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Goodbye Hollywood

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Writer and producer Rob Long talks about the death of Hollywood at a lecture Tuesday. | Page 3

Sam Bromer ’16 calls Human Performance a stellar album.

After two thrilling wins over Syracuse and Lehigh, men’s lacrosse hopes to keep the momentum alive. | Page 16

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“This is exactly the kind of work that we should be thinking and talking about during Student Assembly meetings.”

Matthew Stefanko ’16

Congressman Reed Addresses Rising College Tuition Cost Aims to use REDUCE Act as vehicle to lower debt burden on students

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By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Talk about it | S.A. clerk Peter Biedenweg discusses gorge education programs at meeting on Thursday.

S.A. Discusses Gorge Safety Programs,Cornell Maker Club

By CAROLYN DOYLE Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly discussed an effort to reemphasize gorge safety in the Ithaca community and introduced the Cornell Maker Club at its Thursday meeting.

Todd Bittner, gorge safety committee chair, discussed the creation of an updated version of the gorge safety video.

“The Gorge Safety Committee is charged by the University president to promote safety and responsible use of gorges,” Bittner said. “We have a program based on four areas: education, enforcement, alternatives and infrastructure.”

The new video highlights the dangers of gorge swimming and now includes segments

explaining safety precautions.

Bittner said the education programs are working to provide more alternatives to gorge swimming so people can still safely enjoy the gorges.

S.A. Vice President for Finance Matthew Stefanko ’16 offered suggestions on how to improve the gorge safety video, such as producing two separate videos: a longer one for the Gorge Safety Committee website and a shorter one for rapid sharing purposes.

Engineering Representative Justin Selig ’17 presented an overview of Cornell Make, an initiative designed to foster creative sharing between students.

Tan’17 Murder Trial to Air on NBC’s Dateline Ithaca Journal.

Tan was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after The trial of Charlie Tan ’17 his father, Liang “Jim” Tan, was — who was accused of murder- found shot dead in the family home in Pittsford, ing his father last year New York, The Sun — will be featured in previously reported. the NBC News proTan pleaded not gram Dateline in a segguilty and received ment called “House of overwhelming support Secrets” tonight at 10 from friends and p.m. neighbors who raised Democrat and thousands of dollars Chronicle reporter Jon online to finance his Hand, who wrote TAN ’17 legal defense. about Tan’s case and At his trial, Tan’s attorneys covered Tan’s murder trial, helped Dateline journalists prepare the story, according to The See DATELINE page 4

See ASSEMBLY page 4

Congressman Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) challenged colleges and universities across the country to recognize the “crisis” of the rising cost of college tuition, which he said is saddling students with debt in an interview with The Sun Wednesday.

Reed spoke about his work on the REDUCE Act — which mandates that colleges and universities with endowments greater than one billion dollars must use 25 percent of the returns on the endowment for financial aid.

He said he hopes it will serve as a vehicle to “not only bridge us through this immediate crisis, but to get to the long term solution which is bringing college costs down.”

Although many people consider reducing the cost of college a Democratic issue, Reed said the issue is a major priority for him and his team.

REED “There’s Republican leaders that often many folks chastise or summarily dismiss that we don’t care,” he said. “I care deeply about this and I think there’s many Republican leaders that are joining us in this effort to say ‘we need to tackle this issue.’”

Reed said he believes Donald Trump — who he has endorsed for President — could be a major ally in this effort.

“One of the reasons we made the endorsement that we did is because we want to use our position in a positive way, and if we can See REED page 4

Rest in peace

By JOSEPHINE CHU

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Prince performs in the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI in Miami Gardens, Fla. in February of 2007. Prince died yesterday at Paisley Park, his recording studio and estate outside Minneapolis. He was 57.

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ProducerAnnounces Impending ‘Death of Hollywood’

By RACHEL WHALEN Sun Contributor

Hollywood is dying and that is a good thing, writer and producer Rob Long said in a lecture Tuesday.

Whether Americans were seeking art, entertainment or simply an escape, they have been flocking to theatres for nearly a century, Hollywood has long profited from people’s innate desire to go to the movies, Long said.

“Hollywood moved from a place to a screen, and that’s what killed it.”

Rob Long

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Death of the screen | Writer and producer Rob Long speaks about how social media is changing the movie landscape in a lecture Tuesday.

“Everyone went,” he said. “It didn’t really matter who you were, you had these movies in common. And that was a fantastic business.”

However, he said all that is changing now. Social media and modern technology have altered our day-to-day interactions as well as dramatically revolutionized storytelling, according to Long.

“Hollywood moved from a place to a screen, and that’s what killed it,” Long said. “And that is both scary and also gratifying if you believe in freedom, if you believe in diversity of voices.”

Due to our newfound ability to control what we watch and how we watch it, we are now liberated from Hollywood executives who control television programs and movie screenings, Long said.

He called Hollywood no longer a place but a “state of mind.”

“This is a TV screen, and it’s a movie screen, and it’s a way to get the news,” he said, holding up a smartphone for the audience to see. “This thing is also a TV studio and a movie studio and a way to create content.”

Long explained that Hollywood originally began as a housing development

known as “Hollywood Land” and said the infamous Hollywood sign is actually a “ruin,” which can be viewed as a metaphor for Hollywood itself.

After losing its stamina in the aftermath of World War II, Hollywood bounced back from its post-suburbanization drought by moving movie theatres into the suburbs, according to Long.

“The moral of the story — which Hollywood kind of got and kind of didn’t — was that if you move the screen closer to the audience, the audience will watch the screen,” he said. “What nobody expected was that the screen would end up in your pocket.”

Long emphasized the continued importance of storytelling, saying that all people are all capable of being storytellers in the wake of Hollywood’s demise.

“Stories are the most important thing ever, and the storytellers now are not in Hollywood,” he said. “You’ve got all the tools. You have no excuse — you’re doing it anyway. What story are you going to tell?”

Rachel Whalen can be reached at rlw295@cornell.edu.

Rabbi Speaks Against Dozens of Teams Compete in Case Violence Carried Out Contest;Winner to Present at Citibank In the Name of God

in the industry don’t even know what [a M&A model] is,” Rao said. “This is to help educate them. No Cornell Over 130 participants student is going to submit and 33 teams competed in something that is [perfect] the “Citi Mergers and — they haven’t had the Acquisitions Case industry experience. The Competition” hosted by the best part about this is the Cornell Hedge Fund and feedback.” professional business fraterRao added that the motinities Alpha Kappa Psi and vation for the competition Phi Gamma Nu. Five teams aligned with the club’s purwere selected to present their pose. pitches to Citibank invest“One reason ment bankers we started as a at the final round on “We don’t believe in peer exclusivity. We club — why we Wednesday. see that as a reason why we gain the are so successful, why we are now Ten days competitive edge.” the largest before, each undergraduate team received a Rittik Rao ’16 finance club on case of a potencampus — is tial acquisition of GNC by Nike. The teams er member of Team Sage, because we have an extremeanalyzed Nike’s financial said that working with unfa- ly open attitude,” Rao said. advantages or disadvantages miliar concepts was a “very “We don’t believe in peer experience,” exclusivity. We see that as a in acquiring GNC, how valuable GNC would fit into a com- because it “pushed us to fig- reason why we gain the company like Nike and potential ure things out on our own petitive edge. All majors competition in an acquisi- and expanded our knowl- should be welcome — you can be a business major, but tion, according to Rittik Rao edge in the field.”

Rao explained that the a lot of people I met [in ’16, co-founder of Cornell case competition was created internships and in the indusHedge Fund.

Team Sage was declared for students eager to gain try] come from diverse backthe winner. Darien Lord ’18, experience in business.

“A lot of people interested a member of Team Sage,

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violence by separating religion from power,” he said.

