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College of Business Details Emerge Faculty, staff to collaborate on ‘cross cutting’ business subjects

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Detailed plans for the structure of the Cornell College of Business — approved in January by the Board of Trustees — will focus on improving faculty collaboration and research and have minimal immediate effect on students, according to Rohit Verma, the college’s deputy dean designate of external relations.

The college’s structure was determined by seven committees representing faculty, students, alumni and staff, with the goal of ensuring “the structural and academic decisions that will define the new College of Business are as broadly informed as possible,” according to the University.

While the new college’s dean and deputy deans will administrate the three schools merged in the College of Business — the School of Hotel Administration, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management — the schools’ identities will remain largely the same, according to Verma.

“When the Board of Trustees approved the college, they told us that we have two guidances,” Verma said. “First is that the new college should preserve the identity of each school and make them better, and second was that we have to integrate across the three schools so that they can all take advantage of each other’s strengths.”

Verma said that despite many students’

concerns, most aspects of the student experience will not change in the short run, and the college will mainly focus on improving inefficiencies associated with having business faculty spread across three schools.

“Those are things like the duplication of when we try to hire faculty,” Verma said.

“We compete with each other and oftentimes we may not be able to hire the best faculty.”

The most immediate effect of the merger will be increased collaboration among facul-

ty between the three schools, according to Verma.

“Right now faculty are isolated,” he said.

“They are focused on their own schools, but once they start integrating across in the long run you will imagine they will develop new collaborative curricula. Right now there is no formal collaboration.”

In the new college, faculty members will collaborate through area coordinators who See COLLEGE OF BUSINESS page 4

“[Faculty] are focused on their own schools, but once they start integrating across in the long run you will imagine they will develop new collaborative curricula.”

Dean Rohit Verma

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In the planning | Seven committees, representing Cornell constituencies, determined the administrative and academic structure of the College of Business, administrators say.

Police Investigate ‘Unsubstantiated Threat’ to Cornell Cornell University Police Chief Kathy Zoner informed the community of an ongoing investigation into “unsubstantiated threats” to the University in an email this evening.

Zoner said the threats were made by one “unknown individual” who she said has used two different websites unaffiliated with Cornell University.

The threats leveled against the University were characterized as nonspecific, not singling out a definite location or motive, but contain “clear reference to causing harm,” according to Zoner.

“We are working with other local and federal law enforcement agencies, increasing our staffing and presence on all of our campuses,” she said.

“Sharing this information with you out of an abundance of caution so that all of us can increase our vigilance.”

Cornellians are encouraged to continue about their normal activities but report any suspicious activity to CUPD, Zoner wrote. The police chief promised to update the Cornell community in further detail by noon on Wednesday.

— Compiled by Phoebe Keller

University Appoints Vice Provost, Provost’s Fellow

New administrators plan to improve undergraduate education,oversee academic initiatives

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor

Prof. Rebecca Stoltzfus Ph.D. ’92, nutritional sciences, has been appointed vice provost for undergraduate education, Provost

Michael Kotlikoff announced Monday. Prof. Julia Thom-Levy, physics, will serve in the newly created provost’s fellow for pedagogical innovation position.

Stoltzfus will begin her fiveyear term on July 1 and Thom-

CUPD Reports Alleged Sex Offense Cornell Police issued a crime alert to the community today after receiving a report of an alleged sex offense that occurred on Sisson Place in late April.

The victim said she was “forcibly touched” by a male at a party on Friday April 29 at 11:30 p.m. The suspect was described as having a “muscular build, approximately 5foot-7-inches to 5-foot-9-inches tall, with short brown hair on the sides and longer brown hair on top,” according to the victim.

The victim said the suspect was last seen in a short-sleeved collared shirt, but could provide no further description, according to the CUPD. The case is currently open and under investigation by Cornell Police.

— Compiled by Josephine Chu

Levy will begin her three-year term Aug. 1, according to the University.

In this role, Stoltzfus — who currently serves as the provost’s fellow for public engagement — will collaborate with deans and student life administrative groups to oversee academic initiatives such as research, academic integrity and inclusivity on campus, the University reported.

Stoltzfus is a professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the director of Cornell’s Program in Public Health. She has helped develop programs to increase student engagem e n t internationally and integrate experiential THOM-LEVY

learning in the curriculum, porting initiatives to enhance according to the University. learning experiences for all Thom-Levy’s work as the Cornell students,” Kotlikoff provost’s fellow for pedagogical wrote. innovation will focus “I am excited to work on improving and withthe leaders of innovating [campus] programs toward C o r n e l l ’s even greater inclusivity.” curricula and teaching, accord- Prof. Rebecca Stoltzfus Ph.D. ’92 ing to the University. She is currently an Stoltzfus said she looks forassociate professor of physics and ward to overseeing undergraduate directs a research group at the education and working with Large Hadron Collider, as well as Thom-Levy, according to the mentoring undergraduates con- University. ducting research.

“I am excited to work with the In his announcement, leaders of [campus] programs Kotlikoff added that he was confi- toward even grater inclusivity, dent in Stoltzfus and Thom- personal responsibility and acadeLevy’s potential to improve the mic success for all of our stuquality of undergraduate educa- dents,” Stoltzfus said. tion at Cornell.

“Together they will be invalu- Stephanie Yan can be reached at able assets in creating and sup- syan@cornellsun.com.

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Prof Considers Impact of Climate Change Policies on Poor

By ELEANOR GOOD Sun Staff Writer

Efforts to mitigate climate change frequently force governments to enact policies that hurt the poor, according to Prof. Ravi Kanbur, applied economics and management.

In a lecture Monday, Kanbur discussed climate justice — which he defined as justice between generations affected by climate change, and to those harmed by climate policies, economics and philosophy — three topics he said were all interrelated.

Economics often cannot apply to the environment because it can only efficiently allocate resources when market prices reflect true scarcity — clean air, for example, has no market price — according to Kanbur.

Economists and policy makers also have to consider the long-term consequences of climate change, he said.

“We think now of externalities as extending over time to multiple future generations,” Kanbur said. “Our actions today have impacts on future generations ahead who have no say in the matter.”

Kanbur added that even when market prices are adjusted to reflect their social costs through taxes, the outcomes can have a disproportionately large effect on poor countries and the poor in rich countries.

“Think of the implication of high gasoline taxes for those who have to drive long distances for their low-paying jobs,” he said. “They lose as a result of trying to fix this problem.”

Governments then need to balance economic equality and counteracting climate change, which introduces politics and philosophy to the issue, according to Kanbur.

“Accepting that curbing carbon emissions is the right thing to do from the point of view of future generations,

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Climate justice | Prof. Ravi Kanbur, applied economics and management, speaks on how fighting climate change can disproportionately affect the poor in a lecture Monday.

what do you do if the only policy instruments available to you make the poor worse off?” he asked.

Kanbur added that in order to counteract the adverse effects of climate regulation policy on the poor, “you could devise a very clever compensation scheme, as many climate activists have done,” but governments tend to lack the tools or political power to accomplish this.

While Kanbur acknowledged that addressing climate change may solve other forms of inequality and benefit this generation’s poor, he said economic injustice was

likely inevitable during this process.

“As you move towards efficiency, there are going to be distributional consequences,” he said.

The issues Kanbur covered in his lecture — the final installment in a semester-long series on climate change — will be further addressed at a climate justice conference at Cornell from May 24 to 25, according to the University.

Eleanor Good can be reached at egood@cornellsun.com.

Dean of Faculty Celebrates Retiring Faculty Members Honorees speak on C.U. experiences, call campus ‘an empowering environment’

By MOLLY KLUGER Sun Staff Writer

The Office of the Dean of Faculty honored approximately 40 retiring Cornell faculty members at a reception last Thursday at the A.D White House.

The retirees — including professors, researchers and librarians — were recognized for their dedication to teaching, research, and the overall Cornell community, the University said.

Retiring faculty recounted their Cornell experiences at the ceremony.

Prof. Emeritus Bob Swieringa, the dean emeritus of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, said he believes Cornell is “an empowering envi-

ronment that really allows people to blos- ing to the University.

“I hope we never lose sight of that celesom.”

“And when that happens to you, you’re bration of inquiry,” Hudler said at the forever grateful,” Swieringa said at the event. “Whether it meets a requirement or not, I hope we receptionoo. always give our P r o f .

E m e r i t u s “I hope we always give our undergraduate undergraduate students that George Hudler, students that little bit of elbow room to little bit of plant science just do something different.” elbow room to — who previjust do someously taught Prof. George Hudler thing differC o r n e l l’s ent.”

