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M*A*S*H Actor,Writer Alan Alda to Speak at C.U.

By CHLOE RIPPE Sun Staff Writer

Rawlings returns | Interim President Rawlings addresses the student body at a Student Assembly meeting yesterday in Willard Straight Hall.

Rawlings Greets Students at S.A.Meeting Says he has no‘long term plans’ in temporary tenure at University “This is a holding position until a new, permanent president comes to Cornell,” Rawlings said. “So in that sense, don’t ask me what long range plans I have because I don’t have any and I President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III, in his first address shouldn’t have any. Feel free to ask me all other stuff and I’ll answer as best I can.” to the student body since returning to Cornell Julia Montejo ’17 emphasized her belief as interim president, discussed student finan“This is a holding that the University needs a contingency plan cial aid for undocumented and international position until a new, to help undocumented students if the next students at a Student Assembly meeting United States President repeals Deferred Thursday. permanent president Action for Children Arrival Status. The Rawlings was joined in his address by Ryan comes to Cornell.” administration recently announced it will proLombardi, Vice President of Students and Interim President Rawlings vide need-blind admissions and need-based Campus Life. Rawlings first expressed his confinancial aid for undergraduate students with dolences for President Elizabeth Garrett, sayDACA. ing that he returned to Cornell under such “When this policy was made there was no contingency plan tragic circumstances motivated by a desire to help the University.

Rawlings also stressed that his return to Cornell is only temporary.

See RAWLINGS page 4

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Surprise visit

Actor and writer Alan Alda willspeak on the relationship between science and media on May 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.

Throughout his career, Alder has played Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce in the TV show M*A*S*H and hosted PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers. His later work fostered his interest in facilitating communication between the scientific community and the media, philanthropists, policymakers and the public, according to the University.

Alder has since participated in creating S t o n y B r o o k University’s Alan Alda Center for Commun ALDA icating Science, which holds workshops with techniques such as improvisational theater to help scientists communicate clearly and effectively.

Cornell’s Kavli Institute for See ALDA page 4

East Ave.Work SparksTCAT Delays

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE

ZACH GIBSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES

President Barack Obama laughs yesterday after surprising student journalists at a mock press briefing in Washington, D.C..

… due to congestion caused by the construction and rerouting,” Poist said.

TCAT announced Tuesday on its website that routes 10, 30, 32, 75 (weekend), 81, 82, and 90 are on detour for the

assuming other construction does not interfere.

Community members ex Due to East Avenue’s closure pressed frustration with the for maintenance and road route changes, time delays and repairs until May 9, bus stops increased commute time. will be rerouted along West Alice Li ’18 said on Tuesday Avenue, Tower Road she was forced to wait and Garden Avenue, “[The bus] looped around down to West around 20 minutes for according to Tompkins a TCAT bus to arrive at Consolidated Area [campus] before it arrived even close to its designated bus stop.

Transit.

“I waited for the Goldwin Smith Hall.”

The construction 9:54 bus on Highland has caused the TCAT and Wyckoff …[but] it Alice Li ’18 to re-route and has never came,” she said. resulted in delays to the “I waited at the bus bus schedule, according to Patty remainder of the project, several stop for another 20 minutes to Poist, TCAT Communications days after East Avenue closed. finally get on the 10:12 bus, Marketing Manager.

Poist said that these bus re- which was also late. It looped “Generally, there can be routes will remain the same delays throughout this duration throughout the construction, See TCAT page 4

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News, “Cornell University Assembly Suggests New Cornell Store Price Model,” Wednesday Speaking about a plan which would reduce the prices students pay at the Cornell Store “It’s not a huge number, but if you have a textbook that costs $200 and you buy five of them, it does make a difference.”

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Opinion, “After Nine Years, Cornell Alumni Lead Last White House Seder,” Thursday Speaking about the informal seder held in a basement during President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign “Just as we were about to start, Obama popped his head in and said ‘Hey, is this where the seder is happening?’”

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IFC Triples Allocation to Scholarship Funding City

Man Robbed On West Buffalo Street A man walking on West Buffalo Street was attacked by three black men on Wednesday night, according to The Ithaca Journal. Three men punched him in the face and stole his backpack before running away from the scene.

The man said that a cell phone and other miscellaneous items were in the backpack, the Journal reported.

National Competency Hearing Of Man Accused Of Planned Parenthood Shootout Inconclusive A competency hearing tasked with determining if the man accused of the deadly shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorodo Springs last year can stand trial ended Thursday without a resolution, according to The Washington Post.

A mental health evaluation found Robet Lewis Dear Jr. incompetent. A judge has not made a decision if the trial will be held, The Post reported.

International Airstrike Destroys Syrian Hospital Amid Fears of Castrophic Turn In Fighting Pilots bombed targets in Aleppo, Syria and destroyed a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to The Washington Post. The strikes killed at least 60 people within a day-long period between Wednesday and Thursday; among the dead were children and doctors. The nationality of the pilots is still unknown, but the Syrian and Russian air forces recently have been bombing Aleppo in attempts to kill rebels, The Post reported.

U.S. Soldiers Defy North Korean Propaganda by Teaching Defectors English American military personnel are teaching English to North Korean defectors at the main military base in Seoul. The New York Times reports that soldiers teach students ranging in age from adolescence to middle age.

The South Korean government funds the organization that provides the teaching. The idea came from a North Korean defector who used to work for a state ministry that prevented foreign media and publications from reaching the North Korean people. The goal of the program is to help people adjust to their new lives and to help them forget the propaganda they have been taught, according to The Times.

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Will offer $1,500 in grants, merit-based funding to bolster diversity

By REBECCA EVEN Sun Staff Writer

In an effort to eliminate financial barriers preventing students from joining fraternities, the Interfraternity Council will supply an additional $15,000 in scholarships and need-based aid to new members beginning in the 2016-17 school year.

Blake Brown ’17, President of the IFC, acknowledged that membership dues can be a deterrent for many students although the IFC has offered $5,000 in scholarship money in the past, the organization noticed that the funds did not have as much of an effect as the IFC had hoped.

“The IFC has sponsored New Member Grants and merit-based scholarships for a number of years, but we found that we were not impacting enough students,” he said. “While we recognize that we cannot cover every potential new member’s financial needs, we nonetheless feel empowered to increase our scholarship fund and widen the scope of our impact.”

Brown added that IFC aims to start a discussion and encourage diversity in fraternities with this new allocation.

“If this scholarship expansion can allow even a few more students to join fraternities, then it is completely worth it to us,” he said. “Diversity is something that should be celebrated and supported and that’s what the IFC aims to do through this initiative.”

The need-based grants — where most of the total scholarship money will be focused — will be distributed through an application process, while two people will be given merit-based scholarships, according to Adam Kahn ’17, Vice President for Finance of the IFC .

“A majority of the aid covers new members’ initial dues with 15 percent of the funds covering general membership dues,” he said.

Kahn emphasized that equal access to membership is pivotal for continued success for the

Greek system.

“If our fellow Greek undergraduates and alumni truly want to strengthen our Greek community and promote its continued success, we must work to ensure that Cornellians have access to financial resources so that they can make the same great decision to join a fraternity,” he said.

Kahn said the main goal of the new policy is to encourage openness in fraternities.

“As a result of the increased availability of scholarship money, the IFC hopes to continue moving forward towards a more diverse and accepting community,” he said.

According to Phil Variano ’18, President of Delta Upsilon, there is a clear need for more scholarship money, which will help to decrease financial concerns rushing imposes on some students.

“I know a handful of students that had to take on a part-time job to pay dues and some who couldn’t join chapters because they just couldn’t afford it,” he said. “I’m confident that this scholarship model will alleviate some of these issues.”

Rebecca Evan can be reached at revan@cornellsun.com.

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Policy Students Garner Leadership Accolades

By JACK WENDLER Sun Staff Writer

Isabel Band grad and Eric Schultz grad received Adams Leadership Awards and $3,000 stipends — given to qualified graduate students pursuing a masters in Public Administration and Public Policy — at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs Colloquium on Thursday.

Samuel Adams MPA ’74, a CIPA alum, said that this award is not only distributed to students based on their academic record “but also [their] commitment to

Band described this experience people who I can think of that community service and demonas, “very humbling” saying, he was would be great for the award.” strated leadership.”

