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Dining Employees Concerned by Union’s Effect on Worker Motivation

By YUN SOO KIM Sun News Editor

Cornell dining employees in its labor union raised concerns about ‘chronic worker problems’ and poor food quality in dining halls in advance of the triennial elections for the United Auto Workers today and the group ’ s contract renewal with the University in June

The UAW, a union that protects employees in ser vice and maintenance occupation at the University, will reach its contractual expiration on

June 30 an agreement held since 2012, according to their contract

Dining hall employee and union member

Zachary Winn said a “ very unhealthy culture” has developed among union workers in the Cornell dining system, saying there is a “chronic worker problem” within the union

“It’s impossible [for union members] to get fired so, just being a bad employee isn’t enough,” Winn said

Cornellians Discuss Banning ‘Box’ on Admissions Apps

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell community is joining the statewide conversation about ‘banning the box’ issue on college admission applications, following the University’s recent decision to remove questions of criminal history from preliminar y job applications beginning July 1

University Assembly employee ranking member Ulysses Smith ’14 said he hopes admissions is considering the ‘ban the box’ initiative in addition to initiatives pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity on applications

“We need to begin to ask some value questions,” Smith said “Is there value in asking a prospective student their criminal history? Is there value in asking questions of sexual orientation and gender identity? How do we use that information? I think there is demonstrated value in the latter, but we should have fur ther discussions about the former ”

box’ at Cornell is only part of a state and nation-wide movement to remove criminal history checkboxes from college applications

Six percent of schools that responded to surveys reported that their admissions process is identical for applicants with and without a criminal record, according to the Center for Community Alternatives

“Is there value in asking questions of sexual orientation and gender identity?” U l y s s e s S m i t h ’ 1 4

The Fair Access to Education Act is proceeding through the Ne w York State Legislature to make criminal history checkboxes illegal Currently in committee, it is “ an act to amend the correction law and the executive law, in relation to college admission for persons previously convicted of one or more criminal offenses,” according to the legislation

At the forefront of the movement is the Education from the Inside Out Coalition a national nonpartisan organization “working to remove barriers to higher education facing students while they are in

This recent focus on ‘ban the

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Graduate and Professional Student Assembly debated the details of graduate student unionization at its final meeting of the semester Monday in Bache Auditorium

After numerous amendments and a lively debate, the GPSA passed a resolution which asks the University to “clearly detail a schedule of expected stipend support throughout the planned course of the degree” in admission letters for all admitted graduate students The resolution passed 11-0-6

Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Dean Barbara Knuth, senior vice provost and dean of the graduate school, recognized the “ strong possibility that the National Labor

Relations Board will soon overturn current case law to consider private university graduate student assistants to be employees under the National Labor Relations Act ”

The University has begun negotiating with the Cornell Graduate Student Union as the union plans to move toward formal unionization if the NLRB does, in fact, consider private university graduate student assistants to be employees

Kotlikoff the University is currently working to clarify the unionization process for graduate students

“First, we want to be transparent throughout the negotiations process, ” Kotlikoff said “The second point is that the University’s position is that this is a decision of

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Collapse of the Atlantic Ocean Circulation Noon, 178 Rhodes Hall

Food Science Spring 2016 Seminar: Ted Russin

4 - 5 p m , 146 Stocking Hall

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Sheng Yang He: Toward Understanding the Disease Triangle Dogma 12:20 p m , 404 Physical Science Building

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University

David Lifka Named C.U. Vice President, Chief Information Officer

On Mo n d

David Lifka, director of the Cornell Center for Advanced

University’s vice president for information technology and c h i e f i

Since December, Lifka has been serving as interim vice president and CIO His official appointment will be effective June 1

“Dave is a national leader in research computing and data management, ” Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in a statement He has worked in close association with a diverse

a r r a y o f m e m b e r s o f t h e Cornell community at all levels and is highly regarded as a strategic leader ” In this position, Lifka will work with CIT and the president, deans, vice presidents, boards of trustees and Weill Cornell Medicine, according to the University

