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Andreas Wüst discusses Germany’s immigration policy in a lecture Monday.

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Obama out President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington on Saturday.

Cornellians Discuss Banning ‘Box’on Admissions Apps Campaign previously focused on employees

By ALEXA ESKENAZI

box’ at Cornell is only part of a state and nation-wide movement to remove criminal history checkboxes The Cornell community is join- from college applications. ing the statewide conversation about Six percent of schools that ‘banning the box’ issue on college responded to surveys reported that admission applications, following their admissions process is identical the University’s recent decision to for applicants with and without a remove questions of criminal history criminal record, according to the from preliminary job Center for Community applications beginning Alternatives.

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The Fair Access to University Assembly Education Act is proin asking employee ranking memceeding through the ber Ulysses Smith ’14 New York State questions of said he hopes admisLegislature to make sexual sions is considering the criminal history check‘ban the box’ initiative orientation and boxes illegal. Currently in addition to initiatives in committee, it is “an pertaining to sexual origender act to amend the correcentation and gender tion law and the execuidentity?” identity on applications. tive law, in relation to “We need to begin to college admission for ask some value ques- Ulysses Smith ’14 persons previously contions,” Smith said. “Is victed of one or more there value in asking a criminal offenses,” prospective student their criminal according to the legislation. history? Is there value in asking At the forefront of the movement questions of sexual orientation and is the Education from the Inside gender identity? How do we use that Out Coalition — a national nonparinformation? I think there is demon- tisan organization “working to strated value in the latter, but we remove barriers to higher education should have further discussions facing students while they are in about the former.”

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Dining Employees Concerned by Union’s Effect on Worker Motivation

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

Cornell dining employees in its labor union raised concerns about ‘chronic worker problems’ and poor food quality in dining halls in advance of the triennial elections for the United Auto Workers today and the group’s contract renewal with the University in June.

The UAW, a union that protects employees in service and maintenance occupation at the University, will reach its contractual expiration on

June 30 — an agreement held since 2012, according to their contract.

Dining hall employee and union member Zachary Winn said a “very unhealthy culture” has developed among union workers in the Cornell dining system, saying there is a “chronic worker problem” within the union.

“It’s impossible [for union members] to get fired … so, just being a bad employee isn’t enough,” Winn said.

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GPSA, Administrators Debate Benefits of Unionization NLRB to release decision this summer

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Graduate and Professional Student Assembly debated the details of graduate student unionization at its final meeting of the semester Monday in Bache Auditorium.

After numerous amendments and a lively debate, the GPSA passed a resolution which asks the University to “clearly detail a schedule of expected stipend support throughout the planned course of the degree” in admission letters for all admitted graduate students. The resolution passed 11-0-6.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Dean Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and dean of the graduate school, recognized the “strong possibility that the National Labor

Relations Board will soon overturn current case law to consider private university graduate student assistants to be employees under the National Labor Relations Act.” The University has begun negotiating with the Cornell Graduate Student Union as the union plans to move toward formal unionization if the NLRB does, in fact, consider private university graduate student assistants to be employees.

Kotlikoff the University is currently working to clarify the unionization process for graduate students.

“First, we want to be transparent throughout the negotiations process,” Kotlikoff said. “The second point is that the University’s position is that this is a decision of See GPSA page 4

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Let’s assemble | The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly discusses the unionization process on Monday.

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University David Lifka Named C.U. Vice President, Chief Information Officer On Monday, the University announced that David Lifka, director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, will be the University’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer.

Since December, Lifka has been serving as interim vice president and CIO. His official appointment will be effective June 1.

“Dave is a national leader in research computing and data management,” Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in a statement. He has worked in close association with a diverse array of members of the Cornell community at all levels and is highly regarded as a strategic leader.” In this position, Lifka will work with CIT and the president, deans, vice presidents, boards of trustees and Weill Cornell Medicine, according to the University.

Local Police: Newfield Drug Bust Yields Cocaine, Marijuana, $1,700 In Cash The Ithaca SWAT team, Ithaca Police, Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department and the NYSP Community Narcotics Enforcement Team seized about 11.5 grams of crack cocaine — valued at $1,100 — a small amount of marihuana and $1,700 in cash from a residence in the Town of Newfield on Monday, according to The Ithaca Voice.

During the search, Deshawn Bryant was charged and arrested for $7,500 cash and $15,000 bond, The Voice reported.

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Former CURW Director, Activist, Fugitive Rev.Daniel Berrigan Dies at Age 94

By JOSH GIRKSKY Sun News Editor

Prominent peace activist, poet and former associate director of Cornell United Religious Work Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan died Sunday. He was 94.

Throughout his life, Berrigan’s acts of civil disobedience often placed him at odds with authority figures, including the government and the Roman Catholic Church, according to The Washington Post.

One of his defining moments took place in Catonsville, Maryland, when he with his brother and seven other activists entered a Selective Service office and burned hundreds of draft files outside. They were subsequently charged with destruction of government property and became known as the “Catonsville Nine,” according to The New York Times.

Berrigan later detailed the incident in his original play called The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.

“Our apologies, good friends,” he wrote. “For the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.”

After being sentenced to three years in federal prison, Berrigan appealed until 1970. He then refused orders to report to prison in Connecticut — going underground before being caught by the FBI in Rhode Island. He ultimately served two years in prison, according to The Post.

While on the run, Berrigan led an anti-war rally at Barton Hall. He returned to Cornell to give a lecture on the legacy of protest at Cornell in 2006, according to the University.

“The fact that [Berrigan] is a part of Cornell’s history is something to be celebrated,” said Anke Wessels, director of Cornell’s Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy.

Several members of the Ithaca community also celebrate Berrigan time in the area.

“We rejoice for Dan’s incredible spirit, clarity and his prophetic voice,” said local activist Mary Anne Grady Flores in an email to community members. “In thanksgiving for your life Dan, we sing your spirit home!”

Berrigan published over 50 books in his lifetime, many of which were poetry, that often criticized norms and order, according to The Times.

After he was released from prison in 1972, Berrigan was continuously arrested for minor offenses, often involving protests against violence or weapons, The Times reported.

“The day after I’m embalmed, that’s when I’ll give it up,” he said on his 80th birthday.

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

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about 1,000 people in Sage Chapel on January 26, 1975 to give the first sermon of that spring semester. It was Berrigan’s first public appearance on the Cornell campus since April 1970 when he stunned a throng of 15,000 by appearing at a Barton Hall celebration in his honor, even though he was then a fugitive being actively hunted by the FBI.

German Immigration Official Discusses Refugee Crisis Says E.U. members hard-pressed to accept one million refugees

By REBECCA EVEN Sun Staff Writer

Andreas Wüst — a fellow at the Ministry for Integration of the Government of BadenWürttemberg, Germany — discussed how the refugee crisis continues to shape Germany’s immi-

gration and integration policies in a lecture Monday.

