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Resolution Criticizing Hiring of Inclusion Dean Passes GPSA resolution calls for greater student input,engagement in decision-making process The new dean — who will oversee diversity organizations including the Women’s Resource Center and Student Development Diversity Initiatives — was recently scrutinized by undergraduate student leaders at a March Student Assembly meeting. The S.A.

“We do want to work with this person,” said Christine Yao grad, one of the sponsors of the resolution. “It’s really important that someone is taking this job because no one is currently occupying The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly it.” unanimously passed a resolution criticizing the hiring However, Yao said she believes the process for a newly-established Senior “The creation of this position took place search committee’s approach to hiring Associate Dean of Students for this position does not involve sufficient Inclusion, Engagement and Community without any direct stakeholder engagement with the student service unit, student input.

Support at a Monday meeting. staff [and] associated student organization leaders.”

“The creation of this position took The resolution calls on the University Christine Yao grad place without any direct stakeholder to consult students in decisions regardengagement with the student service ing advocacy centers, citing the establishment of the dean of inclusion position as an example of passed a resolution on March 25, which states that unit, staff [and] associated student organization leadwhen the administration did not sufficiently ask the funding for the position could be better spent in ers,” the resolution states. input of the communities that would be affected by the direct allocations to support programs and minority organizations. dean.

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By TOM SCHREFFLER

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Cornell Dining’s Bus Stop Bagels Opens on Campus

Vice President Charles Phlegar Will Depart C.U.

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The first bagel store on campus — Bus Stop Bagels — opened Monday next to Trillium, at the intersection of Tower Road and Garden Avenue.

The new dining location, operated by Cornell Dining, fills the location left vacant after Trillium Express closed last spring. Bus Stop Bagels will serve both breakfast and lunch.

Michael Stewart, project manager of Bus Stop Bagels, said the design team of the store aspired to create a produce a pleasant environment.

“We wanted [the store] to have a comfortable feel so that people can sit, enjoy the food and watch the activity out the window,” Stewart said.

The design for Bus Stop Bagels

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Queue up | Students wait in line to buy bagels at the opening day of Bus Stop Bagels yesterday.

was thoroughly planned and incorporates metal bars as well as ceiling panels with wooden furniture, according to Stewart.

“The final design uses a lot of bare steel but pairs it with wood to soften the feel,” Stewart said. “The metal ceiling panels imitate old tin ceilings, common to bars and restaurants, but the perforations in the tile and sound

batting behind them help keep the acoustics from being too reflective.”

According to Stewart, the furniture — some of which will arrive next week — will include a large wooden table and several smaller tables from a local craftsman.

The craftsman sources most of his See BAGELS page 4

C.U. Kicks Off Sesquicentennial Celebration

Event features ice sculpture, performances,birthday cake

By DAVID TICZON Sun Staff Writer

The University kicked off its sesquicentennial celebrations at an event Monday that featured an ice sculpture, red and white birthday cake and performances from the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club.

The Big Red Marching Band jumpstarted the

event by playing the song, “Give My Regards to Davy” on Ho Plaza, as students took photos with an Instagram frame inside Willard Straight Hall.

A segment of Monday’s event also took place in the Browsing Library, where students presented features on two student leaders from every decade of Cornell’s history.

Kris DeLuca, chair of

the Student and Academic Services Sesquicentennial Planning Committee — who helped coordinate the presentations on Cornell alumni — said the presentations are especially “unique.”

“What is unique is that we ask students to look at students from across the decades from a student perspective not figuring out the See 150 page 5

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Big Red birthday | Cornell kicked off its Charter Day celebrations Monday.

Charles Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and development, will leave Cornell June 30 for a position as vice president for advancement at his alma mater Virginia Tech, according to the University.

In his time at Cornell, Phlegar — who has served as AAD vice president for nine years — has led the University’s fundraising and alumni engagement in initiatives such as Cornell Tech, a significant increase in need-based financial aid PHLEGAR and the construction of Gates Hall and Klarman Hall, according to a University press release.

Phlegar was also a member of the search committee that selected President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett, the board of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the founding chair of the CASE 50 — an initiative connecting the leading 50 universities of higher education fundraising, according to the University.

Phlegar’s leadership has helped Cornell double the amount of money raised through fundraising, the release said.

“Charlie’s impact on our great university cannot be overstated,” President David Skorton said in a statement. “Charlie was the first person I hired when I came to Cornell, and I have valued his counsel and partnership every day since. While Cornell will miss him, I am happy that he is heading home to Virginia Tech, an exceptional institution where he has such deep, personal roots.”

Phlegar received his bachelor’s and master’s See PHLEGAR page 4

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Tompkins County to Equip Police Officers With Body Cameras The Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office has partnered with the Ithaca Police Department to buy body cameras for officers, according to The Ithaca Journal.

Nate Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 (D-Ithaca), chairman of the Tompkins County Public Safety Committee, said the program aims to provide cameras to local officers by the end of this year.

The body cameras will improve interactions between police and residents, The Journal reported.

By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer

Ted Danson, environmental enthusiast and leading ocean advocate, shared the story of his journey from actor to activist at the 2015 lecture for the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture series Monday.

Renowned for his lead role in the 1980s hit sitcom Cheers, Danson said his recent book “Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them” came as a surprise to those who knew him solely for his acting career.

“I’ve been concerned about oceans for about 30 years now,” Danson said, recounting how coastal pollution spurred his interest in ocean preservation advocacy. Danson said he was able to

National More Than Five Million Iowa Hens Contract Bird Flu More than five million hens at one Iowa farm infected with the bird flu will be slaughtered, according to The New York Times. With roughly 59 million hens in the state in total, there is the danger of the flu spreading to other farms.

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Red fish, blue fish | Actor and environmental activist Ted Danson gives a talk titled “How Ocean Conservation Became my Passion” Tuesday.

leverage his celebrity as a famous actor to raise awareness for the cause.

In 1987, Danson said he founded the American Oceans Campaign, which later merged with Oceana, the largest ocean conservation and advocacy organization in 2001. The collaboration works to show citizens how they can participate in protecting and restoring marine resources, according to Prof. Drew Harvell, ecology and evolutionary biology, who introduced Danson. As a member of the board, Danson contributes to policy change on overfishing, habitat destruction and marine pollution, according to Harvell.

