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Non-Violent Protest Will Not Affect Admission,C.U.Says Cornell joins other universities in reiterating support for ‘responsible engagement’ from high schoolers

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer

As the #NeverAgain movement sparked by the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. gains momentum, the University shared its support in a tweet on Sunday for those peacefully protesting, promising that participat-

Peaceful protest | Young people protest in Washington, D.C., in the aftermath of a school shooting in Florida.

ing in the movement will not affect admission decisions.

“Disciplinary action resulting from responsible engagement in non-violent protest will not jeopardize admission to Cornell,” the University wrote in the tweet.

Cornell is among many other universities, including Brown, Dartmouth, Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that have also made statements articulating that acceptances will not be rescinded and applications will not be negatively impacted if a student faces disciplinary action for being involved in a non-violent protest.

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Although the statement did not specifically invoke the recent wave of protests surrounding gun control, the tweet said, “Cornell University values civic discourse as essential to the academic mission and promotes public engagement as critical to inspiring future leaders.”

“Disciplinary After the Feb. 14 shooting, action resulting students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High from responsible School have been at the foreengagement ... front of the newly-revived gun control movement, marked by will not jeopardize the hashtag #NeverAgain. admission.”

High schools nationwide have followed suit, with students Cornell University staging classroom walkouts and a national rally planned for March 14, according to an article in Reuters.

Some high schools have pressured students not to engage in protests during school hours.

“Should students choose to do so, they will be suspended from school for 3 days and face all the consequences that come along with an out-of-school suspension,” wrote Curtis Rhodes, superintendent of the Needville Independent School District in Texas, in a now deleted Facebook post.

Rhodes’ district is not alone. Other districts have also affirmed that disciplinary action will be taken for those who choose to engage in protest during school hours.

For many high school students, disciplinary action See PROTEST page 4

C.U. Buys New Space in New York City Psi Upsilon House to Enter Weill Cornell Medicine, ILR lease floors in former General Electric Building

By VICTORIA MOORE Sun Staff Writer

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The big apple | ILR and Weill Cornell Medicine now lease space in the General Electric Building in Manhattan.

Cornell University signed a pair of leases for office space in 570 Lexington Ave. in New York last week.

The School of Industrial Labor Relations leased roughly 39,000 square feet and Weill Cornell Medicine leased roughly 31,000 square feet in the building, according to an article in The Real Deal. The leases are both for 10 years.

“Our work in New York Sate is part of our being a land grant institution.

We are not moving out of Ithaca,” said Mary Catt, media relations person for ILR. “It does not affect our Ithaca campus operations. This move is not related in any way to our presence in Ithaca.”

With the newly acquired property, the ILR school plans to conduct a variety of educational, training, and techSee ILR page 4

Second Phase of Renovations

By MEREDITH LIU

Sun Staff Writer

Five months after the Chi chapter of Psi Upsilon was closed, the former fraternity’s West Campus house has completed the first of two renovation phases to transform it into an open activity space for student organizations.

The renovation was originally proposed by the Psi Upsilon

alumni board of governors, following its decision to shutter the Cornell chapter indefinitely. In a joint statement released in September, two board vice presidents said the renovated space will be for student organizations “dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive student community.”

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Under construction | Renovations to the former Psi Upsilon house are expected to be completed by fall.

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Backyard Helps Students Develop Ideas

Six-week program helps students explore passions, create projects

By PENELOPE CAMPOS and KEVIN LAM Sun Staff Writers

Backyard, a Cornell program that assists students with extracurricular projects, was launched at eHub on Feb. 23.

Tina He ’19 and Maya Frai ’20 founded Backyard to help other Cornell students jumpstart their projects and provide guidance along the way. The six-week long program, which requires an application, helps students with side-projects by helping them organize and find resources to create a concrete plan.

“Think of it as a side-project incubator that helps people discover their passion, one that helps your personal and professional growth, that could also bring an impact,” He said.

Having taken on side projects on their own, He and Frai discussed how people often have interests outside of their curricular and extracurricular activities.

“We all have the internal passion that’s not being fulfilled by a lot of things — including classes and clubs — what I have been passionate about is education, and Backyard is now my side project,” He said.

The first three weeks in the program are focused on idealizing, exploring and becoming educated on the idea that the student brings to the table.

“Literally the best resources are all online and a lot of people just need a methodology to use those resources,” He said.

During the final three weeks of the program, students

develop their ideas into actionable tasks.

Frai and He explained to the audience that their vision is to bring a positive social impact to the Cornell community and beyond. They want to achieve this through the projects that come through Backyard.

“There are a lot of struggles … we have the responsibility to share the broader purpose, and we want Backyard to address that,” He said.

Backyard also puts emphasis on students being a part of a community, in addition to obtaining project experience and guidance.

“We are students, we are all in this together and you are more welcomed to share like a community,” He said.

“We are not an incubator, we are here to make something happen, as small as helping someone to start a blog.”

Backyard, according to co-founder Frai, has space to grow beyond eHub. Frai and He hope to see Backyard gain a greater presence online and expand well beyond Cornell’s campus to other universities.

The program has received over 45 project idea submissions including app development, entertainment content creation and music licensing, according to Frai.

“A lot of this is building up emotional support and emotional confidence,” Frai said. “I feel like a lot of students with all these unimplemented ideas are unfulfilled even after joining clubs, and that’s part of the reason I started Backyard.”

Penelope Campos can be reached at pcampos@cornellsun.com.

Kevin Lam can be reached at yl595@cornell.edu.

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Building backyard | Tina He ’19 and Maya Frai ’20 created Backyard in eHub to help other students turn their passions into a project. The pair hopes their program expands beyond eHub.

Design Collect to Help Improve Employee Safety in Seneca County

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Working on wellness | University design organization, Design Connect, has been selected to help build a wellness trail in Seneca County for employee safety.

By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

The design organization Design Collect has been selected to help implement a new wellness trail in Seneca County to improve the quality of life and safety for employees.

The idea for a wellness trail was proposed after the county moved its public health department and its Office for the Aging to a property east of the county’s office building. The wellness trail will connect the adjacent spaces.

Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension selected the group to head the

initiative because of their successful working relationship.

“Supporting healthy living is a key mission of Cooperative Extension,” said Averell Bauder, CCE’s executive director of Seneca County. “And having worked with Design Connect on three past projects, it seemed a good fit for their mission and skills.”