Approaching the topic as a social scientist rather than a politician or civil servant, Wüst called the year 2015 “the Year of Refugees” in Germany due to its influx of approximately one mil-

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The investigation is seeking to determine whether Percoco deceitfully closed the money received from entities doing business with the state.

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Seek shelter | Andreas Wüst, German immigration official, discusses the German refugee crisis on Monday.

lion refugees.

Wüst outlined the pressure put on Spain, Italy, Greece and other Southern and Southeastern members of the European Union to accept refugees. He also detailed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s motivation for accepting refugees in August 2015.

“It could … be that [Merkel’s] own experience in East Germany played a role, because the idea of building up fences and of not letting people in is certainly a very critical issue for all the people that have ever been locked up in the Eastern Bloc,” Wüst said.

Wüst addressed Merkel’s Christian values, her strategic motivation to drive other European countries to take refugees and the limited policy options.

“Germany and its chancellor became a symbol of freedom and solidarity in the Western world,” Wüst said.

Wüst discussed many problems experienced in Germany and other countries as a result of the refugee crisis, including the backlog of asylum

applications, unemployment, resentment and bigotry experienced by refugees.

“We have a high proportion of Muslim refugees, which can be a challenge for integration,” he said. “Over half of the German population thinks that Islam does not belong [in] Germany.”

More language courses for refugees and a systematic assessment of refugees’ qualifications to allow them to participate in the workforce and vocational training may be useful in assisting with integration, according to Wüst.

“Integration is probably not a one-way street, so we also have to [get] the native population on board,” he said. “And integration at first should not only be on the immigrants but also on the population that is already living in Germany.”

Wüst pointed out that interpersonal interactions between native Germans and refugees would bring the issues of suffering and hardship to the forefront of the dialogue and personalize these issues.

He added that he is

optimistic the German labor market will benefit from the influx of people.

“We should intensify dialogue,” Wüst said.

“We should … confront the public and the citizens [with the fact] that there are people suffering and there’s an opportunity for us to help. I’m quite optimistic that … looking at the age composition, we will be able to gain in the medium and in the long run from the refugees that have arrived.”

The lecture was cosponsored by the Cornell Institute for European Studies and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, which has been bringing foreign policy speakers to Cornell for 10 years.

The series aims to enable distinguished scholars and policymakers to impart wisdom and knowledge of current issues onto the Cornell community, according to Hirokazu Miyazaki, director of the Einaudi Center and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies.

Rebbeca Even be reached at reven@cornellsun.com.

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Cornellians Discuss Expanding Graduate Students Stress ‘Ban the Box’Effort to Admissions Work as Separate From Educational Training THE BOX

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prison and once they come home,” according to the EIO Coalition website.

The EIO coalition stressed that ‘the box’ does not make college campuses any safer but actually worsens racial and ethnic disparities.

The legislation would allow universities to only inquire about conviction history “once admission has been granted to a student, and only for programming and housing purposes and not to deny a student admission,” according to Mel Gagarin of EIO. Gagarin said ‘the box’ not only works against the belief that access to higher education is a human right but also contradicts the verdict of Supreme Court case, Brown v. The Board of Education.

“People of color are disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system … and then are faced with the box,” Gagarin said.

“The spirit of Brown v. Board was to make education accessible to everybody and ‘the box’ mathematically is disproportionately affecting folks of color from being able to obtain higher education.”

Gagarin added that asking this question has nothing to do with educational background or whether an individual is qualified to obtain a higher education.

“What they’re asking from these students is really not information that they should be looking at because it’s really only between the client and their attorney,” Gagarin said.

“They’re looking at stuff that’s been adjudicated, juvenile convictions that have been sealed and things from the past that really

have no relevance to their applying to school.”

Gagarin said ‘the box’ emerged in the 1990s “almost as sort of a solution in search of a problem.”

“Campuses felt like they needed to do something to have an appearance of making their campuses appear safer,” Gagarin said.

“Unfortunately, the empirical evidence that exists doesn’t show a correlation between asking the question and actually improving campus safety.”

Gabriel Kaufman ’18, U.A. undergraduate representative, prefaced his argument by pointing out that Cornell fosters a community that honors both the Code of Academic Integrity and the Campus Code of Conduct.

He also called Cornell a highly selective and renowned institution — the Class of 2020 received a record 44,966 applications with a target of 3,275 fall freshmen, according to the University.

With this mind, Kaufman said the University must consider the reasons to accept a student in addition to the reasons to decline an applicant.

“With college admissions as competitive as it is, I believe preference should be given to those who work hard and play by the rules and that means signaling to the University that an applicant has in fact been playing by the rules,” Kaufman said.

The University did not response to requests for a comment on this issue.

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at aeskenazi@cornellsun.com.

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the graduate students — of all graduate students who are eligible to vote. So we’re negotiating these rules of engagement so we can set up a process in which graduate students will be informed with information to make their decision.” elaborated on Knuth Kotlikoff’s second point, emphasizing the University’s desire to make sure all graduate students are aware of the consequences of unionization.

Knuth explained to students that the union will define its own “bargaining unit” — the collective body of people it will represent in dealings with the University. The bargaining unit may not necessarily be all graduate students because some departments or academic fields may opt out of unionization.

“If a majority of those who vote in a union election votes in favor of the union, then all of those in the [union’s] defined bar-

fessional leaders.”

Jackqueline Frost, grad and GPSA field member, who teaches a French language course four days a week, spoke in favor of unionizing on behalf of the CGSU. “It’s really easy to see myself as a worker,” Frost said. “What makes my current job different from all the jobs that I’ve ever worked is that I’m not protected under the current labor law.”

Frost said she does not agree that her current job should be “interpreted unidimensionally as training for a future career.”

“Even if I become a professor [after graduating], it doesn’t mean that what I’ve been doing at Cornell isn’t work,” she said.

Frost argued that unionization will benefit both graduate students and the University.

“Unionization is about sharing in the process of determining the conditions of your basic livelihood in a way that benefits both grad workers and their universities,” she said. “[CGSU] believe[s] that everyone wins with a solid union-

“Teaching experience is an important component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers.”

Dean Barbara Knuth gaining unit – no matter how they voted or if they voted – will be explicitly represented by the union in their dealings with the University concerning pay, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment,” Knuth said.

Therefore, even if only 51 percent of graduate students in the bargaining unit vote to unionize, the complete bargaining unit — including the 49 percent who voted against — will be included in the union, according to Knuth.

Knuth reaffirmed the University’s view that graduate students should be considered students, not workers and that graduate student work is educational.

“Ph.D. coursework, research and teaching are an integrated educational experience and are components of the student’s progression toward earning a degree,” Knuth said. “Teaching experience is an important component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers either as teachers or as pro-

University relationship because happier, more secure workers means better teaching and better research.”

Jesse Goldberg, grad and GPSA voting member, read a joint statement from the administration and CGSU that emphasized both organizations’ common goals.

