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Both the men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams finished strong in their races this past weekend. | Page 20

New Residential Complex Unveiled Eleven-story building to add 600 bedrooms to downtown area

By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer

The City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board heard presentations on development plans for the proposed 11-story residential State Street Triangle Building project and the new Rand Hall Fine Arts library at a meeting Tuesday.

The Triangle Building project will be located at the Trebloc Building site on the 300 block of East State Street. Its temporary name is based off the shape of the development area, which is bound by East State Street, North Aurora Street and East Green Street, according to Scott Whitham, principal at Whitham Planning and Development.

Texas-based Campus Advantage is the developer

behind the project.

Whitham said the 11-story building will consist of one floor of retail, with 10 residential floors geared toward student living. He said the proposed building’s location has a significant role in Ithaca development.

“Historically, this has been the intersection of downtown and it remains so,” Whitham said.

“Ithaca really developed around this corner.”

The development would offer apartments with one, two or four bedrooms ranging from 346 to 1,414 square feet, according to sketch plans provided by the City. The 10 residential floors would offer 230 units, with a total of 600 bedrooms.

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Rising above | The proposed 11-story Triangle Building project will be located at the Trebloc Building site on the 300 block of East State Street.

Charter Weekend Turnout Students Offer Feedback on City Plan ‘Exceeds Expectations’

By STEPHANIE YAN

to strengthen other parts of the economy so that the city isn’t so reliant on Cornell, as well as ways to capture more small business activity,” Students shared opinions and suggestions Wissoker said. for the City of Ithaca’s new comprehensive plan Taru grad, who ran the table on sustainabil— a document detailing goals that the city ity, said the city has “looked at critical things hopes to accomplish in the future — at an open like [renewable] energy, and the city being comhouse event Tuesday in Mann Library. pletely carbon-neutral.”

The event venue consisted of stations sumMiran Jang grad discussed ways the city marizing different subsets of the plan, including plans to encourage public participation in govsustainability, transportation, economic vitality ernment decisions. One program involves proand public outreach. Attendees discussed details viding translations of documents for foreign of the plan with students, according event organizers at to Jang.

“Since the City of Ithaca has a huge each station and “Since the City student population, including foreign were given multiple of Ithaca has a huge opportunities to students, the city really wants to engage student population, provide anonymous all the members [of the community].” including foreign feedback. students, the city The comprereally wants to Miran Jang grad hensive plan — engage all the memwhich has underbers [of the comgone several amendments — has not been munity],” Jang said. “The goal is to go to the revised completely since its adoption in 1971. public first, and not wait for the public to The plan proposes initiatives ranging from come.” redeveloping downtown areas to encouraging Student opinions will be considered by the the use of bikes for transportation. comprehensive plan committee as it amends the Peter Wissoker grad talked about the eco- plan before presenting it to the City of Ithaca nomic aspects of the plan, which include job Planning and Development Board and training and ways to strengthen Ithaca’s fiscal Common Council, according to Prof. Jennifer health.

Minner, city and regional planning.

“The economic plan talks about a few The open house was organized by graduate things, one of which is acknowledging the importance of Cornell, but also suggests ways See PLAN page 5

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Over 5,000 register for weekend celebration

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

Over 5,000 people registered to attend Charter Day Weekend, a number which exceeded administrative expectations, according to University officials.

Though the University declined to comment on the monetary costs

of the weekend’s celebrations, it was able to raise more than $52,000 in total registration fees.

The events began Friday and ended Monday morning with an official ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the University’s charter. Of See CHARTER DAY page 5

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Making history | Charter Day weekend celebrations concluded with a ceremony attended by thousands in Barton Hall Monday morning.

Organizers of Die-In Demonstration Release List of Demands to University

By RUBIN DANBERG BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

Organizers of a die-in demonstration and rally in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement Monday released a list of demands directed at University policymakers, decrying current conditions under which they said many historically marginalized groups of students live.

Noelani Gabriel ’16, an organizer, campus and all over the world.”

Another described the o r g a n i z e r, group responsible for the “I think there are some ways in which R o b e r t Johnson ’17, demonstration Cornell is complicit.” said students and subsequent organized the demands as “a Noelani Gabriel ’16 protest in order group of people to push back who really wanted to bring awareness to this issue and against a pervasive system of police vioto other issues of racial injustice on this lence, particularly directed towards black

Americans.

“Specifically, this demonstration was a direct statement against the continued brutalization of black bodies — especially the bodies of black women and transgender individuals — by an increasingly militarized police state,” he said.

Gabrielle Hickmon ’16 further stressed that although overt instances of police bruSee DEMONSTRATION page 4

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But spirits were buoyed after a midnight rally of 300 and a noisy march to Day Hall, and fears of a police “bust” were diminished in early morning.

Formal discussions between the demonstrators and the Cornell administration broke off early Saturday evening, with the Giap-Cabral group charging that a University proposal for reconciliation had been offered in bad faith.

The air at Carpenter was filled all weekend with talk of a “bust,” following the group’s decision at 6:30 p.m. Friday to defy a temporary restraining order enjoining demonstrators to leave the premises.

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Bryant, requires eight named individuals and up to one hundred other defendants to appear in court this afternoon to show cause why a preliminary injunction against their action should not be issued.

Amid angry chargs of “double-cross” by bloodshot-eyed protesters, Syracuse attorney John A. Beach served the order for the University at 5:45 p.m. in the center of the Carpenter Hall library.

The text of the order enjoins the defendants from “congregating or assembling within or adjacent to any of (Cornell’s) academic or administrative buildings, dormitories, recreation rooms, libraries, classrooms, athletic facilities, or any other premises owned, maintained or operated by (the University) ... in such manner as to disrupt or interfere with normal functions conducted by (the University) ... in such place or to block, hunder, impede or interfere with ingress to or egress from any of such properties by (Cornell’s) faculty, administrators, students, employes or guests.”

While the demonstrators caucused in closed session to reach their decision, University Counsel Neal R. Stamp explained to reporters that violation of the order would subject the group at any time to possible citation for contempt of court.

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Prof. John Blume Gives ‘Last Lecture’ Director of dealth penalty project challenges students to improve the world

By MELVIN LI

life, beginning with his years as a divinity school student.

After a 16 year old he was working with at a juvenile justice criminal law unit was sentenced to 25 years to live in jail Prof. John Blume, law, spoke about determining one’s for his involvement in a fatal robbery, Blume said he felt identity and changing the world in Goldwin Smith Hall compelled to become a criminal defense lawyer.

Wednesday as a part of the Mortar Board Senior Honor “It seemed incredibly unfair to me to warehouse this Society’s Last Lecture Series. young man for this rest of his life,” Blume said. “And I The Last Lecture Series was inspired by the death of decided then and there, really on that day, that I could do Prof. Randy Pausch, computer science, Carnegie Mellon more good as a lawyer than a religious historian.”

University, according to Zander Liem ’15, president of Blume said the defining moment of his life occurred Mortar Board’s Cornell chapter. Pausch — after being after he had gone into capital defense law, when he failed diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007 — to prevent the 1999 execution of Leroy Joseph Drayton. delivered an impassioned “last Despite earning the hostility lecture” to his students about of many judges, Blume said his following one’s childhood “No matter what we do, [we] have a decision to stand up for what dreams. he believed was right has moral responsability to leave this “We’ve turned that idea defined his identity to this day, world a better place than into a lecture series where we saying that he refused to seek bring in different Cornell prowe found it.” the death penalty for the man fessor, faculty and staff memwho murdered his nephew two Prof. John Blume bers to talk about something years ago. that is or isn’t related to their “You’re moment will not be academic interests to be a sort of life discussion,” Liem like mine. Your careers in life will be different,” Blume said. said. “But I assure you that a similar type moment will Blume, who is also director of the Cornell Death come, and you’re going to have to make a very difficult Penalty Project, said he believes it is quintessential for peo- decision about what you stand for. And when it does, I ple to understand that they will have decide on their iden- want to encourage you to remember that once you decide tity during their lives, experience a period of enormous to do what is expedient instead of what is right, you’ll do self-doubt and have the responsibility to improve the it twice. And once you do it twice, you’ll do it three times.” world.

While addressing his second point, Blume recounted “First, I believe that in every person’s life, there comes a how, in 1999, five death row inmates he represented were moment or moments where you’re going to have to make all executed despite his best efforts to defend them. Blume decisions that define who you are as a person,” Blume said. said he entered a period of deep self-doubt following these “Second, there are going to be moments in your life when failures but refused to let his despair affect his work, ultisomething so bad is going to happen to you that you’re mately going on to reverse what he said were two wrongful going to have to decide what you’re made out of and how death sentences. you’re going to move forward. Third, all of us, no matter “Now your challenging moment, again, won’t be like what we do, [we] have a moral responsibility to leave this mine, but it will come,” Blume said. “You may lose a job world a better place than we found it.” that you love. You may be a doctor and have a patient you Blume said these suggestions guided his decisions in treated die…but sometimes you have to dig deep, pull

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Last lecture | Prof. John Blume, law, director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, speaks in Goldwin Smith Wednesday.

yourself up, shake off your self-doubt and press on.

Remember, there is no shame in failure.”

Blume ended his lecture by saying that he believes that every person has a duty to fight against injustice in the world. Blume said that for him, this injustice comes in the form the death penalty, the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration in the United States, especially of blacks.

“So why should you care? You should care for the reason Dr. King said you should care: acceptance of injustice threatens the justice of our society,” Blume said. “America cannot claim to be the global defender of democracy and liberty as long as it forgets the types of injustice I have briefly described to you this afternoon.”

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

Members of C.U.Greek Community Address Diversity Wednesday’s Cornell Greek Unity March seeks to promote inclusive, positive environment

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Members of Cornell’s Greek community gathered for a march and panel discussion that sought to address topics relating to diversity and inclusion Wednesday.

The march, which began on Ho Plaza and continued down

East Avenue and around the Arts Quad, concluded at G01 Uris Hall, where the panel discussion was held.

