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Resolution Criticizes

Univ. for Israeli Ties

By NOAH RANKIN Sun C ty Ed tor

Students for Justice in Palestine will present a resolution to the Student Assembly Thursday calling for the University to divest from companies that “profit from the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories,” according to an SJP statement

Citing human rights abuses and violations of international law by the state of Israel on Palestinian territories, SJP argues that part of the University’s endowment is currently invested in a way that does not carry with the University’s mission to better the lives of its students, residents of the state and others around the world and to carry out all financial transactions “with integrity ”

According to the resolution, Tata Motors, Sodastream, IngersollRand, Raytheon, G4S and Hewlett Packard are companies that the

Fight for equality

New Group Offers Safe Space for HIV-Positive Students

By DARA LEVY Sun Senior Writer

A new support group that hopes to offer a safe space for HIV-positive Cornell students held its first meeting Wednesday night

The group seeks to address a number of problems that HIV-positive individuals face on a regular basis, including the fear of others knowing of their medical condition, dealing with ignorance about HIV and the struggle of being on expensive medications, according to Leo Stellwag grad, the group ’ s co-founder

Stellwag, who also runs a transgender support group, said it is difficult for HIV-positive students to find other diagnosed individuals on campus As a result, the students can feel isolated and face “pos-phobia,” a fear of people who are HIV-positive

One of the group ’ s goals is to help connect HIV-positive students who are not already a part of each other’s current support system, according to Lex Brown ’15, cofounder of the support group

“Some of them have friends that would support them, but those friends are probably HIV-negative,” Brown said “When you become positive, it’s a big life-changing event, and you end

A stronomer Talks S aturn Space Mission

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Wr ter

Operations, spoke about her work with the Cassini space mission Wednesday

The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for the past 10 years, collecting data and taking

images of the planet, according to Porco After over two years of travel, in July 2004, the unmanned

around Saturn

“unbridled imagination” and disregard of the “idea of boundaries” led to the first space explorations

“They did this merely because of an innate desire to explore and understand their cosmic neighbors,” Porco said “ Tremendous accomplishments have indeed showed us great insights into the origins of our own planet and its sibling planets We have seen exact-

up having issues connecting with people who are not that way ” Resources currently offered by the University for HIVpositive students include testing, one-on-one counseling and access to a case supervisor, according to Brown

The group wanted a peer-led support group on campus, rather than group counselling led by “ an official with a title who people can ’ t relate to as well,” Stellwag said

“There has been such a strong stigma on campus for HIV that none of the [HIV-positive] students would dare to say anything, and probably feel alone because

Bus Strikes Cyclist on Tower Rd.

An accident between a TCAT bus and a cyclist occurred on Tower Road near Ives Hall Wednesday afternoon, according to police

The 911 dispatch center received the report at 2:09 p m Wednesday, according to Kathy Zoner, chief of police for the Cornell University Police Department Upon receiving the call, dispatchers transferred the call to CUPD

The cyclist was transported to Cayuga Medical Center for minor injuries by Bangs Ambulance, Zoner said The Ithaca Fire Department was also on scene Police are still investigating the incident and will conduct interviews with witnesses

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Org. Says C.U. Should Divest From Pro-Israel Companies

RESOLUTION

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University either contracts with o r h o l d s p o r t f o l i o a n d d i re c t investments in that “participate actively” in the Israeli millitirization of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

For this reason, the resolution states that Cornell is in violation of international law and a “ comp l i c i t ” t h i rd p a r t y i n h u m a n rights abuses

T h e re s o l u t i o n p o s i t s t h a t

Israel’s actions include those that h a ve v i o l a t e d Un i t e d Na t i o n s

a g re e m e n t s s t i p u l a t i n g a g a i n s t “transfer[ing] parts of its own civilian population into the territor y it occupies” and that “all measures undertaken by Israel to exploit the human and natural resources of the occupied Arab are illegal ”

“Israel has repeatedly flouted i n t e r n a t i o n a l l a w a n d U S re q u e s t s t h a t i t re f r a i n f r o m building settlements,” members of SJP said in a statement “ To this end, Palestinian civil society called in 2005 for an international movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions as a nonviolent method to pressure Israel to end its occupation This resolution is an answer to that call ”

The resolution, which also calls for the University to make information about its assets publ i c i s b e i n g s p o n s o re d b y Nicholas Vasko ’15, undesignated at-large, and Inge Chen ’15, minority liaison at-large Rachel Medin ’14 and Claire Blumenthal ’14, co-presidents of C o r n e l l Is r a e l Pu b l i c A f f a i r s

C o m m i t t e e , s a i d t h e y w e re “deeply concerned” that the resolution will be brought to the S A

“ The resolution is extremely controversial and upsetting to many members of the Cornell community which the S A represents, ” Medin and Blumenthal said in an email “ We believe that this resolution is divisive and will create strong tensions between

students on campus, and therefore it is not in the S A ’ s best interest to support this misleading and hurtful resolution ”

At Thursday’s S A meeting, the general body will ask the sponsors questions about the resolution, and unless a motion passes to table it, it will be eligible to be voted on during the April 17 meeting

A body of faculty members has also come to support the resolution and has created their own statement that has accrued 40 s i g n a t u re s a s o f We d n e s d a y night

Prof Eric Cheyfitz, English, said that though the faculty statement is completely independent f r o m S J P ’ s re s o l u t i o n f o r example, the faculty statement features a critique of Cornell’s partnership with the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, while SJP’s resolution does not the signers have expressed solidarity with SJP’s efforts

“I do hope that the assembly brings the resolution to a vote so that a democratic process can go for ward based on the resolution rather than tabling it and shortcircuiting that process, ” Cheyfitz said

According to SJP’s statement, this resolution supports Cornell’s “legacy for advocating for justice” and cites parallels to previous student efforts toward divesting from companies operating w

apartheid era

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moral duty to divest from the Is

Palestinian territories and bring forth its end,” the statement said

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

Group Adopts Peer-Led Counselling

they don’t know anyone that they can go and talk to, ” Brown said “ We hope this will give them a safe haven to show that they are not all alone, that there is a group that they can feel comfor table with where they can be themselves and not have to hide anything ” Stellwag added that the stigm

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ty, ” Stellwag said Stellwag said the group also hopes to distribute stickers and informational cards across campus to generate allies and awareness among the student body “Personally I’ve heard someone say that HIVpositive people are untouchable or un-dateable,” Brown said “ We felt that something needed to be done on campus and that this is one of the steps toward it to make [HIV-positive peo-

“There’s still a lot of education that needs to be done about HIV, even within the queer community.”