“Cornell and CGSU are committed to working together to ensure that our community’s environment remains one in which the conditions for graduate students to make their own decisions about unionization without intimidation are achieved,” the statement said.

“Our negotiations have been setting a positive tone based on our shared values of dignity and respect for each other.”

Knuth said she anticipates that the NLRB will release its decision on the legality of graduate student unionization at private universities sometime this summer.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Dining Cruz Fights for Survival as Addresses Concerns Trump Eyes Indiana Knockout Over Hiring Processes DINING

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This poor employee morale has profoundly impacted employees who work alongside those with chronic problem workers, according to Winn.

“Not only does it suck to have these people not do their jobs, but for somebody who does do their job — it makes it incredibly difficult,” he said.

Karen Brown, director of Campus Life Marketing and Communications, stressed the importance the department places on resolving employee issues amicably.

“Each personnel issue is taken very seriously, and we work to resolve each on an individual basis,” Brown said.

Molly Swertfager, central zone representative, said that, despite issues in employee incentives to work, “we need to start looking out for our members — all of our members, not just the people who get into trouble.”

“We’re required to protect everyone, we must protect against unjust punishment but it’s also an issue of when do you … start protecting the workers that have to deal with this chronic problem worker on a daily basis,” Swertfager said.

The University is employing non-union workers, such as students, to avoid the complexities of the union contract, according to Winn.

“They’re only getting paid $10 an hour and Cornell is lining their pockets with temp agencies just so they don’t have to [hire] any “Each personnel issue is unions and pay them benefits and taken very seriously, and also risk hiring someone they can’t we work to resolve each fire,” he said.

Mark Anbinder, web commuon an individual basis.” nications manager for Campus Life Marketing and ComKaren Brown munications, said Cornell Dining hires temporary employees according to business demand.

“In dining, we use various forms of temporary labor including students, casual staff … and temp agency staff to supplement our regular workforce during peak business times — such as the lunch rush — or for special events, and to fill in for employee leaves and vacancies,” Anbinder said.

He added that employment is contingent on the workload of the eatery.

“Cornell Dining must also adapt to the business cycle in which we operate, a university environment that does not support all operations being open — or fully staffed — 12 months a year,” he said.

Brown also said Cornell Dining will increase meal plan costs for the next academic year — its first raise in three years.

“There are other expenses making up a meal swipe than just the actual cost of the food,” Brown said. “Preparing a wide variety of healthful cooked meals, cleaning up afterwards and employing staff, in addition to other costs, are factored in as well.”

In response to food quality at dining halls, Anbinder said the University is “proud of both the quality and variety of food that we serve.”

“I would say that we have compromised on neither — as indicated by the continued high marks we get each year in the Princeton Review and other independent ratings,” Anbinder said.

OSCEOLA, Ind. (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz’s (RTexas) conservative crusade for the presidency fought for new life Monday ahead of an Indiana vote that could effectively end the GOP’s primary season. The fiery Texas senator hinted at an exit strategy, even as he vowed to compete to the end against surging Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

“I am in for the distance — as long as we have a viable path to victory,” Cruz told reporters after campaigning at a popular breakfast stop.

With his supporters fearing Cruz could lose a seventh consecutive state Tuesday, the candidate’s formulation hinted at a time when he may give up. Like Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), Cruz is already mathematically eliminated from reaching a delegate majority before the Republican Party’s national convention in July. He retreated to Indiana more than a week ago, hoping a win could at least help him deny Trump an outright primary victory and lead to a contested convention.

But a recent poll of likely Indiana voters showed Trump holding a commanding lead. At a stop in Monday in Marion, Indiana, Trump supporters confronted Cruz.

“Lyin’ Ted!” yelled one, using Trump’s pet name for his rival.

“What do you like about him?” Cruz asked the man. “Name one thing.”

“Everything,” the protester replied.

After six straight victories across the Northeast late last month, math and momentum are on Trump’s side. The anti-Trump movement’s only hope is to deny the billionaire businessman a 1,237-delegate majority by defeating him in Indiana and the handful of contests remaining over the next month.

Then, Cruz or another candidate would have to beat him when delegates gather in Cleveland in

July.

“Millions of Americans are praying for this state,” Cruz said. “The entire country is depending on the state of Indiana to pull us back from this cliff.”

Trump sensed an Indiana knockout.

“Honestly, if we win Indiana, it’s over. It’s over.

“The entire country is depending on the state of Indiana to pull us back from this cliff.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) They’re finished. They’re gone,”" the former reality television star told voters at a rally in Carmel, Ind. Tuesday features a primary on the Democratic side, too. New signs emerged that front-runner Hillary Clinton's chief rival Bernie Sanders is fading as well.

Clinton announced $26 million in new fundraising in April, narrowly beating Sanders. His total of $25.8 million last month marked a steep decline from $46 million he collected in March.

Sanders also refused to report how much money he had in the bank, raising questions about whether he can sustain his online fundraising dominance as his path to the nomination becomes less likely.

Shrugging off the numbers, Sanders, like Cruz, vowed to “fight hard as hard as we can for every vote.”

He called the Democratic primary process “rigged,” noting that he has won 45 percent of the pledged delegates awarded after primaries or caucuses, but only about seven percent of superdelegates, the Democratic officials and party leaders who can support the candidate of their choice.

Syrian conflict

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A bereaved woman remonstrates with staff at the Al Razi hospital in government-controlled Aleppo, Syria on Thursday.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israel’s military on Monday ordered a well-known Palestinian journalist to be held for four months without charges or trial, in so-called administrative detention.

The military said Omar Nazzal is being held on suspicion of “unlawful activity” for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small PLO faction that has been labeled a terrorist organization by Israel.

Nazzal’s lawyer, Mahmoud Hassan, said he believes his client, a leading member of the Palestinian journalists’ union, is being targeted because of his political activism. Hassan noted that under the system of adminis-

trative detention, the defense is not shown any alleged evidence against a detainee.

Nazzal, 53, has been in Israeli custody since he was seized at an Israeli-run crossing between the West Bank and Jordan last month, while traveling to a meeting of the European Federation of Journalists.

The journalist headed Palestine Today, a TV station affiliated with the militant group Islamic Jihad, for five months, but quit earlier this year shortly before Israel shut it down. He also had ties to the PFLP which in the past was involved in attacks on Israelis.

Hassan denied his client was linked to violence. “This arrest is a political arrest,” the lawyer said.

Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to Seattle law SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in for the first time Monday on a $15an-hour minimum wage, signaling it does not plan to stop the movement that is spreading across the nation, worker advocates say.

The justices refused to hear a challenge to Seattle’s law, which franchise owners said discriminates against them by treating them as large businesses. It comes as several other cities and a group of states, including California and New York, have started to phase in a $15 minimum wage in recent months as

the cost of living keeps rising.

State courts are considering several challenges to local minimum wage laws, which each take a slightly different approach, but no other cases are on their way to Supreme Court at this time, the National Employment Law Project said.