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The Ithaca SWAT team, It h a c a Po l i c e , To m p k i n s County Sheriff ’ s Depar tment and the NYSP Community Narcotics Enforcement Team seized about 11 5 grams of crack cocaine valued at $1,100 a small amount of

m a r i h u a n a a n d $ 1 , 7 0 0 i n cash from a residence in the To w n o f Ne w f i e l d o n Mo n d a y, a c c o rd i n g t o T h e Ithaca Voice

Du r i n g t h e s e a rc h , Deshawn Bryant was charged and arrested for $7,500 cash and $15,000 bond, The Voice reported

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According to records, Percoco w o rk e d w i t h C O R De ve lopment, a development company and CHA Consulting, an e n g i n e e r i n g c o m p a n y, T h e Times reported

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Former CURW Director, Activist, Fugitive

Rev. Daniel Berrigan Dies at Age 94

Prominent peace activist, poet and former associate director of Cornell United Religious Work Rev Daniel J Berrigan died Sunday He was 94

Throughout his life, Berrigan’s acts of civil disobedience often placed him at odds with authority figures, including the government and the Roman Catholic Church, according to The Washington Post

One of his defining moments took place in Catonsville, Maryland, when he with his brother and seven other activists entered a Selective Service office and burned hundreds of draft files outside They were subsequently charged with destruction of government property and became known as the “Catonsville Nine,” according to The New York Times

Berrigan later detailed the incident in his original play called The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

“Our apologies, good friends,” he wrote “For the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house We could not, so help us God, do otherwise ”

After being sentenced to three years in federal prison, Berrigan appealed until 1970 He then refused orders to report to prison in Connecticut going underground before being caught by the FBI in Rhode Island He ultimately served two years in prison, according to The Post

While on the run, Berrigan led an anti-war rally at Barton Hall He returned to Cornell to give a lecture on the legacy of protest at Cornell in 2006, according to the University

“The fact that [Berrigan] is a part of Cornell’s history is something to be celebrated,” said Anke Wessels, director of Cornell’s Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy

Several members of the Ithaca community also celebrate Berrigan time in the area

“We rejoice for Dan’s incredible spirit, clarity and his prophetic voice,” said local activist Mary Anne Grady Flores in an email to community members “In thanksgiving for your life Dan, we sing your spirit home!”

Berrigan published over 50 books in his lifetime, many of which were poetry, that often criticized norms and order, according to The Times

After he was released from prison in 1972, Berrigan was continuously arrested for minor offenses, often involving protests against violence or weapons, The Times reported

“The day after I’m embalmed, that’s when I’ll give it up, ” he said on his 80th birthday

By JOSH GIRKSKY Sun News Editor Josh Girsky

can be reached at

jgirsky@cornellsun

com

America Is Hard to Find | Rev Daniel Berrigan speaks before about 1,000 people in Sage Chapel on January 26, 1975 to give the first sermon of that spring semester It was Berrigan’s first public appearance on the Cornell campus since April 1970 when he stunned a throng of 15,000 by appearing at a Barton Hall celebration in his honor, even though he was then a fugitive being actively hunted by the FBI.

German Immigration Offcial Discusses Refugee Crisis

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E.U. members hard-pressed to accept one million refugees

By REBECCA EVEN Sun Staff Writer

Andreas Wüst a fellow at the Ministr y for I n t e g r a t i o n o f t h e G ov e r n m e n t o f Ba d e nW ü r t t e m b e r g , Ge r m a n y d i s c u s s e d h o w t h e refugee crisis continues to shape Germany’s immi-

