05 1 17 entire issue hi res

INDEPENDENT SINCE 1880

The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 133, No. 82

MONDAY, MAY 1, 2017

!

ITHACA, NEW YORK

12 Pages – Free

News

Arts

Sports

Weather

Escalating Tensions

Optimistic Rock

Budding Bear

Scattered Thunderstorms HIGH: 78º LOW: 53º

A South Korean official and a North Korean refugee highlighted the rising tensions between the U.S. and N. Korea. | Page 3

Chris Fraser ’17 now has an opportunity to make the roster of the Bears or 49ers.

Kurt Riley’s ’16 new album, Tabula Rosa is imaginative, says Shay Collins ’18. | Page 6

| Page 12

Hundreds Fill Commons At Ithaca Climate March

By MEG GORDON Sun Staff Writer

Hundreds of demonstrators demanded action on climate change from the Trump administration as they filled the downtown Ithaca Commons Saturday morning in Ithaca’s Climate March in tandem with climate marches across the country.

Cornellians added their voices to the mix, both in Ithaca and in Washington, D.C. The march, occurring one week after Earth Day, was held on Trump’s 100th day in office to protest “his

attacks on our climate, our air, and our water,” according to the group’s page.

Chants of “This is what democracy looks like” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho climate change has got to go” rang out from demonstrators of all ages as they marched down the Commons from the rally to The Space at GreenStar.

During those first 100 days, the Environmental Protection Agency has moved to roll back Obama-era regulations on fossil fuels, seeming to many that the Trump administration is priorSee MARCH page 5

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SUGUITAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

100 Days Action | Ithaca’s Climate March passes through the downtown Ithaca Commons, with the protest’s participants decrying what they regard as Trump’s attacks on Earth’s climate, air and water.

Johnson Museum Gala Raises Awareness for Refugee Crisis Mayor Myrick ’09, founder of Ithaca Welcomes Refugees, speaks at event

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Over 300 attendees from Cornell and the Ithaca community put on their finest and headed to the Johnson Museum on Saturday for an evening of performances, student art and speeches made to raise awareness for the plight of refugees worldwide at the Cornell Welcomes Refugees Gala.

“I am so glad to see that there are so many of you [here], who could be anywhere tonight, who could be at Delta Chi — is that still a thing?” said Mayor Svante Myrick ‘09, praising the audience that had come out to support the cause.

“There are people who are ... literally weeks from coming to Ithaca, out of harm’s way.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 The event, organized by Cornell Welcomes Refugees, was modeled after a similar gala that CWR President Salma Shitia ’18 hosted last year with the Arab Student Association. Last year, Shitia was able to raise over $4,000 to help with the resettlement of refugees in Ithaca.

CWR arranged a lineup of speakers for the night, two of

which were Myrick and Walaa Maharem-Horan, a founding member of Ithaca Welcomes Refugees.

Myrick expressed optimism for the activist efforts he has seen in Ithaca and across the nation against President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees.

“I am far more hopeful than I was 100 days ago, when this man, who rode a wave of hatred and xenophobia to the White House, took the reins of power,” he said.

“A combination of his own incompetence and your energy and action meant that he’s been the least productive president in modern American history.”

Call for action Ithaca’s Climate March occurred concurrently with the Washington, D.C. People’s Climate March, seen here in progress.

HILARY SWIFT / THE NEW YORK TIMES

He also urged attendees to continue making their voices heard in their communities. “[W]e can keep that up. We have to. Because there are people who are … literally weeks from coming to Ithaca, out of harm’s way,” Myrick said.

But the journey to Ithaca is a difficult one, as Maharem-Horan

attested.

Maharem-Horan told many stories of the immigrant families she has helped resettle, from a farmer who was most thankful for America’s tap water to an Afghani family that was moved by the home-cooked, volunteer-prepared See GALA page 5

Alum Details Cornell’s ‘State of Seige’ in 1960s

By SHRUTI JUNEJA

Freshman: A Story of the Sixties, highlights the different perspectives of five students at In the stacks of Olin Library Cornell, following their jourlast October, Steve Kussin ’69 neys from orientation to gradu— whose father was a hostage ation on the eve of the Vietnam in the Willard Straight takeover War. Four of the characters are of 1969 — put the finishing fictional, while the fifth is touches on a novel that weaved Kussin himself. together a narrative Kussin is curabout what it was rently a professor in like to be at Cornell the School of during the turbuCommunication at lent 1960s as well as Hofstra University, confront issues where he teaches an ranging from the introductory course Vietnam War to about radio, TV civil rights to and film. At the end women’s liberation. of this course, he KUSSIN ’69 “We went from talks about the 60s, calm to absolute turmoil by the and the Vietnam War in particend of my four years,” Kussin ular. Kussin said that one day told The Sun. “I was there for he had a “eureka” moment the four years of this evolution, about how it would all make a this revolution, that changed great story, which inspired him things completely. We went to undertake the task of writing from one Cornell to a com- the book. pletely different Cornell.”

The book, titled Five See ALUMNUS page 5 Sun Staff Writer

2 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017

Daybook

DAYBOOK

Monday, May 1, 2017

A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS Today B1nary Codes: Dancing Dichotomies in Bangalore’s Gay Nightlife 12:15 - 1:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall Public Ritual, Temple Construction and the Origins Of Maya Civilization 12:15 p.m., 206 Stimson Hall Climate Change Seminar: Communicating Climate Change 2:55 - 4:10 p.m., B25 Warren Hall

ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Making a point | The University Assembly, shown above, will gather for its weekly meeting tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. in the Physical Sciences Building.

A History of Official White Supremacy In the Era of Trump 4:30 p.m., Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies and Research Center Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Meeting 5:30 - 7 p.m., Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall

Africana Studies | Prof. Noliwe Rooks, Africana studies, above, will be one of the speakers in a panel discussion tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. titled “A History of Official White Supremacy in the Era of Trump.”

Moral Responsibility, Blameworthiness And Intention: In Search of Formal Definitions 7:30 - 8:30 p.m., 155 Olin Hall

The Corne¬ Daily Sun INDEPENDENT SINCE 1880

Editor in Chief

Sophia Deng ’19

ALL DEPARTMENTS

Business Manager

Dahlia Wilson ’19

(607) 273-3606

Business: For questions regarding advertising, classifieds, subscriptions or delivery problems, please call from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.

News: To report breaking news or story ideas, please call after 5 p.m., Sunday-Thursday.

SEND A FAX VISIT THE OFFICE THE SUN ONLINE E-MAIL

(607) 273-0746 139 W. State Street, Ithaca, N.Y. www.cornellsun.com sunmailbox@cornellsun.com

Postal Information: The Cornell Daily Sun (USPS 132680 ISSN 1095-8169) is published by THE CORNELL DAILY SUN, a New York corporation, 139 W. State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. The Sun is published Monday, Tuesday and Thursday during the academic year, and every weekday online. Four special issues — one for Cornell Days in April, one for seniors in May, one for alumni in June and one for incoming freshmen in July — make for a total of 89 issues per year. Subscriptions are: $84.00 for fall term, $86.00 for spring term and $170.00 for both terms if paid in advance. Standard postage paid at Ithaca, New York.

Postmaster: Send address changes to The Cornell Daily Sun, 139 W. State St., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.

Tomorrow Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series: David Ledbetter 4 - 5 p.m., Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium University Assembly Meeting 4:30 - 6 p.m., 401 Physical Sciences Building War or Witch-Hunt?: The Modern Day Campaign Against Outdoor Cats in Post-Truth America 6 - 7:30 p.m., AHDC Lobby, College of Veterinary Medicine

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017 3

NEWS

North Korean Defector Details Path to Freedom

By HNIN WAI LWIN Sun Staff Writer

At a crucial time in North Korea’s political climate and humanitarian crisis, JungHoon Lee, the South Korean Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights, and Yosep Paek, North Korean refugee, spoke to Cornell students on Friday drawing from their expertise to stress the escalating tensions between North Korea and the world. “[North Korea] is a country whose economy has collapsed a long time ago. People are suffering from hunger, famine, and yet the government is developing weapons of mass destruction and the international community must interject,” Lee said.

Considering a recent propaganda film released by the North Korean government with its mocked-up scenes of a nuclear bomb striking a city in the United States, Lee said that he believes “they are preparing for World War III.” “Everything is government controlled and government oriented,” he said. “It’s as tough as it can get. They are threatening nuclear attacks. It sounds surreal but it’s escalating.”

In addition to the current rising tensions between North Korea and the United States, Lee also addressed diplomatic relations between the countries in the present and past. The occasion of President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office did not escape his notice.

“Strategic patience is over. This has been said over and over by the President, the Secretary of State, the Vice President, and the Secretary of Defense. Today marks the 100th day of the presidency.” Lee said.

“Only yesterday, President Trump invited every single member of the senators to the White House for a detailed briefing on North Korea. That’s pretty unusual.”

Lee believes that secondary boycott and sanctions are some of the possible actions that can be taken regarding North Korea.

“[A] secondary boycott, which is not targeting North Korean businessmen or individuals but those who deal with those people, redesignation of North Korea as a state sponsoring terrorism, and redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons in South Korea are possible ways of tackling the issue,” Lee said.

According to Lee, North Korea is “armed to its teeth” with not only “nuclear weapons but chemical weapons and biological weapons.”

“North Korea has said multiple times it has no intention whatsoever to denuclearize,” he said. “Last year, they had two nuclear tests. North Korea is no doubt, proceeding with the development of the ICBM [Intercontinental Ballistic Missile]. We don’t know if it can carry a nuclear warhead but it’s certainly trying.”

Lee also brought up the definition of communism as opposed to the current political regime in North Korea — which he said was rather a “totalitarian state.”

“All the corpses that we had to pass by while crossing the border, they live on within us.”

Yosep Paek “Kim Jong Un wants to be left alone and he wants his son to rule next. This will be one century of the Kim regime. North Korea is not communist. Communism does not practice hereditary succession. This is a unique, totalitarian state,” Lee said.

Beyond military action by the country, Lee also stressed the major violations of human rights by North Korea. To address these violations, Lee explained the role of defectors moving forward.

“These are crimes against humanity.

