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Charter Weekend Culminates With Barton Ceremony Hail, all hail, Cornell | President David Skorton, President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett and Board of Trustees Chair Robert Harrison ’76 stand together to sing Cornell’s alma mater at the Charter Day Ceremony in Barton Hall Monday.

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The University’s Charter Day weekend celebration — an expansive three days centered around the “Festival of Ideas and Imagination” — came to a conclusion with the official Charter Day Ceremony in Barton Hall Monday.

The ceremony brought together major University figures, from faculty to the Board of Trustees to the University Archivist, who marched in academic dress gowns along a plush red carpet to their seats in the opening procession.

University Marshal and Prof. Emeritus Charles Walcott, neurobiology and behavior, led the procession while Vice Provost Judith Appleton held the silver-ribbed University Mace with white gloves. President David Skorton was last in the procession.

Descendant of founder Ezra Cornell, Ezra Cornell IV ’70 carried the framed University Charter, raising it above his head as he walked to his seat. He placed it on a stand in the middle of the Barton Hall stage, where it stood in the background of the speakers throughout the rest of the ceremony.

As the last of the faculty took their seats, the sound of See CEREMONY page 5

C.U., Ithaca Communities Students Call for ASL Course Sequence Begin Nepal Relief Efforts Petition requests introductory courses during academic year

By RYAN HUMPHREY

my heart,” Tayal said. “The morning I heard about this I brought together a bunch of Following the 7.8 magnitude student leaders to figure out earthquake that struck Nepal how we can create an impact.”

Though this relief effort is Saturday, the Ithaca and Cornell communities are launching not being spearheaded by any numerous projects to help with specific campus group, many student organizations plan to the nation’s recovery. provide assisThe worst earthquake in “As someone who has tance, including AIESEC Nepal in 80 the years has taken family which has been and the lives of affected in Nepal, this International Students over 3,800 people, with cause is very close to Union, according to Tayal. the death toll my heart.”

Some of the still rising, main ways in according to Shivang Tayal ’16 which students The New York plan to aid vicT i m e s .

Humanitarian aid is beginning tims of the earthquake are to arrive in the country, but dif- through putting donation boxes ficulties have arrised in deter- in dining facilities and on Ho mining how many people are Plaza, a website which will be left injured and which villages launched Wednesday and a need the most help, The Times Cornell crowdfunding campaign and Venmo account reported.

Several Cornellians have also which will be launched soon as created an active plan to gather well, according to Tayal.

Local café the Carriage funds for those affected by the Nepal earthquake beginning House will also host an event this Wednesday and lasting the called “Benefit Nepal” this rest of the semester, according Thursday in efforts to aid victo Shivang Tayal ’16, interna- tims of the earthquake.

The event planners say they tional representative for the hope the event will “bring the Student Assembly.

“As someone who has family wider Ithaca community which has been affected in See NEPAL page 4 Nepal, this cause is very close to

By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer

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The Cornell University Deaf Awareness Project recently created a petition addressed to the University’s administration, calling on the University to offer an introductory course sequence of American Sign Language.

Currently, the University offers two courses in American Sign Language — Lingustics 1111 and

Linguistics 1112 — but only during Cornell’s summer session.

“Cornell … could increase the diversity of its curriculum by offering ASL as a language of study specifically for students seeking to fulfill the College of Arts and Sciences Foreign Language Requirement while attracting students from all academic disciplines to pursue a new language,” the petition states.

Jonathan Masci ’16 and

Emma Scher ’17, incoming co-presidents of CUDAP, said their project’s mission has three main components.

“First, we work to raise awareness of the challenges of the deaf and hard-of-hearing face both on campus and in the greater Ithaca area,” Masci and Scher said. “Secondly, we work to inform student about the beauty, diversity and richness of deaf culture. Lastly, we See PETITION page 4

The struggle continues

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Yahoo CFO Says Experience Is‘All That Matters’ Local

Myrick ’09 Tours Ithaca Commons With Lieutenant Governor Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 toured the Commons with Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul Monday to show Hochul progress on ongoing construction, according to The Ithaca Journal.

Myrick intended the tour to bring publicity and business to shops in the area, which have suffered under the Commons’ delayed construction and cold weather, The Ithaca Journal reported.

Construction is intended for completion by the end of July.

Across the Ivies Sony CEO, Harvard Alumnus Comments on WikiLeaks Publication Sony Entertainment CEO and Harvard alumnus Michael Lynton commented on the recent WikiLeaks publication of hacked Sony documents, The Harvard Crimson reported. Some of the leaked emails included correspondence between Lynton and Harvard officials about fundraising and university events. Lynton told The Crimson that although he did not approve of the publicization of the emails, he believed that they revealed nothing except his dedication to his alma mater.

State NYS Department of Health Will Allow Companies to Register to Manufacture, Distribute Medical Marijuana The New York State Department of Health announced Monday that it will begin allowing companies to register to manufacture and distribute medical marijuana, according to The Ithaca Journal. The initiative follows the state’s legalization of medical marijuana last July and requires applicants to pay a $10,000 application fee and $200,000 registration fee, as well as give the state detailed plans, The Journal reported. Registration of the five companies the state will select will be completed by July.

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At lecture,Ken Goldman’71 shares practical, professional advice with students

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

“You don’t learn how to manage people in school,” he said. “How you handle one person is very different to how to handle another person, in terms of how people think and what pushes people on … you learn that only by doing it.”

Furthermore, he emphasized that young alumni should prioritize gaining experience in industries they want to go into.

“Experience is all that mat-

Ken Goldman ’71, chief financial officer of Internet corporation Yahoo, shared practical and professional advice to a packed Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in his talk “Life Lessons of a Silicon Valley CFO” Friday.

Goldman shared the story of his rise to success as well as wisdom from his undergraduate years at Cornell, urging students to be strategic about their professional decisions.

“Go where the action is. I can’t overemphasize that,” Goldman said.

“When you go into an industry, fig- “If it were up to me, I would make it a ure out [the] growth industries, requirement in high school and because where there is growth in an college to take a finance course industry new opportunities will come for you,” he said. [and an] accounting course.”

Goldman also spoke about his Ken Goldman ’71 desire to “combine technology and finance” in determining where he wanted to work and where he wanted to be in his career. ters,” he said. “Don’t worry about title. Don’t Additionally, he said he believes everyone worry about salary. It’ll take care of itself over should have a basic understanding of finances time.” and that it is a subject as important as math, Goldman said that because he knew that he science and English. wanted to be eventually be a chief financial “If it were up to me, I would make it a officer, he deliberately sought controllership requirement in high school and college to take experiences, managerial experiences, investor a finance course [and an] accounting course,” relationship experiences and treasury experihe said. “I think you’d be able to understand ences early in his career. accounting and take responsibility for your “Frankly, what is most important is that own net worth and financing.” you will always get paid through experience,” Similarly, Goldman said that he believes he added. hands-on learning and being able to make Ultimately, however, Goldman said that strategic occupational decisions are important above all other factors, being passionate about things that are learned outside the classroom. one’s work was the most important determi-

nant in a successful career.

“Figure out where your passion is,” he said.

“When you look at companies that are

successful, you will always find that the head people … have so much passion for what they’re doing not because of the job or m a k i n g money.”

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

Financial finesse | Yahoo CFO Ken Goldman ’71 conferred advice to students at a lecture Friday.

New‘Makerspace’Initiative Opens to Students

By SOPHIA HO Sun Staff Writer

The “Makerspace” initiative — a free technological resource located in a first floor conference room of Carl Becker House — was created by a graduate student at the start of this semester to provide a space for technological invention and hands on experimentation with 3-D printing for students on campus.

Makerspace was created by Sean Patev grad earlier this year when he used $1,500 of his allotted programming funds to acquire a basic 3-D printer. As a graduate resident fellow in Becker House, Patev said he was expected to create initiatives for residents of the building.

“Makerspace evolved organically from a nebulous idea for [an] open resource for students,” he said.

Students now have easy access

to utilizing the 3-D printer in the center, that is the primary resource of the space, and can also interact and work with like-minded students who are interested in technological problem solving, according to Patev.

Since its creation, Patev said that students have already been making use of the space and solving technological problems that they encounter.

“Students are really able to utilize the space to figure things out,” he said. “Just last week, a student came in with a broken stereo and we fiddled around with it and fixed it.”

Students have also been using the space for both extracurricular and academic projects, according to Patev.

“In a few hours students were able to make memorabilia,” Patev said. “Basically anything that can fit in a eight inch by eight inch space, we can probably print it. It

costs students nothing and in the future most things should still be free based on plastic usage.”

Patev added that several future projects are already planned for the Makerspace as well.

“During finals week we plan on having students design and print cell phone cases,” he said, “If a student comes to me with an idea they have, we can probably figure out how to print it,” he adds.

Additionally, Patev said that through the use of the 3-D printer, he and other students were working to create the parts to make a 3-D printer for William T. Keeton House as well.

Students have also said that they found the initiative beneficial in helping them gain technical experience.

Jason Flahie ’16 said that the hands-on experience using the printer was invaluable experience for him as an engineer.

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“It’s great being able to learn about the actual operation of the printer, Flahie said. “I took a class, [Mechanical Synthesis], where I designed components and products, but I did not actually get to see the printer in action to see the printing speed and temperature.”

Similarly West Campus resident Eric Fiegel ’17 said that he hopes more students take advantage of the opportunity to use the 3-D printer.

“It’s fun to work on various projects and see what other people are doing,” Fiegel said. “I think it could stand to gain some more popularity, but once it does I think a lot of people could benefit from learning about cool technology related things.”

The initiative will take on more student involvement in the fall when student leaders, including Flahie, will teach other students how to navigate the space, according to Patev.

Flahie said he is looking forward to get a chance to instruct other students.

“Next semester it will be a semester-long project. I will get to teach people how to design and carry out some of the 3-D projects,” Flahie said.

Eventually, Patev hopes that the Makerspace will be a technological resource open to any and all people regardless of their previous experience.

“We hope to make it a space where tools and information is available.With no training, people can come in and build real things.

It would just be a tech resource open to everyone,” Patev said.

Sophia Ho can be reached at sho@cornellsun.com.

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Ithaca Mobilizes to Aid Student Group Creates Petition, Calls Earthquake Victims On C.U. to Create ASL Course Sequence Students, local businesses plan fundraisers NEPAL

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together through the simple ceremony of sharing songs with one another, in an effort to connect to one [another], but especially to uplift our friends and families who were the most heavily [affected] by the recent earthquakes in Nepal,” according to the event’s Facebook page.

The event will feature music from local artists, including Diwas Gurung, Richie Stearns, and members of The Blind Spots. People are suggested to donate $10, according to the Facebook page.

“Nepal really needs this aid,” said Tayal. “If every Cornellian gave a dollar we would have enough to create a huge impact.”

Olivia Lutwak can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun.com.

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and Scher.

Masci and Scher also said they believe it is unfortunate that the lack of deaf awareness their advocate for the addition of American Sign organization seeks to combat on campus is “wideLanguage to the Cornell University curriculum.” spread.”

The organization includes eight board mem“Lack of awareness of deaf culture and ASL is bers and approximately 10 to 15 student mem- a widespread problem in mainstream society,” bers, according to Masci and Scher. It was Masci and Scher said. “But these issues are founded in 2011 when a single student realized important for the Cornell community to recogthat there was no easnize as well as disily accessible certicuss. We believe that “We hope this petition itself has fied ASL interpreter education about ASL in Ithaca. encouraged appreciation for American will lead to a larger “The Translator change in how our Interpreter Program Sign Language and deaf culture among society views deaf[at Cornell] received a ness and ASL.” students, faculty and staff.” call requesting a volAlthough Masci unteer to interpret for and Scher said they Jonathan Masci ’16 and Emma Scher ’17 a patient at a local are unaware of any hospital who could University plans to only communicate in American Sign Language,” introduce the course sequence, they hope the Masci and Scher said. “Because there was no ASL petition will serve to capture the administraprofessor on campus, no student could be certi- tion’s attention regarding the importance of fied as an interpreter for TIP.” introducing ASL courses during the academic Given the urgent situation, the program called year at Cornell. upon a hard-of-hearing student who knew ASL “We don’t think there is a specific number of and who ultimately became a founding member signers that would cause the administration to act of CUDAP, according to Masci and Scher. upon the petition,” Masci and Scher said.

“The student did her best to help in the situa- “However, we are hoping to show that with the tion,” Masci and Scher said. “After this, she support of hundreds of signers, bringing ASL to worked with the Public Service Center to start campus should be of [the] utmost importance.

CUDAP because of the ever-present need for deaf Even if our efforts to establish a course are unsucawareness and American Sign Language on cessful in the short term, we hope this petition Cornell’s campus.” itself has encouraged appreciation for American CUDAP hopes that introducing ASL classes Sign Language and deaf culture among students, into the academic year will increase the number of faculty and staff.”

ASL certified students on campus will make our campus both more accepting and able to serve Ryan Humphrey can be reached at deaf community members, according to Masci rhumphrey@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Charter Celebrated at Ceremony Baltimore

Principles of equality, egalitarianism take center stage in speeches,video CEREMONY

ernment, recounted more of Cornell’s history, bringing the narrative to where the University clock tower chimes signaled the stood today. debut of the sesquicentennial Skorton, who spoke last, convideo, entitled “Glorious to View.” tinued the story of Cornell by Produced by Micah Cormier in describing how the University had University Communications, the evolved with its mission, referencvideo played on two massive ing Cornell’s New York City tech screens on either side of the stage. campus, massive open online Featuring aerial shots of courses and the Engaged Cornell Cornell’s Ithaca, New York City initiative. and Qatar campuses, the video “We have continued to add celebrated numerous facets of the new areas of inquiry, scholarship Cornell experience, from the inteland creative endeavour and to lectual vibrancy of the campus to adjust the curriculum as our stuthe strength of the faculty body to dents require and the times the growing opportunidemand,” Skorton said. ties for internationalism, “The charter also provided the blueprint for the radical educational In the final act of the ultimately culminating celebratory, orchestrated experiment that would become Cornell University.” in birthday messages ceremony, Presidentfrom the students, alumElect Elizabeth Garrett Elaine Engst M.A. ’72 ni and faculty featured in joined Skorton, the video.

Harrison and the charter Several of the Cornellians who describing this very young disapproval of University critics. on stage to sing the alma mater. spoke in the video included University.”

Hochul’s address also reminded The Symphony Orchestra, Glee Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Additionally, Harrison said that that the signing of the University’s Club and Chorus united with the Ginsburg ’54, Nobel laureate Prof. “freedom and responsibility” has- charter came at a precarious time crowd of standing faculty, alumni Emeritus Roald Hoffmann, chem- been the guiding forces in helping in American history, following the and students in singing the wellistry, and renowned English profes- the University achieve its founding end of a civil war and the assassi- known verses, “Hail to thee our sor M.H. Abrams, who died earlier motto of “any person, any study.” nation of the president. Despite alma mater! Hail, all hail, last week.

University Archivist Elaine doubts and anxieties present at the Cornell!”

A common theme of the video Engst M.A. ’72 followed time, she said it was with great The closing recessional of prowas Cornell’s “elite and egalitari- Harrison’s address, telling the story success that the nation, the state fessors returning to their offices, of an” mission and throughout the of the founding of Cornell and the University had endured Glee Club and Chorus students rest of the ceremony, the theme University and explaining the till today. returning to classes, of the trustees was echoed in the speeches that messages within the University Continuing the story of leaving quietly ended the ceremofollowed the video.

Cornell’s history, chair of the ny and the weekend’s celebrations. charter.

“The sense of excellence but “Having established the legal sesquicentennial steering commitalso of ‘we accept the common and financial base of the tee Prof. Glenn Altschuler Ph.D. The Sun’s News Department can be person, we’re a space where every- University, the charter also provid- ’76 and Prof. Isaac Kramnick, gov- reached at news@cornellsun.com. one can belong,’ that was true ed the blueprint for the radical right from the beginning,” said educational experiment that Thomas Jones ’69, MRP ’72, for- would become Cornell mer CEO of Citigroup, in the University,” she said. video.

The charter, Engst also said, Maintaining focus on the was important due to its commitUniversity’s charter, which was ment to the creation of a nonnever more than several feet away denominational university that from the speakers, Board of provided opportunities for Trustees Chair Robert Harrison women, despite the controversial ’76 said, “Exactly 150 years ago nature of this stance at the time of today, Cornell University’s charter the charter’s signing. was signed into law by Governor “Two year later [after 1862], Reuben Fenton, giving birth to a Ezra Cornell would write to his truly revolutionary American four-year-old granddaughter, ‘I institution. This morning we com- want you to keep this letter until memorate that day.” you grow up to be a woman and He continued by emphasizing want to go to a good school, where the importance of the day’s occa- you can have a good opportunity Continued from page 1

sion, saying that despite Cornell’s relative short history in comparison to its peer institutions, the University had, in its time, definitively shaped the course of higher education.

“Every day we confront ordinary things described with superlatives like incredible or transformative, we characterize everyday phenomena as gamechanging, disruptive or revolutionary,” Harrison said. “Overuse threatens to diminish their meaning on occasions like this, but I would, without exaggeration, use every one of those terms in

to learn so you can show it to the president and the faculty of the University to let them know that it is the wish of your grandpa that girls as well as boys should be educated at the Cornell University,’” Engst said.

Re-emphasizing the revolutionary nature of Cornell’s charter at the time of its signing, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.), who spoke after Engst, said that when New York’s state governor was invited to speak to Cornell’s first graduating class, he decided to send his lieutenant governor in his stead, fearing the

Violence Continues

BALTIMORE (AP) — Rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos Monday, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers hours after thousands mourned the man who died from a severe spinal injury he suffered in police custody.

The governor declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard to restore order. A weeklong, daily curfew was imposed beginning Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the mayor said.

Seven officers were hurt, some with broken bones, and one was unresponsive, said Capt. Eric Kowalczyk. Officers wearing helmets and wielding shields occasionally used pepper spray to keep the rioters back. For the most part, though, they relied on line formations to keep protesters at bay.

Monday’s riot was the latest flare-up over the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, whose fatal encounter with officers came amid the national debate over police use of force, especially when black suspects are involved. Gray was AfricanAmerican.

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“Blurred Time” starts fairly promisingly, with strumming tinny chords and a driving drum rhythm and maintains a breezy, catchy vibe to the end.

However, despite the charm of its lo-fi production, it would ultimately still be significantly more effective with clearer production; the wild but taut drum fills by Jayson Gerycz would particularly benefit from a punchier and more coherent mix. This is a lesson that Cloud Nothings have learned, with great success. They started as another generic lo-fi pop/punk band, and exploded onto the music-lover scene because their hard-hitting, innovative songs benefited from clean production. Maybe Total Babes will learn this lesson, too.

Peter Bjorn and John “High Up (Take Me to the Top)” INGRID

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Swedish electro-pop trio, Peter Bjorn and John possess a coy chemistry which translates into a knack for producing peculiarly charming, whistling, pop dreamscapes. Their latest single, “High Up (Take Me To The Top),” while a far cry from the sensitive lo-fi folk of their older material or the sunnier, more grounded rock sound of their latest record, Gimme Some, fits the bill. P.B. and J. has been on hiatus since 2011, and have spent the last several years founding their record label and artist collective, INGRID, which will soon releases an artist collaboration with other Swedes, including Lykke Li and Miike Snow.

The influences of Peter Bjorn and John’s colleagues are evident in “High Up,” which presents a more dancefloor-ready sound from the trio, with it’s twinkling cow-bell percussion, drum loops, pulsing house bass and bright, flighty vocals. It’s a feel good tune: “You take me to the top / high up, high up … don’t stop, don’t stop / we’re untouchable,” but there’s a playful industrial echo to it that pushes it past the threshold of a merely solid piece of pop.

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Blonde on Blonde, for example, is earth-gold and muddled silver; White Light/White Heat is the last few brown drops from a dirty needle cutting into the dust-black, bloodspattered ground; Blue, obviously, is the heart’s deepest, most brooding ocean wave. Some records are simpler and monochromatic: Ramones is ripped leather-jacket black, If You’re Feeling Sinister is, like its cover, light red or dark pink (whichever you prefer) and Metallica’s Black Album, contrary to its title and popular belief, is actually more of an abysmal purple. A rare color in music, though, is green.

And I’m not talkin’ the pastoral, frolicsome green of waving grass and a mossy fallen tree; that’s actually pretty common in folk music and any record whose puffs of ganj you can more or less smell through your speakers. No; I’m talking about a rarer green. One that doesn’t really exist outside of a box of crayons or your mind. A light, enveloping green that you can just barely feel shutting your eyelids and coaxing the corners of your mouth into a vague little smile. A green that could have only been manufactured by sentience, but somehow floats just above the realm of human comprehensibility. A green that is, in a word, transcendent. In another: beautiful. IF, the first solo record by ex-Books cellist Paul de Jong, is exactly this: an elusive, ethereally grounded, spirit-green record whose strings and samples are simultaneously phantasmagorically unattainable and some of the most quintessentially human and brain-gripping sounds I’ve heard from a record in a long time.

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De Jong’s schtick hasn’t changed much since the Books’ first release. Like Thought for Food, IF is founded upon the juxtaposition of order and disorder; lush, playful strings and organized drum beats stand at odds against found sounds and random samples, their relationship waxing and waning from a state of harmonious cohesion to a state of jarring pugnacity and back again. The creative process, from the vantage point of the finished product, seems to have been simultaneously aleatoric and painstaking, and the result — lost, meaningless, essentially empty vocal samples crawling through a plane of organized existence to achieve some sort of Sisyphean meaning — is poignant and strangely ontological.

The quest for purpose on which de Jong sends his sampled, intrinsically purposeless snippets is so reflective of that fundamentally human search for purpose which we all experience that it hurts. But these are just found sounds — mumbled prayers and bowdlerized mundanities. They shouldn’t (and don’t on any tangible level) have any bearing on or connection to existence or human emotion, but they do. As de Jong strums and strings — crafting these dulcet child-melodies and sonorous electro-folk manifestos — and then layers on top his samples (ranging from accelerated auctioneering to out of place vituperations and awkward soliloquies about sexual deviation), he’s summing up humanity in all its beauty and absurdity.

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domly or logically) from there; “Hollywald” is introduced by a progressively accelerating strumming exercise, which bursts with a pop of joy into a soaring freak-folk shuffle.

Other cuts, though, are something entirely different: They are the musical extremes of where the Books might have been going had de Jong had his way entirely. “IF” is oceanic, devoid of samples and built upon a whisking jazz beat sliding beneath cloud-clusters of amorphous stringsounds. “Debt Free,” which starts off as a softly buoyant piano composition and delves into a masterfully controlled and utterly wrenching electronic spasm, is an atmosphere, a sonic vacuum and is again almost devoid of samples, save for a few punctuating interjections near the end. “Baxter @73” contains one of the most touching stolen vocals since DJ Shadow, “Age of the Sea” seems to turn towards classical sincerity in lieu of computer-weirdness with the result being hypnotic sincerity and “Troia,” the album’s closer, sums up everything with a composition as orientally beautiful (but more simple and to the point) as anything by the Third Ear Band.

All of this, then — the juxtapositions, the ontology, the atmosphere, the samples, the folk update, the songs and the beauty of this record — is what makes IF feel like that elusive green. Blending the pastoral simple-green of folk music, the cold, factual steel-grey of electronics and the heavenly gold aura of a classical sensibility, IF reaches a unique, almost magical and certainly captivating plane of emotiveness.

Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.

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7:00 p.m. at The State Theatre

Come out this week to the Kitchen Theatre’s encore production of Adam Bock’s “Swimming In The Shadows.” “Swimming” is a hilarious comedy, with a cast made up of five people and one shark, and its plot involves “a lesbian couple with trust issues, a straight couple with accumulation issues, a single guy with commitment issues, and an aquarium shark with glass issues.” All actors have extensive credits in NYC and regional theatre and four are prior Kitchen Theatre performers. Tickets are $15-37 and will be available at the door.

The State Theatre of Ithaca is a not-for-profit historic theatre that serves as a venue and national, regional and local performances, that has been supporting Ithaca’s community since the early 1900’s. Come out and support the State at its 5th annual benefit concert this Saturday at 7 p.m., featuring live performances by classic Ithaca-based roots rock group, Sid Redmond Band, female fronted “moxy-rock,” Ithaca five-piece and rapidly growing rock group, The Blind Spots. All proceeds benefit the State Theatre. Tickets range from $20-100.

— Jael Goldfine

— Jael Goldfine

Dan Smalls Presents: Sophistafunk

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8 p.m. Saturday at The Dock

Syracuse-based three-piece, Sophistafunk comes to The Dock this Thursday to entertain with their unique brand of vintage hiphop, old school funk and spoken word jams. Famous for their energetic performances, the trio melds electronic artistry with raw soul and passion. Tickets will $10-12, available online and at the door.

—Jael Goldfine

A Complicated American Lyric

BY SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Associate Editor

Though Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric is ostensibly a literary work, Rankine’s piece almost transcends literature — it is at once a book and a work of art. Rankine portrays the marginalization of the African American community, at first simply through vignettes that depict everyday microaggressions: A girl tells the narrator she has features “more like a white person;” A man knocks over the narrator’s son on a subway; A friend mistakes her name for that of the black housekeeper. These acts are portrayed as anything but harmless: These microaggressions happen in the most mundane of circumstances, showing the prevalence of such oppression — they permeate the narrator’s life. The short, choppy vignette style presents each event like a quick slap across the reader’s face.

Rankine soon abandons her established style, burgeoning into more fleshed-out stories about others. She presents an account of Serena Williams and the maltreatment she has faced in her career as a professional tennis player. Here, we see chair umpire Mariana Alves making consistently biased calls against Williams during the 2004 US Open, to the dismay of the audience and Williams herself. In another incident, a media reporter refers to a victory dance that Williams performs as a “Crip [walk].”

Interspersed almost inexplicably within this this account of Williams, is an introduction of Hennessey Youngman, a youtube personality who explains to his audience “How To Be A Successful Black

Artist,” which, in the words of Rankine, says that “black people’s anger is marketable.” Rankine rejects Youngman’s videos, stating, “Youngman’s suggestions are meant to expose expectations for blackness as well as to underscore the difficulty inherent in any attempt by black artists to metabolize real rage. The commodified anger his video advocates rests lightly on the surface for spectacle’s sake.”

Rankine says that Youngman’s assertions are harmful in their cursory nature, and that they provide legitimacy to the problem Youngman presents.

So why is Citizen a work of art? Rankine refuses to pick a consistent literary style, jumping from vignettes to long-form stories, to lists of the names of deceased African American men, men slain by white people.

This atypical style — a style distinctive for lacking one style — is at once highly interpretive and poetic.

Rankine doesn’t want to be defined by one literary category, just as she doesn’t want race relations to be understood simply from one lense. She doesn’t want the reader to get comfortable with one rhythm: she wants the transitions to be jarring. As if the

nature of the text wasn’t painful enough, the reader has to work through this book.

The style denotes that it is not meant to be simply a conventional text — there is more to this piece. Furthermore, throughout the book there are images presented, such as “The Slave Ship” by Joseph Mallord William Turner — these images carry as much weight as the text.

The cover art for Citizen is a photo of David Hammons’ 1993 “In the Hood,” which features the hood of a black sweatshirt severed from the original garment and mounted on a wall.

Hammons’ work is rich with symbolism, relevant especially today in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting.

Before reading Citizen, I saw this piece on exhibit last summer at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado.

Aspen is aggressively homogenous — 94.94 percent of the local population is white. After reading Citizen, the irony of the placement of Hammons’ work in the Aspen Art Museum became overwhelmingly apparent to me. I believe that part of Rankine’s thesis is that African American suffering and anger is commodified, put on

display, used by white people to “legitimize” African American art and culture.

Putting race relations on display for, well, wealthy white people is, needless to say, problematic. The audience in this situation looks at a problem from afar and says, “wow, look how much they’re suffering!

Look how real it all is!” How useless, how disgusting, how Kerouac-ian.

I’d feel like a hypocrite without actively acknowledging that I am not a person of color. Does this de-legitimize my reading of Rankine’s work? Perhaps. There are elements of this work I simply cannot sympathize with or understand fully. But I am not here to put a seal of approval on Rankine’s work, nor to “legitimize” it in any way. I simply wish to say that her work was eye opening to me. But I think that the commodification of suffering is an issue relevant both within and beyond the African American community — human suffering can and should be represented within art, but the artist must be overly cognizant of their own relationship to the subject and of the intended audience and presentation of their work. Furthermore, as Rankine posits through her rebuke of Youngman, art cannot be presented as an all encompassing definition of a culture.

Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric is a work of art that does not seek to explain African American life in a cursory nor an all-encompassing manner. Her art conveys the complexity of her suffering, but doesn’t accept that anger is the only way to legitimize herself as an artist: She’s not simply angry — she’s frustrated, tired, introspective and so much more.

Sloane Grinspoon is The Sun’s Associate Editor. She can be reached at associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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We have also used it to unite ourselves. We have used it to fight oppression, to organize and to educate. In a way, the Web’s exisWill people leave me poems and videos tence is the ultimate testament to mankind’s instead of flowers and fruit baskets? Will desire to capture the capital T Truth.

But the most important implication of they browse through the dash between my birth and my death, scrolling with sad nos- the Internet for humanity’s future is evidently its role as the first medium of global comtalgia?

The fearful speculations surrounding munication. The crux of human communimillennials almost always involve our addic- cation or human exchange of any kind is the tion to technology and inability to unplug. intent behind any action. Intent is everyIt’s too easy to get sucked into a fantasyland thing. Motivation is what is truly being of “likes” and photoshopped images communicated from one conscious being to through the magic mirror in your pocket, another, be it through words, motions, spending real money on microtransactions sports, music or Skype. And on this tangled that exist within an app. In an age where Web we’ve woven, we can see the intentions modern friendship can begin with a click of mankind sprawled out on an endless canand FIFA referees wear E.A. patches on their vas.

If the Internet really is a mirror for uniforms, the line between virtual and real is human consciousblurred, which ness, then humanleads to underBut our generation is ity is at an interstandable conesting crossroads. cerns. beginning to realize It illustrates everyA lot of people thing from our have difficulty recsomething. The Internet is adoration of cats onciling the “reality” of the Internet. very, very real. It is a physical to our capacity for People talk about projection of our inner space, c o l d - b l o o d e d m u r d e r . it like some phantom zone where a monitor on collective human Millennials have learned from the children are free to consciousness.

Internet cultures explore their most of Reddit and pernicious interests; a place where any attempt at seriousness 4Chan to gaze upon this media orgy of ought to be discredited. And besides, at the blood, rape and injustice and sanitize themend of the day, a forum thread will never selves by protecting true values deep within. excite you the way a spoken word conversa- Trolling becomes a suit of steel armor, fitted tion will. How could online gaming ever with spikes. mimic the subtleties of real wind, the feeling If we don’t take things too seriously, of rain on your face or the heat of sunshine? we’ll never get hurt. We can read voraBut our generation is beginning to realize ciously about all that’s wrong with Earth, something. The Internet is very, very real. It and then respond with poise to our own is a physical projection of our inner space, a powerlessness by “doing it for the lulz.” monitor on collective human consciousness.

I wonder how this righteous apathy will In it we find all our dreams and mathemat- play out. I doubt that some cataclysmic revics, our art and knowledge, our stories and elation will strike humanity all at once with personalities. It is invisible, but accessible, as mass enlightenment, but I do believe the idealistic as Plato and as useful as a toolbox. Web will have a big role to play in the next Since it is of our own making, it reflects our step of our conscious evolution. humanity. The fact that we’re addicted to The anonymous Internet allows room violent video games and pornography for the true expression of oneself. Here, in doesn’t prove some inherent property of irre- this untouchable space, we can embody our sistible allure the Internet possesses. Rather, real thoughts. We can be our best selves it suggests our species still carries a lot of and our worst selves with no repercussions. primitive genetic coding that makes us pur- We can inflict pain. We can even inspire sue base interests and instant gratification. love. It is a way to communicate our What is more “real?” A roll of film or the human intent at the speed of light, an movie itself? What is more “real?” Words intent so powerful it can connect contion a page, or the idea they struggle to repre- nents and divide houses. sent? If books are portals into other worlds, I’m just some random kid who got to the strands of the Web represent unending spin a few insignificant strands in the web. gateways into the depths of human imagina- But isn’t that the beauty of the Internet? tion, learning and even better, we can make Anyone can go out and manipulate it, in them manifest visually, sonically and soon, corners seen and unseen, and leave a mark tangibly. on the map of human thought. Your quiet Right now, as you are reading this sen- cubicle mate could be the secret leader of an tence, my charming smile is being crum- underground online revolution. pled, stepped on and thrown into a garbage Never has humanity been able to comcan. mune with itself so lucidly, across such disBut there is a part of this column that tances and times. exists in a nebulous cloud of data and elecThe power to spread good is at everyone’s tricity, a small digital brick in the wall of The fingertips. Please surf responsibly.

Sun — a form that is much harder to destroy.

David Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and We have used this construct of ours for Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com. pleasure, it is true. But it embodies some- The Angry Spirit Bear appears alternate Tuesdays this thing more than any one facet of humanity. semester. hen I die, will my Facebook be my gravestone?

CORRECTION The April 27 supplement of The Sun incorrectly printed the date of a quote spoken by Ezra Cornell, who in fact was speaking on Oct. 7, 1868.

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Conor Hodges |

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Shared Governance And the Law O

n Thursday, March 26, one hundred Cornell community members marched on the Board of Trustees’ annual meeting in Statler Hotel. But earlier that day, before the start of any protest or demonstration, Cornell students attempted to sit in and peacefully observe the Trustees’ meeting. After a perfunctory open period lasting a half hour, the Board of Trustees swiftly moved to close the meeting and expel the student observers. They claimed that they were entering an executive session to discuss the endowed colleges.

But the endowed colleges are only half of the University. The other half of the Cornell community attends Cornell’s four statutory colleges that last year received $121 million dollars in funding from the SUNY system. And according to state law, any meeting in which public funds are deliberated upon is one that is legally required to be open to the public.

In 1977 New York State adopted the Open Meetings Law (Public Officers Law, Article 7). Section 103 of the Law provides: “(a) Every meeting of a public body shall be open to the general public, except that an executive session of such body may be called and business transacted thereat in accordance with section one hundred five of this article.” At the time, Cornell administration argued that Cornell was a private University, exempt from laws that apply to government departments or agencies. But, in 1981’s Holden v. Cornell University, the New York State Supreme Court recognized Cornell’s unique position as a split private and public university, given that the four statutory colleges of CALS, ILR, HUMEC and the Vet school were (and remain) public colleges that Cornell’s trustees manage as designees of the SUNY system.

As such, the Board of Trustees did indeed fall under the Open Meetings Law’s (OML) definition of a public body. “‘Public body’ means any entity … performing a governmental function for the state or for an agency or department thereof.”

Recognizing this definition as applicable to Cornell, Stewart M. Holden, 1980 graduate of Cornell Law School, pursued litigation against the University to compel the opening of the heretofore closed Trustee meetings to the public.

Holden first sought an advisory opinion from the New York State Committee on Open Government, which instructed Cornell to open its Trustee meetings in compliance with the OML. Later, Holden attempted to enter the meetings himself. When he was denied entry, and with the backing of the New York Civil Liberties Union, he sued Cornell in the fall of 1979 to force the opening of Trustee meetings to the public and to students. He won.

Later, the University attempted to appeal the initial decision all the way to the New York State Supreme Court in 1981. Crucially, the Court held “... that the board is required to open its meetings to the public when its deliberations and actions concern the statutory colleges.” Cornell lost its appeal and was forced to pay Holden’s legal fees.

The events of March 26 very closely resemble the initial details of Holden’s case. But Cornell administrators have already denied any wrongdoing and have even attempted to shift blame onto the students for the Trustee’s lack of transparency. Joel Malina, University spokesman, called the protest “a missed opportunity for students.” This is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. In fact, it was the Trustees who missed their opportunity to engage with students when they summarily expelled three passive observers from the morning session and barred the doors.

The Trustees had their chance for transparency, for dialogue and for the utilization of official channels such as community participation in Board meetings. They rejected shared governance in favor of autocratic secrecy. Our protest later in the day was a response to the Trustees after they had already taken from us the capacity for dialogue by casting us out of their meeting. The march on the Statler was a reaction to our expulsion, not a “curious” provocation as Malina has portrayed it to be.

The events of March 26 raise troubling questions concerning the future of shared governance at Cornell. Why did the Trustees refuse to allow members of the public to observe the deliberation and appropriation of state money? Were the Trustees unaware that the law required that their meeting be open during the sections discussing the finances of public schools funded in part by public funds? Finally, how do we students participate in shared governance when our Assemblies are ineffectual by design and our Trustees have renounced transparency as procedure? Where do we go from here?

Connor Hodges is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. Comments may be sent to ch732@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically throughout the semester.

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Comment of the day “It would be easier to take a fundamental look at the issue if we had open and easy access to data about University expenditures.”

Anon Re: “Arts College Faculty Protest Budget Cuts,” News published April 23, 2015

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Learning and Leaving A

s I’ve contemplated the idea all be leaving college at a time when of my final column for the American income inequality and past few days, I came to real- prospects for upward mobility are ize that the last thing I wanted it to worse than ever. It thus makes perbe about was my imminent gradua- fect sense that, despite the relative tion. A few columns of ink cannot good fortune of those of us who are possibly serve as a fitting tribute to able to remain at Cornell, we’ve all the memories and friends I’ve become angered that the economic been fortunate enough to make sins of baby boomers and while on the Hill. Cornell has been Generations X and Y have become to me — and to many of us, I think crosses for the Millennials to bear.

— a little world unto itself; the iso- While our parents and grandparents lation of our campus allows us to created this mess, they don’t have to construct an almost self-enclosed worry as much as we do about paydomain, complete with its own pol- ing staggering student debts or outiticking, protests and counter- living Medicare and Social Security. protests.

Where I think our generation of For many national commenta- Cornellians has stumbled is in its tors, that might be what makes the penchant for approaching and dealIvy League objectionable. We ing with these economic anxieties in parade around the Arts Quad, the collective mindset of mid-20th debating Greek life or student century protest. In short, standing health fees or who ought to be the on President Skorton’s desk in next student trustee, while the chaos protest of a health fee is in not the and iniquity of the wider world same thing as burning a draft card in make our affairs seem trivial. But 1969. Yet, in keeping these economthat sense of wholeness within the ic concerns tethered to the protest Cornell community, and our cam- model that was so successful in the pus penchant for telling stories Vietnam Era, I fear we are losing the about ourselves even if we are often opportunity to affect greater, more the only ones listening to them, meaningful change. The spectacle of gives each and every one of us an invaluable opportunity for growth. I’m referring If the last four years at Cornell not to the intense, have taught me anything, its personal growth of the college years, but that none of us can afford to to Cornell’s ability to linger at the edges of these make us better citi- debates. They will go on, with zens by placing us for four years in such a or without us. dynamic microcosm of important and farranging debates. When, like me, student discontent has allowed the you’re watching the sun set on your administration to respond superfiCornell experience, between the cially to the charges leveled against teary reminiscences and joyful it. Protests on Ho Plaza die down expectations, you should think for a eventually, and no building moment about what Cornell’s takeovers will ever be as dramatic as world has taught you about the the ones that came before. Thus the wider world which you are on the eminently reasonable student backverge of reentering. That sort of wis- lash against financial hardship, dom will endure once the sun has when figured as a moral struggle set. against the administration and, The political dramas of my four more importantly, as a diluted echo years at Cornell pale in comparison of protests past, becomes too easily to the student upheavals over the dismissed as just the latest manifesUniversity’s restrictive in loco paren- tation of our student protest culture, tis social policies of the 1950s or the spearheaded by malcontents who struggles over the Vietnam War and are less concerned with results than racial integration in the ’60s and they are with the next chance for ’70s. Even the ultimately unsuccess- protest. ful student opposition to South This pattern has repeated itself Africa’s apartheid policies seemed to on issue after issue during my years have more staying power than the at Cornell. When our campus has issues of today. Our generation of been faced with questions of sexual Cornellians have instead been dri- assault, of racial tensions, or of ven to action by a profound sense of Israel’s policies in the West Bank, the economic disenfranchisement, cou- most publicized student responses pled with a massive distrust of — the 2014 takeover of a Student administrative authority. We all Assembly meeting following the entered college beneath the shadow failure of a Boycott Divestment and of the Great Recession and we will Sanctions (BDS) resolution comes

to mind — have not encouraged other students to enter these conversations, but rather have frightened them away with oversimplifications and demonizations. The outdated, call-and-response chant model of campus debate has proved unable to engage the greater student body enough with these issues, which are both morally and politically complex. They cannot be realistically figured as zero-sum games, like the deeply unpopular Vietnam War in the ’70s and racial integration in the ’60s. Agitation and disobedience are not sufficient tools of discourse if they result in the polarization of debates by a few, loud voices.

Looking now beyond Cayuga’s Waters, I see this as the greatest challenge our generation faces. The 21st century journey upon which we are about to embark will be filled with issues — from climate change to economic inequality, from the growth of the surveillance state to the scourge of terrorism — that will require the voices of many if they are to be responsibly addressed. But the prevalence of the small vocal minority of perennially outraged Millennial activists leaves the rest of us at great risk of forfeiting our stake in great debates in favor of those who have been shouting at years from the extremes. As we’ve seen in Washington, D.C. and Day Hall alike, shouting from the extremes does not often translate into tangible successes. The allure of self-congratulatory Facebook activism, which we’ve seen on campus in the last few years as the gay rights movement has gained steam, should not cause Millennials to shrink away from the issues of the day simply because they do not agree with everything that is written on a protester’s placard.

These issues will be complicated, nuanced and painstakingly litigated in the national and global media. If the last four years at Cornell have taught me anything, it’s that none of us can afford to linger at the edges of these debates. They will go on, with or without us. The only question is whether we’ll be cynical bystanders, doubtful of our generation’s ability to fight for meaningful and reasonable change or if we’ll be forever excited to join in the fray, not angry or ashamed at the world for which we’ve left our campus, but determined to perfect it together.

Jacob Glick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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and Megan Murray each tallied three. Giaquinto and Feely made their presence known, with Giaquinto getting two hits and Feely scoring the first run of the game with a walk while bases were loaded. Freshman Sierra Stone shared the mound with Orcutt and got her second win. Parker continued her impressive weekend, getting six hits straight.

In game two on Sunday, the Princeton pitcher, Meredith Brown, battled it out with Orcutt on the mound and put the Red offense to the test, allowing just one run the whole game. Freshman infielder Tori Togashi scored the lone run of the game, though the Princeton defense shut down the offense otherwise, including a dramatic sliding catch in the final inning.

“It was very bittersweet for both our seniors and Coach Blood,” McGivney said. “We all love them very much and they have done so much for our program. Overall, we had a fun time playing which is what matters the most in the end especially for senior weekend.”

This afternoon, the Red will close out its season when it hosts the Binghamton Bearcats.

“We’re going to try and play loose [today] and trust what has been working for us,” Weinberg said. “It’s the seniors’ and coach’s last games, so we definitely want to go out on a good note. We’ve been playing some pretty good softball so if we keep playing like we have been, I have a lot of confidence that we will come out on top.”

“This weekend was very exhausting and emotional,” McGivney said. “[Today] is all about Coach Blood and playing for him. … I want Coach Blood’s career to end on a peaceful and happy note.”

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

Batts Lifts Red Sox to 6-5 Win Over Blue Jays BOSTON (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a game-ending RBI single to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 6-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night.

Pablo Sandoval homered for the second straight day for Boston, hitting a solo shot before leaving the game with a sore neck. He also had a two-run single.

The Red Sox have won the opener of each of their seven series this season.

Russell Martin had a two-run double and rookie Devon Travis belted his sixth homer for the Blue Jays, who were coming off a three-game sweep against Tampa Bay on the first leg of their 10-game road trip.

With one out in the bottom of the ninth, Xander Bogaerts and Ryan Hanigan singled off Miguel Castro (0-2) before moving up on a wild pitch. Betts then singled through a drawn-in infield — to the left of shortstop Jose Reyes.

Mets Take Top Spot in New York Fans’Hearts DENSON

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But contempt can only be suppressed for so long. Where can you find true enthusiasm in anything — be it an idea, a culture, a religion, philosophy and, of course, a Major League baseball team — that represents the greatest city on Earth, if you gain nothing from it? We can look to Plato, Jesus Christ, John Locke or even Allen Iverson for answers, but we definitely cannot look to the New York Mets.

Maybe, just maybe, the Mets will become the loveable winners that they have longed to be, since the Dodgers left Brooklyn. The Mets 11-game winning streak is the best the franchise has seen since 2006, and while it may be premature to consider Mets as a contender in the National League, they look like the better New York team this season.

After five beers, Mets fans will insensibly insist that it’s okay to be the lovable loser, as if maybe some pity will magically turn into respect (barring one unusual year when the

Mets won their last world series). But league Juan Lageres, can leave fans breathwhether one is a die hard bandwagon ing easier.

Yankee fan or a part owner of the Mets, The one certainty in the Mets’ early-seacomplaining about his team’s futility, I son surge is that is cannot last, but clearly think it’s unacceptable to have to an “all- these collection of superstars and veterans, hope is lost” mindset. Although Ted journeyman and service players have the Williams talent to make a deep said that run this season. At Maybe, just maybe, the Mets will become the very least, New Baseball is the only York fans should sport where the loveable winners that they have longed agree that the time of you can fail to be since the Dodgers left Brooklyn. The the Yankees’ domimost of the nance is over. time and still Mets 11-game winning streak is the best the Said columnist be considMike Vaccaro in his franchise has seen since 2006. ered great, it coverage of the Mets has just been in the New York hard to find Post, “If they are as real dignity in the MLB. good as they presented themselves, then But hear me out Mets fans (or even this will be a hiccup. Good teams have hicthose of you closet fans) — there is some cups. Bad teams have hemorrhages. It’s still glimmer of hope at the end of a long sea- the Mets’ choice.” son. Matt Harvey coming off Tommy John surgery and the sudden surge of Ben Denson is a junior columnist in the College of Industrial and offensive production of Lucas Duda, com- Labor Relations. He can be contacted at bdenson@cornell.edu. His plemented by the best center fielder in the guest column appears periodically this semester.

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Women Say Goodbye to Coach and Two Seniors

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the softball team hosted the Princeton Tigers, playing two back-to-back games on Saturday and another doubleheader on Sunday. This weekend marked the last Ivy League matchup for head coach Dick Blood, who will retire after this season, as well as the last home games for senior infielders Sophie Giaquinto and Clare Feely. The Senior Day festivities were attended by a host of softball alumnae, who came to cheer on the Red as well as honor both the seniors and Blood.

Both days ended in splits for the Red. On Saturday, the squad lost its first game, 3-6, but won the second game directly after, 10-7. The team continued its momentum on Sunday, winning the first game, 7-5, then losing the second and final game, 1-3. This weekend leaves Cornell with a 16-22 overall “It was very bittersweet record and an 8-12 for both our seniors and record in the Ivy League.

The Coach Blood. We all love Princeton Tigers’ to improved them very much and they record to 18-24 overall with a league record of have done so much.”

10-9.

Michiko McGivney “This weekend was a lot of fun,” said junior infielder Emily Weinberg. “We had about 40 alumnae come back to honor Coach’s career, which was really cool to see. I think all but about two or three classes over the last 20 years were represented. Our two seniors were also honored on Sunday after four-year careers with the team. All of the presentations were very touching.”

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Senior daze | Seniors Sophie Giaquinto, pictured above, and Clare Feely were honored this weekend as the two seniors on the team.

In the first game Saturday, freshman Maddie Orcutt pitched and struck out five batters. Despite having such a strong game, the Princeton pitcher, Shanna Christian was on fire, striking out eight of Cornell’s batters. On the offensive side, sophomore infielder Chloe Pendergast hit every time she got up to the plate, going 3-3 in the first game. But even a strong performance at bat proved to be no match for the Tigers as the game wore on. The visiting team scored two runs in the second, third and sixth innings to trump the Red. In game two, Cornell answered back. Junior pitcher Meg Parker had an outstanding day at bat, going up five times and getting hits each time, making it only the sev-

enth time a Red player has gone 5-5 in one game. Orcutt pitched again and held Princeton to seven runs, stymying them completely in the final two innings. Junior outfielder Michiko McGivney had four RBIs and was 2-4 at bat.

“Our defense was a little shaky on Saturday, but we had some late inning heroics from Tori Togashi and Michiko McGivney to let us come out with a big, and very exciting win,” Weinberg said.

On Sunday, the first game fell in the Red’s favor after a six-run streak in the fourth inning where McGivney See SOFTBALL page 11

Why We Love Red Finishes in Seventh Place at Ivies The Mets T GOLF

By JESSICA BROFSKY

Eng finished in a tie for 35th place.

Additionally, freshman Jeremy Paton finished 34th and freshman Christopher The Cornell golf team finished in Troy finished 48th. Eng said he considseventh place at the Ivy Championships ered his first round a little rough as he this past weekend, just edging out adjusted to course conditions, but Brown’s team. Brothers Luke and Mike thought he played well overall. Mike Graboyes, a sophomore and freshman Graboyes said the team did not play its respectively, tied for seventh place in the best during the first round. tournament. Out of 40 com“Most of my damage was done on petitors, the Top-10 qualify the par-5s and I will remember a numfor All-Ivy Honors. Thus, ber of shots on those holes,” Mike among Cornell’s five parGraboyes said. “Birdieing the first hole ticipants in the tournaeach round was special, as well as ment, two received the my second shots into our honor and are part of the 10th (also a par-5) hole the All-Ivy League Second second and third rounds.

Team.

Both of those shots led to “As a team, I am very eagle putts and tap in proud of Michael and Luke birdies.” for placing in the Top-10 of Luke Graboyes also the field,” said sophomore said the main highlight Brandon Eng. “They helped of the tournament hapsupport the team when others pened on the last day of us were struggling the first of play. few days. I think we all made “Personally, the huge improvements by the last highlight of my tournaday and at that point, I felt that ment was the par-5 we finally performed as a 15th hole on the final team.” day,” Luke Graboyes said. “I striped a drive and hit a 5-iron from 209 Red brothers | yards to 10 feet, and Sophomore Luke then drained the putt Graboyes tied for sevfor eagle. It got my day enth place in the Ivy off to a great start and made up for some of Championships BRIAN STERN / the easy birdie opportuwith younger SUN STAFF nities I barely missed out PHOTOGRAPHER brother on earlier in the round.

Mike.

My brother Mike made eagle on that hole [to]

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get his tournament off to a great start.”

The Ivy Championships took place on the Grace Course at the Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The athletes said the course presented some challenges.

“The weather the first day was definitely a challenge,” Eng said. “The wind was blowing 20 m.p.h. in all directions and it was about 30 degrees outside without the wind chill. We were all just trying to stay warm and keep the golf ball in play. In addition, the greens were very quick and with a lot of undulation and with the wind blowing so much, they became firm and faster.”

Although the team said they were slightly disappointed in its seventh place finish, the squad has high hopes for its season next year.

“You spend the whole season building for these three rounds,” Mike Graboyes said. “There is a lot of pressure for the players to perform well.”

One thing the Red took away from this season, according to Eng, was useful experience playing in high-pressure situations. Next year, the team will have seven returning players and a new set of recruits.

“We are a young team this year having three freshmen and a sophomore in the starting lineup,” Eng said. “I think that we can look forward with confidence and expect great things to come.

This year was a year [to gain experience] for many of us. I know that the season just ended, but I’m already extremely excited for next season.”

Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsun.com.

hey opened the gates at 5 p.m., ready to bring prestige back to New York. They played in a historic landmark, a relic brimming with legends, held up by its rustic 1920s beams. In 1962, The New York Mets made it their mission to become the premierYankees alternative in New York. The legend of the once-iconic National League Brooklyn

Ben Denson Guest Columnist Dodgers — having left New York only five years before — didn’t help the Mets’ ego entering the biggest sports market on earth.

And thus began a half century of mediocrity, disappointment and futility.

“The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed,” said head coach Casey Stengel famously after his tenure during the Mets inaugural 1962 season. But instead of becoming the laughing stock of the league, the Mets squad earned the status of a “loveable loser,” propelled by its charismatic manager, Stengel. When the Mets lost, they somehow maintained dignity. And while they held their chins up through decades of futility, nonYankee fans all over New York (and the Great State of New Jersey, of course) had chosen contempt over anger as Mets fans.

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