Monday

Approaching the topic as a social scientist rather than a politician or civil ser vant, Wüst called the year 2015 “the Year of R e f u g e e s ” i n G e r m a n y d u e t o i t s i n f l u

lion refugees W ü s t o u t l i n e d t h e p re s s u re p u t o n Sp a i n , Italy, Greece and other So u t h e r n a n d So u t heastern members of the Eu r o p e a n Un i o n t o accept refugees He also detailed German Chanc e l l o r A n g e l a Me r k e l’s motivation for accepting refugees in August 2015

“It could be that [ Me r k e l ’ s ] o w n e x p e r ie n c e i n E a s t G e r m a n y played a role, because the idea of building up fences and of not letting people in is certainly a ver y critical issue for all the people t h a t h a v e e v e r b e e n locked up in the Eastern Bloc,” Wüst said

W ü s t a d d r e s s e d Merkel’s Christian values, her strategic motivation to drive other European countries to take refugees a n d t h e l i m i t e d p o l i c y options

m e n t , r e s e n t m e n t a n d b i g o t r y e x p e r i e n c e d b y refugees

“ We have a high prop o r t i o n o f Mu s l i m refugees, which can be a challenge for integration,” he said “Over half of the G e r m a n p o p u l a t i o n thinks that Islam does not belong [in] Germany ”

More language courses for refugees and a systema t i c a s s e s s m e n t o f refugees’ qualifications to allow them to participate i n t h e w o r k f o r c e a n d vocational training may be useful in assisting with integration, according to Wüst

“Integration is probably not a one-way street, so we also have to [get] the native population on b o a rd , ” h e s a i d “A n d integration at first should not only be on the immigrants but also on the population that is already living in Germany ”

Wüst pointed out that interpersonal interactions between native Germans and refugees would bring the issues of suffering and hardship to the forefront of the dialogue and personalize these issues

He added that he is

“ G e r m a n y a n d i t s chancellor became a symbol of freedom and solid a r i t y i n t h e We s t e r n world,” Wüst said Wüst discussed many problems experienced in G e r m a n y a n d o t h e r countries as a result of the refugee crisis, including t h e b a c k l o g o f a s y l u m a p p l i c a t i o n s , u n e m p l oy -

o p t i m i s t i c t h e G e r m a n labor market will benefit from the influx of people “ We should intensify d i a l o g u e , ” W ü s t s a i d “ We should confront the public and the citizens [with the fact] that there are people suffering and there’s an opportunity for us to help I’m quite optimistic that looking at the age composition, we will be able to gain in the medium and in the long run from the refugees that have arrived ”

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the graduate students of all graduate students who are eligible to vote So we ’ re negotiating these rules of engagement so we can set up a process in which graduate students will be informed with information to make their decision ”

Knuth elaborated on Kotlikoff ’ s second point, emphasizing the University’s desire to make sure all graduate students are aware of the consequences of unionization

Knuth explained to students that the union will define its own “bargaining unit” the collective body of people it will represent in dealings with the University The bargaining unit may not necessarily be all graduate students because some departments or academic fields may opt out of unionization

“If a majority of those who vote in a union election votes in favor of the union, then all of those in the [union’s] defined bar-

Jackqueline Frost, grad and GPSA field member, who teaches a French language course four days a week, spoke in favor of unionizing on behalf of the CGSU

“It’s really easy to see myself as a worker,” Frost said “ What makes my current job different from all the jobs that I’ve ever worked is that I’m not protected under the current labor law ” Frost said she does not agree that her current job should be “interpreted unidimensionally as training for a future career ”

“Teaching experience is an important component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers ” D e a n B a r b a r a K n u t h

gaining unit – no matter how they voted or if they voted – will be explicitly represented by the union in their dealings with the University concerning pay, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment,” Knuth said

Therefore, even if only 51 percent of graduate students in the bargaining unit vote to unionize, the complete bargaining unit including the 49 percent who voted against will be included in the union, according to Knuth

Knuth reaffirmed the University’s view that graduate students should be considered students, not workers and that graduate student work is educational