North Korea is violating every single article

COURTESY OF YOUTUBE

Humanity at stake | Jung Hoon Lee the South Korean Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights, was accompanied by North Korean defector Yosep Park when he spoke at Cornell, Friday.

in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he said. “I’m trying to encourage the defectors to pull together and coordinate their efforts to fight. Just like the North Korean nuclear issue, it’s not going away. It really is going to take a monumental effort to make a difference.”

Yosep Paek provided a first-hand account of such human rights violations from his own experience as a North Korean defector and as a soldier in Pyonyang, North Korea for two years.

“I was only 41 kilograms when I was first in the military, when I left after 2 years, I was 31 kilograms. I ate everything, except stone and wood. I ate mice, snakes, raccoons, frogs. Many friends died so I ran away,” Paek said.

Paek also said that while the international community believed it was helping,reality was relatively unchanging.

“Between 1998 to 2008, the international community donated a lot of money to North Korea,” he said. “3 million people died during this time. Interestingly enough, the more amount that is sent in, the more people died.”

To escape these conditions, Paek’s journey from North Korea to his eventual freedom was across six different countries that was over “35,000 km and took more than 2,090 days.”

“I repeated the process of running away, getting caught, running away, getting caught,” he said.

Paek, who currently works as a journalist in South Korea, explained that only 30,000 out of 300,000 people survive when escaping North Korea.

“It’s only 10 percent success rate. We have a big responsibility to speak up,” Paek said. “All the corpses that we had to pass by while crossing the border, they live on within us. I am not alive alone, but those who died are also standing behind me.”

With his woeful account of the atrocities that he had suffered, Paek’s presentation held important emotional resonance for the audience.

“We sink in the sea every night with no lights. Why do we have to suffer? What we call freedom, that’s everyday for you,” Paek said.

While concluding, Paek addressed what he felt being in front of Americans, who are meant to be his “enemies.”

“While it’s very frightening to be here, in front of my ‘enemies,’ Americans, I’m very appreciative to be here,” he said. “Someone is listening. Thank you so much for this opportunity.”

Hnin Wai Lwin can be reached at hwailwin@cornellsun.com.

Acclaimed Psychoanalyst Explores Intersections of Literature,Trauma

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

Acclaimed psychoanalyst Françoise Davoine highlighted the importance of literature as an instrument for healing victims of traumatic experiences at a conference on trauma theory Saturday morning.

From Thursday to Saturday evening, nearly 20 writers, professors and artists — including several Cornell graduates — gave lectures in honor of Prof.

Cathy Caruth, comparative lit-

100 days of Trump

erature, who was celebrating the 20th anniversary of her book Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History.

Citing examples from 16th and early 17th-century literature, including Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Don Quixote, and Pierre de Ronsard’s poem “Contre les bucherons de la foret de Gastine,” Davoine described the therapeutic qualities of literature for individuals who may have experienced traumas.

Davoine emphasized the importance of storytelling as a

AL DRAGO / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Donald Trump bathes in the support of his bedrock supporters at a campaign style rally in Pennsylvania to commemorate 100 days in office.

method of confronting haunting memories, which she characterized as “the dead.”

“Literature is there, often as a healing process to bury the dead,” she said. “My office is full of ghosts.”

In order to have closure for upsetting memories, she argued, it is often essential to tell the story in a narrative. Telling the truth of a “death,” whether literal or metaphorical, can help traumatized individuals create a space to address their thoughts and ultimately put traumatic events in the past.

“For me, it’s always important to say that it is not medical diagnosis which will make a change for you,” Davoine said.

“It goes with what Cathy [Caruth] says, that it is a process of admitting what we have inherited, catastrophes before us, that were not inscribed as past. They come in the present time.”

During her lecture, Davoine emphasized her personal and professional relationship with Caruth, referring jokingly to a time when she had stolen two of Caruth’s books from her office.

Speakers and visitors throughout the conference referred to such relationships with Caruth, whom they lauded as a “warrior woman.”

Davoine described her own political trauma from her childhood in France in the 1940s, “in the middle of the turmoil, the [French] Resistance.” She said the experience of war drove her to investigate trauma, “which is the field where literature comes, since antiquity.”

Defining literature as “tool of survival,” that includes oral histories, songs and ceremonies,

“Literature is there, often as a healing process to bury the dead. My office is full of ghosts.”

Francoise Davoine Davoine explained that mythical figures and archetypes can enable both readers and writers to confront real situations that evade description.

“The monsters, the fairies, all that, are the place … from where you can retrieve things that you cannot tell in the ordinary language,” she said.

Caruth praised Davoine’s work, emphasizing Davoine’s clinical work as a practicing psychoanalyst.

“When she says literature is a place of healing or it’s the site

where traumatic stories are told and healing takes place, she’s not doing a theory of trauma.

She’s talking about what happens in the sessions, the clinical sessions, and in her life,” Caruth said. “It’s quite remarkable.”

Caruth added that she most appreciated the mix of attendees present at the conference — both clinicians like Davoine and theorists such as herself — who came to Ithaca to speak and attend lectures.

With such a combination of people, Caruth said, theorists “can see what’s at stake in the work we do.”

Though a conference on traumatic experience addresses difficult topics, including death, Caruth said she had found the weekend to be a place of creative “life.”

“Everybody here is talking about trauma,” Caruth said.

“They talk about the death drive, death, but what I have experienced is really the life drive. Seeing what they do is life.”

“For me, mainly to see the kind of life that’s come from this site of working on trauma, it’s really been the greatest thing of all,” Caruth added.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

4 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017 Pick up a FREE COPY of The Corne¬ Daily Sun CORNELL CAMPUS

• A.D. White House • Admissions Office • Africana Library Center • Alice Cook Dining • Anabel Taylor Hall • Appel Commons • Baker Hall • Bard Hall • Barnes Hall • Bartels Hall • Bethe House • Big Red Barn • Carl Becker House • Carpenter Hall Library • Ctr. for Intercultural Dialogue • Clark Hall • Computer Services & Financial Aid, East Hill Plz. • Cornell Institute for Social & Economic Research • Cornell Store • Corson Hall • Court Hall • Dairy Bar • Day Hall Main Lobby • Dickson Hall • Donlon Hall • Duffield Hall • East Hill Office Complex • Environmental Health & Safety Building • Flora Rose • Gannett • Goldie’s (Physical Sci. Bldg) • Goldwin Smith • Hasbrouck Center

• Horticulture Office • Humphreys Service Bldg.

• Ives Hall (ILR) • Ivy Room (WSH) • Johnson Museum • Keeton House Dining • Kosher Dining Hall • Mac’s Café • Martha’s (MVR) • Mann Library • Myron Taylor Hall + Hughes Dining • Noyes Main Lobby • Okenshields, Willard Straight • Olin Hall • Olin Library B Level • Plantations Gift Shop • Rhodes Hall • Risley Dining • Robert Purcell Community Center (RPCC) • Sage Hall Atrium •Sibley Hall, Green Dragon Café • Snee Hall • Statler Lobby • Statler Terrace Restaurant • Tatkon Center • Teagle Hall • Transpor. Dept.,Maple Ave. • Trillium • Uris Hall • Vet Center (Shurman Hall) •Weill Hall, M1 Rm + Synapsis • Willard Straight Hall Lobby + Dining

OFF CAMPUS

• Autumn Leaves Used Books (Ithaca Commons) • Bear Necessities • Center Ithaca • Coal House Café • Collegetown Bagels: CTown + Triphammer • Commons Grocery • CFCU (Triphammer Rd. + East Hill Plaza) • Corner of College & Dryden • Corner of State & Aurora •Express Mart, Comm. Crnrs.

• Hillside Inn • Hilton Garden Inn • Holiday Inn • Ithaca Coffee Co. •Ithaca College, Phillips Hall • Jason’s Grocery & Deli • Kendal • Kraftees • Lifelong • Oasis (Greenstar) • P&C Fresh (East Hill Plaza) • Salvation Army • Shortstop Deli • Stella’s • Tompkins Cty. Public Library • Tops (Triphammer Rd.) • Universal Deli • Warren Real Estate: Downtown,Community Crnr.

or stop by The Sun’s office at 139 W. State Street

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017 5

NEWS

Gala Raises More Than $3,000 to Aid Refugees GALA

Continued from page 1

Afghani meals that they were met with upon their arrival.

“America has the most secure vet[ting] system in the world,” Maharem-Horan said. “This is a two-to-three-year process. These people are fingerprinted three to four times.

It’s not like somebody goes, ‘you know where you should go?

America.’”

She also detailed Ithaca’s history as a sanctuary for refugees, and emphasized that attendees should think of the refugee crisis as an ongoing issue.

“Refugees aren’t just Syrian and Iraqi and Afghani — you’re talking people from the Congo and [Myanmar].

[Myanmar] has had refugees since the 1970s. This is not just a hot-button issue, this is not something that just happened to pop up. Ithaca Welcomes Refugees didn’t exist because of Trump; we’ve been around since December of 2015,” she said.

The issue of taking refugees, Maharem-Horan said, should not be seen as a political debate, but rather as one of humanity.

“Right now there’s over 60 million refugees worldwide.

These are people that have been displaced from their homes, and I just want people to take a step back and put [them] in [the refugees’] shoes,” she said.

The gala additionally featured work by student artists, a decision that Shitia explained was to prompt heightened

awareness. udice can be on a society.

“After the executive order and immigration ban ... it was “I come from a place that has been in political crisis since really important not to just raise funds, but to raise aware- I’ve been aware of the … situation of the world. I don’t think ness,” she said. “We contacted many artists to display their we’ve seen peace that was actual peace; there was always work on refugees here.” some underlying commotion,” she said. “Where we are now Two of these artists, Calga Sokullu ’20 and Chryssanthi in the U.S. — I think we all see the political situation, where Barris ’20, cited their own experiences as inspiration behind it’s so tense between people. I think we just need to take a their collaboration, “Stigma” — a collection of pho- step back and see that we are all the same.” tographed faces viewed through a black canvas with cutouts.