Danson started the talk with what he called a “headliner.”

“Save the oceans, feed the world,” Danson said. “This is at a time when we’re expecting two billion more people by 2050 while we’re already having trouble feeding one billion of us, today.”

According to Danson, 70 percent of the world’s fisheries are either fully-fished or overfished and a third of them have collapsed.

“The trend, without doubt, is going down — we are fishing out our oceans,” Danson said.

In addition to overfishing, some nations are also facing the problem of bottom-trawling, which is the destruction of ocean habitats and nurseries by fishing boats, according to Danson.

“The [boat] engines are so powerful and the rollers on the bottom are so sophisticated that they just plow over everything and anything, turning the coral, the rocks, the nooks, the crannies — where the little fish become the big fish — into a gravel pit,” said Danson.

Additionally, ocean acidification due to an increase in greenhouse cases is “attacking the bottom of the food chain,” Danson said.

“Some scientists might say you could literally squeeze the life out of the ocean,” he said.

He described Oceana’s progress in lowering negative effects in world regions with the some of the largest fishing industries, including that of Chile, the United States and Belize.

Chile has been “[turning] things around and setting aside [waters for] one of the world’s largest marine reserves,” Danson said.

“If you stop destroying their habitat, stop bycatch fishing and [enforce] scientific quotas, fish will come back — they just do,” Danson said. “If we got all the world’s fisheries working right, we could increase the number of daily fish meals to one billion fish meals a day sustainably.”

Kimberly Lee can be reached at kimberlylee@cornellsun.com.

Chief Justice of Ghana DiscussesWomen’s Access to Justice

By DIVYANSHA SEHGAL Sun Staff Writer

Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice of Ghana, spoke about Ghanaian women and children’s access to justice at a talk Monday.

Wood said she believes justice lies at the heart of human rights and that the constitution should be one of the key elements driving governance in Ghana.

“Therefore the courts remain the lead institution responsible — through judicial pronouncements — for the rights and responsibilities for the Ghanaian people as has been spelt out in the constitution of The Republic of Ghana,” Wood said.

Women and children suffer the most from human rights violations, including war crimes, human trafficking and domestic violence, Woods said, arguing for increased representation of women in Ghana.

“Women must be represented at all decision making levels,” Wood said. “The more and more we include women, it is more likely that the views of their children, of their larger families and the perspectives that they have would all be factored in.”

Wood pointed to three main factors she believes hinders access to justice in Ghana: physical access, legal access and financial access.

“Physical access refers to how close the courts are to the places where women live and work. The farther away the courts are from the people, the less likely it is that they are willing to spend time and resources in order to access justice,” Wood said. “They’d rather find a more economic activity to do.”

While the Ghanaian government has taken several steps recently to help women gain better access the courts, Wood said there is still more progress to be made to improve justice for women.

“We have made some significant progress with court infrastructure. In July, we put up one of the biggest and the most modern high court complexes in Africa. We have established more gender violence courts in almost every capital city,” Wood said. “We have also increased the number of district courts and that has made life substantially better for our women.”

Similar to physical access, women often lack knowl-

edge of their legal rights, which poses a significant challenge, according to Wood.

“There are many women who are ignorant of their rights and responsibilities, and what the courts can do for them. This restricts legal access to justice,” Wood said.

“There are institutions mandated to undertake legal, civic and other literacy programs to effectively educate everybody in the society of their individual rights and responsibilities.”

Additionally, Wood said lack of financial access discourages women from pursuing legal measures.

“Unfortunately, court fees are going up because we must provide better service,” Wood said. “Lawyer fees are also going up, and this shows that women are bound to be the biggest losers.”

However, the judiciary is finding innovative ways to “make justice less costly,” according to Wood.

Wood said she believes that despite these obstacles, Ghana has the “commitment and the political will” to confront those challenges.

“Challenges are many for us in Ghana, but the opportunities to excel by exploring innovative approaches to resolving these barriers abound in equal measure,” Wood said.

The lecture was sponsored by the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School and the Berger International Legal Studies Program.

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

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Take it to court | Georgina Theodore Wood, Chief Justice of Ghana, lists three major factors limiting women’s access to justice in the Republic of Ghana: physical access to the court system, legal access and financial access.

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Phlegar to Depart GPSA Criticizes Hiring of Inclusion Dean Resolution calls for student voices earlier in decision-making processes University June 30 RESOLUTION

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degrees from Virginia Tech and began his career in alumni relations as assistant director of its alumni association.

Phlegar said in the release that he looks forward to returning to his alma mater, to which he still has many ties.

“For many years, I have dreamed of returning to “While I will miss Virginia Tech — where I was a student, where I met Cornell tremendously ... my wife, Karen, an engineering graduate of I am excited to be Virginia Tech, where I started my career, and returning home.” where many members of my family still reside,” Charles Phlegar Phlegar said. “While I will miss Cornell tremendously and am proud of all that my team has been able to accomplish over these nine years, I am excited to be returning home.”

According to the University, current AAD associate vice president Jeff McCarthy will serve as interim vice president.

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Additionally, the University does not provide “commensurate support to its own community advocacy centers,” the resolution states. The resolution points to several instances of less than “commensurate” support and also points to the fact that the University has not established an advocacy center for international students due to lack of funding.

However, according to Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’67, students are consulted about the hiring process once the University approves of the search committee.

“In this case, there are four students who are on the search committee and who go forward with us,” Hubbell said.

The resolution — which originally motioned

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Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

for the suspension of the hiring process but now instead critiques the process — underwent several revisions before its passage.

Nathaniel Rogers grad successfully motioned to amend the resolution so that it calls for an “increase” in funding for advocacy services, support resources and inclusion programming, rather than to “re-allocate” funding to these programs.

The resolution concludes by calling on the University to involve student voices earlier in decision-making processes.

“The University should involve communities more broadly in decisions that affect them before making unilateral decisions,” the resolution states.

wood from downed and dying trees, which gives the furniture “a lot of character and texture,” Stewart said.

The store will sell bagels freshly delivered from Ithaca Bakery twice a day, in addition to coffee beverages from Starbucks, according to

Gail Finan, director of Cornell Dining.