“The Supreme Court’s action makes clear that the courts are not going to step in to block the raises that America’s workers need,” said Paul Sonn, general counsel and program director of the group that advocates for employment rights for lower-wage workers.

New York’s law is being challenged in state court in a similar lawsuit brought by the fast food industry. Employers at SeattleTacoma International Airport have filed several legal challenges after the city of SeaTac, Washington, passed the first $15 wage in the U.S. The national minimum is $7.25 an hour.

Nearby Seattle closely followed, becoming one of the first cities to adopt a law in 2014 aiming for a $15 minimum wage. San Francisco changed its wage around the same time.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Beautiful Knowledge: Ithaca College’s Arcadia

BY EMILY KLING AND JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Staff Writers

Arts & Entertainment writers Emily Kling and Jesse Weissman discuss Ithaca College Theatre Arts’ production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play Arcadia. Arcadia played at Ithaca College’s Hoerner Theatre from April 26 to May 1 and was directed by Ithaca College professor Greg Bostwick.

J ESSE W EISSMAN: Before we start discussing the play itself, I want to note just how nice the Main Stage Theatre at Ithaca College is! It is a pretty impressive venue and feels like a real Broadway theatre.

E MILY K LING : Agreed! Going to I.C. for a play should definitely be added to the “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do” list.

J.W.: I agree. Let’s get to the topic at hand: I.C.’s production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. The reason I think we wanted to do this as a joint review is because Arcadia is one of your favorite plays, and I had never seen it before. So we can discuss how the production fared for someone like me, especially considering the plot and dialogue are pretty complex, and how it fared for an Arcadia expert like you.

E.K.: I wouldn’t call myself an expert at all but I see your point. Perhaps fittingly, duality is central to Arcadia, which takes place in an English country house during the years 1809 and 1812, and 1993. In the latter year, the house’s current residents are modern scholars who are researching the people who lived there in the earlier period. And the play is concerned with this tension between past and present among other themes.

J.W.: Yes, I think the relationship between the past and the present is the most important and strongest aspects of the play. One of the more interesting parts of this relationship, I thought, was how the modern scholars were getting all the details wrong about the past even though they were doing painstaking research. It really drove home the idea that it is in many ways impossible to know the past.

E.K.: It’s especially interesting in the context of being students at college. Stoppard seems to be attacking academics, making the point that searching for an understanding of the past will almost always land you with incorrect information. It reminded me of how in some historical readings, authors will indicate emotions where they probably have no way of knowing for certain. I think we usually don’t mind, and it can often make readings more interesting, but this play really makes you question the validity of some academic research.

J.W.: At the same time, I also found the plotline a bit confusing. The characters in the 1800s speak in heavy British accents, in the dialect of that time period, and at a fast pace. So I often found it difficult to follow what was going on, and hard to understand what the academics were getting wrong about the past.

E.K.: I think that’s fair. It is such a wordy play, perhaps Stoppard’s wordiest. So I think it can be hard on both the actors and the audience. And there are so many moving parts — I wasn’t surprised to see audience members checking Wikipedia during intermission. That being said, I thought two of the play’s protagonists in particular, Hannah (Lilly Waldron) and Thomasina (Sandrinne Edstrom), were entirely clear in their speech.

J.W.: Oh, absolutely. That isn’t a knock on the actors.

They delivered the dialogue as well as they could. And I’m glad you brought up the acting, because it’s fantastic here.

The sheer number of complicated lines that have to be memorized for this play is overwhelming, and all the actors gave each line its own individual nuance. I really understand now why the drama department at Ithaca College is so famous. I was especially impressed by Justin Albinder, who played the more science-oriented academic in the present, Valentine. A lot of the time the role of the “scientist” can often be cliched and make the character

logical and socially awkward to a fault, but Albinder gave the character a lot of heart and complexity.

E.K.: Albinder was great! He really did a good job showing how these academics go back and forth between passion and frustration. I think part of why I have always loved Arcadia so much is that it really makes scientific thought and theory accessible for an unscientific audience. By combining scientific inquiry with philosophy, Stoppard makes a powerful impact on the audience. In the beginning of the show, Thomasina talks about how if you stir jam in rice pudding, it can’t be unstirred. She seems interested in this phenomenon from a scientific perspective, but it also relates to the idea that what we do cannot be undone and the world will always continue to mix more and more. It’s a pretty moving part of the play. I think you’re right, that it was hard to follow, but I feel that the play really had a strong impact by the end. You could feel COURTESY OF SHERYL SINKOW it in the audience.

J.W.: I definitely agree with everything you said.

While the first half of the play makes a new viewer put in a lot of mental legwork, it really pays off in the end. Even though this isn’t my favorite play, seeing the past and present come together at the end, when they had been separated before, worked like gangbusters.

E.K.: I’m glad you feel that way! I know it can be a bit exhausting, and it isn’t exactly short (clocking in at just under three hours), but I think this play is really powerful. And I feel that Ithaca College did it justice.

Jesse Weissman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jweissman@cornellsun.com. Emily Kling is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekling@cornell.edu.

Out of this World: Kurt Riley Rocks Klarman

BY SHAY COLLINS Arts & Entertainment Editor

Playing an album live, end-to-end, can prove arduous for many artists. Rather than tailoring a set list to crescendo, climax, and resolve for a given night, the performers must trust that the same progressions that worked on the album will similarly thrill live audiences.

The same challenges that can sink such a play-through, however, can also elevate a concert. A performance can offer testimony to the narrative and vision that inspired an album rather than simply offering up a smattering of tracks from an artist’s career.

Kurt Riley’s Kismet proved to be a viable work to bring to Klarman Auditorium, in its entirety, on Friday night.

As a concept album, Kismet’s storyline — alien King Bandele journeying to Earth to save his queen, Heaven Snow — is a driving force.

The album’s high-stakes drama and Manichean struggle constitute the bedrock of a passionate story that can be fleshed out in less than 90 minutes.

Furthermore, the story arc built into the album provided natural and momentum for Riley’s concert. Still, a strong album alone does not ensure a strong performance.

Charisma, stage presence and, of course, excellent music, must cover the rest of the ground.

Klarman Auditorium’s relatively small seating capacity caused Riley and his collaborators to come under close

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scrutiny from the audience members, many of who sat in lecture hall seats nearly at eye level with the performers.

Even as the musicians waited in the wings — really just a tiny alcove — to take the stage, they were visible to the audience.

Riley’s live band — drummer Olivia Dawd ’17, guitarist Charlie Fraioli ’16, guitarist David Dillon ’18, guitarist Sam Packer ’18, vocalist Kristina Camille ’15, keyboardist and pianist Ruth Xing ’19 and saxophonist John Mason ’15 — far exceeded the challenge, seeming always at ease and obviously comfortable with the album. In line with Kismet’s intergalactic theme, the band performed in front of a video of rapidly passing stars.

From the first song of the evening — instrumental introduction “Eternity” — Riley was doubtlessly in control, confident in the venue and interested in the crowd.

Early on, he dropped an excellent line of stage banter: “Whenever I come to Earth, I always love to visit Ithaca.”

Coming from another perCOURTESY OF TYRAN GRILLO former, it may have sounded contrived, but it is obvious that King Bandele is a persona that Riley puts on lovingly, with absolute devotion and delight.

However, the make-or-break of the night came down to the music. After all, much of the anxiety around performing a whole album live comes down to one question: will it sound as good live? On Friday night, the answer proved to be an emphatic yes. Riley is the first to thank his collaborators for the amount of time and energy that they devote to learning the Kismet set list, down to the detail.

A number of the musicians who play with Riley and recorded on Kismet pursue their own projects and gig often.

Kristina Camille writes and performs an ineffable mix of R&B and jazz as a solo artist, bassist Charlie Fraioli sings and plays guitar in Ithaca indie rock trio Shore Acres Drive and rapper Asanté Quintana ’18, who joined the band to rap on “Whore,” has released a mixtape and EP since coming to Cornell and will host a rap showcase at the Bear’s Den tomorrow evening.

The talented core of musicians not only closely approximated the riffs and progressions of Kismet, but also added a palpable infusion of energy and passion into the tracks.

After “Eternity,” Riley and his collaborators launched (an appropriate description on many levels) into three intense rock tracks, each with their own textural spin. “Eye of Ra” introduced the full band with a brooding, teeth-gritted power rock track, after which “Engines Are Go!” brought the audience to a raucous take on many of the classic and glam rock motifs that Riley so lovingly channels and honors on Kismet. The album’s fourth track, “Theft of Fire,” notched an early high-water mark for the performance, displaying the undeniable momentum and tightness of the band.

“Universe,” one of Kismet’s later ballads epitomized the excellence of Riley’s live show. Over a Xing’s beautiful piano performance, Riley delivered an arresting vocal performance and one of Kismet’s most starkly fascinating lines: “Frost on my steel cocoon/Drifting through graveyard moons.” By the end of the song, however, Riley and his collaborators have continually pushed the track’s intensity and passion to reach ever more exciting heights. Such momentum characterized Riley’s show as a whole: unflagging in its energy, unpredictable due to its creativity and unapologetic in its boldness.

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

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A Newcomer’s Guide to the Marvel of Japanese Music

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y first year writing seminar entitled “From Zen to J-pop \(^o^)/ Japanese Society through Music” has taught me more about identity, culture, tradition, human behavior, and why we listen music than I could’ve imagined. Japanese music (specifically post-WWII) is a whimsical fantasia of westernized corporate giants churning out record labels and hit songs almost systematically contra anti-establishment, provocative underground artists, whose sets are normally performed during the late hours to a crowd of dedicated listeners. Here I’ve stumbled across listening to artists such as D.J. Soybeans, 7e, DREAMPV$HER; an eclectic group of underground artists I can only hear on Soundcloud.

The general style of these underground artists are varied but connected. D.J. Soybeans, from what I’ve heard, takes a rat-a-tat approach to combining mechanical clicks with synthesized futuristic beats to create this post-modern out-ofthis-world feeling all while not having to resort to EDM’s westernized build-up and beat-drop trope. 7e (pronounced Nana-eh) focuses on the atmosphere, trying to sound somewhat ambient. One of her sets uses drums and samples of Jamaican chants to transcend you to a tropical relief, sending off a serene vibe that everything will be just fine. While another uses strums from the uniquely Japanese shamisen over a tempo mixed with the wooden flute and synthesized sounds to resemble an ancient Japan.

DREAM PV$HER, to quote my teacher Jillian Marshall, grad, “are making some of the sickest, most exciting music I’ve heard in years and, to me, are on another level of music-making … The end result is hypnotizing … a dizzying array of sounds, stripped and obscured melodies, and polyrhythms … they strike a brilliant balance somewhere between explosive, interstellar sonic time-warp and funky, postindustrial

grit.” Although the group isn’t currently making anymore new music, their image, style and beliefs parallel the general mindset of the Japanese underground. These artists share the passion to be different, to be cast out from the norm, and to pump liberating, anti-capitalist blood back into the veins of their listeners, which embodies the underground scene.

Stepping foot midstream into the world of J-Pop and mainstream music was an explorative process. I knew nothing of this Japanese entity (I’ll admit it took me a few weeks to realize that the “J” in “J-Pop” stood for Japanese) so it was nothing less than transformative to listen to AKB48.

Yes, music groups here in the States do receive great attention, but it is nothing compared to AKB48’s pull on the media. They have their own magazine, video games, anime, manga, and now TV shows. For those unaware of what AKB48 sells themselves as, they are an all-girl group ground on the basis of being an “idol group you can meet” by portraying themselves as pure and flawless to the tune of bubblegum pop. When I first watched one of their music videos, what was shoved down my throat was the hypersexualization of these girls. I’ve never seen a musical group alone be almost the face of an entire industry, but alas, AKB48 is a giant. This itself gave me Guest insight to one of the driving Room characteristics of the Japanese music culture: Fantasy. Of course, the girl-group is an international sensation, but a key motive into why they’re successful in Japan is not just the catchy, head-bopping, foot-tapping, clichéd pop music, but because they can be seen as a gateway to this fantasy world that so many Japanese listeners long for.

But on the other hand the Japanese music culture continues to baffle and amaze me. Namely, Hatsune Miku.

Tim Rehm

Birthed from a synthesizing software called Vocaloid, Hatstune Miku is the epitome of fantasy, and the face of synthesized music. Her voice belongs to no human, but rather to the entire community of people that use this software, who mix her voice to create robotic, pseudo-human beats and songs. What stuck with me the most is that Hatsune Miku holds her own concerts as a holograph. Yes, that’s right; a hologram will appear affront a live audience, dancing and singing her synthesized songs. From what I’ve seen online, these concerts are nothing short of intensity and passion than of any other performer. People will spend ridiculous amounts of to listen to music that is meant to be heard online, in the digital format. Here I find myself rattling with the enigma that is Hatsune Miku, but as long as her concerts continue to sell out and her music advocates anyone being able to develop music through the Vocaloid software, I’m all for it.

But with all that said — I get it. The moral of this all is Japanese music partly caters to the struggles Japan has faced ever since the end of WWII. There is this feeling that even if reality isn’t all what it shapes up to be, there will always be music to escape to, which isn’t really anything uniquely Japan, if anything this happens all over the world.

Japanese music is a fun, playful, quaint, and curious experience, something I thought I would never see myself getting involved with. I implore you to try Japanese music a try for two reasons – it will subsequently make you appreciate your facet of musical interest. And two, Cornell is currently home to Jillian Marshall, one of the most prolific scholars on the study of Japanese culture and image through music. Escaping my comfort zone to learn about Japanese music with her teaching has changed my perspective on music and encouraged me to branch-out and listen to something new.

