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Open discussion | S A international at-large representative Shivang Tayal ’16, S A President Juliana Batista ’18 and U A undergraduate representative Matthew Battaglia ’16 discuss improving representation for minority groups at an open forum yesterday.

Students Call for Increased Representation

Student Assembly reevaluates minority representation at forum

By ANNE SNABES Sun Staff Writer

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Spring Flower Bomb Workshop

4 - 6 p m , Dilmun Hill Student Farm

Miss Representation Screening

5 - 7 p m , 3330 Carol Tatkon Center

Yuri’s Night at the Fuertes Obser vator y 7:30 p m - midnight, Fuertes Obser vator y

C.U. Music: Guest Organist Anne Laver

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News, “Pe ti t ion Urg ing Ber nie Sanders To V isi t Corne ll G ains Suppor t, ” Tuesday

Speaking about a potential Bernie Sanders visit to Ithaca I think it would be great for a lot of the students who have adopted their parents’ views to see Bernie in front of them speaking to our generation about our future ”

Research technician Kayla Elyse Brooks

Sarah Dellett ’18 Opi

Speaking about his refusal to vote for presidential candidate Donald Trump “I firmly believe that the free market is the best possible route to lift up the poor and working class and that the nation cannot continue on its reckless spending spree And it is for this very reason that I will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald J Trump ”

Michael Glanzel ’18

Opini on, “The El ec ti on Comes t o New York,” Thur sday

Writing about the April 19 New York presidential primary

“At this point the majority of the states have already voted But the nation s attention will now turn to New York ”

Kevin Kowalewski ’17

Former Johnson School Prof Dies At 78 After Illness

By BARBARA ESUOSO Sun Contributor

Former Johnson Graduate School of Management Prof David Ahlers, entrepreneurial management, died in his hometown of Ithaca last Monday after a long illness He was 78 years old

After working on Wall Street, Ahlers arrived at Cornell in 1972, where he taught for 13 years and earned his Ph D During that time, he directed the Johnson Executive Development Program and participated in the Cornell Research Fund, according to The Ithaca Journal

Ahlers then co-founded the Cayuga Venture Fund in 1996 a venture capital fund that invested in upstate New York star tups, according to The Journal

Current Johnson senior lecturer Zach Shulman ’87 J D ’90 joined Ahlers in 2004 He described Ahlers as “ a truly sweet guy ”

“Dave was instrumental in the formation of Cayuga Venture Fund,” Shulman said “He was thorough, analytical and levelheaded ” Johnson Prof Joseph Thomas, operations management, called Ahlers “nice, interesting and highly intelligent ”

“He was a professor who was committed to his students,” Thomas said “He brought a strong academic and real-world background to bear on his teaching ”

Thomas added that Ahlers had wide-ranging interests both within business and beyond

“I remember working with him to utilize something called ‘dynamic programming’ to analyze the best way to win a sailing race, ” Thomas said

Ahlers received multiple teaching awards, including a Cornell Excellence in Teaching award during his second year as visiting professor and the Berens Chair of Entrepreneurial Management, according to The Journal

“His greatest contribution to Cornell was the benefit his students received from him, in and out of class,” Thomas said

Ahlers received his B S in physics from Ohio State University, his M A in operations research from the University of Washington and his Ph D in management and computer science from Carnegie Mellon His thesis won a highly selective award given by Management Science Magazine and was followed by a book published in 1979, according to a University press release

A celebration in his honor will be held at Ithaca Yacht Club The date has not yet been announced, according to The Journal

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Lawyer A s s

By ELEANOR GOOD Sun Staff Writer

César Vargas, one of the first undocumented lawyer to be admitted to the New York State Bar, spoke at Cornell Law School Wednesday about his journey as an immigrants’ rights advocate and his role in drafting Sen Bernie Sanders’ (D-Vt ) immigration policy platform Vargas, the Latino Ou t re a c

story with his CUNY law school dean, who then helped him obtain private scholarships

“That’s why I always tell dreamers: ‘tell your story, ’” he said “There are so many people out there who are willing to support you You just need to let them know ” Vargas also said sharing his story became a powerful tool in mobilizing p

the issue of being an undocumented person who wanted to be admitted to the bar

“I spent almost four years waiting to become a licensed lawyer” Vargas said, alluding to the four year legal battle for certification that followed his graduation

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campaign, said that his status as “ a dreamer

M act for undocumented immigrants who entered the U S as young children greatly impacted the trajectory of his career and life

“There are so many people out there who are willing to support you. You just need to let them know ” C é s a r V a r g a s

After Vargas made it through college, he said he applied to law schools and received rejections solely due to his immigration status

“I remember one school sent me a letter saying ‘ you need to show social security,’” Vargas said He added that when he told them he did not have a social security number, the university replied that they could not accept him Fu

h e funds to attend law school posed a significant challenge

Vargas said that he was able to overcome these challenges by sharing his

“ I re m e m b e r when I came out to my friends in law school as undocumented, they told me ‘Now I understand immigration f ro m a d i f f e re n t perspective Now I see what it means to practice immigration law’” Vargas said He continued that humanizing people has been crucial to his work as an immigration reform advocate

“One of the central components of fixing this broken immigration system is seeing people as people,” he said After graduating from law school and passing the bar exam, Vargas said he faced yet another roadblock when he sought admission to the New York State Bar Although Vargas explained that having passed the bar he probably could have “flown under the radar” and been given a license to practice law w i t h o u t m e n

undocumented, he wanted to confront

Although Vargas said he initially regretted his decision to place himself in such a situation, the regret disappeared when he was finally granted the ability to practice

“The court ’ s decision was beautiful,” he said, “It said that regardless of where you come from, you can be a lawyer You can be a professional ” Va r g a s s a i d

court ’ s decisions as one of his biggest achievements

“The decision showed me that you might need a license to practice law and appear before a judge, but you don’t need a license to advocate for your community,” he said His position in the Sanders campaign ties in closely with his previous experience of mobilizing to advocate for immigrant rights, according to Vargas

