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Gabby Giffords,Mark Kelly to Speak at Convocation Former Arizona congressperson,retired astronaut husband will address Class of 2015 on May 23

By HALEY VELASCO AND CAROLINE FLAX

embodies the Big Red spirit, but also a passion and determination that is unmatched.”

Giffords was a representative from Arizona’s The Convocation Committee announced at eighth District. She served from 2007 until the Student Assembly meeting Thursday that January 2012 after she survived an attempted the 2015 Convocation speakers will be assassination in Tucson in 2011. Before she gradGabrielle Giffords MRP ’96 uated from Cornell, Giffords and Mark Kelly.

“Be passionate. Be received a Fulbright scholar“I am thrilled and excited ship in 1993 to study in courageous. Be to announce that Gabby Mexico. She currently serves on Giffords and Mark Kelly will the J. William Fulbright your best.” be our Convocation speakers Foreign Scholarship Board. for 2015,” said Rachel Gerber Gabrielle Giffords MRP ’96 Kelly is a retired U.S. astro’15, chair of the 2015 naut and a U.S. Navy captain.

Convocation Committee. “Since this is He was the commander of the Space Shuttle Cornell’s sesquicentennial year, the Committee Endeavour in May 2011. During the Gulf War, — a compilation of Student Assembly repre- Kelly was a fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy and sentatives, Class Council members and At- flew in 39 combat missions in Iraq and Kuwait.

Large delegates — has found it fitting to chose See CONVOCATION page 4 an alumna of this University that not only

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Unbreakable | Former Arizona congressperson Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, will speak at this year’s Senior Class Convocation on May 23.

Small Explosive Found on Campus Sushi Truck Opens Authorities: Device did not pose any ‘immediate danger’ On Thurston Ave.

By ANNIE BUI

Sun Managing Editor

Cornell Police and the Endicott Bomb Squad removed a “small, improvised explosive device” from Bartels Hall Tuesday.

A University staff member allegedly brought the device to the campus building after locating it off-campus, according to a University press release. Authorities initially responded to the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. and took precaution to “secure the immediate area.”

The University said there was “no immediate danger” when the device was removed at around 3:45 p.m.

A joint investigation into the incident by Cornell Police, the Endicott Bomb Squad and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is ongoing, according to the University. No charges have been filed, and the University states there is “no indication” that the individual who brought the explosive device to campus had any “malicious intent.”

The University determined that there was “not an immediate need to notify the greater Cornell community” of the incident, following consultation with the Endicott Bomb Squad.

Annie Bui can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Hotel School to Offer New Concentration Institute, said he believes that Sun Assistant News Editor this new concentration will spur further advancements. “[The hotel school] is comCornell will offer an entremitted to giving students a preneurship concentration well-rounded through the Pillsbury acumen, Institute, a center that best business with opportunisupports entrepreneur- “[Our] students are among the world's and brightest, and I’m pleased that we’re ties to learn from ial learning within the School of Hotel now able to offer another academic avenue the top experts in any relevant area,” Administration, which said. will provide students for those with entrepreneurial ambitions.” Carvell “[Our] students with the skills to be the Steven Carvell are among the creative executors of world's best and their ideas, the brightest, and I’m pleased that University announced Monday. University press release.

Steven Carvell, associate we’re now able to offer another Currently, the hotel school offers three areas of concentra- dean for academic affairs at the academic avenue for those with tion, and the new entrepre- hotel school and academic neurship concentration is director of the Pillsbury See ENTREPENEURSHIP page 4

By MADELINE COHEN

under the hospitality leadership area, which allows students to specialize in human resources, law and managerial leadership, according to a

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On a roll | A new sushi truck, That’s How I Roll, opens on Thurston Avenue across from Risley Hall.

By RYAN HUMPHREY Sun Staff Writer

That’s How I Roll — a food truck specializing in sushi burritos, maki rolls and hand rolls — opened Wednesday on 500 Thurston Ave. The food truck, located next to Louie’s Lunch, is open from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, according to owner Woepa Zegid.

Zegid, who is the former head sushi chef at Plum Tree Japanese Restaurant, said he has long looked forward to opening his own truck.

“I have been a sushi chef since I was 17 or 18 and I have wanted to open a food truck since I moved to Ithaca in 2009, but for a long time I wasn’t able to get a permit,” Zegid said.

Zegid said he wanted to open up his truck at the intersection of Williams and Stewart Avenues — a plan which has been delayed due to Tuesday’s fire.

“We hope to do a late-night shift from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday — but have to wait because of the construction going on now from See SUSHI page 4

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Designing Effective Presentations Noon - 1 p.m., 106G Olin Library Precarious Lives Workshop: Central American Families And the Limits of U.S. Immigration Policy Noon, 391 Uris Hall How Gut Microbes and Their Metabolites Shape The Dialogue Between the Immune System and the Brain 12:15 - 1:10 p.m., 401 Physical Sciences Building

News, “Gates Foundation Awards University $18.5 Million,” Monday Speaking about how a grant will be used for a plant breeding software project “We are developing an open source software platform to address applying DNA sequencing data to applied breeding for the developing world.”

Edward Buckler

News, “Cornell Sends Out Sexual Assault Survey,” Tuesday Speaking about an AAU survey that will ‘broaden discussion’ on healthy sexual culture “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 perceiving the climate [regarding sexual violence].”

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News, “Fire Destroys Stewart Avenue Buildings,” Wednesday Speaking about a fire that destroyed buildings on Stewart Avenue, including the Chapter House “This is a very sad loss. Losing something that meant so much to so many people … is terrible.”

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Opinion, “The Racism of ‘Anti-Racists’,” Thursday Speaking about the problems of “anti-racists” at Ryerson University in Toronto “By limiting interaction with members of other groups, people have less of an opportunity to challenge their own misguided notions.”

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Around the Ivies Columbia Has Not Removed Dr. Oz From Faculty Position A group of top physicians from the Columbia University Medical Center has called for the removal of popular television celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz from the school’s faculty, The Associated Press reported. In a letter sent to a Columbia dean earlier this week, the physicians say that Oz has “repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine.” Columbia released a statement to The AP Thursday, saying they are “committed … to upholding faculty members’ freedom of expression.”

Yale Students Rally Behind Critically Ill Master Yale students have expressed their support for Saybrook College Master Paul Hudak, who is currently in critical condition as a result from a stem cell transplant he received in 2010, The Yale Daily News reported. Hudak was diagnosed with leukemia during his second year as master, The Daily News reported.

National Deal Reached to Give Obama Fast-Track Authority on Trade Accord Key leaders in Congress are giving President Barack Obama special authority to unilaterally pursue one of world’s largest trade accords, according to The New York Times. The “fast track” bill gives the White House the ability to pursue a planned Pacific trade deal, The Times reported.

Fee Will Be Charged For Video of South Carolina Shooting The video of a white police officer shooting an unarmed man in the back will now cost interested news outlets $10,000 to run, according to the publicist of the man who shot the video. Ceaseand-desist letters were circulated to major news outlets this week even though the video already has over one million views on YouTube, according to The New York Times.