He cited famous figures like Thomas Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks — a Hobbes and John Locke, arguing that renowned religious scholar and new solutions are needed today because philosopher — spoke about his new extremist religious groups are seizing book, Not in G-d’s Name: Confronting power.

“What was not looked at in the 17th Religious Violence, and addressed the growing problem of religious radical- century are what I call the ‘hard texts’ ism in the world at a lecture of religion, those texts which if taken literally and applied directly lead to vioWednesday.

“What is happening in the Middle lence and war and murder,” he said.

East, what is happening in Syria and “You have to confront the religious Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, roots of violence.”

Sacks added that in his book, he Yemen South Sudan … is genuinely terrifying,” Sacks said. “I doubt anyone examines passages from the book of would have expected this would hap- Genesis for the roots of violence.

“I’ve tried to develop a theology for pen in the 20th century.” the 21st century that Sacks turned to is deeply religious, history to understand “Wars are won by but one which will the problem of religious violence, dis- weapons but peace is allow us — as Jews, Christians, and cussing times when won by ideas.”

Muslims — to serve religious hostilities God with respect exploded and when Jonathan Sacks and friendship they receded. across the barriers “Let’s go back and ask when did this last happen?” Sacks between our faiths,” he said.

Sacks explained this theology focussaid. “Maybe we can learn from when it last happened, and it last happened in es on sibling rivalry as the origin for religious violence.

Europe in the 16th century.”

“The whole relation between Sacks traced both the 16th century violence of the Protestant Reformation Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is not and current religious violence to revo- a zero-sum game, is not a justifiable lutions in information technology, case of sibling rivalry, because divine which he said empowers marginal love is not finite, and God loving me does not mean that he has to love you groups.

“The single most important factor any less,” he said.

Sacks explained that his book grew [in the 16th century] was the revolution in information technology, which out of a moment he shared with several in the Reformation was the invention British religious leaders of different of printing,” Sacks said. “The internet faiths at Ground Zero, shortly after is changing the world and it is empow- September 11, 2001.

“We all stood together at the ruins ering groups like ISIS which otherwise would be completely marginal and of Ground Zero, sharing our prayers and our tears,” he said. “And I suddenly small scale.”

Sacks also talked about how peace realized: these are the two faces of reliwas achieved in the 17th century, say- gion. Religion harms, yet it can also ing “wars are won by weapons but heal.” peace is won by ideas.”

“In the 17th century, people solved Nathaniel LaCelle-Peterson can be the problem of religiously motivated reached at nl368@cornell.edu.

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called the competition a learning experience for all participants.

“We just picked up the skills along the way,” he said.

“I wouldn’t be 100 percent confident that we could do it again. It would require great effort [to do it] again, but we did learn the fundamentals of [M&A] fairly well and how everything came together.”

Nicole Kwok ’19, anoth-

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Case closed | The winning team of the “Citi Mergers and Acquisitions Case Competition” will get the chance to present their pitches to investment bankers at Citibank.

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Reed’s Claim of Interest in Student Aid ‘Hollow,’ Plumb Says Congressman aims to ensure‘charitable endeavor of educating our kids is being maximized’ REED

Reed in the November elections — said that Reed’s approach “doesn’t solve the problem of college being unaffordable or influence people like Donald Trump, Ted the problem of high student loan debts.”

“Reed’s claimed interest in student aid Cruz, John Kasich and weigh in on the presidential election to say this is a priority rings hollow given that he voted just last that we are working on and we think you year to slash Pell Grants, which would hurt should share this as a priority,’ we will con- our rural middle-class families and college students who rely on that program to pay tinue to do that,” Reed said.

He added that despite his endorsement their way through school,” Plumb said in a statement to The Sun. of Trump, he believes is just one more that whoever is in the “[ The fight against the “This example of CongressWhite House will be an ally in the fight against rising cost of college] is man Reed trying to cover up his six years of the rising cost of college. an issue that doesn’t doing nothing at all.

“It is an issue that know left or right.”

Our students deserve doesn’t know left or real solutions, not politright,” Reed said. “It is Tom Reed ical stunts — and they an issue that impacts deserve a new member kids, and that is something that should bring us together strong- of Congress who knows the difference.”

Joel Malina, vice president of university ly.”

The bill was criticized last year by relations, said in October that taking Cornell administrators, including President money from Cornell’s endowment could Elizabeth Garrett, who at the time said that be a short-term solution, but that it would although those who support the legislation have unintended consequences in the long have “their hearts in the right place … their run.

“Taxing or otherwise tapping into an methods won’t succeed for the goals they endowment’s principal investments might have in mind.”

John Plumb — who is running against satisfy short-term demands — but would Continued from page 1

also cheat future generations of the educational programs and financial aid that today’s endowments support, and violate state laws that require prudent and careful management of endowment funds,” he said.

Reed responded by saying that there has been confusion surrounding the bill and that he has been working hard to clear up any doubt about its implications.

“We’ve improved the framework of the legislation and making sure that we don’t move forward without having these conversations about the unintended consequences,” he said. “There was some confusion early on in the conversation that we were talking about the principle of the endowments, but we were talking about the income coming off of the endowments.”

Colleges and universities receive preferable status under the tax code, allowing donations to be tax deductible and returns off of endowments accumulate tax free.

However, despite mostly altruistic missions that benefit the public good, some universities do not responsibly spend their money, according to Reed.

He said he hopes the REDUCE Act will bring about increased transparency in how

colleges and universities spend their money.

“We’ve heard stories of football coaches, people making a donation to an endowment to get a tax deduction, that that money is used to pay off a football coach contract so that they can get rid of a football coach,” Reed said. “Is that really the charitable effort that we’re trying to recognize under the tax code?”

Reed also said that “if we’re going to have the government granting these charitable deductions and this tax free status to these funds, that it’s my role as a person who writes that legislation, being on the Ways and Means Committee, to ask the questions and make sure that the charitable endeavor of educating our kids is being maximized.”

Malina responded to Reed’s comments by saying that the administration will review the REDUCE Act and added that “Cornell remains committed to providing robust financial support to our students and to working to continually improve access to higher education for all Americans.”

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Maker Club Aims to Foster Student Creativity ASSEMBLY

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“When we came on campus a few years ago, we noticed that there was a disconnect between students that wanted to build and access to tools that would give them the ability to do so,” Selig said. “We decided to form this organization to give stu-

dents access to these “Our goal is to “Our goal is to give tools.” give students the Selig discussed opportunity to come students the opportunity to come different areas on together and create,” together and create.”

Selig said. “We are campus devoted to trying to empower Cornell Make, Justin Selig ’17 such as spaces in people to make.”

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ings.

“This is exactly the kind of work that we should be thinking and talking about during Student Assembly meetings,” he said. “This is excellent work and I think we’re all really appreciative of it.”

Carolyn Doyle can be reached at cdoyle@cornellsun.com.

Tan’17 Case to Be Featured on NBC’s Dateline After Dismissal DATELINE

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argued that his father had abused both him and his mother and that the prosecution failed to prove that Tan ever even held the murder weapon — a shotgun — according to The Democrat and Chronicle.

Tan’s trial began on Sept. 22, 2015, and after weeks of deliberation, Monroe County Court Judge James Piampiano declared a mistrial. At his hearing on Nov. 5, Piampiano dismissed the murder charge, claiming that not enough evidence had been presented to justify it, The Sun previously reported.

Tan has been a free man ever since but has decided not to return to Cornell, The Sun previously reported. Liang Tan’s murder remains officially unsolved.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

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Offshoot of Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility for Police Shooting

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed seven Pakistani police officers involved in a polio vaccination campaign in two separate attacks Wednesday in the port city of Karachi, police said.

A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban that calls itself Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the attack later Wednesday.

The slain officers had been deployed to protect health workers administering polio vaccinations. No health workers were harmed in the attacks in Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province, local police official Mohammad Ijaz said.