“To me this campaign is all about c

challenging the status quo of ‘ no, this can ’ t be done,’” he said “For me, the Bernie campaign is all about coming together and pushing boundaries in order to get real change ”

Eleanor Good can be reached at egood@cornellsun com

Four Cornell Juniors Awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarship

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

Fo u r C o r n e l l i a n s r e c e i v e d B a r r y

G o l d w a t e r S c h o l a r s h i p s i n Ma r c h f o r research in the fields of science, math and engineering, according to a University press release

Cornell was the only Ivy League school to have all four nominees receive the scholarship, according to the release

Shivansh Chawla ’17, one of the nominees, said having all four nominees Robert Lee ’17, Charles Wan ’17, Zachar y Ziegler ’17and herself from Cornell win the scholarship affirmed the quality of research at Cornell

“ The research here at Cornell is top notch, so having four fellowship winners really adds to that,” Chawla said

He added that the application process led him to reflect on his own research

“ The essay question that they had was ‘describe a significant problem in your field of study,’

a n d r e a l l y i t shows what in m y f i e l d w e n e e d t o w o rk o n , ” C h a w l a said

data I get, ” Chawla said Lee works in the Cornell Engineering World Health Program where he studies drinking water in rural areas

“The research here at Cornell is top notch, so having four fellowship winners really adds to that.”

S h i v a n s h C h a w l a ’ 1 7

C h a w l a s t u d i e s c h e mistr y and biology and conducts research in the Yimon Aye Lab, according to the University

“I want to help study diseases and working in Yimon Aye lab is giving me great mentorship, helping my problem solving skills and critical analysis of the

“Right now we ’ re b u i l d i n g a water monit o r f o r w e l l s that can track i m p o r t a n t c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of the water to see if the water is unsafe to drink,” Lee said Ziegler studies engineering physics and c o n d u c t s re s e a r c h w i t h Pr o f Ji w o o n g Park, chemistr y, where he works on the “ g r o w t h a n d c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n o f 2 - D materials ” Ziegler added that he plans to continue

after Cornell

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I have put into my passion, and I am grateful to have won the award amidst such talented researchers,” Wan said

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at aehtasham@cornellsun com

South Sudanese Rebels Secure Capital for Return of Leader

JUBA, South Sudan (AP)

Armed South Sudanese rebels have begun taking up positions in the capital, a risky but crucial step to end two years of war

T h e A s s o c i a t e d Pre s s a n d other journalists on Thursday toured one of the rebel camps where fighters dressed in green fatigues stood in semi-circle form a t i o n , c h a n t i n g c a l l - a n dresponse war songs and waving their AK-47s in unison

More than 900 of the rebels have set up camp in two designated sites in Juba as part of a process to secure the city for the scheduled return on April 18 of their leader, Riek Machar

The fighters will eventually reintegrate into the army, rebel Gen James Koang, who is overseeing the process, told the journalists

So m e re b e l s t o l d A P t h e y expect to safely reunite with the troops they’ve battled the last two years “ We l o s t s o m a n y o f o u r brothers, but now we have seen each other, so I’m happy we shall greet each other,” said fighter Lagu Joseph “If we meet each other, we will sit together as brothers ”

The rebels here said their bigger concern is living conditions

They said they only have bedframes but no mattresses and sleep in the open

During the journalists’ visit, a few of the fighters blew vuvezelas or held tattered South Sudanese flags which flapped in the morning breeze

There were only a few blue tents, a leaking pipe where soldiers filled mugs to drink, some newly dug pit latrines, and piles of metal bedframes and bundles of grass to be used to make huts

This camp for the rebels, who are mostly Nuer, is in a few hastily cleared acres (hectares) of land behind a rocky outcrop which l o o m s ove r Ju b a It’s n e a r a sprawling United Nations base where nearly 30,000 Nuer civilians have sought shelter

The war began here two years a g o w h e n c l a s h e s b ro k e o u t between Nuer and Dinka, and targeted killings of Nuer soldiers and civilians, forcing Machar to flee the city

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returning to the city they once called home, others were arriving for the first time, never having seen so many buildings in a city that has grown so fast that no one knows its population Estimates run from 300,000 to over a million

Cease-Fire Between Azerbaijan And Armenia Threatened

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP)

Thursday accused each other of violating a two-day-old cease-fire i

Russia and Iran joined diplomatic efforts to prevent a war that could destabilize the strategic Caucasus region

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said its troops returned fire after Armenian forces fired mortars and large-caliber machine guns at Azerbaijani military positions and populated areas The Armenian s i d e a c c u s e d A ze r b a i j a n o f shelling its positions

The intense skirmishes have threatened to derail the Russiabrokered cease-fire declared at midday Tuesday following the worst violence since a separatist war ended in 1994 That conflict left Nagorno-Karabakh, officially a part of Azerbaijan, under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military Armenian forces also occupy several areas outside the Karabakh region

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry has said 31 of its soldiers have b e e n k i l l e d s i n c e Sa t u rd a y ; Karabakh has acknowledged the loss of 30 and said 101 others have been wounded Each party put enemy losses in the hundreds, claims that couldn’t be independently verified Several civilians

also have been killed on both sides

The fighting has raised fears of

Azerbaijan and Russia obliged by a mutual security pact to protect Armenia

Ru s s i a a l s o h a s s o u g h t t o maintain friendly ties with energy-rich Azerbaijan and given it weapons in a bid to shore up its influence in the Caucasus region, a conduit for energy resources from the Caspian Sea to the West Russia also has acted as a

France, which have dragged on since 1994 without any visible results

But Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday a

Armenian counterpart that “there is no alternative to the current mechanism” for negotiating an end to the dispute, which is

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

It was not clear whether that stance would marginalize Iran's role Ad

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“extraordinar y ” nominee to the Supreme Court Holding court before Chicago law students, Obama argued that the treatment of judge Merrick Garland will cause the public to lose confidence in the ability of courts at all levels of government to fairly judge cases and resolve controversies

“Our democracy can ’ t afford that,” Obama said Obama introduced Garland, chief judge of the U S Court of Appeals for the D C Circuit, three weeks ago at the White House, but the nomination had stalled long before that sunny March day in the Rose Garden

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“Whyte was charged with seven counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.”

