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Café Will Stay ‘Temple of Zeus’

By ALISHA GUPTA and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

After student outcr y regarding rumors that the Temple of Zeus café would be renamed, Cornell said on Friday that the Klarman Hall nook will not be renamed and that Temple of Zeus will become its official title

There were rumors that the eatery was to be renamed after oil magnate and member of the Cornell Arts and Sciences Advisory Council James F Adelson ’85 made a sizable donation to the café

Upon seeing the resistance among students, Ar ts and Sciences Dean Gretchen Ritter ’83 said she decided to talk to the family, though she declined to comment on the family’s identity

“When the family who funded the building of the café made a contribution, they never asked for the café to be named,” she said “They were offered the opportunity because of their generosity ”

“I have spoken with the family and they want to be clear that they strongly respect and honor tradition and that they wish for the café to be officially named the Temple of Zeus,” she added

Founded in 1964 through the efforts of students, faculty and staff, the café has been an important meeting place for Cornellians

“The students were demanding a place to meet with faculty that was neutral territory, so the college came up with this place,” said Henry Crans, director of facilities for the arts college, in a 2012 Cornell Chronicle article on the origins of the eatery

After students heard of the potential name change, a petition to “Keep Zeus

Zeus!” was launched and received over 650 signatures

“Temple of Zeus doesn’t belong to any one person, and has always been defined by the communal spirit it allows student workers, non-student workers, student, faculty and staff patrons and visitors to Cornell to share,” said Ara Hagopian ’18, who is also a columnist for The Sun

Many opponents to the name change believed a change would symbolize an end to the communal and equal atmosphere the café provides, including Temple of Zeus worker Susie Plotkin ’18, who authored the Change org petition

“It’s a café for arts and sciences, so if

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it’s named after a donor, whoever the donor may be, it strips away the egalitarian atmosphere that it offers us, ” she said, “It doesn’t belong to one person, it belongs to everyone ”

Hearing student concerns, the administration acknowledged the café’s “long history as a central meeting place for faculty and students,” Ritter said and ultimately decided to officially name the café the Temple of Zeus

Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun com

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

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant New Editor

Hundreds of students surrounded Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, outside her office Friday to demand greater funding and institutional support for ethnic and identity based programs at Cornell

“Cornell as an institution boasts about its diversity, but what it neglects is the lack of support for these programs, ” Tiffany Fotopoulos ’18 announced to the crowd “The University as an institution cares about what is profitable, about what fields of study can produce the most money instead of what fields can actually educate students ”

Multiple students voiced that Cornell focuses mainly on educational programs that push “profitable career goals” and “professional development,” rather than supporting programs for ethnic studies, LGBT Studies, and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies

“Cornell as an institution boasts about its diversity, but what it neglects is the lack of support for these programs.”

“The University fails to see these programs as more than identity development and cultural immersion,” Fotopoulos said “These programs are first and foremost academic spaces that teach a universal knowledge They’re about teaching and critiquing the structures and systems that determine who belongs, who is the Other, who is excluded, who most bear the deep injustices that are clear throughout our history ”

Students also expressed frustration at the University’s lack of progress and accountability on

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Granger, Fleur Delacour and Harry Potter, walked the halls and interacted with students and families

waiting in the

Lecture by Chief Sam George, Bear Clan, Cayuga Nation 1:25 p m , 400 Caldwell Hall

Probing Cosmic Acceleration With the Dark Energy Survey 4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

The Mouse, the Moneybox, and the Six-Footed Scurrying Solecism 4:30 p m , 122 Goldwin Smith Hall To m o r r o w

Simulation and Design of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering Noon, 178 Frank H T Rhodes Hall

Society for the Humanities Series on the Future of Publishing 4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

‘Cornell Beach’ Transforms Grassy Patch on Arts Quad

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

As Cornell’s Ithaca campus warms up after a winter punctuated by a historic March snowstorm, students have noticed something odd sprouting from the ground in the Arts Quad

“Cornell Beach,” reads a sign erected by an Arts student earlier this month, next to another warning that there is no lifeguard

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d “swim at your own risk ”

There is, of course, no water to swim in or sand from which to build castles, but the student who erected the signs, Daniel Seung Hwan Lee ’20, said he was hoping to redefine a space that thousands walk by daily without taking much time to appreciate or acknowledge the area

Lee said he wanted to install “ something so out of place that it catches your attention and makes you think, ‘wait, was this always there?’ because a lot of people walk by this place without thinking what’s actually there ”

The signs were for Introduction to Sculpture, a class taught by Prof David Sn y d

“emphatically ‘claimed’ a chunk of the Arts Quad by naming it with signage ” “ The assignment dealt with the consideration of sculpture as a practice that is not exclusively limited to the construction of form or objects,” Snyder said in an email “ With this project, students are meant to consider the relationships between objects and people within specific spaces and contexts ”

“I appreciate how it implements a kind of re-branding (the grassy verge on the s

Beach) as a means of suddenly making a nowhere-place seem special,” the professor added

Lee set up the signs during the week of April 10, and within a day or two, the “Cornell Beach” sign had been swiped, leaving only the warning about the lack of a lifeguard

“I knew it would have to get taken down at some point, or someone would

steal the sign,” Lee said

The signs were made using wood pieces and spray paint, Lee said, adding that he h a d re q u e s t e d G o o g l e Ma p s a d d a “Cornell Beach” label to the area on the Arts Quad

Snyder added that the installation also points to “the ridiculousness of certain forms of territorial circumscription,” as when “gentrifying neighborhoods adopt new monikers in order to gussy up their

Cornell Hosts Week of Action for Refugees

By SICHUN LIU Sun Contributor

A conglomerate of campus groups will hold a series of events this week to raise awareness about the current refugee crisis as part of a “Week of Action for Refugees” at Cornell

In its second year, the week of action from April 22 to 29 will include a wide array of activities and events, including a display on the Arts Quad, a lecture and discussion on the Syrian conflict and refugee crisis, tabling to build support for Cornell becoming a sanctuary campus and a refugee support gala

“Ithaca is a culture hub of refugees and one of the most diverse cities in the United States in terms of refugee population,” said Salma Shitia ’18, the founder and president of Cornell Welcomes Refugees and president of the Arab Student Association

Historically known as a sanctu-

ary place for refugees, Ithaca has been taking Burmese, Russian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees for resettlement since the 1980s, Shitia said

From Sunday to Wednesday, 36 life jackets will be displayed on the Arts Quad as a reminder of the thousands of refugees who have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea

Under the tagline, “How much longer will the Mediterranean remain a graveyard for migrants,” testimonials from refugees who crossed the sea will be shown on the life jackets so that people can read the thought-provoking

quotes Helen Shanahan ’18, co-facilitator of Amnesty International at Cornell, said this display is inspired by a Belgian group, which exhibited life jackets on a much larger scale

“We used this group ’ s resources and also conducted extensive research to find these quotes from

people who successfully crossed the Mediterranean,” Shanahan said

Cornell’s Amnesty International group, as part of last year ’ s week of action, placed flags on campus representing the top five countries from which refugees were coming Shanahan believes this year ’ s display, transformed from last year ’ s, will be more personal and powerful

“One guy talks about being forced overboard in the chaos of the ship and thinking he was actually going to die,” she said, describing one of the testimonials to be displayed on a life jacket this week “It is very impactful to hear from people who actually experienced it ”

In addition to the life jackets display, the United Nations Association of the U S A Cornell Chapter will also put up signs listing facts about migrants and

image ”

The heavy snow in March, Lee said, helped add to the juxtaposition of the beach signs and the pause he hoped it would give people as they rush to class

“A beach in Ithaca is so out of place and I felt like that’s the perfect thing to put in the middle of the quad,” he said

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

Stranger Things Producer

By MEG GORDON

Staff Writer

Dan Cohen ’05, executive producer of Stranger Things and several other popular movies and television shows, reflected on how his love of writing and interest in cinema shaped his career during a lecture in a packed Goldwin Smith Hall auditorium on Friday

Cohen, who majored in psychology as an undergraduate at Cornell, said his passion for storytelling helped him land producing gigs for Stranger Things, The Spectacular Now and Arrival

“I’ve always had a real love of movies and cinema and storytelling,” Cohen said “It was at Cornell where I worked at Cornell Cinema and I really started to devour films, and in my third and fourth years, [I] kind of [made] that my focus ”

In addition to working at Cornell Cinema as an undergrad, Cohen also reviewed films for The Cornell Daily Sun Cohen said classes he took at Cornell served as major influences on his career

“It was in some of these classes where I started thinking about films and storytelling in a more subjective and analytical way, and sort of falling in love with it all,” Cohen said “I just kind of began to make movies my vocation from day-to-day and tried to figure out what I would do within it all ”

During his senior year, Cohen enrolled in an independent study, allowing him to “read every book on screenwriting I could possibly read and write drafts of a screenplay,” eventually convincing him to go to Los Angeles, he said

Students: C.U.’s Lack Of Funding ‘Unsurprising’

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f o l l o w i n g t h r o u g h w i t h a

Student Assembly Resolution to establish a major for Asian American Studies from one year ago

Emily Dong ’18 called the University’s lack of funding and inaction to establish the major “unsurprising ”

“It has become clear that the University does only not care about Asian American Studies but also other ethnic studies, gender studies and sexuality studies programs, ” s h e t o l d t h e c r o w d , w h o broke out into applause

Do n g s a i d t h a t s t u d e n t action throughout histor y is the reason that ethnic studies programs exist on campus, despite the fact that these programs consistently receive i n a d e q u a t e r e s o u r c e s f r o m the University

“ It w a s u s w h o s t a r t e d

t h e s e p r o g r a m s f r o m t h e beginning,” she said “It was us who had to fight and fight and fight to establish prog r a m s t h a t e x p l i c i t l y acknowledged and taught sys-

t e m s o f o p p r e s s i o n a n d ignored histories

”

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p r o g r a m s c u r r e n t l y f a c e include funding, autonomy, lack of faculty numbers and s h r i n k i n g c l a s s n u m b e r s , according to multiple testimonial speakers

A f t e r re a d i n g d o ze n s o f testimonials to Dean Ritter, students demanded that the University create universitywide interdisciplinar y majors in each ethnic studies pro-

g r a m , i n c l u d i n g A s i a n

A m e r i c a n , F G S S a n d LGBTQ studies, among others

Other demands included turning ethnic and identitybased studies into the individual departments with con-

c r e t e s u p p o r t f r o m t h e

Un i v e r s i t y, i n c r e a s i n g t h e number of tenure-track lines, and funding and rene wing the search for more program tenure-track faculty

Dean Ritter, who listened to demands, did not comment to testimonial speakers or to The Sun

“ It’s t i m e f o r t h e University to step up, ” Dong said “ This fight for ethnic studies, LGBT studies, FGSS is a fight for me, for you, for ever yone This is a fight for academic programs that matter and think we matter, too ”

“ We won ’ t stop fighting until our programs receive the support they deser ve, ” she told the crowd

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun com

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Support Gala’s Funds to Help Refugees

Pay Off Loans for Flight Tickets, Housing

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u n c i l and Cornell University Sustainable Design, on Tuesday, will present a c

refugee crisis and the S

Following the short presentation, students will

possible next steps over free samosas and lassi All the events during

the Week of Action for Refugees will culminate in the Refugee Suppor

which will not only cel-

around the world, but also collect funds that will go directly towards the refugees “ The funds will help t h e r

United States as well as

t h e i r h o u s i n g , ” Sh i t i a said

Ar twork created by Cornell students focus-

i n g o n a t h e m e o f “ r e i m a g i n i n g b o r d e r s ” will be shown around the gala, which will also

“As more refugees are resettling, there are a lot of opportunities for students to interact ”

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include a guest speaker from Ithaca Welcomes

R e f u g e e s , m u s i c a n d

d a n c e p e r f o r m a n c e s ,

r a f f l e s , h e n n a t a t t o o and more

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S h i t i a a l s o w e l c o m e s s t u d e n t s t o c o n t a c t

C o r n e l l We l c o m e s Refugees to get more involved

“A s m o r e r e f u g e e s are resettling, there are a lot of oppor tunities for students to interact with the refugees and h e l p t h e m t h r o u g h f i n d i n g j o b s , t r a i n i n g for inter vie ws, building r e s u m e s , t e a c h i n g English to non-native English speakers” and more, she said

T h e w e e k’s e v e n t s are sponsored by a host

o f g r o u p s , i n c l u d i n g A m n e s t y In t e r n a t i o n a l a t C o r n e l l Un i ve r s i t y, Cornell University Sustainable Design, Arab Student Association at Cornell, Cornell Univ e r s i t y ’ s S o u t h A s i a n Council, Cornell Welc o m e s R e f u g e e s , t h e Un i t e d Na t i o n s A s s ociation of the United St a t e s o f A m e r i c a , Cornell Chapter, Cornell DREAM Team and C o r n e l l I n t e r n a t i o n a l Students Union

Sichun Liu can be reached at sl2473@cornell edu

Cohen said that when he first arrived in L A , he did the “well-known introductory balance of waitering and writing screenplays ”

“My roommates in L A were both Cornell grads, and we would go out nearly every night,” Cohen said “We would watch movies and just sort of ingratiate ourselves into the town, even though we were totally broke and had no idea what anything was, or how to get places

“It was all terribly confusing when we first got there, but it was also exciting because we were all figuring out where we fit into this creative entertainment community,” he added

His first official job was as an assistant working on The Firm in 2005, and he later joined Sidney Kimmel Enter tainment in 2007, finding that he was no longer as interested in working as a manager

Cohen then worked to “keep pushing up the hill as a producer,” finding that it made his work more satisfying and allowing him to find a niche beyond family and genre films

The intersection of science fiction and horror became a fascination for him, resulting in his upcoming projects Kin, Kodachrome, Stranger Things 2, and The Darkest Minds

Cohen said open-mindedness is key to exploring new ideas that may not seem appealing on first look

“I wouldn’t write anything out, ” he said “A great stor y is a great stor y Projects that initially came together, fell apar t, and then came together again reinforced the idea I should be following my gut

“The world is keen on finding new ideas, and the most impor tant thing, I would say, is to just always stay curious ”

Meg Gordon can be reached at mgordon@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Political Jokes in Veep More Realistic Now

BY BECKY FRANK Sun Contributor

A l m o s t e ve r y Gre y ’ s An a t o m y f a n I k n ow we through the “I’m going to be a surgeon ” phase Desp hating ever y one of my science courses and getting a on AP Bio, I did too However, Veep pushed me int more realistic phase: to work in politics or governme I wanted to work on the Hill in D C like Vice Preside Selina Meyer ( Julia Louis-Dreyfus) I thought her ch

o f s t a f f A m y Br o o k h e i m e r ( A n n a C h l u m s k y ) w absolutely one of the coolest, funniest and most comp tent people ever

The best way that I can describe Veep is as a fantas combination of House of Cards and Modern Family. I per fectly political and serious while also absolutely hil ious

Judging by the first episode, aired April 16, Season is taking a turn in a new direction All of the key ch acters have returned, but have gone their separate wa They are no longer all in Selina Meyer’s office Dan i repor ter for CBS, Amy is working on her fiance’s ca paign, Mike is a stay-at-home dad and so on This is a the first season where Selina is not either Vice-Preside or President of the United States She holds no positi besides former President, and the season opens with h first public inter view since the historic house vote th lost her the presidency

Gar y Walsh, king of the “Leviathan” bag a gia bag carr ying anything Selina could ever need is s right by Selina’s side I do not know how to put wo to how funny Gar y is Ever ything he does continues make me actually laugh out loud while watching t show One thing about watching the show for a six season is that I feel like I know the characters so w Half of the times I laugh at (and not with) Gar y because I know so much about Gar y ’ s life (Includi t h a t h e a t t e n d e d C o r n e l l ’ s S c h o o l o f Ho Administration )

While a lot of the jokes are rather racist and vulgar, Veep does a great job with keeping up with modern-day trends The show jokes about Uber and Twitter, while also touching on transgender issues Selina star ts the Meyer Fund for Adult Literacy and AIDS As the first female President, she is str uggling to stay relevant Selina discusses her desire to r un for President again, to the utter horror of just about ever yone around her HBO created a number of websites that go along with the show this season These include a site for the

Lana Del Rey’s new song “Lust For Life” debuted on BBC1 on April 19 It is the titular track off her upcoming album, featuring rich vocals and a collaboration between Lana and the singer Abel Tesfaye of The Weeknd

The track opens with Lana Del Rey’s seductively saying “Climb up the H of the Hollywood sign, in these stolen moments, the world is mine ” These sultr y lyrics are followed by “ We’re the masters of our own fate ” Lana’s vocals proved to be just as mellifluous as usual, and her per formance gave off similar vibes to her first album Born to Die

I felt that the collaboration between Lana Del Rey

( Timothy Simons) I didn t donate to the Meyer Fund, but I took the online literacy test! The test hilariously included one question: “Do you know how to read?” Answering yes, the test therefore congratulated me for being literate Thank you Selina! On the Congressman’s site, a quote in italics above Jonah’s tall, shaven, annoying head is “I believe you can change people’s lives until you change their minds ” Both of these sites include so many details and jokes that are not included on the show It is an awesome way to connect viewers beyond the television

seasons said ever y episode s stor yline was too similar Ever ything is changing now that Selina is no longer in office She has new issues, first and foremost being that she is rather irrelevant I will say, however, that I think that some of the jokes are becoming more and more realistic given our current president Some of Selena’s statements that were written as a complete joke are not as far-fetched anymore

Becky Frank is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at rnf33@cornell edu

S P I N N I N G S I N G L E S

and Abel Tesfaye was disappointing The Weeknd’s addition to the song comes off as forced and contrived Nothing about his per formance felt unique or exciting Moreover, I was left wanting more from him The blend of the two ar tists’ voices lacks chemistr y as they did not complement one another It was not a good choice to collaborate on the main album’s featurette

During Mistajam’s inter view with Lana Del Rey, t h e s

h Mistajam introduced her song as “the hottest record in the world,” and said that she and Abel “nailed that 60s throwback ”

In light of her coming album, Lust For Life, she also released a trailer that gives off whimsical vibes and features the Hollywood Sign as the backdrop This setting was also mentioned in her title track Her coming album will feature impressive collaborations and a great range of sounds from pop to romantic acoustics She has not yet announced a release date for the album, but her fans are anxiously waiting

Isabella York is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at iy43@cornell edu

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

Spark: A Space Tail has been a myster y to me Written and d i r e c t e d b y A a r o n Wo o d l e y (with additional written material by Adam Rotstein, Rober t Reece and Doug Hadders), I didn’t know what to make of the film It premiered nearly a year ago at the Toronto Animation

A r t s f e s t i v a l T h e r e w e r e n o advance reviews, and only a nebulous plot synopsis All I knew was that it was a Canadian-

Ko r e a n p r o d u c t i o n f r o m

To o n B o x a n d R e d r ov e r, t h e same people who brought us The Nut Job Maybe that should have been my warning Spark: A Space Tail is bland and uninteresting, featuring cliches that left me rolling my eyes, as well as lackluster animation

T h e m ov i e o p e n s o n t h e planet Bana, which is r uled by a kind monkey king. However, his evil brother harnesses the power of a Space Kraken to open a black hole which shatters the planet into shards Our hero, Spark ( Jace Norman), escapes to a distant shard even though his parents perish in the black hole

He lives a quiet life with his guardians: Vix, voiced by Jessica Biel, and Chunk, voiced by Rob deLeeuw Spark yearns to join them on adventures, but instead has to stay home with his roboti c c a r e t a k e r B a n a n n y ( Su s a n Sarandon) Meanwhile, the evil

E m p e r o r Z h o n g ( A l a n C Peterson) has plans to discover another Space Kraken and harn e s s i t t o c r e a t e a r e u s a b l e weapon to destroy entire planets. The queen, voiced by Hilar y Swank, steals a cr ucial piece of his plan and calls for Vix to come take it However, Spark gets the message instead and arrives in Vix’s place, meaning that the fate of the universe rests in his hands

This brief synopsis sounds like the beginning of a typical stor y: boy out in the far reaches

o f a n e v i l e m p i re d re a m s o f d o i n g s o m e t h i n g m o r e a n d a v e n g i n g h i s p a r e n t s ’ d e a t h

We’ve seen that dozens of times before Spark is going to bring a fresh new perspective to that pattern though, right?

Wrong!

I can ’ t remember the last time I watched such a dr y, soulless movie. Ever ything we see has b e e n d o n e b e f o r e i n o t h e r movies, and done better for that m a t t e r It’s h o n e s t l y d i f f i c u l t writing this review because I feel more effor t is being put into this than the script for Spark So much is wrong on so many levels From the ver y beginning, we open with narration a LOT of narration clearly violating the “show, don’t tell” r ule What is especially irritating is that in t h e e n d c re d i t s , we s e e w a l l paintings showing the stor y of how Spark got moved to his home shard and how he grew up It would have been nice to have that in the actual film for some, I don’t know, character development! None of the characters really left that much of an

Not Enough Spark

imprint on me because they’re all so bland Spark’s only personality is “hero,” but he doesn’t do that good a job at it For example, when the queen gives him the Kraken Finder, she tells him to take it far away so Zhong won ’ t be able to summon another Space Kraken So what does Spark do? He finds the Kraken and brings it home, only for Zhong to end up capturing it! There is a moment where he thinks “I can use the Kraken to do to Zhong, what Zhong did to me ” It’s a moment where I sat for ward a bit, thinking that they were going to blur the lines between good and evil, justice and revenge but that went absolutely nowhere Vix is the stereotypical tough fighter girl, C h u n k i s t h e

Zhong Zhong is a pathetic villain He’s too outlandish to be taken seriously, he’s too snivelling to be stylish and fun In any kind of half-rational universe his empire would have imploded after a year Even his main muscle expresses discontent multiple

t i m e s t h r o u g h o u t t h e m ov i e How this guy stayed in power, I don’t know, and the movie doesn ’ t care By the way, that main

we a r i n g d r a g A g a i n , I d o n ’ t know, movie doesn’t care I just felt it was wor th a mention Moving from characters to the plot, we find a host of tropes ripped off from other successful movies in an attempt to nail a nonexistent “formula” for success Guess what? Spark has a b

means he’s the tr ue heir to the t h r o n e ! It’s n e v e r m

d until halfway into the movie,

a t

a t i o n comes out of left field Also g u e s s w h a t ? T h e e v i l s p a c e emperor wants to build a device that can destroy planets, that’s never been done before! And guess what else?! When Spark

t a l k s t o h i s d e a d f a t h e r, h i s father appears as a ghost and tells him to assume his destiny as the tr ue king, totally not ripping off The Lion King in any way! Then his bir thmark glows, and a staff floats into his hand that turns out to reveal an energy blade hidden in it, a saber made from light alright, enough sarcasm here You get the idea Now, I know that movies rely on tropes to tell their stories A good contrast here would be Moana , w hich esse nt ia l ly fo llowed the Disney Princess form u l a t o t h e l e t t e r Howe ve r, because Moana and Maui were good leads, and the film’s visuals and music were stellar, the tired plot still came alive Since Spark d o e s n ’ t h a v e t h o s e e n d e a r i n g characters, a cliched plot stands out all the more painfully But what about those visuals?

C o u l d i t b e l i k e T h e Go o d Dinosaur, which had a tired plot but still showcased the cutting edge of animation’s potential? Sadly, Spark can ’ t even do that! Heck, it actually falls shor t of average The characters look like they come from plasticine clay, a n

movement ver y well Vix seems t o p

y mode for example, and her face barely changes when she’s happy, scared or angr y There’s also the

action moves too fast to follow, and the timing gets way out of whack There aren ’ t many jokes in the movie, but those that manage to be funny still get their wings clipped because the camera needs to get somewhere else What results is a mess that’s

difficult on the eyes and offers animation that would have been decent in the early 2000s, but subpar now In essence, Spark feels like the filmmakers took The Lion King and Star Wars, saw that they were popular and successful, and decided to smoosh them together The problem is, they forgot to give the movie a personality Star Wars doesn’t have the most thought-provoking writing, but because it has endearing characters and fantastic visuals it’s still a great movie Spark insists that

it has an impor tant stor y to tell, but it doesn’t let us actually care about it It offers nothing new and honestly has no reason to exist It’s not wor th the money or even the time when you can watch the exact same thing elsewhere, except done ten times better Just like how the movie came in quietly, it’ll leave the same way

Gouldthorpe is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He can be reached at djg284@cornell edu

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ILR faculty object to Cornell’s ‘coercive’ conduct prior to CGSU election

To th e Ed itor:

As faculty members in the Cornell University ILR School, we are deeply concerned about the conduct of the Cornell administration on March 26, the eve of the Cornell Graduate Students United election and on March 27, the first day of voting in the election On both days, Cornell’s Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth sent emails to thousands of Cornell graduate students with messages that interfered with graduate employees’ ability to freely exercise their rights to choose whether to be represented by the CGSU In raising our concerns about Dean Knuth’s conduct, we draw on our expertise and experience in the field of labor law, labor relations and labor rights

Under the National Labor Relations Act, it is unlawful for an employer to make statements that would have the tendency to “interfere with, restrain or coerce ” employees in exercising their rights to choose whether to unionize Unlawful coercive statements by employer representatives include explicit or implicit threats that the employer may cut back on jobs if employees vote for a union Such unlawful statements by an employer are particularly harmful when made close to an election, which the National Labor Relations Board recognizes as the “critical period” when employer coercion is most likely to affect the outcome of the election

On Sunday, March 26, the day before the election, Dean Knuth emailed to graduate students a “Special Edition” of her “Ask the Dean” column, in which she states: “It is possible that significantly increased costs ” due to wages and benefits negotiated by the CGSU “could lead to reduced numbers of graduate students at Cornell, but faculty, departments and colleges would need to make those decisions ” By linking union negotiated benefits to the possibility of “reduced numbers of graduate students at Cornell,” Dean Knuth’s statements constituted threats that a vote for the union could lead to future cutbacks in the graduate program The attempt to camouflage those threats as “predictions” or “possibilities” does not change the fearinducing nature and intent of the message The U S Supreme Court has recognized the serious coercive nature of threats that unionization could lead to job loss In finding that employers violate the NLRA by threatening to close a plant if employees unionize, the Court noted that the NLRB “has often found that employees, who are particularly sensitive to rumors of plant closings, take such hints as coercive threats rather than honest forecasts ”

Pro f Ri sa Lieberwitz, ILR

Prof James Gross, ILR

Prof Sha nnon Gleeso n, ILR

Prof Sarosh Kuruvilla , ILR

Pro f Davi d Lipsky, ILR

Prof Virginia Doellgast, ILR

Pro f Eli Friedman, ILR

IProf Ro sema ry Batt, ILR

Pro f Ileen DeVault, ILR

Prof Ra chel Aleks, ILR

Jeff Grabelsky Associa te Direc tor, The Worker Insti tute

Lara Skinner Associa te Direc tor, The Worker Insti tute

Prof Tove Hella nd Ha mmer, ILR

signed up for the “Ne w York Times morning updates” a fe w months ago, but I’ve gotten into the habit of deleting the e-mails before I have a chance to fully scan them I know you can ’ t escape the ne ws, but I don’t think finding out about the Ann CoulterBerkeley controversy or the implosion of Bill O’Reilly’s career at 7 a m on the dot ever y morning is necessarily the most effective star t to one ’ s day Lately, I’ve found that keeping up with current events feels like a high-stakes game of whack-a-mole, where ever y time a travel ban is str uck down, a healthcare bill pops up, and so on For ever y positive ne ws stor y, it feels like there are ten negative ones (and one thinkpiece explaining why the positive one wasn ’ t actually all that positive) But still, I’m tr ying to figure out what’s impor tant, and apparently millions and millions of people including many of you have it figured out better than I have

O n e o f m y f a v o r i t e c o l u m n i s t s , Jonathan Capehar t, wrote a piece last Friday on President Tr ump ’ s first 100 days in office, titled “An Appreciation ” In it, Capehar t says that Tr ump ’ s presidency hasn’t been as bad as he expected, and states that “[ Tr ump] is responsible for the greatest surge in civic par ticipa-

Lind a H Don ahue senio r exten sion asso ciate, The Wo rker Institute, ILR

Pro f Kate Griffith, ILR

Jim DelRosso a sso ciate li bra ri an, Ca therwood Librar y

Prof Ariel Avgar, ILR

Prof Lowell Turner, ILR

Prof Emeritus Lois Gra y, ILR

tion in half a centur y ” And while I’m not sure I would go so far as to say that exchanging Tr ump ’ s leadership for civic par ticipation is a wor thy trade, I think C a p e h a r t i s s p o t - o n i n i d e n t i f y i n g growth on behalf of people who didn’t get what they wanted last November We’re coming together now because we have to I wish we didn’t have to, but at least we are After Tr ump won, I wrote a column on what people could do, especially here in Ithaca, if they were upset with the outcome of the election What I suggest in that column doesn’t even cover a fraction of what I’ve seen people doing since

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On Monday, March 27, the first day of the election, Dean Knuth emailed “Graduate School Announcements” to the graduate students informing them that, “Starting in 2017-2018, Cornell SHP will reduce the cost for care received outside the Ithaca area for graduate and professional students who see Aetna participating providers The cost will be reduced from 20 percent to 10 percent This enhancement is a direct response to concerns about how to improve access to care for students who are studying or performing research away from campus ”

What’s wrong with Dean Knuth announcing these benefits? The announcement of new benefits close to the time of an election or as here, even during the election, is an abuse of Cornell’s economic power as an employer The U S Supreme Court has held that an employer violates the NLRA by announcing new benefits for the purpose of influencing employees to vote against union representation As the Court stated, “The danger inherent in well-timed increases in benefits is the suggestion of a fist inside the velvet glove Employees are not likely to miss the inference that the source of benefits now conferred is also the source from which future benefits must flow and which may dry up if it is not obliged ”

It is very disturbing that Dean Knuth chose to conduct herself in this way and particularly disturbing that she sent these email messages at the moment that graduate employees were on their way to the election polls Each message, by itself, was coercive But together, they delivered a “ one-two punch” to remind the graduate students that Cornell holds the ultimate power to give and to take away The first message threatened graduate employees with the possible loss of graduate student positions, followed by the second announcement of a new benefit that Cornell was giving them In the words of the Supreme Court, “The beneficence of an employer is likely to be ephemeral if prompted by a threat of unionization which is subsequently removed ” As faculty members in the ILR School, we expect Cornell to follow lawful and ethical standards that respect employees’ rights to decide for themselves whether to be represented by a union It was wrong and likely a violation of the NLRA and the Cornell-CGSU conduct agreement for Dean Knuth to use Cornell’s economic power in an attempt to sway the vote The international affirmation of the freedom of association as an essential human right makes Dean Knuth’s and the University’s unlawful resistance to the exercise of this human right by Cornell graduate students particularly shameful

Ro nald Ap pleg ate Lecturer, ILR

Ali qa e Geraci assistant director, Cather wo od Libra ry

Prof Willia m Sonnenstuhl, ILR

K ate Bro nfenbren ner senio r lecturer, ILR

Prof Ronald Seeber, ILR

Ian Greer senior resea rch a sso ciate, ILR

Lee Ad ler senior extensi on a sso ciate, ILR

Sam Nelson seni or lecturer, ILR

Prof Michael Evan Go ld , ILR

Patricia CamposMedi na extensio n associa te, ILR

Yesterday, I was driving through the downtown to get lunch with a friend and she pointed out a spot that she had trekked to for a town hall held by Rep Tom Reed (R-N Y ) Reed, a Republican w h o s e o d d l y - s h a p e d d i s t r i c t i n c l u d e s

Ithaca, “conveniently” planned a town hall at 7 a m on a Saturday, ver y far away from his collegiate constituents, after a snowstorm that left many sidewalks un-shoveled The TCAT doesn’t r un that early, and my friend doesn’t have a car, so her group of friends walked all the way from Nor th Campus to outer edges of the Commons And despite all of the barriers to attending this town hall, according to my friend,

Sally K li ngel di rector, Labo r- Management Programs, Schein man Institute

Debra Lamb assistant di rector, Access and Administrative Ser vices, Hospitality, Labor and Ma nagement Librar y Allison Weiner Hei nemann Lecturer, ILR

so many people showed up at the venue that it over flowed, with people standing in extra spaces (and outside)

As she was telling me this, we saw another huge crowd of people and realized that we were driving right by the March for Science The weather was disgusting; drizzling, chilly and overcast

But people were smiling, yelling and holding up their signs as par t of a protest that feels like it’s been going on since Nov 9

It’s easy to spiral into a state of cynic i s m , b e c a u s e t h e o v e r l a p b e t w e e n things we should be critical of and things that exist in our world seems to be growing rapidly The world is complicated right now, and sometimes it feels like we are unequipped whether i t ’ s t h e n u m b e r o f D e m o c r a t s i n Congress or the free time we lack to spend protesting to take on these challenges But my friends who went to Reed’s town hall, the Ithacans at the March for Science, and a whole lot of you guys, make me hopeful that someday I won ’ t be so dismayed by those morning e-mails from The Ne w York Times

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun com The Dissent runs alternate Mondays this semester

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Bad.

Bad . Not Good.

Cornell’s administration spent the bulk of this week trying to hold someone accountable for his choices The University charged a student, Mitch McBride ’17, with a violation of the Campus Code of Conduct for leaking documents from the Admissions and Financial Aid Working Group I don’t much want to re-litigate the case It was an arrogant sort of incompetence that led the University to hold McBride’s hearing in the first place nobody expected this tortured reading of the Code to hold up, and it didn’t In this absurd pursuit of accountability, though, the University has demonstrated a genuine unwillingness to take responsibility for itself

There is a certain way in which Cornell, and institutions like it, avoid justifying their choices It usually begins with a head fake toward good intentions and then a pivot to an easy issue In a letter to The Sun this week, Dean Kotlikoff taught a course in this strategy He wrote a three-part defense of University decisions labeled a “defense of shared governance and the Campus Code of Conduct ” He supported the McBride hearing, the AFAWG and Dean Knuth It was not particularly persuasive, but it is important to read

The first thing to note is the highly personal terms on which he went about defending the University To be absolutely clear, personal attacks on the intentions of Dean Knuth or any individual members of the Administration are misguided and self-defeating I have no doubt that nearly every member of Cornell’s faculty is fully dedicated to achieving the best for students Kotlikoff was right to defend them The problem is that the important criticism of Knuth, and the Administration more broadly, has absolutely nothing to do with intentions

In the documents that leaked, the AFAWG considered the possibility of ending need-blind transfer admissions, should the University experience financial constraints This would mean that transfer students could be denied admission, at least in part, based on their inability to pay tuition Obviously, nobody is claiming that Dean Knuth, or any member of the group sees this as a desirable outcome The outrage comes instead from the perception that, should the University have to tighten its belt, it would consider abandoning its founding mission Even if the group was not told to save money, which Kotlikoff notes in his letter, it was given conditions in which achieving a need-blind admissions process would be financially impossible This implies that, as a broader institution, Cornell has no absolute commitment to fully egalitarian admissions

The problem with Kotlikoff ’ s response is that it narrows the issue to simply one of the AFAWG’s intent While it is valuable to note their role, the vastly more important issue is the University’s trend toward pushing cost-savings increasingly onto students Interestingly, Kotlikoff actually seems to hint at this, when he says the documents released needed proper context; however, he does very little to provide whatever context he believes we need This points to an attitude of inevitability so often taken by administrators when they discuss the high cost of attendance While it is true that Cornell, as it is currently structured, offers as much aid as it can, that structure is by no means fixed There is no absolute reason why the University should spend the amount it does on capital development, administrative staff, or literally anything It is a choice like any other So instead of taking solace in the fact that the AFAWG is doing its best, we need a justification for the thousand other choices that makes its best so disappointing

More disturbing is the defense the letter offers for holding McBride’s hearing Kotlikoff was very quick to paint the issue as a defense of another student He said that judicial action was taken because a student in the working group approached theOffice of the Judicial Administrator, and that other members of the group expressed concern about the documents being leaked Yet none of this is a justification of the University’s choice to bring a complaint to the OJA The fact is, the University was the complainant in the case, and to represent the issue as simply mediation in a conflict between students is disingenuous No, the OJA has to account for its overzealous application of the code of conduct, and the University has to explain its choice to pursue charges in the first place The willingness to pit students against one another in an effort to shield the University from criticism is disturbing Once again, the University made a choice it has to justify it

Again, I find myself returning to the fact that, in many ways that matter, Cornell needs to be understood as a business The University treated McBride as if he were an employee who disclosed proprietary information, not a democratic representative pursuing a broader mandate for transparency In fact, at McBride’s hearing, Dean Knuth cited competition with other universities as a compelling reason to keep admissions measures private Similarly, the AFAWG acted in a narrow institutional role, constrained by the myriad other fiscal decisions that seem to deprioritize accessible education at the expense of a variety of other interests Good intentions are an insufficient defense against this sort of criticism; deflecting attention onto other students is bad leadership We need a better justification from the University for the choices it makes We need something better than this

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Cherries and Onions And Cabbages, Oh My!

This Wednesday marks the end of my year-long journey writing an honors thesis I feel weird telling people about my project I just spent a year studying onions, cabbages and cherries in New York I had a blast doing it, but even now it seems like an oddly specific topic

It didn’t start that way though Before starting my thesis, my knowledge of farming consisted of eating fried oreos at the Columbia County Fair But I did know something about economics and always had a feeling economists can do more to feed people than scientists at a company like Monsanto (I actually wrote a column about it last spring) When it came time to choose a topic for my thesis, food seemed obvious Or more specifically, how to help feed people using economics

As it turned out, I’m not the only one who wants to use economics to feed people For years, economists were measuring whether people were going hungry in the United States based on the answers to an 18 question questionnaire called the CPS nutritional supplement They tried to explain the answers to the questionnaire using factors like race, income and education

Eventually people realized this was silly For example, one of the questions asks if respondents bought vegetables Economists noticed that people in the inner city weren ’ t buying vegetables But obviously, race doesn’t influence this choice In fact, my reason for not buying vegetables is the same as for someone from the inner city A double cheese burger and medium fries at McDonald’s cost $3 33 On the other hand, a bus ticket to go to Wegmans to buy a head of cabbage is expensive and inconvenient

Noticing you can ’ t find a Wegmans in Paterson, New Jersey was a 400 million dollar idea The government started building groceries in the inner city to improve nutrition People call the areas without grocery stores “food deserts” and tried mapping them But you

Ah, springtime The sun is (relatively) out, flowers are blooming, birds are singing and nearly half of American jobs are at risk of being completely eradicated due to automation

Automation is hitting the U S job market as suddenly as that segue An oft-cited 2013 study by economist Carl Frey and computer scientist Michael Osborne estimates that 47 percent of American employment is at high risk of being entirely automated The most automatable jobs are fairly obvious: repetitive manufacturing jobs, telemarketing and occupations that deal mostly with clerking top the list Some jobs, though, are surprisingly automatable: models and real-estate brokers, for example, have a 97 6 percent and 96 6 percent chance of being automated, respectively (You can comb through the data yourself; NPR has created a nice little interactive applet to help you do so )

Don’t be misled by these probabilities, though Many jobs with a low calculated likelihood can certainly be automated, and many jobs with high likelihood of replacement could stand the test of time For example, although restaurant servers have a 93 7 percent chance of being automated according to the study, human service provides hospitality that consumers at upscale restaurants have come to expect On the other hand, although physicians and surgeons rank low with a 0 4 percent chance of automation, surgery is already

need a detailed directory of transit and stores You can ’ t map food deserts in somewhere like Clinton county New York, where stores and residents are sparse

That’s where my project came in Instead of just tracking the stores, I decided to track the costs of bringing food to stores on the scale of New York state I quickly realized I couldn’t track these costs for all types of food That’s where the cherries, cabbages and onions come in I decided to only track crops grown on small scale because it’s easy to see, using satellite data and public records, how they move from farms to intermediaries and consumers

According to my reasoning, if a region has high transportation costs, it faces a bigger risk of being a food desert I assumed stores would have to charge more to compensate for the high transportation costs To be honest though, I’m unsure I tracked anything meaningful after a year of work The price of cabbages, onions and cherries at Wegmans aren ’ t just based on transportation costs Wegman's is a national conglomerate with 21 aisles of grocery goodness It might be expensive to send cabbage to a grocery store on Suffolk County, Long Island, but the grocery store might have reason to keep the price low anyway

Still, this project has been a highlight of my year and the past four Although I didn’t find much this time, I learned a lot And the prospect of discovering new scientific knowledge to help people is tantalizing So, if you ’ re on the fence about a thesis for next year, definitely do it You might get overly excited about onions, cherries and cabbages, too That’s this week’s schtick I’m sticking to this one Tune in next next Monday for my last column!

Automation Nation

being automated, at least in part And, unfortunately for The Sun, while “writers and authors” (separate from “Technical writers” in the categorizations) have a 3 8 percent chance of being automated, robojournalism already exists and works much more effectively in the digital age than human journalism

I am of the opinion that widespread automation in sectors traditionally thought to be “white collar” or non-automatable is coming faster than we’d expect, thanks to the buzziest buzzwords in computing, like machine/deep learning and big data The robots are coming, rapidly and surely, and we need to be prepared Automation means quick and concentrated unemployment but also the creation of massive amounts of capital The talk of the town in Silicon Valley is that public policy needs to catch up to the tech sector by considering universal basic income in order to avoid Great Recession-era levels of unemployment By “taxing the robots,” we can lift the burden from the working class and instead make longterm investments in education and healthcare that raise quality of life for all Ultimately, we create more interesting and fulfilling roles for human beings For instance, the aforementioned advent of robojournalism opens up opportunities for writers to focus their time and energy on smarter takes and more thorough pieces

This is, of course, quite simplistic and extraordinarily idealistic It doesn’t take aggressive skepticism to

realize that various social and political barriers stand in the way of this naively utopian future That said, the robotic economy is worth speculating on and, of course, worth preparing for through our academic choices in the short-term

As you pre-enroll in CS 1110 because you think it’ll give you an edge when applying to non-tech jobs (given the saturation of young people who can code in Python, it probably won ’ t ), consider that basic coding is already being outsourced to countries like India and is beginning to be automated through metaprogramming Point being, take a step back and analyze whether you ’ re taking a course due for short-term job prospects (which don’t misread my point here are still of the utmost importance for many), or for your long-term intellectual and occupational fulfillment CS 1110 is a great course that teaches computer literacy, a skill that will be indubitably important when the world becomes computerized beyond what we can imagine In other words, consider using your time at Cornell at least partly as an opportunity to develop an intellectual repertoire that will guide you to the uncertain future, rather than to, say, your summer analyst position at Goldman

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Red Clinches 6th Straight Ivy Tourney Bid; Looks To Harvard for Seeding

e i t a l l o v e r, w e w o u l d h a v e a l l o w e d t h e c l o c k t o e x p i r e r a t h e r t h a n t a k i n g t h e r i s k s t h a t we d i d i n t h e f i n a l m i n u t e s o f t h e g a m e , ” C o f f y s a i d Hi g h l i g h t s f r o m t h e g a m e i n c l u d e h a t t r i c k s f ro m Ph i l l i p s , El l i s , Gi l b e r t a n d Di c k s o n a n d 1 5 s a ve s by Po u l l o t t T h o s e 1 5 s a ve s p u s h e d Po u l l o t t ove r t h e 4 0 0 s a ve p l a t e a u , m a k i n g h e r t h e s e c o n d C o r n e l l i a n t o re a c h t h a t m a rk T h e Re d m a y g e t a n o t h e r o p p o r t u n i t y t o t a k e d ow n t h e Ti g e r s i n t h e p o s t s e a s o n Iv y L e a g u e t o u r n a m e n t Gi ve n i t s o u t s t a n d i n g A n c i e n t E i g h t re c o rd , C o r n e l l h a s s e c u re d i t s s p o t i n t h e t o u r n a m e n t t o c o mp e t e f o r a n a u t o m a t i c b e r t h t o t h e Na t i o n a l C h a m p i o n s h i p s C o r n e l l ’ s o n l y c o n f e r e n c e l o s s s o f a r t h i s s e a s o n w a s t h i s p a s t we e k e n d a g a i n s t Pr i n c e t o n , w h i l e t h e Ti g e r s ’ o n l y l e a g u e l o s s t h i s s e a s o n w a s t o No 1 0 Pe n n ( 1 1 - 2 , 4 - 1 ) , w h i c h C o r n e l l d ow n e d t h i s ye a r T h a t m a k e s n e x t Sa t u rd a y ’ s m a t c h u p a g a i n s t Ha r va rd ( 8 - 6 , 4 - 2 ) c u r re n t l y f o u r t h a n d a l s o l o c k e d i n t o t h e p o s t s e a s o n t o u r n a m e n t c r uc i a l i n d e t e r m i n i n g C o r n e l l ’ s s e e d i n g “ M a i n t a i n i n

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Quartet of Teams Shine Over Weekend

In the midst of impressive years, both Cornell tennis teams beat Brown to cap their regular seasons off with respective shares of the Ivy title

The men clinched with a 4-3 win over the Bears They share the title with Columbia and Harvard for the second in program history

The women had to await the result of HarvardPenn after downing Brown 4-1, but Penn’s victory gave the team its first league title, shared with Dartmouth and Harvard

Both teams hope for an at-large bid to NCAAs

A year after his older brother, Luke, earned medalist honors at Ivy’s, Cornell golf ’ s Mike Graboyes followed suit and utilized a strong day three to cruise to a three-shot first place individual finishing Along with an automatic bid to NCAA regionals, Graboyes grabbed himself firstteam all-Ivy honors after earning second-team for the past two years

As a team, Cornell matched its highest ever placing with a second place finish behind Harvard, who won for the second straight year

Morgan Declares for NBA Draft

Sophomore guard still expects to return for junior season

By ZACH SILVER Sun Sports Editor

C o r n e l l m e n ’ s b a s k e t b a l l

sophomore guard Matt Morgan, the leading scorer in the Ivy League for the past two seasons, announced on Sunday his intent to tr y his hand in the NBA draft, but will not sign an agent and retains his remaining two years of NCAA eligibility

At first glance, it seemed as if Cornell’s centerpiece for the last two years would be

shortly before the deadline to declare at 11:59 p m

“All glor y to the man above!”

Morgan wrote on Facebook after Goodman first announced his intent to declare “ Thankful for ever yone who has helped me and supported me to this point! Long journey ahead but I’m ready for the challenge!”

sophomore in Cornell histor y to record his 1,000th point, which came in a 90-63 loss to Yale on the road

“It’s more putting my name on the radar in case next year or the year after that I decide to do this again.”

d e p a r t i n g e a r l y, b u t Morgan said the declaration is largely an attempt to boost his name-recognition and build his draft stock

“It’s more putting my name on the radar in case next year or the year after that I decide to do this again,” Morgan told The Sun “Of course, if I can go this year, I will, but we’ll see what happens ” Morgan added that transferring has not crossed his mind, and said he plans to return to Cornell if by the May 24 withdrawal deadline he does not foresee himself being selected in the draft on June 22 or signing as a free agent

Mo r g a n s a i d h i s g o a l i n declaring is, above all, to get his name into the minds of those at the in the professionals so that “people know my intentions are to play on the next level ”

Ever ything in this process has been meticulously planned out, he said, including leaking his i n t e n t i o n t o E S P N ’ s Je f f Goodman, one of the network’s most-followed NCAA basketball reporters

Morgan said someone within the Cornell basketball program told him to wait until Goodman

o r a n o t h e r w e l l - f o l l o w e d repor ter tweeted the information out before confirming it himself, because ESPN repor ters

a r e o f t e n “ p o p u l a r a n d h a v e m o r e o f a v o i c e o n s o c i a l media ”

Hi s d e c l a r a t i o n w a s a nnounced on Sunday morning,

S o p h o m o r e G u a r d M a t t M o r g a n

NCAA men ’ s basketball regu-

l a t i o n s d i c t a t e a p l a y e r m a y declare for the draft several times without losing eligibility, so long as they withdraw by the May 24

d e a d l i n e w i t h o u t h i r i n g a n agent

Morgan is allowed to attend both the NBA draft combine from May 9 to 14 in Chicago and take part in one tr yout per team, year, without lo h i s r e m a i n i n g years of college bility

“Right now, I have anything on schedule,” Morga s a i d “ T h i s w a priority No 1 to get the paper-

w o r k i n f i r s t a n d g e t i t a n n o u n c e d We'll just see w h a t h a p p e n s , but there is nothing set yet ” If this is ind Morgan’s last ye Cornell uniform, d e p a r t f r o m E a with several recor accolades to his n T h i s p a s t Morgan led the l scoring and was s e c o n d - t e a m a l both of which we ond consecutive y so and becam

D u r i n g h i s f r e s h m a n y e a r, Morgan was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week five times and earned national honors in t h e s a m e c a t e g o r y o n c e He ended his freshman campaign fifth in the countr y in scoring with 18 9 points per game Mo r g a n ’ s t i m e a t Cornell has been marked b y a c h a n g i n g o f t h e g u a rd , a s f o r m e r h e a d

c o a c h B i l l C o u r

contract was not renewed after a 10-18 season in 2015-16, leading to Brian Earl’s taking the helm for Morgan’s sophomore year Earl could not immediately be reached for this stor y

“Being able to play for two different coaches in two different systems is tough, but it just kind of shows the teams that I can play in any system, that I can fit in whatever scheme any coach d that I am ng and fols , ” Mo r g a n se, that is all because you w if you are to get draft-

s m e o n e w h o

In the comfort of Ithaca, Cornell’s highly-decorated equestrian squad was crowned champion of the Ivy League, aided in part by a champion placing for Maddy Kinner in walk trot

In the Intermediate Flat and Fences, Claira Seely and Vaughan Shanley were champions, respectively, and Jenna Beobide took first in Novice Fences, among other impressive results at Oxley Equestrian Center

Red Dealt First Ivy Loss, Secures Ivy Tourney Bid

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