At Lecture,Former U.S. Ambassador Provides Advice

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Poems and pastries

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Barry B. White, former U.S. Ambassador to Norway, spoke about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship as a part of the “Conversations with Entrepreneurs” series Wednesday.

Speaking from Statler Hall, White talked about the wisdom he gained during his 40 years at law firm Foley Hoag LLP CAMERON POLLACK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER and his time as the U.S. ambassador to Amara Lakhous, author of Clash of Civilizations in an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio, attends Poetry Norway. and Pastry: An Elegant Soirée Thursday.

White guided the audience through his journey in law and politics, giving them tips on how to get involved in entrepre- always be prepared for moments of oppor- Autumn Perez ’15. “[He] talked a lot about what entrepreneurs face such as failure and neurship. He said that although you don’t tunity.

“Meet the moment,” he said. “When the networking.” need a detailed plan, “you do need a Perez also said he was impressed with time comes, be ready to jump on it and be thought process.”

“It’s very important early on [that you flexible. You may go in a totally different the White’s diverse experiences and his willingness to take chances. form] the structure your team ... and direction than you would expect.”

“He really intrigued me with the opporWhite emphasized that perseverance is a everybody knows what their role is and tunities he’s had,” Perez said. “You do key element of success. what’s in it for them,” he said.

“The glory is not in never falling, but in something small and you never know the He also said networking is a valuable skill that traces back to as early as high rising every time you fall,” White said, outcome, but things happen for a reason.”

According to Perez, White’s lecture was quoting Confucius. school classmates.

“You’re not going to succeed at every- “very personal.”

“The most unlikely of people get to be “He talked about his journey — what successes and get to be people who you’d thing, you’re not going to win at everything,” he added. “You’ve just got to get up, happened during his [time as] an ambaslike to work with and help,” White said. get back on the horse, and sador,” Perez said. “I really felt that you When faced with a keep trying and keep never know when I hit the age of 50, what hostile relationship, “People will invest plugging, and make sure opportunities are going to come knocking White said it is “much better to be friends, but with people they like you know what you’re on my door. So it gives me hope.”

Maria Florentia Rosselot ’15 added that doing, you’ve got to plan there are times when and understand.” she found the lecture helpful in deciding for it.” you’ve got to be tough The ambassador then whether to pursue international relations and stand up to them.” expressed his interest in professionally.

Being able to connect Barry B. White “He was great,” she said. “He gave very using his experience in with people through a the law and diplomacy to useful information for all those that are mutual understanding is thinking about [going into] international a crucial aspect of a successful entrepre- work in areas of education in the future.

“I’d like to use some of the experience relations — I feel he was a great source.” neurial relationships, according to White.

“I loved how honest he was about his “People will invest with people they like I’ve had in international affairs along with and understand,” he said. “You’ve got to my legal background to work with some role,” Rosselot added.

During his stay at Cornell, White also have a program, you’ve got to have a busi- businesses that are trying to do some things ness plan and they’ve got to feel comfort- overseas as well as nonprofits — particu- participated in the ‘Technology Enable you’re going to deliver and they’re larly in the areas of education that can trepreneurship Roundtable’ hosted by the going to get a return ... it’s very impor- improve how we can provide students with Center for Hospitality Research, and led a education on international affairs,” White session with IAPP Norway on strengthening tant.” university partnerships between the United Speaking about his experience as an said.

The lecture was met with several posi- States and Norway.

Ambassador, White said he found that “like any job you’re going to get into,” he tive reviews from the students, who said learned how to do the job simply by doing they took away some important life lessons. Yun Soo Kim can be reached at “[The lecture was] very inspiring,” said ykim@cornellsun.com. it. White then encouraged students to

Harvard Students Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment

By THE HARVARD CRIMSON

With the environmental activist group Divest Harvard blocking the entrances to her office for a fifth straight day, University President Drew G.

Faust has offered the protesters a meeting—if they end their blockades.

“I would be happy to meet with you and a representative group of your student colleagues when you have ceased disrupting university operations,” Faust

wrote in an email on Thursday to Divest Harvard co-founder Chloe S. Maxmin ’15, according to a copy of the message shared with The Crimson.

In addition to their ongoing demonstration at Massachusetts Hall, roughly two dozen protest-

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International Palestinian Women Join Effort to Keep Jews From Contested Holy Site A group of women, covered face-to-toe and acting as Muslim garrison soldiers, are trying to keep Jews from a contested holy site, according to The New York Times. Jews call the site “the Temple Mount,” while Muslims refer to it as “Al Aqsa” or the “Noble Sanctuary,” The Times reported.

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Students play a pick-up game of soccer on the Arts Quad yesterday afternoon.

ers from the group blocked entrances to University Hall for the second time this week at about 6:15 a.m. on Thursday.

They say they plan to stay until about 5 p.m.

The protesters, who began their planned “Heat Week” protests on Sunday, are demanding that the University divest its $35.9 billion endowment from fossil fuel companies.

Faust wrote in the email that she had not received a request for a meeting from students until she saw a sign held by students on Wednesday afternoon at Emerson Hall, where demonstrators silently stood in protest outside a lecture she was introducing.

Faust made a similar offer to meet with student protesters when they occupied Mass. Hallin February on the condition that they vacate the building, but the protesters declined. Faust has repeatedly argued against divestment as a means to address climate change.

This story appeared in The Harvard Crimson Thursday.

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Gabrielle Giffords, Hotel School Will Offer New Mark Kelly to Speak Entrepeneurship Concentration At 2015 Convocation ENTREPRENEURSHIP Continued from page 1

CONVOCATION

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According to Gerber, Giffords and Kelly’s speeches will add to the spirit of Convocation.

“In their TED talk, Giffords said, ‘Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best’ and I believe that sentiment is in harmony

“I am thrilled and excited to announce that Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly will be our Convocation speakers for 2015.”

Rachel Gerber ’15 with this year’s celebration,” Gerber said.

According to the Committee, this is the first pair of speakers that Cornell has had since the creation of the Convocation Ceremony in 1985 when Stephen H. Weiss and Kenneth Williams gave the address to the graduating class.

The University will hold its 30th Convocation Ceremony on May 23 beginning at 12 p.m. at Schoellkopf Stadium. Giffords and Kelly’s speech will be open to the public, unless inclement weather drives the speech to an alternate location. If that happens, the event will be limited to students with inclement weather tickets.

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entrepreneurial ambitions.”

New entrepreneurship classes were added last fall, according to Mona Olsen Ph.D. ’04, assistant academic director of the Pillsbury Institute. Olsen said the tremendous popularity of the current classes offered helped to “put the wheels in motion” for the institute to begin thinking to propose creating a new entrepreneurship concentration.

“We had waiting lists for the 10 classes that we offer; this helped support the framework for the proposal for the concentration — that it was warranted, something that students wanted in their educational journeys at [the hotel school],” she said.

Olsen said she thinks that entrepreneurial education is important because it provides students with tools that will help them in their future careers.

“I think that when you look at the job market, it is important to be able to articulate how you will make a difference — saying that you know how to create value given existing resources, to take an idea from ideation to execution, that is something that it is valuable at all levels, whether launching a small business or joining a team at an existing corporation,” she said.