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Obama described that scenario as unprecedented and said the courts have become a troubling extension of America’s broken politics

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School, where he taught constitutional law for more than a decade “At that point, people lose confidence in the ability of the courts to fairly adjudicate

cases and controversies and our democracy can ’ t afford that ” O n t h e Se n a t e f l o o r T h u r s d a y, Mc C o n n e l l s a i d Obama would “be telling supporters a politically convenient f a i r y t a l e ” b y arguing that the C o n s t i t u t i o n requires a Senate

v o t e o n h i s nominee

G a r l a n d h a s b e e n m e e t i n g with Democratic a n d Re p u b l i c a n s e n a t o r s o n Capitol Hill, but there is no indication the sessions are influencing the political calculus of the Senate Republican leadership He met Thursday with four Democrats: Sens Heidi Heitkamp (D-N D ), Sherrod Brown ( D - Oh i o ) , C h r i s C o o n s ( DDel ) and Richard Blumenthal ( D - C o n n ) Bl u m e n t h a l , a f t e r his meeting, urged more Repub-

licans to meet with Garland

“He will be a unifying force if confirmed,” Blumenthal said

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Letter to the Editor

A birthright indeed

To th e Ed itor:

Recently, Katy Habr wrote a column for The Cornell Daily Sun that attempts to shed light on issues surrounding the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, an all-expenses paid trip for Jewish youth to become connected to the state of Israel

She criticizes the Birthright program for promoting the notion that diaspora Jews can make Aliyah (immigrate to Israel) and gain citizenship, stating that it “entails the exclusion and expulsion of certain other groups ” First off, it is worth noting that anyone, regardless of nationality or religion, can visit Israel with a 3-month tourist visa This is in stark contrast to the 16 Muslim countries that forbid entry to Israeli passport holders Secondly, almost every European nation, in addition to Israel, has Jus sanguinis nationality laws which confer citizenship to people who are members of the country ’ s ethnic, cultural or religious identity (as opposed to granting citizenship based on place of birth) To defend her claim, Habr has to either categorically denounce the concept of Jus sanguinis, or explain why Israel’s version of this law, given its Jewish national identity, is worthy of questioning but other countries’ are not

Habr also criticizes Birthright for not taking participants to the Palestinian territories

There are well-founded reasons behind this policy Firstly, there are immense security concerns involved with bringing Israeli-led groups to Palestinian territories To enter Gaza from Israel, a special permit is needed, which is difficult to obtain Recent polls, like the one conducted by the Anti-Defamation League, show that there is also widespread and bitter hatred of Jews in the Gaza Strip and Area A of the West Bank, which would create dangerous touring conditions Secondly, since the goal of Birthright is to forge a bond between participants and the land of Israel, visiting Palestinian territories would imply that these regions ought to be annexed by Israel, and that Palestinians have no right to form a state in these areas This is antithetical to a two-state solution, and would only exacerbate the conflict Despite what Habr believes, Birthright exposes participants to different facets of the conflict Trips are made to Israeli Arab villages, and participants have the opportunity to hear about the experiences of Arabs living in Israel proper

Another fallacy in Habr’s piece is her claim that there are over 5 million Palestinian refugees In reality, an estimated 700,000 Arabs fled during the 1948 War (in comparison, the Syrian Civil War has generated roughly 6 million refugees) The figure Habr provides defines refugees as including descendants of original refugees, which is a definition used for no other refugee group and restricts the Palestinian population to perpetual refugee status Many of these descendants of refugees do, in fact, still live in refugee camps, but this can be attributed to their host countries’ active refusal to assimilate them and grant them equal rights (In 1959, the Arab League passed Resolution 1457, which states as follows: “The Arab countries will not grant citizenship to applicants of Palestinian origin in order to prevent their assimilation into the host countries ”) In other words, Habr stretches the definition of “refugee” in order to inflate Palestinian refugee numbers and demonize Israel

Habr also states that Israel has rejected U N Resolution 194, which outlines how the Palestinian refugee problem should be solved This is a fair point, except for the fact that it’s patently false In July of 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a historic deal at Camp David to Yasser Arafat, then Chairman of the Palestinian Authority, which included a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, control over the Temple Mount, a return of approximately 95 percent of the West Bank and the entire Gaza Strip, a $30 billion compensation for the 1948 refugees and Israeli absorption of a symbolic number of Palestinian refugees The deal was rejected by Arafat, and no counter-offers were made The proposed deal would have certainly complied with U N Resolution 194, which states that compensating the Palestinian refugees is an acceptable way to resolve the refugee crisis Moreover, polling data reveals that a majority of Palestinians would accept monetary compensation as a means of solving the refugee crisis Therefore, it is clear that the Palestinian leadership has chosen to prolong the refugee problem I implore Habr and other detractors of Birthright to learn the facts in order to realize that Birthright is a perfectly reasonable program, and that her views on the Palestinian refugee problem and Israeli citizenship policy are misguided Evan Kravit z ’1 9

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Daniel Sperling | Barely Legal

Short-Lived Bipartisan Harmony Over Sentencing Reform

In a legislature largely characterized by inefficiency and polarizing partisan interests, passing sweeping reforms to any existing law is a tall task However, that impasse was bridged in October 2015, when the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 was met with bipartisan support in both houses of Congress

The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act seeks to address the high United States incarceration rate, which exceeds that of any other countr y While the bill would only address federal prisoners (only 8 5 percent of the total number of incarcerated individuals in the countr y), its introduction could be a harbinger for change to the entire penal system The bill is currently supported by 28 cosponsors in the Senate (15 Democrat and 13 Republican) and 60 cosponsors in the House (43 Democrat and 17 Republican), which represents uncommon bipartisan