“Ph D coursework, research and teaching are an integrated educational experience and are components of the student’s progression toward earning a degree,” Knuth said “Teaching experience is an important component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers either as teachers or as pro-

“Even if I become a professor [after graduating], it doesn’t mean that what I’ve been doing at Cornell isn’t work,” she said Frost argued that unionization will benefit both graduate students and the University “Unionization is about sharing in the process of determining the conditions of your basic livelihood in a way that benefits both grad workers and their universities,” she said “[CGSU] believe[s] that everyone wins with a solid unionUniversity relationship because happier, more secure workers means better teaching and better research ”

Jesse Goldberg, grad and GPSA voting member, read a joint statement from the administration and CGSU that emphasized both organizations’ common goals

“Cornell and CGSU are committed to working together to ensure that our community’s environment remains one in which the conditions for graduate students to make their own decisions about unionization without intimidation are achieved,” the statement said “Our negotiations have been setting a positive tone based on our shared values of dignity and respect for each other ”

Knuth said she anticipates that the NLRB will release its decision on the legality of graduate student unionization at private universities sometime this summer

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun com

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Letter to the Editor

The importance of Afrika Bambaataa’s

hip-hop legacy

To th e Ed itor:

Some years ago, when I introduced a unit on hip-hop in a course I was teaching in the English department, a visiting musicologist at Cornell came to my class and spent 50 minutes discussing the complexity and richness of a single track, Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock ” At the end of the hour, he hadn’t finished That session alone was enough to convince me that Bambaataa’s mixing of musical fragments, shouts from a crowd and other background noise into a seamless whole exemplified a whole new approach to music and to listening that assured him a place in the history of urban music

When Cornell acquired the world’s largest collection of early hip-hop materials, I was therefore proud to become a member of the hip-hop advisory board If asked about the significance of the acquisition, I would have said something like this: Cornell’s collection not only preserves these materials for history but also dramatically re-defines what a rare manuscript library can be Katherine Reagan’s activist curating has gone beyond simply preserving the material, incorporating it into the Cornell educational experience Initiatives include regular visits and concerts by hip-hop founders, a firstrate museum show, appearances in the Ithaca community and an array of courses, including a large team-taught University course that combined music, urban sociology and African-American culture When Bambaataa appeared with other hip-hop founders at the inaugural conference on the archives, his remarks showed him to be a musicologist and educator as well as a musical innovator, with a vast knowledge of the rich tradition on which his own creative synthesizing depended And now, the digitizing of his vast collection further connects past and future, the academy and the streets and the methods of scholarship with the living experience of music-making These connections are no act of cultural appropriation but rather a breaking down of the walls of privilege and prejudice, increasing both knowledge and pleasure I was proud to meet Bambaataa on his visits and to thank him for his generosity to Cornell

But now the D J Troi Torain has sponsored a petition demanding that Cornell sever its ties with Bambaataa because of accusations that the musician has abused young men; as a result, the Daily News has declared Cornell to be “under fire ” What would I change in my last paragraph as a result of the claims and the demands?

Not a single word

By maintaining its ties with Bambaataa, Cornell does not support child abuse and does not collaborate with a criminal Bambaataa remains innocent before the law If the charges against him (which he has denied) were ever to be proved, that would be cause for sorrow and regret, but his private life remains separate from his music

This should be obvious to anyone with a clear head, but sometimes it's important to affirm the obvious Cornell’s only obligation is to stand by the statements it has already made As for Troi Torain’s petition, it would be insulting to take seriously anything this disturbed person says about child abuse In May 2006, Torain, a radio D J , was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child According to The New York Times, “In a May 3 broadcast, Mr Torain mentioned [a rival D J ’s] wife and two children and threatened to find and sexually abuse his daughter ‘I'll come for your kids,’ Mr Torain said that day, adding that he would pay $500 to anyone who told him where the girl attended school Mr Torain, who is black, also used racial and sexual epithets about D J Envy’s wife, Gia Casey, 27, who is part Asian ”