M a g i c a l The reception also highlighted the Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds class — said he appreciated the opportunity to efforts of the Cornell Association of teach the course, which initially did not Professors Emeriti, which connects retired satisfy distribution requirements and stu- faculty to the Cornell community and dents took purely due to interest, accord- campus traditions through lecture series,

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luncheons and volunteering programs, according to the organization’s website.

CAPE’s initiatives include volunteering for activities such as freshman move-in day, work at the plantations, the Johnson Museum of Art and the Paleontological Research Institution, according to Prof.

Emeritus Ann Lemley, fiber science and apparel design.

In addition to staying involved on campus, retired faculty are encouraged to stay connected with each other, Lemley said.

“We are planning our first annual social hour for retired faculty in June to increase the social connections,” she said.

Molly Kluger can be reached at mdk242@cornell.edu.

Rawlings Highlights Ethics Hotline

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

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Interim President Hunter Rawlings highlighted a confidential ethics hotline and urged the Cornell community to report any concerns of integrity in an email to the campus today.

The ethics system — operated by an independent company, EthicsPoint — will provide an anonymous platform for members of the Cornell community “as well as those outside it” to report “improper conduct or violations of Cornell University’s policies” using either the telephone line or the website, the email explained.

“Underlying everything we do — teaching, research, creative activity, public engagement, and

day-to-day operations — this foundation is only as strong as our shared understanding of what constitutes ethical conduct.” Rawlings wrote in the email.

He emphasized that those who witness an infraction of Cornell’s ethical conduct have an “obligation to report the concern.”

This ethics standards, which include all units of the University, are outlined in the formal Standards of Ethical Conduct Policy, available online. Matters of integrity were defined as including “research, financial matters, environmental health and safety, athletics [and] regulatory compliance,” the email said.

The interim president clarified that the “hotline service does not replace or

supersede existing reporting,” but can be of service to students who seek to maintain an anonymous status while addressing concerns.

“I hope and expect that few of us will ever need to use these services,” Rawlings said. “But I am pleased that Cornell has in place a system that faculty, staff, students and others can use with full confidence that their concerns will be heard while their anonymity is preserved.”

There will no retaliatory action against those who report or inquire in good faith about potential breaches to the University’s policies, according to the University website.

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

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College of Business Common Application Will Change Concerns Persist, Question on Criminal Record Some Students Say COLLEGE OF BUSINESS Continued from page 1

help arrange initiatives from research to developing curriculum in areas that cut across the three schools, according to Verma.

Verma added that faculty will be able to choose primary and secondary areas of study they want to associate with.

“This is clearly a faculty-driven effort,” he said.

However, concern about how the College of Business was created lingers among some Cornellians.

Richard Walroth grad, chair of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, said he believes the college was not properly vetted through shared governance before its announce“Withholding support for the ment.

College of Business at this “Past that first step, the critical point will not help process does seem fairly inclustudents, faculty and staff.” sive,” Walroth said. “Many students remain displeased at the Nelson Billington ’19 initial decision. However, this is more out of concern for the potential precedent this has set for other potential decisions to be made down the road.”

Gabriel Kaufman ’18, undesignated at large representative on the Student Assembly, expressed lingering concerns about the effects of the college on students and staff.

“I think that it is one thing to decide to merge the schools, but it is another when students and faculty start to see their daily lives affected,” Kaufman said. “This merger might change what classes are offered and by which professors.”

However, Nelson Billington ’19, a member of the undergraduate committee and S.A. SHA representative, said he believes his committee and others have succeeded in creating a viable college from the idea approved by the Board of Trustees.

“Provost Kotlikoff and his senior administrative team have done a fast and efficient job of filling the empty vessel to maintain the strengths of many core classes, encourage cross college collaborations and better define business education at Cornell,” Billington said. “Withholding support for the College of Business at this critical juncture will not help students, faculty and staff preparing for the implementation of this plan.”

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

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Common Application used for college admissions at more than 600 institutions is changing a question it asks about student criminal records, as the U.S. Department of Education urged schools Monday to consider dropping the question altogether.

The Common Application for the upcoming school year will still ask whether students have been found guilty of a misdemeanor or felony but remove part of the question asking about any other crimes, spokeswoman Aba Blankson told The Associated Press.

“We realized that was a place of ambiguity and so that could cause some angst for students,” Blankson said.

Speaking in Los Angeles, U.S. Education Secretary John King called it “an important step forward,” but also urged the organization to consider alternative approaches outlined in a guide for colleges released Monday.

The Department of Education document encourages schools to remove questions about a student’s criminal record in the early stages of college applications, noting such inquiries can have a “chilling effect” and discourage otherwise qualified candidates from applying.

“Those who have paid their debt and served

their sentences deserve an equal chance to learn and thrive,” King wrote.

The guide comes as students and civil rights organizations have pushed universities to drop questions about criminal records. While many of the nation’s largest universities, including the University of California system, do not ask any questions about a student’s criminal record, a majority still do. Others like New York University review a student’s criminal record after making an initial admissions decision.

Advocates in favor of dropping the question argue it creates a barrier to college access at a time when higher education is considered vital to advancing in the workforce. They also highlight data showing that black and other minority students are suspended and referred to law enforcement at disproportionate rates.

“This guidance will help tear down a significant barrier which unfairly excluded many African American and minority student applicants seeking access to college classrooms,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which has encouraged schools to remove questions about criminal records on college applications.

Judge Resigns After Assault Accusations LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge resigned Monday after new allegations surfaced that he used his authority for the last 30 years to sexually prey on young men charged with crimes who needed financial help or who were afraid of losing their children or jobs.

Part-time Cross County District Judge Joe Boeckmann resigned after a state judicial commission presented him with new allegations, including one case when a man said he was taken to a courtroom, told to strip naked and photographed in handcuffs.

Allegations were made public last year that Boeckmann had engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships including photographing and paddling defendants in exchange for lighter

sentences.

Documents detailing the new allegations were provided to The Associated Press by the commission under an open records request.

“He’s a criminal predator who used his judicial power to feed his corrupt desires. Every minute he served as a judge was an insult to the Arkansas Judiciary,” said David Sachar, executive director of the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, which had been investigating to determine if the judge should be sanctioned or kicked off the bench.

The former judge has not been charged with a crime.

Sachar said Monday that he turned parts of the information over to the Arkansas State Police, a special state prosecutor and federal authorities. He said since

part of the allegations stretched to when Boeckmann was a private attorney and a deputy prosecutor, the commission will contact the Arkansas Judiciary’s Committee on Professional Conduct to investigate — including allegations from at least one witness that Boeckmann tried to pay him not to speak with investigators.

Boeckmann had previously denied the allegations against him. But in his resignation letter dated Monday, he agreed never to work in public service again.

“I further promise to never seek employment as a local, county or state employee or public servant in the State of Arkansas.” he wrote.

Jeff Rosenzweig, Boeckmann’s attorney, said he will not make any further comments.

Louisiana Officers Justified in Fatally Shooting Suspect, Prosecutors Say Share footage of Feb.13 shootout in which 54 shots were fired BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two Baton Rouge police officers acted in self-defense and were justified in fatally shooting a man who shot and wounded them after a car chase in February, a prosecutor said Monday as his office released dramatic video of the gunbattle.

Dashcam video from the officers’ cruisers shows the suspect, 22year-old Calvin Smith, exit his vehicle and immediately open fire on the officers with a semi-automatic rifle as they pulled up to Smith’s parked car at the end of the chase.

The officers returned

fire, fatally wounding Smith, according to a report released Monday

by East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore.

The report says at least 54 shots were fired during the Feb. 13 shootout, which lasted less than 20 seconds.

The suspect fired at least 20 shots from an AR-15 rifle, while the officers fired at least 34 shots between them from their semi-automatic pistols, Moore’s report said.

Moore said he had “no idea” how the officers survived the shooting. Officer Theodore Smith was shot once in

the abdomen, and his vehicle was struck by three bullets; Officer Sean Garic was hit in the head by one of the rifle shots, and his vehicle was hit by eight bullets, according to Moore’s report.

“All I can say is that God must have been with them and protected them,” Moore said at a news conference.

Video from Officer Smith’s body camera shows him putting his cruiser in park and exiting his cruiser when the gunfire erupts. After an initial burst of gunfire, the officer began running as another volley of shots erupted.

“Shots fired! Officer hit!” Smith shouted over the blaring of sirens after the gunfire ended.

Smith crouched down next to a vehicle and radioed in a plea for paramedics to come to the scene.

“Two officers hit!” he shouted.

Calvin Smith died at a hospital hours after the shooting. The officers were released from the hospital less than three days after.

The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance when Smith led them on a chase through a neighborhood that ended outside his home.

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Justice Department Sues North Carolina Over Transgender Bathroom Law

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A potentially epic clash over transgender rights took shape Monday when the U.S. Justice Department sued North Carolina over the state’s bathroom law after the governor refused to back down.

In unusually forceful language, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said North Carolina’s law requiring transgender people to use public restrooms and showers corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate amounts to “state-sponsored discrimination” and is aimed at “a problem that doesn’t exist.”

“What this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share,” she said, speaking directly to residents of her native state. “This law provides no benefit to society, and all it does is harm innocent Americans.”

Billions of dollars in federal aid for North Carolina — and a potentially landmark decision regarding the reach of the nation’s civil rights laws — are at stake in the dispute, which in recent weeks has triggered boycotts and cancellations aimed at pressuring the state into repealing the measure.

Last week, the U.S. Justice Department said the law amounts to illegal sex discrimination and gave Gov. Pat McCrory until Monday to say he would

refuse to enforce it. When the deadline arrived, a defiant McCrory instead sued the federal government, arguing that the state law is a “commonsense privacy policy” and that the Justice Department’s position is “baseless and blatant overreach.”

McCrory, a Republican who is up for re-election in November, accused the Obama administration of unilaterally rewriting federal civil rights law to protect transgender people’s access to bathrooms, locker rooms and showers across the country.

“This is not a North Carolina issue. It is now a national issue,” he said.

Later in the day, the Justice Department struck back by suing the state, seeking a court order declaring the law discriminatory and unenforceable.

A judge could begin hearing arguments in the competing cases within weeks, during which North Carolina will probably try to stop the government from temporarily blocking the law or stripping away federal funding, said Rina Lindevaldsen, a Liberty University professor specializing in family and constitutional law.

With appeals courts around the country diverging on whether transgender people are protected under federal civil rights laws, “this seems like the kind of thing that’s on track for the Supreme Court,” she said.

Two Dead in Oklahoma as Tornadoes Hit Plains OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tornadoes swept across portions of the Plains on Monday, killing two people in Oklahoma including an elderly man who was inside a home that was torn apart by one of the violent storms.

An emergency management director said a man believed to be in his upper 70s died when a tornado hit a home near Wynnewood, south of Oklahoma City. Authorities also confirmed the death of a man near the town of Connerville, Johnston County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Stacey Pulley said.

The storm was considered so violent that forecasters declared a “tornado emergency” for communities in the twister’s path.

“You are in a life-threatening situation,” forecasters declared while warning the communities of Roff, population 725, and Hickory, population 71, which were ultimately spared major damage. “Flying debris will be deadly to those caught without shelter.”

Dana Lance was driving

through the Pontotoc County community of Roff on her way home from work Monday when the skies grew ominous, and she heard tornado sirens and forecasters on the radio urging people in the area to take cover.

“I parked and went into the school, which has a safe room,” Lance said. “There were kids and elderly people, dogs and cats, babies. It was like the whole town was there.”

One person sustained minor injuries in Murray County, where the tornado moved slowly through a rural area on its path that would take it south of Roff, said Gary Ligon, Murray County’s emergency management director.

Ligon said the injured person was taken to a hospital but the nature of the injury was not immediately known.

The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, warned that twisters as far north as Nebraska and Iowa could develop late Monday night.

The bad weather should settle in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys on Tuesday, forecasters said, while another storm system should bring bad weather to the area from north Texas to near St. Louis on Wednesday.

Monday’s series of violent thunderstorms dropped tornadoes near Oklahoma City and in the rolling hills south of the city, destroying some homes and barns.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol closed Interstate 35 near Wynnewood for 15 minutes Monday so the storm could pass, temporarily shutting down the primary route between Oklahoma City and Dallas.

Garvin County Emergency Management Director Bud Ramming said early Monday evening that the fatality was the only known injury reported to his office.

Television images showed homes destroyed, multiple overturned vehicles and trees torn limb to limb. A roof lay near a hay barn after the first tornado reports.

Suspect in Custody After Police Detective Fatally Shot KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City, Kansas, police detective helping respond to a report of a suspicious person near a racetrack was fatally shot Monday, and a parolee sought for questioning in that and an ensuing string of reported carjackings was wounded after a shootout with police in neighboring Missouri.

The detective was shot at least twice about 12:30 p.m. near the Kansas Speedway, underwent surgery at a hospital and later died, his department said in a statement.

“Our detective fought a good fight, but unfortunately he died from his injuries,” Kansas City, Kansas, Police Chief Terry

Zeigler said in a tweet.

“Thanks for the support & prayers.”

Police did not immediately release his name, though Carolynn Lancaster told the Kansas City Star the detective was her son, 39-year-old Brad Lancaster.

Police said the gunman, after wounding the detective, fled in the officer’s unmarked car, then hijacked a vehicle with two children inside before abandoning it in nearby Basehor, Kansas, leaving those kids unharmed.

Police publicly appealed for help in trying to find Curtis Ayers, 28, for questioning in the shooting. That Tonganoxie, Kansas, man ultimately was taken into custody in

Kansas City, Missouri, when he crashed the car he was driving while being pursued by officers, then was shot by police after trying to carjack a woman’s vehicle.

That woman was wounded and taken to a hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, police spokeswoman Kari Thompson said without specifying her medical condition.

Ayers was hospitalized in stable condition, police spokesman Patrick McCallop said.

“This individual was very dangerous. We are so happy that this individual is in custody,” Thompson told reporters later. “We are so glad this situation has come to an end.”

Carolynn Lancaster, who couldn’t immedi-

ately be reached by The Associated Press, told the Kansas City Star her son “was the rock of the family.”

Brad Lancaster was a U.S. Air Force veteran who had served two tours of duty overseas, including one in Kuwait, the newspaper reported. Lancaster said her son had a wife and two daughters.

Ayers has had longstanding trouble with the law, having served prison time in Kansas in recent years for convictions involving child abandonment, fleeing or trying to elude law enforcers, and interference with a law enforcement officer, online Kansas Department of Corrections records show.

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By Ruben Bolling

Last Call at the Jacobin Club I

’ve been trying to come up with a topic for this column for the past 10 hours, and as of yet, I’ve been unsuccessful. One minute I think I’m onto something, and then the next thing I know I’ve been drawn back online and I’m watching a video of Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded by Vanity Fair in the name of journalism. No, these past 10 hours spent on the couch in my lounge have been entirely unproductive, and even a much-needed break to watch Game of Thrones failed to bear any much-needed information.

This is quite unfortunate, given that my column is due in 11 hours and I have yet to begin studying for my exam this week. It is also unfortunate because this is my last column of the year, and my sentimental side is lobbying hard for a thousand words imbued with some sense of finality or conclusion. After all, it’s only human to want to ride off into the sunset while the credits roll on the screen.

It’s not like I am leaving for good.

Much to the chagrin of those who leave such wonderful comments on my columns, I will be back next fall(!), and The Cornell Daily Sun will be as well, God willing. On that note, read The Sun, people! A lot of folks put more effort into this paper than I can express in words, and they do it while also going to a school like Cornell. I’m barely organized enough to make it to my first class on Mondays (at 2:55 p.m., no less), so when I see both the dedication of my fellow Sunnies and the amazing quality of the work they put out, I’m left speechless. Make me happy, and pick up a copy tomorrow when you go to get your morning New York Times.

Make our advertisers and our business department happy and turn off AdBlock when you check out our website. Call your congressman and tell him how much you love your local college daily paper. But I digress.

How does one place a capstone on a year of columns? I suppose I could do what I normally do and mash out a thousand words about Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), or Sen. Bernie Sanders (DVt.), or how incredibly disappointing the modern Republican Party is and how Lincoln and Eisenhower would totally be Democrats today, but I’m not going to do that, and it’s not for lack of material. At the beginning of the year I wrote a column explaining why Kanye West would be a better president than the illegitimate lovechild of P.T. Barnum and George Wallace the Republicans have nominated, and as the months have gone by I only feel more and more vindicated in that belief. But this isn’t a column about politics. This is a column about columns.

When I chose the name of the column, The Jacobin, I did it mainly because I wanted to get back out on the beach, and it was only idea my sister and I came up with that was even moderately acceptable. It played on both my name and my affinity for European history and it sounded a lot better than “Stuff I Like to Write About.” It wasn’t necessarily there to inform the reader about the column; I wasn’t planning on starting any revolutions or making

extensive use of the guillotine I keep in my dorm room, and I instructed a friend from home to drive up to Ithaca and slap me if I ever invoked Robespierre or Saint-Just in my writing.

Its namesake, the Jacobin Club, didn’t meet that nice of an ending. By the time the French Revolution ended and Napoleon took power, the Jacobins who weren’t yet shorter by a head found themselves underneath the same monarchical system they had raised so much hell to defeat, and had only a century and a half of being savaged by the various other European powers to look forward to. No, it’s certainly not my plan for this column to go out like the Jacobins of old. I quite like my head in its current location, and (so long as we are sensible and refrain from electing as president the Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Republican Party) my itch for revolution is virtually nonexistent.

Sometimes people tell me I talk about Trump too much. The Cornell Review once cited my columns as part of a story they ran detailing the Daily Sun’s alleged obsession with the taco bowl-loving businessman. Writer Casey Breznick chastised our opinion section for focusing so much on someone who so clearly was a non-factor in the nomination process and was totally undeserving of our attention. Well, Casey Breznick, who’s laughing now? Perhaps if more people had written about Trump like we did, your party would not be in the mess it has so delightfully found itself in. The Cornell Review may “not apologize” for anything, but even they must admit what a sorry state their party is in. No, I think I wrote about Trump just enough, and, no doubt, he will continue to be my muse for the next five months and 30 days before (again, God willing) he ascends back up his escalator and out of American politics for the duration of forever.

But again, this isn’t a column about Trump. It’s a column about columns, and it’s safe to say The Jacobin wouldn’t exist were it not for a few very important people: my previous editor, Sloane Grinspoon, who read my treatise on why the Backstreet Boys were the greatest boy band of the 1990s and decided that I somehow merited a column in this publication; my current editor, Paulina Glass, who always makes sure my columns are fit for publication and free of pesky Oxford commas; my sisters, for being honest and straightforward in their criticism and suggestions; my parents, for being the same way, only more gentle. Without all of their support and advice, I wouldn’t be here today.

And then there is you, dear reader.

Loyal readers, disloyal readers, perennial angry commenter “Abe ’14”, readers who happen to glance at my column while searching the website for Sex on Thursdays, I love you all. I do this for you. So don’t despair. Summer is just a few short months, and like Arnold, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and the Republican Party’s dignity, I’ll be back.

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun.com. The Jacobin appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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here’s a quote chalked into the wall near Rockefeller that I knew existed, but never really actually saw until about a week ago when I caught a glimpse of it on accident. It’s yellow chalk, carved carefully above a bench built into the concrete wall leading up to the Big Red Barn. “Dear God, be good to me,” it reads. “The sea is so wide, and my boat is so small.” Someone I respect very much brought it up to me my freshman year. “I think about the quote a lot when finals come around,” he said. I scoffed — what would the smartest kid I know here know about small boats and wide oceans? The curve has always been in your favor; how much better do you want God to be to you?

Coming on a full year after that particular conversation, I’ve realized a couple things. One of those things is that there is a lot more to life to simply having things go your way. In fact, at least this year, I can confidently say very little has gone my way.

I have come to the conclusion that what separates those that make it out of college more mature than how they entered is how they have chosen to react to what has been dealt to them.

I came into the year wanting everything everyone else seemed to so effortlessly have: great grades, a social life, a Kim/Kanye level relationship and most importantly, adequate sleep. I can do this, I told myself. And with as much motivation as I approached this year, I am now leaving it behind filled with a sense of defeat and disappointment.

I want so badly to put a spin on this year, if for no other reason, but for the betterment of this column, and subsequently, your enjoyment. Every kid that’s chosen to “write about a time you failed” knows that that college essay only gets you into college if you end it on a positive note — something you learned about yourself, something you reconciled with, something good. Something ending with you looking optimistically into the future as a more mature teen, ready to head to college and change the world for the better.

Unfortunately, I am convinced that attempting to look at things this way all the time might get you into college, but it does not necessarily get you through college. Things go wrong. Things don’t go your way — not once, not twice, but sometimes over and over again until you are left frustrated and angry and sad at yourself, at the people around you, at Cornell and at everything you can find yourself in access to. There is not always a silver lining to find in every situation that goes wrong — and coming to terms with that fact has been what a large part of this year has consisted of for me.

What always holds true, however, is how you behave in the situations you have no control over. I came into this year believing I had a right to having things go my way, and if they didn’t, I had a right to take my frustrations out on the people around me. I have come to the conclusion that what separates those that make it out of college more mature than how they entered is how they have chosen to react to what has been dealt to them. “Be so good, they can’t ignore you” is usually a quote reserved for your academic abilities, professional abilities or maybe even sporting abilities.

I have found this year to prove that this quote stands true for your behavior as well — be so good to the people around you, no matter what you face, so that they are there for you and they are rooting for you. And even if they aren’t, they cannot ignore the good that you are.

Hebani Duggal is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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It’s not only Trump himself that the risks a Donald Trump who Donald Trump termed “not a presidency poses to war hero,” has advanced the view threatens these norms but also, America, the world and the contin- that a President Trump (I know, indirectly, the opposition to him. ued existence of human life outside sounds scary) could be a “capable Standards like civilian control of the military are threatened when of subterranean bunkers. From leader.”

Sure, part of this support is just officials say that they will refuse to wrecking the U.S. economy by deporting illegal immigrants (an electoral politicking as GOP law- carry out Trump’s orders to “bring important source of labor, ironical- makers attempt to wriggle out of back a hell of a lot worse than ly particularly so for the Republican Trump’s clutches. Much of the waterboarding.” Barry Goldwater’s big business base) and threatening maneuvering can be ascribed to contention that “extremism in the to default on U.S. Treasury bonds attempts at avoiding drawing the defense of liberty is no vice” to using nuclear weapons against ire of Trump’s supporters as The remains as untrue today as it was 50 states whose leaders question the Donald’s allies promise to campaign years ago. length of his fingers, the world against politicians who don’t supThe vulnerability of societal would be far worse off with The port him (see Sarah Palin’s con- norms is inherent to democracy Donald in the White House. But hey, at least Latin American dignitaries would The soil in which Trump laid his roots was tilled by finally learn just how years of intolerance deployed to cultivate support for an to properly make taco bowls (inciden- increasingly anemic GOP. As such, there is considerable tally, the only dish evidence that a Republican Congress would play with a handy builtball with this short-fingered authoritarian. in wall).

The Democratic Party, suddenly offered the opportunity to retake tention that Paul Ryan will get —without that risk no truly reprethe Senate and possibly the House, “Cantor-ed” in his Wisconsin re- sentative and accountable governshould use this fear to their advan- election fight). However, the ment can exist. Despite this, tage in down-ballot elections. Trump phenomenon is as much a democracy remains the most Democrats in competitive states result of the Republican Party’s resilient form of government and like Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania toxic anti-immigrant and border- the only legitimate way to govern should emphasise the wide latitude line ultra-nationalist rhetoric as it is free individuals with diverging that a GOP lock on the executive its neglect of Middle America. The needs and desires. Donald and legislature (and, most likely, soil in which Trump laid his roots Trump’s ascendance represents the judiciary) would give to Trump in was tilled by years of intolerance greatest threat to this country’s pursuing his racist and illiberal fan- deployed to cultivate support for an faith in democracy, a faith that tasies. While fear-mongering poli- increasingly anemic GOP. As such, rests upon ideas that constitute an tics should be regarded with suspi- there is considerable evidence that a evolution in organising human cion, a Republican-controlled Republican Congress would play societies. The importance and Congress next to a newly built ball with this short-fingered author- validity of those ideas remains as Trump Tower II on Pennsylvania itarian. true today as in America’s youth Ave. could do untold damage to the Over the past year, Donald — it is only their image within American economy, society and, Trump, in a fashion akin to that our minds that may be dulled. indeed, the very foundations of this mould growing above your showerWe cannot rely on a blind hope country’s democracy. head, has continually eaten away at that this too shall pass and Justice Some say that a Republican the societal norms that form the will restore America to glory, for Congress would not support bedrock of American democracy. America means nothing without Trump’s legislative agenda, refusing His demands for a “total and com- those who uphold her ideals and to fund the giant wall (if Mexico plete shutdown of Muslims” enter- spirit. Let us not fall into the tempwouldn’t come through on their ing the U.S. until we “figure out tation to which humanity has too side of the ‘deal’) and denouncing what is going on” have corroded often succumbed of particularizing the much-demanded Muslim reg- ideals of equality before the law and our universal values. Let us instead istry. Yet one has only to look at the religious freedom (the latter, fight against the demands of the support, grudging or otherwise, despite southern governors’ few who seek to divide Man from that Trump is extracting from protests, being the correct usage of Man along meaningless lines and members of Congress. The erst- the term). Further, Trump’s views of continually strive toward a more while Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) left women as mindless automatons perfect union. himself an opening to get behind beholden to the whims of menstruThe Donald and numerous senators ation threaten to retard progress in Alex Davies is a junior in the College of Arts and and representatives are loudly pro- those norms and transport large Sciences. He can be reached at claiming their backing for him. segments of America back to a time ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News For Even Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), when women were effectively chat- You? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Farewell, My Sun

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

It’s been a journey. There’ve been ups and downs and many exciting moments for me as a staff writer in the Arts & Entertainment section of The Sun — ranked #1 among college papers by Princeton Review — and I wouldn’t trade a minute of it for anything.

For the past three years, I’ve had the privilege of sharing my thoughts and opinions on my favorite art form in the world, cinema, with a community of intelligent, media-savvy people who actually enjoy art. There’s no finer school in which to have a dialogue about artwork with your fellow writers, professors and peers. I made some of my best friends while covering the movie beat (still trying to match you for prolificness, Zach Zahos ’15, and you for enthusiasm, Sean Doolittle ’16) and got to participate in something very special.

Some highlights for me include my interviews with Paul Verhoeven during my sophomore year, with several employees of Pixar Animation Studios who are alums and with Rachel Reichman, the editor of Hitchcock/Truffaut, this March. Even though the arts section is not without its problems (we gotta work on beefing up our top ten lists, guys) I nevertheless enjoyed selecting ten gems in each category at the end of every year. It’s an efficient way to canonize and quantify what your favorite artistic experiences of the year were, when of course such a task is impossible. My biggest WTF moment came last November when Neill Blomkamp,

director of District 9, sent an email to me asking for clarification due to the dip in quality I had perceived in his work of late. I was enthralled and flabbergasted at the same time — who knew an Academy Award-winning director reads this shit?

That’s a little lesson to bear in mind, my fellow Sunnies: you never know who’s reading. I believe my opinions on Mr. Blomkamp’s work were valid, but always make sure you mean what you write and think carefully, particularly when covering people. It’s a lot easier when you are talking about their work rather than them, but it can be a slippery slope.

I joined the arts section during the spring of my freshman year, buoyed by the excitement of getting to share my passion for movies with the Cornell population. I remember reading the review of Silver Linings Playbook and putting in a call to the section to see if I could join in. It was one of the best decisions I made in my Cornell career. This has been an integral part of my college life, it has improved my writing dramatically — if you wanna get better grades on essays, my friends, writing dozens of articles for a highly respected public forum is the best way to do it.

The last thing I’ll ask you to think about is to not undermine the importance of keeping the arts alive and well here on campus. In a school where indeed every study is available in the highest possible fashion, and everywhere you turn you meet a different major, discussion topics are nonetheless dominated by the hard sciences: biology, engineering, animal science, physics,

Inspiraling

Resolve Yourself

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Rather, they slowly drift along like musings from a lazy, sun-drenched afternoon.

Resolve Yourself resembles early releases from slackerrocker Mac DeMarco. Although Inspiraling does not share DeMarco’s propensity for composing around guitar, both artists favor eerie, understated tracks that imbue the listener with a strain of relaxation cut with unease. A slightly anxious malaise marks Inspiraling’s thoughts on sleepiness and stilted romance that parallel DeMarco’s melancholy and worries about lost youth. Yet, while DeMarco’s tracks play like send-offs from a monotone beach, Inspiraling’s hail from a musical elsewhere.

Specifically, Resolve Yourself’s instrumental tracks wander into a field of sprawling ideas and raw sonic material that somewhat resembles the collages of German experimental rockers Faust. On the album’s fourth track, “You Know Me,” jazzy drums pass through, synths flit in and out and a strange rustle simmers just beneath the surface.

Unlike the work of instrumental mainstay Ratatat, Inspiraling foregoes a conspicuous verse-chorus division in order to promote a feeling of indefinite suspension.

Resolve Yourself’s instrumental tracks have the potential to stretch out for hours, caught in a gleaming amber, bur Inspiraling caps them all under five minutes.

“Mindfulness,” Resolve Yourself’s antepenultimate track and third instrumental song displays Inspiraling’s most interesting composing and recording. For four and a half minutes, he offers slight alterations on the track’s

Mark Distefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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chemistry. It’s our responsibility as arts writers to keep the humanities alive and well here, and I have no doubt that as long as there is a campus up here in Ithaca there will be a strong verve for the humanities, but it only exists as long as the enthusiasm does, too.

There was a very good article published around the end of last semester encouraging all students to make time in their lives for the humanities, and I couldn’t agree more. During your busy week of studying and library hours, find time to visit the Johnson Museum.

Please, for the love of God, go to Cornell Cinema and appreciate the wonderful film archive we have available here — it is as good as a national treasure — run by a bunch of talented, devoted students who volunteer their time so that we can have a rich cinematic experience.

Visit Cinemapolis too, a brilliant little independent theater we are lucky to have in town, and then go to the multiplex to catch the latest blockbuster. Spend less time twittering and tweeting and on Facebook and Instagram.

Go see a production or two or three at the Schwartz instead. Let the folks there know that the theater department is a strong and important feather in our cap. You won’t have as much fun being home on your laptop. A real sense of community happens in our public consumption and discussion of art and culture. And that community is what life in college is all about.

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main theme, constantly reworking the different nooks and crannies of a hazy realm. A multitude of instruments take their time in the foreground. After a brief synth intro, Inspiraling tosses in a straight snare-bass-snarebass drum part that breaks from the understated funk drumming that dominates most of the album. A perpetually moving bass line and a smorgasbord of synths fill out a soundscape in which every part is always in the same neighborhood, but never locked into one restrictive groove.

Inspiraling’s instrumental tracks, however, constitute less than a fifth of Resolve Yourself and intersperse lyrical songs that attain varied levels of success. The entirety of Inspiraling’s release has a purposeful lo-fi vibe, and many of Inspiraling’s tracks play far more like demos than fully fleshed out products. This still-in-production aesthetic in fact propels a number of the album’s most compelling songs.

Despite Inspiraling’s propensity for slathered synths and thick hazes, Resolve Yourself’s simplest tracks are its most compelling. Save for a few synth swells, “Exhausted” features a minimal beat, plucky guitars, understated bass and a clean piano line that accentuates Israel’s vocals. Israel’s voice has an unmistakable nasal twang that allows him to deliver his simple lyrics with a straightforward, unremarkable delivery.

Resolve Yourself’s standout track — “Dangerous Machine” — deftly fuses Inspiraling’s quirks (simple but odd lyrics, understated guitar and bass lines, lo-fi production) into a whole that transcends its parts. None of “Dangerous Machine”’s elements are captivating on their own but, when taken as a unit, the track mesmerizes.

Despite the album’s presiding surfer tone, “Dangerous Machine” has a distinctly grunge core that is undoubtedly bolstered by Israel’s deadpan delivery of earnest lines.

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be the person with no fear/always liked by all those near.” Many of Resolve Yourself’s tracks, however, seem underdeveloped rather than brooding and subdued.

“Right Before You,” for example, channels a few funk and soul motifs, but falls flat without any palpable energy driving the song. The same issue plagues earlier tracks “Breeze” and “The Reach.” None of Inspiraling’s songs are failures per se, and rarely does Israel noticeably flub a part, but the majority of Resolve Yourself’s tracks play like demos rather than finished songs. As such, it is difficult to figure out exactly how to evaluate Resolve Yourself. As a collection of demos, it’s an excellent release that plays like an exposition of the tools in Inspiraling’s camp: proficiency holding down the bass and drums, a good ear for simple, straightforward guitar and piano lines and a rich library of interesting synths. As a finished product, however, the album fails to deviate from a lackluster center.

The majority of the tracks sound like skeletons that provide a basic structure and a few interesting textures or riffs to distinguish one song from the next. Inspiraling seems to have halted after this first step, however, and neglected to imbue any of his tracks with visceral energy.

It is important to note and respect, however, that Electric Buffalo Records and Inspiraling released Resolve Yourself with considerably less hype than _____’s Paralanguage release a few weeks prior, and the album should perhaps be considered an introduction to Inspiraling’s ideas rather than a full realization of them.

If thought of as a teaser for future projects, Resolve Yourself is an exciting project. Inspiraling’s lo-fi production, understated lyrics and hazy ethos are all elements that, if pushed further, could lead to excellent, interesting songs.

