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S.A.Guidelines Changed After Controversial Election Election’s rules and intent reworked following ‘fiasco’

By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Assistant Managing Editor

After a tumultuous and controversial elections season — which featured the disqualification of the now-president-elect — the Student Assembly officially amended its election guidelines on Monday.

After failing to meet quorum during Friday’s special meeting, the Student Assembly voted via email to pass the amended guidelines. The motion passed 28-0-0.

Many of the changes made to the guidelines were a response to, what S.A. president Jung Won Kim ’18 described as, the “fiasco” that were the 2018 S.A. elections.

One of the proposed amendments to the guidelines gave the elections committee the power to interpret both an election’s rules and its intent. When an amendment was raised to eliminate both of these powers, both Kim and Travis Cabbell ’18, director of elections, pushed back.

“The elections committee has to be empowered, in some sense, to interpret the rules that they write every semester that you vote on,” Cabbell said.

“I think that because of what is happening in this elecSee S.A. page 4

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Assembly amendments | Following the disqualification of now-president-elect Varun Devatha ’19 during the 2018 S.A. elections, the Student Assembly amended the election guidelines on Monday.

GPSA Holds Officer Elections Ekarina Winarto wins second term as president

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TEDxCornell returns | The first TedXCornell conference in three years featured two unique performances in addition to eight speakers and a pre-recorded TED talk on Sunday.

TedxCornell Features 8 Speakers For 1st Conference in 3 Years

By AMINA KILPATRICK Sun Staff Writer

On Sunday, students and community members gathered at Cornell to experience the first TEDxCornell event in three years, featuring eight speakers, two performances and one pre-recorded TED talk.

The speakers talked about a range of issues, focusing on topics within their expertise. Prof. David Pizarro, philosophy and psychology, discussed how people are perceived based on the decisions they make and the length it takes them to decide and Prof. Susan S. Fleming, hospitality, spoke about reducing gender bias in the workplace.

Fleming herself began working on Wall Street in 1992 and noted the lack of significant change in the amount of women in leadership positions even today.

“Back then there were only two women CEOs in fortune 500 companies. Today, two and a half decades later, there are still only 23,” Fleming said. “Those 23 women represent 4.6 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs.” Prof. T. Colin Campbell,the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Emeritus, spoke about nutrition and its role in modern medicine.

Dr. Renee T. Alexander, associate dean of students and senior advisor to the dean, spoke about campus climate and how to “engage across difference” with her Breaking Bread series, where community members come together for a facilitated discussion and dinner.

Prof. Itai Cohen, physics, followed up with a talk on the flight of flies and how they use See TEDX page 4

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly held elections for its officers, General Committee representative, standing committee chairs and University Assembly representatives at its meeting on Monday.

Ekarina Winarto grad won a second term as president of GPSA, and Andy Barrientos-Gomez grad was elected as executive vice president.

Winarto told The Sun that her priorities for GPSA for next year are member-

ship and the Graduate and Professional Community Initiative, a strategic plan covering areas of importance to graduate and professional students at Cornell.

“Essentially, we need to get more people, more diversity in the room, and also more professional students in the room, and at the same time we need to get the people who are already in the room to be more involved,” Winarto said.

Winarto added that she thinks two of the four executive committee members should focus on membership, See GPSA page 4

Blowing in the wind

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Balloons with thank-you notes placed by the anonymous student organization, Lifted, wave in the wind on the Arts Quad to help lift community spirits.

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Welcome Center to Open at Renovated Noyes Lodge

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Face of campus | The Martin Y. Tang Welcome Center on North Campus will be the ‘first stop’ for prospective students, parents and visitors after it’s June 1st scheduled opening.

By KEVIN LAM Sun Staff Writer

The newly renovated Martin Y. Tang Welcome Center at the Noyes Lodge on North Campus, scheduled to open June 1, will be “the first stop” at Cornell for prospective students, parents and visitors, according to the University.

“The creation of a welcome center has been under discussion for many years, even decades long,” said Jason Cole, associate vice president for University relations.

The starting point of the general campus tour will also be relocated from Day Hall to the Tang Welcome Center in early June, according to Cole.

“The location is very representative. It highlights and underscores the natural beauty of our campus there [with the view of ] Beebe Lake,” Cole said. “It will provide more

space and it will be more comfortable to our visitors.”

The Great Room on the upper level will be both a space for visitors to gather and an exhibition “highlighting the University’s history and mission,” according to Cole.

According to Cole, the exhibition will feature six monoliths with texts and photographs, each with a theme representing an aspect of the University. These include Ezra Cornell, Cornell in New York State, humanities, research, “...any person …any study,” and “life on the hill.”

A 3-D-printed replica of Ezra Cornell’s telegraph, Rover Athena from the Cornell Mars Rover Project, some Big Red hockey gear and Rich Medina’s ’92 D.J. equipment from the Cornell Hip Hop Collection will also be displayed, Cole said.

The Great Room will connect to the 840-square-foot outdoor Treman Terrace, overlooking Beebe Lake and the western portion of Cornell Botanic Gardens.

There will also be a reception area, a space for the Office of Visitor Relations, the University switchboard and a conference room.

The $6 million project was announced in October 2016, after Martin Tang ’70, trustee emeritus, and his sisters, Nadine Tang and Leslie Tang Schilling, donated $3 million to the University in tandem with Atlantic Philanthropies.

In June 2016, The Atlantic Philanthropies — a foundation created by Charles Feeney ’56 — donated $16.25 million in grants to the Center for the Study of Inequality, the International Center on Capital Punishment and a new University welcome center.

Noyes Lodge previously housed the Language Resource Center, which has now been relocated to Stimson Hall.

Kevin Lam can be reached at klam@cornellsun.com.

Risley Hosts Renaissance Fair New Event Planning Policies

By MATTHEW McGOWEN Sun Senior Editor

Risley Hall brought the renaissance to campus on Sunday with a celebration of medieval arts like chainmail making, pottery and swordplay.

The Renaissance Fair is a semi-annual event open to students and members of the public, many of whom dressed up in periodappropriate clothing and sported accessories like replica swords.

Ashley Follensbee ’18 wore a black ruffled dress with cat-like face paint, and compared the event to some of the other dress-up events held at Risley.

“We run a lot of events in Risley. We run Rocky Horror, MasqueRave, [and] a lot of

events have costumes of some kind. This one and Rocky in particular for that, we actually have an entire room dedicated to costumes,” Follensbee said.

Students set up stations around Risley Hall for making flower crowns, chain and scale mail and face painting, all while listening to ambient medieval music.

Evan Walsh, Risley Hall director, compared the fair to other student-run events like Harry Potter Day and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and outlined plans for next year.

“It’s happened every other year. This year is a little more low key, and they say we’re going to try to do something in the fall that’s See RISLEY page 5

Club Seeks BRB Donations to Reduce Hunger page.

According to the president of the club, Juliet Remi ’20, the food drive began with the club’s Cornell Students for Hunger Relief will host founding in 2010. Remi said that the fact that Big the seventh annual Big Red Food Drive, an initia- Red Bucks, a University-run debit plan, does not tive encouraging Cornellians to spend unused roll over from the spring into the fall semester motivated the club to BRBs on non-perishleftover BRBs able items to donate “Cornell could try to address that need channel “into the local comto local food pantries, from May by encouraging students to spend their munity in need.”

“In Tompkins 14th to 22nd at leftover BRBs and donate them.”

County, one in seven Robert Purcell Comindividuals is at risk Juliet Remi ’20 munity Center and for hunger,” Remi Noyes Community said. “[The club’s Center. founders] recognized the need and saw how Cornell Students for Hunger Relief is “a student-run program that works to learn about and Cornell could try to address that need by encoureducate the Cornell community about the food aging students to spend their leftover BRBs and wastage at Cornell, current local and national donate them.” hunger issues, and what individuals can do to See FOOD page 4 help,” according to the organization’s Facebook

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Will Be Put Into Place July1st

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer

Changes in student event planning policies will be implemented starting July 1, according to Joseph Scaffido, director of campus activities and co-chair of the event management planning team. Changes include an increased four-week notice required for event planning, an overage assistance up to $1,000 for security costs that exceed predicted quotes and a stricter enforcement of current rules.

The biggest change in policy is a shift in time required to fill out an Event Registration Form, according to Mary Beth Grant

J.D. ’88, senior associate dean of students. The new policy will require events to submit an Event Registration Form four weeks in advance. The current policy requires three weeks, a policy that Grant acknowledged was enforced leniently.

This shift was concerning to Sasha Chanko ’19, president of Cornell Hillel. “The logistical issue of requiring more events to be planned earlier … will make it more difficult to provide the same number and same quality programming that Hillel has been doing for the past few years,” Chanko said.

See EVENTS page 5

Big beats

BORIS TSANG / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Big Red Pep Band perform outside Olin Library overlooking the Arts Quad on May 7th.

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S.A. Amends Guidelines Officers Elected During GPSA Meeting Following 2018 Elections GPSA

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Updates made to avoid future ‘fiasco’ S.A.

In the revised elections rules, the disqualified candidate may request a review by the JCC if tion, there’s like an overreac- he or she believes the committion,” Kim added. “The elec- tee “failed to correctly follow or tions committee should have enforce these Elections Rules.” the ability to interpret their Unlike before, the elections own rules.” committee will have the ability The final, approved guide- to respond to “claims made by lines give the elections commit- the challenged candidate to the tee the authority to interpret JCC.” The new rule was passed, the elections rules during a in part, due to Cabbell’s arguChallenge Review Hearing; ment that the “JCC acts as if however, the guidelines specify [the disqualified candidate’s that the Judicial Codes claims are] fact.”

Counselor is not beholden to “Essentially, the candidate is this interpretation. accusing the elections committee of being biased,” said G a b e “Up until last year that was the rule.

Kaufman ’18, That created less worry about conflict of S.A. vice presinterest.” ident of finance. “And Dale Barbaria ’19 so, in this case, the elections commitThe new guidelines also tee is the defendant, and the mandate that “elections com- candidate is the accuser.” mittee members may not sit on The new guidelines also clarthe executive board of an orga- ify that the JCC has the “power nization that endorses candi- to overturn the decision of the dates in an S.A. election.” If a Elections committee.” committee member does have a seat on the executive board, or Another change to the has had a position during the guidelines is that candidates are same semester of the election, now allowed to answer questhen that organization is no tions regarding their platform longer allowed endorse candi- when petitioning. dates, or the member must “Petitioning [should] have a resign from the committee.

“Petitioning [should] have a purpose.

“Up until Where you’re able to ... develop a last year, that was the rule,” platform.” said Dale Varun Devatha ’19 Barbaria ’19 current S.A. vice president of internal operations and purpose,” Devatha said. incoming vice president of “Where you’re able to discuss finance. “That created less your ideas, where you’re able to worry about conflict of inter- develop a platform.” est.”

During the meeting, some The new rule was passed, in members raised concerns part, as a response to the regarding the potential for required recusals during the abuse, and whether or not this Challenge Review Hearing for change would effectively extend Varun Devatha ’19, S.A. execu- the campaign season. To cirtive vice president and presi- cumvent these concerns, the dent-elect.

S.A. amended the guidelines to “[The elections committee] prohibit “making speeches or wouldn’t have become a seven- statements to student organizaperson committee with no tions.” chair,” Barbaria said.

The new guidelines also pro- Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun.com. vide a clearer appeals process.

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while the other two can focus on “outwork” and on working with the administration. She noted that she will need to discuss these ideas with other members.

The vice president for operations will be Alex Loiben grad, elected to his second term, and the new vice president for communications will be Alexa Cohn grad. Nate Rogers grad was elected to his second term as the counsel.

Motasem Kalaji grad was elected to fill one of the two graduate student representative positions to the general committee of the graduate school, for which one current member’s term is expiring.

Leading the student advocacy committee as its chair for her second term will be Breanne Kisselstein grad. The chair of the graduate and professional student programming board will be Daksh Arora grad, the chair of the faculty teaching, advising and mentorship awards committee will be Carol-Rose Little grad and

the chair of the diversity and international students committee will be Eugene Law grad for his second term.

GPSA also filled two out of its four U.A. representative seats, electing members Matthew Battaglia ’16 grad for his second term and Dietrich Geisler grad.

GPSA elects officers and voting representatives internally, so only GPSA field representatives and voting members are eligible to vote for officer positions, according to a presentation from the meeting.

Reflecting on the past year, Winarto said GPSA was able to work “with a lot organizations and people that we don’t normally work with,” hold programming initiatives, increase representation of professional students and student diversity and set a decreased graduate and professional student activity fee.

“I really would like to applaud … all the committee chairs who have done like a really good job,” Winarto said.

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun.com.

TedxCornell Event Hosts 8 Speakers After logistical issues, TedxCornell was able to hold its 1st conference in 3 years, including 2 guest performances TEDX

Butt has been organizing TED events for the past seven years since his time as an their wings to stabilize themundergraduate student in the selves in flight while Prof.

United Kingdom and plans to Shimon Edelman, psychology, retire from organizing soon. discussed what it means to be “Hopefully I can pass on human. the license to team members The final two speakers, for future events,” Butt told Prof. Drew Margolin, commuthe Sun. “We are hoping to nications, and Prof. Ifeoma send one of the team members Ajunwa, ILR, discussed the to TED hopefully if we can get rise of “fake news” inquiries some funds.” and the field of epistemology Butt was a part of the team and job discrimination that organized the last through employer’s TEDxCornell conferalgorithms, respecence was excited “Cornell is a unique place, in that the to getand tively. the event back students here can be so intensely The Men of Last to campus. In the Call acapella group focused but also intensely passionate.” future he hopes that and the Yamatai perthe Cornell team will formance group both Christine Cho ’18 expand the event by gave dynamic perforbringing internationmances in between al speakers and speakers. This was a unique intensely focused but also diverse topics. feature that a lot of TED intensely passionate,” Cho “Especially in the upstate events do not have, according wrote, “I think that at a place New York area there are no to Uzair Butt M.S. ’16, like this it’s really important to large TEDx events,” Butt said. licensee and curator for the have a conference where stu- “There’s a lot you could do event. dents can come and find this with an event like this. This The last TEDxCornell wellspring of inspiration.” was just an opportunity to get event was held in 2015.

Each TEDx event requires a it started again.