Prof Paul Sawy er, En gl is h

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Comm ent of the day

“Unless Bambaataa’s guilt is proven in the court of law, then these are just allegations, nothing more If, hypothetically, he were to be found guilty of these alleged crimes, then it still does not lessen the value of Bambaataa’s artistic work, as another commenter has correctly pointed out ” Jay

Re: “Petition: Cornell University Must Sever Ties with Afrika Bambaataa,” News April 28, 2016

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How an Autopsy and Jeb Bush Predicted Donald Trump’s Presidential Run

After a 332-206 shellacking in the 2012 Electoral College, the Republican National Committee issued an autopsy diagnosing the failure at hand and providing guidance to future Republican candidates

In the months preceding the election and prior to the auto-autopsy, two congressional scholars with bipartisan Beltway credentials penned a notorious op-ed in The Washington Post titled, “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem ” In December 2014, before he had declared himself a candidate, Jeb Bush imagined that the 2016 nominee would have to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general without violating your principles ”

Roughly three years after the autopsy report was published, Donald Trump revealed his candidacy to capture the Republican nomination for President of the United States The announcement seemed like a gag at the time, a publicity stunt to sell neckties and brand hotels; of course, it was unforeseeable that Trump intended to double down on the aforementioned evaluations in the most perverse manner imaginable, positioning himself for primary success yet general doom

Before President Barack Obama won his second term over Mitt Romney, political scientists Thomas E Mann and Norman J Ornstein who was, and still is, employed by the conser vative American Enterprise Institute – wrote that, “The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country ’ s challenges ”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has built his political skyscraper on brashness, superiority and fanciful policy positions

In its autopsy report, the Republican National Committee gave particular consideration to immigration and minority outreach On immigration, the RNC concluded, “We are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond, must be to embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform If we do not, our

Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only ”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has said of Mexican immigrants, “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us They’re bringing drugs They’re bringing crime They’re rapists And some, I assume, are good people ” And some, I assume, are good people Outreach!

The RNC on appealing to minorities: “By the year 2050 we’ll be a majority-minority country and in both 2008 and 2012, President Obama won a combined 80 percent of the votes of all minority groups The RNC cannot and will not write off any demographic or community or region of this country ”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has proposed banning all Muslims from the United States

The RNC on including women: a $10 million marketing campaign targeting women, minorities and gays,

regarding a willingness to lose the primary to win the general Though a clearly paradoxical situation, it appears as though, due to his jockeying to win the Republican nomination, Trump has anchored himself to a fatal amount of toxic positions in the general election

Before Sen Marco Rubio (R-Fla ) launched his once-thought inevitable campaign, his pollster attempted to demonstrate Rubio’s path to victory by estimating the proportion of nonwhite vote necessar y for the Republican nominee to win in the Electoral College Based on projections of the 2016 electorate, if the nominee were to win 59 percent of the white vote or what Romney won in 2012 then 30 percent of the nonwhite vote should prove sufficient In 2012, Romney won 17 percent of the nonwhite vote In 2008, Sen John McCain (R-Ariz ) won 19 percent President George W Bush won 26 percent in 2004

Though a clearly paradoxical situation, it appears as though, due to his jockeying t the Republican nomination, Trump has anchored himself to a fatal amount of toxic positions in the general election

along with calls to elevate women within the RNC, “ to represent some of the unique concerns that female voters may have ”

Presumptive nominee Donald Trump has called for women to be punished for seeking abortions and suggested that Hillary Clinton is succeeding merely by playing the “ woman ’ s card ”

Trump has intentionally defied the RNC prescriptions for broadening the party and winning elections, instead opting to further the inflammatory rhetoric the party leadership warned against And half of the base loves him for it With the last hopes of the #NeverTrump coalition resting on Indiana’s Tuesday primary and Donald Trump widening his lead in the state as the days pass, the rest of 2016 figures to be #AllTrump on the Republican side

