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Café Will Stay‘Temple of Zeus’ Students Demand

Funding for Ethnic, Identity Programs

After petition, name will become coffee shop’s official title

By EMMA NEWBURGER

By ALISHA GUPTA and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

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Hundreds of students surrounded Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, outside her office Friday to demand greater funding and institutional support for ethnic and identity based programs at Cornell.

“Cornell as an institution boasts about its diversity, but what it neglects is the lack of support for these programs,” Tiffany Fotopoulos ’18 announced to “Cornell as the crowd. “The University as an institution cares about an institution what is profitable, about boasts about what fields of study can produce the most money its diversity, instead of what fields can actually educate students.” but what it Multiple students voiced neglects is that Cornell focuses mainly on educational programs the lack of that push “profitable career support for goals” and “professional development,” rather than these supporting programs for programs.” ethnic studies, LGBT Studies, and Feminist, Gender Tiffany and Sexuality Studies.

Fotopoulos ’18 “The University fails to see these programs as more than identity development and cultural immersion,” Fotopoulos said. “These programs are first and foremost academic spaces that teach a universal knowledge. They’re about teaching and critiquing the structures and systems that determine who belongs, who is the Other, who is excluded, who most bear the deep injustices that are clear throughout our history.”

Students also expressed frustration at the University’s lack of progress and accountability on

After student outcry regarding rumors that the Temple of Zeus café would be renamed, Cornell said on Friday that the Klarman Hall nook will not be renamed and that Temple of Zeus will become its official title.

There were rumors that the eatery was to be renamed after oil magnate and member of the Cornell Arts and Sciences Advisory Council James F. Adelson ’85 made a sizable donation to the café.

Upon seeing the resistance among students, Arts and Sciences Dean Gretchen Ritter ’83 said she decided to talk to the family, though she declined to comment on the family’s identity.

“When the family who funded the building of the café made a contribution, they never asked for the café to be named,” she said. “They were offered the opportunity because of their generosity.”

“I have spoken with the family and they want to be clear that they strongly respect and honor tradition and that they wish for the café to be officially named the Temple of Zeus,” she added.

Founded in 1964 through the efforts of students, faculty and staff, the café has been an important meeting place for Cornellians.

“The students were demanding a place to meet with faculty that was neutral territory, so the college came up with this place,” said Henry Crans, director of facilities for the arts college, in a 2012 Cornell Chronicle article on the origins of the eatery.

After students heard of the potential name change, a petition to “Keep Zeus

MICHAEL WEYNE LI / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Divine providence | The Temple of Zeus in Klarman Hall (above) will retain its name following a petition named “Keep Zeus Zeus” which received over 650 signatures.

Zeus!” was launched and received over 650 signatures.

“Temple of Zeus doesn’t belong to any one person, and has always been defined by the communal spirit it allows student workers, non-student workers, student, faculty and staff patrons and visitors to Cornell to share,” said Ara Hagopian ’18, who is also a columnist for The Sun. Many opponents to the name change believed a change would symbolize an end to the communal and equal atmosphere the café provides, including Temple of Zeus worker Susie Plotkin ’18, who authored the Change.org petition.

“It’s a café for arts and sciences, so if

it’s named after a donor, whoever the donor may be, it strips away the egalitarian atmosphere that it offers us,” she said, “It doesn’t belong to one person, it belongs to everyone.”

Hearing student concerns, the administration acknowledged the café’s “long history as a central meeting place for faculty and students,” Ritter said and ultimately decided to officially name the café the Temple of Zeus.

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Celebrates Magic of Harry Potter

By ELIZABETH STELL Sun Contributor

Owls, snakes and a fortune-telling professor filled Risley Hall on Friday evening, turning the residence hall into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to the delight of hundreds of students.

Decorated with the colors and emblems of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin, the four houses of Hogwarts, the dining hall makeover is part of an annual Cornell tradition. Characters from the J.K.

Rowling books, including Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Fleur Delacour and Harry Potter, walked the halls and interacted with students and families.

While waiting in the long line, students walked through rooms with live owls and handled real snakes in anticipation of enjoying a meal of fish and chips, butterbeer and pumpkin pastries. Students See HOGWARTS page 5

Pottermore | Harry Potter fans flock to Risley Hall on Friday, with many dressing up as their favorite characters to add to the event’s excitement.

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‘Cornell Beach’ Transforms Grassy Patch on Arts Quad

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

As Cornell’s Ithaca campus warms up after a winter punctuated by a historic March snowstorm, students have noticed something odd sprouting from the ground in the Arts Quad.

“Cornell Beach,” reads a sign erected by an Arts student earlier this month, next to another warning that there is no lifeguard on duty and that Cornellians should “swim at your own risk.”

There is, of course, no water to swim in or sand from which to build castles, but the student who erected the signs, Daniel Seung Hwan Lee ’20, said he was hoping to redefine a space that thousands walk by daily without taking much time to appreciate or acknowledge the area.

Lee said he wanted to install “something so out of place that it catches your attention and makes you think, ‘wait, was this always there?’ because a lot of people walk by this place without thinking what’s actually there.”

The signs were for Introduction to Sculpture, a class taught by Prof. David Snyder, art, who said Lee’s project “emphatically ‘claimed’ a chunk of the Arts Quad by naming it with signage.”

“The assignment dealt with the consideration of sculpture as a practice that is not exclusively limited to the construction of form or objects,” Snyder said in an email.

“With this project, students are meant to consider the relationships between objects and people within specific spaces and contexts.”

“I appreciate how it implements a kind of re-branding (the grassy verge on the side of the footpath is now Cornell Beach) as a means of suddenly making a nowhere-place seem special,” the professor added.

Lee set up the signs during the week of April 10, and within a day or two, the “Cornell Beach” sign had been swiped, leaving only the warning about the lack of a lifeguard.

“I knew it would have to get taken down at some point, or someone would

CORINNE KENWOOD / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Swim at your own risk | A group of five BFA students enjoy the new “Cornell Beach,” installed earlier this month by art student Daniel Seung Hwan Lee ’20 for a sculpture class.

steal the sign,” Lee said.

The signs were made using wood pieces and spray paint, Lee said, adding that he had requested Google Maps add a “Cornell Beach” label to the area on the Arts Quad.

Snyder added that the installation also points to “the ridiculousness of certain forms of territorial circumscription,” as when “gentrifying neighborhoods adopt new monikers in order to gussy up their

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The heavy snow in March, Lee said, helped add to the juxtaposition of the beach signs and the pause he hoped it would give people as they rush to class.

“A beach in Ithaca is so out of place and I felt like that’s the perfect thing to put in the middle of the quad,” he said.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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A trio at the March for Science on Saturday creates signs to hold while marching along the Ithaca Commons, joining protesters around the world worrying about the future of science under the Trump Administration. See additional photo from this event on Page 5.