The menu also includes specialty breakfast and lunch sandwiches, according to Finan. She cited a menu item called “Route 31” as an example.

“Route 31 [is] a spicy Italian bagel topped with horseradish cream cheese, watercress, roasted tomato, roast beef and gruyere,”

Finan said.

Students expressed excitement about the opening of Bus Stop Bagels.

Sydney Mann ’18 said she is “incredibly excited” about the new campus dining option.

“It’s my new bae-gel,” she said.

Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun.com.

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illustrious alums and go backwards, but to start in the Cornell archive materials and The Cornell Daily Sun to just find a great student that may or may not be famous in the world at this point,” DeLuca said.

Next to the Browsing Library, students in the Memorial Library cut the birthday cake as members of the Cornell Glee Club, Cornell Chorus and Cornell University Deaf Awareness Project sang“Happy Birthday to Cornell” in various languages.

Patrick Hartigan ’18 said he found the celebration exciting.

“The environment in the Hall was incredible and everyone was so happy,” Hartigan said. “It really did feel like a birthday party. I had two pieces of great cake and got to see the awesome 150 ice sculpture.”

Don Muir ’15, president for the Class of 2015, said the kickoff will help set the mood for upcoming Charter Day celebrations.

“Throughout the week, Cornell’s sesquicentennial celebrations will foster school spirit and pride among students, faculty and alumni,” Muir said. “Monday’s kickoff celebration will serve as the perfect gateway to a memorable week, which will render all student participants proud to be Cornellians.”

David Ticzon can be reached at dticzon@cornellsun.com.

Woman Gets Up to Life in Prison Utah mother allegedly killed six of her newborns PROVO, Utah (AP) — A mother who killed six of her newborn babies and hid their bodies in her garage was sentenced to up to life in prison Monday at an emotional hearing in which a prosecutor depicted her as an “incredibly indifferent and callous” murderer.

The judge imposed a sentence against Megan Huntsman that went beyond what was called for in a plea deal because he was so repelled by the killings. Judge Darold McDade said that he heard about the case before it came to his courtroom and hoped it wouldn't be assigned to him.

Huntsman, 40, told police she was too addicted to methamphetamine to care for more children during the decade when the babies were killed. Police said she concealed

her pregnancies, gave birth at home and choked and strangled the children with her own hands just minutes after they were born. She killed six babies, and a seventh body of a newborn found in her garage was found to be stillborn.

Police found the bodies wrapped in cloth, put in plastic bags and packed into boxes.

She eventually moved out of the house and left the decomposing remains behind. She thought about moving the bodies, but said she couldn’t think of a way to do it without getting caught.

It remains unclear how Huntsman concealed the pregnancies, births and murders from family members and friends.

“These were very cold, calculated killings,” said prosecutor Jeff Buhman.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for an examination of the deadly toll of domestic violence, while The New York Times collected three awards and the Los Angeles Times two.

The Seattle Times staff took the breaking news award for its coverage of a mudslide that killed 43 people and its exploration of whether the disaster could have been prevented.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both won investigative reporting prizes, the Times for an examination of lobbyists’ influence on state attorneys general, the Journal for detailing fraud and waste in the Medicare payment system.

The Times’ coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa won Pulitzers for international reporting and feature photography, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was honored in the breaking news photography category for its images of the racial unrest touched off by the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

The Washington Post took the national reporting prize for exposing security lapses that spurred

an overhaul of the Secret Service.

The Pulitzer judges also recognized less widely known stories, such as The Post and Courier’s exploration of 300 women’s deaths in the past decade. The paper shed light on a legal system in which first-time offenders face at most 30 days in jail for a domestic violence beating but can get five years in prison for cruelty to a dog.

“We felt so passionate about this project, and we felt so passionate about the difference it could bring to South Carolina,” said P.J. Browning, publisher of 84,200-circulation Post and Courier, which last won a Pulitzer in 1925 for editorial writing.

Since the series was published, state lawmakers have proposed tougher penalties for domestic violence, and Gov. Nikki Haley created a task force to investigate the problem.

The prizes spanned news outlets large and small: The 70,000-circulation Daily Breeze of Torrance, California, won the local reporting award for exposing corruption in a school district.

And Bloomberg News was a first-time winner, taking the explanatory reporting award for an examination of corporate tax dodging.

Boston Bombing Trial Enters Penalty Phase BOSTON (AP) — The guilt phase of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial was considered a slam dunk for prosecutors, especially after his lawyers bluntly admitted during opening statements that he participated in the deadly 2013 attack.

But the outcome of the next phase of the trial is much more difficult to predict. The same jury must decide whether

Tsarnaev, 21, should be put to death or spend the rest of his life in prison. The penalty phase begins Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

Debate over whether Tsarnaev should get the death penalty intensified recently after the parents of Martin Richard, an eight-year-old boy who was killed in the bombings, urged federal authorities to consider taking death off the table in

exchange for Tsarnaev spending the rest of his life in prison and giving up his rights to appeal.

“We know that the government has its reasons for seeking the death penalty, but the continued pursuit of that punishment could bring years of appeals and prolong reliving the most painful day of our lives,” Bill and Denise Richard said in a statement to The Boston Globe last week.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

Ever since “Float On,” over 10 years ago, Modest Mouse’s cool-to-popular ratio has hovered around even. Few bands could say the same, just as few could sell out Barton Hall on a Sunday night and still draw music nerds from Binghamton and Syracuse. The Cornell Concert Commission landed a slam dunk by booking Modest Mouse as its sole Barton show of the semester, even if their gnarly, funhouse sound scatters in such an unruly and, to quote opener Turn to Crime, “cavernous” space — what is literally a reformed airplane hanger. Such is the price of fame, I guess, but Modest Mouse proved Sunday that it could be mighty, heartfelt and weird, sometimes all at once, practically anywhere.

Turn to Crime, a three-piece from Detroit, started the night with the kind of well-worn post-punk I would call derivative, if not for how hard front-

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man Derek Stanton could sell it. Often, his voice stays in a lower, monotonous register, blending in with the band’s noise to soporific effect. But once he started channeling the hysterics of Echo & the Bunnymen’s Ian McCullough over sultry Jim Reid, from The Jesus and Mary Chain, I could not look away. During closer “Can’t Love,” Stanton faced an endearing and enduring struggle with his falsetto, baring something like soul on each imperfect high note. If Isaac Brock can write them some grimy couplets on a napkin in their tour bus, Turn to Crime could develop its own powerful aesthetic, one more sound than sense.

A 55-minute lull between the opener and the headliner irked almost everybody, and I was worried the weakness of those obligatory “Mod-Est-Mouse!” chants — they could hardly carry from one side of the crowd to the other — meant this would be a listless bunch. I wasn’t totally wrong, as this was, in many ways, a quintessential Sunday night crowd, with more in the way of catcalls than actual dancing. But once Brock and his seven (!) bandmates stomped onto stage with “Of Course We Know,” off their new album Strangers to Ourselves, those bobbing and sweating received the scorers of their adolescence with deafening glee.

“It’s a terrible idea, but I chain smoke, because I’m a nervous man,” were among Brock’s introductory remarks. He’s a weird dude. He talked about how he was inspired earlier in the day to run the indoor track, before keeling over in a coughing fit.

He also spoke of his excitement upon seeing the Barton challenge course, and his disappointment

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upon finding one of its rope ladders inaccessible. “We can build a new ladder to get to the ladder!” he giddily proposed.

Watching Brock howl, flail and spin his head with each strum is a consistent source of pleasure at any Modest Mouse show, and he is always game to throw in a stunt — like gnawing on his guitar strings, as he did at the end of “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” — to remind us of the utter strangeness of his band’s enormous success.

The early leg of songs, from “Dark Center of the Universe” to “Never Ending Math Equation,” saw a cornet, euphonium and banjo mesh well with the standard rock instrumentation. During “Dark Center,” Lisa Molinaro’s viola bled into Russell Higbee’s bass and Jeremiah Green’s heavy kick drum, surpassing the studio version for their combined hypnotic, dreamlike drift. “This Devil’s Workday” leapt around like the demented, Rain Dogs ripoff it is, with an array of oldtimey wind instruments that were pleasantly suited for Barton’s ungodly acoustics.

The title track from their new album slowed things down to a lighter-waving (I saw at least three) chill, which for many people around me presented an excuse to chat.

Modest Mouse’s sound has never been pretty, and so it is fitting that before “Dashboard,” Brock committed to the scrubby atonality of “Sleepwalkin’,” from 1999’s Building Nothing Out Of Something.

He lifts a chord progression from that old doo-wop ballad you forgot the name of and then adds a few notes, up and down the chromatic scale, to corrupt the bubblegum beauty just a little bit. It was still the loveliest song of the night, because of its perversity, and it turns out the treat was all ours because, as Brock admitted after, they had not played that song in 15 years, maybe ever.

“Tell your grandparents!” he said.

A run of more recent songs proved to be the night’s low point, since there was little opportunity for the band, as opposed to just Brock, to shine.

The main set’s final song, “The Good Times Are Killing Me,” corrected that imbalance with Arcade Fire-like abandon. Repeating a simple chorus over swelling strings, harpsichord and wind chimes, the band involved the crowd in a melancholy sing-along that could not help but feel pretty good. Since Barton swallows up Brock’s mumbled lyrics anyhow, the simplicity of word and emphasis on big, emotional sound closed their main set as well as any song could. No longer just weird or loud, Modest Mouse united a crowd of over 5000 by being bittersweet.

Feedback chirped and grad students howled in anticipation of that inevitable encore, which arrived mercifully soon. “Night on the Sun” started with a wide, arena-sized sound before shrinking when the time arrived for the band’s trademark cute and clumsy guitar solos. Modest Mouse maintains the balance between big and small, professional and pathetic, solemn and irreverent, like no other, and that could also be seen in the way percussionist Dazey Brozowski played his two tambourines, rais-

ing only one at a time and resting the other neatly like an automaton. Or maybe that was a detail no one else noticed: Is it wrong to go to a rock concert and look for comedy?

The simultaneous crowd swaying during “Coyotes” caught me off-guard, as I realized I was swaying as wide as anyone, despite being sober.

“Float On” raised that swaying to violent bobs and sporadic jumps (again, Sunday show), but despite the squeals of recognition at the opening riffs, I got no sense that the crowd only came for that song — this was a mass of people who didn’t just know “Dashboard” but also loved “Paper Thin Walls,” “Interstate 8” and “Trailer Trash.” That love, improbably, greeted Tom Peloso for his searching trumpet solo toward the end of “Spitting Venom.”

The dramatic spotlight signaling his entrance may

have triggered the wild applause, in which case the Barton Hall audience is analogous to a pack of excitable cats, but frankly I would prefer to believe Modest Mouse brought us together in a momentary lapse of shameless, extrasensory love.

Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

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Andrea Gibson: A Force of Nature

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ndrea Gibson is a whirlwind. Gibson issues that are often uncomfortable and difficult (whose preferred gender pronouns are to put into words. They bear witness through they/them/theirs) is a poet, an activist, a their performances to heavy topics; gender, performer and an entertainer too, but none of class, sexuality, war, self harm, privilege, rape. these descriptions seem to fit perfectly. If you’ve However, while their subject matter is often disever listened to any of their poems, you know heartening, their delivery is anything but. They exactly what I mean. If you haven’t, please put pair these subjects with vivid imagery and a down this paper and listen to at least one and scattering of hope, love and spirituality, which you’ll begin to understand. Their work doesn’t make the poems accessible and impactful. The fit into any single box and that is exactly the world has recognized this ability and Gibson point. They take the world by a force of charis- has become increasingly known, spreading their matic love and queer quirk. Their poetry works truths across the country via performances, to contrast in all ways. Their prose is delicate recorded albums, winning multiple awards and and flowery but also punctuated with sharp titles for their poetry.

When I found out that Gibson was performpoignancies. It is subversive and deeply thought- provoking but also relatable. They ing in New York City, I knew I was going to go. don’t work within any rules, instead creating I wanted to see if Gibson was everything I had built them up to be in my mind. I wanted to see their own platform of expression.

I discovered Andrea Gibson when I was in them deliver the lines that I had listened to so high school. I remember listening to the album many times over. It is easy to be disappointed “When the Bough Breaks” on repeat in my when you have created an expectation of a perroom, each time understanding a new meaning son. Often, after seeing some of my favorite of the words being spoken, marveling at the artists perform I am disconcerted because their seamless finesse of its delivery. While I didn’t performance is so off the mark of my expectainitially appreciate the nuances and layers of the tions. However, Gibson’s performance last language, I recognized a talent I had never heard Tuesday went beyond. Poems I had formed before. They have a knack for putting sensa- bonds with took on a different meaning and nature. I don’t mean to tions into sound so reverential, but words. Over at the same time I really the years of do worship her. Gibson listening to was phenomenal.

Gibson, I The show was in the have develMusic Hall of oped a proWilliamsburg. Fittingly, found appreGuest Room the crowd was mainly ciation for made up of the expected what they have managed to portray in their work, and assemblage of piercing-studded faces and Doc newfound understandings of their poems. Martin clad feet, but also showed the diverse Their poems have grown with me and some- audience of Gibson’s work. Young girls giggled in line outside as the security guard asked if they times into me.

This spark that Gibson can relay is their were planning on drinking and older couples weapon. They use it to address social justice stood in the back of the hall, propped against

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the wall, taking it in. Opening for Gibson, Amber Tamblyn, child star of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants turned poet, performed pieces from her book Dark Sparkler. The poems explored the experience of child stars and Tamblyn delivered them with a casual and dry commentary. She was blunt and it was very much appreciated. It must be hard to open for Gibson, but Tamblyn was perfectly suited for the task. Despite the different themes of their work and manners of delivery, the two performers worked well together. Their synergy set the tone of the entire evening, creating a safe place among strangers to truly let ourselves feel.

What I admired most about Gibson’s performance wasn’t their poems but their sincere manner of being and the love they exuded. As soon as they came on stage they made themselves relatable by identifying their own nerves and warning those in the front that they would be showered in spittle if they got too close, due to their exuberant manner of delivery. They were not self-deprecating but instead allowed themselves to be viewed as just another person.

This was constantly emphasized in the backstories they gave before the deliveries of different poems. Before they performed “A Letter to my Dog,” they identified their immeasurable love for Squash, their heart with four-legs and a tail, who listened from inside the sound booth and is their constant travel companion. They outlined their different heartbreaks, a subject that inspires many of their poems, and had the audience vote on a type of love they wanted to hear.

We settled on sickeningly sweet puppy love and received the poem “Honey” in return.

However, the most distinctive part of their performance was their own recent self-investigation. Gibson frankly told the crowd that they had been grappling with, and were ashamed of the fact that their poetry had only thus far only explored the stories of white LGBTQ victims and hadn’t included any representations of peo-

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ple of color. Rather than reading a poem that addressed this issue, Gibson performed a letter they had posted on Facebook directed at the mainstream LGBTQ community, which also served as an apology, that had created a large amount of controversy. The letter was beautifully crafted and outlined the stories that had been excluded as well the ever-prominent problem of police brutality. It was humbling to see the process that Gibson had taken, and this resonated within the crowd, shifting the atmosphere to a mood of self-reflection.

While Gibson mainly performed pieces from Truce, their newest album, they ended their performance with “Jellyfish,” an older and beloved poem. Looking around the crowd, it was incredible to see so many people mouthing the words in unison. The brief moment of silence when the last words of the poem were spoken was indicative of perhaps the most remarkable of Gibson’s talents: their ability to string together words in a way that unifies people under a common spell.

Tamar Law is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at tl432@cornell.edu.

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y fellow students at Cornell impress me to no end with their talents, viewpoints, ambitions, accomplishments and general intelligence.

However, I have always perceived a lack of cohesion and unity between students, student groups and organizations on campus. It has always seemed to me that students have cared more for personal recognition and accolades than actually accomplishing any tangible goals on campus.

At a pre-professional school such as Cornell it is completely understandable that students feel the need to fill out their resumes in order to compete with others entering the workforce, however this sometimes serves as a detriment to our campus. This causes groups that should be working together to bicker and fail to achieve much. It causes vicious e-board elections that cause tension within the group, it also causes members to work hard to be elected and then stop working from there.

There are so many things I would like to see Cornell accomplish as a community. For example, I would like to see renewed support of our athletic teams on campus. Our biggest sports teams aren’t drawing fans to games due to less than stellar records, however, we as a student body should not abandon our devotion to the Big Red teams. Many teams, that consistently have excellent seasons are not supported simply because they are considered less popular nationally, such as soccer. The arts on campus are not regarded with due respect, especially not after all the budget cuts, but that doesn’t mean our talented peers aren’t pouring their hearts and souls into every production. We have everything from a cappella groups, a slam poetry group, plays at the Schwartz center and student film competitions, to quite a few dance teams. Everyone of these performances should be selling out or filling up auditoriums.

Maybe the Cornell course load is too much for this vision to come to fruition.

Maybe this is a problem present at all colleges, and has no proper remedy.

Nonetheless, I believe in the Cornell student population and will not waver in what I think we can accomplish. Especially after witnessing first hand what we are capable of.

Last week, to my delight, I was able to witness almost 20 different student organization put on an inaugural Sexual Assault Awareness Week. As you all know sexual assault is one of the biggest issues facing col-

lege communities today. It was hard at first not to assume that with all organizations cosponsoring the event that they were simply putting their name on the event with no intention of helping, participating or even caring as the week unfolded as I have seen many times before. However, after attending these events throughout the week I was amazed at the participation, genuineness and candor that the student body emptied into every opportunity that they had.

It was refreshing to see graduate students throw their opinions into the ring with student leaders and other students that simply wanted their outlook to be heard. The divide between graduate students and undergrads was palpable, but it did not stop them from bridging to gap due to their mutual determination to raise awareness on campus. It taught me how much every community on campus has to offer. Yet, this past week has led me to question why we should stop here.

Should we not continue this trend and throw this momentum to good use? Is it not possible for these organizations to collaborate more often despite different viewpoints and even goals? All these organizations need in common is a devotion to the Cornell community in order to work together. A shared purpose is a shared possibility.

The only question is, what would we need in order to accomplish such a task? We would need a way for student leaders to meet and communicate what their organizations believe to be the biggest problems and divisions among campus. We would need a way to keep student politics out of every organizational decision. We would need a way for students to set aside personal endeavors for the betterment of the community. I know how much I am asking, but I do not doubt the student body’s ability to undergo such a paradigm shift. I am asking the different communities to attempt to believe that no one is more important than the next, from student government, to athletics, to the arts, to student media organizations. If you fail to understand the need for such a change on campus and continue to selfishly plowing ahead in life, do not be surprised to find yourself looking back on your Cornell years and wishing you had accomplished more.

And please remember that it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and can be reached at djt79@cornell.edu.

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Course enrollment minimums run contrary to University values To the Editor: Re: “Arts College Policy Will Evaluate Classes With Small Enrollments,” News, April 20 This month, Cornell University is celebrating its sesquicentennial anniversary.

One of the main principles that makes Cornell stand out as a pioneering educational institution is reflected in the motto: “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” The newly proposed policy, a minimum enrollment of six students in any offered course, runs counter to this groundbreaking principle. After all, a course popularity and large enrollment do not necessarily correspond to its educational value. This policy seems to be especially damaging when it comes to new courses. Not allowing a course to get off the ground and to grow will nip it in the bud and will obliterate many worthwhile faculty initiatives from which students may benefit.

Prof. Gavriel Shapiro, comparative literature

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Hebani Duggal |

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Making An Impression I

n honor of East Avenue reopening to the general public yesterday, I would like to take the chance to address the astoundingly high number of times I have almost become roadkill this week. Having become accustomed to never looking both ways before darting from Libe to Rockefeller with an overflowing cup of coffee, adapting my ways to conform to the fact that there are now cars running up and down East Avenue is definitely one of my more legitimate struggles this week.

Believe it or not, though, my struggles do actually get worse than this. What’s worse than dumping coffee all over myself and getting honked at on my way to class, you might ask? Spilling coffee all over myself and getting honked at in front of the hoards of newly admitted students that are here to see the bright students that attend the fine institution that is Cornell. Oh yes — a scalding beverage, a moving vehicle and me eating the pavement is the definition of what every future Cornellian’s parents want to see — welcome to Cornell, everybody.

There’s a running joke that the administration pays the sun to shine during Cornell Days, and while this may only be a joke, like most jokes, there is an element of truth to it. Cornell, not unlike most other universities, hosts admitted students just as everyone on campus begins to tuck away the sweatpants and bulky boots that represent Ithaca’s dreary winter mood. Instead, students pull out pastel colors and light denim jackets that tease at spring when Cornell Days come around; it’s time to make an impression on the throngs of admitted students on campus, and Cornell goes from being an uphill battle to being a casual stroll up the slope faster than an empty table at Libe gets taken.

First impressions matter, for it is our “gut” or “instinct” that we tend to fall back on when making judgments.

“The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory,” said Andrew Crumey — and there is definitely some truth to this quote. First impressions matter, for it is our ”gut” or “instinct” that we tend to fall back on when making judgements. It is important to present the best version of ourselves and of our school when such a situation presents itself. Take our campus tours, for example. This past weekend, Cornell hosted its high school Model UN conference, and I was fortunate enough to glance over a tour guide script. Standing out against the dry facts on Ezra Cornell’s life, there was a comment slated to be a part of the blurb outside Barton Hall that caught my eye — “Emphasize the Cornell-Harvard” rivalry.” I turned to one of the tour group advisors, and was none too surprised to learn that bringing up Ivy League competition was good for the Cornell’s image in the eyes of incoming freshman.

It’s a little strange for me to be thinking about how Cornell looks to prefrosh when I should be more concerned with how Cornell looks for me in the next week or so for me. Perhaps I’m overanalyzing the process through which students judge which school they would best fit in at because I have a prefrosh of my own joining me for this coming weekend, and I’m not sure how to show her what it is that I myself see in Cornell. Why do I choose to stay here despite my many, many complaints? What makes me stick around? And more importantly, how do I show her why Cornell is worth it to me?

I’ve come to realize that no matter how many gorge trails I show off, how many times I Instagram photos of A.D. White library, or how many videos of the clock tower I record and share, there will never be just one thing that makes Cornell worth the number of complaints I could single-handedly put together at 2 a.m.. It’s really all in the little things for me — the coffees at Libe, the late nights laughing or crying (or both) in study rooms at Uris, the uplifting vibe on campus when the sun finally comes out. As my first semester on the Hill comes to a close, and I look to a new year here (with a nice long break in between, no worries), I’m certain that while I will never be sure what drew me to Cornell, I know what makes me want to stay.

Hebani Duggal is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

CORRECTION An April 20 sports story, “Red Drops Second-to-Last Game Against Brown,” stated that junior goalkeeper Brennan Donville was in goal on Saturday’s game. In fact, sophomore goaltender Christian Knight played in goal.

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t is a truth universally acknowledged that a college senior in possession of an abundance of free time during spring semester must be in want of a road trip. This slightly reworked Jane Austen quotation roughly describes how I spent my previous weekend. Although the inter-college road trip is almost a rite of passage among fickle, procrastinating college students, I unfortunately, had not found time to engage in one throughout my time here. Therefore, with only six weeks until graduation (the scariest thought I’ve had all day), I decided to spend the week at the University of Pennsylvania for their annual Spring Fling weekend.

I traveled to West Philadelphia with four friends.

Although we were all staying with different friends when we arrived in Philly, traveling with a group of Cornellians proved to be a reassuring slice of home in an unfamiliar landscape.

The first thing I noticed when we arrived at Penn was the distinct lack of hills and the noticeably warmer weather.

You could walk around campus wearing a t-shirt without breaking into some weird sweat while your face is freezing. Already I was entranced by this warm, flat utopia.

However, the weather and lack of hills were not our chief reason for visiting the southernmost school in the Ivy League. As I previously mentioned, last weekend was Penn’s Spring Fling, an event similar to our Slope Day. Since Slope Day seems as far away as the galaxy in which the Star Wars franchise takes place, we decided to take to enjoy what UPenn’s Social Planning and Events Committee terms, “the biggest (and best) college festival on the East Cost [sic].”

