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New York State May Increase Allocation to C.U.

By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer

A change in New York State’s legislative budget process may result in an increase in state allocations to Cornell, according to the Board of Trustees Committee on University Relations

The committee held a meeting Wednesday to discuss updates from the state legislatures regardi n

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“The assembly proposed nearly tripling that and the senate doubling that, so instead of 9 5 million dollars, our allocations will likely be 19 million dollars,” Kruzansky said “This is a really good development, after a number of years house and the senate have not added to the capital ” However, the legislators are pushing back on other components of SUNY 2020 legislation

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Ithaca Planning Board Approves Hughes Hall, Ag Quad Renovations

Construction to begin this summer, ‘revitalize the quad’s aesthetic’

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

The City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board voted unanimously to approve renovations for Hughes Hall and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Quad at its Tuesday meeting

Hughes Hall renovations which will begin this summer will add a courtyard entryway and glass stair tower to the building, enclose an open-air loggia and if funds allow repave the Fork and Gavel Café’s dining terrace, according to the board’s resolution

The project will also modify the existing lower Hughes

courtyard “ to include new paving, seating, lighting, walkway, bike racks, landscaping and drainage improvements,” the resolution said

As a result of renovations, Hughes Hall will no longer be used as a residence hall for first-year J D law students, The Sun previously reported The building’s lower floors will become administrative offices and event spaces, and the upper floors will become faculty offices

The board also discussed renovations to the Ag Quad, which will take place alongside planned utility maintenance work

Wavves to Perform at Cornell’s

Bailey Hall

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Ed tor

Surf-punk rock band Wavves will per form at Cornell on April 8, according to a press release from the Cornell Concert Commission The concert will be h e l d i n Ba i l e y Hall and is open to the public T h e Sa n

known for their song “King of the Beach,” is recognized for a sound that combines the acoustic, pop and punk genres, the release said The group released their fifth studio album, V in October C C C

Sarah Dellett ’18 said she hopes Wavves will bring an “upbeat, edgy vibe to [Bailey Hall’s] traditionally more low-key, acoustic venue ” Dellett added that she expects the band’s mix of musical styles to attract a variety of attendees to the concert “Their eclec-

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The Political Economy of Agricultural Input Subsidy Programs in Africa

2:30 - 4 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Liberia in Stitches: Quilts from Sinoe and Montserrado Counties Exhibit

4:30 - 5:30 p m , Jill Stuart Galler y, Human Ecology Building

Coversation with Joe Holland ’78 on Race and Religion

5 - 6 p m , International Lounge, Willard Straight Hall

Brewing Change Coffee Series

5:30 - 7 p m , 282 Caldwell Hall

Tomorrow

The Role of Botanical Pharmacology in Drug Development 11:15 a m , 404 Plant Science Building

Making and Makerspaces

Noon - 1 p m , 106G Olin Librar y

The Gut-Brain Axis in Alzheimer’s Disease

12:15 - 1:15 p m , Auditorium, Boyce Thompson Institute

Dragon Day 2016

1 p m , Rand Hall

Fuertes Obser vator y Public Open House

8 p m - midnight, Fuertes Obser vator y

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Legislation Affects Greek Life Charters

By SETH GOLDSCHLAGER ’68

Seven of Cornell’s ten national sororities may lose their national charters if proposed Human Rights Committee legislation is passed by the faculty next week, Panhellenic Council officers speculated Friday at a Faculty Committee on Student Affairs meeting

In addition, “ a large number of fraternities would probably have to leave the campus, ” according to Assistant Dean Donald Sheraw, if one specific provision remains in the legislation

The seven national sororities involved have “ recommendation” systems which stipulate that before a girl is pledged, an alumna recommendation must be proposed Assistant Dean for Sororities Sheryl Sheraw stated that such recommendation systems would violate the proposed requirement that all sororities must have “complete local autonomy at every stage of its membership selection process ”

The FCSA did not act on any reommendation to change the proposed legislation The committee did not have jurisdiction to directly change the proposal, FCSA Chairman Anthony Caputi declared Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council may request a special meeting of the Faculty-Student Committee

on Human Rights, although both student groups ’ suggestions were heard at the Human Rights Committee last week at which some changes were made in the proposal

Although the entire concept of “local autonomy ” troubles the sororities, the fraternities would be most affected by the proposed stipulation that “ any rules, regulations or rites governing pledging, initiation, or operation of a residential unit which involves a religious commitment and/or sectarian, ethnic or racial connotations should be eliminated ”

Since most fraternities have some “sectarian, ethnic or racial connotation” involved in their pledging or initiation, Dean Sheraw explained, most national fraternities would at present be required to change or withdraw their chapters here Sheraw recommended on behalf of the IFC, that the phrase be changed from “connotation” to “commitment ”

The proposal does not allow “ ant nationally affiliated residential unit” unable to immediately comply with the legislation to ask the Human Rights Committee for a “ temporary waiver ”

The FSCA did not act on a faculty member’s request that the committee take a strong stand on fraternity hazing practices, Chairman Caputi postponed any such action until present investigations are completed

Trump’s Rise to Democratization, Economic Tension

By MADELINE

Prof Elizabeth Sanders, government, explained how the democratization of primary elections, increased influence of money in politics and economic conditions of the working class explain Donald Trump’s popularity in a lecture, Tuesday

At the beginning of her talk, Sanders labeled Trump a demagogue and posed several questions to the audience to frame her discussion

“My real question for you to try to answer is, ‘Why Trump now?’” she said “Why has such an unusual candidate come to the fore, and who are his constituents? Why did they choose to follow him, as opposed to other candidates?”