Cornell Hosts Week of Action for Refugees Series of events to increase students’ awareness of crisis

By SICHUN LIU Sun Contributor

A conglomerate of campus groups will hold a series of events this week to raise awareness about the current refugee crisis as part of a “Week of Action for Refugees” at Cornell.

In its second year, the week of action from April 22 to 29 will include a wide array of activities and events, including a display on the Arts Quad, a lecture and discussion on the Syrian conflict and refugee crisis, tabling to build support for Cornell becoming a sanctuary campus and a refugee support gala.

“Ithaca is a culture hub of refugees and one of the most diverse cities in the United States in terms of refugee population,” said Salma Shitia ’18, the founder and president of Cornell Welcomes Refugees and president of the Arab Student Association.

Historically known as a sanctu-

ary place for refugees, Ithaca has been taking Burmese, Russian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees for resettlement since the 1980s, Shitia said.

From Sunday to Wednesday, 36 life jackets will be displayed on the Arts Quad as a reminder of the thousands of refugees who have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Under the tagline, “How much longer will the Mediterranean remain a graveyard for migrants,” testimonials from refugees who crossed the sea will be shown on the life jackets so that people can read the thought-provoking quotes.

Helen Shanahan ’18, co-facilitator of Amnesty International at Cornell, said this display is inspired by a Belgian group, which exhibited life jackets on a much larger scale.

“We used this group’s resources and also conducted extensive research to find these quotes from

people who successfully crossed the Mediterranean,” Shanahan said.

Cornell’s Amnesty International group, as part of last year’s week of action, placed flags on campus representing the top five countries from which refugees were coming. Shanahan believes this year’s display, transformed from last year’s, will be more personal and powerful.

“One guy talks about being forced overboard in the chaos of the ship and thinking he was actually going to die,” she said, describing one of the testimonials to be displayed on a life jacket this week.

“It is very impactful to hear from people who actually experienced it.”

In addition to the life jackets display, the United Nations Association of the U.S.A. Cornell Chapter will also put up signs listing facts about migrants and See REFUGEES page 5

Dan Cohen ’05, executive producer of Stranger Things and several other popular movies and television shows, reflected on how his love of writing and interest in cinema shaped his career during a lecture in a packed Goldwin Smith Hall auditorium on Friday.

Cohen, who majored in psychology as an undergraduate at Cornell, said his passion for storytelling helped him land producing gigs for Stranger Things, The Spectacular Now and Arrival.

“I’ve always had a real love of movies and cinema and storytelling,” Cohen said. “It was at Cornell where I worked at Cornell Cinema and I really started to devour films, and in my third and fourth years, [I] kind of [made] that my focus.”

In addition to working at Cornell Cinema as an undergrad, Cohen also reviewed films for The Cornell Daily Sun. Cohen said classes he took at Cornell served as major influences on his career.

“It was in some of these classes where I started thinking about films and storytelling in a more subjective and analytical way, and sort of falling in love with it all,” Cohen said. “I just kind of began to make movies my vocation from day-to-day and tried to figure out what I would do within it all.”

During his senior year, Cohen enrolled in an independent study, allowing him to “read every book on screenwriting I could possibly read and write drafts of a screenplay,” eventually convincing him to go to Los Angeles, he said.

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Students: Students Relate Potter Series to Classics Courses Attendees recount ‘magical’ experiences, describe academic connection of series C.U.’s Lack Of Funding ‘Unsurprising’ HOGWARTS

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following through with a Student Assembly Resolution to establish a major for Asian American Studies from one year ago.

Emily Dong ’18 called the University’s lack of funding and inaction to establish the major “unsurprising.”

“It has become clear that the University does only not care about Asian American Studies but also other ethnic studies, gender studies and sexuality studies programs,” she told the crowd, who broke out into applause.

Dong said that student action throughout history is the reason that ethnic studies programs exist on campus, despite the fact that these programs consistently receive inadequate resources from the University.

“It was us who started these programs from the beginning,” she said. “It was us who had to fight and fight and fight to establish programs that explicitly acknowledged and taught systems of oppression and ignored histories.”

Specific challenges that programs currently face include funding, autonomy, lack of faculty numbers and shrinking class numbers, according to multiple testimonial speakers.

After reading dozens of testimonials to Dean Ritter, students demanded that the University create universitywide interdisciplinary majors in each ethnic studies program, including Asian American, FGSS and LGBTQ studies, among others.

Other demands included turning ethnic and identitybased studies into the individual departments with concrete support from the University, increasing the number of tenure-track lines, and funding and renewing the search for more program tenure-track faculty.

Dean Ritter, who listened to demands, did not comment to testimonial speakers or to The Sun. “It’s time for the University to step up,” Dong said. “This fight for ethnic studies, LGBT studies, FGSS is a fight for me, for you, for everyone. This is a fight for academic programs that matter and think we matter, too.”

“We won’t stop fighting until our programs receive the support they deserve,” she told the crowd.

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun.com.

and children also created their own wands and went on a scavenger hunt for Hogwarts keys.

Gray Ryan ’18 took on the role of Newt Scamander for the evening, dressed like the Hogwarts magizoologist in a suit and bowtie and carrying a suitcase. Ryan has participated in the event for the last three years, first as Narcissa Malfoy, then as Luna Lovegood and, this year, as Newt.

“It’s really fun to hear whispers from the crowd,” Ryan said. “Even if I’m not paying attention, it’s still like ‘look who it is.’ People are so into Harry Potter; it’s so beautiful.

To be able to bring it to life for them is really fun.”

People came from outside the University as well to enjoy the evening. Mary Grace Hager ’19 came with her sister, Ann Marie, who lives in New York City. They were one pair of many who dressed up to celebrate.

Students at the event shared memorable childhood experiences with the magical, bestselling series.

Sarah Palmer ’17 spoke about how the Harry Potter books have captivated multiple

generations, mentioning one time she was in line for one of the movies and a philosophical debate broke out between college students in front of her.

Behind her, two young girls imagined what they would do if they had magical abilities and spells.

“People are so into Harry Potter; it’s so beautiful. To be able to bring it to life for them is really fun.”

Gary Ryan ’18 “It was so great in that moment, being in between those two experiences,” she said.

Sydnie Chavez ’20 and Daniel Zimmerman ’17 enjoyed their deeper understanding of the series, which they got from taking classics courses at Cornell.

“Twins are a common theme in classical literature,” Zim merman said. “When Fred dies, that’s actually harkening back to some very ancient, classical ideas about the twin dying.”

Chavez spoke about the myth of Pollux and Castor, where one twin dies, and the other brings him back to life.