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, according to Stellwag He said he recently heard a student ask if one could contract HIV from kissing “ There’s still a lot of education that needs to be done about HIV, even within the queer communi-

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current and former Cornell students are allowed to attend though the group might decide to open up membership to Ithaca College or Tompkins Cor tland Community College students

a n d t h e m o o n T h e r i n g s a re c o m p o s e d o f c o l l i d i n g b o d i e s m a d e o u t o f w a t e r i c e , r a n g i n g i n s i ze f ro m s m a l l t a l c u m p owd e r - s i ze d p a r t i c l e s t o b o d i e s t h e s i z e o f s m a l l b u i l d i n g s , s h e s a i d T h e s e b o d i e s a re ro t a t i n g a r o u n d S a t u r n a t a r a t e o f a p p r o x i m a t e l y 2 0 t o 4 0 , 0 0 0 m i l e s p e r h o u r b u t w i t h o u t a n y v i o l e n t c o l l i s i o n s T h e r i n g s a re re l a t i ve l y t h i n f ro m t o p t o b o t t o m , a b o u t t h e h e i g h t o f o n e o r t w o s t o r i e s i n a n a p a r t m e n t b u i l d i n g , Po rc o s a i d Mo v i n g o n t o S a t u r n ’ s m o o n s , Po rc o s a i d t h a t o f t h e m o o n s Da p h n i s i s e i g h tk i l o m e t e r s i n d i a m e t e r a n d i s l o c a t e d b e t we e n Sa t u r n ’ s r i n g s “ Ma n y o f [ C a s s i n i’s ] o r b i t s t o o k u s e xq u i s i t e l y c l o s e t o t h e m o o n s , ” Po rc o s a i d “ In o n e

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tackled him

At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose liver was p i e rc e d by a

thrust that narrowly missed his heart and aor ta, doctors said Others also suffered d e e p a b d o m

puncture wounds

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g e n c y p l a n n i n g toward mass shooti n g s , n o t s t a b b i n g s set off a screaming stampede, left blood

o n t h e f l o o r a n d w a l l s , a n d b ro u g h t teachers r ushing to help the victims

Police shed little light on the motive

The suspect, Alex H r i b a l , w a s t a k e n i n t o c u s t o d y a n d treated for a minor

h a n d w o u n d , t h e n w a s b ro u g h t i n t o court in shackles and a hospital gown and c h a r g e d w i t h f o u r counts of attempted

after he was seized, H r i b a l m a d e c o mments suggesting he wanted to die Defense attorney

Pa t r i c k T h o m a s s e y described him as a g o o d s t u d e n t w h o got along with others, and asked for a psychiatric examination

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c a s e we f l e w w i t h i n 1 5 m i l e s o f o n e o f t h e s u r f a c e s o f o n e o f t h e m o o n s ” Po rc o we n t o n t o d e s c r i b e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f o t h e r m o o n s s u c h a s Di o n e , Te t h y s a n d Hy p e r i o n t h a t C a s s i n i w a s a b l e t o o b t a i n i n f o r m a t

h o m i c i d e a n d 2 1 counts of aggravated assault

b e f o re t h e s t a r t o f classes at 1,200-stud e n t Fr a n k l i n Re g i o n a l Hi g h School, in an uppermiddle-class area 15 m i l e s e a s t o f Pittsburgh

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a u t h o r i t i e s s a i d h e would be prosecuted as an adult

At the brief hearing, District Attorney John Peck said that

It w a s ove r i n about five minutes, during which the boy

r a n w i l d l y d ow n a b o u t 2 0 0 f e e t o f h a l l w a y, s l a s h i n g away with knives 8 to 10 inches long, police said

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RACHEL ELLICOTT ’15 Blogs Editor

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CONNOR ARCHARD 15 Sports

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TO kay, Cupid: My Adventure

In O nline D ating

his spring break, while my friends embarked on adventures in the Caribbean sun, I embarked on a journey of my own via the World Wide Web: My first venture into online dating

Prior to this experience, I never would have considered meeting someone on the Internet The closest I’d come to online dating was when my sophomore year roommate and I both made OKCupid profiles for shits and giggles, only to deactivate them a week later after receiving dozens of unsettling messages But as more of my friends accept job offers in unfamiliar cities and try to meet people out of college, I hear more about more about people turning to social media to make connections

So, over break, when my friend Clara gushed about a guy she’d met on OkCupid, I decided that I was going to give it a try

waisted jeans But for one hour that evening in a Starbucks in Union Square, our worlds collided, and we shared a few laughs If nothing else, it was my first glimpse into what life after college might look like

Halfway through our conversation, I asked him why he uses online dating apps He explained that his work schedule is so demanding and hectic that he hasn’t had the opportunity to meet anyone It was the same reason my friend Clara had made her profile and it was one that made sense

Annie Bui ’16

Mehrotra ’16

SPORTS EDITOR Anna Fasman ’16

EDITOR Kay Xiao 16

Elizabeth Sowers 15 Samantha Briggs 16

Letter

Boycotting Israel hurts Palestinians

To the Editor:

Re: “GUEST R OOM: Why Cor nell Shouldn’t Have Invited Ehud Olmer t,” Opinion, April 8

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Clara warned me that out of every 15 messages she gets, maybe one will be worth looking into which is why I wasn ’ t disheartened when all of my initial matches seemed questionable It took a few days, but eventually I was matched with a guy named Scott who seemed the least threatening of the bunch

We started messaging and made plans to meet up within the week

You would think that in a city like New York, meeting someone would be easy. But the unfortunate truth about big cities is that you can go weeks at a time without talking to anyone at all.

I would be lying if I said I wasn ’ t nervous I was terrified I made sure at least three friends knew where I was going (Starbucks in Union Square), and I was preparing myself for the worst: He would be totally sketchy and/or make me uncomfortable by suggesting we go back to his apartment What I was not prepared for, however, was the seemingly normal guy who walked into Starbucks, looking a little nervous himself

I recognized him from his pictures; he looked just as good in real life as he had in jpeg format He went to shake my hand, I went in for a hug and we were off to a good start

We sat down and began with the basics: where we grew up, where we went to school, etc It felt strange but oddly refreshing to start from zero with someone

It quickly became clear that we were in two very different places in our lives He was in a suit, having come straight from work at a large financial institution; I had come from browsing around the Forever21 across the street He was thinking about pursuing an MBA; I get heart palpitations whenever I think about the end of undergrad He was considering investing in a friend’s company; I was considering running back to that Forever21 and investing in a pair of high-

You would think that in a city like New York, meeting someone would be easy But the unfortunate truth about big cities is that you can go weeks at a time without talking to anyone at all The subway is full of fascinating people, but trying to strike up a conversation with a stranger on your morning commute is like waving a big red flag that says: “I am unstable ” In my 21 years as a New Yorker, only two people have ever approached me for my number One was a 50 year old engineer from Colombia, and the other was a guy who claimed to be on the New E n g l a n d National soccer team (but was m y s t e r i o u s l y missing from the online roster) Not a great track record So if the online dating can help two people connect against all odds, maybe there’s something there

Obviously, online dating isn’t without its share of imperfections It’s superficial at best, and dangerous at worst * It won ’ t do everyone justice; some people take awhile to grow on us, and the snap judgments we make online don’t afford them that opportunity But bearing all this in mind, it may have something to offer after all

As for Scott, who knows what will happen? We may make plans to see each other again or, if we want, we can chalk it up to a one-time-only, unlikely meeting of two people After all, as Scott said (in reference to some financial conundrum that largely escaped my understanding): “Nothing ventured, nothing gained ”

If that philosophy is all that I take away from my foray in the world of online dating, that’ll be okay

*AUTHOR’S NOTE: Always meet in a public place and tell someone where you are going Make sure your phone is charged, and have an excuse ready if you start to wonder if the “J” in “JDate” actually stands for “jail ”

Liz Kussman is a senior in the College of Human Ecolog y She may be reached at ekussman@cornellsun com Up to Date appears alternate Thursdays this semester

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THE SUN: When did you start designing? How did you end up at Cornell for design?

CATERINA GUTIERREZ: I started designing when I was around eight I first began with Barbie clothes, but since I had no idea what I was doing, a barbie dress turned into a Barbie pillow ‘Make it work,’ right? I’m an Ivy legacy My dad graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the ’70s and because my siblings didn’t go Ivy, I had no choice but to It was a hard choice at first, deciding to come here instead of a traditional art school, but I really appreciate the opportunities that I've had to explore other areas of study Plus, between you and me, I’m pretty (secretly) conceited People are always impressed with an Ivy grad

SUN: How would you describe your design style? What inspirations should we be able to see in your designs?

C G : My design style is something of a glam rock chola My aesthetic philosophy is “Fuck it More sparkles Now hand me my beer, but remember it’s my last I’ve got church in the morning ” I always say I’m a drag queen trapped in a chola’s body I think that explains it pretty well Because I’m always so inspired by my culture, I’d hope you can see these Mexican influences From the colors I choose to the music I play when working, it’s always about having a good time

SUN: What are your goals for designing? What type of person do you imagine that you ’ re designing for?

C G : My major design goal is to promote confidence As a designer, and more recently as a designer that specializes in plus-size attire, I’m all about ensuring that the person wearing my clothing feels like they re untouchable There’s a term for these fly girls that gets used in cholo culture firme hyna essentially a dope chick I want my audience to feel like they’re the firmest of hynas, even after they’ve changed out of my clothes

SUN: If you could design for one celebrity, who would it be and why?

C G : Richard Simmons As a fat girl from the start, I’ve always appreciated RSims love for oldies and inappropriately short bedazzled shorts I dressed as him for Halloween a few years ago and wear the costume often You haven’t lived until you ’ ve Sweat to the Oldies with Richard in

matching red and white striped shorts Body glitter required

SUN: Could you give us a little preview of what to expect at the April show? What type of collection are you showing? What are the inspirations behind it/the philosophy guiding it?

C G : My current collection is all about the highlighting the multi-faceted nature of the Nueva Latina identity My characters are ones you might find on an updated version of the Mexican bingo game, Lotería Lots of color, lots of glitter and lots of winged liner The main image I was inspired by was a picture from an International Women’s Day March in Mexico in 1991 The image

is a black-and-white photo of a woman smoking a cigarette, holding a sign that reads “ni santas, ni putas sólo mujeres ” In English: “Not saints Not whores Just women ” Just Women There s a description of pachucos (the ancestor of cholos) that described them as being “sinister clowns who did not want to be integrated ” For this collection in particular, my aim is to acknowledge that we ' re just people, not the stereotypes that we ' re given The other inspirational image is a print done by my hometown pal, Michael Martinez, of a Mezo-American figure pointing and saying, “be chingnona everyday” “be [the shit] everyday ” This word has been the most inspiring and uplifting thing for my models and me So much so, I recently bought a necklace that says the term And it sparkles It’s created the firmest of hynas Be ready for it

SUN: Could you talk a little bit about your experience in the Fashion Collective? I don’t think a lot of our readers are very clear on what it is or what the experience is like

C G : This is my third and final year designing for the collective I first participated my freshman year, when I created an all black ensemble because I guess I was feeling very goth at the time? I also was part of the Pendleton Scholarship Team a yearly collaboration with Pendleton Woolen Mills and

FSAD That was a fun year I took a break from designing during my junior year to try to figure out if I really was interested in fashion anymore and spent the year doing costumes for a few plays in town I think it was then that I got most interested in this idea of identity and how clothes are used to create a persona The fact that they were all rave plays just added to the party effect I think I'm most excited about this collection because it's been in the works for a really long time There was a period where I lost all interest in design and sort of dropped it, but I've been finding all these photos of Chicanos in the ’70s the activists, the homegirls, the bookworms I even came across some of my parents when they were younger My mom was the ultimate ’70s dreamgirl and my dad was at the forefront of the Chicano Movement There's a great picture of him with this huge fro, wearing a boycott grapes button a la Cesar Chavez It's a draining process, a lot of needle pricks, and even more identity crises, but it's all worth it when you see your work come together and see those chingnonas owning your work on the runway It is the spirits of my people that really drive me to create something memorable

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com

Teju Cole at Goldwin Smith

KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole author of the novella Every Day is for the Thief, the novel Open City and several Twitter short stories and political statements, will visit Cornell today His novel Open City, details the experiences of a young Nigerian immigrant as he interacts with various immigrant communities in post-9/11 New York City The novel was praised by The New Yorker, citing its post-colonial modernist influences J M Coetzee and W G Sebald as well as its place amongst the great writers of the 21st century The narrative voice received special attention as possessing “ an interesting combination of confession and reticence ” Open City was the 2012 recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Internationaler Literaturpreis and it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award Cole is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Granta, and serves as a contributing editor at The New Inquiry Cole will give a reading in the Hollis E Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall, today at 4:30 p m as a part of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series The Sun spoke to him before his visit about his most-recent novel Open City and his opinions on the contemporary role of the author

THE SUN: Your novel, Open City, was reviewed largely in terms of being “post-colonial” and the way that it dealt with the immigrant experience Can you comment on that? Was it something you were consciously aware of while writing?

TEJU COLE: I think the book was received in many different ways, post-colonial being only one of them Some critics saw the modernist preoccupations of the work as well in the sense of a Woolfian stream-of-consciousness, I mean, and the obvious references to Joyce and some others located it in a particular international style of writing, people like Ishiguro and Coetzee, who are not necessarily “post-colonial” in their primary concerns I was aware of all these possibilities while writing, but I wouldn’t say I incorporated immigrant narratives in any mechanical way: To me, all Americans, with the exception of the very earliest, are immigrants The intense diversity of the city is apparent from its subway passengers at any given moment So, the motivation was simply to show New York City as it is, rather than as the writers of Sex and the City or Friends would like it to be

SUN: I loved your “Seven short stories about drones ” Can you

talk a little bit about how Twitter has come to be used as a genuine creative space?

T C : Thank you The format itself invites literature: It has formal limits (140 characters) and, since we ’ re all glued to our phones these days, it is an almost unmediated means of conveying sentences from one person ’ s mind to another’s It’s quite magical, and I think many people have rightly taken that as an invitation to literary creativity

SUN: The tweets “Seven thoughts on the banality of sentimentality” and the White Savior Industrial Complex These are incredibly political (and amazing) What role do you feel the novelist plays in the political sphere?

T C : Hopefully a fearless and natural one, with interventions that are more to the good than in the opposite direction Writers in most countries consider political engagement of some sort to be part of the duty of writing The odd exception seems to be the United States, where some writers are “political” and the others simply mind their own business and produce novels for their publishers to sell I think in a place like Mexico, or Nigeria, or India, or Spain, I wouldn’t be considered particularly political (I don’t organize rallies, I don’t fast in protest or chain myself to gates )

SUN: How do you begin to write a cerebral novel about New York City? Knowing what type of company you ' re going to be in, the coveted canon that you ’ re trying to break into I imagine that takes a lot of courage

T C : I didn’t overthink it This comes from not being a native New Yorker, I think I loved the city’s complexity but was not overawed by its literary legacy What moved me was the post-9/11 mood, which was very hard to get down in writing I wanted to explore that mood in a complex way There are many New York stories that have been told too many times, but not this particular one In fact, the first successful stab at the problem was in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, which was published the year before Open City (but which I didn’t read until I finished writing my book) It’s probably relevant that O’Neill is not a native New Yorker either Being an outsider can give you fresh eyes on a situation And I definitely wasn ’ t thinking about breaking into a canon I just wanted to do a fairly difficult book and not disgrace myself in the effort

SUN: Can you talk a little bit about your writing process? Open

City is an amalgamation of narratives, but it is also steeped in critical theory and intimate knowledge of art, music and literature on the part of your narrator How did you come to marry these things?

T C : This is a narrator with a wide-ranging mind not too difficult to do, since most people have a complex and complicated experience of the world Everyone these days has read lots of books, has seen lots of art or watched lots of movies All it took was faith in the details, and I simply wrote the details down And I suppose I also trusted the flexibility of the novel as a form, a flexibility that has been inside it since the sixteenth century I can take the pressure We can afford to push it, though often we don’t

SUN: Could you talk a little bit about your “origin story, ” as it were? What were the most important experiences, educational or otherwise, that contributed to your growth as an author?

T C : I love unsystematic self-education, and my ability to stay in any formal course of study for long is probably the key influence on my writing I’ve been lucky to trust my instincts and my obsessions And I’ve been luckier to have those obsessions actually lead to a number of coherent projects If I had a more rigid approach to these things, I think I wouldn t have done work satisfying to me So, my origin story is reading early Joyce and thinking: Wouldn’t it be marvelous to be able to move a reader in just this way?