Although the criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform, and the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act enjoys widespread bipartisan support, the disagreement on mens rea has most likely doomed passage of this legislation

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The act features an assortment of reforms that mostly target drugrelated crimes, and eases federal sentencing guidelines For example, one provision reduces a life sentence to a mandator y minimum sentence of 25 years for the “three strike rule” involving drug-related crimes Additionally, the bill’s drug-related provisions are retroactive, meaning that currently incarcerated individuals would have their sentences reduced

While the bill was introduced in both houses out of committee (already an enormous feat), it still faces many hurdles The bill would have to sur vive the complicated and arduous process of being introduced on the floors of both houses, being reintroduced to committee for revisions, passing both houses in identical form, and obtaining President Barack Obama’s signature The Senate’s version of the bill already features additional provisions not found in the House’s version, including mandator y minimums for domestic violence, recidivism reduction programs for inmates, limitations on compassionate release and a prerelease custody program

While the bill made promising gains in a short amount of time, a major barrier has already jeopardized the bill’s passage A handful of Republicans lead by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va ) (chairman of the Judiciar y Committee with responsibility for originally introducing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act) have demanded a mens rea bill accompany the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act Mens rea is defined as the mental attitude a defendant has at the time of committing any given crime and is codified in the Model Penal Code as acting purposely or knowingly Although a great number of crimes already encompass a mens rea requirement, the proposed mens rea bill would require mens rea for all federal criminal statutes

Representative Goodlatte has threatened to let the bill die in committee unless a mens rea bill accompanies the Sentencing and Reform Act, arguing that a mens rea provision is a “critical element to doing justice in this countr y, ” and a requirement to ensuring fairness in the criminal process However, it seems that corporate interests are also in play, as they would add additional layers of protection for white-collar crime In fact, in 2015, ten lobbying reports targeted mens rea (including mention in four of Koch Brothers’ reports)

Opponents of the mens rea bill argue that legislation would make it exceedingly difficult for the government to prosecute white-collar crime for recklessness or negligence (mental states that lack the mens rea for conviction in the proposed bill) Deputy U S Attorney General Sally Yates stated, “It would provide cover for top-level executives which is not something we think would be in the best interest of the American people ” In other words, an individual could claim that they were not aware of the crime they were committing, and be exonerated under a claim of ignorance despite their pernicious actions

Unfortunately, as the 2016 election approaches, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that this or any other meaningful legislation will be enacted In fact, the original Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 has not even been released from committee in either the House or Senate Although the criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform, and the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act enjoys widespread bipartisan support, the disagreement on mens rea has most likely doomed passage of this legislation Perhaps the White House said it best, stating “criminal justice reform should only make the system better, not worse ”

Comm en t of the day

“Adding things like ‘first generation representative’ and ‘minority representative’ only serves to segregate these voices and throw them aside to the corner here are our tokens! Change takes time it happens incrementally We have many black and Latino and women and LGBT student leaders Some of them have been SA President ‘Special’ positions are not the way.” Abe ’14

JRe: “EDITORIAL: Toward a More Representative Student Assembly,” Opinion published April 6

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY KATIE O’BRIEN Sun Staff Writer

Sarah Hennies is an experimental percussionist and composer who r uns her own record label, Weighter Recordings Besides recording and performing her own solo works, she plays in local percussion trio Meridian and has played in various rock bands throughout her career existing “somewhere between the experimental world and the underground punk world ” Having moved to Ithaca two years ago from Austin, Sarah will be taking part in Naked Noise on Saturday for the first t i m e , p l a y i n g t h e v i b r a p h o n e He r l

album, Gather & Release, came out on April 5

T H E S U N: Tell me about yourself as a musician, what do you do and what’s your involvement in the local music scene?

S A RA H H E N N I E S : I’m a percussionist and a composer I mostly play experimental music and mostly play my own music I do occasionally play works by other people I’ve recorded a lot of music by some well-known composers but I mostly focus on playing my own stuff I’ve also been a drummer in rock bands for over 20 years I thought I might stop doing that, because I lived in Austin for 10 years before I moved here and was super involved in the music scene there When I moved here I was just like, ‘okay, my solo thing is happening pretty well now, I don’t need to

be in bands anymore ’ And within a month I was in two bands here So I’m somewhere

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that came up

S U N : So you just had an album come

What were some of your sources of inspiration for the album?

S H : The album is two pieces, they’re both about half an hour long I wrote both of them in Ithaca, one about a year ago, one more recently, less than six months ago The backing track of most of the first piece is a recording I made walking up Buttermilk Falls with an audio recorder in my hand Someone had asked me right before I moved here, “Do you find that you ’ re affected by your surrounding?” and I was like “No, not really ” And then with-

in a month of living here I was like, “I’ve got to make a waterfall piece!” I noticed that you could walk up the path in a way that as you got farther away from one waterfall, the sound disappeared really fast It was sort of like live mixing almost The other piece I played for the first time in Januar y of last year at an I U show that is another piece for vibraphone, and t h e

alternating left-right percussive sound that is an element in this type of

E M D R that’s used to treat trauma and different things like that It’s this weird talk therapy that lets you litera l l y l e t g o o f t h i n g s

That’s not what my piece is doing, but I thought it would be cool to use that as a musical element

S U N : I also understand that you have y o u r ow n r e c o rd l a b e l , We i g h t e r Recordings what made you decide to start it?

S H : It’s a really small label, and originally I only started it to release my own work Around the same time, around 2010

or so, I had like five albums of music done, and the whole process of asking people to release my work just makes me crazy I just hate, especially if it’s not someone I know already, I just really hate the process of being like, “Hi, total stranger, will you please spend money on me?” And also it was a speed thing, I was making so much stuff, I was worried that by the time it came out on someone else’s label I wouldn’t be interested in it anymore So the first release was a CD of mine, and in the time it took me to get the first thing out I just kind of stumbled into finding other places for ever ything else

S U N : Let’s talk about Naked Noise What’s your role going to be?

S H : This is my first Naked Noise I’ll be playing vibraphone, and a lot of what I do with the vibraphone is really long, drawn out textures and events So I’m just going to show up and plan to do the types of sounds that I normally play, but with the assumption that I’m probably going to do something different also I was out of town the last two years for both of them I’m super excited about it, and the group of people they have this year is full of really awesome people

A longer version of this inter view can be found at cornellsun com

Katie O Brien is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at kobrien@cornellsun com

Talking to Electronic Musician Beau Mahadev ’18

BY TROY SHERMAN Arts & Entertainment Editor

On the surface, it might appear that Beau Mahadev ’18 spends their time wearing two pretty different hats: that of an engineering student on the one hand, and that of an active member of Ithaca’s sprawling DIY scene on the other As an active volunteer for Ithaca Underground, as the Vice President of Fanclub Collective and as a burgeoning local musician and performer in their own right, Beau has carved out what might seem like a respectable side project apart from their engineering studies Crafting experimental noise music with synths, circuits and gadgets galore, Beau is part of a larger Ithaca community itself a subset of an international experimental movement stretching back to at least Varese’s work of the 1920s of noise-makers and barrier-breakers This community Beau included will be coming together this Saturday, April 9, for Ithaca Underground Naked Noise #7, an annual, can ’t-miss noise music event right here in Ithaca Prior to Beau’s involvement, The Sun had a chance to sit down with them to talk about their history with music, their take on noise and their preparations for Saturday’s event

THE SU N: First off, what is your history with music What have you played before, what are you playing now?

BEAU MAHA DEV: I started playing music with the piano, mostly just doing classical stuff I took lessons, and I could read music Going from that, I was in some rock bands in high school, but I think what really brought music alive for me was beginning to get into oscillators and simple synthesizers; sound as sound itself, not just as music

S UN: What instruments and/or gadgets do you play and work with nowadays?

B M : I work mainly with a Korg Kaossilator I really like it because I think that one of the greatest things about the movement toward digital music has been having controllers that are non-standard So instead of having a keyboard where you ’ re forced to follow certain chord structures, a digital controller can be anything With the Kaossilator it’s just a pad, so that kind of opens up whole new ways of working with sound I also have some smaller digital synths that I make, but those are more just straight noise oscillators They don’t have as much melodic power as a korg

S UN: You said that you played in rock bands in high school In your transition from the rock band structure to the noise music that you try to make now, were there any people you were listening to or people you still listen to now who have shaped and are shaping what you try to do with your music?

B M : Obviously I’m really inspired by early electronic musicians, like Pauline Oliveros and members of the tape music movement Recently I’ve been really inspired by Nicholas Collins, who’s a composer who does with CDs what early tape musicians were doing with tape as in he actually manipulates it and messes with it and tries to prepare it in ways that are counter to the original intent

S UN: Most people would look at your instruments as more “gadgets” than anything Do you think your status as an engineer here at Cornell relates to your music at all?

B M : I think they’re super related Obviously it’s helped me get a better foundation in my knowledge of just simple circuits; it’s really helpful to be learning about oscillators in a physics class or about voltage and analogue versus digital in an electrical engineering class I think there’s also a more abstract connection between both The way computers are

recontextualizing everything and the way that digital music kind of mirrors recontextualization, sonically

S UN: And why are you doing it?

B M : Just the sheer working with all of this information, this ability to do anything, really I see that in music as well as in what I study moving away from the limitations of having to have a physical instrument or having to have something with strings that follows specific laws You can move from that into areas of careful control over theoretical sounds or sine waves or something like that It’s similar in computer science, where you have such control over information itself and over the structures that you ’ re using to understand and work with that information

S UN: So even though what you do is called “noise,” it’s not just random?

B M : When we ’ re talking about it in an information science setting or in a circuitry setting, we ’ re talking about unnecessary information or information that is not really what you want; margin of error, glitch Glitch music and noise art is definitely exploring that idea of what we can do with mass amounts of information All noise is is just information from sounds on every spectrum It’s an overload of information

S UN: Would you say you “ compose ” or “ structure ” the music you make? How would you say you go about making it?

B M : I think that composition is something that’s a lot looser than a lot of people think Everything is composed in some way So I would say that I compose, but I also try to let the sound guide me I’m not always necessarily thinking about what I specifically want, but I’m hearing something, letting that thing influence what I play That’s what I like

about working with synths: you play a sound, and a lot of the time you don’t really know what it’s going to sound like But you ’ re able to make very small tweaks to certain aspects of that sound; it’s in exploring those small tweaks where I find a lot of pleasure

S UN: What about Ithaca Underground specifically? How did you start getting involved and what do you do there?

B M : I started getting involved with IU when I went to one of my first shows of theirs They make it really easy for anyone to go up and talk to people and ask what they can do I do a lot of their website stuff because that’s a skill set that I have that’s useful to them, and I’ve also started doing sound at some of the shows, which is something that really helps me get a better ear for certain frequencies Mixing a live show is all about identifying which frequency range you want to bring down or bring up

S UN: What about Naked Noise specifically? How did you go about preparing for what you ’ re going to be doing, and what are you expecting out of it?