Over the course of Fall 2017, Design Connect conducted site visits and community input meetings and utilized the results of a wellness survey given to county employees. As many local businesses are in the area, employee needs and desires motivated the design.

Sara VandenBroek grad led the Design Connect project team and presented her trail plan to the county’s board of supervisors on Feb. 13.

“One of the biggest employee concerns was safety,” VandenBroek told the Sun. “There wasn’t really a safe place for them to walk during their breaks, during lunch or even just to get from the one building to the other. People would just have to walk on the street.”

Through input from likely trail users, VandenBroek designed an outdoor wellness area that includes a dog park, picnic area, meditation space, benches and other amenities along the proposed half-mile route.

“As designers, we made use of the natural features in the space, including a few very nice ponds,” she said. “We staged the meditation area to give people a nice space to look at the water, enjoy the view and decompress.”

The trail will welcome staff and visitors to exercise, according to Design Connect’s project blog.

“Having a trail like this provides a space for inpatients from some of the nearby nursing centers to be able to go outside and walk,” VandenBroek told The Sun. “It will allow them to heal better.

We’re just trying to get people outside to enjoy the light and the trees, to calm down, to enjoy and, most of all, to become healthier individuals.”

Other potential features along the See WELLNESS page 4

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Researchers Utilize 3-D Printing to Help Designers Build in Augmented Reality

By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Staff Writer

The Robotic Modeling Assistant helps mend the gap between humans and robots by combining 3-D printing with augmented reality. This technology is the product of a collaboration between Cornell and other universities.

“This is the most complicated project I've worked on so far, because there are so many complex subsystems that we have to integrate,”

said Huaishu Peng grad, project leader. “We spent about a year and a half to get to the current stage. But we are still refining the system, and hope to get some real users trying the system in the near future.”

According to Peng’s website, RoMa is capable of printing on an object’s backside if the designer is working on the front side. When the designer makes changes to the design, RoMA knows See ROMA page 5

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Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, stands next to Ivanka Trump (middle) and South Korean President Moon Jae (right) during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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Pyeongchang performance

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A performer wears traditional clothing during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Feb. 25.

University Signs Two 10-Year Leases in New York ILR and Weill Cornell expand by renting office space at 570 Lexington Ave. ILR

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-nical assistant services to business, labor unions, government and civic organizations along with conducting research and public programs work and workplace challenges according to Catt. Weill Cornell Medicine plans to dedicate its space to graduate prorams.

“ILR has had a presence since 1948 in New York City. That’s just 3 years after our school opened in ithac,” Catt said. “The new location will house ILR outreach. The New York City programs that ILR conducts are delivered to some 5,000 people every year.”

According to the Commercial Observer, the ILR school will occupy the 11th and 12th floors of the General Electric Building, a 50-story Art Deco skyscraper, while Weill Cornell Medicine will take up the entirety of the ninth and some of the 10th floor of the building.

The ILR school partnered with the Feil Organization, a management firm focused on real estate in the City, to secure the lease and rent this office space. David Turino, director of Feil’s leasing, and Mark Weiss and Robert Eisenberg of Cushman & Wakefield, a real estate company working for ILR, negotiated this deal, the Commercial Observer reported.

According to the Observer, Turino said Cornell is now the largest tenant of 570 Lexington Ave. and “will add great prestige to the 570 Ave. tenant roster.”

Brian Feil, the vice president of Feil’s leasing, said in a press release that the Ivy League is committed to “grow its many and diversified schools and graduate programs in New York City,” the Commercial Observer reported.

Cornell’s ILR branch in New York City will also relocate soon, as it currently occupies a building at 16 East 34th St. between Madison and East Avenues.

Students are looking forward to how

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can jeopardize their college admissions.

The Common Application, which according to its website serves as the application for more than 750 colleges, includes a section on disciplinary history.

H a n n a h Mendlowitz, senior assistant director of admissions at Yale, wrote in a blog post Friday that students “should feel free to

Cornell will diversify in the future. Leah Rosner ’21, raised in New York City, said that “the Ivy League offers [so many] resources” that are “always available to you.” She plans to take advantage of the opportunities in her hometown in the future.

Likewise, Michelle Gery ’21 has corresponded with researchers in ILR’s building at 16 East 34th St. She said “having the office in New York City is very important” for ILR students and alumni.

President Martha E. Pollack has advocated for Cornell’s presence in the city too.

“With its deep academic and cultural roots in Ithaca and its expanding presence in New York City, Cornell is at an exciting moment, with burgeoning intellectual collaborations across all its campuses,” she said on Cornell’s website.

Victoria Moore can be reached at vmoore@cornellsun.com.

gravel pathways include exercise stations, additional trees and a covered pavilion for musical performances, according to VandenBroek’s final report.

A “Friends of the Wellness Trail” group will promote trail usage, manage the community’s garden plots, sponsor events and raise funds for amenities.

VandenBroek and her team presented an “ideal” budget of $340,579 and an “alternative” budget of $162,448 to county officials on Feb. 13. The Greater Rochester Health Foundation and M&T Bank both offered support for the project that should be completed in phases over the next two years.

“We’re just trying to get people outside to enjoy the light and the trees, to calm down ... to become healthier individuals.”

Sara VandenBroek grad Future plans could include an extension of the trail through the Waterloo and Seneca Falls communities, possibly connecting to the Cayuga-Seneca Canal Trail and the Empire State Trail. For now, the first phase awaits Seneca County Board approval.

According to Bauder, CCE will push the project as a community priority.

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

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participate in walkout events to bring attention to this issue without fear of repercussion.”

Mendlowitz went further, writing that “I, for one, will be cheering these students on from New Haven.”

The University has not yet responded to requests for comment.

JESSICA HILL / THE NEW YORK TIMES

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

The trial of a Yale student accused of rape will test whether college rape accusations should be handled internally or by law enforcement.

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New Technology Allows Robot to Co-Design With Human Designers RoMA was built to understand human designers, to ease the designing process ROMA

than on a computer screen.

While the designer wears an A.R. headset and uses hand conto stop working and then auto- trollers, the robotic arm prints matically recomputes to account the design. for the changes.