Brenna Curran ’16, a student in the hotel school, said she believes this new concentration is

valuable to students because having an understanding of entrepreneurship will give students an advantage in todays economy.

“Exposure to entrepreneurship gets the creative juices flowing, an important skill in any industry,” Curran said. “With the intense competition in today’s workforce, companies want to hire the individual with an entrepreneurial mindset who can produce creative, out of the box solutions.”

Francisco Jimenez ’15 added that he and other hotel school students have much to gain from learning about entrepreneurship because it is pivotal to the success in the hotel industry. “[The hotel industry] has not been very innovative in the past 20 years,” Jimenez said. “Except for Airbnb, which is an anomaly, the hotel industry is mainly run by older people who are using ideas that they believe they should continue using, because they have worked in the past 50 years. So I would say that entrepreneurship is very very critical for a company to grow in a positive growth direction.”

Olsen said she believes the program will retain certain fundamentals of business, but she expects that it will constantly be changed and updated.

“In entrepreneurship, the theme is that change is constant, so we hope to be adaptive,” Olsen said.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

Sushi Truck Opens on North Campus SUSHI

tional and Western Zushimaki styles — so the customer gets more

the fire,” Zegid said.

Zegid said he came up with some of the dishes on the food truck’s menu when he experimented with ingredients during his time at Plum Tree.

“There are two basic types of food on the menu,” he said.

“There are the traditional insideout roles, but the signature item is the sushi-burrito. Burritos are designed to pack more ingredients and sauces than can work in tradi-

“Burritos are designed to pack more ingredients and sauces than can work in traditional and Western Zushimaki styles.”

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Woepa Zegid flavor.

The inspiration for the truck’s sushi-burrito came from experi-

menting with temaki — the coneshaped hand-rolls which Zegid said were “for picky customers and co-workers.”

Zegid said the success of the truck’s opening was a good sign for the future.

“Yesterday was the opening and there was a bit of a crowd,” he said.

“I was busy all day and almost ran out of ingredients — which is a good kind of problem.”

Ryan Humphrey can be reached at rhumphrey@cornellsun.com.

Report:Teen Smoking Hit New Low in 2014 NEW YORK (AP) — Teen smoking hit a new low last year while the popularity of electronic cigarettes and water pipes boomed, a government report shows.

The number of high school students who tried e-cigarettes tripled in one year — to more than 13 percent. Water pipes or hookahs were used by 9.4 percent.

But smoking of traditional cigarettes plummeted to 9.2 percent from more than 13 percent. That means smoking in high school is now less common than e-cigarette or hookah use.

The decline in cigarette smoking “is very dramatic and very encouraging,” said Robin Koval, president of Legacy, an antismoking organization.

The report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mirrors the results of another government-funded study issued in December.

The CDC report is based on a national survey of about 22,000 students at middle schools and high schools, both public and private. Similar trends were found

for middle school but at lower levels of use.

Students were asked whether they had smoked or used a tobacco product in the previous 30 days; those who said yes were deemed current smokers.

Besides cigarettes, the report found continuing declines in the use of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff among high school students.

CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden this week described the findings as “alarming.” He said the decline in use of most tobacco products was more than offset by the growth in nicotine-laden ecigarettes and hookahs.

Some public health experts say the CDC is taking an unusually hard stand against e-cigarettes, at a time when scientists still trying to determine how harmful they are. They started selling in the U.S. in 2006 and are often described as a less dangerous alternative to cigarettes.

“The CDC has been very onesided on the e-cigarette issue,” said Kenneth Warner, a University of Michigan public health professor who is a leading authority on

smoking and health.

E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that produce an odorless vapor that typically contains nicotine and flavorings.

Scientists say nicotine is harmful for the developing brain.

Frieden said e-cigarettes are a new way of introducing kids to nicotine — and potentially hooking them on tobacco products in the future.

“The idea that kids are better off using e-cigarettes is just the wrong way of thinking about it,” he said.

A year ago, the Food and Drug Administration proposed regulating e-cigarettes, including banning sales to minors. A final rule is expected by June, an FDA spokesman said Thursday.

Others were more positive about the new report and the drop in traditional cigarettes, and voiced more uncertainty about the science around e-cigarettes.

There’s not yet a scientific consensus on whether kids who try e-cigarettes go on to become regular smokers, Koval said.

“Is this a gateway in? Or a pathway out? We don’t know,” she said.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) speaks at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday. The speech was part of a national tour which seeks to jump-start a coalition that might influence the presidential race.

Baggage Handler Falls Asleep in Cargo Hold of Plane SEATTLE (AP) — A baggage handler who fell asleep inside the cargo hold of an Alaska Airlines jetliner called 911 after takeoff to say he couldn’t get out and needed someone to stop the plane, according to a 911 call released Thursday.

“I’m inside a plane, and I feel like it’s moving in the air. Flight 448. Can you please have somebody stop it?” he said in a recording of the call made on Monday.

The 911 dispatcher seemed confused and asked at least three times for the airport worker to clarify his location.

“You’re where?” the dispatcher asked. “Where are you in a plane?”

After the worker repeated his request for help, the dispatcher said: “Are you at the airport?”

The worker tried one more time to explain then hung up. The man sounded progressively more upset in the recording that lasted less than a minute.

The employee of Menzies Aviation, which contracts with airlines to handle baggage, also banged on the roof of the cargo hold and was heard by

Former Banker Charged With Stealing $20M From Clients NEW YORK (AP) — A former JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker was arrested Thursday on charges he stole $20 million from clients over a four-year period, using some of the money to make personal investments and pay a home loan.

Bail was set for Michael Oppenheim, 48, of Livingston, New Jersey, at $1 million by a magistrate judge who also required home detention and electronic monitoring.

Oppenheim’s lawyer, Richard Gamburg, said his client would plead not guilty to charges including wire fraud, embezzlement, investment adviser fraud and securities fraud. He said he expected Oppenheim to be released Friday.

Mike Fusco, a JPMorgan spokesman, said the bank alerted authorities to the crimes and worked closely with officials.

He said Oppenheim was a financial adviser at a Manhattan branch.

“We are sorry and angry this happened,” Fusco said. “We always stand by our customers and will ensure no customer who had their money stolen will lose any funds related to this.”

Authorities said Oppenheim convinced clients to consent to the withdrawal of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of dollars from their bank accounts on false representations that he would invest the money in low-risk municipal bonds. Sometimes, they added, he would simply withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars from their accounts.

pilots and first-class passengers on the Los Angeles-bound flight.

The pilots quickly returned to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The plane was in the air just 14 minutes.

The worker “has been permanently banned from ever working on any Alaska Airlines flights,” the airline said in a brief statement Thursday evening.

The Federal Aviation Administration, the airline and Menzies Aviation have been investigating the incident. The airline has said the leader of a baggage-loading crew noticed the worker was missing and tried to call and text him before concluding he had gone home at the end of his shift.

Menzies officials have declined to release the worker’s name. They said he had worked for the company for 18 months and was fortunate he was trapped in a part of the plane that was pressurized and temperature-controlled.

The company said its policies were knowingly violated by an experienced employee who hid in the hold to take a nap.

U.N. Secretary General Calls For Cease-Fire in Yemen WASHINGTON (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon called Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Yemen to spur peace talks and get lifesaving aid into the impoverished Middle East nation.