B M : I think that for me the style of playing that’s going to be happening at naked noise is similar to what I already do I’m part of another project called Winston Bongo which is all very improvisational I play with a couple other people who also have synths, and we never have a set song or know what we ’ re going to be doing before we get into it and start bouncing stuff off of each other I’m expecting Naked Noise to go a lot like that Honestly I’ve just been playing with my synths in the basement to prepare

A longer version of this interview can be found at cornellsun com

Troy Sherman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun com

Pulling the Wires From the Wall

Thepast 20 years or so have witnessed a sig-

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t h e p r o l i f e r a t i o n o f t e c hnologies that transform the ways we make, distribute, listen to and think about music Dangerous combina-

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MP3s destabilized the industr y CD players sunk into obsolescence We lamented the loss of vinyl only to take part in a resurgence of interest in physical media A lot has changed

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h e a r a b o u t , t h o u g h , a re innovations in the writing

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a u d i o t e c h n o l o g y h a v e proven just as important as some of the more widely k n ow n a d j u s t m e n t s t o music’s consumption If anything, their effect on music has become so strong that we could argue their place in its h i s t o r y d e s e r ve s a s e c o n d look, beyond the role of a behind-the-scenes alteration

The primar y technology I’m referencing here are Digital

Au d i o Wo r k s t a t i o n s , o r DAWs for short For clarity’s sake, I’m talking solely about the software element

Anyone who has tried to make music or even record audio on their computers in any kind of viable fashion will already have loosely familiarized themselves with at least one

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s e q u e n c e t h i s a u d i o also occurred In 1996, two years before the surge of MP3s on the Internet, the G e r m a n m u s i c s o f t w a re c o m p a n y Steinberg released the program Cubase

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A p p l e M a c i n t o s h (Windows came shortly after) Its interface mimicked the traditional studio environment mixing-console and ever ything and it also became the first software to make use of an Arrangement page in which the flow of audio proceeds horizontally while its layers stack vertically Another revolutionar y element to this program was its

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m e mb e r a n d b e i n g t h e entire band, t h e a u d i o engineer and t h e s o n gwriter, all for t h e s a m e a m o u n t o f money And even looking p a s t t h e e n s

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and record music from the technical knowledge of audio engineers and the often pricey ser vices of studios While we did have devices like eight-tracks before-

a specific type of recording

i n c l u d e , a s your average DAW might today, synthesizers, audio effects, samplers, etc Nor were they able to integrate software produced by third parties, often referred to as plug-ins, plenty of which is given completely free Barring software piracy (although in the long run we shouldn’t, as I do support people obtaining these tools howev-

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necessities With the addition of the Internet, knowh ow a n d c o m m o n p l a c e p r a c t i c e s f o r D AW s a re made available to ever yone, and there is certainly no shortage of free, quality online instruction A cursor y glance across the web reveals a vast and varied literature on the subject, defi n i t e l y a n a m o u n t a n d range adequate enough to obtain as good a teaching as any tuition could provide I don’t want to sound like I’m selling you something I’m not really Still, I think we should consider the fact that the production of music often limits itself via class, race and gender Music and its making are economically stratified It’s why historians of h i p - h o p i n s i s t t h a t t h e New York City blackouts provided opportunities for expensive music production gear such as turntables and mixers to be looted, thus igniting a widespread interest in hip-hop production This truth is also a key facet in the ethical concerns of DIY and Punk m ov e m e n

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g uments are that the expressive quality of music transcends whatever equipment you might use to make it On some level, t h a t i d e a i s v a l i d Bu t what this phil o s o p h y ignores is that music produc-

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q u i re d It can even happ e n w i t h o u t p h y s i c a l i n s t r u m e n t s

Anything from hip-hop beats to film scores could essentially be made by anyone proficient in the programs

A l t h o u g h a d e g re e o f t e c h n i c a l knowledge does become useful, ultimately no monopoly on this knowledge exists Individuals willing to put in the time and effort can acquaint themselves easily with these pieces of technology This capability sidesteps the idea that m u s i c a l a

too, but they work towards giving a larger number of people the means necessar y to make music This is ultimately what the goal should be: the power of music at ever yone ’ s fingertips, the potential of this technology fully realized Utopian as it might sound, I believe these digital workstations have improved the future of our music

Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun com Appearances runs Alternate Fridays this semester

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Nationals Fall to Marlins In Home Opener

WASHINGTON (AP)

Miami reliever David Phelps entered after a rain delay and shut out Washington for four innings while delivering his first career RBI at the plate, and the Marlins won 6-4 Thursday to spoil the Nationals’ sloppy home opener in front of a dwindling crowd

While Phelps (1-0) replaced Adam Conley following a 1-hour, 25-minute break because of a thunderstorm in the second with the score 3-all, Nationals starter Tanner Roark (0-1) surprisingly remained in the game Roark allowed four runs three earned, all in the first and nine hits in four innings

Bryce Harper was presented with his 2015 NL MVP and Silver Slugger trophies during pregame festivities and hit his second homer of 2016 in the seventh, a no-doubt-about-it solo shot to right off Bryan Morris Before that swing, Washington trailed by three, and fans had long since started departing Harper flied out to deep center to open the ninth against A J Morris, who worked around a walk for his first save, striking out Daniel Murphy looking to end it Washington had allowed a total of four runs over 19 innings in its first two games, a pair of victories at Atlanta And Miami came in 02 after a pair of losses against visiting Detroit in which the Marlins never led

There was all sorts of sunny talk before the year ’ s first regularseason game at Nationals Park Washington general manager Mike Rizzo spoke about optimism Harper spoke about “the passion, the fire we have as a team ” And then the day became rather dreary for the locals, in the sky and on the field

AUGUSTA, Ga (AP) Jordan Spieth atop the leaderboard might be the latest tradition at Augusta National

One year later, he’s still the man to beat at the Masters

The Nationals were outhit 136 They left 11 runners on base They made an error that led to an unearned, go-ahead run off Roark in the third: Catcher Wilson Ramos’ errant toss let J T Realmuto take third after stealing second; Realmuto then scored on Adeiny Hechavarria’s hit Hechavarria and Martin Prado each drove in a pair of runs, and Jason Bour had two doubles for the Marlins

Six tough par saves and six birdies sent Spieth to a 6-under 66 on Thursday and a two-shot lead in a strong wind that made Augusta National play tough for just about ever yone except the defending champion

Coming off his wire-to-wire victor y last year, Spieth now has five straight rounds in the lead, and six out of the last seven when he was tied or leading One more and he would match the longest streak since Arnold Palmer in 1960 and the opening two rounds of 1961

And just like last year, now it’s time for the rest of the field to tr y to catch him “ We’re through one round,” Spieth said “ There’s going to be a lot of different changes There are Agoing to be a lot of different birdies,

bogeys and ever ything in between We know how to win this golf tournament, and we believe in our process And if the putts are dropping, then hopefully it goes our way ”

