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Jelani Cobb, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Commentar y finalist and Columbia University professor, will be speaking at Cornell on May 3 at 4:30 p m in Rhodes Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall

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will be discussing tensions between police and the black community

Cobb is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at Columbia’s School of Journalism, and a commentator on National Public Radio, CNN and CBS News He has written two books, The Substance of

Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic He has also had pieces published in The Washington Post, The New Republic and The Progressive Prof Russell Rickford, history, said he was looking forward to a “no-holds-barred conversa-

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Public Humanities Panel Lunch Noon, 110 A D White House

Leaks and the Hydraulic City 12:15 - 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Stomatal Control and Cavitation 12:20 p m , 404 Plant Sciences Building

Towards a Solution to the Problem Of Indo-European Human Origins: Insights From Modern and Ancient Genomes 1:30 - 2:30 p m , G10 Biotechnology Building

Climate Change and Cities: Transitions to Transformation 2:55 - 4:30 p m , 125 Riley-Robb Hall

System-Cybernetic Governmentality And the Rise of Global Concerns During the Cold War 3:30 - 5 p m , 423 Morrill Hall

Planet Migration in the Solar System 4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

Anger at Government vs Liberal Hopes 4:30 - 6 p m , 132 Goldwin Smith Hall

Words and Wine: The Rise of the African Novel 4:30 - 5:45 p m , 184 Myron Taylor

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Justice, Law, Inequality, Democracy And Related Themes: Idea Panel 12:30 - 2:30 p m , 182 Myron Taylor Hall

Environmental Martyrdom And Defenders of the Forest 4:30 - 6 p m , G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

Cultivating Empire: Transplanting and Translated Rome 4:30 - 6:30 p m , History of Art Gallery, Goldwin Smith Hall

Former Vice President Dick Cheney 6:30 - 8 p m , Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall

First CALS Day Celebrates New Ag Quad, Academic Diversity

By MATTHEW McGOWEN Sun Staff Writer

From owls to apples, music to ice cream, the first CALS Day on Friday celebrated the wide span of academic fields pursued by students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Displays, free tasting and performances took place on the upgraded Ag Quad, which was inaugurated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony

The celebration featured 25 CALS student organizations, who provided free Cornell Dairy ice cream and apples for everyone and t-shirts to tie-dye for the first 500 visitors In addition, Cornell Botanic Ga rd e n s p re s e n t e d t re e b l o s s o m s a n d woody plants blooming in the area while the Lab of Ornithology provided students with a chance to pet resident owls, hawks and other birds of prey

Kathryn J Boor ’80, the Ronald P Lynch Dean of CALS, kicked off the event with the introduction of the newly renovated Ag Quad, which now includes a stone plaza with outdoor furniture, light poles and three blue lights

“The Ag Quad is really the crossroads of our college, connecting our people together with a newly renovated landscape for meeting, relaxing and enjoyment,” Boor said

Austin Weaver ’19 tabled for the Alpha Gamma Rho agriculture fraternity and called the event a “ great success ”

“We saw a great showing of student organizations highlighting their involvement and contributions to CALS and the greater Cornell community,” Weaver said and praised the turnout “from students, alumni and Ithaca citizens enjoying the event ”

Shannon Dortch, associate director of communications and marketing of the Cornell Botanical Gardens, called the event “ a great showcase for the diversity of educational activities within CALS ”

Kristina Filippini ’18, chair of the CALS Student Advisory Council, looks forward to improving the event next year as it becomes an annual affair

“Dean Boor’s vision is to have CALS Day every year and I will make sure the new chair of the Student Advisory Council prioritizes this event as an annual project

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A $50 million investment by Tata Consultancy Services has led to the inauguration of the Tata Innovation Center on Roosevelt Island, a space on the Cornell Tech campus for academics and industry leaders to come together to conduct research and solve real world challenges

Tata Consultancy Services is a multinational company and a global leader in “providing innovative, best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and services,” according to TCS’ website

The investment funded “the first phase of capital development” on the Cornell Tech campus and will also benefit ongoing technological research The funds will also be used to expand New York City’s K-12 digital literacy curriculums, according to the University

Tata Innovation Center is a “first-of-its-kind” building designed by Weiss/Manfredi Architecture and developed by Forest City Ratner Companies The building emphasizes openness, centering around a large staircase that “ promotes visual connections between floors the heart of the campus and surrounding city beyond,” and featuring a glass facade “[melding] inside and out, allowing those inside to draw inspiration from river-toriver views,” according to the Cornell Tech website

