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Former Student Sues

Cornell Over Sexual Assault Investigation

By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

A former student filed a complaint against the University for what he says was a flawed investigation into allegations of “nonconsensual sexual activity” with another Cornell student

The former student who is referred to as John Doe in the lawsuit claims Cornell “failed to conduct a timely investigation of the allegations” and “failed to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation,” according to court documents Furthermore, he claimed that disciplinary actions that arose from the investigation were “discriminatory ” and based on his male sex

The lawsuit claims that in addition to the University’s reliance on an

S.A. Urges Attention to Arts; Proposes Global Affairs Major Cornellians Condemn Arrest of UVA Student

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS

Staff Writer

The Student Assembly recommended that President David Skorton convene a task f o rc e c h a r g e d w i t h s t re n g t h e n i n g t h e University’s arts programs and encouraged the creation of a inter-college global affairs major at its meeting Thursday

Fighting for the Arts

Under one of the resolutions passed Thursday, the S A recommended Skorton convene a task force which, according to the o

d b e charged with creating a strategic plan to strengthen the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Schwartz Center for

GABRIELLA

Celebrating its 90th year and Cornell’s sesquicentennial, Ho

dent-run hotel school conference kicked off Thursday with the theme “ and the rest is history!”

T h i s ye a r ’ s Ho t e l Ez r a Cornell, or HEC 90, will run through Sunday It officially

b e g a n w i t h a n Op e n i n g Cocktail event, when Hotel

S c h o o l De a n Mi c h a e l Johnson and Richard Adie ’75, general manager of The St a t l e r Ho t e l , h a n d e d t h e keys to the Statler over to Tess Williams ’15, HEC 90 general manager “HEC is a huge part of the

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istration’s history and hotelies take pride in their involvement, ” said Kira West ’15, HEC 90 marketing and communications director Ac c o rd i n g

y e a r a b o u t 300 students acting in the roles of mana g e r s , d i r e ct o

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, assistant directors and general volunteers are staffing the conference, and 200 guests are registered to attend Paige Wolcott ’17, a member of the wines team, said putting together the confer-

Friday, March 20, 2015

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Domestication: The Crossroads of Cultural And Natural Diversity

8:30 a m - 5 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

HEC 90: Cornell Goes Global with Glenn Altschuler 9:15 - 10:15 a m , Statler Auditorium

Cell-Type Specific Strategies for DNA Damage Response With Anne Britt

11:15 a m - 12:15 p m , 404 Plant Science Building

Match-Makers and Deal-Breakers: Modeling Search Strategies and Choice Behavior on Online Dating Sites

Noon - 1:15 p m , G87 Martha van Rensselaer Hall

Tomorrow

9 a m - 5 p m , English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

Dancing Hip Hop Symposium 9:30 a m , Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center

C U Jazz Jam Session

5:30 - 7 p m , Jansen’s Dinning Room, Hans Bethe House

Studio Ghibli Film Festival

9 - 11 p m , TV Room, William T Keeton House

News , “Skort on W i ll Hos t Town Ha ll at N oon, ” M onday

Addressing widespread concerns over the state of University finances ““Cornell is a complex place and many of you are asking important questions that suggest we need to shed more light on some of that complexity through a community-wide conversation ”

Ne ws, “For me r Amb ass ador Spe aks at C orne l l , ” Tu esda y

Speaking about diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States “[U S -Russian relations] are not the basket case that you read about 20 years ago Russia isn’t a superpower, but it is

News , “N

Speaking in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N Y ) proposed minimum wage increase

“There are many people in the state of New York that work full time every week and are still living below the poverty line That shouldn’t happen ”

Cesar A Perales, New York Secretary of State

Opi ni on , “Doi ng Too Muc h ( And Ge t

Assessing Cornell’s campus culture

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Forum Seeks to Raise Disability Awareness

Cornell’s union for disability adopts a global perspective

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Staff Writer

Dylan Goodman, 18, was arrested Wednesday after he was found in possession of five Apple Macbook computers stolen from Beverly J Martin Elementar y School in Ithaca Police charged Goodman with fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and additional charges are pending an investigation, according to The Ithaca Journal

National

Representatives from Cornell Union for Disability Awareness, Student Disability Services and the South Asian Council compared the experiences faced by disabled people in the United States and South Asia during a discussion Thursday

At this forum, these two groups discussed the efforts to alleviate burdens on the disabled both at Cornell and in India

According to Kartik Ramkumar ’16, a Persons with Disabilities Act was implemented in India in 1995 to address the discrimination against disabled people

There are “low levels of awareness of the Persons with Disabilities Act,” which do not help the totality of the approximately 70 million disabled people in India, according to Ramkumar

Ramkumar said India’s treatment of people in wheelchairs illustrates lack of understanding According to a YouTube video that Ramkumar showed, Hindu temples deny some disabled people entry and do not allow wheelchairs

“Not only there is the physical barrier of not being able to get the wheelchairs on the busses, but disabled people are also charged to do so, ” he said

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Kelly McClure ’16 discussed how her experience as a disability policy intern in India taught her about the transition from the moral model to the medical model of disability

“The moral model of disability, a view of disability as a consequence of God’s punishment, is unfortunately still very pervasive,” McClure said “India is slowly transitioning towards the medical model, according to which disability is considered a private matter between the disabled person and the doctor, not an obligation of the society ”

According to McClure, the number of times the Indian Parliament passes laws to

assist disabled individuals does not help if there is no enforcement of such laws