Peng called this interactive According to the website, process “in-situ fabrication.” augmented reality is based on a The research team will preview of a real physical environ- sent their paper on RoMA at The ment that is “augmented” when a Human Computer Interaction computer incorporates addition- conference this April in al sensory elements. A.R. alters Montreal. Peng, along with stuthe users’ perception of their cur- dents and professors, will have rent reality. 3-D printing is the the opportunity to showcase process of creating physical their research, as well as attend objects based on 3-D digital workshops and other opportunimodel. ties for networking and discussion.

“For now, “I’m excited for the robotic 3-D printer to one of the biggest benebecome smarter. The robot ... will be fits of RoMA able to understand.” is that it allows designers to Huaishu Peng grad check the physical print RoMA uses these two con- at a very early stage in the design cepts to create an interactive fab- process,” Peng said. “This is rication system. Designers can instead of creating the first draw blueprints for their struc- design, waiting several hours for tures in the physical space, rather a 3-D printer to print the model, Continued from page 3

Former Psi U House Being Renovated into Student Center PSI U

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According to Lisa Anderson, interim director of facilities for student and campus life, the renovation was set up in phases, each targeting different areas and facilities of the building. The first phase is “primarily complete,” while the second will begin in early March.

“The scope of work of the initial phase was focused on renovation of the first floor common spaces, second floor bedrooms and bathrooms, exterior masonry repairs, creation of an [Americans with Disability Act] accessible entrance to the house, and general finish improvements,” Anderson said.

She added that there is still some masonry work unfinished due to weather conditions.

The second phase, which is expected to be completed by Fall 2018, will address the third floor bedrooms and bathrooms. It will also focus on floor, wall, ceiling and lighting improvements, Anderson said.

While the Psi Upsilon alumni board of governors is currently overseeing the renovation, Cornell Student and Campus Life is also “monitoring the construction work closely,” John Carberry, senior director of media relations and News, told The Sun in an email.

When asked about what student organizations will be using the renovated property, Carberry said there has been no process established or decision made regarding the future occupants of the former fraternity house or the date of reopening.

“Sometime before the house reopens, Cornell will begin a process to explore the future use of the location,” Carberry said.

“That effort that will include input from the campus community.”

The decision to shut down the chapter and refurbish the building comes after an alleged hate crime committed by an Psi Upsilon member in September.

The University placed Psi Upsilon on interim suspension in February 2016 after its president, Wolfgang Ballinger ’17 was accused of rape (Ballinger later pled guilty to a lesser charge of “forcible touching”) and revoked its recognition three months later, after the University said the fraternity hosted a party on Slope Day in violation of interim suspension policy while also facing 31 judicial complaints.

The Psi Upsilon alumni board of governors did not return the request for comment by the time of publication of this article.

Meredith Liu can be reached at mliu@cornellsun.com.

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Augmenting reality | The Robotic Modeling Assistant uses augmented reality and a robotic arm 3-D printer to help designers create their designs in real-time. The project team was headed by Huaishu Peng grad.

and then trying out the size and dimension.”

According to Peng, RoMA will be used as an “intellectual design assistant” used to create “furniture and other fast printed physical items in a real environ-

ment.”

“I can foresee many more potential extensions of the project,” Peng said. “I’m excited for the robotic 3-D printer to become smarter. The robot will not just strictly follow the user,

but will be able to understand the user's design intention, and able to co-design with the human.”

Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Annihilation Is a New Sci-Fi Classic

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

Last September, a trailer popped up on YouTube that immediately captured my attention. Right from the get-go, Annihilation had me hooked with its enigmatic teaser. It seemed to ooze all kinds of clever science-fiction goodness. The film is directed and written by Alex Garland, the mind behind Ex Machina, and the story comes from an acclaimed series of novels

by Jeff VanderMeer. As time went on, I began counting down the days to Annihilation’s release. Needless to say, I had very high hopes.

Annihilation opens with Lena, played

by Natalie Portman, being held in a containment unit. She is being interrogated about events that have recently occurred, and the rest of the movie happens through flashback. Lena is an Army veteran working as a biology professor. She's torn up over the recent disappearance of her husband Kane, played by Oscar Isaac, who was an active-duty service member and had disappeared on deployment. She knew nothing about where he’d gone or whether he was alive. But one day he shows up in their home, disoriented and fragile. She tries rushing him to the hospital, only for government agents to detain them both.

That’s when she ends up at Area X and encounters the phenomenon known as the Shimmer. Nobody knows what it is or what it’s doing. All they know is that anything that goes in never comes out… except for Kane. Upon learning that a squad of four scientists are planning on entering, Lena decides to sign on to the expedition.

This group of five scientists forms the core of the movie, and it’s a strong core indeed. Natalie Portman is joined by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny and Tessa Thompson to form the expedition. Bolstered by strong performances, all five manage to distinguish themselves over the course of the

movie, instead of being cut-outs of the same characters. Now, in thrillers like these, main characters have a tendency to wander into danger.

In Annihilation, our main characters don’t do that. They act with intelligence and tact, but at the same time they’re not perfect robots. They have human emotions like fear, and they each have their own way of coping with the extreme danger.

They each have their own personal struggles that pushed them to taking this mission.

It’s easy to identify with them.

The plot, to be brief, is incredibly fascinating. It plays a precarious balancing act.

A lot of questions come up during the movie, and not all of them receive answers.

In fact, I’d say that not even most of them get answers. Yet the film answers just enough to keep us hooked. For example, we never find out exactly what the Shimmer is. We do, however, get an answer to what it does, as well as a rough idea of its origin. I won't give away too much here, but the point is clear.

It’s easy to answer too little in a story and lose your audience’s attention. It can come across as lazy. That’s not what happens in Annihilation. The film gives enough information to let the audience understand why the Shimmer is important and how it relates to the world and the characters. It’s rough-hewn to the point where we can understand what we need to know, and leave the theatre satisfied.

Having so much remain unknown makes the Shimmer more intimidating and haunting.

I also have to bring up the visuals; they’re fantastic. On an editing front, the film gets cut with skillful craftsmanship. It simulates the feeling of the characters for the audience — we are left confused and

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disoriented at the same time that Lena is.

As for the actual imagery, it’s stunning.

During her interrogation, Lena describes the Shimmer as both beautiful and nightmarish. Sure enough, the film delivers some very awe-inspiring scenes that are elegant and lovely. It also descends into horrific scenes that left my mind reeling long afterwards.

That horror is one of the most impressive things I can praise here. The Shimmer is unlike anything I’ve seen on film before.