Tata Consultancy Services will also be a tenant in the Tata Innovation Center, along with companies such as Citibank and Ferrero

TCS and Cornell scholars will collaborate in technological research in areas of cybersecurity and human-machine interaction, “benefiting both U S business and local communities,” according to TCS’s press release on the collaboration

“Our joint research with Cornell Tech is designed to fully leverage their campus ecosystem and TCS’ industry leading technical expertise to develop solutions that empower notable transformation and talent development across industries,” said Rajesh Gopinatha, CEO and managing director of TCS

In addition to serving as a hub that brings leaders in academia and industry together, the Tata Innovation Center will also house Cornell Tech’s “studio,” a curriculum that allows students to put their knowledge into practice and work with industry professionals, according to Cornell Tech’s website

According to the Cornell Tech website, in studio culture, students gain inspiration by receiving constructive feedback on their projects from peers in an open and collaborative setting They also receive guidance from studio faculty equipped with industry experience and advising from visiting industry leaders

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n t h e 1960s has molded and created the Vermont many of us know today ”

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We are seeking an individual who would fill the role of MANAGER for Cornell’s varsity squash program.

• Will be responsible for assisting in planning away trips and helping the coaches with home practices and matches

• May travel with the team, attend all practice sessions, see to any special needs that players may have, and become an integral member of the Cornell squash program.

• Interested parties should respond via email to JEFFREY LAIKIND [jlaikind@gmail com], President, Friends of Cornell University Squash, detailing their qualifications for this important position.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Isn’t That Kind of the Point?

Graduation draws nearer ever y day With the end in sight, I completed a millennial rite of passage and finished watching The Office (I skipped swathes of the middle seasons, but we’ll conveniently forget that for now ) The last fe w episodes contained many anticipated surprises Michael Scott r e t u r n e d r i g h t i n t i m e f o r A

Dwight’s wedding So did Kelly Kapoor and Ryan Howard, who completed their long careers of making audiences squirm by r unning away and leaving Ryan’s baby in the care of Kelly’s unsuspecting husband, Ravi

I’m going to be divulging spoilers liberally, if you hadn’t already noticed The Office finished its r un half a decade ago; if you haven’t watched it by now, it’s on you Predictable conclusions fill the show’s final episodes, anyhow Dwight finally becomes re

y, a l s o assistant to the assistant to the regional manager), Oscar gets a long-deser ved promotion to Chief Accountant and, after years of criminal behavior, Creed gets caught by the police But what I didn’t anticipate in the show’s conclusion affected me the most

The series did close with its fair share of f l a s h b a c k m o n t a g e s s e t t o m e l o d r a m a t i c music But it also ended with moments of genuine kindness

tional documentar y that is the framing device for the series airs, the Senator announces at a press conference, with Angela by his side, that he is gay, and has found love He is not in love, as it turns out, with either Angela or Oscar, but with his chief of staff

I star ted bawling during the series’ penultimate episode “A A R M ” To set the scene, Angela (Angela Kinsey) has long despised Oscar (Oscar Nune z) with

good reason He carried on an affair with her husband, senator Rober t Lipton ( Jack Coleman), while continuing to sit a fe w feet away from her in their workplace When the fic-

Last week, Kendrick Lamar’s Damn won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music This was the first time that a non-classical, non-jazz work was awarded the prize I love Kendrick Lamar and I thoroughly enjoy Damn , but nevertheless, my reactions to this decision are mixed

Not, of course, about whether Kendrick Lamar’s work is deserving of such acclaim; indeed, the musical complexity and poetic mastery present on Damn , as well as earlier albums like To Pimp a Butterfly, warrant the utmost critical respect This recognition of Damn feels like the subtle righting of a wrong the Grammy’s pass on awarding it Album of the Year (which went to 24K Magic, a fun yet most tranquil piece of music) Could it be this former Grammy gaffe that is the cause of my reluctance to extol the virtues of the 2017-2018 Pulitzer Board? Probably not, because I don’t really care that much about the Grammys