They were dropping, which is why Spieth had the only bogey-free round on a day where the wind made that seem unlikely

He had a two-shot lead over Danny Lee and Shane Lowr y The battle among the modern “Big Three” and other top players expected to contend did not take shape

Jason Day, the No 1 player in the world and Masters favorite, was on the verge of catching Spieth until a mini-meltdown

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Four Ivy League Matches on Deck for Softball

Red hopes to pick up more in-conference victories with doubleheaders against Brown and Yale

Ivy days | The softball team will play both Brown and Yale twice this weekend In-conference victories could put the Red into the top of the Ivy League standings

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

Earlier this week, inclement weather caused the softball team ’ s series at Siena (12-11, 0-2 MAAC) scheduled for Tuesday to be moved to Wednesday, but later it was cancelled altogether Despite this, Cornell (4-16, 1-3 Ivy) will move on to play doubleheaders against Brown (1310, 2-2) and Yale (9-19, 2-2) this weekend on the road

“We were frustrated with the Siena cancellation,” said senior catcher Leanne Iannucci “We look forward to mid-week non-conference games to work on things in an actual game format before we have to play another Ivy League team again Unfortunately, bad weather happens in upstate New York, and cancellations have happened to us before All it means is that we just have to focus that much more during practice for the rest of the week ”

Head coach Julie Farlow ’97 jok-

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good ” Farlow also praised Brown’s play on both sides of the ball

“They’re leading the league in hitting,” she said “Their pitching staff is an experienced pitching staff ”

After Brown, Cornell travels on to New Haven The Bulldogs do not have the same record as the Bears, but Farlow and Iannucci are anticipating a capable opponent, citing their consistency at the plate, Farlow noted

“Both Yale and Brown will be tough competitors, independent of their individual win-loss percentages, ” Iannucci said “We just need to make sure that we are playing sharp if we want to be successful against them ”

“We are going to see an athletic team that’s hitting the ball very well I think they’re feeling pretty good ”

added that that giving players that had missed time in-game reps to get them back up to speed would have been optimal

“We would have liked to have played,” she said “We had some players who weren ’ t healthy ” Cornell plays two games against each of the North Division Ivy teams before playing four games against their three fellow South Divisioners This weekend will be the last one against North Division schools

With Brown, Farlow expects to see a team that is hitting well and riding high Brown is over 500 on the season and they had a strong pre-conference season this March

“We are going to see an athletic team that’s hitting the ball very well,” she said “I think they’re feeling pretty

Women to Play at Home; Men on Road This Weekend

absolute end, according to junior Dylan Brown

edge, according to Tanenbaum

The matchup against Brown begins on Saturday at noon The Yale game takes place the following day at the same time Both matches will take place Reis Tennis Center

The men ’ s tennis team is also preparing for two Ivy clashes this weekend against Brown and Yale This matches marks the Red’s fourth and fifth Ivy League matchups, and the men are hoping to improve to a 3-2 record, coming off a loss to Dartmouth on Sunday

“I’ve learned that’s it’s not over until it’s really over, ” Brown said Brown and his doubles partner Stefan Vinti were just inches away from a 3-0 lead, but lost the game, 7-6 Cornell would go on to lose the contest, 2-4

“We played aggresively on the key points and didn’t wait for Harvard to make the initial move ” D y l a n B r o w n

The big takeaway from Dartmouth for the team is to keep fighting until the

This game came after a win for the Red on Friday against Harvard Brown credits the team for striking fast and hard

“We played aggressively on the key points and didn’t wait for Harvard to make the initial move, ” Brown said

With the weather not looking promising for outdoor play, the will have to square off indoors This plays into the men ’ s advan-

The Red’s corps will be enhanced this weekend by the return of previously injured players, including one of three pitchers, sophomore Sierra Stone Stone last pitched on March 29 against George Washington, but did not play against Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend because of her injury

“I’m excited because Sierra is back and healthy,” Farlow said Cornell’s preparation for the upcoming games has been indoors for the early part of the week due to the weather Farlow said indoor practices lend themselves better to focusing on hitting, and that getting outside would allow the team to focus on other aspects of their game

Farlow joked that the team should have taken advantage of the weather in January and February and practiced outside then, but the team still has no fear of the forthcoming cold

“We’re so used to it, it’s not really a problem,” Farlow said

Keith Bollt can be reached at kbollt@cornellsun com

Anyone for tennis? | Both the men’s team and the

Ivy League matchups this weekend.

tage, as they have played all but one of their matches so far indoors

Brown’s facilities consist of just four indoor courts, so the match may take longer than usual That being said, this gives the men opportunity to support their teammates during the matches, which can create

energy for the player, according to Brown Play begins on Saturday at 1 p m at Brown and continues the following day at the same time at Yale

Achindra Krishna can be reached at ak785@cornell org

Pence’s Grand Slam Powers Giants to Win Over Dodgers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

Bruce Bochy shook hands and g re e t e d f o r m e r p l a ye r Da ve Rober ts, then they walked to opposite dugouts this time to manage against each other as NL West rivals

“ Da ve a n d I g o b a c k He played for me, and we just told each other good luck and let's go at it,” Bochy said And boy did their clubs do just that in an entertaining first 2016 edition of the Dodgers-Giants

rivalry

Hunter Pence hit a grand slam in the eighth inning, Joe Panik drove in three runs and keyed San Francisco’s comeback, and the Giants rallied past Los Angeles

1 2 - 6 i n t h e i r h o m e o p e n e r

Thursday

“You play all nine innings and you keep going no matter what,”

Pence said “Things turn around ” A 31-inning scoreless streak for Dodgers pitchers ended in the fifth, one inning shy of the record

to begin a season set by the 1963 St Louis Cardinals

Chris Heston (1-0) worked the sixth in relief of Jake Peavy for the victory as San Francisco erased a 4-0 deficit to the delight of a sellout crowd announced at 41,940 Bochy’s deep lineup gives him multiple options in various situations and the Giants’ bats came to life late In the fifth, Los Angeles finally gave up its first runs of 2016 when the Giants got to Alex