Primary Changes

Many aspects of the 2016 elections can be explained through changes in institutional party politics, according to Sanders

From Andrew Jackson’s presidency in 1828 to the late 1960s, U S political parties chose their own candidates in a large meeting of elected officials and other party leaders, with limited input from the rank and file, Sanders said

However, after political upheaval in the late 1960s specifically, the violence and protests surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention reformist

democratic party leaders attempted to get rid of what reformers called ‘ party bosses’ and democratize the process of presidential nominations, according to Sanders

“We decided to have elections all over the country, and anybody [could] show up for a registered party and say, ‘I’m here to support whichever candidate I chose,’” Sanders said “That was seen as the essence of democracy ” Sanders said that she believes these more “democratic” primaries have fueled partisan polarization, as the most passionate voters are most likely to head to the polls

“You get zealots in these elections people feeling really passionate about a candidate or an issue,” she said “They aren ’ t going to represent larger groups, but passionate minorities ”

Policy Experts Call for Generous Refugee Acceptance, Integration

By CAROLYN DOYLE Sun Staff Writer

Three leading experts in refugee policy discussed the problems surrounding the management of the Syrian and Middle Eastern refugee crisis by different countries at a roundtable on Tuesday

Lakhdar Brahimi a practitioner-in-residence at the Mario Ei n a u d i C e n t e r f o r International Studies and former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Algeria explained the h a rd s h i p s t h a t re f u g e e s f a c e

countries to be aware of these struggles

last a few days, weeks or months ”

Prof Alexander Aleinikoff, law, Columbia University, said a refugee’s presence in a host country typically lasts much longer

“Some people spend decades as refugees,” Aleinikoff said “In a refugee camp in Kenya, it was e s t i m a t e d t h a t t h e re we re 10,000 children who were born to people who were born in that camp ” A l e i n i k o f f a d d e d t h a t European nations should not be concerned by the numbers of refugees seeking asylum

“Many [refugees] believe it is a provisional situation that will last a few days, weeks or months ” L a k h d a r B r a h i m i

“A refugee is a person that feels they have no choice but to leave their home country, ” Brahimi said “It is usually an event that occurs suddenly, and oftentimes their destination is unknown Many believe it is a provisional situation that will

“Usually the press and politicians talk about the numbers: 50 m i l l i o n d i s p l a c e d p e o p l e , 1 0 million Syrian refugees,” he said “But to me it’s not the numbers that are the crisis These numbers can be handled, and they have been handled before ”

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This kind of primary participation translates into overall party polarization, Sanders said

“When a quarter of the most committed voted in prim

Republicans in particular were captured by their most zealous faction,” she said “That has created paralysis in Washington ”

The Role of Money

Expanding primaries to the general public has vastly altered the role of financing in party politics, according to Sanders

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Tompkins Financial to Consolidate Headquarters

Seven-story downtown offce, drive-through planned for completion in spring 2018

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

operations into a single building in the Commons, which will

Ithaca’s Director of Planning and Development

building at 118 E Seneca St and relocate its existing drivethrough teller to the ground-floor parking area of 119 E Seneca Street, according to Cornish

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standpoint, but also from a functional one, ” according to the To m p k i n s Fi n a n c i a l c o n s t r u ction proposal

Cornish added that the company decided to move into a single building due to “their clients’ needs for consolidated, convenient services ”

“Currently, they are leasing several spaces for various bankre l a t e d o p e r a t i o n s throughout the city and town, ” she said “ T h i s w i l l a l l ow them to house their plus or minus 250 e m

“This will allow them to house their plus or minus 250 employees and services under one roof ” J o A n n

said Tompkins Financial which is comprised of ser vices from To

i n s Tr u s t C o m p a n y t o Tompkins Insurance Agencies aims to move most of its services into the heart of the city’s busin e s s d i s t r i c t , a c c o rd i n g t o Cornish

These operations are currently housed in disconnected locat i o n s t h r o u g h o u t To m p k i n s County, a situation that is “ not only undesirable from a financial

v i c e s under one roof in the core of downtown ” The Planning and Development Board approved the drivethrough portion of the project in July, but the headquarters building did not receive final site approval from the Planning and De ve l o p m e n t B o a rd u n t i l December, Cornish said

While the building plans are complete, construction has not begun, according to Cornish She added that the project’s initial completion date of spring 2017 has been pushed back a year Lauren Kelly can be reached at lkelly@cornellsun com

Relations Committee

Discusses Business College, Health Care

a 2011 initiative intended to strengthen academic programs in New York public universities and colleges according to Zoe Nelson, associate director for state government relations

“We can see that the legislators are starting to tinker and question things that have been put in place for years, ” Nelson said Kruzansky attributed to the increase in budget for higher education to New York’s healthier economic performance

“There is not a budget crisis going on in the state right now, so there’s a little bit of freedom and the legislation is trying to take advantage of that,” he said

University representatives have also been working with the State Department of Health to provide students eligible for medicaid with Cornell health insurance, according to Nelson

“[Legislators] are really interested in what we are doing right now and how it

“The Cornell student health plan is very robust and it’s excellent for students living and studying in Ithaca,” Nelson said

“We’d actually be saving state ’ s money, since the state would be paying a smaller amount for the students’ insurance ”

Nelson added that the University still needs more support from the legislators to cover the health insurance plan with student financial aid, but talks with legislators in D C have been successful

“We needed to pull in some influential folks and urge them to take a look at the program again and we ’ ve successfully secured an attention for a pilot,” Nelson said

Committee members also raised concerns about responses from the legislature to the College of Business

The state is particularly interested in possible impacts the Business College may have on the land-grant Dyson School of Business, according to Kathryn Boor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

“I met with the AgriBusiness Council last week and we discussed the relationship between the Dyson School and its land grant mission,” Boor said “We also talked about its continuation of the support of vast arrays of industries in New York ”

Kruzansky added that the legislators in Albany have expressed interest in how the College of Business will develop in the future

“They are really interested in what we are doing right now and how it works and how it will work,” Kruzansky said

Experts Address Challenges of Integrating Syrian Refugees

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Turkey’s acceptance of refugees is an excellent example of this, according to Lisel Hintz, a postdoctoral fellow at the Einaudi Center

“ Turkey is hosting between 2 7 and 3 million refugees,” Hintz said “ They can be integrated We shouldn’t allow this huge number to be an argument for why we aren ’ t seeing more progress on the issue ” Hintz added that Turkey has been reluctant to offer asylum to large numbers of refugees due to cultural conflict within the countr y

take away their jobs ”

Countries also need to evaluate the refugee crisis from perspectives other than a humanitarian one, Aleinikoff said “ What we need is an approach that brings in new actors, like development

“The United States has not played its usual role of being a leader in solving major refugee crises.”

“ This is a countr y with many identity cleavages that it is already dealing with,” Hintz said “Introducing a ver y large new population of refugees, in the eyes of the Turks, not only threatens to affect the fabric of their society, but also to

resources to hosting states, ” he said “ Their involvement can

ment of the host region but also provide job opportunities for refugees ”

Aleinikoff said the United States has the responsibility of setting a better example for the rest of the world regarding the refugee crisis “ The United States has not played its usual role of being a leader in solving major refugee crises,” Aleinikoff said “ We need to step up and help ”

Planning Board Approves Renovations

fall They have significance on that site ”

“A fair amount of utility work needs happen in the Ag Quad, and because of that we have the oppor tunity to revitalize the quad’s aesthetic,” university architect Gilber t Delgado said at a previous Planning Board meeting

The renovations will remove all existing hardscape and add ne w pedestrian paths, plazas in front of Mann Librar y and Rober ts Hall and a large bioretention area east of Kennedy Hall, according to the proposal

Pro f Ja c k El

“ We need to maintain the legacy of those trees, ” Elliott said “ They are the first to leaf out in spring and the last to lose their leaves in the

Project manager Davies Orinda maintained that the trees must be removed in order to provide a safe exit path from the Plant Sciences Building, but assured the board that renovators would attempt to preser ve the trees and replant them after constr uction is completed

“ We have some ver y strong proponents of preser ving the trees at Cornell, and we considered all the factors that we could,” Orinda said “ The concern [about the trees] was that we could tr y to do as much as we could to not displace them, but that the impact and their age was going to be too detrimental to their sur vival ”

The Board resolution called for an attempt to be made to preser ve those trees Renovations will begin within the next month and cost $7 8 million, according to Orinda

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Prof Explains Trump’s Primarys Wins

Cites appeals to frustration with big donors, economic stagnation

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“If you have to run in 50 states for your party ’ s nomination, you need a lot of money, ” she said

Sanders added that the 2010 Citizens United v

Fe d e r a l El e c t i o n C o m m i s s i o n Su p re m e C o u r t Decision has played an important part in exacerbating the influence of money in politics

“Big donors claimed that they could not be limited in making large, independent donations to political committees

b e c a u s e s p e n d i n g t h e i r ow n money was implicit in their right to ‘speak,’” Sanders said “This spending can be secret; you often don’t even know where the money is coming from ”

[saying] ‘I have so much money that as president I won ’ t have to adopt any ’ s issues in return for their money, ’” she said “ A lot of people find that as close as you can to diminishing the power of money in elections ”

Who Are Trump’s Constituents?

Sanders said Trump is championing issues that are important to a segment of the American population she described as “downwardly mobile working class people” who “do not see anyone in the Republican Party speaking for them ”

“Politicians will kiss the hands of wealthy donors and adopt their policy positions.”

Because elections are so expensive, in the absence of financial regulation the wealthy can heavily influence elections and subsequent policy outcomes, according to Sanders

“Politicians will kiss the hands of wealthy donors, take their money and adopt their policy positions,” she said

Sanders said Trump has used the anger of people who feel donors have too large of a role in politics to gain voter support

“Donald Trump has sold himself to the public,

Trump is often most popular in sections of the country “that have lost an industry in the last twenty years, ” she said

The Republican party ’ s lack of response to the economic stagnation of the South is why we Trump has gained such support, according to Sanders

“What has the Republican Party done for the people it brought in over social issues?” she said “Can anyone think of anything for downwardly mobile whites? I can ’ t either, so that’s how we got Donald Trump ”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com

Years After Boston Marathon Bombing, Brussels Attacks Stress Race Preparations

BOSTON (AP) Boston’s top law enforcement official says the attacks in Belgium have added a sense of urgency to securing next month’s Boston Marathon Police Commissioner William Evans told The Associated Press in an inter view Wednesday that he has no information suggesting a s p e c i f i c t h re a t a g a i n s t t h e marathon, which was targeted in 2013

Two bombs planted near the finish line killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others on April 15, 2013

Evans, an avid runner, said he’s canceled his plans to run the 2016 edition of the race on April 18 so he can tend to security duties He said he had planned to make it his 50th marathon and 1 9 t h B o s t o n , b u t Tu e s d a y ’ s attacks in Brussels prompted him to reconsider

In s t e a d , h e s a i d

security will be his main focus

“I can ’ t in my right mind go out and lace up the sneakers and run that day,” he said in his office, where dozens of marathon medals decorate the walls “ We’re only three and a half weeks away My priority is here, doing my job and making sure the race goes off without any problems ”

Evans did not elaborate on security precautions being taken around the 120th r unning of B o s t o n , A m e r i c a ’ s o l d e s t a n d most celebrated footrace

He said heightened measures used since the 2013 attacks would be in place, including stepped-up patrols by uniformed and undercover officers, a greater use of surve i l l a n c e c a m e r a s a n d t a c t i c a l units, and checkpoints for the tens of thousands of spectators lining the route

Within hours of the Belgium

b o m b i n g s , B o s t o n a u t h o r i t i e s

were on the phone with the FBI as well as state and international l a w e n f o rc e m e n t a g e n c i e s t o review threats and security plans, Evans said

“You worr y about copycats You worr y about these homegrown terrorists who are in their basement plotting something,” he said “It’s a constant worr y for me ”

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for the 2013 marathon bombing and is being h e l d a t t h e Su p e r m a x f e d e r a l prison in Colorado Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with p o l i c e s e ve r a l d a y s a f t e r t h e attacks

Evans had r un the Boston Marathon in 2013 and was soaking in a hot tub when word came of the attacks

He hasn’t run his beloved race since

Inappropriate Remarks

MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP)

Alabama Gov Robert Bentley admitted Wednesday that he made inappropriate remarks to a top female staffer, but he denied accusations that he had a physical affair

The governor ’ s admission capped a bizarre political day in which, a day after his firing, his former law enforcement secretary and one-time close friend made public the content of a clandestine recording made by a family member before Bentley’s wife filed for divorce last year and accused his former boss of having an inappropriate relationship with the staffer

The two-term Republican governor, a former Baptist deacon, acknowledged in a concilia-

tory news conference that he said “ some inappropriate things” to his senior political adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason

“I made a mistake Two years ago I made a mistake,” Bentley said, adding that he had previously apologized to his family and to Mason and her family “Today I want to apologize to the people of the state of Alabama and once again, I want to apologize to my family I am truly sorry and I accept full responsibility ”

Former Law Enforcement

Secretary Spencer Collier held a news conference Wednesday and said he heard a tape recording in 2014 in which Bentley made romantic and sexually charged comments to a woman he believed to be Mason

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Letter to the Editor

Taking action for safety on campus

To the Editor:

I am writing on behalf of myself and members of the Cornell Employee Assembly I was recently approached by one of my constituents who was concerned about an article in The Cornell Sun highlighting the “Union of White Students at Cornell ” After reading your article and their page, I too am alarmed by the manifestation of white privilege and ignorance attributed to the Cornell community

This kind of racist publicity negatively impacts our current and prospective students, staff and their families Subsequent coverage has further boosted the group ’ s message I have found articles, many referencing The Cornell Sun, in the Ithaca Voice, The College Fix, The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Ithacan, The Daily Caller and The Tab; as well as on Reddit, blogs, forums and more Whether or not the initial group was started by members of the Cornell community, its impact is very real Harm has been done, and it needs to be addressed clearly, directly and with action

Groups like this use flawed logic to justify positions of white supremacy White is not a race, but a collection of people given preference based upon skin color When we consider history, it is clear that groups like this are not working towards equality They are already, as a group, in a position of power At best, they are perpetuating the status quo of a privileged white society Based on this, when groups talk about “advancing the white race, ” what that means is advancing white power They are seeking to preserve and expand an unfair advantage that comes at the continuing expense of people of color

We embrace and value our diversity, work actively to promote equality and understanding, and want our University to feel safe and welcoming to people of all ethnicities We feel that remaining silent at this point would serve only to reinforce the message of this group That is why we have to take action

The EA has drafted a resolution that is in part a declaration of opposition, explicitly denouncing this group and its views as detrimental to the University’s commitment to extending its legacy of recruiting a heterogeneous faculty, student body and staff; fostering a climate that doesn’t just accommodate differences, but engages with them; and providing rich opportunities for learning from those differences

Our resolution is also a call to action We will be working with diversity groups to ensure that we, as representatives of our staff, have a better understanding of and more training regarding racism, its historical impact and the ways in which we can support the University’s commitment We will be reaching out to other Assemblies on campus to encourage them to do the same

I ask that you join us Help us boost our signal Together, we can overwhelm attempts to create fear and division on campus with a positive message Together, we will lead by example and find new ways to promote the values of and efforts toward true equality that make Cornell such an amazing place to work, study, play and live

Jeramy A Kruser, Employee Assembly Representative at Large

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Fuxxxy Cleopatro | Cruising Dystopia

Craigslist, or, The Straight Man’s Closet

Forthis “Sex on Thursday,” I again refuse silence about “explicit” or even “unnatural” gay sex acts that gays still cannot generally discuss openly

The one summer where I stayed on campus, I still wasn ’ t completely out And I hadn’t turned 21 yet, so I couldn’t go to any bars to meet guys at gay night Finding little luck without a face pic on Grindr, I posted on Craigslist for sex while buzzed one summer evening Using an old e-mail address, and having changed its “sender name ” to something unrecognizable, I started receiving responses to my ad within minutes My inbox full of body shots, dick pics and sexual preferences can you imagine!?

I texted and then called one really hot g u y, w h o e m p h a s i ze d t h a t h e w a s “straight,” and we discussed what we wanted to do A beautiful guy “Brad” showed up at my place about 20 minutes later, since he actually lived just around the corner Brad’s skin was this beautiful hue of brown, his abs and pecs were chiseled, and his member the stuff of fantasies! One reason this experience stands out is that Brad was so sensual, taking the time to kiss and make out and explore all the exposed skin that each of us had to offer

Some of the worst sex I’ve had was with guys who wanted to skip over this fun, preliminary teasing I wonder

if that impatience for the “main event ” has to do with the fact that many young gay men I know learned about gay sex completely through porn Full disclosure: I d

Catherine MacKinnon, who demonize all porn as such Of course, porn is clearly oppressive when lacking legal consent (to having sex, being filmed or sharing the video)

But I find it truly oppressive that hostile attitudes about gay sex push gay boys to porn for instruction Beyond my own adolescent realization that men turned me on instead of women, I had nobody to tell me what good, pleasurable gay sex looked like and I was horrified to ask questions and possibly out myself Sure, there are probably those “ gem in the rough” parents, who openly explain to their adolescents how to have pleasurable, safer, consensual sex, regardless of the child’s sexual identity Never theless, conversations with my gay and straight friends alike make me believe that such parents are rare exceptions to the strictly prude rule in the U S So, a little advice from Fuxxxy to any newbs reading this: you and your fuck buddy will have a much easier time getting it up and climaxing if you b o t h t a k e t i m e b e f o re h a n d t o l i g h t l y touch, caress and kiss parts of your bodies other than your penises After ward, cuddling is an essential act for some, but simply too much contact for others

Now, it’s impossible to know with certainty that Brad’s development of his fantasies above and beyond porn had led him to think that foreplay made sex way more fun But after working up a sweat (and waking up my housemates) with some more intense play, we wiped ourselves clean and let the soaked towel fall from my small twin bed to the ground as we held each other closely Brad clearly enjoyed himself that evening, and we hung out a few times after that despite his insistence that he was “straight” and needed to remain “discreet, ” especially to his fraternity brothers Sometimes when I doubt my commitment to my own sexual liberation, I reread a journal entry that I wrote after this, one of my first positive gay-sex experiences This early experience of random Craigslist sex with Brad helped me better understand the responsibility of radical uncertainty in all sexual situations I still find it important to have a “beginner’s mind” whenever I have sex, whether I’m someone ’ s lover, fuck buddy or both

Though I have personally grown with experience, there are still a stubbornly high number of guys on Craigslist and Grindr who insist that they are “straight” and thus need to remain “discreet” (or worse yet: “discrete”) Without much skin in the game of gay politics, I used to not care if my hookup was “straight ” But I am now convinced that secret sex between straight men empowers straightness and holds the

Romanticqueers down In Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, Jane Ward argues that homosexual hazing rituals between straight men are not only typical of white heterosexuality they are also a necessarily secret way of maintaining white-hetero power and privilege Straight, white men establish and maintain power precisely through elephant walks or the navy ’ s “line crossing” ritual a n d e ve n v i a ( g a s p ! ) s e c re t , r a n

hookups with other straight, white men Secret sex between “straight” or “discreet” white men reinforces the idea that gays need to stay in the closet that gays must learn how to fuck in secrecy and then keep all depictions of gay sex (hand jobs, blow jobs, butt sex, to name a few) in the bedroom

Writing a sex column about finding sex on Craiglist or bottoming in a bathhouse offends straight sensibilities It disrupts the idea that the gays are “just like” the straights I’m unhappy because people thought my last column was radical, when it simply deviated from their simpleton images of happy, monogamous gay families But I take great pleasure in knowing that others are unhappy because I have disrupted their stable idea of desexualized homosexuals

Fuxxxy Cleopatro is a student at Cornell Comments may be sent to fuxxxy@cornellsun com Cruising Dystopia appears periodically this semester

attachment is terrifying It’s something we have little control over, something that can make one feel weak and pathetic when not reciprocated and something that many of us try very hard to avoid in college (and life in general) Nevertheless, we still want to have sex with people and usually end up just hoping we won ’ t like them for anything more than the orgasms With attachment coming into play, though, it’s sometimes easier to either avoid this contact entirely, or find oneself stuck in painfully unstable interactions Don’t get me wrong though, attachment and the formation of a deeper relationship with an individual are amazing What’s painful is trying to remain detached, trying to persuade yourself that you care for nothing more than the physical aspect of an interaction with an individual So, what is a way to understand feelings towards a person, to learn what is comfortable and to distinguish between the different kinds of relationships you can have with them?

I spoke to an amazing woman about how I struggled with the idea of wanting some kind of human connection and being confused when detached sex and friendship clashed She told me about the four different ways she sees relationships: superficial relationship, companionship, friendship and love

From the moment you introduce yourself to someone, add someone on Facebook, party with someone once, you ’ ve established a superficial relationship You know who each other is, you’ll say hello, but you know nothing more and interact in no other way This is also the equivalent of a onenight stand

In a companionship, you continue to lack a deeper connection but you know a little more about the person Maybe a more regular hookup or an individual in your friend -group You might know basic facts about them, but nothing personal The main point is that their presence or absence in activi-

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ties does not make a difference; your focus is on activities that can be carried out with many different companions Such an interaction can be sex A fuckbuddy or FWB, someone you have no other relationship than a repeating sexual encounter

In a friendship, your focus shifts to the individual You want to spend time with that person, you want them in your life, you are yourself around them, they know more about you than someone you met recently or who has a work-based relationship with you The complication here is that these are also people you can have sex with Once you begining talking more with a FWB, knowing about their life, their friends, their interests, worries etc they begin shifting into the friendship category and it becomes natural to care for them as a person You want to spend more time with the person and begin not caring if you ’ re watching a movie with them or going grocery shopping You want to be with that person This is the usually “Hey let’s hang out ” relationship you have with friends But what if you ’ re having sex with them? And what if that sex has been agreed as a purely FWB interaction, no emotions, no strings attached? This is where it becomes difficult to not get emotionally invested in a relationship, albeit sexual, with someone I, for one, have not been able to figure out how to control those feelings towards the individual, feelings that go beyond sex I was lucky that this situation turned into a relationship for me the first time around and that I was able to allow myself to embrace the caring feelings When it happened again though, I knew it wasn ’ t going to end the same way so I found myself in a lot of emotional pain My solution was stepping away from the sex altogether, and distancing myself from him too I lost a friend though, and I know that things went wrong when this was a person I cared about as an individual and added sex to the equation, hoping that I could keeping the non-sexual caring separate As if a very different

part of me would engage in the sex and different part in the friendship

This of course doesn’t mean that all sex will go from just physical pleasure to caring about the individual I have also had experiences with guys I have never been emotionally invested in, guys who never left the companionship stage I know for me that the line between the companionships and friendship stage is very fine so I’m careful not to cross it unless I am confident I want to invest the time and emotional energy

The sad thing is that because of this time and energy, I’ve seen girl after girl shy away from any kind of emotional involvement with a male during a sexual encounter simply to avoid this chaos Or, alternatively, investing too much and getting hurt Even though we are living in a school with a strong hookup culture, there is still the potential for a meaningful relationship and it’s not fair to deprive oneself of that opportunity Simple knowledge of one ’ s own ability for emotional involvement and knowing that caring about someone as a person and also having sex with them can get very complicated can be enough to help establish a sort of ‘safe’ form of relationship even if this is just sex, knowing that when you cross over to caring about someone it can get complicated can help protect the instability that is the reality of college life Most importantly, knowing that caring about someone is not a weakness and is not pathetic It is a normal human response in interactions I found that sometimes it’s been better for me to step away that to try and crush those feelings And I found that I can remain whole as a person and have the ability to engage in other emotional relationships

The Duchess is a student at Cor nell She can be reached at queenbee@cornellsun com Between the Sheets appears periodically this semester

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY MATT PEGAN Sun Staff Writer

Though Ithaca has a thriving basement scene, the undisputed DIY capital of the U S is another college town: New Brunswick, N J Advantageously situated within an hour of NYC, the scene attracts alternative acts from across the globe, and has spawned an impressive number of punk and indie bands, a small

s a m p l e o f w h o m f o u n d t h e m s e l v e s o n Saturday night, playing to a modest crown in the cozy, polychromatic, basement of 660 Stewart On their ninth day of touring, the bands were tired and apparently low on funds, but their spirits soared nonetheless, and each put on a high energy performance

The band originally set to open the show, Hoboken’s Rest Ashore unfortunately had to cancel, but were replaced by Cornell’s own : an instrumental math-rock with a name not meant to be pronounced Jersey City’s Kadian Quartet followed, playing a progressive, jazz-rock set, and though their music made them an outlier, both for the night and among the set of bands brought to campus by Fanclub Collective, they managed to be an audience favorite, generating eruptions of applause after each impressive piano and guitar breakdown To those wear y of what sometimes feels like the cookie-cutter DIY, punk sound sported by so many of the bands brought to Ithaca by Fanclub and IU, the quartet came as a breath of fresh air

moments included what sounded like a lyrical allusion to Nelly’s “Ride Wit Me” and the line “I wanted to rebuild bridges but I hadn’t exercised in a while ” The standout out song was “Bummer,” a passionately sung pop-punk number with a jingly little guitar riff Another fine moment in the set came when the band turned from their melodic punk sound into edgier post-hardcore territor y, inspiring a brief mosh pit in the middle of the crowd Flipping through the band's bandcamp page, I

able marketing skills (“ We have some stickers for sale, I’ll give you one for free”), to their shitty name (and even in a scene where it seems the more hideous your band name is the cooler you are, Professor Caveman is one of the most fantastically awful I’ve seen) ever ything about the carelessness with which the band presents itself suggests that they aren ’ t putting more than ten percent of themselves into the project, but their music suggested emphatically other wise

believe this occurred during their performance of album opener “Pavement ”

Up next was the first of the two New Brunswickbased headliners, Eagle Daddy The band played a set of emo-tinged punk, laden with pessimistic humor Funny

Up last was the standout performance: that of New Brunswick’s Professor Caveman Professor Caveman is a band of strikingly talented musicians in the guise of a group guys who are just fooling around From their midset confusion over what to play next, to their question-

The band exhibited a unique ability to weave elements of funk and latin into a surfpunk sound Standout tracks included “ Toca La Guitarra” and “ Vaseline ” The former is a track which encapsulates ever ything that is great about the band intensely blissful and the latter is a hilarious ode to sex and masturbation (the chorus: “It feels like vaseline when you touch me like I touch myself ” sung in a falsetto)

Frontman Rob Romano is a truly gifted rock ’ n roll vocalist whose style was often reminiscent of Dr Dog’s Scott McMicken He nailed melodic surf-rock choruses and rough-around-the-edges punk cantos alike

The glowing guitars which comprised the band's melodies were played in a style reminiscent of Mac DeMarco’s work on Salad Days All in all, Professor Caveman is a band to watch, and an excellent example of the type of band coming out of the New Brunswick scene I would love to see them get much bigger, and maybe even get considered for tenure

Matt Pegan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun com

Breaking Rules and Following Tropes: The Real O’Neals

BY PEGAH MORADI Sun Contributor

For a network that gave us Black-ish, Fresh Off The Boat and Modern Family, a sitcom about a white Irish-Catholic family seems a little out of place After all, this is 2016! Didn’t Shonda Rhimes promise to protect America from yet another all-white cast? Despite its first impression, the premise for The Real O’Neals tries to be more audacious that it initially appears The series, which debuted earlier this month, follows the members of a supposedly perfect Christian family as they are forced to face circumstances that challenge their righteous yet image-obsessed lifestyle

Among these circumstances? Well, parents Eileen and Pat (Martha Plimpton of The Goonies fame and Mad Men’ s Jay R Ferguson, respectively) announce they are getting a divorce, eldest son Jimmy (Matthew Shively) has an eating disorder and the family’s devious daughter, Shannon (Bebe Wood), reveals she embezzled church funds to buy a used car Most notably, the series’s narrator and perpetually uncomfortable middle-child Kenny (Noah Galvin) comes out as gay all in just the span of a few minutes The sheer magnitude of what the family experiences makes one thing loud and clear: this is going to be a bold show

At first, that promise seems plausible Particularly in an era where discussions of sexual identity still make many parents uneasy, depicting not only complex LGBTQ+ characters but also the relationship between gay teens and their uncomfortable parents through humor is daring in and of itself The pilot lays firm groundwork for an apt discussion of the generational divide in social ideology and confrontation of the ver y real, ver y pressing problems that face today’s youth Ultimately, The Real O’Neals has the capacity to venture into previously untouched and somewhat risky comedy territor y by illustrating what many TV viewers have been obser ving for a few years: the collapse of the perfect, classic all-American TV family

Unfortunately, The Real O’Neals doesn’t do any of that at all Instead, the show quickly turns mediocre through

a script that falls firmly into cliché territor y and becomes a watered-down analysis of

anorexia is quickly resolved by eating Jesus-shaped pan-

kleptomania is ignored and instead adapted into a general disbelief in a Christian god, which is then disregarded as well The only lasting struggle for the family lies b

t w e e n K e n n y a n d h i s mother, who still wrestles with her son ’ s sexual orientation Although Plimpton’s portrayal of an aggravated mother torn between her religious ideology and her love for her son is excellently chilling, her performance is overshadowed by boring plot lines and easy jokes

The Real O’Neals ends up as a banal network comedy that employs little to no creativity The characters seem to have been derived straight from a list of TV tropes (A laidback father, zany mother, airheaded older brother the l i s t g o e s o n ) a n d t h e p l o t s s t i c k t o t h e s t a n d a rd

“Something goes wrong and hilarity ensues!” formula that plagues network TV The Real O’Neals, as a comedy, is unappetizing The bulk of the successful jokes come from Kenny’s role as the straight man (no pun intended) against his illogical family as well as his sheer awkwardness (Kenny suddenly blurting “I’m scared of vaginas” to his father was the comedic apex of the pilot episode ) Although Galvin, who is 21, plays the role of a gawky 16-year old entertainingly, his portrayal of Kenny’s unsuccessful attempts at being suave can only make up the entire comic backbone of the series for so long Into the third and fourth episodes of the series, Kenny’s quirks become less humorous and more agonizing; it soon becomes clear that the writer’s room is relying heavily on Galvin and Plimpton’s perfor-

mances to generate laughs

In spite of its uninteresting execution, The Real O’Neals finds some zest in its parodies of religious zeal Several conser vative Christian organizations condemned the show well before it even debuted, referring to it as anti-Catholic and bigoted Eileen’s invocations of religion are amusingly extreme (Kenny remarks that his mother put a statue of the Virgin Mar y on top of their toilet to ensure he and his brother remember to put the seat down) and successfully satirize the qualms of many areligious youth Like Kenny’s funny-at-first awkwardness, however, Eileen’s intensity soon becomes overused not only as a platform for quick quips, but also as an exhausted plot device

The Real O’Neals shows incredible promise, and, of course, has the rest of the season to prove its worth to viewers For now, the show’s current trend in sticking to the stale sitcom rules and relying greatly upon its leads points to a dead-end for this TV family Regardless, one part of The Real O’Neals’ failure with the well-worn comedy playbook is encouraging perhaps this flop will, once and for all, signal the end of the cliche-ridden American sitcom

Pegah Moradi is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at pm443@cornell edu

P o p t i m i s t i c E D M : A L o v e S t o r y

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Regardless of the festival fallout (All the more reason not to pay a ton of money for back sweat and per formers who will only receive a small fraction!), anyone who listens to the radio can benefit from pluralistic pop music in the meantime Pop fans win with musically diverse air waves, so let’s toast to an inevitable Ed Sheeran x Armin van Buuren collaboration

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences 40 Percent Papier-Mâché appears alternate Thursdays this semester He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com

PROPERTIES

Westview

Edgecliff

LaRoche: Family Vs. Baseball

A t t e n t i o n A d v e r t i s e r s

more useful information in the clubhouse than he will in the classroom, as far as life lessons ’” While this is slightly absurd, it is helpful to understand that LaRoche himself grew up in a big league clubhouse Dave LaRoche, Adam’s father, worked as a coach with the White Sox while Adam was growing up This makes it easy to see how LaRoche would want his son to grow up in the same environment, whether or not it is the right way to raise him He should be admired for prioritizing his role as a father over his role as a baseball player

As for the other side, the White Sox shed a thir-

teen million dollar commitment to a player that would not have pronounced role with the team

There also were reports that the team had received anonymous complaints from players who did not feel that a 14-year-old was welcome on a regular basis in their place of work Interestingly enough, some players felt that the team betrayed and lied to LaRoche

The team did not handle the situation well, but the end result was good $13 million to spend more time with his son, and the White Sox saved $13 million that can be spent on something more useful than an aging LaRoche

Noah Eli can be reached at neli@cornellsun com

New York Lawmakers Back

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The end for A-Rod?

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Cornell Men’s Hockey: 2015-16 Season in Review

This team made us believe When Union finished off the Red last March, 70, most Cornell fans and players did not want to see Lynah Rink for a while A decent season had ended on an extremely sour note with a first-round playoff exit

The first inkling that the 2015-16 edition of Cornell men ’ s hockey would be different came just a week prior to the season Coach Mike Schafer ’86 announced that all four seniors, Teemu Tiitinen, John Knisley, Christian Hilbrich and Reece Willcox, would serve as captains of the team This sent a signal to the rest of the league that Cornell would play as a team, and that this senior class intended to lead by example By then, we already knew the members of Cornell’s freshman class, many of whom would play an integral role in the season to come One of these freshmen, Anthony Angello, let the Lynah Faithful know of his talent by scoring four times in one preseason game Freshman defenseman Alec McCrea, another young standout, also notched a goal and an assist in that game against Laurentian Early on in the season, the Faithful saw Schafer stick to his promise at the end of the previous campaign Schafer had emphasized that his teams had been playing hard-nosed, defensive Cornell hockey, but needed to take more shots In the season ’ s first few weeks, Schafer had the perfect formula When Cornell is scoring goals, it is almost impossible to stop the Red Cornell put up seven or more goals in each of the season ’ s first three weekends, only losing one game in the process Teams began to truly fear Lynah Rink like in years past Quinnipiac would be the only team to beat Cornell at Lynah until late January

Yes, there was a January and February swoon, but Schafer put the pieces back together and made Cornell a confident unit heading into the playoffs Union was vanquished at home, exorcising the demons of last season In the next playoff round, the Red wrestled with top-seeded Quinnipiac in their house, playing hard enough to steal game two, but the Bobcats were the better team and rightfully won the series Then, the pieces just would not fall into place in order for Cornell to find its way back into the NCAA Tournament, ending a season that will go down in Cornell history as a year of what might have been

This was a season of ups-downs and contradictions throughout Cornell defeated the number one team in the country twice in five matchups this season Yet, the men also suffered two straight zeropoint weekends Cornell swept out-of-conference opposition Merrimack and Niagara, but could not

defeat Boston University at Madison Square Garden and embarrassingly lost 8-0 to Ohio State in Florida Cornell tackled St Lawrence and Clarkson at home, but fell to both in overtime on the road

When a collegiate sporting season concludes, thoughts naturally turn to the seniors Cornell men ’ s hockey’s seniors have worn the famous Red threads for four seasons and deserve to be remembered Although their last two campaigns might not measure up to the lofty standards at Cornell, they have given their all for the team and have earned a chapter in Cornell hockey history

Kevin Linsey

Any discussion of Christian Hilbrich begins and ends with the man ’ s sheer size At 6-foot-7, he is a trailblazer for this Cornell team on and off the ice He also demonstrates noticeable skill and hands, especially for a player of his size While this year he failed to post as many goals as his tally of ten last season, his leadership proves how invaluable he is, on and off the ice He missed just two games all season and has been a large presence in Cornell’s lineup, in more ways than one

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Red Loses Three Of Four in Virginia

SOFTBALL Continued from page 16

Still, in the first two games of t h e t o u r n a m e n t , C o r n e l l showed signs that its game was starting to come together

“It’s hard to be successful when just one side of the game is working well,” Farlow said “ We need solid performances both offensively and defensively in order to get more victories ”

C o r n e l l g o t j u s t t h a t o n Saturday against Georgetown (5-18, 0-0 Big East) The Red won their first game of the season 6-5 with a combination of solid hitting, pitching and fielding Right off the bat, Cornell started quickly and produced an impressive first inning The Red scored three runs

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check for most of the game

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Farlow said

On the other end of the vertical scale, John Knisley may be small, but he has shown a ferocious tenacity throughout his Cornell career While Knisley was never a dependable scorer, he always seemed to pop up with odd goals at key moments when the big scorers were struggling For example, he scored two goals at last year ’ s Frozen Apple and tallied additional goals versus Yale and Princeton this year Knisley struggled with injuries at times, but he will always be remembered as a player who gave it all the moment he stepped on the ice

Reece Willcox has been a dependable force on Cornell’s blueline for four straight seasons The Philadelphia Flyers prospect has shown an incredible slapshot and an even better eye for an assist He has been reliable on the defensive end as well and always played big minutes on the power play and penalty kill for Cornell He will be sorely missed in the years to come

Teemu Tiitinen knew his role at Cornell He was never going to be the headlining, hat-trick scoring forward He knew his job was to kill penalties and play defensive Cornell hockey, a role he excelled at in four years on East Hill He chipped in with a pair of goals this season as well and was a tremendous leader for a promising class of freshmen It will be hard for Schafer to find a player with Tiitinen’s expertise at this role next year

Thank you to this entire Cornell hockey team for everything Seniors, good luck in your future endeavors Fellow Lynah Faithful, see you in the fall

Up next, a whole new team is tasked with making us believe

the game but were able to score in the last inning and win on a w

“That was big for our confidence ”

C o r n e l l h a s l o s t s e ve r a l games this season after giving up runs in late innings, which is a problem that has cost the team many wins

“It was good to be on the other side for once, ” Farlow said

Cornell squared off with St Francis again in the second matchup on Saturday, but the Red ran into unstoppable pitch-

i n g f ro m j u n i o r Ke t a r a h DeVries, who no-hit the Red in a 13-0 loss

The last game of the tournament was definitely a step back from some of the improvements the Red seemed to have made in the previous three games

Overall, Farlow was pleased with the team ’ s per formance and sees many players making strides

However, it was not smooth sailing for the entire game The win appeared in jeopardy after Georgetown threatened with a comeback

“We gave up the lead late in

Pepicelli

“We’re looking to put all the pieces together now and string together some wins,” Farlow said

Notes Room For Improvement

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Softball Wins First Game of Year

Cornell ends 10-game losing streak with win over Georgetown

Room for improvement | Despite picking up their first win, the Red still lost their other three games over the weeekend

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Red to Face Off Against UCF, Rollins

By JACK KANTOR Assistant Sports Editor

With a strong start through 10 games, the Cornell men ’ s baseball team looks to continue their success as they travel again to Florida to take on the University of Central Florida and Rollins College on what will be a busy five-game road trip

The main focus for this weekend and beyond is playing up to what they consider their “standard ”

The Red (6-4) has been pleasantly surprised by their success, as they have defeated difficult opponents such as Wofford (15-7) and most recently took three of four games in series against Bucknell (7-13) Nevertheless, head coach Dan Pepicelli and Cornell believe there is still a lot of room for improvement

“We’ve got a lot of things to work on, ” Pepicelli said “There are things that we definitely need to clean up before Ivy League play But I am happy with the fundamentals of what I am seeing, which is their ability to compete day in, day out, regardless of scoreboard I really like our energy and our competitive spirit ”

“Our best baseball is still yet to come ”

Sophomore outfielder Dale Wickham agrees with Pepicelli that the team still needs to improve and is not close to its peak The Red is not accepting decency Only work up to their standard will be permitted

“Each game we hold ourselves to a high standard that combines hitting, defense and pitching,” Wickham said

“We’ve put together complete games in all three aspects a couple times so far this year, but will look to achieve at our standards more often looking forward Our best baseball is still yet to come ” Yet, it is clear the players are not disregarding their success completely, especially with Wickham, who is hitting a solid 342 batting average, and a 405 on base percentage

“Success always feels good, and I’m just looking to carry consistency with me as we move forward into Ivy League play,” Wickham said

Cornell will need to continue sticking to the fundamentals coach Pepicelli

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On Nov 24, 2014, the Chicago White Sox signed Adam LaRoche to a two year contract worth $25 million In the three seasons before he signed the contract, LaRoche averaged 26 home runs, a 346 on base percentage, and a 256 batting average In addition to his impressive offensive production, he also provided stellar defense as a first baseman Essentially, LaRoche was a very good player who played at a level that exceeded the contract that he received as a free agent with the White Sox His 2015 season was less than suc-

spent 2011-2014) that allowed him to bring his son to the majority of games that the team played He made a similar arrangement with the Chicago White Sox, before signing his contract He mentioned this agreement as a significant reason for signing with Chicago Drake was even given his own locker and uniform, and was allowed to participate in practice drills with the team

During spring training, White Sox chairman Kenny Williams asked LaRoche to cut back the amount of time that his son spent with the team to about half of all games

cessful, after hitting 207 and striking out 133 times, which were both career worsts

On March 6, 2016, the White Sox signed outfielder Austin Jackson to play centerfield, moving Adam Eaton to left field and Melky Cabrera into the role of designated hitter

These moves meant that Adam LaRoche was unlikely to see nearly as much playing time as expected With a diminished role for the team, LaRoche became worth much less than the $13 million that he was owed What makes this situation interesting is that Adam LaRoche just walked away from his $13 million contract

Over the course of his career, LaRoche made almost $72 million over 12 seasons as a ballplayer Recently, LaRoche has made waves when he retired after the White Sox management requested that he limit the amount of time that he brings his 14-year-old son, Drake, to the clubhouse LaRoche had made arrangements with management during his time with the Nationals (where he

LaRoche declined to follow the instructions of Williams, leading to a clubhouse ban of Drake LaRoche decided to retire after this incident After he retired, Williams put back his original offer onto the table (half of the games), but this was not enough to keep LaRoche in a White Sox uniform

In this situation, no party truly appears to be at fault, and the end result may have been the best thing for all sides involved Provided that Adam LaRoche has saved a significant amount of the money that he earned as a ballplayer, the money is not an absolute necessity for LaRoche’s family LaRoche is simply prioritizing raising his child in the way he sees fit over one extra year of his salary He does have a very unique parenting style that would be very difficult for the average person to pull off Drake studies with a private tutor while with the team, and goes to school during the offseason In 2013, Adam LaRoche was quoted as