My advisor in the music department has a Ph D in musicology, but since rap culture and aesthetics form a significant focal point of her research, she has joked before about having actually obtained a doctoral degree in hiphop As the academic consideration of hiphop seems to be forming the arch of my undergraduate music career, I like to think that in some ways I am obtaining a bachelor’s degree in hip-hop studies In several classes, I

Divorced from the senator, Angela moves into a small apar tment, from which she quickly gets evicted Oscar notices Angela shopping for tents online while leaving work, and realizing that she is now homeless He tells her that she can stay at his apar tment indefinitely, and she a c c e p t s , e n d i n g t

n It’s a moment of humble humanity that got me far more emotional than I expected (Maybe the end-of-college sentimentality is getting to me more than I realized )

From then on, the kindnesses star t to pile up Erin (Ellie Kemper) immediately and whole-hear tedly welcomes her biological parents into her life after spending seasons talking about the anger and sadness that growing up in an orphanage caused her Stanley (Leslie David Baker) car ves a figurine for his longtime deskmate Phyllis (Phyllis Smith), and the two dance together, hap-

have read the same few articles from the early and mid 1990s by authors like Robert Walser, that debate the musical merits of hip-hop At this time, the genre had existed in the mainstream musical culture for nearly 15 years, assuming that hip-hop’s commercial debut was the 1979 “Rapper’s Delight ” This was a few years after groups like Public Enemy and N W A revolutionized the genre, writing lyrics that were highly political and employing new musical techniques, like sampling, in their works I suppose it was the rash brilliance of these artists that prompted scholars to begin the process of historicizing hip-hop Many of these arguments revolved around the central question of whether hip-hop should even be considered musical, let alone possessive of any artistic stature On the one hand, there were those individuals who could not fathom how this genre, so violent, so raucous, and so seemingly unoriginal, could be music A rather drastic point from this side of the debate was that hip-hop is merely the inevitable result of the mass production that defines an advanced capitalist society This argument stems from the fact that hip-hop is repetitive, both within the individual beat of a song but also in the way that sampling borrows from previously released works These academics, of course, were perhaps hardly aware of the cultural disenfranchisement that forced the cultural bricolage through which turntabling and,

pily reunited at Angela and Dwight’s marriage I expected more victor y laps and influence-flexing from The Office’ s finale Although its vie wership was far lower than I expected, the show is still a cultural touchstone for college kids and young professionals In lieu of the copious, self-congratulator y back-patting I expected, the show impar ted an unexpected lesson: Kindness will never be overrated

I’m thinking about this lesson even more with graduation expecting I’m sure that the next fe w weeks will bring with them commencement addresses, Chronicle ar ticles, and Cornell University Facebook posts lauding the graduating class They’ll talk about how Cornell degrees will open doors for us They note famous alumni, and imbue us with the sense that we can go on to be brilliant, influential and successful But I find myself, at this juncture thinking about abilities that we ’ ve all had and developed our whole lives the abilities to be generous, just and, above all else, kind

The Office didn’t just conclude with lofty platitudes about life, love and friendship (although those did abound, too) The show gave examples Oscar doesn’t just tell Angela that ever ything will be okay He opens his home to her So in the coming weeks when I find myself tempted to reflect on my time at Cornell and imagine my future in general, clichéd ways, I’ll tr y to remember this lesson There are lots of ways to be a good friend and a good community member editing your friends’ essays or helping them with their problem sets, donating your time or resources back to your community, being a listener to vent to or a shoulder to cr y on, advocating to create a more just and equitable future for Ithaca and Cornell When I find myself worr ying about whether I’ll be successful or influential, I’ll remind myself how incredibly important it is to just be kind

Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com Morning Bowl of Surreal runs alternate Mondays this semester

eventually, sampling were discovered Many of these points are, perhaps unbeknownst to their authors, racist in nature as they ignore the blatant poetic profundity of rap as well as the mind-boggling intricacy of hip-hop’s musical tracks Frankly, however, the other side of the hip-hop aisle, the one that argued in favor its musicality, produced laughable attempts of transcribing rap music as it forced the genre into a purely Western, theoretical framework I believed that as I was considering these debates 20 years later in an Ivy League course about music studies, so there must have been a general consensus reached that hiphop is, undoubtedly, music Right? Perhaps only so in the insulated world of hip-hop studies When Damn ’ s recognition was announced, I was not particularly swayed and merely regarded it with a nod It simply feels to have come so entirely late after the invention of hip-hop Of course Kendrick Lamar deserves a Pulitzer Prize, but the profundity his music speaks for itself Who cares about the actions of an institution that ignored the genre for so many years?