“We need a social change, a social movement, a change in the way people think,” McClure said

Many Indians think that disability remains a family issue, according to McClure

“The family unit is very tight in India,” McClure said “People think that it is not the state ’ s duty to take care of disabled people, but the family’s duty ”

Johnathan Goldstein ’17, president of the union, who has the tuberous sclerosis complex, talked about the challenges faced by disabled students at Cornell

“We always tend to think about physical disabilities and that is a simplification,” Goldstein said “We don’t necessarily recognize the social implications that are at stake Disability is never actualized until society comes into play

According to Goldstein, a disabled person has a double challenge: “You have to accept yourself and have the society accept you ”

“I registered with Student Disability Services and was overwhelmed by the process of disclosing my disability and talking to professors,” Goldstein said

Cornell’s campus is challenging for people with disabilities and the emphasis placed on confidentiality can sometimes exacerbate the stigma they face, according to McClure

“I tried to get the restroom in Willard Straight Hall renovated,” McClure said “Cornell secured the funding and all I needed was a sign-off from the Student Assembly The proposal was rejected because they claimed that the responsibility belonged to the University They claimed that disability is sensitive and it is the Student Disability Services’ job to accommodate it ”

According to McClure, a “big inadequacy in preparing students with disabilities to face the job market” exists

“Students may be comfortable to disclose the issue of their disability, but a job interview

Dicussing disabilities | A representative from Cornell Union for Disability Awareness and Student Disability Services shares her experiences Thursday

is not like talking to professors,” McClure said “When it comes to recruitment a lot of employers do not want to pay to accommodate a person with a disability ” Goldstein said Cornell is working to assist disabled students to make the all parts of the campus “inclusive and accessible ”

“We work a lot with the Cornell community and try to figure out what the climate for students with disabilities is, how we can work with the Student Assembly to make sure that the campus is more inclusive and accessible for students with disabilities,” Goldstein said Goldstein added that the event aimed to approach disability not only in a Eurocentric perspective, but also in a South Asian context

“For us it is really important to have cultural events like this, where we can highlight students’ experiences but also differences in cultural context, ” Goldstein said

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bcarnaghi@cornellsun com

C.U. Republicans and Democrats Face Off on Immigration

By TOM SCHREFFLER Sun Staff Writer

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“We propose living up to the American ideal of equal opportunity ” D y l a n J o h n k e ’ 1 7 Tom Schreffler can be reached at tschreffler@cornellsun com

S.A. Passes Two Resolutions

Students bring attention to arts, propose global studies major

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Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun com

Hotel School Prepares to Host Annual ‘Hotel Ezra Cornell’

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Johnson and previous hotel school deans David Butler, David Dittman and John Clark as well as tastings and demonstrations on Spanish food and wine, a hospitality business plan competition and a Gala Banquet

So far, features of HEC 90 have included a signature sandwich at Collegetown Bagels and the launches of an iOS and Android HEC app, which happened earlier this month

Members of the HEC team said they believed HEC owes its success and long history to its unique ability to bring classroom lessons to life and to connect students with industry leaders and alumni

“HEC, as a whole, is a really great way for us to showcase what we ’ ve been working on and to have hands-on experience working with industry leaders,” Wolcott said “We are the next generation of hoteliers, who will be changing the industry and introducing new things to hospitality ”

Liz Huston ’15, HEC 90 food and beverage director, said she hopes the weekend will provide educational experiences for both conference guests and Cornell students

“The goal of the weekend is to balance the guest experience with the student experience,” she said “We want to create an environment where the guests are learning and seeing what we do here at the hotel school Meanwhile the students are

getting to experience things they otherwise would only hear about in classes ”

Leanne Youstra ’17, HEC 90 service team manager, said learning about the collaborative nature of the conference and the reputation of HEC played a major factor in their decisions to attend Cornell

“Hearing about HEC when I was choosing schools was a huge deciding factor in me choosing Cornell,” she said “It’s such a unique experience and really brings people together ”

Mara Jaffe ’17, sous chef of this year ’ s conference, also said that HEC was one of the reasons she chose to attend the hotel school

“My favorite part of HEC is that there are people who have a lot of experience as well as those with very little experience, who all work together to create a professional, polished end result,” Jaffe said “Everyone learns something from the weekend whether it's their first time cooking anything or if they already have a culinary degree ” Patrick Tan ’16, HEC 90 sales director, who has been involved in HEC since his freshman year, said that the conference has been an integral part of his time at Cornell

“Hotel Ezra Cornell has been one of the most valuable parts of my education,” he said

Anika Sethy contributed reporting to this article

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun com

Former Student Sues C.U. Over ‘Biased’ Sexual Assault Investigation

investigation “consisting of a skewed rendition of the facts” and employment of a “single-investigator model which resulted in a lack of due process ” for the plaintiff, administrators failed to adhere to Cornell’s ow n p o l i c y c o n c e r n i n g s e x u a l a s s a u l t , harassment and violence Policy 6 4

The policy mandates that investigators of sexual assault and harassment cases complete their formal investigations within 60 days

The investigation, however, did not conclude until the issuing of the investigative report on April 30, 2014, 71 days after Judicial Administrator Mar y Beth Grant J D ’88 first met with Jane Doe regarding the incident, the lawsuit contends

During the 2013-14 academic year, the Office of the Judicial Administrator did not generally meet the policy’s mandated timelines, The Sun previously reported Grant attributed this to a staffing issue, as well as “ extra procedural steps ” introduced by Policy 6 4

‘No One Was Excessively Intoxicated’

On the evening of Dec 13, 2013, the plaintiff attended an end of semester event held for chemical engineering students at the Statler Hotel, according to documents He was in attendance with an acquaintance, referred to as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, who he had known since the spring of 2011 when they were in the same course

The plaintiff and Jane Doe were both seniors at the time

The event, which “consisted of dinner and drinks” with other students, teaching assistants and professors from the School of Chemical Engineering, ended around 8:30 p m A witness stated that the John and Jane Doe “seemed happy and friendly”

during the course of the party, according to documents

Following the event, they along with other classmates and professors attended an after party at a Collegetown residence, where “they continued socializing, dancing and drinking ”

While at the party, a witness noticed the plaintiff and Jane Doe were “getting close and flirting,” according to court documents John Doe consumed “approximately five or six drinks over a 10 hour period” while Jane Doe alleged that she drank about fifteen drinks during the course of the evening

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“[ Jane Doe] wasn ’ t drunk, maybe a couple of drinks, but not messy drunk,” she said

Another witness said she “didn’t notice anyone having trouble walking or slurring [their] speech ”

At approximately 2:30 or 3 a m on the morning of Dec 14, 2013, the plaintiff, Jane Doe and four witnesses left the party and walked back together to Jane Doe’s apartment

Documents state that “although ever yone had been drinking, no one was excessively intoxicated” due to the presence of p r o f e s

Collegetown after party

Their Relationship ‘Did Not Change’

The plaintiff, Jane Doe and the four witnesses stayed in Jane Doe’s apar tment for approximately 25 minutes, according to records Witnesses stated that at the time, nobody seemed to be “overly intoxicated to the point of being incapacitated ”

When three members of the group departed Jane Doe’s apartment, she did

not protest when the plaintiff remained behind, documents state One witness testified that Jane Doe “seemed fine when he left Jane Doe and plaintiff at the apartment ” Another stated that if he felt the plaintiff “ was too drunk to be there with Ja n e Do e , h e w o u l d h a ve m a d e h i m leave ”

Jane Doe agreed to let the plaintiff stay the night at her apartment, given the cold weather and the distance to his apartment Because Jane Doe did not have a couch, “it was understood that [the] plaintiff would sleep in her bed with her,” the complaint claims

After the four witnesses left the apartment, the plaintiff told Jane Doe he was interested in her They began to kiss, and though the plaintiff and Jane Doe verbally communicated about hooking up, Jane Doe said “she did not want to have sex, ” according to documents

At that point, Jane Doe removed her clothing and so did the plaintiff, documents state They then began to engage in sexual activity for about an hour, and were both “awake and coherent at all times during the sexual activity,” communicating non-verbally

The lawsuit contends that Jane Doe w a s a b l e t o d e m o n s t r a t e h e r c o n s e n t through “actively participating” in the sexual activity, “stating her willingness” to do so up to a certain point and “continuing to kiss and touch [the] plaintiff ” throughout the encounter

The plaintiff and Jane Doe awoke later that morning at around 8:30 a m Both fell asleep together in Jane Doe’s bed and “engaged in conversation” when they both woke up, according to documents Jane Doe also “advised [the] plaintiff to not ‘make it weird’” because they had mutual friends

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between the plaintiff and Jane Doe “did not change” following the events of that night, as they continued to sit nearby each other in classes and completed their finals for the semester

However, on Feb 18, 2014, Jane Doe reported the plaintiff, alleging that he raped her “while she was incapacitated” on that December night, documents state A couple of days later, on Feb 24, a temporar y no-contact order was implemented and an investigation began

Three months later, on May 20, 2014, a panel of faculty members appointed by the Dean of Faculty issued a decision which found the plaintiff responsible for charges brought forth by Jane Doe The University determined at the plaintiff ’ s sanction that “expulsion was appropriate” and also changed the sanction to withhold his diploma for two years, according to documents

A Reputation

‘Tarnished’

The plaintiff claims in the lawsuit that he has been damaged emotionally and economically as a result of the University’s actions, exemplified by “the loss of five job offers to date ”

“As a result of Cornell’s actions, plaintiff ’ s parents ’ financial resources used to provide plaintiff with an education at an esteemed Ivy League institution have [also] been squandered,” documents state

The lawsuit also contends that John Doe’s reputation has been “tarnished,” his career prospects “ put on hold” and his economic future “compromised ”

Joel Malina, vice president of university relations, said in a statement Thursday night that the University does not comment on pending litigation

Cornell Students Say Violent UVA Arrest Represents ‘Police Brutality’

ment for his injuries at a hospital he was released, ABC news reported On Wednesday night, Johnson joined thousands of UVA students in a rally decr ying his violent arrest

Though Johnson’s arrest took place in Virginia, Cornell students say the force used by the law enforcement agents which some are calling brutality is not unique to UVA Instead, they say Tuesday’s events are indicative of a growing racial problem in America to which college campuses are not immune

Samari Gilbert ’17, treasurer of Black Students United, said many Cornell students are already aware of racial problems on campus

“What happened to Martese Johnson was obviously tragic, but it also brings to light something that many black students on this campus knew already,” Gilbert said “Regardless of education or affiliations, we are still black people in America and to some that is criminal enough ”

Although some say Johnson’s status as a student at an elite college makes his arrest especially shocking, Gilbert said Johnson’s education should not make him any more or less respected than any other Black American

“Attending a prestigious university did not save Martese and it may not save me, but it’s also important to acknowledge that it shouldn’t have to, ” Gilbert said “The humanity of people of color is not derived from their respectability ”

Syed Ali Khan ’15, minority at large representative for the Student Assembly, also said the incident reflected common concerns on campus, including fear of “police brutality ”

“This is just one of many inci-

dents of police brutality over the last year, ” Ali Khan said “Members of the minority community at Cornell have shown through die-ins, town hall meetings and vigils that these events have a profound effect on us ”

Ali Khan added that student efforts would be more effective with more active support from Cornell’s administration

“Increased administrative support would help us during these difficult times, as these incidents bring students together to help influence real change on campus and throughout the country, ” he said

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What Happens In the Back

hen I was a child going with my parents and my pets to the vet, I would always be unhappy at the par t of the appointment when my pet would be “taken to the back ” For me, the displeasure was a combination of intensely unsatisfied curiosity and moderate suspicion that unpleasant things were being done to my animal Now that I’m (practically) on the other side, I can see those same feelings in the eyes of many clients So here’s a look into “the back ” First of all, in the back there are generally one or more exami n a t i o n tables with v a r i o u s equipment

a r r a n g e d a r o u n d them and s o m e t i m e s a few holding cages A large purpose of the space is c o n v enience it’s impractical to have multiple pieces of equipment of the same type when you can have just one that you keep in a communal space and all of the doctors in the practice can come use it when they need to Also, exam rooms are fairly small Oftentimes examinations need more space than the small tables and tight floor space It’s difficult to do a complete orthopedic exam on a large dog, for example, when you don’t have the space to fully flex and extend all of their joints and examine the complete range of motion of their limbs this is much easier to do where there is a good amount of floor space and a padded mat on the floor for the comfort of the animal So, “I’m going to do a complete exam of your animal in the back” isn’t actually as sinister as it sounds, it just means that the veterinarian

needs to use additional equipment and space

Secondly, there are hands in the back Words cannot describe how vital veterinary technicians are to running a veterinary practice Technicians have extensive training on how to perform certain procedures and are invaluable when it comes to animal restraint If a vet tells you they’re going to take your pet to the back to draw some blood, it means there will be someone there to facilitate that Your pet will not just offer their arm and sit quietly like a human would, and appropriate restraint is the key to a quick, comfortable,

responsible regardless of whether or not the client offered verbal consent to help with the procedure

I’ve been taught by every veterinary mentor I’ve had that when you don’t know something, your clients will always appreciate it and respect you if you admit to not knowing but promise to find out.

stress-free procedure Moreover, I’ve seen techs draw blood from veins that were so tiny and so hidden I wouldn’t have convincingly been able to say they were there if anatomy hadn’t told me so Clients who aren ’ t squeamish may argue that their pets are most comfortable with them, but then it comes down to a matter of education and liability Clients generally don’t know the best way to hold the animal to keep it from moving while simultaneously using their fingers as a tourniquet Also, their animal is likely not used to being restrained in such a way by their owner and will probably not respond as the owner expects Moreover, if something were to happen to the client in the veterinary clinic (say a dog jumps and the needle scrapes the client, or even if the dog turns around and bites the client), the clinic is

Lastly, in the back there are resources other doctors to bounce ideas off of, and books and computers to refer to for clarification I’ve been taught by every veterinary mentor I’ve had that when you don’t know something, your clients will always appreciate it and respect you if you admit to not knowing but promise to find out That being said, with veterinary knowledge expanding so rapidly, it’s never wrong to brush up on the latest data especially if you ’ re dealing with a condition that you don’t see very often So “the back” comes down to more e q u i p m e n t , space, hands and resources than in the room with the client It also, in the end, allows all of the clients to be satisfied for example the overprotective ones don’t have to worry obsessively while watching their restrained pet and the squeamish ones don’t have watch a procedure that makes them uncomfortable Of course, it’s all thrown out the window if you ’ re a large animal vet making farm calls because then there’s no back to go to, but in those situations you generally carry all your equipment with you, have plenty of space, manage to recruit hands from around the farm and additional resources are just a phone call/smar tphone away

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Fr iends Pay Tr ibute to Taylan Cihan

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

On Saturday, friends, collaborators and students gathered at the Johnson Museum of Art to honor the memory of Taylan Cihan (1978-2014), a graduate student in composition at Cornell’s Department of Music, whose life tragically ended last October Among those of us affected by his genius, Taylan was known to push himself and those around him beyond the chalk outlines of comfort into which we all too often settle He was a force to be reckoned with, because force was all he knew Whether building his own synthesizers (a passion he followed into his final hours) or fearlessly picking the scabs of what he saw to be an infirmed music industry, Taylan’s livewire spirit was an inspiration, and then some Although the scope of his influence is averse to summary, summary was nonetheless in tall order as we came together to share his everlasting gifts with those who knew him and, just as importantly, those who did not

As could be expected, the three-hour event was as interdisciplinary as its honoree, running the gamut from live performances and video screenings to static listening stations (which featured archival collaborations and dedicatory sound installations by Corey Keating, David Friend and Amit Gilutz) and visual art The latter, courtesy of Tonia Ko, took form as sheets of bubble wrap, affixed to a blank wall and pixilated with black and white paint Despite its relative silence (bubble wrap has, in fact, been an instrument elsewhere in Ko’s performances), it was no less heartfelt than even the most thrumming portions of the afternoon all the more elegiac, in fact, for closing its mouth so that we might open our eyes

Charles Cacioppo’s In Loving Memory of Taylan Cihan opened Scored for piano, violin and cello, the piece was not unlike Taylan himself: Turbulent and multi-directional, but ultimately welcoming of any and all who would hear him Cacioppo’s tribute sparked a trilogy of sorts, fleshed out by Michael Small and Ryan McCullough’s Snowcoder, which found the musician-composers navigating a soundscape of live electronics and manipulated percussion, and my own An Eleg y for Taylan, which built on choral textures in mournful unraveling These inaugural soundings took place in the museum lobby, while

handful of his instruments on display in a way they were never meant to be: As art objects, switched off and silent

others lured the growing crowd deeper into the museum

The same room housing his creations also hosted four screenings Two contained visuals by frequent collaborator Andrew Lucia and one by John Zissovici, both of Cornell’s Architecture, Art and Planning program The films charted relationships between sound and (de)composition, space and time, medium and message with intuitive congruity This left the final montage by Taylan’s former student Mafalda Reis Moore, who presented a video diary before concluding with a brief, inward-looking meditation involving a contact microphone and rough surface Following this was local musician Peter Vincent, who shared an impassioned assemblage entitled Magnifico Any eyes that had remained dry up to this point now certainly let down their guard, as Vincent organically shuttled recordings of conversations with Taylan through his electronic loom Although he seemed to do nothing more than sit at his laptop and press play, his presence was integral to the performance, smiling as he did at Taylan’s colorful opinions along the way toward his own cathartic tears It was a remarkable shift in the program, a hefty portion of generative life flanking an otherwise lachrymose meal

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From an upstairs offering of ambient beats and oceanic washes by synthesizer legends Trevor Pinch and James Spitznagel a k a Electric Golem to a downstairs improvisation by CAGE (Cornell Avant-Garde Ensemble, cofounded by Taylan) on sound sculptures by Harry Bertoia, listeners were treated to a panoply of audio languages and diffusions Pinch also led, with Jordan Aceto, an onsite synthesizer-building workshop, carrying on a nascent tradition also spearheaded by Taylan in his ongoing quest to demystify the methods behind his madness Electronics had been his forte, as attested by the

Yet nothing was as cleansing as CAGE’s final benediction, improvised in the museum lobby with all the solemnity of a prayer With this, the circle might very well have seemed closed But if Taylan’s legacy and, by extension, these outpourings of grief and celebration in kind teaches us anything, it is that no life is ever closed, even by death Each in a link in a chain that will continue to resound, so long as there are still others around to give it a tug

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun com

Chris Stanton

“I want you to get angry I want you to get happy I want you to feel disgusted I want you to feel uncomfortable,” rapper Kendrick Lamar said of his third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, in a recent New York Times interview Following the almost unprecedented critical and commercial success of 2012’s good kid, ,m A A d city, Kendrick holds the unique position of both dominating the music industry with his popularity and having significant influence over the national discourse on issues ranging from race relations to poverty His success has granted him a singular opportunity as well as a heavy burden, and To Pimp a Butterfly finds Kendrick suffering a severe case of survivor’s guilt and questioning how well he has used this newfound influence to give back to his hometown of Compton, Calif Yet with Butterfly, the 27 year-old M C violently casts these doubts aside and appoints himself Compton’s deeply flawed preacher, pulling zero punches and pushing himself in abrasive new directions, both sonically and lyrically GKMC is Compton s Odyssey, a day-in-the-life tale of the struggles and temptations faced by Kendrick and his friends as they come of age in an inner city That album is rich with microcosmic commentary, reframing the quotidian details of the rapper ’ s adolescence as a reflection on the broader systemic issues of racism, poverty and gang violence In retrospect, GKMC seems like the groundwork for Butterfly, a thematic jumping-off point for a grander and more divisive discourse The album brings us to modern day and expands these conversations to a national scale, as made evident by the striking cover art, which features a group of black men trampling a Supreme Court Justice in front of the White House Kendrick raps from his newly attained position of cultural reverence and asks big questions about race in America that will undoubtedly incite discomfort and alienate the listeners who bandwagonned GKMC That undying integrity represents Kendrick’s enduring appeal: He’s here to

fight battles and tell stories And if you won ’ t hear what he has to say, he’ll shrug and shout, “Fuck your friendship ” In interviews leading up to Butterfly’ s release, collaborator Pharrell Williams referred to “King Kunta” a funky stomper of a track that might qualify for radio play, unlike the rest of this album as “unapologetically black ” While that description only partially encapsulates the rest of the album’s lyrical content, it accounts for its entire soundscape Culling together members of L A ’ s jazz-influenced production scene (Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Terrace Martin), a choir full of soulful R&B singers (Bilal, Anna Wise, James Fauntleroy) as well as some veritable guardians of the funk (Ronald Isley, George Clinton), Kendrick has crafted an aesthetic solely attributable to African-American art forms While Compton rap has drawn from funk and soul for years, Kendrick has arranged them in such a way as to suggest that all American music stems from these traditionally black genres In doing so, he asserts hip-hop as belonging to the same pantheon of cultural reverence in which jazz, soul and funk already reside It’s a suggestive and immersive sonic palette that demands as much thought and analysis as the lyrics

The album’s emphasis on musicality extends its way to Kendrick’s performance on the mic, as the M C makes the bold decision to sing on album opener “Wesley’s Theory” before he has rapped a single word He goes on to channel everyone from James Brown to D’Angelo over the album’s remaining 15 tracks, but Kendrick refuses to prioritize aesthetics over content, constantly throwing out rapid and dense bars even where they do not seem to fit As the album title’s Harper Lee homage suggests, Butterfly finds Kendrick at his most literary, employing recurrent metaphors and motifs to convey a larger caterpillar-to-butterfly narrative Kendrick himself stands at the center of it all, navigating the temptations that come as the cost to his own success In one

of the album’s many literary devices, Kendrick manifests these evils in “Lucy,” the feminine embodiment of his own vices and shortcomings The songs unfold one after the other in his process of overcoming Lucy, coping with survivor’s guilt and searching for his purpose in a post-GKMC America, one that desperately needs leaders following the tragic events of last year

Kendrick’s rapping imbues his novelistic tendencies with the explosiveness of a Spike Lee joint, as the fiery MC employs a seemingly endless arsenal of flows to tell his stories While “Blacker the Berry finds him raging at every institution through a ferocious bark, the self-reflective “ u ” a thematic film negative to “i” unveils the same cracked, emotive delivery that made “His Pain” so affecting “Loving you is complicated,” Kendrick sobs drunkenly to a mirror The tangible nature of that self-loathing stands as a testament to Kendrick’s singular ability to emote through his voice No other rapper or vocalist in general could project his emotions in such a way as to incite the same sentiment even in listeners who could not hope to relate to his problems For all of Butterfly’ s focus on Kendrick’s own experiences and the struggles of being black in America, its brute emotional force will affect any close listener

The anti-commercial and contentious nature of To Pimp a Butterfly might alienate casual fans of GKMC, but it hardly matters when Kendrick has crafted such a layered, uncompromising album that is as emotional as it is political It is a dense and demanding work of art on which a single music review could never hope to scratch the surface Only time will tell what To Pimp a Butterfly’ s legacy will be, but for now, Kendrick has left us with a lot to unpack

Chris Stanton is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences

He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun com

T h e A r t o f A c t i o n : R u n A l l N i g h t

BY ZACH ZAHOS Sun Staff Writer

Blood runs thicker than water in Run All Night, but the water might as well be out to kill you too Enraged Irish mobsters, crooked cops and one smooth assassin are merely the humans out for Liam Neeson and his son, as rain, fog and blasts of fire also engulf their surroundings with a hostile agency The inevitability and omnipresence of violence on display is downright Biblical, and mature in a way that the revenge camp of Taken, the movie that started this whole party, is not If director Jaume Collet-Serra does not match the smooth classicism of Non-Stop, his genre jewel from last year and the finest Neeson vehicle yet, then he lacquers Run All Night’ s unremarkable script with enough grit to make for some essential, elemental action cinema

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Brad Ingelsby’s script has only one good line, I think When a platoon of police cars and helicopters surround the project where the two are hiding, Jimmy turns to his panicked son and says, “It’s a big building We got some time Let’s wait ” The rest is merely ser viceable, while many of Shawn’s lines sound lifted from what Don or Michael Corleone once said (“I am a legitimate businessman,” “ There’s not enough money in the world to pull me back in”) Of course, Harris makes it all work, embodying through his ghoulish mask and rising cadence the

Starring Liam Neeson, Joel Kinnaman, Boyd Holbrook

delinquency to end up being played by Ed Harris, but when your son ends up clipped in a Brooklyn kitchen, you are not too open to being eased by words that start, “ Well, in the long run ” So Shawn releases the hounds, so to speak, ordering his people to snuff out Mike’s life first so that Jimmy will feel firsthand the pain of losing a son

Jimmy and Mike do a lot of running through streets, subway tunnels and the projects, obviously But the many chase scenes do not grow tedious, because Collet-Serra opted to shoot on location and cinematographer Martin

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Playing an unapologetic killer many shades darker than his Matt Scudder from last year ’ s ace A Walk Among the Tombstones, Neeson can ’ t do much to make him sympathetic but play up his quotidian flaws: alcoholic, sickly, single Jimmy remains bad to the bone, and one senses his father bear instinct is conflated with a renewed taste for blood When pointing a gun, Jimmy hardens his face before taking the shot, leaving a brief pause between reaction and life-ending action He is so good at killing that he has time to consider and perhaps even savor it, which must cycle back into an unending, bloodletting feedback loop

While the computer-generated scene transitions that fly over broad swathes of cityscape do their best to distract from this fact, Collet-Serra has a talent for capturing the

minute, physical gesture He wrings suspense from the act of reloading, and how, in the heat of battle, those with empty clips must compromise by using their knees or tips of their fingers to do so He rarely brings bodies together in proximity or even in the same shot, since ever yone is out to kill one another Only after one character lands a fatal shot on the other, near the end, does Collet-Serra allow the two adversaries to unite again and lean on one another in a heartbreaking display of belated gentility

The film turns into a horror show when Common pops in as a ruthless, machine-like hired gun, with a night vision eyepiece that hammers comparisons with the Terminator i n t o

Common brings the cool, which anyone who saw him earlier this month at Bailey can testify he has in spades An interesting twist is that the aforementioned fog and smoke screws with his night vision piece, and so multiple times he is forced, mid-fight, to tear it off, making him a chump like anyone else Maybe God is raining down all that hellfire not to kill the Neesons, but to force his enemies to treat him with a little respect

Zach Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornell edu

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UAB Blazers Upset

No. 3 Iowa State in NCAA March Madness

LOUISVILLE, Ky (AP) The UAB Blazers may not have a football program anymore They do have the first big upset of the NCAA Tournament and hope they can give their university something to rally around

William Lee scored the last four points for 14th-seeded UAB, and the Blazers knocked off third-seeded Iowa State 60-59 on Thursday in their opening game in the NCAA Tournament It’s the third straight year a 14 seed has upset a No 3 seed, and Georgia State followed up by joining the list within an hour with a 57-56 win over Baylor

The Blazers (20-15) came in with the third-youngest team in the NCAA Tournament and with nobody having played in this tournament before They wound up

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i r s t NCAA game since 2005 and ran over to celebrate in front of the fans of a school that shut its football program down in December

“We were celebrating because that was a really big win for us with us being the underdogs ”

“For us, it was just huge,” UAB junior Robert Brown said “ We come here, not just to play games, but to actually make some noise and to win some games To be able to do that and win for Birmingham, win for Coach [ Jerod] Haase, it’s a great feeling ”

And it set off a wild celebration in the Blazers’ locker room

“ We were celebrating because that was a really big win for us with us being the underdogs,” UAB guard Tyler Madison said Haase estimated maybe four or five of the Blazers didn’t even realize a month ago that the Conference USA Tournament champion earned an automatic berth, while another had never watched a selection show before Sunday

“ You’re a product of your thoughts,” Haase said “ There’s been more talk right now about 14 seed or upsets than we ’ ve said the entire year Our thoughts have been, when we play well, we think we can compete with anybody, and those thoughts have been expressed to our team, and our team has made the choice to believe in that I think that’s what you saw today ”

The ninth-ranked Cyclones (25-9) came into the South Regional looking for a much longer run than a year ago when they reached the Sweet 16 without top scorer Georges Niang due to injur y But they just couldn’t match the scrappy Blazers on the boards in a second half where the Cyclones couldn’t hold onto a 55-51 lead with 3:13 left For Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg, it’s as tough a loss as he’s had His Cyclones came in having won five straight, rallying from doubledigit deficits in each on their way to the Big 12 Tournament title Hoiberg called that an emotional three days in Kansas City followed by playing the first game Thursday

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The Blazers, who outscored Iowa State 9-4 down the stretch, will play 11th-seeded UCL A, a 60-59 winner over sixth-seeded SMU, on Saturday

Red Travels to Maryland To Take On Three Squads Cornell to Face Buffalo

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this year, so it was definitely good preparation to play in tight situations under pressure, ” Fleck said “Hopefully we will use this experience in future matches ”

According to Fleck, the Red looks to continue its recent successes as it heads into a home matchup with Buffalo on Sunday Buffalo has taken on Ivy League competition four times so far this season and has failed to come away with a victory

“We are definitely confident coming into the match, as we have built up a lot of positive momentum over the past few weeks,” Fleck said “However, we will certainly not be complacent as we have lost to this team before ”

In fact, the Red has compiled an impressive 24-1 series

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lead over the Bulls, but Fleck just happened to be around for the lone loss The defeat came on Jan 19, 2014, with a Cornell team struggling to overcome injuries and falling by a close score of 4-3

Fleck acknowledged that despite Buffalo’s struggles this season and the Red’s overwhelming history of victories against them, the team is by no means complacent

“They are still a good team that’s perfectly capable of beating us if we don’t show up, ” Fleck said Cornell will need to continue to show up far past the match against Buffalo, as the all-important Ivy League season begins the following weekend against the Columbia Lions According to Fleck, a season ’ s worth of hard work has led up to this point

“We have been preparing for these matches since the fall so there is nothing we will do in particular to prepare during

Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun com

practice, just keep doing what we ’ re doing,” he said The Red is 7-5 overall at this point in the season, but 51 at home, meaning that the three Ivy matches at Reis Tennis Center, including the final one of the season against Princeton, will be especially important According to Fleck, however, one of the guiding factors for the Red through this grueling part of the schedule will be to get the sufficient amount of rest

“It’s a long season and we are coming towards the end of it so it’s important we stay rested and don’t burn out down the final stretch,” he said “We expect to compete in close matches with all the Ivies as there are no standout teams, but no bad teams either As always, our aim is to win Ivies

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

Women: Columbia Sees First Win on Tuesday

The Columbia Lions have had a tough start to their season, only earning one win and totalling five losses in a span of two months The women have totaled two losses in Ivy play, losing to Harvard on Mar 7 and one week

later to the Red The Lions also had trouble in the Ivy League last season, coming in at the bottom of the rankings as No 8 The squad finished its season with a 0-7 league record and an overall record of 4-10

The Lions earned its sole win this season against LIU Brooklyn on Tuesday However, up until then, Columbia struggled to break out of a losing streak that was going four games strong But with a seven point victory this week, Columbia heads

into the weekend coming off of a win

The Lions will face their third Ivy opponent of the season, Yale, on Saturday at home in New York City

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16 16 9 9 Seeing brown | The Brown Bears, fifth in the Ivy League at the end of last season, currently share first place with Cornell and Princeton in Ivy standings

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Men to Face Bucknell This Weekend

Team hopes to improve game as it heads into Ivy League season

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

But beyond offensive production, the team is looking to sharpen up mentally on the diamond

“When you up the intensity level in practice, when you make every rep in practice you take count, it’s good to see ”

