with vendors at the market. There is a beautiful cross-pollination between all members on campus and the people living nearby, and the market has become a part of this community fabric.

SUN: Who are the vendors and have they found a lot of success at our markets?

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Four Great Shows and One Nasty Joke

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hat do you do when your favorite genre becomes a meme? I grew up with indie rock, but I’ve been feeling pretty disinterested with what it has to offer lately. I’ve spent a lot of time listening to the justified criticism of selfindulgent, guitar-strumming “sadboys,” by former Arts editor Jael Goldfine ‘17. I also feel generally indifferent about the most popular indie acts of the moment (Car Seat Headrest: fine. Parquet Courts: whatever. Father John Misty: no. Mac DeMarco: I don’t even wanna talk about it). I’ve been largely ignoring the scene lately. I have a few exceptions, of course. I’ll be excited about anything new by Waxahatchee, Grimes, Mitski, Pinegrove or Alex G. Recently, I had a chance to see the latter two artists live for the first time.

In fact, last Saturday I saw the best shows I’ve seen in the past year, for ten dollars total. I was staying with a friend (former Arts editor Sam Bromer ‘16) in Bushwick, from where we drove to Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, for the WQAQ-sponsored Spring Fest. Quinnipiac has a gorgeous, cozy campus, but the show was held in a nondescript and exceedingly high school-ish gym, complete with pennants on the walls, a slightly weird smell (gym socks?) and stale pizza slices for $1. It was perfect. The first act was Half Waif, who set the tone for the show’s decidedly non-collegiate vibe: “Do you guys go here?” frontwoman Nandi Rose Plunkett asked the audience, to which the audience uniformly best way, playing with the tempo and arrangements of roared back, “No!” Even though there were only their songs without sacrificing the band’s tight harmoabout five hundred people at the show, it did seem as ny. Frontman Evan Stephens Hall also seems like a if at least half the crowd had come from elsewhere. really nice guy, which went a long way as far as creatEach set was incredible. I’d never listened to Half ing a communal and enjoyable space for the show.

Waif or Crying, the first two acts, but both drew me in Which brings me to the strange, confusing and right away. Half Waif performed a quietly stunning set, incredibly compelling performance by Alex G, whose made up of electro-pop beats and cutting lyrics — the vibes were about as different from Pinegrove as posmost memorable song was about her dying grandmoth- sible. While Pinegrove tries to create a space in which er, to whom she sang, “I’ll hold your hand while you the audience and the band share their songs by leave your mind.” Crying, on the other hand, hit the singing together, Alex G has all the edge and almost ground running with their monster Guitar-Hero riffs confrontational levels of apathy. “Thanks for coming and truly irresistible melodies, wailed by singer Elaiza and for listening,” he droned at the audience at least Santos. Santos alterthree times during his set. When he’s nated between the playing his beautifully fractured crisp, clear howl of songs, he sticks his tongue up towards her singing voice his nose, spreads his legs far apart, and and almost incomrocks back and forth from leg to leg, prehensible mumthough not in time with the music. In bling between other words, Alex G doesn’t try too Despite All the songs, but she conhard to perform coolness onstage. It’s tinued what Half incredibly difficult to read what Amputations Waif started by degree of that is mockery or him just obliquely dissing being himself. This culminated in a the university: “I go here,” she said. “Just kidding. Fuck comment (joke?) that I still haven’t quite made sense school.” of.

Pinegrove took the stage next, and seemed to be the “My uncle won a billion dollars in the lottery,” main draw of the evening, based on the number of Alex G told the crowd. “He’s giving me $3 million. I people who sang along to each of their songs. I’ve been have all your names from Ticketmaster, and I’m paylistening to their album Cardinal for almost a year ing everyone’s tuition. This is not a joke.” Nobody now, and it’s a gem for anyone who likes rootsy, sincere laughed, and then he played his song “Bobby,” and folk-rock. The band was machinelike onstage in the most people probably forgot about it. Then he

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brought it up again: “Thanks for coming and listening. And your tuition is covered. It’s not a joke. I know you think I’m joking. But go home and check your student loans.”

Now, I’m no more gullible than the next person, but when someone tells me that something isn’t a joke three times, I’m pretty much sold. I didn’t think I was going to benefit; I figured that he was covering the tuitions of Quinnipiac students, since it was a show at their campus. The two friends I was with scoffed at me for falling for it, and the Google search I just did for “Alex G pays Quinnipiac tuition” turned up nothing. I’m disappointed, since I wanted to believe that his crusty exterior hides a generous soul, and not a soul that makes jokes that are so weird and cruel.