Schultz said he hopes to pursue “It’s terrific from my perspec- “honored” by the recognition.

“One of the greatest things a career in education policy. tive, because you really get an “I am interested opportunity to in education policy, honor people who are outstanding in “It’s terrific from my perspective, because you especially in linking the work that they’ve really get an opportunity to honor people who the pathways between school disdone,” he said. “It’s are outstanding in the work that tricts and the educanot easy to do what tion pipeline to these people do. they’ve done.” labor market deWhen I went to Samuel Adams MPA ’74 mands in rural Cornell I did well areas,” he said. academically, but Schultz said he plans to pursue there wasn’t that much focus on about this [masters program] is the community service. That’s what people that we get to work with,” his academic interests with the this award recognizes.” he said. “There are a million other scholarship, but has not decided on his plans for after graduation.

Band said she will work for the U.S. Government Accountability Office after this spring.

The awards ceremony concluded a weekly lecture series on public policy and affairs. Scott Litman ’98, managing director and co-portfolio manager of Oaktree Capital’s Infrastructure and Investing Strategy sector, spoke about opportunities for development in the airport industry, honing in on San Juan’s airport as an example of successful airport development.

The series — which began in fall 2011 and features six to eight speakers per semester — is also open to the public. The colloquium is essential for graduate students studying to receive the 2year masters degree CIPA, according to its website.

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Leading the pack | Eric Schultz grad and Isabel Ban grad, two students pursuing a masters in Public Administration, receive the Adams Leadership award at a ceremony Thursday.

Jack Wendler can be reached at jwendler@cornellsun.com.

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TCAT Lines Will Be Rerouted Following East Ave.Closure TCAT

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around down to West [campus] before it arrived even close to Goldwin Smith Hall. The delay caused me to miss my class.”

Li said she was especially frustrated because the bus re-routes were not released until midday Tuesday.

“I live pretty far from central campus and the with the new rerouted bus schedule I cannot rely on the bus to get me to classes on time,” Nicole “We apologize for any Forman ’18 said. “I have had to walk inconveniences but that’s all of this week.”On behalf of TCAT just the downside of operations, Poist apologized for the improving our infrastructure.” delays invoked by the rerouting.

“We apologize for any inconveniences but that’s just the downside Patty Poist of improving our infrastructure,” she said.

Frustration with TCAT route changes and subsequent increased commute time is compounded by major construction and road closures in Collegetown, according to Amanda Levin ’16.

“All of a sudden yesterday, they closed every road in collegetown, the road right in front of my driveway,” Levin said, who lives on Eddy Street.

Levin emphasized how this construction makes her trip to campus more difficult.

“You have to leave 10 extra minutes to get anywhere and there are near accidents every day because the buses can’t fit down the half closed roads,” she said. “Then, once you get to campus, the main road is closed again, which has been closed for two and a half of my four years here.”

Poist said community members should expect other detours and bus reroutes as “we approach construction seasons.” TCAT will release these route changes once construction is confirmed.

“We just ask passengers to be patient,” Poist said.

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sacriche@cornellsun.com.

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Rawlings Stresses‘Sustainable’ Initiatives RAWLINGS

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for what will occur or what things will look like if DACA is gone,” Montejo said. “That could very much be a reality come November.”

Rawlings stressed the need for substantiability in creating new programs.

“I think the [financial aid policy for students with DACA] you mentioned is really quite good,” he said. “We had no such program while I was here either of the last two times so that’s a good step. Now you’re saying ‘Can it be sustainable?’ and that’s the right question to ask.”

Lombardi addressed Montejo’s concerns about how the University would aim to maintain its financial aid policy in place even if their DACA status is changed under the 45th president.

“We obviously are also tracking the upcoming election and certainly we will be watching federal policy,” Lombardi said. “When we did talk about this we talked about making sure whatever happens we would maintain the spirit that if DACA were to go away at the federal level we would still figure it out on the local level.”

Rawlings also responded to the University’s planned termination of need-blind financial aid for international students in fall 2017, reiterating the

importance of longevity.

“We have a limited amount of resources at Cornell and it’s really hard to do everything we want to do,” Rawlings said. “Doing all those things is really tough so the job is to try to balance those things as best we can with the resources we have ... That’s a long winded way of saying we can’t meet every need.”

Saim Chaudhary ’17, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, raised the question of diversity training for faculty and resource center establishment and expansion, but Rawlings cited the University’s limited capacity to add further resources to these efforts.

“We apparently have requests for a whole bunch of [resource centers],” Rawlings said “How many centers should we create? Every time we create a new center and spend money on it, we can’t spend on some other priority.”

Rawlings emphasized that, like the faculty and administration, students are “being asked to do more with less” under current financial constraints.

“Everybody’s being asked to do more with less,” he said. “The faculty is and maybe to some extent the students are. Just be as helpful as you can. It sounds as if you already are but I’m just underlining that.”

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun.com.

Actor, Writer Alan Alda to Speak at C.U. ALDA

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Nanoscale Science — which is hosting Alda — will be holding these workshops in May for its researchers and associates. Alda will address the communication of scientific

concepts to audiences of varying backgrounds in his upcoming talk, according to the press release.

There are 1,200 tickets on sale to accommodate interested individuals. Remaining tickets will be on sale at Bailey Hall one hour prior to the event.

Tickets are available at Willard Straight Hall, Carpenter Hall, the Physical Sciences Building and the Ithaca Visitor Center, according to the press release.

Chloe Rippe can be reached at crippe@cornellsun.com.

15-Year-Old Pleads Guilty in Cafeteria Shooting HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty Thursday to charges expected to keep him locked up at least until he’s 21 for opening fire on fellow students in a school cafeteria for reasons that remain unclear.

James Austin Hancock, replying “Yes sir” and “No sir” as

Butler County Juvenile Court Judge Ronald Craft questioned him, pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and one count of inducing panic.

Prosecutors dropped four felonious assault counts. Craft ordered a pre-sentencing investigation and agreed to a defense

request for a psychological evaluation of Hancock before he sentences him June 6.

Before he was led away, ankles shackled, the youth hugged his parents and other relatives, some sobbing and assuring him: “We love you, Austin.”

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Syrian Refugees Struggle To Find Shelter

KRNJACA, Serbia (AP) — She has wide brown eyes, rosy cheeks and thick black hair. Her name is Serbia Merkel alMustafa.

Serbia for the country where she was born just a few days ago, Merkel for the leader of Germany, where her Syrian refugee parents want to go in their desperate attempt to escape the war at home.

The al-Mustafa family is among hundreds of refugees stuck in Serbia after Austria and several Balkan nations shut their borders to migrants this winter.

But the route that saw one million people reach Western Europe last year seems to be picking up in pace once again — and the family of four has high hopes of reaching their dream location soon.

“Inshallah, we will be in Germany one day,” Jaafar, the proud father, said Thursday as he caressed his tiny daughter's cheeks inside a cramped room with bunk beds at a drab refugee camp near Belgrade, the Serbian capital.

“We walked across mountains, nearly drowned in the rough seas,” Jaafar said, holding the baby as mother Rasmyah tenderly watched after leaving a Belgrade maternity hospital just a day before. “Nothing will stop us now.”

Serbia Merkel is just one of many who have been born during the largest exodus into Europe since World War II. And she is not the only one named after Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, for her welcoming policies toward migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

But since the closure of the Balkan migration route and a European Union deal with Turkey to deport some migrants back there, things have gone sour for the migrants. Thousands have

been stuck in Greece, many camping in appalling conditions on the border with Macedonia, and thousands more have been forced to turn to human traffickers.

Jaafar al-Mustafa, a 27-yearold who walks with a metal cane, thinks Macedonian police let them into the country from Greece because they felt pity for the family that also included 20 month-old Sarah and his heavily pregnant wife, 23-year-old Rasmyah.

“We have walked most of the way to Serbia,” he said. “My wife started getting pains while walking. Lucky we made it to here before she started giving birth.”

The migrants stuck in Serbia, including many children, are trying to figure out how to proceed deeper into Europe. Most hope to cross into Hungary and then Austria, despite those governments’ tough stances toward refugees.