The purpose of Wednesday’s march was to show the Greek community’s commitment to unity and “cross-cultural education” in light of a series of national headlines that “depicted negative images of Greek life

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Marching on | Members of Cornell’s Greek community march to show their commitment to unity and inclusion on Ho Plaza yesterday.

across the country,” according the current council is trying to dad/Lambda Pi Chi sorority, to the event’s Facebook page. do more with the MGLC.” said she believed the conversaArmon Sadler ’17, executive Panelist Renee Alexander tion at the panel was not delvvice president of the ’74, associate dean of students ing into bigger issues of the Multicultural Greek Letter and director of intercultural problem.

Council and one of the pan- programs, defined what diversi“The reality is, racism is real elists, said he believes that ty meant to her. in this country, sexism is real, diversity and inclusion is “Diversity and inclusion classism is real,” she said. “And “embracing the differences, means we welcome people who none of us want to be complicit whether cultural, racial or sexu- are different from us and create in this system, because to say we al.” a space where everyone feels are complicit in the system is to “Diversity is not something included, and like they have a say we are a human being. But you can force on our students place on this campus,” she at the core of it, we are taught [and] on our campus,” he said. said. to be complicit in the system.”

Blake Brown ’17, vice presiSadler also took a critical Gallo Lazo also said she dent for finance of the look at ways in which the Greek believed conversations surInterfraternity Council, said Tri-Council has tried to rounding race during the panel that while he believes discussion and in the diversity exists within Greek community in “I don’t think there is a ton of ethnic the IFC, he sees general have “not even diversity. I think that’s something the IFC passed the surface.” room for growth.

“IFC is really “We keep rewarding wants to and continues to work on.” diverse, not from the people for coming to cultural standpoint these panels when they’re Blake Brown ’17 but [the fact that white, but when a stuthere are] multiple dent of color comes to agricultural fraternities and co- increase diversity within the these panels, they’re viewed as ed fraternities,” he said. community, specifically assess- job for them to be here,” she “[However], I don’t think there ing Delta Series, a new member said. is a ton of ethnic diversity. I training program which touches Fraternity member Javier think that’s something the IFC on a wide array of issues such as Jimenez ’17 said he believed the wants to and continues to work sexual assault, hazing and Greek Unity March served as a on.”

LGBT inclusivity. development towards an Brown also said that there “Delta Series is only benefi- improvement in the image of exists a close community rela- cial on paper,” he said. “It’s Cornell’s Greek system.

“This is definitely a good tionship between the different frustrating to me, because they organizations within the Greek were great speakers with great start,” he said. “I feel like Tri-Council, especially between things to discuss, but the same this Greek unity march is the IFC and Panhellenic time we need to realize that stu- sort of a first step towards building a better image of Council. dents generally don’t care.”

“There is really great co-colThe discussion was also open the fraternity and the whole laboration between IFC, Panhel to members of the audience. Greek system.” and MGLC,” Brown said. Rebeca Gallo Lazo ’15, vice “Obviously, there’s more president of Latinas Yun Soo Kim can be reached at between IFC and Panhel, [but] Promoviendo Comuni - ykim@cornellsun.com.

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Triangle Building project will be located on 300 block of East State Street DEVELOPMENT

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Mark Darling, Planning Board liaison from the Board of Public Works, emphasized the importance of the building’s design.

“This is going to be Ithaca, so it needs to be very iconic [and] expres[s] what Ithaca is,” Darling said.

“How this building looks is indeed very important in terms of how we go forward.”

The structure, which is currently in its planning stage, will have a multi-colored facade — and, on its curved front, a set of multi-story white columns that lie directly beneath a black exterior that extends to the top floor. Current plans also indicate that the first floor will include a restaurant and loading area with access from North Aurora Street.

Some board members discussed how the development might interact with existing buildings in the area.

Prof. Jack Elliott, design and environmental analysis, voiced concerns about the architectural inconsistency the building might pose to the area.

“In terms of urban morphology — in context of the north side of the street — I think [the development stands] in stark contrast,” Elliott said. “It’s going to be almost double the height of its neighbor structures … when you see the buildings on both sides of the street, this is a massive wall. It’s going to cast a huge shadow on the south side.”

Immediately following the presentation of the Triangle Building project, University architect

Gilbert Delgado presented a sketch plan of the Fine Arts library renovation in Rand Hall to the Planning Board.

“The main generative idea here is this idea of the classic vertical reading rooms … this idea of an ennobiling experience of books and reading and the use of books,” Delgado said. “You have to understand that that is what we want to achieve to understand what our next steps in time are going to be.”

The redesigned Fine Arts library is funded by a $6 million donation from Mui Ho ’62 B.Arch ’66 and will occupy the top two floors of the current Rand Hall, The Sun previously reported. Wolfgang Tschapeller ’87, who currently works in Vienna, is the main architect for the library. “[Tschapeller] has done some very intriguing work in Europe and we’re actually delighted to be working with him here in Ithaca,” Delgado said.

The project’s main focus will be the construction of the library expansion, but will also include a list of smaller fixes that need to be made to the building such as moisture control, new windows and new roofing, according to Delgado. “[We’re] resetting the clock on this very important building,” he said. “This is the presence that we’re looking for: noble, early 20th century industrial building that’s been repurposed to our higher use which will exhibit one of the world’s greatest book collections.”

Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.

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Brand new | The above rendering depicts the Fine Arts Library expansion, which will occupy the current top two floors of Rand Hall, plus a partial additional floor above contained within new construction.

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tality may not exist on Cornell’s campus, she said she believes that broader issues of violence and discrimination in law enforcement have had a direct impact on the well-being of many students.

“One would think that Cornell is a utopia when it comes to race because we never talk about it but students of color deal with micro aggressions that question, invalidate, police and threaten their existence and experience on this campus daily,” Hickmon said.

Gabriel echoed Hickmon’s sentiments.

“We believe firmly that these issues, while they might be something we don’t see every [day], as a black student at Cornell seeing constantly on your social media and in the news that black people are dying … that weighs on you … [and] affects our experience on campus.”

Gabriel said she believes that Cornell’s lack of cultural inclusiv-

ity reveals an unfortunate nationwide pattern.

“I would say that our culture in America is a culture that perpetuates white supremacy and that institutions unless they are actively anti racist and anti white supremacy, they are complicit,” she said. “I think there are some ways in which Cornell is complicit.”

Gabriel said the group’s eight stated demands, which are directed at the University, centers on ways in which the University could create a safer and more inclusive environment.

The demands range in focus from policies directly affecting student instruction to training of the Cornell University Police Department as well as general recommendations for a more concerted effort among University hiring committees to create a more “compositional diversity,” according to Gabriel.

Cornell Police has recently come under scrutiny from the University community in light of news that prominent student

activists have allegedly been threatened with legal action. In light of this, Gabriel said the organizers were “incredibly nervous” holding the demonstration on Charter Day. “[Because of ] the visibility of that day, that there would be some kind of pushback from the University, which there hasn’t been,” Gabriel said. “It’s unfortunate that students who have expressed their voices on a number of things … [have] been amped down, they’ve sort of been intimidated and quieted.”

The organizers, who are not a regularly meeting student group, said they do not have further action planned for the immediate future. However, Johnson stressed the importance for students to mobilize and create change.

“Everyone has a role to play in ending apathy, spreading awareness and fostering sincere change on this campus and in the world more generally,” he said.

Rubin Danberg Biggs can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com.

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Students Share Opinions on Over 5,000 Registered to Attend City of Ithaca’s New Plan Charter Day Weekend Events PLAN

Almost half of attendees were current Cornell students

students in Minner’s class, City and Regional Planing 5530: Concepts and Methods of Land Use Planning, who — along with “members of the City of Ithaca’s Comprehensive Plan Committee and city staff” — said they believed it was important to give students a chance to provide feedback on the comprehensive plan.

In addition to compiling student feedback, Minner said her students will conduct analyses of the plan themselves and submit recommendations to the plan committee and planning department staff.

“The students are also applying concepts from the class and using their own professional judgement to analyze each comprehensive plan chapter and draft recommendations to the city,” Minner said.

David Kay ’93, a senior extension associate with the Community and Regional Development Institute in the developmental sociology department, said he hopes the open house will give students one of the infrequent opportunities they have to have their opinions heard.

“One of the reasons that we wanted to do this is that one thing that typically happens around city issues is the younger populations don’t get that involved,” Kay said. “We’re trying to get fresh perspectives from people who don’t usually speak up.”

Five out of 12 members of the Tompkins County Public Library’s Board of Trustees are Cornell faculty and staff, according to the library’s website. the over 5,000 people registered to attend lectures, Kristin Hopkins, project associate for Charter panels, dinners and other events over the weekend, Day Weekend, said the planning committee’s vision almost half — 2,300 — were current students, accord- for the celebration was accomplished. ing to Melissa Mae Osgood, media relations specialist.

“The vision set forth five years ago from the Significantly fewer alumni attended the event Steering Committee was implemented and accomthan current students. Only about 1,100 members plished as events focused on our past, present and of the Ithaca community and Cornell alumni com- future through ‘A Festival of Ideas and bined celebrated Charter Day, although Osgood said Imagination,’” Hopkins said. the total number of attendees “exceeded our expecHopkins emphasized the diversity of events and tations.” attendees at the Approximately weekend’s celebra1,600 faculty and staff tions.

“Alumni, faculty and students, both members attended “Events focused graduate and undergraduate [as well as] on all aspects for the Charter Day celebrations, a number that University — intelstaff talents were showcased and would account for lectually, culturally commemorated.” almost all of Cornell’s and socially,” she 1,628 faculty. Over 400 said. “Alumni, faculKristin Hopkins people volunteered to ty and students, both help run events. graduate and underThe money raised graduate, [as well as] from registration fees will be donated in equal parts staff talents were showcased and commemorated.” to three funds, according to Osgood.

Hopkins added that many alumni who visited “The money will be split three ways between the campus to attend Charter Day traveled significant Cornell Student Care funds, Employee CARE Fund distances to be present for the “once-in-a-lifetime” and Tompkins County Public Library,” she said. occasion.