According to head student license in order to be affiliated Hopefully in the future this organizer Christine Cho ’18, with the organization. There can become one of the premilogistical issues hindered hold- are certain specifications that um TEDx university events in ing a conference in the last few must be met in order to obtain the U.S.” years. a license, such as attending a “There was a brief hiatus for TED conference, according to Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at akilpatrick@cornellsun.com. the organization because of Butt.

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logistical issues with the previous organizing teams,” Cho told The Sun in an email. “As a result, a small group of students and I decided to reorganize the organization with Cornell and essentially re-start the event from the ground up.”

A integral idea in bringing the conference back to Cornell was to inspire students, according to Cho. “I think that Cornell is a really unique place, in that the students here can be so

Leftover BRBs Can Be Used to Donate Food to Ithaca Community Through Club’s Food Drive FOOD

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accepting non-perishable items, one at RPCC and another one at Noyes. Remi said the RPCC location is being used for “the first time in a few years,” and that this additional venue will enable the student group to obtain “twice as many collections” as previous drives.

All collected food items will be given to Friendship Donations Network, an organi-

zation in Ithaca that collects donations from the club and then distributes them to local hunger relief programs, according to Remi.

Remi said that Cornell Students for Hunger Relief reached out to several other organizations on campus to recruit volunteers to manage collection sites. She said reaching out to Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service fraternity, the Cornell Interfraternity Council and many more on-campus

groups has helped the club increase Cornellians’ awareness of both the drive and food inse-

“Be aware of issues not just in the Cornell community but ... in ... greater Ithaca.”

Tom Ho ’21 curity issues in the local com-

munity.

Remi said she hopes through careful planning, effective collaboration and extensive outreach, this year’s Big Red Food Drive can reach the goal of around 3,187 pounds of food, which the drive reached two years ago.

“Be aware of issues not just in the Cornell community but also in the greater Ithaca community. You will see there are actually a lot of challenging situations that people are not

aware of,” said Tom Ho ’21, secretary of CHR, on the importance of the drive.

“If you have extra BRBs, and you are not going to use them in the next two weeks… donate them,” Remi said. “If you don’t donate, volunteering is another way to get involved in the cause.”

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

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C.U. Announces New Event Policies Risley Revives Middle EVENTS

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Chanko said that he was “initially taken aback” when looking at the policy, and that he “did not think that most events at Cornell had issues in their planning, nor in regards to free speech.”

Vijay Pendakur, dean of students, said that nothing specifically instigated these changes, and that event planning policies have been “tweaked” many times in the past.

The policy also states that there will be a “protest space” where demonstrators can organize. According to Grant, these spaces will be picked with consideration to safety. As a result, sidewalks and roads must remain clear, and there must be “space between groups who disagree.”

Grant acknowledged that visibility of the demonstrators is important to protest, and noted that this would be taken into consideration.

In the past, the event management planning team has utilized social media to view public protest events on sites like Facebook, according to Pendakur.

That information was then used to estimate the number of people expected at a protest. Pendakur encouraged students organizing protests to file an ERF so that they could have more input in the process.

A chart that allows students to predict the general security cost of the event will be available on the

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campus activities website this summer and many events will not require any security fees, Grant said. Final security costs will be determined by the Cornell University Police Department.

According to Grant, price ranges for minimal security events will range from around $300 to $610. Elevated security events costs will range from around $600 to $1,400. High-level security events will range from about $2,300 to $3,900. Many events won’t require any security fees, at the discretion of CUPD. These costs will be finalized in July, and updated July of the following year.

Michael Johns ’20, incoming president of Cornell Republicans, said that the biggest difficulty with the current policy is “a ‘heckler’s veto’–or, in this case, a ‘heckler’s tax’–on student organizations for bringing speakers they don’t like, by showing up and protesting the event. The new policy codifies this trend by openly informing student groups that larger-than-expected protests will result in higher fees.”

Pendakur acknowledged this problem, noting the second big policy change: that the University would provide up to $1,000 for security fees that exceeded the original security quote that was provided by CUPD. “In some cases, security costs for events will exceed the predicted costs. In those instances, Cornell will absorb the first $1,000 in security costs exceeding

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those costs in the fee rate schedule,” Grant said.

Current outdoor protest policy dictates that demonstrations with amplification, like a megaphone, are only permissible outside Day Hall and Willard Straight Hall from noon to 1 p.m. According to Grant, these policies remain unchanged.

Yahya Abdul-Basser, incoming president for the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association, said he worries that the changes “will severely restrict the ability of students to organize or respond quickly to events on and off campus.”

According to Chanko, “these policies reflect an administration that wants to protect free speech, both in terms of inviting speakers and acknowledging protests as a form of speech. Yet, this policy errs on the side of caution and shows an unwillingness to take bigger risks by having the potential for more divisive protests when divisive speakers are brought to campus.”

The changes were suggested by students, faculty and administrators alike, according to Grant, who said that they have “received positive feedback for the events that used these procedures.”

A final forum for discussion and clarification of policy will be held on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Willard Straight Hall.

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.

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a little bigger with more outdoor activities,” Walsh said.

The main event for Friday’s fair was a performance by Ring of Steel, a stu-

fighters who performed a series of duels featuring homemade chainmail and real metal swords, dulled for safety.

“Basically we’re around for things like this, renaissance festivals, [and] we performed

“We run a lot of events in Risley ... we actually have an entire room dedicated to costumes.”

Ashley Follensbee ’18 dent stage combat club that meets three times a week to hone their skills choreographing and performing sword fights.

Erin Dempsey ’21, Crystal Chang ’20 and Melanie Johnson ’18 were among the

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at May the Fourth the other night,” Dempsey said. The group has also performed at the Johnson Museum and for Game of Thrones Night.

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

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AGRICULTURE ADVOCACY ON NATIONAL LEVEL On visit to Capitol Hill, senior advocates for increased federal funding for agriculture-related research and education

BY EMMA DIGIOVANNI Sun Staff Writer

Conor McCabe ’18, promoted federal funding for agricultural research and land-grant universities in Washington D.C from March 4th to 7th as the first-ever student selected to serve as a delegate for the Association of Public Land Grant Universities’ Council for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching.

In an interview with The Sun, McCabe talked about the importance of having a current student’s perspective when making funding decisions relating to education and research.

“Many of the individuals who previously served on [CARET] were at the end of their careers, but there had never been a point of view of someone who was currently experiencing the landgrant system as a student,” McCabe said. “I had such a unique story to tell that would show the power of the landgrant university system and how my life has been directly impacted by it.”

The motivation behind McCabe’s involvement in D.C. stemmed not only from his academic background, but also from his personal history. The kinds of agricultural programs for which he advocated in D.C. were similar to those from which he had benefited from in his childhood.

“4-H programs were a large part of my youth and was the organization I raised pigs through and showed them at the county [and] state fairs,” McCabe COURTESY OF CONOR MCCABE

Local cause l McCabe at the Campus Dairy Farm.

said. 4-H programs are federally funded and are implemented to promote empowerment and development among children.

He further explained the importance of federal support for agricultural programs and land-grant universities, describing how increased funding could generate sweeping improvements. “[Although] the land-grant system is mainly meant to support the local area and state … by tailoring their offerings to the needs of the community,” said McCabe, those benefits can spark improvements extending beyond regional confines.

“If farmers are able to produce more of a crop [or] good in one county… they can ship it to urban centers or other parts of the world to feed consumers outside their community,” McCabe said. “The research dollars that come from the government in the form of Hatch/Agriculture and Food Research Initiative can lead to breakthroughs that further animal production, human health, and ultimately improved livelihoods for those living around the world.”

While much of McCabe’s academic expertise in the agricultural sciences has developed at Cornell, his interest in agriculture has grown throughout his life, rooted in a childhood spent on his family’s small farm in Oregon. Growing up among Christmas trees, pumpkins, pigs, and his grandfather’s beef cattle and excelling in biology and chemistry courses in high school cultivated his interest in livestock and the sciences, leading him to pursue the animal sciences major.

During his time at Cornell, McCabe has been involved in the Dairy Science Club, helped establish the Engaged Cornell’s Certificate in Engaged Leadership and also serve as the President of Block & Bridle, an agricultural club at Cornell. Additionally, this past semester, he received the Richard A. Church CALS Senior Service Award, which is awarded to two seniors in CALS in recognition of their service and leadership contributions.

McCabe’s influence extends beyond campus to national and international stages, as well. He has served as president of the student affiliate division of the American Dairy Science Association and received the Forward Scholarship from Lallemand Animal Nutrition, a Canadian company specializing in the development, production and marketing of yeasts and bacteria according to its website.

McCabe has also spent his vacations learning about other cultures across the globe.

“I have been lucky enough to have international experiences during the winter breaks while at Cornell. Some experiences I’ve had include studying the dairy industry of Italy, experiencing climate change in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, and preserving indigenous knowledge of the Penan people in Malaysian Borneo,” McCabe said.

After finishing up his last semester at

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Student delegate l McCabe in Washington D.C. this past March.

Cornell, McCabe will be joining 2050. However, we currently see AgriCorps after graduation and will be around 2.5 billion whom are malnourspending time in Liberia to promote ished and 900 million who are underagricultural education. nourished,” explained McCabe.

“I hope to gain a perspective about In order for improvement to be feathe challenges communities in Liberia sible, sustained support for agricultural face from an agriculture point of view,” research and programs is vital. said McCabe. “I hope what I have “However, public support for American learned throughout my career on my agriculture research has continued to home farm and at Cornell can be used decline within the last [decade] and has to make an impact for youth in the since been passed by China and more community I will be working with.” recently by Brazil and Argentina in McCabe explained how careers in terms of total public dollars devoted to agriculture can often be viewed dis- agricultural research,” McCabe said. paragingly and how he hopes to show Looking farther into the future, middle and high school students the McCabe hopes to apply his experience “power of agriculture as a business” and to generating improvement in the globmake them “desire to pursue careers in al food supply. “Because at the end of agriculture to meet the demands of the day,” he said, “every person in the future generations.”

U.S. participates in this system three “In the future there will be much times a day.” more pressure on the agriculture and food sectors to produce enough to feed Emma DiGiovanni can be reached at the estimated 9.6 billion people by ejd89@cornell.edu .

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT I

I Don’t Even Wanna Talk About It

really don’t wanna talk about it, and I shouldn’t even really, so I’m barely going to.

The last few weeks have been surprising, disorienting and mainly just sad for anybody who has ever admired Kanye West as a musician, artist, public figure and person who doesn’t befriend alt-right figures and espouse their disgusting revisionist histories. The music he has released during this time — while it, as usual, sounds pretty good — has either been a platform for his new, semi-incoherent ideology (“Ye vs. the People”), or a troll so broad that it begs the question of whether he’s taking any of this shit even remotely seriously (“Lift Yourself”). In the end, it doesn’t really matter all that much, at least to me, whether he actually believes what he’s been saying, or whether he just believes that he is continuing a long career of reactive, disruptive speech regardless of its content, or whether it’s all just a huge joke at the expense of everybody except for Donald Trump, Candace Owens and people who believe that 400 years of slavery were a choice.

There has already been a lot written about all of this, and I don’t really feel I have that much to add to it, so I’d particularly recommend these two articles: Brentin Mock’s “The Miseducation of Kanye West,” which argues for why Kanye’s dream to enter the architecture, design and planning world should not be fulfilled, and Ijeoma Oluo’s “How should white people talk about Kanye West?” the title of which speaks for itself.

For me, this episode has felt representative of a larger trend during my time in college. The world has continually revealed itself as an irreparably broken and fucked-up place.

Old sources of comfort and security have become hideous and threatening. We voted in the first president who is truly incapable of saying two minutes of unprepared, on-topic,

coherent speech and whose administration is literally a threat to over half of the American population, let alone the populations of other countries. People whom I looked up to have been exposed as pathetic, impotent predators. And we continue to take so little action towards slowing the changing of our climate, which according to Time magazine may make South Asia unliveable in 80 years. In this context, Kanye’s new politics start to seem a bit less reactive and bit more reflective of the general chaos that characterizes this era.

It has been a remarkable, and at times remarkably stressful, time to be in college. But at the same time, I am profoundly grateful that I was here during this time. I had friends who, in contrast to Kanye’s line in “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1,” very much wanted to talk about “it,” whatever the “it” of that week was. And I am particularly grateful for the community that I found through the Arts and Entertainment section of the Cornell Daily Sun. I made some of the best, truest, most intelligent, most thoughtful, most perceptive, most provocative and most loyal friends I’ve ever had through this section, and I will always remember this community as one that challenged me to think harder and longer before Despite all the speaking or writing. I have Amputations quite a lot of people to thank.

I want to start by saying thank you to a long list of editors who crafted the section: Sean Doolittle ’16, Mike Sosnick ’16, Katie Sims ’20, Andrei Kozyrev ’20, Viri Garcia ’20, Lev Akabas ’19 and Pete Buonanno ’21. Thank you all for your vision, your advice and your patience. And thank you particularly to Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15, whom I only met once or twice but whose writing I’ve been inspired (and very amused) by ever since.

Jack Jones

I’d also like to thank a few people who were not members of the Arts section, but who were deeply involved in my columns. Thank you to Evan Czako ’18, whose music provided the inspiration for what I think may have been my best column (“Listen to My Friend Evan”). Thank you to Elie Kirshner ’18 and Amir Patel ’18, whose on-point quips provided the bulk of material for the column that was the most fun to write — or more accurately, transcribe (“How Bad Can a Good Time Be?: A Discussion of Three Versions of U2’s New Single”). And thank you to Allison Considine ’17, who was of invaluable help in editing the column that was the most difficult to write, about the film It and the problems with fraternities (“The ‘It’ in Our Community).

Finally, thank you to my Arts-section friends. Thanks to Sam Bromer ‘16, who wrote one of the bravest and best final Arts columns ever written. Sam, you had me at “you had me at hello.” Thanks to Chris Stanton ’17, whose musical tastes converge so thoroughly with mine that we never run out of stuff to analyze. Chris, we still got Frank, at least. Thanks to Shay Collins ’18, who has been a good friend for four years and a good roommate for two. Shay, it has been profoundly cool to watch you evolve in a year from a nervous kid strumming his guitar in front of twenty people to a full-on emotional-rollercoaster-inducing performer. Thanks to Troy Sherman ’18, a fantastic friend and classmate. Troy, you once drove me to Brooklyn and back in one night to see Vince Staples perform, and you’re the only person I know who would have read all of Finnegans Wake aloud with me; I think that alone says it all. Thanks to Jael Goldfine ’17, with whom I’ve had some of the most meaningful conversations I’ve ever had. Jael, I always miss you when you’re not around.

I’m leaving this place for good in a few weeks, and I don’t even wanna talk about it. Be well, everybody. I’ll miss all this.

Jack Jones is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at jackjones@cornellsun.com. Despite all the Amputations appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

A Conversation With Art Garfunkel

BY LEV AKABAS Arts & Entertainment Editor

Art Garfunkel, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performed at the Ithaca State Theatre Sunday night.

Through his solo work and collaborations with Paul Simon in the famous folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, he has earned eight Grammys over the course of his career. Garfunkel is also an author, recently publishing What Is It All But Luminous, a book of poems, memoirs and stories. In advance of his concert, I had the pleasure of talking to Garfunkel about his love for performing, his relationship with Paul Simon and the list of artists he has on his iPod. THE SUN: What made you decide to come to Ithaca on this tour?

A.G.: I’m really interested in making a mark with campus kids. I want them to come to my show and go, “There’s nothing dated about Garfunkel. What an interesting role model for how a man can turn 76!”

I want it to work between my age and your age.

SUN: Is there anything different for you about performing now versus performing when you were younger?

A.G.: It’s very fresh. It’s not old for me.

I’ll do “Sound of Silence” in the concert and I’ll do “Scarborough Fair” and I’ll approach the mic with a vitality that is alive and well in the present tense. I say to myself, “Here comes the best Scarborough I ever sang.” It is not a repetitive experience for me. The present tense is all we ever have, and I love this work. Like never before, I’m into this stuff. I lost my voice in

2010 and to have it back is like, “Thanks God.” I’ve never felt so strongly the fun of singing now that I have it back.

SUN: How do you balance your career with Paul Simon versus your legacy as a solo singer?

A.G.: The Paul Simon thing has to be accommodated in the name of reality. If I did a concert and I dropped “Homeward

with.

Right now I’m not particularly good friends with Paul Simon. Like the weather, we have sweet days and unsweet days. It’s boring. It is what it is. But I love this guy. If you don’t love a deep, old friend, you don’t love your life.

S UN: What’s your favorite memory from your musical career?

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Bound” I would feel coy. Come on. Why not give the audience their expectations?

But then the rest is proportioned. How much? I choose to go 50 percent Simon and Garfunkel. And since I made 12 albums, I love them all. And every time I make an album I’m deeply involved. I’m a workaholic — a perfectionist. I love being in the studio because it’s a shy person’s pleasure. You work when nobody sees you and you fix and polish. So the craftwork of record-making is the thing I fell in love

A.G.: Stepping on stage at the concert in Central Park in 1981. You know, you get very happy by the size of your audience. If you put out an album and it sells four million in the first month, that speaks very loud and clear and it makes you very happy.

When you show up years after you were a team and there you are, Simon and Garfunkel, and you’re half of it, and the size of the New York audience is beyond a half of a million, I turned to Paul and said, “I knew we did something right in the 60s. I

didn’t know it was this right!”

SUN: You asked me before how I think you’re seen among people of my generation. How do you want to be seen?

A.G.: I want to be seen as a singer who can do the songs of anybody. I had a fabulous run with Paul Simon and those hits are a delight to sing and to share, and they make up about half my show, but I want to be seen as kind of a Renaissance man: a guy who’s cooking. I use the rule “stay interested to yourself,” and that guides me through life, so I became a writer — one of those guys who keeps a little notebook in their back pocket — and I walk across countries.

I walked the United States. I walked Europe, from Western Ireland to Istanbul.

Every step of the way. I do it with installments. I leave home, fly to Europe, do 120 miles, come back a week later. Later in the year, I do another one.

I write. For 30 years I’ve been writing.

And I finally just got the courage to put it into a book and see if it means anything. I got an agent, we shopped around my book, I got a great response. (I feel like Donald Trump touting myself.) But from that moment on, I thought, “I am a writer,” and I slipped into book world, to my shock and amazement. I’m going to serve up about seven or eight of [my writings] during the show, interspersed between the songs.

S UN : Any modern artists on your playlist?

A.G.: I made a parting of the ways with modern society.

Lev Akabas is a Junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts@cornellsun.com.

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Priya Kankanhalli | Matters of Fact

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Who Taught You That?

t’s National Teacher Appreciation Week! I, for one, am proud to express my gratitude for my educators past and present…from the comfort of my bedroom, as I consciously neglect attending class…but still! Gratitude!

Laziness aside, it’s crucial to actively realize the impact of educators. The humility that characterizes most teachers I’ve known frequently goes unrecognized. Given that I’m tempted to scream from the rooftops every time I even remotely follow a question on a problem set, it’s incredible that professors remain cool and collected with the massive knowledge banks hidden in their minds.

Of course, generalizations are tricky.

In my twelve years of public schooling and subsequent three years at Cornell, I’ve had a variety of teachers. I remember my second-grade teacher, Mrs. Sanders, loved frogs; although now, thirteen years later, I’m forced to question whether she loved frogs for herself or for her students. My AP Language teacher solidified my interest in writing, and you, my loyal readers, are the oh-solucky beneficiaries. Mostly, I’m thankful that all the teachers I’ve known have instilled in me the lesson that any sort of learning can be collaborative. It’s never a solitary process.

College professors carry a different sort of weight. It’s extremely easy to feel academically inferior through the undergraduate years, and professors have the power to mitigate or exacerbate that. I remember visiting a professor’s office hours some days after the class’s first prelim. I’d scored a 95 percent on the exam, to which my professor’s reaction was: “that’s very low compared to your classmates. Have you thought about dropping this class and retaking it next semester?” This came as a blow for obvious reasons, but it indicates to me that sometimes teachers themselves fail to see the influence that their words and opinions hold.

There have also been professors at Cornell who have invested so much additional time and energy into my personal development than I would ever deem necessary. They’ve been pivotal not only in shaping my undergraduate career, but also in helping me extend myself to outside industries. I imagine teaching is similar to parenting in some

ways — the goal is usually identical: to educate — but there are a plethora of approaches. Tough love, laid back, unconditionally supportive, anywhere on the spectrum.

Reflecting on the differences between primary and higher education, the varied perceptions of K-12 teachers and university professors is understandable, yet discrepancies in the respect we offer the two is not. Often, the intricacies of certain subjects or levels of concepts seem to fuel inconsistency in the amount of value we place on the teacher.

Yet, the elementary school teachers who taught us phonetics through worksheets and games are just as important as the collegiate professor who’s teaching us astrophysics. You can’t have one without the other.

Many of us don’t take issue with sites like Rate My Professor, where some teachers are praised but others are harshly criticized, but it has the potential to be extremely hurtful to those professors who do peruse it. To evaluate a class is reasonable and objective — course evaluation emails are sitting in my inbox this very moment — but to evaluate a teacher begs for subjectivity. This raises the bigger issue — are our responses to a class based on the assignments and workload, which are largely arbitrary and temporary measures, or the actual passion and command conveyed by the professor? Some of the reviews on Rate My Professor demonstrate a tilt towards the former. Often times, I err on the side of trivial factors myself, though it is an ongoing effort to recalibrate myself in favor of the subjects and lecturers themselves.

We derive significant chunks of personal security and peace of mind from the knowledge we possess, and so much of this is passed along from teachers. We couldn’t get there on our own. So, thank you to my teachers. Thanks for the easy tests that boost my ego and the impossible tests that show me how much I have to learn. Thanks for the advice and the reassurance, and thanks, most of all, for the undying faith, even when my GPA could afford to be shunned.

Priya Kankanhalli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pkankanhalli@cornellsun.com. Matters of Fact appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Last week an editorial was published in the Cornell Sun criticizing the Consensual Relationship Policy Committee’s recommendation to President Martha Pollack of policy CRP-A that bans relationships between graduate/professional students and faculty who work in the same graduate field or degree program over CRP-B which allows for such relationships “provided there is disclosure and an appropriate recusal plan.” The contention lies over the failure of the policy committee to make it’s recommendation solely based on majority votes from the Student, Employee and University Assemblies, as well as the Faculty Senate as the author(s) of the editorial declares that “both pertinent branches of shared governance (the GPSA and Faculty Senate) voted overwhelmingly against the recommendation.”

While the author(s) of the editorial does take into account that the policy committee was candid in stating that “the votes held by the Student, Employee and University Assemblies, as well as the Faculty Senate, were nonbinding and would only be ‘considered’ by the committee,” the policy committee’s provided rationale, which can be found in the final report is also described in the editorial as not adequate. Therefore, members of the Assemblies and Faculty Senate “deserve to know why their opinions were disregarded.”

The policy committee has acknowledged the division among the Cornell Community on CRP-A in the summary portion of the final report provided to President Pollack for consideration. Appreciating that CRP-A comes at the cost of limiting people’s freedom of association, the committee has also recommended that the policy be revisited in three years to ensure it is appropriately serving the Cornell Community.

The Consensual Relationship Policy Committee, of which is made up of undergrads, graduate/professional students, postdocs, staff and faculty spanning fields across campus, was charged to craft an easy to abide by policy, taking into consideration research on other university policies, cases where consensual relationship policies failed to protect both students and faculty, and look into the broader context of societal change relevant to differentials in power dynamics in relationships, not act as a governing body responding to its constituents.

Creating a policy that would set into place clear boundaries for the broadest population was a response to this research and became an important mandate in recommending CRP-A. In addition, the policy committee also strived to gain insight from the larger Cornell Community by offering online platforms and the opportunity for anyone to provide feedback on a set of questions surrounding the issues as well as a public rough draft of the policy.

Further, members and chairs of the policy committee also convened with many different campus communities to gain feedback from a variety of perspectives. These outreach efforts included groups such as, Graduate Women in Science (GWiS), LGBT Studies and Out in STEM (oSTEM), to ensure that the concerns of marginalized and underrepresented groups like women and the LGBTQ community were taken into consideration while crafting the policy.

Along with the Assemblies and Faculty Senate votes, and their rationales, all of the concerns and responses from the larger Cornell Community were carefully considered by the policy committee members during the decision process. Therefore, the policy committee did not wholly abandon the democratic process but consulted many different parties on campus and recommended a more broadly considered and informed policy that provides bright lines to better serve all of the affected populations, thus maintaining an academic environment where any student has protections in place for their future careers and emotional well-being.

Operating over the last 8 months, the policy committee has aimed to be as transparent as possible in its policy and decision making by providing online access to the public rough draft, meeting times, as well as minutes and other procedures. All of this information can still be found online, including a “Rationale FAQ” and the statements of policy committee members explaining their reasoning behind recommending a policy. Most of this information is also compiled in the “Proceedings of the Consensual Relationship Policy Committee.”

While the policy committee has attempted to provide ample transparency and rationale for its recommendation of CRP-A, arguably this has not been provided to the larger Cornell Community in a concise way. Therefore, the rationale for the policy committee's decision to recommend CRP-A to President Pollack is summarized here. Having an unambiguous bright line drawn at relationships between graduate/professional students and faculty within the same graduate field or degree program provides clear guidelines thus: – Safeguarding against accidental violations of the policy or exploitation of vagaries in what constitutes authority providing protection to both faculty and students.

– Granting graduate and professional students access to faculty based on their academic merits and ongoing needs. While special committees, primary investigators, supervisors, collaborators, experts, and so forth, may not be part of the graduate/professional student’s field or degree program, those roles are significantly more likely to be filled by faculty within their fields. Therefore, previous or ongoing relationships with faculty members in a student’s field could very well limit their ability to pursue unforeseen collaborations, mentors or careers.

– Ensuring previous or ongoing relationships do not create conflicts of interest due to indirect authority. Within their fields, graduate and professional students are subject to formal and informal evaluation by in-field faculty, even when those faculty are not teaching required courses or directly supervising the student. The in-field ban effectively mitigates these types of conflict of interest.

– Protecting students outside of the relationship that may experience bias due to favoritism of the student within a relationship, actual or perceived.

– Considering the rights and protections of LGBTQ individuals by reducing the likelihood that disclosure would lead to unwanted or harmful outing. Outing would be difficult to avoid with the required in-field recusal plan under CRP-B. Thus, CRP-A grants fairly equal rights and protections to both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ individuals. In the rare instances where CRP-A would require disclosure and recusal, a place to confidentially manage this (the 6.X Office) has been recommended.

– Maximizing academic freedom while minimally limiting individual freedoms by prohibiting relationships that have the potential to do the most harm while allowing those across different fields or degree programs.

Students should have the freedom to pursue their academic endeavors, regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation that is free of unwanted pressures or concerns about educational objectivity from authority figures who have the potential to affect their academic and professional careers. CRP-A goes far towards creating this type of learning environment, thus upholding the sentiment of “any person, any study” that is paramount to Cornell’s academic mission.

Tisha Bohr, postdoctoral researcher Prof. Rhonda Gilmore, design and environmental analysis Jenna Chong grad

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OPINION Letter to the Editor

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee | Here, There and Everywhere

A call to arms for The Sun To the Editor: American newspaperman Philip Leslie Graham (1915–1963) was fond of saying that journalism is the “first rough draft of history,” but sometimes that first draft is a long time coming.

Just this month, The New York Times published N. R. “Sonny” Kleinfield’s thorough account of the April 1967 fire that took the lives of a Cornell assistant professor and eight students: “Never Solved, a College Dorm Fire Has Become One Man’s Obsession.” Many will read this story as the belated search for a suspected arsonist, a miscreant who allegedly attacked and killed Cornellians, including members of the University’s novel Six-year Ph.D. Program. But Kleinfield’s engrossing tale is primarily about alleged public corruption in a town-gown enclave: namely, collusion by Cornell University administrators, local law enforcement officials and the press to stall a criminal investigation.

In June of 1967, after a second and third fire again struck the ‘Fud’ students who had been relocated from their damaged Cayuga Heights Residential Club dormitory, Ithaca Police Chief Herbert L. Van Ostrand (1907–1997), Ithaca Fire Chief Charles M. Weaver ’39 (1917–1992) and Tompkins County District Attorney Richard Byron Thaler ’53, LLB ’56 (1932–2017) each stated for the record that they suspected the first fatal fire to be arson.

But then the story died — completely. The last mentions of any active criminal investigation were in The New York Times (3 June 1967), The Ithaca Journal (17 August 1967), The Cornell Alumni News (October 1967) and The Cornell Daily Sun (5 April and 13 May 1968). Kleinfield reports that one of the last two living police investigators, Harlin R. McEwen, doubts that the Res Club fire was arson, insisting that any inquiry is a trip “down a rabbit hole.” Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten appears to be more than a little vague about the homicide question despite his April 2017 admission, “We do know that the fire was of human origin.”

So, we have gone from official certainty in 1967 that the fatal fire was arson to doubt in 2018 with no evidence of any kind to justify this bureaucratically convenient revision. Three questions remain. Were these nine deaths murders? Why did the criminal investigation stall without any result? Why did a feckless press corps allow this tragedy to slip into a half-century memory hole?

There is still work to be done. This is not a search for the murderer; it is an investigation into why and how that law enforcement search was aborted.

The Cornell Daily Sun may have dropped the ball in 1968, but I give this student newspaper credit for reopening a case that the University would like to remain forgotten. In 2014, former Managing Editor Tyler Richard Alicea, Cornell ’16, wrote a story about the alumni investigation and revealed the existence of a April 17,1967 letter by Steven Muller (1927–2013), Vice President for Public Affairs, complaining to University President James Alfred Perkins (1911–1998) about the policy of “official silence” imposed by Board of Trustees Chairman Arthur Hobson Dean ’21 (18991987). Then last year, Mary Elizabeth “Meg” Gordon, Cornell ’20, wrote a fine piece on the tragic fire’s 50th anniversary. Finally, I was allowed to slip in a published letter that addressed similarities between the 1894 Cornell Chlorine Banquet (the inadvertent murder of a black cook, Mrs. Henrietta Jackson), the 1903 typhoid epidemic (82 deaths, including 29 Cornell students, due to fecal contamination in the Ithaca water supply) and the 1967 Res Club tragedy.

This is the quintessential Cornell Tradition: inadvertent murder, befuddled police, never a trial and the miscreants escape ― careers untroubled, unhindered. Then all is forgotten. Any memorial to the dead is sanitized; the underlying cause of death — manslaughter, chicanery, malfeasance — is purged from the record. As Vonnegut said, “And so it goes.”

Speaking for the families of those who died and the survivors who escaped — some of whom were attacked twice, I call upon The Cornell Daily Sun to finish this inquiry.

Another surge of investigative journalism might tell us (1) when the original criminal investigation petered out, (2) if the original assessment by officials that the first lethal fire was an act of arson is correct, (3) when law enforcement authorities first learned that one ‘person of interest’ had purloined a new identity circa 1968, (4) why that person was sent down (rusticated), and (5) precisely when this occurred. Neither the identity of that person nor information that would compromise the case is required to answer those five questions.

The answers are in the files of TCDA Matthew Van Houten, the Cayuga Heights Police Department and Cornell’s Office of the University Counsel. You can anticipate that all will resist cooperation and access, but the press is not powerless. Persistence, carefully worded questions and published reports of every refusal encountered will erode the “official silence” that Steven Muller complained of a half-century ago.

Finally, you have access to some of the best advice going — Cornell alumni who ran the Sun back in the 1960s and have since risen to positions of influence in journalism. Ask for their help. Get them involved. Their experience in dealing with recalcitrant officials will be invaluable.

And do not forget technical resources. The STEM departments at Cornell can help by critically reviewing reports of chemical assay and by modeling fire propagation in the Res Club structure to address the questions about fluid accelerants that were raised in 1967. That appears to be a very sensitive matter to both Van Houten and McEwen. Let’s find out why.

This will be a tough nut to crack — and it will take time, but if The Sun does not take up the task, who will?

H. William Fogle, Jr. ’70 Mesa, Arizona

Learning to Accept My Asian Identity P

rior to moving to Dubai, UAE in the middle of High School, I never really thought about what it means to be Asian. Even though the 325 million Americans tend to place the 4.4 billion people on the Asian continent altogether under one group as “Asians,” I could clearly sense that I was an East Asian minority in a country where the vast majority of the people were Middle Eastern or South Asian. I’ve also naturally been in a part of an international community throughout most of my life and was never forced to regard myself as different. Yes, I thought that I was international in that I strive to be a global citizen, but not in the sense of being foreign or someone “other” than the majority.

Here in the U.S., I have become increasingly exposed to the different identities one can embrace. Some which have come to define my experience here include international, Asian and female.

I have further discovered that Asians have developed a “model minority status” in the U.S. to the extent that their minority status is often overlooked in its entirety. I was surprised to learn that

describes the process of making a Vietnamese noodle soup, pho. I honestly didn’t expect much other than to satisfy my 3 a.m. cravings for noodles and soup, my two favorite foods. But as I watched the video, I couldn’t relate more to the narrator who spoke about her Vietnamese-American immigrant experience. I realized that we share very common struggles, like trying to choose between embracing my cultural background and adopting others’.

“I remember being younger thinking that I was a little weird because I went to a school where most of my had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and my mom would just pack me bahn mi,” she recalls. Her anecdote resonated with my experience both as an Asian and an outsider. Although I didn’t grow up in the U.S., I went to an international elementary school with an American curriculum in Beijing, China. My mom would also pack me ethnic foods like myulchi bokkeum (stir-fried anchovies) because of how much calcium it has, while my American friends gobbled down their unwholesome PB&Js. You’d expect these kids to be more appreciative of other

I was surprised to learn that despite its prominence as one of the most powerful and diverse nations in the world, the U.S. was much more isolationist than I had perceived. despite its prominence as one of the most powerful and diverse nations in the world, the U.S. was much more isolationist than I had perceived. Westerncentric viewpoints dominate discourse, while Asians are often excluded from discussions about race.

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. I know what you’re thinking. Why do we need to have months or weeks or days that commemorate specific identities? Why don’t we have a White History Month or an International Day of Men? What’s important to understand is the sheer lack of conversation that revolves around minorities. Asians constitute about 7% of the U.S. population and while relatively well-represented in academia, they are rarely provided a platform through mass media. While we revel in the marvels of Wakanda and Black Panther magic, we see just how underrepresented all minority groups had been throughout the centuries.

I didn’t know it was Asian Pacific American Heritage Month until coming upon a Buzzfeed Tasty Video that

cultures since they’re living in an East Asian country. Yet, I still remember how my white “friends” would look down upon my myulchi bokkeum as if they were bugs.

But they didn’t know how precious that myulchi bokkeum was. It was emblematic of my upbringing, family and my mother’s love for her child such that she would wake up hours before work every day to make sure that I had a nutritious lunch in school. Although I occasionally enjoy eating Oreos or salads with ranch dressing, I still can’t go a day without my daily dose of jjigae (stew) or rice. As embarrassed as I had been of Korean food back in elementary school and as much as I wished for silky blonde hair and blue eyes, I now know to be proud and happy for who I am. I love being Asian, Korean, international, female, a citizen of the world and everything in-between. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a sophomore in the ILR school.

She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays.

