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After an “up-and-down” season, Cornell baseball hangs on to its last hope for an Ivy crown with a series against Princeton.

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Head coach Dan Pepicelli returns home to upstate New York after a successful stint at Clemson.

BASEBALL March 5 March 5 March 6 March 12 March 12 March 13 March 18 March 19 March 20 March 25 March 20 March 26 March 27 March 30 March 30 April 2 April 2 April 9 April 9 April 10 April 10 April 13 April 16 April 16 April 17 April 17 April 20 April 20 April 23 April 23 April 24 April 24 April 26 April 26 April 29 April 29 May 1 May 1 May 4

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Northeastern Northeastern Northeastern at Wofford at Wofford at Wofford at Bucknell at Bucknell at Bucknell at Bucknell at UCF at UCF at UCF at Rollins at Rollins Harvard* Harvard* at Brown* at Brown* at Yale* at Yale* Binghamton Columbia* Columbia* Columbia* Columbia* Dartmouth* Dartmouth* at Penn* at Penn* at Penn* at Penn* at Canisius at Canisius Princeton* Princeton* at Princeton* at Princeton* at Binghamton

GOLF April 2-3 April 9-10 April 16 April 22-24

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South Florida Invitational Princeton Invitational Yale Spring Invitational Ivy League Championship

MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING March 26 April 2 April 16 April 23 May 15 June 3 - 5

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at Ithaca College Invitational at Goes Cup at Carengie Cup Maderia Cup at Eastern Sprints IRA Championships

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at Ithaca College Invitational Leonard-Matthews Cup at Platt Cup at Yale Geiger Cup Baggaley Bowl at Eastern Sprints IRA Championships at

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April 8 April 16-17 April 23 April 30 May 15 May 27-29

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at Cayuga Cup at Doc Hosea Invitational Regatta Class of ’75 Cup Clemson Invitational Dunn Bowl at Parents Cup at Ivy League Championship at NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship

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Villanova at Albany Yale* at Colgate Columbia* Cal at Brown* at Binghamton at Maryland Dartmouth* at Penn State at Princeton* Syracuse at Harvard* Penn*

SOFTBALL March 4 March 4 March 5 March 5 March 6 March 12 March 12 March 13 March 18 March 18 March 19 March 19 March 29 March 29 March 30 March 30 April 1 April 1 April 2 April 2 April 9 April 9 April 10 April 10 April 13 April 13 April 16 April 16 April 17 April 17 April 21 April 21 April 23 April 23 Arpil 24 April 24 April 26 April 30 April 30 May 1 May 1 * Ivy League Game

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Western Michigan IPFW Seton Hall Central Michigan Providence at Saint Francis at Saint Francis at Saint Francis Saint Francis at George Mason Georgetown Saint Francis at GWU at GWU at Marist at Marist Harvard* Harvard* Dartmouth* Dartmouth* at Brown* at Brown* at Yale* at Yale* Albany Albany Columbia* Columbia* Columbia* Columbia* Binghamton Binghamton at Penn* at Penn* at Penn* at Penn* at Colgate Princton* Princeton* at Princeton* at Princeton*

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TENNIS/TRACK The women’s tennis team finished second in the Ivy League, losing to Princeton in the de facto championship game.

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MEN’S L ACROSSE In a down year by Cornell men’s lacrosse’s high standards, the freshmen of the team have been the stars.

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ROWING/POLO The women’s polo season capped off its season with a national title, defeating Texas A&M in a thrilling championship game.

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WOMEN’S L ACROSSE Lockdown defense and balanced offense has women’s lacrosse poised for a postseason run.

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DESIGN Supplement Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Photo Shoot: Cameron Pollack ’18 Cover Design: John Schroeder ’74

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Willittes’ first few outings was emblematic of the his team is not the greatest. There are no superstars. On paper, this is not a team that is team’s perseverance, not only in a single game, but going to have teams running for the hills. But from day-to-day.

In his first game of the season, Willittes surthis team is scrappy.

This 2016 Cornell baseball team is not going to go rendered five earned runs in 4.1 innings as out and dominate every team it plays. But this squad Cornell would go on to be mercied by has the ability and attitude to make every game a Northeastern. But the junior pitcher would not let the one outing drag him close one, according to head coach Dan down.

Pepicelli.

The next start by Willittes saw The leader of the Red, Pepicelli, is IVY LEAGUE two earned runs and a win against a well aware of how his team thrives.

BASEBALL good Wofford (25-18, 8-7 SOCON) “We really are scrappy,” Pepicelli team.

By his third start, Willittes said. “That is our biggest asset. We STANDINGS recorded 13 strikeouts and no earned don’t mind getting in a fight; we are runs in eight innings against Bucknell. pretty good at it. We are not going to And just like that, Willittes had two big line up and just be more talented than 1. PRINCETON wins under his belt. anybody, [but] we are pretty competi2. YALE “Our most important realization tive.”

3. PENN thus far is that we have shown ourselves Cornell (13-21, 6-10 Ivy) opened its 4. HARVARD we can compete and win against any season in Florida against the Huskies of 5. DARTMOUTH team if we play up to our standard,” Northeastern (19-19, 7-7 CAA), who 6. COLUMBIA Willittes said. “Our outlook going forhad beaten No. 30 Oklahoma a couple 7. CORNELL ward is to continue to play at the level weeks earlier. The Red were shutout by 8. COLUMBIA we are capable of.”

Northeastern in the first game of the In the series against Columbia season, 6-0.

(13-23, 7-9 Ivy) on April It is easy to come away from a game like that and accept that the opponent is simply bet- 16 and 17, the Lions scored one or ter. It would have been easy to carry that attitude to more run in the first inning of the next game. But not this team. This team’s scrap- three of the four games. Despite the early deficits, the Red won all piness was evident right from the start.

In the second game of the doubleheader, Cornell three of those games to win the series entered the sixth inning in the second game against against the Ivy foe. the Huskies with a 5-1 lead.

“The very first weekend ... we beat a really good pitcher for Northeastern,” Pepicelli said.

“We had a lead and they came back and tied it.

I actually said it on the mound … ‘we’re going to find out what kind of team we are right now.’ ” The Red let Evident by the Northeastern tie up the game at five runs apiece in resilience shown the eighth inning. Another team would have seen the by the team in momentum shift and ceded the game to the highercoming back ranked Huskies. from early holes, But not Cornell. The Red took a two-run Pepicelli believes lead in the final inning when junior first basehis team’s tenaciousman Cole Rutherford hit a two-run homer. ness is composed of “We have always kind of had this way many things. about us where we are scrap“Hanging in there, being py,” Pepicelli said. “We clutch with a clutch at bat, don’t really care clutch baserunning, making a about the clutch pitch when we needed to,” score.”

Pepicelli said. “It’s been different This was aspects of [the scrappiness] not the only throughout the course of the example of the whole year.”

Red’s scrappiness, but it was the first and clearly set a tone that the team tried to continIn the third series of the ue in every game and in every practice. season, Cornell squared off “I don’t think it was defining,” Pepicelli said. against Bucknell (16-29, “I think it just kind of said ‘all right, this is who 7-9 Patriot) in a fourwe are going to be.’ And we have been like that games series, in which a few times.” the Red won three.

From the very start it was clear the season The last game in the would be a fight, and not an easy one. series came down Cornell currently sits below .500 on the to Bucknell havseason overall and in the conference. ing the tying “At this point in the season, we run on third DANA DANIELS / expected that we would have base and the SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ups and downs,” said winning junior right-handed run on Throwing heat | Junior Jamie pitcher Tim s e c Smith has seen play time in five games this Willittes. ond

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Swinging for the fences | Junior outfielder Jacob Weston has tallied seven hits this season, including a home run against Wofford.

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with less than two outs in the bottom of the ninth.

Junior righthanded pitcher Jamie Flynn was on the mound and had pitched 1.1 innings at this point in relief.

With the game on the line, Flynn tossed a “huge pitch,” as Pepicelli referred to it to

get the Red out of a jam.

Yet Bucknell wasn’t finished and put together another comeback attempt. For the final out, sophomore left-handed pitcher Justin Lewis came in and threw another “huge pitch” for his second save of the season and the victory.

“Between Cole’s home run [against Northeastern] and that moment at Bucknell, we

“WE HAVE ALWAYS KIND OF HAD

THIS WAY ABOUT US WHERE WE ARE SCRAPPY. WE DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT THE SCORE.” — DAN PEPICELLI just seem to be having these moments where, when it’s on the line, we have been doing a pretty good job with it,” Pepicelli said.

This is a Cornell team that has never backed down from a challenge, and has never taken its foot off the gas.

“Something that we’re really proud of so far that we are improving every game and continuing to stay committed to our approach,” said junior infielder Frankie Padulo “A big difference between this year’s team and last year’s is our culture. We’ve been staying locked in and competitive with every pitch regardless of the situation. That’s a huge key to our success as a team.”

Look for this Cornell baseball team to be making noise until the final pitch of the season.

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A Coach’s Return to Upstate New York

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Sitting in the office of the Scholastic Coach Magazine, Dan Pepicelli never thought he would one day help lead the Clemson Tigers to the NCAA College World Series semifinals. However, the situation of the magazine’s office in Cooperstown, N.Y. — the same town that the Baseball Hall of Fame is located in — was fortuitous of what laid in store for him.

Yet, his time at Clemson, and subsequent hiring as the head coach of Cornell baseball, would not have been possible without a volunteer stint at a local school which started it all. Following his time as a volunteer coach, he was called upon to be an assistant coach at Hartwick College and was later promoted to head coach.

“You always want to be a player, and then that doesn’t happen,” he said.

“I got to work as a volunteer assistant coach while I had what I would call a real job. Then Hartwick College offered me my first coaching job and I have just loved it ever since.”

His next coaching experience came in the form of head coach of St. John Fisher — a school about double the size of Harwick. He spent nine years with the Cardinals before moving to Clemson — about 10 times the size of St. John Fisher.

The Tigers’ run to the semifinals came in Pepicelli’s first year as pitching coach, and it was the furthest the team went during his tenure in South Carolina, but it would hardly be his last appearance in the tournament.

While he began with the Tigers in 2010 as a pitching coach, in 2013 he was promoted to associate head coach. The Tigers reached the NCAA tournament all six years he was a part of the organization.

Despite his success with Clemson, Pepicelli gives credit where credit is due when it comes to making him who he is today. His competitive nature has been rooted in his personality his entire life. His father was a stock car racer and his brother still races today. His wife was also an assistant coach for Syracuse women’s soccer — where she was a two-time captain during her college years — before the Pepicellis packed up shop and moved to South Carolina.

To Pepicelli, the word “quit” is never in his vocabulary.

“Competition has been part of my family since day one,” he said. “I don’t remember it any other way. You compete, you don’t quit. Be hard and aggressive. My father is still that guy. [My parents] moved up to the area, from Clemson to Ithaca, following us around. Competition is very big in our house. Soft did not play in my house.”

Being the youngest of three boys, Pepicelli mentioned that his brothers were a big driving force in making him the man he is today.

