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Aditi Bhowmick ’16 says the end of the year makes students reflect on their school year. | Page 6

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Students March Against Sexual,Domestic Abuse

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Prison problems | Prof. Emerita Angela Davis, history of consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz speaks about the relationship between the prison industrial complex and feminism.

Participate in‘Take Back the Night’ rally

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

Dozens of Cornellians marched from Ho Plaza to Dewitt Park in a stance against domestic and sexual violence during the Advocacy Center’s annual “Take Back the Night” event Friday.

which sponsored the event — spoke to attendees about sexual and domestic violence and individuals from the crowd were able to go up and speak out against these issues. In addition, some of the attendees read poetry and sang songs, according to Funfar. Many spoke about what they thought the definition of the word “justice” was, which was the theme of Friday’s event. Funfar, who said she attended last year’s Take Back the Night, said the number of attendees grew from last year’s, which she attributed to the event’s success. Approximately 200 attended last year’s “Take Back the Night,” The Sun previously reported. In addition, Funfar said that a handful of men also spoke at the event, which she said helped show that issues surrounding sexual assault

“I think it was a really positive experience for participants.” Georgina DeRham ’15 Three separate marches from Ho Plaza, Ithaca College and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center culminated in downtown Ithaca, where attendees spoke about issues regarding domestic and sexual violence, according to Brenna Funfar ’16, philanthropy chair for the Alpha Chi sorority. Speakers from the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County —

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Davis Advocates for Abolition Of America’s Prison System By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

Political activist and author Prof. Emerita Angela Davis, history of consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz, spoke to a sold-out crowd about feminism, prison abolition and civil rights at the Statler Auditorium Friday. Davis, an advocate for the removal of the prison institution, began her lecture by say-

ing she has “spoken at Cornell so many times that [she] can’t count the number of occasions.” “This community feels very familiar to me,” Davis said. Davis said she wanted to present her lecture on America’s “prison industrial complex” with a “broadly constructed interdisciplinary frame.” See PRISON page 4

Three Cornellians Admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

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Cornell Bhangra performs at the Pao Bhangra XIII dance show in Barton Hall Saturday.

Three Cornellians — Provost Kent Fuchs, Prof. Harry Greene, ecology and evolutionary biology, and Chuck Feeney ’56, founder of Atlantic Phil anthropies — have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy announced Wednesday. The Aca demy — a national honor society that leads independent policy research — admitted 204 new members for 2014, according to the press release. Members include scientists, scholars, public affairs officers, business leaders and philanthropists from a variety of universities and companies. Greene, a leading herpetolo-

gist and snake expert, teaches herpetology, ecology and evolutionary biology and diversity at Cornell, and has been published in over 160 publications since 1961, according to Greene’s website. “I was frankly astonished to

focused on the study of reptiles from a variety of environmental disciplines. “I study snakes and other predators from the standpoints of evolution, ecology and conservation, but [snakes] themselves have always been my central concern,” he said. Greene said his “I was frankly astonished work is not focused on research. to learn I’ve been elected solely “I’m perhaps also to the American Academy unusual in making little distinction among of Arts and Sciences.” research, teaching and broader outreach”, he Prof. Harry Greene said. “Both of the books I’ve published, learn I’ve been elected to the for example, are fundamentally American Academy of Arts and science based, but also aimed at a Sciences,” Greene said. “Many broader research, and the more highly deserving people haven't recent one even has the word ‘art’ been selected and unlike many in its title.” biologists who are focused on Fuchs has been Cornell’s conceptual disciplines like provost since January 2009, and genetics or ecology, I’ve always prior to that served as the been primarily concerned with a Joseph Silbert Dean of particular group of organisms.” See AWARDS page 4 Greene said his research has

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Kushagra Aniket ’15 Plans to Make S.A. Elections ‘Exciting’

Sound of music

By ALISHA FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

Incoming Student Assembly Director of Elections and triple major Kushagra Aniket ’15 said he hopes to make S.A. elections more “exciting” for students as he enters a position that has previously faced issues such as low voter turnout. Aniket, an economics, statistical science and mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he has a plan to address these issues and make elections more “participatory, effective and exciting.” Fewer than 30 percent of students voted in the spring 2014 Student Assembly elections, despite a push by outgoing director of elections Alfonse Muglia ’14 to increase voter turnout above the 50 percent mark, The Sun previously SEYOUN KIM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER reported. Votes for S.A. president decreased to 3,829 this The Argento Chamber Ensemble and Cornell University Orchestra perform Haas’ Seven Soundspaces on the Unfinished year from last year’s 4,301 votes. Fragments of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor in Bailey Hall Friday. Aniket said he thinks the main reason for this year’s low turnout is that fewer candidates ran for S.A positions this year compared to last year. He said he plans to encourage PARE can also contribute to a significant rise in the voter idential candidate for disobeying campaigning rules on the first day of student voting, The Sun previously reported. turnout,” he added. more candidates to run in the next election cycle. Some said they were outraged at the committee’s deciAniket also said he intends to enact an idea that has been “This election season not only saw fewer candidates running but also several uncontested races,” he said. “If the goal circulating in the S.A. elections committee since fall cam- sion to disqualify the candidate, The Sun previously reported. In order to handle problems like this, Aniket said he will is to increase the voter turnout to above 50 percent, I believe pus-wide voting booths. “I have already requested an amend- need a “great team” of people on this year’s elections comthat it would be imperative to expand ment to the election rules to establish mittee. the choices given to students by “This election season not “As the chair of the Elections Committee, I am commitvoting booths across campus,” he said. increasing candidate participation.” only saw fewer candidates “[The plan is to] identify high traffic ted to building a team that is diverse and accomplished and In addition, Aniket said he plans locations across the campus and set up has people known for their sincerity and experience,” he to work with the Orientation Steering running but also several said. stationary voting booths there.” Committee to make sure the newest uncontested races.” In light of the April 17 student takeover of a Student As a triple-major interested in interfaces on campus are involved in elecnational finance and regulatory econom- Assembly meeting, Aniket said he is working to clarify to tions. Kushagra Aniket ’15 ics, Aniket also said he wants to use the students that if they want to make their voices heard, voting “I plan to coordinate with the skill sets afforded him by his fields of in elections is one of the best ways to do so. Orientation Steering Committee to “I am of the firm view that I am directly accountable to ensure that the Student Assembly elections are adequately study to analyze voter turnout. “I would like to study past voting trends and the changes every individual student on this campus. Any member of highlighted in all new students orientation programs,” he said. “If each of the 650 orientation leaders could motivate in voting percentage due to the number of candidates and the Cornell community who feels that his or her views are even two students to vote, we would have reached out to timing of elections,” he said. “With technical expertise in not adequately represented is most welcome to participate 1300 students who constitute about 40 percents of the this field, I would emphasize the use of analytics to test the in the democratic process,” he said. validity of new proposals.” freshman class.” Aniket may also have to deal with challenges such as that Aniket also said he hopes to increase the voter turnout faced by the elections committee during the 2013 S.A. elec- Alisha Foster can be reached at for international students. “Reaching out to international students through PRE- tions. The committee made the decision to disqualify a pres- afoster@cornellsun.com.

Satellite Cornell Store Moves to New Mall Location By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

A satellite Cornell Store opened its new, permanent location in the main corridor of the Shops at Ithaca Mall on April 19. The Cornell Store had been operating in a temporary location

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for nearly two years, according to Margie Whiteleather, strategic projects manager for The Cornell Store. Another tenant’s request for a long-term lease in the location began the evaluation process for considering operating a long-term Cornell Store at the mall, according to Whiteleather.

After receiving “incredibly positive feedback to the temporary Cornell Store we offered in the mall last year,” Pat Wynn, director of The Cornell Store, announced that they were “very pleased to be operating a store in the Shops at Ithaca Mall.” The Ithaca Mall location houses a selection of Cornell apparel

and gifts similar to those found on campus but offers many conveniences for community members and visitors according to Whiteleather. She said these conveniences include a more central location, extended hours and parking, according to Whiteleather. The Cornell Store routinely looks for ways to get involved and collaborate with the community,

Whiteleather said. She added there are no immediate plans for expanding The Cornell Store. “In some case, the need [for expansion] can be served by temporary pop-up stores,” Whiteleather said. Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

Ithaca Man Charged For Dragging Woman With Vehicle

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Alexander Schord ’16 pets a horse during Ag Day — hosted by Alpha Zeta fraternity — on the Arts Quad Friday.