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com

When Todd Terje announced his first album It’s Album Time last year, or to put it into perspective, 10 years after he started releasing music, fans felt disappointment A third of the songs on It’s Album Time were singles, albeit brilliant singles, that he had already released in some form in those ten years “Inspector Norse,” from 2012 It’s The Arps EP and one of that year ’ s instant club classics, is there with its shimmering Balearic synths and infectious laid-back Mixolydian tune Also from It’s The Arps are both parts of the bouncy space disco suite “Swing Star,” along with last year ’ s “Strandbar ” Yet, the album still surprises and shines in its brilliant deliriousness, an absolute joyride to listeners’ ears and idiot-proof in getting even the most cynical and miserable partygoer to dance to its infectiousness

Terje associates in a trio of Norwegian dance DJs, including Prins Thomas and Lindstrøm, who brought back elements from the ’80s space disco to create long, 15-minute soundscapes (Lindstrøm is particularly good at this) Aside from their own professional affiliations, categorizing them together in the same genre would be a misattribution Lindstrøm single-handedly carved out “Space disco” as we know it today far from its origin of ’80s European copying attempts at American funk and afrofuturism as slow spacey minimalism oozing sex appeal Meanwhile, over the past couple of years Terje has musically deviated from his fellow peers, moving in a less serious direction and embracing campiness Terje’s musical evolution works well with his dry wit that shows up in everything he does, from the cheekily named It’s Album Time (he tells FACT that “I could also have gone for It’s Money Time or It’s Bestseller Time”) to nam-

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at kng@cornellsun com T od d T er j e

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ing “Strandbar” after a music executive’s dismissal of “Inspector Norse” as mindless beach dance

“Inspector Norse” may have sounded less serious than his previous singles “Eurodans” and “Snooze 4 Love,” but the song injected a personality beyond indie’s aloofness, hinting at a Terje willing to let go of all genre pretenses Its quirky flair is mainstream in scope, but intelligent enough that it can hold its own without the human behind the song Terje recognizes this: in this album’s version of “Inspector Norse,” he fades into the sound of a crowd singing along to the song ’ s melody In this sense, Terje’s musical evolution mirrors Space Disco’s own morphing into Hi-NRG in the ’80s when disco pioneer Patrick Cowley began experimenting with synths: with less intellectualization came unforgettable floor tunes that ultimately wielded greater influence in the genre It’s Album Time delivers on the promise of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories to bring back disco, but avoids Daft Punk’s narcissistic self-importance that ultimately crippled the album into impersonal drivel It’s Album Time is actually fun Every song that follows the “Inspector Norse” formula “Delorean Dynamite,” “Strandbar,” “Oh Joy” and “Preben Goes to Acapulco” seem too impossibly simple and easy to be so good The drums oomph at a steady 4/4 beat with an occasional snare The synths bounce simple melodies that, throughout the song, repeat in some form The bassline chugs the same course in the background A fifth grader could likely recreate the song in five minutes Only Terje, however, could conceive these songs in their brilliantly simple form, meticulously crafting the melodies to so perfectly that they refuse to stale “Strandbar” is pure samba joy mixed

with a bit of house, and transitions effortlessly into the delirious “Delorean Dynamite” with its groaning and pitchshifted bass A funk guitar appears in the second half of the song, finishing off in dizzying heights “Preben Goes to Acapulco” arpeggiates between highs and lows on sleek, spacey synths, like a sleeker cousin of “Leisure Suit Preben” that meanders in strings “Oh Joy” reads like a history of Terje’s musical evolution, starting with a blend of space disco and Strauss-like fanfare, and culminating in a celebratory lap of repeating synths “Alfonso Muskedunder” revels in its ’80s jazz lounge campiness into a brilliant piece of electrokitsch with a heart

An extraordinary cover of Robert Palmer’s “Johnny and Mary,” with Bryan Ferry guesting vocals, serves as the album’s unexpected highlight Palmer’s original version shares the same off-beat, bouncy aesthete as Terje’s music, but Terje deviates, cutting the speed in half The result is radiantly emotive: light, shimmering synths and Ferry’s husky vocals enhance the same yearning in Palmer’s original version Terje’s cover, along with Jai Paul’s “Crush,” is one of the best song covers in recent memory That he could place the song right after the whirlwind “Delorean Dynamite” testifies not only to his musical prowess, but also to the album’s complexity beyond a simple concatenation of singles In the end, it doesn’t matter how many old songs there are in the album: If the result is this good and this well put together, Terje can do whatever he likes

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DENVER (AP) D J LeMahieu’s bat upstaged his glove as the defensive specialist transformed into an offensive catalyst

LeMahieu’s two-run single broke a tie in a six-run eighth inning, sending the Colorado Rockies to a 104 win over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday

He finished with three hits, including an RBI double in the sixth that tied the game at 4

Buoyed by his big day on an afternoon he was honored for his work in the field last season, no less LeMahieu helped the Rockies take two of three in the series

“Felt good to come through,” said LeMahieu, who drove in a careerhigh three runs

“They just kept finding the holes ”

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C o l o r a d o broke open a tight game in the eighth with its biggest inning this season Justin Morneau started the rally with a single off Scott Downs (0-2), who was pulled for reliever Ronald Belisario

The Rockies sent 10 batters to the plate, and LeMahieu had a clutch hit to center Pinch-hitter Josh Rutledge and Michael Cuddyer added run-scoring singles, while Carlos Gonzalez hit a two-run double down the line

Rex Brothers (1-0) got two outs in the eighth to earn the win

“Need to keep the momentum, ” Gonzalez said

The momentum shifted in the sixth Morneau led off with a double and hustled to third after left fielder Dayan Viciedo bobbled the ball on the warning track Starter Erik Johnson retired the next two hitters and appeared he might escape the jam when LeMahieu lined a ball at right fielder

Avisail Garcia

Earlier in the game, Garcia robbed LeMahieu of a hit on a similar play So LeMahieu figured Garcia would come up with this diving catch, too

“Thought I was out, ” LeMahieu said Garcia leapt forward and had the ball in his glove,

but when he landed, the ground jarred the ball loose, allowing Morneau to trot home with the tying run Garcia stayed on the ground for several minutes with a jammed left shoulder before walking slowly to the dugout The team said X-rays were negative for a fracture or a separation

“Right now I have pain,” said Garcia, who’s scheduled for an MRI on Thursday

Chicago didn’t ask for a video review to determine whether Garcia possibly held the ball long enough for an out

“You really have to have a positive view of whether it was a catch,” White Sox manager Robin Ventura said “You have to have the glove around the ball to be a catch ”

Chicago’s bullpen melted down, giving up six runs in 2 1-3 innings Belisario gave up five of the runs in the inning, then left with tightness in his back

“He got the ground balls But they just kept finding the holes,” Ventura said “And it kept going, kept going after that ”

After struggling in the first two weeks of the season, Jose Abreu heated up at hitter-friendly Coors Field, where he almost wound up

Abreu was 2 for 4 with a double on Wednesday He had four hits in the series, including his first two homers of the season The Rockies made a strong push to obtain the Cuban slugger in October before he signed a $68 million, six-year contract with Chicago

Rockies manager Walt Weiss said Abreu was as good as advertised: “All the reports were this guy is a legitimate middle of the order bat I think we saw that ”

Before the game, the Rockies recalled Rutledge from Triple-A Colorado Springs, giving the team a backup for shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who has been bothered by tightness in his right quadriceps Weiss gave Tulowitzki the day off just so he’s not “ run into the ground this early ”

To make room on the roster, Colorado optioned struggling right-handed reliever Wilton Lopez to Colorado Springs Lopez has an 11 37 ERA in four games

Russel Compares Gay Athletes’ Struggles to Those of Black Athletes

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) NBA

Hall of Famer Bill Russell said Wednesday that gay athletes’ current fight for equality and acceptance reminds him of some of the s a m e s t r u g g l e s b l a c k a t h l e t e s faced in the 1960s

Russell, who won 11 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics, said talk

a b o u t w h e t h e r gay athletes can be good teammates or if they

d a y C i v i l R i g h

Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to address the summit Wednesday night, and President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak Thursday Brown and Russell were key

leaders, during the civil rights

“Only question about a gay teammate: Can he play?”

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m i g h t d i s r u p t locker rooms are the same questions black athletes heard years ago, when colleges and profess i o n a l l e a g u e s we re s t r u g g l i n g with the concept of integration

“It seems to me, a lot of questions about gay athletes, were the same questions they used to ask about us, ” Russell said during a panel discussion at the Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Librar y in Austin, which is hosting a

s u m m i t c e l e b r a t i n g t h e 5 0 t h anniversar y of the Civil Rights Act

Russell said he would have only one question about a gay teammate: Can he play?

Russell, 80, joined NFL Hall

o f Fa m e r u n n i n g b a c k Ji m Brown, 78, on a panel about sports and race during the three-

Both men said they approached civil rights

color of their skin

player Derrick Gordon became the first openly gay player in Division I men

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whether college athletes should be able to form unions and collectively bargain with their universities Brown said he opposed unionizing college athletes, but also said he disliked the model of the NCAA

“It’s not going to be a struggle

union, that will just be [about] money put the value back on education,”Brown said

One more reason to pick up The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Minnesota Wild Wins Against Boston Bruins

ST PAUL, Minn (AP)

denied all three Boston shots in the shootout, lifting the Wild to a 4-3 victory over the Bruins on Tuesday night that clinched a wild-card spot in the Western Conference playoffs

Koivu, who had two assists, switched to his backhand to flip

round

When Bryzgalov stopped Brad Marchand’s try with his pad to end it, he pumped his arms as he skated out of the crease to celebrate with his teammates The Wild will be the seventh seed and face the division winner with the fewest points

With Bryzgalov pulled for the extra skater late in regulation, the Wild had the Bruins in brief disarray on the defensive end, and Ryan Suter knocked in the tying goal with 65 seconds remaining

The Wild kept up the pressure, outshooting the Bruins 6-2 in overtime, but misfired on a couple of close-in chances and had to settle for the shootout

As play was about to begin for the third period, the overtime loss by n i n t h

Columbus that guaranteed a place in the postseason for Minnesota was announced to the crowd and received with a hearty cheer

But the Wild went out and assured themselves of a top wildcard slot by rallying for the win

Jason Pominville had two goals and an assist for the Wild, who only advanced past the first round in one of their previous four appearances, when they reached the Western Conference finals in 2003 With two games to go, they have 96 points

Reilly Smith, Patrice Bergeron

and Loui Eriksson scored for the Bruins, who fell to 16-1-3 in their past 20 games Late in the middle period, Zdeno Chara wound up from the point on a power play Eriksson a n d Gre g o r y C a m p b e l l we re parked just outside the crease, and the puck appeared to deflect first o f f C a m p b e l l’s s t i c k b e f o re Eriksson poked it in for the lead with 3:42 left before the break

The Bruins, who clinched the No 1 s e e d f o r t h e E a s t e r n Conference playoffs, held leading scorer Jarome Iginla out for the third time in the past four games because of a lower-body injury Iginla became the biggest threat to the Wild during his days with then-division rival Calgary His 67 points, including 37 goals, in 71 career games are the most by any Minnesota opponent

Pominville put the Wild in front a mere 65 seconds into the game on the first shot of the night with just 24 seconds elapsed on a power play, when his slap shot got through a crowd and into the upper right corner past Rask Bryzgalov, the latest unlikely leader to emerge for the Wild, made 44 saves over the past two games to blank Pittsburgh and Winnipeg and put Minnesota on the brink of the postseason His shutout streak ended at 145 minutes and 15 seconds, when Smith snagged a clearing attempt by Kyle Brodziak and sent in an unassisted power-play goal for his 20th score of the season

Bergeron gave the Bruins the lead midway through that actionp a c k e d f i r s t p e r i o d , a n d Pominville answered 28 seconds later with his team-leading 29th goal Erik Haula won the faceoff, and Matt Moulson picked up the puck and snapped it across the crease to Pominville for the tap in

Men to Compete in USPA National Championships

By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Wr ter

T h e C o r n e l l m e n ’ s a n d w o m e n ’ s p o l o t e a m s b o t h h a d s t ro n g s e a s o n s T h e y

c o m p e t e d t h ro u g h o u t w i t h a h u n g e r t o w i n a n d t h e i r h a rdw o rk a n d p r a c t i c e u l t i m a t e l y p a i d o f f , a s b o t h t e a m s a d va n c e t o t h e U S PA Na t i o n a l In t e rc o l l e g i a t e C h a m p i o n s h i p s a f t e r b e i n g v i c t o r i o u s a t t h e U S PA No r t h e a s t In t e rc o l l e g i a t e Re g i o n a l s l a s t we e k i n St o r r s , C o n n T h o u g h b o t h t e a m s a r e g o i n g t o f a c e t o u g h o p p o n e n t s a t Na t i o n a l s , w h i c h w i l l b e g i n o n We d n e s d a y a n d w i l l b e h e l d t h ro u g h Sa t u rd a y, t h e y a re g o i n g i n t o t h e t o u r n a m e n t w i t h c o n f i d e n c e A f t e r a c h i e v i n g t h e p r og r a m ’ s 2 0 t h re g i o n a l t i t l e l a s t we e k w h e n i t b e a t Sk i d m o re

Na t i o n a l s T h e t e a m w i l l s t a r t o f f t h e N a t i o n a l

C h a m p i o n s h i p s f a ci n g We s t m o n t

C o l l e g e o n T h u r s d a y T h e w i n n e r o f t h e m a t c h w i l l p l a y a g a i n s t S M U o r V i r g i n i a , d e p e n d i n g o n w h o w i n s , t h e

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S a i d s e n i o r c a p t a i n Ni k Fe l d m a n , “ We’re f e e

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Apr l 10, Houston, Texas Men’s Polo

Cornell vs. Westmont

C o l l e g e i n i t s l a s t m a t c h , t h e m e n ’ s t e a m re m a i n s i n g o o d s p i r i t s a n d i s r e a d y t o t a k e o n i t s o p p o n e n t s a t

“We’re feeling great heading into this tournament. We match up very well against Westmont ”

N i k F e l d m a n

ye d i t s f i r s t m a t c h o f t h e Na t i o n a l c h a mp i o n s h i p s a g a i n s t C a l i f o r n i a Po l y t e c h n i c St a t e Un i ve r s i t y ye st e rd a y T h e t e a m we n t i n t o t h e m a t c h w i t h c o n f i d e n c e a n d w a s re a d y t o f a c e i t s t o u g h o p p o n e n t T h e Re d c a m e o u t v i c -

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sophomore attackman Dylan Donahue to take back the lead with just over two minutes left on the clock From then on, the Red was unable to crack the Orange’s lead, trailing for the entirety of the final two periods

Staats dominated the second half for the Orange, taki n g a d v a n t a g e o f s c o r i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o p u t a w a y numerous creative goals He tallied four unanswered goals, including a highlight reel-like effort where he collected a g r o u n d b a l l , r a c e d p a s t a Cornell defender while clearing another in the unit and then spun to tally a spectacular goal for the Orange

Ac c o rd i n g t o j u n i o r defender Jordan Stevens, the Red made some costly mistakes in the second half that gave Syracuse the edge “ We made some mistakes that cost us some key possessions in the third and they took advantage,” Stevens said

St a a t s ’ h e r o i c s p u t t h e Orange ahead, 12-6, with just under ten minutes left in the game Rice and Staats teamed up one final time to extend

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the lead to 13-7 with 6:50 on t h e c l o c k , m a i n t a i n i n g t h e lead despite the Red’s twogoal spurt in the final minutes

o f p l a y How e v e r, C o r n e l l came alive with Hogan scoring to steal the momentum back for a 3-1 run to make it a 13-9 game

Yet, despite the Red’s last minute run, the Orange netted one more just before time was out, to finish with a 14-9 upset over Cornell and hand the Red its second loss of the season

D e s p i t e t h e e n d re s u l t , St e v e n s s a i d t h a t t h e Re d strategized for the match and felt good going in

“ We had a good game plan going in and felt confident execution was our issue,” he said

The Red looks to turn the t i d e s t h i s w e e k e n d i n i t s m a t c h u p a g a i n s t No 1 6 Hofstra

“ We are excited for the opportunity to play at Hofstra this weekend and we are looking to get back on track,” Stevens said

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun com

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun com

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their head coach and stars and seemed all too likely, as they were

o n e o f t w o c o n t e n d e r s i n a garbage conference

And the veteran Heat squad seemed content on spotting the Pacers a three game lead while they enjoyed life in South Beach as two time champions But the f i re h a s n o t b e e n t h e re f o r Indiana lately The Pacers just have not been the same team, losing seven of nine games Roy Hibbert is slumping big time, Paul George has been chucking and Frank Vogel is left scrambling on how to manage the remainder of the season Should he rest his starters? Should he bench Roy Hibbert? Vogel and his squad need to find answers to t h e s e s u d d e n l y p re s s i n g q u e stions, as they fall back into the pack at the wrong time

Of course, the Heat have no qualms about taking advantage of a slumping Pacers team The Heat eliminated the Pacers lead

i n t h e c o n f e re n c e s t a n d i n g s , looking like the only contender

i n t h e E a s t t h r o u g h o u t t h e process The Nets do not match up especially well with the Heat, despite sweeping them in the regular season They are old and Deron Williams does not look like the same player The Wizards are still too young and the Bulls are still undermanned, no matter

how hard they fight and claw I cannot see any team in the bottom six of the East playoff field giving the Heat much of a series That is not to say the Heat is not vulnerable For once, LeBron probably will not win an MVP, Dwyane Wade is hurt and old, and the team is not especially deep

The best litmus test will be a huge matchup in Miami with the Pacers Friday night If the Pacers can pull a win out this close to the playoffs, all of the bad press will subside and the Pacers can earn their top seed back Fortunes turn quickly in the NBA

The much deeper and just plain and simply better Western

C o n f e re n c e f e a t u re s a n u n d e r the radar and intriguing jockeying for playoff positioning, highlighted by a four way race for the last three spots in the West The fight between the possibly under per forming but still sharp shooting Warriors, the veteran laden Mavericks, a young and surprisi n g P h o e n i x s q u a d a n d t h e d e f e n s i

cross the finish line until the last day of the season, as each of the four will have at least one more game against each other, including a showdown on the final day of the season between Mavericks and Grizzlies Win and you are in?

I have always felt the NBA and NHL playoff races do not receive enough attention, with the NHL n o t g e t t i n g e n o u g h a t t e n t i o n period The playoffs themselves get so much attention, yet the race for it seems to get no burn Ma y b e t h a t i s the point Why risk burning out public interest if playoff intrigue d o e s n o t p e a k until a week or two later, after the first round dismantling of the E a s t ’ s e i g h t a n d s e ve n s e e d s (which does not seem as much as a foregone conclusion as it once was) Or maybe it is because the spots being competed for are usually the last two spots in a playoff field of half the league, otherwise known as middling teams In the NFL and MLB, any playoff team really has a viable chance of winn i n g Bu t j u s t b e c a u s e t h e Bobcats sneak in does not mean anyone believes they will get more than one playoff win, not to mention the requisite sixteen they need to win it all

So as an interested NBA fan, take it upon yourself to seek out and watch the home stretch run in the West A good team will get left out, and it will be playoff caliber basketball

John Zakour can be contacted at jzakour@cornellsun com

R O W I N G

Men’s, Women’s

Row in g St ar t Spring Season

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Wr ter

With the snow finally cleared from the water, all three Cornell Rowing programs kicked off their spring seasons this weekend The lightweight rowing team came out of the inaugural competitions with the most success, as its varsity boat beat both Harvard and Penn For all of the boats, this weekend was a good benchmark as to what the ensuing months with hold for each team

“The race went very well Harvard was ranked No 1 in the preseason polls ” C h a s e C r i m m e n

On Saturday, the heavyweight squad took on Harvard on Cayuga Lake and won a pair of races The third and fourth varsity boats for the Red started the season off well, defeating Harvard’s boats by considerable margins In the varsity eight race, the Red finished in fewer than three seconds behind the Crimson, a result which senior Chase Crimmen deemed respectable

“The race went very well Harvard was ranked number one in the preseason polls and we typically are much farther behind the pack at this point because of how late we get on the water, ” he said “This was the closest we ’ ve been in our first race in my four years here ”

The heavyweights now have two weeks to prepare for the

Spor ts

Slip Sliding Away | The men’s heavyweight team took on Har vard at home, winning a pair of races by a large margin The Red was unable to win its other races, but finished a lot closer to Har vard than in the past at this point in the season

Goes Cup, where they will host Syracuse and Navy

The lightweight crew team also competed on Cayuga Lake and took home the Matthew’s Trophy and the Leonard Cup The varsity eight boat defeated Penn handily, finishing over 15 second ahead of the Quakers and capturing their 20th consecutive Matthew’s Cup Harvard also raced as guests in the Matthew’s Cup and finished more than a second behind the Red, leading the Crimson to fall to Cornell for the first time in a varsity eight race since 2008

With only a week on the water to prepare, the boats performed at a high level as they also won the varsity four and third varsity races Additionally, the team took back the Leonard Cup after it won the majority of the races Next week, the Red will travel to Princeton to take on the Tigers for the Platt Cup

The women ’ s rowing team, however, had a disappointing

Men’s Lacrosse Falls to Syracuse

Red’s strug gle to beat

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Cornell gave up its second contest of the season in front of an energetic home crowd of almost 3,000 on Tuesday, falling short against No 7 Syracuse The Red now hold a 9-2 overall record for the season The contest remained close until

half time, when the Orange took over and dominated on attack to take the Red in a decisive 14-9 win

The Orange jumped out to a quick start, taking a 4-1 lead after a pair of goals by junior midfielder Henr y Schoonmaker and two more from junior offender Kevin Rice The Red’s offense remained quiet However, a goal by the Red’s j u n i o r m i d f i e l d e r Jo h n Ho g a n , s a n d w i c h e d between the Rice pair, got the ball rolling After Rice responded with his second goal, Cornell kicked it into high gear for the remainder of the half

It was the Syracuse attack duo of junior Randy Staats and Rice that set the tone of the game from the onset Rice found the back of the net off a pass from Staats for an extra-man goal with a minute and a half left in the first quarter Later in the second, Staats assisted Rice again, giving Syracuse a 4-1 lead

However, the Red fired back with a 4-0 scoring run, including two from senior attackman Dan Lintner in a span of just 16 seconds, to take its first lead of the night at 5-4 However, Cornell could not sustain the lead for long, a s t h e O r a n g e responded with a q u i c k g o a l b y senior midfielder Billy Ward to even out the score Syracuse pressed on, racking in another goal by junior midfielder Hakeem Lecky on a pass from

start to its season in New Haven Entering the season ranked No 19, the Red was swept by Yale, who stand at No 9 The varsity eight race was closely contested but saw the Red finishing one second behind the Bulldogs

Yale dominated every other race and finished far ahead of the Cornell boats The early season struggles are easily understood though, as the boats have had only a week of training on the water due to winter weather conditions

The Red will look to improve next week when they travel to Cambridge to take part in the Class of ‘75 Cup against Harvard-Radcliffe and Princeton Last season, Cornell fell short in the varsity eight race and thus looks to reclaim that top spot

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

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