The U.N. chief addressed “the many fateful challenges” the world confronts, from 50 million refugees and displaced people — the largest num-

ber since World War II — to the urgent problem of climate change in a speech at the National Press Club.

“Millions of people face hatred and persecution, billions suffer from hunger and exploitation,” he said. “The United Nations has appealed for $16 billion to cover humanitarian relief for this year — almost five times what we needed a decade ago.”

Court Sentences Journalist To Seven Years in Prison BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court sentenced a veteran Chinese journalist to seven years in prison Friday for leaking a document detailing the Communist Party leadership’s resolve to aggressively target civil society and press freedom as a threat to its monopoly on power.

The sentence against Gao Yu, 71, comes amid a widening clampdown on free speech that highlights the gap between China's vision of rule of law and

Western notions of civil liberties and judicial fairness. The document Gao was convicted of leaking, deemed a state secret, underpins the clampdown under the 2 ½-year-old administration of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.

The court verdict appears to confirm the authenticity of the leaked document, which had been reported since June 2013 but never was discussed openly by the leadership.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her first trip as a presidential candidate to the early voting state of New Hampshire next week.

The Clinton campaign said the former secretary of state will participate in small events Monday and Tuesday, including roundtables with students and small-business employees. She will also hold private meetings with elected officials and activists. The campaign did not provide more specifics of her schedule.

Clinton announced her second White House run Sunday before traveling to Iowa, where she held similar small-scale events.

Clinton won the New Hampshire primary in 2008 after placing third in the Iowa caucuses, jumpstarting a lengthy and bruising Democratic nomination contest won by Barack Obama on his way to the presidency.

The Clintons have long been popular in New Hampshire, where Bill Clinton’s second-place finish in the 1992 primary helped propel him to the nomination and the White House.

Hillary Clinton last visited New Hampshire in November to stump for Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan. Her New Hampshire operation is drawing heavily from Shaheen’s reelection team, with the senator’s campaign manager, Mike Vlacich, serving as Clinton’s New Hampshire state director.

At an organizing event in Concord on Wednesday night, Vlacich told supporters to expect frequent outreach from the campaign.

Clinton traveled to Iowa by van from her home in New York and held a series of events with small groups of people, leaving any big rallies for later. She pledged a campaign aimed at building “the economy of tomorrow,” strengthening families, fixing government dysfunction and protecting the country from threats.

She has yet to outline policy specifics.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Jordi Savall: A Melancholy Rose

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

On January 24, 2003, I witnessed a vibrant soul at play on Vienna’s Konzerthaus stage. Leading La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations in a program of madrigals and sinfonias by Claudio Monteverdi, Johann Hermann Schein and Samuel Scheidt, Jordi Savall’s performance was everything the music was: thrilling, captivating and, above all, inviting. On Wednesday night, hunched over his bass viol (the fretted, cello-like instrument of which he is a legendary virtuoso) and accompanied by soloists from Le Concert des Nations, I saw a changed man — a man playing for himself, as if into a mirror.

It was more than a little surprising that, from a musician who boasts nearly 200 recordings, we should encounter such a pedantic program. Composers Jean de Sainte-Colombe and protégé, Marin Maras, were surely familiar to anyone who has at least glanced at Savall’s 40-year career, which broke international waters when he provided the soundtrack for the 1991 film Tous les Matins du Monde, a dramatization of Marais’ relationship with his reclusive teacher.

By far, the musical offerings from those masters of the instrument were highlights of the evening’s performance.

Sainte-Colombe’s brooding “Tombeau les Regrets” was a rare chance to hear Savall in duet. The sound of two bass viols alone was nothing short of transportive. Even the leading violin of Marais’s Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris, an inventive piece meant to evoke the din of church bells, could do nothing to undermine their resonance.

The same could not be said for the rest of the program, which distilled unremarkable background music from some of the biggest names in the 17th-century French Baroque.

Anonymous selections from the era of Louis XIII set the tone for the program’s theme, which sought to articulate the splendor of the French Bourbon court. And yet, what began as a royal affair settled into what felt like a glorified rehearsal. This was not only because of the awkward staging (the musicians were, for instance, left floundering without assistance when a music stand broke), but also because court music was for the most part incidental and not designed to be heard out of context. And so, whatever stateliness might have infused its origins,

this music came across not as regal but as dolorous. This rendered the listening experience both intriguing and depressing.

While on the one hand we could feel ourselves traveling back in time, on the other it reminded us of the transience of power and arbitrariness of kingly life. It was like hearing history crumble before our very ears, leaving only a handful of extant sonic monuments to an unrecoverable age. Even the jewelry of violin and flute seemed to harbor shadows of doubt. It was a strange thing: This music would not have existed without the power structures that engendered it, but its occasional beauties spoke of realms far beyond any artifice of courtly refinement.

From a programming perspective, missed opportunities abounded. For one, there was no chance to hear the unaccompanied solo viol and the two duo miniatures by Antoine Forqueray and his son Jean-Baptiste were etudinal at best, further diluted by a superfluous keyboard backbone. Despite father Forqueray being once called by Savall “a knight who is always on the verge of working his horse to death, but who knows his horse too well to go quite that far,” there was little proof of such concept.

For another, to be in the presence of renowned harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, only to find him relegated to a continuo (i.e., supporting) role was curious, even if we did hear some of his brilliance come through in three selections from JeanPhilippe Rameau’s 1741 “Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts.”

Yet with so much rich keyboard literature to choose from among the likes of Rameau and François Couperin, I couldn’t help but scratch my head over the latter’s Les Concerts Royaux, of which the three sections played were like the courtiers they were meant to entertain: passive and overdressed. Far more active, though no less dressed, was the suite from Jean-Baptiste Lully’s 1670 “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” after which the musicians were, for once, visibly satisfied. Why not choose from something more suitable for a live setting, such as Couperin’s 1728 collection of suites for viol?

Likewise, the inclusion of Jean-Marie Leclair’s “Sonata in D Major, Op. 2, No. 8” was apocryphal at best, especially when one considers the lack any credible evidence suggesting that Leclair even played at the court of Louis XIV. Why not instead bring another violinist and play the far more mature fascinations of his Opus 5?

In light of the fact Savall has become increasingly known as an artist of difference, weaving together wide-ranging faiths,

Tyler The Creator Cherry Bomb Odd Future Records

“I want to design the inside of a spaceship’s furniture, if Elon Musk is really making spaceships,” Tyler, The Creator said in a recent interview with PBS’s Tavis Smiley. As the ringleader of Los Angeles’ Odd Future Collective (shorthand for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All), Tyler’s constant expansion into new forms of creative expression leaves one thinking that him designing spaceship furniture with the Tesla CEO would be all that outlandish. What’s more, the 24-year-old MC’s antics on late-night television (e.g. riding around on Jimmy Fallon’s back), paired with his own show on Adult Swim, have nearly rendered his personality more popular than his music.

