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Student-Run Grocery Proposed

Aims to provide healthful, affordable options to students

By OLIVIA LUTWAK

Sun Staff Writer

A student-run grocery store that aims to make healthful and affordable food more accessible to Cornell students is expected to open in the basement of Anabel Taylor Hall in the fall, according to Emma Johnston ’16, one of the leaders of the project

“It will have a tiered pricing that offers food scholarships to students based on their financial need,” said Johnston, who is also Student Assembly arts and sciences representative

“By connecting with local farmers and vendors, we hope

year, and have been working since ”

Matthew Stefanko ’16, vice president for finance for the S A and another leader on the project, said that although there are a number of “high-quality dining options” at Cornell, a lot of the food is tailored toward middle-and higher-income students

“Grocery options are limited to people who have the ability to access a car, so many students are frequently forced to buy groceries at 7/11 or Jason’s and the rent in Collegetown drives their prices up significantly,” Stefanko said “At the end of the day, food is either inaccessible because of its distance away from campus or [because it is] too expensive ”

“We began to formulate the idea of creating a sort of grocery store or food cooperative at the end of the spring semester last year ” Emma Johnston ’16

to reconnect students to the food they eat and increase our ties with the local economy, ” she added

According to Johnston, a group of faculty members and administrators set out to try to solve the problem of food insecurity across campus several years ago They developed a small food pantry in 626 Thurston, along with weekly lunches in different campus centers

“There is a large amount of stigma around being a lowincome student here, and we didn’t want to increase the divide between students by creating a place where only food insecure students would receive food,” Johnston said “We began to formulate the idea of creating a sort of grocery store or food cooperative at the end of the spring semester last

The grocery store will be entirely studentrun and will operate under the nonprofit Center for Transformative Action, according to Johnston

“All of the managers and workers of the store will be students,” Johnston said “We have about seven students working to design the store itself One of my favorite parts about this project is that it’s allowing students with expertise in a wide variety of disciplines to gain relevant hands-on experience in their field of study ”

The process of designing the grocery store is also being undertaken completely by students as well, according to Kelly Guo ’17, who is leading the team of design and environmental analysis and architecture students working to renovate the building

“The actual layout of what the grocery market is still in the making but we want this space to be inclusive to all students,” Guo said “Because our goal is to subsidize students financially when purchasing food, we want to create an environment that does not discriminate against users because they have certain needs ”

Guo said her team is currently planning on adding in refrig-

COLA Continues Qatar Campaign

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

Cornell Organization for Labor Action conducted an experiment with Ordinary People a social justice theatre troupe on Ho Plaza Friday, as part of their campaign calling for administrative action to remedy labor abuses at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

The organization wrote a letter to President Skorton earlier this month, decrying the poor conditions of impoverished workers at the Qatar campus

On Friday, representatives from both organizations distributed flyers advertising summer jobs to passing Cornell students outside of Willard Straight Hall, according to Jazlin Gomez ’16, a member of Ordinary People

“COLA came to us and really just wanted a creative action that was very visible, so we all collaborated and came up with this idea to advertise jobs,” she said “We make the jobs seem really appealing, and make people think people are promised something, and then its completely different ”

After students expressed interest in the advertised summer jobs, the club representatives began to reveal the disparities between the the benefits advertised and the true job descrip-

eration, redoing the ceiling, putting in more environmentally efficient and less visually disruptive lighting and adding areas of food education, such as graphics or cooking tutorials

“We also need to figure out ways to help students find their way into the store within Anabel Taylor Hall and on campus, ” Guo said “We plan on extending the hours of the grocery mart to late nights in case students need to graband-go ”

Lawsuit Against C.U. Employee Withdrawn

By SOFIA HU Sun News Editor

employee was withdrawn by the plaintiff Wednesday, according

Silberling, who he was in a relationship with in 2011, undertook

malicious campaign to utterly destroy [his] personal and professional reputation” by posting “defamatory” posts on

“Any allegations against me were bogus. I am still in shock that I was accused and sued. I simply did not do it ”

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Cornellians Flock to International Gala Friday

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

A total of 1,455 students nearly double the number of expected guests attended the first ever International Gala at the Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art Friday evening, according to Veronica Osborn ’17, vice president of planning for the International Students Union

“We were thrilled with the turnout and we ’ re looking forward to expanding our outreach on campus with more events geared toward international students,” Osborn said “The goal of the event was to construct an atmosphere that organically initiated conversations about students’ own experiences and cultures and highlighted how diverse our student body is here at Cornell ”

Osborn added she did not believe there were enough events on campus that collectively celebrated the diversity of the Cornell student body

“Often on campus, there aren ’ t enough opportunities that celebrate everyone ' s heritage, we instead see events directed toward groups of different ethnicities and while inclusive, the occasions aren ’ t as diverse as they could be,” she said

Tarn Susumpow ’15, ISU President, also said she hoped the gala would aid international students in connecting with each other

“We wanted the gala to foster a sense of

community among Cornell students,” Susumpow said “It’s important to let international students know that this community exists and that there are other people who have been through what they are going through ”

According to Osborn, ISU partnered with the Museum Club last October to discuss the possibility of co-sponsoring the event and that much of the success of the event was due to

Public Sector Expo Encourages Students to Explore Government Careers

By RUBIN DANBERG BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

At an exposition on careers in the public sector Friday afternoon in Rockefeller Hall, students were given the opportunity to hear from public policy career specialists

The over 100 students also heard from

experts, including former U S Secretar y of Labor Seth Harris ’83 and former deputy director of agricultural development for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Prabhu Pingali, who offered advice in panel discussions and lectures

“Make yourself who you are, ” said chief of staff for the City of Ithaca Kevin Sutherland “ This countr y needs more

people like you who are interested in government to step up and get involved ”

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Barbara Lifton (D-125th) also urged students not to plan too far in the future, but to focus on their goals for the present

“Look, don’t think too far out, ” Lifton said “ Think, ‘ What job would I like to do in a year or in two years?’ Think, ‘ What do I want to do right now?’”

Gu e s t s a l s o s h a re d w h a t m o t i va t e d them in their work, intimating a belief in the importance of government and public policy

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Joelle Gamble said “ The beautiful thing about Roosevelt and the reason why I like doing what I do is that it provides people with agency ” Lifton also said that despite misconceptions, she found in her experience that most people who worked in government had good intentions “ There’s this idea that government is a cesspool of corruption,” Lifton said “I’m

tr ying to convey that most people who are actually involved in government, and who I see in Albany, are really just normal people tr ying to do good ”

Sutherland added that he felt it was i m p o r t a n t t o g

involved in government

“[I] speak to students at least twice a year because it’s time to push the baby boomers out, ” Sutherland said “Right now they make up a lot of the positions in government, and I think our generation needs to get a lot more involved ”

The event, which was co-sponsored by the Cornell International Affairs Society, the Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Cornell Roosevelt Institute and the Department of Government, aimed to provide students interested in the public sector a platform to learn about various career options, according to CIAS President Daniel Cohanpour ’15

“[The event was] built from a passion for the sector and seeing students enter this sector, ” Cohanpour said

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C.U. Employee: Allegations Were ‘ Bogus’

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Lefkowitz, argued in the lawsuit that Silberling did not make the online posts and that there is “ no basis for [Wender’s] belief ” that she made them, according to court documents

“We argued that plaintiff had no evidence or good faith basis to allege that the defamatory statements in this case were either authored or published by defendant,” Lefkowitz wrote in a September 2014 motion

Additionally, in a July 2014 ruling, Judge Anil C Singh dismissed 25 out of the 31 statements Wender brought into question Singh ruled that several of the blog and social media postings were beyond the statute of limitations and many qualify as opinion and did not constitute libel, according to documents

“No reasonable reader of these perfervid postings would construe the statements, that plaintiff is a violent rapist, as statements of fact,” Singh wrote of one of the statements that was posted on a website called LiarsCheatersRUs com

The posts alleged, among many things, that Wender is “ a sociopath ” The lawsuit received nation-

al media attention and was covered by news outlets including The New York Times and New York Magazine

“I felt terrible that Cornell University was mentioned so prominently in most of the media coverage, ” Silberling said in an interview with The Sun “I thank the University and my department for standing by me ”

In a public statement released Saturday, Silberling said Wender’s allegations against her are false

“Any allegations against me were bogus,” Silberling said “I am still in shock that I was accused and sued I quite simply did not do it Someone else, unconnected to me, was responsible for the offending internet posts ”

Additionally, Wender is currently facing a rape, sexual assault and battery lawsuit against an anonymous plaintiff who brought the case against him in July 2014, according to court documents The lawsuit is currently pending

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Grocery to Solve ‘Food Insecurity’ on Campus

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h e spring and fall, according to Johnston She added that the grocer y s t o r e w i l l a l s o o f f e r meal planning, cooking lessons and pots and pans rentals “with the aim of showing students how they can use produce and raw goods to make meals on their

said “ There are also many stu-

seen as a scar y thing The grocer y store will help remove some of the barriers associated with cooking on your own ”

“At the end of the day, food is either inaccessible because of its distance away from campus or [because it is] too expensive.”

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money for the project has not been confirmed “A

money will be available, we still need to work a resolution through the

Student Assembly as a final step, ” he said

Olivia Lutwak can be reached at olutwak@cornellsun com

COLA Demands Review of Working Conditions in Qatar

tions Eventually, students were informed of all the human rights abuses that they would be subjected to, which enabled them to empathize with workers in Qatar, according to Gome z

“A lot of [students] feel ver y misled They [were] like ‘ Wow, I feel like you just lied to me Yeah, that’s probably how the workers feel,’” said Allison Considine ’17, a member of COL A

Considine said workers at WCMC in Qatar were also made false promises when they were offered jobs, especially in regards to salar y and housing

“A lot of [these workers] are migrant labor, and they are promised a cer tain amount of money, they are promised that they will have housing, they are promised that they will be reimbursed for any travel costs and then when they actually arrive they face a totally different situation,” she said

According to Considine, workers are paid far less than promised and their IDs and passpor ts are often confiscated, which precludes them from travel and creates a system of “indentured ser vitude ”

Allison Lapehn ’17, another member of COL A, stressed that one of the goals of the club’s campaign is to make the student body aware of the labor abuses that are going unaddressed in Qatar

“It’s easy for us to see the issues here on our own campus in Ithaca, because we are present here,” she said

“But because its in a far off countr y Cornell thinks that they can just shove off the responsibility because we are not necessarily paying attention to what is happening where we do not go to school ”

Lapehn said COL A has two main demands that they are asking of the administration, which they expressed in a letter to President David Skor ton earlier this month

“Essentially, our main demand is that Cornell will submit to a third par ty monitoring system through the workers’ rights consor tium so that they can monitor that these practices are not happening on our campus in Education City, in Doha,” she said “ The second one is also that if there are any attempts to unionize by the workers that they will fully suppor t that right ”

Considine said COL A is working with the international trade union confederation and United Students Against Sweatshops to tr y to pressure Cornell into using The Worker’s Rights Consor tium an independent, third par ty labor monitoring group to investigate if workers rights are being violated on Cornell’s Qatar campus “ We are hoping that they will publish those results, and that Cornell will change practices based on whatever those results find,” she said

Under Qatari labor law, workers do not have the right to unionize and are not protected if they attempt to speak out about poor labor conditions The international trade union federation has been attempted to talk to Qatar workers, but progress has been slow because they are afraid of being exposed and depor ted, according to

Considine

Lapehn added that workers, who speak out against these violations, can be depor ted because they do not have an enforceable contract of a higher cour t and will lose all of the money that they have earned

“If they are depor ted they do not have access to the money they earned while in Qatar because the Qatar bank accounts are inaccessible once you leave the countr y, ” she said “So once they are depor ted out of Qatar for speaking out against these human rights abuses they will completely lose all of their savings ”

Considine said that in light of these restrictions, it becomes even more impor tant for Cornell students to give these workers a voice “ We are hoping that because we have power on our campus to pressure the University to change its practices, that even though they cannot speak out we can speak out to suppor t them,” she said

Although COL A has not received a response to their demands from Skor ton, Considine said the club plans to continue to get more students involved until they get the administration’s attention

“ We are hoping that by telling more students about it [the administration] will get a sense that students care about this issue, and are not going to stop agitating until its addressed,” she said

Christopher Byr ns contributed repor ting to this ar ticle

Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun com

First International Gala Promotes Diversity

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Te x a s S t r u g g l e s To Fund Veterans

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) They signed up to fight for their countr y, and the state of Texas promised to pay for their education

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Design on Display:

[ R A W] E X P O a n d T H U M B N A I L

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

[RAW ] EXPO, which features designers of all different mediums, facilitates wandering from start-up caterers to evolutionar y engineers, from app developers to fine artists Hosted by Association “ a student-run publication featuring students, faculty and alumni in the disciplines of architecture, art and planning” the March 20 event sought to showcase projects from disparate fields in their intermediar y stages

Association co-Editor in Chief Ben Hoffman ’15 stated that the EXPO’s planning commenced with asking Association members to reach out to friends who were developing interesting projects Hoffman and co-Editorin-Chief Pamela Chueh ’17 said the following five weeks illuminated the inner working of Cornell’s bureaucracy, cultural differences within and outside of AAP and the potential for collaboration between students

Under one roof, EXPO’s collective energy fed a feeling of frenzied futurism To the tune of Maro Music’s blaring EDM, Intel-Cornell Cup’s oculus-rift compatible C3PO robot stood near Ithaca Hummus employees dishing out Lebanese-style samples as attendees stopped to ponder Jared Curtis’s ’16 sculptural stack of jeans Nick Cheney, a doctorate student repre-

s e n t i n g t h e C r e a t i v e Ma c h i n e s Lab, explained the two-step “ evolutionar y engineering” process as a r u b i x c u b e - e s q u e a n i m a t i o n jogged across the screen

Across the room, Ken Sharma

p r o p p e d a f o o t o n C o r n e l l

Formula SAE’s 2012 racecar and described their “design, manufacture, test, compete ” process The team will eventually race their car in development against over 120 universities in a global competit i o n Me m b e r s o f C o r n e l l’s Re s i s t a n c e R a c i n g t e a m l e a n e d against a back wall next to a matte black wheel and body from their e l e c t r i c m o t o r c yc l e C o n n o r

Archard ’15, stated that the elect r i c - p ow e r e d m o t o r c yc l e w o u l d eventually face teams from other schools in a 30 mile race CUAir’s

right wrist – an anatomically-correct heart, pierced by an arrow and labeled “RAW ”

THUMBNAIL, the AAP School’s student and faculty lecture series Chueh and Hoffman say that the theme “underscores the value of the design process, a prevalent stage in ever y project ” Reflecting on EXPO, Chueh and Hoffman noted the untapped potential of inter- and intracollege collaboration often hindered by “ a lack of conversation” and different cultures between departments

approached the apex of ambition showcased at EXPO

Glasser ’18, lauded shared space as sustainable design’s future; EXPO-goers want to share food, gardens, space and tools according to a wall of post-its The little, color-

(CUAppDev) glass walls iPhones displayed beta versions of the team ’ s latest app, which will streamline campus eater y information and invite users ’ friends to dine, according to Founder and President Eric Appel ’16

In contrast to the prevalent entrepreneurial spirit, the utter desire to create inspired some projects Sasson Rafailov ’18 explains architecture students’ desire to sell

in photocopied form advertised nine presentations by students, faculty and teams comprised of the two groups Arranged by Nichol Cassab-Gheta grad, Assistant Prof Jenny Sabin, architecture, Gosia Pawlowska ’16 and Apexa Patel ’16, THUMBNAIL followed the PechaKucha night format: Each presenter conveyed their speech with the assistance of twenty slides, each lasting twenty seconds Nils Axen ’16 and Lucia Lee ’16 began the night with a Photoshop-heavy, Lucky Peach-esque investigation into the creation of the ubiquitous “Sushi with Gusto ” Joking, and braving censorship by Central Campus Operations Manager Anthony Cecala, Axen and Lee traced Gusto back to its unexpected roots: the Great Ukrainian Seafood Trucking Outfit

Prof Bill Gaskins, art, embarked on a more solemn and reflective talk, reading an essay from his upcoming book, The Negro Mountain is Higher Gaskins recounted a conversation with a black Cornell senior who decided to adopt her parents ’ vision and attend law school instead of pursuing photography, prompting Gaskins not to just say no to a request for a recommendation letter, but nearly, “Hell no ” Chemical engineer Justin Khali ’16 examined the relat i

Drew Mitchner ’18, and Troy Joseph ’18 noted that their project was still on time in terms of preparations for its search-and-rescue competition, a task that required tento-fifteen hours on the project per week

Nearby, Rand Hall shop technician Chris Oliver sliced up hearty roast beef Oliver showcased his custom-built ham and roast beef stands, the latter of which he adapted from his grandfather’s hand-car ved original Oliver reported that he sketched the prototypical version in Rhino, a computer modeling system, and re-created a modern day version, complete with a rivulet for draining juices Down the row, a Red Jacket Orchards employee invited passersby to tr y apples and apple cider from their orchard in Geneva, NY The employee flipped around the bottle and pointed out that there were “only three ingredients ”

One space over, members of catering and cooking-class s t a r t u p Ve

Founder Jess Wu ’17, stated that she launched the business last fall and turned a profit with the help of a team of fifteen and traffic on their website, myvelvetcakes com In the same row, Hotel Ezra Cornell Conference’s design manager Kayti Stanley ’18, displayed a futuristic, transparent reproduction of Cornell’s clock tower Posters displaying elegant decorations for the conference’s meals hung behind Stanley Halfway through, Chueh directed me to the “photo booth” and I traveled up and down the Milstein elevator, posing with a group of students as murals of muscled bros and anthropomorphic breakfast food scrolled past Two Association members applied a temporar y tattoo to my

extra-curricular projects inspired Brindle Studio Through Brindle’s Etsy page, students can sell the products they make as a break from class projects Steel bridge team members Pablo Herrera ’16 and Inshera Abedin ’15 pointed out steel braces and poles for comparison Unlike contracted designs, the ideal competition bridge holds just over the weight requirement, Herrera explained Chueh and Hoffman later explained that EXPO also ser ved as a “coming out party ” for Association’s two “kids:” MASS and ION According to cards distributed at the event, MASS is “ an interdisciplinar y hub for threedimensional design” and ION is “ a 2-D design consulting organization that specializes in information graphics and website design ”

Looking for ward, Chueh and Hoffman expressed the hope that other undergraduate colleges would host EXPO in the future, and mentioned a rumor that the Student Assembly would tr y and fund a semesterly EXPO Both Chueh and Hoffman noted EXPO’s liberating focus on allowing students of all disciplines to connect through design In many instances, they explained, things that are obvious to a student from one discipline are unapparent to another, and vice-versa “I started thinking that design may be what I want to do with my life,” Hoffman concluded

After approximately ninety minutes, EXPO attendees began to file into the Milstein Auditorium for the THUMBNAIL [RAW ] part of the night A strip of bacon

screened clips from his internet series “Hip Science ” “Music is an inherently scientific ar t, ” Khalil mused, “And to me, science has always been musical ” Karim Daw ’16 reflected on the art of the Artists of Gugging, a group of psy-

nized compositions Daw reflected on the power of “harnessing insecurity” to produce an “unadulterated new object ” Eva Johnson ’15 humorously discussed the importance of waste water treatment Johnson noted both the wide-reaching harm currently caused by waste water mis-

impact of water reclamation After a short intermission, Prof Eric Ellingsen, architecture, frenetically talked about his fascination with “ overtones, ” the words that arise when a sound is played against itself, and the value of creative, eccentric experimentation A

Ellman ’15 thrilled, or shocked, audience members depending on their levels of squeamishness Ellman recounted an Ithaca summer afternoon when he and his brother slaughtered a lamb in their backyard with the help of a few librar y books Architecture students Chris Andras ’18, Elie Boutros ’18 and Justin Foo ’16 delved into the bizarre virtual Los Angeles crafted by Grand Theft Auto V, focusing on architectural oddities, political sarcasm and social commentar

THUMBNAIL provided a close-up, slowed-down counterpart to the conscious excess and excitement of EXPO Viewed together, EXPO and THUMBNAIL evidenced the breadth, depth and potential for beautiful, ground-breaking design by Cornell students

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

Lush Life: Ravi Coltrane at Bailey Hall

BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

Six LED spotlights washed the dr um set, upright bass and Steinway piano waiting on Bailey Hall’s stage Friday night in a Reid Miles-wor thy blue Ironically, such a recent technology could evoke the look of a jazzier, predigital time, and the well-tended audience only set things fur ther out of sync In any given patch of seats you’d find cardigans, spor ts jackets and fedoras only worn by those who could pull them off The crowd, effor tlessly and genuinely hip, chattered in anticipation of the most notable jazz ar tist the Cornell Concer t Series has presented in years

When the house lights finally dimmed, the crowd hooted and hollered as the Ravi Coltrane Quar tet strolled on-stage The musicians took it slow to match Coltrane’s pace, as he was walking with a saxophone carriage balanced on both of his arms The saxophones on call for the night were tenor, soprano and sopranissimo (a smaller, even higher-pitched soprano) Not one person in attendance must have been ignorant of the fact that Ravi Coltrane is the son of Alice and John, the latter name synonymous with jazz tenor If that point of comparison was in the back of the audience’s mind, then it took only a fe w seconds for the Quar tet to obliterate any shred of doubt

They did not star t their first number, “Epistrophy” by Thelonious Monk, so much as fall into it What sounded like a warm-up flourish from Coltrane and a smattering of dr um taps from the incredible Johnathan Blake gained an improbable momentum as De zron Douglas on bass and David Virelles on piano joined in to supply order On tenor, Coltrane improvised a dazzling solo off the standard’s funhouse melody, pulling back and bugging his eyes on some of the high notes like a deer in the headlights After five-odd minutes of realtime invention, Coltrane stepped off to stage left as Virelles soloed Throughout the show Coltrane would repeat this move of walking away from the spotlight and watching his players from a dark corner of the stage, still except for his right foot, which tapped all the while Virelles’s fun, confident sound bled between vir tuosic r uns and orienting chords, lifting the audience even as he, being on a Steinway, was the only player with his back to the house Going to town on his string bass, Douglas alternated between biting his lip with his eyes shut and peering off into the middle distance, a kind of Ray Charles look

Then there was Blake, who was so visibly feeling the music as he lunged for ward on his dr um stool and

closed his eyes that to watch him in action was a constant sight of inspiration The most exciting par t of their first song was how Blake could shuffle unmoored to any time signature one second, lock the rhythm into a march step for a fe w bars and then spiral into disarray once again As he capped “Epistrophy,” he retarded the tempo to a groove before heightening the speed and volume with a lavish and d

involved ever y piece of equipment in reach Blake always seemed on the verge of losing it, but he never did his technique is one of mounting, awe-inspiring risk

The second song, “Marilyn & Tammy” from his own excellent album, Spirit Fiction, p rov i d e d

Coltrane to play soprano He arched his back and bent his knees into the notes, still commanding a lovely vibrato It was undoubtedly Coltrane’s song, unlike the third, which the band drove to the point of visible, and perhaps inevitable, perspiration The song gradually petered out to its end, with the only thing separating Blake tapping the rim of his snare and the audience’s exuberant applause being a moment of total, speechless silence

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Improvisation flowed for th from a sturdy chord str ucture, in what would make a reliable lyrical staple in any set Somehow the band only picked up energy near the end, punching up an ethereal Paul Motian composition entitled “Endless” and then the Charlie Parker classic, “Segment ” In the former, B l a k

Coltrane’s r uns, and somehow at the end both remained conscious Douglas soloed at the star t of “Segment” by clawing rapidly at the strings with his whole hand, providing a meaty sound that dre w whoops not just from the audience but from Blake on-stage, too Once the song got going, Coltrane got so much sound out of his sopranissimo saxophone that the thing looked like it was going to shoot out of his hands if he relented for one beat The quar tet came to a full stop and it took but a second for the audience to meet them with a standing ovation

They left us cheering an empty stage for less than a minute before returning for their one-song encore, “Lush Life ” Over Billy Strayhorn’s soulful chord progression, Coltrane str ung together piercing high notes

in a stirring legato on soprano once more He gave himself time and the band allowed him space so that he could build to the most expressively technical r uns of the night

After the show, when the Quar tet met well-wishers at the rim of the stage, one man praised to the heavens their rendition of “Lush Life ” Coltrane blushed and said, “I’m still learning that one ” Who knows from where this humility comes, but it is a sign that Ravi Coltrane and those who per form with him are tapped into the essence of jazz as an ever-changing, always-present and beautiful thing

Zachar y Zahos is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com

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Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling

The Making Of Cornell History

When I read the word “sesquicentennial” on my acceptance lett e r t o C o r n e l l , I r e m e m b e r wondering how to pronounce it My parents and I uttered various interpretations and it began to set in that I would be going to Cornell Despite the fact that I couldn’t pronounce the word, I kne w I was joining an institution with a storied histor y Throughout its many years as an

Iv y L e a g u e i n s t i t u t i o n , C o r n e l l h a s e a r n e d i t s p r e s t i g i o u s r e p u t a t i o n I remember walking through the quads as a prospective student, noting the gothic architecture and standing on Ho Plaza, looking at the buildings on that tower over West Campus I kne w Cornell was clearly well, to put it plainly old When I arrived on campus at the star t of my freshman year, I kne w I was becoming a par t of the longstanding legacy of this “ any person, any study” place While it all became so quickly palpable that 150 years of histor y both dignified and qualified C o r n e l l ’ s s c e n i c v i e w s , e s t e e m e d caliber of academ i c s a n d t h e a t m o s p h e r e o f our institution, I n e v e r t r u l y a p p r e c i a t e d o r

even kne w about how we got here and how this all came to be

As a (graduated) senior, I am only taking one class this semes-

t e r : A m e r i c a n

St u d i e s 2 0 0 1 : T h e Fi r s t A m e r i c a n

University Corey Earle ’07, a self-proclaimed Cornell histor y fanatic, created the course, which has become a bit of a senior tradition since its inception five years ago Ever y Monday evening, hundreds of seniors crowd into the rows of Uris G01 for an evening full of factoids, histor y and fun

Each week, we go through a different component of Cornell’s founding, growth and histor y We star ted at the ver y beginning with our University’s founding learning about the conversations between A n d r e w D i c k s o n W h i t e a n d E z r a Cornell, discussing what exactly it means for Cornell to be a land-grant institution and how we ended up here in the hills of Ithaca We’ve put faces to the names of our buildings and streets, and contextualized the quotes on the benches and a r c h w a y s a r o u n d c a m p u s We t a l k e d about what it means to be a par t of the “First American University ” We’ve compared our progression to that of our peer institutions, and discussed the evolving d e m o g r a p h i c s o f r a c e , r e l i g i o n a n d s o c i o e c o n o m i c b a c k g r o u n d i n t h e Cornell student body

I’ve gathered a plethora of facts about Cornell and all that our predecessors have achieved I bet you didn’t know that we have 45 Nobel Prize winners as faculty or alumni, that there were international students in the ver y first entering class of Cornell or that before Lynah Rink existed, the hockey team used to play hockey on Beebe Lake I didn’t know any of these

facts either, until I sat with my friends and classmates in American Studies 2001 for the last fe w weeks

I’m telling you all of this not to promote the course (read: If you have the chance, you should take this course), but to star t to explain what I’ve really learned from sitting in on AMST 2001 thus far

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course primarily because most Cornell students don’t have an understanding or

Cornell was when it was founded and knowing a little bit about our fascinating histor y enriches each of our Cornell experiences A secondar y goal was to create

touched on in my own columns, Cornell is a huge and diverse place, with ver y

together Corey said he hopes the course will help students appreciate the different aspects of Cornell

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n d voiced the necessity of such a course for our community I think one of the greatest thing I’ve l e a r

Cornellians has built off the last I’ve garnered an appreciation for both the impact and the potential for any person ’ s actions to influence future generations of Cornellians Since we only have a fe w years here as undergraduates, our campus culture and student body is a fast-moving revolving door, and our traditions and histor y are the ver y thing we revolve around Each ne w event a student organization creates could become a tradition, each protest organized could affect the future of campus, and each decision made by our current administration, university or student governance systems could hold bearing for decades of Cornell students to come

No w, a s a m e m b e r o f C o r n e l l ’ s Sesquicentennial Class and a senior in American Studies 2001, I can wholehear tedly say that learning and understanding the histor y of our Alma Mater has been an unifying experience to share with my friends and classmates I can only hope that impact we ’ ve made here during our time on the Hill will translate into material to be discussed in the course and wish for all Cornellians to share a similar connection, like my classmates and I in American Studies 2001, far above Cayuga’s waters

R achel Gerber graduated in December from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cor nellsun com

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The other day I was performing my scholarly duty as a college senior I was engaging in some very serious academic research in my spare time By “academic research,” I of course mean watching TV Anyone who knows me knows that I love watching TV, and that I consider it a hobby of mine

I happened to be watching The West Wing, which is required material for any self-respecting TV junkie or politics junkie Seeing as I am both, I absolutely love the show In this particular episode, President Bartlett was plagued by the introduction of legislation that would name English as the official language of the United States

I was very confused Despite my love of political and governmental trivia (the Secretary of Homeland Security is the last cabinet member in line for presidential succession!), I couldn’t remember at the time if the United States actually has no official language, or if this was a clever plot devised by Aaron Sorkin

A quick Google search yielded a very interesting and refreshing result the United States really does not have an official language Although English is obviously the dominant language for government proceedings, legislation and judicial affairs, there is no law that states that it must be that way I think that this is a truly amazing thing about our country For all of its faults, life in the United States can be wonderful

Growing up in a nation founded on the principles of freedom, prosperity and acceptance is certainly a privilege in today’s world In elementary school, I learned about the Pilgrims who came to the New World in search of religious freedoms In middle school, I learned about the immigration boom of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the inscription on the Statue of Liberty that greeted travel-weary immigrants on their way to Ellis Island in New York City

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door ”

These words, written by poet Emma Lazarus, are soul-achingly poignant The message could not be more clear those who are desperate for a new beginning are welcome in America Our country has been a nation of dreamers since its founding The American Dream is not an ideal for Americans only, it is an ideal for anyone who comes to this country in search of a better life for themselves and their family Whether rich or poor, black or white, Anglophone or Sinophone, everyone deserves a chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

After the immigration boom, the United States became known around the world as a “melting pot ” of different kinds of people and cultures Recently, advocates of multiculturalism have suggested that this term encourages homogeneity and assimilation While it is indeed very important for immigrants to integrate into their new home country ’ s culture, there is no need to forget their own culture in order to assimilate and became the same as everyone else These advocates have suggested using a new term “cultural mosaic ” This phrase paints a beautiful picture of a society comprised of many different cultures and people while still creating a cohesive national identity

Unfortunately, some attitudes in the United States have recently moved away from this cultural mosaic mentality towards one of exclusion Use of the term “illegal alien” has exploded in recent years, which dehumanizes people who wish to establish a better life for themselves in America Opponents of immigration reform insist that immigrants learn English or go back to where they came from While immigration laws are indeed important to enforce, this problem transcends legal advocacy and veers dangerously close to xenophobia and racism

It is rare that one hears American politicians urging our country to respect its roots as a cultural mosaic We don’t hear enough about the importance of protecting and preserving other cultures in America If our government ever established an official language, we as a nation of immigrants would lose our identities Non-English speakers would be marginalized even further, and the next generation might lose interest in learning about world languages and cultures

With no official language, our country maintains its cultural mosaic identity The history of the United States is found among the speakers of myriad Native American languages, Finnish, Tagalog, Swahili, Arabic, various Creole languages and hundreds more As American history continues, we need to maintain the lack of an official language in order to be as welcoming as that famous statue in New York Harbor

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“The reason this is a news story and the reason people should care is because even if he was using a fake ID, slamming him to the pavement the way they did was excessive and unnecessary This is really one of those situations where we shouldn’t focus on whether or not he had a fake ID ”

Sixth Amendment

Re: “Cornellians Condemn Arrest of UVA Student,” News published March 20, 2015

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sprichst du Deutsch? Wie?”

Native speakers lead with this inquiry almost every time, but I can ’ t blame them for wanting to know “ Why I speak German ” Honestly, I would probably do the same thing if I were in their position After all, how often in America will you come across a black guy who speaks German? I don’t even get bent out of shape when they ask me this question I just enjoy the rare chance to flex my linguistic muscles outside of a classroom setting In fact, I relish this moment of surprise But more on that later First, the answer to the question

All credit goes to my ambitious mother Without her foresight, I would not have finished my elementary school years at a place where for reasons I’ll never know German was the foreign language of choice Whoever chose German must have felt pretty strongly about its merits, because the students themselves had no choice You either learned German or you went to another school Period

I trudged along aimlessly for many years, consistently finding myself at odds with my German instructors Fortunately, my mother always kept me in line She used various forms of parental leverage namely her control over the video game supply to ensure my skills would improve By ninth grade, I had poured five years of my life and hard work into German Even so, I jumped at the opportunity to finally quit I pleaded with my mother, but to no avail Thank goodness for mom though, because we have now come to the heart of this column

All kinds of things bring people together, and we all have our own unique preferences for connecting with strangers My personal favorite is the disarming smile, coupled with relentless positivity and kindness to amplify its effect The glorious synergy of sharing food and listening to music with others is another awesome, irresistible bonding experience However, one of the most profound means of developing connections with someone would have to be speaking their language This requires the ultimate investment of

time and energy on your part, but also offers the greatest reward

When you demonstrate proficiency in another’s tongue, you gain access to an entirely different part of them You can see this part when their face lights up with joy and recognition You can hear this when they speak with new emotion and comfort once learning that you can converse in their native language You can feel this when they show a newfound respect for your own words and, quite frankly, for you as a fellow human being What is this mysterious aspect that we tend to suppress around strangers? I would probably say our sense of cultural identity and belonging Language works like a cheat code, breaking down the barriers we ’ ve erected

The moment someone lays eyes on you, they will use details like

I love surprising people in any way I can, because I believe the keys to empathy lie in having multifaceted interests As languages go, I plan to learn one more Maybe Japanese, so I can finally watch anime without subtitles now you see where my priorities lie Or Mandarin, the most widely spoken language in the world Or I may just throw practicality out the window, and learn something a little more esoteric However, I’m not suggesting we all drop everything and attempt to cram a foreign language into our lives

Learning how to communicate with others symbolizes more than just the acquisition of a new skill

race, sexuality and religious affiliation to construct a series of assumptions about you So every time you establish yourself as an “outlier,” you ’ ve opened up their minds to new possibilities You’ve reminded them that, yes, even a (insert label here) can (insert surprise here) because labels don’t define people We all tend to ignore this fact, despite how often we all judge others

Even within a language, people boast their own unique dialects, each rooted in culture and experience Having a certain type of conversation can remind us of these idiosyncrasies The colloquial slang of my friends and family back home, for example, always provides me with a renewed love for my own self-identity One of my suitemates, who also hails from Atlanta, always provides me with a refreshing opportunity to engage in the speaking style that comes most naturally But, with patience and dedication, anyone could acquire the vernacular of Atlanta or any other region Such is the beauty of language

Learning a language symbolizes humility When grappling with the medium through which almost all interactions flow, we must force ourselves to stoop down to the level of an inquisitive toddler Toddlers constantly practice the underappreciated art of embracing their own ignorance They search eagerly for any tools they can use to understand and navigate the world As society changes to accommodate an increased diversity of perspectives, I hope you can become a young child again by acknowledging your own misconceptions and working to be more aware of those who differ from yourself

Like music, laughter and food, language generates love No one knows ever y language, no one knows every song and no one knows every recipe Along the same vein, you don’t know everything In fact, you know almost nothing But you can always learn You can always experiment like the child you once were Then, once you ’ ve experienced the struggles and discomfort that accompany growth, you can revel in the joy of moving closer to understanding someone So don’t worry about how little you know Just get out there and learn!

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Men Play Second Overtime in Two Games Saturday

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Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun com

Red Earns Eighth Finish Over 190 Points at NCAAs

GYMNASTICS Continued from page 12

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John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun com

re s p e c t e d ” C o r n e l l’s c h a p t e r o f At h l e t e A l l y w a s f o u n d e d i n t h e s p r i n g o f 2 0 1 3 by s e n i o r a n d c u r re n t c o - p re s i d e n t o f t h e g ro u p, At t i c u s De Pro s p o , a m e m b e r o f t h e C o r n e l l m e n ’ s s o c c e r t e a m Si n c e t h e n , t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n h a s h o s t e d m u l t i p l e e ve n t s a n d s p e a k e r s s u c h a s N F L Su p e r

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Anna Fasman can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com

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Eight strong | Freshman Joy Gage finished in the Top-10 for the Red in two separate events, floor and beam

Gymnasts Finish

Season at NCAA Championships

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

This past Saturday, the Cornell gymnastics team competed in its final team competition of the 2015 season The Red traveled t o Ya l e Un

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f 191 225 and finished in sixth place overall, in addition to having six individuals finish in the Top-10

“ We knew ECACs was our last meet as a team this season, and ever yone gave it their all,” said senior Maia Vernacchia “ We knew going into it that bars was going to be a challenge because we only had five competing, as opposed to six, due to injuries Scores were lower than unexpected on a few events, but I thought the team did a great job maintaining a positive attitude ” S e n i o r S a m a n t h a Va n d e r Pu t t e n a l s o explained that while the team put forth its best effort this weekend, it has somewhat struggled throughout the season due to high rate of injur y

“As a team, we knew it was going to be our last competition of the season so we wanted to go out and give it our all, and I definitely think we did,” she said “ This season was a little rough due to a lot of illness and injur y, and I am really proud of how well we finished off ”

While the Red faced unexpected injuries and sickness, it was still able to overcome these difficulties and effectively compete in each competition Furthermore, the team was able stay calm in difficult situations,

See GYMNASTICS page 11

Athlete Ally to Host Two Olympians

Charline Labonte and Anastasia Bucsis to speak about LGBT issues

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

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Red Notches Victory in Triple Overtime

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men ’ s lacrosse team defeated the University of Pennsylvania this past Saturday in its second home game of the season With striking similarity to the squad’s game against Colgate last week, the Red pulled ahead in overtime to beat the Quakers, 10-9

Last week, Cornell led Colgate, 8-4, halfway through the third quarter, only to see the Raiders score five straight goals to go up, 9-8, with 3:34 left in the fourth quarter A goal by senior attacker Dan Lintner with 1:03 left in the quarter sent the game into overtime, in which a

goal by senior attacker Matt Donovan brought home the victory

Similarly, the Red led the Quakers, 94, at halftime on Saturday, but failed to score for the rest of the game However, Penn scored four times in the third quarter and once in the fourth to tie the game up at nine Lintner was the overtime hero in this game, helping to continue this season ’ s streak of overtime home wins

“Our guys have shown a lot of resolve,” said head coach Matt Kerwick “To win two o v e r t i m e games in a week is pretty taxing ” In Saturday’s game, the Red did not score until the third overtime, remaining stuck at nine goals throughout two quarters and two overtime periods The Quakers notched five goals in this span of time

“We didn’t clear the ball as well as we needed to, ” Kerwick said “We played a lot of defense in the third quarter, mostly because we didn’t get the ball out of our end efficiently and we kept giving them second opportunities ” Nevertheless, two overtime wins in a row are representative of the Red’s perseverance and resilience When asked what

the game plan has been going into overtime in the last two games, Kerwick emphasized the importance of treating

those final key minutes the same way as the rest of the game

“We just try to play consistent to sticking to our system and running our offense efficiently and working for quality shots,” Kerwick said “We had a couple [of ] great defensive stands in overtime

While Kerwick said he was unsatisfied by how his squad performed in the second half of play on Saturday, he is still excited by the overtime victory nonetheless

“It was one of the worst quarters we ’ ve had on the season, so to come out with a win after playing pretty poor by our standards we’ll take it,” Kerwick said While this weekend’s game looked a lot like Cornell’s game against the Raider’s last week, the game against Penn was perhaps even more tense and exciting than Tuesday’s The Red did not score until the third overtime, keeping the fans on their toes

“At the end of the year it doesn’t matter how you get [wins],” Kerwick said “You just need to have a lot on your schedule, and we’ll take it ”