SPEC’s comical spelling error and the overpriced tickets for the nighttime Kesha concert — $80 for non-Penn guests as opposed to $25 for nonCornell guests for Slope Day — aside, I did not enjoy Fling as much as Slope Day. I would like to provide a disclaimer before I continue. I do understand that I am biased because I am familiar with and

comfortable at Cornell, and it follows that I would probably enjoy an event where I understand the lay of the land a little bit better. Also, I want to stress that I truly enjoyed my time at Spring Fling and that I was extremely thankful for the people who hosted me and showed me a great time.

However, my critique of Spring Fling has more to do with the structure of the event than the people who powered it.

Although our Cornell brains are predisposed to associate Spring Fling with Slope Day, the two are actually very different events. While Slope

provides a purpose for being woken up early in the morning by your roommates who cannot wait to dig into a hearty helping of kegs and eggs. (Do not partake in kegs and eggs if you are under the age of 21, please consume responsibly.)

When I was at Penn for Spring Fling, it felt like it could have been any weekend at Penn. It was an exceptionally fun weekend with a bit less time spent in the library than usual, but it still didn’t feel special. That, in my mind, is the starkest difference between my experiences with Slope Day and Spring Fling. I remember Slope Day as an incredibly special experi-

I Spring Fling actually describes a disparate, multi-day marathon of off-campus and university-sponsored events that lack a structure or defining goal.

Day describes a singular day where a large proportion of Cornell’s Ithaca campus swarms Libe Slope to enjoy the artistic stylings of whichever musical performer they are disappointed to hear this year, Spring Fling actually describes a disparate, multi-day marathon of off-campus and University-sponsored events that lack a structure or defining goal. While Slope Day is linear in purpose and scope (parties are followed by a mass migration to the Slope), Spring Fling cannot be defined with such linearity. Rather, Penn students flit around from party to party, occasionally going to the Quad where there are student performances and bouncy castles, and finally going to the concert, Kesha) at 7:30 p.m., far later than the Slope Day concert. Similar behavior is repeated on Saturday, without even the anchor of a concert to breathe some sort of impetus into the day. It was all very fun, an excellent weekend that I am glad I participated in, but I never felt like it was as epic as Slope Day. The fantastic, possibly even transcendent part of Slope Day in my estimation, is the presence of an unifying event that

ence.

Keeping all of this in mind, I would like to draw a more symbolic, allegorical interpretation of my weekend.

Considering the differences between Spring Fling and Slope Day has called to mind the bonds that I have forged through my time at Cornell.

Slope Day’s structure encourages students to converge on the Slope from their disparate morning activities in the same way that I have gained friends from different backgrounds.

Cornell, I think, is uniquely situated for such a convergence. As a university founded on egalitarian principles, it has had a leg up in combating the sorts of inequities that kept higher education from all but a privileged few. At the same time, perhaps drawing such a lofty conclusion from a comparison of two different spring celebration weekends is a simply a misguided folly caused by senioritis and a retrospective fondness for Cornell. Either way, I am excited to fling into Slope Day. David Fischer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Men Face Princeton, Yale Next Weekend M. ROWING

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continue working hard for a win next weekend.

“Both [Princeton and Yale] are ranked [in the] Top-Five while we are Top-10,” Kennett said. “It is a huge race and my goal is that we can use this past weekend to help us step into next weekend.”

Manion said that he feels motivated, just as his coach hoped, after his boat’s impressive performance in the Goes Cup. “Next week is a giant test us, as it presents two of for “It is a huge race the top teams in the league in Princeton and Yale,” Manion and my goal is that said. “After a great regatta we can use this past [against] Navy and Syracuse, I expect our team to ride the weekend to help us momentum into our only step into next home race [of the season].”

According to Manion, the weekend.” team felt that the sweep this weekend was a powerful Todd Kennett reminder that the heavyweights are performing well for Cornell. They know, however, that there is always room for improvement.

“Even after a great day for the team, every boat looked back on their races and realized there is still a lot of speed to be gained,” Manion said. “Over the next couple of weeks, [we’re] looking for the team to keep gaining speed and momentum heading into the Eastern Sprints and IRA regattas.”

Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun.com.

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Hernandez shot his former friend execution-style in an industrial park, leaving loads of damning evidence in his tracks, thus making the likelihood of a guilty verdict a near certainty.

My fascination with law and crime has led me to frequently read about unresolved murder cases. Let me be clear: the amount of evidence against Hernandez was astounding. Besides footage of Hernandez literally pulling the trigger, the prosecutors had every piece of evidence they would need to lock him up for life. From destroying his own home security system, to witnesses seeing him head towards the scene of the crime and then hearing gunshots minutes later, to text message exchanges between perpetrator and victim, Hernandez essentially provided the prosecution against himself.

Nearly a year after he was taken into custody, Hernandez was indicted and charged in a 2012 double homicide in Boston that left two men dead, all because they bumped into Hernandez at a club.

The victims allegedly were not even aware that Hernandez was mad at them. Can you imagine how trivial the incident must have been for the victims to have been unaware that Hernandez was angry? They bumped into him at a club, for crying out loud. In Hernandez’ world, bumping into someone is a “crime” worthy of death.

The thought that has stuck with me since Hernandez was first charged in the Lloyd murder is this: if Hernandez was furious with Lloyd over anything at all, he could have just beaten him up, if it really came down to that. Of course, most people resolve their issues with words, or as a last resort, cut ties with the person. But if

Hernandez felt the need to exert physical force to squash his issues with Lloyd, he could have knocked him out with a punch and, you know, not be in prison for the rest of his life. And, you know, not end an innocent man’s life. But I guess those willing to murder aren’t exactly rational thinkers.

At the root of Aaron Hernandez the person, are two undeniable characteristics: he has no regard for human life — he’s a cold-blooded killer — and he’s an idiot. He must be, right? It seemed like he had matured and moved past the issues that plagued him throughout college. At age 23, he had just signed a $40 million contract. He played in a Super Bowl. He was an alternate in the Pro Bowl. He had a daughter and a fiancée. He was on the verge of stardom. And he decided to throw his life away and even worse, he chose to end the lives of innocent human beings. Now it makes sense why a college prospect with first-round talent was drafted in the fourth round.