Yet Tyler’s music output remains the most prolific aspect of his multifaceted career and he returns this week with the surprise release of his fourth studio album, Cherry Bomb. The largely self-produced, feature-light project’s arrival (along with that of Earl Sweatshirt’s excellent, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside) has the music critic community abuzz as to what happens to the OFWGKTA crew when they grow up, with Pitchfork going so far as to title an editorial “Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, The Creator’s Odd Future as Mature Adults.”

Earlier projects such as 2013’s Wolf hinted at a thematic maturity previously unseen from any of the Odd Future MCs, but it remained inseparable from the vulgar Peter Pan image Tyler

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histories and spiritual threads the through loom of his musical vision, perhaps there was too much similarity. In the end, the playing, while effortless, was self-contained and the virtuosity incidental.

And while one may never fully see into the heart of another, it was impossible to watch Savall and not mourn for him. Since facing immeasurable personal tragedy COURTESY OF ALTA MUSICA in 2011, we may only speculate about the depth of his loss and stand in awe at his creative resolve. Having recently lost someone close to me, I am admittedly primed to give such a reading, but I couldn’t help but feel the melancholy rose of his heart wilting just a little under the spotlight. It made me want to hear him play alone, if only to let that heart sing without obstacle, so that it might throw open a window into its own unrecoverable past.

With this realization — or projection, call it what you will — in tow, I left the concert hall berating myself for the above criticisms (I share them only in the interest of full disclosure).

It was a sobering reminder that there is far more to gain in this world than there is to lose.

And at any rate, the world has gained so much from Savall already that one mere lackluster performance will leave no dent in his legacy.

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continues to cultivate. With Cherry Bomb, Tyler gets closer than ever to seamlessly fusing his jester-like antics with both musical and emotional depth, presenting his paradoxical traits as two sides to the same coin.

At first glance, Cherry Bomb fits right within the canon of Tyler’s previous projects. His gruff, aggressive rapping voice renders his songs immediately recognizable, as does his tendency to gravitate toward a kind of subverted, Neptunesinfluenced soundscape. While those trademarks remain intact throughout the 13-track album, the artist spends the majority of these 55 minutes pushing himself in new directions. Thus, the guitar-driven intro, “Deathcamp,” proves itself misleading. It resembles the aggressive, hard rock-influenced Odd Future tracks of old, and even ends with Tyler repeating the phrase, “Welcome to Deathcamp.”

Yet the remainder of Cherry Bomb has as many moments of cloud-parting beauty as it does raw aggression. “I really want to sing,” Tyler said in an interview with Larry King last year, “But my tone of voice is too deep to do what I want.” Singing — alongside new compositional depths in Tyler’s production — is what sets Cherry Bomb apart from the rest of his discography. Fuck, I can’t sing,” he proclaims at the beginning of the excellent single, “Fucking Young/Perfect.” And while he’s no Isaac Hayes, Tyler light-

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For all of its slow jams (of which “2Seater” might be the best), the album constantly reminds us that it’s a Tyler, the Creator project. “Cherry Bomb,” a batshit crazy punk song with drowned out vocals, comes immediately after “Find Your Wings,” a composition that would not sound out of place coming from a church choir. Even in his tamest of moments, Tyler wants us to recall that he’s still the guy who wrote a popular song with the hook, “kill people, burn shit, fuck school.” And while he shows emotional maturity on certain Cherry Bomb cuts, Tyler still uses homophobic slurs, mistakenly thinking it contributes to his image of refusing to follow the rules (perhaps a habit he picked up from Eminem, whom he openly cites as an influence).

Chris Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com.

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Deadpool and the R-Rated Superhero Film

f you are one of my regular readers — and I like to think that those exist, outside of my mother — you have probably noticed that I have been on a bit of a superhero kick, as of late.

Well, I am going to keep the trend going. See, I have been itching to write about something since April Fool’s Day. In a huge move, 20th Century Fox announced that the upcoming Deadpool film, starring Ryan Reynolds, will be rated R. And around the interwebs, fans rejoiced.

Casual fans may recognize Deadpool from XMen Origins: Wolverine. And a lucky few of you may have managed to bury that film deep down in the darkest crevices of your repressed memory. Thankfully, the monstrosity that we were presented in the original Wolverine stand-alone film is completely retconned — or, simply, ignored — in this new iteration.

For those of you unfamiliar with the character, you should do yourself a favor and look up the Deadpool test footage (trust me, it’s incredible). The animated footage features Reynolds’ voice, and paints a good picture of what Deadpool is all about: unpredictable wit, schizophrenic humor and extreme violence.

The anti-hero’s primary abilities include a healing power, expertise in all forms of combat and weaponry and unparalleled unpredictability, and depending on what you’re reading, maybe more. Basically, think Wolverine plus Batman plus The Joker.

But what makes him most distinct among his super peers is his self-awareness. See, Deadpool knows and understands that he is a character.

He frequently will speak directly to the audience in sarcastic, mocking asides. By breaking the fourth wall so often, Deadpool becomes private buddies with the audience.

Altogether, these come together with incredibly potential for the big screen. However, many fans feared that the film would be given a rating of PG-13 — the norm for superhero films — and would not be able to live up to the graphic violence and obscene wisecracks that they have come to expect from the Merc with a Mouth.

In a brilliant marketing move, 20th Century Fox (who owns the rights to all X-Men and Fantastic Four related Marvel properties) released a mock interview between Entertainment News reporter, Mario Lopez and star, Ryan Reynolds. Released on April Fool’s Day, the interview seems to reveal that the film will have a PG-13 rating, in order to remain, as Mario puts it, “family friendly.” Just as Reynolds tries to blur the term, Deadpool enters behind Lopez, unnoticed, and knocks him out cold with a stage light, emphasized

Evan Needell Needell In a Crapstack with a cheery “Fuck you, Slater,” a reference to the 90s classic, Saved by the Bell.

Now that you’ve gotten some context, let’s get to why I’m so excited. This marks the first time that a major Marvel or DC superhero has received a big screen adaptation with an R rating since 1989’s The Punisher. And it’s a great move, because it considers what the character’s audience is going to be and how it will most successfully appeal to that audience.

Deadpool is not a character that is going to

appeal to everybody. His offbeat humor, schizophrenic tendencies and fourth-wallbreaking make for a polarizing character. Many people view him as innovative, unique and refreshing, and love him for it. Meanwhile, many people will also view him as being just too weird.

His comics have a wellestablished, passionate cultlike following. And the majority of this following believes that if a Deadpool film is going to be done right, it has to be violent and gory enough for that R rating.

Are they risking losing a lot of their fanbase by excluding children from the theaters? Yeah, probably. But given the traits of the character, it was unlikely that Deadpool would have appealed much to this audience, regardless.

No, he is designed for a specific audience — one mature enough to handle darker themes and the complexities that come with understanding a psychologically shattered and immensely complicated antihero.

If Deadpool is going to be a box office success, it has to recreate the same kind of cult following that the comics have created. And you start that by appealing to that pre-established audience. That is why you see so many film adaptations in Hollywood nowadays, because you know that no matter how good or bad the film is, you have a pre-established audience that is going to see it, no matter what. And if 20th Century Fox allowed Deadpool to have anything less than an R rating, they would have alienated a significant portion of said fan base.

Most importantly, though, having an R-rating makes Deadpool distinct among the genre. I have mentioned this in previous columns, but I

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itch for the meeting of the world of my present and the world of my past. I want the comics that I was super into as a kid repackaged in the tone that I thirst for as an adult. This converging of sensibilities is largely why Christopher Nolan’s take on Batman was so wildly successful.

If the big screen version of Deadpool is going to recreate and expand upon its contingency of comic book fans, it needs to give us something that others cannot. Leaving the theater, we need to be thinking, “Holy shit, that was unlike anything else and I need more of it.” And, as it had to be, that is going to be accomplished by its increased violence, absurdity and complexity.

With an incredible docket of superhero films waiting to be released in the next few years, it can be difficult to choose one to get most excited about. In a genre that is risking oversaturation at an alarming rate, this upcoming Deadpool film is looking like it should provide a refreshing take on what it means to be “super.”

Evan Needell is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at eneedell@cornellsun.com.

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SEASONS IN ITHACA It goes from backsweat to seasonal affective disorder to backsweat.

— A.D. TO SHORTS OR NOT TO SHORTS? Why don’t campus buildings warm up with the weather?

These goosebumps are not flattering.

— J.L.Z. TRIPLE SHOT THURSDAYS My Thursday routine includes three shots of espresso in the morning, and three shots of vodka at night.

— A.P.F. FRESHER THAN MY CLIQUE I spend more time in Olin than I do at home or in class. I’ve started to recognize the hardcore people who never leave Libe. I like to think we’ve formed a nice little clique. I wonder what their names are.

— J.L. GET OVER IT If the libraries were frats, I wouldn’t rush Mann. I feel like they would go way too hard for me.

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— A.F. MY LAPTOP’S LAME So I was practically transported back to 2010 when my computer broke down during the heart of prelims and essay season and I had to use my friend's back-up.

I couldn’t have both Word and Spotify open at the same time and had to stop myself from throwing the machine out the window.

— S.J. BABY MOB SCENE Trill was full with prefrosh and their parents so I was hungrier than I wanted to be. It was an unpleasant experience.

— A.F. LOOKIN’ GOOD To all the prefrosh in the lanyards. Trust me, you will regret being THAT person when you actually go to this school.

— J.Z. THE GUY FIERI DIET My primary food groups are cheese, bread, ramen and hot sauce. It’s really healthy, I definitely recommend.

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DO YOU PARTY, BRO? I watched the Red Sox-Yankees game last Friday that lasted 19 innings, from 7 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. My roommate went out for the night in the bottom of the first inning. He came back in the 19th inebriated and laughing uncontrollably. I was sleepdeprived and laughing out of pain.

— E.A. NO BREAKS That moment when you have a paper and a project due on the day you have to drive to Manhattan.

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Gender Equality and Legal Reform in India I

ndia is still recovering from the gruesome rape case that happened in the December of 2012, an attack that Justice Yogesh Khanna said “shocked the collective conscience of India.” A 23-year-old woman was returning with her male friend from a movie when they got a lift from four men who were gallivanting around the city of New Delhi in a bus. The men quickly beat the young man and then took turns raping the woman.

They even inserted an iron rod in her, eventually leading to her death a few weeks later in a hospital in Singapore. The Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna, who heard this case, made the above statement while issuing his decision.

This unfortunate and hideous incident has raised questions and anger among the citizens of India regarding the gender inequality that women are subjected to everyday. Every other day women are attacked and almost nothing is done about it. Treating women like mere objects of entertainment and disregarding their human rights is creating outrage in the country, especially among younger citizens. People are now demanding solutions to this inequality.

Man and woman are two wheels of a chariot that will run smoothly only if both the wheels are equal. Discrimination against women has been a root problem in India for a very long time, and it is high time something is done to eradicate it. Over 48 percent of the Indian population is com-

It is deeply rooted in Indian culture and tradition that a woman is meant to stay home, make meals and take care of the family. prised of women according to the 2011 Census report, but how many of them are allowed to freely exercise their human rights? How many of them are given equal and fair opportunities to prove themselves?

The answer to the above question is rather disheartening. Only 65.5 percent of women as compared to 82.1 percent of males are literate in India; only 15.4 percent of Indian urban women work; the sex ratio in India is 943 females for every 1000 males, which is higher as compared to the 2001 Census report but is still a low ratio as socially evil practices like female feticide and female infanticide are still practiced in some parts of the country.

Various solutions to gender inequality are cropping up through debates and discussions. Better implementation of laws, deeper involvement of non-governmental organizations, encouraging more girls to get educated and generally strengthening the laws are some of them, but the most important solution that needs to be given attention is breaking through the barriers of the patriarchal Indian society. Gender inequality and the importance given to patriarchy in India are very closely related.

The attitudes of the families in India towards their female children need drastic transformation. Educating a girl is considered a bad investment, as all she is required to do is stay home and look after the family.

Tradition demands that financial resources should rather be saved for her marriage, because, unfortunately, in some parts of India, people still believe in dowry. Educating a boy, on the other hand, is considered very profitable because he is going to be the breadwinner and therefore the head of the family. This perception that women cannot be breadwinners has to change. This perception that women are mere objects of entertainment has to change.

It is deeply rooted in the Indian culture and tradition that a woman is only meant to stay home, make meals and take care of her family. What people fail to understand is that educating a woman is as important — and maybe more important — than educating a man. Brigham Young once said “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” Yes, one of the many responsibilities of a woman is to nurture her family but if she is not educated, if she is not given opportunities to prove herself, she will never learn to voice her opinion, to stand up or herself and in turn teach her children to do the same.

It’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken.

It is not that the Indian Constitution does not provide for meaningful provisions. Actually, it not only enshrines gender equality in the form of Fundamental Rights but also empowers the States to actively engage in positive discrimination in favor of women. Article 14 declares equality and equal protection before the law for all, Article 15 states that the State will not discriminate against any citizen on any grounds and Article 39 entitles every individual the right to livelihood and the right to equal pay.

However, speedy disposal of cases with better and faster implementation of the laws is critical.

In 2007, Mrs. Pratibha Patil was appointed the first female President of India. In 2009, Chandha Kochhar was appointed as CEO and M.D. of ICICI Bank, the first woman to head a bank in India. In 2014, Mary Kom became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Games held in South Korea.

Yes, India is making progress because women in India are progressing professionally, but it is not deep enough to reach the heart of the country.

Social evils like female feticide, female infanticide, weak labor force participation and rape are still very prevalent. Cutting through the customs and traditions is definitely a huge challenge for the Government of India, but without amendments in the law and transformation of public opinion through new programs, gender inequality will seep deeper and deeper into the system.

Shruti Rajgarhia is a student at Cornell Law School. Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Obama Wins on Iran Nuclear Deal

sional oversight was turned by n Tuesday, the Senate administration and Iran.

A few months prior, anoth- the administration to its’ Foreign Relations Committee unani- er bill, negotiated by Corker advantage. Instead of the mously approved legislation, and then ranking member President having to convince the result of negotiations Menendez (D-N.J.), was Republican members to supbetween Chairman Bob gaining support throughout port the deal, it is now Corker (R-Tenn.) and the Senate. The bill, which Republican members who Ranking Member Ben Cardin would have imposed new must convince congressional (D-Md.), enabling Congress sanctions on Iran if the nego- Democrats to actively oppose to vote on President Obama’s tiations were not concluded the deal and override a presifinal nuclear deal with Iran. by June 30, was even dential veto. Even if Congress The bipartisan support for endorsed by top-Senate- opts to reject to lift the sancChuck tions, Obama can veto the such congressional review Democrat-to-be materialized only after Schumer. Besides providing measure, needing only the Obama signaled that his Congress with a 60 day period support of 34 senators — administration would be will- to review any agreement, the meaning the President can ing to sign the compromise idea of the bill was that con- lose 12 Democratic senators legislation, no longer threat- gressional action would be — to sustain a veto. Though Democrats ening to veto the agreement required to lift any sanctions congressional which would give Congress a — President Obama would pushed to form a congressionrole in approving the Iran have to convince enough al review, they are unlikely to deal. After months of the GOP members, who general- buck the administration again administration opposing such ly oppose the negotiations, to once an agreeable Iran deal is an agreement, the general nar- support the deal. This would presented.

The compromise with rative has been that Obama be a tall, potentially insurimplies that was outfoxed by Congress — mountable, task — one that Congress especially by a Republican Obama certainly didn’t want President Obama has the authority to unilaterally waive majority that advocated to face.

Instead, the administration sanctions in a legitimate manstrongly for congressional oversight and opposed any successfully lobbied enough ner so long as at least 34 deal with Iran. However, Democrats to view the Democratic senators support another interpretation of the Corker-Menendez bill as the deal. This is a relatively negotiations suggests that damaging to nuclear negotia- mundane challenge for the President Obama is the real tions and created enough sup- President and far easier than winner on the Iran nuclear port to sustain a presidential having to appeal to the GOP veto of the bill. And besides, for support. agreement.

Moreover, the goal should The basic framework of Obama argued that most ecoany deal to curb Iran’s nuclear nomic sanctions could be lift- have always been diplomacy activity involves lifting eco- ed through either executive over conflict with Iran. It’s nomic sanctions imposed on action stemming from waiver hard to believe that Iran Iran that were designed — authority granted in the origi- would be able to develop a successfully — to cripple the nal sanctions legislation, or nuclear weapon in complete Iranian economy and bring through resolutions reached secrecy from the United States the governing regime to the in the Security Council and its’ allies. If Iran cheats on negotiating table over Iran’s through the United Nations. the deal, the world will know nuclear activity. Initially, Secretary of State John The accepted compromise does little to Kerry negotiated with restrict Obama and hinder his deal. In fact, Iran under it offers previously sought after legitimacy the assumption that, if a to negotiations between the deal was administration and Iran. reached, O b a m a would lift economic sanctions Even if Congress were able to and the United States can and at his discretion. restrict Obama’s ability to lift should then engage in approCongressional Republicans economic sanctions, the rest priate military action. The opposed such executive of the United Nations role of democratic governauthority, pronouncing that Security Council (Britain, ment should be to at least parany deal negotiated by Kerry China, France, Germany, ticipate in peaceful negotiaand Obama would simply Russia) and European Union tions before promoting war in pave the path for Iran to could lift the sanctions they the Middle East.

President Obama accepted imposed and undermine the develop a nuclear weapon.

After the Obama adminis- United States refusal to do the minimal checks on executive power and preserved the prestration recognized that many same.

Still, the executive action idents’ authority to conduct congressional Democrats also wanted some form of review route would result in an foreign policy without restricover the final agreement with uproar from Republicans tion from Congress. The Iran, thereby providing charging the Presidents’ agreement even legitimizes Republicans with a veto-proof ‘authoritative regime’ with any Iran deal. Before, if the majority to oppose any deal circumventing Congress and deal failed, the GOP could that fails to provide for con- allowing Iran to establish a paint Obama’s ‘executive overgressional assessment, Obama path towards producing a reach’ as dangerous and a failswiftly accepted the negotiat- nuclear weapon. It might even ure. Now that Congress — ed legislation put forth by be enough to convince and the GOP — has agreed to enough Democrats to join the an oversight procedure, the Corker and Cardin.

It’s true; the administration other side of the aisle and cre- blame can’t be solely placed did rescind a veto threat due ate a veto-proof majority on the President. Obama is to the apparent lack of against the administrations’ likely to get his deal and can appear cooperative and reaDemocratic votes to sustain a deal.

But now the Corker- sonable in the process; that’s a presidential veto in the Cardin bill, which simply victory in politics today.

Senate.

But, the accepted compro- allows Congress a vote on liftmise does little to restrict ing sanctions, but not on Obama and hinder his deal. imposing new ones, grants Jake Forken is a junior in the College of Ecology. He may be reached at In fact, it offers previously legitimacy to the Presidents’ Human jrf285@cornell.edu. My Forken sought after legitimacy to negotiations with Iran. The Opinion appears alternate Fridays this negotiations between the entire structure of congres- semester.

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EQUESTRIAN

With National Cham pionships the remaining competition left of the season, the Ivy Show gives the Red the opportunity to celebrate a successful season and compete together one last time. It will also benefit both the riders who do not have as many shows under their belts as well as the five riders who will be competing at Nationals. “[It’s a] good opportunity

TRACK

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So, there is a learning curve to adjust to.”

However, Bowman said fitness levels for the team are good overall and that the team has been making strides in its adjustment.

In terms of players to look for at the event this weekend, senior Elyse Wilkinson and junior Caroline Kellner have both performed well at the start of their seasons in the 800m and 10,000m respectively.

Others strong players at the start of the season have been juniors Cam Goodman, DeeDee Akpaete and seniors Katie Woodford, Eve Bishop and Zena Kolliesuah. Freshmen Taylor Baker and Taysia Radoslav have both had strong starts to their first outdoor seasons, with Radoslav breaking the freshman record the 400m hurdles in her first race.

While both Bowman and Taylor are happy to play host this weekend, Bowman said he is especially happy since this will provide the Red with opportunity to see performances from those who have not had as much of a chance to compete this season.

“This week we have a smaller meet and looking for production [and] impact from those that have not had as many reps as others, those perhaps competing in only their second comp of the outdoor year,” Bowman said. “We have a team with some great stars but to be successful, we’ll need the whole group to impact and get better. They appear to be moving in that direction.”

Anna Fasman can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

The Shared Values Of Religion and Baseball CHIUSANO

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green, where farms run without much work and where spirits of baseball players of years past come out at night to put on a private show.

Though the main character, Ray Kinsella, is not a particularly religious man, the plot of the novel is very much centered around his faith in both “good” people and the “good” game of baseball. The field Ray builds in his backyard is frequented by spirits of baseball players, but only certain people can see them. One of the so-called non-believers is Ray’s twin brother.

“Richard sits with us awhile… and eventually walks away, a perplexed expression on his face, like that of a pagan watching, but not comprehending, a religious ceremony,” Kinsella writes.

Baseball certainly is a game of believers. It is worshipped by many and hated by more, but the worshippers are devout beyond imagination. I was browsing around for some outside information on this topic and I found a New York Times article from 2012 about a class at New York University taught by John Sexton, the president of the university called “Baseball as a Road to God.” Sexton was realistic about the trajectory of the course, though.

“Baseball’s not ‘the’ road to God. For most of us, it isn’t ‘a’ road to God. But it’s a way to notice, to cause us to live more slowly and to watch more keenly and thereby to discover the specialness of our life and our being, and, for some of us, something more than our being.”

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Cornell Will Host Annual Track Meet

for people to get extra show experience,” Novakovic said.

Overall, the Red is looking forward to showing the other seven Ivy League universities what its equestrian team is made of.

“If anything… it’s another chance to prove yourself and to prove that we’re a good team,” Cochran said.

“We’re serious about what we do.”

Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.

of focus to sit through a nineinning game, not unlike sitting through a religious service. This intense concentration on the game itself is why so many baseball fans keep score when they go to the games. That intimate connection to the game extends to the community you are sharing it with, the congregation of people that looks and sees exactly what you do, that rises to its feet in rapturous joy when a ball travels to the warning track and that gasps in disappointment when it is caught.

I’m still not sure if I believe in any of this, but I think it would be a comforting feeling if I did. I feel the same way about my religion.

There are a thousand things about Catholicism with which I disagree and I, therefore, can’t really consider myself a true Catholic. But sometimes I do wish I believed in some spiritual higher power, because it would be soothing to know it was there.

In Shoeless Joe, Kinsella gives his view of religion. “It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being.”

If the presence of a God helps a person be kind and forgiving, then religion is succeeding. But being a good person can come from within as well and, in that case, religion has nothing to do with it. The nature of community that baseball invests in may be why the sport lends itself to a kind of religious experience.

But after the game, when the stadium floodlights turn off, what truly matters is how the individual conducts him or herself. Baseball players fail infinitely more than they succeed and so do all of us.

Getting back up by the power of your own will is a triumph that needs no spiritual justification.

Scott Chiusano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at schisuano@cornellsun.com Who’s on First appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Red Ready to Host Weekend Upstate Challenge

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

This weekend, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams will host the Upstate Challenge, the first outdoor meet to take place in Ithaca this season. The meet is set to take place on Saturday at the Robert J. Kane sports complex.

Men’s head coach Nathan Taylor said he is looking forward to playing host this weekend after the first meet that was supposed to take place in Ithaca was cancelled due to inclement weather.

“It’s always great to host a meet at home particularly when the weather promises to be good,” Taylor said. “It give every person on the team a chance to compete in prepara-

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See DeeDee run | Junior DeeDee Akpaete, who has been among the strong performers for the Red out of the gate this year, helped her 4x400 relay team finish in 13th place at the NCAA championship preliminaries last year.

tion for the major meets that lie ahead.”

While the men have had a strong start to their outdoor season, the graduation of many key athletes last year has left the team on somewhat shaky ground. The outdoor season, however, has just started and Taylor said that he thinks some of his best players will shine as the season goes on.

“After having what was arguably the best team in the history of the Ivy League last year, graduation hit the team very hard and both the athletes and coaches have had a challenging season so far,” Taylor said. “We are all convinced that our stars will stand out over the next month at the Heps, IC4As and NCAAs.” According to Taylor, some his strongest players are his throwers, hurdlers, mid-distance runners and vertical jumpers, including throwers senior Stephen Mozia and sophomore Rudy Winkler, who Taylor said are “among the very best in the country.”

Sophomore pole vaulter Grant Sisserson has also been a major contributor for the Red in his two years on the hill.

Taylor said he sees him and junior Max Hairston being strong contributors during the weekend as well.

On the women’s side, head coach Rich Bowman has been working to get his players adjusted after the transition from the indoor to outdoor season.

“Most would like to pick up right where they left off regarding indoors moving to outside but adjustments must be made,” Bowman said. “The track is bigger now — 200 meters indoor [as opposed to] 400 meters outdoor. It is windy outside and we have several new events that athletes are getting used to [such as the] 3000m steeplechase, the discus, the hammer, the longer sprint races and the 4x100 relay.

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EQUESTRIAN

Equestrian Will Close Out Season Is Baseball A Religion?

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By ARIEL COOPER Sun Senior Writer

As the weather continues to warm and the school year draws to a close, the Cornell equestrian team is set to make one final trip to the arena before officially ending the season at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships at the end of the month.

This Saturday, all 30 members of the Red

will travel to Briarwood Farm in Ringoes, New Jersey to face the seven other universities in the Ivy

annually — is the one chance for the Ivy League to come together for a day of friendly competition.

last season’s Ivy show.

“One thing that’s cool about Ivies is that it’s a little more open,” said senior Sarah

“This will be my last show with the team. It’s going to be a lot of team bonding.”

Sarah Cochran

League. Because the conference does not regularly compete against each other during the season, the Ivy Show — which is held

Dartmouth and Brown, historically, have been the Red’s fiercest competitors — Cornell suffered a close loss to Dartmouth at

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Senior saddle rider | Senior Sarah Cochran will ride in her last show for the Red at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships at the end of April.

able to compete herself.

Smith said she is looking forward to having the entire team at the Ivy Show.

“We have some of the top open riders in the nation,” Smith said.

“Ivies is a great opportunity for the team to come together.”

Because there is room for everyone to show this weekend, many of the squad’s newer members will also get the opportunity to spend time in the ring. For sophomore Nicole Zitzmann, the Ivy Show will be only her fifth with the team.

However, she said she enjoys celebrating the successes of her teammates as much as her own.

“It makes me really happy seeing everyone do so well,” Zitzmann said.

Although the Ivy Show does not factor into any of the squads’ IHSA scores, Cochran said her team takes pride in its performance at the competition.

“Cornell cares about it a lot because we are part of the Ivy League and we are a strong contender,” Cochran said.

Cochran. “I think we have more classes we can show [in].”

Indeed, the entire team will get a chance to show in one class each, according to head coach Joanna Novakovic ’03. Cochran, who recently moved up into the beginner walk trot canter division, has not had the opportunity to show since Cornell’s home show in February and said she is looking forward to competing again in her new division.

“This will be my last show with the team,” Cochran said.

“It’s going to be a lot of team bonding.”

Junior Kaitlin Smith, who competes in the open division, has been in every show Cornell has taken part in this year. However, the Red has a good number of talented open riders, so she has not always been See EQUESTRIAN page 11

hen I was growing up, I hated going to church. My family was not particularly religious, but I was brought up Catholic and that included attending religion classes after school on Wednesdays and getting the church bulletin stamped every Sunday to show our teachers that we had, in fact, been there in the presence of God or whatever that meant. This

Scott Chiusano Who’s on First ludicrous notion that if we didn’t go to church that we would be reprimanded really stuck with me, and it was probably why I was constantly thinking about being somewhere else while fidgeting on the uncomfortable wooden pews of our church.

At that age, the one place I could always stand to be at was a baseball field or even near one. If some higher power created us, then he must’ve been responsible for baseball too and for that, I’ll always be thankful. After reading W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe (which was also the inspiration for the timeless classic Field of Dreams), I have thought about baseball and religion, if they have anything to do with one another and whether or not sports, like religion, can help us become better people.

The novel is largely a fantastical one, based in rural Iowa, where the grass is always See CHIUSANO page 11