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New Residential Complex Unveiled

Eleven-story building to add 600 bedrooms to downtown area

By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN

Staff Writer

The City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board heard presentations on development plans for the proposed 11-story residential State Street Triangle Building project and the new Rand Hall Fine Arts library at a meeting Tuesday

The Triangle Building project will be located at the Trebloc Building site on the 300 block of East State Street Its temporary name is based off the shape of the development area, which is bound by East State Street, North Aurora Street and East Green Street, according to Scott Whitham, principal at Whitham Planning and Development Texas-based Campus Advantage is the developer

behind the project

Whitham said the 11-story building will consist of one floor of retail, with 10 residential floors geared toward student living He said the proposed building’s location has a significant role in Ithaca development

“Historically, this has been the intersection of downtown and it remains so, ” Whitham said “Ithaca really developed around this corner ”

The development would offer apartments with one, two or four bedrooms ranging from 346 to 1,414 square feet, according to sketch plans provided by the City The 10 residential floors would offer 230 units, with a total of 600 bedrooms

Charter Weekend Turnout ‘Exceeds

Expectations’

Over 5,000 register for weekend celebration

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

Over 5,000 people registered to attend Charter Day Weekend, a number which exceeded administrative expectations, according to University officials

See DEVELOPMENT page 4

Students Offer Feedback on

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

City Plan

to strengthen other parts of the economy so that the city isn’t so reliant on Cornell, as well as ways to capture more small business activity,” Wissoker said

Though the University declined to comment on the monetary costs of the weekend’s celebrations, it was able to raise more than $52,000 in total registration fees The events began Friday and ended Monday morning with an official ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the University’s charter Of

Students shared opinions and suggestions for the City of Ithaca’s new comprehensive plan a document detailing goals that the city hopes to accomplish in the future at an open house event Tuesday in Mann Library

The event venue consisted of stations summarizing different subsets of the plan, including sustainability, transportation, economic vitality and public outreach Attendees discussed details

o f t h e p l a n w i t h event organizers at

See CHARTER DAY page 5

Making history | Charter Day weekend celebrations concluded with a ceremony attended by thousands in Barton Hall Monday morning.

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“Since the City of Ithaca has a huge student population, including foreign students, the city really wants to engage all the members [of the community] ”

n which has undergone several amendments has not been revised completely since its adoption in 1971 The plan proposes initiatives ranging from redeveloping downtown areas to encouraging the use of bikes for transportation

Peter Wissoker grad talked about the economic aspects of the plan, which include job training and ways to strengthen Ithaca’s fiscal health

“ The economic plan talks about a few things, one of which is acknowledging the importance of Cornell, but also suggests ways

Taru grad, who ran the table on sustainability, said the city has “looked at critical things like [renewable] energy, and the city being completely carbon-neutral ” Miran Jang grad discussed ways the city plans to encourage public participation in government decisions One program involves providing translations of documents for foreign students, according to Jang

“Since the City of Ithaca has a huge student population,

engage all the members [of the community],” Jang said “The goal is to go to the public first, and not wait for the public to come ”

Student opinions will be considered by the comprehensive plan committee as it amends the plan before presenting it to the City of Ithaca Pl a n n i n g a n

Common Council, according to Prof Jennifer Minner, city and regional planning

The open house was organized by graduate

See PLAN page 5

Organizers of Die-In Demonstration Release List of Demands to University

By RUBIN DANBERG BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

Organizers of a die-in demonstration

released a list of demands directed at University policymakers, decrying current conditions under which they said many historically marginalized groups of students live

“I think there are some ways in which Cornell is complicit.”

Americans

“Specifically, this demonstration was a direct statement against the continued brutalization of black bodies especially the bodies of black women and transgender individuals by an increasingly militarized police state, ” he said Gabrielle Hickmon ’16 further stressed that although overt instances of police

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Prof. John Blume Gives ‘Last Lecture’

Director of dealth penalty project challenges students to improve the world

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Prof John Blume, law, spoke about determining one ’ s identity and changing the world in Goldwin Smith Hall Wednesday as a part of the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society’s Last Lecture Series

The Last Lecture Series was inspired by the death of Prof Randy Pausch, computer science, Carnegie Mellon University, according to Zander Liem ’15, president of Mortar Board’s Cornell chapter Pausch after being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in 2007 delivered an impassioned “last lecture” to his students about f o l l ow i n g o n e ’ s c h i l d h o o d dreams

“ We’ve t u r n e d t h a t i d e a into a lecture series where we bring in different Cornell professor, faculty and staff members to talk about something that is or isn’t related to their academic interests to be a sort of life discussion,” Liem said

Blume, who is also director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, said he believes it is quintessential for people to understand that they will have decide on their identity during their lives, experience a period of enormous self-doubt and have the responsibility to improve the world

“First, I believe that in every person ’ s life, there comes a moment or moments where you ’ re going to have to make decisions that define who you are as a person, ” Blume said “Second, there are going to be moments in your life when something so bad is going to happen to you that you ’ re going to have to decide what you ’ re made out of and how you ’ re going to move forward Third, all of us, no matter what we do, [we] have a moral responsibility to leave this world a better place than we found it ”

Blume said these suggestions guided his decisions in

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life, beginning with his years as a divinity school student After a 16 year old he was working with at a juvenile justice criminal law unit was sentenced to 25 years to live in jail for his involvement in a fatal robbery, Blume said he felt compelled to become a criminal defense lawyer

“It seemed incredibly unfair to me to warehouse this young man for this rest of his life,” Blume said “And I decided then and there, really on that day, that I could do more good as a lawyer than a religious historian ”

Blume said the defining moment of his life occurred after he had gone into capital defense law, when he failed to prevent the 1999 execution of Leroy Joseph Drayton

Despite earning the hostility of many judges, Blume said his decision to stand up for what h e b

defined his identity to this day, saying that he refused to seek the death penalty for the man who murdered his nephew two years ago

“You’re moment will not be like mine Your careers in life will be different,” Blume said “But I assure you that a similar type moment will come, and you ’ re going to have to make a very difficult decision about what you stand for And when it does, I want to encourage you to remember that once you decide to do what is expedient instead of what is right, you’ll do it twice And once you do it twice, you’ll do it three times ”

While addressing his second point, Blume recounted how, in 1999, five death row inmates he represented were all executed despite his best efforts to defend them Blume said he entered a period of deep self-doubt following these failures but refused to let his despair affect his work, ultimately going on to reverse what he said were two wrongful death sentences

“Now your challenging moment, again, won ’ t be like mine, but it will come, ” Blume said “You may lose a job that you love You may be a doctor and have a patient you treated die but sometimes you have to dig deep, pull

yourself up, shake off your self-doubt and press on Remember, there is no shame in failure ”

Blume ended his lecture by saying that he believes that every person has a duty to fight against injustice in the world Blume said that for him, this injustice comes in the form the death penalty, the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration in the United States, especially of blacks

“So why should you care? You should care for the reason Dr King said you should care: acceptance of injustice threatens the justice of our society,” Blume said “America cannot claim to be the global defender of democracy and liberty as long as it forgets the types of injustice I have briefly described to you this afternoon ”