An Ithaca man was charged with two counts of criminal contempt in the first degree and unlawful imprisonment Saturday evening after a woman stated she had been dragged by a vehicle operated by the defendant, according to the Ithaca Police Department. The incident occurred in the 700 block of South Meadow Street. IPD officers — who responded to a call regarding the incident at approximately 5 p.m. — found a woman lying on the ground in the middle of the parking lot when they arrived on scene.

The defendant, 29-year-old Akiel Patrick. was reportedly arguing with the woman and refused to let her leave. She was subsequently dragged “a fair distance” before she was able to break away from the vehicle, according to police. Patrick fled the scene and the victim was transported to an area hospital, the release said. He was later located in the Town of Ithaca where he was arrested. Patrick is set to appear in Ithaca City Court Wednesday. — Compiled by Annie Bui

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Three Cornellians Davis: Reform Prison Education Honored by Election To American Academy PRISON

erated individuals in ten state prisons. “As I tried to distance myself from the project of prison reform, I did not mean that reforms are not “For the last period, I have been reflecting on important,” she said. “[I] recognize the need to call what feminism has to offer [prison] abolition, and for efforts to make life more habitable for people what abolition has to offer feminism,” Davis said. who are held in cages today.” “What I want to emphasize this evening, and what Davis said she hopes to stop people thinking for me occasions a rethinking of the relationships about prisons as “secluded” institutions within the between abolition and feminism, are new develop- United States. ments,” she said. Towards the end of her speech, Davis said she Davis — in favor of prison abolition — distin- supported the student movement at Cornell to guished her stance from the divest from companies profitstance from that of most coning from the Israeli occupation “If we look at the role that servatives. of Palestinian territories. “As far as [Newt Gingrich reform has played, one can She described the occupaand Grover Norquist] are con- say that each era of reform tion of Palestine as “a carceral cerned, this new stance that is project not unrelated to the critical of mass incarceration is has managed to produce a carceral projects of the United all about saving money,” she stronger prison system.” States” and spoke at length on said. “It’s all about creating the the global security company small government that conserv- Angela Davis G4S, one of the targets of the ative Republicans advocate.” divestment campaign. Davis said that conservative “G4S has insinuated itself Republicans who support prison reform see it as “a into our lives under the guise of security and the project that is responsible at least in part for an security state,” Davis said. “It’s complicit with … increasingly big government.” Israel’s system of apartheid over the Palestinian peoShe emphasized the differences between aboli- ple.” tionism and prison reform — which she says is usuDavis ended saying that she was excited to see all ally proposed to cut costs. the new interest and ideas that the prison abolition “If we look at the role that reform has played, movement would produce in the near future. one can say that each era of reform has managed to “The story of these interrelationships between produce a stronger prison system,” Davis said. feminism and abolition—this story has no appro“Those of us who consider ourselves abolitionist priate end,” Davis said. “With this conversation, scholars are acutely conscious of the work done by we’ve just begun to explore a few of its dimensions. reform in bolstering the prison system.” Davis spoke in favor of prison education reform, citing Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-N.Y) recent Zoe Ferguson can be reached at initiative that will finance college classes for incar- zferguson@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1

AWARDS

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Engineering from 2002 to 2008. His research has been primarily focused on electrical and computer engineering. Feeney founded private foundation Atlantic Philanthropies in 1982, and has donated $6.2 billion into education, science, health care, aging and civil rights according to a profile in Forbes Magazine. Feeney has donated $350 million — the largest donation in Cornell’s history — in 2011, which helped the University win the bid to build its tech campus in NYC. Kenyan writer and activist Ngñgĩ wa Thiong’o — who spoke on campus on April 17 — was also elected to the Academy, according to the press release. Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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are not “just women’s issues.” “In general, all of the speakers brought their points across and were able to relate to each other,” Funfar said. Georgiana DeRham ’15 said she thought the event helped to raise awareness about how sexual

and domestic violence still persists in the daily lives on many. “I think it was a really positive experience for participants and great to see communities from Cornell, Ithaca College and Ithaca come together for an event like this,” she said. Funfar said she thought that the number of individuals at the event and seeing how many sur-

vivors there were and how many allies that they had was one of the “greatest takeaways” of Take Back the Night. “It was a very inspiring event,” Funfar said. “I’m very happy to have met many men and women who attended it.” Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Stabbing Suspect Under Psychiatric Evaluation HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A teenager charged with stabbing a fellow high school student to death on the day of their junior prom is being held in a hospital under psychiatric evaluation where he will likely remain for two weeks, one of his attorneys said Saturday. The name of the 16year-old suspect was not officially released but people who saw him taken into custody identified him as Chris Plaskon, a friend of the victim’s and an athlete described as genial and respectful. Plaskon is accused of stabbing to death Maren Sanchez, 16, in the hallway of Jonathan Law High School in Milford. The attack occurred Friday morning, hours before the school’s junior prom, and authorities were investigating whether Sanchez was

stabbed after turning down his invitation to the dance. The suspect, who is charged as a juvenile offender, will not appear at an arraignment scheduled for Monday in New Haven, attorney Richard Meehan said. The hospital commitment can last for up to 15 days, according to Meehan. He said doctors typically order such involuntary commitments in cases where someone in custody is considered a danger to himself. Meehan said the suspect’s family is also reeling from the attack. “His family is devastated not only for him, but the youngster who was killed. It’s a terrible situation all the way around,” Meehan said. His client is expected to be charged as an adult, but he would need to appear in court for that to happen, Meehan said.

State’s Attorney Kevin Lawlor said several factors go into that decision, including the seriousness of the charges. Mark Robinson, a technical education teacher, said he was walking into the high school Friday when he saw Plaskon being taken out in handcuffs. He said Plaskon, the third of five brothers, was on football teams that he coached when Plaskon was a freshman and sophomore. He said Plaskon has a good sense of humor and the family has deep roots in the community. “There’s no reason to suspect he would have done this. I think that’s what makes it harder,” Robinson said. Imani Langston, a student who saw Plaskon being read his rights and taken away in a police car, said he is known to be a class clown and had

never been violent. She said Sanchez and the boy were just friends and had never dated. Police said they were looking into reports from students that the suspect had asked Sanchez to prom and were examining whether a rejection prompted the attack, but they have not offered a motive for the killing. “It’s all being investigated,” Officer Jeffrey Nielsen, a spokesman for Milford police, said Saturday. “We don’t work off speculation. We work on facts.” Sanchez, a member of the National Honor Society who was active in drama and other school activities, had been focused on prom in the days before she was killed. She had posted on Facebook a photograph of herself wearing a blue prom dress and was looking forward to attending with a new boyfriend.

NEWS BRIEFS

Teen Desperate to See Mother Stows Away on Jetliner

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa. The 15-year-old Somali boy had been arguing at home, and in the kind of impulsive move that teenagers make, he hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport last Sunday and clambered into a wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jetliner. He survived the trip, and he has not spoken publicly about the ordeal. But his desperation and frustration — borne from a life in a new country and new culture, all of it without his mother — is becoming apparent through interviews with friends, family and law enforcement agents. The boy is “struggling adjusting to life in this country,” his father, Abdulahi Yusuf, said in a state-

ment issued Sunday through the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ San Francisco Bay Area chapter. “Our situation was aggravated by our displacement in Africa for many years after fleeing our home country of Somalia because of war conditions. As a result, my son was not able to receive any formal education before we immigrated to the United States,” the statement said. The father said he plans to fly to Hawaii soon to reunite with his son and is “excited to bring him back home to his family in California.” He said the family was “deeply concerned” when the boy went missing and was relieved to hear he was safe. The struggles faced by immigrant children were echoed by Talha Nooh from the Muslim Community Association, where the family were members.

California Cities Begin Water Waste Patrols SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Steve Upton thinks of himself more as an “Officer Friendly” than a water cop. On a recent sunny day, the water waste inspector rolled through a quiet Sacramento neighborhood in his white pickup truck after a tipster tattled on people watering their lawns on prohibited days. He approached two culprits. Rather than slapping them with fines, Upton offered to change the settings on their sprinkler systems. “I don’t want to crack down on them and be their Big Brother,” said Upton, who works for the water conservation unit of Sacramento’s utilities department. “People don’t waste water on purpose. They don’t know they are

wasting water.” At least 45 water agencies throughout California, including Sacramento, are imposing and enforcing mandatory restrictions on water use as their supplies run dangerously low. Sacramento is one of the few bigger agencies actively patrolling streets for violators and encouraging neighbors to report waste. They teach residents to avoid hosing down driveways, overwatering lawns or filling swimming pools. While gentle reminders are preferred, citations and fines can follow for repeat offenders. “We do have the stick if people don’t get it,” said Kim Loeb, natural resource conservation manager in Visalia, a city of 120,000 people that has hired a part-time

worker for night patrols and reduced the number of warnings from two to one before issuing $100 fines. Mandatory restrictions aren’t as widespread as in previous droughts, even among the drier parts of Southern California. One reason is more cities are conserving and making it expensive for residents to guzzle water. Sacramento, where about half the homes are unmetered, is deploying the state’s most aggressive water patrols to compensate. In February, the city of 475,000 deputized 40 employees who drive regularly for their jobs, such as building inspectors and meter readers, to report and respond to water waste. Of them, six are on water patrol full-time.

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verything measured in time ends. math, you are always left with something This, however, is difficult to realize to be thankful for. At the beginning of in college, where weeks blend into every year, we all harbor secret hopes each other and weekends can only be told about the way we picture our lives by the apart if they were remarkably ridiculous. end of the year. By the time you actually Soon enough, though, every weekend is reach the end, it is phenomenal how you ridiculous. It is true that it’s hard to sit did not have the slightest idea about the down and recapitulate college. There is things that were waiting to happen to you. always some prelim, essay or deadline and Nevertheless, you do end up living disthen that surreal process of unwinding torted versions of what you had hoped for. after you have worked hard to earn it — The only reason the facts do not match is or not. But it is always the end of semes- because we only have an idea about what ter that makes me reflective. T.S. Eliot we want, not necessarily what we need. But while Slope Day sneakily managed to measure his life in coffee spoons, and I measure mine in blurred approaches — shrouded by formals and albums that have captured and will cap- annoyingly late prelims — so does that ture each of my eight semesters. Every baffling moment when your crazy, beautispring, when I am faced with the last week ful year and for graduating seniors, all of of publication, it is daunting because the college, makes sense. For us, at Cornell, it closing column must be special. It must has been another exciting year — as reflect the surge of feelings that suddenly President David Skorton will soon write in an e-mail, probacome out of bly for one of his nowhere when an last end-of-year entire school year It is always the home updates. Cornell ends. Crossing the stretch, when one is Days happened and bridge from a freshwas so compelling man to a sophopreparing to finish strong, itseeing pre-freshmen more, from a junior run to a senior or a that brings back the year Collegetownaround while senior to a real perseniors were enjoyson is obviously way in short, breathless ing senioritis outmore than adding flashbacks. At that point, side Collegetown another transcript Bagels — maybe its to your record. It is we’re almost grateful for the Circle of Life? a shift of identity. It Ke$ha came and left brings the anticipaeverything. campus drowning tion about the rest in glitter, students of life shuffling impatiently behind the curtain and so broke the silence surrounding sexual viomuch reluctance to leave the role you just lence, there was that one day when classes actually got cancelled (only ones before 10 played to perfection. We miss everything — that one bane- a.m of course) and President Skorton ful class that made you cry, scream and announced the end of his term. To say the finally delirious. At the same time, it very least, it has been an extremely eventpushed you to not give up. There are the ful year, and, for each one of us, a beginembarrassing stories that you couldn’t stop ning of some sort is about to commence. talking about once but eventually get lost But before that, the home stretch and a among other memories, the high point of last throwdown. The blissful sunsets are semester and the lowest — everything is doing the past year justice and so must we, remembered with a sense of fondness for the sake of how much we have learned when a year ends. But with the 12 inches and are yet to learn. I always get a little of snow, the phantomic class, each and sad on the 20-hour-long flight from New every “hell” week, the people that are still York to home at the end of semester. As around and the ones that have not found Emily Griffin once said, “Endings are a place in your life yet, you have really almost always a little sad, even when there come a long way in the process. It is is something to look forward to on the always the home stretch, when one is other side.” But they are also fulfilling — preparing to finish strong, that brings so finish well, start again and hold on to back the year in short, breathless flash- the memories. backs. At that point, we’re almost grateful for everything. I know that at times, a Aditi Bhowmick is a sophomore in the College of semester can bring about the most unex- Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at pected circumstances that are impossible abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings to rationalize. However, even in the after- appears alternate Mondays this semester.

CORRECTION An April 25 news story, “Graduate Student Trustee Candidates Talk Platforms,” incorrectly said that the pay disparity for research assistants and teaching assistants would be $634. In fact, the budget that will create this pay disparity was passed and the disparity will occur in the fall. In addition, the story incorrectly said the pay disparity will occur for resident advisors, when in fact, it will occur for research assistants.

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ast weekend on the Arts Quad, the coalition of panChristian organizations carried out its annual celebration — Easter on the Quad — that attracted close to 1,000 students. In this rare occasion when different Christian groups — from campus chapters of nationally organized ministries as Cru and InterVarsity to the ethnic-based fellowships for Chinese and Korean students — all gathered together, one couldn’t help but notice all-too-familiar religious demographics on this campus: disproportionately high concentration of Asian students, moderately represented black and Latino students and a scarce white population. Once on campus, you get used to it and never question it, but the national demographic suggests otherwise. Racial disparity in organized religion isn’t an issue per se, but it poses an interesting question over the breakdown of diversity at Cornell as well as its representative scale to the national breakdown. Or for selective universities as a whole. With strong educational emphasis from early on, I’ve seen Asian-Americans, or to be more specific, those of Chinese, Korean and Indian origins grow up with strong academic motivation which culminates in acceptance to some of the prestigious higher learning institutions of this country, mainly the Ivy League. As multiple media have speculated, there seems to be strong evidence for discrimination against those of Asian descent, given artificially-construed proportion of Asian students across the Ivy — between 15 and 20 percent — as if they all had mutually agreed and vowed to stabilize the rate. Walking around campus, however, one sees far more Asians than the 18-some percent of the student population as the data suggests. This discrepancy exists since the racial breakdown for domestic students does not include the international student population — which comprises 10 percent of undergraduate student body. There are also a noticeable fraction of students who refuse to classify their ethnicity on their applications out of concern that their chance for admission may suffer due to their race. Adding up the Asian-heavy international student population and “raceless” students on the paper, the real figure for Asian population shoots up to more than 25 percent. Asian Americans also tend to be more religious, especially Christians in the U.S. compared to their counterparts in Asia. Hence, strong presence of Asians with their religious conviction partially explains the racial disparity, albeit the meagre number of Caucasians still remain to be answered. This is partially due to one particular ethnic group who has successfully integrated themselves into the mainstream of Americans of European ancestry in the U.S. — American Jews. Like other Ivies, Cornell’s Jewish student population fluctuates around 25 percent. The prominent Jewish population in selective universities has been historically well-documented. In 1920s a number of schools felt “threatened” in their identity and felt their primary mission of training next generation of male white students were at stake when the Jewish population rose as high as 40 percent of the entire student body. To mediate this issue, schools began to practice discriminatory admission practice toward Jewish students through a quota. Nevertheless, even with a quarter Jewish students, a quarter Asian students and about 15 percent of underrepresented minority students, Cornell should still have at least a third of its student body who identify as nonJewish, non-Hispanic Caucasian. And the national statistics suggests three-quarters of them should be Christian. This turns out to be a half-true statement for Cornell, since there is a formidable population of white students who identify as Catholics, but the same cannot be said about the mainstream Christian denominations. For the past decade, schools have made considerable effort to attract students of color and lower socio-economic background to deviate from the conventional association of the Ivy League as male WASP paradise. The student body back then were indeed homogenous, but has the diversifying movement overachieved its initial goal, pushing away Caucasian students of Christian background? The tone of this question may sound counterintuitive and flat-out wrong, it is a fact that prestigious institutions are increasingly more diverse. The Christian right has used this fact as a base for their criticism against college education in this nation, labeling it as the breeding ground for liberalism and atheism. This argument may not be completely untrue, but it implies as if the outcome stems from the discrimination from the college admissions point of view which is flat-out wrong. Like many of its counterparts, the small Christian evangelical high school I attended placed its utmost priority on cultivating religious devotion, even at the cost of compromising academic standard. The biology class taught us how to defend creationism rather than learning about the evolutionary process, and texts for English class was subject to parental censorship on the grounds of vulgar, suggestive language and “ungodly” narrative. During election cycles, picket signs advocating the Republican party were planted on the school lawn, and any political stance not in accord with the right were silenced. With the vast majority of my fellow classmates continuing their education at Christian colleges, I was the second student to enter an Ivy since the school’s founding. Over the years, Cornell has attained remarkable progress in increasing racial, socioeconomic diversity. If we strive to seek yet another dimension to our campus diversity, it’s time to reach students whose “ideology” and religious upbringing may not allow themselves from applying to schools like Cornell. Don Oh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He may be reached at doh@cornellsun.com. Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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here has been a flur- hold, she and her siblings despise. Though, I do ry of political activ- were taught to speak only think that in the liberal ity on campus lately English, which was no context of “diversity” disand it seems everyone has one’s first language. It’s the course, filled with depolitisomething to say about it. reason why, when I called cized euphemisms, “realTwo excellent columns my dad to tell him I met ness” can be an asset insorecently critiqued and with some of our Trustees far as it can be commodirejected the prevailing but about hate crimes and sex- fied and non-threatening. impossible imperative to ual assault on campus, the Regardless of what it resolve “divisiveness” first thing he said was, might do to our sanity, through “dialogue.” What “Were you rational or did balancing respectability I’m interested in thinking you get emotional?” It’s and realness can be our about is the larger phe- why, as much as I hate it double-edged sword. This nomenon this imperative and as much as I know might not be everyone’s is a part of, along with better, I feel a momentary weapon of choice, but expectations to respect pang of something like going in defenseless is not “democratic process” and shame when I notice way an option. Of course, there the like. What I want to my loved ones don’t always are limitations — not neccall the “politics of reason- fit in at formal occasions. essarily because there is a ability” is deeply tied to It’s why, as a freshman at right and wrong way to respectability politics. Cornell, I used to say I perform this act, but Respectability politics wasn’t hungry instead of because the game is fixed refers to a set of unwritten telling my floormates I to begin with. rules regarding behavior, couldn’t afford to go out to Even if you do everyspeech, culture and all dinner — or that I thing right — go through other forms of self-repre- thought using a parent’s all the proper channels, sentation by marginalized credit card to go out to eat speak with perfect grampeople in order to make several times a week is a mar, meet every deadline themselves more legible, or garish display of unearned and rub elbows with all the more human, to people in wealth. right people, all that — power. Like racism and To survive at a place sometimes you still can’t patriarchy, the politics of like Cornell — to get here win. Of course you can’t respectability has been interwoven into this country’s history since To survive at a place like Cornell the first European men landed on the shores of — to get here in the first place America and encoun- — we have all learned to act tered people they saw as and talk in a certain way. less than human. The practice of dehumanization has always been cen- in the first place — we always get what you want tral to the American pro- have all learned to act and — it’s a tough world — ject, allowing the nation’s talk a certain way. If we but it seems to be tougher founders to feel justified in didn’t have the right con- for some than it is for othcommitting two of the ditioning by the time we ers. And that’s the issue: greatest genocides in histo- got to campus, Cornell power protects power. ry. Because of the dura- offers no shortage of social When playing by the rules tion, visibility and egre- discipline. Like most elite doesn’t work, when the gious violence of slavery institutions, it is a finish- game reveals itself to be and the enduring history ing school in its own right unwinnable (save for a few of dehumanization, mani- (re: professional-develop- conditional exceptions) festations of respectability ment, networking experi- what’s to stop us from callpolitics are perhaps most ence, business casual, etc.) ing bullshit and flipping noticeably tied to black Respectability politics is the game board? I can history. I would argue, what necessitates “code- think of a few answers to however, that iterations of switching” even on a cam- this question: respectability politics are pus of clearly literate and 1) The lure of becomfamiliar to most marginal- competent people; it’s why ing that exceptional being, ized people, whether mar- women, even in the Ivy if only you work hard ginalization happens on League, or perhaps espe- enough. the basis of gender identi- cially because they are in 2) Fear of retribution, ty, ethnicity, sexuality, the Ivy League, are made fear that things will end up falling below an imaginary to mind their wardrobe worse off or fear that nothline drawn somewhere choices and expressions of ing will change. right around “middle emotionality. We all feel 3) Inertia. We are so class” or some combina- the pressure of normativity disciplined and so welltion of these or other and in being here, and we trained to respect authorimarkers of difference. all conform to some ty that challenging the staThe logic of respec- degree. tus quo is painted as disretability politics is at the This is not to assume or spectful and doing so in a core of why, in my moth- say anything about blunt manner is seen as er’s multilingual house- “authenticity,” a term I unreasonable.

As an example, let’s take the recent suppression of Resolution 72. Everybody seemed to know that what happened in the Student Assembly meeting that day was wrong. When I wrote against it, I was thanked — even the worst comment trolls remained silent. The Daily Sun editorial board agreed that the S.A. should have “listened first” before tabling the resolution. But, when we took over the S.A. meeting the next week and invited the resolution’s sponsors to speak along with a number of other students who felt unheard and unrepresented on campus, they disapproved of our “drastic measures” and argued students should go through proper channels to have their voices heard — ironically, between these two conflicting editorials, they praised the important history of the Willard Straight Hall Takeover for its anniversary. As annoying as this inconsistency is, it’s not unexpected. I know Cornell students aren’t used to disruptions or publicly challenging authority, but it’s a healthy part of political engagement. Shaming students for demonstrating doesn't make us better than our rowdier peers, it makes us impotent and shows us for what we are, cowardly. The authority worship around here is stifling — 30 minutes of one man’s time is not more valuable than the existence and voices of entire groups of students. I think the takeover did campus some good. We’ve already learned to walk, talk and dress for success. When injustice still happens, despite our best efforts, we must be allowed to correct it. Even those that benefit from the status quo suffer from a passionless campus. We could use a little more chaos around here. Anna-Lisa Castle is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at amc394@cornell.edu. Nonstop Biweekly Real Talk appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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“I should hang 10 thousands that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.” The Crucible. Since Arthur Miller set pen to paper in 1953, the play has worn many different hats and taken on many different roles to different people. Lately, it has become “that play;” the one students across America are forced to read for their high school English classes. The entire play is dissected and analyzed for its McCarthyist rhetoric. Seeing it on stage, however, is another experience altogether. Like Shakespeare, so much of what is good and powerful in a play is lost when 20 teenagers annotate the edges of each line to appease their English teachers. Plays were meant to be seen. Plays were meant to be performed. As such, the Ithaca College performance of The Crucible absolutely floored me. Even before its ominous onset, the set sang a tale of oppression and horror. Twisted, red, broken trees adorned the stage. Behind them, crosses reached out of the inhospitable landscape, graves beckoning to the characters. The eyes were immediately and continuously drawn by the ominous presence dangling above the stage: An enormous, red, worn wooden cross. It spent the entire play dangling above; whenever a character looked up, this disturbing sight greeted them. Scenic designer Andrew M. Hostler, Ithaca College, grad, crafted a set that seemed to become a character of its own. The set had presence, even when you weren’t looking directly at the oppressive cross above, it was there and you knew it. It continuously judged the proceedings of the play; the characters seemed condemned by it and it demonstrated the power that those bearing the cross could wield to disastrous results. For those who are unfamiliar with the story of The Crucible, it is the story of the Salem witch trials of the late 17th century. The story centers on John Proctor (Alex Tortora, a grad student at Ithaca College), a farmer living on the outskirts of Salem with his wife Elizabeth (Rachel Rosen, a grad student at Ithaca College). At the onset of the play John has erred of late: He disagrees with the way that their new Reverend Samuel Parris (Joe Pietropaolo, a grad student at Ithaca College) has commodified their church (“golden candlesticks!”). More

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importantly, however, during his wife’s sickness, John committed adultery with the teenage girl that the family had hired to help around the house, Abigail Williams (Taylor Misiak, a grad student at Ithaca College). Proctor confesses to his wife, Abigail is ejected from their home and the pair hope to put the incident behind them. When the play starts, however, we see that Abigail is unable to do the same. Believing herself in love with John, she recruits other girls of the village and Tituba (Donovan Lockett, a junior at Ithaca College) to help her curse Elizabeth Proctor, so that Abigail may take her place in the home. Caught by the Reverend, the women start claiming coercion to do the devil’s work. With their only proof being the “spirits” no one else can see and their own play acting in the courtroom, the young girls begin a campaign on witches in Salem, destroying lives and abusing the overwhelming power of the church. With Abigail leading the charge, the Proctors become overwhelmed by the onslaught of the witch trials. The truly amazing thing about seeing The Crucible live was the amount of emotional investment that is attained. I have seen a great number of plays and films of late, however I cannot, in recent memory, recall a single one which grabbed and hooked me like The Crucible did. The first act had me settled in my seat like a normal viewer at any other play. Act II however, tore emotional holes in the fabric of my being. I was fidgety and antsy — stressed beyond a breaking point. I pulled at the ends of my hair and had to forcibly control the urge to yell to the characters, “Just tell the truth!! Why are you lying?!?” And in the end, I am not ashamed to admit that I felt tears running down my face. As the final punishments were to be carried out, Governor Danforth (Jordan Dryce Schultz, a grad student at Ithaca College) turned to the audience and declared, “Whoever weeps for these weeps for corruption.” At that point, I defy one person in the audience to have completely dry eyes and not shed at least one tear

for the corruption he so condemns. As always, the performances at IC were absolutely amazing; the actors took the audience on a rollercoaster ride of emotion and despair. The thing that stood out most in this production, however, was the lighting and set design. Paul M. Radassao (Lighting Design) and Andrew M. Hostler (Scenic Design) completely out-did themselves. The lighting and set became far more than a backdrop for the action: They became presences in the play, omnipresent reminders of the purpose of the play and pressing down and washing out the action. Marissa Tranquilli is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun.com.

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Roby Lakatos Ensemble Closes Out Cornell Concert Series TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

Thursday night’s performance at Bailey, the last of this year’s Cornell Concert Series, was proof that technology is far less predictable than those who use it. Predictable was the sheer excitement brought to the concert hall by “devil’s fiddler” Roby Lakatos and his all-Hungarian ensemble. How could one not be moved by the balance of incendiary virtuosity and cool programming? Unpredictable, however, was the muddy sound mix, which was prone to distortion and invariably favored certain instruments at the expense of others. Central to, and unique among, those instruments was the cimbalom, a concert hammered dulcimer rarely heard stateside in a live setting and played to captivating effect by one of its greatest living masters, Jenő Lisztes. It was Lisztes, in fact, who scored the biggest hit of the night with his rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov’s evergreen “Flight of the Bumblebee,” improvising around it with such artful dexterity that it was like hearing it for the first time. With exception of the occasional solo, however, the cimbalom was lost under the weight of pianist Kálmán Cséki Jr. and bassist Lászlo “Csorosz” Lisztes, each miked so loudly that the dulcimer’s gentle edges were frayed beyond recognition. Over-amplification all around also magnified incidental sounds from Lakatos’s bow, often breaking the spell otherwise spun: Sobering reminders that what we were hearing was being processed, filtered and force-fed the sonic equivalent of a Five-Hour Energy drink. Neither music nor musicians needed any such enhancement, and the decision to rely on it seemed as much motivated by virtue of playing in such a large venue — instead of, for example, the restaurant in Brussels where, from 1986 to 1996, Lakatos’ talents drew collaborators and admirers (Sir Yehudi Menuhin among them) from far and wide — as by a need to balance sound levels to the musicians’ liking. Indeed, in light of their most recent live CD of the same music, which fares hardly bet-

ter, it’s clear they were hearing things very differently on stage, surrounded as they were by monitor speakers fanned away from the audience. Despite complications in presentation, the content was nonetheless compelling. Completing the picture for this, the ensemble’s inaugural U.S. performance, were two more Lászlos: Mr. Balogh on guitar and Mr. Bóni, who has worked with Lakatos for well over two decades, on second violin. The two violinists, understandably, displayed the most effortless synergy. Both soloed with finesse and ease, even if their styles diverged — Lakatos the jack-in-the-box ready to spring and Bóni the smooth motion of the crank turning in anticipation of its surprising reveal. Together, the band presented its current touring program, “La Passion” — an appropriate and multivalent title, to be sure, for emotive music performed with commitment. As leader, Lakatos was often in the spotlight. There was so much traction in his often-aggressive bowing that at moments it was as if his hands were working of their own volition. Whether showing off his blurring pizzicato technique in the traditional “Duex Guitares” or pulsing through the chromatic drama of “Valse Triste” by Hungarian composer Ferenc Vecsey, Lakatos kept a level head. Lakatos also presented two original pieces. Both “New Alliance,” which began the concert, and “SK Paraphrase” followed the same formula, starting out with crosstalk from the violins before blending into Django Reinhardt antics that found Balogh in particularly high

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spirits. That the guitarist had started out on cimbalom before switching to guitar at age 12 was plain to see: His fingers danced with that same staccato approach. Other highlights included two Soviet-era pieces, one a waltz by film composer Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky and the other a marching song (“Polyushka Polye”), and two tangos by Astor Piazzolla. Of those, the lush and vibrant “Oblivion” showed these musicians at their dynamic, lyrical best. Conceptually speaking, Lakatos and friends are by no means singular in what they do. Similar projects, such as violinist Nigel Kennedy’s sadly one-off “East Meets East” with the Polish Kroke Band, have forayed into adventurous crossovers of classical, folk and jazz. What separates the Lakatos ensemble is the sterling fire they bring to even the most lambent moments. But in the end, no electricity is needed where already there is so much heat. Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

Friendship Is But Part of the Equation

ntourage was our role model in high school. My crew rolled four deep, just like the show’s titular clique. We’d burn through a Season Two DVD, then traverse suburban Rochester in our parents’ Civics, windows down, bobbing our heads to the Superhero theme song playing in our heads. We all wanted to be Vince or E and I usually got stuck vacillating between being the Turtle or Drama. Timmy was our Dom, the off-screen fifth friend, but instead of serving five-to-seven years for possession and assault, Timmy was off at boarding school. The show was undiluted testosterone, an addicting product for the five of us who were gaining more of it by the minute. The characters lacked a scruple when it came to leering at derrieres, getting after it and livin’ that women, weed and weather Recipe existence. It was awesome. In retrospect, you have to forgive a lot to enjoy peak Entourage, just as you probably have to forgive a lot to enjoy your 16 yearold self. Forgive that each female character’s personality setting is perennially stuck on nag, with Mrs. Ari, the wettest of the two-X-chromosome blankets, needing seven seasons to even earn a first name. Forgive the butt plug jokes at Llyod’s expense, which once seemed revolutionary, but now seem a shade homophobic. The Entourage fan is ensnared in a universe imbued with people from all walks of douchebaggery. You enjoy Entourage with five percent brain, 80 percent guts and the remaining percentage with your dick (I’m running on five percent brain so you figure out what percentage that is). But despite the flaws, Entourage had an admirable core. Set in a land of material decadence, the show held loyalty as its most valuable commodity. Friendship between the crew trumped all. Loyalty trumps

money, bros are before hoes, all-for-one or Vince doesn’t do the movie. It was a formative message for a formative period in my life. Silicon Valley has garnered quite a few Entourage comparisons in its short lifespan. Both parody their respective industries, with Silicon Valley making funny at the pretentious entrepreneur/tech complex and those who are trying to make it big within its parameters. Doctors pitch mediocre startup ideas to patients with the desperate confidence of a barista pitching the next award-winning script to an agent patronizing a Burbank Starbucks. Thomas Middleditch, known for livewire College Humor roles like Sham Wow Guy in Prison and Penis Anthony “Don’t call me Doobs” Doublinge, is wonderfully demurred as Richard Hendricks, a meek young techie with a closet full of hoodies and a world-beating algorithm that has “MAJOR” implications. A cojonesgrande decision in the series pilot unleashes a “will he make it in this town” plot remi-

Brian Gordon Bring Da Ruckus niscent of Entourage: The Early Seasons. Richard and his team might be on the path toward rivaling Google for control of the universe, but they’ll be slurping down Ramen for the time being. There are other parallels to its SoCal predecessor. Richard’s friends-turned-employees are all working towards the same ambi-

tious professional goal. They live under the same roof. Their bantering, bickering and berating creates a similarly warm sense of comradeship, one that will likely only strengthen as the crew gets more episodes under their belts. But the show diverts on the role of loyalty in a significant way. Where friendship was the product, sum and remainder of Entourage, friendship is but part of the equation in Silicon Valley. You see, there is no room for Turtles in the land of equities. In the cutthroat Palo Alto of Silicon Valley, the least productive members of a crew cannot be brought along for loyalty’s sake. The fortunes of start-ups aren’t realized enough to afford flat brims for the Turtles or calf implants for the Dramas. In the show’s second episode, Richard is pressured to cut his best friend, Big Head, out of the burgeoning startup. In a speech that could’ve been plagiarized verbatim from the mouth of Vincent Chase, Richard defies better business sense by decreeing Big Head an equal member of the company no matter what, because that’s what friends are for. Loyalty reins. My high school heart swells as I hear this and I think fondly of my old crew. But then Big Head turns down Richard’s offer. He got a better offer from a large generic tech conglomerate and he’s seeking the greener ($) pastures. He’s leaving his friends to do what’s best for Big Head. Richard seems hurt. Loyalty flounders. But

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my heart doesn’t sink. It doesn’t sink because both takes on loyalty and friendship can ring true considering when in life you experience them. Back in high school, my friends made up much of my identity. As I’ve grown through college, I’ve learned to be more individually focused, and as diploma day nears, I know the next stage will require me to think more like Big Head than Vince. This isn’t a declaration to delete all your friends’ contacts. If the friendships are strong enough, there’s rarely a need to choose loyalty at the expense of any personal desires. And with that I’m out of here, Cornell Daily Sun. It’s been swell. I’d like to give a quick thanks to my siblings Amy and Evan, my parents (for their support and $upport) Matt Groenig, Douglas Adams, Pepsi Max and my sometimes co-columnist, always friend Harrison Okin. Lastly, I’d like to thank the resident of 1515 Wickersham Lane, Austin, Texas, 78741. No one else can lick their wound, the way I do, when I’m with you. Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Bring Da Ruckus runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Kings Take Second Straight To Avoid Elimination

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Now that the Los Angeles Kings have made it halfway to a historic comeback, the task actually seems even more difficult now that they know how close they are. Jonathan Quick made 30 saves to shut out San Jose for the fourth time in his career in the postseason and the Kings staved off elimination for a second straight game by beating the Sharks 3-0 on Saturday night in Game 5 of their first-round series. “If anything, it seems a little more daunting because we came this far to get two, now we need to take two more,” defenseman Drew Doughty said. “It puts more pressure on us because we can kind of smell it. We can’t get ahead of ourselves. We have a lot of work ahead of us.” Tyler Toffoli, Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter scored for the Kings, who have rebounded after losing the first three games of the series. Quick allowed 16 goals in those losses, but once again is starting to look like the goalie who stymied the Sharks in a second-round series a year ago. Antti Niemi allowed three goals on 19 shots and got pulled for the second straight game for the Sharks. Perhaps more importantly, San Jose also lost star defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic to an upper-body injury after he was elbowed in the head by Jarret Stoll late in the first period. “We did a lot of good things for 3.5 games. Tonight was red rotten,” coach Todd McLellan said. “That’s simply put. When we started the series, we talked about leaving games behind, closing the book on it. There’s no doubt we’ll look at it. We have to improve. But it’s put in the bank and we’ll move on.” They may have to do it without Vlasic. He is questionable for Game 6 on Monday night in Los Angeles as the Kings are looking to become just the fourth NHL team to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a playoff series. They finally broke through in San Jose after losing five playoff games here the past two seasons and 12 of 13 games here overall. But they will need to win here again to complete the comeback

as Game 7 will be in San Jose on Wednesday, if necessary. The Kings came out looking like a desperate team and dominated from the start against the listless Sharks, who were unable to feed off the energy from a frenzied crowd hoping to see a fierce rival get eliminated. “We had a good start,” Quick said. “We got a few shifts and we just tried to keep building on it. They came with a lot, too. They had a big pushback. It’s not easy to win against this team. They’re a great team for a reason.” Los Angeles controlled the game on the ice, the shot clock and the scoreboard to take a 2-0 lead in the first period and mostly silence the crowd. The Kings opened the scoring when Tanner Pearson outraced Vlasic to a loose puck and fed a rushing Toffoli, who patiently skated around James Sheppard and beat Niemi with a shot from the slot to make it 1-0. The Kings made it 2-0 shortly after Joe Thornton was unable to bat a cross-ice pass from Brent Burns into an empty net. That fueled a 3on-2 rush the other way and Kopitar knocked in a rebound of Dustin Brown’s shot. “Usually, we have really fast starts in this building and that wasn't the case tonight,” Thornton said. “They started faster than us. Really, it’s a rarity around here. We just have to have better starts. That’s the bottom line.” The Sharks responded to a 2-0 deficit in Game 2 that deficit with seven straight goals, but it was quickly clear that would not repeat when Carter banked a shot off Brad Stuart’s skate for a powerplay goal 22 seconds into the second period to end Niemi’s night. Alex Stalock came in and stopped 22 shots, but it was too late to save the Sharks in this game although it could make McLellan consider starting him in Game 6. “We’ll have to make some decisions throughout our lineup at every position because we weren’t obviously near good enough tonight,” McLellan said.

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BARTON SILVERMAN / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Scoreless | Mets pitcher Dillon Gee struck out six, walked four and tossed 110 pitches in the Mets’ 4-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Sunday.

Missing Key Player, Wizards Pull Off Victory WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with the team’s “X-factor” suspended, the Washington Wizards had a No. 42 sitting next to the bench. The 57-year-old with graying hair couldn’t box out or grab a rebound, but owner Ted Leonsis waved his red towel and egged on a cheering crowd that chanted “Free Nene!” The Wizards did just fine without the suspended Brazilian forward. They scored the first 14 points and beat the Chicago Bulls 9889 on Sunday to take a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference series. “I thought it was pretty hilarious that Ted had Nene’s jersey on,” Wizards guard Bradley Beal said. “It kind of threw me off for a minute, but then I looked and seen it was Ted.” Nene or not, the Wizards did what they’ve done all series: Take a quick lead and force the Bulls to use up energy trying to catch up. It was 15-8 in Game 3, 29-12 in Game 2, 19-13 in Game 1. Washington, seeking to win a playoff series for only the third time since the 1970s, can finish off the Bulls on the road in Game 5 on Tuesday night. “We keep seeing this same kind of start for the last couple of games, and it’s frustrating,” said Taj Gibson, who came off the bench to lead the Bulls with a career-high 32 points. “It seems like at times we get overhyped with just thinking we’re going to be OK, we’re just that good. But in this league it’s not about how talented you are, it’s about how hard you work and how much effort you put when you start the game off, and I don’t think we did that.” Nene was suspended for the game after grabbing Jimmy Butler’s head in the fourth quarter of the Wizards’ Game 3 loss. Wall called Nene the “X-factor” this week, and for good reason: Since the March 2012 trade that brought Nene to D.C., Washington is 65-63 when he plays and 21-41 when he doesn’t. That said, the club did hold its own by winning 12 of 21 when Nene went down with a knee injury late in the regular season, an absence coach Randy Wittman said might have been a “blessing in disguise” that helped prepare them for Sunday. “I saw our guys bond together,” Wittman said. “Like, ‘That’s OK, all right. Big fellow’s not going to be here, but that’s OK.’ And we were in tune right from the start.”

Mets Pitcher Dillon Gee Keeps Marlins Off the Scoreboard NEW YORK (AP) — For a pitcher with little buzz, Dillon Gee has transformed into a top starter. He nearly came away with his first professional shutout Sunday, limiting the Miami Marlins to three singles over eight innings in the New York Mets’ 4-0 victory. “I’m not sure if Dillon is all that sexy of a pitcher,” Mets captain David Wright said. “He just goes out there and gets the job done.” Gee never topped 90 mph against the Marlins. Still, he didn’t allow a runner past second base. “He’s not going to impress you with the radar gun. He’s not going to strike a lot of guys out,” Wright said. “But what he’s going to do is induce a lot of ground balls, pound the strike zone. And he’s going to go out there and know how to pitch.” Chris Young hit a two-run homer, and Wright had an RBI double and an outstanding sliding, over-the-shoulder catch of a foul popup with his back to the plate as the Mets took two of three in the series. Pitching a day before his 28th birthday, Gee (2-1) had the longest outing of a Mets pitcher since last August. He struck out six, walked four and threw 110 pitches — his high since May 30, 2012, against Philadelphia. That was six weeks before season-ending surgery to repair a damaged artery in his right shoulder. He tried to talk Mets manager Terry Collins into letting him get a complete game. Gee has just four in 162 pro starts over eight years. “CG chances don’t come along that often. It would have been nice,” Gee said. Collins wasn’t taking any chances, especially after Gee needed 23 pitches to navigate a 1-2-3 eighth. Coming in, batters were hitting .187 off Gee through the first six innings and .385 from the seventh on.

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Parker’s Words ‘Cry For Change’ in NBA CHIUSANO

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-and-dones” who turned into busts, hurting the NBA in the process as well. So where is the happy medium? One of my friends suggested that instead of an age minimum of 20, the NBA should consider following baseball’s example. The MLB requires three years of college before entering the draft, unless a player declares at the end of high school. There is no reason why the best basketball players coming out of high school who have no interest in an education should be forced to spend one year in college. For most of them, that one year hurts more than it helps (take Marcus Smart as an example, whose biggest headline in his lone year at Oklahoma State ended up being his altercation with a fan). Smart had no need or desire for that year, and it only caused his draft status to plummet. At the same time, there are ways for the three years in college to backfire as well. Michigan’s star center Mitch McGary decided not to enter the draft after his freshman year, ended up getting hurt his sophomore year, and then failed his drug test from marijuana consumption. Now he is forced to enter the draft. College inevitably poses distractions that will entice athletes, but if that player becomes a bust either way, I think a college degree outweighs the consequences of a few juvenile mistakes in four years. There are certainly down-

sides to bringing the MLB’s policy to the NBA. If a baseball player comes out of high school, he has time to develop in the minor leagues. A basketball player is thrust onto the scene, and while many of them have turned into stars (see Kobe and LeBron), an equal number have become busts (think Kwame Brown and Sebastian Telfair). There really is no way to tell how an 18-year old kid will pan out in the NBA, but at least he has the opportunity to sign a significant contract, provide for himself if he has no desire to go to school, and learn from the best in the business. A “one-and-done” has none of these upsides. He is playing with the sole purpose of improving draft status, and therefore has little investment in his team or his school. It’s a disappointment for the school, for the fans and for the students to see him go after a year. So while I’m skeptical that Parker will go back and get his Duke degree now that he has made this decision, I still believe he has the right idea on the issue. You don’t see many NBA prospects explaining their decision in writing, and you definitely don’t see many expressing a desire to publish a children’s book (Parker says this in the essay as well). Jabari may be heading to the NBA next season, but his words are a cry for change in how the NBA treats and respects a college education. Scott Chiusano can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

As Sterling Scandal Unfolds,Obama Joins Discussion On Racism KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — President Barack Obama said Sunday that comments reportedly made by the owner of a U.S. pro basketball team are “incredibly offensive racist statements,” before casting them as part of a continuing legacy of slavery and segregation that Americans must confront. “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk,” Obama said when asked to respond to the reported comments from Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling. Obama’s description of the controversy as part of a larger historical context is the latest example of his continuing willingness to expound on matters of race in his second term. After avoiding much mention of race relations during his campaign to become the first

black president and in his first term, the president last summer offered a personal reflection in response to the shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin. And now Obama has spoken out against an audio recording of a man identified as Sterling telling his girlfriend not to bring black people to games. The firestorm over Sterling’s comments has quickly engulfed the National Basketball Association. Obama cast the comments through a broader prism of racism in America, adding that “we constantly have to be on guard on racial attitudes that divide us rather than embracing our diversity as a strength.” “The United States continues to wrestle with the legacy of race and slavery and segregation, that’s still there, the vestiges of discrimination,” Obama said during a news conference in Malaysia, where he was traveling.

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Goal-den | Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, shown above in last week’s Game 2 loss to the Flyers, stopped 24 shots in Game 5 to give New York a 3-2 series advantage.

Rangers Take Series Lead Over Flyers NEW YORK (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist didn’t allow a bad ending to the second period wreck an otherwise good day for the New York Rangers. Lundqvist was the beneficiary of a three-goal lead that was trimmed to two when the Philadelphia Flyers got their power play to work in the closing seconds of the middle period. But the Rangers kept it together in the third, withstood a late surge, and pushed the Flyers to the brink of elimination with a 4-2 victory Sunday. “The biggest part to me was to calm down and not be too upset about it,” Lundqvist said of Vinny Lecavalier’s goal with 32.6 seconds left that made it 31. “It is really frustrating to sit here when you give up a goal like that late in the period. “It was just about letting it go and being focused

on the right things going into the third.” Brad Richards and Dominic Moore scored in the second to make it 3-0. Lundqvist stopped 24 shots and didn’t face more than 10 in any period. The only other puck that got past him was Claude Giroux’s goal with 1:29 left after the Flyers pulled goalie Steve Mason. Defenseman Marc Staal gave the Rangers the lead in the first, and Brian Boyle ended the drama with an empty-net goal with 15 seconds remaining. Moore helped seal the win when he raced up ice to negate an icing call and fed Boyle. New York leads the series 3-2 and can advance to the second round with a win Tuesday in Philadelphia. If necessary, a deciding seventh game would be back at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Penn’s Seven-Goal Run Sinks Laxers

C.U.enters Ivy Tournament as fourth seed,will face Princeton By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Staff Writer

The women’s lacrosse team fell to the Quakers, 10-8, in a tight Ivy League contest Saturday. The game was the Red’s final regular-season game of the year and the loss brings Cornell down to 7-8 overall and 4-3 in the Ivy league. Despite the loss the, Red finished fourth in the Ivy League standings with Penn propelling themselves to the top of the league. A win would have taken Cornell to 300 program wins. Cornell started strongly and went up by two with co-captains and attackers junior Lindsay Toppe and senior Chelsea Rowe scoring within 30 seconds of each other. Lindsey Smith got the Quakers on board before Toppe responded with her 44th of the season to give the Red a 3-1 lead. A period of Penn domination followed as the Quakers refused to let Cornell’s early lead unsettle them. The nine-time Ivy League winners began to assert their playing style as the team’s experience began to show. Penn went on a goal-scoring run with Nina Corcoran, Sarah Barcia and Tory Bensen registering seven goals between themselves. “The seven-goal run was a combination of Cornell’s defensive breakdowns and sharp execution by Penn’s offense,” head coach Jenny Graap said. “We were struggling to cover cutters on the interior and Penn got several feed-shot combinations which are very difficult for a goalie to save.” A Lindsay Toppe goal from an Amanda D’Amico assist, 16 seconds before the half, put an end to this run. Toppe’s goal was her third of the game, leaving her one shy of breaking into Cornell’s Top 10 for career goals scored. Cornell went into the break with the score at 4-8. Penn came out of the break strongly with Barcia and Bensen scoring to put the Quakers ahead, 10-4.

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Run-on | While Penn’s seven-goal run was instrumental in the Quakers’ victory, the Red put together a four-goal run of its own but was not able to fight its way back to a lead.

Cornell began to stage a comeback, hitting four without reply. Senior attacker Rachel Moody, sophomore midfielder Shelby McNeilly, Rowe and D’Amico all got on the score sheet. “I just feel we did not capitalize on all of our moments,” Rowe said. “We definitely executed some great plays on the offensive and defensive side at times, but we need to continue working on playing a full 60 minutes and cleaning up the smaller parts of our game.” Ultimately, the Red came short, failing to score in the final seven minutes as Penn closed up shop, with the Quakers’ defense efficiently halting the Cornell attack. On the whole the Penn goalkeeper was kept quiet throughout the game, only having to make three, saves. “Though all of the coaches were proud of the comeback effort in the second half, we weren’t able to score enough goals to earn the victory,” Graap said. “Penn is definitely a team that knows how to win. Their dominance in the Ivy League combined with their NCAA Tournament experience over the last

eight years has added an enviable layer of competitive experience for their players.” By the end of the game, Cornell matched Penn statically with draw controls even at 10. Junior midfielder Sarah Hefner won six by herself. Penn only edged Cornell in shots, 21-17. The two teams have now met 41 times in program history, with Penn edging the series, 26-16. Penn has won the last six match-ups against Cornell, with the Red last winning in 2006, a year it won the Ivy League championship. Heading into the Ivy tournament, Cornell now sits at the fourth seed and will play No. 1 seed Princeton. “Being seeded fourth in the tournament means we have to battle,” Graap said. “Embracing the mentality of the underdog who is scrappy, aggressive and dangerous can only help Cornell in our quest to win our semifinal game on Friday and ultimately the championship game on Sunday.” Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at ayousefi@cornellsun.com.

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Marshall Peters then added one of his own to put the Red up 87. Peters finished the afternoon with his first two collegiate goals, a forced turnover, and three recovered ground balls to help the Red to a 34-26 advantage in the category. Princeton did not go away quietly, however, storming back down Howie Vogts Field to tie game at 8-8, the inception of a quarter-long tug-of-war that had the Red reclaiming the lead, Princeton tying, Buczek and company taking two more, and the Tigers again striking in the closing minute of a quarter. When the dust had settled, the Red led 11-10. Despite encountering 10 more Princeton shots in the fourth quarter as the contest continued with a breakneck pace, freshman goaltender and fourtime Ivy League Rookie of the Week Christian Knight put the game on lockdown. Knight repeatedly denied attackman after attackman to tally six saves in the final 15 to finish with a career-high 16 for the afternoon. “Christian was outstanding for us today,” Kerwick said in the statement. “He was poised and consistent throughout the game and that really helped us when we were struggling on offense.” Even with Knight fending off

Tiger offensives, the Red still only held a razor-thin one goal advantage as Princeton goalie Eric Sanschagrin was making his own presence felt on the other end. The clincher came from none other than junior attackman and coach Kerwick’s sotermed “quarterback” Matt Donovan, who used a spin move to beat Sanschagrin and the defense for a two-goal cushion. The team’s leader in total points with 48 earned an assist and two of the Red’s final three goals on the afternoon to earn Cornell the 12-10 final and clinch a share of the Ivy title. As the Red celebrated, across the sound in New Haven No. 16 Harvard (9-5, 5-1) had taken down No. 13 Yale (9-4, 3-3), 1110, for its own piece of the conference crown. As a result of the Crimson’s 14-9 head-to-head victory against the Red in early April, Harvard will host the upcoming Ivy League Tournament. The victory over Princeton marks the Red’s record-setting 28th Ivy League Championship (18 outright, 10 shared) and the program’s eleventh of the past 12. Still on the hunt for an NCAA Tournament bid, Cornell will take on No. 10 Penn (9-3, 4-2) next weekend in the opening round of postseason action. Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Women: Penn Will Face Harvard W hile Princeton earned its share of the Ivy League title last weekend with its 12-10 victory over Dartmouth, Penn’s 10-8 victory over Cornell this weekend won the Quakers a co-champion title. Princeton — the only Ivy team to beat Penn — will host the upcoming Ivy tournament. While Princeton had already locked up the top seed, the weekend’s results filled out the rest of the seeding. Cornell, which now sits in the fourth seed, will face the Tigers in the opening round. Princeton defeated the Red, 10-7, in an overtime victory in late March. Princeton tested its strength out of the conference this weekend, as the No. 19 Tigers took on No. 8 Penn State. Despite a strong second half, the Tigers dropped the game, 13-12. Penn, the second seed, will face third-seeded Harvard in the first round. Penn won the regular season match-up, 9-4, in early March. Harvard lost a narrow match to Dartmouth this weekend, 9-8. — Compiled by Emily Berman

BRITTNEY CHEW SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Garden State bound | Princeton is set to host the Ivy League tournament after locking up the top seed last weekend.

Men: Harvard Will Host Upcoming Tournament

arvard and Cornell each grabbed a share of the Ivy league title with wins this weekend. Harvard beat Yale, 11-10, while the Red defeated Princeton, 12-10. The Ivy title is Cornell’s conference-best 28th title, while it is

the Crimson’s first since 1990. After the weekend’s play, the seeds and hosting location of the Ivy tournament are finally set. Although Cornell and Harvard both sit on top of the league with 5-1 records, Harvard wins the head-to-

head competition thanks to its 14-9 win over the Red in early April. The tournament will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts from May 2 through May 4. Harvard, as the No. 1 seed, will rematch with No. 4 Yale in the first

round. Second-seeded Cornell will take on third-seeded Penn earlier the same day. The Red defeated the Quakers, 17-9, in the teams’ regular season match-up. — Compiled by Emily Berman

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Throwback | Harvard’s share of the League title is its first conference crown since 1990, marking 24 straight season without a title.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

LAXERS EARN SHARE OF IVY TITLE

Win over Princeton hands Red second straight Ivy conference crown

By CHRIS MILLS

topped 4,500 before sophomore attackman John Edmonds gave Cornell fans something to cheer for with his first of three goals, set up with an assist from senior Entering 2014 with a decade-low No. 17 ranking in midfielder Connor Entenmann at 5:05 in the first. the Inside Lacrosse preseason poll, the Cornell men’s Three minutes later, junior midfielder John Hogan lacrosse program had something to prove. Interim head worked his way through the Tiger defense for an unascoach Matt Kerwick’s team finished a two-month-long sisted strike to knot the score at two apiece before response to the skeptics Saturday, closPrinceton retook the lead in a backing out the regular season slate with a and-forth second quarter that culPRINCETON VS. CORNELL big win against a rival most had preminated in a heartbreaking goal dicted the better team months before. 10 12 with two seconds remaining in the Playing on neutral Long Island turf Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Final half to put the Red down 6-5. in the fourth annual Battle at Princeton 2 4 4 0 10 Cornell had outshot the Tigers Bethpage, No. 11 Cornell (11-3, 5-1 Cornell 2 3 6 1 12 21-15 going into the break, but a Ivy) wrestled No. 19 Princeton (7-6, few tactical decisions were needed 2-4 Ivy) for the lead in a dramatic to put more points on the board. third quarter and would not relinquish, edging the rival “It took us a little bit to figure out Princeton’s zone Tigers, 12-10, to cement a spot atop the conference defense, but we made some second half adjustments,” standings with co-leader Harvard. Kerwick said in the statement. “At the start of the season, our most important goal The New Jerseyans again scored first to open up a 7was to win the Ivy League championship, so to get a 5 lead before the Red offense began to settle in. Junior share with our win today really means a lot to the guys midfielder Connor Buczek, a recently announced nomin that locker room,” Kerwick said in a statement to inee for the Tewaaraton Trophy, fed Edmonds with two Cornell Athletics. “I couldn’t be prouder of the effort assists in back-to-back minutes. Freshman defenseman today.” See M. LACROSSE page 14 The Tigers jumped out 2-0 in front of a crowd that Sun Staff Writer

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR

Balanced attack | Nine different players notched points for the Red in Saturday’s game against the Tigers.

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Parker’s Path: Duke and the Draft Red Claims Victory in Ivy League Tournament L ast week, Duke’s star freshman forward Jabari Parker wrote a personal essay in Sports Illustrated about why he was deciding to declare for the NBA draft. It was a class act by Parker, who seems to have the right attitude about the game and his future as a part of it. The day before Parker’s article ran, ESPN.com reported that NBA commissioner Adam Silver has made

is about being exposed to as much information as possible and taking advantage of it. It’s an idealistic perspective, but it seems that Parker shares it to some degree. “My days as a Duke student are not [over]. I intend to graduate from Duke while I’m in the NBA. I was an honor student when I arrived at Duke, and I’d like to graduate as one,” Parker writes in the article. Parker acknowledges in his essay how much he learned in a year at Duke. But it is simply unrealistic to consider finishing another three years Who’s on First at the University. The NBA season extends from the end are often too enticing for an of October to the middle of 18 or 19-year old to turn April with no playoffs, which leaves just a summer down. I’ve asked a lot of people session of classes. And the what they think about this prime time for staying in issue, because I believe it’s an shape in the offseason is durimportant one. I started ing the summer. Would with my family, and though Parker forego the restraints my dad had no idea who of his team’s offseason workJabari Parker was, he felt outs in order to complete a inclined to weigh in anyway. Duke degree? It’s highly unAs a high school English likely, and it’s unfortunate at teacher who has spent 35 the same time. If there are years trying to prepare elite players like Parker who underprivileged students for value an education, the NBA college, he takes a college should not encourage them education very seriously. He to be “one-and-dones.” It simply could not understand hurts the basketball program why anyone would want to (with Kentucky being a rare leave college if they could exception to this), and end up in the same place there is no shortage of “onethree years later, but with a degree. To my father, college See CHIUSANO page 13 to attend. So if the NBA did in fact change the minimum age to 20, it would prevent teenagers from having to make such a lifealtering decision. But still I’m conflicted over whether or not this is a good idea. Parker and others of his caliber of talent deserve to be rewarded, and while a college basketball scholarship is certainly a reward in itself, the spoils of the NBA

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pushing the age minimum in the league to 20 a top priority. Whether or not Parker provides an argument against this change remains to be seen, but Silver’s decision to bring up the discussion has made this a hot topic in the NBA. After Duke’s shocking first-round exit from this year’s NCAA tournament, Parker writes in his essay that he was faced with “one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make in my life up to this point: Whether to remain in school or enter the NBA draft.” We have to remember that a 19-year old is making this decision; it pales in comparison to the choice of what college

The badminton team earned the Ivy crown last Saturday after charging past opponents in a multi-round tournament. The Red’s first place finish was followed by Yale in second place and Columbia in third. In each round of the Yale-hosted tournament, two teams faced off against each other in 11 matches featuring men and women’s singles, men and women’s doubles and mixed doubles. After one of the Red’s female players fell ill before the tournament, the team had to forfeit one

women’s double match. Despite the setback, the team managed strong victories over its opponents. In the first match against Brown, Cornell claimed an 8-3 victory. The team next took on Penn, steamrolling the Quakers for an 8-0 win. In the final, the Red played the host Bulldogs and fought for a 6-3 victory. Since Cornell had already earned the win, the final two matches of the Yale game were not played. — Compiled by Emily Berman

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Down but not out | Despite losing a women’s player due to illness and being forced to forfeit that match, the Red handily defeated its opponents.