Barris drew upon her experiences as an immigrant from “Through the placement of the Greece, stressing that she hopes people can cut-outs, we wanted to highlight the hope to embrace diversity. similarities and differences between “Ithaca Welcomes Refugees “When I moved back [to the U.S.] from Greece, I was made fun of for my heritage,” the facial features of our subjects." didn’t exist because of Barris said. “For me, this [piece] is a way to Barris said. "Our piece explores the idea that we may be different people Trump; we’ve been around remind people to be kind, to love one another, and celebrate each other’s differfrom different places, different back- since December of 2015.” ences.” grounds, different races, different — Walaa Maharem-Horan The gala was able to raise over $3,000 everything, but at our core we are all for refugees, but Shitia hopes that attendees still human.” of the gala will also leave with a better “At the end of the shoot, when we looked at all 15 [shots,] they’re all really the same,” Sokullu understanding of the potential consequences of American added. "For us, the black canvas was a barrier between the legislation on these refugees. “[G]arnering support for the movement to accept viewer and the subject. The canvas can hide parts of the face.

But still, we know what is behind it, we know that it is a per- refugees within our borders is the most important thing son and we accept them as they are even with the presence right now, especially with the current geopolitical climate,” Shitia said. of that barrier."

Originally from Istanbul, Sokullu said that her experiences have shown her just how powerful the effects of prej- Jeanette Si can be reached at jsi@cornellsun.com.

Alumnus Recounts Infamous Cornellians Travel to D.C. for Climate March Willard Straight Takeover in Book MARCH

Continued from page 1

ALUMNUS

Continued from page 1

“But I didn’t want to write a textbook, I didn’t want to write nonfiction,” he said. “I wanted to write a novel, I wanted to personalize it.”

Kussin described that his experience as an undergraduate was profoundly shaped by political movements, starting with the Vietnam War. “We started off totally carefree, not a care in txhe world in 1965,” he said.

“It was wonderful back then, we didn’t worry. And the war in Vietnam gradually began to creep in closer and closer … It was a delayed reaction, because we weren’t near one of the big cities.”

He said that being a Cornell student was a very different experience than being a student at another university.

With Cornell like an isolated “Garden of Eden” in upstate New York, Kussin said that world events had different impacts on the students, unlike the experience of other Ivy students with their schools located closer to larger cities.

However, world events eventually did creep their way up to the hills of Ithaca.

“Just imagine this, you’re sitting in Goldwin Smith Hall in a large lecture class talking to your friends before the class starts, and you say, ‘Hey, by the way...where’s Joe?’ and you suddenly get a look from the three others, ‘You didn’t hear? He got a call from his draft board. He’s going home, he’s on his way to Vietnam,’” Kussin recounted.

“And that’s how we lived, we didn’t know when the next letter or call would be,” he added. “It was a scary time as the war got closer and closer and closer.”

Not only was the ongoing war ever-present for students, but the effect of the Civil Rights Movement added tensions on campus.

Even though Kussin was a senior in 1969, his dad still wanted to come up for Parents’ Weekend. Because Kussin procrastinated and forgot to make a reservation for his father, he ended up getting him a room on the top floor of

Willard Straight Hall — a location that put him directly in the thick of the ensuing events.

On the morning of the fateful Willard Straight Takeover in April 1969, Kussin got a call from his father at 5 a.m., but hung up the phone and fell back asleep. It wasn’t until Kussin woke up a few hours later and turned on radio that he realized what was going on.

“I put two and two together, I raced from Cayuga Heights, where I lived, across campus in minutes and fortunately he had been released by then,” he said. “I still see him standing outside in his tweed coat and beret, shivering.”

What made the Cornell takeover different from all the other ones occurring around the country, according to Kussin, was that it was the first instance in which weapons were present.

“Thank god they weren’t used,” he said. “But the campus was in a state of siege for about a week.”

One of Kussin’s most vivid memories from this time, which he details in his book, is witnessing two professors, with students gathered around them, screaming at each other on the Arts Quad about whether or not to give in to the demands of the students.

“I respected both points of view,” he said. “I don’t know what I would have done if I had been president [of Cornell]. In retrospect, I think Perkins, who was then the president, did the right thing. Human life comes first, and we’ll deal with stuff later on.”

Kussin said that witnessing such events and being a student during this time emphasized the importance of speaking up — a significant lesson he has carried from college. This lesson bears significance for college students in today’s turbulent political climate, Kussin said.

“If you think something is environmentally wrong, if you think something is socially wrong, if you think something is politically wrong, you should speak your mind, but not violently,” he said.

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

itizing economic growth over environmental concerns, according to CNN. The event began with a statement by Gay Nicholson, president of Sustainable Tompkins.

“We are here to fight grave injustices,” she said. “We can’t just leave it all to a few reps and activists. This problem is just too big. We need an immense movement that stays engaged.”

Nicholson was joined by Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D-125), who voiced her concerns for environmental action and past legislation — action that she said has not addressed the issues effectively.

“I was going to start by saying we need to stop meeting like this, but then I thought, no, we have to keep meeting like this,” she said, laughing.

“I think it’s important that we all get together, and see that we are not alone, we are all still very concerned, we are all still very energized, and we are all going to keep fighting together,” Lifton added.

Lifton discussed policy like New York’s ban on fracking, a process that produces enormous amounts of fugitive methane, an extremely powerful greenhouse gases, which Lifton said is 86 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in a twenty-year window.

She argued that this policy does not go far enough, since fossil fuel emissions still contribute to environmental decay. For Lifton, this ban ultimately shifted the problem to other states rather than finding a permanent solution.

“When we allow major pipelines and other major infrastructure to be built in New York, we are de facto encouraging fracking in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and other states,” she

said.

“We must switch off fossil fuels. We must bring down methane and bring it down quickly because that fugitive methane goes into the atmosphere that we all share, and it doesn’t respect state boundaries.”

While the speakers made such statements during the rally, Ithacans waved protest signs reading “There is no Planet B,” “Pro Green, Anti Orange,” and “Warming Warning!” in the crowd.

Lifton added that immediate action is required not only on the national level, but the local as well.

“There will be no businesses, no jobs on a dead planet,” Lifton said. “Mother nature is not negotiating with us on this. Action here at the local level is especially important today. This is not hightech, this is simply stopping the harm.”

One demonstrator in the crowd, Mary Woodsen, a science writer for Cornell’s New York State Integrated Pest Management Program, said that she was protesting because “the new normal isn’t normal.”

“There are so many people living in areas directly affected by climate change, and I feel like we’re going to see climate refugees someday,” Woodsen said. “I don’t know if I’ll still be alive, but chances are I will, and it horrifies me.”

Spirit of Protest Travels To Washington D.C.

While Ithacans flooded the Commons downtown, some Cornellians traveled to the nation’s capital to protest the Trump administration on its home turf.

Maya Chang Matunis ’20 described participating in the event as “invigorating.”

“I feel honored to have participated in the People’s Climate March in D.C. with my friends, fellow Cornell students, and hundreds of other Americans concerned

about the future,” she said.

“Marching on Saturday … made me feel powerful and useful, like part of a tide that, as so many signs at the march read, is steadily rising.”

Matunis said she observed that the ambiguity of climate change escalates when studied from an “ivory tower” — inspiring her to take to the streets of the nation’s capital.

“The issues are intertwined and tangled and messy, systemic and racialized, politicized and overwhelming,” she said.

“However, it is more important than ever that we stay aware and alert, even when it seems difficult. It is more important than ever that we hold up the people around us, listen to and love them, and walk with them — metaphorically and physically — until we find solutions.”

Matija Jankovic ’20, who has been an active protester in Boston, agreed with Matunis’ sentiments, saying that he saw Saturday’s march as an opportunity to “contribute to political demonstrations in the spaces where they are most relevant.”

“Saturday’s march definitely stands out, in that it was actually taking place at the capital where so many of these environmentally destructive policies and initiatives are originating” he said.

“I think it's important that progressively-minded people maintain a political presence in public spaces, and even though events like Saturday’s march generally don’t result in immediate changes, they make the moods of the public visible.”

“Climate change is an incredibly important issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible, so I’m glad that some of us from Cornell were able to make it down to D.C. to join the effort,” he added.

Meg Gordon can be reached at mgordon@cornellsun.com.

A&E

6 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | Monday, May 1, 2017

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A

Who’s Laughing Now?

s an adolescent I had a habit of watching too much stand-up comedy. Every Friday night, when there were football games and dances I was too anxious to attend, I would fall asleep to whatever performer I could find on Comedy Central Presents, and all was right with my life as long as I could laugh.

I think I inherited this habit from my family, whose core philosophy — if they were to choose one — would center humor as a way to communicate with and understand others. My little brother used to tell me he could make anyone laugh once he got to know them. My mother told me how she laughed at her brother’s funeral, only because crying would have been too difficult. Not to mention she remembered how much my late uncle made her smile.

But in these long, cold days of Netflix Originals, all the former specialists seem to fall short of making me chuckle.

This year has seen the return of Dave Chappelle to the public eye. Louis CK and Amy Schumer and Bill Burr are all alive and well, putting out new material. Yet I’m wondering why each of these comedians — plus the many others that have decorated our video players and TV screens — feel so hell-bent on making audiences gasp with stale jokes and pseudo-edgy punchlines.

Moreover, I’m also curious as to why so many of these funny folks market themselves against the grain of “political correctness” and the “overly sensitive” public, which still provides a demand for their material, ironically. I guess I can answer my own question when I realize that we love breaking rules as much as we love making them.

Comedy, like many forms of art, deals with topics we’re often too afraid to discuss. It provides a textbook form of

catharsis that relieves us of our worry.

Still, I don’t feel out of line when responding to older comedians who, saying audiences have become too uptight, refuse to play college campuses anymore. Maybe it’s not that young people have regressed into a bubble that no humor can pop. Maybe it’s that we’ve heard all these damn jokes before, and we want new ones.

I’ve heard plenty of dark jokes. I could tell you 20 racist and sexist bits that have planted themselves in my head due to how terrible they were (each one of them told to Appearances me as if they were God’s gift to the world). And I can guarantee that all the people those jokes target have heard them in spades.

“Well,” I always hear, “it’s not comedians’ fault you can’t take a joke.” But is there any value in holding jokes sacred above all else? What good does it do to believe that everyone loves a joke when it seems more the case that only a specific group does?

The free speech defense is a complete con, too. When you’re arguing for someone’s right to make a joke versus someone’s right to protest that joke, you’re in the wrong camp, especially because the world of comedy is a wasteland for any sort of politics. Plenty of comedians will be the first to tell you they don’t care if their jokes hurt or anger people.

I suppose the sobriety of younger audiences can also cause some frustrations to comedians who thought they had discovered universal methods to cheer everyone up.

Overall, though, I feel little sympathy. I love laughing, especially to cope with pain and death. I love making others laugh. I know plenty of people who have no trouble getting

Stephen Meisel

Kurt Riley Tabula Rasa Self-Released Shay Collins Kurt Riley ’16 is, first and foremost, an optimist. Riley’s imaginative blend of rock, blues and theatricality always gazes forward, hoping for a more enthusiastic and less cynical future. While Riley took on the persona of an alien king to critique humanity from the outside on his 2016 release Kismet, Riley and his band have come back to earth on 2017’s Tabula Rasa.

With his distinctive style of “21st century rock,” Riley turns to problems that have been all too pertinent throughout the past few years: a sense of helplessness in a massive political system, a news cycle filled with depressing stories and growing malaise. Yet, Tabula Rasa, with all of its forward-looking anthems, begins on a decidedly somber note.

Over an earworm of a guitar riff, Riley bemoans, “Nothing I can say, nothing I can do, same as the day before/and I don’t know if I can make it anymore.” The track crescendos at the chorus as Riley makes the cry that underscores much of Tabula Rasa: “I don’t need a million/Just a life worth living for.” Good news (and people’s desperate desire for it) appears as a theme throughout the album.

“Screwing up the World,” the album’s second track, feels far more like a call to arms than a pained lament: “I don’t want to hear about it/I’m tired of the news.” In the second verse, Riley sings, “The television told me fables/of Cadillacs and girls.” Just as Kismet fixated on sci-fi technology to critique society, Tabula Rasa turns to the spectacle and ennui of current technology, evidenced in trends like the 24-hour news cycles and slacktivism.

Tabula Rasa’s one fault, however, is the fact that some of Riley’s societal critiques are stated in strokes far too broad to

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

people to laugh without reverting to boring clichés and stereotypes of which we’re supposedly too afraid to speak.

It’s not that we’ve never encountered any sort of “real world” where everything is not how we want it to be, and therefore we must shut our eyes and cover our ears and drown out dissent. It’s that we’re used to trolls, provocateurs and shock-value. I can go online and see police shootings, suicides or beheadings with a single mouseclick. Every single teenager with a sense of curiosity can follow suit.

Trauma invades our daily life every chance it gets. Yes, there are many people out there who need laughter because of this fact. It is an intuitive yet unconfirmed truth that those with the most difficult lives often laugh the loudest.

If, however, you crack jokes not to make them feel better but to fulfill your need for controversy and attention, or if you judge the quality of joke by how much it pisses people off, you’re distancing yourself from what you wanted in the first place: to make others laugh, to make them happy.

Comedy involves empathy. My little brother had it right when he said that getting to know someone made it easier to get a laugh. My mother had it right when she had the courage to mourn her brother in a way that helped her survive, a way in which I’m sure he would have approved.

The lesson I learned from them is that humor is personal. Like all types of expression, it involves reaching out to others in a way that forms a connection. When you tell a joke, you make yourself vulnerable. You ask others to laugh.

So why use comedy to dig our heads further into the sand, to enforce old ideas and lazy thought? Sooner or later this shallow kind of comedy will stop working. Then, God forbid, comedians might actually have to stop and listen instead of locking themselves in.

Stephen Meisel is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun.com. His column Appearances appears alternate Mondays this semester.

TEST SPIN

O O O

O

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O

new and notable O music in review O O O O O O O

really hit home. In “Century,” for example, Riley laments that a “precious little snowflake is exploring her identity/while her sister in the Middle East/gets stoned ‘cause she wants to be free.” The line seems jarringly combative in a song that is otherwise focused on bringing back productive conversation in an atmosphere of extreme political division.

But Kurt Riley’s music is more often focused on joy and memory, and Riley and his band — guitarist Sam Packer, bassist Rick Kline, keyboardist Rob Romano and drummer Olivia Dawd — consistently knock it out of the park with action-packed arrangements and pristine technical chops.

Riley and his band faithfully emulate the camp, glitz and grunge of artists like David Bowie (may he rest in peace) and T. Rex. Tabula Rasa’s most full-hearted and exuberant tracks, namely “All Night Long” and “Human 101,” evidence a safe return to Earth for Riley, one that finds him once again reviving the sounds and grooves of past decades.

While Riley’s most recent album Kismet was, and sounded like, a largely DIY project (much of the album was recorded in Cornell’s Lincoln Hall studios), Tabula Rasa has a noticeable, and welcome, step up in production quality.

Riley and his band worked with producer Alex Caminiti at his Ithaca-based Studio Zoot to craft a warm, visceral sound on Tabula Rasa. While the DIY sound of Kismet matched the camp and sci-fi dreaminess of the album’s story, Tabula Rasa’s songs greatly benefit from Caminiti’s touch. The artful production makes itself in the details: the reverberant phaser on the guitars in “Century,” the theatrical, humorous “tick tock/tick tock” in the background of “Do It Again.”

Yet, despite the talent of Riley’s full band, I can’t help but

be drawn to the moments when the arrangements are sparse. “Shadow,” a track that is both at the album’s center and feels like the emotional heart of the Tabula Rasa, almost seems to harken back to another excellent creation steeped in rock history: John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. “Some things,” Riley sings, “some things should last forever.” As a track, it’s graceful and delicate, a critical counterbalance to the all-engines-go grooves that fill out Tabula Rasa.

Musically, Tabula Rasa has two sides to its story. On one hand, the album is polished, distilled and perfectly arranged. The sleek, tight rock ‘n’ roll that Riley was seeking to create on Kismet is actualized in Tabula Rasa. On the other hand, with Riley’s laser focus on emulating past artists whom he admires, there is a limit to how innovative Tabula Rasa feels. The album certainly sounds like an improved and excellently written permutation on Kismet, but it still feels like a variation on the same material all the same.

For an artist who is focused on channeling long-standing American musical traditions, the title Tabula Rasa (Latin for “blank slate”) is a curious choice. For Riley, expression is firmly tied to nostalgia and memory; Tabula Rasa certainly does not seem like it came from an artistic blank slate. But perhaps the album’s title is not an assertion but rather a hope, a wish for a future that is more understanding, more joyful, more passionate. If that’s the case, then Riley and his band are undoubtedly already doing their part to bring it to fruition.

Shay Collins is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017 7

OPINION

William Wang | Willpower

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

The Royal Bank Of Canada Presents:

Independent Since 1880 135TH EDITORIAL BOARD SOPHIA DENG ’19 Editor in Chief

DAHLIA WILSON ’19

JOSHUA GIRSKY ’19

Business Manager

Managing Editor

JACOB RUBASHKIN ’19

LYDIA KIM ’18

Associate Editor

Advertising Manager

PRAJJALITA DEY ’18

ZACHARY SILVER ’19

Web Editor

A quant, a prankster and a banker

Sports Editor

LEV AKABAS ’19

CAMERON POLLACK ’18

Blogs Editor

Photography Editor

BRIAN LAPLACA ’18

JUHWAN PARK ’18

Design Editor

Video Editor

WORKING ON TODAY’S SUN DESIGN EDITOR NEWS DESKER ARTS DESKER SPORTS DESKER PHOTO DESKER NIGHT DESKER

Brian LaPlaca ’18 Hannah Lee ’20 Jamie Lai ’20 Anna Delwiche ’19 Girisha Arora ’20 Katie Sims ’20 Josh Zhu ’20 Cameron Pollack ’18 Anne Snabes ’19

Letter to the Editor

On credulity and union politics: a response from a CGSU officer to Prof. Jacobson, law To the Editor: The response from Prof. William Jacobson, law, to a letter to the editor that criticizes David Collum, the Betty R. Miller Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department, states at its outset that the letter to the editor “appears to be payback” for Prof. Collum's anti-union views. Prof. Jacobson seems to have based this accusation solely on the fact that the writers are supporters of Cornell Graduate Students United. This union retaliation claim has since been picked up by right-wing media outlets with enthusiasm, and the graduate students are now subjects of online abuse.

I write to point out two related issues. One, the claim of “payback” for Prof.

Collum’s views on unions is unsubstantiated. Two, the methods promoting this claim seem hypocritical. As Prof. Jacobson lambasts the accuracy of the grad students' opinions — based on public statements made by Prof. Collum — and demands their retraction, he avoids supplying a basis for this overarching scheme of union retaliation. In defense of free speech and truth, he puts whole plots in the mouths of others, relying on nothing, apparently, but conjecture.

Prof. Collum’s anti-union views are not the issue. It is true that he holds them.

Students and faculty have raised complaints about not his held opinions, but his attempts to interfere in the campaign against the rules of the CGSU-University election agreement. The complaints were taken care of through CGSU-University channels: in a bilateral committee called the Union Management Committee (on which I sit), and in arbitration. He was treated professionally throughout the process. A colleague and I even reached out to him, politely asking if he would be willing to have a clarifying discussion. His terse response was clear: he did not want to talk to us. One union member tweeted an email Prof. Collum sent to hundreds of faculty encouraging them to interfere in the vote, and he was again approached about the rules. Again, he was not treated badly. He was simply stopped from breaking rules.

There are hundreds of individual union supporters. They have opinions, and do and say things. But there is no “Dave Collum Payback Committee.” If the fact that the letter writers are also union supporters is relevant here, it is for a clear reason.

Grad unions have been instrumental in helping fix broken grievance processes by various means, including through collective bargaining. It has become common to negotiate for robust grievance procedures in contracts, including third-party neutral arbitration.

So, yes. Questions about whether harassment reporting systems work, and how grievance procedures operate generally, are questions unionization does tend to raise.

Creating equitable, adequate and accessible grievance procedures in the university is, and will continue to be, a task for CGSU, GPSA and graduate organizations all over.

Drawing a line between Collum's past acts related to the union and a letter to the editor regarding his published statements that reflect attitudes about other things is guesswork, at best. But Prof. Jacobson’s union retaliation narrative checks one big political box. It stokes conservatives’ fears that they are silenced and persecuted for their beliefs by vengeful “SJWs” (short for social justice warriors) on campuses, all part of a stealth left-wing plan to usher in tyranny. Press and others eager to bolster their confirmation biases took up Prof Jacobson’s narrative hook, line and sinker. The initial claim of “payback” frames Prof. Jacobson’s entire analysis, pressing the “right” buttons — sneaky liberals! oppressive unions! — and causing a minor media feeding frenzy. This distracts away from the issue of Prof. Collum's public statements and whether opinions on his likely views regarding campus sexual misconduct and gender discrimination might be reasonably drawn by a student or faculty member.