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

He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

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Let Us Remember: Julian Barnes’ Historical Fiction

BY TUSHAR THOMAS Sun Contributor

The Noise of Time is a novel of threes. It begins with three mysteriously unnamed characters meeting on a train platform, and it is parted into three sections. Each of these sections is allocated a different setting — the lobby just outside two elevator doors, a plane seat and a car seat. In each of these sections, the main character never moves. Instead, he reflects.

With The Noise of Time, we get ManBooker-Prize-Winner Julian Barnes’ go at historical fiction. Barnes’ figure-of-choice for his book’s spotlight is Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich — a scrawny, introverted Russian composer who composed music during the twentieth century’s era of Soviet oppression. The Noise of Time is, most of the time, wonderfully introspective. Shostakovich, as Barnes paints him, is a nervous man. In the entire first part of the novel, he remains seated before elevator doors in the middle of the night and anxiously recalls key moments of his life. He is certain that the

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Soviet government (or, as he ominously calls it, “Power”) is coming for him. He doesn’t want the officers to wake his family, so each night, he dresses up and waits by the elevator.

We wait alongside him, listening to the running of his thoughts. We get regaled with tales of his shifting life philosophies, failed love affairs and Russian politics, all of which are fascinating.

In the second and third parts, the meditations and reflections go on, but the focus shifts more to politics — Shostakovich is constantly at odds with Power, it seems — and to something called “the noise of time.”

Barnes’ Shostakovich philosophizes (and, sometimes, it seems the philosophizing has no end) on the nature of great music. He believes that, like all art, only some music will survive time. The rest will be forgotten. He seems obsessed (and it seems most artists are) with trying to figure out what survives “the noise of time” and what doesn’t. In a very literary fashion, Shostakovich’s obsessions become prosaic and melodramatic at points.

Now and then, they become gimmicky — occasionally, though, they are moving.

The formatting is designed to reflect the jumpiness of Shostakovich’s thoughts. Each of the three parts is broken into a large number of smaller sections that each average approximately half of a page in length.

Often, the bits are only related tangentially.

The effect is that, on one page, Shostakovich’s relationship with his mother is being laid out in detail, then, a mere page later, his ideas on music are being explained.

The grander effect is a feeling that we have been thrown earnestly into Shostakovich’s mind, and we are being exposed to all of its naked unsteadiness. Though odd and unnerving at first (as I imagine hearing someone’s thoughts should be), there’s a certain charming flow to it.

The Noise of Time is worth a read, and it’s short. This novel of threes comes full circle in order to end the way it begins: with its three unnamed characters huddled together on a train station platform.

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Tushar Thomas is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at tt465@cornell.edu.

From alt-J to the Eagles: Learning to Love That Summery MOR

nce again it’s the month of May, to both An Awesome Wave, and its follow and the weather is (sort of ) start- up This is All Yours. Writing about the ing to seem serious about getting former, reviewer Laura Snapes dismissed warm. For me, as for most Cornell stu- the band’s sound as “knotty” and “incondents, this indicates a number of exciting gruous” concluding that alt-J’s main things. Slope Day is imminent, and sum- claim for innovation on the album “is mer is in under a month. In between that there’s a lot going on.” It’s hard not them, innumerable hours will be spent to suspect, though, that some of in the library. There will be sleepless Pitchfork’s ire toward alt-J stems from a nights and possibly tears. There will be certain incident in which they were times when our drive to work is chal- declared “the new Radiohead.” This incilenged by a beautiful morning, or the dent, mentioned in the first sentence of warm breeze of b o t h an early sumreviews, mer’s afterand connoon, remindtinually ing us that for referall of our goale n c e d orientedness throughthere is a far out each, Guest greater joy in seems to Room simply being. constitute Hopefully the only though, we’ll get everything done, and context in which Pitchfork is willing to all will be rewarding. view the band. Evidently the publicaFor me the warm weather also indi- tions regards the notion that alt-J fits cates that I’ll again be listening to alt-J’s into the same innovative groove as An Awesome Wave. Every spring, this Radiohead, their favorite band of all 2012 pop album invites me back into its time, as near-blasphemy. In the An wash of exuberant sounds and crypAwesome Wave review Snapes contic lyricism, and into a sort cludes that the Radiohead comof fantasy world. A parison, as well as alt-J’s winning fantasy world of the esteemed Mercury Prize, in which “ultimately says more about all of my lowered standards.” In terms existential of the musical tradition into quandaries which alt-J actually fit, really could Snapes had other ideas, be resolved writing: “strip all extrawith a tab of neous sparkle and LSD, and where amplification away, sex could be just and the songs are an extension of this exposed for the drainlysergic inner-peace ing, elongated MOR RDS ( “in your snatch fits tunes they really are.”

ECO MR YLU S A pleasure,” sings front“MOR,” an acronym standing for F O Y ES man Joe Newman, COURT “middle of the road,” corresponds not to “broom-shaped pleaa single genre, but a commercial radio sure”). An Awesome Wave is a guilty plea- format encompassing several, including sure, and a distinctly summery one. easy listening, smooth jazz and soft rock.

As indie bands go, alt-J are notably The modern usage of the label is almost uncool. This is owed largely to two pun- exclusively pejorative, carrying with it ishing reviews given by Pitchfork Media the implication that whatever it tags is

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edgeless and commercial. The assump- that, at the end of the day, they undenition is that MOR music is fundamental- ably wrote tight, melodious pop songs. I ly vapid and not to be appreciated as art would agree with this assessment, but it as much as muzak. Thus, for a band like is far less relevant to me than the simple fact that the Eagle’s so well captured a alt-J which aims to be origicertain sunny, L.A. aesthetic. Like alt-J, nal, to have been called The Eagle’s music describes “MOR” in an influential an idyllic world review must have been pretty and a meldamning. low ideal: a Undoubtedly there are p i c t u re many critics who would which seems disagree with Snapes’ as stupid as it assessment of the band as is inviting.

MOR — discounting Speaking on the Pitchfork review, An the Bret Easton Awesome Wave was fairEllis Podcast in ly well received. Even 2014, acclaimed as a fan of alt-J, howindie artist Kurt ever, I think Snapes Vile reflected on hit on a quality of the inspiration he An Awesome Wave that COUR TESY OF IN draws from softis at the core of my appreciation FECT IOUS RECO rockers Randy for the album: the fact that I like it parRDS Newman and Bob tially because it is so cheesy, and in general, more for its vibes than its substance. Seeger: “...some people just like the critAn Awesome Wave captures a certain ically acclaimed records… and then once milieu I associate with summer and the somebody gets a little bit cheesy they early 2010s. The album is a lighthearted just can’t deal with it but, like, there’s so pleasure, and indeed, about as far away much great stuff in there if you just open as it could possibly be from Radiohead. your mind and just embrace the whole I took it as revelatory when I realized thing. You might at first not like part of that the same part of me that keeps it and you’re like ‘this is pretty bad,’ but going back to alt-J is the part of me that, then you discover this song that’s amazover the past few months, has come to ing and then after a while you just love an older band traditionally outright embrace the cheesy parts too and it's like rejected by alternative music scenes: The a euphoric feeling.” My sentiments Eagles. If alt-J’s cardinal sin was being about alt-J and the Eagles is quite simicalled “the next Radiohead,” then the lar. I take the euphoric feeling he talks Eagles’ cardinal sin was being famously about to be the sense that reclaiming a denounced by Jeff “The Dude” dismissed band is a creative act in itself: Lebowski, protagonist and namesake of the feeling that you yourself are finding the Coen Brothers 1997 cult classic, The something in the music that has been Big Lebowski. Who could forget the taxi forgotten, or perhaps which was never scene, where The Dude supposedly gets found in the first place. For every one to the heart of the matter, imploring the Radiohead, there will be hundreds of altdriver to turn the radio dial away from J’s, but listening openly to both may be “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” explaining to part of consuming a healthy, well-balhim bluntly: “Man, come on I had a anced musical diet. rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man.”

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Who Should Fill an EPL Second Team Tough Start for Many 2015 AL Playoff Teams LINSEY

Defensive Midfield: Mark Noble, West Ham United

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helped West Brom maintain a mid-table position through a resolute defense.

Center-Back: Chris Smalling, Manchester United

For years, Smalling was never able to live up to his longrecognized potential. This year, however, he has matured and turned into a defensive leader. Without him, Manchester United would surely have conceded many more goals this season.

Center-Back: Robert Huth, Leicester City

Huth, a tough German defender, has been an integral part of Leicester’s back line. He has even contributed unexpected goals at key moments, including two against their key title rival, Tottenham. Spurs’ Toby Alderweireld and Huth’s Leicester teammate Wes Morgan have been awarded the center-back spots in the PFA Team of the Season.

Left-Back: Aaron Cresswell, West Ham United

Cresswell, largely unknown when purchased from Ipswich Town a few seasons ago, has grown into the Premier League. He defends his side capably and takes a mean free kick. Danny Rose of Tottenham won the PFA’s left-back position, but I would disagree and suggest Cresswell had the better campaign and deserved the first team slot.

Right Midfield: Marko Arnautovic, Stoke City

The giant Austrian put together the best goalscoring campaign in Stoke history this season, scoring 11 goals and chipping in five assists. While enemy defenses have focused in on Stoke’s more well-known players like Xherdan Shaqiri or Bojan Krkic, Arnautovic has been able to shine. Leicester’s Riyad Mahrez, the PFA Player of the Year, was selected for the Team of the Season at right midfield.

Noble is rarely recognized as a top player in the league, but the Englishman plays an essential defensive midfield role for West Ham. Constantly making accurate passes, the club captain has tallied seven goals and four assists.

N’Golo Kante of Leicester City made the PFA team at defensive midfield.

Attacking Midfield: Mesut Ozil, Arsenal

The Gunners’ talisman Ozil has a frustrating habit of disappearing when his team need him to produce a moment of quality. Still, the ex-Real Madrid midfielder has assisted on a stunning 18 goals this season, so many were surprised when he lost out on a PFA first team spot to Tottenham’s teenage rookie Dele Alli.

Left Midfield: Gylfi Sigurdsson, Swansea City

Sigurdsson does it all for Swansea. He takes corner kicks, free kicks and penalties, serving as the team’s chief playmaker. He scored 11 goals this season along with four assists. West Ham’s free-kick expert Dimitri Payet won the PFA spot at left midfield.

Striker: Romelu Lukaku, Everton

In a disappointing season for the club, Lukaku still managed to score 18 goals through his unique combination of size and technique. The Belgian continues to score goals in double-digits year after year.

Striker: Sergio Aguero, Manchester City

The Argentinian marksman has been lethal this season, scoring 23 goals, including five in one game alone. He remains the best player in the league and a terror for opposing defenses. The PFA team’s forwards were Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane of Leicester and Tottenham, respectively.

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(AP) — If the season ended now, the American League playoffs would look a lot different from last year.

Only one team from the 2015 AL postseason is in position to return based on the current standings, and that’s the Texas Rangers.

The other four playoff teams — Kansas City, Toronto, Houston and the New York Yankees — are all at or below .500. The Astros and Yankees are in particularly rough shape, in last place in their divisions.

“We’ve had a lot of things not go our way this year. Everyone is a little frustrated,” Houston outfielder Colby Rasmus said recently. “We want to win. Nobody likes to lose. We aren’t coming in every day and putting the time in to lose.”

Houston beat the Yankees in the wild-card game last year and looked like a young team poised for a long run in contention, but the Astros (12-20) have endured some ugly numbers from their starting rotation so far. Dallas Keuchel, last year’s Cy Young Award winner, is 2-4 with a 4.70 ERA. Collin McHugh and Mike Fiers have ERAs over 5.00.

The Yankees (11-18) have dealt with similar problems, although their rotation has been better of late. New York took two of three from Boston and will continue its homestand this coming week against the Royals and Chicago White Sox. “I think we’re going in the right direction.

We’ve dug ourselves a hole,” infielder Chase Headley said. “You can’t take back what’s already happened, you’ve just got to look forward.”

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One Final Equestrian Places Seventh at Nationals Installment Writing for The Sun: Things Will Work Out EQUESTRIAN

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

Cornell equestrian placed seventh overall in its first ever appearance at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Nationals in Louisville this weekend.

Throughout the season, head coach Joanne Novakovic ’03 guided her team to several top ten individual results to cap off the best season in the program’s 21-year history.

According to Novakovic, Cornell has been very close to making nationals before, but the Red competes in a very tough region, which has barred success in recent years. She is very happy with how her team did, especially considering it was their first time together on such a big stage.

“I think we had a really solid performance,” she said. “We had riders in the top ten for five out of the eight chases.”

Novakovic praised sophomore Caroline Boozer for her performance and second place finish in the Collegiate Walk Trot.

“It was really awesome,” Boozer said of going to Louisville and taking second. “We all did really well.”

Senior Meridith Meyer feels reaching Nationals and performing strongly is a testament to what goes on behind the scenes dur-

ing practice and a general team effort.

“It speaks to the program and all the hard work that the team has put in,” she said.

“Just being able to compete with those athletes was an incredible opportunity.”

Meyer, who earned honorable mention in Open Flat, felt that the entire team excelled. She was especially impressed with the way the first-time riders handled the pressure that is inherent at an event of such magnitude. “Everyone stepped up in their own way,” she said.

Boozer pointed out that Cornell had an opportunity to compete with athletes and teams from across the country that they do not usually encounter. She also enjoyed being around the Western National Championships, which was going on at the same time.

“It was really neat,” Boozer said. “There were all these teams from all over the country.”

For Meyer and the other six seniors, Louisville was the end of the road in their collegiate equestrian careers.

“It was emotional for them,” Novakovic said. “It was a good way for them to go out.”

Team members say they will miss the leadership and companionship of the graduating seniors.

“They are all amazing riders and amazing

people,” Boozer said. “We will miss them a lot.”

Meyer was emotional when reflecting on her time in the program and will keep with her all the lessons she has learned through her time at Cornell.

“I gave the program everything I had to give and the program [gave me back a lot in return],” Meyer said.

Novakovic said she is excited for what the future holds for a team that has now has experience at a more competitive level. She feels that her own ability to assemble a championship-caliber team with experience gained by returning riders will only help the Red’s chances going forward.

“I think we have a better sense of exactly what it takes,” she said. “I definitely think we can repeat this. Every year, we are going to have a chance to make it there.”

Boozer is as optimistic as her coach about what a landmark 2015-16 season means for the future of the program. The confidence level of the team this year will prove to be an asset going forwards.

“We proved ourselves this year,” she said.

“We are going to keep moving up the ranks.”

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun.com.

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The best yet | Cornell equestrian had its best finish in its 21-year history.

SHATZMAN

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analyzed executives, coaches, teams, and so on. I’ve been right sometimes and wrong a lot. That’s life.

I’m not going to go Cuba Goodling ’97 Oscars here, but I want to acknowledge the Sun staff — former and current — for all that they do. Haley, Scott, Anna, Adam, Joon, and all others: I appreciate you. To anyone who read any piece of mine: thank you.

A professor once told me that I received a grade on an essay because he followed my column and felt that I was capable of better. It feels good when people take interest in your work. I have learned plenty during my time at Cornell. It’s hard not to worry about what has yet to occur. There will be highs and there will be lows.

Be kind to all. Things will work out.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com. This is the final installment of Calling the Shatz.

The Premier League’s Men’s Track Avenges Princeton All-Second Team W M. TRACK

for second in the high jump, as sophomore Myles Lazarou narrowly beat out three other comtallying up from there,” Durant petitors, including Cornell senior said.

Stephen Afadapa, who tied for secJunior Austin Jamerson ond with two other jumpers. defended his decathlon title with Winkler was named the meet’s well over 7000 points, and senior field MVP, while teammate Max Hairston won the 110 meter Rainero took home the honor of hurdles, which comes off the heels track MVP. Rainero was pleased of his 60 meter win in February. with the award, but felt it was a Hairston also took second in the distant second to the overall team 400 meter hurdles, falling just .03 accomplishment. seconds off the mark. His perfor“It was really special to win mance came as no surprise to the with a record 211 points,” he said. team.

“I’m proud of everyone for step“Max is an MVP,” Durant said. ping up this weekend. The track “He does what he does, and he’s MVP I guess is a nice bonus.” been dominant in hurdles for Even though the Red took years.” avenged its second place Another key to first finish to Princeton’s in place was the 200 meter “Apparently beets have a great effect on your February, Rainero bedash, where Cornell endurance. I don’t know the science behind lieves that the win speaks picked up 22 important to its current standing it, but you can’t argue with the results.” points. Senior Larry within the Ivy League.

Gibson and freshmen “This Heps felt like Ben Rainero Zach Menchaca and redemption in a way, but Alex Beck took first, secit was more than that,” ond and fourth, respectively, in an Another source of points came he said. “It was proof that this is impressively fast race. from several competitors who have the best track team that’s ever been Gibson teamed up with sopho- battled their way through serious at Cornell.” more Michael Smith and juniors injuries in their past. Senior Rob Cornell will return to Wynn Curtis and Tobe Attah — a Robbins — still fresh off a two year Princeton to participate in regionstaff writer for The Sun — to beat absence due to injury — placed al IC4A Championships this comout the rest of the field in the first in the javelin, throwing just ing weekend, and several athletes 4X400 meter relay. The win under 74 meters, and Junior who have already qualified will marked Gibson’s second of the Bobby Plummer — who some compete in NCAA’s in day, who made the most of his last thought might never jump again Jacksonville, Florida beginning collegiate competition. after a foot injury — won the triple May 25.

“Larry has been an amazing jump in what was yet another Red part of the leadership of this team, victory.

Charles Cotton can be reached at and that’s a great way to go out as Cornell also took first and tied ccotton@cornellsun.com.

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ith just one week remaining in the English Premier League season, thoughts turn to recapping the year. The Professional Footballers’

team. Arsenal’s Petr Cech, Stoke City’s Jack Butland and Leicester City’s Kasper Schmeichel are all solid candidates, yet Gomes has earned it. He has bailed out Watford

Kevin Linsey The Beautiful Game Association has already announced the PFA Team of the Season, which contains the best player at each position, in its opinion. Due to the size of the Premier League, however, a number of outstanding performers are not recognized for their stellar seasons. This column will contain my “Second Team of the Season,” or those who deserve recognition for a solid year and just missed out on the PFA’s team.

Goalkeeper: Heurelho Gomes, Watford

A number of goalkeepers merit consideration for this

on numerous occasions and saved an impressive three penalty kicks during their 2015-16 campaign. The stepup on Gomes was Manchester United’s David De Gea, who was far and away the league’s best goalkeeper deserves the PFA award.

Right-Back: Craig Dawson, West Bromwich Albion

The Baggies right-back has scored four goals this season and kept ten clean sheets, starting every league match in the process. Dawson has helped West Brom maintain a See LINSEY page 14

a senior,” Durant added.

Ben Rainero picked up right where he left off on Saturday’s 10K win, winning Sunday’s 5K as well. He became the first man to win both the 5K and 10K in the same Heps meet since 2006.

Rainero credits new habits this year to his success this competition. “[In addition to weight training], I made sure to change my eating habits as well,” he said. “At night, I mostly eat beets now, along with a kale smoothie.

Apparently beets have a great effect on your endurance. I don’t know the science behind it, but you can’t argue with the results.”

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MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Men Finish First in Outdoor Heps

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Over the hurdle | After finishing second at Indoor Heps in February, men’s track and field finished first outdoors.

An entire season’s hard work finally paid off this weekend when the Cornell men’s track and field team took first place in the Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonals at Princeton.

The outdoor championship improves upon a February second place finish at home during the indoor heps.

Knowing they were close to gold last time around, the team traveled to Princeton with one hope: to dethrone the defending champion in the Tigers on their home turf and notch those crucial points that will propel them to first.

“After losing indoor, everybody on the team felt that we needed to come here and win,” head coach Adrian Durant said. “We had a strategy in mind, and it worked out.

Everybody showed up.”

The Red accomplished this and more, pummeling Princeton — who finished second — by an impressive 54 points. Cornell’s 211 point total is the most in the meet’s history.

Despite being the first squad to ever reach the 200-point plateau, their goal was just to win, not shatter records, but the team is more than happy to accomplish both.

“Our goal was not to break that record, it was to win,” Durant added. “I would’ve been happy winning by one point or a half a point.”

Senior Ben Rainero noted how Cornell and Princeton swapped roles after the competition moved outdoors when

compared to the indoor heps in Barton Hall.

“This time, everyone really came in hungry, and stepped it up the way Princeton did indoors,” he said.

Cornell started off competition Saturday in an impressive fashion. Junior Rudy Winkler surprised no one by winning the hammer throw. His throw of over 246 feet is currently good enough for best in the entire country.

Along with Winkler, Rainero took first in the 10K, marking Cornell’s second individual win of the day. Several other top five finishes put the Red in good position entering Sunday, who continued its impressive start by reaching the finals in 17 events on day two.

“The guys did an excellent job on day one positioning themselves to score on day two,” Durant said.

The Red found themselves in a similar position during Indoor Heps, but “fell apart” on the all-important day two, Durant said. This weekend, though, they viewed the second day as a fresh start, which was a big factor in their first place finish.

“This time around we treated day two as a blank slate,” Durant said. “it was just another chance to compete hard.”

An impressive eight additional individual victories in the 17 events put Princeton away, and Cornell cruised to the victory.

“The guys were fired up, and at some point on Sunday, the momentum went in our favor and the points just kept See M. TRACK page 15

And So It Goes...

Women Take Third at Princeton T WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

By BRITTANY BIGGS

women are moving in the right direction. We have a lot of freshman doing In an Ivy League show- amazing things. We went down, the Cornell women’s from getting fifth last year track and field team was to third this year. I think a able to secure a third place lot of that had to do with team finish this past week- the depth of the throwing end in the Ivy League squad this year.”

H e p t a g o n a l Freshman Autumn Championships. The Red Covington described being finished behind Princeton surrounded by energy on and Harvard, scoring 107 the eventful day. points over the two-day “I would describe this event. outdoor Heps as unforgettable,” said freshAutumn “The energy throughout this man Covington. “The weekend was full of energy throughout enthusiasm and confidence this weekend was full of enthusiasm on the track.” and confidence on the track, the field Autumn Covington and in the stands.”

Covington was Top performances on able to excel with a fifth the track came from senior place finish in the Hammer Caroline Kellner, who won throw. the 10K and classmate “Going into my event I Camryn Goodman, who felt the initial nerves, but as impressed with a second the competition continued place finish in the discus. and the cheers of my teamAlong with the pair of mates got louder, I was able seniors, junior Adrian Jones to breathe and throw a PR fought through to a second to contribute to my team,” place finish in the 200 Covington said. “We all fed meters. off each other’s energy, After a long year of which ultimately strengthstrong numbers from all ened our abilities to comparts of the team, members pete and come out with a of the Red said they were third place finish in the Ivy proud of the growth the Championships.” team has made over the In February, the women hard fought 2015-16 cam- placed second at indoor paign.

Heps. Despite the regres“Heps is always the cra- sion from the year’s other ziest meet of the year,” championship, Covington Goodman said. “It’s so full and the Red are coming out of excitement and energy with their heads held high. and emotions. The Cornell “I’m so proud of each

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and every athlete who came out and showed the other schools what being a part of a team is truly about,” Covington said. “Cornell definitely stood out in terms of achievement, class and supportive fans. With this having been my first outdoor Heps, I couldn’t have asked for a greater result or better teammates and coaches to end this season with.”

The ECAC Championships will be held this weekend for athletes who have earned a spot this season to compete with other top athletes.

Following the ECAC

Championships is the NCAA Championships and then a long offseason.

The Red hopes to dig in during the summer and come back even stronger for next year.

“Going forward, I will continue to train over the summer and come back next season with an even greater goal,” Covington said. “I believe in myself and my team to become Heps champions next year — indoor and outdoor.”

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bbiggs@cornellsun.com.

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN FILE PHOTO

Red takes bronze | The women’s track and field squad finished third after an “unforgettable” heptagonals in Princeton.

hus begins my final column for The Cornell Daily Sun. It’s the last hurrah. Game seven.

The finale. He shoots, he scores. They’ll be telling their grandkids about this one.

I’m only kidding. I began writing a weekly column in the fall of 2013, my first semester at Cornell. I was a transfer-sophomore who thought ordering pizza bagels at CTB after midnight was badass. Now a senior, I know that to be fact.

I don’t recall how the “Calling the Shatz” moniker came about. I think my parents may have suggested it. My last name is pronounced “shotsman,” but all of my friends back home call me “Shatz” (rhymes with cats), and once I started saying “Shatz-man,” it became a habit that I couldn’t kick.

So “Calling the Shatz” is the true pronunciation of

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz my name, and when I see it in the paper I am reminded that I constantly mispronounce my own last name.

And so it goes…

The late Kurt Vonnegut ’44 wrote for this very paper in the early 1940’s. I skimmed through The Sun’s archives the other day and found some of his work. Man, he was special: articulate, smart, witty, funny. He had it all, years before the world outside of Cornell would grow to adore him. I take pride in continuing a tradition that once included Kurt Vonnegut. Among my favorite passages of his is the following: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’”

Over the last three years, I have tried to write compelling pieces, often on athletes who I feel are unfairly scrutinized by the media — people from Richard Sherman to Josh Gordon, Hassan Whiteside to DeMarcus Cousins. I have enjoyed digging for statistics to back my arguments. I have See SHATZMAN page 15