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C.U.Sends Out Sexual Assault Survey

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Murphy Ph.D.’94: AAU survey to‘broaden discussion’on healthy sexual culture

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

COURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

The rendering above shows the planned Fine Arts Library, which will be expanded and renovated in Rand Hall.

The University distributed in an email Monday a “climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct” sponsored by the Association of American Universities to all current Cornell students.

The 20-minute survey — designed by research firm Westat — consists of demographic questions about race, orientation, class year and preferred gender, followed by questions about student usage and knowledge of campus resources and experiences of sexual misconduct on campus.

Students must agree to an informed consent form before taking the survey, which states that participation in the quiz is non-compulsory and that students may skip any questions they are uncomfortable with. The consent form also indicates that results are both anonymous and confidential.

Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services, said she believes the survey will be an important tool in helping the administration understand the campus climate at Cornell and in comparing its results with other institutions.

“I think there are two purposes for this survey,” Murphy said. “By doing what we call a population-based survey — every student at Cornell [at] the Ithaca and New York City campuses [is] receiving this survey — it gives us the chance to get the best picture possible of how students are perceiv-

ing the climate [regarding sexual violence].”

Murphy added that the AAU survey is the University’s way of complying with the changes to the Violence Against Women Act. The changes will go into effect July 1 and will require all colleges to compile and maintain statistics about sexual violence on their campuses.

“By July 1 ... you must be participating [in surveys as according to] the changes in legislation,” Murphy said. “We thought we would [start early by creating] a baseline year, and as we think about what we must do to maintain compliance, we have a baseline year to refer to.”

Diane Kubarek, senior director of communications for student and academic services, said getting more input from students is crucial to creating effective regulations on campus.

“I think that we really want to hear from the students about how they perceive the culture,” Kubarek said. “I think it’s really important that we don't form our own opinions about the culture ... over finding out from the people who live in it — that's the biggest benefit I see.”

Though the AAU will only make general results available instead of releasing specific data from each individual university surveyed, data specific to Cornell that the administration receives will be made available to the campus community, according to Murphy.

“I think Cornell has a history of being pretty transparent See SURVEY page 5

CGSU Letter Seeks Discussion With Day Hall Former SAE President

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

Cornell Graduate Students United — an independent union aiming to better work and labor conditions for graduate students — submitted a letter to the administration Monday asking to begin dialogue about creating a neutrality and voluntary recognition agreement between the bodies.

The letter, signed on behalf of CGSU by Vijay Phulwani grad, administrative liaison for CGSU, is addressed to Alan Mittman ’77, director of workforce policy and labor relations and a member of the Board of Trustees.

If Cornell were to agree to a neutrality and voluntary recognition agreement, the University “would agree not to campaign against the union and would also agree to voluntarily recognize the union as the exclusive bargaining representative of the graduate student employee body, without recourse to a secret ballot to determine majority status,” according to Andrew Crook grad, CGSU communications and outreach chair.

The letter begins with a reference to the recent collective bargaining agreement struck up between New York University and the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, the graduate student employee union at NYU affiliated with United Autoworkers, earlier last month.

Threatening to strike if their demands were not heard, the NYU Graduate Student Organizing

Committee reached a union contract agreement with the university that included raises for fully funded teaching assistants and a family health care fund that will subsidize up to 75 percent of university health care premiums for eligible applicants, according to Inside Higher Ed. Currently, the Graduate Student Or-

ganizing Committee at NYU is the only graduate student employee union recognized by a private university in the nation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Now, CGSU hopes to begin similar collective bargaining discussions with the University.

See LETTER page 4

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Nicolas Earlery ’17 performs at the After Six Band Showcase, which featured live band performances, in the Appel Multipurpose Room Saturday.

Files Lawsuit Against Insurance Company

By ANDREW LORD Sun Staff Writer

The former president of the suspended Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity claims he should not have to pay to cover costs for a lawsuit filed by the family of George Desdunes ’13, a member of the fraternity who died during a hazing ritual in 2011, according to a new lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London, the fraternity’s former insurance company.

In the new lawsuit, Eric Barnum ’13, his parents and their insurance company claim the hazing exclusion provision in the fraternity’s insurance policy does not apply to the former president because he did not participate in the binge-drinking ritual that resulted in Desdunes’ death.

Desdunes died in February 2011 from alcohol poisoning at Cayuga Medical Center. Desdunes’ blood alcohol level was .35 — more than four times the legal limit, The Sun previously reported.

His mother, Marie Lourdes Andre, sued the national Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and at least 15 former brothers, seeking at least $25 million in damages.

While three older brothers who were directly involved with the hazing ritual were acquitted of criminal charges in June 2012, the fraternity and Barnum are still facing a $25 million civil suit filed See LAWSUIT page 4

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University Cornell Professor Named 2015 William T. Grant Scholar The William T. Grant Foundation recognized Prof.

Laura Tach, sociology, with a five-year, $350,000 grant for research on U.S. families, according to the University. Tach plans to use the award to study children raised in families that deviate from the typical American nuclear family model. The grant, which is awarded every year to five professors nationwide, supports early research in the social, behavioral and health sciences.

Across the Ivies Harvard Protesters Demand Divestment From Fossil Fuel Companies In coordination with activist group Divest Harvard, Harvard students and alumni blockaded three entrances to the offices of the university’s president, provost, treasurer and vice presidents Sunday, according to The Harvard Crimson. Protesters called for the divestment of Harvard’s endowment from fossil fuel companies, citing concerns about climate change, and will continue the blockade until Friday, The Crimson reported.

Former Yale Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment

Cornell Creates A Composting Toilet Facility

Local Repairs of Ithaca CIty Cemetary Wall Approved The Ithaca Common Council approved repairs for the University Avenue wall of the Ithaca City Cemetery, which was damaged in an accident several years ago, according to The Ithaca Journal. The Common Council allocated $39,000 to renovations, which will be used to replace the pier damaged in the accident as well as a section of the wall. These repairs will be completed by Ithaca Stone Setting and are the first the wall has received since its construction in 1865, The Journal reported.

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By EMILY FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell Outdoor Education officially dedicated its new composting bathroom facility at the Hoffman Challenge Course Saturday.

The facility is named after David Moriah ’72, who was the first director of Cornell Outdoor Education.

Moriah, who was present at the ceremony, said it was “an honor and a treat” to be surrounded by family while Moriah Hall was dedicated.

“One of the best things that anybody said about me was that I take fun seriously and myself lightly,” Moriah said. “I thought it would be a blast to have an outhouse named after me. The fact that it actually serves a real need in terms of making a permanent facility available at the Challenge Course and that its done in an environmentally responsible way made it a winner all around.”

David Moriah Hall houses the first composting toilet at Cornell’s Ithaca Campus.

With the installation of the toilet, Cornell Outdoor Education has become one of the two Cornell sites with composting facilities, along with Shoals Marine Institute’s Appledore Island.