As soon as our heroes enter, we immediately cut to days later. It leaves us confused, just like Lena and the rest of the team are, unable to recall anything since they entered the tree line. Right away, we’re pushed off kilter, and that’s before they encounter the mutants. Plants become more and more radical in their design, the creatures become stranger. The further the team progresses, the more extreme the mutations become.

Annihilation builds a powerful set-up, and then hits hard with disturbing imagery and the best psychological horror I’ve seen in years. Even when Garland uses a single jump scare, he avoids the cliché of underscoring it with a stinger — that sudden blast of music to try and scare you. The night after I saw Annihilation I had trouble getting to sleep. Very few movies impact

me like that.

I have just two criticisms of the film.

First, with the setup of Lena explaining the story through the interrogation, now and again it does feel like too much “telling” is happening. Second, the soundtrack doesn’t always fit. There’ll be tense scenes where the team is heading into the unknown… and then a soft banjo plays a kind of folksy tune. It seems to clash. Of course, these are minor problems, and they’re not consistent. As I described before, the imagery shows plenty, and the soundtrack also has some incredible moments, especially in the climax.

If you’re in the mood for a heady sci-fi work or a scary movie night, I’d very much recommend Annihilation. It absolutely fulfilled my expectations, and it shows off something new, offering lots of intrigue and questions, while only sparingly providing answers. It thrilled me, it delighted me, it terrified me. Above all though, it left me thinking. Should we consider the Shimmer a threatening cancer? An innocent life form trying to figure out its place?

Is it even intelligent? These are questions that will keep me puzzling.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun.com.

Midday Music Offers Welcome Respite From Classes

BY RAMYA YANDAVA Sun Staff Writer

After my morning class the Wednesday before February break, I headed straight for the Barnes Hall auditorium, where one of the Music Department’s weekly Midday Music performances was scheduled. Midday Music, a concert series that takes place around lunchtime (12:30 - 1:15p.m.) on Wednesdays or Thursdays, offers a chance for students to take a break from their hectic schedules to sit down and enjoy some lovely classical music from students and faculty at Cornell. This particular performance was Baroque, with first-year graduate student Morton Wan, currently in the Ph.D. musicology program, performing Bach on harpsichord and Rameau on piano.

Wan started with Bach’s third English Suite (BWV 808), which Bach composed

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around his Weimar period (1708-17) and is part of his first major series of harpsichord works before the Well-Tempered Clavier. This piece in particular demonstrates Bach’s expert knowledge of dances, such as the Gigue and the Sarabande. The harpsichord helps bring out the highlydecorated ornamentation of these pieces and the rich rhythms and textures that interweave throughout it.

While some may prefer the piano to the rather twangy tones of the harpsichord, Wan manages to bring out many of the hidden depths of this instrument.

This comes out especially in the Allemande, the simple meter of which presents a stark contrast to the Prélude’s triple meter. The simplicity and slower tempo of the Allemande was beautiful, with Wan wonderfully capturing the dynamics and more somber emotions present in this movement. I also especially liked the Gigue for its exciting sense of movement and ornate rhythmic patterns.

Wan then moved from the harpsichord to the piano to play Rameau’s Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin.

Rameau, like Bach, became a major composer for the harpsichord and then for French opera, his most recognizable work probably being Hippolyte et Aricie.

Hearing these performed on the piano drew an interesting parallel with Bach’s harpsichord pieces. And while they sounded somewhat more modern, many of the Baroque characteristics were still noticeably present. Like the Bach suite, Rameau’s also includes several of the twopart dance movements typical of the Baroque period.

While Bach’s suite may garner the nickname “English,” Rameau’s use of character or genre pieces are distinctive to French instrumental music of the time and skillfully employ broken chords and highly ornamented melodic lines. On the piano, an instrument that, while perhaps not as characteristic of the era as the harp-

sichord, allows more control of volume and thus a greater dynamic range, Wan seemed to flourish. Swaying and moving his body to match the cadences of Rameau’s pieces, he appeared completely immersed in the music, a hidden world inhabiting the space of 300 years between performer and composer into which we as the audience were allowed a small peek.

Although there were not many in attendance, more people started to filter in throughout the performance, and the performance had a relaxed, casual atmosphere that suited the idea of “midday music” well. Leaving Barnes, my mood was considerably lighter and, walking to class, the last strains of the piano still echoed in my head, even as I had to transport myself back to the harsh reality of the daily grind.

Ramya Yandava is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ry86@cornell.edu.

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The Oscars Matter. They Suck, but They Matter.

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ith the Oscars approaching, I’ve committed ing. A user asked if the 2017 Best Picture myself to watch every Best Picture nominee. I’ve snafu hurt winner Moonlight or La La Land already watched six. I’ll happily make it through more. Commenter Jonathan Brill replied, the next two on my list — The Shape of Water and Phantom pointing to the Oscars’ economic impact.

“If I’m the producer of distributor of Thread — and force myself through The Post. No knock on Steven Spielberg and his cast. I just tend to have a hard time Moonlight, I’m calling up Pwc [sic] and the Academy and asking for a blowout ad budgetting into historical films.

Many viewers seem to regard awards shows with some- get to… get back some of the roughly $50m thing between amusement and derision, and with good rea- in publicity it just lost,” Brill wrote.

Many people could care less what awards son. The worst award show — the Grammys — is downa movie wins. Others — myself now includright out-of-touch at this point.

I spent a lot of winter break driving around and listen- ed — will go out and see a movie if its proing to sports talk radio. One day, a broadcaster stated that ducers hoist a golden trophy. That viewerhe wouldn’t be watching the Oscars. He loved Insidious 3, ship, as Brill points out, can amount to a he reported, and it wasn’t up for any awards. As such, the good chunk of change.

There is another, more important reason Oscars weren’t worth watching. to pay attention to the This sentiment Oscars. The show mirrors sums up one critiour cultural values, either cism of the Oscars. reflecting or distorting them. For some, The awards don’t nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, reflect what people Missouri depicts the supposed redemption actually like to of a racist cop. For others, the movie is a watch. Insidious 3 is Morning Bowl high-energy offering from a talented direcan odd movie to Of Surreal tor and cast. For still others, the answer hang your criticism lies somewhere in the middle. on, though. The Sam Rockwell could likely win an Oscar for his role as more convincing example this year is Get Out. Audiences that police officer — Jason Dickson. Will he win because both loved it and are sure that it won't win Best Picture.

Other critics think that idea of award shows itself is of his skillful portrayal of a difficult, detestable character? strange. Pitting works of art against each other doesn't Or because Oscar voters want to think that everyone is worthy of redemption? make much sense.

Last year’s Oscars presented a made-for-television faceWhile I reveled in its spectacle, I also long felt that watching the Oscars was a pointless exercise. Does “Best off. A small-budget, intimate story of repressed love — Picture” mean the best directed movie? (There’s a separate Moonlight — faced off against a glitzy (and Oscar-baiting, Oscar for that.) Does it refer to the movie with the best cin- if you’re cynical) ode to Hollywood — La La Land. At least, ematography? (There’s an Oscar for that too.) I threw up that was how many people viewed the Best Picture categomy hands, decided that taste is subjective anyway and ry. Never mind that seven other movies were in the running. watched the show to feel in the loop.

The mix-up only cemented the David versus Goliath Recently, a post on forum site Quora changed my think-

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narrative of Moonlight’s win. Critics later noted that La La Land technically wasn’t the “runner-up” as far as we know given that the Academy doesn’t release voting numbers.

Still, the image of La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz holding up the winning card for Moonlight will be seared in movie fans’ minds for years to come. It was a movie-worthy moment in its own right: “This is not a joke.

Moonlight has won Best Picture.”

In the words of punk greats Jawbreaker, “it gets so easy to narrow these eyes.” But I encourage viewers to keep an open mind and watch the Oscars this year, and not just to hope that their favorite film wins Best Picture. (I’m already salty that my personal favorite, Call Me by Your Name, has poor odds to win any awards.) In the end, each and every Oscar winner tells us something about our cultural and aesthetic values.

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

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Cornell Can and Should Do More to Support Protesting Students OUR GENERATION HAS NEVER KNOWN a world without the threat of school shootings. We were practicing active shooter situations before we knew how to do long division — our teachers may have used phrases like “Code Red” or “shelter-in-place,” but we know what they really meant. In middle school, we joked about trench coats and heavy metal and “Bodies” by Drowning Pool because when we’re afraid of things, we try to cope by finding some humor in them. In high school, we watched Congress vote down even the most incremental increases in gun regulation as parents from Newtown, Connecticut, stood silently in the gallery and our president cried tears of anger and frustration.

For two decades our leaders have failed us. So in 2018, we’re changing our leaders. Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, not Donald Trump or Wayne LaPierre or Marco Rubio, are going to bring us into the future. And the tens of thousands of high school students staging walkouts, sit-ins and protests on the National Mall, not faceless bureaucrats at the NRA or washed-up hacks at CPAC, will be the ones to finally bring about change.

We applaud Cornell’s decision to assure its applicants that “disciplinary action” resulting from these protests will not adversely affect their candidacies for acceptance. Cornell joins many of its peer institutions in delivering a sharp rebuke to the school districts that have attempted to tamp down protest. We hope that, if anything, participating in these valuable exercises in engagement and advocacy will strengthen students’ applications.

But Cornell can and should do more. As long as NRA-backed legislation prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other governmental agencies from conducting research on gun violence, policymakers and activists alike will lack easily accessible up-to-date, exhaustive information. Cornell and its peer institutions should step in and conduct that research themselves. We have the brainpower, the money and the legitimacy to make a real difference, and we should do so in every way we can.

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always thought the greatest superpower anyone could wish for was the ability to speak the right words at the right time. Its potential would be substantial. Businessmen could use it to swing negotiations; socialites could use it attract the attention of others; politicians could use it to push their agenda across.

And I? Well, I could use it to get me and my friends to calm down a bit. At Cornell, first- and secondhand stress is always lurking. And speaking the wrong word when someone is desperately seeking comfort is as damaging of a mistake as you can make. Words matter, even if we toss them around too loosely at times.

It’s partially why I decided to join Cornell Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service’s counseling program this semesters as a trainee.

The EARS program is a student-run counseling program on campus that seeks to provide anonymous free counseling services. It runs seven days a week, with counseling sessions held in the afternoon to the late night at its office in 213 Willard Straight Hall by student counselors.

As a trainee, I learn the ins and outs of what makes an effective EARS counselor, and the steps I have to take to become one. Admittedly, I’ve only been there for a few sessions, but there’s a common undercurrent running under each session. We’re often asked to split into small groups, where we split even further into trios. One becomes a counselor, the other the issuegiver, and the third the observer. Some nights, I might be the counselor, listening in as a trainee vents; the other, I might be the one taking notes on the counselor and issue-giver, making marks for improvement for both. It’s an odd thing to watch people spill their hearts out, but it’s familiar. Whether you’re an EARS counselor or not, we’ve all been pseudo-counselors at some point.

And as we come to practice it, listening is anything but a passive act. We’re taught to make eye contact, because it establishes a basic level of empathy. We come to understand that leaning in while listening shows engagement; leaning back shows apathy. We’re given a list of words that look suspiciously like SAT words, designed to capture a feeling that someone may be struggling to put together. Slowly, over the course of a two semester training program, students become adept at listening, giving feedback, showing empathy and applying the EARS counseling model to various situations.

There was also another reason I joined.

In light of recent events, it’s perhaps now more important than ever for the EARS program to expand its current reach. As Cornell University has twisted and turned under a furious gale of criticism for its less than stellar mental health services (with criticism ranging from month long wait times for Counseling and Psychiatric Services, to brutal takedown columns criticizing the larger indifference from the administration regarding the issue), the viability of a current system has been called into question.

It’s not that I think Cornell’s quality of service is poor. Even detractors who complain about the inefficiencies of the system admit that the services are staffed by quality professionals who do a well-rounded, excellent job when given the chance. But because of chronic understaffing in the services — at a student assembly meeting last month, CAPS director Gregory Ells made a good point that recruiting and retaining an appropriately sized staff was

difficult in a largely rural area — wait times can be frustratingly long and I’ve heard professionals are often overworked.

It’s why I think passively leaving the care of the mental health of students to the administration isn’t such a good idea.

Whether out of misplaced well intentioned actions or large indifference, the administration hasn’t delivered the services fit for a population as large and diverse as Cornell’s. Luckily, even as much of the resentment lingers from President Marth Pollack’s denial of the Sophie’s Fund pleas to create an independent task health force to review the mental health policies at Cornell, other student groups are mobilizing to fill in the empty patches left by CAPS.

It’s perhaps now more important than ever for the EARS program to expand its current reach.

There’s Cornell Minds Matter, which seeks to host events designed to reduce stress amongst students, while reducing the stigma of mental health on campus.

(For example, for our first member meeting, each of us were given a bright green wristband labeled “Stamp out Stigma!”)

It’s a large organization, but one still growing.This semester, the club has sought to expand even more to raise awareness of mental health on campus.

There’s also the Cornell mental health task force, which is a brand new student group designed to independently (and empirically) review Cornell’s mental health program and policies through evidence collection, and then make recommendations to the administration based on its findings. It’s an incredibly intriguing idea, with ambitious plans and promising potential, even if it’s too soon to tell if it’ll work out.

A big part of this will also have to come from EARS. The program is moderately sized now; there are perhaps 50 counselors currently, but as the University attempts to find a feasible but satisfactory solution to its mental health problems, more students will come to rely on EARS as they become frustrated with wait times. EARS should not be a direct substitute to CAPS — the professionals have received more training, and can handle more severe cases beyond the scope of EARS. Rather, it should be a complement.

In the future, it’s almost certain we’ll see more changes regarding the state of mental health services at Cornell. But waiting for the administration to right the ship while other students plod along isn’t something the campus can afford any longer.

I encourage students who are interested in making a positive impact on this issues to join clubs with the mission of combating mental health and anxiety issues. Even if these student programs don’t quite have the capabilities and qualifications of the CAPS program, a student community that is more proactive on this front — through petitioning and advising the student administration to student counseling groups — is one that can help makes the voices of students heard. Together, both administration and students can deliver the kind of support for mental health that has been lacking for these past few years.

At the very least, it’s an idea worth hearing out.

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

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Michael Glanzel | Cornell Shrugged

Trump Should Learn From Bush 41 A

s the days, weeks and months of the Trump presidency pass by, America becomes angrier and more divided. The nation has descended into a perpetual “us versus them” mentality, as the foundations of civic discourse (tolerance, civility, empathy) begin to

rescued by a submarine, and continued to serve as a fighter pilot for the remainder of the war. As a Congressman, diplomat and Vice President, Bush dutifully served his country wherever he was called. He was consistently viewed as one of the most reliable and trustworthy men in politics.

Though often forgotten, Bush’s tenure as president is quite remarkable. Perhaps the greatest emblem of his courage was his decision to raise taxes in 1990. Though he had declared in the 1988 campaign that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes, Bush was left with massive deficits from the Reagan years. Reagan –– the champion of limited government –– had actually expanded certain areas of the government (particularly the Department of Defense) to unseen levels. Combined with Reagan’s enormous tax cuts, the nation was left with some of the highest deficits in its history.

Bush understood that the mounting deficits were not only irresponsible, but that they also threatened American economic security. Thus, despite his promise not to raise taxes, Bush pushed forward and did what was necessary for the good of the country. Though he paid an enormously high price for the decision –– the Clinton campaign routinely roasted the president for his tax policy –– Bush made the right choice for the country.

One of the most important lasting effects of the Bush years is the president’s management of the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the wake of the decline of a great power, it is often the case that the nation will lash out violently in a last attempt to regain a foothold. Bush and his foreign policy team were keenly aware of this fact, and were determined to see that the Soviet Union went out “with a whimper and not a bang.”

Under Bush’s leadership, the U.S. and its NATO

Though Donald Trump will never have the kind of courage that Bush 41 has, I implore President 45 to look at the example of 41. tumble. I once thought that the 2016 election was the apex of the viciousness of contemporary American politics; instead, it appears as if the election was only a precursor for worse things to come.

In the wake of this decline, I think it is necessary for us to look to our nation’s history books for pathways out of the rubble. If we are to progress from the decadence of the Trump Era, we must understand how civil politics once functioned. There is, in my opinion, no better place to look than the four years of the presidency of George H.W. Bush.

Admittedly, George Bush’s ascendence to the presidency was anything but pretty. His campaign manager, the notorious Lee Atwater, was undoubtedly one of the most ruthless political operatives in the history of American politics. Atwater’s infamous Willie Horton commercial –– an ad with very strong racial undertones that essentially linked blacks with violent crime –– is certainly one of the darker moments of modern American presidential campaigns.

Yet, while Bush’s 1988 campaign wasn’t exactly as hopeful and optimistic as, say, Obama’s 2008 campaign, the president nevertheless was one of the most admirable and courageous leaders of his time.

For those who have ever looked at the life of George Bush the First, the evidence of his character and courage is copious. In 1944, Bush –– then the youngest fighter pilot in the Navy –– was blown out of his airplane after a raid in the South Pacific. Though he was stranded for hours in the middle of the ocean, Bush was eventually

allies carefully worked to manage the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of the Warsaw Pact, and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR. Bush was not dancing on top of the rubble of the Berlin Wall at its deconstruction, and he was not lauding his greatness in the wake of the Soviets’ demise. Bush understood that a careful and peaceful transition of power was more important that satisfying his ego (it is disappointing to note that our current president would likely not have followed the same policy).

The last triumph of the Bush years that I will mention here is the success of the first Iraq War. Unlike the war of his son, Bush 41’s Persian Gulf War was perhaps the best managed conflict in modern human history. By carefully uniting a massive global coalition, Bush was able to turn virtually the entire world against the regime of Saddam Hussein. And after a carefully planned air bombardment, the coalition’s ground forces routed the Iraqi military in an incredibly short two days.

After pushing Saddam out of Kuwait, many within Bush’s national security team (such as defense secretary Dick Cheney) wanted the President to invade Iraq.

Bush refused, stating that the objective of the conflict was to free Kuwait of Hussein –– not to expand America’s overseas empire. In effect, Bush eschewed the personal glory of permanently disposing Hussein, and instead committed American ground forces to a short, well-executed conflict.

Our nation is stronger and better off because of the restraint and the responsibility of the first George Bush.

Bush’s willingness to give-up personal glory and risk political catastrophe clearly shows that he was a man of incredible character –– and was a man worthy to lead this nation. Though Donald Trump will never have the kind of courage that Bush 41 has, I implore President 45 to look at the example of 41. Our nation is stronger and better off because of the restraint and the responsibility of the first George Bush.

Michael Glanzel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mglanzel@cornellsun.com. Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Ara Hagopian | The Whiny Liberal

Protesting Pollution by Not Breathing: How To Fight an Evolving Capitalism A

pretentious person I know referred to this year’s batch of Oscar-nominated short films as a “mixed bag,” which in my mind means that they must be pretty good. My personal favorite, “The Eleven O’Clock,” is a delightfully original comedy about a patient of a psychiatrist who believes he’s the psychiatrist. The rest of them are nearly as good, albeit a deal more serious.

“The Silent Child” tells the story of a deaf girl whose parents fail to get her the help she needs, while “Watu Wote” addresses Christian-Muslim conflicts in Africa.

These serious films are so unabashedly serious that they almost come across as narrative-based public service announcements; each credit sequence is peppered with statistics, authentic footage and calls to action. I remain somewhat troubled by these nobly-intentioned solicitations.

I can’t shake the feeling that the rich folks are laughing all the way to the bank.

I haven’t seen Black Panther or Wonder Woman, but I appreciate their significance.

I believe in the power of representation, in the ability of art to change narratives, in all of that. But to quote an African business

website, venturesafrica.com, “Black Panther is just what it is — A Marvel superhero movie and a purely capitalist venture… all that money is going into the pockets of studio executives that are *cough* predominantly white men.” It’s the same thing with fair trade coffee; we’re told that the beans are grown by a single small farm in Colombia, so we pay a little more for our mocha java. It’s the commodification of morality, or more precisely, the commodification of anti-capitalism.

Now representation is more complicated than coffee because it involves subjectivity. The fair-trade phenomenon, as a primarily economic measure, can be numerically analyzed and straightforwardly declared to be bogus. It lines the pockets of big business, and it does very little to help small farmers. If you’ll forgive my capitalist phraseology, it simply isn’t worth it. How do you measure the impact of Black Panther on the psyches and ambitions of black children? Is it dehumanizing to even try? These are questions I don’t know the answer to. And at any rate, I’m not the right person to comment on the value of Black Panther because I’m not

black and I don’t fully understand the black experience. But someone has to look into it.

These moral impasses are one of the major issues facing modern liberalism.

A lot of gay men I know love drag

political faction need to stop trying to make everybody happy.

Either drag queens do more harm than good, or they don’t. Either a superhero movie is worth cementing our dependence on the capitalists,

Let’s start carrying out some hard analysis and making some decisions. queens. Queens are pillars of the gay community, and their shows provide safe spaces for people that might not feel safe in society at large. A lot feminists I know dislike drag queens; they consider them to be crude impersonations that turn women into the butt of a joke. These disagreements often devolve into a phenomenon derisively known as the “oppression Olympics,” wherein each group fights tooth and nail for the moral high ground. We as a

or it isn’t. Let’s start carrying out some hard analysis and making some decisions, people. We live in the age of human progress, so naturally we think that if we work hard and rear enough Elon Musks, a perfect solution will present itself. This is, of course, not the case.

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun.com. The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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When all was said and done, the Red’s victory put a five-point cushion between itself and second-place Union with just one game to play, securing the team’s place in first and the 2018 Cleary Cup. As winners of the regular-season title, the Red earned the No. 1 overall seed in the ECAC playoffs, having already earned itself a first-round bye.

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Colgate, leaving them apparently hungry to finish their season on a high note. “[Union] looked like a team that got their ass chewed out last night for half an hour,” Schafer said. “I knew that they were obviously unhappy with how they played [against Colgate].”

Halfway through the final period of play, Union’s Brett Supinski trickled the winning shot behind senior goalie Hayden Stewart on his glove side to hand the Red its fourth loss on the season. Stewart made his first appearance since Jan. 5.

“I thought I’d give [Stewart] an opportunity,” Schafer said. “As a senior I wanted to give Hayden at least one start here in the second half.”

Stewart learned last night that he would play in place of freshman standout Matt Galajda, whose tremendous rookie season so far has him among the nation’s best goaltenders.

“Obviously a frustrating game,” Stewart said. “I would have liked to make a couple more saves for us.”

The Dutchmen got off to a hot start, rifling 13 shots at Stewart in the game’s first 12 minutes. The Red was able to put the puck on net just once in that time span, and it looked as though Union was taking command of the game.

But the Red held steady, with Stewart standing strong between the pipes. Eventually, Cornell struck first courtesy of sophomore defenseman Yanni Kaldis, who buried a floating rebound past Union netminder Jake Kupsky.

“I thought [Union] came out in the first part of the game [with] a little more intensity than us,” Stewart said. “After that, I thought we picked it up.”

The momentum continued to tilt back and forth thereafter, but in the end, the four goals conceded by

Cornell were too much, and the Dutchmen came out on top. “[We had] no attention to detail throughout the course of the night, which was disappointing,” Schafer said.

A key moment came in the third period right after Union took a 3-2 lead. Cornell dusted itself off as freshman Tristan Mullin evened the score a minute after the home team had taken the lead. The wind was in the Red’s sails. However, the visitors would not find the back of the net for the remainder of the contest.

The Red’s achilles heel on Saturday was the penalty kill, which was unsuccessful in preventing a Union score in all three chances. In Cornell’s last 46 penalty kill chances, it has given up just seven goals, but five tallies to Union alone, including two from the teams’ previous matchup Feb. 2 at Lynah Rink.

“On the first [penalty kill] we didn’t pick our sticks up around the net,” Schafer said. “Second one we didn’t squash down low and [Union’s Cole Maier] made a great play from behind the net, and on the third one our goaltender has to make the save.”

The game presented a potential preview of a matchup that could be seen deep into the ECAC playoffs.

If the two teams meet again, it will be on neutral olympic ice at Lake Placid in the conference championship game.

“There’s a lot of hockey to be played,” Schafer said. “We look forward to whoever we play.”

The top-seeded Red has this weekend off before a quarterfinal playoff series at Lynah in two weeks against the lowest remaining seed after this coming weekend’s first round.

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

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digit scorer for Cornell with 10.

“We’re turning a corner where all the guys are producing, not just Matt and Stone,” Earl said.

“Tonight [the team] did everything offensively and defensively as well.”

Following Columbia’s conference loss against Yale, Cornell is now tied with the Lions for fourth place in the Ivy standings. The Red will look for a sweep next weekend on the road against Harvard and Dartmouth as each game becomes a must-win for Ivy tournament

qualification.