To put things in perspective, the Cornell baseball team ’ s upcoming weekend series against Bucknell statistically speaking does not matter towards the team ’ s ultimate goal of winning the Ivy League title The Red’s first conference games do not come for another couple of weeks, which is when wins and losses really begin to hold a lot of value

However, that face should not downplay the value of the Red’s (2-8) games against the Bisons (9-6) Head coach Bill Walkenbach’s squad has to improve before it finds itself in a position to make a run at the conference title As it currently stands in the Ivy League, Cornell is sixth of eight in runs scored and last in both batting average and onbase percentage

“We need all three facets of the game to come together this weekend,” said senior outfielder JD Whetsel, who anticipates a return from injury when Ivy League play kicks off “We’ve seen how good we can hit We’ve seen how well we can swing it We’ve seen how well we could pitch at times and we ’ ve seen how well we can defend at times We just haven’t been able to put together all three facets of the game, so we ’ re looking to do that and get wins ”

Cornell’s game against Virginia encapsulate the team ’ s struggles so far this season While the Red can look strong for a large portion of the game, a single mistake can unravel the group ’ s focus and negatively affect the play on the field As a result, the team has struggled closing out games, an attribute Whetsel said comes from a lack of big game experience for some of the younger players who tend to get tense in those situations

“We haven’t done a very good job of

bailing out our teammates lately,” Whetsel said “When someone makes an error in the field, it’s followed by four or five hits and the [other team] scores four runs When a teammate makes a mistake, kicks a ball in the field, it’s on everyone else to pick that person up and get out of the inning without getting hurt too badly ”

Whetsel, who is one of three captains on the team, said he experienced the same things as a freshman As he got more time on the field, he learned to loosen up and stay focused on the end goal That confidence, as a group, ultimately helped the Red win the Ivy League title that season

“Everyone sees it and everyone realizes it and there is an ‘ah-ha’ moment where stuff clicks,” Whetsel said “I remember freshman year during our spring trip, we went on a little run and played real well and it really sparked everyone and everyone saw that when things come together how good we can be We rode that momentum going into Ivy League play ”

One way the team has tried to expedite this process is by raising the level of intensity during practices

“When you up the intensity level in practice, when you make every rep in practice you take count, it’s good to see When guys make mistakes, they get pissed off and get mad because they know that can ’ t happen in the game, ” Whetsel said “We’re really bringing it on every single rep so when that intensity level is there in the game, you ’ re not tense [since] you ’ ve been practicing like this all week ”

Once Ivy League plays rolls around, Whetsel anticipates the team being ready to go

“We want to build some momentum going into Ivy League play and be confident,” Whetsel said “Right now, the way things have been going, not being able to piece together full games, confidence and momentum is important ”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun com

Chasing ivy | Senior Sam Fleck won both his doubles and singles matches on Wednesday

Red Notches Victory In Wednesday Match

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Senior Writer

The men ’ s tennis team kept its strong spring season going with a dominant 6-1 win over St John’s on Wednesday afternoon The victory marked the Red’s third straight, with four wins in the last five matches Cornell will face off against Buffalo this weekend in its final non-league match of the season, before kicking off the Ivy League season against Columbia on March 28

Though the Red lost only one match of the day against the Red Storm on Wednesday, five of the singles matches went three sets Senior Sam Fleck said that although the Red did not play as well as it had hoped, there were some important takeaways

“We actually didn’t play too well in our match against St John’s,” he said “A positive that we will take is that we won a lot of very close matches ”

Fleck won his No 1 singles match in three tightly contested sets and then went on to win his No 2 doubles match alongside sophomore Colin Sinclair Sophomore Chris Vrabel was the only Red player to win his singles match in two sets

“There will be a lot of close matches in the Ivies

Red to Play Four Games at St. Mary’s Invitational

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell softball team will travel to Emmitsburg, Maryland, t o p l a y i n t h e Mo u n t St Ma r y ’ s Invitational The squad will take on the University of Albany twice on Friday, then Siena College and Mount St Mary on Saturday

“ The three teams we play in Mar yland are all teams that, in the past, have given us great game, ” said junior pitcher Meg Parker “ They are all teams we can beat, so hopefully the weather cooperates so we can get the games in and get a few more wins ”

The weather has been a huge factor in the softball team ’ s season thus far, as it always is in Ithaca Lack of playing time outside puts the team at a disadvantage compared to southern teams and even the

more southern Ivies

“From getting onto a plane to South Carolina [two weeks ago] to this past weekend and playing on a Monday, bad weather has changed a l l o f o u r p l a n s , ” Parker said

Despite the unfortunate circumstances,

squad saw promising potential

“Even when Delaware scored, no one got down or gave up like last year, ” said junior Michiko McGivney

“With the team we have this year, we are stacked up pretty well against those teams.”

t h e u p p e rc l a s s m e n remain positive about the Red’s chances this spring, starting with this weekend

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“We have what it takes The more innings our pitchers get in the circle (myself included) the better,” Parker said “The freshman pitchers are already feeling comfortable and doing great and they proved that last weekend ”

T h e o t h e r u p p e rc l a s s m e n a g re e

Despite the overall result last weekend, the

“ We j u s t n e e d t o k e e p playing hard, stay positive, focus and fight hard in every inning, every at bat, every pitch ” McGivney also said she has confidence in her team going into the weekend

“ Wi t h t h e t e a m we have this year, we are stacked up pretty well against those teams, ” she said “I expect to win all of those games I have full faith and high expectations in my team ”

Getting in one more weekend of games before Ivy League play starts is crucial for the talented but inexperienced Red

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