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Kappa Tau fraternity and Kappa Delta sorority host a

marathon on Ho Plaza Wednesday for philanthropy.

NSF to Limit Political Science Research Grants

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Staff Writer

After Congress mandated a decrease in National Science Foundation funding for research on polictical science, professors said the change would have a direct impact on graduate students and researchers at Cornell

On Mar 20, the U S Senate passed the Coburn Amendment, which prohibits the National Science Foundation from supporting research in political science that does not promote the U S ’ s national security or economic interests

The amendment was a revision of an earlier plan to eliminate the NSF’s political science budget altogether, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education

ernment department apply for grants from the NSF’s political science program every year Two government graduate students are currently conducting research funded by such grants

Additionally, one in five external grants received by faculty and graduate students at Cornell for political science research comes from the NSF

According to The Chronicle, the NSF supports 61 percent of social science research

Researchers including those at Cornell can apply to other foundations for funding as a result of the Senate amendment, but for many people who have lost NSF funding, it will be hard to replace, van der Walle said

“We tried to get together to do something fun and be our own bosses. We like to eat, so we thought we would do something about food

Alleged Rape Victim Details Attack to IPD

By KERRY CLOSE Sun Senior

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With this amendment, some professors are worried about how research being done in political science at Cornell will be affected

According to Prof Nicolas van de Walle, chair of the Department of Government, graduate students in the gov-

According to van de Walle who has received NSF funding for studies on democratization in Africa the NSF provides both small individual grants for students and professors and larger grants for broader data collection and survey research projects

Jerr y ’ of Ice Cream Fame Visits Cornell

Co-founder of Ben and Jerr y ’ s talks entrepreneurship, innovation

By RUDY YODER Sun Staff Writer

Speaking at Cornell Wednesday, Jerr y Greenfield, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s, said the ice cream company has redefined business as a “combination of organized human interest and money ” Greenfield and Ben Cohen the other co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s first met in seventh grade gym class, where they

became friends The two remained friends through high school and college, even though the two went separate ways; Greenfield studied biology at Oberlin College while Cohen had brief stints at several different colleges

After college, Ben had a few odd jobs including driving taxis and mopping at Friendly’s while Jerry was rejected from several medical schools

Without career paths, the two friends decided to go into business

together, Greenfield said

Sigma Pi One Year Later Noon - 1 p m , 626 Thurston Ave

South Asia Program Annual Conference: “Agrarian Crisis in India?”

2:30 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxies

4 - 5:00 p m , 105 Space Sciences Building

C S Lewis on Reason and Imagination 4:30 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Poetry Slam Open Mic

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Friday, April 5, 2013, 4:30 p m Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

C.U. Searches for New V.P.

Vice president of government and community relations to retire

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Contributor

With a veteran administrator set to retire after four decades at Cornell, the University has begun searching for a new vice president of University relations, President David Skorton announced last Thursday

The position will encompass the responsibilities of two existing positions: the vice president of University relations and the vice president of government and community relations, according to a statement Skorton released to the University

Stephen Johnson, the current vice president of government and community relations, has served as a strong advocate for Cornell throughout his time at the University, according to Skorton’s statement

“[ Johnson] has advocated for effective legislative action to help support the educational, research, health care and public engagement missions of Cornell and others in higher education and, in so doing, has had an enormously positive effect on us all,” Skorton said in the statement

Johnson said he has enjoyed the four decades he has spent at the University

“The experience has been terrific It has been an honor, a pleasure, to work for the University,”

Johnson said “I especially enjoyed working with the president’s leadership group ”

As vice president of government and community relations, Johnson has served as the liaison for Cornell to various levels of the U S government He said his job ensures that the University’s values and goals are fully incorporated into the development of the University’s positions on important legislative and public policy issues

“I have worked with the leadership of the University on matters relating to the local community, the state government and the federal government, ” Johnson said “I also am the registered

lobbyist for the University with the City of New York, State of New York and the federal government ”

Johnson will continue to serve in his position until his successor is found, according to Skorton’s statement

Johnson said that, after he retires, he hopes Cornell will continue to be involved “in matters of state and national policy and continue being the leading land grant university in the nation ”

Kathryn Boor ’80, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said Johnson has provided keen insight and pushed the University toward positive changes throughout his tenure

“[ Johnson] knows everyone and is affectionately known by all and this characteristic has been exceptionally valuable to Cornell,” she said

Johnson began his career at the University working for Cornell Cooperative Extension in 1972 He then worked in CALS, and in 1984, joined the University’s office of government relations

During his time at Cornell, Johnson said he has seen several changes at the University most significantly, its rise “ as a nationally prominent research university and its increase in stature amongst peer universities ”

“It’s been a great ride I’ve enjoyed working for this truly outstanding University,” Johnson said Skorton also announced in his statement that Prof Glenn Altschuler, American studies, and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, will step down from his current role as vice president of University relations when the new vice president is appointed

“[Altschuler] served with distinction as vice president for University relations for the past four years, ” Skorton said in the statement ”

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at am2359@cornell edu

Princeton alumna Susan Patton garnered international media attention when she submitted a letter to the editor for The Daily Princetonian Friday that urged female students to find a husband while at Princeton The letter prompted negative backlash for its advice that “for most of you, the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never again have this concentration of

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Emma Quigley can be reached at eq26@cornell edu

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University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s national election surveys, which have been conducted since the end of World War II

Out of the $5 billion the NSF puts toward of its programs annually, only $7 million or less than 0 01 percent goes toward political science programs, according to van der Walle When this funding is divided across the staff and students in the 150 or so political s c

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i n t h e United States, the amount of money available to the profession is relatively small, van de Walle said

“ The impact is more symb o l i c a n d p o l i t i c a l , ” va n d e Wa l l e s a i d “ It’s s c a r y w h e n major decisions about what gets f u n d e d b e c o m e p o l i t i c a l l y mediated There’s really no r o l e i n p o l i t i c s

n g where the small amounts of money that are allocated to science should go That should be decided by the top scientists, rather than by politicians ” How e v e r, Pr o f C

s t i n e Leuenberger, science and technology studies, said she believes t h

d t o assess what research should be funded is effective She said NSF proposals are judged in terms of research project’s intell e c t u a l m e r i t a n d p o t e n t i a l broader impact

“ In s t e a d o f c u t t i n g f u n d s because fundamental research supposedly doesn’t sufficiently increase the nation’s ‘competitiveness and economic development ’ , it would be better to invest in trends that are already happening in various universities a push toward more engaged research and learning,” Leuenberger said in an email Leuenberger also said a better way to create effective and b a l a n c e d

opportunities for those affected to communicate “ We need more platforms where academics, policy makers and non-government organization representatives can meet in order to come up with evidence-based policies to better tackle social and political problems,” Leuenberger said Angie Boyce ’14, a Ph D candidate in the Department of Science & Technology Studies who has received money from the NSF, said she is ver y concerned about the future of scientific research as a whole

“Is this going to be an evaluation criteria that will affect all fields funded by the NSF? Is this going to be a sign of things to come for my field?” Boyce said “It’s important to prioritize not ever ything can be funded at ever y level but it seems like there are bigger fish to fr y ”

‘Jerr y ’ S hares Business Exper ience

a f i v e - d o l l a r c o r re s p o n d e n c e course at Penn State and decided to open up their first ice cream

s h o p a f t e r a c i n g t h e c o u r s e Greenfield said they had no previous experience or knowledge about setting up a business

“ We had no idea what we were doing,” Greenfield said

The two opened up their first ice cream parlor in Burlington, Vt , in 1978, mostly with money that they raised independently, according to Greenfield

The two continued to meet challenges during the first few years of business Vermont’s harsh winters forced them to reduce prices and drive around to grocer y stores and restaurants, selling ice cream in the back of Cohen’s car, which is how they “tumbled into the manufacturing and distribution business,” Greenfield said

The two caught a break when Pillsbur y agreed to start distributing their ice cream However, Pillsbur y decided to drop Ben & Jerr y ’ s after the its biggest supplier, Haagen Dazs, put pressure on them to sell their products exclusively, according to Greenfield

After Greenfield and Cohen attracted media attention with their “ What’s the Dough Boy

A f r a i d O f ? ” c a m p a i g n a response to Pillsbur y ’ s attempts to limit the distribution of Ben and Jerr y ’ s ice cream Pillsbur y backed down, and continued to

sell Ben & Jerr y ’ s as well “ We’re not ice cream guys anymore; we [were] becoming businessmen,” Greenfield said “It wasn ’ t exactly our idea of a good time We felt our business was becoming another cog in the economic machine ”

This drove them to want to sell their business However, after advice from a friend, Greenfield and Cohen decided to hold on to their company and change the way they ran their business

Instead of turning to individual investors for funds, Cohen and Greenfield decided to offer public stock to Vermont residents for $126 a share, which ran contrar y to what was suggested by t h e i

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Vermont owned a share in the company, Greenfield said They even expanded this offer nationally and opened the Ben & Jerr y ’ s Foundation, which receives 7 5 percent of the company ’ s pre-tax profits, the highest percentage of any publicly owned company

Aside from his own histor y, Greenfield spoke about the business world in general He said businesses are some of the most

society, and that as a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v FEC, there are no limits to how much corporations can contribute to political campaigns and influence legislation and the media

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ful force in society, why is business not addressing the biggest

asked

In order to address this issue, Greenfield said that Ben & Jerr y ’ s has redefined how they measure success as a company Instead of measuring success by the amount of money the company makes, Greenfield and Cohen added an additional component: how the company is able to improve the quality of life of the people in the places that they operate

Greenfield said the company tries to integrate both social and environmental concerns into the

& Jerr y ’ s For example, the company uses local and 100-percent fair trade ingredients, and they have 14 partner shops that are owned and operated by non-profit social ser vice agencies that work with at

t o Greenfield, by the end of the year, Ben & Jerr y ’ s will be 100percent free of genetically modified organisms

“ There is a spiritual aspect to business Just because the idea that the good that you do comes back to you is written in the Bible, and not in some business expert, doesn’t mean that it is any less valid,” Greenfield said “As we help others, we can ’ t help but be helped in return For businesses and people, it’s all exactly the same ”

Rudy Yoder can be reached at myoder@cornellsun com

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Balancing the Rights of Victims and the Accused

EARLIER THIS WEEK, A CORNELL STUDENT was arrested and charged with first degree rape According to court documents obtained by The Ithaca Journal, the victim was asleep in her girlfriend’s room when Peter Mesko ’13 entered uninvited, climbed into the bed and raped her The news of a Cornell student being accused of such a terrible crime in our community is devastating even more so in the wake of a series of sexual assaults committed on or near campus this fall However, what is also troubling is Cornellians’ seeming readiness to weigh the rights of one party over the other in cases of sexual assault

The Sun’s report Tuesday of Mesko’s arrest produced a firestorm of reactions by commenters on our website and on social media The polarity and extremity of many of the opinions that have been expressed is alarming Many have spewed vilely sexist platitudes, jumping without hesitation to Mesko’s defense or engaging in outright victim-blaming or disbelief On the opposite end of the spectrum, some were quick to crucify the man before the facts emerged Wednesday Many arrogantly condemned anyone who was unwilling to assign Mesko guilt before learning what evidence the police had against him

Rape culture does not originate from one side or the other alone It is caused by the warring of two extremes: those who ignore the epidemic of sexual violence against women, and those who deny the men they accuse of innocence until proven guilty Victims who report sexual assaults should be believed, while simultaneously, the accused should be afforded due process and a fair trial It is a tough balance to strike, but it is imperative to the safety of all members of our society women and men alike that we strike it

In the case at hand, the evidence against Mesko appears strong The Ithaca Journal cited court documents indicating that the victim and her girlfriend took a photograph of her attacker and subsequently identified Mesko by name The results of the rape kit collected at the hospital after the assault may further implicate Mesko in the crime A guilty verdict could prove those at Cornell who prescribed guilt to Mesko before the release of this information correct But that will not render appropriate those people’s display of utter disregard for the rights of the accused

Exercising prudence in sexual assault investigations and trials does not weaken anti-rape efforts; it bolsters them A single wrongful conviction can be more harmful to the movement to eliminate rape culture than 10 acquittals It fuels the fire of ignorance that leads to victim-blaming and making excuses for perpetrators of sexual assault Whether or not Mesko is found guilty in this particular case, our community should take care to avoid inadvertently fanning those flames

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Dining Guide

Wining and Dining: Where to Sip in Ithaca

By AUSTIN BUBEN Sun Staff Writer

This spring, as the warming sun returns to Ithaca (hopefully soon) and the daffodils pop up around Cornell’s campus, I hope that you will take some time to discover some of the world-class vineyards and wineries we are so blessed to have right in our own backyard I have compiled a list of my five favorite wineries, all unique in their own rights that will give you an experience that is

Lake’s, “terroir ” BLOOMER CREEK VINEYARD: HECTOR, N Y

Deb Bermingham and Kim Engle create wine “made with a sense of adventure” in their stunningly beautiful yet unassuming

lofted barn winer y they built with their own hands Located just off Highway 414 alongside L

offers several varieties of wine all with a distinct idiosyncratic style that is delightfully unlike any other Finger Lakes wine I’ve tast-

Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Pinot

No i r, C a b e

Fr a n c a n d Cabernet Sauvignon, all of which are definite must-tastes If you can ’ t make the adventure, be sure to at least visit Deb at the Ithaca Farmers Market on Saturdays, which is opening back up this weekend (Hallelujah)

L AKEWOOD VINEYARDS: WATKINS GLEN, N Y

Three things here: breathtak-

award-winning wines Located at the base of Seneca Lake, the

Lakewood Vineyards has been producing several varieties and styles of wine since 1989 While it does produce European vari-

Chardonnay, it has opened up its tanks to more native grapes like Concord and Niagara, producing delicious wines of all styles: sweet to dr y, dessert to sparkling I per-

sparkling white wine perfect for those days when Champagne is

enough

ATWATER ESTATE VINEYARDS: BURDET T, N.Y.

A

Lakes, Atwater Estate Vineyards in located on the South Eastern side of Seneca and produces consistent, clean wines vintage after vintage It is currently growing its grapes using sustainable practices and participates in The New

wines that are of higher quality but that also better the land Become part of the community and be sure to tr y the sparkling 2008 Cuvee Brut, which won double gold in the New York Wine and Food Classic, or any of t h e i r o t h e r a w a rd w i n n i n g sparkling blends

RED NEW T CELL ARS:

HECTOR, N Y

On e w o rd c o m e s t o m i n d

when I think Red Newt: local I can ’ t help but love the “ grown here, made here” approach that Red Newt has in both its winemaking as well as in the food it offers in their bistro Sit down in the dining room and feast from a seasonal menu offering exceptional cuisine made from ingredients sourced from over 30 local farms and pur veyors Lunch or dinner, be sure to visit Red Newt

to experience the true “terroir” on the Finger Lakes via both the glass and the plate

HECTOR WINE COMPANY:

HECTOR, N Y

The newest on my list, Hector W i n e C o m p a n y i s q u i c k l y becoming a must-taste on the e a s t s i d e o f Se n e c a L a k e It s m o t t o “ w i ne f or t he soul” i s reflected in both the wine it produces but also the ambiance it creates in the tasting room Local art as well as designs from viticulturist Jason Hazlitt deck the

walls of Hector Wine Company’s t a st i ng room w here d eli ght ful and engaging staff pours wines m a d e b y w i n e m a k e r Ju s t i n Boyette I recommend experiencing either of the “Soul” labels, b l e n d e d re d a n d w h i t e w i n e s crafted from both European varietal and native grapes Wine is art that will touch your soul at Hector Wine Company

Austin Buben can be reached at abuben@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Let’s face it: You probably already know how you feel about Tyler, the Creator The Odd Future mouthpiece, Adult Swim star and general rabble-rouser is the type of guy to tweet in all-caps, mock anti-domestic violence protesters and direct a Mountain Dew commercial featuring a talking If I’m painting in broad strokes, you probably fall into one of two camps: You either are one of the hardcore Odd Future fans who love Tyler and his hell-raising crew for their incendiary tracks and shout things like “Golf Wang” and “Kill People! Burn Shit! Fuck School!” at inappropriate intervals, or you find Tyler’s whole shtick to be immature, homophobic and misogynist (a reasonable case, as Tyler’s music is not averse to rape references and the use of certain gay slurs)

Prior to listening to Wolf, I found myself caught somewhere in between On his debut record Bastard, Tyler revealed himself to be a highly charismatic rapper with a unique production style and an ability to rap both about his own father’s absenteeism and, on “French,” “opening a church to sell coke and Led Zeppelin ” On Goblin, however, he let his own antagonistic tendencies get the best of him, resulting in an uneven album that divided fans Wolf stands as a reminder to those disappointed by Goblin’ s inconsistencies that Tyler is still growing into his remarkable talents As the gorgeous glockenspiel-sprinkled soundscape of opener “Wolf ” announces, this album is a fulfillment of Tyler’s boundless potential as a producer Taking cues from collaborator Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange (the

To call New Orleans pop duo Generationals’ third album Heza “cryptic” would be an understatement What is a “Heza?” The Internet doesn’t know The opening track “Spinoza” refers to a Dutch philosopher, the closing track “Durga II” refers to a Hindu goddess and “Kemal”? Wel l it’s Turkish? But it’s not just the titles that are cryptic Heza is a distinct departure from the duo’s bright, catchy albums Con Law (2009) and Actor-Caster (2011) that turns joy to melancholia, articulation to muddiness and specificity and purpose to vaguity

Fans who were drawn in by ’60s doo-wop/California dreamin’/British invasion first single “When They Fight, They Fight, or the clap-filled “Ten-Twenty-Ten opener of Actor-Caster will be completely confused by this latest L P The Generationals’ sophomore album wasn ’ t perfect some lyrics like “ we can ’ t stand each other but we can ’ t be apart ” read a little too T-Swifty for comfort but tracks like “You Say it Too” and “I Promise” reveal an encyclopedic range of musical references, and the collaging is pointed and selective not overarching mimicry “Yours Forever” was featured in the season one finale of HBO’s Girls as the perfect opener to an impromptu hipster wedding an aura of spontaneity and fun that pervaded both the band’s debut and sophomore albums

Heza tries to take these same influences the lighthearted guitar sound of the ’60s, the addictive rock choruses of the ’70s and the stripped-down quality now trending in response to over-digitization and make them heavy The result verges on depressing in a lot of places, particularly in middle-of-the-album tracks like “I Never Know” and

Grammy-winner is featured on several tracks here), Wolf goes for a neo-classicist palette, mixing jazzy pianos and horn stabs with the abrasive synthesizer sounds and overdriven handclaps that have always characterized Tyler’s beats While tracks like “Trash Wang” (featuring the screams of Lee Spielman from OF-affiliates Trash Talk) demonstrate that Tyler can still put out that old school Odd Future racket, songs like the slow-burning crack meditation “48” reveal that this kid’s record collection goes a lot deeper than Eminem and N E R D

Tyler tries to tie together the myriad tracks on Wolf with a story about a Camp Flog Gnaw, a love triangle and a bike named Slater While it takes a lot of imagination and searching on RapGenius to make any sense of this loose narrative, Wolf does feature a couple of great lyrical moments Tyler breaches the topic of romance with a lot more balance than on previous outings: “Answer” is a bona fide story of young love, with Tyler fantasizing about holding an old crush’s hand (the come-on “ treat my hand like a bowling ball and grip” is endearing coming from a kid who has rapped in detail about his refusal to pull out) The aforementioned “48” details, with the help of a closing soliloquy from Nas, the slippery slope of crack dealing, familial neglect and gang violence It is notable because it shows sympathy for the dealers (“Growing up you barely had a roof / Now you got a coupe and it doesn’t have a roof ”) without defending their actions On the stuttering “Cowboy,” Tyler details his own straight-edge philosophy and how he reconciles his actions

with those of his pot-obsessed friends “Colossus” is another standout, where Tyler deals with the adulation of adoring fans that are bothering him on a line for a ride on Six Flags; he comes off as a kid who, while grateful for the success, is struggling with his newfound status as youth icon

By no means is Wolf Tyler’s “ mature album,” though; on single “Domo 23” he raps about plotting with Justin Bieber to shoot One Direction and discredits accusations of homophobia by kissing his friend Lucas In order to ensure that things are not getting too high-minded, the hectically rhythmic “Tamale” opens with a bum/rectum rhyme and a command to “tell Spike Lee he’s a goddamn nigger ” It’s meant to press buttons and infuriate parents, but it’s also, like most Odd Future’s stuff, insidiously fun

Tyler, the Creator is still rap ’ s resident angry young man, so it’d be foolish to assume that he’d temper his lyrical approach or reign in his albums’ expansive running times

Like his revealing and highly active Twitter account, he wants you to appreciate him, warts and all Fortunately for us, it’s the warts his romantic frustrations and his struggle with his father’s abandonment that make for the most poignant moments Luckily, the sillier, vulgar tracks serve instead like a spoonful of sugar or a Mountain Dew? that helps the medicine go down

in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun com

“Awake ” The opening track “Spinoza,” while not accessible, is at least perky, and “Put a Light On,” is perhaps closest to what fans would expect bouncy verses and juxtaposing plucky bass with xylophone Regardless, most of the album blurs together and, listening to it, I can ’ t shake the feeling that I should be sifting through the jeans rack at Forever 21 “You Got Me” and “Extra Free Year” are the weightiest of the album’s tracks, pushing the electronic in a way that breeds nostalgia for the 2009 “Bobby Beale” however much of an overly-ironic jab at manic-pixie-dream-girl romcoms, at least it sounded like a human voice Perhaps the band was striving to reimagine its sound in the vein of many indie artists who sense repetition and boredom coming along once they pass album two Heartthrob, Tegan & Sara’s latest, is an ’80’s-roller-skating-rink-soundtrack meant to avoid the situation in which head-scratching fans hear a song and say, “Is this from The Con? Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is from The Con ” But reviews were mixed on that effort, as well as that of our fave Brit Kate Nash’s, to depart from the somberwhimsy of her sometimes Carrollesque/sometimes Motowny sophomore album My Best Friend is You with an altogether screechy and scary third album, Girl Talk Indie rock is notorious for being “ one note ” that’s why it scores your jean-shopping but these two dudes had seemed to be claiming responsibility for making it hooky and appealing Evolution is desirable, but not at the expense of what made the band interesting in the first place What had seemed like a competent nod to sunshine pop and the good bits of a whole bunch of bygone musical eras now seems like a confused mess I liked the horns and the occa-

sional girl-group reference I thought lyrics like “I been watchin’ the birds as they go, I been keepin’ my bank account low,” were fun times, almost akin to those “before my daddy took my T-bird away ” The band took its name from the 2008 Presidential campaign, in which every issue was described as being a “generational issue ” If the Generationals tried to be tongue-in-cheek, they’ve lost that footing This transition from stellar sophomore album to third album flop seems characteristically Millennial generation

We were talking about an age of New Sincerity, or weren ’ t you listening? It’s why the Girls dialogue smacks of Salinger and we ve finally started trash-talking Taylor Swift It s why Noah and the Whale are tearing it up with their way-morefun-than-Petty Americana storylines and the Lumineers are running away with their bare-bones Dylan poetry The twenty-somethings go nutso for throwbacks and moody Millenials may weep for Cat Power, but they secretly crave all the spunk and heart that Generationals willfully provided this time two years ago Sad day for hipster sad-people

Heza is a slice of the same old misery

With a new album from Vampire Weekend and (GASP!) Andy McMahon’s first EP since Jack’s Mannequin on the way, I’m writing off Generationals as a contender to satisfy my Beach Boys soft-spot/sweet tooth for now

“You can always come home,” though friend-o’s “I promise ”

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun com

BY TOM MOORE Sun Staff Writer

Queer South Asian spoken word artivist duo DARK MATTER had the Anabel Taylor chapel snapping on Monday night The Sun caught up with them after the show for a conversation on white supremacy, Hinduism and queer politics, both inside and outside the Ivor y Tower

THE SUN: It seems you ’ re tr ying to instigate a culture shift among South Asian Diaspora communities What shift? And how?

JANANI BALA: Part of it is reclaiming the histories of struggles that we ’ ve already had, and undoing, unlearning, a lot of these assimilator y strategies that we ’ ve learned by moving to the West, and feeling that the models of success that we had to build were constructed along the lines of whiteness We talk about anti-blackness and other forms of racism that take place in South Asian communities, because racism is an easy way to mark yourself as assimilated, and as aligned with the actions of white supremacy

SUN: That’s fucked up

J B : Yeah, it’s really fucked up It’s white supremacy It’s really fucked up

It’s a l o t a b o u t re c l a m a t i o n , a b o u t relearning the histories that have already been taught to us, but with the perspective of mobilizing our people We were talking about how, once you have news about something in the family, ever ybody knows all of a sudden And what if you applied that to a political mobilization model? Our people already know how to communicate ver y rapidly, intensely, and intimately with each other Now use that to dismantle capitalism! It’s possible It’s a process of unlearning, relearning, producing hybrid models for ourselves that need to be modern, politicized, and also deeply rooted in culture Not in India, as this exotic object thing, but

MIndia, as this site of struggle and anti-colonial resistance

SUN: How can students at elite universities authentically take part in anti-racist, anti-colonial struggle?

ALOK VAID-MENON: I think the first step is recognizing that you have almost unlimited access to capital, in terms of funding So you can host events like this, or seminars, or talks, where you can bring people from outside of the community, and you can fund a lot of people who are doing great social movement organizing outside Bring in people from working class N G O ' s, or artists and community leaders, who could really benefit from finance from the institution

Second, consciousness raising among the elite members of society Students should graduate from these universities understanding that it’s not just a position for them to be successful, but that they also have a moral responsibility to give back That can make a big difference

Third is really just spending time outside of the university, and not thinking that all of your knowledge can come from the books you ’ re reading You need to have much more applied experiences, and not allow the university to make you distanced from the reality of the situation of most people

SUN: Is there useful radical work happening in the university? Will the next generation of radicals go to college, or will they operate more effectively and in a more revolutionar y way by not enrolling?

A V : There’s already a generation of radicals that aren ’ t in the university, but they’re not called radicals The ver y project of identifying as a radical is already a class project The truly radical people are those who are able to maintain and exist in the conditions of incredible capitalism So workers, laborers, janitors, who are finding ways to maintain their culture and persevere in the face of these systems, to me are already radical But if we ’ re talking about middle class

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radicals, I think people are beginning to doubt the efficacy of the university, as a place to actually do revolutionar y politics, because the university system co-opts radical activism and makes it just another thing that you can learn I think middle class radicals are increasingly going to tr y to explore avenues outside of the university system

J B : My hope is that the university system can be dismantled, so that we can start to think about knowledge production and sharing as a collective process that doesn’t happen on the backs of the unwaged laborers, or the people who are in social movements, or are sur viving

SUN: Tell me about your experience of Hinduism

J B : What I’m tr ying to do through my art and my art as political work is to advance the ways that Hinduism and the Global South already have of expressing and articulating queerness, not understood in the Western sense It’s really colonization and its

imposition of a Victorian moral system that introduces sodomy laws and the policing of gender sexuality, in this intense, Western, Victorian way I was given all these Hindu narratives as a young person growing up in a Hindu household, but there was always this silence around the sexuality that was hinted at in those narratives, and was actually really intense and seething throughout them My attempt at getting at characters like Kali is not necessarily to say, oh, Kali’s a femme I’m not tr ying to apply Western frameworks to them, but basically tr ying to get from the narratives that I grew up learning a sense of how to build a new old kind of hybrid queerness that is locating and launching from my position as a diasporic South Asian with religious roots in Hinduism

Tom Moore is a juniorin the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at tmoore@cornellsun com

Lying Next to a Spectacle

aybe tomorrow, if you stop by New York’s Museum of Modern Art around closing time, you’ll see Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass case Or, better yet, you’ll see James Franco watching Tilda Swinton sleep in a glass case As you ’ ve already heard too many times, on about five more unspecified days this year, Swinton will be taking a nap at unspecified locations in MoMA As The Huffington Post has noted, it’s not the kind of performance that’s going to win Swinton an Academy Award It’s not going to win her the Turner Prize either, but then again, that’s not the point The artistic merits of Swinton’s performance piece have already been savaged by mostly bemused critics, some of whom have neither too kindly nor fairly cast Swinton as a fame hungry B-list actress

Call her eccentric, maybe, but the Scottish actress is arguably more interesting than the average celebrity While the impeccably dressed Swinton won an Oscar for playing a vindictive lawyer in 2007’s Michael Clayton (if you really want some kind of proof of her giftedness), she is perhaps better known for championing androgyny and resembling David Bowie To further fuel charges of bizarreness, Swinton gave an expectedly peculiar speech in Bowie’s stead at the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition of over 300 Bowie artifacts Reflecting on recent weeks, Swinton surmised that, “the alien is the best company after all for so many more than the few ” All of this, of course, qualifies Swinton as a worthy art object By art critic Willoughby Sharp’s definition, at least, Swinton’s work does count as body art, where the body is “the subject and object of the work ”

Slyly entitled The Maybe, Swinton’s piece is decidedly selfaware The identification card matter-of-factly reads: “living artist, glass, steel, mattress, pillows, linen, water, spectacles ” First staged by Swinton and the artist Cornelia Parker at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995, The Maybe was brought to

MoMA by Chief Curator at Large Klaus Biesenbach, who thought the work historic But for someone as, well, inventive and unusual as Swinton, The Maybe seems rather tame No one is getting nailed to a Volkswagen Beetle (Chris Burden in Trans-fixed) or letting strangers cut away her clothing as she kneels without protest on stage (Yoko Ono in Cut Piece) It might not be easy to look comfor table while pretending to sleep in a glass box for hours, but Marina Abramovic indisputably surpasses Swinton At Abramovic’s 2010 MoMA retrospective, she not only sat still for hours (736 5 hours, to be precise), but gazed at visitors one-on-one so intensely that many of them cried

celebrity It might be more interesting if Swinton wore, say, an ivory Lanvin gown or a soft blue Haider Ackermann suit

But she doesn’t choose to do that Maybe the point is that there isn’t much out of the ordinary to be seen, or that the ordinary is worthy of being seen Maybe we are the show; we create the spectacle as we clamor around the art

The Maybe is audaciously unspectacular It is not explicitly violent, though some lines are crossed The glass case invites you to stare hard at Swinton and, in doing so, compels some kind of uneasy introspection: What are you looking at, and why are you looking at it? Unlike in Abramovic’s 2010 performance, however, the artist’s gaze is not reflected back at the viewer The artist is present, but not quite Still, you just want to see what all the fuss is about, just like the camera-wielding tourists who peer studiously the Mona Lisa at the Louvre As a kind of idealized sleeping beauty, Swinton weaves several romances together particularly those of fairytales and

None of the above is groundbreaking in the least But that doesn’t mean it isn’t, in some way, magical In MoMA’s case, it all makes perfect sense “Reticence is the new excess, ” wrote art historian Terry Smith, as he discussed MoMA’s architecture in his page-turning meditation on that perpetual question: What is contemporary art? Built in the aftermath of the unignorable, lavish curves of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao, MoMA’s new building is almost invisible In an attempt to make “massive consumption inconspicuous,” Yoshio Taniguchi implored MoMA’s trustees to, “Give me your millions, and I will make you an outstanding museum Give me more, and I will make it disappear ” Give me your $25, and I will give you Tilda Swinton Maybe

Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun com Darn That Dream appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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schools, so he would simply hop from one gym to the next

Landing a job at Best Buy finally allowed Alves to fully join a team He currently balances his time working, attending school at Monroe Community College and training with Team Empire Like many of the young MMA hopefuls, he has dreams of soon turning pro and eventually making a living via fierce punches and kicks, takedowns and slick submission moves

Just in It for Glory & God

With few scars and little cage experience, many of the amateurs appeared to be all hunger and nerves With only three of 13 fights going to decision, and most ending via TKO or submission in the first round, defense tactics appear to be secondary priorities in such young careers

It is a testament to the rise of MMA, however, that these bouts showcased highly trained young martial artists, executing elite moves like spinning back kicks and knee bars Clearly though, some of the competitors stepped into the cage purely for the glory and perhaps the pride

For Paul Burress, his fights serve as a testimony to his Higher Power Burress happens to be the senior pastor at Victory Church just outside of Rochester and the Monroe County Sheriff ’ s Chaplain But this is a man of the cloth and peace who knows how to brawl

Pastor Paul made short work of Eric Reed at Gladius III, winning by TKO

“When I took the fight months ago, not only did I not realize that it was the day before Easter but also that today is my wife’s birthday,” Pastor Paul said “I wanted to win fast without getting injured so I could still give my Easter sermon tomorrow ”

The bout served as the 38-year-old’s simultaneous official debut and farewell It was a lifelong dream for Pastor Paul, who had started training in mixed martial arts while at a Bible college in Missouri and competed in unsanctioned backroom no-holds-barred affairs back in the late 90s

Pastor Paul used the fight as a platform to raise funds for an orphanage in Haiti and sold more than 500 Gladius III tickets to his congregation, friends, and family members He has become a subject in the forthcoming documentary, Fight Church, which also features Jon Jones and Benson Henderson

Back at Victory Church, Pastor Paul has a 3,000-square-foot martial arts gym, where he helps train young men and women as part of his ministry’s MMA outreach

“For me, it’s a chance to do something I love and to reach out to people who might not normally come to church,” said Pastor Paul “So much of fighting parallels life We are all struggling and fighting something, and there are many fighting metaphors in the Bible ”

Never Judge a Bruiser by His Belly

Only in MMA can you have an auditorium where the Labatt Blue is free flowing, while a fighter, having just delivered a bloody beatdown, starts preaching the Gospel and love of Christ in a cage to an audience whose vast collective tattoo ink is probably worth more than $1 million

Always expect MMA to deliver the unexpected

Take for instance the night’s co-main event between middleweights, Aaron Jeffrey and Alan Hoezle Jeffrey appeared like a Calvin Klein model Adonis, body rippling with shredded muscle and six-pack abs Complete with a handlebar mustache, Hoezle had more of a throwback carney look, and his gooey midsection suggested that he drinks more six packs than anything The Adonis ended up winning in the third round, but the fight was much closer than anyone anticipated Other fighters that night who had all the right looks and muscles ended up tapping out or being KO’d

For those of you who have never viewed mixed martial arts live, or at all, you are in luck Gladius Fights will hold its next event at Ultimate Athletics in the Ithaca Mall on Saturday, April 27

You might just walk out of there as a MMA convert

J D O’Kasick can be reached at jokasick@cornellsun com

Cornell Uses Saturday As Benchmark Race

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The Red will look to take home the Matthews Cup for the 18th year in a row; the cup is awarded to the winner of the varsity race in the dual regatta between Cornell and Penn The Red will also look to take home the Leonard Cup, which is awarded to the team with the majority of victories in more than eight races that day While last season, Harvard edged out Cornell and Penn, Cornell finished in second and looks to build upon successes from last season

For the Red’s two opponents Saturday this will be the second competition of their seasons The Quakers lightweight team swept MIT last week winning, the Varsity Eight, Second Varsity, Third Varsity and Fours races The Red's other opponent, Harvard, had similar success last week against Delaware, as the Crimson won the Varsity Eight and Second Varsity race

“There is always a very high level of competition in our league We anticipate this and do not take any of our opponents lightly,” senior captain Taylor Black said “We expect to have very tight races throughout the season ”

While winning is the key objective for the team on Saturday, it is also the first competition of the season and will be used as a benchmark to gauge where the team is at during this early stage of the season

“Our race this Saturday against Harvard and Penn will allow us to gauge our early season speed while showing us the specific areas of our race plan that we need to work on, ” Black said

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at tmaggiohucek@cornellsun com

Ten Questions columnist Reena Gilani sits down with senior Justin Schick to discuss his love of polo, playing “stick and ball,” and partying in France with his twin

1 How did you get involved with polo?

I was learning how to ride the same time I was learning how to walk I’ve always either owned horses or been involved with them through showing horses across the country When I was a freshman in high school, I realized that there was no real future in college athletics with traditional English or Western riding disciplines I always played other sports too, and polo gave me an opportunity to combine my hand-eye coordination and my appreciation for horses, so I started playing my freshman year of high school When I realized Cornell had a varsity polo team, I really started playing a lot and I got various jobs in the industry I started grooming I would get out of the house at like 8 a m and drive down to the polo club in Atlanta and in the 80-something degrees and 90percent humidity weather, I would be wrapping horses’ legs and getting all the horses ready for the guy I was working for In exchange for that, he would give me a horse or two, and I would play his horses

The better that I got, the more people would want me to play with them It got to the point where people would let me use their horses without anything else in exchange So, I got started with polo solely through the generosity of other people

Can you tell me about your run for hardest-working male player on the team, and how you ’ ve been cheated out of the award for the past three years?

I don’t know anyone who works harder on his work cruise, goes to more games and actively tries to help as much as I do I feel that my earnest attempts to help go greatly underappreciated and overlooked

Who wins out over you?

Nik Feldman He’s actually the hardest worker on the team I thought I worked really hard and then I met him

Why did your amazing polo career on the grass in Florida and Argentina never trans-

late into one at Cornell?

Playing lots of outdoor polo and playing professionally, it’s a completely different game I’m at a disadvantage because I played so much outdoor polo, and most guys here have had lots of indoor experience If they want to play me in the outdoors, though, they can bring their best

2 What are some of the sounds that you make when playing the game?

I’m really pushing the envelope this semester with what sounds I can get away with during polo It ranges from horrible shrieking sounds really sexual noises to Indian war calls

And what are some of your ridiculous antics during practice in general?

So, for instance, two weeks ago, I successfully cantered around the entire arena at a very fast canter, holding no reins with my hands on my head, and I was yelling at everyone to look at me I also like to do Wild West shootouts, where I’ll be cantering along and suddenly drop my reins and pull up two guns and shoot at people

Do these habits help improve your game?

I think it definitely improves team spirit and increases overall team happiness

3 Beyond riding horses you ’ ve also gone to see horse races Can provide some information about your experiences at Preakness ’12?

I don’t even know if there was actual horse racing going on, but I remember that day perfectly I don’t know if it’s our polo team ’ s dashing good looks or the ridiculous outfits that we were wearing including my brother’s white polo shirt that we cut the sleeves off of the morning of, Alec Budow’s Texas Longhorns shirt and some lacrosse pinnies that showed off our unbelievable guns but somehow, walking through the crowd of 100,000 on the infield at the Preakness, we ended up on national TV

Speaking of Alec, if you had to pick marry one and kill one: Alec or [girlfriend]

Alyssa Bush?

Marry Alec, 100 percent of the time

Can you give me some insight on how Alec’s recovery is going and if he is going to have to retire from polo?

It’s been really tough, and it’s something that’s in the back of most guys ’ minds every day Ever since he stopped playing, it’s been hard Practice without him would be like if I didn’t make my crazy noises at practice every day it’s just part of who we are as a team Life would not go on Clocks would stop ticking

4 If you were a girl, which guy on the polo team would you most like to “stick and ball” with?

I don’t know if you ’ re aware but the polo team is nationally ranked as one of the hottest teams in America, so that’s a very loaded question If I could stick and ball with all of them I would totally do that, but if I had to pick one person it would probably be Connor Pardell He has visited my house in Atlanta and I have known him all four years that I’ve been here There’s something about him maybe his undying love for Poughkeepsie that makes him the type of guy I’d like to stick and ball with

5 Let’s talk about your everyday attire Why do you think you look good in backwards hats and camo jackets?

I’ll forever be known as the kid who wore an Atlanta Braves hat at Cornell I actually contemplated taking my senior photo while wearing my Braves hat I’m just a huge fan of hats in general, reason being that you don’t actually have to brush your hair or worry about it I like just rolling out of bed and going to campus; I hate taking time to shower in the morning, so what’s more efficient than putting on a hat and walking to class?

And the rest of your outfits?

Most girls don’t know this, but I wear a lot of Ralph Lauren because I’m actually sponsored by them

Do you have a good contract with them?

Yeah, Nacho Figueras is currently the face of Polo Ralph Lauren, but when his contract ’ s up in 2015, I’m going to be tak-

ing over full time

But what about your job at Deutsche Bank?

Deutsche Bank is one of those little two-year jobs that you do, and then you go into modeling A good finance background is what makes the successful model successful

Is it true that you got the Deutsche Bank logo tattooed on your butt after getting the job offer?

It’s weird, yeah It’s this German fad that you have to do when you sign your contract to work there It’s not as bad as the stuff I’ve heard they do at Goldman, though

6. What happened that time you and your twin brother threw a party in France?

I was studying abroad at Georgia Tech and they have a satellite campus in Metz, an hour east of Paris It was our birthday and so Jeff and I wanted to throw a rager for the 300 kids that were part of the program, since there really weren ’ t any parties

We went to this supermarket Cora and just filled two shopping carts with beers It was the most ridiculous amount of alcohol for the cheapest price It cost us about 100 euros and we had charged a cover because we didn’t think we would be able to repay it all, and we ended up making an additional 100 euros beyond the cost Everyone from the school came and there were seriously no parties that rivaled that Did your profit have to do with the fact that you ’ re so well versed in agricultural commodities?

Yeah I think it directly correlated to my knowledge of finance and trading I saw an opportunity to exploit the market The kids were thirsty, and we quenched that thirst

To view the rest of the 10 Questions with Justin Schick, please visit www cornellsun com

Gilani can be reached at rgilani@cornellsun com

Rowers Ready to St art Spring on Rig ht Foot

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams will both be in action on Saturday and are looking to start off their seasons with winning performances The heavyweight rowers will head to Cambridge to face off with Harvard on the Charles River, while the lightweight team will travel to Philadelphia to compete against Harvard and Penn For both Cornell teams, it will be the first taste of competition this season

The heavyweight team will be the first opponent that Harvard faces this season Last season, the Crimson’s varsity eight won bronze at the IRA Championships and finished in the top three nationally for the second consecutive season

“Harvard is one of the top crews in our league, and we ’ re all very excited to test our speed against them,” senior Jim Rectenwald said

The Red graduated five seniors from the varsity boat last season and have focused on finding replacements for those newly opened spots While the new members of the varsity eight settle into their new role, four seniors will be returning to the varsity boat and will be providing the veteran leadership for those new members of the varsity boat

“We’ve been fortunate to fill those spots with some really talented guys Our focus at this point is to mesh them into the eight and begin to build speed as a group, ” Rectenwald said

While it is important for the new boats to find a rhythm in opening competition, it will be equally important for the Red to plan and be prepared for the weather conditions in Cambridge

La xers Head to Fifth Iv y Game

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

Cornell will play its fifth Ivy League game of the season Saturday as the team travels to Hanover, N H to play rival Dartmouth The No 14 Red (63, 2-2 Ivy League) will enter play with a three-game losing streak after winning its first six games The Green (7-3, 3-0) is undefeated against Ivy League opponents, but is 2-2 at home

“Dartmouth has been one of the top Ivy teams every year, ” senior captain and attacker Caroline Salisbury said “Our senior class has never beaten them, so a win on Saturday would be huge for the program ”

The last time Cornell got the better of Dartmouth was in 2008, when the Red beat the Green at home, 10-9 The last time Cornell won at Dartmouth was in 1984 by a score of 12-9 Historically, the Green has dominated the series, posting a record of 29-6 against Cornell

“In the past, Dartmouth’s major strengths have been the draw control and their defense, and we expect that to be the same this year, ” Salisbury said This season, Dartmouth has actually allowed as many goals as they have scored (99) They also have won more draw controls, but not by that much (114-112) On the other hand, Cornell has outscored opponents 123-94 and has won more draws, 126-111 Both teams have allowed opponents the same amount of shots on goal in the season

“Really battling for and winning the draw control is a crucial part of our game strategy so that we can take control of the game, ” Salisbury said “We need to play the fast pace game we like to play as

Rectenwald noted that one of the key factors to the Red’s success on Saturday against Harvard will be the team ’ s ability to prepare and adjust to the environment they compete in,

“It’s also important that we ’ re thinking about how to attack the race conditions: there’s going to be plenty of wind

opposed to allowing Dartmouth to slow the game down ” Cornell will also look to standout scorers like top goal scorers sophomore attacker Lindsay Toppe and junior midfielder Amanda D’Amico Toppe and D’Amico are 1-2 on the team in goals scored with 31 and 22 respectively Salisbury has been consistent, too, with 21 goals and 27 points, good for second on the team behind Toppe

The game Saturday is an early afternoon contest starting at noon The Red will only have two more Ivy League games the rest of the season one at home against Brown on April 12 and one at Yale on April 20

and chop on the Charles, and we need to be ready for that,” he said

The lightweight team will begin its season on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia against Penn and Harvard

B oth men ’ s he av y weig ht and lighweight teams prepare for start See M ROWING page 13

Gladius in the Armor y

When the Canadian middleweight hit the canvas, the crowd in Rochester went into a raucous frenzy Their hometown fighter, Toren Reeves, followed up the second-round knockdown of his opponent with a ground-andpound barrage and, after the referee stepped in to call the fight, he had won his first-ever amateur MMA bout by TKO

Many had considered Reeves to be an underdog against Ashton Nemdhari, who trains

with Team Ascension out of Niagara, Canada But the Rochester Bedroc MMA fighter answered those expectations with fierce aggression from the opening bell

Throughout the fight, the crowd cheered like it was a championship bout in the UFC, but here were two young amateur fighters with 0-0 records and only dreams of greater glory

This is MMA in New York This is Gladius Fights

On a Saturday night at the Rochester Main Street Armory, some 26 combatants stepped

inside the cage to do battle in 13 amateur mixed martial arts bouts as part of Gladius Fights’ third ever event held in New York State

As New York has yet to sanction professional MMA, fight fans used to have to travel to Pennsylvania or New Jersey to see live cards A steady rise of amateur MMA promotions has spread across the state, and the Ithaca-based Gladius aims to be at the head of the pack (Gladius has also held professional cards

at Indian Reservations )

“Gladius Fights is amazing,” said the 22-year-old fighter, Anthony Alves, who trains with Team Empire in Rochester

“Finally, we can fight in New York and receive the best treatment ” Winning his fight that night via rear naked choke submission, Alves has the classic rough-andtumble background of many fighters over the ages Growing up impoverished, the featherweight said that he couldn’t afford the dues at martial arts