Among those is Diaa Alaf, 23, a Syrian who left Aleppo four months ago and is traveling with her 15-month-old daughter. She hopes to reach Austria, where her parents are already established.

Smugglers took her from the squalid camp at Idomeni, on Greece’s northern border, through Macedonia to the Serbian camp along with two other families, 22 people in all, each paying 310 euros ($350).

“We came into Serbia in a group with smugglers,” Alaf said.

“Now we heard we can go with smugglers to Hungary, but also we are hearing the Hungarians are letting in families with children, around 30 people per day.”

Their journey could face further obstacles, with Hungarian police saying they are arresting about 130 migrants a day for crossing the border illegally.

“I just want this horror to end,” said Alaf.

Stocks Suffer After Apple Value Drops To Lowest Value in Two Months NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in three weeks on Thursday after a late sell-off. Apple, which is mired in a slump, fell to its lowest price in about two months and dragged the tech sector sharply lower.

Tech stocks, which rose early on thanks to earnings gains from Facebook and PayPal, slumped after billionaire investor Carl Icahn disclosed that he’d sold his stake in Apple. Icahn wasn’t a major shareholder in the tech giant, but his moves are closely watched by many investors.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 210.79 points, or 1.2 percent, to 17,830.76. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 19.34 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,075.81. The Nasdaq composite closed lower for the sixth day in a row, losing 57.85 points, or 1.2 percent, to 4,805.29. That index has struggled in part because Apple, the most valuable public company in the world, has fallen 15 percent in two weeks.

Earlier in the day, indexes had wavered between small gains and losses. Investors were surprised the Bank of Japan decided not to take further action to stimulate

that nation’s economy, and the yen continued to get stronger against the dollar.

“All they did was delay the inevitable,” said Scott Wren, global equity strategist for Wells Fargo’s Investment Institute. “All these global central banks, they’re going to come out guns blazing” to stimulate their economies.

Meanwhile a handful of stocks moved on deal news. Most of those were in health care. In the largest, medical device maker Abbott Laboratories said it will buy St. Jude Medical, combining Abbott’s heart devices, heart valve products and infant formula business with St. Jude’s heart failure and heart rhythm device products.

St. Jude rocketed $15.84, or 25.6 percent, to $77.79 while Abbott fell $3.41, or 7.8 percent, to $40.42.

“Companies are on the hunt for ways to increase their profitability,” said Wren, of Wells Fargo. “One way to do that is to buy somebody else.”

That task is made easier, he added, by low interest rates on loans and the fact that companies have been slashing their expenses for years.

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Two School Officials Assault And Hospitalize Teenager CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit says two white school officials in southeast Missouri slammed a black teenager to the ground three times, injuring her neck and back and requiring hospital treatment.

Judge Craig Brewer granted a change of venue Wednesday in the lawsuit against the Cape Girardeau School District after attorneys for Ta’Brea Harris and her mother, Terri Harris, argued that a fair local trial was impossible since many potential jurors are graduates of the district.

The new venue hasn’t been determined, but the teen’s attorneys have asked for the case to be heard in Mississippi County or St. Louis County. The venue change request also raised the issue of the lack of diversity in the judicial district that includes Cape Girardeau. About nine in 10 residents of that area are white.

Details of the case were first reported Thursday by the Southeast Missourian.

The lawsuit alleges that after Ta’Brea Harris was involved in a verbal argument with another student while waiting for a school bus on Dec. 11, 2014, then-assistant Cape Girardeau Central High School principal Chris Kase grabbed her and slammed her to the ground. She was 14 at the time.

Athletic director Lance Tollison later approached the teen from behind and slammed her to the ground, grabbed her when she tried to get away and slammed her down again, the lawsuit says.

Kase is now the principal at the high school, and Tollison remains as athletic director. Neither has a listed phone number. A district spokeswoman referred calls to district attorney Rebecca Cary, who declined comment Thursday.

Attorneys Daniel Statler and Matthew O’Brien, who are representing the teen and her mother, also declined to comment on the lawsuit, which was originally filed in November.

The suit says Ta’Brea Harris was treated at a hospital and incurred medical expenses due to her injuries, and continues to suffer from stress and anxiety. It seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

The incident was captured on surveillance video, which the judge has temporarily sealed.

No hearing has been scheduled over access to the video.

The Associated Press has requested the video through an open records filing.

Students in communities outside of Missouri have alleged they were physically assaulted by authority figures at school in recent months.

Wildfire Burns 2,000 Acres Of Upstate New York State Park ELLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Crews have contained a wildfire that burned nearly 2,000 acres of forestland in a state park in upstate New York.

State officials say the brush fire at the Sam's Point Preserve in the Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Ulster County was fully contained by Thursday evening.

Hundreds of firefighters and first responders battled the fire, which started Saturday afternoon

and forced the evacuation of hundreds of park visitors.

No structures or homes were damaged. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.

Officials say the fire has scorched about 1,900 acres in a rugged, heavily wooded section of the Shawangunk Mountains on the park’s southern part.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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Is it a bad time to be a Muslim?

To the Editor: I was 18 years old when I decided to put on the hijab. It was the summer of 2015, right before I left for college. It also just happened to be before Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, before Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest, before the hashtag “Stop Islam” trended, before 31 states announced Syrian refugees were not welcome, before countless anti-Islam protests, airport incidents and homicides and certainly before I overheard a Cornell professor saying, “it’s a bad time to be a Muslim”.

And to think that even before all of that, I had prepared myself for the worst.

Needless to say, it wasn’t long before wearing a hijab began to feel like I was voluntarily putting a target on my forehead. All of a sudden, I became hyperaware of the way people interacted with me.

When a bus driver looked at me a second longer than everyone else as I swiped my ID card, I noticed. When a T.A. averted eye contact when I raised my hand, I noticed.

When the cashier’s tone changed as I stepped up the register, I noticed. I didn’t get a cheery “hi, how are you today?” or “did you find everything alright?” like the girl before me did. I got a quick glance and a mumbled “that’ll be $4.50.”

Now, I’m not implying that every single person I interact with on a daily basis is an Islamophobic bigot. I don’t believe that, and I would go insane if I began to think that way. However, there is undoubtedly a sense of tension, of hesitance and, above all, a sense of uneasiness that should not exist.

Despite our discomfort with the topic, we have to acknowledge that there is a problem with the way Muslims are treated. Yes, even here at Cornell. As much as we’d like to blindly uphold the flowery statements about diversity plastered across the university’s homepage, the reality of the situation is that there is a conversation that needs to be had.

One that is long overdue.

Is it a bad time to be a Muslim?

That inherent implication in that question is that the problem lies with being Muslim. In reality, the problem lies in our media, in our politics, in our societal mindset.

In saying that it is a bad time to be a Muslim, we are consequently saying that it’s a good time to be ignorant.

So, I leave you with some words of wisdom: there is no need to be wary of your Muslim roommate and nothing bad will happen if you make eye contact with a girl in a hijab.

Faiza Ahmad ’19

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wasn’t raised in a household where through your favorite players. To throw we watched a lot of sports. I was a off the limits of our own lives for a few biological Giants fans, by which I minutes. And ultimately, that’s not that mean my father and his father and his unlike reading. Or being a movie fanatfather’s father were fans, and therefore I ic, or being really into video games. was. I remember very clearly being in Having a favorite soccer player is no difthe fifth grade in 2004 and being asked ferent than a favorite Jane Austen charwhether I was supporting the Red Sox or acter or Super Mario icon; we cry and the Yankees. I didn’t know which sport laugh and shout at books and movies we were discussing. and games alike. By my observation, we The sports in my family were mostly are all engaging in our own versions of fictional: Quidditch, for example. We living vicariously, and we call it the were readers. We didn’t have cable televi- entertainment industry.