“My two older brothers are why soft did not play in my house,” Pepicelli said, chuckling. “My brothers were of the tough love variety.”

While Clemson is a great gig for any baseball coach, Pepicelli was highly drawn to the vacancy in Ithaca because of his comfort level with upstate New York. Born and raised in the area, Pepicelli played for Mohawk Valley, SUNY Cortland and SUNY Oneonta. For Pepicelli, upstate New York is home.

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Sluggish season | After starting off the season slowly, the Red has dropped to last place in the South Ivy Standings.

Softball Works Through Struggles

By KEITH BOLLT

lowed their Albany games up with a strong series against fellow South Ivy League member Columbia. The Red split their doubleheader Cornell women’s softball started off the season both days with the Lions, and for the most part slowly. However, led by first-year head coach saw a revival of both their offense and pitching.

Julie Farlow ’97, the Red have collected nine vic- Cornell then dropped all four games in their tories thus far. With the last four of 24 Ivy games series against Penn, eliminating them from poststill to be played, Cornell (9-28, 3-13 Ivy) is in season contention. last place in the South Ivy standings.

Overall, Cornell’s hitting has been stronger Cornell dropped its first 10 games this season. than its pitching thus far. The Red are hitting All of their games in March were nonconference .293/.343/.438 as a team entering action against and on the road, but it was not the start the Red Princeton and a 7.31 ERA amongst its three were looking for. pitchers. That said, the Reds pitching has im“Our pitching wasn’t sharp,” Farlow said. proved markedly as the season has progressed.

“We gave up a lot What has of walks early on. allowed Cornell to Our defense was initially move past very sloppy ... and its March losing Offensive Output passive. Our basestreak and hand So far this season, the Red’s offense has been the running [was not Farlow her first strength of the team, compiling a hitting line of that great].” victory as head Senior catcher .293/.343/.438. coach?

Leanne Iannucci “I think it’s just agrees with her playing,” Farlow coach’s assessment said. “Softball is a of Cornell’s early game of repetiseason struggles. tion.”

“Early on this season, certain aspects of our “We are figuring out now how to make all three game were sharp, while others were not,” parts our game to come together and that’s what Iannucci said. “Sometimes, we were playing has led to our subsequent wins,” Iannucci said. games and hitting well, but would lack either Farlow’s first win as a head coach was not her defensively or on the mound. first in a Cornell uniform. She is a Cornell Cornell started its Ivy season on the first week- Athletics Hall-of-Fame member for her contriend of April by splitting a doubleheader with butions as a softball player in the mid 1990s.

Harvard and getting swept in two games against Returning to the Hill in 2002, she was an assisDartmouth. Farnow admitted that the team did tant and associate head coach under Dick Blood not play its best against Dartmouth, but she was until his retirement this last spring. happy to see them come out strong in their first Besides a new head coach, another off-theIvy game of the season against the Crimson. field change to Cornell women’s softball has been The next weekend saw Cornell on the road changes to the field itself. Niemand*Robison for doubleheaders against the remaining two Field underwent significant restorations last seaNorth Ivy teams, Yale and Brown. The Red son and is now a safer, better, more spectatordropped all four of the games and scored just friendly facility than before, according to Farlow. seven runs in the process.

“I think it brings a little bit of energy, it brings After getting swept, Cornell used an 11-spot a little bit of pride,” Farlow said. to sweep a series of their own in midweek nonTo read the rest of this article, please visit conference action against Albany. The Red fol- www.cornellsun.com.

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Come together | Dan Pepicelli (inset above, and number 24 below) meets with members of his team during a game this spring.

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After Nine Years,Cornell Alumni to Lead Final Obama Seder

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

The exodus story describes the Jewish people traveling for 40 years in the desert. However, for three low-level staffers on the 2008 Obama campaign, the story of Passover reminds them of their own travels. “[The campaign] was similar to how you’re watching it on TV now,” said Eric Lesser — a baggage-handler for the Obama campaign at the time. “It’s just a nonstop barrage of visits. You basically never go home. You’re going to city after city, state after state.”

When he and two other Jewish staffers on the campaign — Herbie Ziskend ’07 and Arun Chaudhary ’97 — realized that they would be in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the first

night of Passover, they said they had to determine some way to observe the holiday.

“It was in the midst of the Pennsylvania primary, which was a very very long haul,” Lesser said. “I made an emergency phone call to my cousin, who at the time was a student at the University of Pennsylvania. He ran into the Hillel at UPenn and snatched up all the emergency seder supplies that he could, which included the Maxwell House Haggadah, some matzoh and some Manischewitz wine.”

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Presidential passover | President Barack Obama hosts the first Passover Seder at the White House in 2009.

White House Honors Prison Education Director

By EVELYN SHAN Sun Staff Writer

Robert Scott, executive director of the Cornell Prison Education Program, was recognized as one of 10 White House “Champions for Change” on Wednesday for his work with the Cornell Prison Education Program.

Scott joined CPEP as executive director in 2013 and since then he said the program has expanded significantly.

“When I arrived in 2013, we were at one correctional facility in Auburn, NY; today we’re at three correctional facilities, and by the end of the upcoming year, we’ll be in another one,” Scott said.

“Basically, four prisons within a onehour drive of Cornell’s campus.”

Scott said a key factor in this change has been his vision to expand CPEP

through collaboration within the community, rather than Cornell alone.

“At a moment when there is receptivity to new initiatives in prison higher education, Rob stands out as a model of a leader who approaches his work with limitless energy and with complete integrity,” said Mary Katzenstein, american studies and government, a member of the CPEP advisory board.

Scott emphasized his collaborative vision for the future of CPEP. “It’s a ‘Cornell plus many other ingredients’ vision of what is needed, so this means we have to spread ourselves all over the region,” he said. “We have to keep our doors open.”

According to Katzenstein, CPEP’s growth is largely due to both Scott’s steadfast vision and his “indefatigable” nature.

“Through all the challenges of building a relatively new program, Rob has been a steady force keeping his eye on CPEP’s mission, Katzenstein said. At a time when interest in prison education has been reignited, he has also forged ahead with real creativity to facilitate collaborations at the local, state, and national level.”

Scott said the developments he has implemented in recent years will continue as he pursues the ongoing expansion of education opportunities across the state of New York.

He highlighted that prisoners transferred with little or no warning can pose challenges to their education, but said these problems can be resolved through collaboration.

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Arts College Considers Restructuring

By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

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New school | Gretchen Ritter ’83, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and fellow administrators consider changes to the college’s distribution requirements at a forum Wednesday.

Arts and Sciences Representatives and the CAS Dean’s Advisory Council discussed the college’s plan to divide the admissions and advising offices and reevaluate the distribution requirements at an open forum Wednesday.

Gretchen Ritter ’83, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said that this restructuring is in part a response to “huge increases in applications,” citing the over 19,000 applications to the CAS for about 1,100 available seats in the class in the last admissions cycle.

“We always have many more qualified applicants than spaces,” Ritter said, “[We ask] who would most benefit? For See CAS page 5

C.U. Political Groups Express Discontent With Establishment

By HENRY KANENGISER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell Democrats and Republicans echoed national feelings of disenfranchisement, saying many students feel disenchanted with establishment politics as the primary process unfolds.

Austin McLaughlin ’18, the Secretary of the Cornell Republicans, said the right’s distaste for Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has plagued club members for months. “[This disillusionment] was pretty clear since the beginning with the early Republican debates,” he said. “Donald Trump and Ted Cruz received outright boo’s.”

He added that disappointment with the party establishment on campus seems to be present within both political parties.

“I think the campus as a whole is anti-establishment, especially on the Democratic side,” he said.

“On the Republican end … I believe there is a sense of dissatisfaction with the current options and political process as a whole.”

Robert Barrett ’18, Webmaster for the Cornell Democrats, noted that many students have criticized the role of superdelegates in party politics.

“Not only have endorsements been given on party insider and outsider lines rather than actual ideology or policy, but the establishment has also represented its choice through superdelegates, who have supported Hillary Clinton regardless of the votes of their constituencies or the contests as a whole,” he said.

McLaughlin said he believes that support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) is indicative of this disenchantment with establishment politics.

“Widespread support for Bernie Sanders at Cornell indicates that students are upset with the status quo,” he said.

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“It’s your choice to be sexually active or not sexually active,” said Nianne Van Fleet, clinical operations supervisor of Gannett Health Center’s Contraception, Gynecology, Sexuality Service (CGSS) and department of health education, and head organizer of this week’s events. “Whether you use contraceptives, practice abstinence or mutual monogamy, we stress the respect of individual choice in safer sex practices.”

During the course of the week, volunteers from various campus organizations will distribute free contraceptives and information pamphlets at campus dining halls.

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According to Kori Flower ’93, an event volunteer, this increase is a result of a new focus in the week’s theme which involves reaching out to all sectors of the Cornell community.

“This year, we’ll have tables at the vet and law schools,” Flower said. “We’re trying to appeal to different student groups, especially the graduate and international students.”

Flower stressed the importance of reaching all Cornellians, saying, “We want people of all kinds of sex practices and sexual orientations to feel included. That’s what’s special about this year.”

Despite the increasing amount of contraceptives being distributed among students, Flower expressed regret at the low numbers of residence advisors who agreed to help promote the week in their residence halls by arranging CGSS Safer Peer programs.

Pankti Sevak ’93 is one of approximately 30 Safer Peer members who will be conducting sexual awareness workshops at various campus residence halls this week.

According to Sevak, the 10-minute workshops include condom demonstrations, information on different types of contraceptives and tips on communicating with your partner.

“We’re not just promoting safe sex, we’re promoting better health,” Sevak said.

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By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

University Restoration of Artwor In A.D. White Libe Begins Cornell conservators have been working to preserve the artwork in the A.D. White Library, recently treating 22 pieces of artwork.

The library’s Department of Digitization and Conservation Services has worked with librarians and the facilities team, replacing fragile originals with digital facsimiles. The works were moved to spots with less sunlight for protection from future damage.

“For years there has been concern that historic, important library materials were displayed for extended period in a bright, open, public space, so this was a good impetus for us to examine the artwork,” said conservator Michele Hamill.

Prof. Marion Nestle, nutrition and food studies, New York University and visiting professor of nutrition sciences at Cornell, discussed the soda industry’s political role in the United States and its potential to combat obesity in a lecture Wednesday.

The soda industry plays a larger role in

politics than most people assume, according to Nestle. She pointed to how soda politics have affected the 2016 general election.

“Just last week, the candidates for the Democratic primary went head-to-head over, of all things, soda taxes,” Nestle said.

“Hillary Clinton came out with a statement saying that she was in favor of Philadelphia’s soda tax whereas Bernie Sanders, who usually takes much more liberal positions on these

In solidarity

Local Cascadilla Gorge Trail To Be Completed After eight years of work, the Cascadilla Gorge Trail will reopen next week. The project included building trails and staircases in the gorge, replacing old, dangerous wooden stairs built in the 1980s.