The CARE Fund — Cornellians Aiding and “Visitors came from near and far to be part of Responding to Employees — works to offer confi- this momentous occasion in Cornell’s history,” dential assistance to faculty and staff experiencing Hopkins said. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime celebrafinancial troubles. According to the fund’s website, tion that will be talked about for generations to applicants approved for funding may receive come.” between $200 and $1,500 in donations, depending on the circumstances of the situation, according to Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com. the University.

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Stephanie Yan an be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

Obama Fails to Push Through Immigration Legislation WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has failed to live up to a campaign promise to push through immigration legislation, but he has met a postelection pledge to slow deportations with or without approval from Congress.

Since October, the Homeland Security Department has sent home the fewest immigrants in the country illegally since Obama took office in 2009, according to internal government data obtained by The Associated Press.

In fact, with 127,000 removals though the first six months of the government’s fiscal year that started in October, the administration is on track to remove the fewest immigrants since the middle of former President George W. Bush’s second term in 2006.

Beginning shortly before his re-election in 2012, Obama has taken a series of steps to slow deportations, including creating a program to allow some young immigrants to stay and work in the country illegally for up to two years at a time.

His effort to shield more than four million immigrants from deportation by expanding that protection program to the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents is on hold after a federal judge in Texas blocked its start.

But the legal wrangling and an ongoing standoff with congressional Republicans hasn't stopped the slowdown.

In 2012, Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent home a record of more than 409,000 immigrants, but since then the agency’s work has steadily slowed.

ICE, as the agency is known, is responsible for finding and removing immigrants living in the country illegally, The latest removal figures, contained in weekly internal reports not publicly reported, show that ICE sent home an average of about 19,730 people a month for the first six months of

the budget year.

If that trend continues, the government will remove about 236,000 by September — the lowest figure since 2006, when 207,776 people were sent home.

As the legal fight over Obama's latest executive action continues, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has directed immigration authorities anew to focus on finding and deporting immigrants who pose a national security or public safety threat, those who have serious criminal records and those who have recently crossed the Mexican border. Roughly 11 million immigrants are thought to be living in the country illegally.

“With the resources we have ... I'm interested in focusing on criminals and recent illegal arrivals at the border,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing Tuesday.

Last week, Johnson said the Border Patrol had arrested about 151,800 people trying to cross the Mexican border illegally, the fewest number of people caught at the border during the same period over the last four years.

“There’s lower intake, lower apprehensions,” Johnson said Tuesday. “There are fewer people attempting to cross the southern border, and there are fewer people apprehended.”

Homeland Security officials have repeatedly attributed the drop in deportations to the changing demographic of border crossers.

Historically, the Border Patrol is responsible for sending home immigrants caught at the border, a process that can be done quickly when the arrested immigrants are from Mexico. But last year immigrants from countries other than Mexico outpaced those from Mexico and border agents had to deal with a flood of tens of thousands of children and families, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Slow Delivery of Emergency Supplies to Rural Nepalese Villages Frustrate Many

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The first reach more remote communities that have been supplies of food aid began reaching remote, cut off by landslides.

“More helicopters, more personnel and cerearthquake-shattered mountain villages in Nepal on Wednesday, while thousands clamored to tainly more relief supplies, including medical board buses out of Kathmandu, either to check teams, shelter, tents, water and sanitation and on rural relatives or for fear of spending yet food, are obviously needed,” said the program’s Geoff Pinnock, who was coordinating the flights. another night in the damaged capital.

With more than 8 million Nepalese affected Frustration over the slow delivery of humanitarian aid boiled over in a protest in the city, with by the earthquake, including 1.4 million who about 200 people facing off with police and need immediate food assistance, Pinnock said the effort would continue for months. blocking traffic.

President Barack Obama called Prime The protest was comparatively small and no Minister Sushil Koirala and disdemonstrators were detained. cussed U.S. military and civilBut it reflected growing anger “More helicopters, ian efforts already underway to over bottlenecks that delayed more personnel and help Nepal, the White House much-needed relief four days said. after the powerful earthquake certainly more relief Police said the official death that killed more than 5,000 supplies ... are toll in Nepal had reached 5,266 people, injured twice that obviously needed.” as of late Wednesday. That figmany and left tens of thouure did not include the 19 peosands homeless. Police, meanGeoff Pinnock ple killed at Mount Everest — while, arrested dozens of peofive foreign climbers and 14 ple on suspicion of looting or causing panic by spreading rumors of another big Nepalese Sherpa guides — when the quake unleashed an avalanche at base camp. quake.

At least 210 foreign trekkers and residents Helicopters finally brought food, temporary shelter and other aid to hamlets north of stranded in the Lantang area north of Kathmandu in the mountainous Gorkha District Kathmandu had been rescued, government near the epicenter of Saturday's 7.8-magnitude administrator Gautam Rimal said. The area, quake. Entire clusters of homes there were which borders Tibet, is popular with tourists.

In Kathmandu, where most buildings were reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood.

Women greeted the delivery with repeated cries spared complete collapse, many residents — fearing aftershocks — continued to camp in parks of “We are hungry!”

While the death toll in the village of Gumda and other open spaces.

But people were starting to leave tent cities was low — only five people were killed and 20 were injured among 1,300 residents — most had like those in Kathmandu’s Tudikhel area. Anop lost their homes and desperately needed tempo- Bhattachan and more than two dozen relatives rary shelter, along with the 40-kilogram (90- have been sleeping on the field since Saturday, pound) sacks of rice that were delivered but he said they now want to get out of the city.

Thousands waited at bus stations in Wednesday. Adding to residents' misery was the rain that has fallen periodically since the quake Kathmandu, hoping to reach their hometowns in rural areas. Some wanted to check on the fate of and hampered helicopter aid flights.

The U.N. World Food Program warned that family and loved ones in the quake, while others it will take time for food and other supplies to were fearful of more aftershocks in the city.

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Syrian Opposition, Activists Report Suspected Chemical Attack UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syrian activist groups on Wednesday reported another suspected chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib, with one group tweeting that a dozen people were “suffocating.”

Several Idlib-based groups said government helicopters dropped at least two barrel bombs containing chlorine on the town of Saraqeb, triggering cases of suffocation.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights, which is based outside the country, tweeted that 12 people were “suffocating.”

The reports could not be independently verified. A call to Syria’s mission to the U.N. rang unanswered Wednesday evening.

The head of Syria’s main opposition group in exile said he received the reports during his informal meeting with the U.N. Security Council behind closed doors.

Khaled Khoja with the Syrian National Coalition said he urged the council to act on its resolutions, including one adopted last month that threatens action against the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

Activists have reported several attacks since then, and the

council earlier this month heard from a Syrian doctor who treated victims from a half-dozen of them. “Everyone smelled bleach-like odors” and heard the sound of helicopters, Mohamed Tennari said of one incident.

The U.S. and other council members have repeatedly blamed the Syrian government for such attacks, saying no one else in the four-year civil war has helicopters to deliver the toxic chemicals.

But the U.N.’s most powerful body seems stuck in taking further action because there is no way to formally assign blame.

Neither the U.N. nor the global chemical weapons watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, has that kind of mandate, though the OPCW this year condemned the use of chlorine in Syria as a breach of international law. Council members have asked the OPCW to look into the latest attacks.

The council found rare agreement on Syria in the fall of 2013 to order the removal and destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, but chlorine was not declared as a chemical weapon.

The chemical does not have to be declared because it is also used for regular purposes in industry.

Officers Describe Hellish Scene After Theater Shootings CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Officers who rushed to the scene of the Colorado theater shooting entered a hellish world of bloody victims, noxious smells and blaring sounds — a gloomy darkness pierced by bright flashes from a fire alarm, police testified Wednesday.

“It was dim, the movie was still playing, the alarm was going off,” Aurora police officer Annette Brook told jurors in the trial of gunman James Holmes.

“I began to notice the bodies, the live victims, the blood.”

Prosecutors called Brook and two other officers as witnesses Wednesday, and their descriptions of the chaos of inside the suburban Denver theater intensified the already disturbing scene described a day earlier by moviegoers who were badly wounded or saw loved ones gunned down in the July 20, 2012, attack.

Twelve people died and 70 were hurt. Holmes is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder.

He admits he was the shooter, his defense attorneys say, but schizophrenia had taken control of his mind and compelled him to kill. They are asking the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity, which would send him to the state mental hospital indefinitely.

Prosecutors argue Holmes was sane and fully aware that what he was doing was wrong.

They want the jury to convict him and sentence him to die.

In the opening days of the trial, prosecutors have appeared intent on planting a deeply upsetting image in the jurors’ minds.

“It smelled very, very bad,”

officer Tomas Campagna testified Wednesday, describing the mixed odors of blood, sweat, urine and feces. “It’s hard to imagine unless you've been there.”

Spent cartridges and casings from a shotgun, a rifle and a handgun littered the ground, so thick that officers couldn’t avoid stepping on them, Campagna said. In places, the floor looked like it had been painted in blood, he said.

Cellphones left behind by the victims rang long into the night.

Aurora Fire Department Lt. Bernd Hoefler said he and a colleague found 10 bodies in the theater.

“Some were trampled. Some had missing parts of their head,” he testified.

Hoefler said under other circumstances, he would have tried to revive one of the dying, a man who was still warm, but too many other victims needed attention. District Attorney George Brauchler asked what he did. Hoefler said, “Tag him black,” the code for dead.

More victims testified Wednesday, describing the booms and the brilliant flashes of light that burst from the muzzles of the weapons aimed at them and the hot pain of being shot. None said they saw Holmes’ face, but one of the police officers did.

Police Sgt. Spc. Gerald Jonsgaard testified he saw Holmes lying on the ground in the parking lot outside the theater as two officers arrested him.

Jonsgaard didn’t identify Holmes by name Wednesday but said he was sitting at the defense table.

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Three Men Arrested in Connection With Fatal Moose Stabbing

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Three men have been accused of stabbing a young moose to death at a park in Alaska’s largest city, and police said witnesses reported seeing the men punching the animal and walking away.

The men were arraigned Wednesday in the death of the yearling moose near a bike trail in Anchorage’s Russian Jack Springs Park. All three were arrested on charges of animal cruelty, wanton waste of big game and tampering with evidence.

