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Faculty and administrators gathered for an in-depth update on the development of the new Cornell College of Business in Malott Hall Tuesday. Provost Michael Kotlikoff introduced committees — steering, faculty governance, staff synergy, alumni engagement, graduate student synergy, undergraduate student synergy and communications — established in January to “provide broad input into [the college’s] structure and policy.” The College of Business was approved by the Board of Trustees in January and will begin operations in the
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C.U. Names CUHA Director Prof. Meg Thompson, clinical sciences, has been named the director of the Cornell University Hospital for Animals — a teaching hospital within the College of Veterinary Medicine — according to a University press release. CVM Dean Prof. Lorin Warnick, population medicine and diagnostic sciences, announced Thompson’s appointment today and her term begins immediately, the release said. Thompson has served as interim director since Aug. 2015 and director of continuing education since 2012, and provided input on decisions regarding the veterinary college’s technology infrastructure and future expansion, according to the University. As interim director, Thompson aided in
“My ... training is helpful when considering faculty needs.” Prof. Meg Thompson assessing the hospital’s facilities and staffing needs, Warnick said in the release, praising Warnick’s ability to evaluate operations and collaborate with veterinarians. “Her administrative experience, understanding of hospital operations and extensive work with regional veterinarians put her in an excellent position to take on the director role,” Warnick said. Thompson — who has a bachelor’s degree in architecture and master’s degree in counseling psychology — emphasized that her diverse background will serve her well in her new role. “My undergraduate training is helpful when considering facility needs,” she said in the release. “My masters inspired my interest in human resources, staffing and management. And my background in radiology helps me evaluate our technology needs.”
fall, The Sun previously reported. The priorities of the faculty governance committee include continuing the schools’ separate missions and programs, faculty expectations, cohesion of the college and fairness of process and outcomes, according to Prof. Chris Barrett, deputy dean and dean designate for the College of Business and director of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. “The cohesion of the College is the central purpose for creating the College of Business,” Barrett said. “Cornell makes a massive investment in these See COLLEGE page 4
C.U. Republicans Flock to Trump, Fearing Clinton By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor
Many members of Cornell Republicans have said they plan to rally behind ‘presumptive’ presidential nominee Donald Trump, citing the urgency of barring former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the White House. Olivia Corn ’19, chair of Cornell Republicans, said that while she does not agree
with all of Trump’s stances, she plans to vote for him as the lesser of two evils, stressing the damage that would result if Clinton were to assume the presidency. “I cannot speak for every individual in the organization, but for me at this point, I will be voting for Donald Trump,” Corn said. “While he is a flawed candidate, his values more closely align with mine than Hillary Clinton's. Voting third party
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Trump triumphant | Donald Trump waves to the crowd during a campaign rally in Charleston on Thursday.
is not an option for me because a vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Hillary Clinton, and this election is too important for that to happen.” David Navadeh ’19, second vice chair of Cornell Republicans, agreed with Corn, saying that although
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Trump is not his ideal nominee, both parties must band together to block Clinton. “Many Republicans, myself included, are dismayed to see Donald Trump become our nominee,” Navadeh said. “However, the worst case scenario is Hillary Clinton becoming President, with Republicans and many Democrats alike wanting to make sure that never happens.” Corn added that, despite her reservations, she feels she has “no choice” but to vote for Trump, who she pointed out “is not currently being investigated by the FBI.” “Although Trump has said some things I disagree with, so has Hillary Clinton,” Corn said. “Hillary Clinton lies through her teeth, puts down women and would be a horrible representation of this country. I am unable to vote for the third and fourth terms of Obama, which is why I feel I have no choice but to back my establishment candidate.” See REPUBLICANS page 4
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Alaska Moose Harmonizes With Home’s Wind Chimes ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Forget “Uptown Funk.” The Alaska wild is grooving to the smooth “moose-ic” of wind chimes. Britta Schroeder shot video of a moose playing onepart harmony with the wind chimes on the porch of her rural cabin near Denali National Park and Preserve, and it’s quickly making its way across the Internet. Schroeder heard the chimes around 10:30 p.m. May 4. She looked out the window of her home near Healy, Alaska, about 10 miles north of the park’s entrance, but it didn’t look windy. The chimes continued to sound for two to three more minutes. Then she heard a thump on her porch. “My dogs’ ears perked up,” she said. “I knew it was going to be an animal.” Sure enough, there was a moose, rubbing its head against the wind chimes and gumming the glass disc pendulum that hangs down from the middle of the instrument. She opened the door of her cabin wide enough to get her cellphone through to shoot video but still keep her dog inside. Schroeder said a cow and two moose calves had spent some time near her cabin since last summer but she had not seen the family since March. She assumes the mother has kicked the calves out, and this one returned to her
yard. As for the “moose-ical” interlude, Schroeder isn’t going to venture a guess as to what attracted the moose to the wind chimes.
Fifty Years After Riot, Publisher Asks Rolling Stones to Return LYNN, Mass. (AP) — A newspaper publisher is asking the Rolling Stones to return to town 50 years after they cut short a show during a thunderstorm, leading fans to rampage. Ted Grant, publisher of the Daily Item in Lynn, said in an open letter published Tuesday that “a lot has changed” since the band was last in town, on June 24, 1966, and he wants the British rockers to finish the set that ended when they left the stage during a storm at the Manning Bowl stadium. Angry fans broke through barriers, prompting police to use tear gas, and the Stones pledged never to return to the city, 10 miles north of Boston. “We ain’t too proud to beg,” the Item’s chief executive, Beth Bresnahan, said Tuesday. The newspaper has reached out to Stones management trying to secure an interview with one or more members of the band for a story it plans to mark the 50th anniversary of the show but hasn’t heard back and will continue to try, said Bresnahan, a Lynn native.
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University Begins Slope Day Breakfast Initiative University Student Creates Display Honoring Groundbreaking Geneticist, Alumna Juliet Jacobson ’16 has created an exhibit in Mann Library honoring Barbara McClintock ’23, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ’27 — a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered transposable elements, or sequences of DNA that can migrate throughout the genome, according to the University. The exhibit, funded by a grant from the President’s Council of Cornell Women, displays books about and quotes from McClintock. Jacobson told the University that she was motivated to create the display when she arrived at Cornell expecting to see a major monument commemorating McClintock but only found a remote plaque.
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Plans to emphasize students’ self care, modify TCAT routes ’16, EMS director of operations. Food will be distributed at three locations on campus — Baker Tower, 626 Thurston and outside Anabel Taylor Hall, In addition to Walk the Moon and Cash Cash, Slope Day will according to Indimine. “[The initiative] gets people in also bring a free breakfast initiative and the mindset of eating, hydrating modified Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit bus routes to campus. “Be smart and safe. Don’t try to sneak and taking care of their body on Slope Day,” Gangidi and Petrucci A free breakfast program will be things in — they’re smarter than you said. “The distribution of breakfast implemented for the first time this year, think. ” is good in that it will allow students according to Yamini Bhandari ’17, the opportunity to eat a full breakundergraduate trustee, Prawallika Matthew Indimine fast, so that they have enough enerGangidi ’17, director of Cornell gy for the day.” Emergency Medical Service and As a last minute tip, Indimine Matthew Indimine ’18, incoming execsaid: “Be smart and safe. Don’t try to sneak things in — they're utive vice president of the Student Assembly. This initiative was developed by Slope Day Programming smarter than you think!” Gangidi and Petrucci advised students to remember to apply Board and SOBER@Cornell — an organization founded in suntan lotion regularly, to keep hydrated and to eat throughout 2012 by several students in recovery lookthe day. ing to provide support for students in sobriThe day-to-day operations of the TCAT bus routes will also ety, according to Indimine. be modified in preparation for Slope Day, according to a The program aims to prevent potential Tompkins County press release. alcohol emergencies by encouraging stuGiven that the concert closes off access to several streets on dents to eat before traveling to morning campus, including West Avenue and Campus Road, bus routes festivities, according typically requiring those passages will be detoured. to Gangidi and West Avenue will be closed from Wednesday until Friday Zachary Petrucci morning, and Campus Road will be closed from 11 a.m. until Thursday evening, according to the release. All affected routes can be found on the TCAT website. By KIMBERLY LEE Sun Staff Writer
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Female Harvard Students, Alumnae Urge College To ‘Hear Her, Harvard’ Hundreds of Harvard women rallied in front of the college’s administrative building Tuesday, protesting a new policy preventing members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations from holding leadership positions in clubs and receiving fellowships, according to the Harvard Crimson. These unrecognized organizations include fraternities, sororities and final clubs — exclusive and often single-gender undergraduate organizations — and the policy aims to reduce sexual assault and exclusion on campus, the Crimson reported.
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Local Local Police Find Meth-Making Materials In Groton Apartment Parole officers visited the home of a parolee on Friday and discovered materials used in the manufacturing of methamphetamine, The Ithaca Voice reported. They informed the Groton Police of the discovery in the parolee’s, Brian K. Mahan, 43, apartment Friday morning. Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office and New York State Police Contaminated Crime Scene Evidence Response Team were then notified and requested at the scene. profited from the bribery, extortion and moneylaundering schemes. The investigation is seeking to determine whether Percoco deceitfully closed the money received from entities doing business with the state, The Journal reported. — Compiled by Alexa Eskenazi
C.U.Health Experts to Conduct Zika Study for WHO Work to formulate guidelines on best ways to feed infants during outbreak By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer
Global health experts Prof. Julia Finkelstein, epidemiology and nutrition, and Prof. Saurabh Mehta, global health, epidemiology and nutrition, will lead an international team of researchers studying the risk of transmitting the Zika virus through breastfeeding, according to a University press release. The World Health Organization will use the team’s research to inform its guidelines for feeding infants during a Zika outbreak, the University said. This announcement came shortly after the professors, with Susannah Colt grad and other WHO researchers, released a study on May 2 that was unable to determine if breastfeeding alone can transmit the virus, the University reported. The study concluded that “more evidence is needed to distinguish breastfeeding transmission from other transmission routes [around the time of birth],” such as labor and pregnancy.
Researchers have nevertheless established that Zika — a mosquito-borne infection — is “associated with an increase in central nervous system malformations and newborn microcephaly cases,” the study said.
“We anticipate that people are going to start actively looking at Zika virus infection and breastfeeding transmission as better diagnostics become available and as knowledge about it is increasing around the world.” Prof. Saurabh Mehtna Microcephaly leads to abnormally small heads in infants and has also been linked to intellectual disabilities, seizures and developmental delay, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. One complication with diagnosing Zikaassociated microcephaly is that Zika is fre-
quently asymptomatic in mothers, Finkelstein said in the release. “Since the mother most often doesn’t show any symptoms, the potential numbers for how many mothers are really infected could be much greater,” she said. Finkelstein estimated that while only one in 100 cases of a mother carrying Zika results in infant microcephaly, one in five cases may cause other complications — such as congenital abnormalities and brain malformations — according to the University. In the release, both researchers stressed that the literature linking breastfeeding and Zika transmission is still in its beginning stages, but Mehta expressed optimism that research on the topic will grow. “We anticipate that people are going to start actively looking at Zika virus infection and breastfeeding transmission as better diagnostics become available and as knowledge about it is increasing around the world,” Mehta said. Drew Musto can be reached at dmustow@cornellsun.com.
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do annual reviews, how we do reappointment and promotion and tenure reviews,” Barrett said. Prof. Rohit Verma, hotel administration and dean desigthree schools [Dyson, Johnson and Hotel], yet we can nate of external relations for the college, said students’ concoordinate more effectively if we formalize the links among cerns and recommendations have been organized into three our faculty in ways that we don’t presently.” broad categories: curriculum and academic affairs, student The faculty in the three schools are currently identifying and career services and student governance. their preferred area of affiliation. Seven possible areas include “There is a strong desire for students to maintain the curaccounting, applied economics and policy, finance, manage- rent cohort,” Verma said, noting that students want to make ment and organizasure class sizes and specific tions, marketing and “The [faculty guidance committee] developed extremely curriculum focuses stay the communication, opersame. detailed protocols around how we hire, how we do ations, and technology Other considerations, and information, based on student suggesannual reviews, how we do reappointment and according to Barrett. tions, include increased promotion and tenure reviews.” “As of 7 a.m. course coordination among [Tuesday morning], the three schools and the Joel Malina 153 faculty had already potential availability of new declared their preferred minors, majors and dual alignment. We expect to have all of those area affiliations degrees, according to Verma. pinned down later this month and begin to identify area While students hope each school to retains its own idencoordinators, whose responsibilities will be to help coordi- tity — including governance, clubs and organizations — nate curriculum, to coordinate scholarly life across their Verma said they also want “a voice in the uniting of the colareas,” Barrett said. lege.” Barrett said the college’s design is “multidisciplinary,” “[The college] will have to find some mechanism to which will “differentiate it from other elite colleges of busi- incorporate student governance into each of the individual ness across the country and throughout the world.” schools and into the college as well,” Verma said. “The [faculty governance] committee developed Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management extremely detailed protocols around how we hire, how we and incoming dean of the College of Business Soumitra Continued from page 1
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Dutta said he expects a two-year interim Hotel School dean to be announced in the next four weeks, a full-term Johnson School dean to be selected in the next two months and the search for a full-term Dyson School dean to begin later this month. Joel Malina, vice president for University Relations, said the communications committee has been informing “internal and external audiences” about the college and its future potential. “We’ve been working with Undergraduate Admissions to make sure that sufficient information for prospective students on the College of Business is incorporated into various websites,” Malina said. “We’ve also been maintaining the [CCB] website, which will transition over the coming months as we move toward the launch of the College.” As many prospective students consider enrolling at Cornell, Dutta said admissions is working to make sure it is preparing “an exciting vision of what the College of Business represents.” “This is a continuous process and we will aspire to communicate as best as we can,” Dutta said. “Our comparison should be some of the best business colleges in the world, and we should ask the question — how can we in fact be even better than that?” College operations are expected to launch on July 1, according to Kotlikoff. Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun.com.
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Clinton From Presidency REPUBLICANS
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Navadeh said that although he prefers Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to Trump, if either ran a third party campaign, it would guarantee a Clinton presidency. “A third party victory from Cruz or Rubio would be ideal, but we know this would just split the Republican vote and hand the election to Clinton” Navadeh said. As many Cornell Republicans members voted for Cruz in the New York primary, they may choose to vote for a third party libertarian candidate instead of Trump, according to Irvin McCullough, first vice chair of Cornell Republicans. “While I've supported Donald Trump for some time, almost all of the Cornell Republicans supported Ted Cruz in the primary fight,” McCullough said. “That makes sense given our slightly libertarian bent. I wouldn't be surprised if some of our members, regardless of Mr. Trump's attempts to unify the party, voted libertarian in November. I have yet to see many members cross party lines to vote for Hillary Clinton.” Corn also said Republicans must consider the stakes in this election, stressing that she would not feel comfortable with Clinton choosing members of the Supreme Court. “The next president will have the ability to control possibly three nominees to the
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has returned to Capitol Hill after suspending his presidential campaign, speaks to reporters Tuesday.
Supreme Court, and I do not feel comforte- sue radical polcies. should not make their decision about who able letting Hillary Clinton decide who “I firmly believe that Mr. Trump, if elect- to vote for prematurally, according to those people are,” Corn said. McCullough. “Whether it's Donald Trump Corn added that the country “The next president will have the ability to coming to the center, Hillary “needs to recover from the wreckClinton facing an indictment or age left by [Obama’s] presidency” control possibly three nominees to the Ted Cruz appearing as a SCOand said Clinton would continue Supreme Court, and I do not feel TUS nominee, it's a bit too early many of his administrative policies. comfortable letting Hillary Clinton decide for every Republican to have “The Iran Deal needs fixing, made up their mind about Obamacare needs to be gutted who those people are.” Donald Trump,” he said. and rebuilt, the national debt Olivia Corn ’19 McCullough advised other needs to stop growing at alarming Republicans is to “have an open rates and these are things Hillary ed, will be one of the most moderate presi- mind, not a closed heart.” Clinton will not fix,” Corn said. McCullough urged Republicans to dents in recent history,” he said. The “political landscape” will look very Madeline Cohen can be reached at “unite behind Donald Trump,” expressing a belief that the businessman would not pur- different in November, so Republicans mcohen@cornellsun.com.
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Sanders Wins West Virginia, Facing Slim Nomination Chances LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — White House dreams fading, Sen Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday — a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state’s steady march toward the Democratic presiential nomination. Meanwhile, Republican Donald Trump also won there and in Nebraska, a week after he cleared the field of his remaining rivals. They were not victories likely to heal the party's wounds, as some GOP leaders continue to hold off offering their endorsement of the party’s presumptive nominee. The result in the West Virginia Democratic primary underscored the awkward position Clinton and the party's establishment face as they attempt to turn their focus to the general election. Sanders has won 19 states to Clinton’s 23, but she is 94 percent of the way to winning the nomination — just 144 delegates short of the 2,383 required. That means she could lose all the states left to vote by a landslide and still emerge as the nominee, so long as all her supporters among the party insiders known as superdelegates continue to back her. Clinton needs to win just 14 percent of the delegates and uncommitted superdelegates at stake in the remaining contests,
and she remains on track to capture the nomination in early June. Still, Sanders is vowing to fight on. He campaigned in Oregon and California on Tuesday and his victory in West Virginia highlighted anew Clinton’s struggles to win over white men and independents — weaknesses Trump wants to exploit in the fall campaign. “Let me be as clear as I can be, we are in the campaign to win the Democratic nomination," Sanders said at a campaign event in Salem, Oregon. "We are going to fight for every last vote.” Among those voting in the West Virginia Democratic primary, about a third said they would support Trump over either Clinton or Sanders in November. An additional 2 in 10 said they wouldn’t vote for either candidate. But four in 10 also said they consider themselves to be independents or Republicans, and not Democrats, according to exit polls. While Sanders is still attracting thousands to rallies, his campaign has grown harder as Clinton closes in on the nomination. His fundraising has fallen off and so, too, has his advertising, with only about $525,000 in ads planned for California and $63,000 each in West Virginia and Oregon, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media’s CMAG.
GOP Presses Facebook Over Display of Conservative Stories WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday demanded an explanation from Facebook after reports that former company staffers excluded links to conservative political stories. A senior Facebook executive said the company has found no evidence to back up the anonymous allegations. In a letter to chairman and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, South Dakota Sen. John Thune requested information on who at the company made the decisions on stories for Facebook’s Trending Topics feature, what training is provided to employees, whether the company is investigating and what steps it will take to hold people accountable. “If Facebook presents its Trending Topics section as a result of a neutral, objective algorithm, but it is in fact subjective and filtered to support or suppress particular political viewpoints, Facebook’s assertion that it maintains ‘a platform for people and perspectives from across the political spectrum’ misleads the public,” wrote Thune, who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. He asked for answers by May 24. News reports say Facebook employees excluded links to stories they considered less reliable in its list of trending stories, though individuals could post links to conservative stories on their own Facebook feeds.
Tom Stocky, Facebook vice president of search, said his team is responsible for the Trending Topics and the company has “found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true.” “There are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality,” Stocky wrote. “These guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives. Nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint over another or one news outlet over another. These guidelines do not prohibit any news outlet from appearing in Trending Topics.” Adam Jentleson, an aide to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, (D-Nev.), maintained there are more pressing priorities than the Facebook issue. “The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on (Supreme Court nominee) Judge (Merrick) Garland, refuses to fund the president’s request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest,” Jentleson said. “The taxpayers who pay Republican senators’ salaries probably want their money back.” Questioned later in the day about his inquiry, Thune defended the committee's actions and insisted he wasn't suggesting “anything untoward” on the part of Facebook. He said the panel was responding to media reports and asking for a clarification on policy.
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch, right, and Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, discuss a law limiting public restroom access for transgender people at a conference in Washington Monday.
Warrant: Minnesota Doctor Prescribed Prince Drugs CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota he worked. The warrant did not specify what medications doctor saw Prince twice in the month before his death, including the day before he died, and pre- were prescribed for Prince or whether he took them. scribed him medication, accordContents of the warrant were ing to contents of a search warThe search warrant revealed the same day that rant that were revealed Tuesday authorities returned to Prince’s even as authorities revisited the naming Schulenberg Paisley Park home and studio in musician’s estate. seeks “any and all suburban Minneapolis where he Dr. Michael Todd Schulmedical records ... for was found dead April 21. A enberg treated Prince on April 7 sheriff’s vehicle entered through and April 20, and he prescribed Prince Rogers Nelson. the gates of Paisely Park on “medications and prescriptions” Tuesday afternoon, followed by for the musician, according to about a dozen unmarked vehithe warrant, which was filed Thursday in Hennepin County and obtained by at cles. Asked why investigators had returned to Paisely least two news outlets before authorities moved to Park, Carver County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jason ensure it was sealed. Investigators interviewed Schulenberg and Kamerud told The Associated Press by phone that searched a suburban Minneapolis hospital where they were “being thorough.”
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Coming out on top | Garrett went from not considering college to representing Cornell on the national stage as a champion.
the road. “My wrestling, the desire that God’s given me to wrestle and the ability and the strength and the mobility and the mental capacity, the strength, the liga-
‘What? Where is that?’” Garrett said. “That’s how ignorant I was of college” Now, those four years are over. Garrett “If I won, I’m a winner and if I lost, I’m a loser. walks out of Ithaca with Anything in between was always me showing 149 career wins, the secmyself ... that I am good or that I’m the best.” ond on the Senior Nahshon Garrett school’s alltime list, and Cornell’s 13th wrestling national championship. With ments, the muscles, the extra long fingers his college career now in the rearview and everything that I have, I was created mirror, Garrett now redirects his energy for this and he’s given me the desire,” again towards a bigger goal: making an Garrett said. “It’s in me to do.” Olympic team. And while he won’t represent the United States in Rio this summer, it would be a mistake to bet against Joon Lee can be reached at Garrett donning that U.S. singlet down jlee@cornellsun.com.
Miami Heat Top Raptors In Overtime, Tie Up Series MIAMI (AP) — Just about everyone struggled to score, with one very notable exception. Dwyane Wade was rolling. And the Miami Heat couldn’t be more thankful. Wade scored 30 points, including the layup that sent the game to overtime and finished off Miami’s frantic comeback from a nine-point deficit, as the Heat beat the Toronto Raptors 94-87 in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Monday night. The series is tied 2-2, heading to Toronto for Game 5 on Wednesday. “It looked dark for a minute,” Wade said, “but there was no quit in us.” It looked dark for a lot of minutes before Wade and the Heat figured it out. Goran Dragic had 15 points, including a threepoint play that just about clinched it for the Heat with 22.4 seconds left in overtime. Joe Johnson also scored 15, despite still being without a 3-pointer in this series — but setting the tone with two blocked shots in the first 59 seconds of the extra session. Wade didn’t score in overtime until his steal and dunk closed the scoring. He didn’t have to, either. “I was tired,” Wade said. “I was using myself as a decoy. All eyes were on me and I wasn’t going to force anything.” Miami led for only 13 seconds in the fourth quarter, but never trailed in overtime — the third time in four games the Heat and Raptors needed five extra minutes to decide a winner.
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aution: this is a low-key sentimental column. Lots of feelings, lots of emotions. I listen to lots of Drake. There might be some jokes here or there, but mostly just heartfelt words about the machinations of my inner soul. But yeah anyways, here’s my column. Everybody has that one person, or several people, that they seem to see everywhere on campus. You don’t know their name, you don’t know what they’re like and you’ve never heard their voice, but they’re really damn hot. Since you’ve never been introduced, there’s nothing to do but avoid eye contact and wonder why, of all the people at this crunchy ass school, this one person has such a presence in your life. And why you most likely have such a presence in theirs. Spring semester of 2015, which was the latter half of my sophomore year, I took two art history courses. There was a girl in both of those classes whom I recognized from one of the art history courses I had taken the semester before. It was a strange coincidence that we had so many schedule overlaps, especially with the extensive list of art history classes offered to fulfill the major. I even started seeing her more around other parts of campus; she was my mystery Isee-you-everywhere person. She was also the most attractive person I had probably ever seen, so I definitely wasn’t complaining. Three full semesters passed and neither of us spoke to each other or made eye contact, but clearly we knew who the other was. We kept having classes together — small,
I have Tinder to thank for giving me another friend at Cornell; once we matched (wink wink) it provided the channel to be able to start talking to this person whom I had “known” for over a year and a half but hadn’t had the gall or the right situation to be able to become familiar with. discussion-style classes — yet somehow defied all odds and never once spoke. I sat behind her for a number of hours I don’t want to try and calculate, saw her at least once a week in passing somewhere else on campus and ran into her at open parties. It wasn’t until March of this semester that we finally broke down the invisible wall and started talking. Oh also this happened on Tinder. People give Tinder a tough break because of its pure focus on physical attractiveness and its intended purpose as the premier hookup app. Don’t get me wrong, I downloaded Tinder for the same reason every other hormoneriddled youth on this campus did. However, the app deserves so much more credit than I previously thought. I have Tinder to thank for giving me another friend at Cornell; once we matched (wink wink) it provided the channel to be able to start talking to this person whom I had “known” for over a year and a half but hadn’t had the gall or the right situation to be able to become familiar with. My clever ice breaker of “hey u wanna talk about some art type shit” resulted in us exchanging numbers and starting to finally figure out why the universe was so insistent that we know each other. If you’re asking yourself how this fairytale ends, the answer is that it’s still in progress. By this I mean she still hasn’t replied to my original message. If you’re reading this mystery art history beauty, please reply. I promise I’m a fun and nice guy. Nah, just kidding. She’s my girlfriend now. God bless Tinder. Sorry for the sentimental post. Have a great finals week everyone! And if you get bored, download tinder and start swiping. You never know who you might meet. Akshay Jain is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at aj265@cornell.edu. College Stuff appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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“It takes great courage to articulate these thoughts, and with such poignancy – the fate of the foodie is a uniquely tortuous one. That you are so self-aware is already a step in the right direction. Remember that your mind is the most powerful agent: for your disorder, but also for re-order.” Hanna Reichel Re: “DINING | Behind the Foodie,” Dining May 10, 2016
Gabrielle Hickmon | Gabbing With Gabby
Dear Cornell… I
cannot believe that it has been four years and that it is finally my turn to graduate. It feels like I have spent my whole life working towards and waiting for this moment. As a kid, I could not wait to be “grown.” As a highschooler, I dreamt of college everyday. Sometimes I still dream about college if I’m being honest. I wonder if I did the last four years “right.” Did I work hard enough? Party enough? Experience life enough? T h e answers to those questions does not matter of c o u r s e . Because, even if the answer was no, I’m stuck with the college experience that I’ve got. Fortunately, I’m pretty happy with it — pretty happy with it and extremely grateful for it. I remember getting into Cornell and being so excited because I always wanted to attend an Ivy League university, and with my acceptance that dream could come true. It’s funny though because, I threw out the initial brochure that Cornell sent me. Thank God my mom saw it, believed in the marketing and strongly suggested, I mean made me apply because four years later, I can’t imagine having gone to school anywhere else. Coming here opened up my world. Don’t get me wrong, I always knew that there was more to the world than my own backyard and I always believed I had a responsibility to people around the globe. But, I struggled with figuring out how to reach them, how to engage, how to become one of them. I always knew that I wanted more for myself than just experiencing
where I’m from and Cornell made that possible by laying a sea of opportunities at my feet. All I had to do was pick which fish I was interested in and somehow reel it in. Some, I caught easily. Others were a struggle and some evade me to this day. As a freshman, I had a post-it on my wall that said, “Forget the Big Red Boxes and just make your Cornell story a good one.” This has been my guiding
experience or if I wish I had done anything differently and it brought me such joy to be able to tell them, no. My one, overarching goal, when I entered Cornell as a freshman was to milk this place for everything it’s worth and four years later, I know I’ve done that. Your Cornell experience will not be the same as the person next to you and that is the magic of this place. Yes, we all experience a similar form of torture, but the devil is in the details, so don’t be afraid to build on your details to stand out. If you let it, Cornell will place you with people, in situations, doing things that you maybe only ever dreamt about. And if you have the courage to trust in the magic of your life, plus the gall to follow through, I believe there is no way you can leave this place worse off than you were when you first arrived here. So, today, in my last column for The Sun, I’d simply like to say thank you. Thank you Cornell for giving me more than I ever thought to ask for over the course of the last four years. Thank you for bringing me a village and thank you to that village — you know who you are. I leave here, a young, Ivy League educated, Black woman, ready to engage with the world. For that, for making little six year old Gabby’s dream come true, thank you.
And if you have the courage to trust in the magic of your life, plus the gall to follow through, I believe there is no way you can leave this place worse off than you were when you first arrived here. light. Having big goals, but remaining flexible in how I try to achieve them in case the Universe decides it has other, hopefully better plans in store for me. I would admonish all who will still inhabit the Hill next year to do the same. It’s so easy to get caught up in classes, work, trying to secure a good internship and planning for whatever will come next. I know firsthand because I have been guilty of this more times than I would like to admit. But, I promise you that it does all work out, even when it looks like it won’t and all you can really ever do it your part and keep the faith in the process. Cornell is an institution that makes you believe it is and will always be the most important thing in your world. But it isn’t and it won’t be. Make sure that you get everything you want from this place. Last week, someone asked me if I regretted anything about my
Gabrielle Hickmon is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at ghickmon@cornellsun.com. Gabbing with Gabby appeared alternate Wednesdays this semester. This is its final installment.
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pretty well as unchallenging pump-up music — or at least can coexist with the more get-up-and-go tracks from Run the Jewels 2, for example. Much of the record’s accessibility lies in its transparency. Death Grips hide less behind an imposing wall of sound and instead wear many of their influences on their sleeves — a move that makes their latest effort more relatable, familiar and welcoming than The Money Store, for example. The opener, “Giving Bad People Good Ideas,” features a pulsing metal drive like a heartbeat gone out of control. The heavily overdriven guitar stops short of being just noise, and is markedly more melodic than most songs with four bars of one note. “Spikes” shares some twisting elements of mainstream dubstep (looking at you, deadmau5), while the album’s title track plays like a punk jam with a hard-rock edge under MC Ride’s abstract raps. Somewhat less expectedly, “Hot Head” sounds like a 16-bit video game soundtrack gone haywire, and behind the grime of “Ring A Bell” lies a distinctly vapor groove. Bottomless Pit also exhibits Death Grips’ muchimproved handle on texture and space than their previous work. Perhaps due to their recent instrumental project, Interview 2016, the group’s sound is now fuller and more complete than ever. The popping synths on “Eh” that are halfway between a computer in a ’70s sci-fi film and a Kygo bridge live in three dimensions, and the muddy swells of “80808” fill sonic space unlike anything from No Love, Deep Web
I’m no Death Grips stan (à la Anthony Fantano), but I am someone who has genuinely liked all the music they’ve put out. After every release, though, there’s a little voice in the back of my head that wonders if MC Ride, Zach Hill and Andy Morin are fucking with us. Do they really believe their abrasive industrial x noise x hip-hop hodgepodge is good music, art or both? Or are they sitting in Sacramento, laughing at their legions of hyperdedicated fans for falling for their joke? Either way, they’re smarter than all of us. Listening to their latest release, though, was the first time the “are they fucking with us” thought never crossed my mind. Bottomless Pit is without a doubt their most well-structured effort yet. Every track falls on the record falls into an infectious groove, it’s quite melodic and has segments that are — dare I say — catchy. It’s moments like the shout-along chorus of “Three Bedrooms In A Good Neighborhood” that urge me to recommend Bottomless Pit as a Death Grips jumpingoff point. If you’ve never heard them before (how?) or you thought they were too rough on the ears, try Bottomless Pit on for size. If you’re still not swayed, I could play the “you just don’t get it” card, but hey, it can’t be for everyone. If MC Ride’s lyrics were just a bit more decipherable, I’d be shouting along with this album from start to finish. Whereas their previous releases felt more intellectual, more high concept, Bottomless Pit plays
Mitski “Happy” Dead Oceans
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or even The Powers That B. Over this stellar production work from Zach Hill and Andy Morin resides MC Ride’s no-holds-barred vocals. His delivery is as forceful as ever, filled with angry urgency. His ferocious bars lend further intensity to the already gripping album, with 100 percent intelligibility always just out of reach. While occasional indecipherability only adds to Death Grips’ manic fervor, the lyrics are helpfully available on the group’s website. Spoiler: they’re manic indeed. Honestly, unintelligibility is favorable to most of the incoherent babble being spouted by MC Ride (unless, again, they’re smarter than all of us). For illustration’s sake, here’s a choice snippet from the title track: “Gag ’til I’m all drenched/ fucked you in half / I see you fiending marvelous/ Gagballs drooling pools.” Um … “gagballs.” Lyrical content aside — because hey, you probably won’t understand it anyway — Bottomless Pit is the most approachable, if not the flat-out best, Death Grips effort to date. Their musical approach is more mature, intelligent and skilled than ever, with a finesse that minimizes abject brutality without sacrificing rage. Past Death Grips releases have made me feel like an onlooker into the group’s hellish, upsidedown world, but Bottomless Pit welcomes listeners in with open arms. Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.
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“Happy came to visit me, he brought cookies on the way.” Mitski softly spills out the words in a ghostly, vibrating mumble, over a quick, blasting automatic weapon-esque drum machine pulse on her single “Happy” — the second pre-released track from her forthcoming, sophomore sum, Puberty 2. The track is a beautiful mystery: a queer, sad, riddle of a song. The track recounts the memory of a visit from Happiness (who goes by male pronouns) who laid her down, told her it would all be okay, then vanishes while she’s in the bathroom, leaving a mess and reminders of the visit in his wake for the singer to clean up. In the song’s three brief verses, Mitski crystallizes the intoxication of happiness — the everythingness of small moments, the sun-filled room, cookies and tea with a lover — and the violent
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hangover of the come-down, the desperation to get it back. However, the most haunting emotion on the track, is Mitski’s apathy about the whole affair: that she is not heartbroken, screaming or crying: just a little bit sad, as she quietly cleans up the debris: “And I turned around to see/All the cookie wrappers/And the empty cups of tea/Well I signed and mumbled to myself/Again I have to clean.” As it turns out, ambivalence about heartbreak is much sadder than heartbreak by itself. We know what to do with heartbreak; it is familiar and legible to us, and we have libraries of rock and roll songs to tell us how to feel and heal. Ambivalence about happiness, however, is a different and much scarier game of existence. Mitski has made sad songs, haunting songs and strange songs before — they comprise the bulk of her last album, Bury Me At Makeout Creek — but
never like this before. The macabre non-love story is woven into a carnivalesque soundscape of instrumentals and production. The track is an experiment, into a St. Vincent, or tUnE-yArDs-ian land of acerbic, uneven, discordant beats, minor-key saxophone riffs, distorted vocals, machine-gun drums and, generally, having no idea what to expect the next note will bring. The biggest surprise for me on the track comes with the indelible chorus, when Mitski cries out “And if you’re going, take the train/So I can hear it rumble, one last rumble/And when you go/take this heart/I’ll make no more use of it,” not liberated, but confident in her capacity to self-preserve and carry on. Jael Goldfine is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jog8@cornellsun.com.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
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and Jay-Z, 2004’s The Grey Album, cast two often over-idolized artists into a radically rejuvenated and reimaged light. He has worked with a plethora of artists, from A$AP Rocky to Beck, and, perhaps mostly notably, teamed up with crooner-cum-TV judge Cee-Lo Green to concoct Gnarls Barkley. If the opening hits of Gnarls Barkley’s 2008 “Crazy” have ever synced up with your adrenaline-fueled heartbeat and pumped you up for a wild night, you have Danger Mouse to thank. And yet, he is not the right producer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as evidenced by “Dark Necessities,” the group’s first single off of The Getaway. After all, the Red Hot Chili Peppers long thrived off of always seeminge slightly off-kilter. Despite the many studio takes required to create them, tracks like “Dani California” and “Can’t Stop” always felt like the band nailed them on the first take, slight flubs and all. However, Danger Mouse (and, in fairness, an older, calmer RHCP line-up) have put a track that lacks most elements that first endeared listeners to the group. The first 30 seconds of the track, which are propelled by muted bass, clean guitar and hi-hat pattering, sound like inoffensive instrumental music written to underscore the trailer of a political thriller film. After the initial swell, Flea’s funky bassline and Kiedis’ characteristic stuttering vocals
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Alicia Keys “In Common” RCA Records
Whenever artists take moderately lengthy hiatuses between projects, suspicion inevitably arises as to what their next release will bring. A period working on side projects might bring about a radical shift away from the creator’s previous ethos (think Fall Out Boy’s radical mainstream shift on Save Rock and Roll). Alternatively, a break from the demands of touring and recording can bring about an inspired, reinvigorated release. Consequently, Alicia Keys’ single — “In Common” — that was released leading up to her first release in four years granted fans a first peek at how Keys intends to frame her new work. In truth, “In Common” does not fall neatly into
either category outlined above. Keys undoubtedly has her finger on the pulse of recent pop releases. The pulsing, understated beat of “In Common” calls to mind Rihanna’s current mega-hit “Work,” while her confessional lyrics fall in live with Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself ” (and countless other pop hits, without a doubt). Above all else, the constant of Keys’ music — her always exemplary ability to convery rich, aching emotion through her voice — has not wavered. The ultimate strength of “In Common,” however, lies in its lyrics. Keys throws a head-fake at the listener. At first she seems to politely break up with a former lover, singing, “We got way too much in
common/If I’m being honest with you.” However, Keys then reveals the painful, relatable heart of the track: insecurity. Keys weaves a multi-layered skein of connection, fear of intimacy and complicated love. “If you could love somebody like me,” Keys concludes, “You must be messed up too.” If Keys pursues this intimate, honest take throughout the rest of her album, it will undoubtedly continue the trend of heart-baring, beautiful pop music. In essence, Keys has not left, but rather expanded upon her incredibly powerful voice. Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornell.edu.
Steve Gunn “Into You” Matador Records
Steve Gunn makes music that’s meant to be forgotten — the new single off of his new album Eyes on the Lines, “Ancient Jules,” is no exception. “Ancient Jules” positions the singer/songwriter (see, even his most fitting moniker is as used up and vapid as any genre-label in the popular canon could be) squarely in line with a whole dynasty of ephemeral strummers and justbarely-good-enough lyricists: think Willie Nile, think Mark Knopfler solo, think latter-day ex-
Byrds, think Kurt Vile. Yeah, think Kurt Vile especially. They cut an album together just last year, and, among other similarities that all surely spring out of not having that many ideas, they both have a certain proclivity for making songs that are about twice as long as they should be. Although, Vile likes to wear that guitar playing more on his sleeve and put it higher in the mix, and he feels more comfortable getting a little edgier in the lyric department than such ingrained rock-“poetic” platitudes as “You were
lost / on the road from a different way/pushed too far/miles away” (a real lyric from either “Ancient Jules” or just about any other guitarrock track since 1972). That’s not to say it doesn’t sound nice; something as innocuous as a six-string-fronted, PG rated wander ballad in 2016 really can’t be anything but pleasant. It’s just boring as hell, man. Troy Sherman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.
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Cornell - Oxford Study Provides Insights on Morality, Trust By MARY NATTAKOM Sun Staff
Imagine there are five railroad workers stuck on a track and a train is quickly approaching. You have the chance to save these five people, but you would have to push someone else in front of the train to stop it. Would you do it? In a recent study co-authored by Prof. David Pizarro, psychology, researchers found that people can judge trustworthiness based on answers to a hypothetical moral dilemma like this one. The results of this study were published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General last month. Researchers from Cornell and Oxford University asked over 2,400 participants if they would be willing to kill one innocent person to save five others. They then asked participants to play an economic game to evaluate trust. Participants were required to lend money to people who either answered yes or no to the moral dilemma question and then asked how likely they thought they were to get the money back. Regardless of the participant’s answer to the moral dilemma, participants overwhelmingly answered that someone who was willing to kill someone to save five others would also be less likely to give them their money back. “Even in these hypothetical dilemmas, people are more likely to trust somebody who refuses to do something for the greater good,” Pizarro said. These findings indicate that participants found these
about trusting other people,” Pizarro noted. Many of daily actions are fundamentally based on trust. Driving on a public road implicitly requires trusting other drivers to obey traffic rules. Accepting a credit card or a check as payment relies on trust in other people to make those payments later. “So much of human society exists because people have been willing to trust each other and cooperate on things,” Pizarro said. Because of its integral role in shaping society, trust has become an interesting topic of study. Whether it be figuring out who to start a business with or who to date, finding cues to “The big question is how determine if someone is trustworthy is critical do we determine that other to navigating our social world. People look for “signals that you are the kind of person who people are trustworthy? cares about fairness and loyalty, who has empaOur whole lives are about thy” Pizarro said. This study reveals one of the multiple cues we use to make that judgment. trusting other people.” According to Pizarro, the study illustrates that we evaluate others not only on actions but Prof. David Pizarro on their judgments as well. “Human beings are constantly evaluating that support both possible decisions in this hypothetical others on this dimension of trustworthiness,” Pizarro moral dilemma. said. “We’re pretty good at it and it actually has impli“However, there’s a good reason why we might not cations for how we treat other people.” trust people who say okay to killing someone right Moral judgment has been central to Pizarro’s away,” Pizarro said. “They might be lacking those emo- research. “For me it’s just interesting to understand how tions that make us good to each other.” the mind works and how we socially interact.” Pizarro The significance of the study centers on understand- said. On a larger scale, it taps into the mystery of how ing more fundamental aspects of society. human cooperation arose. “The big question is, how do we determine that other people are trustworthy? Our whole lives are all Mary Nattakom can be reached at mtn36@cornell.edu.
people to be less trustworthy. The study also revealed a unique exception. Individuals who said they would sacrifice one to save many were consistently deemed less trustworthy. “However, if you report that you made a decision [to kill one person in order to save five] with great difficulty, then people are less mistrusting of you” Pizarro said. Understanding why this is the case is a little trickier. Although the majority of people would refuse to push someone in front of a train, there are rational arguments
Student Team Designs Earthquake Resistant Buildings for Competition, Wins Third Prize By ARNAV GHOSH Sun Contributor
If you’ve ever seen footage of enormous buildings swaying uncontrollably during an earthquake or actually felt the Earth opening under your feet, you would know just how terrifying an earthquake can be. For people in earthquake prone areas who have to endure the natural phenomena on a regular basis, it is important that their homes are safer and more resilient. A project team at Cornell aims to help with that. Cornell University Seismic Design Team, started in 2013, works to model and prototype earthquake resilient buildings as part of an annual competition, Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition, organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. For the competition, various national and international teams submit a prototype of a building capable of withstanding varying earthquake magnitudes within certain architectural constraints. “The goal is to maximize structural resilience of the building while at the same time taking into account other factors such as maximizing building income and minimizing weight,” said Sean Thompson ’18, architectural lead. Over three years, the team has been evolving its design to ensure that its prototype doesn’t collapse in these testing scenarios that can mimic a magnitude eight earthquake. As Thompson notes, experimentation is key to the team’s philosophy. In the 2015 competition, the team added shear walls — thin plaques inserted between columns to minimize sideways movement — to their design. “Though a fairly common structural component in areas prone to seismic activity, adding them [shear walls] may have actually lead to the collapse of the structure,” Thompson said. “And once your prototype collapses, it’s automatically placed in a much lower category.”
However, they learnt from this setback and the team managed to place third in this year’s competition that was held in Sans Francisco, California. Much of this success goes to the team’s decision to add supercolumns — four columns connected by diagonal braces — to its prototype. “This is something that we came up with ourselves. The main reason you won’t find it in too many buildings is that it does cut a little into the floor space that is available,” Sean said. To support such innovation, the team is divided into three sub-teams — structural design team, constr uction IMAGE COURTESY OF SEAN THOMPSON
Standing Tall | Cornell University Seismic Design Team standing with thier building prototype.
team and architecture team — each of which perfects a different aspect of the building. The structural design team works to generate building models and uses simulation software to carefully tweak each to perform optimally. Since the team also has to demonstrate its ability to construct these structures, a construction team overlooks the design and
manufacturing of each component.The architecture team works to design the building with regards to aesthetic appeal and ensures that it abides by the constraints posed by the competition. The prototypes often have to account for various requirements like certain floors need to be double the height of the others or elements like restaurants need to be included. Part of the competition’s philosophy is to force teams to design earthquake proof buildings that can be used in real environments. This often means that compromising on aesthetics and functionality is impossible. “We have to satisfy this main requirement to make sure the building withstands these quakes but at the same time we also have these other very real architectural requirements that can sometimes conflict with the structural integrity,” Thompson said. Despite the team’s success in overcoming many such challenges, Sean is adamant that there are significant obstacles left to tackle. “We hope to carry out more design analysis and construct several test structures,” Thompson said. “We would use these tests to ensure that the actual software that models deflections is as accurate as possible because in the past we’ve seen error rates of 40 percent.” Daniel Wilentz ’16, team lead, said that it was extremely satisfying to see their team survive the three shake table tests. He also emphasized the need to help spread awareness about seismology ideas and concepts. “Our goals are to instil knowledge regarding earthquake engineering within Cornell's engineering community and foster a stronger desire on campus to learn about seismology,” Wilentz said. For future semesters, the team hopes to be involved with the wider community by hosting quizzes and trivia that as Thompson puts it, “inspires youngsters to explore the fascinating world of structural design.” Arnav Ghosh can be reached at ag983@cornell.edu.
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Faith Drives Garrett to First National Championship By JOON LEE
tity was in wrestling, not only in wrestling, but in winning and being someone who was good at it and it was just like a life check.” Getting ready for the last wrestling match of his colleGarrett fought a big mental battle with himself as he giate career, fighting for his first NCAA national title, struggled to recoup pride following his fifth-place finish. Nahshon Garrett already knew he was a champion. “I believed what I did defined who I was,” Garrett said. Waiting to face off against Cory Clark, the No. 2 seed at “If I won, I’m a winner and if I lost, I’m a loser. Anything 133 pounds, the Cornell senior, the No. 1 seed in the in between was always me showing myself or showing weight class, felt like the trophy, the championship, was other people that I am good or that I’m the best.” already in his grasp. The self-inflicted pressure Waiting for his lowered stress on Garrett’s shoul“I’m a champion so therefore I do sprints match somewhere in the ders. What should have been instead of doing sprints to become basement of Madison fun, the process, no longer felt Square Garden, Garrett enjoyable. something.” broke down into tears. “It made me miserable because Senior Nahshon Garrett “I had already known I I was trying to be someone in my was going to win,” own strength, someone who I Garrett said. “It was just already was,” Garrett said. a matter of time catching up to reality.” Just a year after Garrett felt he need a mental makeover and so he went he was upset as the presumptive favorite for a national back to his foundation, his roots in Christianity. Growing championship, Garrett again found himself in a position up in the household with a single mother with a father to take, what he said he believed, was rightfully his. locked up in jail, Garrett grew up with a strong religious “Thank you God for giving me this championship,” background in Chico, Calif. Suddenly, just as important as Garrett said. “You’re the best.” putting in the energy to move up a weight class — from With the Garden of Eden filled to capacity, Garrett 125 pounds to 133 pounds — was putting in went out and wrestled Clark, handily taking home a 7-6 the work to reset his mental mindset. victory over the Hawkeye junior. The championship was The change was subtle shift in finally his. The tears he expected to have were already Garrett’s mind . Instead of workshed. ing hard to become a chamAnd when the last whistle blew, all he could do was lift pion, he said he was up his arms in victory, his right bicep — which looks already a champion, sculpted by the hands of Michelangelo — featuring a and therefore worked Cornell “C” embroidered with a cross and three drops of hard. blood dribbling down from the crucifix. “I’m a champion so therefore I do sprints The Mindset Shift instead of doing sprints to There was no room for Garrett coming into the season. become something,” Garrett After finishing as the national runner-up at 125 pounds said. “Then all of a sudhis sophomore year, Garrett finished in fifth place in 2015 den, you position your at the weight class. The loss sent him into a depression as mind in a way that dealt with falling significantly short of the title, something leads to success instead many pundits expected him to pull out. of a way that's depen“It was weird and it came out of nowhere and slapped dent on failure and you me in the face,” Garrett said. “I just didn’t understand establish who you are and what was going on. I didn't know how much of my iden- who God has sent you.”
