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FBI: Handgun Found in Inlet Tied to Ex-Student

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

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Hidden handgun | A State Police Dive Team searches the Cayuga inlet, where they found several guns, including one the FBI says is related to the investigation of a former student.

At the bottom of an Ithaca inlet, State Police divers found a handgun that an FBI agent said is related to the bureau’s investigation of Maximilien R. Reynolds ’19, the former Cornell student who authorities said harbored weapons and tactical gear in his Collegetown apartment.

The New York State Police Dive Team, aiding in the Reynolds investigation, searched “a specific section” of the Cayuga Inlet and pulled out “a single handgun and several unrelated long guns,” FBI Special Agent David Schutz told The Sun in a brief phone interview on Sunday.

The recovery of the handgun earlier this month, which has not been previously disclosed, adds to the FBI discovery of an AR-15 rifle, a homemade bomb, 300 rounds of ammunition and various survival gear in Reynolds’ apartment in March.

Prosecutors charged Reynolds with four federal crimes last month, saying he illegally purchased a gun through a friend and illegally owned a gun silencer and homemade bomb made out of a firecracker.

Reynolds, who is 20, had been on leave from Cornell since the end of the fall 2016 semester, and one of his lawyers, Raymond Schlather J.D. ’76, said last month that See INLET page 6

Ava DuVernay Named Former Vermont Governor, Alumnus,Dies at 93 Remembered as first Democratic governor elected inVermont in108 years 2018 Convocation Speaker

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By ALISHA GUPTA and MEREDITH LIU

“The way we started our search process … was sort of Sun Assistant Managing Editor and first identifying [the] core Sun Assistant News Editor values that we wanted our speaker to have,” Gorman Ava DuVernay, the first told The Sun. “We wanted black female director to have someone who, while they her movie nomicould be contronated for a versial, wouldn’t Golden Globe be really diviand Academy sive.”

Award, will adThroughout dress Cornell’s her career, DuClass of 2018 Vernay has shatduring Convocatered barriers. At tion on May 26 the 2012 Sunas the keynote dance Film FesDUVERNAY speaker. tival, she became According to Elizabeth the first African-American Gorman ’18, chair of the woman to win a directing Convocation Committee, award in the U.S. dramatic throughout the search competition for her film process, the committee Middle of Nowhere. always hoped to bring in a One of DuVernay’s most speaker that is inclusive and notable works is Selma, a hiscould “bring people to the torical drama of Dr. Martin table,” given today’s “very See CONVOCATION page 5 polarizing and tense climate.”

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Philip H. Hoff J.D. ’51, a Cornell alumnus and a three-term governor of Vermont who as described in his biography “forever changed Vermont” by starting the state’s transition from Republican-entrenched to one of the most liberal, died Thursday April 26 at his home in Shelburne, Vermont. He was 93.

Hoff was born on June 29, 1924, in Turners Falls, Mass. He left Williams College in Massachusetts to serve in the Navy during World War II and completed a degree at Williams in 1948 after the war. He graduated from law school at Cornell University in 1951, after which he moved to Burlington.

Hoff served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1960 to 1962. In 1963, he was elected as the 73rd Governor of Vermont, the first Democrat governor in 108 years.

“Vermonters have called for change, and their votes have made me the symbol of this demand for a new and fresh approach in the conduct of State affairs,” Mr. Hoff said in his inaugural address on January 17, 1963.

Over three two-year terms in office, he See HOFF page 5

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Symbol of demand | Philip H. Hoff J.D. ’51 (seen above in an old campaign poster) is credited with starting Vermont’s transition from red to blue. He passed away at 93 on Thursday.

Pulitzer Prize Finalist to Speak at Cornell About Rising Racial Tensions

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun News Editor

Jelani Cobb, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary finalist and Columbia University professor, will be speaking at Cornell on May 3 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.

Cobb will be delivering the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture and

will be discussing tensions between police and the black community.

Cobb is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at Columbia’s School of Journalism, and a commentator on National Public Radio, CNN and CBS News. He has written two books, The Substance of

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Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. He has also had pieces published in The Washington Post, The New Republic and The Progressive.

Prof. Russell Rickford, history, said he was looking forward to a “no-holds-barred conversa-

tion,” that addresses “the troubled boundaries between reform and rebellion and between amelioration and abolition.”

“Cobb is both a sophisticated historian and one of the most insightful commentators on race, class, and the struggle for democracy in America,” Rickford said. “We are seeing violent attacks on See COBB page 4

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First CALS Day Celebrates New Ag Quad, Academic Diversity

By MATTHEW McGOWEN Sun Staff Writer

From owls to apples, music to ice cream, the first CALS Day on Friday celebrated the wide span of academic fields pursued by students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Displays, free tasting and performances took place on the upgraded Ag Quad, which was inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The celebration featured 25 CALS student organizations, who provided free Cornell Dairy ice cream and apples for everyone and t-shirts to tie-dye for the first 500 visitors. In addition, Cornell Botanic Gardens presented tree blossoms and woody plants blooming in the area while the Lab of Ornithology provided students with a chance to pet resident owls, hawks and other birds of prey.

Kathryn J. Boor ’80, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS, kicked off the event with the introduction of the newly renovated Ag Quad, which now includes a stone plaza with outdoor furniture, light poles and three blue lights.

“The Ag Quad is really the crossroads of our college, connecting our people together with a newly renovated landscape for meeting, relaxing and enjoyment,” Boor said.

Austin Weaver ’19 tabled for the Alpha Gamma Rho agriculture fraternity and called the event a “great success.”

“We saw a great showing of student organizations highlighting their involvement and contributions to CALS and the greater Cornell community,” Weaver said and praised the turnout “from students, alumni and Ithaca citizens enjoying the event.”

Shannon Dortch, associate director of communications and marketing of the Cornell Botanical Gardens, called the event “a great showcase for the diversity of educational activities within CALS.” Kristina Filippini ’18, chair of the CALS Student Advisory Council, looks forward to improving the event next year as it becomes an annual affair.

“Dean Boor’s vision is to have CALS Day every year and I will make sure the new chair of the Student Advisory Council prioritizes this event as an annual project

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Development and diversity | Kathryn J. Boor ’80, dean of CALS, began the celebration with the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the freshly renovated Ag Quad on Friday.

for the years to come,” Filippini said in an email to The Sun. Filippini suggested extending the hours in future years and leading tours CALS exhibits in outlying buildings like the ento-

mology showcase in Comstock Hall or viticulture display in Stocking Hall.

Matthew McGowen can be reached at mmcgowen@cornellsun.com.

Claims of Sexism, Elitism Cause Renowned C.U.Chemist Dies at 91 Prof co-founded chemical ecology, received National Medal of Science Frat to Revise Charity Event

Franklin Medal in Chemistry chemist and certainly, and the Nakanishi Prize of working in his labs did the Chemical Society of nothing but fortify that interest.”

Prof. Jerrold Meinwald, Japan in 2014.