That, of course, is the only relevant issue. I guess it isn’t bloody enough.

I won’t ask Prof. Jacobson — or Red State, or The Federalist — for an apology and retraction, as he demands for others’ opinions. Conflicts around free speech, grievance policies and sexual misconduct on campus are real and fraught as it is, and we all have to struggle through them somehow, together. They don’t need conspiratorial chimeras grafted onto them by professors, who should be taking the intellectual lead on campus, not stoking fear. It is unbecoming, and pollutes our shared discourse.

Michaela Brangan, grad CGSU administration liaison

I

t’s Spring at Cornell, which really only means two things: the weather has dramatically improved in time for Cornell Days (How convenient! Tell President Pollack I know she’s concealing a weather machine in the Ivory Tower) and banks are on campus to inform rising sophomore and juniors about internships for next summer.

Hey, it’s never too early to make money. It’s why teens and twenty-somethings, each carrying a binder and their resumes, dressed in business attire, waddle around a room in Statler Hotel for a networking session hosted by the Royal Bank of Canada. And because I’m a business major and I have one more column due for The Sun, I decide to pull double duty and join in on the fun.

At one end of the room, a blonde strawhaired boy stares absentmindedly at the sign in sheet. He’s dressed in the quintessential eff-you outfit — sneakers, khakis, and a striped shirt. A banker might see that and figure him a troublemaker. I figure that only the coolest person in the room would dress so casually. Well, either that or he’s blind. I approach.

“Nice to meet you” — I bend sideways

in his field, and because she’s sure that of the two reps standing alone in the corner, one of them is the guy that she wants to meet. But she’s hesitant. She needs someone to keep the other guy occupied — namely, me.

So I’m stuck with the guy on the right, who seems particularly inspired to finally have someone with whom to talk. He’s a recent graduate of Cornell who’s starting soon in his new job of healthcare finance, and he’s excited. I pepper him with a few questions (Why RBC? What made you choose your area? What did you do at Cornell?). Each time, before he answers, he takes a deep breath and unleashes a dazzling smile and says: “That’s a very good question; I’m glad you asked that.”

He might not be a banker yet, but he’s got the act nailed down airtight.

Turns out, he didn’t come to Cornell for business. He came here wanting to be a doctor, but after the first year, he decided to double major with business. Pre-med was stressful, and he decided he needed something healthier. But the passion for the sciences never waned. When looking for a job on Wall Street, he stuck by looking specifically

His surprised expression slides into a playful smile, he lower his voice and leans in: “Let me tell you a secret. Eric isn’t my real name. I’m just here to troll the people here.” to peer at his name tag — “Eric!” I say, reaching out my hand, a bit nervous.

“Oh!” He looks up, surprised. He cocks his head, left to right, trying to gauge if I’m the type of person to call him out on his outfit. After a few seconds, he decides he likes what he sees. His surprised expression slides into a playful smile, he lower his voice and leans in: “Let me tell you a secret. Eric isn’t my real name. I’m just here to troll the people here.”

Oh. Networking is a game of Reverse Russian Roulette: the person you run into might be the one that gives you the one crucial connection for your first job. But you have to sell yourself first, tell a little story, make an “elevator pitch,” as my Communications Professor would say, which is a 30 second personal story that can fit snugly within an elevator ride from floor 1 to floor 5. But as I watch “Eric” walk away, I realize I’m down one bullet.

That’s okay. I’m a freshman who’s in way over his head, and frankly, I’m not that interested in banking or telling a story about myself. In fact, the people in the room prove to be far more compelling.

Next up is a “quant,” short for quantitative. His name is Edmund, and he’s starting an internship this summer doing something with equities at RBC. He’s pretty excited, too. He majored in operations research, and he hints that it may have been too theoretical for his taste. He’s glad to be doing something more applicable, which I realize now is code for “employable.” He regales me with tales of his interview, which was filled with grueling statistical questions. I’m impressed.

After a few rounds, I realize that a banking session isn’t just for hotelies and AEM students — engineers abound here as well.

After Edmund, I run into one of my friends. She wants to talk to one of representatives from RBC because she’s interested

for a job related to the health care market.

The good part of this strategy was that he knew exactly what he wanted, and it showed in the interviews. The bad news was that it left him an awfully thin margin of error. But when he got the offer from RBC for their healthcare markets division, he was ecstatic.

The bank was on the rise, and the people were awfully nice. (This happened to be a common theme throughout my interviews.

When mentioned that this wasn’t helping the Canadian stereotype of being too nice, one rep threw back his head and laughed.)

Ultimately, I left a bit shaken from the whole event. Maybe it was the Canadian hospitality, or the prankster at the beginning, but the event was awfully casual and loose. I liked that. One of the assumptions I’ve made from banking is that it’s too strict, intensive, and only for type As. But frankly, I didn’t see much of that at the event.

Does that mean I would ever consider a career in banking? I’m not sure. I’m not opposed to it, but I’m not sure that’s what I want to pursue in life. Looking back on this year, while I did enjoy my time with the eclectic people at Dyson, my happiest memories were for The Sun. Commenting on the fashion show (and being ripped in the comments section), covering the Gingrich event (and being ripped in the comments section) and doing a piece on Roombas (not being ripped in the comments section, but only because nobody read it). I liked what I learned from the guy who was initially pre-med. He took dual interest, combined it, and learned a lesson along the way: it’s not where you start, but where you end up. In other words, the first letter doesn’t matter. Only the last one does.

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester.

8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

I

Are We Coddled?

read a Letter to the Editor on The Sun’s website last November. Written by Cornell alumna Megan Tubb ’13, the letter criticized the Cornell student body for its actions following the presidential election. In response to a “cry-in” that was held on Ho Plaza, she writes “The day after the election, you responded by literally sitting on the ground and crying. What is worse is that student funds were used to provide said students with hot chocolate and coloring supplies. This is not what adulthood looks like.”

The above quote touches on a narrative that’s popular these days. College students are coddled.

We’re sheltered from the harsh reality of the real world. We’re snowflakes. (Life lesson; the key is to render pejoratives meaningless by making them your own. Obama did it with “Obamacare,” Trump did it with “fake news.” I’m a special snowflake and proud of it.) I am a firm believer in answering questions with questions, both because it is a sign of intellectual maturity and because it is an effective means of hiding that one hasn’t done the assigned reading. Instead of saying “no, we aren’t coddled and here’s why,” I feel compelled to ask what is meant by the term “coddling” and why it is at the forefront of modern consciousness.

To move this column along, another question.

How should people take positions on issues and thereby shape their value system? A great deal of contemporary political discourse takes the form of invective. “How could those idiots on the left/right believe x? Only an idiot would believe x — here’s 10 reasons why.” Talking heads try their hardest to win arguments, but arguments shouldn’t be things to be won. All systems contain disadvantages. The choice of one system over another, then, must involve weighing disadvantages and deciding which set of them is more acceptable. For example, I believe that everyone should be entitled to legal counsel. Such a policy might allow some guilty people with good lawyers to go free. But if legal defense were not a right, more innocent people would go to prison. The relative statistical likelihood of one vs. the other is not important; I would rather have the former occur a thousand times than have the latter happen once.

The same logic applies to the “college snowflakes” debate. I was coddled by my mother early in life. When I showed her my YMCA basketball medal and said I wanted to play in the NBA someday, her reply was something to the effect of “that’s great honey. You can do anything you set your mind to.” Needless to say, I felt somewhat betrayed when I didn’t make my high school basketball team. Coming to grips with your own shortcomings is never easy, especially if you’ve been led to believe that you’re special.

I admit that being coddled gave me an inflated sense of self. But the point is, I experienced the real world and I got over it. The world’s still plenty competitive — capitalism still eats people up and spits them out just like it always has. And participation trophies teach other valuable lessons. They teach that trying new things and seeing them to completion leads to good things. They teach that all members of a team make valuable contributions. If it weren’t for the confidence my mother gave me, I would never have had the courage to apply to an Ivy League school. It was a little tough when I went out into the real world and not everyone treated me the way she did, but I got used to it. I’d rather go through that than have the crushing weight of my own insignificance dumped on me at eight years old. After a weighing of disadvantages, I choose coddling.

I don’t live by very many rules. To quote Harold and Maude, “it’s not wise to be too moral, you cheat yourself out of too much life.” But one rule I do have is this — no one should ever be criticized for trying to do good, even if you don’t agree with their methods or even their cause. Would you criticize someone for raising money for ALS because heart disease kills more people? No? Then don’t criticize people who hold cry-ins because there are “bigger problems” in the “real” world.

Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun.com. Whiny Liberal will appear alternating Fridays this semester.

OPINION

Letter to the Editor

Finding common ground: a Republican and a Democrat on The Sun’s comment section To the Editor: Last week created a strange moment of unity — a pizza party among several deeply divided groups on campus as we observed Mitch McBride’s ’17 hearing. This was the first opportunity recently for any number of conversations that have not been happening: we have observed Cornell’s campus fracturing along sharper lines this past year. We’d like to address how this has been particularly visible in, and amplified by, trolling and hate speech in the Cornell Daily Sun’s comments section.

Although primarily driven by alt-right ideology, the ad hominem, vituperative and intellectually void rhetoric has not been limited to any one group within the Cornell Daily Sun commentariat. These comments are extreme enough to expose the contradiction within free speech: that speech of this sort can itself have a chilling effect on speech. While we don’t wish to recite a litany of insults, we offer the following examples to capture the scope of this problem. In an article about Dustin Liu winning the election for undergraduate student trustee, an anonymous commenter named “Hideki Tojo Lives!” sneered, “that feeling when you try to look like Imperial Japanese war criminal Hideki Tojo but you don’t have the Testosterone level to pull it off.” In an article covering Ann Coulter’s inflammatory remarks, “Bob” antagonized conservative commentators with delightful sobriquets like “toilet bowl,” “drooling moron” and “unamerican Shitheel.” Most recently, in an article by Jason Jeong, commenters felt it necessary to accuse a student of being an Asian supremacist, called him “yellow,” and sniped that he contributes to the fact that America has become a cultural “dumping ground.” We fail to find value to these contributions.