But it’s still interesting to me, how sion until I was in college and Time Warner upgraded us by default because deeply we all fall into our respective viryou couldn’t physically have only six tual realities. Enjoying outside enterchannels anymore. To this day, my tainment implies that we are not fully mother still borrows audiobooks from entertained by our own lives, but I don’t the library to play on family car rides. It think that’s a fair assessment. Ultimately, wasn’t exactly that literature was replac- it’s fun to try on different hats someing sports, it was just that sports were times. There are limits in each of our absent from our lifestyle, not by boycott lives — time and space and location — that prevent us from but by circumstance. doing everything, Thus, today I from being everywatch my friends in Having a favorite thing. Living vicarimild confusion as ously through these they celebrate or soccer player mourn their respecoutside sources allows is no different than a us to invest in new sittive teams. I have if only for a never understood favorite Jane Austen uations, how a person could few minutes. Sports and books and be so invested in a character or movies, they are life’s sports game, or why.

Super Mario icon; Obviously, watching Choose Your Own live sports created an we cry and laugh and Adventure.

It’s such a big part atmosphere of exciteshout at of humanity that it ment. Clearly, it was often gets lost — the something that could books and movies entertainment indusprovide people a partry is too big for us to ticular joy. But I and games imagine a time before could never quite alike. we had the opportuniunderstand how the ty to periodically outcome of a sports game could affect escape reality. And someone’s day or week or entire year. I doing so is a very human thing. But I have friends who still talk about victo- think it’s equally important to keep sight ries from years ago and who speak about of the fact that this life, right now, is the buzzer-beaters and famous plays with real adventure. We are living the great reverence. In awe, I listened as they rat- reality. Whatever your preferred method tle off statistics or showcase jerseys on of vicarious living is, your life should be their walls. I didn’t find it annoying — I your ultimate entertainment. Ask yourself whether you are remembering to just didn’t get it.

So I started asking, and everybody make it so.

Two days ago, my friend called me had a slightly different answer. For some, it was a family tradition to hole over on a weeknight to watch the highup on Sundays and watch the game. For lights of a Miami Heat basketball game. others it was a way to connect with their I couldn’t care less about basketball, and dad, their mom, their older siblings. I’m not from Florida. But I went, Sometimes it was a sheer love of the because she was offering to share her game itself, stemming from their own alternate reality with me. After I admitstints in peewee basketball or touch ted to barely understanding the rules of football. Sometimes it was a chance to the game, she offered to teach me somemakes friends by rooting for a common time. I laughed, because there it was goal. The constant in each response was again: life imitating art. this: the reasons we like sports are a product of our environment, then and Ruth Weissmann is a junior in the College of Agriculture now. and Life Sciences. She can be reached at It seems that sports are a chance to raw287@cornell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears forget your problems and live vicariously alternate Fridays this semester.

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Shared Governance, Misrepresented: Why the S.A. Is Failing Cornell O

n April 7, members of Student Assembly, Cornell University’s undergraduate representative body, held a “Discussion on Restructuring.” The meeting followed the creation of a “First Generation” S.A. seat, and was a response to concerns that minority students lack representation.

Minority students, though, aren’t the only students neglected by the S.A. The Cornell Student Assembly is in dire need of reform. Members consistently disregard the obligations of their offices. In its elections, internal procedures, and in the conduct of its members, the Student Assembly is failing to meet the standard set by The Board of Trustees when it established the current system of shared gover-

decade, the Residential Life Committee has not yet met in 2016. Student Assembly members are required to organize and attend two “outreach” events specific to their respective communities every two weeks. The Vice President of Internal Operations, not the Vice President of Outreach, is charged with approving and keeping track of these events. One recent approved “outreach” event, a Purim party at a local bar, was determined by members to count towards this requirement. Some policies need to be reconsidered too. For example, one elected Student Assembly member simultaneously holds an elected seat on the University Assembly this semester. This is not against either Assembly’s rules.

None of this would matter if

Given the recent controversies on campus — the Gannett health center fee, divestment from the fossil fuel industry, worker exploitation on the Weill Cornell Medical campus in Qatar, changes in financial aid policy, the College of Business — real student representation on campus has never been more important. nance in 1981.

S.A. elections are frequently uncompetitive and, recently, have become largely symbolic.

In the spring of 2015, only one of the three students running for two College of Agriculture & Life Science seats attended the election debate. The other two candidates were elected. In the Spring 2016 elections, 11 of 22 voting seats (50 percent) were uncontested. One of these uncontested elections was for an executive-board seat. Turnout in that election was 29.3 percent.

Many S.A. members fail to meet the basic requirements of their positions. Since January of this year, eight S.A. members have resigned or been removed from office for failing to discharge their duties, or because of the assembly’s attendance policy.

One result is that CALS students, who compose 24 percent of all undergraduates, currently lack a voting representative. This academic year was also the first time that a consistent voting record has been kept. While weekly S.A. meetings are open to the public, few if any students attend, and meetings are not video recorded.

S.A. members are required to sit on committees, which, according to the Assembly’s Standing Rules, are “essential to the functioning of the shared governance system.” Although the administration is creating a housing master plan for the next

the Student Assembly were just another line on a Cornellian’s resume. However, the S.A. impacts every student on campus. Every two years, it dishes out over $6.7 million dollars collected from the undergraduate student activity fee. S.A. members are the only students that Cornell administrators regularly interact with. S.A. members are also among the only students to work with the Faculty Senate, which oversees University-wide academic policies. S.A. members are the face Cornell at Ivy League and even international conferences.

Given the recent controversies on campus — the Gannett health center fee, divestment from the fossil fuel industry, worker exploitation on the Weill Cornell Medical campus in Qatar, changes in financial aid policy, the College of Business — real student representation on campus has never been more important. If the Student Assembly needs change, as it seemed to say in its “Discussion on Re structuring,” and if S.A. member rhetoric about the importance of “shared governance” is not hot air, then we cannot settle for one additional seat. Too many seats have already ended up empty.

What we need is a new system of student government.

Nathan Weierich is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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The Arts & Music:Building Bridges,HealingWounds I

f you were to walk into a Cornell Middle Eastern Mediterranean Ensemble concert you would see a group of people singing and playing the oud, kanoun, violin, doumbek, mandolin, etc. While you enjoy the music, you might not realize that there are extraordinary things happening, distances being bridged and generational animosities being contradicted.

You would see a Turkish person singing next to an Armenian person and a Jewish song sung at Shabbat dinners, “Shalom Aleichem,” being played alongside a song associated with Ramadan in Turkey, “Yine Bir Gülnihal.” Through CUMEME music performances, a space is created where different people groups can come together, share and understand the similarities and differences between cultures.

This kind of unity is needed now more than ever in light of recent events that have taken place internationally and on campus.

Armenia is a monocultural country surrounded by neighbors who share political tensions and a recent bloody history such as Turkey and Azerbaijan. In the beginning of April, Armenia was again at the cusp of war with its neighbor Azerbaijan. Armenia’s relationship with Turkey has not been fully reconciled ever since the Armenian Genocide of 1915 since Turkey’s refusal to recognize it as such. Despite the many Turkish people who are influenced by governmental propaganda to negate and refuse the genocide, there are many Turkish people who do recognize the Armenian genocide. The Armenian Genocide needs to be approached with a multicultural viewpoint, not a mono-cultural viewpoint. This engagement of history gives people the ability to think critically about the history they might have been initially taught about Turkey and Armenia. It is this historical reference and cultural framing that help students deconstruct the misconceptions and biases in their own minds. Thus, it becomes the responsibility to initiate intercultural dialogue, whatever the form it takes. Last spring, a member of The Armenian Student Organization reached out to the leadership of the Turkish Student Association to sit down to a Breaking Bread dinner, organized by The Center for

Intercultural Dialogue, and discuss the relations between the two groups. Although a dialogue was started, hesitations led to a cancellation of the event. However, it is the hope that music and cultural performances can transcend many of the hesitations that exist between peoples of all cultures and create a non-confrontational setting for culture and knowledge sharing.

When Mané, one of the CUMEME performers, first joined the group, she hadn’t interacted with many people from Turkey, and when she did she would sometimes feel tense and wouldn’t know what to say. One time after performing “Karoun Karoun” in Armenian, a Turkish man came up to her and said, “You know we have the same melody but with Turkish words!”

She became intrigued and started a conversation with him about this song. She believes that the open and celebratory place that is created when the group performs, is what enables one to get to know the people from other cultures that one would otherwise not know or feel animosity towards. The relationships she has formed through the group with Turkish people allowed her to understand Turkish people more and to go to more Turkish Student Association events. This Friday, April 29, at 8 p.m., CUMEME will perform music from the Middle East and Mediterranean with the Klezmer Ensemble at Watermargin Cooperative. It is in many ways fitting that this show takes place at Watermargin; the first university housing to break segregation and allow black students to live with white students. To this day Watermargin has kept its interracial and interdenominational founding principles, bringing speakers to campus such as Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt and Langston Hughes through its Education Program. The purpose of the event is to bring music and peoples from all over the world together in one area.

Playing music and rehearsing with a diverse group makes one realize how similar cultures are that come from the Middle Eastern region. Not only does one feel the same deep strings plucked in one’s heart, but one also hears the same tune and melody translated to different languages. This is the case with

the song “Karoun Karoun” (in Armenian) and “Fatoum Fatoum” (in Arabic). Oftentimes this sharing and translation to languages results in a bickering about which people were the originators. Trying to prove which country a song originated from and which country “stole it” can feel like a circular and childish argument at times. Mané says, “To me, I do not so much care to prove whether a song is originally from Armenia, I think I would never know for sure anyway. What I do love is that there is a beautiful song that is appreciated by many cultures and singing this in many languages often create a message of how intertwined and unified we are.”

In fact this is what the ensemble often does, it sings songs such as “Sari Gelin” and “Karoun Karoun” in multiple languages, switching verse to verse.

If you bring people together who have separation and animosity and allow them to connect by offering something shared, then they will start to get to know and appreciate the other’s similarities and differences. Whether it is living in a place such as Watermargin or listening to music together with people from the different parts of the Middle East, this is one step in bringing ultimate reconciliation. Here at Cornell, it is simple for us to create our own little bubbles to shield ourselves from reality. It is easy for us to stay within our own communities, choose a friend group or organization on campus and stay there for our entire time during our four years. It is comfortable and maybe even subconscious for us to sit next to someone we perceive to be similar to us. However, it is impossible to think that these behaviors will help us bridge the gaps between our various communities. It will not help us grow and mature to our fullest potential staying in any single social circle. But perhaps it was the unknown author who wrote it best when they made the following statement: “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”

Jeremiah Grant is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Mané Mehrabyan is a junior in the College of Human Ecology.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT West Side Story at Schwartz

BY JAMES FRICHNER Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend, a few hundred lucky people had the privilege of seeing something truly special at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. I, like most people, had heard of West Side Story but had never seen it. I had hopes of being treated to an entertaining production, something a little more fun and high energy than the highbrow, somewhat pretentious theater you would usually encounter at the Schwartz. (Full disclosure: I adore that type of theatre.) But I knew that this was not an official Cornell-sponsored production, but rather a largely student run and conceived show, with students from both Cornell and Ithaca College coming together to present their vision. Add in the fact that these students had but a short two months to bring this classic production from conception to the stage and, needless to say, I was not expecting anything too grandiose. I was very happy to be proven completely wrong.

What these dedicated students managed to achieve is something that some Broadway shows never accomplish, with budgets in the stratosphere and months of production work before they ever even begin rehearsal. Those who attended were treated to a show that not only had heart and soul, but was a genuine joy to watch. Every part of the show was a labor of love, from the magnificent, gritty set design, featuring graffiti, chain-link fences and scaffolding that towered above the audience in the Flexible Theatre, to the vibrant, thrilling choreography. I was completely captivated from beginning to end, and rarely has two and a half hours passed by so quickly. Sure, the dancers were not perfect, and there were many moments of someone being a step or two off the beat, but this only added to the sense of the immense difficulty they faced in putting on a show like this. What they were able to achieve was nothing less than spectacular.

Much of the credit has to be given to the hard work put in by the partnership of the Melodramatics Theatre

Company with Teatrotaller. Together they were able to create best show I have seen at Cornell was a completely student an experience that not only captured the power and energy conceived affair? Why is it that in order to put on a show like of musical theatre, but portrayed believably the unending this, the production team should have to fight through “so struggle in this country to bridge the racial gap and find a many obstacles,” to have to push back against doubters and way to live in harmony. The director, Andrea Fiorentini, critics at every level? At a time like the present, I would argue called it “an homage with some modern twists” and it was that this university would benefit greatly from more shows amazing to see the way that like this being put on. These are CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR this production was able to the type of experiences that highlight the simultaneous help create community. And a optimism and darkness of the sense of community is what original work while contextumakes this campus strong. alizing it in a way that is comThe other day I was walking pletely relevant to America’s up Ho Plaza right before sunset, current political atmosphere. and I watched in amazement as Some parts of the plot of West a group of students began to Side Story are admittedly sing the alma mater. More and hokey and contrived, but in more joined in, until there were many ways the daring chorenearly a hundred students, of all ography and absolute comraces and genders, holding mitment of the cast and crew hands, singing a song I didn’t made the central message of think anyone knew or cared our common humanity and about. It ended, and with peals the need for respect shine of laughter, these students disthrough. Fiorentini said she persed, each returning to their had “never seen a cast so conindividual, seemingly disconnected with the material,” and I couldn’t help but agree. nected paths. Rarely have I witnessed such a display of hope Perhaps the show attributes a bit too much to the power of on this campus. It was one of those beautiful moments when love, but it never shies away from showing the disgusting, for a brief, fleeting second it becomes possible to imagine a vile sides of human nature in all their chilling foulness. I better world, to hope that Cornell in some small way can couldn’t help but be enraptured, and I never imagined that a embody the theoretical values that supposedly underpin it, former Broadway musical could portray sensitive issues of can be a place where any student can find acceptance, guidrace, gender and class with such nuance and effectiveness. ance and a sense of home. This was my experience watching This, perhaps more than any other show I have seen, pre- West Side Story, and it is my sincere hope that this show did sented the problems we face in a manner that is still linger- not represent an exception to the norm, but rather a resuring in my mind. As Fiorentini put it, “we have such a long gence of the welcoming, inclusive theatre this campus needs. way to go.” Although I absolutely loved the show, it inspired a surprising amount of melancholy within me, not all of James Frichner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can which was due to the heavy subject matter. Why is it that the be reached at jsf95@cornell.edu.

A Conversation With Composer David Lawrence

BY MARINA CAITLIN WATTS Sun Staff Writer

David Lawrence is a film and television composer, songwriter and producer whose score and song credits include the American Pie films, the High School Musical series, and the forthcoming HBO documentary, Becoming Mike Nichols.The Sun spoke with Lawrence in anticipation of his visit this Friday about movie music, the process of scoring and Frank Sinatra.

THE SUN: There are so many people who write music to be a pop hit or for the radio.

Was it your goal to write television theme music or soundtrack music?

DAVID L AWRENCE: I went to conservatory in New York. My plan was to graduate and become a film and TV composer. When I graduated and moved back out to L.A., my first opportunities were writing songs. I met up with a lyricist and we started writing a lot of songs together for R&B pop acts like Earth, Wind & Fire, Stephanie Mills and riff and jazz artist Diane Schurr. A little while later I got the opportunity to score an afterschool TV special for ABC. The director asked if I would do the music for his new Disney summer camp movie, and another friend asked if I would do a horror bug movie, and then a romantic sex comedy. I was doing TV and film scores and got away from songwriting for a while before the High School Musical phenomenon. My lyricist partner, Faye Greenberg, became my wife a few years later.

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SUN: How much do you know about a show or a movie before you get to writing?

Now film scores are more about sound design.

SUN: How do you feel about the soundtrack looking back?

D.L.: Once you get the job, you have a “tone meeting” with the director and producers where you just discuss the tone of the movie. You have that conversation and you start ruminating on ideas and they send you a rough cut of the film to look at. You look at the movie and incorporate ideas based on the tone and what your gut response is to the film. Then you arrange a music spotting session, where you go through the entire film.

The director decides where the music starts and what it should feel like and where it begins and ends in a scene. You spot where the music is supposed to go. The composer brings their music editor who takes copious notes and timings. This continuous time frame (“time code”) is broken down into thirtieths of a second. They take notes on where the music will start, with subdivisions of frames. You go through the entire movie this way. Then the music editor sends the notes, you look at the movie and you think about how you want to develop the score.

SUN: One of the anomalies in the business is Stewart Copeland, from The Police, who eventually wrote TV soundtracks in ’80s and ’90s. Is your goal to become a pop songwriter, or do you plan on sticking with film?