“It’s been cool to see all those connections from an academic sense,” Chavez said.

Brian Heusschen, an undergraduate exchange student from the Netherlands, talked about the differences between the novels in English and the novels in Dutch.

“The names are different,” Heusschen said. “Dumbledore is completely different. [His name is] Perkamentus — the name for ancient paper, like parchment.”

Lars Olsen, also an exchange student from Denmark, designed costumes for the event and said he and others were busy right up to the deadline.

“We were done 20 minutes before the event, the sewing and everything.” Olsen said. “It was quite stressful.”

Olsen said he and other sewers and designers had been working until about 2 or 3 a.m. every night for a week to finish making costumes in time.

Others in attendance had made their own costumes.

Palmer said the idea of selfreflection and acceptance was a poignant theme of the books and movies that stuck out to her and other fans.

“You really see this idea that part of defeating your enemies is defeating that part of yourself

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immigrants on the Arts Quad.

Cornell University’s South Asian Council and Cornell University Sustainable Design, on Tuesday, will present a crash course on the refugee crisis and the Syrian conflict from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Following the short presentation, students will have a discussion on possible next steps over free samosas and lassi.

All the events during

the Week of Action for Refugees will culminate in the Refugee Support Gala on Saturday, which will not only celebrate different languages and cultures around the world, but also collect funds that will go directly towards the refugees.

“The funds will help the refugees pay off their loans for their flight tickets to the United States as well as their housing,” Shitia said.

Artwork created by Cornell students focus-

ing on a theme of “reimagining borders” will be shown around the gala, which will also

“As more refugees are resettling, there are a lot of opportunities for students to interact.”

Salma Shitia ’18 include a guest speaker from Ithaca Welcomes Refugees, music and

Science Fights Back

dance performances, raffles, henna tattoo and more.

Besides taking part in these events to learn more about the crisis, Shitia also welcomes students to contact Cornell Welcomes Refugees to get more involved.

“As more refugees are resettling, there are a lot of opportunities for students to interact with the refugees and help them through finding jobs, training for interviews, building resumes, teaching English to non-native English speakers” and more, she said.

The week’s events are sponsored by a host of groups, including Amnesty International at Cornell University, Cornell University Sustainable Design, Arab Student Association at Cornell, Cornell University’s South Asian Council, Cornell Welcomes Refugees, the United Nations Association of the United States of America, Cornell Chapter, Cornell DREAM Team and Cornell International Students Union.

MICHAEL SUGUITAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The March for Science attracts a substantial crowd Saturday in Bank Alley on the Ithaca Commons. See additional photo from this event on Page 3.

Sichun Liu can be reached at sl2473@cornell.edu.

and that’s the first step.” Palmer said. “We all have to grapple with the idea that — not that we aren’t good people — but that the things we hate most are usually the things we see in ourselves and that you have to accept that in order to fight it.”

Elizabeth Stell can be reached at eas384@cornell.edu.

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Cohen said that when he first arrived in L.A., he did the “well-known introductory balance of waitering and writing screenplays.”

“My roommates in L.A. were both Cornell grads, and we would go out nearly every night,” Cohen said.

“We would watch movies and just sort of ingratiate ourselves into the town, even though we were totally broke and had no idea what anything was, or how to get places.

“It was all terribly confusing when we first got there, but it was also exciting because we were all figuring out where we fit into this creative entertainment community,” he added.

His first official job was as an assistant working on The Firm in 2005, and he later joined Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in 2007, finding that he was no longer as interested in working as a manager.

Cohen then worked to “keep pushing up the hill as a producer,” finding that it made his work more satisfying and allowing him to find a niche beyond family and genre films.

The intersection of science fiction and horror became a fascination for him, resulting in his upcoming projects Kin, Kodachrome, Stranger Things 2, and The Darkest Minds.

Cohen said open-mindedness is key to exploring new ideas that may not seem appealing on first look.

“I wouldn’t write anything out,” he said. “A great story is a great story.

Projects that initially came together, fell apart, and then came together again reinforced the idea I should be following my gut.

“The world is keen on finding new ideas, and the most important thing, I would say, is to just always stay curious.”

Meg Gordon can be reached at mgordon@cornellsun.com..

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Political Jokes in Veep More Realistic Now

BY BECKY FRANK Sun Contributor

Almost every Grey’s Anatomy fan I know went through the “I’m going to be a surgeon” phase. Despite hating every one of my science courses and getting a 2 on AP Bio, I did too. However, Veep pushed me into a more realistic phase: to work in politics or government.

I wanted to work on the Hill in D.C. like Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). I thought her chief of staff Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) was absolutely one of the coolest, funniest and most competent people ever.

The best way that I can describe Veep is as a fantastic combination of House of Cards and Modern Family. It is perfectly political and serious while also absolutely hilarious.

Judging by the first episode, aired April 16, Season 6 is taking a turn in a new direction. All of the key characters have returned, but have gone their separate ways.

They are no longer all in Selina Meyer’s office. Dan is a reporter for CBS, Amy is working on her fiance’s campaign, Mike is a stay-at-home dad and so on. This is also the first season where Selina is not either Vice-President or President of the United States. She holds no position besides former President, and the season opens with her first public interview since the historic house vote that lost her the presidency.

Gary Walsh, king of the “Leviathan” bag — a giant bag carrying anything Selina could ever need — is still right by Selina’s side. I do not know how to put words to how funny Gary is. Everything he does continues to make me actually laugh out loud while watching the show. One thing about watching the show for a sixth season is that I feel like I know the characters so well.

Half of the times I laugh at (and not with) Gary are because I know so much about Gary’s life. (Including that he attended Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration.)

While a lot of the jokes are rather racist and vulgar, Veep does a great job with keeping up with modern-day trends. The show jokes about Uber and Twitter, while also touching on transgender issues. Selina starts the Meyer Fund for Adult Literacy … and AIDS. As the first female President, she is struggling to stay relevant.

Selina discusses her desire to run for President again, to the utter horror of just about everyone around her.

HBO created a number of websites that go along with the show this season. These include a site for the

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Meyer’s Fund and for Congressman Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons). I didn’t donate to the Meyer Fund, but I took the online literacy test! The test hilariously included one question: “Do you know how to read?”

Answering yes, the test therefore congratulated me for being literate. Thank you Selina! On the Congressman’s site, a quote in italics above Jonah’s tall, shaven, annoying head is “I believe you can change people’s lives until you change their minds.” Both of these sites include so many details and jokes that are not included on the show. It is an awesome way to connect viewers beyond the television.

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Lana Del Rey’s new song “Lust For Life” debuted on BBC1 on April 19. It is the titular track off her upcoming album, featuring rich vocals and a collaboration between Lana and the singer Abel Tesfaye of The Weeknd.

The track opens with Lana Del Rey’s seductively saying “Climb up the H of the Hollywood sign, in these stolen moments, the world is mine.” These sultry lyrics are followed by “We’re the masters of our own fate.” Lana’s vocals proved to be just as mellifluous as usual, and her performance gave off similar vibes to her first album Born to Die. I felt that the collaboration between Lana Del Rey

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This season is different, and I like it. Critics of old seasons said every episode’s storyline was too similar.

Everything is changing now that Selina is no longer in office. She has new issues, first and foremost being that she is rather irrelevant.

I will say, however, that I think that some of the jokes are becoming more and more realistic given our current president. Some of Selena’s statements that were written as a complete joke are not as far-fetched anymore.

Becky Frank is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at rnf33@cornell.edu.

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and Abel Tesfaye was disappointing. The Weeknd’s addition to the song comes off as forced and contrived. Nothing about his performance felt unique or exciting. Moreover, I was left wanting more from him. The blend of the two artists’ voices lacks chemistry as they did not complement one another. It was not a good choice to collaborate on the main album’s featurette.

During Mistajam’s interview with Lana Del Rey, the singer was personable and down to earth.

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In light of her coming album, Lust For Life, she also released a trailer that gives off whimsical vibes and features the Hollywood Sign as the backdrop. This setting was also mentioned in her title track.

Her coming album will feature impressive collaborations and a great range of sounds from pop to romantic acoustics. She has not yet announced a release date for the album, but her fans are anxiously waiting.

Isabella York is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at iy43@cornell.edu.

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Not Enough Spark

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

Spark: A Space Tail has been a mystery to me. Written and directed by Aaron Woodley (with additional written material by Adam Rotstein, Robert Reece and Doug Hadders), I didn’t know what to make of the film. It premiered nearly a year ago at the Toronto Animation Arts festival. There were no advance reviews, and only a nebulous plot synopsis. All I knew was that it was a CanadianKorean production from ToonBox and Redrover, the same people who brought us The Nut Job. Maybe that should have been my warning. Spark: A Space Tail is bland and uninteresting, featuring cliches that left me rolling my eyes, as well as lackluster animation.

The movie opens on the planet Bana, which is ruled by a kind monkey king. However, his evil brother harnesses the power of a Space Kraken to open a black hole which shatters the planet into shards. Our hero, Spark (Jace Norman), escapes to a distant shard even though his parents perish in the black hole.

He lives a quiet life with his guardians: Vix, voiced by Jessica Biel, and Chunk, voiced by Rob deLeeuw. Spark yearns to join them on adventures, but instead has to stay home with his robotic caretaker Bananny (Susan Sarandon). Meanwhile, the evil Emperor Zhong (Alan C. Peterson) has plans to discover another Space Kraken and harness it to create a reusable weapon to destroy entire planets. The queen, voiced by Hilary Swank, steals a crucial piece of his plan and calls for Vix to come take it. However, Spark gets the message instead and arrives in Vix’s place, meaning that the fate of the universe rests in his hands.

This brief synopsis sounds like the beginning of a typical story: boy out in the far reaches of an evil empire dreams of doing something more and avenging his parents’ death.

We’ve seen that dozens of times before. Spark is going to bring a fresh new perspective to that pattern though, right?

Wrong!

I can’t remember the last time I watched such a dry, soulless movie. Everything we see has been done before in other movies, and done better for that matter. It’s honestly difficult writing this review because I feel more effort is being put into this than the script for Spark. So much is wrong on so many levels. From the very beginning, we open with narration — a LOT of narration — clearly violating the “show, don’t tell” rule. What is especially irritating is that in the end credits, we see wall paintings showing the story of how Spark got moved to his home shard and how he grew up. It would have been nice to have that in the actual film for some, I don’t know, character development! None of the characters really left that much of an

imprint on me because they’re all so bland. Spark’s only personality is “hero,” but he doesn’t do that good a job at it. For example, when the queen gives him the Kraken Finder, she tells him to take it far away so Zhong won’t be able to summon another Space Kraken. So what does Spark do? He finds the Kraken and brings it home, only for Zhong to end up capturing it!

There is a moment where he thinks “I can use the Kraken to do to Zhong, what Zhong did to me.” It’s a moment where I sat forward a bit, thinking that they were going to blur the lines between good and evil, justice and revenge… but that went absolutely nowhere. Vix is the stereotypical tough fighter girl, Chunk is the fat nerd who spouts technobabble, and Zhong … Zhong is a pathetic villain. He’s too outlandish to be taken seriously, he’s too snivelling to be stylish and fun. In any kind of half-rational universe his empire would have imploded after a year. Even his main muscle expresses discontent multiple times throughout the movie.

How this guy stayed in power, I don’t know, and the movie doesn’t care. By the way, that main muscle for Zhong is an ape wearing drag. Again, I don’t know, movie doesn’t care. I just felt it was worth a mention.

Moving from characters to the plot, we find a host of tropes ripped off from other successful movies in an attempt to nail a nonexistent “formula” for success. Guess what? Spark has a birthmark on his hand that means he’s the true heir to the throne! It’s never mentioned until halfway into the movie, which means that revelation comes out of left field. Also guess what? The evil space emperor wants to build a device that can destroy planets, that’s never been done before! And guess what else?! When Spark talks to his dead father, his father appears as a ghost and tells him to assume his destiny as the true king, totally not ripping off The Lion King in any way!

Then his birthmark glows, and a staff floats into his hand that turns out to reveal an energy blade hidden in it, a saber made from light … alright, enough sarcasm here. You get the idea.

Now, I know that movies rely on tropes to tell their stories. A good contrast here would be Moana, which essentially followed the Disney Princess formula to the letter. However, because Moana and Maui were good leads, and the film’s visuals and music were stellar, the tired plot still came alive. Since Spark doesn’t have those endearing characters, a cliched plot stands out all the more painfully.

But what about those visuals?

Could it be like The Good Dinosaur, which had a tired plot but still showcased the cutting edge of animation’s potential?

Sadly, Spark can’t even do that!

Heck, it actually falls short of average. The characters look like they come from plasticine clay, and the character animation

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doesn’t show expression or movement very well. Vix seems to perpetually be in moody mode for example, and her face barely changes when she’s happy, scared or angry. There’s also the constant movement that gets simply overwhelming. The action moves too fast to follow, and the timing gets way out of whack. There aren’t many jokes in the movie, but those that manage to be funny still get their wings clipped because the camera needs to get somewhere else. What results is a mess that’s

difficult on the eyes and offers animation that would have been decent in the early 2000s, but subpar now.

In essence, Spark feels like the filmmakers took The Lion King and Star Wars, saw that they were popular and successful, and decided to smoosh them together. The problem is, they forgot to give the movie a personality.

Star Wars doesn’t have the most thought-provoking writing, but because it has endearing characters and fantastic visuals it’s still a great movie. Spark insists that

it has an important story to tell, but it doesn’t let us actually care about it. It offers nothing new and honestly has no reason to exist. It’s not worth the money or even the time when you can watch the exact same thing elsewhere, except done ten times better. Just like how the movie came in quietly, it’ll leave the same way.

David Gouldthorpe is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu.

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ILR faculty object to Cornell’s ‘coercive’ conduct prior to CGSU election To the Editor: As faculty members in the Cornell University ILR School, we are deeply concerned about the conduct of the Cornell administration on March 26, the eve of the Cornell Graduate Students United election and on March 27, the first day of voting in the election. On both days, Cornell’s Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth sent emails to thousands of Cornell graduate students with messages that interfered with graduate employees’ ability to freely exercise their rights to choose whether to be represented by the CGSU. In raising our concerns about Dean Knuth’s conduct, we draw on our expertise and experience in the field of labor law, labor relations and labor rights.

Under the National Labor Relations Act, it is unlawful for an employer to make statements that would have the tendency to “interfere with, restrain or coerce” employees in exercising their rights to choose whether to unionize. Unlawful coercive statements by employer representatives include explicit or implicit threats that the employer may cut back on jobs if employees vote for a union. Such unlawful statements by an employer are particularly harmful when made close to an election, which the National Labor Relations Board recognizes as the “critical period” when employer coercion is most likely to affect the outcome of the election.

On Sunday, March 26, the day before the election, Dean Knuth emailed to graduate students a “Special Edition” of her “Ask the Dean” column, in which she states: “It is possible that significantly increased costs” due to wages and benefits negotiated by the CGSU “could lead to reduced numbers of graduate students at Cornell, but faculty, departments and colleges would need to make those decisions.” By linking union negotiated benefits to the possibility of “reduced numbers of graduate students at Cornell,” Dean Knuth’s statements constituted threats that a vote for the union could lead to future cutbacks in the graduate program. The attempt to camouflage those threats as “predictions” or “possibilities” does not change the fearinducing nature and intent of the message. The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the serious coercive nature of threats that unionization could lead to job loss. In finding that employers violate the NLRA by threatening to close a plant if employees unionize, the Court noted that the NLRB “has often found that employees, who are particularly sensitive to rumors of plant closings, take such hints as coercive threats rather than honest forecasts.”

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signed up for the “New York Times morning updates” a few months ago, but I’ve gotten into the habit of deleting the e-mails before I have a chance to fully scan them. I know you can’t escape the news, but I don’t think finding out about the Ann CoulterBerkeley controversy or the implosion of Bill O’Reilly’s career at 7 a.m. on the dot every morning is necessarily the most effective start to one’s day. Lately, I’ve found that keeping up with current events feels like a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole, where every time a travel ban is struck down, a healthcare bill pops up, and so on. For every positive news story, it feels like there are ten negative ones (and one thinkpiece explaining why the positive one wasn’t actually all that positive). But still, I’m trying to figure out what’s important, and apparently millions and millions of people — including many of you — have it figured out better than I have.

One of my favorite columnists, Jonathan Capehart, wrote a piece last Friday on President Trump’s first 100 days in office, titled “An Appreciation.”

In it, Capehart says that Trump’s presidency hasn’t been as bad as he expected, and states that “[Trump] is responsible for the greatest surge in civic participa-

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On Monday, March 27, the first day of the election, Dean Knuth emailed “Graduate School Announcements” to the graduate students informing them that, “Starting in 2017-2018, Cornell SHP will reduce the cost for care received outside the Ithaca area for graduate and professional students who see Aetna participating providers. The cost will be reduced from 20 percent to 10 percent. This enhancement is a direct response to concerns about how to improve access to care for students who are studying or performing research away from campus.”

What’s wrong with Dean Knuth announcing these benefits? The announcement of new benefits close to the time of an election or as here, even during the election, is an abuse of Cornell’s economic power as an employer. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an employer violates the NLRA by announcing new benefits for the purpose of influencing employees to vote against union representation. As the Court stated, “The danger inherent in well-timed increases in benefits is the suggestion of a fist inside the velvet glove. Employees are not likely to miss the inference that the source of benefits now conferred is also the source from which future benefits must flow and which may dry up if it is not obliged.”

It is very disturbing that Dean Knuth chose to conduct herself in this way — and particularly disturbing that she sent these email messages at the moment that graduate employees were on their way to the election polls. Each message, by itself, was coercive. But together, they delivered a “one-two punch” to remind the graduate students that Cornell holds the ultimate power to give and to take away. The first message threatened graduate employees with the possible loss of graduate student positions, followed by the second announcement of a new benefit that Cornell was giving them. In the words of the Supreme Court, “The beneficence of an employer is likely to be ephemeral if prompted by a threat of unionization which is subsequently removed.”

As faculty members in the ILR School, we expect Cornell to follow lawful and ethical standards that respect employees’ rights to decide for themselves whether to be represented by a union. It was wrong — and likely a violation of the NLRA and the Cornell-CGSU conduct agreement — for Dean Knuth to use Cornell’s economic power in an attempt to sway the vote. The international affirmation of the freedom of association as an essential human right makes Dean Knuth’s and the University’s unlawful resistance to the exercise of this human right by Cornell graduate students particularly shameful.

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Rewriting The News tion in half a century.” And while I’m not sure I would go so far as to say that exchanging Trump’s leadership for civic participation is a worthy trade, I think Capehart is spot-on in identifying growth on behalf of people who didn’t get what they wanted last November.

We’re coming together now because we have to. I wish we didn’t have to, but at least we are.

After Trump won, I wrote a column on what people could do, especially here in Ithaca, if they were upset with the outcome of the election. What I suggest in that column doesn’t even cover a fraction of what I’ve seen people doing since.

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Yesterday, I was driving through the downtown to get lunch with a friend and she pointed out a spot that she had trekked to for a town hall held by Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.). Reed, a Republican whose oddly-shaped district includes Ithaca, “conveniently” planned a town hall at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, very far away from his collegiate constituents, after a snowstorm that left many sidewalks un-shoveled. The TCAT doesn’t run that early, and my friend doesn’t have a car, so her group of friends walked all the way from North Campus to outer edges of the Commons. And despite all of the barriers to attending this town hall, according to my friend,

so many people showed up at the venue that it overflowed, with people standing in extra spaces (and outside).

As she was telling me this, we saw another huge crowd of people and realized that we were driving right by the March for Science. The weather was disgusting; drizzling, chilly and overcast.

But people were smiling, yelling and holding up their signs as part of a protest that feels like it’s been going on since Nov. 9.

It’s easy to spiral into a state of cynicism, because the overlap between things we should be critical of and things that exist in our world seems to be growing rapidly. The world is complicated right now, and sometimes it feels like we are unequipped — whether it’s the number of Democrats in Congress or the free time we lack to spend protesting — to take on these challenges. But my friends who went to Reed’s town hall, the Ithacans at the March for Science, and a whole lot of you guys, make me hopeful that someday I won’t be so dismayed by those morning e-mails from The New York Times.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The Dissent runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Bad.Bad. Not Good.

Cherries and Onions And Cabbages,Oh My!

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ornell’s administration spent the bulk of this week trying to hold someone accountable for his choices. The University charged a student, Mitch McBride ’17, with a violation of the Campus Code of Conduct for leaking documents from the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group. I don’t much want to re-litigate the case. It was an arrogant sort of incompetence that led the University to hold McBride’s hearing in the first place — nobody expected this tortured reading of the Code to hold up, and it didn’t. In this absurd pursuit of accountability, though, the University has demonstrated a genuine unwillingness to take responsibility for itself.

There is a certain way in which Cornell, and institutions like it, avoid justifying their choices. It usually begins with a head fake toward good intentions and then a pivot to an easy issue. In a letter to The Sun this week, Dean Kotlikoff taught a course in this strategy.

He wrote a three-part defense of University decisions labeled a “defense of shared governance and the Campus Code of Conduct.”

He supported the McBride hearing, the AFAWG and Dean Knuth.

It was not particularly persuasive, but it is important to read.

The first thing to note is the highly personal terms on which he went about defending the University. To be absolutely clear, personal attacks on the intentions of Dean Knuth or any individual members of the Administration are misguided and self-defeating. I have no doubt that nearly every member of Cornell’s faculty is fully dedicated to achieving the best for students. Kotlikoff was right to defend them. The problem is that the important criticism of Knuth, and the Administration more broadly, has absolutely nothing to do with intentions.

In the documents that leaked, the AFAWG considered the possibility of ending need-blind transfer admissions, should the University experience financial constraints. This would mean that transfer students could be denied admission, at least in part, based on their inability to pay tuition. Obviously, nobody is claiming that Dean Knuth, or any member of the group sees this as a desirable outcome. The outrage comes instead from the perception that, should the University have to tighten its belt, it would consider abandoning its founding mission. Even if the group was not told to save money, which Kotlikoff notes in his letter, it was given conditions in which achieving a need-blind admissions process would be financially impossible. This implies that, as a broader institution, Cornell has no absolute commitment to fully egalitarian admissions.

The problem with Kotlikoff’s response is that it narrows the issue to simply one of the AFAWG’s intent. While it is valuable to note their role, the vastly more important issue is the University’s trend toward pushing cost-savings increasingly onto students.

Interestingly, Kotlikoff actually seems to hint at this, when he says the documents released needed proper context; however, he does very little to provide whatever context he believes we need. This points to an attitude of inevitability so often taken by administrators when they discuss the high cost of attendance. While it is true that Cornell, as it is currently structured, offers as much aid as it can, that structure is by no means fixed. There is no absolute reason why the University should spend the amount it does on capital development, administrative staff, or literally anything. It is a choice like any other.

So instead of taking solace in the fact that the AFAWG is doing its best, we need a justification for the thousand other choices that makes its best so disappointing.

More disturbing is the defense the letter offers for holding McBride’s hearing. Kotlikoff was very quick to paint the issue as a defense of another student. He said that judicial action was taken because a student in the working group approached theOffice of the Judicial Administrator, and that other members of the group expressed concern about the documents being leaked. Yet none of this is a justification of the University’s choice to bring a complaint to the OJA. The fact is, the University was the complainant in the case, and to represent the issue as simply mediation in a conflict between students is disingenuous. No, the OJA has to account for its overzealous application of the code of conduct, and the University has to explain its choice to pursue charges in the first place. The willingness to pit students against one another in an effort to shield the University from criticism is disturbing. Once again, the University made a choice — it has to justify it.

Again, I find myself returning to the fact that, in many ways that matter, Cornell needs to be understood as a business. The University treated McBride as if he were an employee who disclosed proprietary information, not a democratic representative pursuing a broader mandate for transparency. In fact, at McBride’s hearing, Dean Knuth cited competition with other universities as a compelling reason to keep admissions measures private. Similarly, the AFAWG acted in a narrow institutional role, constrained by the myriad other fiscal decisions that seem to deprioritize accessible education at the expense of a variety of other interests. Good intentions are an insufficient defense against this sort of criticism; deflecting attention onto other students is bad leadership. We need a better justification from the University for the choices it makes. We need something better than this.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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his Wednesday marks the end of my year-long journey writing an honors thesis. I feel weird telling people about my project. I just spent a year studying onions, cabbages and cherries in New York. I had a blast doing it, but even now it seems like an oddly specific topic.

It didn’t start that way though. Before starting my thesis, my knowledge of farming consisted of eating fried oreos at the Columbia County Fair. But I did know something about economics and always had a feeling economists can do more to feed people than scientists at a company like Monsanto (I actually wrote a column about it last spring). When it came time to choose a topic for my thesis, food seemed obvious. Or more specifically, how to help feed people using economics.

As it turned out, I’m not the only one who wants to use economics to feed people. For years, economists were measuring whether people were going hungry in the United States based on the answers to an 18 question questionnaire called the CPS nutritional supplement. They tried to explain the answers to the questionnaire using factors like race, income and education.

Eventually people realized this was silly. For example, one of the questions asks if respondents bought vegetables. Economists noticed that people in the inner city weren’t buying vegetables. But obviously, race doesn’t influence this choice. In fact, my reason for not buying vegetables is the same as for someone from the inner city.. A double cheese burger and medium fries at McDonald’s cost $3.33. On the other hand, a bus ticket to go to Wegmans to buy a head of cabbage is expensive and inconvenient.

Noticing you can’t find a Wegmans in Paterson, New Jersey was a 400 million dollar idea. The government started building groceries in the inner city to improve nutrition. People call the areas without grocery stores “food deserts” and tried mapping them. But you

need a detailed directory of transit and stores. You can’t map food deserts in somewhere like Clinton county New York, where stores and residents are sparse.

That’s where my project came in. Instead of just tracking the stores, I decided to track the costs of bringing food to stores on the scale of New York state.

I quickly realized I couldn’t track these costs for all types of food. That’s where the cherries, cabbages and onions come in. I decided to only track crops grown on small scale because it’s easy to see, using satellite data and public records, how they move from farms to intermediaries and consumers.

According to my reasoning, if a region has high transportation costs, it faces a bigger risk of being a food desert. I assumed stores would have to charge more to compensate for the high transportation costs.

To be honest though, I’m unsure I tracked anything meaningful after a year of work. The price of cabbages, onions and cherries at Wegmans aren’t just based on transportation costs. Wegman's is a national conglomerate with 21 aisles of grocery goodness. It might be expensive to send cabbage to a grocery store on Suffolk County, Long Island, but the grocery store might have reason to keep the price low anyway.

Still, this project has been a highlight of my year and the past four. Although I didn’t find much this time, I learned a lot. And the prospect of discovering new scientific knowledge to help people is tantalizing.

So, if you’re on the fence about a thesis for next year, definitely do it. You might get overly excited about onions, cherries and cabbages, too. That’s this week’s schtick. I’m sticking to this one. Tune in next next Monday for my last column!

Eric Schulman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com.

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h, springtime. The sun is (relatively) out, flowers are blooming, birds are singing and nearly half of American jobs are at risk of being completely eradicated due to automation.

Automation is hitting the U.S. job market as suddenly as that segue. An oft-cited 2013 study by economist Carl Frey and computer scientist Michael Osborne estimates that 47 percent of American employment is at high risk of being entirely automated. The most automatable jobs are fairly obvious: repetitive manufacturing jobs, telemarketing and occupations that deal mostly with clerking top the list. Some jobs, though, are surprisingly automatable: models and real-estate brokers, for example, have a 97.6 percent and 96.6 percent chance of being automated, respectively. (You can comb through the data yourself; NPR has created a nice little interactive applet to help you do so.)

Don’t be misled by these probabilities, though. Many jobs with a low calculated likelihood can certainly be automated, and many jobs with high likelihood of replacement could stand the test of time. For example, although restaurant servers have a 93.7 percent chance of being automated according to the study, human service provides hospitality that consumers at upscale restaurants have come to expect. On the other hand, although physicians and surgeons rank low with a 0.4 percent chance of automation, surgery is already

being automated, at least in part.

And, unfortunately for The Sun, while “writers and authors” (separate from “Technical writers” in the categorizations) have a 3.8 percent chance of being automated, robojournalism already exists and works much more effectively in the digital age than human journalism.

I am of the opinion that widespread automation in sectors traditionally thought to be “white collar” or non-automatable is coming faster than we’d expect, thanks to the buzziest buzzwords in computing, like machine/deep learning and big data. The robots are coming, rapidly and surely, and we need to be prepared. Automation means quick and concentrated unemployment but also the creation of massive amounts of capital. The talk of the town in Silicon Valley is that public policy needs to catch up to the tech sector by considering universal basic income in order to avoid Great Recession-era levels of unemployment. By “taxing the robots,” we can lift the burden from the working class and instead make longterm investments in education and healthcare that raise quality of life for all. Ultimately, we create more interesting and fulfilling roles for human beings. For instance, the aforementioned advent of robojournalism opens up opportunities for writers to focus their time and energy on smarter takes and more thorough pieces.

This is, of course, quite simplistic and extraordinarily idealistic. It doesn’t take aggressive skepticism to

realize that various social and political barriers stand in the way of this naively utopian future. That said, the robotic economy is worth speculating on and, of course, worth preparing for through our academic choices in the short-term.

As you pre-enroll in CS 1110 because you think it’ll give you an edge when applying to non-tech jobs (given the saturation of young people who can code in Python, it probably won’t.), consider that basic coding is already being outsourced to countries like India and is beginning to be automated through metaprogramming. Point being, take a step back and analyze whether you’re taking a course due for short-term job prospects (which — don’t misread my point here — are still of the utmost importance for many), or for your long-term intellectual and occupational fulfillment. CS 1110 is a great course that teaches computer literacy, a skill that will be indubitably important when the world becomes computerized beyond what we can imagine. In other words, consider using your time at Cornell at least partly as an opportunity to develop an intellectual repertoire that will guide you to the uncertain future, rather than to, say, your summer analyst position at Goldman.

Pegah Moradi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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‘We all have dreams’ | Morgan will look to become the 13th Cornellian selected in the NBA draft, but knows that dream may have to wait.

Morgan Takes Aim at Name Recognition MORGAN

Continued from page 12

has potential, but may not be quite ready. Within the Ivy League, Yale’s Makai Mason declared for the draft last year, but took his name out of consideration and remains a part of the Bulldogs’ organization.

But Morgan knows that if he does eventually make it to the professional level, it would not just be a landmark for Cornell, but for many other under-the-radar programs across the country.

“This is just a step for our program to show that we all have dreams,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what school you go to as long as it is the right fit and play as hard as possible.”

Zach Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

Red Clinches 6th Straight Ivy Tourney Bid; Looks To Harvard for Seeding W. LACROSSE

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evenly matched the two were as both struggled to score. Not until four seconds were left on the double overtime clock did Princeton find the back of the net to steal the victory at Schoellkopf.

“If our team could have done it all over, we would have allowed the clock to expire rather than taking the risks that we did in the final minutes of the game,” Coffy said.

Highlights from the game include hat tricks from Phillips, Ellis, Gilbert and Dickson and 15 saves by Poullott. Those 15 saves pushed Poullott over the 400 save plateau, making her the second Cornellian to reach that mark.

The Red may get another opportunity to take down the Tigers in the postseason Ivy League tournament. Given its outstanding Ancient Eight record, Cornell has secured its spot in the tournament to compete for an automatic berth to the National Championships.

Cornell’s only conference loss so far this season was this past weekend against Princeton,

while the Tigers’ only league loss this season was to No. 10 Penn (11-2, 4-1), which Cornell downed this year. That makes next Saturday’s matchup against Harvard (8-6, 4-2) — currently fourth and also locked into the postseason tournament — crucial in determining Cornell’s seeding.

“Maintaining possession,

“Making smart decisions as a team will be the difference in our game against Harvard.”

Junior Midfielder Joey Coffy winning the draw control, the hustle stats and making smart decisions as a team will be the difference in our game against Harvard,” Coffy said.

The Red takes on the Crimson Saturday, April 29, at noon on Schoellkopf Field. It will be Cornell’s last regular season match and a chance to honor its seniors.

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

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Quartet of Teams Shine Over Weekend MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TENNIS

GOLF

EQUESTRIAN

In the midst of impressive years, both Cornell tennis teams beat Brown to cap their regular seasons off with respective shares of the Ivy title.

The men clinched with a 4-3 win over the Bears.

They share the title with Columbia and Harvard for the second in program history.

The women had to await the result of HarvardPenn after downing Brown 4-1, but Penn’s victory gave the team its first league title, shared with Dartmouth and Harvard.

Both teams hope for an at-large bid to NCAAs.

A year after his older brother, Luke, earned medalist honors at Ivy’s, Cornell golf’s Mike Graboyes followed suit and utilized a strong day three to cruise to a three-shot first place individual finishing. Along with an automatic bid to NCAA regionals, Graboyes grabbed himself firstteam all-Ivy honors after earning second-team for the past two years.

As a team, Cornell matched its highest ever placing with a second place finish behind Harvard, who won for the second straight year.

In the comfort of Ithaca, Cornell’s highly-decorated equestrian squad was crowned champion of the Ivy League, aided in part by a champion placing for Maddy Kinner in walk trot.

In the Intermediate Flat and Fences, Claira Seely and Vaughan Shanley were champions, respectively, and Jenna Beobide took first in Novice Fences, among other impressive results at Oxley Equestrian Center.

— Zach Silver

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Morgan Declares for NBA Draft Sophomore guard still expects to return for junior season

By ZACH SILVER

sophomore in Cornell history to record his 1,000th point, which came in a 90-63 loss to Yale on Cornell men’s basketball the road. sophomore guard Matt Morgan, During his freshman year, the leading scorer in the Ivy Morgan was named Ivy League League for the past two seasons, Rookie of the Week five times announced on Sunday his intent and earned national honors in to try his hand in the NBA draft, the same category once. He but will not sign an agent and ended his freshman campaign retains his remaining fifth in the country in two years of NCAA scoring with 18.9 points “It’s more putting my name on the radar per game. eligibility.

At first glance, it in case next year or the year after that I Morgan’s time at seemed as if Cornell’s Cornell has been marked decide to do this again.” centerpiece for the last by a changing of the two years would be guard, as former head Sophomore Guard Matt Morgan departing early, but coach Bill Courtney’s Morgan said the deccontract was not renewed laration is largely an attempt to NCAA men’s basketball regu- after a 10-18 season in 2015-16, boost his name-recognition and lations dictate a player may leading to Brian Earl’s taking the build his draft stock. declare for the draft several times helm for Morgan’s sophomore “It’s more putting my name without losing eligibility, so long year. Earl could not immediately on the radar in case next year or as they withdraw by the May 24 be reached for this story. the year after that I decide to do deadline without hiring an “Being able to play for two this again,” Morgan told The agent. different coaches in two different Sun. “Of course, if I can go this Morgan is allowed to attend systems is tough, but ... it just year, I will, but we’ll see what both the NBA draft combine kind of shows the teams that I happens.” from May 9 to 14 in Chicago can play in any system, that I can Morgan added that transfer- and take part in one fit in whatever scheme any coach ring has not crossed his mind, tryout per team, per wants me to and that I am and said he plans to return to year, without losing capable of listening and folCornell if by the May 24 with- his remaining two lowing directions,” Morgan drawal deadline he does not fore- years of college eligisaid. “But of course, that is all see himself being selected in the bility. hypothetical, because you draft on June 22 or signing as a never know if you are “Right now, I don't free agent. going to get drafthave anything on the Morgan said his goal in schedule,” Morgan ed.” declaring is, above all, to get his said. “This was Whether name into the minds of those at priority No. 1 — it comes the in the professionals so that to get the paperthis year, “people know my intentions are work in first or someto play on the next level.” time in and get it Everything in this process has a n n o u n c e d . t h e been meticulously planned out, We'll just see future, he said, including leaking his what happens, Morgan’s posintention to ESPN’s Jeff but there is nothsible arrival at Goodman, one of the network’s ing set yet.” the next level most-followed NCAA basketball would be an If this is indeed reporters. anomaly for the Morgan’s last year in a Morgan said someone within Cornell uniform, he will Cornell prothe Cornell basketball program depart from East Hill gram, which has told him to wait until Goodman with several records and had just 12 playor another well-followed accolades to his name. ers selected in reporter tweeted the informathe NBA draft — This past season, tion out before confirming it Morgan led the league in only four of himself, because ESPN reporters scoring and was named whom ever suited are often “popular and have second-team all-Ivy — up for a game. more of a voice on social both of which were his secThe decision to media.” declare early, however, ond consecutive year doing His declaration was an- so — and became the first is not an unusual one nounced on Sunday morning, KATIE SIMS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER for players of Morgan’s caliber — someone who Not so fast | Morgan has sights set on the next level, and knows Sun Sports Editor

shortly before the deadline to declare at 11:59 p.m.

“All glory to the man above!”

Morgan wrote on Facebook after Goodman first announced his intent to declare. “Thankful for everyone who has helped me and supported me to this point! Long journey ahead but I’m ready for the challenge!”

though it might not come this year, he needs to take the step.

See MORGAN page 11

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Looking past it | Though the women made the Ivy tournament, it could not have come in a more heartbreaking fashion.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red Dealt First Ivy Loss, Secures Ivy Tourney Bid

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Fighting tooth-and-nail, the No. 11 Cornell women’s lacrosse team eventually succumbed to No. 7 Princeton, 12-11, in sudden death during the second overtime period Saturday at Schoellkopf Field.

Despite the loss, Cornell secured itself a spot in the postseason Ivy League tournament for the sixth straight year with one regular season game remaining.

The Red (10-4, 5-1 Ivy), got off to a strong start against the Tigers (11-3, 5-1), with junior midfielder Ida Farinholt scoring the first goal 2:42 into the game. The two traded goals before Princeton scored three unanswered to gain itself a 4-2 lead.

Sophomore attack Sarah Phillips then found the back of the net to pull the Red back within one, but the Tigers would score two more goals before the half was over, leaving the Red facing a three goal deficit.

Princeton then came out of the gates firing in the second half, scoring another goal less than a minute into the half to extend its lead to 7-3.

Showing its tenacity and determination, the Red scored three unanswered goals to shrink the Tigers’ lead to one

thanks to efforts from a strong senior trio of midfielder Amie Dickson, captain midfielder Kristy Gilbert and captain attacker Catherine Ellis.

“We started winning the draw control, which was a huge momentum shift for our team,” said junior midfielder Joey Coffy. “It gave our offense the opportunity to fire some shots at the net.”

Cornell and Princeton then traded goals until Cornell took the lead for the first time in the second half with four minutes left in the game.

Determined to prove that Cornell was not the only team able to go on a run, Princeton scored one goal and then forced a turnover to tie the game with less than three seconds left on the clock. The teams then headed to overtime.

Despite being short a woman after receiving a yellow card, the Red was able to stave off Princeton’s scoring attempts in the first overtime period thanks to four saves from senior goalie Renee Poullott and airtight defense from the defenders and midfielders.

After a scoreless first overtime period, the match went into double overtime, and it quickly became evident how See W. LACROSSE page 11