National discourse may have sunk equally low, but we need not replicate our surroundings. We can, as the Cornell community, collectively demand a minimum level of sincerity in our interactions. We’re asking our peers to reopen avenues for dialogue and to primarily debate ideas rather than shred individuals. Condemn these racist, sexist, homophobic and other vile insults that we have come to expect.

We ask that The Cornell Daily Sun take certain measures to alleviate the problem. The first and most important request is that the Sun require individual commenters to publish under their authenticated names. We want honest conversations as well as accountability. Cornell students should be willing to own their words.

As a handful of trolls are willing to attach their real names to bile, our second request of The Sun’s staff is that they consider some method of moderating the online comments at their discretion, including on their Facebook posts. This could entail compromises like requiring that a reader click to view abusive comments. Should the staff at The Sun be unwilling to moderate online comments, we ask that they justify to their readers why they choose not to draw a line between earnest discourse and unnecessary and irrelevant ad hominem attacks.

We acknowledge that there are times when it is worth expressing anger, hurt, fear and other very intense personal reactions. We are not asking for politeness, dispassionate reason, mock-neutrality or false civility. We ask instead that the community take this moment to reflect on whether we are even managing open discussion at the moment, and whether we are missing alternatives as we drift towards normalizing this kind of invective in our responses.

Olivia Corn ’19 Anna Waymack, grad

Narayan Reddy | Reddy, Set, Go!

I

God Is an Ocean

was obsessed with gods when I was a kid. I was raised detachedly as a Hindu, in which we had our own inhouse puja every few months, went to the temple even less often and still ate beef when we had a hankering. I viewed my participation in Hinduism as an infrequent chore, but entertained a curious fascination with Hindu mythology.

I devoured every edition of a comic book series that transformed the timeless and boundless sagas into picturized, bite-sized narratives. I took to the task of printing out pictures of gods, framing them and placing them somewhere in the house to bolster the divinity of our family.

Loosely, each god symbolizes something: destruction, creation, wealth, wisdom. I felt the more I ‘had,’ the more I learnt about them, the better off I would be. Basically, I treated them like Pokémon. There was little to nothing spiritual about it, but I let my parents assume that there was since it was a useful assumption.

My grandma, an ardent devotee, also conflated my interest in mythology with a strong spiritual sense and gifted me a book of Hindu ponderings. It provided my first insights about religion, and ironically, what I took away from it undermined the very notion of religion.

It was a small poem that said God is the ocean. Every single person is a droplet, and each one made it to the ocean. Whether it fell into a stream, a creek or a river, it eventually made its way to the oneness that is the ocean.

Hindus may have many gods, but they also believe that each one is just a representation of one god and apply this same understanding to other religions.

The prospect stirred something in me, something like the comfort of unity, which became more meaningful to me later. More specifically, whenever someone tried to “save” me. This has happened to me numerous times growing up, as I’m sure it’s happened to most brown kids growing up in America.

They all had good intentions and were just trying to protect me. However, I struggled with the implications of these well-meaning individuals.

I didn’t want to be damned, and I was not attached to Hinduism in the way they were to their religion. I thought, ‘why don’t I just convert to be safe?’ Then I thought, ‘well, which one?’

More than one member of a religion shared with me their truth, and I didn’t know which one was the truth. Merely picturing an ocean quieted these internal dialogues and allowed me to politely decline conversion.

My faith developed further when I cried for months because I was gay.

Before I struggled with my sexuality, I knew I had my whole life to change my mind if need be. Now, however, I was destined to burn in hell for eternity since I already screwed up or was already screwed up. I was doubly conflicted with the question of whether God existed in the first place, an uncertainty I still contemplate.

What saved me was the conclusion that if God did exist, he would certainly care about how good of a person I was rather than who I blushed at or whether I even believed in him. I figured that choosing a single set of rules out of many to express belief or disbelief was void, precisely because everyone would reach him. I also had some sense that doing the right thing was a kind of prayer in its own way. Consequently, goodness (in context, I later clarified) must be the sole criteria for final judgments because it could be the only standardized criteria if there was one.

This is my self-assuring belief system. I respect everyone else’s beliefs, however, I also believe that accepting some extent of overlap among religions would go a long way in solving religious conflicts and dismantling the means to abuse religion. Religious competition creates a monarchical atmosphere, and it’s upsetting that many take advantage of this environment and think it’s okay

to do bad things as long as they are in their God’s good graces. It’s more upsetting that some anoint themselves their God’s trusted advisors and bargain with others in exchange for putting them in his good graces.

Is it so radical to suggest that the differences among the popular world religions in which the fundamental tenet is to be decent, are largely contextual and, to a much lesser, extent spiritual?

Perhaps not, especially when radicals of any religion are those who wish to both force their spiritual beliefs and punish diversion through any means necessary.

I’m not naïve enough to insist this mantra of interfaith unity be universally received. The very idea of it may be offensive to an inmate that fell on their faith to survive long stretches of incarceration. Religious conviction enables life-sustaining hope during the hardest of times for many, but this message should resonate more with others — those who don’t need it for strength but wear it as a mask of self-righteous immunity or employ it as a perverse strategy to accrue wealth and power and carry out violence without shame.

No one should be judged based on whether they are an atheist or an evangelical, or whether religion is their livelihood. People should, however, be judged for their actions. Unfortunately, we still live in a world where someone can exploit religious zeal and the divisions it produces to move billions. Is it any wonder why politicians must constantly flaunt the faith and appeal to the faith leaders of their constituents? Why it figures so deeply in their decisions for better or for worse? Maybe someday we’ll live in a world where this column wouldn’t tank a hypothetical political career. Or at least one that still has an ocean.

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com. Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester.

COMICS AND PUZZLES

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 Sacrificial __ 5 Paintball impact sound 10 “__ of Green Gables” 14 Geometry calculation 15 Largest city in North Africa 16 Yule song 17 Some toy dogs, for short 18 Llama habitat 19 Weekend-starting letters 20 Bygone airplane area 23 Subsided 24 Statutes 25 Electric car brand 29 Apple music players 33 Home for mil. jets 36 Line up 39 Be concerned 41 “Cut corners” or “slash prices” 42 Landlocked African republic 43 Position behind the steering wheel 46 Part of a relay race 47 Coffee lightener 48 “Rubber Duckie” singer on Sesame Street 50 Mocking remark 53 Works with a needle 57 “Exactly!” ... and a hint to where 20-, 36- and 43Across’ ending words may be found 62 Mop, as decks 63 “Fingers crossed” 64 “Drinks are __!”

65 Unit seized by a narc 66 Some surrealist paintings 67 Info 68 Composer Stravinsky 69 Pass, as a law 70 Wide-spouted pitcher

DOWN 1 Forgetful moment 2 Cinnamon roll lure 3 Notes to staff 4 Slam dunk or lay-up 5 Read electronically 6 Twinge of hunger 7 Tupperware covers 8 Staggering 9 Puccini opera 10 Designed to minimize junk email 11 Scrubbed, as a NASA mission 12 Nuremberg no 13 North Pole worker 21 “Beware the __ of March” 22 Bed size 26 Mix 27 Chaps 28 Licorice-flavored seed 30 Spoken 31 Big name in pineapples 32 Big gulp 33 Band with a voltage symbol in its logo 34 Jamie of “M*A*S*H”

35 Soft French cheese 37 Not just a talker 38 “__ idiot!”: “Doh!” 40 “Green Acres” co-star 44 Radiate 45 Word with bar or torch 49 Make cryptic 51 Back of a hit 45 record 52 Patriot Allen

54 “No need to tell me” 55 Phoenix suburb 56 Take the wheel 57 Bird’s nest component 58 Symbol of sanctity 59 Mexican “Hi!” 60 Grand-scale film 61 Experiment 62 Schuss or slalom

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:

xwordeditor@aol.com

/ / 05/01/17

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017 9

Sun Sudoku

Puzzle #1,886

THE EIGHT HOUR DAY 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)

7

4

5

2

4

1

5 8

4 3

2

5

6

2

8

1

1

6

The Sun is responsible for only one day makegood on ads.

3 2 4

I Am Going to Be Small

273-3606

9

3

words, 38 cents per day per word thereafter.

Five or more consecutive insertions, $3.35 per day for first 15 words, 36 cents per day per word thereafter.

15 words, 39 cents per day per word thereafter. Five or more consecutive insertions, $5.20 per day for first 15 words, 37 cents per day per word thereafter.

5

9

Standard Rate: $3.60 per day for first 15

Commercial Rate: $5.40 per day for first

1 2

CLASSIFIED AD RATES Ads are accepted at The Sun’s office at 139 W. State Street downtown, by phone or e-mail.

Deadline: 2:30 p.m. at The Sun’s office on the day preceding publication. Monday’s deadline: Friday, 2:30 p.m. at The Sun’s office.

classifieds@cornellsun.com

8

C

by Jeffrey Brown

12 AUTOMOBILES CFCU and other Apply on line financing...

VW/Audi (used) Sales, Service, Parts.

36 years, open Seven days a week.

Leather Theater Seats, Keurig Coffee, Wifi... www.SelectEuroCars.com Routes 5 & 20 Waterloo (315)-789-2200

17 H ELP WANTED The Alumni Board of Mu Chapter, Sigma Pi, Cornell University, is looking for graduate student candidates for the position of Chapter Resident Advisor for the academic year 2017-18.

Candidates must have Greek system experience or similar affinity group experience. Compensation & Benefits include: 30 hour work week @ $10/hour + free room and board. Position reports to Alumni Board Faculty Advisor

By Bruce Haight ©2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

Classic Doonesbury (1988)

Interested Applicants Contact:Alec Charbonneau ’16 Aleccharb21@gmail.com (614) 769-1301

05/01/17

by Garry Trudeau

23 PARKING COLLEGETOWN PARKING 2 blocks from College Ave. 607-273-9414 607-592-7779 Parking College Ave or North Campus 607-277-1234

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

Mr. Gnu featuring Neighbor

Heart of Collegetown

by Travis Dandro

EDDYGATE

1, 2 and 3 bedrooms Huge apartments Fully furnished HSIA included Laundry on site www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

WEST CAMPUS 1 and 2 Bedrooms

106 and 108 Lake Street Heat, Electric, and water included Off street parking available

Fully FURNISHED Laundry on site www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

American Affairs Desk

by Mark Kaufman

NORTH CAMPUS 1, 2 and 3 Bedrooms

LAKELAND Heat, hot water and Internet included

Dishwasher FURNISHED Pets Welcome Laundry on site www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

202 and 206 College Ave. 2-5 Bedroom fully furnished apartments.

Parking available for a fee.

Call 607.277.1234 for details

10 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

Collegetown Crossing College Ave’s Newest Location

WESTBOURNE APARTMENTS Studio, 1, 3, 4, & 5 Bedrooms.

307 College Ave. Now Leasing for 2017-2018 Completely New Modern Studios & 2 Bedroom Apartments.

Fully furnished, heat & hot water included.

Reception area at 307 College Ave. www.urbanithaca.com 607-330-2442 info@urbanithaca.com

Heart of Collegetown

1. Walk to classes and Center Campus amenities in minutes 2. Units with dishwashers, fireplaces, and two bathrooms available.

3. Two on site Laundry rooms 4. Free high-speed Roadrunner Internet and Standard Cable (70+ channels) 5. On site parking 6. Furnished with TVs 7. Very competitive pricing

Call us (607)257-0313 for details or to schedule a tour!

407 College Ave STUDIOS Fully furnished HSIA included Laundry on site www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

STUDENT RENTALS ITHACA 400 College Avenue 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments 308 Stewart Avenue 4 Bedroom Apartments Covered & Uncovered Parking www.studentrentalsithaca.com Call (607) 277-3767 Text (607) 327-2223 george@studentrentalsithaca.com Visit Our Office Around Back In Basement of Starbucks

Rent a 5 bedroom apartment on College Ave and each tenant receives a $50 gift certificate to the Boatyard Grill!

Large bedrooms, fully furnished, modern kitchen and bathrooms, off-street parking. Great location!

Available 6/5/17.

Certified Properties of TC Inc 607-273-1669 certifiedpropertiesinc.com

WEST CAMPUS 1 and 2 Bedrooms

EDGECLIFF

Heat and water included Off street parking available

Fully FURNISHED Laundry on site www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

Collegetown Terrace Apartments Brand New 3 Bedroom/3 Bathrooms Heat, hot water and high speed wireless internet included.

Free State of the Art Fitness Center.

Stackable washer and dryer in apartments.

Covered parking available for a fee.

Novarr-Mackesey Property Management www.collegetownterraceapartments.com office@ithacastudentapartments.com 607.277.1234

NORTH CAMPUS 1, 2 and 3 Bedrooms

WESTVIEW Grad, Faculty, Staff Heat included!

Parquet hardwood floors Some with fireplaces Internet included

UNFURNISHED 4 + 5 Bedroom Townhouse

RAVENWOOD

2 Floors of fun!

Fully furnished includes w / wireless internet Laundry on site Parking available Pets allowed www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

WALK TO CAMPUS Now renting for 2017-18 1 bdrm with off-street parking, laundry, W/W carpeting. Professionally managed with 24-hr. emergency maintenance.

Limited availability. 607-257-5444 Brooklanecornell.com

HOUSES, APTS, PARKING 1 to 10 Bedroom Collegetown - College Ave, Linden Ave, Dryden Rd, Bryant Ave, Cook St. 607-330-2442 info@urbanithaca.com www.urbanithaca.com

COLLEGETOWN APARTMENT 2017-2018 STUDIO, 1, 3, 6 BEDROOM (EACH HAS BEDROOM PLUS STUDYROOM) CALL 607-272-0781/908-3343665/908-635-8009

4 Bedroom Apartments on Eddy St. Large rooms, fully furnished, dishwasher, access to laundry.

Porch off rear of the house.

Landlard pays the heat!

Great location call today.

Available Now or 6/5/17.

Certified Properties of TC Inc 607-273-1669 certifiedpropertiesinc.com

Laundry on site www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

Ithaca Renting Company Apartments, Houses, Parking Central Collegetown Superb Panoramic Views Modern Elevator Buildings Collegetown Plaza: Fitness Room, fantastic Cayuga Lake Views Studio, 1, 2, 6 BRs Parking Collegetown Center: Concierge Service, quiet building, Fitness Room Studio, 1, 2 BRs Parking Collegetown Court: Super convenient, exceptional value Fitness Room Studio, 1, 3, BRs Other Collegetown Locations: Dryden Road, Buffalo Street Apartment for 9 or 10 Shared Apartments for 1-8 Parking Rent Smart. Live Well.

607-272-3000 Visit our office at: 119 Dryden Road

www.ithacarenting.com

26 A PARTMENT FOR R ENT

27 H OUSE FOR R ENT

WEST CAMPUS

Sage Apartments

1 Bedroom

Historic 2, 3 and 4 Bedroom Apartments Skylit with Winding Staircases to Lofts and Cathedral Ceilings Quiet, Clean, Well Maintained For More Info Call 607-277-1234 office@ithacastudentapartments.com ithacastudentapartments.com

COLLEGETOWN WHOLE HOUSE 6 BEDROOMS 2 BATHS, LIVING, DINING, KITCHEN & PARKING. 607-272-0781/908-3343665/908-635-8009 FOR DETAILS

110 Lake Street Pets Welcome Off street parking available

Fully FURNISHED Laundry on site www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

Heart of Collegetown

407 College Ave Huge 8 bedrooms with 3 bath Fully furnished HSIA included Laundry on site www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

1 and 2 Bedroom / 2 Bath Apartments Available now and for Spring Semester!

2 bedroom apartments also available to share.

Heat, hot water and high speed wireless internet included.

Free State of the Art Fitness Center.

Stackable washer and dryer in apartments.

Covered parking available for a fee.

Novarr-Mackesey Property Management www.collegetownterraceapartments.com office@ithacastudentapartments.com

607.277.1234

North Campus Huge 3 Bedroom Apts.

Next to Suspension Bridge Off-Street Parking Available office@ithacastudentapartments.com ithacastudentapartments.com 607.277.1234

1, 2, 3 and 4 BR

RAVENWOOD Fully furnished includes w / wireless internet Laundry on site Parking available Pets Allowed www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

COLLEGE AVE APTS 1, 2 & 3 BEDROOMS BEST PRICING ON THE AVENUE AVRAMISRENTALS@AOL.COM 607-272-3389

Heart of Collegetown

407 College Ave Huge 2 bedroom with 2 bath Balcony!

Fully furnished HSIA included Laundry on site www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

Heart of Collegetown

Eddygate

5, 6 and 7 bedrooms Huge apartments w/ multiple baths Fully furnished HSIA included Laundry on site www.travishyde.com kworden@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

1 and 2 Bedrooms

Grad, Faculty, Staff Washer/Dryer A/C/Dishwasher Internet included

UNFURNISHED Pets Welcome www.travishyde.com rabele@travishyde.com (607) 273-1654

Still walking distance to campus, bus stop is directly in front of the house.

Spacious bedrooms, hardwood floors. Fully furnished. Available 6/5/17.

Certified Properties of TC Inc 607-273-1669 certifiedpropertiesinc.com

Collegetown Terrace Apartments

NORTH CAMPUS WESTVIEW TERRACE

Save Money Renting this 3/4 Bedroom Apartment on State St.

312 College Ave Collegetown’s Best Address Luxury studio, 1, 2, 3-Bedroom apartments.

State-of-the-art fitness facility, theater, and coworking space.

Free high-speed internet.

Exclusive resident parking. Overnight concierge. Package delivery.

607-273-9777 or 312collegeave.com.

Help us keep watch on Cornell.

Call The Cornell Daily Sun 273-3606

7 Bedroom Whole House College Ave. Recently renovated.

Kitchen, living room, front porch, rear porch, washer & dryer.

Parking included. www.urbanithaca.com 607-330-2442 info@urbanithaca.com

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Monday, May 1, 2017 11

SPORTS

Teat Secures Program Freshman Scoring Record M. LACROSSE

Continued from page 12

a two-goal lead. But Cornell would respond by scoring twice more, tying the game 5-5 after the first period.

The back-and-forth affair would continue for both teams, with the score knotted up 8-8 at the 6:14 mark of the second after a goal by sophomore Ryan Bray. Neither team led by more than two goals until Cornell went on a series of runs to blow the lead open.

Following Bray’s goal, Cornell scored four-straight to capture a three-goal lead, giving the team an 11-9 lead heading into halftime.

The Red continued its momentum by opening the second half with a goal by junior Jordan Dowiak, assisted by Teat.

The assist gave Teat 68 points for the season, breaking the program’s record for points in a season by a freshman. “[It was exciting] to see Jeff beat the scoring record today,” said head coach Matt Kerwick. “I thought it was going to be hard for him to get to that number, and he did it in the first half.”

The Red would then go on for three

more goals, capping off a four-goal run to open the second half, and a 8-1 run extending back to the second period to give Cornell a 15-9 lead.

But Princeton would not go down quietly, and the Tigers came roaring back with a run of its own. Princeton closed out the third period with four-straight goals, and opened the fourth with another goal to bring the team back within one goal. After a couple of traded goals, Princeton would bring the game level, 16-16, with 4:51 left to go in the game.

It was the first tie of the game in over 34 minutes.

Cornell and Princeton would once again trade goals throughout the last few minutes of the game. Freshman Jake McCullough’s goal at the 2:24 mark would give Cornell an 18-17 lead, and match the Red’s season high for points scored.

With 0:34 left to play, the Tigers had possession of the ball and an opportunity to once again tie the game. But this time, the Cornell defense — which struggled early on in the season but has improved as the season progressed — made a stand.

With 2.3 seconds left on the clock,

Princeton’s Austin Sims took a shot from the Ivy League tournament, but overall 15-yards out, but senior goalie Christian this game has been a statement for our Knight made the save. With the save, offense,” Teat said. “It’s always been Knight secured the Red’s lone win over a there, we’ve felt, but today showed that ranked opponent this season. our offense is something we should be “We’re extremely excited for the proud of and is something we can look seniors … to leave beating our rival,” forward to next year.”

Kerwick said. “We let it While the moment get away from us a little was bittersweet for the “Our offense is somebit, [but] we always team, Kerwick knows it seem to make it excit- thing we should be proud is already time to look ing with this young to next season. of and is something we forward “As a coach, you group.” can look forward to.” always want to get betTeat finished with ter throughout the 12 points in the game, Freshman Attacker Jeff Teat course of the year, and tying him for third this team without quesmost in a game in program history and and the most in 40 tion did that,” he said. “With so many years since Tim Goldstein ’88 scored 12 guys in that locker room returning next against Hobart in 1987. Goldstein was in year, we have to learn from our missteps this year, and hopefully this is going to attendance to watch Teat tie his mark.

Teat also finished the season with 72 carry us to be a team that can contend for points, bypassing Rob Pannell’s ’12 mark a national title next year, and I completeof 67, for most in a season by a Cornell ly believe that this team can do that with a lot of hard work.” rookie.

McCullough finished the game with a career-high six goals, including his game Jamil Rahman can be reached at winner.

“It’s kind of tough not to make it to jrahman@cornellsun.com.

Red Grabs No.1 Seed in Ivy Tournament Looks to open Ivy play on Friday against Harvard W. LACROSSE

Continued from page 12

Tournament.

“Facing Harvard twice in a week is certainly a challenge,” Ellis said. “I think one thing we need to improve on for Friday is to limit turnovers in transition and in the offensive end. We had some unforced errors on Saturday and if we can clean some of that up I think it'll be a good day for us.”

With the win, the Red secured its second-ever Ivy League Regular Season Championship and first title since 2006. Cornell’s overall record of 11-4 is among the best in program history and

its conference record ties the records of the 2002 and 2006 teams, both of which competed in the NCAA tournament.

In addition to the historical win on Saturday, the game also played host to the annual Senior Day and held sentimental value as the team’s seven seniors — Dickson, Ellis, Gilbert, Poullott, Smith, attacker Meredith Baker and defender Christie Powell — were saluted with a ceremony before the match.

The victory also awarded Cornell the position of the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League Tournament, which will decide which Ancient Eight school will secure a berth to the NCAA tournament. As the

top seed, the Red will host Harvard, Penn and Princeton on Friday for the semi-finals and Sunday for the finals.

Cornell will begin the Ivy League tournament play on Friday, May 5 at Schoellkopf Field in a rematch against Harvard.

“Going into the tournament our focus remains the same of getting better everyday,” Ellis said. “That's been our theme all season and as we approach the postseason that's not going to change.

We need to take it one game at a time and not look too far ahead. If we do that I think we will execute and win a lot of games this month.”

Smita Nalluri can be reached at snalluri@cornellsun.com.

Undrafted C.U. Punter to Work Out With Bears and 49ers FRASER

Continued from page 12

and workouts with teams around the league. “[It’s] just making sure that I’m at my peak physical performance level, hav- a time and not look too far ing fun, enjoying it and staying active,” he ahead.” said in March. “And making sure that I am at But until that point, Fraser will do his my best for the draft.” best to enjoy the glory and pure bliss that Though invited to comes with knowing a camp, Fraser is not guar- “I am focused, having fun professional football anteed a spot on the openteam is within his and letting things fall ing day roster. An invitagrasp. tion to a rookie minicamp “Twenty years from where they may.” is a chance for him to now, I can look back on show that he has what it things and appreciate Chris Fraser ’17 takes to be on the roster, everything that’s hapso between now and the pened regardless of end of the camp, Fraser knows he still has what happens in the couple weeks from plenty to prove. now and coming years from now,” he “My next step is really just focusing on said. “I am just going to try and enjoy one punt at a time, not worrying about the this as much as possible.” results, just making sure … I am focused, having fun and letting things fall where they Zach Silver can be reached at may,” he said. “[I have to] keep it one step at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Crazied frenzy | Fraser’s opportunity to make an NFL roster comes after not a single punter was drafted in the 2017 NFL Draft.

www.cornellsun.com

Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

MONDAY MAY, 1, 2017

12

LACROSSE

FOOTBALL

Cornell secures second ever Ivy League regular season championship

Bears and 49ers Rookie Camps

Laxers Honor Seniors in Final Games Fraser Called to

By SMITA NALLURI

Sun Staff Writer

By ZACH SILVER

The Cornell women’s lacrosse team captured the Ivy League Regular Season Championship on Saturday in a decisive 13-6 victory over Harvard.

Hungry from a narrow loss in its previous game against Princeton, the No.11 Red (11-4, 6-1 Ivy) led wire to wire against the Crimson (87, 4-3) in order to secure the title, as well as the No. 1 seed heading into the upcoming Ivy League Tournament.

“We stayed calm because we treated the game like any other game this season,” said senior attacker Catherine Ellis. “We had the same mindset all week which was to know the game plan, practice it, and then execute it on Saturday.

We definitely did that and didn't let the magnitude of the game change the way we prepared.”

The Red was able to maintain its composure and got off to an impressive start, finding the back of the net seven times in the first 10 minutes of action, while holding its opponents to just a single goal. Cornell headed into the half leading 8-3, and then went on to outscore the Crimson again in the second half to extend its winning margin to seven

Sun Sports Editor

Princeton trading goals.

The Red opened a 3-2 lead with just over five minutes into the game, with Sowers scoring both Tiger goals.

But Princeton senior Gavin McBride, who entered the game with a national-best 3.54 goals per game, soon showed why he was the best goalgetter in the country.

The next three goals would all come from McBride, giving Princeton

Two hundred and fifty-three names were called during the 2017 NFL Draft, but not one was of former Cornell football punter Chris Fraser ’17 — nor of any punter, for that matter.

But less than 24 hours after the end of the draft, Fraser got a couple calls from both the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers, inviting him to take part in their rookie minicamps.

“It’s really surreal,” Fraser told The Sun. “It was a little nerve-wracking for the last 24 hours, but I can breathe a sigh of relief now.”

While not completely surprising that Fraser did not hear his name called in the draft, it was an especially off year for the punter position as a whole.

None were selected in 2017, while three were taken in 2016. The absence of punters in this year’s draft makes for a “crazy frenzy” heading into the undrafted free agency period, according to Fraser.

The calls from the Bears and 49ers were a bit unexpected for Fraser. He was invited to workouts with several teams, such as his hometown Ravens, but he said Chicago got a good look at him at a March pro day at Fordham University. The 49ers went through his agent.

“I was kind of surprised,” Fraser said about the Bears’ call. “I was really lucky [their scout] had “They don’t accept seen me there because he mediocrity. You mentioned he hadn’t been able to see me at Cornell, always have to be but I was fortunate that improving and at a he saw me at the pro day.” very high level.”

Punting abilities aside, Fraser’s career to this Chris Fraser ’17 moment took off with a note. A few years ago, his personal punting coach told him to put a clearly visible reminder in his locker telling himself “I am an NFL punter.” For Fraser, that repeated reminder was something that pushed him to his extreme, working everyday to get the call that came Sunday morning.

“I [had] that there to remind me that whatever happens, just to believe in yourself and know to your core that you have that ability in you,” Fraser said.

“And if you see something long enough, you’re going to ingrain that in your head, and you’re going to truly believe that — and I do truly believe that.”

A December graduate, Fraser left Cornell and the Ivy League as one of its most decorated athletes of all time with a first-team all-Ivy selection in each of his four years, along with all-American honors. He was just the third ever to accumulate four first-team allIvy nods.

Over his career, the Maryland native averaged 42.8 yards per punt, a total of 48 that went over 60 yards and 69 that pinned his opponent inside their own 20. His career long of 72 yards came in his sophomore season, but a punt over 60 yards was nothing short of expected for Fraser. Not one of his punts was blocked.

Before the draft, Fraser told The Sun about the high level of competition that hopeful NFL punters were privy to, as not a ton of teams are looking to replace their punter.

“They don’t accept mediocrity, at least not very long,” Fraser said in March. “You always have to be improving and at a very high level. Because of that, since there is only one per team and all that, you have to grab a hold of any opportunity you can.”

For Fraser, he has taken advantage of every opportunity he has been afforded, which included a spot in the East-West Shrine Game, as well as pro days

See M. LACROSSE page 11

See FRASER page 11

BRITTNEY CHEW / SENIOR SUN PHOTOGRAPHER

All cylinders | The Red outplayed Harvard in almost every category including shots taken, caused turnovers, draw controls, free-position shots, and ground balls. points and finish with a 13-6 victory.

Ellis led the team in goals with five goals, while senior midfielder

“We stayed calm because we treated this game like any other game this season.”

Senior Attacker Catherine Ellis Kirsty Gilbert scored a recordbreaking four free-position goals.

Senior attacker Amie Dickson, junior midfielder Ida Farinholt, and sophomore attackers Sarah Phillips and Tomasina Leska each added a

goal of their own.

On the defensive end, senior defender Catie Smith, a nominee for the prestigious Tewaaraton Award, once again proved her athletic prowess by forcing five turnovers and fielding three ground balls. Senior goalkeeper Renee Poullott also had an outstanding game, tying a career-high record with 15 saves.

Though the Red outplayed the Crimson from all angles — maintaining the edge in shots taken, caused turnovers, draw controls, free-position shots and ground balls — there are still aspects of its game that need to be honed before heading into the Ivy League See W. LACROSSE page 11

Teat lifts men over Princeton in final regular season match

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

That’s all, folks.

For one final time this season, the Cornell men’s lacrosse team suited up and went into battle. And even though the Red was guaranteed to finish with a losing record and miss out on postseason play for the second season in a row, the team put in its all onto the field when it hosted archrival No. 13 Princeton. All week long the team talked about sending the seniors out the right way, and Cornell did exactly that with an 18-17 win.

“Obviously we wish we were still playing, but there's no better feeling than getting that win, especially against Princeton,” said senior Walt Gahagan. “It’s one of the best rivalries in college lacrosse, if not the best, so it feels really good.”

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS

Ending strong | Teat’s historic game helped give the Red its only win over a ranked opponent this season. The freshman recorded 12 goals — the highest point total in 40 years.

“As a coach, you always want to get better throughout the course of the year, and this team without question did that.”

Head Coach Matt Kerwick The history between the two winningest programs in Ivy League history, Cornell (5-8, 3-3 Ivy) and Princeton (9-5, 4-2), is a storied one, and Saturday’s matchup continued the trend. The matchup brought together the two highest-perform-

ing freshmen in the country in Cornell’s freshman attacker Jeff Teat and Princeton’s Michael Sowers, and while the matchup lived up to the hype, it was Teat who would steal the show.

The first quarter started off with Cornell and