D.L.: I’m incredibly proud of doing the score for all three movies. We are so invested in the High School Musical success story. We are waiting to see if we are getting involved with the reboot which will start with High School Musical 4, this summer.

SUN: How does your work compare to how people scored movies 50 years ago?

D.L.: Soundtracks long ago were much more lush and theme oriented. The melody was sort of carried you through the entire film and you would hear it over and over again.

Film scoring today is much more about creating a vibe and creating an ambient/tonal picture. Every now and then you’ll hear a melody that you’ll hear repeated in the movie but in the old days you kept repeating these themes.

D.L.: My goal is to do both. I really love songwriting and also writing TV and film scores. I’ve been commissioned to write two ballets which was an amazing journey. It’s kind of been a little bit of everything.

SUN: So your parents are Eydie Gormé and Steve Lawrence, who are traditional pop singers. How did that influence you?

D.L.: My parents sang all of the famous songs at the time. They also introduced songs that became famous because of them. As a result, I was surrounded by my two musical parents and the composers and arrangers of those songs. I loved the style of music my parents did and what was being written. It became part of my creative fabric.

SUN: When you were working on High School Musical, did you ever think it was going to have the cultural impact it did?

D.L.: Nobody did. In fact, they were terrified they made a big mistake. They only wanted to air it for two weeks and pull it because they thought it was a waste of money.

Overnight, it went from we were so scared of doing this to that we created this monster. It was an amazing shock.

SUN: What is your favorite movie you’ve ever worked on and why?

D.L.: One of them was American Pie 2. I got a chance to write all kinds of score, big band swing music to very romantic sweet music to indie rock music; it was a really fun project. I conducted over 100 musicians on my score and I loved conducting such a large orchestra. The other is a Mexican film. The English title is X-mas Inc. (Navidad SA). It was a very dark score but a fantasy about Santa Claus losing his power to an elf. I worked with another large orchestra and a very creative and forward-thinking director.

It was a very fantasy oriented score. I got to borrow music from John Williams and Tchaikovsky for a really full and rich soundtrack. With a European film, I had a much longer leash.

Lawrence will be speaking today at 3 p.m. in the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. A longer version of this interview can be found at cornellsun.com.

Marina Caitlin Watts is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at mwatts@cornellsun.com.

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The Jungle Book: Interspecies Empathy

BY LORENZO BENITEZ Sun Contributor

It would be remiss of me to not acknowledge my initial cynicism upon being told that The Jungle Book was being remade yet again. Not only by Disney, but also by Warner Brothers now that the copyright protections which safeguarded Rudyard Kipling’s novel have lapsed. While Warner Brothers has postponed the release of its own film until 2018, Disney’s latest effort has landed in theaters with notable aplomb. I openly admit that my original cynicism was unfounded: Jon Favreau’s direction has imbued what could have been an otherwise cold exhibition of studio machinery with an invigorating earnestness.

Here we have a film that passionately encourages us to embrace our core essence while simultaneously recognizing it as an accidental feature that doesn’t reflect our true character. The tiger Shere Khan’s (voiced by Idris Elba) assertion that Mowgli, as a human, will soon wreak havoc on their jungle is obviously unfounded by the film’s conclusion, thereby reinforcing a post-tribal identity in which the specie to which you belong proves ultimately inconsequential. As a children’s movie, the pedagogy presented

by Favreau is present in, but not necessarily at the forefront of, either original source material he draws upon (both Kipling’s 1894 novel and the 1967 Disney film). This 2016 adaption therefore deserves praise for communicating a noble idea that has contemporary, real-world implications: reinforcing the triviality of aspects of our identity that don’t define the essence of our character — whether it be race, gender, nationality, et cetera.

In addition to its thematic merit, the film also deserves praise for its laudable ability to balance the need for a frightening sense of realism with the more enjoyable fantastical elements of the original Disney film. Favreau’s greatest feat is the delicate symbiosis he evinces by allowing instantlyrecognizable, light-hearted melodies like “Bear Necessities”

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ing him to work in an empty green room instead of with other actors. So I doubt such acting is either easy or satisfying.) However, we have seen other directors elicit incredible performances from child actors, so while our Mowgli may be acceptable here, by no means is he great.

Additionally, the film was edited in such a fashion that its pacing feels a bit haphazard at times. Some elements were quite rushed, evident in how the friendship between Baloo (voiced by Bill Murray) and Mowgli also could have used more time, since I still felt as if Baloo had just met Mowgli by the time he started to refer to him as his best friend. The introduction to Mowgli’s life as a member of the wolf pack also could have been elongated to better reveal the intensity of the former’s connection to his adopted family, and to better elaborate on any resonant character deficiencies that would have captured our attention. In a strict narratological sense, the main problem Mowgli has to surmount is his identity crisis as a human amongst animals. What largely confiscates the film from having the most satisfying ending possible is that Mowgli himself had a pretty good attitude from the beginning; it was rather the other animals whose attitudes that needed to change for them to be able to welcome Mowgli as one of their own. This weakens the character development of Mowgli, instead relying on the prospect of defeating Shere Khan as the main trope for us to invest our emotional enerCOURTESY OF WALT DISNEY PICTURES gies.

However, at the end of the day, The Jungle Book is still an is an apt comparison as a children’s film whose quiet melanentertaining vessel carrying important ideas of inclusiveness choly results in an intensely retrospective tone.)

However, as praiseworthy as these elements are, there are for younger audiences, thereby charging the original source still a few notable flaws exhibited by the film. Featuring materials with a contemporary relevance. Other than those acceptable vocal performances by its cast, I feel some reser- flaws noticeable in both script and its performances, it is a vation to extend praise to the film’s only live actor. As a fine effort by Disney whose thematic and stylistic didactichild actor and the sole performer amidst what I imagine cism continues to challenge cynical claims that remakes were a sea of green screens, Neel Sethi no doubt deserves have nothing to offer. some praise for sufficiently carrying the story. (After all, Ian McKellen reportedly broke down on the set of The Hobbit, Lorenzo Benitez is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. momentarily losing his temper at Peter Jackson for confin- He can be reached at llb224@cornell.edu. to co-exist alongside incredibly realistic animations of the film’s antagonists that would be scary to a young child. The critic Scott Tobias, former editor-in-chief of The Dissolve, rightly signalled this out as a significant element of praise, arguing that The Jungle Book is precisely the sort of movie that children of all ages ought to see because it presents an opportunity for them to vicariously overcome the same fears faced by Mowgli. Indeed, film’s laudable capacity to build up daunting antagonists and counterbalance them with its more light-hearted elements ultimately endows this adaption of The Jungle Book with a nuanced tone uncommon in movies marketed primarily toward children. (Spirited Away

Woodstock Idealism at Coachella

ast semester, I wrote an essay about American consumer culture as it arose from 1960s New Left activism. It began like this: In the summer of 1999, Mark Puma, 28, a native of upstate New York, would be able to experience the cultural phenomenon that had occurred three decades prior and only a few short years before his birth. “Woodstock ’99,” as it was referred to, was expected to be a close emulation of “Woodstock ’69,” perhaps the only discrepancy being a different location – Rome, New York, as opposed to Bethel, New York. On the surface, “Woodstock ’99'” really did appear to match the characteristics of its predecessor. A mix of contemporary rock music was being played for a large body of nude and enthusiastic fans, all synthesizing under the influence of marijuana and psychedelic substances. However, as Puma sprawled on thegrass in the oppressive summer heat, he was troubled to learn that, before the festival finished, he had already spent $150 on food and drinks. At a closer examination of the festival, dozens of ATM machines adorned the masses of expensive concession stands, all occupied by long, stretching lines of concert-goers.

Suddenly, at the finale of the last act, the festival erupted in flames as thousands of indignant fans rioted, many looting the concession stands and ATMs due to the exorbitantly priced food and souvenirs. Despite the riots, the City of Rome reported a massive profitable increase in sales tax for 1999 because of the summer festival. Was this really an embrace of the peaceful and free ideals of the original Woodstock, its organizers, and attendees?

The two most notable attempts to recre-

ate Woodstock (in 1994 and 1999) deviated from the original in their high degree of commercialization, with Woodstock ’99 erupting in violence and fire over high prices. My original intent in writing this column was to criticize the Coachella Music and Art Festival for being no different than the failed Woodstock ’99. Indeed, I believed the festival to be a perfect example of counterculture commodified; a previously humble, Grunge-rooted jubilee whose organizers chose revenue over economic accessibility and genuine idealism once Coachella gained enough popularity. Meanwhile during April, individuals celebrated the lives of Prince, Shakespeare and the Ramones, all of whom avoided the mainstream and thus made unique impacts on the world of art in the

Nick Swan Swan’s Song various ways they expressed themselves. For Shakespeare, it was the liberalization of standard blank verse and figurative speech. With the Ramones, it was perhaps the delineating of punk music as its own genre. Besides creating highly unique popular rock music, Prince blurred the boundaries between race, gender and sexuality in creative endeavors, approaching as close to the peak of musical nirvana as is earthly possible. Yet, an article lambasting Coachella for being vain and

unoriginal would, surely, be vain and unoriginal.

Carrie Battan recently wrote an article about Coachella culture in The New Yorker, stating that its attendees desire “the idealism of Woodstock” by merely acting as “Coachella” as possible. Nevertheless, she concludes that “at a time when we are being encouraged to ascribe world-changing ambitions to each and every mundane thing we do, Coachella’s desires are hearteningly pure, simplistic, and self-contained...” Perhaps this is a more refined critique, as it is far too easy to confound Coachella and similar festivals to meaningless, hyperbolic attempts to recreate 1969 Woodstock. The profound, symbolic nature of the original festival lies in its spontaneity and unexpected grandeur, the very Abbie Hoffman-esque tumult that inspired its generation of attendees.

What, then, are the precise values of Coachella’s attendees? Battan asserts that fashion is indeed one primary concern of fans. A number of sites and outlets are devoted to dictating Coachella style, with H&M even releasing its own garment line for the festival. Once again, however, it would mischaracterize Coachella and its attendees by limiting them to a void of flower-crowns and tie-dye. The artistic inventions present at Coachella possess their own degree of creative merit. For example, the 2016 festival witnessed a partial N.W.A. reunion and appearances by artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Zack de la Rocha.

There were unique and practical art installations, like Phillip K. Smith III’s “Portals.”

Coachella is as strongly focused on music and arts as was Woodstock, albeit with different forms and genres. Some guests wield-

ed Bernie Sanders sculptures and banners.

This type of activism directly embraces the political values of 1960s youth — indeed, Sanders himself was a student activist during the tumultuous decade. Furthermore, and perhaps most pertinently, Coachella-goers seek an exclusively youthful pleasure from the festival they attend, not unlike those teenagers who romped around the mud-pits of Woodstock Coachella may be praised for offering a relatively peaceful experience for its guests, and its fans truly desire the blissful amusement gained form musical and artistic appreciation. From this perspective it is perhaps closer to Woodstock than either of the two ’90s emulations. For many years, however, it has only achieved this tranquility by out-pricing potential guests at the initial ticket price, as one general admission ticket to the festival can cost hundreds of dollars.

One might argue that Coachella organizers need such high prices to attract major artists. I’d like to think that, as Coachella has grown in popularity, it has likewise developed its own honest and genuine idealism, and so a reduction or absence in profit will not discourage artists and organizers when a larger number of fans can enjoy Coachella. Woodstock ’69 was an abrupt, divine and entirely unique occurrence, but it can not be denied that Coachella permits us to experience at least a fraction of that original glory.

Nick Swan is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Swan’s Song appears alternate Fridays this semester. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

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By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This year’s clash against Princeton feels a little different than most years for the Cornell men’s lacrosse team.

Unlike most years, neither team is in contention for either the Ivy League or NCAA tournaments. This means that the game carries no weight in postseason play. Nevertheless — given it is one of the best rivalries in collegiate lacrosse — there is a lot of pride that comes with the game.

“Princeton week has always been an important one around here,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “This year it’s a little different, so it’s been important for us as a staff to keep pushing the guys, and the seniors have led the way this week.”

With little riding on this game besides pride, Kerwick has relied on the seniors to keep the younger players motivated throughout the week.

“They’ve done a great job in practice,” Kerwick said. “They’re very motivated to finish this one right and finish the season out on a positive note after a tough one against Brown.”

The 22-5 loss to No. 2 Brown (13-1, 6-0 Ivy) last Saturday ended the Red’s (6-6, 1-4 Ivy) postseason

hopes. Kerwick was disappointed with the the team’s effort against the Bears.

“Last week was surprising,” he said. “I expected a better outcome in that came.”

Nevertheless, he knows the Cornell Bears played excellently and that the Red can’t base its evaluation of the season on this one game.

“Overall, we’ve been really vs. proud of how this team has developed and worked throughout the year,” Kerwick said.

Senior goalkeeper Brennan Princeton Donville — who finished with a career-best 16 saves in the Saturday, noon Brown game — agreed with his Princeton, N.J. coach, pointing to the marked improvement of the team’s large freshman class in particular.

“We’ve relied on our freshmen more than most years in the past,” he said. “They’ve done an excellent job.”

It is important the Red maintain this upward trajectory going into the Princeton game and into next season.

“We’re very excited to see growth this summer of some of the guys on this team, and I think the table is set for a very bright future,” Kerwick said. “Obviously we want to get this last game and send these seniors out on the best note that we can.”

Donville mentioned that the success of this year’s freshmen is a very good sign for future seasons.

“We … have [freshmen] all over the field making plays for us,” he said. “I think overall they’ve really improved a lot, and I think the future looks bright for them.”

Despite the Tigers’ (4-8, 1-4 Ivy) subpar record, Kerwick and Donville know this game won’t be easy.

The crowd always plays a role in an away game against a rival, and it is also the Tigers’ senior night.

“They’re certainly a lot better than their record suggests, so by no means is this game going to be an easy one for us,” Donville said. “We’re going to have to play very well in order to get the win.”

Play begins at 12 p.m. this Saturday in Princeton, N.J.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Finish strong | Princeton and Cornell will square off with nothing on the line, a rarity for the matchup.

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Perfectionists Face a Tough Battle BROFSKY

Continued from page 16

Adrian Furnham claims, “But there is a dark side: Perfectionism is seen as a cause and correlate of serious psychopathology. At worst, perfectionists believe they should be perfect — no hesitations, deviations or inconsistencies. They are super-sensitive to imperfection, failing and weakness. They believe their acceptance and lovability is a function of never making mistakes. And they don’t know the meaning of ‘good enough.’”

Perfectionism can take the positive aspects of setting goals and twist them to an unrealistic extreme. This means very little validation, very little that can assuage the mind and comfort it. If the perfectionist athlete doesn’t meet the standard previously set, there is a gap set aside for a downward spiral. It leads to a focus on inadequacies and allows for much self-criticism. It’s a double-edged sword. It may mean success and motivation to be the best — but in most conditions it leaves too much room for failure, too much room for selfdestruction.

Dr. Furnham argues, “So pity after, most likely due to burnout the poor perfectionist. They are from his routines. driven by a fear of failure; a fear of Mark Brodie wrote in his article making mistakes; and a fear of dis- “Perfectionism and Burnout,” that approval. They can easily self- “Wilkinson’s need to be the perfect destruct in a vicious cycle of their player got him to the peak of his own making: Set unreachable career, but was also his downfall as goals → fail to reach them → become depressed and lethar- This transcends the drive to gic → have less energy and a deep sense of failure → get be the best; it is attempting lower self-esteem and high to be better than your best. self-blame.”

Another consequence of unhealthy perfectionism is distorting reality — coming away he pushed himself too far physicalfrom a game with a completely dif- ly and experienced burnout, in his ferent perspective on your perfor- body and his mind. Wilkinson mance than everyone else. describes his desire for perfectionJonny Wilkinson, former ism as both unattainable and British rugby player, discusses his ‘unhealthy.’ ” This transcends the drive to be perfectionism in his role as a goal kicker. He said in 2009, “Maybe the best; it is attempting to be I’ll hit four-in-a-row and just miss better than your best. It’s asking the fifth one … Instead of being to never be satisfied with who you satisfied with that, I won’t allow are as an athlete because obsessive myself to leave until I’ve hit five… scrutiny of the gap between you An hour and a half later — and and unattainable perfection will having missed loads of appoint- never constitute productivity. ments and left myself running completely late — I might do it.” Jessica Brofsky can be contacted at He won the 2003 Rugby World jbrofsky@cornellsun.com. Mind Games Cup, but suffered from injuries appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Eldredges Guide Polo to Title POLO

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way,” Emma said. “I think if I were playing against my father and his team, I’d actually want to be rooting for Cornell and not my own team.”