As strange as that part of the night was, the four sets were supportive of each other, even though they were quite different. The singer of Half Waif is, sometimes, a member of Pinegrove, and even joined them onstage for a song. It reminded me of the special way that indie rock can be a community of artists and fans that gather to play and listen to music that is about revealing oneself, about honesty, about recognizing others’ pain and feeling some of it yourself.

After the show, I felt real catharsis, something a show hasn’t done for me in ages. Don’t mess with me about that tuition money, though. That’s no joke.

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

This Weekend in Arts Collegetown Music Festival at various venues on Stewart Avenue, this Saturday, March 12 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

WVBR 93.5 FM and Electric Buffalo Records are hosting the festival. They aim to bring attention to local artists and celebrate the relaunch of Electric Buffalo Records, a student-run record label. Nine acts will perform.

The performances in WVBR’s studio will be primarily rock and reggae acts; DJ and electronic sets will happen at Loco Cantina. The Loft at the Carriage House will feature various alternative acts. The festival is free and open at all three venues.

Among acts performing are Shull, an instrumental duo, After Six, an ensemble that performs mostly R&B, soul and Jazz, and Kitestring, an indie rock and alternative band. All of the artists are based in Ithaca and many of them, like Shull and After Six, are Cornell students.

Electric Buffalo Records hopes to unite the somewhat disjointed Cornell music community, according to cofounder Jacob Grossfeld ’17, who is also the General Manager at WVBR FM. Grossfeld founded the station with Mike Sosnick ’16 (former Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor) in 2015. He said the goal of the label was to provide a centralized community for musicians at Cornell and to increase exposure, on air plays, live performances and digital distribution for those artists. In addition, he believes that Electric Buffalo Records could further mend the gap between various organizations that make music at Cornell. The label has not been active recently and this event may be the right time to revitalize its work.

The organizers hope to make the festival an annual occurrence. According to Grossfeld, the organizers originally hoped for a “block party” style festival, where the

music, food and other booths would be set up on Stewart Avenue, but they were not able to secure a permission from Ithacan authorities.

Chris Smither at The Dock, this Saturday, starting at 8 p.m.

Bridget Kearney at The Haunt, this Saturday, starting at 7 p.m.

Kristin Larsen ’01 will give a lecture titled Beyond Radburn: Why Clarence Stein Still Matters at Milstein Auditorium, on Friday at 12:20 p.m.

Kendrick Lamar is due to release his album, DAMN, on Friday, but given rappers’ proclivities to delay album releases and keep the public in anticipation, it is anyone’s guess if the album will indeed come out on Friday.

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Lehigh Next on Docket for Men Sluggers to Open Gehrig Play M. LACROSSE

Continued from page 16

While Syracuse drew first blood to open the game, the Red came back to score three straight goals. After Syracuse and Cornell traded goals, the Red had a 4-2 lead in the 4:09 mark of the first period. All four of the goals were assisted by freshman Jeff Teat, who ranked eighth in the nation in assists coming into Tuesday’s game.

Syracuse would tack on another goal to close out the first period, but Cornell maintained a one-goal lead. Close games are a trademark for Syracuse this season, as the Orange went on a seven-game stretch of games that were decided by only a single goal, including two overtime games and a 14-13 decision to Army, the team’s only loss of the year.

“We came out with great urgency and intensity in the first quarter, exactly what we wanted to do, and unfortunately we lost that in the second quarter,” Kerwick said. “We didn’t have the intensity level that we came into the first quarter with. You have to give Syracuse a lot of credit — they keep playing, that’s what they always do.”

Lacrosse is known as a game of runs, and Syracuse went on a run to blow the game wide open. Both teams started the second period slowly, with only one goal being scored in the first 13 minutes of the period to tie the game at four. The Orange shutout Cornell in the period and scored three goals in the final two minutes of the half — including a last-second buzzer beater — to end the half with a 5-0 run and head into halftime with a 7-4 lead.

The Orange picked up right where it left off to open the second half, as the team added on five more goals before a goal by Cornell sophomore attack Colton Rupp halted the Syracuse onslaught at 10 at the 7:13 mark of the period — nearly 27 minutes without a goal by the Red. The 10-goal run by Syracuse was the longest scoring run for the team of the year.

Syracuse would add another goal in the peri-

od, making it six goals for the team in that period alone, compared to seven in the entire first half. Cornell, meanwhile, only scored one, and headed into the final period of play down 13-5.

Kerwick praised his defense’s effort, despite the Orange scoring onslaught.

“I don’t think they were scoring well, our defense was playing hard and I think they battled, [but] long possessions turned into goals,” he said. “We definitely got tired — you play two minutes of defense, you’re going to get tired at the end of it, you’re just hoping to make a play.”

Cornell opened the scoring less than 30 seconds into the final period, but it was too little, too late. The Red cut into the Syracuse lead by just one in the period, dropping the game 15-8.

While the scoreboard shows otherwise, the game was a hard-fought battle by both teams, a stat that is shown by the penalties — Cornell and Syracuse combined for 13 penalties, resulting in 12 minutes of penalty time.

“I don’t think it was chippy — it’s Cornell and Syracuse,” Kerwick said. “Are [the refs] calling it exactly as they should? Who knows. We’ll watch the film, but it’s two of the greats going at each other. You’re going to battle and scrap, and sometimes tempers can get going a bit, but I would expect nothing less from [this game].”

Cornell will look to rebound from the tough loss when it welcomes Lehigh to Schoellkopf this Saturday after the Mountain Hawks defeated Princeton Tuesday night, 15-10. Good news for the Red, Lehigh is 1-3 following a victory this year and has a 2-4 record on the road. Cornell has already lost as many games as it has last season with three games left to go in the regular season, and will look to keep itself from guaranteeing a worse record from last season with a victory on Saturday afternoon.

Action gets way at 1 p.m. from Schoellkopf.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

BASEBALL

Continued from page 16

Cornell’s next two pitchers did not have as much success. Colby Wyatt and Jeb Bemiss — both freshmen — each allowed an extra base hit, and the Red trailed 4-1 going into the bottom of the sixth. Rutherford drove in another run to extend his team lead in RBIs to 22, but the real damage in the game was done in the seventh and eighth once the Cornell bats really started to find a groove.

“We worked through some slow innings offensively, but then we locked in and put some good swings on the ball,” Pepicelli said.

In the two penultimate innings, freshman shortstop Matt Collins hit one over the fence, and after a Ryan Krainz double and ensuing sacrifice bunt, senior Tommy Wagner hit a sacrifice fly to left to bring home the fourth and tying run.

Senior southpaw Matt Horton pitched a 1-2-3 inning, and Cornell entered the bottom half of the eighth in search of one more run. After Rutherford’s leadoff walk, Simoneit got the fastball he was looking for and drove it over the left field fence to give his team the 6-4 lead.

Despite his biggest moment in a Cornell uniform — Simoneit did not see much playing time as a freshman — the Illinois native put the team first.

“It’s definitely a team effort,” he said. “We get pokes from a lot

of guys, and I’m just lucky that mine was at the end there.”

Senior Pete Lannoo closed the game out with a scoreless ninth, and the Red earned its 14th victory of the year. Along with each of the other six pitchers who saw action for Cornell, Lannoo did not walk a single batter.

“We had no walks in nine innings which is especially big when you have so many pitching changes,” Simoneit said. “We have a great staff this year and a lot of great senior leadership that pulls us together.”

Now the team must turn its attention to Columbia and the upcoming four-game set that begins on Saturday in New York City. And while one might think that this kind of victory over Binghamton might be a statement win for Cornell, Simoneit begs to differ.

“I don’t think it really proves anything. Each games is its own game,” he said. “When it comes to Ivy League play we should treat that as any other game too. It doesn’t matter who we play, we should come out and play the same way every time.”

If Cornell does continue to play that way, the Red is more than capable of doing some damage down the road.

First pitch of the four-game series in the Big Apple is Saturday at noon.

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

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Slump buster? | Cornell won only four of its last 11 games entering Wednesday, but the team hopes the comeback win carries over into this weekend at Columbia.

Simoneit’s Blast Lifts Red Over Binghamton

Trailing 4-1entering the bottom of the sixth,Cornell utilizes a late rally to take the mid-week contest back for five straight runs after trailing 4-1 in the sixth inning. The game’s hero? Sophomore catcher Will Simoneit, the next man up after Bitar, delivered the go-ahead two-run A midweek matchup with a tough club may not seem blast in the bottom half of the eighth.

“I think it was a fastball at least,” Simoneit said trying to ideal for a team dealing with a slew of injuries, but Cornell baseball rallied late against central New York foe remember what was a blur of a moment. “I just tried to sit Binghamton and earned an impressive 6-4 victory back and find my pitch.”

The win brings a positive Wednesday afternoon. mark in what has been a recentBanged up for the past sever“We had a real tough opponent on our ly tough stretch for the team, al contests, Cornell (14-11, 3-5 Ivy) entered the game without hands, and it’s a good measuring stick for winning only four contests in its top hitter in junior Dale who we can be when we’re playing well.” the past 11 attempts.

“I’m very happy with how Wickham along with starting we played,” said head coach junior catcher Ellis Bitar. The Head Coach Dan Pepicelli Dan Pepicelli of his team’s team had managed a split come from behind victory at against both Harvard and Dartmouth on the road last weekend, but with its first Lou Hoy Field. “We knew we had a real tough opponent on our Gehrig division action coming this Saturday at Columbia, a hands, and it’s a good measuring stick for who we can be matchup with Binghamton (13-7, 3-2) did not seem like it when we’re playing well.”

While the bumpy stretch can be attributed to key guys might be the team’s top priority.

Nevertheless, the Red pieced it together and stormed being forced to sit out injured, Pepicelli remains confident in

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

the next man up to rise to the occasion whenever called upon.

“We try to make it as little of a story as possible,” he said of the injury bug that has found its way to his team. “These guys have worked real hard and have made no excuses. We haven’t talked at all about injuries in our locker room.”

Today’s starter behind the plate and game hero was no exception to the rule.

“Simoneit has meant a lot … he’s vastly improved, and his enthusiasm and athleticism are really playing well right now,” Pepicelli said.

Senior Scott Soltis took the ball to open up the game, and the right-hander — normally a relief pitcher — worked an effective three innings. Soltis surrendered a solo home run in the second to Luke Tevlin, but gave up just one more hit during his appearance. Senior first baseman Cole Rutherford tied the game up at one with an RBI single in the fourth after freshman John Natoli worked a scoreless top half of the inning.

See BASEBALL page 15

Laxers Fall Flat Late in Crushing Loss to No.1 Syracuse

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

In the past few weeks, it seemed as though Cornell men’s lacrosse was beginning to click. The team had won three of its last four games, including its first winning streak of the year after victories over

“They’re ranked number one for a reason — they know how to win ... [and] they ran away from us.”

Head Coach Matt Kerwick Dartmouth and Harvard. The next obstacle would be telling, as the Red was to face a perennial juggernaut in Syracuse.

At first, it looked like Cornell might just get the upset. But in the end, it was the team just north on Route 81 that utilized a 10 goal streak to blast by the Red, 15-8.

“They’re ranked number one for a reason — they know how to win,” said Cornell head coach Matt Kerwick. “We wanted it to get to the fourth quarter where it was going to be a scrap and see if we can knock them off that one-goal win train they’ve been on, but unfortunately in the third quarter they ran away from us.”

The Orange (9-1, 3-0 ACC) entered Tuesday’s contest riding a six-game win streak and reigning as the nation’s No. 1

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Out of rhythm | Cornell was held without a goal for the entire second quarter and part of the third, while Syracuse added 10 of its own. team, jumping over Penn St. as it dropped its first game of the year last weekend to Maryland. But Cornell (3-7, 2-2) has taken down talented Syracuse teams in the past, most recently last year when the Red shocked the then-ranked No. 11 Orange in a 10-9 overtime contest at home.

For six straight weeks leading into Tuesday’s game, the nation’s No. 1 had fall-

en, but under Syracuse head coach John Desko’s, the program is 49-11 as No. 1, and the Orange looked to notch win number 50 as the No. 1 team and be the first team in a month and a half to keep its place as kings of the hill.

Kerwick is pretty familiar with Desko — in addition to the extensive rivalry between the two schools, Kerwick and Desko both

coached the U.S. Men’s Lacrosse team in 2006 that won silver at the FIL World Championships. Desko served as head coach and Kerwick served as one of his assistants.

For the first 11 minutes of the game, it seemed as though the Red could play spoilers.

See M. LACROSSE page 15