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Puzzle 402

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

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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Men’s takes 3rd, while women’s places 4th

By BENJAMIN SHI Sun Staff Writer

One of the most important meets of the season, the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships represented a chance for the Red to test its talents against conference rivals.

Michaela Smith won her second consecutive outdoor shot put title, while also breaking the school record.

And by all measures, Cornell track and field solidified its position as an Ivy powerhouse.

Men’s track and field finished third behind Princeton and Penn, while the women’s team took home fourth behind Penn, Harvard and Princeton. It marked the 16th straight season that the men’s team managed to earn a top-three finish.

The meet began with field events, with four of the men’s long jumpers going on to qualify for nationals. Senior Alex Rodriguez won the long jump with a jump of 23’11.75 and junior James Seaton followed behind with a fourth place jump of 23’8.

For the women, senior Michaela Smith won her second consecutive outdoor shot put title, while also breaking the school record held by Victoria Imbesi ’13 with a throw of 50 feet 4 ½ inches, making her the first Cornellian to break 50 feet outdoors. Freshman Marguerite Lorenzo continued her breakout rookie season by claiming third place in high jump with a jump of 5’7”.

The distance team once again proved to be a stable source of points for the men’s team during the meet. Senior Chase Silverman was one of the first final qualifiers with a time of 3:52.14 in an intensely physical 1500m race, which he pro-

ceeded to follow up with a third overall finish in 3:48.88. Senior Michael Wang continued his lights-out season by finishing sixth in the 3000m steeplechase.

Junior Briar Bumbley and freshman Gabrielle Orie both captured second and third places in the 3000m steeplechase with times of 10:09.96 and 10:13.84, respectively. Orie returned for the 5000m several hours later with a third place finish of 16:31.33 — besting his personal best by 17 seconds.

For the short distance team, juniors Alex Beck, who finished sixth, and captain Zach Menchaca, who finished second, both qualified for the final 100m race. Beck was also one of three Cornell runners that made it to the 200m final, where he finished fourth overall in 21.61.

In the 100m hurdle, sophomore Brittany Stenekes impressed once again by besting her own school record and finishing third in 13.51. The trio of Stenekes, Shepard, and Pearce teamed up with junior Martha Sam to finish third overall in the 4x100m with a

Cornell’s strong showings across all teams in the Heptagonal championships point to a promising cross country season. time of 46.05.

After a well-balanced effort that featured numerous personal and school records broken, Cornell’s strong showings across all teams in the Heptagonal championships point to a promising cross country season in the fall.

Both the men’s and women’s look to end their seasons on a high note in the IC4 Championships next weekend in Princeton.

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Red Bests Princeton, Takes 2 of 3 Games Finishes season 5th in Ivy League

By GRACIE TODD Sun Staff Writer

After dropping its last Ivy series to Columbia, the Red entered this weekend looking to end its better than expected season on a brighter note.

Powered by clutch offense and lights out pitching, Cornell (15-25, 10-11 Ivy) managed to do exactly that, beating out Princeton (10-29, 8-3) in two of three games on the Tigers’ home turf.

“It was a solid improvement from last year — and a great springboard for next year.”

Head coach Julie Farlow ’97

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Comeback kids | Despite being projected by pre-season polls to once again end the year at the bottom of the conference, a pair of wins over Princeton helped power the Red to an expectations-beating fifth place Ivy finish.

“Princeton has been a longtime rival,” said senior catcher Tori Togashi. “The series win was important to us.”

Cornell came back from a three run deficit to win the first game 7-6, but Princeton recovered to claim the second game of the day 2-5. The series winner came down to the third and final matchup on Sunday — a game defined more by deft pitching than hard-swinging bats.

Senior Megan Murray led off the first inning with a double. Sophomore Erin Rockstroh then smacked a ground ball to advance Murray to third, while Togashi hit a sac-fly to drive her home for the Red’s lone run.

“Scoring a run in the first inning definitely sets the tone for the remainder of the game,” Murray said. “It

takes a little bit of pressure off of our pitchers, allowing them to throw with a little bit of run support.”

“It felt amazing to get the RBI,” Togashi added. “And [Murray] scoring from third base was a special moment as well.”

Sophomore Katie Lew pitched both of the Red’s winning games against the Tigers. In the third game, she allowed only six hits and no walks, tossing a 65-pitch complete game shutout as the Red went on to eke out a 1-0 win. “[Lew] was masterful,” said head coach Julie Farlow ’97. “She let our defense make plays and they responded.”

The series marked the end of the Cornell’s campaign, which saw the Red close with an overall record of 15-25

and a conference record of 10-11. Ending the season fifth in the Ivy League, the team improved significantly on last year’s eighth-place conference finish.

“It was a solid improvement from last year,” Farlow said. “And a great springboard for next year.”

Pre-season polls projected Cornell to once again finish last in the league while Princeton was chosen to finish first — a judgement that gave the Red’s series win a particularly satisfying poignance.

“If we dropped the game, we would have tied for 5th with Princeton,” Murray said. “We wanted to finish on a strong note, especially for us seniors leaving the program.”

Gracie Todd can be reached at gtodd@cornellsun.com.

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Men’s Lax Left Unseeded in NCAA Tournament

Committee decides Cornell will face Syracuse away,despite defeating team earlier this season

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

Just hours after defeating national No. 1 Yale to win the

Ivy League tournament, Cornell men’s lacrosse learned that it had not done enough to secure a home game in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Instead, the Red will have to travel up I-81 to the Carrier Dome, where it will face eighthseeded Syracuse in the round of 16 of the national playoffs.

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Syracuse bound | After a dramatic win against national No. 1 Yale crowned Cornell Ivy League champions, the Red will square off against the Orange this Sunday in the first round of the NCAA championships.

Cornell is the team traveling Syracuse and execute another in this matchup, despite having win over the Orange. defeated Syracuse head-to-head “I would have loved to have earlier this season. What’s more, another game on Schoellkopf, the Red won the Ivy tournament, but we’re fired up to go to the boasted a top-10 RPI and lost Dome,” said senior captain only four games — all resume Jordan Dowiak. “We can’t wait pieces that Syracuse is lacking. to get after them this weekend.”

According to the NCAA Dowiak is one of just five curDivision I men’s lacrosse selec- rent Cornell players to have ever tion committee chairman John stepped on the field during an Hardt, Syracuse’s 3-1 record NCAA tournament game, with against common opponents to the Red’s current senior class Cornell’s 2-2 record against “Cornell had a couple of bad losses to c o m m o n opponents was Colgate and Princeton. We thought the enough to out- overall profile gave the edge to Syracuse.” w e i g h Cornell’s other John Hardt advantages over the Orange. having fallen to Albany in the “The committee spent a lot of first round their freshman year. time looking at this matchup,” “As a senior class, it’s on us to Hardt said on the selection show keep everyone dialed in and on ESPNU. “Cornell had a nice focused on the task at hand,” head-to-head win over Syracuse Dowiak said. “Just worry about earlier in the season … Quite us and try to get better every frankly, Cornell had a couple of day.” bad losses to Colgate and The game will begin at 7:15 Princeton. We thought the over- p.m. next Sunday at the Carrier all profile gave the edge to Dome in Syracuse.

Syracuse.”

For its part, the Red feels as Dylan McDevitt can be reached at though it is ready to travel to dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.