After being accepted into Cornell, Emma joined the team her freshman year — playing under her father, the head coach. This was not the first time David had coached her, however, and the two had made an important agreement many years prior to deal with the potentially problematic dynamic.

“We had an agreement to separate

the two jobs,” David said. “When she’s This same agreement ensures that out there on the polo field, I’m her Emma receives no special treatment on coach, not her father.” the team; her freshmen year she spent Emma, who the season on the refers to her father as an alternate.

“When she’s out there bench as “coach” during “I’m not treated on the polo field, I’m practice, gives him special in any way,” credit for this. “I Emma said. “We’re all her coach not her think my dad has here to play polo to father.” done a very good win, and if I don’t give job of keeping that the team the best David Eldredge separation,” she chance to win, then I said. “He knows know I won’t be on the line between being a coach and the team.” being a father, and he’s very good at The idea of playing only because distinguishing that.” she is the coach’s daughter was once a thought in the back of her mind, but she now knows — as do her teammates — that she’s had to earn her way into a starting role.

In her sophomore and junior years, she did just this, playing an integral role in the team’s two national titles.

The duo will cherish their final season together next year as the Red looks to defend its national title.

“It’s incredible,” said Emma. “It’s a very cool family dynamic of how it works out. We all love polo and we’re all able to be involved in it so much.

I’m very fortunate to be in the position that I’m in.”

But for David, watching the family legacy in polo continue on has been the best part of it all.

“It has been such a pleasure to coach my children and have them be successful,” David said. “Knowing that I was able to play a major part in what she has accomplished just adds to it all.”

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

More than a game | During practices and games, junior Emma Eldredge calls her father “coach.”

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

Red Hosts Penn For Senior Day W. LACROSSE

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As a unit, the team must win this game to avenge its previous dramatic losses to Penn last season. The Quakers squeaked by in the regular season with a 10-9 win over the Red and clinched the following postseason game a week later with a 7-6 victory.

The eight graduating seniors look forward to playing their final regular season game on home turf. All the long hours of practice and traveling have added up to fire up this team to go out with a bang.

“Senior Day is always emotional,” Poullott said. “Our eight seniors have been tremendous leaders and assets to our team on and off the field this year. It’\s sad yet exciting knowing this could potentially be one of the last opportunities we have to play alongside one another.”

Tobe Attah can be reached at tattah@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Laxers Face Quakers With Ivy Title on Line

By TOBE ATTAH Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s lacrosse team has undoubtedly had a very successful season, only losing to high-caliber, top-15 teams in Maryland, Syracuse and Princeton. The team has already surpassed its win total from last season

and improved its win percentage from .562 to .786, so anything more this year is icing on the cake.

But with an Ivy League title at play, the No. 18 Red (11-3, 5-1 Ivy) must defeat No. 14 Penn (11-3, 5-1) on their senior day for a chance to share the title with the Tigers.

“This season, we have compiled a 5-1 record at home,

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and we are looking to send the seniors off with the final home win of the regular season on Saturday,” said junior goalkeeper Renee Poullott.

Poullott’s recent efforts earned her the Defensive Player of the Week award. She managed to stop 10 shots against Syracuse and followed this trend by blocking 10 Cornell shots in the 11-3 win against Harvard. This performance held the Crimson to their lowest offensive output in a game since 2013, when they played Northwestern, losing 16vs.

3.

The Red may have a player of the week guarding their net, but Penn has a dangerous threat on offense who also earned similar accolades.

Penn Senior attack Nina Corcoran was the Offensive Player of the Week, scoring Ithaca two goals and earning 10 assists in N.Y. her last two games against Princeton and Yale. Corcoran is only eight assists away from setting a new Ivy League record.

“We expect the Penn game to be a close contest and come down to the wire this weekend,” Poullott said. “We know that Penn is a very disciplined, intense team that values and takes care of each possession. The outcome of this game is critical as the winner will take the Ivy League regular season title.”

Finishing this regular season on the best note possible will depend on how focused the Red can be in this concluding contest. The Quakers managed to stay efficient on attack against Yale, going 9-for-11 on shots on goal in their 9-8 win. Stopping them will be no easy task.

“This season our team has placed an emphasis on taking the schedule game-by-game,” Poullott said. “Our win over Harvard this past weekend was critical. Even though in the end it came down to an eight goal margin, we are looking to be more crisp, take care of our moments and most importantly play together.”

Championship hopefuls | Amie Dickson and the Red will square off against Penn Saturday in hopes of capturing the Ivy crown.

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The Price of Polo Led by Dynamic Father-Daughter Duo Perfectionism In Athletics WOMEN’S POLO

By CHARLES COTTON

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s polo team currently sits atop the collegiate polo world, recently defeating Texas A&M to capture its second straight national championship. Led by the winningest coach in Cornell athletics history, David Eldredge, along with starters Anna Winslow, Elena Wicker and Emma Eldredge, Cornell polo continues to build upon its reputation as an elite program. And if you didn’t already know, the head coach and one of the Red’s top players share the same last name.

That’s right. The father-daughter duo of David and Emma is one of the keys to Cornell’s success and has been in the making for generations.

Polo has long been a part of the Eldredge family. David’s father first learned the sport of polo when he attended Cornell in the early 1940s and brought it back to the family’s dairy farm in Sharon Springs, New York. He and his older brother took a liking to the game and both went on to play at Cornell, where each spent time as captain of the team. David became the team’s head coach shortly after he graduated and has been coaching ever since — this past season was his 31st at the helm.

David’s wife and his older daughter Kailey both played for Cornell, so it seemed only natural for Emma to do the same.

“Basically she didn’t have a whole lot of choice,” David said. “From an early age, we did give her the option of polo or some other sport, but we sort of knew what she’d choose … She’s been living the life of polo pretty much ever since.”

For Emma, family history was the biggest factor in her involvement in the sport.

“We owned horses and I watched my dad coach the Cornell teams,” Emma

COURTESY OF DAVID ELDREDGE ‘81

Family ties | Led by the Eldredges, the polo team has won back-to-back national titles.

said. “I felt I was a part of Cornell polo.

It was something that I grew up with and loved and enjoyed.”

Emma began to ride as early as six and started playing polo, “as soon as she could pick up a mallet,” at age 10. A quick learner, she benefited from the Cornell matches she attended with her family and began to acquire a real interest in the sport as the years went on.

“Emma can watch a sport and learn a tremendous amount from it. She picks things up very strongly,” David said.

She went on to play polo in high school and won the interscholastic national championship for the U.S. team alongside her sister in 2010. When it came time to apply to college, Cornell was the only school on the Ithaca native’s list with a competitive polo program.

When her father asked her why, Emma told him something that still makes him proud today.

“She said to me ‘There is no way I could play polo any place other than Cornell because you taught me everything I know, and I could never come back and play against you,’” David said.

“It was really neat that I’ve had that strong of a relationship with her that she could say this is the only place I’m going to play polo and he’s the only one I’m going to play polo for.”

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erfectionism is seeing the world in black and white, win or lose, jubilation or sorrow. There is no in between, no gradation. It is setting excessively high standards — maybe even impossible ones — with no room for stepping-stones or minor progress. At first glance, perfectionist athletes seem to be the ones with the

Jessica Brofsky Mind Games strongest drive and best work ethic — but there is a darkness that looms potentially enshrouding such athletes in a self-defeatist pattern.

On the surface, perfectionists seem to be the athletes with the biggest commitment to the game. They center their world on their sport, looking to it for a sense of completion. They continuously try to reach their demanding goals with unceasing motivation — and sometimes this can lead to impressive feats and high levels of play.

However, in Psychology Today, Dr. See BROFSKY page 14