The toilet was designed and built by Clivus Multum, Inc., a company that builds similar facilities for national and state parks around the United States, according to Marc MagnusSharpe, director of Cornell Outdoor Education.

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Rohit Ramanathan ’15 demonstrates properties of corn starch and water in Balch Courtyard yesterday.

According to Ellen Tohn ’81, one of the cochairs of the Cornell Outdoor Education Advisory Board, the toilet operates using a solar-powered fan.

Tohn said she believes the new facility represents a commitment to sustainability and will serve over 1,000 people who participate in Cornell Outdoor Education programs.

“We are thrilled to advance Cornell's sustainability mission and honor the early days of COE, a student led program started in the 1970s to teach outdoor and teamwork skills to Cornell students,” Tohn said. “Today, over 80 student leaders help run hundreds of programs ranging from rock climbing, outdoor yoga, tree climbing and stand up paddle boarding to over 4,000 students.”

Magnus-Sharpe said the organization wanted to build a bathroom facility that would match the “high quality of Cornell Outdoor Education.”

He added that Cornell Outdoor Education faced challenges in the process of building the new facility, which took approximately four years to complete.

“We went through at least a dozen different entities within Cornell to make sure that the design and construction was all in compliance and approved by Cornell facilities and Cornell architects,” Magnus-Sharpe said.

Magnus-Sharpe described the dedication ceremony as “fabulous” and “one of the best days we’ve had up there.”

“It was everything you would expect to see at a light-hearted but also proud moment,” Magnus-Sharpe said. “We know it’s only a bathroom, but we also know how important it is to go sustainable and we love being a part of every effort that can be made to do that.”

Emily Friedman can be reached at efriedman@cornellsun.com.

Professor Discusses United States,Pakistan Relations Markey says diplomatic relations necessary for security, political, economic reasons

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

Charges of sexual harassment have been filed against former Yale School of Medicine professor Dr. Rex L. Mahnensmith, according to The New York Times.

Mahnensmith, who was previously the medical director of the New Haven Dialysis clinic, was removed from the clinic and forced to resign after similar accusations were made last year. The charges alleged that Mahnensmith had a history of sexual misconduct during his 20 years at Yale, The Times reported.

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In a lecture hosted by the Pakistani Students Association Monday, Prof. Daniel Markey, international relations, Johns Hopkins University, spoke about his belief that although diplomatic relations between the United States and Pakistan is a necessity for both countries, the relationship between the two countries has been contentious throughout the war on terror.

Markey began the talk by illustrating a “deep gap of perspectives” between the United States and Pakistan, as exemplified by the reaction to the United States’ raid on the Osama bin Laden compound in May 2011.

“From the Pakistani perspective, I’ve been told many times … how could the United States as a partner of Pakistan — a country that had pledged to be a major non-NATO ally of Pakistan — have effectively invaded [its] territorial sovereignty? Where was the cooperation?” Markey said.

Markey said that from the American perspective, bin Ladin’s ability to remain in Pakistan for several years raised questions about a potential alliance between Pakistan and al-Qaida.

“The question was, how could Osama bin Laden have been found living in Pakistan for half [a] decade. Was Pakistan complacent with this?” he said. “What we saw… was part of the lowest period in this [United StatesPakistan] relationship, certainly since 9/11.

Markey said he believes

Pakistan enjoys certain benefits from its relationship with the United States, and speculated about the economic and political hardships the country would experience if it ended diplomatic relations with the United States.

“Pakistan is not able to go on its own way in the international economy, not entirely. It would be too costly,” he said.

“Diplomatically, Pakistan wouldn’t want to be isolated, or left on a side opposite to the United States moving forward … and that’s where Pakistan’s vulnerabilities are: the economy, politics and security.”

Markey then transitioned to speaking about why the United States needs Pakistan as a diplomatic partner. He listed the potential of U.S. security threats from Pakistani-based terrorist groups, its strategic location and its possession of nuclear weapons as reasons that the U.S. government feels the need to continue such relations.

Markey said working with the Pakistani government to prevent security threats from Pakistani terrorist groups is important.

“Parts of Pakistan have the potential to continue to be hot beds for these types [terrorist] of threats for years to come,” Markey said. “From a purely American security perspective, this is a threat that we can’t afford to walk away from.”

According to Markey, Pakistan’s important geopolitical position within Asia — where many global powers are on the rise — makes it a key ally to the United States.

“It’s located at the Arabian Sea, at kind of crossroads between East Asia, West Asia [and] Central Asia … it’s becoming more and more important as the United States thinks about Asia more broadly,” he said. “Pakistan will have a role to play there is well.”

Markey said he believes both the United States and Pakistan

understand that they have a “difficult relationship.”

“Both sides recognize that they need each other, that it’s going to be a difficult relationship and they are more or less settled in for the long haul,” he said.

Divyansha Sehgal can be reached at dsehgal@cornellsun.com.

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Diplomatic talks | Prof. Daniel Markey, Johns Hopkins University, speaks about diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Pakistan Monday.

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Former Fraternity President CGSU Aims to Discuss Working Rights Sues Insurance Company Letter cites NYU graduate union collective bargaining agreement LAWSUIT

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by Lourdes Andre, according to The New York Daily News.

Barnum, who is being represented by Daniel Adams ’12, claims in his new lawsuit that Lloyd’s of London is obligated to pay part of the $25 million claim, according to The Daily News.

In the lawsuit documents, Adams said Lloyd’s contends they do not have to shoulder the costs because its policy “excludes coverage ... for any claims arising out of, in any way related to, or in any way resulting from any type or form of ‘hazing,’” according to The Daily News.

However, Adams claims the exclusion should not apply to Barnum and the insurance company should shoulder part of the claim because he is not accused in the lawsuit of participating in the hazing ritual that caused the death of Desdunes, The Daily News reported.

Adams expressed frustration regarding the general practice of insurance companies like Lloyd’s, according to The Daily News.

“Insurance companies take premiums for fraternities and increase those premiums but when claims are made, they are totally absent,” Adams said.

Andrew Lord can be reached at dlord@cornellsun.com.

LETTER

made.”

According to Crook, several of the issues of concern to the CGSU include the possible “Leading institutions like New York reduction of funding options for fifth year University see the value of partnering with graduate students entering their sixth year, a unions representing their employees and agree- potential pay differential between teaching ing to neutrality agreements that work for both assistants and research assistants and graduate parties and create a collaborative culture,” students’ right to workers’ compensation.

Crook said. “Cornell is The letter states the CGSU the world leader in labor “Cornell is the world leader believes the best way to furrelations education and ther address concerns of gradin labor relations education uate students is through the we expect the best from them.” “negotiation of a collective and we expect the best The letter cites several bargaining agreement between from them.” concerns that members of CGSU and the University.”