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New Complex to Host Retail Space

Triangle Building project will be located on 300 block of East State Street

Gilbert Delgado presented a sketch plan of the Fine Arts library renovation in Rand Hall to the Planning Board

Mark Darling, Planning Board liaison from the Board of Public Works, emphasized the importance of the building’s design

“This is going to be Ithaca, so it needs to be very iconic [and] expres[s] what Ithaca is,” Darling said “How this building looks is indeed very important in terms of how we go forward ”

The structure, which is currently in its planning stage, will have a multi-colored facade and, on its curved front, a set of multi-story white columns that lie directly beneath a black exterior that extends to the top floor Current plans also indicate that the first floor will include a restaurant and loading area with access from North Aurora Street

Some board members discussed how the development might interact with existing buildings in the area

Prof Jack Elliott, design and environmental analysis, voiced concerns about the architectural inconsistency the building might pose to the area

“In terms of urban morphology in context of the north side of the street I think [the development stands] in stark contrast, ” Elliott said “It’s going to be almost double the height of its neighbor structures when you see the buildings on both sides of the street, this is a massive wall It’s going to cast a huge shadow on the south side ”

Immediately following the presentation of the

“The main generative idea here is this idea of the classic vertical reading rooms this idea of an ennobiling experience of books and reading and the use of books,” Delgado said “You have to understand that that is what we want to achieve to understand what our next steps in time are going to be ”

The redesigned Fine Arts library is funded by a $6 million donation from Mui Ho ’62 B Arch ’66 and will occupy the top two floors of the current Rand Hall, The Sun previously reported Wolfgang Tschapeller ’87, who currently works in Vienna, is the main architect for the library

“[Tschapeller] has done some very intriguing work in Europe and we ’ re actually delighted to be working with him here in Ithaca,” Delgado said

The project’s main focus will be the construction of the library expansion, but will also include a list of smaller fixes that need to be made to the building such as moisture control, new windows and new roofing, according to Delgado

“[ We’re] resetting the clock on this very important building,” he said “This is the presence that we ’ re looking for: noble, early 20th century industrial building that’s been repurposed to our higher use which will exhibit one of the world’s greatest book collections ”

Die-In Organizers Release Demands

ity reveals an unfortunate nationwide pattern

tality may not exist on Cornell’s campus, she said she believes that broader issues of violence and discrimination in law enforcement have had a direct impact on the well-being of many students

“ On e w o u l d t h i n k t h a t Cornell is a utopia when it comes to race because we never talk about it but students of color deal with micro aggressions that question, invalidate, police and threaten their existence and experience on this campus daily,” Hickmon said

Ga b r i e l e c h o e d Hi c k m o n ’ s sentiments

“We believe firmly that these issues, while they might be something we don’t see every [day], as a black student at Cornell seeing constantly on your social media and in the news that black people are dying that weighs on you [and] affects our experience on campus ”

Gabriel said she believes that Cornell’s lack of cultural inclusiv-

“I would say that our culture in America is a culture that perpetuates white supremacy and that institutions unless they are actively anti racist and anti white supremacy, they are complicit,” she said “I think there are some ways in which Cornell is complicit ” Gabriel said the group ’ s eight stated demands, which are directed at the University, centers on ways in which the University could create a safer and more inclusive environment

The demands range in focus from policies directly affecting student instruction to training of t h e C o r n e l l Un i ve r s i t y Po l i c e Department as well as general recommendations for a more concerted effort among University hiring committees to create a more “compositional diversity,” according to Gabriel C o r n e l l Po l i c e h a s re c e n t l y come under scrutiny from the University community in light of n e w s t h a t p ro m i n e n t s t u d e n t

threatened with legal action In light of this, Gabriel said the organizers were “incredibly nervous ” holding the demonstration on Charter Day

“[Because of ] the visibility of that day, that there would be some kind of pushback from the Un i ve r s i t y, w h i c h t h e re h a s n ’ t been,” Gabriel said “It’s unfortun a t e t

expressed their voices on a number of things [have] been amped down, they’ve sort of been intimidated and quieted ”

The organizers, who are not a regularly meeting student group, said they do not have further action planned for the immediate future However, Johnson stressed the importance for students to mobilize and create change

“Everyone has a role to play in ending apathy, spreading awareness and fostering sincere change on this campus and in the world more generally,” he said

Students Share Opinions on City of Ithaca’s New Plan

students in Minner’s class, City and Regional Planing 5530: Concepts and Methods of Land Use Planning, who along with “members of the City of Ithaca’s Comprehensive Plan Committee and city staff ” said they believed it was important to give students a chance to provide feedback on the comprehensive plan

In addition to compiling student feedback, Minner said her students will conduct analyses of the plan themselves and submit recommendations to the plan committee and planning department staff

“The students are also applying concepts from the class and using their own professional judgement to analyze each comprehensive plan chapter and draft recommendations to the city,” Minner said

David Kay ’93, a senior extension associate with the Community and Regional Development Institute in the developmental sociology department, said he hopes the open house will give students one of the infrequent opportunities they have to have their opinions heard

“One of the reasons that we wanted to do this is that one thing that typically happens around city issues is the younger populations don’t get that involved,” Kay said “We’re trying to get fresh perspectives from people who don’t usually speak up ”

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Obama Fails to Push Through Immigration Legislation

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Pre s i d e n t Ba r a c k Ob a m a h a s failed to live up to a campaign promise to push through immigration legislation, but he has met a postelection pledge to slow

d e p o r t a t i o n s w i t h o r w i t h o u t approval from Congress

Since October, the Homeland Security Depar tment has sent home the fewest immigrants in the countr y illegally since Obama took office in 2009, according to i n t e r n a l g ove r n m e n t d a t a obtained by The Associated Press

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re m ova l s t h o u g h t h e f i r s t s i x months of the government ’ s fiscal year that started in October, the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n i s o n t r a c k t o remove the fewest immigrants

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President George W Bush’s second term in 2006

Beginning shortly before his re-election in 2012, Obama has taken a series of steps to slow deportations, including creating a program to allow some young immigrants to stay and work in the countr y illegally for up to two years at a time

His effort to shield more than four million immigrants from deportation by expanding that protection program to the parents of U S citizens and legal permanent residents is on hold after a federal judge in Texas blocked its start

But the legal wrangling and an ongoing standoff with congress i o n a l Re p u b l i c a n s h a s n ' t stopped the slowdown

In 2 0 1 2 , Im m i g r a t i o n a n d Customs Enforcement sent home a record of more than 409,000 immigrants, but since then the agency ’ s work has steadily slowed ICE, as the agency is known, is re s p o n s i b l e f o r f i n d i n g a n d removing immigrants living in the countr y illegally,

T h e l a t e s t re m ova l f i g u re s ,

c o n t a i n e d i n we e k l y i n t e r n a l repor ts not publicly repor ted, show that ICE sent home an average of about 19,730 people a month for the first six months of