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Growing up in Chico, Garrett said he didn’t even think about college as an option. He started on the mat in eighth grade, which was late for someone who’s competed at such a high level collegiately. “My mom didn't let me do it for a while because she was afraid that I was going to get a disease or mat herpes or something, which I do have,” Garrett said. “But it's not that serious I guess.” Soon, Garrett’s natural athleticism, his cheetah-like quickness, his Adonis-like strength, took over and he became one of the best wrestlers in the state. When he was recruited to Cornell, he had no idea what he was getting into. “It should’ve been one of those, woah Cornell University, but I was like, “What? Where is that?’ ” Garrett said. “That’s See WRESTLING page 6
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Getting the job done | Garrett came into the National Championship expecting a win and nothing less.
TOP SENIOR FEMALE ATHLETE
Marisa Siergiej Finds Field Hockey Unexpectedly A trip to a fitness expo in sixth grade became a successful college career for the senior captain By ANNA FASMAN Sun Senior Writer
Although senior Marisa Siergiej has not been playing field hockey her whole life, you would never know from watching her in a game. The Cornell senior has numerous awards to her name, including first and second-team All-Ivy, AllAmerican for the mideast region and the Class of ’91 Cup — awarded each year to a field hockey player with a promising future. However, the 5’10’’ athlete humbly attributes her success to her teammates. “I have a lot of accolades to my name, but it’s funny because a lot of my recognition and a lot of my stats are really based on the fact that we have such a strong team,” Siergiej said. “All of my defensive stats came from being surrounded by three other girls who are great and a goalie who is awesome.” Siergiej began playing field hockey when her mother took her to a fitness expo in sixth grade and signed her up for a team. Before that, her and her younger sister, freshman Isabel Siergiej, had been doing gymnastics. However, Siergiej’s mother wanted her to be able to play a sport at school. “I went to the first practice and was
upset in the car crying because I didn’t know anyone. But soon after, I fell in love and a few years later my little sister started [playing] too. My big sister and I started at the same time but we were in different levels.” Siergiej would go on to have a successful high school field hockey career, lettering all four years and being named MVP for both her junior and senior year. She also ran track, but when it came time to make a decision about playing in college,
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Senior star | Marisa Siergiej has been All-Ivy first and second-team, AllAmerican over her four years at Cornell.
Siergiej knew that she wanted to continue very quickly how to balance being a varsity playing field hockey. athlete and an Ivy League student. “I really knew that I wanted to keep However, when considering options for athletics as part of my life,” she said. “I life after Cornell, Siergiej was deciding didn’t know per se which sport I wanted to between playing hockey at a professional do but I knew that I really wanted to be level or taking on an engineering job. part of a team and be strategic with a team “I was actually considering going to as opposed to an indiplay after school as vidual sport. I also just opposed to going to “I also just found field found field hockey a lot work,” she said. “I had hockey a lot of fun. I of fun. I knew I wanted the chance to play interto take it to the next knew I wanted to take it nationally my freshman level and continue playsummer when I played to the next level.” ing for as long as I in a club in Australia. I could.” really loved it because it Senior Marisa Siergiej At Cornell, Siergiej the whole community has seen a lot of success, revolved around hockey. leading the team this year as one of the In America it’s not a popular sport.” team’s co-captains. However, one of the However, Siergiej ultimately decided to highlights for Siergiej was getting to play move to Georgia next year in order to for Cornell with her younger sister Isabel. work at a paper making plant for Proctor “We’ve always been really close and I and Gamble. Nonetheless, Siergiej plans to think it’s awesome [that I got to play with always make field hockey a part of her life her],” she said. “There are definitely things in some way. she can learn from me in terms of balanc“I definitely want to keep field hockey ing school and balancing hockey, but there in my life,” she said. “I find field hockey a are also a lot of things that I learn from her. great way to exercise and stay in shape. I love practicing with her. I’ve had a really There’s a pickup league at Georgia Tech great experience with her, I just wish it and I played there over the winter, so I were longer. I hope I helped her set- know I’ll at least be doing pickup league. tle in and now she can go on and In the future, hopefully i’ll move to a make her own path and have her region with a lot of hockey going on. I own Cornell experience.” know I want to give back and coach While Siergiej has been an younger kids.” anchor for the Red squad since her freshman year, she is also a process Anna Fasman be reached at engineer, which forced her to learn afasman@cornellsun.com.
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TOP 25 SENIOR ATHLETES TOP SENIOR MALE ATHLETE NAHSHON GARRETT — WRESTLING
TOP SENIOR FEMALE ATHLETE MARISA SIERGIEJ — FIELD HOCKEY
CASSANDRA POUDRIER WOMEN’S HOCKEY
MICHAEL BYRNE BASEBALL
ANGELICA GANGEMI FENCING
DENA TANENBAUM WOMEN’S TENNIS
MEG PARKER SOFTBALL
WILL OPREA LIGHTWEIGHT ROWING
ANNA WINSLOW POLO
VICTOR LUO MEN’S SWIMMING
JENNA IMMORMINO WOMEN’S SWIMMING
LUKE HAGY FOOTBALL
GREG DAVIS HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING
CHARLOTTE TATE WOMEN’S SOCCER
ELENA WICKER POLO
ALICIA BAIR GYMNASTICS
CAROLINE KELLNER TRACK & FIELD
JOHN EDMONDS MEN’S LACROSSE
UDEME AKPAETE TRACK & FIELD
ROBERT ROBBINS TRACK & FIELD
REECE WILCOX MEN’S HOCKEY
MAX HAIRSTON TRACK & FIELD
JJ FIVES FOOTBALL
EMILY TRIPODI WOMEN’S LACROSSE
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