Spencer Knapp ’72 Ph.D. Throughout his career, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus died Meinwald co-authored over ’75 took organic chemistry aged 91 on April 23 in 400 scientific articles and with Meinwald as his very Ithaca. He was known for co- collaborated with entomolo- first class at Cornell. He later working with gist Thomas Eisner, began founding the field with whom he is Meinwald in the late 1960s of chemical ecolocredited for co- and described him as “unfailgy and was awardfounding the field ingly polite and kind to ed the 2014 of chemical ecolo- everyone.”

National Medal of According to the students, gy.

Science, the highAfter his pass- Meinwald was always very est honor in sciing, former stu- supportive of students of his ence and engidents remembered who came from different neering in the Matthew his achievement, backgrounds. country.

MEINWALD his supportiveness Gronquist Ph.D. ’02, who Meinwald was born in 1927 in New York as a mentor and his interests spent four years in the Marines prior to Cornell, City and began his educa- outside his academic field.

J. Ramon Vargas M.S. said Meinwald always “made tional career at Brooklyn College and Queens College. ’83, a former student of everybody in the group feel After serving in the U.S. Meinwald’s, said his experi- very comfortable.”

“He was really so genuineNavy as an electronics tech- ence at Meinwald’s lab was nician during World War II, unique and memorable due ly nice and supportive, which he continued his education to its interdisciplinary isn’t always true in that setting,” Gronquist told The at the University of Chicago nature. where he earned his bachelor of philosophy degree in “He was really so genuinely nice and supportive, 1947. He also earned a master’s degree in 1950 and a which isn’t always true in that setting. I always Ph.D. in 1952 from Harvard think of him when I am dealing with sudents.”

University.

After completing his Matthew Gronquist Ph.D. ’02 Ph.D., Meinwald came to Cornell, where he continued “In his particular lab, Sun. “I always think of him his research on chemistry, chemical biology and the there were people that were when I am dealing with stunaturally occurring chemical working on isolating com- dents.”

Many students continued compounds in insects and pounds from plants or from plants. He also researched insects and you had people to work with Meinwald even the chemical signals that that were synthesizing — after he joined other coloccurred between insects and making — compounds,” leges. Allan Wissner, who Vargas said. “It was a very studied with Meinwald from plants.

In 1969, Meinwald was diverse laboratory and you 1972 to 1974 as a postdocelected into the National got exposed to a lot of dif- toral student, followed Academy of Sciences. He ferent aspects of organic Meinwald to University of California, San Diego — served as the secretary of the chemistry.”

In addition to the collabo- where he briefly worked as a American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2005 to rative learning environment, professor of chemistry — 2016, of which he had been a Meinwald was an approach- and later back to Cornell, member since 1970. Other able mentor to Vargas where he returned to work for the remainder of his honors he received include throughout his career.

“He was always willing career. the Roger Adams Award in “He gave his postdoctoral Organic Chemistry from the to talk to me. He was a realAmerican Chemical Society ly good person. I was happy [students] a lot of freedom to in 2005, Grand Prix of la that he was a mentor of do what they wanted,” Maison de la Chimie in mine,” Vargas said, “I knew See CHEMIST page 4 2008, the 2013 Benjamin I always wanted to be a

By AMINA KILPATRICK

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun News Editor

In response to negative feedback from sororities about the sexism and elitism that occurred during earlier Derby Days, the Cornell chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity made efforts to improve this year’s event with a series of reforms, including the elimination of a controversial brotherhood auction.

Derby Days is an event hosted annually by Sigma Chi chapters nationwide to raise money for the fraternity’s philanthropy, the Huntsman Cancer Institute. This year’s event will take place from

“The main crux of the argument was that Derby Days, in a lot of ways, pits sororities against each other.”

Stefan Antonsson ’19 April 29 to May 4.

A member of a sorority — who asked to maintain anonymity since she felt uncomfortable being identified — told The Sun that she found Derby Days “disrespectful” in general when she attended the brotherhood auction event in 2015. The auction was a talent show in which girls would bid on the brothers based

on their talents.

“While Derby Days may work on other campuses, Sig Chi at Cornell has not proved themselves able to put on an event that is truly philanthropic in nature,” she said. “Here, Derby Days perpetuates a negative culture in the Greek community of elitism, aggressive competition and social isolationism. The Tri Council has worked very hard to counteract this, and I think it shows insensitivity on the part of Sig Chi to continue the event in a way that is not markedly different.

According to Sigma Chi president Stefan Antonsson ’19, all the sororities on campus participated in Derby Days the year before he came to Cornell, but the number dropped to six two years ago, five last year and only four agreed to participate this year. “[This is] really disappointing, because I did try to do a lot of outreach to a lot of sororities,” he told The Sun. “But I understand if girls have had negative experiences in the past, what we have to do is prove to them that we’re really dedicated to making this as good as possible.”

As part of the outreach efforts, Antonsson said that he and his team met with sorority presidents and philanthropy chairs to get feedback about their experiences with the event in past years and See FRATERNITY page 4

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Derby days | Members of the Greek community gather outside of the Sigma Chi house for one of the Derby Days events last year.

Sun Staff Writer

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New Cornell Tech Innovation Center Funded by $50M Investment

By WINNY SUN Sun Staff Writer

A $50 million investment by Tata Consultancy Services has led to the inauguration of the Tata Innovation Center on Roosevelt Island, a space on the Cornell Tech campus for academics and industry leaders to come together to conduct research and solve real world challenges.

Tata Consultancy Services is a multinational company and a global leader in “providing innovative, best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and services,” according to TCS’ website.

The investment funded “the first phase of capital development” on the Cornell Tech campus and will also benefit ongoing technological research. The funds will also be used to expand New York City’s K-12 digital literacy curriculums, according to the University.

Tata Innovation Center is a “first-of-its-kind” building designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architecture and developed by Forest City Ratner Companies. The building emphasizes openness, centering around a large staircase that “promotes visual connections between floors … the heart of the campus and surrounding city beyond,” and featuring a glass facade “[melding] inside and out, allowing those inside to draw inspiration from river-toriver views,” according to the Cornell Tech website.

Tata Consultancy Services will also be a tenant in the Tata Innovation Center, along with companies such as Citibank and Ferrero.

TCS and Cornell scholars will collaborate in technological research in areas of cybersecurity and human-machine interaction, “benefiting both U.S. business and local communities,” according to TCS’s press release on the collaboration.

“Our joint research with Cornell Tech is designed to fully leverage their campus ecosystem and TCS’ industry leading technical expertise to develop solutions that empower notable transformation and talent development across industries,” said Rajesh Gopinatha, CEO and managing director of TCS. In addition to serving as a hub that brings leaders in academia and industry together, the Tata Innovation Center will also house Cornell Tech’s “studio,” a curriculum that allows students to put their knowledge into practice and work with industry professionals, according to Cornell Tech’s website.

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“First-of-its-kind” | The new Tata Innovation Center aims to bring together leaders of academia and the industry to solve real world challenges.

According to the Cornell Tech website, in studio culture, students gain inspiration by receiving constructive feedback on their projects from peers in an open and collaborative setting. They also receive guidance from studio faculty equipped with industry experience and advising from visiting industry leaders.

“Cornell Trustee Ratan Tata ’59, B. Arch ’62 and the Tata family of companies have long supported innovation at Cornell,” President Martha E. Pollack said in a press release. “Our new partnership with Tata Consultancy Services will drive innovation at Cornell Tech and help the campus reach its full potential for education, research and societal impact.”

Winny Sun can be reached at wsun@cornellsun.com.

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what changes could be implemented.

“The main crux of the argument was that Derby Days, in a lot of ways, pits sororities against each other, facilitates Panhellenic competition and has sexist undertones,” he said.

“As I said, before I got here, I don’t know to what extent those are true. But I know that this year, we’ve really been trying to get feedback on some of the things we can change,” he added.

“It’s really disappointing to me to hear that people would even entertain the idea that we’re taking money away from our national cause.”

Stefan Antonsson ’19 Antonsson said that the two main changes this year are eliminating the brotherhood auction event and turning the grill-out event into a carnival.

Antonsson said that there were concerns about the difference between each sorority members’ socio-economic status. He said he hopes getting rid of it would reduce the competitive nature of the event. He also said that holding a carnival would help make the event a more “collective fundraising effort” since brothers would be actively participating by running the booths.

“Some girls felt like they were raising the money for us and we were just using them, and that’s something we don’t want to do this year,” Antonsson said. “We want to definitely make sure we take that out if that existed in the past.”

Antonsson also denied rumors that Sigma Chi previously embezzled the money they were supposed to donate.

“It’s really disappointing to me to hear that people would even entertain the idea that we’re taking money away from our national cause … for anything other than cancer research,” Antonsson said.

He showed documentation from the Huntsman Cancer Foundation to The Sun, which said that the Cornell chapter raised over $24,000 in the 2015-16 year and over $25,500 in the 2016-17 year for the organization.

Antonsson said that Sigma Chi used to rely mostly on the Derby Days event to raise money, but a change that they have made in recent years is to include internal fundraising efforts.

According to the Huntsman Cancer Institute website, they have already raised over $17,000 this year, at least $16,000 of which was from internal fundraising, Antonsson said.

According to Antonsson, although he tried to encourage Tri-Council wide participation in the event, he ultimately did not have enough time to make it happen.

Antonsson said he will also be in charge of running Derby Days again next year and hopes to “really try to mold this event into the inclusive Tri-Council wide event I believe it can [be].”

“I wouldn’t have reached out as many people as I did if I really wasn’t trying to improve the events this year,” he said. “Not make a wholesale change, because as I said, we’re keeping a lot of the structure with the teams, but making it as positive as possible.”

The philanthropy chairs of two sororities declined to comment about why their sororities would or would not be participating, while those of ten sororities did not respond to a request for comment. The Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life and the Panhellenic Council president and philanthropy chair also did not respond to a request for a comment.

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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Wissner told The Sun, “He was a terrific mentor, and he was able to teach me a lot.”

Douglas Weibel Ph.D ’02 worked with Meinwald during the later part of his career. He said Meinwald was an avid flutist and encouraged others to foster their love of music.

“I remember one day being in the lab with one of my colleagues and we were just jamming out in the lab playing instruments,” Weibel said. “We noticed [that] he was watching us and he cracked a big smile, and gave us a thumbs up.

He was a cool guy.”

Meinwald performed in many concerts at Cornell when he first came here. He performed in 1957 with the Cornell University Trio that comprised of Ivan Waldbauer, a pianist and former professor at Brown, Prof. John Hsu the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus and Sheldon Kurland, a cellist and arranger.

In a music review published on the March 4, 1957 issue of The Sun, Meinwald was described as “articulating beautifully” during his performance.

Meinwald is survived by his wife of 37 years, Charlotte Greenspan and his three daughters. According to the University, funeral services were held at Temple Beth-El Ithaca on April 25.

Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at akilpatrick@cornellsun.com.

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black people escalate throughout the country and in many parts of the world, so this is an absolutely crucial time to confront questions of policing and racial justice.”

Rickford will hold a conversation after Cobb’s PBS Frontline documentary “Policing the Police,” is shown during the event.

According to the Pulitzer Prize’s website Cobb was chosen as a finalist for the award for “combining masterful writ-

ing with a deep knowledge of history and a deft reporter’s touch to bring context and clarity to the issue of race at a time when respectful dialogue on the subject often gives way to finger-pointing and derision.” Ten of his pieces from 2017 were nominated, contributing to his selection.

Cobb has also received the 2015 Sidney Hillman Award for Opinion and Analysis writing from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

Anu Subramaniam can be reached at asubramaniam@cornellsun.com.

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Director of SelmaNamed 2018 Convocation Speaker

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Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights. The movie was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Original Song at the Academy Awards in 2015.

Most recently, DuVernay has directed A Wrinkle in Time — a film where she made history yet again, as she became the first African-American woman to direct a live-action film with a budget exceeding $100 million.

For her documentary 13th, DuVernay became the first AfricanAmerican woman to be nominated as a director by the Oscars in a feature category.

Gorman said DuVernay was chosen for being accomplished and for being a “timeless person” that represents diversity.

“She’s amazing, [has] created really inspiring, thoughtful work that changes the way people think about race in America. We felt like she was really hitting on this cultural moment,” Gorman said, referring to the Time’s Up movement that has swept Hollywood.

“For me personally, I really wanted to see a female speaker, but it was more about bringing someone who represents more diversity in a lot of different ways, so not just gender or race or class, but in their work, their viewpoints, their creativity,” Gorman went on to say.

DuVernay is at the forefront of an effort to introduce more people of color to film and TV. In fact, in The New York Times, film critic Manohla Dargis proposed “the DuVernay test,” which, similar the Bechdel test for women, would measure whether “AfricanAmericans and other minorities have fully realized lives rather than serve as scenery in white stories.”

Gorman said DuVernay will be someone “very inspiring years from now” and is “such a good fit for our university.”

“We wanted someone who speaks to the future of Cornell, and not necessarily the past,” Gorman said.

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

Meredith Liu can be reached at meredithliu@cornellsun.com.

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focused on environmental, social justice and educational causes.

He targeted reducing pollution and cleaning up the state’s rivers and streams and on revamping the state’s judicial system, according to The New York Times.

Burlington Free Press also credited him for changing Vermont into a two-party state “with an activist government willing to adopt social, political and environmental reform.”

Hoff and New York Mayor John Lindsay co-founded the Vermont-New York Youth Project to raise awareness of

racial justice from 1968 to 1970.

Hoff said in an interview in 1989 that the project brought about “a profound understanding of for a white person ... of what it meant to be black and poor growing up in an urban and curiously isolated community.”

“Phil Hoff forever changed the state of Vermont,” said Stephen C. Terry — a former journalist who co-wrote Philip Hoff: How Red Turned Blue in the Green Mountain State — to The Times. “His influence in the 1960s has molded and created the Vermont many of us know today.”

Xing Gao can be reached at xgao@cornellsun.com.

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Reynolds “is ill” and that he intended to rely on an insanity defense. Also last month, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thérèse Wiley Dancks, who is overseeing the case, ordered that Reynolds be examined to determine if he is fit to stand trial.

About half a dozen members of the dive team searched the inlet next to Taughannock Blvd near Cass Park for several days beginning on April 12.

The Ithaca Voice published a photograph of State Police pulling a long gun out of the inlet earlier this month, which was not related to the search, Deputy Chief Vincent Monticello of the Ithaca Police Department confirmed to The Sun. Police did not provide additional information regarding the unrelated long guns found in the inlet and it is unclear if they could be connected to other investigations.

The discovery of the handgun could complicate Reynolds’s legal case if it turns out to be his or if he played a role in its ending up at the bottom of the inlet. Derek Valgora, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said in March that Reynolds had paid a man to purchase the AR-15 and that Reynolds had told the man, identified only as A.R in court documents, that he was prohibited from purchasing a gun himself.

Earlier this month, Reynolds hired an additional lawyer, Kimberly M. Zimmer of Syracuse, to assist in the case, and a private investigator has interviewed at least one person who knew Reynolds, the person told The Sun. The FBI has also continued to interview Cornell students as the investigation continues, said a student who was interviewed. Both requested anonymity to discuss their participation in the investigations.

Asked about the discovery of the handgun, one of Reynolds’s lawyers said it “bears repeating that there were no targets, no plans and no threats.”

“Everything developed by law enforcement and the forensic experts points to a young man who, because of a mental illness, believed that he needed to be prepared to protect his friends, family and self from a dangerous world,” Schlather said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard R. Southwick — who is prosecuting the case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York — requested earlier this month that Reynolds undergo an exam to evaluate his “insanity” at the time of the alleged crimes in addition to the exam to determine his fitness for trial. But three days later, on April 12, the government retracted its request

for that review.

“Recently, some events have occurred that suggest that this motion is premature, and we therefore withdraw the motion, reserving the right to make this request for relief at a later time, if necessary,” Southwick wrote. It is unclear if Southwick’s retraction of that request relates to the discovery of the handgun.

Earlier in April, Zimmer said in court that she and prosecutors “are currently engaged in plea negotiations, exchanging information about the facts of the case, including the defendant’s personal and mental health history, and discussing possible resolutions of this litigation.”

FBI agents and Ithaca Police raided Reynolds’s eighth-floor studio apartment in Collegetown Plaza on March 7 and said they had found a bulletproof vest, high-capacity magazines filled with ammunition, a gas mask, body armor, chemicals that are frequently used to manufacture explosives, ball bearings that could be used as shrapnel in a bomb, food rations, medical supplies for traumatic injuries and other survival gear.

“Collectively all of these items certainly suggest a specific recipe for large scale destruction,” Ithaca Police Chief Pete Tyler said at the time.

Friends later told The Sun that Reynolds struggled to manage a bipolar disorder and suffered from a paranoia that led him to fear that someone would hurt him or his family.

The New Jersey native had been studying at Tompkins Cortland Community College while on leave and working at a Cornell professor’s home and farm. Schlather said in court in March that Reynolds had “a huge paranoia of the world beyond him.”

Reynolds’s girlfriend told police that she was concerned about him and that he had been suffering from insomnia, manic and not taking his medications, Valgora said in an affidavit filed with the court.

Police also searched a storage unit Reynolds had rented about five miles outside of the City of Ithaca and Valgora said they found chemicals common in manufacturing homemade explosives, as well as a pyrotechnic fuse. The FBI also seized Reynolds’s laptop, The Sun previously reported.

Reynolds comes from a wealthy family in Monmouth County, New Jersey. His parents were in the courtroom for his initial appearance in Syracuse and his father, Tim Reynolds MBA ’94, earned millions as a founder of Jane Street Capital, a Wall Street trading firm.

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

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raduation draws nearer every day. With the end tional documentary that is the framing device for the pily reunited at Angela and Dwight’s marriage.

I expected more victory laps and influence-flexing in sight, I completed a millennial rite of passage series airs, the Senator announces at a press conference, from The Office’s finale. Although its viewership was far with Angela by his side, that he is gay, and has found and finished watching The Office. (I skipped swathes of the middle seasons, but we’ll conveniently love. He is not in love, as it turns out, with either Angela lower than I expected, the show is still a cultural touchstone for college kids and young professionals. In lieu of forget that for now.) The last few episodes contained or Oscar, but with his chief of staff. the copious, self-congratulatory back-patmany anticipated surprises. Michael Scott ting I expected, the show imparted an returned right in time for Angela and unexpected lesson: Kindness will never be Dwight’s wedding. So did Kelly Kapoor and overrated.

Ryan Howard, who completed their long I’m thinking about this lesson even careers of making audiences squirm by runmore with graduation expecting. I’m sure ning away and leaving Ryan’s baby in the that the next few weeks will bring with care of Kelly’s unsuspecting husband, Ravi. them commencement addresses, Chronicle I’m going to be divulging spoilers liberalarticles, and Cornell University Facebook ly, if you hadn’t already noticed. The Office posts lauding the graduating class. They’ll finished its run half a decade ago; if you talk about how Cornell degrees will open haven’t watched it by now, it’s on you. doors for us. They note famous alumni, Predictable conclusions fill the show’s final and imbue us with the sense that we can go episodes, anyhow. Dwight finally becomes on to be brilliant, influential and successregional manager (and, technically, also ful. But I find myself, at this juncture assistant to the assistant to the regional manthinking about abilities that we’ve all had ager), Oscar gets a long-deserved promotion and developed our whole lives — the abilto Chief Accountant and, after years of ities to be generous, just and, above all criminal behavior, Creed gets caught by the else, kind. police. But what I didn’t anticipate in the The Office didn’t just conclude with show’s conclusion affected me the most. lofty platitudes about life, love and friendThe series did close with its fair share of COURTESY OF DEEDLE-DEE PRODUCTIONS ship (although those did abound, too). The flashback montages set to melodramatic All the characters in The Office gather together in the series’ finale. show gave examples. Oscar doesn’t just tell music. But it also ended with moments of Angela that everything will be okay. He genuine kindness.

Divorced from the senator, Angela moves into a small opens his home to her. So in the coming weeks when I I started bawling during the series’ penultimate episode—“A.A.R.M.” To set the scene, Angela (Angela apartment, from which she quickly gets evicted. Oscar find myself tempted to reflect on my time at Cornell and Kinsey) has long despised Oscar (Oscar Nunez) with notices Angela shopping for tents online while leaving imagine my future in general, clichéd ways, I’ll try to work, and realizing that she is now homeless. He tells her remember this lesson. There are lots of ways to be a good that she can stay at his apartment indefinitely, and she friend and a good community member — editing your accepts, ending their long-running tension. It’s a friends’ essays or helping them with their problem sets, moment of humble humanity that got me far more emo- donating your time or resources back to your communitional than I expected (Maybe the end-of-college senti- ty, being a listener to vent to or a shoulder to cry on, Morning advocating to create a more just and equitable future for mentality is getting to me more than I realized.).

From then on, the kindnesses start to pile up. Erin Ithaca and Cornell. When I find myself worrying about Bowl of (Ellie Kemper) immediately and whole-heartedly wel- whether I’ll be successful or influential, I’ll remind myself Surreal comes her biological parents into her life after spending how incredibly important it is to just be kind. seasons talking about the anger and sadness that growing good reason. He carried on an affair with her husband, senator Robert up in an orphanage caused her. Stanley (Leslie David Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be Lipton (Jack Coleman), while continuing to sit a few Baker) carves a figurine for his longtime deskmate reached at scollins@cornellsun.com. Morning Bowl of Surreal runs feet away from her in their workplace. When the fic- Phyllis (Phyllis Smith), and the two dance together, hap- alternate Mondays this semester.

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ast week, Kendrick Lamar’s Damn. won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music. This was the first time that a non-classical, non-jazz work was awarded the prize. I love Kendrick Lamar and I thoroughly enjoy Damn., but nevertheless, my reactions to this decision are mixed.

Not, of course, about whether Kendrick Lamar’s work is deserving of such acclaim; indeed, the musical complexity and poetic mastery present on Damn., as well as earlier albums like To Pimp a Butterfly, warrant the utmost critical respect. This recognition of Damn. feels like the subtle righting of a wrong — the Grammy’s pass on awarding it Album of the Year (which went to 24K Magic, a fun yet most tranquil piece of music). Could it be this former Grammy gaffe that is the cause of my reluctance to extol the virtues of the 2017-2018 Pulitzer Board? Probably not, because I don’t really care that much about the Grammys.

My advisor in the music department has a Ph.D. in musicology, but since rap culture and aesthetics form a significant focal point of her research, she has joked before about having actually obtained a doctoral degree in hiphop. As the academic consideration of hiphop seems to be forming the arch of my undergraduate music career, I like to think that in some ways I am obtaining a bachelor’s degree in hip-hop studies. In several classes, I

This Should Be a Given have read the same few articles from the early and mid 1990s by authors like Robert Walser, that debate the musical merits of hip-hop. At this time, the genre had existed in the mainstream musical culture for nearly 15 years, assuming that hip-hop’s commercial debut was the 1979 “Rapper’s Delight.” This was a few years after groups like Public Enemy and N.W.A. revolutionized the genre, writing lyrics that were highly political and employing new musical techniques, like sampling, in their works. I suppose it was the rash brilliance of these artists that prompted scholars to begin the process of historicizing hip-hop. Many of these arguments revolved around the central question of whether hip-hop should even be considered musical, let alone possessive of any artistic stature. On the one hand, there were those individuals who could not fathom how this genre, so violent, so raucous, and so seemingly unoriginal, could be music. A rather drastic point from this side of the debate was that hip-hop is merely the inevitable result of the mass production that defines an advanced capitalist society. This argument stems from the fact that hip-hop is repetitive, both within the individual beat of a song but also in the way that sampling borrows from previously released works. These academics, of course, were perhaps hardly aware of the cultural disenfranchisement that forced the cultural bricolage through which turntabling and,

eventually, sampling were discovered. Many of these points are, perhaps unbeknownst to their authors, racist in nature as they ignore the blatant poetic profundity of rap as well as the mind-boggling intricacy of hip-hop’s musical tracks. Frankly, however, the other side of the hip-hop aisle, the one that argued in favor its musicality, produced laughable attempts of transcribing rap music as it forced the genre into a purely Western, theoretical framework. I believed that as I was considering these debates 20 years later in an Ivy League course about music studies, so there must have been a general consensus reached that hiphop is, undoubtedly, music. Right?

Perhaps only so in the insulated world of hip-hop studies. When Damn.’s recognition was announced, I was not particularly swayed and merely regarded it with a nod. It simply feels to have come so entirely late after the invention of hip-hop. Of course Kendrick Lamar deserves a Pulitzer Prize, but the profundity his music speaks for itself. Who cares about the actions of an institution that ignored the genre for so many years?

Nevertheless, when I began perusing the comments section of the New York Times’ Facebook post on the award, I was quite awestruck by the lack of support among, well, almost everybody. Many individuals liked to

point out the most trivial lyrics of Lamar’s works and lament how artistic standards have fallen. These comments often possessed blatant Western biases that blindly favor Western European ideals of music. At this point, I felt rather naive in thinking that the hip-hop debate ended years ago. And when I thought

Nick Swan Swan’s Song about it, considering Cornell’s music department — a progressive one — I have witnessed the construction of many aggressive divides between classical enthusiasts and those more receptive to other forms of music.

Maybe the Pulitzer Board’s recognition of Lamar’s achievements is necessary after all.

But, maybe antiquated institutions like the Pulitzer Board need to pass into irrelevance in order for the hip-hop debate and other forms of artistic marginalization to end.

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nswan@cornell.edu.

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A warning in the wake of Greenwood To the Editor: In what can only be laughably called a punishment, John Greenwood ’20 took a plea deal and was ordered to do 75 hours of community service — less time than the membership requirements of most Cornell service organizations — for an assault and racial slurs that, if committed by a black student against a white one, would have inevitably resulted in jail time, and no such plea deal.

It is striking to come to the realization that we are living in a world where this can be considered an adequate reprimand for such community-wrenching actions. Greenwood barely received a slap on the wrist for something that has toppled our community’s sense of safety: a distorted response, when compared to our community’s reckoning in the wake of this incident.

The truth is that distortion is, and has been, the reality. This case, like so many before it, became a war of attrition rather than a true criminal proceeding. Greenwood studied abroad in Italy while a top-tier lawyer, famous for representing mob bosses and crooked cops, took care of business in Ithaca. Meanwhile, the victim, every day afterward, had to walk the same place in which he was attacked, while working with a District Attorney who, by the looks of it, had no interest in further prosecuting his case. The circumstances are so repugnant that they would be worth a laugh if the verdict was not so disgustingly real.

The response of the legal system has yet again proven to be woefully inadequate. At times, the legal outcomes fail to represent our community’s conception of morality. Most members of the Cornell community agree that someone who commits racial violence at Cornell deserves more than minimal punishment. When the law fails to correct detrimental behavior, it’s up to us — students and the Cornell administration — to revitalize the inclusive idea upon which Cornell was founded: that of “any person, any study.”

Contrary to that founding ideal, this campus does not have a reputation of actively protecting students who feel unsafe: the founding of Africana Studies and Ujamaa Residential College only happened after black students took over Willard Straight Hall; the Latino Living Center did not exist until Latinx students took over Day Hall. In fact, Greenwood’s assault is the latest in a series of events dating back to Cornell’s founding that proves we have only lived under the guise of this motto.

This campus cannot and should not be a place where prejudices like Greenwood’s can flourish. Both Greenwood and those who share his prejudices do not deserve to bear the Cornell name on their resumes, nor do other Cornell students deserve to be associated with them. His continued participation in our community harms all involved, except for him. Expelling Greenwood would be a step in the right direction, but if the Cornell administration will not work against the legal outcome, we as a community need to change our practices.

Changing punitive systems, though, is simply the tip of the iceberg. There are myriad courses of action the administration can take, such as allocating permanent spaces for multicultural organizations, fostering minority representation in all shared governance bodies, hiring more professors, physicians, staff members, psychologists, and psychiatrists of color, and creating a centralized organization dedicated to the study and eventual dismantlement of racism on Cornell’s campus would all have measurable impact on our campus’ culture. The task of implementing these changes rests with both students and administration; if one part of an engine malfunctions, the entire engine fails.