Over 5,000 Registered to Attend Charter Day Weekend Events

Five out of 12 members of the Tompkins County Public Library’s Board of Trustees are Cornell faculty and staff, according to the library’s website

the budget year

If that trend continues, the government will remove about 236,000 by September the lowest figure since 2006, when 207,776 people were sent home

A s t h e l e g a l f i g h t ove r Obama's latest executive action

c o n t i n u e s , Ho m e l a n d Se c u r i t y Secretar y Jeh Johnson has directed immigration authorities anew to focus on finding and deporti n g i m m i g r a n t s w h o p o s e a national security or public safety threat, those who have serious criminal records and those who h a ve re c e n t l y c ro s s e d t h e Mexican border Roughly 11 million immigrants are thought to be living in the countr y illegally “ With the resources we have I'm interested in focusing on

c r i m i n a l s a n d re c e n t i l l e g a l arrivals at the border,” Homeland Security Secretar y Jeh Johnson

t o l d m e m b e r s o f t h e Se n a t e Judiciar y Committee during an oversight hearing Tuesday

Last week, Johnson said the Border Patrol had arrested about 151,800 people tr ying to cross the Mexican border illegally, the fewest number of people caught at the border during the same period over the last four years

“ There’s lower intake, lower a p p re h e n s i o n s , ” Jo h n s o n s a i d Tuesday “ There are fewer people attempting to cross the southern border, and there are fewer people apprehended ”

Homeland Security officials have repeatedly attributed the d ro p i n d e p o r t a t i o n s t o t h e changing demographic of border crossers Historically, the Border Patrol is responsible for sending home immigrants caught at the border, a process that can be done quickly when the arrested immigrants are from Mexico But last year immigrants from countries other t h a n Me x i c o o u t p a c e d t h o s e from Mexico and border agents had to deal with a flood of tens of thousands of children and families, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala

the over 5,000 people registered to attend lectures, panels, dinners and other events over the weekend, almost half 2,300 were current students, according to Melissa Mae Osgood, media relations specialist

Significantly fewer alumni attended the event than current students Only about 1,100 members of the Ithaca community and Cornell alumni combined celebrated Charter Day, although Osgood said the total number of attendees “exceeded our expectations ”

A p p r o x i m a t e l y 1,600 faculty and staff members attended Char ter Day celebrations, a number that would account for almost all of Cornell’s 1,628 faculty Over 400 people volunteered to help run events

Kristin Hopkins, project associate for Charter Day Weekend, said the planning committee’s vision for the celebration was accomplished

“The vision set forth five years ago from the Steering Committee was implemented and accomplished as events focused on our past, present and future through ‘A Festival of Ideas and Imagination,’” Hopkins said

Hopkins emphasized the diversity of events and attendees at the weekend’s celebrations

“Alumni, faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate [as well as] staff talents were showcased and commemorated ” K r i s t i n H o p k i n s

The money raised from registration fees will be donated in equal parts to three funds, according to Osgood

“The money will be split three ways between the Cornell Student Care funds, Employee CARE Fund and Tompkins County Public Library,” she said

The CARE Fund Cornellians Aiding and Responding to Employees works to offer confidential assistance to faculty and staff experiencing financial troubles According to the fund’s website, applicants approved for funding may receive between $200 and $1,500 in donations, depending on the circumstances of the situation, according to the University

“Events focused on all aspects for the University intellectually, culturally and socially,” she said “Alumni, faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate, [as well as] staff talents were showcased and commemorated ”

Hopkins added that many alumni who visited campus to attend Charter Day traveled significant distances to be present for the “once-in-a-lifetime” occasion

“Visitors came from near and far to be part of this momentous occasion in Cornell’s histor y, ” Hopkins said “It was a once-in-a-lifetime celebration that will be talked about for generations to come ”

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun com

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) The first supplies of food aid began reaching remote, ear thquake-shattered mountain villages in Nepal on Wednesday, while thousands clamored to board buses out of Kathmandu, either to check on r ural relatives or for fear of spending yet another night in the damaged capital

Fr ustration over the slow deliver y of humanitarian aid boiled over in a protest in the city, with about 200 people facing off with police and blocking traffic

The protest was comparatively small and no demonstrators were detained But it reflected growing anger over bottlenecks that delayed much-needed relief four days after the power ful ear thquake that killed more than 5,000 p

many and left tens of thousands homeless Police, meanwhile, arrested dozens of people on suspicion of looting or causing panic by spreading r umors of another big quake

reach more remote communities that have been cut off by landslides

“More helicopters, more personnel and certainly more relief supplies, including medical teams, shelter, tents, water and sanitation and food, are obviously needed,” said the program ’ s Geoff Pinnock, who was coordinating the flights

With more than 8 million Nepalese affected by the ear thquake, including 1 4 million who need immediate food assistance, Pinnock said the effor t would continue for months

“More helicopters, more personnel and certainly more relief supplies ... are obviously needed.”

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Wednesday Adding to residents' miser y was the rain that has fallen periodically since the quake and hampered helicopter aid flights

The U N World Food Program warned that it will take time for food and other supplies to

Minister Sushil Koirala and discussed U S militar y and civilian effor ts already under way to help Nepal, the White House said

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council earlier this month heard from a Syrian doctor who treated victims from a half-dozen of t h e m “ Ev e r y o n e s m e l l e d bleach-like odors” and heard the sound of helicopters, Mohamed Tennari said of one incident

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“He was brilliant, very even excessively ambitious,” said former U S Sen Adlai Stevenson III, whose first Senate campaign in 1970 Walker managed “I can ’ t say that he was terribly principled; he was very bent on winning at all costs ”

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The American Coma

There are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance I’ve been migrating back and forth, in and out, of these stages all except for one You can ’ t expect me to accept this I will never let go I will never forgive the loss of black lives I’ll remain perpetually in grief

The average human body is made up of about 5 5 liters of blood America, you ’ ve spilled more blood than you know

Good morning, America Amidst your coma, we are insomniacs as much as our problems are, too While night may be merciful to your crimson stained consciences, it’s always mourning for the narrative that doesn’t sleep

You shattered our spines, but Baltimore rose With eroded cheeks, all raw from mourning Our hands are calloused, and our bones are aching I’m tired of burying my brothers and sisters bones in your backyard tired of being buried, too

For you, fair country, my father dropped his name in the ocean on his way here The same currents still carry the flesh and screams of ancestors, whose children are still drowning here on land We can ’ t breathe

Of you, black children question: What, if anything, has ever existed outside of a place so simultaneously enamored with and revolted over my skin? Where one is one-dimensionally characterized as property, criminal or a tokenized friend? Time can ’ t dissolve the ancient nostalgia that my brothers and sisters keep

Years from now, when you ’ ve authored our narratives, you will teach: “Rampaging Race Riots Against America, Home of the Free!’ My child will look at herself and think: Shit, they’re talking about me

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It will perpetually repeat itself again your story a seducing stutter: “Free, free, free never ever was there anyone, here, any less than free ” You’ll spinelessly proceed with the slander and erasure of a people never emancipated

You’ll close that book of fairy tales you so miraculously pulled out of your imagination, the book where your family’s story can only be found in between the lines, a place that no one seeks to read Printed with our blood, the spines of its books bound by the labor of broken spines and, I'm afraid, you might just lull my daughter successfully into her deepest, most profound sleep

We do not matter here On top of a bedrock made of bones, you have muffled black screams Quiet, or you’ll wake up the neighbors America is free, free, free

We’ve all been crying out “Black Lives Matter,” goddamnit, to which you respond, “Well, my life matters, too ”

Maybe if our names were more pronounceable according to you signed without any stray marks, or dipped deep into a bucket of bleach, would Black Lives Matter actually be a thing?

With so many ashes in your pockets, how could you possibly rest? But now I know it was man who created Hell

Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecology She can be reached at pmunoz@cornellsun com Midas Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Douglas Streat | The Yale Daily News

Put It on the Wall

When I was a senior in high school, I dedicated the brightest portion of my bedroom wall to college rejection letters With the exception of the stationar y they’re printed on, they are all more or less identical There is a formula Begin with the news don’t delay and don’t use euphemisms Instead, use words like “unable” and “ regret ” to drive home the point Leave no ambiguity Make sweeping statements about the talent of the applicant pool and compliment your readers before reminding them that you are, in fact, rejecting them Tell them to tr y again next time or, if that’s not an option, wish them good luck elsewhere Mail merge Sign Seal Each of the letters on my wall follows this rubric with its own panache Each is at o n c e u n i q u e a n d f o r m u l a i c , s o m e t h i n g l i k e Grandma’s chocolate chip cookie recipe

Unlike chocolate chip cookies, though, rejection is universally unpleasant Rejection plays suitor to vulnerability Whether by application declined or election denied, all rejectees have considered the delicate balance between fear of rejection and hope for acceptance, sided with the latter and failed Failure is disappointing No letter can spin that positively

These rejections are often intensely private We tr y to hide them, we tr y to forget them and we definitely don’t tr y to share them The reason is self-evident: to be rejected implies weakness or flaw In a society where success is determined by our ability to sell ourselves to prospective employers, peers and love interests, sharing stories of re j e c t i o n i s a d a p t i v e l y u n i n t e l l i g e n t It l e s s e n s o u r prospects of acceptance and, moreover, it favors the prospects of our competitors who may not be as willing to admit past failings

And so, in our society, rejection is silent and acceptance is loud

But this silence can be harmful When we laud only the greatest accomplishments of our peers without also accepting their failures, we create false realities We create metrics for social comparison that are based in speculation rather than actuality It’s not that accomplishment doesn’t deser ve recognition acceptance is exciting and often worth celebrating But we shouldn’t dwell on rejection, either The healthiest communities allow their members to confront and share both successes and failures, and to rejoice in each unique acceptance as a worthy triumph

over the rejections that may have accompanied it This is what I wish for Yale

So let me attempt to tear down the facade:

My name is Douglas Streat I am a junior at Yale, one of 12 schools I applied to, though I was rejected from or waitlisted at five In my time at Yale, I have been rejected from eight a cappella groups and joined one I have been denied seven student jobs but I currently hold three I have been rejected by eight people but gone on dates with four I applied to one Master’s program, was accepted and have matriculated I received three senior society interviews, and was turned away by all

I’m not sure that publicizing rejection is meant to feel good As far as I can tell from having written it here, it

doesn’t But it feels honest It is healthy to remove the veil of privacy that accompanies the pain of rejection and force oneself to acknowledge successes and failures simultaneously rather than in isolation In so doing, we create contrasts that promote robust metrics of self-evaluation rather than false pretenses for social comparison

Of course, it’s easy to philosophize about rejection and harder to accept it in practicality For most people, there must be time to grieve This is true for me too This semester alone, I’ve been rejected from several things I’ve desperately wanted It hurts But eventually, even the deepest of wounds can scar over time I may not ever look back upon any of my rejections positively, but I will face each of them again And when that time comes, however far into the future it may be, these memories will have their own place on my wall

My life, like those of many Yale students, is built around a set of inherent privileges I am lucky Even spoiled I have never experienced a real high-stakes rejection one that threatened my livelihood or even my ability to live a safe and secure life though I know many people who have That said, I think the truth here is universal: Rejection should not be and is not a definitive determinant of worth Action is As one admissions dean from a school up in Boston wrote to me in his letter three years ago, “ past experience suggests that the particular college a student attends is far less important than what the student does to develop his or her strengths and talents over the next four years ” Rejections are badges of strength and catalysts of talent, and they are made for the wall

Douglas Streat is a sophomore at Yale University Ivy Wire appears periodically this semester

Eric Pesner | Dems Discuss

Ready for Bernie?

Despiteher standing with the Democratic Party establishment and the Democratic Party’s voters in the country as a whole, Hillary Clinton has never had a good relationship with the left wing of the Party So it’s no surprise that liberal activists have tried their best to recruit a primary challenger to challenge her from the left Their original goal was to get Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass ) to run, but Warren has repeatedly denied having interest, going so far as to endorse a Clinton candidacy But now the left wing of the Party has found their candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt ) is going to run for President Sanders is not the typical candidate To start with, he’s not even a Democrat He began his career as a member of an antiVietnam War third party, running for office in Vermont as a protest candidate For all his Congressional and Senate races, the Democrats have declined to run anyone against him He consistently gets the support of the Democratic establishment and voters He’s a member of the Democratic caucus in the Senate and has even gotten Democratic support to head a committee Now he’ll try to win the support of the Democratic rank and file while maintaining his opposition to the natural par tisanship of an electoral democracy

Additionally, Sanders is the only member of Congress to call himself a socialist In a country devoted to capitalism as a national ideology, it seems that he’ll have his

work cut out for him trying to prove that his ideas are the right ones for our country But his adherence to social democracy is precisely why people like him so much Sanders probably knows how unpopular socialism is in the country (though not as unpopular as most might think) But he continues to support these ideas, not because they’ll win him the next election, but because he truly believes in them This genuine honesty has the potential

Hillary Clinton’s inevitability means the Democratic Party’s voters won’t have the same opportunity as the Republican voters in choosing the direction of the Party

to be a powerful force in an era when politicians flip-flop at the drop of a hat If he can leverage Americans’ distaste for the politics of the day, he could make something of his run But that probably won ’ t happen In a poll of Iowa earlier this week, Sanders captured 14 percent of the vote, far behind Clinton’s 62 percent But that 14 percent was a higher share of the Democratic vote than either Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush got among Republicans He clearly has his core group of supporters But there’s no way that he’ll be able to topple Clinton She’s just too popular among Democratic voters

Despite the left wing’s fury at Clinton, she’s still a liberal Yes, she voted for the Iraq War and, like all Senators from New York, is close to Wall Street, but she’d be about as liberal on every issue as Barack Obama has been She’ll push for a higher minimum wage, fight for racial, gender and LGBT equality, and aim to combat climate change It’s true that she won ’ t be as far left as a President Sanders would be, but most Americans are perfectly happy with that Sanders’s positions place him on the left end of the Democratic Par ty He wants to institute single-payer healthcare, break up the big banks and raise taxes on the wealthy He’s been fighting for LGBT equality since back when LGBT people were still a political punching bag And he has been a constant advocate for affordable housing and a higher minimum wage I’d love for Bernie Sanders to be President But it won ’ t happen, and he knows it His goal is therefore not to win but instead to force Clinton to respond to the left wing of the Party and maybe move her positions further left He wants to make the Democratic Party more responsive to the issues that he and other left-wing progressives care about

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One way that this has already happened is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the free trade deal that President Obama is pushing Clinton has been sitting on the fence on the deal, trying not to offend either its proponents or its opponents But recently, the leftwing opposition to the TPP has forced her to take more of a stance Pushed leftward by potential primary challengers like Sanders and former Mar yland Governor Mar tin O’Malley, she declined to support the deal

So it’s possible that Sanders’s candidacy could have an effect Hillary Clinton’s inevitability means that the Democratic Party’s voters won ’ t have the same opportunity as the Republican voters in choosing the direction of the Party Bernie Sanders’s candidacy gives an option to the group of Democrats who aren ’ t as enamored with Clinton as the rest of us But Sanders’s biggest effect might be simply to spread his ideas throughout the country The greatest thing that he could do for the liberal cause and the Democratic Party might be to get people to listen to him and absorb his message If that were to happen, then Clinton’s job as President would be that much easier

That’s why Bernie Sanders r unning for President will be good for our Party and our country

Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at erp55@cornell edu Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Conscience of a Cornell Conservative

efore star ting classes at Cornell, I joined my fellow f r e s h m

Possibilities” theater event on Nor th Campus

e t r o u p e c a l l e d

Ordinar y People, the event consisted of satirizing biases that, it was implied, were per vasive on campus, and needed to be stamped out by attitudes of tolerance and inclusion I was not quite sure what this had to do with fur thering my education and knowledge of government, the major I intended on pursuing Attendance was mandator y, however, so I decided to tr y to make something of the experience

One of the skits por trayed a student suggesting that her colleague must have been admitted to Cornell solely as a result of affirmative action During the audience involvement period, I asked whether the University itself was to blame for the fact that a student could even suggest such a thing After all, this University consciously decides to factor in race when deciding whom to admit That does not excuse the r ude and disrespectful suggestion of the actor in the skit, of course But isn’t it odd that the University would treat students differently based on race to begin with, then tr y to use a satirical skit to clean up its own mess?

You could have heard a pin drop in that room at the conclusion of my question Most of the one hundred or so attendees did not quite know how to react, presumably not caring much either way One or two people seemed to ner vously nod in agreement Several others took turns defending affirmative action, explaining in a civil manner why it was a just and necessar y policy

The final group of students were visibly enraged To them, I had utterly missed the point of the event: Couldn’t I see that these per formers were here to instr uct us young, impressionable students on what we ought to think? How arrogant and misguided I must be to challenge their message, or hold a different point of vie w

I could not have guessed at the time that the audience ’ s reaction to my question would so closely mirror the campus ’ s response to my column in The Sun

When I first mentioned to friends and family nearly two years ago that I had been selected to write for The Sun, many urged me to write under a pseudonym It was brave enough, they said, for me to share my vie ws so publicly Allowing my ar ticles to be so easily traced back to me would make me too easy a target for those who wish to silence dissenting voices from political discussions

But I insisted other wise I reasoned that my opinions would have had far less credence if I were to write under the cover of a false name, shielded from any semblance of accountability I needed to prove that I could handle

I realized early on that this column w not just about me It was a test of whether the values of free and open debate were still alive at Cornell

the pressure and withstand intelligent criticism It would have been hypocritical of me to counter the intellectual cowardice of those who prefer personal insult to the free exchange of ideas with cowardice of my own

Looking back at the dozens of columns I have written for The Sun, I do not regret my decision Yes, there have been plenty of angr y e-mails, defamator y flyers, protests of var ying kinds and in-person harangues directed at me But if I could go back in time, I would do it all again in a minute Nor would I hesitate in expressing my perspectives on often taboo subjects like race, religion, sexual assault, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict or free speech I realized early on that this column was not just about me It was a test of whether the values of free and open debate were still alive at Cornell And this institution passed with flying colors, challenging those who are convinced that America’s universities have become hopelessly closed-minded My respect and regard for Cornell has

only grown since the day I received my admission letter more than four years ago I have a number of people to thank for making that possible

First, I am grateful to those who engaged in dialogue and debate with me, both within and outside the pages of The Sun, on contentious campus, national and international issues

Second, I am appreciative of the intellectual honesty and courage of the professors and students who dared to thank me, by e-mail or in person, for writing my column over the course of the past two years, expressing their agreement with much of what I have written

And third, I am thankful for the Cornell Daily Sun, which has demonstrated that it reflects the best ideals of the University in its willingness to foster a diversity of vie wpoints I hope that The Sun remains steadfast in this commitment for years to come, remaining vigilant against those who wish to monopolize the marketplace of ideas

Am I on the “ wrong side of histor y, ” as so many of my critics have suggested? Perhaps But contrar y to what others may assume, the trajector y of historical development is not outside of human control It is what we do today that will decide whose vie ws will ultimately be regarded as anachronistic and backward The contents of histor y ’ s ash heap are not predetermined, but decided by the victors of contemporar y str uggles I do not worr y that some researcher digging through the archives at Cornell’s 250th anniversar y for a sense of what life was like here at the beginning of the 21st Centur y will come across this column and express shock that anyone once sincerely held the opinions that I express today I accept this risk with stride, and encourage others to do the same My four years on the Hill may be coming to an end, but the lessons I learned here will remain with me forever

Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun com Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester

By ZACHARY SIEGEL Sun Staff Writer

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WTe W o u n d s T h a t P i t c h f o r k M a k e s

hen Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp a Butterfly in March, I did something that I absolutely never do I read nothing about it before listening to it I always read reviews before listening to new releases: Pitchfork, SPIN, the New York Times, the Atlantic (and of course The Sun) This is largely because this is often the best way to find excellent new music that I might never even hear mentioned other wise However, it also is a way of avoiding the wasting of time on “sub-par” music This approach certainly affects my choices of which films to watch and which books to read as well: I nearly always check Rotten Tomatoes before seeing a movie, and rarely read a book that doesn’t have some kind of validating praise on its jacket from reliable authors or publications

Of course, a consequence of this kind of approach to art is that I have usually been told what to think about a work before I even begin to take it in I come in with preconceptions, and although I like to think that I am still fully capable of making my own decision about the work’s value, style and personal efficacy to me, there have certainly been many times that I know this was not the case I came home that day in March, stretched out on my bed, and put on To Pimp a Butterfly I wasn ’ t really in the right frame of

mind for what the album presents; I hadn’t had much sleep the night before and had difficulty keeping up with the twists and turns of Lamar’s complex rhymes I even fell asleep for a significant middle portion (a portion I still haven’t heard while conscious, as I fell asleep during the same part on the ride to Boston for spring break, the next time I tried to dive into the album) Based on this admittedly unfair criteria, however, the words that came to mind when I finished the album were “interesting overreach ”

In the days after that, however, as I encountered a massive amount of ecstatically laudatory reviews, I started to question the

validity of not only my opinion but even my opinion-making itself Did this mean that I can ’ t appreciate greatness when I’m faced with it? Did it mean that I can only recognize it when I’m told ahead of time that it’s there?

This experience is a microcosm of my overall problem with how we qualify and dis-

cuss art As I’ve indicated, I’m one of the worst offenders: I can hardly ever claim an opinion about a work of art that isn’t either influenced by or in reaction to something I had read beforehand Much of this is simply the result of the overwhelming expansiveness of the art world; there's simply too much to try to sift through by oneself, and thus reviews are a way of helping the reader to find the “best” stuff out there A side-effect, however, is the strange attempt to quantify the greatness and validity of art on a scale, in comparison to other works Pitchfork takes this approach to a ludicrous, almost comic degree, trying to pin down the value of an album to a tenth of a point, so that we are made to understand that Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit is a two-tenths better album than Young Thug’s Barter 6

A significant negative effect of this culture of categorization is a sort of elitism about “ great ” art in purposeful distinction from the “popular ” This is, of course, particularly obvious in the literary world: Literary critic Harold Bloom has a book called The Western Canon which attempts to demarcate which authors and works belong in a “ canon ” of great, influential Western literature, with arguments for why others do not Bloom also sneers particularly nastily at wildly successful and beloved authors such as J K Rowling and Stephen King, whom he sees as corrupting

and dumbing-down a tradition

Ultimately, to what kind of conversation does this kind of approach contribute? I think overly categorical approaches such as Bloom’s and Pitchfork’s often limit conversation rather than provoking it I think art can fail and still be interesting and worthy of discussion If we limit ourselves to only what is great and completely stylistically successful, then our reactions to art can also become limited to That was great!” I’m certainly not going to stop reading reviews But I am going to try to rely on them a little less, to be a little bolder in exploring art on my own volition, and to think about what is interesting, what works and what doesn’t work about each subject Maybe someday I’ll be able to stay awake through To Pimp a Butterfly, and I’ll realize my own individual opinion

ACHAT WITH CONNIE WONG

To S w i m Wi t h H e a d E r e c t To w a r d s H e a v e n a t T j a d e n G a l l e r y

BY DANNI SHEN Sun Staff Writer

To Sw i m w i t h He a d Ere c t Tow a rd s He a ve n i s a n

a m a l g a m a t i o n o f p h y s i c a l a n d p s yc h o l o g i c a l s p a c e s , o f

a b s u rd A p l a y o n c o m i c a l , a n d s o m e t i m e s b i z a r re , e ve r yd a y e n c o u n t e r s o f t h e a r t i s t C o n n i e Wo n g M FA ’ 1 5 , t h e c o n s t r u c t e d e n v i ro n m e n t i n T j a d e n Ga l l e r y h o l d s w a r p e d d re a m l i k e f i g u re s a n d f o r m s ; a 3 - D - s c a n

s c u l p t u re o f t h e a r t i s t ’ s p i n k , d w a r f e d , n u d e f i g u re

we a r i n g a s w i m m i n g c a p p re p a re s t o l e a p o f f a p l a n k

On t h e o p p o s i t e s h o re a re f i ve g l e a m i n g p s e u d o - m a r -

b l e p a i n t i n g s On a n o t h e r w a l l i s a m i n u s c u l e g o l d -

a d o r n e d m i r ro r On a n o t h e r i s a v i d e o o f t h e a r t i s t e m b e d d e d i n ro c k , h e r e ye s ro l l i n g e n d l e s s l y t o t h e

t o p o f h e r h e a d T h i s s t r a n g e m u s e u m h o s t s s e ve r a l e ve n s t r a n g e r a r t w o rk s To c o n t e m p l a t e t h e m w o u l d

s e e m i n g l y re q u i re o n e t o s i t d ow n o n o n e o f t h e t h re e b e n c h e s t h a t t h e a r t i s t h a s p rov i d e d Ye t t h e i r f l e s hc o l o re d s u r f a c e s , w h i c h h a ve g row n f l e s h - c o l o re d , p h a l l i c p ro t u b e r a n c e s , o d d l y re m i n i s c e n t o f c o l u m n s i n c l a s s i c a l a rc h i t e c t u re , s u g g e s t o t h e r w i s e In t h e re a li z a t i o n o f t e n s i o n s w h i c h f l u c t u a t e b e t we e n e x t re m e s , h i d d e n a n d re ve a l e d , s e r i o u s n e s s b e c o m e s h u m o r, a b s u rd i t y b e c o m e s e ve r yd a y, h e a v y b e c o m e s l i g h t , d re a m - s p a c e b e c o m e s re a l - s p a c e A f t e r t h e e x h i b i t i o n ’ s re c e p t i o n , T h e Su n s a t d ow n t o t a l k t o Wo n g a b o u t h e r w o rk a n d i n f l u e n c e s

T H E S U N : C a n yo u t a l k a b o u t t h e t i t l e : To Sw i m w i t h He a d Ere c t Tow a rd s He a ve n ?

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m e t o t h i n k i n g a b o u t t h e b e n c h e s t h a t yo u s e e i n

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S U N : So t h e b e n c h e s h e re a re i n s t i t u t i o n a l b e n c h e s ?

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“f r i e n d s h i p b e n c h e s , ” a n d m i x i n g d i f f e re n t i d e a s i n t o

t h e s t r u c t u re I h a d h e a rd a l l o f t h e s e s t o r i e s a b o u t p e o p l e w h o m a d e t h e i r ow n s e x t oy s a t h o m e a n d d i e d

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a b o u t e n e m a , yo u k n ow t h o s e i n j e c t i o n s yo u g e t w h e n yo u ’ re c o n s t i p a t e d t h a t h e l p yo u g o t o t h e b a t h ro o m ?

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g o o d w o rd f o r h ow yo u w o rk It’s a l s o i n t e re s t i n g t h a t f ro m t h i s e n d o f t h e g a l l e r y, t h e s h a p e d p a i n t i n g s b e c o m e a e r i a l l a n d s c a p e s , l i k e s a t e l l i t e i m a g e r y T h e t e x t u re d g re e n i s ve r y re m i n i s c e n t o f Go o g l e E a r t h c a p t u re s

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S U N : C a n yo u t a l k m o re a b o u t t h e s c u l p t u re o f t h e f i g u re ?

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C W : A lot of my work comes from playing around in my studio This video is really of me testing out how to use time-lapse But when I star ted looking at it more, I star ted to feel sick, and I became interested in the unsettling aspect of the motion in that you can ’ t tell where the person is looking, if she’s thinking, if it’s fear, confusion or happiness It’s a pull and push quality, and that also happens throughout my other works

S U N : So w h a t i s t h e n a t u re o f yo u r w o rk ? How yo u p o s i t i o n yo u r s e l f a s a n a r t i s t , c o n c e p t u a l l y, c u l t u r a l l y, h i s t o r i c a l l y ?

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t h e y t h i n k yo u ’ re C h i n e s e So I t r y t o s e e m y s e l f a s a n o u t s i d e r, b u t a l s o a s a n i n s i d e r a t t h e s a m e t i m e I l i k e t o c o l l e c t l i f e s t o r i e s d u r i n g m y e n c o u n t e r s , a n d I ’ m a l s o re a l l y d r a w n t o s l a n g i n l a n g u a g e a n d d i r t y j o k e s b e c a u s e t h e y ’ re f u n n y a n d a l w a y s g e t m y a t t e n t i o n I ’ ve n o t i c e d t h a t p e o p l e a l w a y s u s e b o d y p a r t s i n l a ng u a g e , i e a c i g a re t t e ; h e re t h e y c a l l t h e f i l t e r a c i g are t t e b u t t In C h i n a , we c a l l i t a c i g a re t t e h e a d T h e re a re a l s o s o m a n y j o k e s t h a t i n vo l ve s e x o r e ro t i c a , w h i c h I t h i n k i s f u n n y ye t d a rk a t t h e s a m e t i m e At t i m e s , i t ’ s s o f u n n y yo u w a n t t o c r y, i t ’ s t h a t k i n d o f e x p e r i e n c e , w h i c h i s w h a t I ’ m t r y i n g t o g e t a t t h ro u g h m y w o rk Go i n g b a c k t o t h e h o m e m a d e s e x t oy s a n d p e o p l e d y i n g , i t ’ s s o r i d i c u l o u s a n d we n e ve r s e e i t , ye t we k n ow a b o u t i t It’s a b o u t b r i n g i n g u p t h e t h i n g t h a t l i e s b e l ow t h e s u r f a c e I ’ m n o t t r y i n g t o b e c y n ic a l , I j u s t t h i n k i t ’ s i n t e re s t i n g

S U N : Is i t h u m o r ?

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Danni Shen is a senior in the College of Architecture Ar t and Planning She can be reached at dshen@cornellsun com

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A Goodbye To Cornell Athletics

ZAKOUR Continued from page 20

ficiaries of a dominating win), which should technically have been homecoming No, the point is that I was down on Cornell sports after that The stands of Schoellkopf are rarely full and I wanted to write about it, complain about our lack of support we throw our teams

But ready as I was to judge, I felt it shortsighted Cornell has a great history of athletics an undefeated hockey season and championship, a football program that boasts five national titles and historic names, a Wimbledon champion and a baseball program almost 150 years old Not to mention more recent developments perennially contending lacrosse and wrestling teams, gold medalists in women ’ s hockey and a Sweet Sixteen berth in March Madness To be honest, football only won one game this year, a thriller over winless Columbia and we tend to support our winning teams Look at men ’ s hockey When our basketball team was dominating the Ivies five or six years ago, we’d fill Newman and rush the court If the Ws start coming, I think the fans will as well Lacrosse just had 7,500 people watch them win a share of the Ivy League title

We might not have top of the line facilities, but they’re still good And they don’t hold back our student athletes.

As a Cornell student, every day when I walk to class, I walk across a good majority of the campus in order to trek to Stocking Hall Each morning, I pass half a dozen of premier labs, research facilities, a training and fully functional hotel and a particle collider This is an Ivy League school after all Millions of dollars are poured into these bastions of knowledge, as it should be On the same walk, I pass Lynah Rink, Hoy Field, Berman Field and Schoellkopf Field the homes of our hockey, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse and football teams It’s hard to say how much money is poured into them But that’s OK We might not have top of the line facilities, but they’re still good And they don’t hold back our student athletes They didn’t hold back Kyle Dake, Brianne Jenner or any of the NHL players Cornell has produced

The great part of it is the fields, rinks and arenas are right there They’re not off campus and they are accessible In addition, most of the time, it’s free for students to go see a game (they make you pay for men ’ s hockey and a few playoff games) Any time you want, you can walk to a game and see it for free as a student And it seems we, including myself, don’t do it enough I know, we ’ re all busy We all have stuff to do, but I’ve stopped by games on my way back from the library and late classes So I’ll leave you all with this just go to some games Any of them Try to go to an under-appreciated sport, whether it’s tennis, softball, women ’ s hockey etc

It has been amazing covering and writing Cornell sports and true student athletes It’s been a really rewarding experience, especially at a school that isn’t necessarily regarded for sports I love telling people all the things I’ve been able to do from talking to professional hockey players, gold medalists and major champions to watching our athletes play in Madison Square Garden So I as I sign off, I’ll just say, “let’s go Red!”

John Zakour is a senior columnist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be contacted at jzakour@cornellsun com Point Blank appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Men Close Season Against Princeton, Canisius College

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

On Friday and Sunday, the Cornell baseball team faced Princeton in a series of double-headers The squad was able to finish its season of Ivy play with three wins in four games, bringing the Red’s record up to 9-11 in conference play and 12-26 overall Cornell finished its regular season in third place in Lou Gehrig Division for the

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Urbon had one of his best showings, earning six strikeouts, the best of his career, and pitching in his third complete games of the season After opening on a low note, the team was able to bounce back in its next game, pulling ahead 13-4 to begin its weekend of subsequent wins This game proved to be one of the Red’s best this season, as the team had previously only seen a season-high of 10 runs in one game “ We were just able to put all aspects of the game together,” said senior infielder Dan Morris “ We have had the potential

all season, it was just a matter of putting it all together in the same game, which happened for us in this series ”

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Princeton, New Jersey to head to Ithaca for Sunday’s pair of games Cornell honored its 12 graduating seniors in a Senior Day ceremony held at Hoy Field The Red went on to win both of its Sunday games, 10-0 and 2-1 respectively, sending its seniors out with a bang Senior pitcher

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Cornell career with a 4-hit shutout in game three of the Princeton series, while senior infielder Spencer Scorza and senior outfielder J D Whetsel both had strong games as well

“For the seniors, these were our final Ivy League games of our careers, ” Morris said “ The highlight was definitely winning the series and winning both games on Sunday at home on senior day

McAfee agreed, saying that it was satisfying to finish of his career with the Red on such a positive note

The Red’s regular season play ended yesterday in two games against Canisius College Cornell finished the season in a split, losing the first game of its doubleheader but coming back with a win in the second This set of games marked the end to the Red’s season, as only the winner

from each division in the Ivy League goes on to play in the championship game

According to McAfee, one of the highlights of the day came from senior Matt Hall who hit a walk off, two RBI double to push the read ahead by one and ultimately win the game for the team in his final career game

While the team has seen its ups and downs in 2015, it managed to end on a

high note, winning four of its six last games and three of its four home games

“It was a frustrating Ivy League season for us Obviously, things didn’t go as well as we hoped, but that’s baseball,” McAfee said “I think we were much better than our record showed ”

Anna Fasman can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com

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Although the men did not pull out a first place finish this weekend, it is important to note that they walked into their races ranked No 10 nationally and rowed successfully against Princeton and Yale, who are No 3 and 4 respectively Senior heavyweight captain Christopher Schang said he felt confident after the races this weekend

“We showed in all events that we are competitive with the top teams in the country, ” he said “The lower boats were able to take home a victory and the first and second varsity eight demonstrated that they are within striking dis-

tance We still have three weeks until the Eastern Sprints and the results from the Carnegie Cup definitely motivate us to work on the few seconds of speed we need to beat the top boats in the country ” Though both Kerber and Schang agreed that the team has room for improvement, they also seemed optimistic about what is to come for the remainder of their seasons Next weekend, the men will compete in the last race of their regular season in the Madeira Cup

“Finishing the dual season with a win and a strong performance will be important to set ourselves up [for] the Championship races, ” Schang said

Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun com

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Melly also said that looking forward, the Cornell squad has set certain goals for itself

“We’re focused and determined to turn the tables on Princeton come outdoor Heps,” he said “We had to do a lot of reevaluation after our disappointing performance indoors, but I’m confident that as a team, [we] are all pulling in the same direction and will leave it all on the line this time around We’ve put in a lot of work and hit bumps along the way, but I think we ’ re well positioned to do some really great things in the next few weeks ” The Red is in a position to be

increasingly competitive this coming weekend and going forward into the Championship portion of the season The team looks to put the results of the Indoor Championships behind them and strive for an even better result in the outdoor season

“Although we weren ’ t happy with how the indoor season ended, we are eager to redeem ourselves in outdoor,” Collard said “We’ve had some really good efforts so far and just continue to get better We’re excited to see where our hard work takes us towards the end of the season ”

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun com

Youngest Coach in Division I Football: Archer’s Red Journey

Through persistance and dedication to the Red, head coach David Archer earned his spot with the Cornell football team

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Lightweight Men Stay Undefeated In Spring Season

By HANNAH NOYES

Sun Staff Writer

Both Cornell’s men ’ s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams finished with successful times in their races this past weekend The lightweight crew team remains undefeated this spring season and most recently, its varsity eight finished with a time of 6:18 in the Geiger Cup against Columbia and MIT In addition, the men ’ s heavyweight varsity eight boat finished third with a time of 6:16 against Princeton and Yale for the Carnegie Cup

“This was an important weekend for us MIT has had a strong year and Columbia’s varsity eight hadn’t lost a race yet Columbia has had a very deep and talented team in recent years, ” said lightweight captain Christopher Rogers “Both their second and third varsity eights won gold medals at our League Championships last year, which made this weekend’s sweep extra exciting and rewarding for everyone who raced for the Big Red in Boston I’m really proud of all our boats that raced for staying composed and resilient in a difficult headwind on the Charles Basin ”

The men had a strong performance despite the weather due in part to their coach, who has prepared them to be

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“Our focus was to take the learnings from the previous races of the season, develop our race plan even further and keep everything sharp and internal or as we say ‘heads in the boat,’” said lightweight head coach Christopher Kerber “I am proud of the athletes’ professional approach to preparing for racing With this droll group of athletes and our solid ranking, I was concerned with athletes becoming distracted or skipping essential details along the way This is not the case they are all business ” Next weekend, the lightweight team will host Dartmouth here in Ithaca for the Baggley Bowl, and Kerber

An Ivy League (Sports) Institution

Since this is my last column, I think I might be contractually obligated to make it some kind of reflection I’ve been fortunate to be a part of the 150th class of Cornell and my last semester coincides with the sesquicentennial celebration of our alma mater, so I’ve been even more re f l e c t i ve t h a n yo u r u s u a l senior

At the Charter Day ceremonies on Monday, as Cornell celebrated its past, present and

future, I saw football head coach David Archer in attendance I pointed it out to one of my sports loving friends “Hey, coach Archer’s here,” I s a i d t o h i m “ W h o , ” h e replied Sometimes I get dispirited as a Cornell sports fan Not when we lose I can deal with that I know this campus can support and love its sports teams since it does with men ’ s h o c k e y Bu t w h e n , “ w a i t , you ’ re actually going to the game ” peppers my homecoming festivities, one can get a little incredulous It seemed like

an obvious answer to me of course I was going to the game Homecoming is called “ h o m e c o m i n g ” b e c a u s e t h e football team comes home

For one game a year, we ’ re supposed to go to a football game, as a group, and root for the Red But as the homecoming festivities wore on, the game was deemphasized There were f re e s h

r t s , b u t a yo u n g Cornell team struggled early and late and Lehigh withstood

a few great plays to win, 3114, earning its first victory of the year The Red made at least two great singular plays, one on a long touchdown c

botched Lehigh punt So what’s the point? That C o r n e

game? You knew that already Hell, the homecoming game wasn ’ t even really homecoming Yale visited Ithaca the week before (leaving the bene-

said he is confident that the team will see further success against the Green

The heavyweight squad competed this weekend against Princeton and Yale in the Carnegie Cup in Ithaca

“Overall the team had some good races, ” said heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett “The [third varsity boat] was very solid, and my heart went out to the varsity for the aggression they displayed in their race We still have to make some adjustments before the championship season if we expect to win ”

Red to Host Cornell Invitational

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

T h i s we e k e n d ,

men ’ s and women ’ s track and field teams will compete at the Cornell Invitational to be held at the Robert J Kane Sports Complex in Ithaca So far this season, the Re d h a s i m p re s s i ve s

s and looks to continue its positive momentum into the final part of the 2015 outdoor season

“ We’re c o n f i d e n t coming off strong performances the last two

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be on our home turf in Ithaca and especially nice that we have some beautiful weather to compete in Our training has been going well thus far, with more and more things falling into place ever y weekend, so we ’ re eager for another opportunity to compete ” Senior Jennifer Markin said

enjoying ourselves As a senior, it is my last home meet of my Cornell career and it is most important to go out there and have fun ” On the men ’ s side, the Red looks to execute under pressure and per form at an impressive level

“To have success this weekend, the team needs to focus on performing as we train ”

Da v i d

Melly “We set two school records last weekend and have a ton of guys improving on early season performances, so our momentum is definitely going in the right direction The meet this weekend is a great chance for guys who have been putting in hard work all season to shine and make an impact before we go into Heps week ”

The men ’ s track and field team has had an outstanding season so far and looks to utilize this weekend to continue to push for even more success

On the women ’ s side, the Red looks to close out its home meets

t h i s c o m i n g we e k e n d w i t h a strong showing

“The team is excited for the Cornell Invite It’s our last home meet of the year, so it’s always a special and fun meet, ” said senior Marianne Collard “It’s good to

that if the team competes like it does in practice, a strong performance is likely to follow

“To have success this weekend, the team needs to focus on performing as we train,” she said “We cannot get ahead of ourselves and [we] need to focus on the task

“Not having to travel after the Penn Relays trip gives guys a chance to rest up and compete in a low-pressure enviro n m e n t a t h o m e , ” Melly said “The field event guys in particular will use this weekend as a lastminute tune-up For many others, particularly the distance guys, it is a chance to get IC4A marks that have been a long time coming ”