Tim Rehm is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tdr43@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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The importance of Afrika Bambaataa’s hip-hop legacy To the Editor: Some years ago, when I introduced a unit on hip-hop in a course I was teaching in the English department, a visiting musicologist at Cornell came to my class and spent 50 minutes discussing the complexity and richness of a single track, Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock.” At the end of the hour, he hadn’t finished. That session alone was enough to convince me that Bambaataa’s mixing of musical fragments, shouts from a crowd and other background noise into a seamless whole exemplified a whole new approach to music and to listening that assured him a place in the history of urban music.

When Cornell acquired the world’s largest collection of early hip-hop materials, I was therefore proud to become a member of the hip-hop advisory board. If asked about the significance of the acquisition, I would have said something like this: Cornell’s collection not only preserves these materials for history but also dramatically re-defines what a rare manuscript library can be. Katherine Reagan’s activist curating has gone beyond simply preserving the material, incorporating it into the Cornell educational experience. Initiatives include regular visits and concerts by hip-hop founders, a firstrate museum show, appearances in the Ithaca community and an array of courses, including a large team-taught University course that combined music, urban sociology and African-American culture. When Bambaataa appeared with other hip-hop founders at the inaugural conference on the archives, his remarks showed him to be a musicologist and educator as well as a musical innovator, with a vast knowledge of the rich tradition on which his own creative synthesizing depended. And now, the digitizing of his vast collection further connects past and future, the academy and the streets and the methods of scholarship with the living experience of music-making. These connections are no act of cultural appropriation but rather a breaking down of the walls of privilege and prejudice, increasing both knowledge and pleasure. I was proud to meet Bambaataa on his visits and to thank him for his generosity to Cornell.

But now the D.J. Troi Torain has sponsored a petition demanding that Cornell sever its ties with Bambaataa because of accusations that the musician has abused young men; as a result, the Daily News has declared Cornell to be “under fire.” What would I change in my last paragraph as a result of the claims and the demands?

Not a single word.

By maintaining its ties with Bambaataa, Cornell does not support child abuse and does not collaborate with a criminal. Bambaataa remains innocent before the law. If the charges against him (which he has denied) were ever to be proved, that would be cause for sorrow and regret, but his private life remains separate from his music.

This should be obvious to anyone with a clear head, but sometimes it's important to affirm the obvious. Cornell’s only obligation is to stand by the statements it has already made. As for Troi Torain’s petition, it would be insulting to take seriously anything this disturbed person says about child abuse. In May 2006, Torain, a radio D.J., was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child. According to The New York Times, “In a May 3 broadcast, Mr. Torain mentioned [a rival D.J.’s] wife and two children and threatened to find and sexually abuse his daughter. ‘I'll come for your kids,’ Mr. Torain said that day, adding that he would pay $500 to anyone who told him where the girl attended school.

Mr. Torain, who is black, also used racial and sexual epithets about D.J. Envy’s wife, Gia Casey, 27, who is part Asian.”

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To the Editor: Labor Day, the first Monday of September in the United States, marks a day dedicated to celebrating the contributions of the working class to the nation’s social and economic wellbeing. Historically, Labor Day was celebrated on the first of May until, fearing association with socialism, the U.S. changed May 1 from “International Workers Day” to “Law Day,” a holiday that promotes the obedience to the law and loyalty to the state. Labor Day was therefore moved to September, stripping away any undertones of socialist sentiment and relevant context. As a result, we have grown to associate the day with the end of summer and the first day of school, often passing over the history and significance of the working class struggle against capitalist exploitation.

Although May Day is not celebrated in the U.S., where it is dismissed for its association with communism, the tradition actually has its roots in the States. In 1886, nearly 100,000 workers in Chicago went on a peaceful strike to demand an eight hour work day. However, what began as a peaceful rally in Haymarket square turned into bloodshed on the third day of action, when a bomb was thrown into the crowd, ensuing chaos. Police fired into the crowd, resulting in the deaths of four civilians and leaving dozens of others wounded. Ultimately, the struggle led to a convention, in which an eight hour work day was finally declared. Shortly after, May Day, or International Workers’ Day, was declared as a holiday to be celebrated on May 1, as a commemoration of the Haymarket Affair.

In cities and on college campuses around the globe, May Day is considered a day of action and solidarity. It is a day in which community organizations mobilize and flood the streets to lead strikes, demonstrations and other creative actions. Supporters acknowledge the struggle of the working class, and the ways in which this struggle is bounded to their movements, such as Black Lives Matter, struggle against police brutality, ICE raids and deportation, gentrification, the struggle for Indigenous and immigrant rights, workplace equality for historically marginalized groups, environmental justice for minority communities. It is a day of action that demonstrates that all struggles, different in context and manifestation, are bound by the idea of collective liberation: that “nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

The intersectionality of these issues is especially important considering that one of the radical organizers and speakers who shaped May Day was Lucy Parsons, a woman who was Mexican American, African American and of Native descent. Her role as a woman of color in the labor movement and in this day helps us to frame contempo-

rary working struggles in a multifaceted and intersectional manner that advances the goal of collective liberation.

In the spirit of the anniversary of May Day, we students would like to thank the employees and staff at Cornell. We extend our gratitude to the workers who make it possible for the campus to function, and who go out of their way to brighten the days of the students, even when it is not always reciprocated. We want to take the time to appreciate the experiences of all workers on campus, and acknowledge the ways in which different characteristics such as race, gender, class, sexual orientation, nationality, ability and age affect the experiences that workers have.

We are aware that college students make rowdy customers and neighbors on weekend nights, that our presence drives up local housing prices so that most employees cannot afford to live nearby and that we as a demographic contribute to the corporatization of Cornell and the gentrification of the Ithaca community. Too often are the employees and other community members excluded from conversations about social justice on campus.

Additionally, as students, it is our responsibility to hold Cornell accountable for its labor practices on this campus as well as the workers whose lives it influences abroad.

We acknowledge the immense labor needed to help an organization like Cornell, with over 20,000 students, to continue to run every day, and recognize that this labor often appears to go unnoticed and unappreciated. However, we do notice and we do appreciate everything that campus workers do.

We also want to acknowledge the vast amount of student workers, whose status as workers often goes ignored, even when they may be primary providers for their families while maintaining a full college course load.

International Workers Day is a day to celebrate labor around the world, and to acknowledge that today's conditions are only a result of worker action and protest — that human lives were the price for the benefits we take for granted today, such as an eight hour workday. May Day serves to remind workers around the world of the power that they have and of the impact of their voices, as well as a reminder that the struggle against exploitation and inequality is not yet won. As students, we must continue to organize and mobilize as part of the labor movement in order to strive for the collective liberation of all.

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Self-Care And Slope Day A

s the year winds down the campus is teeming with activity. The end of the year is marked by wine tours, Slope Day, formals and Senior Week, while also knocking back Red Bulls and all nighters in Uris. Whether it be long nights in the library in preparation for finals or a time for celebrating accomplishments; Cornell students at this time of year are living their lives in excess.

Living at the extremes is nothing new for a cohort of high-achieving students vying for top positions in their fields. The process of getting there is often littered with long nights and inadequate (and often dangerous) coping mechanisms. High risk drinking is an issue at universities across the country, but at top universities like Cornell, there is the added element that it seems like self care is a luxury not afforded to the best students.

Over our years at Cornell, we’ve noticed a constant competition amongst students to show off who is the most stressed out, who got the least sleep the night before or who had the most prelims. In the same vein the competition extends to drinking behaviors. How many drinks you can chug every

Living a balanced life is the lesson most of us end up learning the hard way.

While in college, the consequences are somewhat limited. The real world, a world many of us are about to enter, is not so kind. night is equated to social acceptance. While posters in every residence hall note that most Cornell students “do not think blacking out is acceptable,” there is still a culture here that accepts drinking in extremes as a point of pride.

In this capacity, Slope Day is a perfect storm. It brings together all the stress of final exams weighted to make it or break it for your grades, as well as the allure of the biggest party of the year. The objective for many that day is making sure that you are drunk so it is as enjoyable as possible, and as for finals, we’ll figure that out later.

This Slope Day, there will be a couple of changes.

The University has taken initiative to start a new breakfast program for this 2016 Slope Day in order to encourage students to eat before they begin their festivities. Volunteers will be handing out free breakfast sandwiches at various locations early in the morning, a few hours prior to the start of Slope Day, in an attempt to target students making their way to ‘pregames.’

Slope Day at Cornell has a unique culture of party-hopping as students start drinking as early as 7 or 8 a.m. and move from party to party to maximize time with all their friends. This puts them in dangerous situations because they wake up early and often forgo breakfast. Cornell hopes this new initiative will minimize the dangerous situations many student find themselves in on Slope Day and encourage a safe and fun time.

Living a balanced life is the lesson most of us end up learning the hard way. While in college, the consequences are somewhat limited. The real world, a world many of us are about to enter, is not so kind.

Let Slope Day and the end of the year be a reminder that if Cornell has taught you anything it is the balance of work and play.

Yamini Bhandari is the undergraduate student-elected trustee.

Prawallika Gangidi is a junior in the College of Engineering and the director of Cornell EMS. Matthew Indimine is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology and incoming executive vice president of the Student Assembly. Yamini can be reached a yb94@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears on alternate Tuesdays this semester.

“Unless Bambaataa’s guilt is proven in the court of law, then these are just allegations, nothing more. If, hypothetically, he were to be found guilty of these alleged crimes, then it still does not lessen the value of Bambaataa’s artistic work, as another commenter has correctly pointed out.”

Jay Re: “Petition: Cornell University Must Sever Ties with Afrika Bambaataa,” News April 28, 2016

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How an Autopsy and Jeb Bush Predicted Donald Trump’s Presidential Run

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fter a 332-206 shellacking in the 2012 Electoral College, the Republican National Committee issued an autopsy diagnosing the failure at hand and providing guidance to future Republican candidates.

In the months preceding the election and prior to the auto-autopsy, two congressional scholars with bipartisan Beltway credentials penned a notorious op-ed in The Washington Post titled, “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” In December 2014, before he had declared himself a candidate, Jeb Bush imagined that the 2016 nominee would have to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles.”

Roughly three years after the autopsy report was published, Donald Trump revealed his candidacy to capture the Republican nomination for President of the United States. The announcement seemed like a gag at the time, a publicity stunt to sell neckties and brand hotels; of course, it was unforeseeable that Trump intended to double down on the aforementioned evaluations in the most perverse manner imaginable, positioning himself for primary success yet general doom.

Before President Barack Obama won his second term over Mitt Romney, political scientists Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein — who was, and still is, employed by the conservative American Enterprise Institute – wrote that, “The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has built his political skyscraper on brashness, superiority and fanciful policy positions.

In its autopsy report, the Republican National Committee gave particular consideration to immigration and minority outreach. On immigration, the RNC concluded, “We are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond, must be to embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our

Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only.”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has said of Mexican immigrants, “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us.

They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

And some, I assume, are good people.

Outreach!

The RNC on appealing to minorities: “By the year 2050 we’ll be a majority-minority country and in both 2008 and 2012, President Obama won a combined 80 percent of the votes of all minority groups. The RNC cannot and will not write off any demographic or community or region of this country.”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has proposed banning all Muslims from the United States.

The RNC on including women: a $10 million marketing campaign targeting women, minorities and gays,

regarding a willingness to lose the primary to win the general. Though a clearly paradoxical situation, it appears as though, due to his jockeying to win the Republican nomination, Trump has anchored himself to a fatal amount of toxic positions in the general election.

Before Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) launched his once-thought inevitable campaign, his pollster attempted to demonstrate Rubio’s path to victory by estimating the proportion of nonwhite vote necessary for the Republican nominee to win in the Electoral College. Based on projections of the 2016 electorate, if the nominee were to win 59 percent of the white vote — or what Romney won in 2012 — then 30 percent of the nonwhite vote should prove sufficient. In 2012, Romney won 17 percent of the nonwhite vote. In 2008, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won 19 percent.

President George W. Bush won 26 percent in 2004.

Though a clearly paradoxical situation, it appears as though, due to his jockeying to win the Republican nomination, Trump has anchored himself to a fatal amount of toxic positions in the general election. along with calls to elevate women within the RNC, “to represent some of the unique concerns that female voters may have.”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has called for women to be punished for seeking abortions and suggested that Hillary Clinton is succeeding merely by playing the “woman’s card.”

Trump has intentionally defied the RNC prescriptions for broadening the party and winning elections, instead opting to further the inflammatory rhetoric the party leadership warned against. And half of the base loves him for it. With the last hopes of the #NeverTrump coalition resting on Indiana’s Tuesday primary and Donald Trump widening his lead in the state as the days pass, the rest of 2016 figures to be #AllTrump on the Republican side.

While Jeb Bush faltered in his 2016 bid, the former governor appears to have been prescient in his remarks

Sure, Donald Trump might turn out a group of white voters who traditionally lacked incentive to vote, but it’s difficult to envision these potential gains expanding the electorate in meaningful ways or offsetting likely decreases among nonwhite voters, women and centrist Republicans who will either vote for Hillary or stay home. Trump succeeded by appealing to factions of the party that scholars were beginning to identify as destructive and unproductive. When the RNC provided a party autopsy focused on a general election, it inadvertently provided a perverted playbook to primary success if deconstructed; Trump had the persona to pull it off, Jeb the wit to recognize it ultimately as a losing one. He who laughs last, laughs longest.

Jake Forken is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu. My Forken Opinion appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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TUESDAY MAY 3, 2016

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TRACK AND FIELD

C.U.Posts Strong Penn Relays

Following two tune-up events,Ivy League Championships loom

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

In their final two tune-up events before the Ivy League Championships, the Cornell men’s and women’s track and field teams took home several individual titles and avoided injuries. Both teams sent relatively small contingents to compete at the Penn Relays and returned home to host the Big Red Invitational at the Kane Sports Complex.

The women began their week of competition on a busy Thursday at the world renowned Penn Relay in Philadelphia, Pa. Arguable the biggest American track and field event on the calendar, the Penn Relays attracts some of the best athletes around the world.

In their first day of competition, a team of junior Adrian Jones, senior Udeme Akpaete, and sophomores Taysia Radoslav and Ellen Shepard placed second in their 4x100 heat, ultimately finishing in a strong seventh place in Friday’s highly competitive Championship of America final.

“The 4x100 relay was outstanding, qualifying for the Championship of America race — the first time in Cornell track history that this has happened,” said head Coach Rich Bowman.

The shuttle hurdle relay had the same results — second in the heat and seventh in the final.

The distance medley of sophomore Leah Triller, freshman Ellery Bianco, junior Libby Nolan and senior Sarah Holl impressed by placing fourth with a time of 11:52. In the 3K, freshman Eve Glasergreen set a new personal record in a fifth place run of just under 9:50, and classmate Briar Blumley took fifth in her heat and 12th overall in the 3K steeplechase. Several other Cornellians took home ECAC qualifiers in the three day event.

Overall, Bowman said he was very pleased with the way his team performed under the spotlight at Penn, and knows the ability to do so is a key skill going into Heps.

“If we are to be successful as a team in big meet situations like Heps we must have athletes that thrive on the big stage,” Bowman said “Opportunities to compete at meets such as the Penn Relays afford us the chance to feel comfortable on that big stage.”

While many of the Red’s top athletes got the day off on Sunday, Cornell still put up some big finishes at the Big Red Invitational where they competed against predominantly upstate New York schools. The cold and rainy conditions were a nuisance, but the Red still competed very well, winning six events and adding three more ECAC qualifiers in the process.

“The group has performed to the best of their abilities in adverse conditions and I’ve been proud of their efforts,” Bowman said.

In the field, sophomore Taylor Drayton won the discus and earned a spot in Cornell’s all-time top 10 in the event.

Junior Kacie Hargett took first place in the javelin, and freshmen Leena Morris impressed once again by winning the hammer. Junior Gaynelle Boham won the triple jump, while senior Stephanie Izard bested the field in the high jump.

On the track, Ellery Bianco completed her busy weekend by winning the 400-meter hurdles, and junior Delphi Cleaveland took first in the 5K. Both meets leave Bowman’s team healthy and confident.

“We have avoided any major injuries and remain healthy going into championship weekend,” Bowman said. “This weekend was a great stepping stone to what we all hope will be continued with great things happening in the upcoming championships.”

The men also sent a group to compete at the Penn Relays where they similarly had great success at the highest level, a feat that was nothing surprising to head coach Adrian Durant.

“We have some of the best athletes in the country on our

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Spotlight | The Red’s performance on the “big stage” at the Penn Relays bodes well for this weekend’s championship.

squad, we can hold our own anywhere,” he said.

With events mostly on Friday and Saturday, senior Stephen Afadapa began Friday morning with a 15th place finish in the high jump.

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BASEBALL

Tigers’ Pitching Quiets Red’s Offense in Final Ivy Games

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

On Senior Weekend at Hoy Field, Cornell dropped three of four to Princeton to close out the Ivy League segment of the Red’s season. The Tigers (2218, 13-7 Ivy) sewed up the Lou Gehrig Division and the Red (14-24, 7-13 Ivy) remained mired in last place. Cornell has one more game this season at Binghamton Wednesday.

The games on Friday were moved up a few hours to avoid impending rain, and game one of the weekend started at 10 a.m. Cornell head coach Dan Pepicelli

said the rescheduling did not change his team’s preparation and he was happy they were able to get the games in. Princeton’s bats were not deterred either, as they jumped out to a first inning two-run lead and led 3-0 midway through the fifth.

Junior third baseman Tommy Wagner credits his team’s toughness for not ending the game’s story right there.

“We have been coached to play just as hard and with the same intensity no matter the situation in the game,” he said. “As the game continued, we were able to put together good at bats and score some runs to let us back in the game.”

Wagner, hitting .341 on the season,

DANA DANIELS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Three times the fun | Sophomore outfielder Dale Wickham hit three home runs in the Red’s 4-3 victory over Princeton Saturday.

sick with the flu, went hitless in his four at ball history. bats in the morning game on Friday and “Dale is an extremely talented ball did not play for the rest of the weekend. player,” said junior first baseman Cole Pepicelli said that junior pitcher Paul Rutherford. “He had been working hard Balestrieri was also sick this weekend, and with Coach [Tom] Ford during the week pitched on Saturday instead of Friday as on his timing and this weekend just planned. proved how lethal of a hitter he is. He’s Cornell scored the tying run in the been solid for us the entire year, this weekbottom of the seventh (and last sched- end was no different.” uled) inning and had the winning run on The final game of the series again saw third with just one out in the inning. The Cornell’s bats go dormant, yet again. The men failed to capitalize Red did not score until and Princeton won the “The seniors have been a the ninth inning against game 4-3 with a run of junior lefthander Keelan its own in the top of the great group. They helped Smithers, losing 7-2. eighth.

“The lefthander did institute the changes and “One run right there a really nice job,” culture that I wanted.” is going to make the difPepicelli said. “We’ve ference one way or been really slow offenDan Pepicelli another,” Pepicelli said, sively.” adding that it was Pepicelli said this unfortunate Cornell was not able to score weekend’s offensive struggles are an excela fourth run in the seventh. “We haven’t lent “snapshot of the season.” He said the had a ton of [offensive] opportunities this team will have to go back to the drawing year.” board this offseason to be better.

The second game on Friday saw a near “I’m really disappointed in the season,” complete shutdown of the Cornell Pepicelli said. “It’s not the work ethic ... offense. Princeton junior pitcher Chris they gave us everything.”

Powers did not allow a baserunner until Between the two Friday games, Cornell the seventh inning and the Red lost, 6-1. honored its graduating seniors. Pepicelli “He was a good arm,” Pepicelli said. “I appreciates their adapting to a new head thought he did a really nice job. We coach after three years under a different couldn’t get anything offensively.” one.

Saturday saw the series shift venues to “The seniors have been a great group,” Princeton. Game three was all sophomore he said. “They helped institute the centerfielder Dale Wickham. He homered changes and culture that I wanted to.” three times and drove the four Red runs in a 4-3 Cornell victory. A three-homer game Keith Bollt can be reached at is not in the recent annals of Cornell base- kbollt@cornellsun.com.