Another senior police officer, Feroze Shah, said authorities had no plans to suspend the polio campaign despite the attacks.

Earlier, provincial Home Minister Suhail Anwar told the Pakistani Geo news network that the attacks that killed the seven officers were minutes apart. He said the attackers targeted police deployed in the city for the campaign to vaccinate children.

Hours later, Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for the Jamat-ulAhrar militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack. In an email to reporters, he said Wednesday’s attack in Karachi was part of the group’s campaign against security forces.

However, Islamic militants have in the past targeted vaccination efforts both in Pakistan and in neighboring Afghanistan, based on conspiracy theories that they are a cover for a Western-led sterilization campaign.

The Pakistani military has launched multiple offensives against militant hideouts in the tribal regions and elsewhere, but the insurgents have proven resilient.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif strongly condemned Wednesday’s “terrorist attack” Karachi. In a statement, he said police officers sacrificed their lives to secure the future of our coming generation. Polio, which can cause paralysis and death, remains endemic in Pakistan.

Polish Jewish Community Deceived by Catholic Man WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Jewish leader in Poland said Thursday that her community was deceived by a Polish Catholic man who pretended to be an Orthodox Jew, wearing a beard and payots — curly sideburns in front of the ears — and leading prayers in Hebrew.

Alicja Kobus, leader of Poznan’s Jewish community, said that the impostor was unmasked recently when people in his hometown saw him on television taking part in ecumenical observances with Catholic and Muslim religious leaders. They then informed local journalists about the hoax.

Kobus told The Associated Press that the man presented himself to the community as Yaakav Ben Nistell from Haifa, Israel. Polish media say his real name is Jacek Niszczota, a cook from Ciechanow, a town in north-central Poland. He has vanished since being unmasked.

The Poznan community has posted a warning on its website on Niszczota saying he “deceived not only the community members but also other people with whom he cooperated on behalf of the Poznan Jewish Community.”

As a volunteer, the man was not obliged to prove his identity, and his activities raised no suspicion.

“He won our trust with the good things that he was doing: he baked challahs (bread) for Israel Independence Day ceremonies, he helped with maintenance of Jewish cemeteries, he had the right knowledge,” Kobus said.

He also led prayers and gave lectures on Jewish tradition, that were all correct, and did not protest when people from outside the community occasionally addressed him “rabbi,” Kobus said.

Kobus added she was impressed that he learned Hebrew and prayers listening to

Israeli radio.

Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich said he met the man a few times and always found him to be “very sweet and smiley.”

Schudrich said that while it’s not good that the man misrepresented himself, the incident is indicative of a growing interest in Poland in its once-large Jewish community, which was nearly destroyed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust during World War II. “Who 30 years ago in this country would have pretended to be a rabbi, to say nothing of 70 years ago?” Schudrich said.

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People pray during an outdoor mass in Ecuador after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country last weekend.

Ethiopian Troops Cross Into South Sudan To Rescue Kidnapped Children UBA, South Sudan (AP) — Ethiopian troops were operating in South Sudan on Thursday after crossing the border to rescue about 125 Ethiopian children who were kidnapped during a bloody cattle raid, and top officials from both countries sought to coordinate their efforts.

Peter Bashir Gbandi, acting South Sudanese foreign affairs minister, said South Sudan Chief of Staff Paul Malong would go to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, as soon as Friday to coordinate.

Bashir told The Associated Press that South Sudan doesn’t want Ethiopian troops to go deeper into South Sudan. He said the South Sudanese army has no forces in the area but has put troops on standby.

He wouldn’t answer directly if South Sudan gave permission to Ethiopia to enter but insisted, “we are in touch.” He said he knew who was responsible for the attack in Ethiopia and added that the area “is full of jungle. These are criminals.” Officials in both countries said there was no tension between the neighboring states.

South Sudanese local leaders, meanwhile, traded accusations over who was responsible. Ethiopia’s government said the April 15 raid in its Gambela

region resulted in 208 deaths. Ethiopia announced Wednesday its military entered South Sudan and surrounded the attackers, believed to be Murle tribesmen who abducted 125 children. Local media in Ethiopia reported the Murle wanted the children to raise the 2,000 head of cattle the tribal members stole.

South Sudan’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Akuei Bona Malwal, told the AP that Ethiopia and South Sudan are coordinating their actions to solve the crisis, but declined to give details about “joint tasks” which he said the two countries are carrying out.

Baba Medan, the governor of South Sudan’s Boma state, where Murle and other groups live, said dissident members of the Cobra faction were responsible. The Cobra was a rebel militia comprising Murle and Anyuak tribes which signed a peace deal with South Sudan’s government in 2013 and has been integrated into the national army.

David Yau Yau, who led the Cobra rebellion, denied any involvement of his former troops and accused the governor, a Murle who was allied with the government against Yau Yau during the rebellion, of arming the groups that carried out the attack in Ethiopia.

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Tom Reed’s Misguided REDUCE Act THE REDUCE ACT — a piece of legislation that Congressman Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) is currently working on — mandates that colleges with endowments greater than $1 billion must use 25 percent of the returns on the endowment for financial aid. Reed said he hopes that this policy will help combat the rising college tuition and debt burdens that many young Americans face.

While Reed’s proposed legislation rightly seeks to tackle issues of affordability of and access to higher education, this policy would have damaging effects on colleges’ longterm funds. As administrator Joel Malina argued, “Taxing or otherwise tapping into an endowment’s principal investments might satisfy short-term demands — but would also cheat future generations of educational programs and financial aid that today’s endowment support.” If implemented, mandates like the REDUCE Act would also decrease the agency and flexibility that individual colleges have to steer their fiscal policy. Such hard-line requirements limits the conversation to increasing financial aid, confining the innovative approaches that colleges could take to combat rising high tuition costs.

Policymakers and college administrators cannot address the skyrocketing price tag of a college education by increasing financial aid alone. From a rise in the number of college administrators to decreases in public funding for higher education, deeper issues at the national and individual college level underlie this problem. Colleges must look not only to increasing financial aid but also to reducing operational costs and the cost of tuition.

Ironically, increases in financial aid also provide colleges with more leeway to hike up the price of tuition. Every year, Cornell administrators point to a rise in financial aid to justify annual hikes in tuition.

Reed’s strongest argument for the REDUCE Act is its potential ability to increase transparency and accountability in how colleges spend their endowments. While colleges often express a strong commitment to financial aid, actual policies — such as Cornell’s decision to switch from need-blind to need-aware financial aid for international students — brings that promise into question.

Ultimately, colleges should be allowed adequate room to implement innovative, costeffective approaches towards higher education, and misguided policies such as Reed’s REDUCE Act would limit this ability. However, university administrators must also take advantage of this flexibility with responsibility and a clear commitment to making higher education more affordable for students.

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ver wondered what those ‘pink’ color sweetener sachets you add to coffee are made up of? I had no clue until one day sitting idle at coffee shop (blame my girlfriend!) I randomly tore a sachet and dumped its content onto my tongue. A second later I felt as if my taste buds were experiencing an ambush by an intensely sweet tasting and rapidly diffusing chemical. I was baffled, thinking what did I just consume? Why would someone approve such chemical for use as a sweetener? Am I the only one who finds this chemical taste peculiar? Still waiting for my girlfriend, I started looking for the answers while gulping enough water to relieve my taste buds of the eerie sensation.

To my surprise, I found that the sweetener in the pink sachet (saccharin) was accidentally discovered while conducting experiments on ‘coal tar’ by a German scientist Fahlberg. No wonder, it tastes like a chemical! I was further perplexed realizing that ever since ‘saccharin’ was discovered in 1879, food and beverage industry fell in love with artificial sweeteners considering it to be a healthier alternative instead of unleashing the potential of natural alternatives. The industry believed that these artificial sweeteners would have a positive impact on appetite, energy balance and body weight. Come late 1990s, the same belief was proven wrong! The result was appalling! The ingenuous masses consumed these artificial sweeteners for over hundred years only to realize later that these artificial sweeteners were actually doing no good to our body! Thanks to the growing scientific evidence that questioned the positive influence of artificial sweeteners on human health. Eventually, the public outcry fueled by the ambiguity surrounding the artificial sweeteners forced the food industry to take a long hard look at natural alternatives such as stevia. Following the public demand 21st century has seen an upsurge in the number of products sweetened with stevia in advanced economies.

Coca-Cola Life, Pepsi True, Zevia and Tropicana Trop 50 have all been sweetened with stevia and are a common sight today in the grocery aisles.

However, most of the stevia products we see today are actually concoctions of stevia and cane sugar or other sweeteners that help in masking offflavors as a result of cross-adaptation.

Cross-adaptation is a way to confuse your taste buds by having more than one taste stimulant. Here is a quick and dirty test: put a pinch of sugar and salt on your tongue, and try to sense how sweet the sugar is; I bet you will find it less sweet. This is exactly what food and beverage industry has been doing lately to rid stevia of its bitterness. The result is a beverage like “Coca-Cola Life” and “Pepsi True”! A 8-oz. bottle of Coca-Cola Life costs you 60 extra calories due to added sugar, defeating the whole idea of cutting down on calories with a natural sweetener!

Stevia, a plant indigenous to Latin America, is several hundred times

sweeter than cane sugar. One wouldn’t be surprised to know that stevia has been grown for use as a local sweetener for several centuries. In fact, growing stevia is also more sustainable than growing cane sugar because the intense sweetness of stevia allows attaining similar sweetness levels in food products by using a fraction of the cane sugar amounts. Stevia requires only a fifth of the land and much less water compared to a sugarcane plant. The end result is a gargantuan 29 percent reduction in carbon footprint. Stevia is natural and it does not cause a spike in blood sugar like artificial sweeteners!

But had I tasted a sachet of stevia the other day I would have felt strong bitterness along with the sweet taste.

Such is the intensity of bitterness that Coca-Cola ditched stevia as a sweetener for its popular Vitaminwater brand following a backlash from the consumers.

Life’s a circle! I never knew one day I would find myself researching on stevia. In the fall of 2012 while I was visiting Cornell as a research scholar, I received a rather unexpected email from my host advisor with a 50-page book chapter attached. The mail read “stop by my office at 2 p.m.” Eager and excited, I rushed to his office without even bothering to look at the attachment. “Here is your chance to get funding for your master’s thesis research! Come up with a solution to rid stevia of its bitterness!” My eyes sparkled with hope, as I had no other means of funding to continue my education. Without wasting any more time I rushed to Olin Library. For the next three days, after reading over dozens of research articles and the book chapter, I realized nobody had looked into the dark corners that I felt might be really critical in solving the problem. Exuberated following the conception of a brilliant idea, I marched to my advisor with a written proposal that eventually got funded.

Soon after getting admission to the program I saw myself juggling between experiments bringing together my knowledge of biochemistry, sensory science and analytical chemistry to solve this wicked problem. I wasn’t sure if I would ever solve the problem and often wondered, “If stevia is ever going to be the sweetener of the 21st century?”

As they say, “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless turned into a glorious success.” Nearing the completion of my master’s program in the spring of 2015 I along with my professors proved that stevia could be ridden of its bitterness while retaining its natural sweetness.

The dream of replacing cane sugar with stevia and ceasing our reliance on unhealthy artificial sweeteners has finally been accomplished. What still remains to be seen is: “Will this invention be successfully commercialized as the sweetener of 21st century?”

Samriddh Mudgal graduated from Cornell in 2015. Responses may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Income Inequality And Proposed Solutions W

hile income inequality has come to the forefront of American politics, most Americans are unaware of the impacts that it has on our country. The effects of income inequality impact everything from our economy’s performance to access to healthcare to the fairness of our judicial system. A variety of solutions have been proposed to help combat the impacts of income inequality, however it is important that we confront not just the unfair outcomes, but the root of the problem as well. Rather than just pouring increasing amounts of money into ineffective welfare programs, we should focus on incorporating measures for fairer access to education.

The rise of income inequality has reached devastating proportions in the United States. The OECD reports that the U.S. has “the second-highest level of inequality, after Chile.” Moreover, the problem worsens when we account for not only disparities in income, but also disparities in wealth. As the Center for Poverty and Inequality notes, almost half of income advantages are transferred from parent to child, making the problem cyclical and intergenerational. The present message coming from politicians suggest that social mobility has been declining, and even the most optimistic studies conclude that social mobility has stagnated at a level that makes countries

The present message coming from politicians suggest that social mobility has been declining, and even the most optimistic studies conclude that social mobility has stagnated at a level that makes countries such as Denmark twice as socially mobile as the U.S. such as Denmark twice as socially mobile as the U.S. It is important to note that an excessive income inequality is not simply a representation of unfairly distributed resources. It also signals larger problems for the economy and society as a whole. Vast income inequality, combined with low levels of social mobility discourages, as well as often actively prevents, future generations from taking proactive steps to improve their situation — such as getting educated, starting businesses, and staying away from crime.

Moreover, The Washington Center for Equitable Growth reports that if the U.S. could reduce its income inequality to Canada’s level, our economy would grow almost 30 percent faster. Additionally, increasing a country’s Gini coefficient (the statistical device used to measure inequality) has also been associated with a lower tax base, meaning that reducing income inequality would naturally increase tax revenues by expanding the middle class. Furthermore, the impact that income inequality has on the outcomes of criminal proceedings cannot be overlooked. Decisions to prosecute cases are often determined by the prosecution’s expected chances of success at trial, which may certainly be affected by a given defendant’s ability to afford an attorney. Whether the defendant must wait in jail before criminal proceedings is also largely a function of the defendant’s ability to afford bail. When income inequality so pervasive as to undermine the health of the economy, disrupt equal justice, and discourage individual people from working to make their lives better, change is needed.

Many proposals have been made to attempt to address income inequality; however, no solution that ignores the role education plays in shaping our economy will be complete. Education has always been a route to social mobility, but with the rise of income inequality, it is slowly becoming the only option for many underprivileged Americans. Both the public and private sector often require a college degree for entry-level positions. Moreover, even when entry-level jobs do not require a college degree, they often only offer a chance for promotion to college graduates. The more corporations adopt these kinds of practices, the more the notion of starting from the bottom and climbing the corporate ladder disappears. The rise of big box stores, outsourcing, and technology have also eliminated many opportunities that the average American might otherwise have to pursue a trade or open a small business.

These economic realities have lead to a rapid rise in the demand for education which has simply outpaced the supply and inflated tuition.

Pursuing a college degree has become incredibly competitive and expensive. Due to lack of available seats, once qualified students are now rejected in droves. For example, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported, about 78 percent of California’s public universities are unable to admit otherwise qualified students, and in 2014 alone these universities rejected 22,000 students. This problem has trickled down to community colleges as well. Their once proud accept-anyone-interested approach has become an application process which has denied hundreds of thousands of otherwise qualified students access to higher education. It simply cannot be said that we are taking the correct actions to combat income inequality when people who are ready, eager, and able to improve themselves are denied the opportunity to do so.

Even for students who are accepted, the rising costs of an education are also problematic and must be addressed. When education is one of the only viable paths to a middle class life, we cannot force students to be encumbered by unreasonable debt to get there.

Income inequality is cyclical. It is both cause and effect. By failing to provide opportunities for social mobility, and saddling with debt those who attempt to make better lives for themselves, we fail to combat the cause of income inequality and guarantee the next generation its effects. Politicians who have proposed solutions ranging from expanding welfare programs to changes in infrastructure to shifting tax policies cannot succeed without addressing the dire need to fund education. In modern America, educating our people is simply a prerequisite to alleviating and reducing income inequality.

Alexander Weiner is a J.D. candidate at Cornell Law School. Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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O Sam Bromer If you haven’t heard of Parquet Courts by now, it’s too late — the bandwagon has collapsed under the weight of their fandom. The band’s just-released fifth full-length album, Human Performance, is as strong a showing as any of their previous records, although their energy has shifted a bit. Frontman Andrew Savage’s neurotic sensibility remains consistent, but, to some extent, he’s turned away from the overtly political and thrown a microscope onto his own anxieties and romantic flings.

Parquet Courts self-consciously follows a lineage of New York groups that goes back to the Velvet Underground, by way of punk acts like the Ramones, Suicide and New York Dolls, as well as via No Wave acts like Sonic Youth.

At the same time, they’ve relished comparisons to British postpunk group of the ’70s — bands like Gang of Four and Wire. As much of an influence as any particular band is the city itself: Savage tells us of heartbreak and despair, as he sings on “Captive of the Sun,” “in the key of New York.”

The band’s first album, American Specialties, came out via cassette in 2011, but Light up Gold really announced their arrival on the scene. That album experienced tons of critical success and also garnered respect in New York’s DIY scene. Its most enduring single, “Stoned and Starving,” jibed with a generation of pseudo-intellectual stoners, who immediately bought into Savage’s existential musings on the mundane and the profound — in other words, being baked and hungry.

Sunbathing Animal represented another step-up for the band. It’s hard to generalize about that album, since Savage is all over the place instrumentally and thematically. He opens the album with a dose of body-horror, incanting on bodies made of “slugs and guts … sparks and dust.” From here, he hops between maniac hardcore (“What Color is Blood,” “Sunbathing Animal”) and Modern Lovers-style art punk (“Dear Ramona”) and everywhere in between.

After Sunbathing Animal followed Content Nausea, which found Savage and his bandmates bemoaning consumer fatigue and the emptiness of excess. From there, it

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Human Performance finds the band back at top form, but perhaps at a notch emptier in terms of manic energy compared to these past releases. The album opens with “Dust,” which followers of the band might have heard recently as the record’s lead single. The song will surely stress out the band’s more obsessive and compulsive listeners, with Savage mocking our attempts to create lives of organization and routine, singing over and over again, “Dust is everyw h e r e , sweep.”

From here, we move into one of the album’s highlights, the title track “Human Performance.” Savage reflects on a past relationship with vivid imagery, the dead objects in his apartment recalling a brief escape from the loneliness it triggered. Despite his attempt to escape the despair that the relationship has left in its wake, he recognizes that its grip “won’t soften without a coffin.”

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prowl, falling in love with a stranger in Berlin who intrigues him with her teutonic beauty and refusal to use a cell phone. The track opens with a gutsy surf guitar intro, and opens up into a vocal section, where he puts on his best attempt at being suave: “Guess you got a history but it's not worth mentionin’ tonight.” Even here, however, Savage realizes that falling in love might just be a trick of his perception. During the chorus, he sing-talks, “Berlin got blurry when my eyes started telling it to.” He’s consciously allowing the city around him to cloud his senses, to wash away his anxiety and fill him with new feelings.

Savage’s love-life, though, is only one of the many themes here. He explores his depression and the toll it takes on his body on “Outside.” He dives into his attempts to keep cool in a fucked up world on “Keep it Even” and “Pathos Prairie.” On “Two Dead Cops,” a track which recalls Content Nausea’s closer “Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth,” he tells the story of two officers murdered in Brooklyn in 2014, and after an album of personal musings, returns to full-on political form (“Protect you / is what they say, but point and shoot / is what they do”).

Finally, the album closer, “It’s Gonna Happen,” comes as a powerful counterpoint to the sound and fury which precedes it. Here, the band takes a slower-paced approach, with little more than unadorned guitar and Savage’s vocals. Amid a world of “plastic faces” which “feel cold and / uncommon like they’ve got some / place to be,” he has found a degree of inner peace. As if trying to convince himself of this, he sings that he’s “not an impostor,” and tells the listener that “it’s gonna happen every time / so rehearse with me in mind.” It’s a bittersweet ending to a driving, varied, surprisingly affecting album.

Sam Bromer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com.

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amie Foxx once did a bit in a stand-up act about meet- remember that love, sex and celing Prince. The punch-line of his body language essen- ebration persist in even the darktially revolved around Foxx demurring in Prince’s pres- est of times. Rather than fighting ence, unable to look the singer in the eyes for fear of ques- our shame of these things, tioning his sexuality.

Prince’s music encourages us to It’s a stale joke. The actual language is pretty homo- rejoice in them. phobic too (there are other comic pieces about meeting My own personal relationPrince which also base their humor on fragile masculinity, ship with Prince’s music began but we’ll leave Dave Chappelle and Charlie Murphy alone with a play-through of his record for now). The bit still works though because everyone in Dirty Mind. Although it has the audience is already familiar with the regal if not godly been surpassed by other candieroticism which permeates any project Prince has touched. dates for my favorite Prince He carried an air of omnipotence and desire simultaneous- album, Dirty Mind nonetheless ly, no less compounded by the intensities he reached in his established the entertainer in my music, which flaunts an extraordinary range and talent. mind as a mystic and indefatigaNot to be outdone even by his own capacities as a pro- ble funk fiend. He presented ducer, songwriter and musician, he also performed electri- himself as such, with punk songs cally. If you can scrounge up a bootleg of his 1985 about incest and hypnotic Grammy rendition of “Baby I’m a Star,” I would highly rhythms covering scenes of recommend you watch the entire video. It attests to deflowering.

Prince’s charisma. It begins at a simmer and quickly spirals This hyperbolic but thrilling into magic celebration. The Revolution, his backing band, personality was a vital part of his coordinate fluidly while Prince pulls the crowd onstage. By magnetism. It’s the same obscenity we can thank for the end, he’s walking shirtless through the audience with a Parental Advisory warnings, with Prince’s jam “Darling dismissive air, and honestly, I think he has the right. Nikki”, a short but energetic tune about one peculiar sexThere’s no way anyone that night could have played as ual encounter, scaring Tipper Gore so much that she good a show as he founded the Parents Music Resource Center. It never just had. seemed like Prince’s songs were specifically Despite these intended to shock. Opposed to some music vivid expressions which receives a similar type of attention for of life and joy, obscenity, the sexuality of Prince’s music Prince’s work also becomes something inherently less violent came across as but all the more truthful and beautiful. profoundly honWith baffled reactions like Tipper Gore’s, Appearances est. Even with his we also see that the music embraces its politearly hits, he ical value, and Prince was never one to shy understood the away from mixing music and politics. During gravity of the times. “1999,” while admittedly a let’s-for- his 1993 conflict with Warner Brothers, Prince would get-everything-to-party song, speaks to the freedom in let- often be seen in public with the word “slave” on his cheek. ting go of fear. The men in charge beget the apocalypse, Just last year, he called out record contracts as slavery, urgbut there’s still a moment to engage in the rapture of living. ing newcomers to stay away from deals with labels.

Often times this is the purpose found throughout Prince’s Regardless of how artists are treated by the music industry work — to feel with passion a diversity of emotions, to (dismally), these actions speak to Prince’s willingness to

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push boundaries on all fronts, not just musical ones.

It’s difficult to imagine American pop culture without the man’s influence. The temples of the self our society inflates and praises, conflating our celebrities with deities and making a point of this fact, find their roots in the multicolor dreamshow written, produced and directed by a son of Minneapolis musicians. Some of the wavy grooves of the late 2000s, anywhere from MGMT to Miguel, can locate their foundations in the hybrid funks Prince explored. And looking past the cult of personality, the random appearances, the stand-up comedy routines, we also see a person who dedicated themselves to their art for the sake of other people. Prince didn’t just want people to feel happy. He wanted everyone to throw their hands up, get on stage and let go. Music has lost a star today. It was the mastermind behind one of the most electrifying aesthetics to ever come alive and paint a perfect picture for the rest of us.

Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com. Appearances appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Encourages undergraduates to present posters on research projects this year.

“At our previous Spring Forum event, our presenters performed research The Cornell Undergraduate heavily in the biological sciences, molecResearch Board held its 31st annual ular biology and genetics and within the student-run Spring Forum, which drew College of Human Ecology, but this year hundreds of spectators to Duffield we've increased our amount of social sciHall, where 120 undergraduate stu- ence and engineering presentations,” dents presented their research projects Ragi said.

The number of submissions on Wednesday.

“The goal is to get as many under- increased this year and planning for the forum has lasted the graduates as possible entire semester, acwho are involved in “The goal is for more cording to Jake Weiser research to come people to be ’16, co-president of the together and present interested in Symposium Comtheir posters,” said mittee.

Maria Sirenko ’16, coengaging in “In terms of the actupresident of CURB. research.” al event, it’s a matter of “A lot of people know getting everyone on about this, so faculty Kylie Long ’19 board, delegating roles, will tell their students waking up at five in the to present.”

Kylie Long ’19, a member of the morning to move the boards from Symposium Committee — the com- Biotech to here, coming at 2 p.m. to mittee in CURB that organized the help set up and making sure that things forum — said the forum seeks to don’t go wrong,” Weiser said.

Taylor Crisologo ’16 studies encourage students to conduct their ornithology and has a manuscript in own research.

“The goal is for more people to be review for publication and another still interested in engaging in research, not in preparation. She said she appreciates just science research, but also the being able to present her work in a forhumanities side of things,” Long said. mal setting and receive feedback from “If people are interested, they might her peers.

“Being able to talk to my peers so want to do research as well.”

Sara Ragi ’18, a member of the that what I’m explaining in poster form Symposium Committee, said the makes sense to them allows me to go breadth of research topics has expanded back home and start writing a clearer

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outline,” she said. “I love it, because it’s a great community; it’s like an idea incubator.”

Vianna Chan ’17 said the poster presentation was also good practice for students to share their work with those without prior knowledge of the topic.

She said her research involves the integration of water treatment system design and fiber science approach to environmental effects.

“I’ve never formally presented my work before, so I guess it’s an opportunity to communicate what I’m working on and to generalize the information to people who might not be knowledgeable in my field,” Chan said.

Megan Daniels grad one of the judges and a teaching assistant for investigative biology, called the experience enjoyable for both students and judges.

“As a judge, I’m looking for a clear explanation of why they did it, the reproducibility and what sort of scientific rigor went into it,” Daniels said. “I want to know that they were thoughtful in conducting their research, and that it wasn’t purely observational or randomly motivated. It really makes me appreciate how creative science can be.”

Winners for the Spring Forum will be announced in a few days, according to Weiser.

Evelyn Shan can be reached at eshan@cornellsun.com.

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Baseball Looks to Rebound Against Penn

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Editor

Following a promising weekend against Columbia, the Cornell men’s baseball team walked away empty handed Wednesday in a doubleheader against Dartmouth at home. After scoring a total of four runs in the two games, the Red will take on Penn in a key four-game series and try to get back on track.

In the first game, Cornell (12-16, 5-7 Ivy) surrendered five runs in the final inning after holding a couple of leads over the course of the game. However, the game ended in final score of 9-3, in favor of Dartmouth (13-20, 7-5).

“In game one, we had some opportunities and we

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Let’s get physical | Head coach Dan Pepicelli cites a lack of aggressiveness behind the plate as a major problem.

had a lead but we just couldn’t hang on. We are just dis- leaning on three or four for four hitters.”

This is a problem the Red ran into in the first game appointed,” said head coach Dan Pepicelli.

In the second game of the day, the Red saw a bit yesterday.

“We had a good game going into the seventh,” more success at the plate with six hits — three more than the first game — but the Green seemed to have a Pepicelli said. “[But] we had to use some other guys because we had a second hold on the Red. Cornell trailed for “It’s tough to play on the road in the Ivy game coming. They scored whole game, but attempted five in the seventh; we clearto come back in the sev- League. It’s going to be really important ly could have limited what that was. We had to worry enth inning when sophothat we band togerher and go for it.” about game two a little bit more Ellis Bitar managed too.” to steal third and home on Dan Pepicelli In addition to pitching, an error to put his team on Cornell will have to figure the board. However, that would be the Red’s lone run as the team would go on out their offensive game and start getting more hits in order to win the series against the Quakers. One such to lose, 3-1.

“We didn’t get enough with the opportunities that solution, Pepicelli suggests, is being more aggressive at we had,” Pepicelli said. “It’s disappointing. With the the plate.

“From an offensive standpoint, we just need to take second game … we felt like we didn’t have very good aggressive swings and put barrels on balls,” Padulo said. luck.”

The Red sits one game below the Quakers in the Junior infielder Frankie Padulo said he thought his team performed much better in the second game, Lou Gehrig division of the Ivy League. This series will be pivotal in closing the gap between Cornell and the despite the loss. But the effort was not enough.

“We did not swing the bats well at all in the first Ivy leader Princeton, who will play the Red in four game,” Padulo said. “And then [in] the second game we games the following weekend.

It will not be an easy weekend. But Cornell is ready put a lot of barrels on balls, but could not quite get the for the challenge, and more than willing to take it on. timely hit we needed.” “[Penn] is very similar to us,” Pepicelli said. “They The pitching was also much better in game two. The four relief pitchers collectively allowed two hits, one have pretty good pitching numbers. We are playing at their place; it’s tough to play on the road in the Ivy walk and no earned runs in three innings.

What will be 10 games in nine days with the League. It’s going to be really important that we band upcoming series against Penn (15-18, 6-6) is no easy together and go to it.”

The pitchers for the series will be junior right-hantask, especially with the recent pitching struggles. For this reason, 10 different pitchers were used in the two der Paul Balestrieri first on Saturday and junior rightgames against Dartmouth so that no pitcher was over- hander Peter Lannoo secon. Sophomore left-hander Justin Lewis and junior right-hander Tim Willittes will worked, according to Pepicelli.

“I am trying to reduce the workload on our start Sunday. bullpen,” Pepicelli said. “It’s going to be more like, ‘get your three or two guys and get of there,’ ... rather than Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

Underclassmen Earl Hopes to Turn Program Around Hope to Win One for Seniors EARL

two wins against them every year for the next few years.”

Several issues face the team immediately. Given that every player on the current roster was brought in by Courtney, there will be a natural skepticism toward a revamp from some of the older guys on the team, according to Fleming. “[The seniors and juniors] are excited but some people are a little tepid because it is entirely new and are no longer under the man who brought us to this school,” Fleming said. “I owe Coach Courtney so much for me being here. He was the one who gave me the opportunity to play Division I basketball, so I’ll be forever grateful for that.”

While there will be a transition period for the players, the new head coach of Red basketball will face a similar change in environment. But for Earl, the opportunity to be a head coach in the Ivy League is a dream come true.

“I want to be a head coach, but I think just I’m trying to get up there and understand, more than anything else,” Earl said. “A lot of times people want to come in and impose their will and I want to get up there and understand the situation and meet my players and get them comfortable with me and then move forward in the best way for us. A lot of it is coming in and getting a feel for the basketball situation and moving forward in the best way.”

As for switching allegiances from an Ivy League rival — trading in that Princeton orange for the Cornell carnelian — Earl said he doesn’t anticipate any issues.

“Princeton will always be a part of who I am,” Earl said. “Alma maters are always a part of whoever you are, but it will be high on my priority list to get

A few hours after the announcement of Earl’s hiring, Noel, John Webster, the director of athletic alumni affairs, and Jesse Saldana, Noel’s assistant, stood around the reception desk watching an old highlight video of Earl during his college days. As Earl slashes to the hoop and drains some fadeaway jumpers, the trio laughed happily, seemingly reminded of the endless potential ceiling any new coaching hiring brings to any athletic program.

The previous failures, the disappointment all fade away. A new coach means a new generation of endless

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lot on our transition play both offense and defence as well as face offs because we know that that those two areas are going to be key come Saturday,” he said.

Kerwick has devoted the first half of the week to what he calls “Cornell lacrosse.” Specifically, that is getting back to the Cornell standard without looking much at Brown’s tendencies.

“It’s been about just performing at our highest level this week and focusing on that,” he said. “We’ll look a little bit at their personnel and the way they do things today.”

Tomorrow’s game is also senior day, as it is the Red’s last home game of the season. The exemplary senior class will certainly receive some well-deserved praise, but the real celebration will come after the final buzzer sounds.

“These young men have done so much for our program and everyone within the locker room knows that,” Kerwick said. “We will definitely recognize them before the game, [but] most of it comes after the game when we get together as a team in the locker room … with the families for a bite to eat up in the Hall of Fame room.”

It will be nice to step back to take a break and put these players’ careers in perspective at such an intense part of the season, but Kerwick and the Red know that this will only be one side note to a very pivotal game.

Kerwick is confident that the team will put up an excellent fight against Brown, despite the gap on the leaderboard.

“We’re playing our best lacrosse right now which is what you always want to do as a team, [playing] your best down the stretch,” he said. “[Everyone’s] hard work [is] starting to pay off, so it should be a great lacrosse game to watch.”

Play begins at 1 p.m. on Schoellkopf.

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

The Future

potential success. And hey, maybe even a return to the glory days of the Sweet 16 run is now in play. Nothing seems impossible, until, of course, the first tip-off of the new season, when reality sets in.

As video of Earl draining a 3-pointer plays in the background, Noel turns with a big smile, like that of a first grader who’s just gotten a new toy to bring into show-and-tell, and chuckles.

“That Brian Earl,” Noel says, tongue in cheek, “he looks like he’d be a pretty good coaching candidate for this Cornell basketball job.”

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

COURTESY OF PRINCETON ATHLETICS

We have history | No stranger to the Ivy League, Brian Earl recalls his trips to Ithaca as a member of the Princeton squad.

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“The one thing that is very critical about being in this interviewing process and the campus visit process is that you want each candidate to have as strong a feeling for Cornell and our department and our basketball program as possible,” Noel said. “You don’t want anyone to come here and all surprised at anything because that just causes issues.

You really put it out there.”

The candidates sat down again in long meetings with Noel in order for him to get a better grasp of each coach’s short-term and long-term visions for the program and how they differentiated themselves from the rest of the pack.

“It was getting to know a lot of the senior staff and understanding Cornell University and the facilities for basketball and really getting comfortable with the few aspects of the University that I hadn’t already known about,” Earl said. “I met with a lot of people and made sure that they felt comfortable with my knowledge and potential. It was a long few days, but I felt very comfortable with the people COURTESY OF PRINCETON ATHLETICS and with the University.”

As Earl toured the slopes and intricacies of the Cornell Princeton power | In his nine years as a coach with Princeton, Earl helped lead the Tigers to a 162-106 record, finishing campus, he began to feel at home, which was something second in the Ivy League last year, behind Yale.

Noel sensed during their talks. And while he had been to Ithaca before, as both a player and a coach, the tour brought outside Noel’s office in Teagle Hall. First Billeter, then came to a consensus on which candidate they wanted to Cornell into a new light for Earl.

Taylor and finally, Earl. While the players spoke highly of recommend. It was Earl.

“In 13 years of going up there and playing against all the coaching candidates, they said Earl stood out from “All I could think during that meeting,” Fallas said, “was Cornell, you really only drive up to the gym and get out the pack for a number of reasons. that I wanted [Earl] to be my coach.” and play the game and get back on the bus and drive away,” However, in order to make sure they weren’t making a “With Coach Earl, his understanding of the league, he Earl said. “I hadn’t been able to get out and see the was player of the year in 1999,” Morgan said. “He’s been snap judgment last thursday, the players slept on their deciUniversity. It is very unique as the Ivy League institutions through it. He’s coached at Princeton for the past nine years sion. On Friday, they woke up and recommended Earl to go. It’s got such a large scale and scope to everything and and they’ve been real successful. He understands the Noel and Quant. there’s students everywhere and a really big campus feel. league.”

There were a lot of things that The players also got a sense The Offer you think you’re close enough of flexibility from Earl, a willAfter finishing his interview with Cornell on Friday, Earl to understand, but once you “We wanted someone who understood ingness to adapt and change, drove to New York City to work on recruitment. get there, you understand what what the typical Ivy League player goes but also saw him as someone “When I went up to Cornell to understand the place, I an amazing place it is.” who could lay down a founda- fell in love with it,” Earl said. “I was living on egg shells through on the daily.”

But the sightseeing and the tion for a new culture around there for a day or two not knowing if it was me or not.” chats with Noel were just the the program.

With the recommendation from the players in mind, Matt Morgan beginning. After passing “He’s not set on a prescribed Noel and others spent Saturday deliberating who they through interviews with the offense or defensive system,” wanted to offer the job to. At the end of the day, several facadministration, each candidate faced the players.

Fleming said. “He wants to see what tools he has here and tors separated Earl from the other candidates in Noel’s eyes. then mold that group to a longer term vision as well as “There was very strong support for Brian and some folks The Player Interviews establish a culture that is self-sustaining to where, obviously were surprised,” Noel said. “Some people went into it Noel and Quant reached out to four players to help with as a head coach, he has control and leadership of the team, thinking we wanted someone who has definitely been a the selection process in order to include an athlete's per- but he wants it to become an area where players are holding head coach.” spective in the candidates’ evaluation. Rising seniors JoJo each other accountable and making sure everything is done “Originally, my mindset was not to have a guy who had Fallas, Dez Fleming and David Onuorah and rising sopho- in order to win a championship here.” only been an assistant coach,” Fallas said. “[Earl] blew me more Matt Morgan joined together to help choose the That flexibility, combined with his previous experience away even though he I had that preconceived notion.” coach that was in the best interest for Cornell’s program as a player in the Ivy League, certainly left an impression on There was Earl’s familiarity with the conference, both as both now and in the future.

Morgan. a player and a coach. According to Noel, Earl’s experience Each brought a different set of questions, issues to be “It was very important because we wanted someone who as Princeton’s Ivy League scout not only made him familiar considered when speaking with the candidates. How would understood what the typical Ivy League player goes through with the Red, but also with every other team in the confera new coach establish the right culture? How would they on the daily, especially when it comes to Ivy season, those ence. continue to develop players across different positions? How back-to-backs on the Friday and Saturday games,” Morgan “He understood the strengths of our current players, the would they care about the well-being of the players on and said. talent level that they have and the ways that they would off the court? And these questions preceded considerations After the candidates finished their respective interviews adjust and modify,” Noel said. “He was very optimistic of on-court offensive and defensive philosophy. with the select group of players, the athletes went to the about the group that we had now and he has a pretty exten“With every coach, there is some aspect they are trying locker room and began deliberating on a white board about sive plan for moving forward.” to sell themselves and what they can bring to a program,” who they wanted to recommend. For each of the coaches, This sentiment was mirrored by the players.

Fleming said. the players created a pros-and-cons list. While there were “We felt like he was part of the Ivy League,” Morgan For each coaching candidate, the players met in a room concerns with each of the candidates, the players easily said. “There was that sense of comfort and trust that he would be able to do the job because he's been here, not to say the other coaches weren’t great because Billeter and Taylor, both of them were great head coaches and would be great coaches at the [Division I] position, but [Earl’s] understanding of what it takes to be successful to be in the Ivy League was important.”

Noel was similarly impressed by Earl’s ability to talk about the X’s and O’s of the sport. But most of all, Earl represented someone who was a “strong basketball guy,” Noel said.

“He certainly, in my view, should not be pigeonholed as an Ivy guy,” Noel said. “He's a basketball guy who played in the Ivy League, who coached in the Ivy League, but he has a real plan and vision for where he thinks Cornell can go.”

After considering all the factors, Noel called Earl on Sunday and offered him the job. Earl accepted and turned a new chapter in his life and for Cornell basketball by doing so.

The Change

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

A fresh face | Before coaching at Princeton, Earl played for the Tigers where he was named Ivy League Player of the Year his senior year.

Earl was introduced to the Cornell community at a press conference on Thursday. While there was fanfare and jubilation, the reality of the situation is that Cornell faces a tall task at hand. The Red finished near the bottom of the Ivy League last year and, given the national exposure Yale received in its run in the NCAA tournament and the continued development of Harvard into a powerhouse — the Crimson brings in a Top-25 recruiting class in 2016-17 — bringing Cornell back towards the top of the conference will be no easy feat.

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How Cornell Basketball Hired Brian Earl

By JOON LEE Sun Senior Writer

and Quant spent two to two and a half hours with each of the candidates getting to know their coaching philosophy and what they would bring to the Red's basketball program. “[Noel and Quant] made it very cordial and comfortable and we talked some very specific Cornell and Cornell basketball things, but got to know each other a little bit as well,” Earl said. “It was nice.”

While some other programs typically spent around a half hour with their potential coaches, Noel said he wanted to be as thorough as possible. Leaving the conference in Houston, he had narrowed his list down to three finalists for the coaching job: Tom Billeter, the head coach of Augustana College, Billy Taylor, the former head coach of Ball State and Lehigh, and Earl.

The next step was to bring each of them to Ithaca.

It started with a bunch of binders, and a whole lot of them at that.

Cornell athletic director Andy Noel decided that the men’s basketball program needed to move in a different direction the day after the season — when he finalized the move to not renew the contract of Bill Courtney. Courtney was the man formerly at the helm of a program that had been struggling since the days of three consecutive Ivy League conference titles and that improbable Sweet 16 run in 2010.

With the decision not to renew Courtney’s contract, Noel began his first coaching search since the man who led the way to the Sweet 16, Steve Donahue, defected to head The Tour the program at Boston College. So with the help of Larry Each of the coaching candidates Quant — the deputy athletic director — brought something a little bit different to Noel put together a binder of potential coaching candidates, looking at the “[Earl is a] Mild mannered the table. Billeter brought the most expecoaches from every school in the Ivy on the outside, [a] burning rience to the table by far, having spent 14 years with Augustana and another five League, the Patriot League and other notable mid-major programs and acadecauldron on the inside.” previously with North Dakota State.

Under Billeter’s watch, the Vikings went mic institution with high academic stanAndy Noel 65-5 over the past three seasons. dards. Among those include powerhouse Additionally, Billeter also led Augustana schools like Duke and Notre Dame, to a national championship trophy at the along with Vanderbilt and Northwestern.

In these binders, Noel and Quant noted each candidate’s NCAA Division II level while also garnering DII Coach of qualifications, ranging from their playing and coaching the Year honors. “[Billeter] was a lot like Steve Donahue,” Noel said. “He accolades to newspaper clips from student newspapers to win-loss records. From there, the duo narrowed down their had a path a lot like Steve Donahue because when he started potential coaches to a group of 12 to 15 candidates and flew [at Augustana], he had some rocky seasons because he had down to Houston for the annual convention for the some rocky seasons and then he emerged and did really well.”

National Association of Basketball Coaches.

On the other hand, Taylor previously served as the head “We wanted to make that opportunity really work for us because we could see a lot of really good people in a three or coach for Lehigh in the Patriot League, a similar mid-major four day period, so that's what we did,” Noel said. “Out of basketball conference. Under Taylor, Lehigh won the 2004 that group, I will tell you, not a single person failed to do a Patriot League tournament and was named Coach of the Year in both 2003 and 2004. After his time at Lehigh, Taylor good job.”

Brian Earl, the associate head coach at Princeton, was on moved closed to his family at Ball State in Indiana where his the prowl for his first head coaching opportunity as well, and team accumulated a 84-99 record. But after a new Athletic sat down with Noel and Quant for a dinner that lasted just Director was brought in to run the ship in 2013, Taylor was under two hours. Earl was a four-year starter for the Tigers let go. Since then, he’s been at Iowa serving as the director of as a student and started his coaching career with his alma operations under Fran McCaffrey.

“Unbelievably gregarious, into analytics,” Noel said of mater in 2007.

The interviews were grueling, according to Noel. Both he Taylor. “Knew our team inside and out. Had watched most

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

New beginnings | Former Princeton associate head coach Brain Earl was introduced as the next Cornell head coach Thursday.

of our games on the web. Terrific with people, highest recommendations. Great player. He was a former captain at Notre Dame. Impressive.”

Unlike the previous two candidates, Earl did not have any head coaching experience, but working in finance before serving as the associate head coach and director of recruitment under his former Tigers teammate Mitch Henderson. “[He’s] an extremely competitive person,” Noel said.

“Mild mannered on the outside, burning cauldron on the inside.”

All three individuals visited Ithaca in order. Noel accompanied each of the coaching candidates on a tour of the campus, visiting the Johnson Museum, the Cornell Store, Willard Straight Hall and the basketball facilities as highlights.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Laxers Face Tough Test With No.3 Brown to Visit on Senior Day

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Senior send off | After notching four goals against Lehigh, senior midfielder Ryan Matthews and the rest of the senior class will be honored Saturday.

With two Ivy League games left in the season and an Ivy League title still at play, it is crunch time for the men’s lacrosse team. The Red have had ample time to develop over a long season and will need to put what they have learned to the test.

Cornell (6-5, 1-3 Ivy) welcomes No. 3 Brown (11-1, 4-0) tomorrow on Schoellkopf field.

Riding a two-game winning streak, this game will be key for maintaining positive momentum continuing through the end of the season.

“It is going to be the biggest game of the year so far because there is so much riding on it,” said freshman midfielder Clarke Petterson.

Petterson’s excellent play last week — which included his first career hat trick in the overtime win against Syracuse and two timely goals to set up freshman

attack Colton Rupp’s buzzer-beat- turning the ball over. They’re just er in the Lehigh game — was a team that likes to go and keep good enough to earn him Ivy going.”

League Rookie of the The Bears lead the Week. country with 16.58 Men’s Lacrosse He hopes to keep goals per game and are this level of play up in third in the country Cornell the Brown game. with a shot percentage “A win over an Ivy of .371, so it will be opponent right now is a essential that the Red necessity,” he said. “If get ahead early and we want a shot at makthen have an excellent vs. ing the Ivy League defensive game.

Tournament or the “We know Brown is NCAA tournament a very dangerous team, then this is a must win especially in transition, game.” so we are really focusing Brown Heach coach Matt on limiting transition Kerwick knows Brown opportunities and trySaturday, 1 p.m. has one of the best ing to play good transiIthaca, N.Y. teams in the country tion defense,” Petterson and will be a tall task said. for his team.

In terms of prepar“They play a different style ing, Petterson noted that the team than almost anyone in the coun- has been working a lot on its trantry right now,” he said. “They’re sition play. very aggressive when they come “In practice we are focusing a over the midfield line attacking See M. LACROSSE page 13 the goal and don’t care about