point out the most trivial lyrics of Lamar’s works and lament how artistic standards have fallen These comments often possessed blatant Western biases that blindly favor Western European ideals of music At this point, I felt rather naive in thinking that the hip-hop debate ended years ago And when I thought

about it, considering Cornell’s music department a progressive one I have witnessed the construction of many aggressive divides between classical enthusiasts and those more receptive to other forms of music

Nevertheless, when I began perusing the comments section of the New York Times’ Facebook post on the award, I was quite awestruck by the lack of support among, well, almost everybody Many individuals liked to

Maybe the Pulitzer Board’s recognition of Lamar’s achievements is necessary after all But, maybe antiquated institutions like the Pulitzer Board need to pass into irrelevance in order for the hip-hop debate and other forms of artistic marginalization to end

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nswan@cornell edu His column Swan s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester

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wake of Greenwood

To th e Ed itor:

In what can only be laughably called a punishment, John Greenwood ’20 took a plea deal and was ordered to do 75 hours of community service less time than the membership requirements of most Cornell service organizations for an assault and racial slurs that, if committed by a black student against a white one, would have inevitably resulted in jail time, and no such plea deal

It is striking to come to the realization that we are living in a world where this can be considered an adequate reprimand for such community-wrenching actions Greenwood barely received a slap on the wrist for something that has toppled our community’s sense of safety: a distorted response, when compared to our community’s reckoning in the wake of this incident

The truth is that distortion is, and has been, the reality This case, like so many before it, became a war of attrition rather than a true criminal proceeding Greenwood studied abroad in Italy while a top-tier lawyer, famous for representing mob bosses and crooked cops, took care of business in Ithaca Meanwhile, the victim, every day afterward, had to walk the same place in which he was attacked, while working with a District Attorney who, by the looks of it, had no interest in further prosecuting his case The circumstances are so repugnant that they would be worth a laugh if the verdict was not so disgustingly real

The response of the legal system has yet again proven to be woefully inadequate At times, the legal outcomes fail to represent our community’s conception of morality Most members of the Cornell community agree that someone who commits racial violence at Cornell deserves more than minimal punishment When the law fails to correct detrimental behavior, it’s up to us students and the Cornell administration to revitalize the inclusive idea upon which Cornell was founded: that of “ any person, any study ”

Contrary to that founding ideal, this campus does not have a reputation of actively protecting students who feel unsafe: the founding of Africana Studies and Ujamaa Residential College only happened after black students took over Willard Straight Hall; the Latino Living Center did not exist until Latinx students took over Day Hall In fact, Greenwood’s assault is the latest in a series of events dating back to Cornell’s founding that proves we have only lived under the guise of this motto

This campus cannot and should not be a place where prejudices like Greenwood’s can flourish Both Greenwood and those who share his prejudices do not deserve to bear the Cornell name on their resumes, nor do other Cornell students deserve to be associated with them His continued participation in our community harms all involved, except for him Expelling Greenwood would be a step in the right direction, but if the Cornell administration will not work against the legal outcome, we as a community need to change our practices

Changing punitive systems, though, is simply the tip of the iceberg There are myriad courses of action the administration can take, such as allocating permanent spaces for multicultural organizations, fostering minority representation in all shared governance bodies, hiring more professors, physicians, staff members, psychologists, and psychiatrists of color, and creating a centralized organization dedicated to the study and eventual dismantlement of racism on Cornell’s campus would all have measurable impact on our campus ’ culture The task of implementing these changes rests with both students and administration; if one part of an engine malfunctions, the entire engine fails Cornell has, for far too long, been ignoring the social ills that have plagued it since its founding If we boast “ any person, any study,” if it is written on our archways, in our halls, and on our notebooks, then this discrimination must not be happening then Greenwood’s incident must be an isolated event We have lulled ourselves to sleep, blanketed by the security of this perilous falsehood, and we will sleep soundly with the assurance that such an incident will never happen again Until it does

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Princeton’s lead defender, was responsible for shutting down a player that is widely regarded as the best in the nation

“If any one of our players isn’t having their best game, I think that the rest of the guys know that they need to step up, ” Milliman said “For the most part, we ’ ve been successful doing that, but today we struggled with that I don’t think the rest of the guys were carrying the offensive load as well ”

Jordan Dowiak each registered three points to lead Cornell, which entered the contest with the best offense in the nation

“I think this was maybe a little bit more of a wakeup call in that sometimes they don’t come as easy ”

“It’s never a bad thing to have yourself humbled a little bit,” Milliman said “ We’ve been playing well, we ’ ve been playing hard and we ’ ve been scoring a lot lately And I think this was maybe a little bit more of a wake-up call in that sometimes they don’t come as easy as we may have been getting them the last few weeks ”

Teat’s silence offensively reflected yet another reversal from last season ’ s game against Princeton, which saw the then-freshman’s career high 12 points lift Cornell to an upset win

“[Baughan] is a pretty good athlete and he did a pretty good job of face guarding [ Teat],” Milliman said “We need to find ways to continue to run our offense and execute regardless of what they’re doing to Jeff or anybody else ”

After Brown defeated Dartmouth later in the day, the Bears earned the third seed in the conference tournament and will face Cornell in the second semifinal on Friday The Ivy’s top seed, national No 1 Yale, will play Penn in the earlier matchup

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Cornell’s eight goals were its fewest all season As few offensive bright spots as there were, among them was senior long-stick midfielder Scott Flynn’s first collegiate goal Junior attack Clarke Petterson and senior midfielder

With an impressive regular season behind it, Cornell will look to the Ivy tournament to cement its accomplishments and try to secure a bid to the NCAA tournament If Cornell is able to win twice next weekend, it will earn an automatic-qualifying bid to the national playoffs The task begins Friday at 8:30 p m at Columbia’s Robert K Kraft Field in New York against Brown

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Red Loses Final

Harvard’s hot start too much for C.U.

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free position conversions, and she did a great job all spring scoring from her direct shots ”

Harvard then scored again to retake a two-goal lead, but Leska struck once more to bring the Red back within one with a little under six minutes to play

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“ Ou r s e n i o r m i d f i e l d e r s turned the game around with their play on the draw, winning 8 of 11 draws,” Graap said H a r v a r d then scored to extend its lead to six, but the Red went on an uninterrupted five-goal run of i t s o w n , s p a r k e d b y sophomore attacker Caroline Allen The run included two goals just 40 seconds apart from Farinholt, a goal from junior attacker Tomasina Leska and a free position goal from Allen Allen’s free position goal, her 17th of the season, tied the school record for number of free position tallies in a season

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However, Harvard clung to a one-goal lead, running down the clock and ending the Red’s season, eliminating Cornell’s chance for a spot in the Ivy tournament “ In s e ve n Iv y g a m e s , [we] had two notable breakd ow n s t h a t cost us dearly,” Gr a a p s a i d “ T h o s e t w o losses, to Brown and Harvard, ultimately cost us a spot in the 2018 Ivy League tournament Learning and improving will be our focus going forward

“We are all proud of Caroline Allen who finished as Cornell’s leading scorer in her sophomore campaign,” Graap said “She’s ranked in the top-20 nationally in

“There were a lot of challenges this spring, and things didn’t fall our way, but I’m very proud of the women in this program They are high achievers, and they want to fight for championships ever y year ”

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Princeton Upsets Laxers in Regular Season Finale

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

On the last weekend of April 2017, a nationallyranked Princeton squad which had already secured the No 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament was upset by unranked Cornell men ’ s lacrosse on the Red’s home turf in the final game of the regular season

Exactly one year later, the roles were reversed Princeton (8-5, 3-3 Ivy) capped off its regular season with an exclamation point on Saturday, upsetting red-hot Cornell (10-4, 4-2), 14-8, to end the Red’s seven-game winning streak

“I thought it was a really well-executed game by Princeton,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman

“They had a pretty good game plan and found a way to follow through with what they were trying to do We played hard, they played harder They deserved to win for sure ” Cornell seemed unable to get going for much of the

contest, finishing the game without ever holding a lead a first for the Red this season The Tigers struck first on reigning Ivy League rookie of the year Michael Sowers’ 26th tally of the season The squads would trade goals for a few minutes thereafter and the Red evened the score a couple of times

But with just over 5:30 to play in the opening frame, Princeton defender George Baughan made it 3-2 in favor of the home team and the Tigers never looked back

“I don’t think we finished our shots as well as we could have,” Milliman said “We had a handful of good looks and didn’t finish them when we needed to I also think we had opportunities in the offensive end where we were a little careless with the ball ”

Sophomore attack Jeff Teat, the nation’s leader in points per game, was held to zero points for just the second time in his career, ending a 24-game point streak for Teat that began on March 11, 2017 Baughan,

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Comback Falls Short as Harvard Ends Red’s Season

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Hoping for a win to secure an Ivy tournament berth, the Red’s furious second-half comeback fell short, ending the team ’ s season with a tough loss to Harvard on Saturday

The host Crimson (6-9, 2-5 Ivy) got off to a fast start, which was enough to preserve a 14-13 final score Harvard scored five goals in the first 10 minutes of the game before senior captain and midfielder Ida Farinholt found the back of the net to put the Red (7-8, 2-5 Ivy) on the board

Cornell then continued to close the gap, getting within two goals of Harvard with just over 10 minutes left in the first half, but the Crimson then went on another five-goal run to leave the Red trailing, 12-5, at the intermission

Too late | Harvard scored five straight goals to start the game, and the Red’s dominant second half wasn’t enough to overcome the early deficit

“After hitting a pipe on an open net 8m to end what was a very frustrating and disappointing first half, we came together in the locker room and re-committed to our goals,” said head coach Jenny Graap ’86 “Assistant coach Margaret Corzel spoke passionately about playing from the heart and our team responded ” The second half was a completely different story Cornell outscored Harvard, 8-2, in the half Senior captain and midfielder Taylor Reed started the comeback, and senior midfielder Joey Coffy scored shortly

thereafter to shrink Cornell’s deficit to five Critical to shifting the momentum in favor of the Red was the “senior circle” comprised of senior midfielders Reed, Farinholt and Coffy who dominated on draws to generate offensive opportu-

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By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

sounded at Princeton’s Class

lacrosse saw the end of its impressive seven-game win streak a run that helped catapult the team to near the top of the national rankings

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l’s regular season ended with a loss on its conference rival’s turf But this time, the Red’s season isn’t over The Ivy League tournament is less t h a n a w

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maybe sneak into the Ivy League playoffs, our goal is t o w i n t h e Iv y L e a g u e , ” Milliman said on March 14

That was Milliman’s message before the Red began its Ivy schedule And after four wins and two losses in the conference to secure a second-place finish, Cornell has one more item left on its agenda before it can call this season a success

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national No 1 Yale for a rematch of a loss earlier this season

“It’s obviously a disappointing loss,” said interim head coach Peter Milliman after the March 17 loss to the Bulldogs “ We wanted that one ver y badly I felt like w e w e re c o m p e t i n g w e l l enough to deser ve it, but we didn’t earn it at the end of the day ” The loss in its Ivy opener more than a month ago was Cornell’s last until Saturday afternoon The Red amassed a seven-game winning streak that included wins over three n a t i o n a l l y r a n k e d t e a m s i n c l u d i n g t h e n - No 7 Syracuse And when asked if a loss could go a long way for a red-hot team about to e n t e r t h e p o s t s e a s o n , Millman struck a positive tone

“I wouldn’t disagree with that,” Milliman said “It’s never a bad thing to have yourself humbled a little bit

We know we need to get back to the basics; make sure we ’ re doing things right ”

C e r t a i n l y, n o t e a m i s invincible And it’s not likely a n y o n e e x p e c t e d t h i s Cornell team to win ever y game left on its schedule en route to a national championship But the tone from t h e b e g i n n i n g f r o m Milliman and the others in the locker room has been that Cornell can win when it matters most

“Our goal is not to ‘show well’ in the Ivy League or

To lose ever y faceoff in a possession-critical sport and nearly win is no small feat and Cornell did it against one of the best teams in the countr y A few weeks later, against Yale at Schoellkopf Field, the Red hung tight with the team that is now the No 1 in the nation Neither team in that game ever led by more than two goals, and the match was tied with under five minutes to play

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o take care of Brown, a team it beat by 14 goals less than two weeks ago, in the Ivy League semifinal on Friday, it is likely to get its second crack at Yale with a trophy and a tournament bid on t h e l i n e Sa t u rd a y ’ s h u mbling loss to Princeton may have been the first step on the journey to getting one b a c k o n t h e d e f e n d i n g champions

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun com