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Cornell Bhangra hosted its 15th annual Pao Bhangra event on Saturday.
Mark Distefano ’16 says Everybody Wants Something!! is quite the movie.
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Cornell hired Princeton’s Brian Earl as the next head coach of the men’s basketball team. | Page 16
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Supporters ClashWith Protesters at Trump Rally Thousands gather in Syracuse to hear the New York-native, Republican frontrunner speak By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Managing Editor
“Get ’em out of here, get ’em out,” Donald Trump waved a hand to supporters and officers escorting protestors from his rally in Syracuse on Saturday afternoon. “You know — the safest place on Earth is at a Trump rally,” he proceeded. Outside the Oncenter, sirens flashed from a barrage of police cars barricading the building. Trump’s event in Syracuse preceded the New York primary, which will take place this Tuesday. A recent Quinnipiac University poll gives Trump a comfortable lead in the state with 55 percent of Republican support, followed by Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) with 20 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) with 19 percent. Thousands of supporters crowded the venue to hear from the Republican frontrunner, who is also a New York native. As inevitable as the proliferation of hats
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Make America great again | Thousands of Trump supporters, many wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, gathered in Syracuse Saturday afternoon to attend the Republican candidate’s rally.
promising to “Make America Great Again” was the throng of protestors trailing Trump’s team. “I’m going to be very loyal to New York, to New York State,” Trump, stationed in front of a row of American flags, promised the crowd to uproarious applause. “I’m going to be loyal to you because this is my place.” Inside, Syracuse’s Oncenter appeared radically transformed from the modest venue that had housed Sen.
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Get ’em out of here | Trump supporters (left) and protesters (right) hold signs with conflicting messages at the busi-
Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and his supporters just a few days before. Gone was the open press pen, whose flimsy fencing had allowed reporters to mingle with attendees, and the raised platform which had centered Sanders on the arena’s floor, surrounded by his crowd. Trump addressed his supporters from a stage secured by vigiliant support staff and security guards, raised on a stage at the venue’s forefront. All press were relegated to a secured area in the back of the arena where they were regularly booed by Trump’s supporters, occasionally at the candidate’s suggestion. Throughout his speech, Trump explicitly sought to combat his growing reputation for divisiveness, stressing that his movement seeks to “bring the country back together … for everybody.” “You know people don’t think of us when they hear of unification,” he said, sounding perplexed. “I’m a unifier. I’m someone who gets along with people, all people. We’re going to get along great. The workers — we’re going to get along so great.”
nessman’s rally in Syracuse on Saturday afternoon.
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Chelsea Clinton Met With Protests in Ithaca Sophie MacLeod ’14 Dies By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor
Student protesters and several Ithacan advocates interrupted Chelsea Clinton while she was voicing her belief that her mother, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would make the “best president” she can imagine.
At a rally in Ithaca on Monday, Clinton praised her mother’s tenacity, bipartisan efforts and advocacy for minority groups. She began by explaining that this election is uniquely important to her, as the New York State primary will be the first presidential election she will participate in since she became a mother to her
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Get out the vote | Chelsea Clinton calls her mother the “best president” she could imagine at a rally at Ithaca restaurant Coltivare Monday.
18-month-old daughter Charlotte and to the child she is due to deliver this summer. “I found I could care more about politics, in this election than I have before, because I understand, whoever we elect to be our next president will play a profound role in the country, and future, that my children, and all of our children, will grow up in,” Clinton said. At this moment in Clinton’s speech, a woman from the audience stood up at the front of the room with a sign that said, “End Support of Oppressive Regimes,” and began admonishing Hillary Clinton for her support of the Israeli and Saudi governments. Several members of the audience began chanting, “Hillary, Hillary,” drowning out the activist’s remarks, before the woman was escorted out. After the interruption, See CLINTON page 5
After Battle With Depression By JOSH GIRSKY
The daughter of American foreign correspondents, MacLeod was born in Sophie MacLeod ’14 died the Johannesburg and lived in South weekend of March 25 from a Africa and France before attendprescription drug overdose while ing high school at Cairo on medical leave from Cornell American College in Egypt, after a long batwhere she was a tle with depresmember of the sion. She was “She could always national honor 23. crack me up even if I society, sang in “Many of the choir and was absolutely you will rememplayed violin in ber Sophie as a the orchestra, miserable.” vibrant young according to artist, a talentAliana Heffernan ’14 her father Scott ed violinist, MacLeod. and a young At Cornell, woman with a unique global MacLeod studied Fine Arts in background and perspective,” the College of Architecture, Art said Dean Kent Kleinman in an and Planning and brought a email sent to students and facul- unique perspective to her studies, ty in the College of Architecture, according to the email. Art and Planning. “We mark her untimely passing with sorrow.” See MACLEOD page 5
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