Workers used “shotcrete” for the renovation — an air-pressured concrete spray that is forced into a plastic mold that is an impression of a stone wall. Pigment was also added to the spray to allow the staircases to blend better with the natural rock.

While the trail will reopen, project manager Dan McClure said the project is never really complete.

“We never get to be done because the whole reason we have gorges is because they’re a very powerful erosive force, and there’s no way to stop that process from going on,” he said. “You just kind of have to understand it and try to work with it.”

State Textalyzer Proposed To Test Dangerous Drivers The Textalyzer, a proposed roadside test to combat texting while driving, is an idea similar to a New York State breathalyzer, according to The New York Times.

The idea was conceived by lawmakers and consists of officers being allowed to take phones and use the Textalyzer to check recent activity. This would allow the officer to determine if the driver used the phone recently to send a message and email.

The main opposition to the Textalyzer would relate to privacy concerns, but this would not be an issue, as the police would not have access to the content of any text or email, just activity, according to Félix Ortiz, Democratic assemblyman.

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things, called the tax regressive.”

Nestle said she chose to write a book on this topic because she was interested in in food politics, and the stigma against the soda industry made this topic an obvious choice.

“In public health terms they are lowhanging fruit.” Nestle said. “They contain sugars and water and not much else and certainly nothing else of redeeming social value.

They are international companies that are in every country of the world.”

In response to health and obesity concerns as well as growing popularity in soda taxes, the soda industry has spent millions of dollars lobbying, according to Nestle. The soda industry spent up to 11 million dollars lobbying to fight the soda tax in San Francisco, she said.

“The question is why is the soda industry willing to spend this completely ridiculous amount of money to fight these kinds of initiatives,” Nestle said. “A lot of this has to do, I think, with global trends.”

The drop of sales in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand has caused the soda companies to move their marketing overseas, where sales are increasing, a marketing method similar to the strategy of cigarette companies, according to Nestle.

“The most interesting one is Africa.

Coca-Cola has committed seventeen billion dollars to marketing and development of product sales in Africa from 2010 to 2020,” Nestle said. “That’s 1.7 billion dollars a year.”

Nestle’s presentation is the final book talk in the ‘Chats in the Stacks’ spring series this year.

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Amnesty International at Cornell displays flags on the Arts Quad to show solidarity with refugees from Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Palestine.

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

93-Year-Old Architect Recalls Designing at Cornell

By RACHEL WHALEN Sun Contributor

Alfred DiGiacomo, a 93 year-old Ithaca resident who served as senior architect and manager for Cornell Architectural and Engineering Services from 1980 to 1993, showcased his work on campus at an event Tuesday.

DiGiacomo designed the Willard Straight Hall Ivy Room, among many other aspects of campus.

DiGiacaomo said his boss’ experience as an undergraduate at Cornell while he was serving as the county architect for Suffolk County in New York influenced him to apply for a job at Cornell.

“I saw a big ad by Cornell for a senior architect in The New York Times,” he explained. “My boss went to Cornell, and at times he’s talking to me about Cornell and the fun he had at Cornell. I’d never heard of Cornell before. So something made me save the ad.”

DiGiacomo recounted how he managed construction projects at locations like the Performing Arts Theater, Schoellkopf Stadium, Space Science Building, townhouses, Law School and Uris Library.

He added that his work restoring Lincoln Hall’s roof earned him a prize from Historic Ithaca.

However, DiGiacomo said he considers his designs the greatest legacy he left at Cornell. The Willard Straight terrace and Ivy Room were two of the architect’s chief projects.

When asked about where he developed his inspiration for the design for the Ivy Room, he said, “That’s a good question.”

“Where do any of these things come from?” he asked.

“There were many times when I just sat quietly and visualized how a building goes together.”

Zach Praiss ’16, a Cornell

tion funded through the G.I. Bill.

“After I was discharged from the army in 1945, I did not know what I wanted to do,” he said. “I saw all these ads in The New York Times for architectural draftsmen, so that’s what I decided to do. I went to Drafting School for nine

“There were many times when I just sat quietly and visualized how a building goes together.”

Alfred DiGiacomo Daily Sun designer, said he met DiGiacomo three years ago through Project Generations — a service group that connects Cornell and Ithaca College students with elderly members of the Ithaca community. A good friend of DiGiacomo’s and the organizer of the event, Praiss emphasized DiGiacomo’s impact on the University.

“Although he’s not a big name in the industry, he has still had an amazing impact through a really prolific career having built so many schools, retail shops, churches, you name it,” Praiss said. “For 13 years he essentially oversaw all construction on campus. And he even left his own mark on some parts of campus with the Willard Straight Hall Ivy Room and terrace, among many others.”

DiGiacomo said he began his career after returning from World War II, after gaining an architectural draftsmen’s educa-

months paid for by the G.I. Bill.”

He added that he worked on several schools, retail buildings and churches, and designed the Long Island Hockey Arena in 1955.

“I had a nice career,” DiGiacomo said. “I never

expected anybody to appreciate what I’ve done.”

Cameron Yang ’16, a participant in Project Generations, also acknowledged DiGiacomo’s influence on campus architecture.

“I think the biggest thing he’s taught me is if you find something you love to do, just go after it,” Yang said. “He literally tries everything, and that’s been a really big inspiration for me.”

DiGiacomo has published three books since his retirement, including My Architectural Journey, which he wrote this past month, according to Praiss.

“He’s 93,” Praiss said. “As young people I think we kind of live in fear of growing old, but the way he just embraces life gives me greater hope for the future.”

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

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Making a mark | Alfred DiGiacomo discusses his experience designing several rooms and buildings at Cornell in a lecture Tuesday.

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Cornell Alumni Lead Ninth, Last White House Seder

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unexpected guest walked through the door.

“Just as we were about to start, Obama popped his head in and said ‘Hey, is this where the seder is happening?’ and we all said ‘Yeah of course. Come sit down’” Chaudhary said.

While Lesser remembers this seder as a highlight of the Pennsylvania primary, he said it was also one of the hardest parts of the campaign.

“There’s a moment in the “I had just graduated from way.” haggadah where everybody [rais- Cornell a year earlier, Eric had Chaudhary remembers that es their glasses and] says next just graduated from school less despite Obama’s presence, that year in Jerusalem, and first seder felt very then we put our glasses egalitarian. down,” Lesser said. “Just as we were about to start, Obama “Ever yone “Obama put his glass up brought something to popped his head in and said ‘Hey, is and he said ‘Next year in it. If you didn’t know this where the seder is happening?’” you asked. If you did The White House.’ We all kind of looked at each know you would Arun Chaudhary ’97 other and we were like explain,” he said.

‘Yeah! Awesome. Next “The only thing I year in The White House.’ would say that was Ziskend said they all remem- than a year earlier too,” he said. radically unegalitarian was that ber the event as a moment of “We kind of suspected our lives we were all doing our best to change. were about to change in a big keep our regular speaking voices,

and then we have with us one of the greatest orators of this generation. So when he pretends to be pharaoh, it’s very very impressive.”

Ziskend recalls getting “peppered” with questions at the first seder in Harrisburg.

“Obama was a constitutional law professor and had been around students for many years,” he said. “For him to sit and grill us on the meaning of passover is totally natural to him.”

He recalls enlisting the help of his former professor — Ross Brann, near-eastern studies — to prepare for the next seder at The White House. “[Brann] helped me prepare for 90 minutes on the phone for the meaning of passover, important stories to discuss, questions to ask,” Ziskend said. “It would have been much harder to prepare without Professor Brann.”

Brann said he recalls being delighted when he heard from Ziskend, and tells the story of their phone call every year on the holiday.

“One of the deep meanings of Passover and the seder for people of my generation and background is the ways in which they speak to issues of liberation and economic justice in our world,” Brann said. “From what I had read of the new President I was confident he would enjoy and appreciate Passover haggadot readings connecting the liberation of the Israelites to the present. I xeroxed, faxed, fedexed, whatever, a lot of material.”

Since then, it has become an annual event at The White House, with many ‘foibles’ along the way, according to Chaudhary.

“For [Obama] to sit and grill us on the meaning of Passover is totally natural to him.”

Herbie Ziskend ’07 “One year I went out to hide the afikomen for Malia and Sasha to go look for it, and I hid it and I came back, they went out to go find it, and they came back and said we can’t find it,” Ziskend said. “Then it hit me and I realized I completely forgot where I hid it. Luckily I quietly looked at a secret service agent who motioned to where it was.”

As they have the last seder at The White House Thursday, a week after the start of Passover, Ziskend said he will remember all the momentous occasions that have been the background to their seders.

“We were there when the economy was in the worst part of The Great Recession, we were there when health care reform was being debated and passed, as wars were being ended,” he said.

“I think once you get past the secret service, the guards, the surroundings as you walk past the Blueroom, it is like a family having seder anywhere in America.”

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

NEWS

President Honors Prison Ed.Director Scott credited with expanding C.U. program since 2013 arrival

your typical prison vocational-oriented college program, which is a lot of basic, practical skills. We’re actually trying to include a wide “If someone has received, let’s say, 15 credits range of college curriculum,” Scott said. “We from a prison with Cornell, and they’re sent teach philosophy classes; we teach ethics; we somewhere far away, that would normally mean introduce people to neuroscience with guest that they don’t have any kind of college educa- lecturers from across all the colleges at tion at all,” Scott said. “If we can all team up Cornell. There’s really a rich curriculum and a program of exceland get the state of New York to work with us, “We teach philosophy classes; we teach lence that stands above the fray.” then we could seamlessethics; we introduce people to Scott said he ly transfer them to another program and neuroscience guest lectures from across plans to increase the size of the proallow those students to the colleges at Cornell.” gram significantly maintain their identity in the next few and their life action of Robert Scott years. working on classes.”

“We’ll reach 200 Scott has also played an instrumental part in implementing several incarcerated students by the end of 2016, and new programs within the three correctional we’ll probably reach over 100 volunteers and facilities including a prison debate club, which educators from Cornell campus and offer will debate the Cornell Debate Team in May, about 75 to 80 classes,” Scott said. “In the and expansion to the Five Points Correctional future, we’d probably like to become even larger, but really focus on wider services as well as Facility in Romulus, N.Y. Scott said he has also worked to help devel- partnering with different organizations in the op CPEP’s unique provision and emphasis of Ithaca community, colleges, and correctional education in the physical sciences, in addition facilities.” to the more typical humanities.

“That’s not what you’re going to find in Evelyn Shan can be reached at eshan@cornellsun.com.

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CAS Considers Revising Distribution Reqs CAS

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fied applicants than spaces,” Ritter said, “[We ask] who would most benefit? For whom would our style and approach to education be a great fit?”

The College Curriculum Committee, chaired by Prof.

Laura Brown, English, was recently established to examine the requirements outlined by CAS and make recommendations on potential improvements.

“Any number of things might happen,” Brown said, referring to the possible outcomes of the Committee’s meetings.

She emphasized that the committee will examine how distribution requirements affect students’ educations, through an open discussion with students and administrators.

