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Greek Life Banned; Rebrands as Roman Life Campus Climate Task Force Confirms Ithaca Is Too Cold

Walmar t Yodel Kid to Per form On Slope Day

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Found in Violation Since 1880

THE 136TH EDITORIAL BOARD WOULD GET DQED FOR

JACOB S KARASIK RUBASHKIN 19

Starting Campaining Several Years Early

JOHN MCKIM MILLER 20

Spending $50 01

KATIE SIMS 20

Being a Tree Hugger

VARUN IYENGAR 21

Hacking Into and Changing Competitor s Website

MEGAN ROCHE 19

Bribing Voters with Chipotle Chips

EMMA WILLIAMS 19

Not Doing the Readings

JEREMIAH KIM 19

Turning the Campaign Into a Theme Week

AMOL RAJESH 20 Drinking Water and Breathing Air

BREANNE FLEER 20 Never Once Broke a Rule No Challenges Made

YUICHIRO KAKUTANI 19

Saying the Wrong Thing at the Wrong Time

NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS 19

Abstaining to Remain Impartial

LEV AKABAS 19

Gambling on Basketball Games

SARAH SKINNER 21

Ending Up in City Court

ANNE SNABES 19

Accidentally Endorsing a Competitor by Being Kind

JOHNATHAN STIMPSON 21

Misrepresenting His Hometown (Conn is NOT New York)

EDEM DZODZOMENYO 20 Refuses to Entertain the Notion of Ever Returning to S A

PETER BUONANNO 21

Unauthorized Amplification of His Podcast

CHENAB KHAKH 20

Being too Engaged

JULIAN ROBISON 20

Having too Many Layers

HELEN HU 21

Cornell Logo-ing

DUSTIN LIU 19

Breaking His Non-Disclosure Agreement Letter to the Editor

GIRISHA ARORA 20

Encouraging Excessive Alcohol Consumpion

HEIDI MYUNG ’19

Placing Campaign Ads in The Sun

ALISHA GUPTA ’20

Watching too Many Competitive Reality TV Shows

DYLAN MCDEVITT ’19

Cheering From the Press Box

MICHAEL LI 20

Early Instagram Campaigning

GRIFFIN SMITH-NICHOLS 19 Foreign Interference

JACQUELINE QUACH 19

Promising Improvements to Cornell Dining

SHRUTI JUNEJA 20 Optimism

ANU SUBRAMANIAM ’20 Digging too Deep Knowing too Much

JUSTIN J PARK ’19 Copyright Music Violation

PARIS GHAZI ’21

Not Actually Being From Paris

MEREDITH LIU ’20

Pooling Campaign Newsletter Blurbs

JACK KANTOR ’19

Winning Without Petitioning (or Running)

RAPHY GENDLER ’21

Being too Minnesota Nice to Contest Challenges

BORIS TSANG ’21 Being Omnipresent

VIRI GARCIA ’20 Being too Indie

CATHERINE HORNG ’21

Utilizing Campus Mail

LIZ CANTLEBARY ’21

Successfully Relating Every College to Her Campaign via Memes

ALICIA WANG ’21 Vertical Sketching

KATHLEEN JOO ’18

Overzealous Quartercarding

WORKING ON TODAY’S SUN

CRASHING AT A BAD TIME QuarkXPress

LOUD BASS-HEAVY MUSIC The kava bar in our basement PLAYING ELTON JOHN IN THE OFFICE Arts BAD JOKES Everyone

PARKING THE WRONG WAY Jerks SCHROEDER John Schroeder 74

CHAOS AND CONFUSION The Nerf Guns NICK’S MOM Nick’s Mom OFFICE PET Snack Drawer

MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is You OUR SERVER Has Crashed Twice Tonight

S.A. Election Rules Need Meme Policy

WHAT IS A MEME? Does a meme have the power to change minds? To catalyze political change? To make someone feel something?

The Elections Committee of the Student Assembly must take a close look at all of these questions when they begin writing the next iteration of elections rules These rules are vital to the fair election of student representatives, who will spend the next year pretending they run the school

First, to legislate the meme, the Committee must first describe what makes a meme a meme What elements of culture will they consider memes? Image macros? Video tropes? Figures of speech?

Next, in what forms are memes acceptable campaign materials? Will they only be illicit if they break other campaigning rules? Can you put a meme on the quarter cards which the Office of the Assemblies prints for candidates? Does meme culture and the social hierarchy that arises within it constitute an unfair advantage, should respected memers choose to publish memes from their preferred candidate? Are meme groups regardless of each group ’ s self-governance off-limits for campaigning?

Finally, will these infractions warrant a disqualification? A warning with potential for disqualification upon a second offense?

With changing times comes changing challenges for our representatives In order to truly understand and accurately represent students in this day and age, and to preserve fairness for candidates and trust from the student body, the Student Assembly Elections Committee must take a step forward and regulate memes It’s too dangerous not too

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Dick Cheney Will Speak on May 1

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Former Vice President Richard “Dick” Cheney will be speaking at Cornell on May 1, after his initial visit was postponed due to inclement weather

Cheney, whose initial talk was scheduled for March 21, will be giving a keynote address and then answering questions from the audience

Perhaps the biggest difference between the two events is the location The event had to be moved

Austin McLaughlin ’18, who declined to go into further detail

required for this event, a n d Mc L a u g h l i n , Cornell Republicans president emeritus, said that new procedures were put in place in response to protest methods displayed in March

“People were amassing tickets, and then throwing them away, or burning them,” he said “ There is not much we can do about that, [but] we ’ re limiting ticket pick-ups to two per person, and you need a Cornell ID ”

“ We’re encouraging people to have a willingness to engage, ” he said

The protest which was being organized for the earlier event has also been rescheduled Put together by nine organizations, the protest will now be taking place outside of Kennedy Hall in a designated protest area

“ Di c k C h e n e y re p re s e n t s e ve r y t h i n g w ro n g with American imperialism When he comes to campus this week, it is our job to resist,” reads the event ’ s Facebook page

Tickets for the event will be available beginning April 19 in Willard Straight Hall

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun com

Prosecutor Drops Hate Crime Charge Against Student Who Used Slur Last Year

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“I think it’s really important for students to interact with their trustees.”

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Daybook

CHE’s Got Sole - Shoe and Sock Collection Drive

10 a m - 10 p m , Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Pathological Science and the Perils of Thinking Outside of the Box

10:30 - 11:30 a m , Boyce Thompson Institute

Farmers’ Market at Cornell 11 a m , CALS quad

Rafael Moneo: A Series of Talks

11 a m - Noon, Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Bridging Policy and Social Science: How Legislators

Describe Their Use of Research in Policymaking Noon - 1:00 p m , Beebe Hall

AD Seminar: Can Countries Develop? Implications for Africa

2:30 - 4 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Environmental Justice and American Culture: “All Things Considered: Black Faces, White Spaces & the Possibility of Us” 4:30 p m , 110 White Hall

Thursday, April 19, 2018

What Zora Neale Hurston Gives Black Studies 4:30 p m , Africana Studies and Research Center

Why Does Anything Exist at All? 7 - 8 p m , 120 Physical Sciences Building

AASP and A3C Spam and Eggs Breakfast 9:30 - 11 a m , 4th Floor Rockefeller Hall

Art of Agriculture 10 a m - 4 p m , Arts Quad

Understanding Sleep Apnea Disorder 10 - 11 a m , 225 ILR Conference Center

CPC Population Science Seminar: Leah Platt Boust Noon - 1:15 p m , G87 Martha Van Rennselear Hall

Lunch with President Pollack Noon, 4th Floor Rockefeller Hall

Mathematics Awareness Month Public Lecture Series 4 p m , Bill and Melinda Gates Hall

Shin Hwang, fortepiano: CU Music 8 p m , Barnes Hall Auditorium

First ILR Representative in 2 Years Elected to E. A.

By AMINA KILPATRICK

Sun Staff Writer

In a unanimous vote on Wednesday, the first ILR representative was elected to the Employee Assembly since the assembly’s restructuring two years ago

Anne Sieverding, an administrative assistant in the international and comparative labor department in ILR, will now ser ve as the ILR representative for the E A She has been at Cornell since 1980, starting her time in the ILR school in the late 1990s as a research assistant

“It seemed like a good time to expand and get involved with a little bit of a larger role.”

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“getting more involved at a level wider than the ILR school,” she told The Sun, and has participated in intra-ILR bodies including the ILR staff association

“ The ILR seat on the E A has been vacant for a whole bunch of years, and I am moving towards retirement and I’m bound to have time It seemed like a good time to expand and get involved with a little bit of a larger role,” she said

This is also a unique time for the ILR school with the proposed recommedation to restr ucture social sciences at Cornell A recent report was released by the Committee on the Organizational Structure of the Social Sciences that proposed merging the ILR school and the College of Human Ecology, among other changes, as previously reported by The Sun

“[ILR] is undergoing some considerable changes so it might be an interesting time to report staff concerns, ” Sieverding said

According to Craig Wiggers, chair of the employee assembly, the E A changed the “organization structure of representat i o n ” t

exempt to a structure of colleges and affinity groups ” Due to the change, there has not been a representative from the ILR school on the assembly for the past two academic years

After the spring 2018 round of elections, the position was again left vacant Due the incidental vacancy procedures of the E A , an internal vote is allowed to fill the position

Possible reasons for the lack of representation include the time commitment of the E A and staff members being heavily involved, Sieverding said She sought the role because she is moving to part-time work and will have more time in her schedule

“I think it’s a big commitment The ILR school has staff people who are overc

ever ywhere,” she said “It’s always the same people Those people are already overcommitted, they are doing other committees, and doing other things ”

Sieverding will take over her new role at the beginning of the new session on May 30 She plans to learn more about the “what the possibilities are, the identities are, what people do, and how [she] can best contribute” to the E A as she takes on her new position

“My main goal is to represent the ILR school staff members, get some input from them and provide some feedback,” Sieverding said

Amina Kilpatrick can be reached at akilpatrick@cornellsun com

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State Theatre to Host Cornell-Harvard ‘Intellectual Superbowl’

Two Cornell students will face off against Harvard in a debate moderated by

By LAUREN WOODS Sun Staff Writer

Students from the the Cornell Speech and Debate Society are gearing up to take on current world champions Harvard at the first “Debate at The State” event on April 26

“I want this to become a tradition that everyone in Ithaca looks forward to every year, ”said Prof Sam Nelson, labor relations law and history, the director of the debate team “I want it to have the feeling of an intellectual Superbowl!”

Adnan Muttalib ’16 grad and Brittany Garcia ’19 will represent Cornell, while Danny DeBois

and Archie Hall will debate for Harvard The event will be moderated by S E Cupp ’01, a former arts & enterntainment editor for The Sun and host of CNN’s S E Cupp: Unfiltered Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and Nelson will provide opening remarks, according to a University press release

Nelson is confident that Muttalib and Garcia are more than prepared for the debate, as they are seasoned members of the team According to him, their backgrounds in argumentation and debate will prove useful as they face the current world champions

“They’ve been preparing their whole lives,” he joked

The debate’s theme will be “Is Technology Driving Us in the Wrong Direction?” and Muttalib and Garcia will arguing for the proposition

Both debaters from the Cornell team have been grappling with and analyzing the topic in preparation for the debate

“ This debate topic has intrigued us, as it is quite broad and encompasses material that is currently still in its infancy,” Muttalib told The Sun “For example, the effects of social media on our daily interactions are quite heavily contested, which allows both sides to have quite a bit of ground to demonstrate how the platform is benefiting or harming us ”

Muttalib is a teaching assistant for Nelson’s ILRLR 3300: Argumentation and Debate course and debated for Cornell through his four years as an undergraduate

Garcia said that she and

Muttalib plan to argue that technology is “promoting value systems that we ought not condone ”

“One of the interesting things about this type of debate is how you frame your arguments and the burden of proof that your side has,” Garcia told The Sun “I don’t think we have to defend that technology is on-net bad, but rather that the current trends that it has encouraged are leading us away from past value systems that would have been more beneficial than what has manifested and is manifesting ”

“I want this to become a tradition that everyone in Ithaca looks forward to every year ” P r o f S a m N e l s

Garcia recently won the Spanish Language Pan-American Championships representing Cornell and is currently one of the best collegiate debaters in English and Spanish, according to Nelson The debate will take place from 7 - 8:30 p m on Thursday, April 26, at the State Theatre of Ithaca

Hate Crime Charge Against Greenwood ’20 Dropped

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Shewit ’19, a Cornell junior, when deciding to drop the three misdemeanor charges, which included one charge of attempted assault as a hate crime Van Houten said Shewit wanted to focus on his time at Cornell and avoid the “ continued stress of this litigation ”

“Based upon extensive discussions with the victim and with the approval of his parents, we agreed to resolve the case in this manner instead of proceeding to trial,” Van Houten said

The prosecutor said the legal side of the charges is “extremely complex” and that details of the altercation had placed the strength of the criminal case into question

“The fact that the victim, who is a person of color, pursued the defendant onto the defendant’s property, with the

“[Cornell] will continue building a campus community grounded in mutual respect and kindness.”

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intention of confronting Greenwood about his offensive language, creates a level of doubt whether the victim was selected based upon his race, ” Van Houten said “Additionally, alcohol was a significant factor in this altercation ”

Van Houten said “there is no excuse for such deplorable behavior” at Cornell or anywhere else and acknowledged that members of the community may want to see a harsher sentence for Greenwood

But Van Houten said people should not allow their emotions “ to outweigh an objective analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence” and that “ we cannot substitute our own feelings for those of the victim, who fully supports

this resolution ”

Sitting in the lobby of a hotel in downtown Ithaca on Tuesday morning, Greenwood’s lawyer, Ronald P Fischetti, told The Sun that the sophomore “ never struck” the victim and that he “ never should’ve been charged ”

“It’s very simple,” Fischetti said “He just didn’t do it ” “He made some inappropriate remarks that he did,” Fischetti conceded “There’s no question about that ” Greenwood and his parents were also in the hotel and introduced themselves but did not sit for the interview

In a statement, Joel M Malina, vice president for University relations, said Van Houten “has acted in a manner that he feels best serves the local criminal justice system ” Malina said Cornell “will continue the critical work of enhancing our campus climate, building a campus community grounded in mutual respect and kindness,” Malina said Greenwood, who is 20, apologized last semester for using “unacceptable” language after The Sun obtained a video in which he used a slur in an argument shortly after the physical altercation in which the victim was injured He admitted to using the slur as part of the plea deal but has always denied even touching the victim, who received a bloody nose that night and was later evaluated at a local hospital

In November, Van Houten charged Greenwood with three misdemeanors attempted assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and criminal mischief all of which have now been dropped

When asked if Greenwood believes someone else is responsible for the victim’s injuries, Fischetti said his client does not know who is responsible The lawyer also revealed that other students had hired attorneys following the altercation

“Quite frankly, I spoke to the lawyers for the other [students, and] I don’t think they know” who caused the victim’s injuries, Fischetti said

Fischetti said he and Van Houten had hashed out the plea deal on Monday night Judge Richard M Wallace sentenced Greenwood in court on Tuesday morning

Eric Franz, a lawyer who was also assisting Greenwood,

Pleaded | John Greenwood ’20 admitted to using a slur as part of a plea deal in which three misdemeanor charges against him were dropped

said in the interview that body camera footage reviewed by Greenwood’s defense team showed that the police had been misleading in describing the way Greenwood was arrested and identified

Franz and Fischetti said the footage, which has not been released, shows an Ithaca Police officer point Greenwood out to the victim multiple times and that the victim said he did not recognize Greenwood until he was prodded by another student

The footage “showed that the identification was completely unreliable because Mr Shewit was told who to identify,” Franz said “And it also demonstrated that the police bum-rushed Mr Greenwood into his own private residence and arrested him, without any warrant, which is also unlawful ”

Fischetti said that the national headlines generated by the hate crime charge had been difficult for Greenwood’s family

“Jack and his family have been under tremendous emotional stress, ” Fischetti said, using Greenwood’s nickname “I mean, really, really bad ”

“There’s only one victim in this case, and it’s Jack,” Fischetti continued

Greenwood has been studying business at the European School of Economics in Italy while the case progressed and has not yet decided whether he will attempt to return to Cornell, Fischetti said

Cornell’s case against Greenwood for violating the Campus Code of Conduct has been on hold while the criminal case progresses

In his statement, Malina said that the administrative case against Greenwood “will now move forward ”

Fischetti said he would defend Greenwood’s right to return to Cornell if the student wants to, and said “there’s no question in my mind if he wants to go back to Cornell, he can ”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

Club to Raise Awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation

By RONNI MOK Sun Staff Writer

From April 23 to 27, Students Against the Sexual Solicitation of Youth, will be h o s t i n g i t s C o m m e r c i a l Se x u a l Exploitation of Children Awareness Week, an annual event held since the organization’s founding in 2009

“ C S E C Aw a re n e s s We e k i n v o l v e s bringing the entire campus together to recognize the urgency of this issue and the need to help end it in the United States,” Yara Almeida ’19, president of SASSY, told The Sun in an email

This form of exploitation is “sexual activity involving a child in exchange for something of value, or promise thereof, to the child or another person or persons, ”

Almeida said

From Monday to Wednesday, the Arts, Engineering and Agriculture Quads will be filled with pink “ stop CSEC” signs as a part of SASSY ’ s goal to raise awareness

“Since our stop signs are on the three main quads, they draw attention to the issue and inspire community members to c o m e t o o u r e v e n t s t o l e a r n m o re , ” Almeida said

Additionally, multiple events will be held to further engage community members, including a speaker panel featuring

C o u n t y w h o h a ve w o rk e d

t CSEC and a showing of the documentar y Ver y Young Girls The documentar y, pro-

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Mentoring Ser vices, gives “ a rare glimpse

of how the cycle of exploitation begins for many women, ” according to Almeida

In past years, over 150 community members attended the speaker event “ We hope our audience will walk away

“CSEC Awareness Week involves bringing the entire campus together to recognize the urgency of the issue.”

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with the knowledge of: why it is important to educate ourselves about CSEC and what the root causes of CSEC are, ” said

Almeida

SASSY will also be tabling on Ho Plaza in order to further engage with the Cornell community and they will be hosting a photo campaign titled, “I want to live in a world where girls ” as a part of the GEMS “A World for Girls” campaign “ We work with GEMS, making sure that we are updated on the language and research of CSEC, which changes all the time as the issue develops and changes as well,” Almeida said “All our events, especially CSEC Awareness Week, are geared toward meeting that mission and making sure that the Cornell community understands the extent of CSEC ”

Ronni Mok can be reached at rmok@cornellsun com

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Cornell Student Leaders: Get Your Priorities Straight

Remember when we were laughing at the Tr ump administration? Now it’s Cornell’s turn If we can really let something on the equivalence of Pepe upend the entire idea of democracy, we ’ re just as embarrassing as bad tweets and childish foreign affair rants

But let’s get real here the actions of the Student Assembly were no surprise to a n y o n e A n y s t u d

t Cornell doing this would be no surprise It’s almost dystopian and Black Mirroresque how all progress can stop over a meme, and a handful of smar t people get all up in a r ut while the rest of the campus watches in horror and confusion But really, how we got here isn’t absurd or confusing at all

votes counted The choice was simple, and yet it took weeks for the S A to finally begr udgingly come to consider the votes with push and shove from ever y direction Over the past month, all the school saw was a group of “students leaders ” squabbling over political specificities just to prove a point, abandoning the people they ser ve in the process If this isn’t a lack of responsibility from student leaders to the students they ser ve, I don’t know what is

The S A is just one minute instance of l

Cornell Humans are inherently selfish, as they say But as student leaders, our j o b s

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At Cornell, we are trained to come out on top And the simple tr uth is, we don’t have our priorities straight as student leaders We prioritize saving our own faces rather than the people we ser ve We see ever ything as a power scramble We care more about stubbornness and our pride, rather than progress for our own organizations

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o r g a n i z a t i o n a t C o r n e l l , I’ve sat in on other executive board meetings where p r i v a t e t r a n s c r i p t s w e r e

t y p e d o u t a n d c o r r u p t phone calls were made to sway regular members I have been a par t of boards

w h e r e d e c e p t i v e t e s t imonies were released because the board is too afraid to admit they were too disorganized to hold an event Working on and o b s e r v i n g s o m e o f t h e e - b o a r d s a t Cornell has given me little faith for the future of our generation It has given me no hope of authority devoted to the wellbeing of the people around them If the S A had tr uly embraced the idea of ser ving the Cornell population, they would have seen how the rest of us see this embarrassing and infuriating situation we cast our thousands votes, and it turns out our opinions and voices were considered no more heavily than a m e m e T h e s t u d e n t b o d y t h e S A “ ser ves ” spoke clearly: We wanted our

person in our organization and ensure that they may have the same environment that made us fall in love with our organization in the first place

Being a tr ue student leader is to simply give oppor tunity to those around us, to stand in the back of the line and let ever yone go safely first rather than always leading the front It is to be the last to eat

dinner during an event so there is enough food for ever yone, be the last to lock up the door and shut off the lights because it means all your peers can go home first It is to stop and listen to the people we s

, because we realize their voices are far more impor tant than our own Being a student leader isn’t glamorous It’s a sacrifice And until we learn to sacrifice ever ything we ’ ve been taught to protect our image, our pride, our power we will never be great student leaders

Faiza Ahmad | The Fifth Column

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Why is it that when we hear about hate crimes on campus, we can easily interpret such acts as political, systemically determined events and are thus moved to anger but when we hear of a student committing suicide in her own dorm room, all that we have to offer is our sympathy? Rather than reading her suicide as political, we deem it merely personal; a grieving process is initiated, and in a few weeks, the rest of the world moves on When talking about suicide, one is inevitably pushed towards discussing the personal rather than the political The individual circumstances or symptoms unique to the person – and not the social or political conditions which produced them – are what tend to shape discussions following a suicide For suicide theorist Suman Gupta, this is because more often than not, the act of suicide is deemed by mental health authorities (and subsequently, the media) as an “involuntary” decision:

Regarded as persons with a psychological dysfunction and subject to pathological disorder suicidal individuals are divested of responsibility for themselves Thus regarded, their motives and intentions can be disregarded, especially if they are inconvenient to establishment norms They become involuntary symptoms of a malaise and therefore devoid of rational judgment and suicide is thus removed from the possibility of political resonance

Any time a suicide occurs at Cornell, it is inconvenient to the establishment which co-produced it And instead of relating these deaths to the broader miasma that is Cornell’s shameful mental health services, surviving students are pushed by those in power to focus instead on the fixed, particular data of an individual’s life through the

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Students should feel that the counselor or therapist they are speaking to can, to some degree, understand the battles they are fighting.

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reading of suicide as an act without agency

In doing this, we are pushed in turn to mourn, rather than to rage, to recede into our homes, rather than to collectivize And rather than a public and therefore possibly political mourning, we are pushed to mourn within the proscribed circuit of the individual, a circuit which doesn’t extend towards others except those institutionally designated, most notably the counselor located within a conveniently private, fourwalled office But of course, deaths like Miaoxiu Tian’s last December are not without agency They are tragically voluntary And they cannot be viewed within a vacuum separate from Cornell’s deleterious atmosphere which ensured for Tian suicide as the only possible solution to her troubles In talking about student suicides, we need to view them through a political, and not solely personal, lens

article posted in 2010, an argument which centers on the glaringly “public” aspect of gorge suicides:

“It’s well known that Cornell has a reputation as a ‘suicide school,’ which is not consistent with the reality of the statistics,” Marchell said “And so we ’ ve asked ourselves, well, what leads to this, what contributes to that misperception?”

[Marchell’s] answer: the gorges “Suicide that occurs in most communities is not something that happens in public, is not visible,” he said, noting that news media often don’t repor t on suicides because they happen privately and there are often concerns about copycat suicides

Faiza Ahmad is a junior in the College of Ar ts a n

a t fahmad@cor nellsun com The Fifth Column r uns alter nate Wednesdays this semester

The suicide nets which now populate seven gorge bridges on campus are the most blatant materializations of the administration’s refusal to address the deeper complexities of students’ suffering Instead of seeing student suicides as merely personal tragedies, we need to address them for what they truly are: politically relevant events which should give us more than just a momentary pause Students have already begun to collectivize in response to President Pollack’s rejection of an independent review of CAPS, but as it stands, this is still not enough With the way things are now, the looming possibility of a next student suicide is not a matter of if it will happen, but when S

The move to depoliticize suicides within the Cornell community is one that the administration has been conducting since the six suicides that shook the campus during the 2009-10 school year, and which led to the construction of suicide nets in 2012 (all six of the student suicides occurred at the campus ’ gorges) More invested in saving face than in saving lives, the Cornell administration which includes Counseling and Psychological Ser vices (CAPS) director Greg Eells and Skorton Center for Health Initiatives director Timothy Marchell has struggled over the years to resist the moniker of “suicide school” that Cornell indubitably deserves Instead of expressing remorse or culpability for their roles in student deaths, Cornell has routinely denied their part in creating the current atmosphere so inimical to students’ mental health Consider for instance Marchell’s rebuttal to claims about Cornell’s status as a “suicide school” in an

But, “when a death occurs at Cornell in one of our gorges, it’s a very public experience, ” he said “It’s observed by people, many people hear about it, whether or not it is in fact a suicide, and the reality is that when it becomes visible it can create the sense of a higher frequency than it actually is And so over the years, that has contributed to this perception And part of that picture is that when non-Cornell-members die in the gorges, it’s sometimes perceived as a Cornell death when it may in fact not be ”

Rather than so publicly at the gorges, one imagines that Marchell much prefers students to kill themselves in the privacy of their own rooms so as to not besmirch the school’s good name He must be pleased, for this is exactly what is currently happening: the public aspect of Cornell suicides removed, students like Tian are simply finding other ways to kill themselves privately which are much more politically convenient for the institution Sometimes these deaths are not even recognized by the local media, as in the case of two graduate students in development sociology who killed themselves in 2016 One wonders addi-

tionally whether or not the presence of the nets on campus is less about the psychology of suicide prevention, as the university claims, than it is about reducing the visibility (and thus the political resonance) of student suffering, a move subtly captured by the reduced visibility of the nets themselves: the material net, only visible by straining one ’ s head over the bridge’s side, is purveyed as a reasonable substitute for the metaphorical, affective “ net ” that only a truly just, compassionate community could provide Instead of engaging the myriad problems which have led (and are still leading) students to suicide, Cornell has spent up to $10 million on building nets Compare this amount to the mere $22,000 they have spent on an internal review with the JED foundation Imagine if these millions were spent instead on improving CAPS services, hiring diverse and qualified mental health providers, or on faculty training for assisting students with mental illness The nets, after all, did not save Tian’s life

Peter Shipman is a graduate student in the Department of English Comments can be sent to opinion@cornellsun com Guest Room runs periodically

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Cathy Zhang is a senior in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences She can be reached at cz223@cornell edu

Sweet Melissa’s Delicious Expansion

By SPENCER SIGALOW Sun Staff Writer

There are very few things that I do not tolerate in this world I’m a fairly easygoing guy But one thing that I most certainly do NOT tolerate is lactose I’m not quite sure what type of karmic punishment this is, but it has unfortunately plagued me for my entire life Yes, I am that guy who asks for the cheeseburger without the cheese I am that guy who ruined the pizza party by demanding that extra cheese was simply unnecessary But never not once have I allowed this intolerance to get in the way of my love for ice cream Ice cream is the all-time greatest in the Spencer Sigalow Snack Hall of Fame (with waffle fries and Pop Rocks closing out the top three) That is why I was ecstatic, popped a couple of Lactaid pills and dragged two of my friends with me to visit the brand-new Press Bay Alley location of Sweet Melissa’s that opened this past month

The new shop is a quaint storefront near the iconic “Ithaca is Amusing” street art by the Commons When I walked in, the first aspect that grabbed my attention was the space itself it appears to be a converted garage, with glass doors that allow for ample sunlight to enter There are sweets for sale immediately upon entering, and then, of course, the main attraction is to the right: the ice cream There are a limited

number of options compared to those of other larger ice cream venues, but the assortment was to my liking Among the flavors they had, my friends and I made sure to taste a wide variety, including vegan peppermint cookie, mint chocolate chip, rose honeycomb, cookie dough and strawberry basil

The vegan options, of which there were two, are made using coconut milk, which added a nice, sweet and tangy flavor to the peppermint cookie we tasted I ultimately opted for the cookie dough with rainbow sprinkles

As a longtime fan of Sweet Melissa’s, I was undoubtedly satisfied with my ice cream experience The ice cream was delightfully creamy and light, yet its consistency was neither too hard nor

too soft All of the flavors I tasted had a natural sweetness, which was neither overbearing nor overly sugary In the future, I may opt for the strawberry basil, which was only placed into the freezer after I had finished my cookie dough flavor (and of course, we asked for a taste) The strawberry was better than typical strawberry ice cream, although I’m not quite sure what the purpose of the basil was! Although I was initially surprised to see that only hard ice cream was offered as opposed to the typical soft serve I’m accust o m e d

o i t i m m e d

l y became clear that Sweet Melissa’s has mastered the art of both The pricing was very standard, if not lower than that of a typical ice cream shop, with a two-scoop cup

costing me $3 50

My biggest critique of my experience was the lack of seating available There were three chairs, positioned in the corner by the cash register, creating a crowded feeling when somebody else was paying The physical space is small, so I understand that there are not many alternatives Perhaps when it gets warmer, there will be outside seating But for now, you are forced to leave with your ice cream if your party is greater than three, or if you are not the sole patrons This likely will not be an issue when the weather is warmer, but I had very little interest in walking around the Commons with ice cream in the frigid weather Overall, the experience was

absolutely lovely The ice cream was delicious, the ambience and artwork were cheer y and the employee who humored us with the plethora of samples that we requested was a saint We even had a chance to meet Melissa on our way out, and spoiler alert: she really is sweet! When the weather is nicer, I can ’ t wait to come back with more friends and, of course, more Lactaid pills

Serves: ice cream, chocolates

Vibe: casual, cozy and mellow

Price: $

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Mind Game at Cornell Cinema Is a Wild Ride

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

This week, I had the privilege of being invited by Cornell Cinema to preview the film Mind Game, which will be screening this Friday and Saturday Mind Game is a Japanese movie from 2004, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and Kôji Morimoto It’s received critical praise from festivals around the world, but has seen limited release to general viewers Over the past couple years, though, it’s finally been filtering into theaters, so the chance to see it here at Cornell is truly a rare experience And what an experience it is! Mind Game is one of the strangest, most boldly cacophonous films I’ve ever seen

Mind Game opens with a montage that shows random moments of people’s lives, yet unconnected Eventually the film focuses on a young man named Nishi (Kôji Imada), who runs into a his lifelong sweetheart Myon (Sayaka Maeda) He follows her to her family’s diner, just in time for a pair of gangsters to arrive and hold up the place, demanding to see her father One gangster in particular shoots Nishi, killing him instantly Nishi ends up in the afterlife, where he meets God, who in this movie is a flippant, uncaring being, taking dozens of different forms God orders Nishi to proceed into “the light” to fade away, but Nishi refuses though, and instead claws his way

back to life, determined to make his second chance count

One of the first things you’ll notice in Mind Game is the sheer manic energy that pervades the film One of the most notable features is the constantly changing art style Characters go from cartoonish to hyper-realistic, then swing back to abstract, and then back once more Live-action footage gets overlaid at points, as well as photographed cut-outs Computer generated images also appear It’s a mad hodge-podge of animation media and styles that makes it feel like a psychedelic collage put on screen It’s no mere gimmick either a lot of effort has been put in to take these different methods and push them to their extremes The result makes Yellow Submarine look like a cold grey bureaucracy

Now during this mad rush of visuals, I began to feel exhausted at a certain point At this point, however, the movie seemed to get exhausted with me Things dialed back, letting me digest what had just been thrown at me The film takes the time to be quiet and somber as well as crazed and hyper, and that’s very important By hitting the low beats as well as the high ones, it puts together an emotionally driven narrative things don’t always make logical sense, but I still felt myself carried along It left me uncomfortable at parts, pensieve at others, thrilled at yet others and a whole mess of puzzled as well

But what does this narrative say? In the

end, it gives us a meditation about different approaches to life, and the c o n s e q u e n c e s that they face

Should we live life timid and afraid, to be used? Should we be reckless and fast-paced?

Should we be carefree and w i t h d r a w n , with no concerns? Or is there a different, better path?

In all honesty, this is just what I’ve found in my first day after my first viewing The longer I have to unwind this film, and the more times I view it, I feel like I’ll draw even more from it

Perhaps the greatest example of this is the opening montage As I described above, the montage seems to be random events happening to random people When it repeats at the end of the film, though, I realized that had in fact been about all the characters of the film even the minor characters who only got a single scene It shows a lengthy backstory spanning decades With context, and after seeing the montage a sec-

ond time, I got more out of it

So it is with the entirety of Mind Game I’d be lying if I said I understood all of it It left me puzzled at parts, and it pushed me beyond my comfort zone Just like a roller coaster, though, I have to say I’m really very glad it did It’s definitely a film like no other It’s loud and it’s proud Again, we ’ re very lucky to have the chance to experience it at Cornell It’s definitely worth a watch and then some

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun com

Cornell’s Fifth Centrally Isolated Film Festival Showcases Student Films

BY LEV AKABAS Arts and Entertainment Editor

C o r n e l l Un i v e r s i t y i s n o t known for being a film hub, but the work of student filmmakers from across the Northeast were on display at the fifth Centrally Is o l a t e d Fi l m Fe s t i v a l a t t h e Schwartz Performing Arts Center last weekend A wide variety of short films ranging from documentar y to animation to liveaction narrative by students from more than a half-dozen schools were screened “In this area, there aren ’ t a lot of film festivals, espec i a l l y f o r s t u d e n t f i l m m a k e r s , which is the entire idea of the Centrally Isolated Film Festival,” student organizer Isabel Pottinger ‘19 said in an inter view “ This year we made a ver y concerted effort to be in contact with a lot of different schools to tr y to get as much diversity as possible in terms of the people involved, and we really reaped the rewards of that ” The student organizers from the Film Festival Production Lab course, which focuses on running the film festival, including learni n g h ow t o o b j e c t i v e l y j u d g e films, pared down a list of over 100 submissions “ We talk about things like: is the sound good, is the cinematography good, does t

artistic vision, do we know what their artistic vision is?” Pottinger explained

The festival lasted two days Friday’s showcase screening was judged by an audience vote and Saturday’s competition screening was judged by a jur y of people re s p e c t e d i n t h e f i l m f i e l d “Friday’s films are films that we, the student organizers, feel that the audience would really love, but Saturday’s films are the films that we admire for their artistic value,” Pottinger clarified “Both days had films that I really enjoy ” Friday’s audience award winner was “Zvoov,” by Lee Manor from SUNY Purchase The film, whose title means “housefly” in Hebrew, follows a tennis player the night before a big match as he runs around his home tr ying to kill a fly It’s a remarkably simple premise with almost no dialogue, but it’s executed to perfection u s i n g v i s u a l s t o r y t e l l i n g a n d physical comedy In one particularly funny moment, the audience is led to believe the fly is dead, the main character grins widely into the camera; then, after a long pause, the fly continues buzzing and the protagonist

t a k e s o f f a g a i n i n p u r s u i t “‘Zvoov’ is incredible because it has one character for most of the film, which is so hard to do in a

short film so hard to do in any film to make your audience care about one character without having talked about their background,” Pottinger commented

The film is also supported by great technical elements First and foremost, the sound design and special effects are impressive

y annoying, allowing the audience to empathize with the character, and the fly itself always looks convincing The shots are well-lit

finds different angles and closeups to shoot within the one set-

there’s only one character most of the times, those shots could be really boring, but they’re never boring,” Pottinger said “For a student film, that thing is crazy ”

The eclectic selection of 15 films shown on Friday was consistently strong Some films, such as “A Quick Fix,” by William Tr

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l e g e , were professional-looking visual treats due to their use of lighting

There were also three animated films on display, my favorite of which was “Blue,” by Mar yam

Fa r a h z a d i f ro m t h e Ro c h e s t e r Institute of Technology, which at times felt like a Pixar short It boasted a distinct style, meaningful use of color and a heartwarm-

ing stor y Another standout entr y was “Rinse and Repeat,” by Em

Z a r a b e t f r o m It h a c a C o l l e g e , which depicted the intertwining stor ylines of three people at a laundromat It was tightly written and well-edited, telling an inventive stor y in five minutes

Saturday’s films were equally fun to watch, in addition to being t e c h n i c a l l y s p e c t a c u l a r “DACAmented,” a moving film following the lives of a diverse group of DACA recipients by St Clair Detrick-Jules from Brown University, won the prize for best documentar y The film profiles both men and women from all d i f f e re n t c o u n t r i e s , e a c h w i t h their own stor y, including one woman who cannot get proper medical care for Down syndrome due to her immigrant status It takes a humanistic approach to a political issue with great success

The winner in the experiment a l c a t e g o r y w a s “ Bu i l d i n g Ro o m ” b y C l a i re Mc C l u s k e y from Ithaca College, which combines and sometimes even overlays hand-drawn animation with footage of words being written on and erased from a wall She uses ambient music and sounds of water to set a melancholy tone t h a t m a t c h e s t h e c o l o r l e s s , sketch-like drawings

The narrative winner was “OB and the Galactic Three in: The

College To call the film original would be an understatement Just the plot itself two women discover an uncharted planet and learn to use the power of a mystical force called “the funk” is imaginative, and that’s not to mention the hyper-stylized camera movements and the use of popular funk music Most of the shots featured a black or special e f

rather than a traditional set, but the filmmakers create an rich,

h detailed makeup and costuming, high-contrast lighting and bright, vivid color Perhaps no film from either day had such a strong artistic vision

Each movie from the weekend was unique and memorable which is a testament to the grueling selection process of the student organizers “Anything that we can do for films on this campus I think is really important, because we don’t have a big film school, and for me, a filmmaker, doing anything like this inspires me and makes me feel a lot better a b o u t b e

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l m a s opposed to any other school,” Pottinger stated

Lev Akabas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at la286@cornell edu

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“I think [Teat] is the best player in the country, ” Donville said “[He’s] the smartest lacrosse player I’ve ever played with So I think all of our guys know, when Jeff gets the ball there’s an opportunity to make a play ” This weekend’s game represents the final regular-season home game for the Red’s 11 seniors, who are currently enjoying the best season for the team since they first arrived on East Hill

“It’s been a great run these past four years, ” said senior midfielder Jordan Dowiak “I’ve had a great time with everyone in my class I think it’s just going to be a special day, you know, it’s always fun to play out on Schoellkopf and espe-

cially against an Ivy League opponent ”

While it may be the last regular season game for the Red at Schoellkopf this year, there is still a chance that Cornell could be a host of a first-round NCAA tournament game Either way, this group of seniors knows that their time leading the squad to new heights is far from over

“It’s great to get some wins this season, ” Dowiak said “It’s great to see us produce the way we know we can, but we got a lot more lacrosse left to play so I try to keep it going and stay consistent in everything we do ”

The game against Brown begins at 1 p m Saturday at Schoellkopf Field

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newcomer and Teat has come to the forefront as of recent Eight goals in the past three games

h a v e i n v o l v e d t h e d u o o f

On t a r i o n a t i ve s , w i t h h a l f o f those tallies coming against the Mountain Hawks last Saturday

“I think [ Teat’s] the best player in the countr y and probably the smartest lacrosse player I’ve ever played with,” Donville said “All of our guys know that when Je f f g e t s t h e b a l l , t h e r e ’ s a n opportunity to make a play ” D o n v i l l e a n d Te a t , h a v e played together before their time at Cornell too, so the pair was already familiar with each other’s tendencies

“I’ve known [Donville] for a while back home playing with each other, against each other,” Teat said “ We are pretty familiar with each other A lot of people that know him remember him for his talent, but he’s a really smart player He’s just doing the right things at the right time ”

In 2017, the Red averaged 11 69 goals per game But this season, with Donville on the squad, Cornell is currently aver-

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aging 14 83 goals best in the nation As a result, the team now finds itself second in the Ivy League with a couple of games remaining “ T h e p r o g r

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e w e w a n t i t t o b e , ” Donville said “So being back in the conversation, being one of the top teams in the Ivy League, is really big ”

The repeat Ivy League Rookie of the Week has scored a goal in seven straight games, and at least three points in six straight exactly as long as the Red’s current winning streak

“It’s been a good stretch here obviously,” Donville said “For me, it’s about people putting me in good situations [ The] coache s d o a r e a l l y g o o d j o b f o r younger guys making sure t h a

g down for me ” Donville will look to continue the success of his freshman campaign in his team ’ s final regu l a r s e a s o n h o m e g a m e t h i s Saturday when Cornell takes on Brown

Dylan McDevitt an be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun com Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun com

Fast lane | Ranked ninth in the country, women’s middle distance runners turned in one of many impressive performances last weekend

Runners Set Records as Cornell Delivers Strong Showings at Bucknell

By BENJAMIN SHI Sun Contributor

The Cornell track and field

t e a m s e n d u re d t o u g h we a t h e r conditions to perform at record-

s e t t i n g p a c e s a t t h e Bi s o n Outdoor Classic at Bucknell

Seniors Michael Wang and Jared Failor highlighted a well-

b a l a n c e d e f f o r t , f i n i s h i n g t h e 1500 meter event in 3:54 17 and 3:54 33, respectively, and setting new personal records, while also punching their way to the ECAC

o u t d o o r c h a m p i o n s h i p s n e x t month

Ranked ninth nationally, the women ’ s middle distance team continued its string of outstanding performances Senior captain Shannon Hugard finished third overall in the 1500 meter in a time of 4:19 95 Junior Annie Taylor completed the race in sixth place with an individual-best time of 4:22 90, with senior Jackie Katzman finishing less than a seco n d a f t e r i n e i g h t h p o s i t i o n (4:23 50)

“ We’ve b e e n w o rk i n g h a rd every week to make sure we ’ re as strong as possible, but also holding back enough to make sure that we don’t burn out or rack up injuries before the end of the season, ” Wang said “Our minds and hearts are focused on [Ivy League HEPS Championship], and we want to do everything in our power to succeed come May ” Senior captain Ellen Shepard won the 100 meter in a time of 12 08, and sophomore Brittany Stenekes took third place in the 100 meter hurdles in 14 15 Both qualified for the ECAC meet

“After kickstarting the outdoor

s e a s o n w i t h g o o d re s u l t s i n California, I’ve been more excited

f o r t h i s s e a s o n t h a n e ve r, ” Stenekes said “In training, my teammates and I have been getting after our workouts with positivity even the really tough workouts ”

After missing the indoor season, senior Chase Silverman also put up a spectacular performance on Saturday, turning in a time time of 3:49 62 yet another E C AC - q u a l i f y i n g p e r f o r m a n c e for the Red

But it wouldn’t end there

s e n i o r s Sa m C h a u v i n , Jo s h

D y r l a n d , Ke v i n Be n s o n a n d

Oseoba Airewele also put their names on the long list of Cornell

a t h l e t e s q u a l i f y i n g f o r t h e

Teat’s Dominance Fuels Men’s Lacrosse

As a senior and an avid follower of Cornell Athletics, I have seen many great players for the Red in the past four years Two of the best were Brianne Jenner ’15, former forward for women ’ s hockey and an Olympic gold medalist for Canada, as well as Gabe Dean ’17, star wrestler, two-time NCAA champion and four-time AllAmerican Yet, the very best Cornell athlete in the last four years may very well be Cornell lacrosse sophomore attack Jeff Teat

In just his sophomore season, Teat is already making his mark on the Cornell lacrosse record books After racking up 145 points in his final season at the Hill Academy, he had a breakout freshman season at Cornell He broke the freshman scoring record for the Red with 72 points, previously set by Rob Pannell ’13, one of the greatest NCAA men ’ s lacrosse players ever Teat averaged two and a half goals per game as a freshman, nearly a hat trick in each contest He would finish first in the Ivy League in both points and assists per game

earlier in the move, using his excellent off-ball movement to lose defenders and find open space

Then, he takes a pass, and looks for a shot or a key pass to a teammate His specialty is getting on the ball late in the move and producing the final pass to set up a teammate

What is even more remarkable is that opponents know they need to key on Teat late in moves, yet he still excels at avoiding defensive attention to get the ball, finding an open teammate through a sea of sticks and helmets, and

feeding the ball to him In this way, he makes his teammates better, the true mark of a great player

ECACs Chauvin and Dyrland completed the grueling 10,000 meter race in 30:33 and 30:58, respectively Benson and Airewele punctuated outstanding field performances with Benson throwing 4 9 4 4 m i n t h e d i s c u s a n d

Airewele finishing off the first day with a 14 80m triple jump

“Even though the indoor season didn’t end the way we wanted, we ’ re starting to put the pieces together,” Wang said “We’re getting guys back that were injured indoors, and we ’ re putting up a l o t o f n a t i o n a l - l e ve l p e r f o rmances ”

After finishing in first place the week before at the PomonaPitzer Invitational and second place the week before that at the Ti t a n Te a m C h a l l e n g e , t h e women ’ s 4x100 meter relay team once again outraced the competition with another win Shepard, junior Mar tha Sam, freshman Kellian Kelly and Stenekes completed the race in a time of 46 40 despite the chilly conditions

“Because many of the events are individual, being able to run the 4x100 [relay] is something I always look forward to, ” Stenekes said “We have the drive to run fast together and sharpen our exchanges [Shepard] is such a great motivator and leader for our team ”

In Auburn, Alabama, a small group of men ’ s track runners ran at blistering paces for the Tiger Invite The 4x100 relay team started things off for the Red, finishing in a time of 41 07 seconds

Building off that performance, senior Austin Lyons ran a personal record time of 14 02 seconds in the 110 meter hurdles, putting his name in the Cornell record books with the fourth fastest time in that event in program history

Juniors Zach Menchaca and Alex Beck also had blazing per form a n c e s , r u n n i n g 1 0 5 9 a n d 1 0 6 2 , re s p e c t i ve l y, w h i c h a re now the fourth and fifth fastest time in Ivy League history

With just over two weeks until t h e Iv y L e a g u e He p t a g o n a l Championships, the Red looks to continue its outstanding perform a n c e s B o t h t h e m e n a n d women ’ s teams will be competing at the Larry Ellis Invitational in Princeton this weekend

Prior to this season, Teat was named an Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-American and placed on watch list for the Tewaaraton Award, which is presented annually to the best player in college lacrosse This shows the hype around Teat for his sophomore campaign, and he certainly has delivered Through 12 games, his 33 goals and 44 assists total to 77 points over six per game It’s no surprise that he currently leads the country in points per game

Yes, Teat’s statistics are certainly impressive Yet, watching him play lacrosse is truly something else He piles up so many goals and assists because of his spectacular movement off the ball As the commentators noted in the big win over Syracuse, one would expect a player with Teat’s numbers to be a ball hog, like a lacrosse version of Carmelo Anthony

But Teat is of a completely different mold He often prefers to let his teammates pass the ball

Not much was expected of Cornell lacrosse this season, as the squad was picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League However, interim head coach Peter Milliman has gone to work and managed his squad to second in the Ivy League at this point Teat’s contributions are a big reason why, as the team scored an impressive 65 goals in one three-game stretch and possess one of the most dangerous offenses in the country

The Red has a number of goal scorers, but the assist provider is usually Teat His movement and passing skills make the whole offense tick and is drawing national attention Cornell lacrosse fans should be honored to watch his play on East Hill, as he surely will be remembered as one of the best to play for the Red for years to come

Kevin Linsey is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be contacted at klinsey@cornellsun com A Beautiful Game appears weekly this semester

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6 Cornell to Host Brown on Senior Day

Riding six game win streak, Red looks to secure spot in Ivy League Tournament

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

Amidst its longest winning streak in more than four years, Cornell men ’ s lacrosse has used the middle part of its season to knock off ranked opponents and build its resume for the NCAA Tournament in May

At this moment however, the Red (9-3, 3-1 Ivy) has its eyes on one particular achievement that its been working towards since before the first whistle of the 2018 season A win on Saturday against Brown means that Cornell will be guaranteed a place at the conference championship in New York City next month

“This is an opportunity to secure a spot in the Ivy League tournament, ” said interim head coach Peter Milliman

The Bears (5-6, 2-2) will be the first team in four games that Cornell faces with a losing record, with the Red having dispatched three high quality teams in Lehigh, Syracuse and Harvard in its last three contests But Cornell is making sure not to let down its edge for what will be a crucial game in determining its postseason fate

“We work on intensity and focus every day in practice,” Milliman said “That’s really the biggest way to make sure it translates to game day, is making it a priority every day with what we ’ re doing ”

Despite its lackluster record, the Ivy squad from Providence may

be better than it appears Brown has only lost one game by more than two goals this season, with two of its losses coming in overtime What’s more, Brown is a team that’s better on the road than it is at home (4-2 vs 1-4), and enters the matchup having won three straight against the Red

“The last time they came here, it didn’t go very well for us at all,” Milliman said “I was on the sideline that day, and it didn’t feel very good So we definitely need to step our game up when it comes to [Brown] because we haven’t performed very well against them in the last few years ”

Perhaps Cornell’s biggest strength all season has been its lethal offense, which averages a nation-best 14 83 goals per game Sophomore attack Jeff Teat’s NCAA-leading 77 points have been a huge factor, particularly in the way he is able to see the field and find an open man for a score

“I think a common theme of our team is unselfish and really patient,” Teat said “We’re working really well together as a unit, we ’ re having a lot of assisted goals ”

One player in particular who has benefited greatly from Teat’s onfield vision is freshman midfielder Jonathan Donville, who was named Ivy League rookie of the week the past two weeks in a row

Coach Notches 200th Win of Cornell Career

By GRACIE TODD Sun Staff Writer

After dropping its previous three games, Cornell women ’ s lacrosse handed a stinging rebuke to regional rival Binghamton, keeping alive its Ivy ambitions as the regular season draws to a close

The Red handily overtook the Bearcats (6-6) Tuesday, 15-7 The decision continues Cornell’s (7-6, 2-3 Ivy) undefeated campaign against the team, which it has now beat in all seven of its last seven meetings

“The win against Binghamton was huge for our confidence,” said junior captain Sarah Phillips

The victor y marked Jenny Graap’s ’86 200th win as Cornell’s head coach, a milestone in a career that has had few parallels in collegiate lacrosse Grapp, who has helmed the program since 1997, won the 2017 Ivy League Coach

of the Year and has led 10 postseason-qualifying teams during her tenure Cornell ran up its second highest score of the season against Binghamton, powered by a deep offense that included contributions from nine different players The Red’s three captains Phillips, senior Ida Farinholt and senior Taylor Reed scored two goals each, while sophomore attacker Caroline Allen tied her career high with four goals Freshmen Alicia O’Neil and Ellie Walsh joined in the action to each score a goal Farinholt led the charge on defense with three caused turnovers, while sophomore goalie Katie McGahan made eight saves an especially impressive performance given the Red’s eight point margin of victory Cornell has two regular season games remaining, both of which take place away against fellow con-

ference teams

“Away games allow us to completely lock in and be focused solely on the team, and the game, with no other distractions,” Phillips said “I think we will do well in this situation ”

Cornell next faces Princeton (75, 3-1), a powerful opponent that currently stands third in the conference A win against their rival would even out the Red’s Ivy record, helping keep its postseason aspirations afloat

“We need to step up to the challenge,” Reed said “We will focus on things we can control this week: working hard, scrapping for everything, and making each other better ”

The Red will hit the road to take on the Tigers this Saturday at 1 p m

Gracie Todd can be reached at gtodd@cornellsun com

Freshman Shines for Lacrosse

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Claiming his second consecutive Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor, freshman midfielder Jonathan Donville has been integral to the rising success of No 6 Cornell men ’ s lacrosse this season

The conference award comes after two five-point performances last week against nationally ranked opponents No 9 Syracuse and then-No 17 Lehigh The pair of consistent performances by the freshman helped the Red extend its current winning streak to six

“He’s obviously got a pretty special skill set, ” said interim head coach Peter Milliman “He just has a game sense that doesn’t come with young guys very often ”

Donville is the third on the team in points with a score of 31, behind sophomore attack Jeff Teat (77) and junior attack Clarke Petterson (43)

“It’s not much of a surprise,” Milliman said “It’s impressive to see him scoring as much as he is, [but] it’s just the nature of who he is ”

Unlike the pair of attackers ahead of him in points, Donville has not started in one of the Red’s 12 contests and instead comes off the bench for a Cornell squad deep with talent

“The guys on my line know we might not get as many runs, but when we get them we are ready,” Donville said “I think we see a lot in games that with so many talented players, and guys moving the ball, working hard, we end up wearing teams down ” Strong chemistr y between the

BY ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI Sun Staff Writer

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Sanders will be featured on rapper Cardi B’s next album The

politician gave a shout out to Cardi B on Twitter yesterday afternoon

In an inter view with GQ last week, Cardi B said about former President Franklin D Roosevelt, “He’s the real ‘Make America Great Again,’ because if it wasn ’ t for him, old people wouldn’t even get Social Security” old people like Bernie Sanders, who actually just learned of Cardi B’s

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n Social Security so that seniors are able to retire with the dignity they deser ve ” In fact, Sanders was so enamored with Cardi B’s comments that he also felt the need to tweet out a video just hours later saying exactly what he had tweeted earlier

It’s clear that all of this has Cardi B feeling the Bern The successful artist said that collaborating with Sanders on an album has been “ a lifelong dream ” At first glance, the duo may seem like an unlikely pairing Sanders

is an old Cardi B is young Sanders is a white man Cardi B is a woman of color Sanders has been accused of being an atheist Cardi B has regularly mentioned her strong relationship with her faith But the two actually have quite a bit in common They’re both from New York City, they’re both known to have no filter and they’re both popular among college-aged people

Additionally, Bernie Sanders is actually a musician himself He

released a folk album called We Shall Overcome in 1987, a fact that you probably won ’ t believe even though it’s absolutely true The album, which was egregiously snubbed at the Grammys, features several tracks of Sanders performing spoken word in his e u p h o n i o u s Br o o k l y n a c c e n t , which means that Bernie Sanders is basically a rapper

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Sanders will choose Cardi B as his running mate should he run for office again in 2020 Until then, we’ll just have to enjoy his beautiful music

Anthony Scaramucci is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at themooch@cornellsun com

Yodeling Walmart Kid to Headline Slope Day

BY VIRI GARCIA AND LEV AKABAS Arts and Entertainment Editors

Almost immediately after this year ’ s Slope Day lineup was announced, the memes began pouring in from everywhere “What is a Galantis?” tweeted one student However, not all hope is lost

Just a few weeks ago, 11year-old Mason Ramsey took over the internet after a video of him singing/yodeling Hank Williams’s “Lovesick Blues” in a Walmart aisle went viral The video may have been unsettling to most people at first, because 11-year-olds should not be allowed to be that good at anything, but boy does the kid grow on you You can ’ t ignore the

fact that he’s got talent

Shortly after the viral video, Ramsey was invited onto The Ellen Show, where he received a $15,000 scholarship and an opportunity to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, where country legends like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn have performed Mason Ramsey, who is now officially named The Yodeling Walmart Boy, also performed at Coachella, where Justin Bieber cheered him on Now, Cornell is giving him the opportunity to perform at an even higher-profile event by headlining Slope Day on May 10 The people don’t want EDM They don’t want rap or hiphop They want some good old country, as embarrassing as it is to admit it Mason Ramsey is here to save us all

“EDM? Rap? Yodeling? If you ’ re drunk enough, it all sounds the same, ” former Arts and Entertainment Editor Sadie Kims said

The young country legend is set to play at the Ithaca Walmart before making his way to Cornell, where he will be received by a much larger crowd

Needless to say, Ramsey is thrilled “That 12-year-old came to Cornell and everyone wouldn’t shut up about him,” Ramsey said in an interview “Well guess what? I’m only 11!”

Usually, an 11-year old at an Ivy League just makes you feel bad about yourself It really makes you think you should’ve been studying quantum physics instead of playing Pokemon But Ramsey’s passion for country and loveable character make me genuinely happy

that I chose not to be at an Ivy League school when I was 11 The kid is just enjoying life and doing what he loves If anything, he has taught me that life is about doing what you love at Walmart and not letting anyone tell you it’s wrong

The Slope Day Programming Board could not have made a purer choice for once

With Ramsey taking over as the headliner, Galantis will return to holding the glorified title of Sweden’s second best EDM group The Slope Day Programming Board was initially disinclined to remove Galantis from the lineup despite Ramsey’s popularity, but when Galantis posted a meme on Facebook that contained a Cornell University logo, the duo was disqualified from headlining

Slope Day Galantis declined to comment

Despite the fact that a middle schooler is headlining a concert where a now Pulitzer Prize winning Kendrick Lamar performed just five years ago, students seem pretty pleased with the controversial decision to choose an artist who people have actually heard of “This kid plays my type of music,” said the one student at Cornell who likes country music

However, some Cornell students are concerned that Mason Ramsey is a one-hit wonder What else can he sing besides “Lovesick Blues?” Mason Ramsey can and will perform every song written by Hank Williams I’ve heard his rendition of “Hey, Good Lookin’” is pretty much how it feels to chew 5 Gum, so Cornell has

nothing to worry about If you still think that Mason Ramsey isn’t original, keep in mind that Galantis has been using the same album cover since 2013 Mason Ramsey would never do us dirty like that

“This is going to sound so awesome when I’m on acid,” commented another student If there’s anything that Cornell students love more than Slope Day, it’s memes, so a human meme performing on Slope Day is a dream come true for many Cornellians If it’s not still snowing in mid-May, Slope Day is looking to be “lit” this year

Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun com Lev Akabas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at la286@cornell edu