Wood (0-1) Brandon Crawford drew a leadoff walk, pinch-hitter Ke l by To m l i n s o n s i n g l e d a n d Denard Span drove in a run with a groundout before Panik’s RBI triple Buster Posey also doubled in a run

Angel Pagan hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the sixth

“We can beat you in many different ways, ” Panik said “ We never think that we ’ re done ” Joc Pederson hit a two-run homer on the first pitch he saw

from Sergio Romo in the eighth, then Pence connected off Pedro Baez for his sixth career slam and first homer of 2016 Los Angeles' ERA jumped from 0 00 after four innings to 3 09

d a would-be inning-ending double play in the second, questioning whether Panik touched second for the putout Panik threw to first to retire Wood, who received an RBI groundout on the play after it was overturned on review

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Red Prepares for Critical In-Conference Match-Ups

Both men and women set to take on Brown, Yale

By ACHINDRA KRISHNA

Cornellians, the women ’ s tennis team looks to chalk up two more Ivy win this weekend, when Brown and Yale visit Ithaca The team is coming off a 2-1 weekend, with a win against Harvard, and losses to Columbia and Dartmouth

This is the second meeting of the season between Brown and Cornell; the first one was back in February when the Bears came away with the win at the ECAC Indoor Championships

The rematch comes allows the Red to possess additional knowledge of both Brown’s strengths and weaknesses

“We were right there with them,” said sophomore Lizzie Stewart “We needed to play a bit smarter and more aggressive on the important points in the matches ”

The team did not come out of the weekend empty-handed however, posting a victory at Harvard on Friday

Stewart credits the team ’ s fighting spirit and energy for the win

“Everyone showed so much heart,” Stewart said “We won that match because even when we were down in the match, no one gave up ”

“We need to go into the match this weekend with a fresh mindset.”

Even still, the team hopes to leave the past behind, and look forward, according to senior Dena Tanenbaum

“We need to go into the match this weekend with a fresh mindset and not worry about what happened in the last match,” Tanenbaum said

The women are coming off a close loss to Dartmouth on Saturday, and they hope to turn things around in time for Friday’s contest

Given the forecast of inclement weather this weekend, it is likely the showdown will take place on indoor courts, which could have a big influence on the game Being within the confines of four walls can have its advantage, with less external factors to worry about, such as wind or sunlight

Additionally, the team is used to the conditions indoors, as the wonderful weather in Ithaca forces them indoors for practices and games about 95 percent of the time, could give the women a competitive

With 2-0 Ivy Record, C.U. Hopes to Defeat League Foes

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The grind of Ivy League play continues this weekend for Cornell baseball as the team hits the road to play a pair of doubleheaders against Brown and Yale

The Red will look to establish itself as a serious Ivy League contender

Cornell (8-9, 2-0 Ivy) is coming off a two-game sweep of Harvard (7-15, 0-4 Ivy) in which everything seemed to be going right

“Pitching, defense and timely hitting were huge last weekend,” said junior infielder Frankie Padulo “We had some big hits at the right times and the pitchers made big pitches and we backed them up with big plays to get us out of some jams and swing the momentum back into our dugout ”

Head coach Dan Pepicelli and the Red hope to continue this success when they face Brown (7-13, 1-3 Ivy) and Yale (7-18-1, 2-2 Ivy)

“Clutch hitting,” Pepicelli said concerning what his team needs to keep doing “No doubt about it we got our hits [against Harvard] at the right time We did a really good job of situational hitting ”

Against the top two teams in the Red Rolfe Division, Cornell will need to be on top of its game as the the men dip their feet more into the Ivy League, according to Pepicelli

“It’ll be the the same as we did

this past weekend,” Pepicelli said “We’re just trying to learn a little more about Ivy League play We faced two really good arms this past weekend I think we know what we are in for ”

Pepicelli also commented on the first difficulties associated with back-to-back Ivy matchups

“It will be really tough playing both of them on the road,”

Pepicelli said “We are focused on having a couple real good days of practice and then going ahead and being ready for them ”

As for Brown and Yale, there is nothing particular about the two that will make the Red change its approach, according to Pepicelli Aside from Yale potentially having strong base running, Cornell is simply focusing on doing what the team does

“Our expectation at Brown and Yale is simple we expect to play baseball to our standard ever y game, ” said junior right-handed pitcher Tim Willittes

“[The games] are pretty standard,” Pepicelli said “Yale likes to run their stolen base numbers are a little more than average Outside that, both of them have their share of starting pitching that we got to try and break through and get to the bullpen ”

Padulo also noted the importance of getting through the opponent ’ s starting pitchers

“ We had success off of Harvard’s pen, and I think that is a recipe we can have success with against other teams, ” Padulo said The players agree with Pepicelli

that these games are not much different from other games in the Ivy League Padulo feels it is anyone ’ s game, as usual

“All Ivy League games are hard fought, and we don't expect these to be any different,” Padulo said “One of the things that makes the Ivy League exciting is that anybody can beat anybody on any given day, so we have to bring focus and energy and play up to our standard every time we go out there

”

Some unexpected cold and

snowy weather surprised Cornellians coming back from spring break This change in weather is not ideal for a team trying to stay consistent

“You are trying to keep the starters in a routine and that interrupts that,” Pepicelli said “But you just trust that everybody goes through it It plays on our organization and we try to put it in our advantage since we are a pretty organized group ”

The pitchers for this weekend will be junior right-hander Paul

Balestrieri and Willittes for the first day, and sophomore left-hander Justin Lewis and junior righthander Peter Lanoo against Yale on the second Balestrieri was named Ivy League pitcher of the week after striking out seven in seven innings while not giving up an earned run against Harvard Hopefully, he can bring that solid play against Brown on Saturday

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun com