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Men’s lacrosse downed No. 1 Yale to win its first Ivy League tournament since 2011. | Page 16

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Student Presents Thesis in Underwear as Protest Decision comes after professor questions her choice of clothing

By SARAH SKINNER Sun Assistant News Editor

“Strip, everybody!” said Letitia Chai ’18, as she stepped up to give her college scholar senior thesis presentation in a conference room in the Physical Sciences Building.

Immediately after, 28 of the 44 people there slowly started to remove their clothes.

Chai led the demonstration Saturday morning after a clash with a professor earlier in the week, where the professor allegedly questioned her choice of clothing for a trial run of her thesis presentation on rehabilitation for displaced people and refugees.

“The first thing that the professor said to me was ‘is that

really what you would wear?’” Chai explained as she detailed for them what constitutes appropriate dress,” Maggor said in what happened when she tried to begin her presentation in a brief email to The Sun. “I ask them to reflect for themher Wednesday section of PMA 3815 Acting in Public: selves and make their own decisions.”

Maggor mentioned to the class that another student in a Performance in Everyday Life. previous section had been asked to Chai, who had dressed in a blue buta cap from his head, also abiding ton down and cutoff jean shorts, said she “The first thing that the remove by the dress policy. was stunned.

Responding to Maggor’s comment, “I think that I was so taken aback that professor said to me was I didn't really know how to respond,” she ‘is that really what you Chai told The Sun that “telling someone to take their cap off is not the same thing said in an interview with The Sun. would wear?’” as telling a girl her shorts are too short.”

Chai said that the course instructor, She also mentioned that Maggor had told Prof. Rebekah Maggor, performing and Letitia Chai ’18 her that she would attract “men’s attenmedia arts, went on to say that her shorts tion” away from the content of her prewere “too short” and that as a speaker she was making a “statement” with the clothes she was wearing. sentation.

“I am not responsible for anyone’s attention because we The class does not have a formalized dress code, but asks students to “dress appropriately for the persona [they] will are capable of thinking for ourselves and we have agency,” present,” according to the course syllabus obtained by The Chai said.

Sun. See CLOTHING page 12 “I do not tell my students what to wear, nor do I define

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Criticizes Police Brutality

By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

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J e l a n i Cobb, journalism, Columbia University, criticized police violence and COBB dissected the different relationships between people of color and law enforcement officials in the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture on Thursday.

Cobb, who was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, said that the media and the government have been responding to police brutality in a predictable and underreacting way, like a “type of cyclical event.”

“We can tell that there is a script that tends to be played out. There is the initial action, there is a shock and reaction among people of the community,” Cobb said. “There is generally an administrative attempt to downplay the egregious elements of the story and then there is a series of bureaucratic and adminisSee POLICE page 13

Holi rainbow

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Cornell community members gather on the Arts Quad on Saturday to participate in Holi, an Indian cultural event that celebrates the arrival of spring. See story on page 3.

C.U. Revokes Recognition of Sigma Nu After 3 Hazing Incidents

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun News Editor

Effective immediately, the recognition of the Gamma Theta chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity will be revoked for “no

less than three years,” according to a statement released by Joseph A. Burke, executive director of campus and community engagement.

The chapter’s recognition was revoked after it was KATIE SIMS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Another frat gone | If Sigma Nu is granted permission to return to Cornell in the future, it would be on probationary recognition for two years.

accused of many counts of hazing, and if the chapter would like to petition to return, and is granted permission, then it would be on probationary recognition for two years.

The decision about this Interfraternity Council Chapter was made after a more-than-three-month-long judicial process through the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Division of Student and Campus Life led by Vice President Ryan Lombardi.

OFSL received four anonymous hazing reports about Sigma Nu during the last week of January 2018, with three reports coming in two days,

shortly after winter rush and during new member orientation. To conduct their investi-

“I hope this news is a call to action for fraternity members to speak out ... when they see detrimental behavior.”

Paul Russell Jr. ’19 gation, the office placed Sigma Nu on cease and desist and began interviewing chapter leaders, new members and other individuals involved in the hazing incidents on Jan. 29.

“The IFC was very disap-

pointed to see the allegations against Sigma Nu. Hazing is never permissible and though we and the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life work to educate chapters and their members about its dangers, incidents like these are often difficult to prevent from the outside,” IFC President Paul Russell Jr. said.“I hope this news is a call to action for fraternity members to speak out from within their chapters when they see detrimental behavior. If you haze, sooner or later it will hurt someone, you will be found out, and you will be forced to deal with real conSee SIGMA NU page 4

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NEWS

Pollack Announces Reform of Greek Organizations Local

New Gimme! Coffee Location Opens in Community Corners

Gimme! Coffee, the famed coffee chain based in New York with a Cornell location in Gates Hall, is opening up a new store in Community Corners, an upscale shopping district located in Cayuga Heights. It is slated to serve vanilla, chocolate, and mixed flavored coffee, the Ithaca Voice reported.

The 903 Hanshaw location will be the eighth coffee shop to be operated by Gimme! Coffee and will serve ice cream.

The ideas for setting up a new coffee shop came about through discussion between the Gimme!

Coffee founder and the former tenant of the new location, who had a business relationship beforehand.

Around the Ivies Representative John Lewis Selected as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker

Harvard University has announced that Representative John Lewis (D-G.A.) will be delivering Harvard’s commencement speech at their graduation ceremony later this month.

“For more than 50 years, John Lewis has dedicated himself to the ideals of has dedicated himself to the ideals of equality and decency, standing up for what is right, even when it meant putting himself in harm’s way,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement.

“His public service legacy is unparalleled, and he is an inspiration to me and to countless other people across the United States and around the world.”

New policies ban hard alcohol in residential chapter houses, launches new scorecard on judicial history implementation. These range from measures new member education to include training that will be effective immediately to those that regarding “diversity, mental health, and will be incorporated as late as fall 2021. hazing.” The Sun learned from several parThe changes that are effective immedi- ticipants in the program, on the condition In response to the recent suspension of Sigma Nu and other allegations of ately include chapters being suspended and of anonymity, that the reformed series this “extremely disturbing” hazing on-campus, losing recognition in cases of “substantiat- spring was “not helpful.”

President Martha E. Pollack announced a ed hazing.” A minimum of three “Community expectations set of reforms to Greek letter organizations years will be applied for those in an email to the Cornell community on cases that include coerced alcohol have shifted; behavior or other drug consumption, sexual Friday.

The reforms — which include the and related misconduct, or other around hazing must removal of hard alcohol from all residential forms of violence or mentally abuchange, too.” chapter houses and an online scorecard sive behavior that poses a threat to that will be updated annually with a chap- health and safety, according to the President Martha E. Pollack ter’s judicial proceedings — are meant to email.

The practice of reporting alle“elevate behavioral expectations” among When Lombardi was questioned about members of Greek life, Pollack said in her gations of hazing to the Office of the Judicial Administrator to pursue “individ- how he thinks the new member education email.

While recognizing the “long history” ual accountability” will continue in a man- plans this time around will be any different that Greek life has had on campus, the ner consistent with what is currently prac- from the ones that were recently implemented, he said that the programs implepresident said the current behavior in the ticed.

Also effective immediately is a ban on mented this semester were compiled on a community has gone from “innocent fun” to “extremely coercive, demeaning, sexual- all hard alcohol (more than 30 percent “quick timeline” to ensure a response to ly inappropriate and physically dangerous alcohol by volume) in residential chapter last fall’s events as quickly as possible.

He does have hope, however, that the activities that jeopardize students’ health houses at any time.

By fall 2018, each Greek chapter is new set of educational programs will create and lives.”

Ryan Lombardi, vice president of stu- required to submit a new member educa- a “cultural change.” They will also be tion plan for updated yearly to make sure that the matedent and camnext year’s rial remains relevant and improves the pus life, will play “Everything that happens might not be a recruitment, and experience. a major role in “Everything that happens might not be i m p l e m e n t i n g home run, it might not be perfect the first time current members Pollack’s deci- it’s offered, but you have to start somewhere.” will also have to a home run, it might not be perfect the participate in first time its offered, but you have to start sions. According mandatory edu- somewhere,” Lombardi said. “And eventuRyan Lombardi to him, the cation program- ally you build programs that will be susreforms serve as ming to partici- tainable in the long run.” a “blueprint” to By fall 2018, there will also be a syspate in the new-member intake process. improve Greek culture on campus.

This set of reforms to new member edu- temwide online scorecard that will keep a “It’s really important, the history that Greek life has at Cornell — we have to cation will be adding on to revisions that record of every chapter’s judicial history. work together to implement these mea- were created following incidents of racial Lombardi confirmed that this would be sures to make sure it can thrive in the years and ethnic bias related to the Greek com- limited to only currently recognized chapters on campus, and the scorecard will be to come,” Lombardi said in an interview munity last fall.

For this year’s recruitment, the Greek with The Sun. Pollack’s reforms will have several phases of Tri-Council reformed the “Delta Series” of See GREEK page 11

By GIRISHA ARORA

Sun Managing Editor

Willard Straight Pop-Up Event Promotes Social Interaction

National

By LOUISE XIE Sun Staff Writer

Gina Haspel Attempts to Withdraw From Nomination as Next CIA Director

According to four U.S. officials, Gina Haspel, Trump’s nominee for CIA directors sought to withdraw her nomination on Friday after After White House officials feared that her role in the interrogation of terrorist suspects would stop the Senate from confirming her appointment.

Haspel has spent 33 years in the CIA, currently serving as the CIA’s deputy director. She spent most of her time at the agency within the CIA’s interrogation program, a controversial group which was created after the 9/11 attacks.

According to the Washington Post, on May 4th, Haspel met with officials at the White House to discuss her experiences within the interrogation program, which used techniques commonly considered to be torturous, like waterboarding.

At this meeting, Haspel told the White House that she would prefer to withdraw than to face a harsh confirmation hearing, which could both hurt her reputation as well as that of the CIA. — Compiled by Katherine Heaney ’20

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Color on campus | The Hindu Student Council hopes that the celebration can add color to people’s life on this often grey and cold campus.

Annual Holi Colors Spring, Celebrates Indian Culture

By EMILY YANG Sun Staff Writer

The Arts Quad erupted into clouds of color as an estimated 2,000 attendees threw “rang” — colored powder made of corn starch and nontoxic, organic dyes — to celebrate Holi.

The Hindu festival dates back to at least the 4th century to celebrate the arrival of spring, according to CNN. The ancient spring celebration originally from India is now practiced across the world, including here at Cornell.

Members of the Hindu

Student Council, the organization hosting the event, hoped that the celebration can add color to people’s life at Cornell, both literally and metaphorically.

“At a university where it’s cold and grey all the time, an event like this really lifts people’s spirits,” said Brinda Gurumoorthy ’18, HSC board member.

Emily Martin grad said she came to the event as it was listed as a must-do for Cornellians on 161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do. See HOLI page 11

A student-led project team working to overhaul the Willard Straight Terrace Lounge hosted a pop-up party in the outdoor community area to showcase its potential as an interactive social space on April 30 and May 1.

The celebratory occasion featured food, alcohol and a dance floor that was a “last minute surprise,” according to Daniel Correa ’19, president and project manager of The Straight Edge, the student initiative com-

prised of eight students from diverse academic backgrounds that is leading the renovation of the 7,000 square feet space.

The renovation project — funded by a $40,000 injection from the Student Assembly infrastructure fund commission — featured a wide selection of activities, including a giant Jenga tower, the Thread Magazine launch party, performances from the Cornell Pep band, and food events such as Sencha Matcha Tasting.

The two-day event began See POP-UP page 12

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Urban connectedness | The pop-up event attracted a large turnout of diverse backgrounds, from undergraduates, graduates, to faculty and staff.

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Balloons With Thank You Notes to Be Displayed on Arts Quad

Lifted’s online portal collected 480 thank you notes from Cornell community members

By HELEN LIANG Sun Contributor

Lifted, an organization run by anonymous Cornell students, will place balloons attached with thank you notes on the Arts Quad for the third year running to lift the spirits of the community.

Cornellians submitted thank you notes to any member of the community they wanted to acknowledge through Lifted’s website. These notes will then be transcribed onto cards and attached to balloons which will visible on the Arts Quad for one day.

Letter submission is closed at the time of this article’s publication as the organization had already received 480 letters, which is the maximum numbers of balloons they could put up.

Lifted declined to reveal the exact date, but said that they will secretly set up the balloons when “the weather is nice “It’s easy ... to be so stressed and stress on campus out ... that we don’t have time is high.” to look around and see ... all of The secretive the people that have helped us.” group, which decided to collect letters using Members of Lifted an online form rather than in paper to improve outreach, received the largest number of thank you notes this year.

Notes were usually written on paper in the past years, according to the organization’s representative who communicated with The Sun via the organization’s Facebook page.

Recipients of the thank you notes will also receive an

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Appreciation season | Cornellians can submit a thank you note to everyone in the Cornell community and have it attached to a ballon that will be on display on Arts Quad for one day.

email on the day of the event with the exact location of their card. In case they cannot make it to the Arts Quad on that day, they’ll also be sent the message via email after the event is over.

“We believe that it’s easy, at Cornell, to get wrapped up in our own lives, to be so stressed out and always going, going, going that we don’t have time to look around and see … all of the people that have helped us,” a Lifted member said. Through this decorative event, “Lifted … hopes to get students to slow down and reflect about the people in their lives” and “to lift everyone who sees it.”

The organization wants to stay anonymous and keep their members’ identities secret because they “believe that Lifted shouldn’t be accredited to one person or one

group/groups of people.”

“Nobody and no groups have put their name on this project because it shouldn’t be done for recognition but just to uplift the Cornell community,” the organization said.

While letter submissions are closed, Lifted said they will place a “red mailbox on the edge of the quad” for people to put in their own thank you notes, recognizing that many more people may still want to express their appreciation.

These notes will be sent out after the event, the member added.

Helen Liang can be reached at hl973@cornell.edu.

Sigma Nu Recognition Revoked Following 3 Hazing Incidents SIGMA NU

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sequences.”

During the interviews conducted by OFSL and the Office of Judicial Administration, members confirmed several of the allegations against them. The charges against the chapter included several counts of blindfolding, alcohol, being picked up in a car, being hosed, having clothes removed, exercise, house cleaning and many references to females being present.

A chapter cease and desist involves barring all non-facility-related activities.

According to Lombardi, the delay in posting this decision on hazing.cornell.edu was due to the appeals process.

“What I try to look at is the totality of everything I review in the case and think about what is most appropriate to affect the change I’ve heard that’s documented in the materials and in the conversation I’ve had and in the dialogue I’ve had,” Lombardi said. “I do think I’ve had many conversations with alumni leadership, and they are strongly committed to strengthening the chapter in the future and the three years still allows for the ‘refresh.’”

Drew Logsdon, director of communi-

cations for Sigma Nu national, said in response to The Sun’s request for a comment that they are aware of the Gamma Theta Chapter’s suspension and that the fraternity is completing their own investigation and review process regarding the chapter’s actions.

“Upon completion of that investigation, the fraternity will take whatever action is determined to be appropriate.

Sigma Nu fraternity prohibits and condemns hazing in any form and was founded in direct opposition to hazing,” the statement said.

Following the investigation, a five-year revocation of recognition was levied, but

Displaced by nature

after an appeals process, the chapter’s punishment was reduced to three-years by Lombardi. Hazing reports viewed by The Sun consisted of phrases like “I want this to stop,” or “makes me want to kill myself,” but Lombardi said the reports themselves are not the sole contributor to the decision.

“The reports, on their own, is not solely what leads to the outcome. It’s a combination of reports that come in, additional fact-finding that takes place, the hearing, and the conversation that they had with the chapter leadership as they go through with that process,” he said.

As of right now, “if they desire,” current and new members of Sigma Nu are allowed to join other chapters as there is no prohibition, according to Lombardi.

This decision to suspend the chapter was issued at the same time as President Martha E. Pollack’s letter to Ithaca students, faculty and staff. In her letter, Pollack specifically discusses how Greek letter organizations have negatively contributed to campus climate and lists a series of changes the community will face over the next few years.

According to her statement, Pollack does not want to “attack or an attempt to diminish the role of these organizations in student life,” but her hope is “that all of our Greek letter organizations will emerge stronger as a result of these measures and more fully embody the best that Cornell has to offer.”

“I very much interpret this initiative as an attempt, and hope that we can stay in front and be leaders at Cornell in terms of elevating the system or elevating our expectations and behavior and really being an example about how we can demonstrate what a positive Greek community,” Lombardi said.

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A sign placed on the Arts Quad calls for attention to the climate refugees who are forced to leave their home due to the negative impacts of climate change on the local environment.

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A First Step on Greek Life From President Pollack AT LONG LAST, MARTHA POLLACK. After as turbulent a first year as one could imagine, President Pollack made her biggest splash yet on Cornell with the introduction of a whole host of Greek life reforms. The changes, which the administration will implement in four phases over the next three years, are far reaching and will no doubt elicit pushback from some in the Greek community, but they are a welcome step in the wake of yet another disturbing instance of unacceptable behavior by a Cornell fraternity.

Of the myriad reforms Pollack listed, the most notable is the creation of an online scorecard that will “include, among other things, the full judicial history of each chapter” at Cornell. Universities have short memories — the undergraduate community sees almost 100 percent turnover every four years, and in that continuous cycle, it can be easy to forget incidents that occurred just a short while ago. As a result, institutional and systemic issues, such as those that plague the Greek system, often go unresolved and unremembered. This scorecard, which Pollack claims will be well-publicized, will allow Cornellians to evaluate the Greek system with a scope far greater than four years. Hopefully, it will illuminate longer problematic trends that can go unnoticed when we limit our focus to one incident at a time.

Of the other reforms listed in the email, the one that has drawn the most attention is a ban on hard alcohol in residential chapter houses. While it is important to recognize the role alcohol (and access to alcohol) play in both hazing and another one of Greek life’s pervasive issues, sexual assault, banning hard alcohol from chapter houses seems ineffectual and potentially detrimental.

Unless the University intends to employ a vice squad to patrol every room of every chapter house, the rule is likely unenforceable and at best will be ignored.

At worst, it will prompt fraternities to host more off-site events, in Collegetown annexes or elsewhere, where they are subject to even less oversight.

As for the other items, they amount to a melange of reviews, overhauls and live-in advisors. All this has been tried before, in one way or another, to lessthan-desirable effect. Will this time be different? It remains to be seen. We have a new president, but a very old university, and old habits have an old habit of dying hard.

The actions for which Sigma Nu was found guilty of are a stain on the Greek community and on Cornell. As more details emerge about that particular incident (nothing more than a brief statement has been released yet), it will become clear just how damaging hazing can be for those involved. Hazing can be reported confidentially online; it will only stop if it is brought to light. Cornell is not alone in this struggle, but it can be a model for the rest of the country, if it recognizes the flaws in its system and takes real measures to correct them. These reforms are a good first step.

Dear President Pollack, Underage drinking, particularly of hard liquor, has and always will exist on college campuses. Since neither you or I can change the legal drinking age, I would hope we could ensure that when this drinking does occur, it occurs in a regulated environment.

The banning of hard liquor from chapter houses inevitably does nothing to the amount of hard liquor consumed by college students, but rather changes the locations in which this consumption occurs. Rather than occur in an environment in which there are sober monitors and university policies in place, such as Greek mixers, they will occur in unregulated off-campus environments. Some of the leading academics on the matter are at our university, such as Professor William Sonnenstuhl, ILR, and will tell you that regulated and visible environments for drinking are crucial. What was once a small drinking and sexual misconduct issue will become a silent but deadly matter.

In an effort to hold fraternity men more accountable, thousands of women have had their safety jeopardized by this rule. This is not us crying because we want to party with fraternity men, but rather because we feel infinitely more comfortable knowing our closest friends are drinking in regulated atmospheres rather than in unknown off-campus environments. I know that myself, and many of the women I hold dear, have experienced the grave consequences of binge drinking and sexual harassment in the apartments of others rather than in the safety of a Greek mixer in which we have dozens of women looking out for one another.

I understand your experiences with Greek life are not pleasant. I am a Michigander myself and have witnessed the social culture at the University of Michigan. However, the policies that were implemented at the university have not reduced the amount of drinking that occurs but only the visibility of the locations and accountability of those in which it happens.

Subjugation of any student is unacceptable, and it must come to an end in and outside of Greek life. Removing the safe spaces for students to conduct normal college drinking behavior, however, is not the answer.

Sarah Karkoura ’20

Re: ‘A Warning in the Wake of Greenwood” To the Editor: It is not my usual and customary practice to respond to letters such as the one that appeared in The Cornell Daily Sun on April 26, 2018, but as one of Jack Greenwood's attorneys, I feel it is imperative to respond to the many misstatements in that letter. That letter is a result of a complete mischaracterization of the facts of this case.

First and foremost, Jack Greenwood is completely innocent of the charges that were originally filed in this case. There was a rush to judgment back in September when the local papers sensationalized the assault of a Cornell student because of his race. This could not be further from the truth. Here are the true facts: On September 15, 2017, students from two fraternities engaged in a verbal altercation on the sidewalk of 810 Seneca Street where members of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity live during which time both sides made inappropriate remarks which amounted to “trash talking.” Unfortunately, some of the remarks that were made prompted Solomon Shewit to run to the neighboring house at 306 Eddy Street where Greenwood and others lived.

Then, Shewit entered the premises where he sustained a bloody nose. The evidence clearly demonstrates that Shewit ran onto the neighboring property and entered the home where his blood and DNA were located. This paper initially reported that “once he [Shewit] got to the walkway leading to Greenwood’s house, Greenwood and several other men punched him.” The actual facts are as follows: -Shewit ran, alone, from his home to that of Greenwood’s; -Shewit entered the premises uninvited where the physical altercation occurred; -the District Attorney stated that “alcohol was a significant factor in this altercation”; and both DNA and blood spatter evidence demonstrate that Shewit was inside the house.

Further, police body cam footage revealed that when asked if Greenwood was the person that struck him, Shewit said, “No,” and when prompted again by the police he said he did not recognize Greenwood as one of the perpetrators.

Equally important is the fact that Shewit's shirt was covered in blood after his physical altercation. Jack's white shirt worn that evening was tested at a reputable lab for any blood stains and the results were negative for blood. There is no question that Jack Greenwood was not the person who caused Shewit's bloody nose. Further, there is no question that Shewit ran over to 306 Eddy Street and received a bloody nose by someone inside that residence NOT Jack Greenwood.

The District Attorney himself made very clear in his statements to the Court that the charges were dismissed due to the “problems” with this case. He told the press, “The fact that the victim, who is a person of color, pursued the defendant onto the defendant's property, with the intention of confronting Greenwood about his offensive language, creates a level of doubt whether the victim was selected based upon his race.”

Rather than the District Attorney having no further interest in prosecuting the case as was stated in the letter to the Editor, the fact is that he took his time and considered and examined all the evidence presented to him which resulted in the dismissal of all charges against Jack Greenwood.

He was wrongly accused and he and his family have suffered greatly from the negative press. This is the danger of a rush to judgment in a case such as this that carries serious repercussions to someone's reputation and future who was entirely innocent.

Jack Greenwood is as much an advocate for social justice as any Cornell student including those who signed this editorial piece.

We cannot surrender due process and the rule of law and substitute our own subjective beliefs as the only appropriate outcome. No greater danger to justice occurs when we fail to respect the legal process however much we may disagree with its conclusions. The District Attorney fulfilled his obligation to the community, reviewed all the evidence including what we submitted to him, and a proper disposition, which was a dismissal of all the charges against Jack Greenwood, was reached.

John Alden Stevens, Esq. Williamson, Clune & Stevens P.O. Box 126 Ithaca, N.Y. 14851-0126

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Sarah Park | S*Park Notes

Letter of Recommendation: Okenshields

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ast week, in a moment of hunger and desperation, I went to Okenshields. Like most members of our campus, I had written-off this meme of a dining hall. Thanks to my pecuniary-minded friend, Gabe, I put some faith in “A Night of Chocolate and Intuitive Eating.” For those who know what “intuitive eating” means, I would love an some clarification because nothing about Okes is intuitive. For the uninitiated, Okenshields is a medieval-style dining hall at the heart of campus named after a Lord of the Rings dwarf, guarded by the happiest man at Cornell, filled with gothic chandeliers boasting an sundry assortment of salad, grains and Asian food with walls covered in black and white photos of Cornell’s history and 2000s throwbacks booming from the ceiling.

And they take swipes.

love the fact that they serve Fresh Summer Squash in the Spring, which means they must be lying about the fresh or the summer, as well as Jerk Chicken, which is a pretty accurate description of my last boyfriend.

However, in the words of reconsidered Yelp critic Catherine W, sometimes it feels like it’s “definitely the worst.” Sometimes it’s impossible to stomach. Sometimes it makes you want to walk out the door and never return only to remember you already swiped away $15.70 to Happy Dave when you entered. Okenshields is quintessentially Cornellian — it is often surprising and sometimes terrible, but every now and then, it’s truly great.

“A Night of Chocolate and Intuitive Eating” was not one of those times. I hold that chocolate does not belong in Butternut Squash Bisque. I also hold that squash belongs in its solid form. Despite my failed venture into intuitive eating, I got to enjoy the simple luxury of eating dinner with a friend.

Because sitting there as my favorite soon-to-be Cornell alumnus got so deeply and personally offended over the fact that someone would ruin perfectly good cocoa and coffee by rubbing it on a pork loin with whatever demi glaze is, I couldn’t help but think about how lucky I am to be here. And how lucky I am to have such a weird and wonderful friend and mentor to guide me the mess of Student Assembly as passionately as he deems each new plate of chocolate-infused food inedible.

There is a surprising, comforting nostalgia about Okenshields even though it can’t quite decide what it’s yearning for. Maybe it doesn’t live up to its promise of “a buffet-style gourmet meal” or “authentic New York-style pizza” just as Cornell doesn’t fully live up to its promise of “any person, any study” or a truly “diverse stu-

Okenshields’ food quality can be controversial, but its 4/5 star rating on Yelp speaks volumes.

Okes has been widely regarded as the armpit of our dining halls, comparable the Internet Explorer of web browsers, the Cornell of the Ivies.

Ostensibly, the distaste for this dining hall lies in its long lines and questionable cuisine. While it may not have the variety of Trillium or the artsy aesthetic of Zeus, this is no mere dining hall; this is a fully-immersive, transcendent, dining experience.

Upon descending the stairs in Willard Straight in the heart of Cornell, you’ll come face-to-face with the man who stole the heart of Cornell.

After Happy Dave swipes you in, you’ll enter a room that doesn’t look like it’s been updated in quite a few decades, despite the fact that it was renovated last year. Large medieval signs will direct you towards a choice of salad, “Soup and Sustenance,” asian/wok or “La Cocina.” With specially-designed rectangular Asian plates, illustrious attempts at hiding the fact that quinoa tastes like flavored dirt and dissonant burnt orange back room with a TV for those who don’t even want to pretend that they’re not eating alone, there is something for everyone.

As you enter the Healthy Harvest line spanning the length of the room to assess today’s variety of grains, you may even be lucky enough to find yourself waiting behind that girl from your FWS you used to know. You’ll contemplate saying “Hi,” but will remember all the times you told her “let’s get lunch” and decided not to give her the opportunity to take you up on the offer.

Okenshields’ food quality can be controversial, but its 4/5 star rating on Yelp speaks volumes. Take it from celebrated food critic Ashudeep S., who lauded the food as “really hygienic and healthy,” which is all you can really ask for in your food. Esteemed Yelp-er Chun J. described the almost magical power of Okenshields to “cook all the things the same flavor.” Powerful stuff.

Catherine W. gave it 3 stars and said to walk to West, but pay her no mind. I

There is a surprising, comforting nostalgia about Okenshields. dent body” beyond the two counties of Long Island.

But in a few weeks we’ll say goodbye to our dear imperfect Cornell for a summer, a year or forever. This means no more hikes up the slope in the snow, no more midnight conversations in Libe, no more 1 a.m. walks home from Loco and 2 a.m. walks home from Olin. We will miss the things that brought us together — the good and bad alike — like watching Happy Dave bop to some 2000s banger or uniting over something so universally hated. So in the next few weeks, I recommend giving Okenshields a try, even if it’s just because you’re out of BRBs.

Sarah Park is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.She can be reached at sarahpark@cornellsun.com. S*Park Notes ran alternate Mondays this seemester.

OPINION Letter to the Editor

Cornell community members denounce Israeli military actions To the Editor: We, the undersigned members of the Cornell University community, call on Cornellians of conscience to denounce the Israeli military’s recent massacre of unarmed Palestinian protesters participating in the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip.

Since March 30, 2018, thousands of Palestinian civilians, including youth, women and men, have affirmed their internationally-recognized “right of return” as historically displaced persons by marching peacefully toward the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The Israeli military has responded with indiscriminate lethal force. Military officials have declared an area 300 meters inside the border fence a “kill zone,” and video evidence shows that soldiers are shooting protesters well behind that line, as well. The Israeli military has killed more than 30 Palestinians. Tear gas, rubber bullets, and lethal fire have injured more than 1,000 protesters.

The use of lethal force against unarmed protesters is not a “clash,” as commonly reported

by U.S. media. Nor is Israel’s open-fire policy a case of “firing back.” It is a massacre in violation of international law and an outrage against basic principles of human rights, dignity and life. This massacre is the latest injustice in a 50-year occupation, and 70-year ethnic cleansing, endured by the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli government. The current wave of protests marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by the emergent Israeli state. Since then, generations of Palestinians have grown up as stateless refugees under conditions of apartheid. In their struggle to affirm their right to return to their homeland, they have been met with deadly fire from Israel and with silence from America.

It is our duty as members of the Cornell community to break this silence. Cornell prides itself on being a place of critical engagement. This commitment requires us to challenge oppression, and to review our own country’s and institution’s role in perpetuating it. Israel is dependent on U.S. military aid and political support. Cornell is itself complicit in the subjugation of Palestinians through the partnership between Cornell Tech in New York City and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which develops technology enabling the military occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people.

Why do our signatures matter? While many countries assault human rights on a daily basis, Israel is unique in its insistence that its actions — including those on the Gaza border in past weeks — are compatible with international law. Americans have been slow to join the growing chorus of global condemnation of Israeli atrocities. Today, showing solidarity with Palestine is more crucial than ever. The systematic effort to deny the humanity of the Palestinian people is linked to the devaluing and destruction of people of color within the United States. As we combat racism and militarism at home, we salute those Palestinian demonstrators who are facing one of the world’s military giants armed only with their determination to be free.

Amal Aun grad, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs Manuel Berduc grad, history Spencer Beswick grad, history Prof. Julia Chang, Romance studies Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters Zeyad el Nabolsy grad, philosophy Prof. Matthew Evangelista, President White Professor of History and Political Science Prof. Darlene Evans, Knight Institute Prof. Eli Friedman, ILR Carolina Osorio Gil ’02 Prof. Shannon Gleeson, ILR Neta Goder grad, history Prof. Emeritus Neil Hertz, English Prof. Sheri Johnson, law Prof. Risa Lieberwitz, ILR Jonathan M. Lohnes grad, history Delphine Lourtau, executive director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide Marc Kohlbry grad, comparative literature Afifa Ltifi grad, Africana studies Prof. Joseph Margulies, law and government Prof. Kate McCullough, English and FGSS Prof. Tracy McNulty, comparative literature and Romance studies Prof. Natalie Melas, comparative literature Prof. Simone Pinet, Romance studies Prof. Aziz Rana, law Prof. Russell Rickford, history Prof. Naoki Sakai, Goldwin Smith Professor of Asian Studies Prof. Paul Sawyer, English Nitzan Tal grad, comparative literature Jordan von Manalastas law

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

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Disappoint Your Parents

ast week, after a phone conversation on what I wanted to do after I graduate ended inconclusively in tabled arguments and passive-aggressive goodbyes, my dad texted me the median income of a political science Ph.D. “About the same payscale as an operator” at the company where he works, he wrote. “You will study hard for LSAT and then we can discuss.”

It hurts knowing it would be literally and metaphorically easier on his heart if I had just gone all-out for law school or had read Cracking the Coding Interview back when I had the chance. Anything would be better than my current trajectory of understably worrisome directionless half-assery.

My father is painfully practical and intensely loving, with the kind of radical sensibility of so many other Asian immigrants in America. After all, Baba already took his risks: He started a revolution and fought for it through a horribly bloody war. On top of that, he left everything to come to America.

There are words that kids of immigrants chew out of habit like bubblegum, cliches we keep handy for constant use. “Left everything” is one. Words like “sacrifice” and “disappointment.” Phrases like “came here with nothing” or “gave up so much.” It’s within these semantic constraints that the immigrant’s kid has a moral obligation to pay back the debt of opportunity or freedom or whatever via pride or economic relief or simple peace of mind.

It’s a heavy and invisible debt, and paying it comes with a maddening opportunity cost. American dreams turn to American heartbreak when the assuredness of stability is married to the constant itch of unpursued passion. That’s the whole paradox of this place, isn’t it? That one generation can work so hard to assure something for the children they love, and their children can so easily screw it up for something as stupid as their fickle dreams?

It’s no wonder that studies show US-born children of

immigrants are at higher risk of anxiety and other mental health disorders than their parents.

There is a very visceral and enduring pain that comes from being a disappointment, from diverting away from what Sun columnist Narayan Reddy calls “The Path,” where “the intermingling paths of ambition, passion and love...are all closed off.” It’s a pain I’m not sure can otherwise be understood: My white friends often ask why I

I have been saying “no” to a lot of things in the hopes that a hundred noes will someday materialize into a massive, strong yes. don’t just pursue X or why I don't just tell my parents I don’t want to do Y. My brown friends tell me to suck it up, because it’s entitled or ungrateful not to. They say this much more diplomatically, of course, but the expectations are heavy nonetheless.

I guess following dreams is mostly for white kids, and I still have long-term arguments with my parents where we’re all deluded into thinking there has to be a way to compromise, or to let me like a job that is secure and pays well. Getting a job and then later, when you have money, pursuing your crazy dreams is a kind of compromise. Law school is a kind of compromise, or as one of my friends jokingly puts it, “a way to trick parents into letting you do humanities.”

But sloppy pursuits are almost as bad as dreams deferred, and these so-called compromises are just shortterm tricks, red herrings to get you to follow The Path,

which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless it makes you live a life of contempt and anger and resentment. The tradeoff sucks, because if what you love isn’t what’s currently lucrative and nearly riskless, it really is a zero-sum game: You either do what you love, or disappoint the people you love.

It’s this fear of disappointment that brought me to our living room couch in Virginia last month, ugly crying, admitting I have this perverse jealousy for my dad’s tumultuous and feverous young-adulthood, full of risk and excitement and life and passion. I tell him I’m jealous, and I tell him I know it’s a messed up thing to think. I tell him I feel like in 40 years I’ll be living a boring, tired life, never having taken a single leap of faith. I tell him I don’t want to disappoint him. I’d never told him these things before. We’ve only spoken in implications. I’d always assumed he wouldn’t understand.

The politics of his youth fresh in his mind, he tells me that sometimes change and excitement can lead you to make mistakes. I tell him maybe it’s good to make mistakes. “Pegah,” he says, in that calm voice that dads yield when you least expect it, “You’re twenty years old. You have lots of time to make mistakes.”

Our conversation and my evolution into a disappointment are both simultaneously painful, productive and ongoing. I have to call Baba later today. Good luck to both of us.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appeared alternate Mondays this semester.

Rubin Danberg Biggs | The Common Table

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Once I Was, Now I Still Was

e always think that we should be able to tell a linear story about ourselves. Not a story anyone would ever want to read; nothing heroic, or profound, or notable, or worth carrying around in your bag to read on the bus. Not a story to tell for other people. But as far as I can see, telling a story gives life direction and intentionality, at least in retrospect. Things happen with an internal logic that makes them ultimately worth it. Even if it’s absolutely generic, and embarrassingly uncreative, the bits of our brains that do introspection are usually preoccupied with finding some narrative buried in the shit that happens.

Searching for a story means assuming that none of the important stuff is arbitrary. Most evidence really seems to suggest that often, well, stuff just happens. We meet people, find our way into communities and discover passions due at least in part to purely random chance. A narrative doesn’t have much room for things like this. The club I joined, the person I dated and the field I chose to study were all plot points — they were the logical conclusion of everything that had happened before, and the necessary prelude to what would come next. Stories don’t allow much room for things just happening.

A narrative also demands a unique sort of causality. Truthfully, it’s impossible to know whether I would have ended up the same person I am now had I gone to a different school. And if I’m being honest, I probably would have. Of course, some things would be different, but there’s no reason to believe that it would be anything fundamental. Yet instead of being honest about this, my impulse is always to imagine that Cornell was uniquely formative. Had I landed

anywhere else I would be radically different.

Truthfully, finding meaning in randomness is hugely important. Very few things occur with intrinsic importance, and it’s a truly human task to endow our lives with value. We should think, and think often, about why we make choices and where we derive meaning in the scattered bits of Personhood. However, the way in which we seek to tell these stories often insists that everything should be a linear march towards personal progress.

It’s this particular approach to retrospective that does more harm than good.

There are three reasons to be concerned about the urge to tell this kind of linear story. The first is that a narrative hollows memories out. The honest emotion of an experience is lost to the mean-

best efforts to write a neater path to adulthood, I still succumb to some of the same anxious frailties that I’ve felt for years. And I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. Yet the expectation that we move linearly away from the past makes this human experience feel like a failure. It’s the self-imposed shame of not yet being a finished product.

Lastly, though, the need to tell a story has made me edit out the wrong things. I am ashamed to admit how much energy I’ve put into imagining that I go to school far from home. Having grown up minutes from campus, I arrived at Cornell absolutely terrified that I hadn’t left anything behind. Wherever I went, familiarity hung in the air. I knew every building and every sound; I was unsurprised by the weather and the bus schedule. I was local, and I was very much still home.

But I had told myself a certain story about what it means to be grown. To prove that I was the kind of independent that I ought to be, I needed to be fully separate from anything old. So, in jagged and callous ways, I tried to build Different wherever I could. I distanced myself from old friends and visited family less frequently than I could have. I also bought zealously into the idea that Cornell is a bubble. I occupied myself with the business of being a student shedding any identity that might tie me back to the community I came from.

This artificial drive to redefine carried an empty feeling. I had ditched a lot of the ground on which I stood, leaving an unsteady sense of always searching. More than anything, it was just a bit lonely. Of course, I also temporarily turned my back on a town and a community to

Very few things occur with intrinsic importance, and it’s a truly human task to endow our lives with value. ing it’s given in retrospect. Rather than remembering the pain of loss or the disappointment of failure, I only end up remembering it as An Obstacle I Overcame. As a result, whatever honest, imperfect learning that may have come from the messy process of living gets painted over by the lesson I decide I should have learned. This anesthetic approach to memory doesn’t allow for any full kind of growth, even if it dulls the things that hurt.

The greater pain is discovering that you don’t really embody the story as you told it. The truth is, years-old hurt can still knock me on my ass. Despite my

which I owe a tremendous amount. All of this because I was trying to tell a certain story.

In a lot of ways, college is built on the myth of the personal story. It begins with their sales pitch — come for self-discovery and a journey that will arrive at your best self. Upperclassmen tell tales of personal growth, how each experience they had was a step along some winding path.

Universities bake these stories into their cultural ethos from the moment students arrive for orientation. And so we all tell stories about ourselves. And I still do.

When I applied to college, I turned every hopeless moment into a vector.

Writing a personal statement, I poured weeks of energy into a half-baked story of personal growth. I emptied out my adolescence, turned it upside down and dumped every bit of family upheaval and personal angst out onto the table in front of me. Then I stitched these moments into a semi-honest narrative, giving each meaning and direction that pointed towards a finished 17-year-old product.

It was common brand of bullshit, one of those things we all do, but it’s also entrenched in the way I’ve thought about the world. It’s this strong impulse to narrate our lives. Particularly for those who are about to graduate, it’s something we should be deeply skeptical about.

It’s hard to know what the alternative is. Surely there’s something innate about weaving stories from random events. But I think there’s value in learning to be comfortable with parts of life that just sort of happen; there’s pride to be found in enduring, even if we never grow; and there’s some strength in the humility to admit when we don’t know why are the way we are. Or, of course, maybe I’m totally wrong.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at rdanbergbiggs@cornellsun.com. The Common Table appeared online alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

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’m in the twilight of my days as a columnist for The Sun. I know that, typically, columnists will close out their time with parting words of advice to incoming firstyears or graduating seniors. But, although I’ve done that in the past weeks, the fact of the matter is that I don’t have much advice to impart. Or, at least, much advice that you haven’t already heard hundreds of times, and will hear a hundred more times. Go to office hours, try out something new on campus, make sure to wear sunblock on Slope Day, etc.

As I see it, everyone’s experiences at Cornell are so disparate that I would really just be giving advice to a younger version of myself retracing my own footsteps. So in lieu of

Shay Collins Morning Bowl Of Surreal sage advice, I leave with a final observation from my time here.

If you want something done on this campus, you’re going to have to do it yourself. I’m thinking of the Straight Edge pop-up last week, which transformed Willard Straight Hall’s, well, devoid-of-personality terrace into a happening rooftop bar that would make Brooklyn proud. This past weekend, another group of students also enlivened Eddygate, the area behind Cascadilla Hall in Collegetown.

They brought in seating, larger-than-life games (giant Connect 4 is, it turns out, really hard to stop playing) and live music.

In addition to these recent events, I remember all of the student-organized events on-campus throughout my years.

I remember the joy of Fanclub Collective shows, like when I crowd-surfed during Rest Ashore’s set at Cayuga Lodge.

Some of these events, like the Cornell Fashion Collective’s annual runway show, are crown jewels in Cornell’s arts and entertainment community. Others are student-founded initiatives that are concretely creating a more equitable cam-

pus, like Anabel’s Grocery and Cornell Lending Library.

I don’t mean to say that people won’t be there to help you; you don’t have to do everything all by yourself.

But I do believe that students can and will shape the future of Cornell. To a degree. Unless we overthrow the Board of Trustees we’re not going to be able to lower tuition and fees anytime COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES soon (rats!), but I strongly Frank (Michael Fassbender) performing with his band in the movie Frank. believe that students can shape our community to be more just, more kind, and and made the Arts & Entertainment section a quirky, engaged, polemic section — Zachary Zahos ’15, Sam more just-plain-fun.

Whenever I’ve had to write some sort of bio for gradua- Bromer ’15, Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15, Sean Doolittle ’16, Mike tion, I’ve found myself unthinkingly thanking my class- Sosnick ’16 and Jael Goldfine ’17. Thank you to all of the mates as well as my professors. Perhaps the greatest gift, aca- editors who have come since and brought their own, exceldemically, that I’ve received during my time at Cornell is lent visions to the section — Katie Sims ’20, Andrei realizing that education is not a strict hierarchy. Some of my Kozyrev ’20, Viri Garcia ’20, Lev Akabas ’19 and Pete professors, I can happily say, are my close friends and men- Buonanno ’21.

If only I could say thank you enough to my two best tors. Some of my greatest teachers on campus have been other students. It took me a while to realize it after years of friends in the section. Troy Sherman ’18 is a brilliant schollearning by rote memorization in high school, but you’re ar, a terrific skateboarder, an incisive writer, an excellent coallowed to have an opinion on your coursework. Who editor and, most importantly, an amazing friend. Jack Jones ’18 is a subtle writer whose pieces sometimes make me nosknows, it might even be a good one.

I would be remiss, of course, if I didn’t mention one talgic for a Northern California I didn’t grow up in, a more student-run resource. I joined The Cornell Daily Sun thoughtful arts consumer, a clear-headed critic and, also, a my freshman fall, and started writing for the Arts and terrific friend and housemate.

Thank you to my family whose constant support and Entertainment section. I eagerly brought a notepad to a showing of Frank at Cinemapolis, and scribbled away furi- encouragement have always helped me no matter what the ously in the cinema’s lowlight, terrified that I would miss a task at hand is. Thank you to all of my friends on campus, critical detail. Since then I’ve written about how Air Bud is and to all of my collaborators in dance and music. Thank capitalist propaganda, movies about architecture starring you to anyone who’s ever read something I’ve written. In long-haired cats, Kanye West’s dystopian concert in Buffalo the words of the eponymous Frank from the first movie I and a lot of music reviews. I’ve had people tell me that my ever reviewed: “I love you all.” writing resonated with them, and also call me a complete idiot who did not understand Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster at all. I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sceinces. He can be So I leave not with advice, but with a laundry list of reached at scollins@cornellsun.com. Morning Bowl of Surreal thank yous. Thank you to the editors who came before me appeared alternate Mondays this semester.

Love and Lust in a Burning Forest

BY HENRY GRANEY Sun Contributor

“There was a cabaret and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany.

It was the end of the world…” So writes Cliff Bradshaw, the starry-eyed American novelist whose search for love and adventure in 1930s Germany frames John Kander and Fred Ebbs’s Cabaret. In the haze of the Kit Kat Klub, a haven for stockings, lipstick and high-heeled performers, Berlin is in full view, beautiful in its celebration of self and doomed by the rising political waves that would ultimately engulf Europe.

Ithaca College’s production of Cabaret was an astounding success, executed with masterful design, orchestration, choreography and particularly amazing talent.

Designed to bring the audience into the nightclub, with red “Ausgang” signs, dim lights and the orchestra dressed as a cabaret band, Clark Theatre brought the tantalizing Kit Kat Girls and Gals as close to the audience as possible. With as many can-can lines and lipstick smeared faces as one could hope for, the diverse ensemble dressed evocatively, sang and danced their way back in time to pre-WWII Germany the cabaret, as said by the Emcee, is a bunch of wild kids getting wilder and wilder waiting to be caught by the adults.

The story of Cabaret follows American novelist Cliff Bradshaw, Corey Kline ’18,

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as he looks to finish his novel in preWWII Berlin. His desire for adventure and a life worth living brings him to the Kit Kat Klub, where he meets the mesmerizing Emcee and falls in love with the “one and only” Sally Bowles (Sydney Parra ’18).

This leading performer pair takes the love of drugged-up drama queen Bowles and a bisexual Cliff lost in lust and love to a new level of rawness. The actors portrayed Cliff and Sally’s deranged and jealous love beautifully, matching the setting around them: a city rotting away from hate, slowly being consumed by evil.

The April 26 production saw Will Thames ’18 (understudy) play the role of Emcee, commanding the stage and the audience’s attention as the production’s metaphoric Minelli.

In a role it seems only he could play, Thames brought an intoxicating spirit and was theater gold. A haunting, damned character for his time, the Emcee is the show’s venerable narrator, framing all its events, stalking the shadows as the production’s harbinger of debaucherous celebration and doom. It is worth noting that Thames’s performance indicates even more success for the role’s listed performer, Tuan Malinowski.

Among all the lipstick and fishnets, Cabaret’s most compelling romance is between the middle-aged boarding house owner Fraulein Schneider and her older suitor, the Jewish fruit vendor Herr Schulz. The tender and doomed love of the production’s most endearing characters

is portrayed by the show’s standout pair, Mackey Sakamoto-Simmons ’18 as Schulz and Hannah Clarke Levine ’18 as Scheider. Sakamoto-Simmons and Clarke Levine had audiences equally laughing (especially to “A Pineapple,” a ballad in which Schulz gifts Schneider an exotic fruit and token of his love) as crying when the anti-Semitism of their time rips their love apart.

Despite what the Emcee exhorts, leaving one’s troubles outside is impossible for the Kit Kat Klub as Nazis rise to power in Berlin. The show begins with the androgynous crossdressing emcee turning off the radio transmission of a Hitler address in the dancer’s dressing rooms. As the show’s narrative progresses, the clandestine rise of Nazism rears its ugly head in the form of Ernst Ludwig, the charming stranger who welcomes Cliff to Berlin and Fraulein Kost, the hooker-turned-Nazi.

It is impossible to divorce this performance of Cabaret from the events that frame its audience’s interpretation of the story. Following Ludwig and Kost’s number of Nazi-praise, the audience was hesitant to applaud. The audience knew that applauding even the performance of Nazism was unseemly. At times, audience members shuddered, as even the mocking of a Hitler salute called to mind the increasing number of hate crimes against minorities of race, religion, sexual orientation and other identities rise in America.

Never before has a haunting representation of the rise of hatred been so relevant

in the United States.

For those of the Kit Kat Klub, it was the end of the world. It was the end of the self-expression and free-living that the cabaret had come to symbolize. Amongst this beauty grew a flame of politicized hatred and mobilized evil. Like too many things in Germany and across Europe, the beauty of the cabaret, all its vibrant individuals and its unrivaled energy would be enveloped in flames and become a ruin of a world once known. This story as performed by Ithaca College’s magnificent cast and crew ensured that the story of the cabaret burned bright into the minds of the audience and reminded them just what stakes there are when expression, individuality, and love are eclipsed by bigotry, hatred and pure evil.

Cabaret was directed by Catherine Weidner, Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts. The 1998 version, as performed by Ithaca College, which unlike earlier versions clearly indicates Cliff ’s homosexuality or bisexuality, includes Sally’s numbers “Maybe This Time” and “Mein Herr” giving more depth and tragedy to the leading lady. It tells the story of the ill fated LBGT community in the Kit Kat Klub, and all others Nazis that will systematically persecute and destroy during their takeover of Germany and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

Henry Graney is a junior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at hg382@cornell.edu.

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Breaking Silence Is Not Sharing a Secret: Speaking With and Reading Dr. Rosenna Bakari

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

It is time to break our silence. After speaking with Rosenna Bakari '11 and hearing her insights on living as a survivor of sexual assault, it is evident that it is time for women to live openly about their experience with assault and move past the discomfort in order to reframe the conversations we are having about the topic. Much of the rhetoric and literature about violence against women has channeled women’s stories into a feed dominated by conditions that maintain comfortability among audiences. In Rosenna Bakari’s recently published memoir Too Much Love Is Not Enough, she discusses the relationship between silence and psychological trauma in a way that imbues its audience with her own personal reality in an honest, relatable fashion. Dr. Bakari is a Cornell alumna whose story and dedication to creating a space for survivors is beyond inspirational. Her organization Talking Trees, founded in 2010, has fostered a supportive community for survivors that allows them to live openly about their experiences. In an interview with Dr. Bakari, she explained that Too Much Love Is Not Enough was a natural next step in her career and mission to generate safe spaces for survivors. In her own words, her memoir is a motion to “invite people on [her] healing journey,” and her writing does not only invite listeners, but encourages them to challenge the way they treat conversations about sexual assault.

The memoir details Bakari’s life from childhood to adulthood, but is largely an unraveling of her experience with childhood sexual assault. Too Much Love Is Not Enough touches on various aspects of sexual assault, such as the guilt and blame associated with it. She also focuses on the relationship between silence and healing. She writes: “Like a girdle worn to fit into the dress bought one size too small, I wore my silence, tight enough to make me look good as long as I did not care to breathe adequately. Like the six-inch heels that make my legs look divine, my silence radiated a confident personal presentation. No one knew my discomfort of shame as I soaked in the accolades about my perceived beauty and brilliance.” In living in silence one is upholding a facade of perfection that belies the trauma one has experienced. With this image, Bakari illuminates the reality of suppressing the truth: silence empowers perpetrators and denies a survivor of self-healing.

In addition to calling for a breaking of silence, Bakari nuances silence in a way that deconstructs the reality of living untruthfully through the way she differentiates sharing a secret from breaking silence. When asked

to elaborate on this aspect of her writing, she said: “It took me all this time to understand that when you tell someone a secret, whatever it is, it becomes bigger and loses you. Now there are more people invested in your secret.” There is a difference between expanding the bandwidth of your silence and breaking it as an acknowledgement of the truth in order to heal. According to Bakari, our truth is what keeps us safe, whether it be in regards to our own healing or the way we approach our behavior. She dismantles the notions that perpetuate the blaming of women for their assault because of their beauty or the way the dress and behave by asserting the ways that truth has been absconded by societal perception. In her interview, she discussed thoughtfully the way that we have used certain societal perceptions in order to maintain a facade of safety. She says, “we deserve to live on a full spectrum of beauty...clothes do not make us safe. Truth makes us safe.”

The concept of pursuing truth as a means to disenfranchise rape culture is one takeaway, in particular, I got from my interview with Bakari. We discussed the way that the rhetoric surrounding sexual assault must change, beginning with a kind of reframing of the way survivors and listeners alike detail the realities of our experience with sexual assault. She said, “I’m hoping that people always see themselves from a position of resilience...we are not victims anymore. We were, but we are not anymore. We are survivors and we are resilience, whether we drank or ate or angered ourselves here, we are here and we have survived. So everything we do from here we do from a position of resilience of knowing and always feeling like survivors and not victims.”

It is not enough to “let go” of one’s experience because it undercuts the trauma that survivors have experienced and moved through. Rather, survivors, who were victims not by choice, should acknowledge their resilience in the face of the victimization they were forced into. Discussing our own trauma from a position of resilience confronts the constant victimization of women from ourselves and from listeners.

Considering the recent eruption of the #MeToo movement, I asked Dr. Bakari’s opinion on the way #MeToo is treated in the media. Having read her article, “What We Are Not Saying When We Are Saying #MeToo,” I found her commentary on the

exclusionary nature of the media’s portrayal of sexual assault to be particularly interesting.

She underscored the way that sexual assault has been filtered through a specific lens that has defined sexual assault in as one aspect of what violation is, and that lens is strictly sexual harassment.

She pointed out the ways that victims of incest, childhood sexual abuse, and more, were excluded from the conversations that were proliferating across social media platforms. In her interview, Bakari expanded on this idea contesting that the origins of the #MeToo movement are very much grounded in openness and inclusion of all forms of violence against women.

However, she believes that the media, an entity very much still dominated by men, funneled the movement into what it has become.

They took violence against women and pinned it as the kind of violence they are most comfortable with: sexual harassment in the workplace.

When asked where the literature about sexual assault must change, in regards to the #MeToo movement and beyond, Bakari said that for these kinds of movements, “at the end of the day it’s not about who spoke, but it’s about who listened.”

The #MeToo movement in its inception created an incredibly important space for survivors who were bursting at the seams to tell their stories, but it still construes women’s experiences into a structure that takes audience comfortability into account.

The #MeToo movement is one manifestation of an expression of women’s experience without adequate listeners.

Following this insight, I asked Bakari what she hopes readers, and listeners, would take away from her memoir.

She broke down her readers into three categories, hoping each would glean a different kind of message. First, she hopes that survivors reading her work feel a solace in reading about her experience. She hopes they understand that “they are not alone in their feelings of guilt and shame” and that they “see that they have the right to heal.” The path to healing is difficult, she affirms, but it is possible.

For readers who are not survivors, she hopes that they can understand that it hurts and that pain may not alway be visible. Whether we realize it or not, we are in constant COURTESY OF RACHAEL STERNLICHT ’20

Whether we realize it or not, we are in constant contact with survivors and the things we do and say may close off safe spaces for them.

COURTESY OF ROSENNA BAKARI

contact with survivors and the things we do and say may close off safe spaces for them.

To men reading, she hopes that they listen. She says, “I hope that they can read the book and understand the severity of the plight of women in general in this world, but I also hope that they can read it and understand that if your significant other is closed off or closed down, maybe there’s a reason for that.”

She suggests the importance of being cognisant of other people’s sexual history because you never know where your partner is in their healing. Many survivors don’t understand what good sex feels like because sex may not be empowering to them. She continues: “men don’t invest in that, and women don’t feel like they deserve that.”

She explains that there is not enough distinction between the way people who love you approach you and the way your predator approached you. So, it is important for men to offer themselves to women in a way that shows you are not violating them.

Too Much Love Is Not Enough is an incredibly important read in this increasingly vocal media climate. As someone with the resilience to write daily for years about her experience with sexual abuse, what Bakari has to say is eye-opening, whether the reader is relating to her content or if the reader is understanding from a listener's perspective.

She attributes much of her strength to her time at Cornell and to the communities of geniuses she had the pleasure of interacting with during her time there. She spoke about Cornell as a place where she found what she needed to be pushed to a level of academic and social proficiency. But her story is not one that should be attributed to the institution she attended, but rather the person that she grew and shaped herself into. Her own personal healing journey and her mission to create safe spaces for women like herself is not only admirable but an example of what we should be aiming for as a society.

Reading Too Much Love Is Not Enough is a breaking of silence not only for Bakari, but an encourage for all women to break their silence.

Victoria Horrocks is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at vrh23@cornell.edu.

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updated annually rather than in real-time.

The next phase of reforms targets spring 2019, which is when all leadership positions in residential chapter houses have to be held by junior or senior students who reside in the house. Currently any member who resides in the house, irrespective of class year, can hold a leadership position.

During the same semester, Pollack also expects a full review of the process used by the Chapter Review Board, the body which governs the recognition for fraternities and sororities.

The phased reforms outlined in the email go up to fall 2021, which is when each fraternity and sorority house is expected to have a full-time live-in advisor with “clearly stated objectives and expectations for the role.”

The last phased set of reforms to Greek life were announced in 2012 by thenPresident David Skorton following the death of George Desdunes ’13 in an alcoholrelated hazing incident in Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The fraternity’s recognition was revoked by the University and their house now serves as an undergraduate residential hall.

In the reforms introduced then, Skorton had challenged the Cornell community to “end pledging as we know it.”

However, not all of the elements of the reforms were implemented, and the recommendations stopped short of full implementation, according to the University.

Despite this, Lombardi did not view the previous set of reforms as a “failure.”

“I think it really started a very important conversation on our campus and a heightened level of awareness,” he said.

While the current set of reforms tackles hazing in social Greek letter organizations, Lombardi said he looks forward to combating hazing “holistically” — and is looking to eventually include pre-professional fraternities, co-ops and living centers within the educational programs.

More than 4,500 students — nearly one-third of Cornell’s undergraduate population — belong to one of 63 chapters on campus, according to the University. Cornell’s fraternity and sorority community dates back to autumn 1868, just a few months after the University was first set up.

Girisha Arora can be reached at garora@cornellsun.com.

More Than 2,000 Participates In Color-Filled Hindu Festival dent. The process included applying for funding, obtaining permits, advertising, ordering “I really enjoy seeing other supplies and guaranteeing people in my program out, hav- crowd safety.

“We’re really excited to put ing fun, in a non-academic Holi on at Cornell, but it is a environment,” she said.

For students from India, the big event that requires a lot of event is also a opportunity for planning and preparation,” Raje them to “reconnect with a piece said.

Gurumoorthy said that this of home” and share their culture year’s Holi is with friends of different “[Holi participants] can the best she has experibackground, get color on anyone. It enced, creditaccording to ing their teamK u m a r shows that it doesn’t work for the Nadanampati matter who you are.” success. ’20, HSC “Because board memKimaya Raje ’20 we’re such a ber. large team and “I love seeing many people from different we’re all good friends, we can cultures coming together to cel- get through whatever hurdles ebrate something I love,” said come our way,” Nadanampati said.

Kanha Matai ’21.

As the event shifts from a The event brought “memories of home,” according to religious tradition to a cultural Vivek Iyer, an applications sys- event in India, its origin, HSC tems analyst at the Cornell members hope that everyone Center for Materials Research, can enjoy the celebration of who took his children to the “spring, life and color,” regardless of their race and ethnicity. event.

“The spirit of Holi is very “It’s just a slice of what millions of people celebrate in inclusive. Anyone can get color on anyone. It shows that it India,” he told The Sun. The well-attended event is doesn’t matter who you are or the outcome of extensive prepa- where you’re from. Everyone ration by the council spanning can rejoice in this,” Raje said. months, starting immediately after winter break according to Emily Yang can be reached at Kimaya Raje ’20, HSC presi- eyang@cornellsun.com.

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A male international student in the class made a comment during the discussion that the speaker has a “moral obligation” to her audience to dress conservatively during

“I am not responsible for anyone’s attention because we are capable of thinking for ourselves.”

Letitia Chai ’18 her thesis presentation, at which point Chai left the room with two students following to comfort her.

According to a statement written by 11 of the other 13 students in the class, once Chai had left the room, Maggor, “apologized [to the class] for her choice of words” and acknowledged that “the notion of ‘short shorts’ on women carries a lot of cultural and political baggage.”

However, according to Chai, the incident worsened after

Maggor came out of the theater.

She asked Chai what her mother would think of Chai’s clothing decision, to which Chai responded, “My mom is a feminist, gender and sexuality studies professor.

She’s fine with my shorts.”

At this point, Maggor asked Chai what she was going to do.

“I'm going to give the best damn speech of my life,” Chai told her.

Chai stripped down to her bra and underwear and walked back into the theatre room, where she performed the entirety of her thesis presentation in the same state of undress.

That night, she wrote a Facebook post about the incident, which at press time had over 1,050 likes and 165 shares. In the post, she invited the public to her College Scholar thesis presentation, which took place Saturday morning. Chai did not name Maggor or any other student in her original Facebook post.

In light of the attention garnered by Chai’s Facebook post, 11 of the 13 other students that were See THESIS page 13

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with a competition hosted by the Cornell Sustainable Enterprise Association where participant devised sustainable solutions for Cornell, according to the event’s Facebook page, Correa said his team modeled the rooftop space after New York city rooftop lounges as “people in crowded cities look to [urban rooftop spaces] as a place to escape.”

The two-day event attracted “way larger of a turnout” that included graduate students, freshmen undergraduates and faculty members, according to Correa. He also claimed that the fact that students were doing homework as the party was going on was testament to the versatility of the outdoor space.

The alcohol service provided during the afternoons, one of the bigger worries of The Straight Edge team, also proved to be a huge success. The afternoon “really just showed that we are adults and that we know how to self-regulate, things were perfectly fine,” Correa told The Sun. “We were anxious to see the mix between the people of age and the people that weren’t, and it was completely respected,” Correa said. “[The staff from Cornell Catering] were IDing ... nobody ever crossed the line, there were wristbands, threedrink maximums. It was really great to see people having an educated, casual beer in a civil setting.”

According to a survey taken during the event, students pro-

vided positive feedback and mentioned how “This [the popup event] feels like a student union […] It’s bringing people from all walks into the space” and “I didn’t realize I needed a place to take a break, I should be studying, but I’d rather be here.”

Correa said he was amazed by the inter-connectedness that the space promoted and the interactions between “such a rich and diverse group of people on campus” across class years and identities.

“I think we really demonstrated the potential within the space,” Correa said. “Everybody felt welcome. That was the beauty of the space — nobody felt out of space. There was nobody that was there that you would say “you don’t belong here”.

“All it took was some new furniture, some music, some lighting, and some drinks. And the space completely transformed the campus dynamic in a way that far surpassed our expectations,” Correa added.

Looking to the future, the student project team seeks even greater funding to continue their renovation project, according to Correa.

The Straight Edge team also hoped that “in the future, people will be booking this space for similar events and seeing the potential that it has. There’s this magnificent space that can be booked by any student or any organization for free,” Correa told The Sun. Louise Xie can be reached at lxie@cornellsun.com.

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trative policies that generally do not culminate in a criminal or civil penalty for this loss of life.”

Cobb, who shadowed the “gang unit” of Newark Police Department in 2015 to film the documentary Policing the Police, said that there is “a phenomenal tolerance for violence ... as it relates to the police.”

According to the documentary, the task force employed a method of “field inquiry” on Newark’s most dangerous streets in which officers stop, search and frisk residents based on what unit members described as “just knowing” the residents’ criminality, often in the absence of any specific evidence against them.

According to a 2014 Department of Justice report and Cobb’s commentary in the documentary, “the Newark Police Department was stopping people without reasonable suspicion 75 percent of the time.”

Cobb resisted calling the police force a “uniquely racist” sector but said “the consequences of policing are uniquely dangerous.”

“The mechanisms of policing essentially have been to police by race wherein your skin color becomes the basis of what makes you suspicious and that can be rationalized in the name of keeping you safe,” Cobb explained.

On the same note, Cobb said that people of color see the police differently from white people, who have “the option of seeing the police as the solution, as the cure for a problem” whereas minorities “tend to see police as a treatment for the problem, and sometimes the side effects of the treatment are worse than the problem itself.”

According to Cobb, while shadowing the force, he saw officers take unregistered guns off the streets but also witnessed innocent pedestrians wrestled to the ground in fear.

“It’s clear to me that there’s no trust. That’s what happens when everyone assumes the worst of everyone else,” Cobb said.

Among the many snapshots of police violence showed at the lecture, Cobb identified the Rodney King video of 1992 as one of the most important events in inciting shock and reflection. The video, with its display of unrestrained police brutality, in part, inspired the adoption of the 1994 crime bill, which instituted a Department of Justice process for police regulation, according to Cobb.

The adoption of the “consent decree” program that allows DOJ to investigate police practices and mandate reform, Cobb explained, initiated a method of “common regulation” and “quality control” for the nation’s nearly 18,000 police forces. “The hope is to overcome a historic lack of transparency,” said Cobb of the measure.

Cobb said that the issue of police violence on the black community originates from the nation’s foundational questions of citizenship. More specifically, the relationship between African-Americans and law enforcement began with the slave revolts and in the “extralegal execution of people after the end of slavery,” Cobb explained.

“The first step toward fixing the police system requires that we lift up that rock and look at what’s under it,” Cobb added.

Julia Curley can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun.com.

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in class that day wrote a joint statement to The Sun, saying that they supported Chai’s protest but not her public account of the incident.

“The majority of us are students of color, from multi-ethnic backgrounds, who very much relate to Letitia’s frustration with systemic oppression that is part of the fabric of this country,” the statement read. “We do not want to discredit [Letitia’s] narrative.”

The students wrote that while there was an “error of phrasing” on the professor’s part, her intent for the class and her desire to encourage diversity and inclusion had always been “extremely sincere.” “[Maggor] is a gift to Cornell,” the statement read, stating that the students felt Chai’s post did not “adequately represent [Maggor’s] past and continued advocacy for women and minorities” and that Maggor had “apologized on more than one occasion.”

Chai said that her intention was not to go after her professor but to raise awareness about this “huge societal issue,” which she regards as based on a mindset rather than individual incidents.

Chai also did not mention her professor nor the specific incident during the introduction of her thesis on Saturday, which she walked into wearing the same clothes she had worn in class.

Her presentation was livestreamed on

Facebook, in which a teary Chai said she stood sion training for faculty. in solidarity with people who have been asked “I’ve gotten so many messages from stuto “question themselves” based on others’ per- dents … [saying] ‘this happens to me in so ception of their appearances, stripping down many different classes on so many different to her underwear occasions,’” Chai again in front of said during the dis“I’ve gotten so many messages from cussion. “That is the room.

Following students ... [saying] ‘this happens to not okay.”

Chai’s call for the Chai said that me in so many different classes.’” others in the although the Title IX room to remove office had contacted Letitia Chai ’18 their clothes as her regarding the incident, she is not well, over two dozen people stripped to bras or boxers, with actively pursuing a case at present.

Although Chai will graduate this year, she about half the room remaining in states of undress for the entirety of Chai’s thesis. told The Sun that she hopes the conversation Chai’s thesis focuses on the integration of regarding the incident will continue, and that refugees and internally based persons into host she has been in contact with Ritter regarding communities by treating them as contributing possible programming or outreach possibilities. members of local society rather than an exteriProf. Denise Green ’07, fiber science and or burden. apparel design, plans to use Chai’s experience The audience consisted of several profes- in her classes this fall, Chai said. sors as well as other college scholars and their In keeping with her thesis, Chai said that guests, and according to a Facebook post, the only way to make progress is to continue Chai cleared the demonstration beforehand to view each other as equals despite appearwith the director of the college scholar pro- ance, clothing or difference. gram, Prof. Michael Goldstein, psychology, “This topic transcends all of our social and the dean of the College of Arts and identities,” Chai told her audience, “and taps Sciences, Gretchen Ritter ’83. right into the heart of who we are.”

After her presentation, Chai hosted an informal roundtable with students and Sarah Skinner can be reached at Goldstein on methods of diversity and inclu- sskinner@cornellsun.com.

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attack Jeff Teat said of the Pulver goal. “He practiced it; he’s good at it and he stuck that one. It was a big mental swing for us and we built off it. It was a big play.”

Pulver’s goal was the first in his four-year career and gave Cornell a 9-6 lead. It was from that point forward that the Red began to pull away. But it was not the only goal by a Cornell defender on Sunday: sophomore Brandon Salvatore also netted a goal — just the third of his career.

On the offensive whole, Cornell was once again led

by Teat, who was responsible for six points — includ-

ing five assists.

With the tournament victory, Cornell has earned an automatic bid the NCAA Tournament.

“I feel confident to saying we are a good enough team to compete with some of the best teams in the country, if not all of them,” Milliman said. “When we play our best, maybe we can beat them all.”

Cornell will go on the road to face eighth-seeded Syracuse in the first round of the NCAA Tournament next weekend.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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Morris gave the Red a strong start. He gave up just one earned run in five innings and left without a decision.

The Red broke a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning on a two run homer from Trey Baur.

Senior Austin Wahl earned the win, throwing four scoreless innings in relief, allowing one hit and three walks.

Next weekend, the Red, returning home to Hoy Field for its final weekend of the season, will have a chance to spoil Columbia’s Ivy playoff hopes and move above .500 in league play.

Miles Henshaw can be reached at mhenshaw@cornellsun.com.

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same. We stay disciplined, we try to work for the best shot.”

With the Red holding a one-goal lead as the first period expired, it was clear that Cornell was going to have to win this one without the high-octane offense that spectators are used to seeing.

“I think our offense did a CORNELL V. BROWN good job,” Stevens said.

1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL “Maybe the numGame: 0 1 1 2 4 Brown bers don’t show Cornell 1 2 2 2 7 that at the end of the game, but we did what we needed to win … We’ve got to win different types of games, we can’t expect to blow everybody out.”

As the game tired on, the two stars of the contest emerged clearly — Brown goaltender Phil Goss, recently tabbed as a first-team All-Ivy selection, and Cornell

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fifth-year senior goaltender Christian Knight. The two goals in the fourth.

“We took a couple of shots early that weren’t necesgoalies combined for 33 saves in the contest and anchored their respective defenses to impressive perfor- sarily off of ball movement,” Stevens said. “I think we could have shot a bit better, but in all honesty, we played mances. to the situation of the game … You “I think Christian is probably the can’t play next week’s game, you can’t best goalie in the country, and he “I think [Knight] is play last week’s game, you’ve got to played like it tonight,” Stevens said.

Knight’s 19 saves tied both a career probably the best goalie in play the one that’s out there.”

Looking ahead to the Red’s chamand a season high, as he finally earned the country, and he pionship matchup with Yale, a win in the Ivy League tournament on played like it tonight.”

Petterson said his team was one step his third try at the event. closer to realizing its season-long goal.

“It’s always great to get a team win, Assistant Coach “The mentality that we’ve had obviously,” Knight said. “To win the Jordan Stevens ’15 coming into this week is we’re only semis is a first for me, it’s a first for this guaranteed one game at a time,” team in a long time, and it felt great.”

Petterson said. “The Ivy League chamOffensively, it was Cornell that outperformed its conference rival. With 6:29 remaining in pionship … has been our ultimate goal since the start of the third quarter, the Red took a 5-1 lead on a goal from the season. This is what we’ve been working for since the junior midfielder Jake McCulloch — a margin that fall, this is what we’ve been dreaming of even longer than proved too great for the Bears to overcome. The Red that.” held off its opponent down the stretch, staving off a potentially disastrous upset as Brown scored a pair of Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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“[Recruits have] been very high-quality people and actually quite talented,” he said. “So what it’s done is given the current squad a sense of excitement that things are moving in the right direction … that talented and very high-caliber student athletes want to be part of what they are building.”

Chivers said she seeks out gritty athletes passionate about Cornell and primed for an experience different than they’d find at other Ivy League schools.

“There’s definitely a crunchy granola feel here, more than other places,” she said of the vibe in Ithaca. “I was actually joking with some people who were visiting where there’s definitely more dreadlocks and piercings here than maybe Hanover.”

Williams has seen people come to Cornell for more than just the free chocolate milk. Athletes join Cornell’s men’s lightweight and heavyweight teams to win championships and contend for medals, a culture Williams said the women’s team has had in the past — and one it’s looking to recapture.

“People are not looking to come to Cornell because it’s plan B or a soft landing in terms of an Ivy experience,” he said. “This is going to be an elite experience academically and athletically.”

Franck said she felt right at home when she visited Cornell as a high school senior.

“The team was really welcoming from the beginning,” she said. “It was a hard transition also with the expectations of a different coach … I personally felt like I adjusted quickly to it.”

The blue-collar Ivy mindset has man-

ifested itself for Williams and his staff, who seek out “gritty and resilient” rowers.

“It’s a unique experience to come to Cornell,” he said. “But it isn’t going to be the Harvard, Princeton, Yale exercise … we’re not looking for that same type of person.”

Behind much of the Red’s recruiting philosophy is Chivers, who has changed the type of student the team is looking for. She spent five years leading recruiting at George Washington University and has a master’s degree in sports psychology from Ithaca College.

“She’s got a much more nuanced approach to recruiting, which is we’re going to vet people, we’re going to find out what their character is like,” Williams said. “It’s not just going to be a case of their erg score or their physicality.”

“I think Cornell specifically attracts a different grittiness of people who just really like to work hard and like to challenge themselves versus maybe some other schools,” Chivers said. “It’s definitely a unique student that really finds that Cornell is the best opportunity for them.”

‘The blade moves the boat’

Williams has led the development of a “Cornell Stroke” that his team has employed this season. He said the new approach comes from taking advantage of his student athletes’ understanding of how rowing works.

“It’s just this idea that the blade moves the boat,” he said. “There was … the opportunity to educate and really help athletes understand how the blade interacts with the water, so we’ve just really gone after that, we’ve got an incredibly intelligent student athlete sitting in front of us every day, and they’re very capable of this type of dialogue around the mechanics [and] the physics.”

The new stroke isn’t exactly revolutionary — but by developing an understanding about how to move the boat, Williams is changing his squad’s mental approach.

“The touch that we’re putting on it is we’re going to be aggressive,” Williams said. “We’re going to have a very aggressive, dynamic, powerful rhythm and it’s going to be noticeable. People are going to look out and identify Cornell’s rowing as being a driven, aggressive … style and there’s a grit to it, there’s a toughness to it.”

The new approach has seen results this season, after a seventh-place Ivy finish last year. The Red has beaten Harvard, Penn and Columbia in different races this season.

The team culture has also become one of intense, focused strength, with conditioning efforts spearheaded by Thoms.

She said she focuses on five “pillars”: strength and conditioning, nutrition, mental performance, wellness and freshman integration.

“We have a training plan that Barney and the whole coaching staff have come up with and I would say our training rhythm from week to week is very consistent, maybe more consistent than in past years, and there’s been an increase in volume as well,” Thoms said.

If physics lessons from their new coach weren’t enough, rowers have learned about stretching and cardiovascular health, too.

“The heart is the biggest muscle in the body, so we needed to train the heart,” Williams said. “The way we did that was just to push a significant increase in volume and intensity. It was a simple exercise with regards to more and better training with a bit more sense of purpose and understanding of why we’re doing what we’re doing.”

In addition to the physical changes, Williams has brought a newfound sense

of energy to his team — the Red is primed to mount a return to national prominence after a few down years.

“In recent history it hasn’t really been that long since the team was at NCAAs and really successful, it’s only been three or four years,” Chivers said. “So there is a pretty close connection to that path …

That connection is still very much alive, the standard of excellence.”

Behind the creation of a renowned sense of optimism about the crew is Williams, the former Olympic silver medalist. “[Williams] is very energetic and he puts his heart and soul into everything he does, which can sometimes be exhausting,” Chivers joked. “His passion and enthusiasm [is] really contagious. We’re feeding off of it, the athletes are feeding off of it. He has relentless energy, I don’t know where it comes from. It’s been transformative for the team.”

All the team’s work will culminate next weekend at the Ivy championships, which promises to showcase the Red’s newfound competitiveness.

“The top end continues to be very high, but the bottom of the Ivy League continues to close the gap,” Williams said. “It’s truly … shaping up hopefully to be the most competitive Ivy championships in recent history.”

In Camden, New Jersey, on May 13, the year of growth will be put to the test.

But Williams said his team doesn’t need any validation — revenge isn’t the mindset heading into the races.

“Every single day of training has been designed to set the athletes up for success on May 13,” the coach said. “The beauty of that approach is whatever they’ve achieved up to this point is just an indication of what is possible … the best is yet to come.”

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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Rowers Redefine Team Culture,Embody‘Grit’

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Not just chocolate milk | With a new head coach and newfound Ivy League success, women’s rowing is redefining what it means to be a Cornell rower.

By RAPHY GENDLER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Women’s rowing interim head coach Barney Williams’ crew has closed the gap on each of its Ivy League opponents this season. After a few down years, he said his program is beginning to reinvent itself as an elite squad.

“It’s just moved away from what I think at one point may have been a misguided [idea] that Cornell’s great because they have free chocolate milk,” he said.

‘Push, decide, respect’

Williams, a former Canadian men’s national team coach and 2004 Olympian, came to East Hill in the fall looking to grow personally. He became interim coach after

Liz Dennison stepped into an associate director role.

In taking on a new challenge, Williams has also seen a team culture reimagined.

“I came here to become the best version of myself, to grow,” Williams said. “I almost described to people as coming here to reinvent myself having had a significant tenure at the national [level].”

Assistant coaches Paula Thoms, the team’s director of development, and Steph Chivers, the recruitment director, said the team is a place where athletes seek the “best version of themselves.”

When he arrived at Cornell on August 22 — the same day his athletes came to campus — Williams spent a week observing the team environment before jumping in and making any changes. He soon realized his philosophy

aligned perfectly with his athletes’.

Prior to the season, the athletes developed a team charter designed to guide and develop a team identity. It boiled down to three words: push, decide, respect.

“I was, through the [first] week, preparing my opening remarks, and just thinking about my opportunity to share some of my perspectives and most importantly try to create a real sense of excitement … for this season,” Williams said. “And I went through my opening remarks after, and I realized how many times I used the words push, decide and respect. So it really almost felt like a match made in heaven.”

And Cornell women’s rowing has seen results — the Red has closed the time gaps on each of its Ivy League foes and benefitted from having its developmental period coincide with a time of change in the powerhouse conference.

Dartmouth and Columbia also have new head coaches this season, and the Ivy League is as competitive as ever — there are five Ivy teams in the national top-20.

“We feel we had the most opportunity to grow of any program out there because there was this perception out there that maybe we weren’t competitive,” Williams said.

“So I feel like half the battle was just getting that mindset of wanting to compete and wanting to push.”

Freshman Madeline Franck, a member of the V8+ crew, said the successful team dynamic has been built on trust — Williams trusts his athletes, allowing them to trust him.

“It’s just gaining confidence on the water and gaining confidence and trust in each of the boats and just really not being afraid to … red line the piece,” Franck said.

“Just go all out and not hold anything back, put it out there and trust the training we’ve done.”

Thoms said the charter has shaped the team’s success.

“Those three words [from the] end of August, beginning of September have defined our team culture in everything they do and say in and out of the boathouse,” Thoms said. “And to have those core values all together have really transformed the culture.”

‘Crunchy granola feel’

The type of recruiting Cornell women’s rowing has done has changed in recent years as the squad looks to get back on the national radar. Williams said high school recruits help the current team.

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Despite Series Win,C.U.Eliminated From Playoff Race

keep Cornell’s chances alive.

Cornell head coach Dan Pepicelli knew that despite the need for help, Cornell’s fate Cornell fought hard in Providence, depended on playing good baseball.

“To be honest,” he said last week after a Rhode Island, this weekend, but a split in Saturday’s doubleheader ensured that the series win over Harvard, “this whole thing Red would not be competing in the Ivy has been about us. If we play well, we’re pretty good. If we don’t play up to our stanLeague playoffs.

The Red surmounted an early six-run dard, anyone in this conference can beat Brown lead to win Saturday’s first game, us.”

Things looked grim for Cornell to start 10-7, in 10 innings only to fall short in the second. The Red tied game two on a ninth Saturday’s first game. They surrendered six inning grand slam from freshman Kalani runs in the first two frames. Cornell put Matton, but surrendered an unearned run two runs on the board in the third with a in the bottom of the inning to fall by one, home run from senior Kyle Gallagher, setting the pace for a strong offensive day.

7-6.

Senior Dale Wickham doubled to bring in a run in the fifth before “If we play well, we’re pretty good. If we junior Will Simoneit homered to the score 7-5. The Red don’t play up to our standard, anyone in make tacked on two more runs in the this conference can beat us.” late frames to tie the game going into the ninth. The Red then batHead coach Dan Pepicelli ted around in the 10th to score three and take a secure 10-7 lead.

The Red’s bullpen shined in Under the Ivy League’s new playoff for- game one — sophomore Jeb Bemiss tossed mat, the top two teams in the league face three scoreless innings, ceding just one off in the Ivy League championship. Bear baserunner. Sophomore Andrew Cornell (13-20-1, 8-10 Ivy) entered the Ellison pitched a perfect 10th inning for weekend in the middle of the pack with an the save.

Cornell’s offense stalled in game two outside chance at second place.

If Cornell were to take two of three until late. The Red entered the ninth against Brown (11-26, 6-15), Princeton inning down 6-2. Senior Trey Baur got would have had to sweep Dartmouth this things started with a ground-rule double. A weekend. However, Princeton lost both hit-by-pitch and catcher’s interference call games Saturday and a third Sunday. Even if that Pepicelli seemed to talk the umpires Cornell had swept Brown, Princeton into loaded the bases. Freshman pinch hitwould have had to win at least one game to ter Kalani Matton smoked a grand-slam,

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doubling his RBI count for the season and tying the game, 6-6.

The Red lost the game on a throwing error from second base that allowed the winning run to score from second with two outs. The loss eliminated the Red from playoff contention.

Cornell had high hopes coming into the season, but never got over a cold start.

“We thought we had a good team com-

ing into the year and we just really had a tough start,” Pepicelli said. “It’s such a short season that if you have a tough start it can jump on you really quick.”

In game three, Sunday’s inconsequential rubber match, Cornell got off to a quick 20 lead, getting baserunners on with ease in the early frames. Senior pitcher Tommy See BASEBALL page 14

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Out of it | The Red won two out of three on the road at Brown, but is now out of Ivy playoff contention in a season in which it never recovered from a bad start.

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LAX IS BACK

No. 9 Cornell downs No.1 Yale to win 1st Ivy League tournament since 2011

By JACK KANTOR and DYLAN McDEVITT

MEN’S LACROSSE

Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sun Sports Editor

NEW YORK — After a long seven-year drought, Cornell men’s lacrosse has reclaimed the throne as Ivy League champions.

Throughout the 2018 season, the Red continued to surprise and show that no challenge was too difficult for the group. Today, Cornell did it again. Not even the nation’s best team — No. 1 Yale — was too big a challenge for the Cornell squad as they sent the Bulldogs packing, 14-8.

“We competed in every facet,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman. “We knew that there was a lot of uphill battles in the game today, we just needed to come out and compete … I thought we did a good job of that.”

In the early going of the championship game, the lead continued to change hands between Cornell (12-4, 6-2 Ivy) and Yale (13-3, 7-1 Ivy). Neither team was able to grab a substantial lead and the Red entered halftime up a goal, 6-5.

“We struggled through some bad clears, we struggled through some turnovers,” Milliman said. “Guys just really rallied and stayed positive and stayed supportive and did an awesome job.”

But the underdogs wouldn’t have entered halftime close to Yale, let alone ahead, if not for the performance senior goaltender Christian Knight.

CORNELL V. YALE After a stellar performance in the semifinal win 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL against Brown, Yale 3 2 1 2 8 Knight stood on Cornell 3 3 2 6 14 his head again Sunday, recording 16 saves on the day. Knight’s 35 combined saves over the weekend’s two games set an Ivy League tournament record.

“This is one of the happiest moments of my life,” Knight said. “It’s a really special thing to accomplish with a really special team … We set our minds on an Ivy League championship, a tournament championship, during the fall. And this is what we’ve worked [toward] since the beginning.”

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Upset city | After a close first half, the Red used a dominant second to pull away from the nation-best Bulldogs to win its first Ivy League tournament in seven years.

For its part, the Cornell defense was outstanding in front of Knight. Assistant coach and defensive coordinator Jordan Stevens ’15 was the architect as the Red gameplanned to shut down a high-powered Yale offense.

“This ranks up there with the top couple of defensive games we’ve played this year,” Milliman said. “When you can give [Knight] an opportunity to see the ball and know where the shots are going to come from, it’s a lot different of a look.”

Perhaps the biggest defensive adjustment that came in the game was Cornell’s approach to Yale’s standout attackman Ben Reeves, the reigning Ivy League player of the year. In the first half, Reeves scored four of Yale’s five goals and had the Bulldogs still very much in the game at the

break. In the game’s final 30 minutes, however, Reeves scored just one goal as Cornell pulled away for the win. “[We made] subtle changes trying to pressure him a little bit when he was adjacent to the ball,” Milliman said.

“Just make it harder for him to get the ball ... deny him a few possessions.”

One of the most electric moments of the game came at the 14:24 mark of the fourth quarter, when senior defensive Jake Pulver scooped up a ground ball at Cornell’s own restraining line, took a few steps forward and fired the ball from more than midfield into an empty Yale net.

“I knew he was throwing it into the net,” sophomore See YALE page 14

Defense, goaltender Knight shine in low-scoring semifinal win over Brown

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

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Tournament bound | With the league title, the Red earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, which begins next weekend.

NEW YORK — Two weeks ago, Cornell men’s lacrosse ran over a visiting Brown team by 14 goals, showcasing its offensive might on its way to a decisive victory.

On Friday evening, at Columbia’s Robert K. Kraft Field in Manhattan, the story was altogether different. The Red (11-4, 5-2 Ivy) narrowly held off Brown (6-9, 3-4) in the Ivy League semifinal by a score of 7-4.

“I think [the defense] did a good job,” said assistant coach Jordan Stevens ’15. “They answered the bell when we need them … Brown’s a team that really relies off of their rhythm and I think we got on them early, which was pretty big.”

Stevens was filling in for interim head coach Peter Milliman who coached Friday’s game but did not attend postgame media availability.

The game started slow, with the first 12:47 of the opening quarter passing by without any goals

scored. Finally, it was Cornell’s junior attack Clarke Petterson that broke the offensive silence.

The Red’s star player sophomore attack Jeff Teat was a non-factor for much of the game, as Brown defenseman Michael Brown held the Ontario native to just three points.

“I think we did a good job just playing without [Teat],” Petterson said. “Obviously he’s one of the best players in the country, so it’s going to be tough to get the goals up there without being able to utilize him.”

The Red responded by having Teat lead his defender away from the play, leaving the offense in a five-on-five situation for much of the first half.

“We went to five on five to create more space for us,” Petterson said. “If Jeff and the person that’s locking him off are standing there in the middle, it kind of clogs things up for us a bit … [But] the principles of our offense stay the See BROWN page 14