“Being on the other side of things, I’m starting to realize how important this tournament is,” Earl said, referring to his former tenure at Princeton. “It keeps guys motivated … and all we can do right now is practice and play hard.”

Cornell tips off on the road against Harvard next Friday, March 2 at 7 p.m. and against Dartmouth on Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m.

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

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Icers Win First Cleary Cup Since 2005

Red earns top playoff seed with RPI victory

By DYLAN MCDEVITT Sun Staff Writer

TROY, N.Y. — In the final weekend of a season already marked by the dusting off of decades-old achievements, Cornell men’s hockey clinched the Cleary Cup on Friday as the ECAC’s regular season champions for the first time since 2005.

The Red (23-3-2, 17-2-2 ECAC) secured its title with a 4-2 victory over Rensselaer (5-24-4, 4-15-2) at Houston Field House in Troy, where it was able to exact revenge on the team that knocked it off the top of the national rankings on Feb. 3.

“I think [the Feb. 3 loss] left a bad taste in our mouth,” said associate head coach Ben Syer. “We certainly wanted to play a little harder here tonight.”

After an even first period that saw the Red look sloppy at times, Cornell took control in the second and third, imposing its will on the second-to-last-place RPI. “I thought we were probably a little slow out of the gate here tonight,” Syer said. “We got things going a little bit in the second period and continued that into the third.”

Syer had to take the helm behind the bench early in the third period after head coach Mike Schafer ’86 took a stick to the head and was helped off the bench. According to Syer, Schafer will not miss any more time.

“He’s all good now,” Syer said. “He’s a tough cat.”

Junior defenseman Brendan Smith was injured in the previous matchup against the Engineers, but returned for Friday’s matchup. In seemly fashion, Smith was the first to light the lamp, notching one past RPI netminder Linden Marshall a minute and a half into the second period.

“I felt that [the time off] was kind of a break for my body, to look at it from a positive standpoint,” Smith said. “The first couple of shifts took me a little to get back into it, but it’s really easy to get back into it playing with a guy

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Reward for effort | With its regular season title, the top-seeded Red earns a first-round playoff bye before returning to Lynah in two weeks for its quarterfinal playoff series.

push back. I mean, Hayhurst is a dynalike [junior] Alec McCrea.”

McCrea, Smith’s classmate and line- mite player for them.”

After the Hayhurst goal, Cornell mate, also returned tonight after being injured in last Friday’s matchup against scored three unanswered to all but ice Brown and missing the following day’s the game. One of those tallies came game against Yale. The pair of Smith from freshman forward Morgan Barron and McCrea is one of the Red’s best on — whose only point in the last 12 the blue line, and the injury-depleted games was an assist on Feb. 2 against Union. Barron had defensive corps previously earned 12 therefore received CORNELL @ RPI points in the team’s some much-needed first 15 contests, relief Friday. including a point in “It’s nice to have Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL seven straight to start those two guys back, Cornell 0 2 2 4 his Cornell career. they log a lot of min- RPI 0 1 1 2 “I think [inconsisutes,” Syer said.

“They play well together … By the sec- tency] is part of every season,” Barron ond they really started moving pucks said. “I’ve been just trying to play my same hockey and stick to the process. together well.”

Eighteen game seconds after Smith’s [Tonight] I got lucky and one squeezed tally, RPI’s Jacob Hayhurst tied it up on through the five-hole.”

Barron would later add another what seemed to be a defensive lapse for point, assisting on freshman defenseCornell.

“We had a couple of missed assignSee RPI page 11 ments,” Syer said. “We knew they’d

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Cornell falls short in regular season finale against Union

By DYLAN MCDEVITT and JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer and Sun Assistant Sports Editor

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — A night after one of the program’s biggest moments in 13 years, Cornell men’s hockey ended a successful and exciting 201718 regular season with a tough 4-3 loss to Union.

Despite a one-goal margin, the Red (23-4-2, 17-32 ECAC) was unable to match its opponent’s power from start to finish, mustering only 24 shots on goal to Union’s 36.

“We looked like a team that clinched first place last night,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 of his team’s effort. “I felt it all day, that we had clinched first place, couldn’t go up and couldn’t go down.”

As the Red was busy clinching the Cleary Cup with a 4-2 victory over RPI in Troy Friday, Union (21-13-2, 16-5-1) skated to a lackluster 1-1 tie against See UNION page 11

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Ivy Tournament Hopes Kept Alive With Brown Win

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Old-timers | The seniors put up momentumchanging baskets on the Red’s Senior Night.

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In a complete turn from the previous day’s heartbreaker against Yale, the Cornell men’s basketball team had a perfect lategame execution to secure a crucial 73-68 Saturday night win over Brown.

The Red (11-14, 5-7 Ivy) gained control of the lead midway through the second half and fought off several runs by Brown (11-14, 4-8) to hold onto the win. Free throws proved critical once again, as Cornell

was able to sink clutch free throws in crunch time while the Bears struggled to convert from the line.

“Down the stretch, we managed to stand our ground much better than against Yale,” said head coach Brian Earl. “We were also able to pack it in against the team and didn’t turn the ball over as many times down the stretch.”

Cornell’s win came in unexpected fashion as several players on both ends of the court found themselves in foul trouble early on. Junior forward Stone Gettings, as well as Brown’s star guards Desmond Cambridge and Zach Hunsaker all saw their ways to the bench midway through the

first half. With a lack of offense on both sides of the floor, the match quickly turned into a gritty defensive showcase.

“One of the keys going into this game after Yale [was defense],” said junior guard Matt Morgan. “Even with both me and Stone on the bench I think … the focus on defense was amazing.”

Running a full court press on nearly every inbounds play, the Red was certainly rewarded for its defensive pressure on the statbooks. The squad held Brown to 34 percent shooting from the field, and just 20 percent from downtown. Junior guard Steven Julian had another solid all-

around game to lead the Red’s defensive effort, finishing the night with eight points, seven rebounds, four blocks and three steals.

“We always know we have to focus on defense, [especially] when we know we can score on any team,” Julian said. “Tonight, it was all about getting stops.”

On the offensive end, Morgan once again led the Red with 17 points and eight rebounds.

Gettings put in solid work in the second half to finish with 12 points and freshman Terrence McBride was the third double See BASKETBALL page 11