Three witnesses called police shortly before 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday to report the moose under attack. Assistant District Attorney Daniel Shorey in charging documents made no mention of a possible motive.

Witness Don Brooks told officers he saw three men in a swampy area “punching” a moose. He yelled at them to stop, and saw them walk toward a park chalet, he said. Two others gave similar accounts to police.

Police found the dead moose

in blood-soaked grass with a large vertical cut on its left side.

“There were multiple deep cuts that appeared to be slashing cuts on the left ribcage as well as apparent puncture wounds to the neck,” Shorey wrote.

Police found the three suspects near the park chalet and saw blood on one man’s jacket, Shorey wrote. None of the men were carrying knives.

Police using a dog tracked the men’s route from the chalet toward the area where they had been seen by witnesses. The police dog alerted officers to a large concrete pipe and police found three knives inside: a hunting knife in a brown leather sheath, a serrated “dagger style” knife in a black leather sheath and a multi-tool in a leather sheath, Shorey said. The hunting knife had blood on it.

The suspects, Johnathan Candelario, 25, James Galloway, 28, and Nick Johnston, 33, were handed charges Wednesday in an Anchorage courtroom.

Former Illinois Governor, Prisoner Dies at 92 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Dan Walker, a combative populist who became Illinois govenor after condemning Chicago’s reaction to Democratic National Convention demonstrations as “a police riot” and later went to prison for bank fraud, died Wednesday. He was 92.

The self-styled reformer died at his home in Chula Vista, California, according to his son Dan Walker Jr., a suburban Chicago attorney.

Described as either “brilliant” or “phony” by those who knew and watched him, the Democrat bested the revered Paul Simon in the 1972 primary for governor, beat the incumbent Republican and, some believe with the benefit of a different direction, could have been the 1976 presidential nominee.

“He was brilliant, very — even excessively — ambitious,” said former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, whose first Senate campaign in 1970 Walker managed. “I can’t say that he was terribly principled; he was very bent on winning at all costs.”

Walker made his name in 1968 when he chaired the panel that criticized Chicago’s response to anti-Vietnam War protests outside the convention where Democrats gave the presidential nomination to Hubert H. Humphrey.

The report angered thenMayor Richard J. Daley and sparked an antagonism that Walker repeatedly fueled throughout his tenure in Springfield, prompting the Chicago boss to back a 1976 primary candidate and send Walker to a humiliating defeat. That opened the door in November for a victorious Republican, James Thompson, who served a record 14 years at the helm.

After he left office, Walker took over a suburban Chicago savings and loan where he was convicted of bank fraud in 1987

and sentenced to 18 months in prison, forever categorizing him with three other Illinois executives who have spent time behind bars in the past 40 years — but those three for corruption in office.

During his out-of-nowhere campaign in 1971, he traipsed 2,197 miles — the length of the state. He slept in farmhouses and burnished his image as a populist with a denim shirt and a red bandanna.

“He connected with working folks very well,” said Freeport Mayor Jim Gitz, who went to work for Walker as a legislative aide. “... That walk — from the southern tip to the northern tip — he had a special touch in connecting with people and energizing them.”

University of Illinois Professor Charles Wheeler III, then a Chicago Sun-Times reporter, said Walker portrayed reformer Simon, later a U.S. senator, as a Daley stooge. Although Walker frequently criticized the powerful mayor, Wheeler said he often engaged in the same kind of political games while advocating for change.

“He was kind of a phony, portraying himself as a country bumpkin when in fact he was a corporate lawyer,” Wheeler said.

His tenure was not without success. He signed into law legislation to create the state Lottery and the Regional Transportation Authority. Supporters credit him with getting minorities more state contracts, advancing the idea of collective bargaining for public employees, and opening the door to a new generation of politicians, less dependent on established parties, including former Gov. Pat Quinn, who worked on the 1972 campaign.

“He fervently believed in the power of democracy and the importance of including everyone in our democracy,” Quinn said in a statement.

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Divinity student Melech Thomas takes part in a protest over the death of Freddie Gray outside the state attorney’s office in downtown Baltimore Wednesday.

California Governor Calls on State To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissons LOS ANGELES (AP) — Building on California’s ambitious effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called on the state to further slash its carbon footprint over the next 15 years.

Brown set a new target of reducing emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, calling it the most aggressive benchmark enacted by a government in North America.

The goal is a mile marker on the way to cutting emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 that was set by Brown’s predecessor, former

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“I’ve set a very high bar, but it’s a bar we must meet,” Brown said during a climate conference in Los Angeles.

California, which already has an aggressive plan to combat global warming, currently is on track to meet a goal of cutting carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, partly by forcing companies to pay for their pollution.

The state’s cap-and-trade program, launched nearly three years ago, offers one of the few realworld laboratories on how to reduce heat-trapping emissions.

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here are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

I’ve been migrating back and forth, in and out, of these stages — all except for one.

You can’t expect me to accept this. I will never let go. I will never forgive the loss of black lives. I’ll remain perpetually in grief.

The average human body is made up of about 5.5 liters of blood. America, you’ve spilled more blood than you know.

Good morning, America. Amidst your coma, we are insomniacs — as much as our problems are, too. While night may be merciful to your crimson stained consciences, it’s always mourning for the narrative that doesn’t sleep.

You shattered our spines, but Baltimore rose. With eroded cheeks, all raw from mourning. Our hands are calloused, and our bones are aching. I’m tired of burying my brothers and sisters bones in your backyard — tired of being buried, too.

For you, fair country, my father dropped his name in the ocean on his way here. The same currents still carry the flesh and screams of ancestors, whose children are still drowning here on land. We can’t breathe.

Of you, black children question: What, if anything, has ever existed outside of a place so simultaneously enamored with and revolted over my skin? Where one is one-dimensionally characterized as property, criminal or a tokenized friend? Time can’t dissolve the ancient nostalgia that my brothers and sisters keep.

Years from now, when you’ve authored our narratives, you will teach: “Rampaging Race Riots Against America, Home of the Free!’ My child will look at herself and think: Shit, they’re talking about me.

It will perpetually repeat itself again — your story a seducing stutter: “Free, free, free — never ever was there anyone, here, any less than free.” You’ll spinelessly proceed with the slander and erasure of a people never emancipated.

You’ll close that book of fairy tales you so miraculously pulled out of your imagination, the book where your family’s story can only be found in between the lines, a place that no one seeks to read. Printed with our blood, the spines of its books bound by the labor of broken spines — and, I'm afraid, you might just lull my daughter successfully into her deepest, most profound sleep.

We do not matter here. On top of a bedrock made of bones, you have muffled black screams. Quiet, or you’ll wake up the neighbors — America is free, free, free.

We’ve all been crying out “Black Lives Matter,” goddamnit, to which you respond, “Well, my life matters, too.”

Maybe if our names were more pronounceable — according to you — signed without any stray marks, or dipped deep into a bucket of bleach, would Black Lives Matter actually be a thing?

With so many ashes in your pockets, how could you possibly rest? But now I know — it was man who created Hell.

Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at pmunoz@cornellsun.com. Midas’ Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Put It on the Wall

hen I was a senior in high school, I dedicated the brightest portion of my bedroom wall to college rejection letters. With the exception of the stationary they’re printed on, they are all more or less identical. There is a formula. Begin with the news — don’t delay and don’t use euphemisms. Instead, use words like “unable” and “regret” to drive home the point. Leave no ambiguity. Make sweeping statements about the talent of the applicant pool and compliment your readers before reminding them that you are, in fact, rejecting them. Tell them to try again next time or, if that’s not an option, wish them good luck elsewhere. Mail merge. Sign. Seal. Each of the letters on my wall follows this rubric with its own panache. Each is at once unique and formulaic, something like Grandma’s chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Unlike chocolate chip cookies, though, rejection is universally unpleasant. Rejection plays suitor to vulnerability. Whether by application declined or election denied, all rejectees have considered the delicate balance between fear of rejection and hope for acceptance, sided with the latter and failed. Failure is disappointing. No letter can spin that positively.

These rejections are often intensely private. We try to hide them, we try to forget them and we definitely don’t try to share them. The reason is self-evident: to be rejected implies weakness or flaw. In a society where success is determined by our ability to sell ourselves to prospective employers, peers and love interests, sharing stories of rejection is adaptively unintelligent. It lessens our prospects of acceptance and, moreover, it favors the prospects of our competitors who may not be as willing to admit past failings.

And so, in our society, rejection is silent and acceptance is loud.

But this silence can be harmful. When we laud only the greatest accomplishments of our peers without also accepting their failures, we create false realities. We create metrics for social comparison that are based in speculation rather than actuality. It’s not that accomplishment doesn’t deserve recognition — acceptance is exciting and often worth celebrating. But we shouldn’t dwell on rejection, either. The healthiest communities allow their members to confront and share both successes and failures, and to rejoice in each unique acceptance as a worthy triumph

doesn’t. But it feels honest. It is healthy to remove the veil of privacy that accompanies the pain of rejection and force oneself to acknowledge successes and failures simultaneously rather than in isolation. In so doing, we create contrasts that promote robust metrics of self-evaluation rather than false pretenses for social comparison.

Of course, it’s easy to philosophize about rejection and harder to accept it in practicality. For most people, there must be time to grieve. This is true for me too. This semester alone, I’ve been rejected from several things I’ve desperately wanted. It hurts. But eventually, even the deepest of wounds can scar over time. I may not ever look back upon any of my rejections positively, but I will face each of them again. And when that time comes, however far into the future it may be, these memories will have their own place on my wall.

My life, like those of many Yale students, is built around a set of inherent privileges. I am lucky. Even spoiled. I have never experienced a real high-stakes rejection — one that threatened my livelihood or even my ability to live a safe and secure life — though I know many people who have. That said, I think the truth here is universal: Rejection should not be and is not a definitive determinant of worth. Action is. As one admissions dean from a school up in Boston wrote to me in his letter three years ago, “past experience suggests that the particular college a student attends is far less important than what the student does to develop his or her strengths and talents over the next four years.” Rejections are badges of strength and catalysts of talent, and they are made for the wall.

These rejections are often intensely private. We try to hide them, we try to forget them and we definitely don’t try to share them. over the rejections that may have accompanied it. This is what I wish for Yale.

So let me attempt to tear down the facade: My name is Douglas Streat. I am a junior at Yale, one of 12 schools I applied to, though I was rejected from or waitlisted at five. In my time at Yale, I have been rejected from eight a cappella groups and joined one. I have been denied seven student jobs but I currently hold three. I have been rejected by eight people but gone on dates with four. I applied to one Master’s program, was accepted and have matriculated. I received three senior society interviews, and was turned away by all.

I’m not sure that publicizing rejection is meant to feel good. As far as I can tell from having written it here, it

Douglas Streat is a sophomore at Yale University. Ivy Wire appears periodically this semester.

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Ready for Bernie?

espite her standing with the Democratic Party establishment and the Democratic Party’s voters in the country as a whole, Hillary Clinton has never had a good relationship with the left wing of the Party. So it’s no surprise that liberal activists have tried their best to recruit a primary challenger to challenge her from the left. Their original goal was to get Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run, but Warren has repeatedly denied having interest, going so far as to endorse a Clinton candidacy. But now the left wing of the Party has found their candidate. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is going to run for President.

Sanders is not the typical candidate. To start with, he’s not even a Democrat. He began his career as a member of an antiVietnam War third party, running for office in Vermont as a protest candidate. For all his Congressional and Senate races, the Democrats have declined to run anyone against him. He consistently gets the support of the Democratic establishment and voters.

He’s a member of the Democratic caucus in the Senate and has even gotten Democratic support to head a committee. Now he’ll try to win the support of the Democratic rank and file while maintaining his opposition to the natural partisanship of an electoral democracy.

Additionally, Sanders is the only member of Congress to call himself a socialist. In a country devoted to capitalism as a national ideology, it seems that he’ll have his

work cut out for him trying to prove that his ideas are the right ones for our country. But his adherence to social democracy is precisely why people like him so much. Sanders probably knows how unpopular socialism is in the country (though not as unpopular as most might think). But he continues to support these ideas, not because they’ll win him the next election, but because he truly believes in them. This genuine honesty has the potential

Despite the left wing’s fury at Clinton, she’s still a liberal. Yes, she voted for the Iraq War and, like all Senators from New York, is close to Wall Street, but she’d be about as liberal on every issue as Barack Obama has been. She’ll push for a higher minimum wage, fight for racial, gender and LGBT equality, and aim to combat climate change.

It’s true that she won’t be as far left as a President Sanders would be, but most Americans are perfectly happy with that.

Hillary Clinton’s inevitability means the Sanders’s posihim on tions Democratic Party’s voters won’t have the the leftplace end of the same opportunity as the Republican voters Democratic Party.

He wants to instiin choosing the direction of the Party. tute single-payer healthcare, break up the big banks and to be a powerful force in an era when politi- raise taxes on the wealthy. He’s been fighting cians flip-flop at the drop of a hat. If he can for LGBT equality since back when LGBT leverage Americans’ distaste for the politics of people were still a political punching bag. the day, he could make something of his run. And he has been a constant advocate for But that probably won’t happen. In a poll affordable housing and a higher minimum of Iowa earlier this week, Sanders captured wage.

I’d love for Bernie Sanders to be President.

14 percent of the vote, far behind Clinton’s 62 percent. But that 14 percent was a higher But it won’t happen, and he knows it. His share of the Democratic vote than either goal is therefore not to win but instead to Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush got among force Clinton to respond to the left wing of Republicans. He clearly has his core group of the Party and maybe move her positions fursupporters. But there’s no way that he’ll be ther left. He wants to make the Democratic able to topple Clinton. She’s just too popular Party more responsive to the issues that he and other left-wing progressives care about. among Democratic voters.

One way that this has already happened is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the free trade deal that President Obama is pushing.

Clinton has been sitting on the fence on the deal, trying not to offend either its proponents or its opponents. But recently, the leftwing opposition to the TPP has forced her to take more of a stance. Pushed leftward by potential primary challengers like Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, she declined to support the deal.

So it’s possible that Sanders’s candidacy could have an effect.

Hillary Clinton’s inevitability means that the Democratic Party’s voters won’t have the same opportunity as the Republican voters in choosing the direction of the Party. Bernie Sanders’s candidacy gives an option to the group of Democrats who aren’t as enamored with Clinton as the rest of us. But Sanders’s biggest effect might be simply to spread his ideas throughout the country. The greatest thing that he could do for the liberal cause and the Democratic Party might be to get people to listen to him and absorb his message. If that were to happen, then Clinton’s job as President would be that much easier.

That’s why Bernie Sanders running for President will be good for our Party and our country.

Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at erp55@cornell.edu.

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Always Right

Conscience of a Cornell Conservative

efore starting classes at Cornell, I joined my fellow freshman in attending the “Tapestry of Possibilities” theater event on North Campus.

Presented by an on campus theatre troupe called Ordinary People, the event consisted of satirizing biases that, it was implied, were pervasive on campus, and needed to be stamped out by attitudes of tolerance and inclusion. I was not quite sure what this had to do with furthering my education and knowledge of government, the major I intended on pursuing. Attendance was mandatory, however, so I decided to try to make something of the experience.

One of the skits portrayed a student suggesting that her colleague must have been admitted to Cornell solely as a result of affirmative action. During the audience involvement period, I asked whether the University itself was to blame for the fact that a student could even suggest such a thing. After all, this University consciously decides to factor in race when deciding whom to admit.

That does not excuse the rude and disrespectful suggestion of the actor in the skit, of course. But isn’t it odd that the University would treat students differently based on race to begin with, then try to use a satirical skit to clean up its own mess?

You could have heard a pin drop in that room at the conclusion of my question. Most of the one hundred or so attendees did not quite know how to react, presumably not caring much either way. One or two people seemed to nervously nod in agreement. Several others took turns defending affirmative action, explaining in a civil manner why it was a just and necessary policy.

The final group of students were visibly enraged. To them, I had utterly missed the point of the event: Couldn’t I see that these performers were here to instruct us young, impressionable students on what we ought to think? How arrogant and misguided I must be to challenge their message, or hold a different point of view.

I could not have guessed at the time that the audience’s reaction to my question would so closely mirror the campus’s response to my column in The Sun.

When I first mentioned to friends and family nearly two years ago that I had been selected to write for The Sun, many urged me to write under a pseudonym. It was brave enough, they said, for me to share my views so publicly. Allowing my articles to be so easily traced back to me would make me too easy a target for those who wish to silence dissenting voices from political discussions.

But I insisted otherwise. I reasoned that my opinions would have had far less credence if I were to write under the cover of a false name, shielded from any semblance of accountability. I needed to prove that I could handle

I realized early on that this column was not just about me. It was a test of whether the values of free and open debate were still alive at Cornell. the pressure and withstand intelligent criticism. It would have been hypocritical of me to counter the intellectual cowardice of those who prefer personal insult to the free exchange of ideas with cowardice of my own.

Looking back at the dozens of columns I have written for The Sun, I do not regret my decision. Yes, there have been plenty of angry e-mails, defamatory flyers, protests of varying kinds and in-person harangues directed at me.

But if I could go back in time, I would do it all again in a minute. Nor would I hesitate in expressing my perspectives on often taboo subjects like race, religion, sexual assault, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict or free speech.

I realized early on that this column was not just about me. It was a test of whether the values of free and open debate were still alive at Cornell. And this institution passed with flying colors, challenging those who are convinced that America’s universities have become hopelessly closed-minded. My respect and regard for Cornell has

only grown since the day I received my admission letter more than four years ago. I have a number of people to thank for making that possible.

First, I am grateful to those who engaged in dialogue and debate with me, both within and outside the pages of The Sun, on contentious campus, national and international issues.

Second, I am appreciative of the intellectual honesty and courage of the professors and students who dared to thank me, by e-mail or in person, for writing my column over the course of the past two years, expressing their agreement with much of what I have written.

And third, I am thankful for the Cornell Daily Sun, which has demonstrated that it reflects the best ideals of the University in its willingness to foster a diversity of viewpoints. I hope that The Sun remains steadfast in this commitment for years to come, remaining vigilant against those who wish to monopolize the marketplace of ideas.

Am I on the “wrong side of history,” as so many of my critics have suggested? Perhaps. But contrary to what others may assume, the trajectory of historical development is not outside of human control. It is what we do today that will decide whose views will ultimately be regarded as anachronistic and backward. The contents of history’s ash heap are not predetermined, but decided by the victors of contemporary struggles. I do not worry that some researcher — digging through the archives at Cornell’s 250th anniversary for a sense of what life was like here at the beginning of the 21st Century — will come across this column and express shock that anyone once sincerely held the opinions that I express today.

I accept this risk with stride, and encourage others to do the same. My four years on the Hill may be coming to an end, but the lessons I learned here will remain with me forever.

Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun.com. Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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By ZACHARY SIEGEL Sun Staff Writer

The Finger Lakes region produces some of the most unique and value-oriented wines and craft beers in America. The ever-popular wines courses at Cornell, especially Intro to Wines and Vines, FDSC 1104, familiarize students with some local wineries.

But for those who have not taken these courses, here is a handy guide to just a few of the quality beverage producers in the area.

T h e s e options may never replace cheaper options as day-to-day drinks, but for special occasions it’s nice to drink local.

Finger Lakes wine, like all wine, is an expression of the climate. In case you have not noticed, it gets cold here — much colder than most other wine-growing regions in the country. Local wineries face short growing seasons, which dictate the cultivars of grapes that will ripen successfully.

Riesling, which dominates similarly cold regions in Germany, has found a home here in upstate New York. Other popu-

lar white wines include Chardonnay and FrenchAmerican hybrids. The cool-climate troopers Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc are the principal red wines grown in the region, although heartier varietals are grown in small numbers. Short summers mean less time for the grapes to develop sugar, and thus the area produces lighter wines with lower alcohol content.

There are 11,000 acres of vineyards in the Finger Lakes, which produce 80 percent of New York State’s wine.

Due to the regulation of extreme temperatures, the most coveted sites are those which surround the lakes themselves.