CGSU have had about Elaborating on the issue, Andrew Crook grad graduate student working Crook said the CGSU was rights. eager to start a conversation “We are alarmed by recent changes in our with the University. members’ working conditions,” the letter “I think a healthier relationship between reads. “We believe that the manner in which CGSU and Cornell reflects best practice the administration, without seeking our con- around unions partnering with their employees sultation and input, has implemented these and agreeing to neutrality agreements that changes goes against Cornell’s long history of work for both parties in collaborative culture,” shared governance, and that our union pro- Crook said. vides the University with a key new way to engage with us so that the interests of our graduate employee members can be taken into Gabriella Lee can be reached account before decisions that affect us are at glee@cornellsun.com.

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Student Responses Accepted Until May 4 Survey to help assess sexual assault policies SURVEY

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with our survey data,” Murphy said. “We try very hard to get that data back to [the students].”

Murphy cited the results of the Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experiences survey, which were recently made available to the Cornell community, as an example of transparency in survey data.

She added that she hopes the AAU survey will redirect dialogue about sexual violence on campus to more productive directions.

“What we’re trying to find a way to do is get the dialogue to change,” Murphy said. “Right now there’s an awful lot of effort on how do we stop sexual violence, prevention [and] how do we prevent rape?”

While Murphy said she thinks those were good questions to ask, she said she hopes to “broaden” the discussion and work on helping students define and create a healthy sexual culture.

Responses to the survey will be accepted until May 4, according to the email. Murphy said in order to get an accurate picture of the campus climate, she would need about 40 to 50 percent of the student body to respond.

“This survey will help us [because] it’s an important piece of data,” Murphy said. “It’s the first time we will be able to be this comprehensive.”

In the email sent to students, President David Skorton said the survey results will be used to “guide policies to encourage a healthy, safe and nondiscriminatory environment” not only at Cornell, but also at schools nationwide.

“It is important to hear from you, even if you believe these issues do not directly affect you,” he said.

Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

California Drought Prompts Water Delivery Cutbacks LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of California’s largest water wholesalers moved forward Monday on a plan to reduce the amount of water it delivers to more than two dozen cities and agencies serving 19 million people amid the lengthening drought.

If approved by the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California on Tuesday, regional water deliveries would be cut by 15 percent beginning in July. The district serves parts of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.

The effects of the cuts would vary between local water districts.

Places that have done a poor job of conserving would have to crack down on outdoor watering and take other conservation measures and boost water rates to avoid paying a high price for extra water.

Several committee members wanted a deeper cut in deliveries — 20 percent — but were outvoted by others who feared it could hurt the economy.

Businesses “could be scrambling for the hills” if the reduction was steeper, said Michael Touhey, who represents the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District.

California is enduring a fourth year of parched conditions, prompting Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month to call for a mandatory 25 percent cut in urban water use compared with 2013 levels.

To meet Brown’s goal, the State Water Resources Control Board released draft reduction targets for more than 400 water agencies that must cut their water use by anywhere from 10 percent to 35 percent. The targets are based on per-capita water use.

MWD’s general manager Jeffrey Kightlinger said limiting water supplies to member agencies is necessary to meet demand and stretch storage reserves, which currently stand at about 1.2 million acre-feet, less than half of what was in storage at the end of 2012.

MWD officials said the proposed water delivery restrictions — along with conservation, rebate programs and other tools — could help local water districts meet the governor’s goal. The cuts would stay in effect for a year.

The agency noted that it has a proven record of aggressive water conservation. Per capita water use in Southern California has declined by about 24 percent since 1990, even as the region’s population grew by 5 million, and it has spent $750 million over 25 years on water use efficiency.

Last year, MWD delivered 2.1 million acre-feet of water and will supply 300,000 acre-feet less this year under the proposal. An acrefoot is enough to cover a football field with a foot of water or meet the annual needs of about two households.

Cities that need more water would have to pay a penalty — up to four times the normal price — for extra deliveries.

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Code Breaking Genius’ Notebook Sells for $1M NEW YORK (AP) — A handwritten notebook by British World War II code-breaking genius Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game, brought more than $1 million at auction on Monday.

The 56-page manuscript was written at the time the mathematician and computer science pioneer was working to break the seemingly unbreakable Enigma codes used by the Germans throughout the war. It contains his complex mathematical and computer science notations and is believed to be the only extensive Turing manuscript known to exist, Bonhams auction house said.

The sale price was $1,025,000.

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Turing, won Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Academy Awards.

Turing’s notebook dates from 1942, when he and his team of cryptanalysts were at Britain’s World War II code and cypher school Bletchley Park. In one entry, Turing wrote about a complex calculus notation.

“The Leibniz notation I find extremely difficult to understand in spite of it having been the one I understood the best once!” he wrote. “It certainly implies that some relation between x and y has been laid down eg, y=x2+3x.”

The sale also included a working German Enigma enciphering machine. The three-rotor device, manufactured for the German military in July 1944, sold for $269,000.

Turing was prosecuted for being gay at a time when it was illegal in Britain. He was convicted of indecency in 1952 and agreed to undergo hormone treatment in a bid to eliminate his homosexuality as an alternative to imprisonment.

Actavis:No Apologies for Seeking Drug Profits NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for the Irish Blatt told a three-judge panel. “For hundreds manufacturer of an Alzheimer’s drug urged a and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of U.S. appeals court on Monday to let it replace patients, the drug is an improvement.”

She urged the judges to reverse a lower-court a two-pill daily regimen with a single-dose verjudge who ordered the company sion of the drug even if it to continue distributing the cheats generic drugmakers of “For hundreds and two-dose version of the drug profits.

Attorney Lisa Blatt told the hundreds and hundreds of Namenda after generic alterna2nd U.S. Circuit Court of thousands of patients, the tives become available July 11.

She said the new version of the Appeals in Manhattan that Dublin-based Actavis PLC drug is an improvement.” drug first introduced in 2004 was innovative. makes no apologies for maxiLisa Blatt About 500,000 patients take mizing its profits, though a the original version while December court ruling has already caused it to lose at least $200 million in another 240,000 have switched to the new sales and forced it to spend tens of millions of dosage, with thousands of patients per month dollars in promotions that otherwise would not switching, court papers say.

The appeals panel did not immediately rule, be necessary.

“A company doesn’t have to apologize for though Blatt urged it to take immediate action wanting to make money off its innovations,” and issue a written ruling explaining why later.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Louie Finds Hilarity in the Mundane

BY ZACHARY MANDELL Sun Contributor

“I’m not curious anymore about the wonders of the universe,” Louis C.K. says at the Comedy Cellar in the opening scene of “Pot Luck,” the season five premiere. “I feel like I know enough things. I don’t need any more.”

We find Louie right where season four left him: just as bored with life, his facial fair slightly increased and his beer gut no smaller. He looks like he could have accidentally wandered onto the set. In “Pot Luck,” Louie unintentionally shows up to the wrong dinner party. He means to go to a school potluck,

but ends up at a weird chanting circle two floors below.

The funniest course of events in the episode starts when a pregnant woman, the surrogate mother for the lesbian couple that hosted the school potluck, initiates sex with Louie and goes into labor mid-coitus. When Louie meets the new mothers outside the maternity ward, he is chastised: “Do you know how hard we tried to have this baby in our way? And then you went and jizzed all over his face!?” “I didn’t cum,” is Louie’s response.

It’s true. Her water broke before he had the chance.

Louis C.K. is a funnyman by trade. He is in the business of joke telling. But Louie, classified as a comedy-drama, is not so constricted by genre. The medium of television offers another layer of removal between the writer and the audience, allowing C.K. to do things that he can’t with his stand up. In the first four seasons of Louie, there are as many hilarious moments as there are poignant ones. So far in season five, there are no moments completely devoid of humor; even the bleak moments — like the scene when his psychotherapist falls asleep when

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Louie is telling him about his depression symptoms — are darkly funny. What’s on display in Louie is not just C.K.’s sense of humor, but also his sense of what’s not funny. That’s not to say that Louie shies away from controversial subject material. There are plenty of jokes about masturbation and racism. What Louie steers clear from is the contrived.

With season five, expect eight more episodes of Louie wandering aimlessly through New York City.

The more mundane the merrier.

Zachary Mandell is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at zjm8@cornell.edu.

A New Translation Opens the Door to Szabó

BY MADELINE C. JONES Sun Staff Writer

The New York Review of Books Classics published the newer translation of Magda Szabó’s The Door this January. Len Rix’s English rendition of Szabó’s Hungarian novel has been awarded the OxfordWeidenfeld Translation Prize and the Prix Femina Étranger. The renewed interest and acclaim of the work itself and its English translation are warranted and exciting. Szabó is considered one of the most influential Hungarian authors of the 20th century and yet is barely known in the United States. She published poetry, plays, children’s books, novels and nonfiction throughout her life (1917-2007) and collected several awards.

The Door narrates a peculiar and caustically intimate bond between two women in a time of political, societal and personal flux for them both. Their relationship stretches over more than twenty years but seems to begin with Emerence’s birth, as the narrator, Magda, writes her life story as though still in the process of piecing it together.

Emerence is Magda’s near-superhuman housekeeper, who is simultaneously the picture of humility and one of the most arrogant people Magda knows. She is forcefully helpful and generous but never wrong; her help is always needed and warranted, whether or not it is wanted. Above all, however, Emerence is private. Her door never opens to anyone, and it takes careful searching and a life-long effort by Magda and Emerence’s few other friends to determine exactly who she is, where she came from and what made her so strange, difficult and kind.

Magda, who may be loosely based on the author, is

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spat of mutual cruelties, Magda notes at least, “Emerence’s little acts of revenge were savage but nicely varied.” Emerence’s wisdom can likewise vary between heart wrenching and brisk. She blandly accepts the faults of Magda’s husband, suggesting, “If that’s how the master was, what was one to do? There was no such thing as a sane man.”

The Door is a fascinating psychological portrayal of a distinctly unreliable narrator and her dear friend who is distinct in every way except that she turns out to be, in fact, human. The shame of Emerence’s community over the events of World War II, from which they are still reeling and rebuilding, is mirrored in the shame they experience after their collective, nearly unconscious betrayal of Emerence at the end of her life. It all happens very quickly, as disorienting for the reader as for the characters, but when the neighborhood regains its footing, its failure to understand Emerence, to understand what they let happen to her, is unbearably clear.

That Magda did not act differently when she saw and understood preemptively how it would all turn out was perhaps her greatest offense, her ultimate act of self-absorption: “Only later — very much later — when I COURTESY OF NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS began to consider the warning signs, match: “Emerence truly loved me, loved me without did it occur to me that no one had ever taken on board reservation, gravely almost, like someone deeply con- the fact that one day she would die. I too had always scious of the obligations of love, who knows it to be a felt that, somehow, she would be with us as long as we lived; that, with Nature itself, she would be renewed dangerous passion, fraught with risk.”

Szabó’s proclamations on love, reminiscent of with the spring; and that her refusal to conform was Carson McCullers in their peculiar circumstances yet not limited to banning entry to her locked-up house universal poignancy, are interspersed with dry humor but applied to everything, even to death itself.” and unadulterated sass by the narrator and Emerence alike. Their sometimes merciless treatment of one Madeline C. Jones is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. another is alternately appalling and hilarious. After one She can be reached at mjones@cornellsun.com. actually named just once in the book. Most characters refer to her as the “writer lady,” and so the one instance in which Emerence uses her full name in direct address is jarring — we forgot that she had a name. This sole mention solidifies the bond between the women and signifies that Magda, more than anyone else, has gotten under Emerence’s leathery, calloused skin somehow. It is perhaps how different they are that makes them need one another so acutely, despite their apparent mis-

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my Schumer is taking over the smiling, but you can’t help yourworld. She just hosted the MTV self. Even though some of her jokes Movie Awards, her show, Inside push the boundaries a little far, Amy Schumer, is gearing up for its third you can’t deny that she roasts our season, she was recently on the cover of culture in a fearless way that many Entertainment Weekly bathing in other comics just don’t. And her empty mini liquor bottles and her comedy is only getting better with movie Trainwreck, which boasts the cov- time.

If BuzzFeed and MTV are any eted produced by Judd Apatow stamp, will be out this summer. For the unini- indication of our modern culture, tiated, Schumer is one of the funniest and let’s be real, they pretty much ladies out there right now, with the pos- are, Amy Schumer is nailing it. She sible exceptions of Abbi Jacobson and jokes that she is what happens Ilana Glazer, and she is also one of the when you’re in your 30s but still comics most likely to make you cringe. act like you’re in your 20s and it’s She is just as quick to joke about feeling not cute anymore. But for those of fat in L.A. and pounding red wine at a us still in our 20s or with an open basketball game as she is to do skits sense of humor, her jokes are kind about sexual assault in the military, of perfect. Schumer is every one of video games being tailored to men and us. She drinks wine in inappropriate quantities, sleeps with guys she Aaron Sorkin’s style.

Schumer’s comedy style is distinct isn’t dating, eats like a person who values happiand cerness would and tainly not generally makes us for everyfeel like even though one. Most some of our behavof it centers ior is batshit crazy, on what it’s we’re not alone. Yes, like being a I know she’s making y o u n g Death Before fun of some of that woman — Decaf behavior, but she dealing gets us. with the Her most recent skit and promotion dating world, feeling pressure to be thin and interacting with the patriarchy. Her for Inside Amy Schumer, which premiered parodies are hilarious and often push a few days ago, is a music video called the boundaries. Her show is almost like “Milk Milk Lemonade,” to reign in the a sex and alcohol centered, skit based year of butts. You guessed it, it’s the version of Veep. It’s dark, it’s lude and “milk, milk, lemonade, around the corner sometimes you wonder if you should be fudge is made” song from our youth, and

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it is revamped, includes rap verses and has appearances from Amber Rose, Amber Tamblyn, Jemima Kirke, Method Man and a really adorable puppy. It’s everything you can ask for: Ridiculousness, booty bouncing and it actually looks kind of like a female rap video, which makes its bridge of “this is where my poop comes out, this is where my poop comes out,” even more on point and commentarious. (Filled with commentary. It’s a new word, work with me.) Although it’s crude, after watching this video, I don’t think I will ever look at a bootylicious music video the same way ever again, which is saying something.

Basically, Amy Schumer is a lady to

watch. She’s hilarious, she is doing something nobody else is doing and she has no fucks left to give. If you haven’t seen her stand up or Comedy Central show yet, it’s worth giving them a try.

She started on Last Comic Standing way back in season five, and every year her routines get honed and perfected.

Maybe she has HPV, maybe she has a drinking problem, maybe we all do, but who really gives a damn. Even Ellen loves her, and if Ellen loves you, you can basically do no wrong.

Arielle Cruz is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at acruz@cornellsun.com.

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The ‘unreasonable right’ targets Cornell To the Editor: Re: “GUEST ROOM: A Call for Productive Dialogue,” Opinion, April 10 As Andrew Lord reported in the Sun on April 7, assemblymen Chris Friend and Brian Kolb are arguing in the N.Y. State Assembly that Cornell should lose federal funding and face investigation as a result of the recently disseminated Project Veritas video featuring an interview with Cornell assistant dean of student activities, Joseph Scaffido. Using questions and quotations out of context, or mere conversational chicanery, the interviewer and his employer, the infamous James O’Keefe, frame Scaffido’s comments to sound like support for terrorist groups. If you need more context, watch the video, overlaid with creepy voice-overs and scary images of terrorists with big guns. People who understand Cornell’s values would obviously dismiss these allegations as ludicrous, and any direct question about terrorism would have been met with quick dismissal. But some politicians, eager for any opportunity to attack a “liberal institution,” have taken this stunt seriously.

This type of behavior marks assemblymen Friend and Kolb as members of what we might call the unreasonable right, an apparently growing subsection of the GOP. They are the type of politicians so intoxicated with zealotry that they appear to forget their duties to the people and instead indulge in sensationalist pseudo-news; we can only hope that constituents recognize the absurdity of conflating true journalism with Project Veritas' veritably asinine puerility.

Friend and Kolb are opposed to the use of federal or state funds by Cornell University, which stands against their political ideology of smaller government and other Republican tenets. Still, the two politicians’ allegations are serious and dangerous. A difference of political opinion can be settled by debate among our legislative representatives, and institutions should not be slandered by officials for political gain.

Terrorism, and the funding of terrorism, must be taken seriously. Terrorism is real and heinous. From the genocide of minorities in Iraq and Syria, to the merciless murder of university students in Kenya, to the gruesome attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City (unfortunately the list is too long to even skim the surface here), the world has witnessed the dangers of violent extremism in utter horror. Claims of supporting terrorism should not be used to further political motives. This is a line that cannot be crossed.

Assemblymen Friend and Kolb are treading the treacherous ground broken by Joseph McCarthy over fifty years ago, with ISIS as an analogous bogeyman to the USSR. Disgusted with our political representatives, we called the office of assemblyman Chris Friend, and had an argumentative, but not impolite, conversation with a staff member who happened to be a Cornell alumnus, though he asked to be left anonymous.

Despite his firsthand knowledge of Cornell, this staffer still supported Friend’s claim that Cornell should face a federal investigation into the possibility that they may be funding Islamic terrorism. According to the staff member, during his studies at Cornell, the University hosted workshops for environmental activism against fracking, so it would not be unnatural for the University to willingly fund similar “extremist” workshops for terrorists. When questioned again, he acknowledged that the activism was merely civil disobedience, not violence against property or people, but insisted that there is a spectrum of subversive activities. Apparently, it’s a small step between mere environmental activism and the true atrocities of terrorism.

N.Y. assemblywoman Barbara Lifton was quoted in the piece by Andrew Lord on April 7 stating that the action by assemblymen Friend and Kolb was “just plain wrong.”

To register your revulsion alongside Lifton’s, feel free to (respectfully) call up Friend (607-301-0302) and Kolb (315-781-2030) and give them a piece of your mind.

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had a roommate freshman year who dropped out after his first semester and went on to become the central figure in an anonymous online truth-seeking sect.

He preached to a cult following from a pulpit built of Facebook posts and Gmail messages.

If you met him, he wouldn’t strike you as insane. I only knew him for a few months, but he was a polite kid whose biggest problem seemed to be that he preferred staying home playing guitar over going to class.

People started to question his stability when he began posting about his newfound enlightenment online and abrasively reprimanding everyone he believed to be ignorant of the truth. He unfriended those who expressed disagreement to his views (myself included). He was really sure he’d found the answers to life’s big questions.

Henry withdrew into seclusion, only maintaining a communicative online presence under various aliases, his Facebook profile being just one of them. Once a recluse, Henry became hard to reach.

College isn’t for everyone. Henry was of the opinion that most people in university are posers or pussies, a bunch of machine cogs programmed to keep spinning, their minds too distracted to search for a higher truth. He once told me that education was a prison, a systemic mechanism to keep us in line.

I could see his point. You are told when to wake, when to eat and what to do. You have a clear idea of what is allowed and what is not. There are punishments prepared just in case and everyone’s trying to do their time and move on. Of course, the immediate physical demands of student life are nothing like prison, but the general idea of keeping people shuttered in assigned rooms and telling them what to do and what to believe is pretty reminiscent of prison. And you’re compelled to go to college.

Isn’t the society of man a sort of prison, then? We are all born into this. We never chose anything. We come out of the womb and inherit a familial tradition, a certain class status, capitalism, a belief system, race, gender, social responsibilities — all of which we never asked for. We get a prescription for 21st century life. After that we begin to learn that life is like an infinite series of hoops set before you, which you must jump through in order to keep on living. Hoops like securing a degree or paying your taxes or training for the military. Or getting over the loss of a loved one.

To keep the collective alive, humanity needs people performing massively synchronized routines every day, grinding away their time as individuals to keep the beast going. And when that slumbering animal wakes, what does it reward us with?

Consistent murder, war, poverty, unjust judgment and, worst of all, indifference.

Generations of this. Millennia of it. We are

the cells in this glob, each already predestined to a certain function. But being autonomously conscious, we are beginning to realize even when we succeed in this system, something is missing. “Success” is, for the most part, failing to keep us satisfied.

We want something more, something real.

For many people, what they spend the majority of their lives doing is not fulfilling them. Not even close. The people want experiences.

My roomate’s response was to shield himself from the corruption of society as much as possible in an attempt to preserve his personal integrity. I admired his audacity. He had escaped the collegiate brainwashing a mind is required to undergo if it is to matriculate into genteel society and join the cultured elite. He never wanted to be an egghead, seeing it for what it was — being a willing prisoner in a jail built by willing prisoners. I always felt Henry simply traded one set of hoops for another. I think he knew this. Maybe his new circumstances in the working class suited him better, but he must have realized he couldn’t completely escape the soul-crushing tedium earthly life demands of every human spirit.