The committee will conduct polls with students, “asking what [their education] meant to them, where it has led them, how it has contributed to their career satisfaction,” Brown said.

In addition, Brown said she

will host focus group discussions and use data on course selections to compile substantial information on the efficacy and productivity of the current distribution model.

Ritter said she also hopes to evaluate the relationship between students’ majors, distribution requirements, and first-year writing seminars—, possibly allowing for a more thematic approach and integration of a common focus,

“What should we do in our structure to help prepare people for citizenship?”

Gretchen Ritter ’83 dependent on a student’s academic interest. Ritter’s suggested examples included a common focus on history or quantitative reasoning.

“There are several schools that are in the midst of rethinking their curriculum,” she said.

Ritter suggested the idea of a core curriculum model, which she said would establish certain

required courses or texts for all CAS students, as opposed to the distribution model.

Ritter also posed several questions to be considered in revising the college’s academic policy.

“Why do we have a foreign language requirement?” Ritter said. What should we do in our educational structure to help people prepare for citizenship?

Should there be any requirements in college? Should we have a core curriculum in which everyone reads the same books?”

In considering why so many students are choosing to pursue pre-professional academic tracks, the committee also hopes to establish how exactly a liberal arts education is important and useful today, according to Ritter.

She said she hopes the committee will find answers to the question “What is the value of a liberal arts education?” stressing that CAS’s academic advising will implement any necessary improvements to maintain that value for students.

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

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the structure of the Democratic party is valid especially in New York State.

“There are absolutely issues with voter registration in New York State,” he said. “It is frustrating for students that New York does not have sameday registration.”

McLaughlin noted that it was difficult to gauge the degree to which students trust the voting process , citing the outpouring of enthusiasm of Bernie supporters on campus.

“It is hard to say whether the majority of Cornell students believe their vote matters when the vocal pro-Bernie constituency dominated

campus discourse.”

Despite doubts about the power of the political establishments, members of the Cornell Republicans and Democrats both maintained that it is still important to vote.

“Democrats here in New York should try to ensure that each person can participate in the electoral process,” Bris-

tow said.

“In reality, the way the primary is set up is not meant to ensure total democracy and a lack of bias,” McLaughlin said.

“Leave the democracy and the people’s choice to the general election.”

Henry Kanengiser can be reached at hkanengiser@cornellsun.com.

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DINING GUIDE

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Dining Guide

Your source for good food

By OLIVIA LUTWAK Sun Staff Writer

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t the end of last year, I got a bank statement telling me how much money I had deposited in the last 12 months. Initially I thought they had made a mistake — I didn’t have close to that little money in my bank account. After determining that no, the bank hadn’t made a mistake and yes, I had somehow managed to spend more than half of the money I was supposed to be saving for grad school, I was forced to face the facts: I had spent way too much money on food.

There are a couple of lessons to be learned from this story. The first is a personal lesson: I really shouldn’t be eating dinner out and ordering grubhub so often when I’m already on a meal plan.

The second lesson may be more universal (although there’s a chance it’s only applicable to me and my inability to save money): Restaurants can get away with charging a ridiculous amount of money for an hour or two of decent food and mediocre conversation.

Everyone goes out to dinner on certain occasions — birthdays, anniversaries, Thursdays —and sometimes, as broke college students, we remember to check

Top Three $10 Meals prices before going out. But often, as college students with only mild levels of real-world intelligence, we go to whatever restaurant sounds the best, only to realize later that we inadvertently blew an entire shift’s paycheck. Tired of explaining to my parents why my bank account was empty yet again, I decided to set out on a mission to find affordable Ithacan food that satisfies Tuesday night cravings while providing a fun Friday night atmosphere. Finding lunch deals is child’s play; I wanted a real challenge. Armed with only $10 a meal, I ventured out into the Ithaca wilderness to see if I could realize my dream of cheap food.

1. Viva Taqueria Viva seems to be on almost every “Best of Ithaca” list, so the defiant part of me didn’t want to include it on this list as well. But it’s on every list for a reason, so last Thursday, I grabbed a group of friends and went downtown, determined to spend only an hour’s worth of money I had earned from the shift I had just finished working.

To be clear, there are aspects of Viva that do not make it the goto choice for every busy college student. First of all, it’s usually packed, making it unbelievably loud and hard to hear the conversation you’re attempting to enjoy.

Secondly, they don’t take reservations, which is one of my biggest pet peeves with restaurants. I plan out most of my days down to the minute and I love sticking to schedules. So when I plan on eating dinner at 7:30 p.m. but have to wait an hour before I’m seated, I get pretty frustrated. If you’re lucky enough to be 21, you can hang out at Viva’s bar area until you get seated; otherwise, plan to be waiting around for a bit.

The food makes it worth the anxiety I get from checking my watch every two minutes. I would not consider myself an expert on

Mexican food, but I think Viva does a pretty delicious interpretation of it. I had been waiting all week to immerse myself in their food. Here’s a cheap-food-related tip: If you forego the guac and chips, you save money, but if your friend orders some for herself, she most likely won’t notice if you snag a couple of chips.

My favorite dish at Viva is the chicken mole burrito, but it costs $10.50 so it’s sort of cheating the purpose of this article. But if you got a bonus at work and want to splurge, I would definitely recommend trying the mole sauce. If, unlike me, you don’t eat a remarkable amount of food in one sitting, you could potentially take half the burrito home, stretching that $10.50 across two meals and effectively reducing the cost to $5.25 per meal.

Or, if you’re like me and can’t fathom how a person could only eat half a burrito in one sitting, but still want to stick to my under-$10 budget, there are plenty of other options. The Super Smothered Burrito contains everything you could ever want in a burrito, including guacamole (just in case nobody at your table volunteered to pay for the guac and chips starter) and costs only $9.99. Intrigued by the combination of spice and chocolate? You could still try the mole sauce in Viva’s soft tacos (Side note: Soft tacos are a million times better than hard-shell tacos. I will never endorse hard-shell tacos). And as is the case with all classic Ithaca restaurants, there’s a plethora of vegan options, including vegan nachos for only $7.99.

If you’re looking for the best combination of affordable prices, delicious food and a fun after-prelim location, Viva is your best bet.

Total Price: $9.50 + tax and tip for chicken mole soft tacos (plus about half of my friend’s chips and guac).

2. Wegmans Café RESTAURANT

HOME OF THE

Pinesburger 1213 Taughannock Blvd.

(Route 89 - 3 miles north of Cass Park) Ithaca, NY 14850

(607)

273-3709

www.glenwoodpines.com

Voted BEST BU RGER in Ithaca!

– Ithaca Times Readers Choice

Everyone loves Ithaca’s biggest and best grocery store. Going shopping is a weekend adventure in and of itself. My personal favorite post-shopping ritual is ignoring all the groceries I just purchased and having dinner at the Wegmans Café.

Wegmans doesn’t provide the kind of restaurant-quality atmosphere you may be looking for on a night out with friends, but it’s the place to go when you just

want a pound of cheap, freshly made food from your local grocery store. Whether you’re doing your weekly shopping run with a group or just grabbing a couple items on your own, stop over at the Café when you’re done.

The Café has options ranging from pizza to subs to sushi, but my personal favorite thing to do there is to get a giant styrofoam box and pack it full of stuff from their Hot Bars. There are a bunch of different Hot Bars that all cost the same price, so you can mix and match from a variety of cuisines to make your dinner. I love the Asian Hot Bar, which

Souvlaki House.

Souv just begs for a group of Cornell students to cram into their little benches and laugh together while enjoying heaping portions of pasta and salad. The staff there are some of the most personable and friendly people in Collegetown and they clearly enjoy catering to college students (which is hard to do because, let’s face it, we’re pretty annoying).

Forget the mediocre dinner conversations you were having before — all the discussions within Souvlaki House’s walls are interesting, funny and guaranteed to bring you and your friends closer.

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includes sesame chicken, egg rolls, Lo Mein and Peking pork.

They also have a salad bar, a wing bar and a homestyle bar, where you can find mac and cheese and pulled pork.

All of this food is $8.99 per pound, and while the knowledge of how many pounds of food I’m eating kind of creeps me out, it’s a pretty good deal for that much food. If you’re like me, you’ll accidentally get more than a pound of food, but the Café has food scales so you can watch how much you eat and how much you pay. The dining area is pretty large, so you can either eat your pound of food there or take it home to enjoy, instead of cooking a meal from all the groceries you just bought.

Total Price: $8.99 + tax for a pound of food.

3. Souvlaki House Full disclosure: Souvlaki House does not have my favorite food. If this article were called “Best Food in Ithaca” or “Best Pasta Dishes” or even “Best Italian/Greek Fusion Restaurants Whose Cuisine Confuses Me,” they probably wouldn’t make the list. But this article is about the best cheap dining experiences. As a dining writer and overall food lover, I really appreciate delicious food. But as a college student, I really appreciate delicious food memories. And a couple of my best dining memories come from

The meals all start out with a giant bowl of salad and breadsticks for the table. The breadsticks are always delicious and are (almost objectively) the best part of the meal. You could order a cheap cold sandwich or sub, but the most thrifty option is to order a pasta dish. But the pasta is almost twice as much as the subs, you are probably thinking to yourself.

This girl clearly doesn’t know what “thrifty” means. Well, I just looked up the definition to be sure, and it turns out that I do know what thrifty means. If you order a sandwich, you spend about $5.95 on a meal. Not a bad deal. But if you get the pasta, you spend $9.95 (or $10.50 or $12.95, depending on what kind of pasta you order) on four meals.

As I mentioned earlier, I eat a lot in one sitting. But I could never in my wildest dreams get through a plate of Souvlaki House pasta in a single meal.

When I ordered pasta there a few weeks ago, I came away with dinner for that night, along with three meals’ worth of leftovers.

For the next three days, instead of having to trek to the dining hall, I went no further than the microwave.

To reiterate: Non-mediocre conversation. Leftovers for days.

Thrifty.

Olivia Lutwak is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun.com.

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Letter to the Editor

Re-examining the Student Assembly To the Editor: It has become glaringly clear that the Student Assembly compositionally does not represent the current needs of students. Over the past couple of weeks, we have begun a conversation about the future structure of the Student Assembly. These conversations began when the Advocacy Committee within First in Class wrote a resolution to add a first-generation liaison at-large seat to the Student Assembly. These conversations have been fueled by our constituents concern that our current system leaves students feeling as though their needs are not represented.

On April 7, we hosted the “Discussion on Restructuring.” “Discussion” does not mean that the opinion of one represents the opinion of all. This discussion, while informative, was only the first of many that will need to occur in order to determine the best system of representation. During this discussion students raised many valuable points including the fear that students who were elected to represent the interests of certain constituencies often didn’t pursue initiatives that reflected their needs.

One frustration with our current system is that the seats that encompass many different communities such as the Minority Liaison at Large and the Undesignated at Large seats have too many different communities within their purview. This causes the representatives to make extremely hard trade-offs of which pressing issue to tackle first.