The region does not enjoy the prestigious name recognition of, say, California’s Napa Valley, so plenty of high quality wines are available at more reasonable prices.

Atwater Estate Vineyards produces my favorite of the many Finger Lakes dry Rieslings. It is limey and very acidic, but also has a lot of peachy fruitiness. Located about 40 minutes from Cornell on Seneca Lake, they operate an

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on-site tasting room with a $3 charge for six samples, as well as an outpost in Watkins Glen.

Atwater is also known for its stellar dry red wines, including a fantastic Pinot Noir. Reds range in price from $15 to $38.

Whites and rosés are all under $20, with the Riesling coming in at $16.

Boundary Breaks, also on Seneca Lake, focuses on singlevineyard Rieslings. Its off-dry and sweet options are great examples of balanced wines that still have residual sugar, with plenty of acidity to offset the sweetness. Boundary Breaks makes some of the highest-rated wines in the Finger Lakes, most of which sell for just under $20.

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Bellwether Hard Cider and Wine Cellars takes a unique approach to production that results in some of the Finger Lakes’ most interesting wines.

They make some quality dry Rieslings, but they show their originality in their wild ferment wines, using only the natural yeasts present on the grape skins to induce the fermentation of sugar into alcohol. This results in a true expression of the Finger Lakes Riesling grape’s character — citrusy and floral, with a little bit of funkiness from the yeast. Bellwether is also one of the oldest cidermakers in the region, producing ten types of hard apple cider.

Like Boundary Breaks, they can be found at the Farmers Market.

As for retail, Ithaca is home to some great stores that highlight both local and global wines. The Cellar d’Or, in the heart of the Commons, is extremely well-curated by its friendly staff, and offers free tastings every Friday evening from smaller scale producers.

Northside Wine & Spirits is a fluorescent emporium with a huge variety of wines, including a ton from local winemakers.

Triphammer Wine & Spirits, to the north, also has a nice selection.

Western New York is also home to some producers of craft beer, which is less susceptible to the whims of the Finger Lakes weather. Ithaca Beer Company, of course, makes a wide range of

beer styles, from the Flower Power IPA to the Embrr Rye Porter. Their Taproom serves all of their beers, and is a great destination for outdoor dining as spring arrives.

Brewery Ommegang, further afield in Cooperstown, NY, produces interesting Belgian-style beers known for their yeasty character. Their brewery and restaurant are about two hours away, but worth a day trip with a side visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Finger Lakes Beverage Center on State Street has an incredible selection of beers from all over the country and the world, with a section devoted to New York State brews.

Ithaca Coffee Company also has a wide range of options, with the location on the Commons stocking a full collection of homebrew ingredients.

Wegmans, too, has an impressive beer selection.

For those who are of age, we are lucky enough to live in a region that makes great alcoholic beverages. Almost every Cornellian will be 21 during his or her time as a student, so it’s worthwhile to have some understanding of local wine producers and breweries. Many wineries have tasting rooms that offer inexpensive samples of their wines. As I graduate from Cornell this semester, I will continue to connect myself with the Finger Lakes region the best way I can think of: by drinking its alcohol.

Zachary Siegel can be zbs8@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Wounds That Pitchfork Makes W

hen Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp a Butterfly in March, I did something that I absolutely never do. I read nothing about it before listening to it. I always read reviews before listening to new releases: Pitchfork, SPIN, the New York Times, the Atlantic (and of course The Sun).

This is largely because this is often the best way to find excellent new music that I might never even hear mentioned otherwise.

However, it also is a way of avoiding the wasting of time on “sub-par” music. This approach certainly affects my choices of which films to watch and which books to read as well: I nearly always check Rotten Tomatoes before seeing a movie, and rarely read a book that doesn’t have some kind of validating praise on its jacket from reliable authors or publications.

Of course, a consequence of this kind of approach to art is that I have usually been told what to think about a work before I even begin to take it in. I come in with preconceptions, and although I like to think that I am still fully capable of making my own decision about the work’s value, style and personal efficacy to me, there have certainly been many times that I know this was not the case.

I came home that day in March, stretched out on my bed, and put on To Pimp a Butterfly. I wasn’t really in the right frame of

mind for what the album presents; I hadn’t had much sleep the night before and had difficulty keeping up with the twists and turns of Lamar’s complex rhymes. I even fell asleep for a significant middle portion (a portion I still haven’t heard while conscious, as I fell asleep during the same part on the ride to Boston for spring break, the next time I tried to dive into the album). Based on this admittedly unfair criteria, however, the words that came to mind when I finished the album were “interesting overreach.”

In the days after that, however, as I encountered a massive amount of ecstatically laudatory reviews, I started to question the

Jack Jones Despite All The Amputations validity of not only my opinion but even my opinion-making itself. Did this mean that I can’t appreciate greatness when I’m faced with it? Did it mean that I can only recognize it when I’m told ahead of time that it’s there?

This experience is a microcosm of my overall problem with how we qualify and dis-

cuss art. As I’ve indicated, I’m one of the worst offenders: I can hardly ever claim an opinion about a work of art that isn’t either influenced by or in reaction to something I had read beforehand. Much of this is simply the result of the overwhelming expansiveness of the art world; there's simply too much to try to sift through by oneself, and thus reviews are a way of helping the reader to find the “best” stuff out there. A side-effect, however, is the strange attempt to quantify the greatness and validity of art on a scale, in comparison to other works. Pitchfork takes this approach to a ludicrous, almost comic degree, trying to pin down the value of an album to a tenth of a point, so that we are made to understand that Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit is a two-tenths better album than Young Thug’s Barter 6.

A significant negative effect of this culture of categorization is a sort of elitism about “great” art in purposeful distinction from the “popular.” This is, of course, particularly obvious in the literary world: Literary critic Harold Bloom has a book called The Western Canon which attempts to demarcate which authors and works belong in a “canon” of great, influential Western literature, with arguments for why others do not. Bloom also sneers particularly nastily at wildly successful and beloved authors such as J.K. Rowling and Stephen King, whom he sees as corrupting

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and dumbing-down a tradition.

Ultimately, to what kind of conversation does this kind of approach contribute? I think overly categorical approaches such as Bloom’s and Pitchfork’s often limit conversation rather than provoking it. I think art can fail and still be interesting and worthy of discussion. If we limit ourselves to only what is great and completely stylistically successful, then our reactions to art can also become limited to “That was great!” I’m certainly not going to stop reading reviews. But I am going to try to rely on them a little less, to be a little bolder in exploring art on my own volition, and to think about what is interesting, what works and what doesn’t work about each subject.

Maybe someday I’ll be able to stay awake through To Pimp a Butterfly, and I’ll realize my own individual opinion.

Jack Jones is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun.com. Despite All The Amputations appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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A CHAT WITH CONNIE WONG To Swim With Head Erect Towards Heaven at Tjaden Gallery

BY DANNI SHEN Sun Staff Writer

To Swim with Head Erect Towards Heaven is an amalgamation of physical and psychological spaces, of humor, slang, sex, classicism, religion, fear and the absurd. A play on comical, and sometimes bizarre, everyday encounters of the artist Connie Wong MFA ’15, the constructed environment in Tjaden Gallery holds warped dreamlike figures and forms; a 3-D-scan sculpture of the artist’s pink, dwarfed, nude figure wearing a swimming cap prepares to leap off a plank.

On the opposite shore are five gleaming pseudo-marble paintings. On another wall is a minuscule goldadorned mirror. On another is a video of the artist embedded in rock, her eyes rolling endlessly to the top of her head. This strange museum hosts several even stranger artworks. To contemplate them would seemingly require one to sit down on one of the three benches that the artist has provided. Yet their fleshcolored surfaces, which have grown flesh-colored, phallic protuberances, oddly reminiscent of columns in classical architecture, suggest otherwise. In the realization of tensions which fluctuate between extremes, hidden and revealed, seriousness becomes humor, absurdity becomes everyday, heavy becomes light, dream-space becomes real-space. After the exhibition’s reception, The Sun sat down to talk to Wong about her work and influences.

T HE S UN : Can you talk about the title: To Swim with Head Erect Towards Heaven?

C ONNIE WONG : Some time ago, I stumbled into a swimming manuscript from the 16th century with tons of these strange illustrations. One of them included text, which read, “To swim with head erect towards heaven;” the illustration was of a guy holding his crotch while trying to keep his head above the water. The description said that by doing this you wouldn’t drown, and it was all just so bizarre. This led me to thinking about the benches that you see in museums and other spaces in which you view images.

S UN: So the benches here are institutional benches?

C.W.: Yes, but originally these were supposed to be “friendship benches,” and mixing different ideas into the structure. I had heard all of these stories about people who made their own sex toys at home and died from using them. At the same time, I was thinking about enema, you know those injections you get when you’re constipated that help you go to the bathroom?

When my sisters were young, my mother would take them to the kindergarten, and when they needed to go to the bathroom, they would just put the enemas out on a bench with a bunch of holes, lined up. This was apparently common.

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S UN : I was going to say, they’re very phallic, especially with the pink flesh tone.

C.W.: It’s absolutely phallic!

S UN : How about the pseudo-marble paintings?

You mentioned before that they come from your encounters within specific religious contexts?

C.W.: Yeah, when I was in Hong Kong, all my schools were religious. I went to a Catholic school, Christian school, Buddhist school. I only have a vague memory of what topics were taught, but the experience of church was so embedded in our lives. For example, you learn about trinity during religion classes. The experience of going to churches in Rome too, I’ve never experienced anything like that. The church marble also looks like prosciutto, you know the Italian ham with the veins and layers of fat. I just thought, “Wow that is so amazing!” After that I decided to learn how to paint marble. So in my work I’m always playing with ideas of what is around me.

S UN : That is amazing, and I think “play” is a very good word for how you work. It’s also interesting that from this end of the gallery, the shaped paintings become aerial landscapes, like satellite imagery. The textured green is very reminiscent of Google Earth captures.

C.W.: That’s interesting! Someone mentioned it also looks like a sky with lightning, which becomes the sea with the sculpture of the swimming figure.

S UN : Can you talk more about the sculpture of the

figure?

C.W.: It’s a direct scan of myself. I really wanted to learn new technology, in this case how to use the CNC machine, the mill, 3-D scanner. I was trying out all of these different poses during the scan. I also kept thinking of classical art forms that you see in museums, i.e. fake marble that you see within paintings, figurative statues; with the seashell I was also thinking of Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus.”

SUN: And the video footage of yourself?

C.W.: A lot of my work comes from playing around in my studio. This video is really of me testing out how to use time-lapse. But when I started looking at it more, I started to feel sick, and I became interested in the unsettling aspect of the motion in that you can’t tell where the person is looking, if she’s thinking, if it’s fear, confusion or happiness. It’s a pull and push quality, and that also happens throughout my other works.

SUN: So what is the nature of your work? How you position yourself as an artist, conceptually, culturally, historically?

C.W.: I come from Hong Kong, and came to America — Texas — when I was 17. After that I’d been living in L.A. for over 10 years, worked in Alaska for three years, spent some time in Berlin and now I’m here in New York! I’ve always positioned myself as a kind of outsider. Even in Hong Kong, people think, “Oh yeah, you’re American,” but when you’re here they think you’re Chinese. So I try to see myself as an outsider, but also as an insider at the same time. I like to collect life stories during my encounters, and I’m also really drawn to slang in language and dirty jokes because they’re funny and always get my attention.

I’ve noticed that people always use body parts in language, i.e. a cigarette; here they call the filter a cigarette butt. In China, we call it a cigarette head. There are also so many jokes that involve sex or erotica, which I think is funny yet dark at the same time. At times, it’s so funny you want to cry, it’s that kind of experience, which is what I’m trying to get at through my work. Going back to the homemade sex toys and people dying, it’s so ridiculous and we never see it, yet we know about it. It’s about bringing up the thing that lies below the surface. I’m not trying to be cynical, I just think it’s interesting.

SUN: Is it humor?

C.W.: I like to have fun! I’m also very serious.

Although my work always come from that “haha moment,” those jokes come from somewhere that is darker. I like that extreme tension of high and low culture, the East and West, all crushed together.

To Swim with Head Erect Towards Heaven is on view in Tjaden Gallery through Friday.

Danni Shen is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at dshen@cornellsun.com.

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A Goodbye To Cornell Athletics ZAKOUR

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ficiaries of a dominating win), which should technically have been homecoming. No, the point is that I was down on Cornell sports after that.

The stands of Schoellkopf are rarely full and I wanted to write about it, complain about our lack of support we throw our teams.

But ready as I was to judge, I felt it shortsighted. Cornell has a great history of athletics — an undefeated hockey season and championship, a football program that boasts five national titles and historic names, a Wimbledon champion and a baseball program almost 150 years old. Not to mention more recent developments — perennially contending lacrosse and wrestling teams, gold medalists in women’s hockey and a Sweet Sixteen berth in March Madness. To be honest, football only won one game this year, a thriller over winless Columbia and we tend to support our winning teams. Look at men’s hockey. When our basketball team was dominating the Ivies five or six years ago, we’d fill Newman and rush the court. If the Ws start coming, I think the fans will as well.

Lacrosse just had 7,500 people watch them win a share of the Ivy League title.

As a Cornell student, every We might not have top of day when I walk to class, I walk the line facilities, but across a good majority of the campus in order to trek to they’re still good. And Stocking Hall. Each morning, I they don’t hold back our pass half a dozen of premier student athletes. labs, research facilities, a training and fully functional hotel and a particle collider. This is an Ivy League school after all. Millions of dollars are poured into these bastions of knowledge, as it should be. On the same walk, I pass Lynah Rink, Hoy Field, Berman Field and Schoellkopf Field — the homes of our hockey, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse and football teams. It’s hard to say how much money is poured into them. But that’s OK. We might not have top of the line facilities, but they’re still good. And they don’t hold back our student athletes. They didn’t hold back Kyle Dake, Brianne Jenner or any of the NHL players Cornell has produced.

The great part of it is the fields, rinks and arenas are right there.

They’re not off campus and they are accessible. In addition, most of the time, it’s free for students to go see a game (they make you pay for men’s hockey and a few playoff games). Any time you want, you can walk to a game and see it for free as a student. And it seems we, including myself, don’t do it enough. I know, we’re all busy. We all have stuff to do, but I’ve stopped by games on my way back from the library and late classes. So I’ll leave you all with this — just go to some games. Any of them. Try to go to an under-appreciated sport, whether it’s tennis, softball, women’s hockey etc.

It has been amazing covering and writing Cornell sports and true student athletes. It’s been a really rewarding experience, especially at a school that isn’t necessarily regarded for sports. I love telling people all the things I’ve been able to do — from talking to professional hockey players, gold medalists and major champions to watching our athletes play in Madison Square Garden. So I as I sign off, I’ll just say, “let’s go Red!” John Zakour is a senior columnist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be contacted at jzakour@cornellsun.com Point Blank appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Men Close Season Against Princeton,Canisius College

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

On Friday and Sunday, the Cornell baseball team faced Princeton in a series of double-headers. The squad was able to finish its season of Ivy play with three wins in four games, bringing the Red’s record up to 9-11 in conference play and 12-26 overall. Cornell finished its regular season in third place in Lou Gehrig Division for the second year in a row, ahead of just Princeton.

In Friday’s double-header, the Red started the weekend off with a loss, unable to score and dropping the match to Princeton by one run. While the loss was disappointing, senior pitcher Kellen Urbon had one of his best showings, earning six strikeouts, the best of his career, and pitching in his third complete games of the season. After opening on a low note, the team was able to bounce back in its next game, pulling ahead 13-4 to begin its weekend of subsequent wins. This game proved to be one of the Red’s best this season, as the team had previously only seen a season-high of 10 runs in one game.

“We were just able to put all aspects of the game together,” said senior infielder Dan Morris. “We have had the potential

Recycle.

all season, it was just a matter of putting it all together in the same game, which happened for us in this series.”

Both teams picked up and left Princeton, New Jersey to head to Ithaca for Sunday’s pair of games. Cornell honored its 12 graduating seniors in a Senior Day ceremony held at Hoy Field. The Red went on to win both of its Sunday games, 10-0 and 2-1 respectively, sending its seniors out with a bang. Senior pitcher Brian McAfee finished his spectacular Cornell career with a 4-hit shutout in game three of the Princeton series, while senior infielder Spencer Scorza and senior outfielder J.D. Whetsel both had strong games as well.

“For the seniors, these were our final Ivy League games of our careers,” Morris said. “The highlight was definitely winning the series and winning both games on Sunday at home on senior day.

McAfee agreed, saying that it was satisfying to finish of his career with the Red on such a positive note.

The Red’s regular season play ended yesterday in two games against Canisius College. Cornell finished the season in a split, losing the first game of its doubleheader but coming back with a win in the second. This set of games marked the end to the Red’s season, as only the winner

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Senior sendoff | Senior pitcher Brian McAfee, pictured above, along with 11 other seniors, finished his final baseball season with the Red yesterday.

from each division in the Ivy League goes on to play in the championship game.

According to McAfee, one of the highlights of the day came from senior Matt Hall who hit a walk off, two RBI double to push the read ahead by one and ultimately win the game for the team in his final career game.

While the team has seen its ups and downs in 2015, it managed to end on a

high note, winning four of its six last games and three of its four home games.

“It was a frustrating Ivy League season for us. Obviously, things didn’t go as well as we hoped, but that’s baseball,” McAfee said. “I think we were much better than our record showed.”

Anna Fasman can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Although the men did not pull out a first place finish this weekend, it is important to note that they walked into their races ranked No. 10 nationally and rowed successfully against Princeton and Yale, who are No. 3 and 4 respectively.

Senior heavyweight captain Christopher Schang said he felt confident after the races this weekend.

“We showed in all events that we are competitive with the top teams in the country,” he said.

“The lower boats were able to take home a victory and the first and second varsity eight demonstrated that they are within striking dis-

tance. We still have three weeks until the Eastern Sprints and the results from the Carnegie Cup definitely motivate us to work on the few seconds of speed we need to beat the top boats in the country.”

Though both Kerber and Schang agreed that the team has room for improvement, they also seemed optimistic about what is to come for the remainder of their seasons. Next weekend, the men will compete in the last race of their regular season in the Madeira Cup. “Finishing the dual season with a win and a strong performance will be important to set ourselves up [for] the Championship races,” Schang said.

Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun.com.

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Melly also said that looking forward, the Cornell squad has set certain goals for itself.

“We’re focused and determined to turn the tables on Princeton come outdoor Heps,” he said. “We had to do a lot of reevaluation after our disappointing performance indoors, but I’m confident that as a team, [we] are all pulling in the same direction and will leave it all on the line this time around. We’ve put in a lot of work and hit bumps along the way, but I think we’re well positioned to do some really great things in the next few weeks.”

The Red is in a position to be

increasingly competitive this coming weekend and going forward into the Championship portion of the season. The team looks to put the results of the Indoor Championships behind them and strive for an even better result in the outdoor season.

“Although we weren’t happy with how the indoor season ended, we are eager to redeem ourselves in outdoor,” Collard said. “We’ve had some really good efforts so far and just continue to get better. We’re excited to see where our hard work takes us towards the end of the season.”

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

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FOOTBALL

Youngest Coach in Division I Football: Archer’s Red Journey Through persistance and dedication to the Red, head coach David Archer earned his spot with the Cornell football team

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This is the second of a threepart series about head football coach David Archer ’05. The third part will appear in Friday’s paper.

It was important for Cornell head football coach David Archer ‘05 to not beg for the job. When former Cornell head coach Kent Austin announced that he was leaving the school to become the general manager and head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League, Archer immediately knew he wanted to coach the Red. When he met with athletic director Andy Noel, Archer made sure that he was aware that he wanted the job and that he felt he was ready to lead the program in a new direction.

Noel, at the beginning of the search process, was seemingly closed to the idea of hiring Archer as head coach.

“I know what you’re going to say,” Noel told Archer. “You’re going to say that you’re ready for this job, but I don’t think you are and maybe some day.

But you are such a key piece to Cornell football that to whomever we hire — we’re gonna find a great coach, interview nationally and find a great guy and whomever we hire — I’m gonna put in a great word to keep you.”

“I just want you to know

that, in my mind, I am ready and I think I’m the best choice for Cornell football,” Archer told Noel. “I may not be the best head coach for other organizations, but I am the guy for our organization.”

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Having to find a new person Fighting for Red | Football head coach David Archer, pictured above at his introductory press conference, said to lead the football program was that coaching the Red football team is his dream job. a tough task for a multitude of Former Red quarterback Jeff gave a “mock interview” to football program. This raised reasons. Noel called Austin “his dream coach” and it was impera- Mathews ‘13, then a senior, Archer to prepare him for down Archer’s brow.

“Am I being toyed with or is tive for him to find a new leader called Archer and asked if he the road should the position this a real interview?” Archer that could build a program foun- was interested in the job. Archer open up.

“What I wanted that to do said. “I said that I didn’t feel dation that fostered a team told him that he’d love to be the perennially in contention for the head coach. Mathews, who now was put in his mind to have him comfortable with this. I said, Ivy League title; one season with plays for Austin in Hamilton start looking at me like I could ‘Give him my resume and tell a winning record did not meet after short stints on NFL prac- be the head coach,” Archer said. him in that same time frame, he tice squads, got into contact “When you see somebody run can interview me.’ In the back the standard of success.

Many alumni and former with Noel and let him know for president, all of a sudden of my head, I thought, ‘Is this America thinks real?’” players began When Archer came out of the they looked getting in “I’m gonna give it my best and my all p r e s i d e n t i a l . interview with the other canditouch with Same type of date, he noticed the candidate’s Archer, supbecause, in my heart, I have an opinion [of] deal. Andy was wife talking with a real estate porting him what is right for my program and I have the AD when I agent. Noel approached Archer and telling him was an 18- and said, “Isn’t he great?” they felt he was strong convictions about that.”

“Yeah, he’s great,” Archer year-old freshthe best person man, so some- said to Noel. for the job; Head Coach David Archer ’05 “I couldn’t shake that,” times there’s a Archer directed stigma in Archer said. “I said, ‘Screw it, them to Noel.

“Dave, I have never experi- how he felt about Archer lead- somebody’s head that that’s all I’m gonna give it my best and that person will ever be. You my all because, in my heart, I enced anything like this,” said ing the program.

“I’d love to play under Coach just wanted to start the thinking have an opinion [of ] what is Cornell radio announced Buck Briggs ’76 to Archer. “I’m get- Archer,” Mathews said to Noel in his mind that this could be a right for my program and I have strong convictions about ting calls [from people] I at the time. “I know the rest of possibility some day.”

Archer was given 24 hours to that.’” haven’t heard from in years that the team would love playing for Archer went through four prepare for the interview. When are saying, ‘Is Dave Archer him as well.”

The push from alumni and he received the itinerary for the full days of interviews and began gonna get this job? We want faculty prompted Noel to give weekend of interviews, Archer to discuss a potential coaching him to.’”

“I’m being hit by a Dave Archer a formal interview. This, noticed something odd — he staff with Noel. On a Archer tsunami,” said assistant however, was not the first time was scheduled to meet with the Wednesday, Noel let Archer head coach Travis Burkett, then Archer had interviewed for the other head coaching candidate know that they should meet the a special teams coordinator, to head coaching position; before and directed to interview him as next day. Noel hired Archer that Noel hired Austin in 2010, he a representative of the Cornell Thursday, making him the Archer. youngest head coach in Division I football. At the end of the day, Noel said he felt that Archer was the best person to lead the program moving forward.

For Archer, the head coaching position at Cornell was his dream job. He had no aspirations to coach at a football powerhouse such as Alabama or Michigan and no desire to coach in the National Football League. According to Archer, he will be the head coach of the Red as long as he lives.

“I love mentoring and helping young people and this is the perfect combination of all of that,” Archer said. “If one of those went away, I wouldn’t be as happy. If it just becomes about the football, pro ball, if it just becomes about being a mentor, like being a teacher, I’m missing the football. If I’m doing the football and mentoring at a different school, that doesn’t get me up in the morning like Cornell does. This is the perfect and only combination.”

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

Noel and Archer | Athletic Director Andy Noel, pictured above with Archer, was the man in charge of hiring the new football coach back in 2013.

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

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MEN’S ROWING

Lightweight Men Stay Undefeated In Spring Season

By HANNAH NOYES Sun Staff Writer

Both Cornell’s men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams finished with successful times in their races this past weekend. The lightweight crew team remains undefeated this spring season and most recently, its varsity eight finished with a time of 6:18 in the Geiger Cup against Columbia and MIT. In addition, the men’s heavyweight varsity eight boat finished third with a time of 6:16 against Princeton and Yale for the Carnegie Cup. “This was an important weekend for us. MIT has had a strong year and Columbia’s varsity eight hadn’t lost a race yet. Columbia has had a very deep and talented team in recent years,” said lightweight captain Christopher Rogers.

“Both their second and third varsity eights won gold medals at our League Championships last year, which made this weekend’s sweep extra exciting and rewarding for everyone who raced for the Big Red in Boston. I’m really proud of all our boats that raced for staying composed and resilient in a difficult headwind on the Charles Basin.”

The men had a strong performance despite the weather due in part to their coach, who has prepared them to be

MICHAELA BREW / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Upstream victory | The men’s lightweight varsity eight boat was able to finish with a time of 6:18 in the Geiger Cup against Columbia and MIT this past weekend.

strong competitors throughout the season.

“Our focus was to take the learnings from the previous races of the season, develop our race plan even further and keep everything sharp and internal or as we say ‘heads in the boat,’” said lightweight head coach Christopher Kerber. “I am proud of the athletes’ professional approach to preparing for racing. With this droll group of athletes and our solid ranking, I was concerned with athletes becoming distracted or skipping essential details along the way. This is not the case — they are all business.”

Next weekend, the lightweight team will host Dartmouth here in Ithaca for the Baggley Bowl, and Kerber

said he is confident that the team will see further success against the Green.

The heavyweight squad competed this weekend against Princeton and Yale in the Carnegie Cup in Ithaca.

“Overall the team had some good races,” said heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett. “The [third varsity boat] was very solid, and my heart went out to the varsity for the aggression they displayed in their race. We still have to make some adjustments before the championship season if we expect to win.”

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TRACK AND FIELD

An Ivy League Red to Host Cornell Invitational (Sports) Institution Men,women to compete in last meet before outdoor Heps S ince this is my last column, I think I might be contractually obligated to make it some kind of reflection. I’ve been fortunate to be a part of the 150th class of Cornell and my last semester coincides with the sesquicentennial celebration of our alma mater, so I’ve been even more reflective than your usual senior.

At the Charter Day ceremonies on Monday, as Cornell celebrated its past, present and

an obvious answer to me — of course I was going to the game. Homecoming is called “homecoming” because the football team comes home.

For one game a year, we’re supposed to go to a football game, as a group, and root for the Red. But as the homecoming festivities wore on, the game was deemphasized. There were free shirts, but a young Cornell team struggled early and late and Lehigh withstood

John Zakour Point Blank future, I saw football head coach David Archer in attendance. I pointed it out to one of my sports loving friends.

“Hey, coach Archer’s here,” I said to him. “Who,” he replied.

Sometimes I get dispirited as a Cornell sports fan. Not when we lose — I can deal with that. I know this campus can support and love its sports teams since it does with men’s hockey. But when, “wait, you’re actually going to the game” peppers my homecoming festivities, one can get a little incredulous. It seemed like

a few great plays to win, 3114, earning its first victory of the year. The Red made at least two great singular plays, one on a long touchdown catch and the other on a botched Lehigh punt.

So what’s the point? That Cornell isn’t super excited about any given football game? You knew that already.

Hell, the homecoming game wasn’t even really homecoming. Yale visited Ithaca the week before (leaving the beneSee ZAKOUR page 17

at hand [of ] competing and enjoying ourselves. As a senior, it is my last home meet of my Cornell career and it is most This weekend, the Cornell important to go out there and men’s and women’s track and field have fun.” teams will compete at the Cornell On the men’s side, the Red Invitational to be held at the looks to execute under pressure Robert J. Kane Sports Complex and perform at an impressive in Ithaca. So far this season, the level.

Red has impressive “Not having to travel showings at its meets “To have success this weekend, the after the Penn Relays and looks to continue its positive momentum into team needs to focus on performing as trip gives guys a chance to rest up and compete the final part of the 2015 we train.” in a low-pressure envioutdoor season. ronment at home,” “We’re confident Jennifer Markin Melly said. “The field coming off strong perevent guys in particular formances the last two weekends,” said senior David that if the team competes like it will use this weekend as a lastMelly. “We set two school records does in practice, a strong perfor- minute tune-up. For many others, particularly the distance guys, last weekend and have a ton of mance is likely to follow.

“To have success this weekend, it is a chance to get IC4A marks guys improving on early season performances, so our momentum the team needs to focus on per- that have been a long time comis definitely going in the right forming as we train,” she said. ing.” direction. The meet this weekend “We cannot get ahead of ourselves See TRACK & FIELD page 18 is a great chance for guys who and [we] need to focus on the task have been putting in hard work all season to shine and make an impact before we go into Heps week.”

The men’s track and field team has had an outstanding season so far and looks to utilize this weekend to continue to push for even more success.

On the women’s side, the Red looks to close out its home meets this coming weekend with a strong showing.

“The team is excited for the Cornell Invite. It’s our last home CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER meet of the year, so it’s always a special and fun meet,” said senior Red tune-up | Senior David Melly, pictured above, explained that this weekend Marianne Collard. “It’s good to will be the Red’s last chance to compete and prepare before its championships.

By JOHN MCGRORTY

Sun Staff Writer

be on our home turf in Ithaca and especially nice that we have some beautiful weather to compete in.

Our training has been going well thus far, with more and more things falling into place every weekend, so we’re eager for another opportunity to compete.”

Senior Jennifer Markin said