I guess Hernandez actually thought he would get away with murder. Shakespeare wrote, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” I don’t know what Aaron Hernandez was thinking — whether he believed himself to be wise enough to get away with murder or not — but to call him a fool seems like a compliment. He’s a clueless murderer.

Now, Hernandez has plenty of time to reflect on what could have been done — pretty much anything other than murder. Odin Lloyd, however, and Hernandez’ alleged other victims had their time taken away forever.

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

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SOFTBALL

Red Notches Three of Four Series Games

Takes on Columbia in New York City for two double headers this weekend

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

The softball team had a strong weekend in New York City playing the Columbia Lions and beating them soundly, three games out of four. With this weekend of wins under its belt, the Red improves to 12-21 overall and 6-10 in the Ivy League. Even with its loss in the third game of the series, the Red showed it was still capable of bringing batters back to home base.

“This weekend, everything finally started to come together. We had tight defense, strong pitching and timely hitting,” said junior infielder Emily Weinberg.

The defensive effort was led by freshman pitcher Maddie Orcutt and junior pitcher Meg Parker. On the other side of the plate, numerous Red players had solid at bats. In game one on Saturday, the team was led by Weinberg, freshman infielder Rebecca Kubena, sophomore outfielder Jessica Bigbie and sophomore infielder Chloe Pendergast. Freshman infielder Megan Murray, freshman catcher and infielder Tori Togashi and Weinberg all brought runs home for the Red in game three, while junior outfielder Michiko McGivney, freshman outfielder Zoe Hernandez and junior catcher Leanne Iannucci all had big hits in game four.

Though the third game ended in a loss, that did not keep the team down.

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The Story Of Aaron Hernandez

n early 2013, Aaron Hernandez was living the dream. Fresh off of his third professional football season, the 23-year-old Patriots’ tight end had already established himself as a top player at his position. He and teammate Rob Gronkowski — drafted by the Pats the same year as Hernandez — had formed the most dynamic tight end duo in the NFL. Hernandez was rewarded with a $40 million contract exten-

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz sion prior to the 2012 season — second only behind Gronkowski in terms of largest contract extensions for a tight end in league history. His fiancée had also just given birth to his first child in November. Life was seemingly perfect for Hernandez. Most importantly, off-field issues — bar fights and failed drug tests — that had concerned NFL teams enough to let the University of Florida standout fall to the fourth round in the draft appeared to have subsided.

He had seemingly proved his doubters wrong.

Yet in reality, nothing was further from the truth.

Last Wednesday, Aaron Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Odin Lloyd and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A trial revealed that See SHATZMAN page 11

“[By] the third game, I think Columbia knew our pitching staff a little better and learned to be more selective at the plate, which helped them score early on,” Iannucci said. “[During] the first two games on Saturday they were swinging at a lot of pitcher’s pitches which helped us out, and on Sunday, they were waiting more for us to make mistakes,” said junior Leanne Iannucci.

The Red came back immediately and beat the Lions in the fourth game.

Weinberg attributed the third game loss to the team’s hitting. “[In] the third game, we started out strong but then our bats quieted down a bit and we didn't get the big hits when we needed to,” Weinberg said.

Despite the loss, Iannucci said she is still happy with the team’s overall performance against Columbia.

“We just played good softball as a whole this weekend. Maddie Orcutt threw so well in all four of her appearances and we backed her up with timely hitting,” Iannucci said. “Contributions were made up and down the lineup, both offensively and defensively.

We capitalized on the opportunities we were given.”

The three wins were huge for Cornell in terms of achieving its post-season goals. Even more so, this weekend against Princeton will determine a lot of

what will happen after the end of regular play.

“This upcoming weekend is huge for our post-season status.

We definitely need to win all of our games if we want to compete in the post-season,” Weinberg said. “A lot of it also depends on how the PennColumbia games go. We are going to need a lot of things to work in our favor.”

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

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Red at bat | Junior outfielder Michiko McGivney was one of many who contributed to the Red’s strong hitting in its fourth game against Columbia.

MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING

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Rowing the sweep | All of the Cornell boats won their races this weekend for the first time since 1974. The heavyweight team was able to sweep against Syracuse and Navy at the Goes Cup.

Rowers Leave Goes Cup Undefeated

By HANNAH NOYES Sun Staff Writer

The members of the Cornell men’s heavyweight crew team dominated this weekend. For the first time since 1974, the team swept all five of its races. The men rowed a very successful series against The United States Naval Academy and Syracuse University for the Goes Cup. “I was super happy with the entire team,” said head coach Todd Kennett. “Navy and Syracuse are always good teams, well coached, with a lot of competition on them.

To be able to win all five races was really a special day. Our guys executed well, and were able to stay ahead.”

Freshman Mac Manion said the sweep was a result of a particularly strong heavyweight team this season.

“The team this year has incredible depth,” Manion said. “That is how we were able to sweep the racing against two strong schools in Navy and Syracuse. The results indicate

how strong every boat is because the second varsity eight and third varsity eight had almost identical times.”

Manion said the most exciting part of the weekend was the feeling the men had after their first race.

“After a decent first race versus a

“The team this year has incredible depth. That is how we were able to sweep the racing against two strong schools.”

Mac Manion strong Harvard freshman crew, we had a much better race versus a strong Navy freshman crew and won by open water,” Manion said.

Coach Kennett agreed with Manion’s point that every man has contributed to the overall success rate of the season and each rower’s complete work ethic is a positive example for all Cornell varsity sports.

“Often athletes work, but not to

their fullest potential unless someone is right there, always trying to take that starting spot,” Kennett said. “By having a deep team, where the lower boats are competitive, it allows me to change rowers frequently, it creates a better work environment which in turn usually yields faster boats!”

Sophomore Drew Gallagher and junior Ned Benning exemplified the work ethic highlighted by Coach Kennett in the Goes Cup. Both men had to miss a few days of practice during the week, according to Manion. However both players were able to return for the race on Saturday to help their boats to strong wins, according to Kennett.

Next weekend the men will host both Princeton and Yale for the Carnegie Cup. Princeton is currently undefeated and Yale is midway through a very strong season as well.

Coach Kennett said he hopes that the Cornell men will use the energy from last weekend to push them to See M. ROWING page 11