These forums are only the beginning. Our goal is to hear as many perspectives as possible and to hear feedback from our constituents on a wide array of ideas. We encourage students who are unhappy with the current system or by the way the current restructuring discussion is going to join the dialogue.

Jordan Berger ’17 Juliana Batista ’16

The War on Drugs Has Failed

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r at the very least, the Drug higher than any other illegal drug.

Enforcement Agency’s policies and Smoking weed will not by itself predispose classifications have. Drug legaliza- someone to take harder drugs later on, but tion is a tired old argument that I hate forcing them to purchase it from illegal hearing about, if only because at a certain sources (who often have plenty of other point the claims on both sides reach a level substances on hand) might.

Regardless, what purpose does locking of absolute absurdity (I’ve heard the claim that smoking marijuana cures cancer as up someone for drug possession accommany times as I’ve heard it leads to teens plish? A methamphetamine addict is not and overdosing). However, the DEA’s poli- going to quit because of the risk of arrest. cies continue to cause more damage than That’s the whole thing about addiction; good for our society and need to be getting a fix takes precedence over all other concerns. At best, locking someone up for addressed as soon as possible.

Before I begin, I feel I should say that I drug use forces them to go cold turkey, but frankly don’t care who uses what drug and that’s a steep price for the taxpayer. Still, for what reason. If someone wants to while even if an addict cleans up in prison, they away their days on a permanent high, now have a record and as such are virtually that’s not my business. I’m fine with the unemployable. Not being able to secure a sale and possession of highly addicting job leads to desperation, financial trouble drugs such as heroin remaining illegal; and likely a relapse to drugs and a return physical addiction should not be an eco- to prison. Not a very cost effective model nomic opportunity. I believe the real issue for the country when we could instead at hand is that we have allowed a signifi- simply utilize treatment centers, which are cant government agency to institute What purpose does locking up someone for continue a drug possession accomplish? A methamcampaign that operates on phetamine addict is not going to quit because fear mongerof the risk of arrest. That’s the whole thing ing and misinabout addiction; getting a fix takes formation.

First, the precedence over all other concerns.

DEA’s drug campaign has harmed and is harming disadvantaged both effectual and allow the user to keep a groups. Richard Ehrlichman, one of clean record.

Marijuana is becoming more commonPresident Richard Nixon’s advisors, said as much in comments given to Harper’s place in the medical field and state laws at Magazine two decades ago. He states that least are relaxing, but that is far from suffithe war on drugs was nothing more than a cient; we need a fundamental shift in how means by which the government could we treat drugs in general, especially those criminalize “the anti-war left and black that are not physically addictive such as people.” Nixon did not care about protect- hallucinogens and other substances coning the children or the so-called “moral taining psychoactive compounds. Other fabric” of the country, he only wanted a non-addictive substances have the strong means by which political dissidents could potential to be medically useful, but be arrested. Thus the government’s anti- research is barred because of how the drugs drug movement was born; a corrupt polit- are classified. Researchers believe that both ical maneuver from one of our shadiest mushrooms containing psilocybin and presidents. Moreover, the racial bias con- LSD could be used to treat a variety of distinues today, considering that black orders, but it’s difficult to find out due to Americans are still more likely to be picked the illegality of their use. Simply put, fear up on marijuana charges than white is getting away of medical progress, and Americans, despite the fact that both that’s inexcusable.

We have spent enough on the war on groups have about the same usage rates.

And let’s drop the pretense that smok- drugs. Not only is it a waste of money, it ing marijuana leads to harder drugs solely is a racially biased program and it has no by virtue of using it. According to a Pew place in our political system. It is an Research Poll, 49 percent of Americans embarrassment that American tax dollars have admitted to trying marijuana in their have been used as such for so long and it’s lifetimes. If marijuana really led to harder time to end it. and more addicting drugs, then our country would have a far bigger problem than Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and it actually does. What’s more, in 2013 the Sciences.

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It All Counts

obody ever tells you that there is more than one way to have sex. Growing up, we learn about sex from a variety of resources. My experience began with my cousin literally trapping me in a closet and making me listen to her explicitly state what part of a man goes in where in a woman while I covered my ears and pretended I didn’t believe or understand what she was saying.

Then my parents gave me a book when I was around ten years old, explaining that when a man and a woman love each other very much, and are ready to have a baby, there is something nice they could do. Middle school health classes were my next educators on the subject. I was told about anatomy, and again told what goes where. High school health class was essentially the same story, plus some basic demonstrations of condom-on-banana and other various objects to drive home the point that birth control is really important and easy. Our educators wanted to make sure we have sex the right way. I think it’s safe to say this is the experience most people have with sex, until they actually do it.

Besides knowing “what goes where” and that if I didn’t use protection I would supposedly get pregnant and die (Thanks, Mean Girls), all I knew was that sex was a process that should continue until the man ejaculated.

With this small amount of information, I considered myself an expert before I had even had my first kiss. I knew all there was to know about sex, because I knew everything I had been taught. I knew what real sex was. So what happens when, as a teenage girl, you realize you want to have sex with women?

Fantasizing and dreaming can only get you so far. My years of basic sex 101 hadn’t prepared me for this revelation. I didn’t know how to do it with a girl. I didn’t even know if it would “count” as sex if I did it with a girl. It would have been nice if my education in school had been more inclusive. Luckily, the internet is a great resource and the information is all out there, though hidden. Unfortunately, we are trained not to trust anything we read online. And it’s not like reputable websites are publishing lesbian sex manuals. Although I did find some information, I didn’t know what to trust or what was considered normal.

Fast forward to my first semester of college and my first experience with a girl. I confessed

I had no idea what I was doing. She admitted the same. It was awkward, we fumbled, and, embarrassingly enough, I even fell off the bed once or twice. I was embarrassed and apologetic. Eventually, I began to figure it out and enjoy it.

Virginity is an unimportant social construct. Every first is important to people in different ways, and nothing a person does before their first anything should diminish that first’s personal significance. In high school, I had sex with guys. I lost my virginity then, but I lost it again with the girl I met my first semester of college. It was a first, it was significant, and I should have known that it was normal. It counted.

So, now you’ve had sex with a girl. Your friends ask you how girls have sex, ask you what girls can do, and ask if it counts as real sex. They may even still consider you a virgin.

Because they didn’t learn anything about sex between two girls in school either. These questions hurt. I was so excited after my first experience that the next day I wrote in my old group chat with my high school friends to tell them I had finally had sex with a girl. I had to have uncomfortable conversations explaining what I did and answering those dreaded ques-

tions. The conversation left me feeling insecure because I wasn’t sure if what I had done was the same way other girls had sex with each other. I couldn’t give my friends straight answers.

When my friends have sex with guys, nobody writes in our group chat asking how they do it, because we all already know what goes where. Nobody ever teaches us that there is more than one way to have sex. Maybe sex education will become more inclusive, but for now we’re usually only taught about heterosexual sex from our parents and definitely from our schools. We don’t know if our sex is normal or right. If we are ambitious enough, we will figure it out ourselves through a process of trial and error that can be embarrassing, confusing and anxiety inducing. The answer is that there isn’t a right way to have sex. I don’t care what books about the birds and the bees or uncomfortable videos in middle school teach us. If what you’re doing feels good for both you and your partner, it is sex, and you are doing it right.

Eleanor Hickok is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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In Defense of the Handjob

t’s Thursday night. You took a prelim earlier that day, so there’s no way in hell you’re making it to your sections tomorrow. You got out of your exam just in time to make it to the pregame with your girls before the mixer. So naturally, you start the night off with some saccharine mixture of vodka and whatever flat, top-missing mixer y’all were able to find in the apartment’s kitchen. You throw in a few ice cubes for good measure because nobody remembered to put the off brand 2liter in the fridge. And the only thing worse than pregaming with flat vodka syrup is pregaming with tepid, flat vodka syrup.

Your buzz is on by the time the boys send one of the oh-socute-and-adorable pledges to pick you up in someone’s beaten to shit 4-runner. You and your squad of girls dressed in whatever those idiot boys thought was a good idea for a mixer theme pile into the car with no regard for the occupancy limit. You’re on your best friend’s lap and three others are in the trunk.

You arrive at the cleared out first floor of the fraternity house where the smell of already spilled beer does just enough to cover up the putrid smell of even more disgusting stale, spilled liquids.

You go along with the whole act: you dance, play pong and intermittently go upstairs to take shots of horrifically flavored Svedka in some guy’s room. Whatever, it’s a mixer. It’s neither a great time nor a terrible time. But eventually, it is time to head to C-town.

A different but equally adorable pledge comes to pick y’all up in a different but equally trashed mid-size SUV. This time though, you’ve split from your original troupe, and there’s a mix of guys and girls in the car. This time you’re sitting on the lap of one of those boys you played pong and took shots with. He’s no rockstar, but he’s adequately attractive and his overtly gimmicky attempts to make you laugh have started to grow on you. What a clown. On the ride to C-Town you notice him grasping the side of the door and staring intently out the window, concentrating as hard as he can to not to pop a boner every time a slight bump in the road causes you to bounce on his lap.

You get to Rulloff’s, Level B or whatever fucking bar is even left in this town, and he whips out his parents’ credit card to buy you and your friend a round of shots. It’s almost cute how he thinks you’re going to be impressed by spending 14 dollars of his mom’s money. Still, you appreciate the gesture, and oblige him by performing the well-practiced salt, tequila and lime production. The thought of hooking up with him has crossed your mind, and while at first the idea was detestable, the notion is becoming more palatable.

As you spend more of time at the bar with him, you realize you actually kind of like him. You find yourself even entertaining the thought of taking him home with you tonight. Your place for sure, because you’re not sleeping at a fucking frat house. Those days have passed.

You’re not going to make any extra effort to leave with him, but you’ll see how things go. There’s one thing for sure though,

you’re definitely not fucking this kid on the first night. First of all you’re not that into him, and second of all — just no. He’s not getting lucky tonight, but if he plays his cards right, he might just get the chance in the future. For now he’s going to have to settle for the offer on the table.

The bar is closing, and neither of you want CTP, the Taco Truck and especially not a fucking taquito from 7-11. You’re not particularly hungry; and while he says the same, you know he really just doesn’t want to spend the entire night, unable to sleep, holding in farts in the wishful scenario he gets laid. With the bars closed and no food pit stop, you present the invitation to follow you home back to your place.

You get in, and being the polite hostess you are, you offer a rinsed glass of the same abhorrent concoction you used to pregame. The both of you repair to the bedroom after barely sipping the vile liquid, and the hook up commences.

You’re enjoying making out with him. He’s not a terrible kisser; and eventually, you’re more than happy to allow him to slide his hand up your skirt, shift your thong to the side and insert his fingers inside of you. He’s not terrible at this either. In fact, he’s pretty good. He even knows what and where a clitoris is.

You reciprocate by sliding your hand down his pants to feel around for what he’s got going for him. Again, not bad.

Trimmed and of adequate size. He’s full chub so you play around, but with his belt on, you can’t get a great grip. He keeps working his magic fingers on you; and holy shit, you might actually cum. Yep, he keeps going. He’s working all the right spots in all the right ways. You pull your hand out of his pants to grip onto his back with both hands to hold on for dear life as you begin to climax. You’re cumming, and you have to bite into his shoulder to muffle the scream so you’re roommates don’t hear. Fuck, he knew what he was doing.

But now you’re faced with a dilemma. You want to reciprocate, you really do. But you’re absolutely not giving into sex on the first night. You’re also not particularly inclined to ram his cock into your mouth and swallow his cum. You don’t know where that penis has been, other than sweating it out all night.

And even though he’s well kempt, you’re really not trying to put in all the oral effort that goes into an adequate blowjob.

You kind of want him to stay over though. So you’re left with two options: turn over like you’re falling asleep and have to deal with his erection poking you in the back as he attempts to spoon all night, or give him a handjob.

You’ve heard the rumors. You’ve outright heard it from us boys — the infamous perils of the handjob. Well I’m here to tell you, do not shun the handjob. Do not fear the handjob. It has its place. It’s owed its due respect.

While you may have heard complaints about handjobs, they can still be very much appreciated in scenarios like these. Of course there’s the chance that even with such a gracious gesture,

this boy may return to his fraternity bros to lament having only received a handjob when you courteously drop him off at the frat house in the morning. But please don’t let the prospect of such churlish thankfulness dissuade your noble efforts.

We boys secretly do like a good handjob. The operative word here is good though. You see, we’ve been giving ourselves handjobs “since like the 5th grade.” So our standards are unfairly high.

That being said, there’s an assumed handicap when it’s coming from the fairer sex, so do not fret over experience. It’s also nice to have someone else do it, particularly a girl we’re in to bringing us to ejaculation instead of our depressing dominant hand.

Here are a few tips I’d like to share though, to help you make a handjob a pleasant experience rather than a horror story. First (if you’re comfortable doing so), take his pants off. You need full reign of motion here. He’s probably not going to cum if his belt is still on.

Second, and most importantly, err on the side of gentleness.

It’s better for us if you have too loose a hold than for us to experience the grip of death that leaves our dicks charred for days.

Dicks are not motorcycle throttles, don’t squeeze and twist.

Third, lubrication helps. A lot. If you feel okay doing so, spit on your hand (or even better, directly on) to assist in the process.

Keep in mind, this is meant to replicate intercourse, and sex is not a dry event. Reapply as needed to keep the same type of consistent wetness that would occur during the potential sex he might be graced with the opportunity to have with you.

Finally, mix it up. Go faster; go slower. Try different angles; try different motions. This is where you can use your creativity, because for the last decade, he’s been pretty much sticking to one boring motion. This is where you can blow his mind without blowing him. Knowing what works and what doesn’t takes time though. Practice makes perfect.

However, there is one significant problem presented by the procedure — clean up. For better or for worse, male splooge is a disastrously messy, explosive occurrence that requires either containment or detailed disinfection. We’re not crazy about drenching our own underpants, but that can come as a last resort. Whether you’ll allow your sheets to be the victim, or you’ve preemptively put the provision of tissue paper on your bedside table, this part is tricky. So it’s best left up to your personal preference.

Handjobs, if done correctly, can be a wonderful thing. We may have created the common misconception that they’re to be avoided like the plague. But I assure you, when faced with blue balled cuddling and a decent dick tugging, we will always prefer the latter. And I promise, that somewhat cute boy will come back for more no matter how you make him cum.

Slightly Above Average is a student at Cornell. Comments can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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he night of May 30, 2013, I sat in my kitchen holding a dirty quarter. The postmark deadline to claim my spot as a transfer student at Brown was the next day. If the coin landed on heads, I’d transfer; tails, I’d stay at Cornell — a place where I had been deeply unhappy the year before.

I don’t remember what the coin actually landed on.

While it was in the air I found myself hoping ever so

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ent school. This reasoning is particularly strange when I consider the fact that I didn’t even have friends at The Sun at that time, but staying at Cornell to keep writing for Arts felt right.

I’m glad to say that last point couldn’t be farther from the truth anymore. In addition to the wonderful people I see at the Sun office and the talented crew of Arts staff writers, I want to quickly thank some specific people who have made writing for The Sun so special. First, I want to thank my former editors — Arielle Cruz ’15, Sam Bromer ’16, Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15 and Sean Doolittle ’16 — for putting up with my antics, pushing my writing to be halfway decent and giving me something important to work towards. I also want to shout out the section’s current editors, Troy Sherman ’18 and Shay Collins ’18, for working tirelessly to improve the Arts section and being infinitely more skilled editors and managers than I ever was. Next, huge thanks to Jael Goldfine ’17, my former co-editor, for doing the most draining job I’ve ever had alongside me, bearing through our periods of disagreement and still being a friend after all the stress. Finally, cheers to the role models and mentors who didn’t even know it, stellar former Arts writers whom I looked up to and continue to look up to: Zach Zahos ’15, James Rainis ’14, Gina Cargas ’14 and many others.

slightly for tails, and I took it as a sign I should give Cornell another shot. Frankly, my sophomore year wasn’t much better and I thought for a while I had made the wrong decision. But sitting here writing my final column — a task I always thought about but never truly accepted would come — I’m beyond confident I made the right choice that night.

Through the power of hindsight, I now know that my time at Cornell has been more rewarding and transformative than I ever thought possible.

What I’ve come to learn, possibly too little too late, is how much of Cornell’s transformation in my eyes (or, more accurately, my transformation at Cornell) was a matter of optics.

My freshman self thought he was better, smarter, more interesting than everyone else, but I was really just a bitter asshole. I thought no friends in Ithaca could ever compare to my friends at home, but I was too selfabsorbed to realize how tight-knit the community of caring people surrounding me was — and that network has quadrupled or quintupled in size ever since. No new experiences, activities or communities roped me in as a freshman because I closed myself off to them, thinking involvement would interfere with the absurd media-fueled ideal of college happiness fed to incoming students. (Meaning parties mainly, which I don’t even enjoy that If Sun A&E was the biggest constant during my much.) A ton of immensely fulfilling opportunities and friendships were right in the palm of my hand, but I time at Cornell, then Electric Buffalo Records was the seed of my biggest transformation. It seemed simple at was too stupid to know they were there. the time: Jacob Grossfeld ’17 and I decided on someA huge part of why I stayed in Ithaca is actually the same reason I’m justifying writing my love letter to the what of a whim that we should start a record label. We school in this space: The Sun is truly the foundation of had no idea it would still be around now, let alone that we’d be releasing music by a host of talmy Cornell career. ented Cornellian artists and hosting The Sun Arts secshows that people actually attended. tion is honestly Electric Buffalo started to blossom just the only thing as I was coming around to loving that has remained Cornell, and I know that having such a constant over the 40 Percent daunting — yet immensely rewarding last few years.

Papier-Mâché — project to work towards was a masBy the end of sive reason for that change of heart. It my freshman year, exposed me to a side of campus I had previthe only thing I did besides wallow was write self-indulgent music reviews for Arts. As lame as it may ously ignored, and introduced me both to a host of sound, I liked writing my music reviews in peace, and brilliant people and a whole new side of myself.

It’s through both the Sun and Electric Buffalo didn’t want to have to go through the rigmarole of getting a spot at another (lesser) college paper at a differ- Records that I learned Cornell is so, so much more than

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a collection of lecture halls, dorms and dining halls with an accreditation, or four years of homework, papers and prelims with a degree at the end. Cornell, more than anything else, is the community of incredible people doing fascinating, inspiring things — both inside and outside the classroom — that constantly pushes me to be at the top of my game. Sure, Cornell isn’t without its (many, huge) flaws, and it wears all of us down from time to time, but it doesn’t need to be perfect to be great. I wish I had listened as all sorts of people around me tried to tell me this over the last three years: Cornell is a truly special place, imperfections and all. If it weren’t for the many rough patches that seemed interminable, I never would have grown like I did. It was not-so-simply a matter of finding my place on the Hill, and it’s a shame it took me almost three years to do it.

Even though I now know I’ll look back on my time here with the utmost fondness, that’s not to say I don’t have any regrets. Yes, there are a few “Cornell things” I still haven’t done: climb the clocktower, go to the Dairy Bar and swim in the gorges to name a few. I’ve got a couple weeks left to check those off (and I’ll try!) but they won’t be the missed opportunities that will eat at me one, five, ten years down the road. All my real regrets will be (and already are) related to people.

Part of the personal growth I mentioned has been baby steps at chipping away my super-thick shell.

Opening up to people doesn’t come quickly or easily to me, and I know I’ve missed out on a bunch of potential friendships as a result. I’m scarily good at convincing myself to say “no” to things, whether it be one last group therapy at Dunbar’s (RIP), supporting someone’s event on campus or following up with friends-to-be.

It’s in persuading myself out of so many experiences and recounting them as I COURTESY OF BUENA VISTA PICTURES write this column that I found a theme — a recipe for happiness that would have come in handy. I need to force myself to say “yes” instead of “no” as much as possible, and to stop closing doors before they open. My Cornell experience was just a couple important missed “no’s” away from being very different: I almost said no to writing an honors thesis that’s been so fulfilling, and, as I was recently reminded

by Matt Harkins ’16, I was dangerously close to convincing myself out of starting Electric Buffalo. Had the devil on my shoulder been a tiny bit more persuasive, this final column would have had a vastly different tone.

So here’s my one-liner of advice: say yes to all sorts of experiences while you’re here on the Hill because there are so many to be had. It’s really fucking cool that there are this many amazing people in one tiny dot in Upstate New York. Once you find your Sun / EBR, you’ll realize that Cornell is a radically different place than you ever thought it was. “Cornell” as a singular experience, place or institution doesn’t really exist; it’s you at Cornell that really matters. The fact that “Cornell” means something so different for everyone speaks volumes to the vast opportunities that exist here.

And with that bit of totally unsolicited advice, I conclude my column for the last time. All this was only possible because of you: the people who thought reading my self-indulgent writing was worth a damn at all.

Thanks for your help on this crazy journey. It has been quite a wild ride.

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com. 40 Percent Papier-Mâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Red Falls Just Short of Title

By ACHINDRA KRISHNA and SAM HUMMEL Sun Staff Writers

Stefan Vinti, the only senior on the Cornell men’s team, joked that he feels lonely on the squad. A stark moment of silence followed his comment, then he laughed.

“I’m just kidding,” Vinti said. “There are a lot of juniors on the team in the recruiting class of 2017 — which I am a part of — so I am really close with these guys.”

Vinti was a sophomore transfer and has played for the Red for the past three years — a seasoned vet by all accounts. As such, the senior has many interesting and unique insights into the Red’s tennis culture.

Vinti commented on how he’s seen the program develop over his three-year career in the program. According to Vinti, the change has been mostly cultural.

“The way we go about things is kaizen, which in Japanese represents the concept of constant and continuous improvement,” Vinti said. “I believe this year especially we’ve improved a lot. We have players who are really professional, dedicated, and have great work ethic on and off the court.”

Graduating next year, Vinti reminisced about some of his favorite Red tennis traditions. One of the things the lone senior will miss most is the team’s traditional pre-match chant.

“Everybody is involved with it,” Vinti said. “We get together, we form a circle, rock back and forth. It’s intense and a

great way to pump each other up. It’s typically led by a senior, so this year it’s me because I’m the only senior.”

Despite his fond memories, Vinti was mildly critical of the Red’s performance to start this season.

Following the men’s first match at Buffalo, the Red suffered five straight losses — hardly a strong start.

“It wasn’t an ideal scenario,” Vinti said.

“Some of the guys were coming back sluggish off the break. We took some time to gain traction in the season.”

After the slow start, however, the Red entered the ECAC Indoor Championships and changed the season around. After defeating St. John’s in the first round, 4-1, and Harvard in the semis, 4-1, the Red lost to Princeton in the finals, 1-5. According to Vinti, this was a definite highlight of the season.

“An incredible performance given our slow start this year,” Vinti said.

The Red finished the season with an overall record of 1 2 - 1 0 .

Notably, Vinti played at the third singles position and remained undefeated in the Ivy League season.

Vinti humbly said that statistics like

these aren’t important to him; rather, he prefers to focus on playing tennis for tennis’ sake, not for numbers.

“I’m not a big fan of checking results and monitoring stats closely,” Vinti said.

“Obviously it feels good, I won’t deny that. I’m just taking it match b y match, trying to do m y best and perform m y best. If

the tennis is good, results will follow.”

Cornell is currently waiting to see if it has done enough to warrant an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. While the team’s chances may have increased since recent victories over Penn and Princeton, Vinti said the chances are “contingent on other teams losing.”

The draw for the NCAAs will be announced at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3. For Vinti, this decision could be especially poignant.

Men’s squad graduates lone senior.

“Its definitely going to be very emotional, since this is my last season,” Vinti said.

The Cornell women’s tennis team (15-8, 4-3 Ivy) saw its hopes of the Ivy championship slip away in the team’s last bout against the Princeton Tigers with a 5-2 loss. The match was bittersweet, as it coincided with the Red’s senior day at home.

The team graduates two seniors this year, and with an offseason of improvement, the women have their sights set on redeeming themselves next season, and clinching the Ivy championship.

KARLY KRASNOW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Eye on the ball | The women’s tennis team ended the season just short of an Ivy title, losing to Princeton in the final game of the season.

Track Gears Up for Spring Heps

By CHARLES COTTON and BRITTANY BIGGS

ter job of showing up,” said men’s head coach Adrian Durant after the meet held in Ithaca.

Ever since, the Red has been using this as motivation in all of its After an abnormally warm, but long, winter, spring has finally outdoor meets.

“A loss like that is tough to take,” Durant said. “We have sprung, and with the change in the weather came the start of outdoor season for the Cornell men’s and women’s track and field teams. Thus to figure out what we can do to make sure that doesn’t hapfar, both teams are running on all cylinders, and as the season is relatively pen again.”

Cornell’s trip out West over spring break was just short, each squad is already making preparations for Outdoor Ivy Heps coming up in what the teams needed to get the outdoor season started. The Red took first place at the UCearly May. To end the Riverside Spring Invitational and was runner up indoor season, at UCLA’s spring invite.

Later in the season, the team excelled at the the men’s team finished in sec- unscored Bucknell Invitational where the men won six events. ond place behind This past weekend, they dominated both the Larry Ellis Invite at rival Princeton at Princeton and the Upstate Challenge at home. Durant called it the Ivy League the “perfect weekend” with Heps quickly approaching.

The Red has two more tune up events still to go, but all indoor championships back in late February, but as the favorites, the eyes have turned to Ivy Heps and a rematch with this year’s result was disappointing.

“We were the favorites going in and had been doing very well all year, host, Princeton.

Durant said he is happy with the way his athletes are but when it came time to step up to the plate, Princeton just did a betperforming but has warned them about JASON complacency.

BEN “When you are competing well it is NATHAN / SUN SENIOR easy to become complacent,” Durant PHOTOGRAPHER said. “In order to win the Outdoor Heps we’ll have to stay hungry and CAROLINE MAX go into the meet with an underdog KELLNER HAIRSTON Junior jump specialist Bobby mentality regardless of what the Plummer said he knows his team is ranking and performance lists A member of last Hairston was quite strong this outdoor season and shows. We need to compete like year’s second team named a second is looking forward to it paying off soon. all the odds are against us, and all-Ivy squad, the team All-Amerfight until the end.”

To read the rest of this article, please visit Despite teaching this mentalsenior co-captain has continued ican last year at the 110m hurwww.cornellsun.com. ity, Durant said he wants his her success this season with a dles. This year he’s been similarteam’s morale to remain high On a roll | With Ivy heps fast approaching, dominant win in the 10K at ly strong, most recently winning and he knows the circumhead coach Adrian Durant said he’s happy with stances this year are differthe 110m hurdles at Princeton.

UCLA earlier this year. the Red’s momentum. ent from last.

Sun Staff Writers

Solid weekends have Cornell set for successful championships.

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onsistency, preparation and focus are the name of the game for collegiate lacrosse. Development and improvement are inevitable if teams and players focus on these key ideas.

These factors have been especially important for the success of the Cornell men’s lacrosse team, given its large freshmen class. With 17 freshmen on the roster, head coach Matt Kerwick’ emphasis on senior leadership has been key in helping all of the younger players transition to collegiate lacrosse and college in general.

Despite a talented crop of freshmen and a senior class that has consistently provided leadership all season, the Red has struggled this season, posting just a 6-6 record including a 1-4 conference record.

“I think that our team has developed very well through the season,” said senior midfielder Ryan Matthews. “On the offensive end, I think our chemistry is improving and we are becoming more comfortable playing with each other.”

Matthews has 17 goals and three assists on the season thus far and has proved to be one of the Red’s most consistent players.

The senior leadership is definitely working, as evident by the success of the freshmen, who have proved themselves to be some of the most valuable players on the team.

Freshman attack Colton Rupp is leading the team with 22 goals; freshman midfielder Ryan Bray is tied with senior midfielder John Edmonds for most assists with 12 and also has nine goals; freshman midfielder Clarke Petterson has nine goals and four assists. In addition to those three, freshman attack Anthony Teixeira has four goals and four assists. Rupp, Teixeira and — most recently — Petterson have all won Ivy League Rookie of the Week at some point in the season.

“The younger guys have done a great job thus far,” Matthews said. “They continue to improve everyday.”

Senior midfielder John Edmonds has also been a key leader on the team.

“It’s nice playing with Edmonds,” Rupp said.

“He’s really showed us the way, and all the seniors have whose us what college lacrosse is like and how hard we work here, and it’s just been a great opportunity and really exciting so far.”

Edmonds is one of the few offensive players on the team who saw much play time last year. Even the upperclassmen on the squad this season did not play much in 2015, a year that was highlighted by the elite play of the class of 2015.

Rupp is only the fifth player in Cornell men’s lacrosse history to have at least 20 rookie season goals.

Edmonds noted the freshman class’s marked improvement.

“I think they've really done a great job adapting to the change of college lacrosse,” he said. “They’ve picked it up

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor extremely quick, and they continue everyday to get better and better, which is extremely impressive.”

Many of the freshmen were thrown into the fire immediately, tasked with carrying the offensive load against powerhouses like Virginia.

“I think all the freshmen have improved throughout the year making better decisions and realizing how college lacrosse is played,” Bray said.

Most of the class agrees that the fast pace of collegiate lacrosse is the biggest difference between high school and college.

“Everything moves faster in college and there's less room to make mistakes,” Teixeira said. “You have to be sharp every day.”

At least four freshmen have started in each of the Red’s past 10 games. Kerwick said that they “weren’t freshmen any longer” after seeing so much valuable time on the field throughout the course of the year.

With a young t e a m , though, comes fewer expectations, and, outside of week

one, the Red has not been ranked in the top 20 all season.

Yet there have been bright spots. In addition to strong offensive development, Cornell is also dominating the face-off and ground ball game, just as in last season.

Junior midfielder Domenic Massimilian, who broke out last season and finished with an incredible 151 ground balls and .645 faceoff percentage (first in the Ivy League, seventh in the country), is having a solid season once again with 109 ground balls and a .637 faceoff percentage. He now ranks sixth in Cornell history for most career ground balls third for most career faceoff wins.

The Red’s defense has also been solid, with senior

goalkeeper Brennan Donville and senior defender Tony Britton providing sound leadership.

“We [have] always had an expression on our team,” Donville said. “We say ‘well done is better than well said.’

If there’s something you want the freshmen to do, if there’s a way you want them to play or way you want them to act when they’re with Cornell lacrosse, you don’t tell them how to act that way [but] try to show it everyday in practice.”

Cornell’s man-down defense ranks first in the nation, and Britton’s 32 caused turnovers put him ninth in Cornell history. Britton ranks 18th in the country in caused turnovers per game with 1.64.

However, a recent loss to No. 3 Brown this past Saturday, all but sealed the Red’s postseason fate, and this weekend’s game against Princeton is mostly about pride.

“We have to put this one behind us because now it’s a pride game against our biggest rival in Princeton next weekend,” Kerwick said. “The focus has to go to that.”

Nevertheless, Brown has the best offense in the country, and it’s important that the Red look at the positives that have come away from the season. Kerwick has stressed senior leadership and mentorship all season and firmly believes that it is up to the players, not him, to determine their lacrosse fate.

“We say to these guys all the time ‘it’s your team, it’s not our team,’” he said. “ It’s up to you guys to bring the intensity and the effort and if you do that and we put the practices together that we think are necessary to win, those two things combined are going to give the outcome we want.”

KARLY KRASNOW / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

It’s good! | Senior midfielder Emmy Poccia celebrates a goal in the Red’s win over Virginia. The seniors have been critical to guiding the squad’s talented freshmen class.

THE FABULOUS FRESHMEN RYAN BRAY Bray’s balance of scoring and facilitating has made him one of the most dangerous players on offense this year. His 12 assists are tied for first on the team and he’s tied for fourth in goals with fellow freshman Petterson. His passing ability was on display against Lehigh when he dished out three assists in the Red’s win.

COLTON RUPP Rupp sits at first on the team in goals with 22 so far this season.

With four hat tricks on the year so far this year — including against ranked teams like Yale, Albany and Virginia — Rupp has shown his ability to score against top competition. In high school, he was a US Lacrosse AllAmerican.

CLARKE PETTERSON After not scoring in the Red’s first three games of the season, Petterson announced his arrival to the team when he scored twice versus Virginia. His best game of the season was a three-goal effort in the Red’s overtime defeat of Syrcacuse. He’s been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week twice this year.

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Work it out | The lightweight rowing team took second in the Geiger Cup last weekend, losing to No. 2 Columbia.

RED CONTINUES PUSH TO CHAMPIONSHIPS ROWING CRUISES TOWARD END OF SEASON

By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer

In the midst of Cornell’s men’s and women’s rowing teams’ racing seasons, the three teams have much to look forward to at the end of the season when their most crucial races take place.

“I am really looking forward to our last race of the regular season against Dartmouth and Penn on May 30,” said senior and men’s heavyweight captain Michael Colella. “Not only will this race be incredibly competitive, but it will also be the last home regatta for the 11 seniors on the team.”

Despite the crowded schedule so far this season, senior Ellen Barrett said she’s most looking forward to the final races of the season.

“Although we race throughout the year, our main racing season is at the end of the school year and during finals,” Barrett said.

“Being successful in the classroom and on the water are both extremely important for our team and it can only happen if we focus on what is most important.”

Focus is a major factor for both teams. Not only do the athletes have to concentrate on efficiently managing their time to do well academically, but they must focus on what they have spent their entire season trying to accomplish.

“As a team, our biggest challenge is to remain focused on the big picture of the Eastern Sprints and the IRA regatta,” Colella said. “Our dual season serves as a way to test our speed throughout the season, but it is our performance at the conference and national championship that are most important. We are very intentional in taking positive steps everyday to have our best race when it matters most.”

The women’s rowing team has had great success thus far this season against Ivy teams.

“The highlight of our season so far was racing Harvard and Princeton,” Barrett said. “Beating Dartmouth was also a great race, but we definitely have more to do.”

The men’s team has had highlights in other races, notably in the Goes Cup against Navy and Syracuse in mid-April.

“With wins in the Varsity, JV and 3V we were able to bring home the Goes Trophy and the Stag Cup for the third year in the

row,” Colella said. “This was our first away race of the season, and we are looking to build upon this momentum as we enter our competitive racing season.”

As far as practices go, both men and women have been using them to fine tune issues and try to remain sharp for the rest of season.

“We have been lucky to have

much warmer weather this year and have been on the water since the end of February,” Colella said.

“As we enter racing season, practices are more focused on short and intense pieces compared to the longer workouts we do in throughout the year.”

This is more effective in keeping the athletes well rested and on

top of their game for their races.

“Practices for us have been pretty solid,” Barrett said. “I think we’ve spent a lot of time figuring out changes we can make to have the fastest boat race at Ivy Championships which is ultimately our goal.”

As the men’s side prepares for Eastern Sprints and the IRA

Regatta, the women’s side looks to the Ivy Championships and the NCAA Championships.

“What I’m looking forward to in the rest of the season is to have some aggressive races and to scare teams,” Barrett said. “I think we have found some new speed and I am excited to see what we can do with it.”

Women’s Polo Defends National Title

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

For the second time in two years, the Cornell women’s polo team has earned a national championship. Seeded first overall in the national tournament hosted by the UConn, Cornell defeated Cal Poly along with Texas A&M en route to its remarkable 15th USPA Intercollegiate National Title. The men’s team also traveled to nationals after a surprisingly dominant season, but lost to the UVA in a tough semifinal matchup.

As the No. 1 overall seed, Cornell drew No. 4 Cal Poly in the semifinal and defeated them by a score of 18-10, in what was an impressive Wednesday tune-up match before the finals. Senior Anna Winslow tallied 11 goals for the Red, and junior Emma Eldredge added four. Texas A&M’s shootout victory over UVA Wednesday afternoon set up a Saturday meeting between the Red and the Aggies for the title.

After a few days of rest, Cornell was back in action on Saturday. The Red looked fresh and jumped out to an early lead, closing the first chukker up, 4-2. After a back-and-forth second, Cornell took a 7-5 lead into the half. Texas A&M came back in the third, though, and a four goal swing gave the Aggies a critical 10-8 advantage going into the decisive chukker. With all eyes on Storrs, Connecticut, the Red rallied and put up five straight goals to open the period.

“Composure,” said head coach David Eldredge ’81 when asked what made the difference going into the fourth. “We spoke [between chukkers] about their focus on our game plan and their execution.”

It certainly paid off. The Aggies got one back late in the fourth, but Cornell held on for the 13-11 victory. Seniors Winslow and Elena Wicker led the way in scoring with six goals apiece.

Cornell did have high expectations for the season in defending its title, but the team’s coach was still quite proud of the Red’s accomplishment and the way in which the women went about it.

“The women set their goal and achieved it with sportsmanship and honor,” Eldridge said. “I’m very proud of their composure and dedication to their challenge…

Their mental toughness was evident throughout the whole year.”

The Cornell men, coming off of a regional title, faced off against UVA on Thursday night in the

national semifinal but were unable to close the Cavaliers out in the fourth chukker, losing 13-10 when all was said and done. The Red led, 10-8, after three chukkers, but in a similar turn of events to the women’s championship, UVA rallied for five straight.

Eldredge, also the men’s coach, felt that the Red had its fair share of bad luck in the final chukker.

“We couldn’t buy a bounce of the ball,” Eldredge said. “You have to have some good luck to win along with skill.”

Still, his team’s defiance of all odds throughout the year left him extremely proud.

“The men exceeded BRIAN STERN / expectations and SUN FILE PHOTO blew my mind Coming up in what they accomshort | The men’s polo team was knocked out of the national semifinals by Virginia.

plished this year,” he said.

“Literally, they had half the experience of their opponents, but because of their dedication and belief in themselves and their coach, they succeeded … It was kind of awe inspiring.”

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DEFENSE PROPELS RED TO 11-3 RECORD F

By JEFF ASIEDU

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ourteen games into the season and the Red is rolling through what could be one of the greatest seasons in recent memory for the program.

The Red won eight straight games to start the season and set the record for the best start to a season in history;, now through 14 games the women have lost only three games. Lead by an outstanding senior class headed by senior co-captains Brittany Marriott and Emily Tripodi, the Red has been able to achieve at a high level all spring, and could be poised to achieve the team’s eventual goal of an Ivy League championship.

On offense, the team is led by Tripodi, a senior who managed to carve her own place in Cornell history this year by earning the all-time record for assists in Cornell’s women’s lacrosse program history. She currently has 107 assists on record and is one of the leading contributors to the team’s offense in every game.

Along with Tripodi, one of the most dangerous parts of the Red’s

potent offense has been its balance. Cornell has been remarkably balanced this season; seven players have scored more 18 or more points over the course of the year, including junior Catherine Ellis, senior Olivia Mattyasovszky, junior Kristy Gilbert and sophomores Taylor Reed and Joey Coffy.

“Our team’s morale has been amazing this entire season. We’re incredibly close and we rely on that dynamic to get us excited to p l a y each game and to keep our energy up to play the full sixty minutes,” said Mattyasovszky, who is also a staff writer for The Sun. The Red’s balanced, high-powered offense has been pivotal this season as the women started out the season strong.

Cornell has managed to defeat all but one of its Ivy League opponents. The lone defeat was a heartbreaking loss to Princeton, the only remaining undefeated team in Ivy play.

Undefeated until spring break, the Red dropped its first game of the season to the No. 1 team in the nation, Maryland. The tough loss to the Terrapins — who remain undefeated at this point in the season — gave the team some great takeaways, according to head coach Jenny Graap.

“We learned a lot competing against the two-time defending national champs,” Graap said. “Maryland was so fast and so skilled, they demonstrated clearly what a

top D.I. team looks like, and we needed to experience the 60 minute on the field battle against the best in the country.”

The nine goals scored by the Red against the Terrapins tied the most scored against them at that point in the season. Players on the team agreed with their coach’s takeaways from the matchup against the Terrapins.

“Even though we lost to Maryland by eight goals, our team felt like we put up a great fight and it taught us that we can hang with the top teams in the country,” Marriott said.

Aside from Marriott on defense, the Red is anchored by junior goaltender Renee Poullott and Catie Smith. Poullott recently won her second Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week award, an honor that Smith also earned earlier in the year.

“Catie Smith has been having an AllAmerican season on defense, and we rely on her so much to get caused turnovers and shut down opponents’ top players,” Mattyasovszky said.

In the cage, Poullott is also having a nationally great season; she ranks fifth nationally in average goals-against at 6.57.

Yet despite her

Fortunately, we came out with the win, which I believe was well earned.”

Over the course of the season so far, the Red have faced off against five Ivy League opponents, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton and most recently, Harvard. Cornell has managed to defeat all of those opponents save for the Tigers and this has the Red in a strong position as the season begins to round down.

“We set a lofty goal of winning the conference and we still have a long way to go,” Mattyasovszky said. “Our [two] conference games left are against tough opponents, but we are still confident our goal is completely within reach. We are starting to get into a groove offensively, and our defense is only getting better and better with each game.”

As the regular season comes to a close, the women’s lacrosse team has just one game left, a clash against Penn. “ O u r schedule was definitely a factor in us going 8-0 to start the season; the most competitive teams on our schedule are all in the second half,” Mattyasovszky said.

“That being said, we’ve work-

success, the junior is quick to give credit to the entire team for her own performance.

“This season my “We pride ourselves on having a very strong defensive teammates have made my job as a unit that other teams are not able to get through.” goalie very easy. Our attackers have done a — Renee Poullott fantastic job pressuring other teams and have been able to come up ed inwith a lot of caused turnovers in credibly hard and it’s t h e ride,” said Poullott. “We starting to show with our pride ourselves on having a very offensive chemistry and the cons t ro n g defensive unit that tinued brilliance of our defense. We’re other teams are not able to easso, so excited to get a chance to prove to the ily get through.

U l t i m a t e l y, lacrosse world that we are a top team and can our midfielders and line play with any team in the Top-20.” defenders have limited our Following the Penn game, the Red will has the Ivy opponents shooting opportunities League championship, a four-team playoff hosted by the to weak shots from very low angles.”

Although the Red lost its matchup against Maryland, top team in the league. Depending on the results from the Red bounced back in full force against Dartmouth, the rest of the season, Cornell could continue its year in the national tournament. dominating the Ivy foe, 12-5.

“Each one is going to be a fight, but we know that “Dartmouth is one of our team’s biggest rivals so everyone gets really fired up to play them. We were con- when we play our best, we can beat anyone,” fident about how we stacked up against the Big Green Mattyasovszky said. even coming off our Maryland loss,” Coffy said.

DANA DANIELS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “Although every game we play is important, there is definitely more emphasis and on competing strongly in our Defensive pressure | Senior defender Maddie Kiep and conference, so we did not take this game lightly. the rest of the Red’s defense rank sixth in the country.

PLAYERS TO WATCH RENEE POULLOTT Poullott’s standout performance in cage is a big reason why Cornell’s defense is sixth in the nation. She’s earned two Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, most recently garnering the award this weekend.

JOEY COFFY After starting every game as a freshman, Coffy has continued her strong play this year. The sophomore currently has the third most goals on the team and notched a career-high four goals against Penn State.

CATIE SMITH Smith has caused 33 turnovers this season, 22 more than the next highest player. She sits at 10th in the nation in caused turnovers and ranks first on the team in ground balls.

AIME DICKSON Despite playing in just 11 of the team’s 14 games, Dickson is second on the team in goals with 21. She scored at least three goals against Albany, Binghamton, Maryland and Har vard.