I do not know if Henry is alive or dead, healthy or ill, sane or insane, but I do know he always thought critically. He needed to leave this place. It was toxic for him. But not all of us can run away. How far can you run before realizing you have to dirty your hands and sully your spirit in the muck if you desire true understanding, if you desire real change? I agree with the beautiful Rihanna — we have to find love in a hopeless place. Somehow.

As Ivy Leaguers, we know how to jump through hoops. But are we doing it of our own volition? Or are we dancing to a subconscious tune programmed into our minds, drifting on autopilot? Graduation is approaching, and I feel myself being systematized. The Matrix is calling us to plug in, one application at a time, email by email, text by text. And yet I can’t shake the feeling that my life is coasting towards where I need to be.

As I make calls, send emails and write to sound impressive (I’ve gotten a lot of practice), I try to remember that where we’re going on the outside isn’t as important as where we’re headed within.

There is but one shield possible for the human soul to resist a modern world trying to zombify human consciousness.

Cultivate one’s awareness to transcend the ego and keep knowledge of the living moment.

Stay awake. In a mortal life given finite fragments of an infinite truth, it’s the best we can do.

David Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com.

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CORRECTIONS An April 13 news story, “Over 1,800 Cornellians Participate in Relay for Life,” incorrectly stated the amount raised for the American Cancer Society. The figure was $85,000, not $8,500.

An April 13 arts and entertainment story, “Barton Hall Transformed: The 31st Annual Cornell Fashion Collective Fashion Show,” incorrectly stated the materials used for Brandon Wen’s ’15 garments. The material was laser-cut plastic, not laser-cut foam and sheet acrylics. It also incorrectly stated that Laura Zwanziger’s ’15 collection included suits, when it did not. In addition, Laura Zwanziger’s name was misspelled.

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OPINION

Sarene Shaked |

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A Response To Sayed Kashua S

ayed Kahsua, a famous Arab-Israeli journalist and screenwriter, came to speak to Cornell students on the Wednesday before Spring Break. What began as an informative left-wing perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict soon became a misleading account of Israel-imposed Palestinian discrimination and suffering designed to evoke sympathy from his audience. Kashua tactically avoided much of the overall context of the situation. While we must acknowledge the hardships of the Palestinian people and offer our compassion and regret toward any civilian suffering, it is important to understand the conflict holistically if we are ever to achieve peace. Kashua unjustly faulted the Israelis for circumstances that require a much broader explanation.

As a student in Hebrew 3101, I was required to attend this event just like every other Cornellian taking a Hebrew class this semester. As fan of his hilarious television sitcom, Avodat Aravit (“Arab Labor”), I was excited to hear Kashua speak and listen to the difficulties he must have faced as an Arab citizen of Israel. Before he began, I found my friend in the crowd who told me that he came to receive the extra credit his Near Eastern Studies class was offering. My friend is not connected or informed about Israel and was taking the course (which had nothing to do with Israel) in order to fill an Arts and Sciences requirement. As I heard Kashua’s very biased stories, I couldn’t help but think about all the members in the audience, also unaware of the situation, who are hearing these small pieces of a puzzle which have been snipped out from the much larger picture. Before the Q&A period, about half of the crowd, including my friend, left the auditorium, likely unaware that there exists more information and other valid perspectives. Even with only half the audience remaining, I was too shy to raise my hand and point out that there is more to the picture. I am writing this piece in order to say what I should have said that Wednesday afternoon.

Kashua spoke about his grandmother’s strength when she retold the stories of her suffering, about how she only shed tears when she recalled being turned away from her land by an Israeli soldier after the war in 1948. His personal family narrative stirred the audience’s sympathy as we imagined a poor woman left without her home. Although it is unfair to deny the pain of Palestinian civilians like her, this story, taken out of context, depicted the Israeli soldier as the enemy. Sayed — looking at this situation in historical context, what would you expect the Israeli soldier to do? In 1948, the Israelis accepted the British proposal of a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state. Both Palestinian and Israeli refugees lived under the British mandate, and a peaceful two-state solution was available to the people. Unlike the Israelis, the Arab refugees along with the entire surrounding Arab countries refused to accept the concept of a Jewish state in the Middle East. When Ben Gurion declared Israel a country, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt — every neighboring land — attacked. The Arab countries were responsible for the majority of Palestinian civilian evacuation with the promise that they could return as soon as Israel was wiped out. Against all odds, Israel won the war that they did not intend to have and gained land that they did not intend to gain. After all the loss, suffering and hatred the Israelis faced over a violent war they never wanted, were they supposed to silently return everything to the people hoping to destroy them? That day, the Israeli soldier did not murder your grandmother, Kashua, he did not act barbarically nor unjustly — he merely protected the land that his people were forced to fight for. The same war that the Israelis call “Milchemet HaAtzmaut” (“The War of Independence”), the Palestinians call “The Nakba” (“The Great Catastrophe”). To say that Palestinians have not suffered would be wrong, but to place all the blame on Israelis is completely unfair. Kashua did not even recognize “The War of Independence,” but spoke only of “The Great Catastrophe,” revealing a distorted view of Israel as the enemy.

There is so much more I want to address — the discrimination Kashua feels as an Arab-Israeli, (that is also important to recognize in context), his failure to acknowledge the right for a Jewish state to exist in the Middle East and the multiple and consecutive times throughout history that Israel has been attacked, terrorized and threatened. I’d like to close by commenting on one of the last statements he made to his audience: his claim that he has no reason to be thankful towards the State of Israel. While it would be completely wrong to deny that he confronted discrimination and no one should attempt to reduce the extent of the difficulties his or any other Palestinian civilian family has faced, we must understand his very extreme statements in context.

Sayed Kashua took advantage of the opportunity to go to an Israeli school for gifted children, he wrote a television series that became famous and was an influential journalist in the country he believes gave him nothing. He is a citizen of one of the only places in the Middle East that supports LGBTQ rights, women rights and is a progressive hotspot for technological and medical advancements that benefit the whole world. Most importantly, he lived under a democratic legislation that allowed for freedom of speech — ironically giving him his right to say in Israel that he is not thankful for Israel. Would this life ever exist for a Jewish person in a Palestinian state?

I am not an extremist. I am not anti-anyone. I am against civilian suffering. I am against terrorism. I want peace in the Middle East.

This is why I am pro-Israel.

Sarene Shaked is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. Comments may be sent to Associate-Editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester.

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Why I Teach Introductory Oceanography at Cornell

nrollment in the introduc- there is an extra special obliga- the oceanography class have an tory oceanography class tion for you to raise their voices end-of-semester assignment to (EAS 1540) reached nearly because Cornell students are write a letter to their two United 900 students last fall semester, among the best and the brightest States Senators and their conmaking it one of the largest our society can collectively pro- gressional district Representative classes at Cornell. The added duce. Consequently, your ideas in which they express their perwork associated with running and opinions on how best to sonal view about an ocean consuch a large class is considerable. move things forward have excep- servation issue of their choosing.

If all I did in the class was tell tional value to our society and, International students are students how waves and tides therefore, they urgently need to encouraged to write letters to their own respective government and marine ecosystems worked, be heard.

I tell students in the oceanog- leaders. The letter writing I would never want to teach such a large class. I want to teach this raphy class that they may have assignment provides a tangible sized class because I want every worked hard to get to Cornell, example of how students can Cornell undergraduate to have and I am sure they continue to raise their civic voice and it gives gone through the class before work hard to succeed at Cornell, students in the oceanography class something I call “owngraduating so they can be ership” of the material they well informed about many of the sustainability issues we I want to teach this sized have learned in the class.

I also teach the large face as a society today. I also class because I want oceanography class because I want to motivate every single know that a significant numCornell undergraduate to every Cornell ber of Cornell students are become civically engaged destined to go on to become and raise their well-informed undergraduate to have great captains of industry voices — to share their edugone through the class and important government cated opinion on how best to around the world. move our society toward a before graduating so they leaders And when these former stumore sustainable future. dents are making an imporAs the semester progresscan be well informed tant decision that will impact es, and after a complete picabout the sustainability the environment and/or ture of the role that the globlarge segments of society, I al ocean plays in maintaining issues we face as a want them to remember the earth’s life support comes society today. oceanography class at into view, I begin to describe Cornell and ask themselves a wide-range of humanhow their decisions impact caused threats facing the ocean. These threats include but I add that our society (past, the wellbeing of our current global warming, ocean acidifica- present and international) has society as well as the wellbeing of tion, coral bleaching, over fish- worked hard and made signifi- future generations.

In summary, I want the ideas ing and marine pollution. I cant sacrifices to build a explain that each of these threats University that allows them an of sustainability to spread outhas a solution and that it is a opportunity to reach their full ward from the classroom into all matter of our society and our academic potential. And as a aspects of our society. The more government leaders who have consequence, they owe some- students I get to enroll in the the power to implement solu- thing back to society. In partic- oceanography class, the further ular, they owe society their and deeper the idea of sustaintions.

I believe strongly in the idea exceptionally well-informed and ability will spread. In short, I that a democracy operates best well-educated thoughts on how teach the large oceanography with a well-informed citizenry. to move the world forward in a class because I want to change the world for the better by But a well-informed citizenry positive direction.

Building a great society is a inspiring in a positive way the alone is not worth much if citizens do not also raise their voices group effort and we all play role. collective actions of all Cornell to give government leaders their The role of a college-educated students who take the class. thoughts on how best to move citizen is give their educated the country and the world for- ideas back to the society by Bruce Monger is a professor in the College of ward in a positive direction. In being civically engaged. To Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be the case of Cornell students, emphasize this point, students in reached at rll5@cornell.edu..

Letters to the editor and guest columns may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Two people barely out of adolescence — one winning the Masters and $1.8 million, the other audibly groaning because his frozen mashed potatoes tasted like they hadn’t yet entered the microwave. Jordan Spieth is an exceptionally accomplished 21-year-old. His Masters victory is evident of that, but so too is the manner in which he carries himself, seen in his post-win press conference. His poise, articulation and respect for both his competitors and the sport itself are typical of a veteran winner like 44-year-old Phil Mickelson. Spieth’s mental age appears to be well beyond 21 years, and with his work ethic and determination, he has the potential to be the greatest golfer to ever live.

With Two Games Left, the Race for the NBA Playoffs Remains Tight

In 2012, the Portland Trail Blazers traded Gerald Wallace to the Nets for Mehmet Okur, Shawne Williams and a first-round draft pick (why, Nets, why?). That draft pick ended up being Damian Lillard, the No. 6 overall selection. At 24, Lillard is already a two-time All-Star on a Western Conference playoff team. Gerald Wallace — the Nets’ “prize” in the trade — is one of those guys who, when told that he is the fourthstring small forward on the Celtics, garners the response, “Wow, I had no idea Gerald Wallace was still in the NBA.” The trade already deserves consideration as one of the worst of the decade. And now in 2015, the Brooklyn Nets are fighting for one of the remaining two playoff spots in the lowly Eastern Conference, despite having three players who make 15 million dollars or more per year in Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson. The Nets are battling with the well-coached Celtics, whose highest paid player is — wait for it — Gerald Wallace, who for some poorly thought-out reason makes $10 million per year. Boston leads both the Nets and the surging Pacers by one game with two games left to play for each team. The Nets can’t possibly miss the playoffs, can they?

The No. 8 seed in the West heading into Monday night belongs to the Pelicans, who have the same record as the Thunder but hold the tiebreaker for the playoff spot. Frankly, the Pelicans are a better team than the injury-riddled Thunder and while neither will be able to defeat the Warriors in a seven-game series, the Pelicans are more likely to win a game or two. On Sunday night, the Thunder lost to the Pacers despite a 54-9-8 line from Russell Westbrook, who also picked up his 16th technical foul of the season, meaning he would automatically be suspended for his next game on Monday against Portland. The league, however, rescinded the technical on Monday, meaning OKC is still alive. OKC plays Portland on Monday and Minnesota on Wednesday, while New Orleans plays Minnesota on Monday and San Antonio on Wednesday.

Both teams have one should-win game and one more questionable game.

The Pelicans control their own fate, though, and with the way OKC has been playing defense, hopes of a Curry-Westbrook first-round matchup are dwindling.

Stephen Curry, Take a Bow and the MVP Trophy

The MVP race was fun while it lasted. Steph Curry silenced most of the remaining doubters on Thursday with a 45-point, 10-assist spectacle versus Portland. The Warriors are 65-15 — 10.5 games in front of the second place Spurs. Curry is the engine of Golden State. He’s unselfish.

He makes the players around him better. And if you leave your hand down for a millisecond, he’ll splash in a three-pointer. When Golden State has the ball, no matter whose hands the ball is in, you watch Curry.

He’s that dynamic. That’s why he’s the MVP. Curry averages 24 points, nearly eight assists and four rebounds per game, and yet, Curry ranks No. 40 in the league in minutes per game.

The only other possible MVP candidate at this point, James Harden, is second in the league in minutes per game, and although similar, Curry’s statistical numbers are still better than Harden’s after playing five fewer minutes. Curry also broke the record for most 3-pointers in a season, a record that he set two seasons ago. While Harden had a phenomenal year, it simply wasn’t as exceptional as Curry’s. There’s a reason the Warriors are 65-15 and one of the favorites to win the NBA Championship, and that reason is undoubtedly Stephen Curry.

Ben Shatzman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at bshatzman@cornell.edu. Calling the Shatz appears every Monday this semester.

Red Continues Attempts at Winning Gehrig Division BASEBALL

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shocked and didn’t react. They came back and I was pleased to see us take a lead in that game. We’ll have the same confidence in him when he goes back out there that next time. We’ve got to put a few more things together for him in his starts and get more wins.”

As the team tries to gear up for a run at the top spot in the Gehrig division, Walkenbach is keeping his message for the team simple.

“Just keep playing, pitch by pitch, day by day,” Walkenbach said. “If you start thinking about the end game or try to focus on that pitch or another, you’re not going to be there. You just got to pitch by pitch and if

you do that well enough — string enough good at-bats and good innings together — you give yourself the best possible chance to

“If you start thinking about the end game or try to focus on that pitch or another, you’re not going to be there.”

Bill Walkenback win.”

The most disconcerting part of the Red’s struggled against the Quakers was not the losses themselves, but the mental mistakes

from senior leadership. Whetsel, an infectiously high-energy player, making the mistake of high-fiving Morris was something that ultimately cost the Red a run and was surprising given the senior’s status as a leader on the team.

“We have to move on [from the mental mistakes],” Walkenbach said. “Mental mistakes are part of the game and it’s the reaction to those mistakes that’s the important thing. I didn’t see any adverse reaction after that. Mistakes are gonna come — they’re young men and this is a game of a lot of failure and you’ve got to react the right way.”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TUESDAY APRIL 14, 2015

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BASEBALL

Red Falls Due to Careless Errors,Mental Mistakes

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Senior third baseman Dan Morris had hit his first home run of the season and Cornell was off to a good start in the first of four games in a weekend series against the University of Pennsylvania. For a team that has struggled to consistently put runs up on the scoreboard, Morris’

home run was the kick in the backside that the Red appeared to have needed.

As Morris rounded first base, senior outfielder and cocaptain J.D. Whetsel waited in the basepaths to celebrate, giving Morris a high-five. Immediately, the Quaker dugout started yelling at umpires to call Morris out. Technically, by high-fiving Whetsel, Morris passed the outfielder on the basepath, making him out. So a long fly ball that easily

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High-five mishap | Senior outfielder and co-captain J.D. Whetsel, pictured above, went to high-five his teammate senior third

cleared the fence was deemed a two-run single.

The mental mistakes, which littered the Cornell baseball team’s weekend, ultimately lead to the Red dropping three games on the weekend and putting head coach Bill Walkenbach’s team in a precarious position heading into the stretch run of the Ivy League season.

“That’s never happened to a team that I’ve coached where we’ve passed each other on a home run, giving each other a high five,” Walkenbach said. “Just little mental mistakes combined with physical mistakes combined with them being a very good team resulted in a loss.”

After the weekend series against the Quakers, the Red sit at 6-6 in the Ivy League, putting them in third place in the Lou Gehrig Division. Cornell, who looks up at Columbia (10-2) and Penn (10-2) in the division, needs to win its division in order qualify for the Ivy League Baseball Championship Series.

Senior hurler Kellen Urbon shined in his start, going seven innings, allowing three hits, one walk and striking out five en route to a 2-0 Red victory in the first game on Sunday. However, team ace Brian McAfee, whom the team counts on for a “zero or one-run outing every time out” put up his worst start of the season during the team’s first game on Saturday, going five innings, allowing nine hits, seven runs (four earned), walking two and striking out two.

McAfee appeared frustrated with the home plate umpire due to a pinhole-sized strike zone. The senior hurler consistently hit the corners with his pitches, but did not get strikes called. As a result, McAfee was forced to throw strikes over the heart of the plate, an opportunity the heavy-hitting Quakers lept for.

“That can shake the guys a little bit,” Walkenbach said.

“They produced runs though. It’s not like they were shell-

baseman Dan Morris in a game this weekend, rendering Morris’ home-run invalid.

This Week In Sports The NCAA Championship game between Duke and Wisconsin was bittersweet. It was a tremendous basketball game in all respects, but the realization that March Madness has ended is a sad one for a sports nut. But each

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz of the 12 calendar months comes with different sports excitement, and April is no different. Below are some key events that made for a quality week of sports.

Jordan Spieth Captures First of Many Major Championships

Last April, I recapped Jordan Spieth’s second-place finish in the 2014 Masters by noting that although winning the tournament would have been remarkable, a runner-up, $800,000 win for the 20-year-old wasn’t too shabby either. And on Sunday evening, as Spieth, now 21, was in the midst of closing out the first wire-to-wire Masters win since 1976, I, Ben Shatzman, just a year younger than Spieth, was pacing around my apartment waiting for the microwave to beep so that I could remove my frozen TV dinner that had been in my freezer since fall semester.

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SOFTBALL

Red Ends Weekend With One Win Against Quakers Team struggles all around,pulls together for set of games Sunday

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

The women’s softball team hosted the University of Pennsylvania Quakers this weekend in a four-game series. The Red played two games on Saturday and two on Sunday, getting both some sleet and some sunshine on NeimandRobison Field. The weekend ended 1-3 for the Red after the squad lost both contests on Saturday but came back strong the next day, winning the first 62 and losing the second by only one, with a final score of 7-6.

Saturday was a tough one for the Red. Junior infielder Taylor Goodin said the way the team played its matches on Sunday made it look like a whole different squad.

“Quite honestly, not much went right for us on Saturday. Fortunately, we were able to completely turn things around for Sunday,” she said. “We

“Not much went right for us on Saturday.

Fortunately, we were able to completely turn things around for Sunday.”

Taylor Goodin ended up splitting Sunday’s doubleheader, but we played like a totally different team. We were able to get more clutch hits and our defense was very sharp. We were much better at putting

the ball in play and put a lot of pressure on Penn’s defense.”

Coach Julia Platt Farlow said she agreed, noting that the women were not playing their best on Saturday.

“On Saturday, we left way too many runners on base.

Defensively, we misplayed too many balls on top of giving up too many hits,” she said.

But the performance on Saturday did not stop the Red from coming back strong the next day. The squad came out of the gate with a vengeance, going up by five after only two innings.

Freshman Maddie Orcutt led the way defensively with a strong performance on the pitcher’s mound. “ W e bounced b a c k nicely on Sunday.

Our offense took advantage of Penn’s mistakes and we were able to get runs across the plate,” Farlow said. “Both pitchers threw great and our defense made some key adjustments.”

Orcutt and junior Meg Parker shared the mound for the Red on Sunday and both had outstanding performances.

At bat, Cornell was led by juniors Emily Weinberg, Leanne Iannucci and Meg Parker, as well as sophomore Jessica Bigbie and freshman Tori Togashi, Megan Murray and Karlie Mellott.

In the second game, Cornell was neck-and-neck with the Quakers in the seventh inning, but could not bring the runners home to tie up the score. The visitors stayed one run ahead to end the game at 7-6.

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com.

Perfect pitch | Junior pitcher Meg Parker, pictured left, along with freshman pitcher Maddie Orcutt took the mound on Sunday, helping the Red earn its sole win of the weekend.

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