Cornell has, for far too long, been ignoring the social ills that have plagued it since its founding. If we boast “any person, any study,” if it is written on our archways, in our halls, and on our notebooks, then this discrimination must not be happening — then Greenwood’s incident must be an isolated event. We have lulled ourselves to sleep, blanketed by the security of this perilous falsehood, and we will sleep soundly with the assurance that such an incident will never happen again. Until it does.

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In her article, “Cornell Students Rally…”, Cornell Daily Sun reporter Julia Curley quotes CCJP founder Prof. Darlene Evans’ contention that “You don’t have to know about what’s going on in Palestine…to stand in solidarity with Palestine.” Let’s examine that contention.

The CCJP represents as “non-violent” the Gaza/Palestinians who throw firebombs, attempt to plant explosives (IEDs and hand grenades) to breach the border with and invade Israel, and are exhorted by their elected government, Hamas, to then “eat the livers” of Israelis. Describing such actions and verbiage as “non-violent” suggests a seriously disordered CCJP agenda.

Prof. Evans evidently feels you don’t have to know that there is a Gaza border closure by both Israel and Egypt. Gazans are not setting off IEDs, launching firebombs, burning tires or attempting to breach their border with Egypt, because they know Egypt’s military would not respond with the restraint shown by the IDF. Prior to defensive responses to secure its border, Israel informs Palestinian by leaflet drop. By means of this unprecedented humanitarian gesture, even while under attack, Israel tries to spare the lives of Gaza’s civilians.

Perhaps Prof. Evans feels you don’t need to know that Hamas has been designated as a terrorist group by much of the world, and that Hamas uses its foreign aid income to build sophisticated, electrified terror tunnels that can accommodate motorcycles.

These terror tunnels access Israeli villages and were built to carry out the murder and kidnapping of civilians, which is a war crime.

Perhaps Prof. Evans does not want you to consider that if Hamas chose to use its foreign aid income and its concrete to build cruise ship facilities along its gorgeous Mediterranean coast, life in Gaza would not revolve around hatred and violence presented as victimhood.

But Gazans do not chose to use their world-supplied financial resources to become a Singapore or a Monaco. One can only wonder why. Instead, Hamas demonstrates no concern for the lives of Palestinians, and actually encourages martyrdom for propaganda purposes.

Consistent with her professional responsibilities, Prof. Evans wouldn’t try to steer you away from a thoughtful examination of these facts, would she?

Julia Lutch

Prof responds to her statements quoted in ‘Cornell Students Rally in Support of Gaza Protest’ To the Editor: In regards to a statement that I made at the rally last week in support of the people in Gaza, my comment, reported by Ms. Curley, was only a few words of a longer statement in which I indicated that the issue was not only a political issue, but a human rights issue, and that those interested didn’t need to know the deep politics of the issue in order to get involved and stand in solidarity with Palestine on the human rights issue alone. Since the Six Day War of 1967, the U.N. has repeatedly cited Israel for human rights violations in the Occupied Territories and Gaza, which has been described as the “largest outdoor prison in the world.”

In response to those who would characterize the situation as terrorist Palestinians vs. innocent Israelis, I suggest they refer to the U.N. “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” from which I excerpt the following: According to B’Tselem [The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories], between 1987 and 2000 just under 1,400 Palestinians were killed by ISF [Israeli Security Forces]. After the year 2000, deaths of Palestinians caused by ISF accelerated, with more than 6,700 deaths, as at October 2013. Of this number, over 3,100 were civilians not involved in hostilities. B’Tselem’s statistics show that during Israel’s “Cast Lead” operation in Gaza, of the 344 children reportedly killed, 318 did not take part in hostilities. During the same operation, of the 110 Palestinian women recorded as killed, two were police officers and the remaining 108 did not take part in the hostilities. During operation “Pillar of Defence”, approximately 100 Palestinian civilians, a third of whom were children, were reportedly killed as a result of ISF actions.

Following my opening statement I invited anyone interested to get involved with organizations in the community and on campus where they could learn more — hopefully, about the historic politics of Israel/Palestine (going back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917) — including Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Cornell Collective for Justice in Palestine. I regret that the larger context of my statement was not included in the reporting on the rally and that those responses to my statement, criticizing me for promoting ignorance of the situation, may themselves benefit from more consideration of the documented evidence of Israel’s repeated violation of human rights.

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Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

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A Damn Proud Cornellian

fter three years of writing for The Sun, this is my last column. I find it only fitting that in this article I pay homage to the school that has defined who I am, what I believe and how I think. Because after four years atop the icy, secluded mountain that is this school, I can truly say that I am damn proud to be Cornellian.

extensively, and worked with the most brilliant of professors. Cornell has not been easy, but it has given me more than I could ever possibly give back.

Yet as I have changed, I have also had the incredible opportunity to watch this school go through some of its most transformational years. I have seen one interim, one acting and three sitting presidents lead Cornell;

I was walking home on a warm autumn evening, and strolled past the clock tower.

I stopped, looked around, took in the beauty of the slope and the tower, and said to myself, “This is home.”

I did not like Cornell my freshman year. That year, one of the most brutal winters in Upstate New York history slammed into the frigid tundra that is Ithaca. Due to intense wind-chill, temperatures routinely sunk below zero, and the administration sent multiple advisories telling students not to spend more than 15 minutes outside (which was pretty inconvenient for those of us that had 20 minute walks to class). The cold, combined with large freshmen lectures and the isolation of Ithaca, did not exactly instill a burning love for the Big Red. Things began to change, however, during my sophomore year. I cut down on the number of activities I was doing and got more involved with the ones I cared most about, took higher-level classes that I enjoyed and moved to Collegetown. Those changes drastically changed my Cornell experience, and I began to truly enjoy life on the hill.

It was that year that something happened to me that I hope every Cornellian feels at some point. I was walking home on a warm autumn evening, and strolled past the clock tower. I stopped, looked around, took in the beauty of the slope and the tower, and said to myself, “This is home.” It was at that point — almost two years after I received my early decision acceptance — that I truly became a Cornellian.

My relationship with Cornell has not entirely been smooth sailing since, but it has nevertheless been a transformational and incredibly rewarding journey. I have made some of the best friends of my life, met some of the most influential people in the world, traveled

saw the opening of the Tech campus; and witnessed numerous protests, Student Assembly conflicts and tense moments between the administration and the student body. These four years have been truly remarkable for Cornell, and I am glad to have seen them firsthand.

Among the most rewarding aspects of my journey has been writing for The Sun. I was originally brought on as the columnist charged with representing conservative views on campus. My goal was to present a side of conservatism that is not really represented in the media — a conservatism grounded in a careful approach to foreign policy, a respect for the individual and an adherence to free market ideals. I firmly believed that I needed to show the Cornell community a conservative platform that focused on topics beyond hot-button social issues.

In my time writing for The Sun, however, I became less conservative. My faith — which preaches to care for the poor, comfort the lost and defend the defenseless — did not seem to evenly match-up with the rugged individualism of Ayn Rand’s Republican Party. Slowly, I

moved towards the center, and adopted an ideology that combines elements of conservatism and liberalism.

Today, I still believe that government bureaucracy stifles innovation, a respect for the rule of law is necessary for a functioning society and that America’s growing debt is the fundamental economic challenge of our generation.

However, I also believe that every citizen is entitled to quality health care, that Wall Street still lacks the necessary regulations to prevent another melt-down and that amnesty is the morally right course of action for immigration reform.

As I have become more centrist, The Sun has never once stifled my voice. This paper has provided me an outlet to present my views in any way I see fit — a respect for freedom of thought that is absent in many sectors of our society today. I will truly miss The Sun’s support, and the flood of angry emails I get whenever I publish a controversial column.

Writing for this paper has truly been one of the greatest honors of my life. What The Sun means to me, and the Cornell community as a whole, cannot be described. Cornellians read this paper every day — and it is just as much a part of the Cornell experience as walking up the Slope, RPCC brunch and life in Collegetown. But what makes The Sun truly remarkable is that it follows Cornellians once they have left the ivory tower of Ithaca. I am proud to know a ’75 graduate who still reads The Sun every day — a feat that shows just how much this paper means to the Cornell community.

With that, I bid a farewell to this paper and the school I love.

Next year, I will be attending law school at a university that shall not be named. But you can bet that whenever that school shows up to Ithaca for the annual hockey game, I’ll be throwing fish on the ice and cheering for the Big Red. Because as Kyle Dake ’13 once said, “I’m always going to be a Cornellian — and that’s something really special.”

I will truly miss The Sun’s support, and the flood of angry emails I get whenever I publish a controversial column.

Michael Glanzel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun.com. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

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ecently I heard someone say something to the effect of “Wow, you know, time’s going by really fast.

We don’t have that much more time here.” I found out after the fact that she’s a senior and she meant that she didn’t have much time left at Cornell. My reply, however, was something like “Yeah, only about 65 more years.” Her only response was an incredulous look.

This intrigued me. Mortality, I realized, is the last holy thing yet to be profaned. People my age have absolutely no problem talking about violence, drugs or deviant sexual acts. But remind them that they’ll die someday and they’re as bewildered as Jared Kushner at an intelligence briefing. I know this to be true because I conducted a social experiment in which I confronted people with their impending doom. I asked about 20 people of various ages, backgrounds and nationalities if they worried about death or what happens after death. The most common response was “I’ve never really spent any time thinking about it”, which I find ridiculous; when I was 11 I watched Joel Osteen every night for a week because I thought I had a brain tumor. And beyond that, it just seems like a shortsighted attitude. Wouldn’t it

Men Are Mortal be better to figure it out a little at a time so you don’t have to pull an all-nighter on your deathbed?

Our brains are designed to keep us alive for as long as possible by any means necessary. Evolution did its job too well, and we became too smart and we realized that staying alive indefinitely is impossible. For all that’s been made about the fragility of the human ego, I think it’s a marvel that any of us refrain from going mad.

Because even if you force yourself not to think about your own mortality, I can guarantee it’s in there gnawing at the inner wall of your psyche.

I got high and I had a thought. Atheism doesn’t necessarily have to beget hopelessness. The current scientific consensus is that the universe began with the big bang, and it will eventually start receding until it collapses back into a singularity in a “big crunch.” Presumably the singularity will explode again, and the cycle will continue ad infinitum. But if life continues developing its understanding and influence of the matter around it, then the crunch can be prevented. If the bang-

crunch cycle can be stopped, sentience will have a clear field to alter the universe. A billion billion minds working for a billion billion years could presumably create a nirvana-like reality that transcends the barriers between being

will fix the brakes of a high school teacher. And maybe that high school teacher will have a child in twenty years, and maybe that child will become a brilliant astrophysicist that makes important advances in the field of space travel.

Even if you force yourself not to think about your own mortality, I can guarantee it’s in there gnawing at the inner wall of your psyche. and non-being, allowing all the consciousness of the past to exist in a state of pure bliss. It could totally happen, dude.

Now I don’t have many skills besides writing and tying a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue. And maybe I’ll never become successful. But maybe something I write one day will convince an auto mechanic to get out of bed and go to work, and maybe that auto mechanic

And (skipping a few steps) maybe humanity finally comes into contact with extraterrestrials and together we make a tiny tiny step in death-proofing the universe. That’s how you have to think.

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun.com. The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Sundoku Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

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Jordan Dowiak each registered three points to lead Cornell, which entered the contest with the best Princeton’s lead defender, was offense in the nation. responsible for shutting down a “It’s never a bad thing to have player that is widely regarded as yourself humbled a little bit,” the best in the Milliman said. nation.

“I think this was maybe a “We’ve been “If any one playing well, of our players little bit more of a wakebeen we’ve having up call in that sometimes playing hard isn’t their best game, they don’t come as easy.” and we’ve been I think that the scoring a lot rest of the guys Interim head coach Peter Milliman lately. And I know that they think this was need to step maybe a little up,” Milliman said. “For the most bit more of a wake-up call in that part, we’ve been successful doing sometimes they don’t come as easy that, but today we struggled with as we may have been getting them that. I don’t think the rest of the the last few weeks.” guys were carrying the offensive After Brown defeated load as well.”

Dartmouth later in the day, the Teat’s silence offensively reflect- Bears earned the third seed in the ed yet another reversal from last conference tournament and will season’s game against Princeton, face Cornell in the second semifiwhich saw the then-freshman’s nal on Friday. The Ivy’s top seed, career high 12 points lift Cornell national No. 1 Yale, will play Penn to an upset win. in the earlier matchup. “[Baughan] is a pretty good With an impressive regular seaathlete and he did a pretty good son behind it, Cornell will look to job of face guarding [Teat],” the Ivy tournament to cement its Milliman said. “We need to find accomplishments and try to secure ways to continue to run our a bid to the NCAA tournament. If offense and execute regardless of Cornell is able to win twice next what they’re doing to Jeff or any- weekend, it will earn an automatbody else.” ic-qualifying bid to the national Cornell’s eight goals were its playoffs. The task begins Friday at fewest all season. As few offensive 8:30 p.m. at Columbia’s Robert K. bright spots as there were, among Kraft Field in New York against them was senior long-stick mid- Brown. fielder Scott Flynn’s first collegiate goal. Junior attack Clarke Dylan McDevitt can be reached at Petterson and senior midfielder dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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Red Loses Final Game Harvard’s hot start too much for C.U.

free position conversions, and she did a great job all spring scoring from her direct shots.”

Harvard then scored again to retake a two-goal lead, but Leska struck once more to bring the W. LACROSSE Red back within one with a little Continued from page 12 under six minutes to play.

However, Harvard clung to a nities for the Red. “Our senior midfielders one-goal lead, running down the turned the game around with clock and ending the Red’s seatheir play on the draw, winning 8 son, eliminating Cornell’s chance for a spot in the Ivy tournament. of 11 draws,” Graap said.

“In seven Harvard Ivy games, CORNELL @ HARVARD then scored to [we] had two extend its lead notable breakto six, but the FINAL 1ST 2ND downs that Red went on Game: 13 5 8 cost us dearly,” an uninterrupt- Cornell 14 12 2 Graap said. ed five-goal run Harvard “Those two of its own, sparked by sophomore attacker losses, to Brown and Harvard, Caroline Allen. The run included ultimately cost us a spot in the two goals just 40 seconds apart 2018 Ivy League tournament. from Farinholt, a goal from junior Learning and improving will be attacker Tomasina Leska and a free our focus going forward.

“There were a lot of challenges position goal from Allen.

Allen’s free position goal, her this spring, and things didn’t fall 17th of the season, tied the school our way, but I’m very proud of the record for number of free position women in this program. They are high achievers, and they want to tallies in a season.

“We are all proud of Caroline fight for championships every Allen who finished as Cornell’s year.” leading scorer in her sophomore campaign,” Graap said. “She’s Smita Nalluri can be reached at ranked in the top-20 nationally in snalluri@cornellsun.com.

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PrincetonUpsets Laxers in Regular Season Finale

Red turns attention to Ivy tournament

maybe sneak into the Ivy League playoffs, our goal is to win the Ivy League,” As the final buzzer Milliman said on March 14.

That was Milliman’s messounded at Princeton’s Class of 1952 Stadium on sage before the Red began its Saturday, Cornell men’s Ivy schedule. And after four lacrosse saw the end of its wins and two losses in the impressive seven-game win conference to secure a secstreak — a run that helped ond-place finish, Cornell has catapult the team to near the one more item left on its top of the national rankings. agenda before it can call this It was the second time in season a success.

Beyond the Ivy title, three years that Cornell’s regular season ended with a Cornell is a program that loss on its conference rival’s has at times found success turf. But this time, the Red’s in the NCAA tournament. season isn’t over. The Ivy But the loss to Princeton League tournament is less may have led to only one than a week away, and avenue for Cornell to get into the Cornell national is one CORNELL @ PRINCETON playoffs: w i n winning away the Ivy from a 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL League poten- Cornell 2 8 2 1 3 Chamt i a l Princeton 4 14 2 5 3 piond a t e ship. with With the regular season national No. 1 Yale for a rematch of a loss earlier this in the rearview mirror, Cornell has proven that it season.

“It’s obviously a disap- has what it takes to compointing loss,” said interim pete with some of the best head coach Peter Milliman in the country. Take a look after the March 17 loss to at an early-season loss to the Bulldogs. “We wanted then-No. 1 Albany, for that one very badly. I felt like instance. Despite losing we were competing well every faceoff through the enough to deserve it, but we entire game, Cornell nearly didn’t earn it at the end of knocked off the Great Danes, holding a two-goal the day.”

The loss in its Ivy opener lead as late as with 3:18 left more than a month ago was in the final quarter.

To lose every faceoff in a Cornell’s last until Saturday afternoon. The Red amassed possession-critical sport and a seven-game winning streak nearly win is no small feat that included wins over three and Cornell did it against nationally ranked teams one of the best teams in the including then-No. 7 country. A few weeks later, Syracuse. And when asked if against Yale at Schoellkopf a loss could go a long way Field, the Red hung tight for a red-hot team about to with the team that is now enter the postseason, the No. 1 in the nation.

Millman struck a positive Neither team in that game ever led by more than two tone.

“I wouldn’t disagree with goals, and the match was that,” Milliman said. “It’s tied with under five minutes never a bad thing to have to play.

If Cornell manages to yourself humbled a little bit … We know we need to get take care of Brown, a team it back to the basics; make sure beat by 14 goals less than two weeks ago, in the Ivy we’re doing things right.”

Certainly, no team is League semifinal on Friday, invincible. And it’s not likely it is likely to get its second anyone expected this crack at Yale with a trophy Cornell team to win every and a tournament bid on game left on its schedule en the line. Saturday’s humroute to a national champi- bling loss to Princeton may onship. But the tone from have been the first step on the beginning from the journey to getting one Milliman and the others in back on the defending the locker room has been champions. that Cornell can win when it matters most.

Dylan McDevitt can “Our goal is not to ‘show be reached at well’ in the Ivy League or dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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Sun Sports Editor

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Wake-up call | Cornell was upset on the road at Princeton on the regular season’s final weekend and will face Brown in the Ivy League tournament next weekend.

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

On the last weekend of April 2017, a nationallyranked Princeton squad which had already secured the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament was upset by unranked Cornell men’s lacrosse on the Red’s home turf in the final game of the regular season.

Exactly one year later, the roles were reversed.

Princeton (8-5, 3-3 Ivy) capped off its regular season with an exclamation point on Saturday, upsetting red-hot Cornell (10-4, 4-2), 14-8, to end the Red’s seven-game winning streak.

“I thought it was a really well-executed game by Princeton,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman.

“They had a pretty good game plan and found a way to follow through with what they were trying to do … We played hard, they played harder. They deserved to win for sure.”

Cornell seemed unable to get going for much of the

contest, finishing the game without ever holding a lead — a first for the Red this season. The Tigers struck first on reigning Ivy League rookie of the year Michael Sowers’ 26th tally of the season. The squads would trade goals for a few minutes thereafter and the Red evened the score a couple of times.

But with just over 5:30 to play in the opening frame, Princeton defender George Baughan made it 3-2 in favor of the home team and the Tigers never looked back.

“I don’t think we finished our shots as well as we could have,” Milliman said. “We had a handful of good looks and didn’t finish them when we needed to. I also think we had opportunities in the offensive end where we were a little careless with the ball.”

Sophomore attack Jeff Teat, the nation’s leader in points per game, was held to zero points for just the second time in his career, ending a 24-game point streak for Teat that began on March 11, 2017. Baughan, See M. LACROSSE page 11

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Comback Falls Short as Harvard Ends Red’s Season

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Hoping for a win to secure an Ivy tournament berth, the Red’s furious second-half comeback fell short, ending the team’s season with a tough loss to Harvard on Saturday.

The host Crimson (6-9, 2-5 Ivy) got off to a fast start, which was enough to preserve a 14-13 final score. Harvard scored five goals in the first 10 minutes of the game before senior captain and midfielder Ida Farinholt found the back of the net to put the Red (7-8, 2-5 Ivy) on the board.

Cornell then continued to close the gap, getting within two goals of Harvard with just over 10 minutes left in the first half, but the Crimson then went on another five-goal run to leave the Red trailing, 12-5, at the intermission.

“After hitting a pipe on an open net 8m to end what was a very frustrating and disappointing first half, we came together in the locker room and re-committed to our goals,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86.

“Assistant coach Margaret Corzel

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Too late | Harvard scored five straight goals to start the game, and the Red’s dominant second half wasn’t enough to overcome the early deficit.

spoke passionately about playing from the heart and our team responded.”

The second half was a completely different story — Cornell outscored Harvard, 8-2, in the half. Senior captain and midfielder Taylor Reed started the comeback, and senior midfielder Joey Coffy scored shortly

thereafter to shrink Cornell’s deficit to five. Critical to shifting the momentum in favor of the Red was the “senior circle” — comprised of senior midfielders Reed, Farinholt and Coffy — who dominated on draws to generate offensive opportuSee W. LACROSSE page 11

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