While Jeb Bush faltered in his 2016 bid, the former governor appears to have been prescient in his remarks

Sure, Donald Trump might turn out a group of white voters who traditionally lacked incentive to vote, but it’s difficult to envision these potential gains expanding the electorate in meaningful ways or offsetting likely decreases among nonwhite voters, women and centrist Republicans who will either vote for Hillary or stay home Trump succeeded by appealing to factions of the party that scholars were beginning to identify as destructive and unproductive When the RNC provided a party autopsy focused on a general election, it inadvertently provided a perverted playbook to primary success if deconstructed; Trump had the persona to pull it off, Jeb the wit to recognize it ultimately as a losing one He who laughs last, laughs longest

C.U. Posts Strong Penn Relays

Following two tune-up events, Ivy League Championships loom

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

In their final two tune-up events before the Ivy League Championships, the Cornell men ’ s and women ’ s track and field teams took home several individual titles and avoided injuries Both teams sent relatively small contingents to compete at the Penn Relays and returned home to host the Big Red Invitational at the Kane Sports Complex

The women began their week of competition on a busy Thursday at the world renowned Penn Relay in Philadelphia, Pa Arguable the biggest American track and field event on the calendar, the Penn Relays attracts some of the best athletes around the world

In their first day of competition, a team of junior Adrian Jones, senior Udeme Akpaete, and sophomores Taysia Radoslav and Ellen Shepard placed second in their 4x100 heat, ultimately finishing in a strong seventh place in Friday’s highly competitive Championship of America final

“The 4x100 relay was outstanding, qualifying for the Championship of America race the first time in Cornell track history that this has happened,” said head Coach Rich Bowman

The shuttle hurdle relay had the same results second in the heat and seventh in the final

The distance medley of sophomore Leah Triller, freshman Ellery Bianco, junior Libby Nolan and senior Sarah Holl impressed by placing fourth with a time of 11:52 In the 3K, freshman Eve Glasergreen set a new personal record in a fifth place run of just under 9:50, and classmate Briar Blumley took fifth in her heat and 12th overall in the 3K steeplechase Several other Cornellians took home ECAC qualifiers in the three day event

Overall, Bowman said he was very pleased with the way his team performed under the spotlight at Penn, and knows the ability to do so is a key skill going into Heps

“If we are to be successful as a team in big meet situations like Heps we must have athletes that thrive on the big stage, ” Bowman said “Opportunities to compete at meets such as the Penn Relays afford us the chance to feel comfortable on that big stage ”

While many of the Red’s top athletes got the day off on Sunday, Cornell still put up some big finishes at the Big Red Invitational where they competed against predominantly upstate New York schools The cold and rainy conditions were a nuisance, but the Red still competed very well, winning six events and adding three more ECAC qualifiers in the process

“The group has performed to the best of their abilities in adverse conditions and I’ve been proud of their efforts,” Bowman said

In the field, sophomore Taylor Drayton won the discus and earned a spot in Cornell’s all-time top 10 in the event Junior Kacie Hargett took first place in the javelin, and freshmen Leena Morris impressed once again by winning the hammer Junior Gaynelle Boham won the triple jump, while senior Stephanie Izard bested the field in the high jump

On the track, Ellery Bianco completed her busy weekend by winning the 400-meter hurdles, and junior Delphi Cleaveland took first in the 5K

Both meets leave Bowman’s team healthy and confident

“We have avoided any major injuries and remain healthy going into championship weekend,” Bowman said “This weekend was a great stepping stone to what we all hope will be continued with great things happening in the upcoming championships ”

The men also sent a group to compete at the Penn Relays where they similarly had great success at the highest level, a feat that was nothing surprising to head coach Adrian Durant

“We have some of the best athletes in the country on our

squad, we can hold our own anywhere,” he said With events mostly on Friday and Saturday, senior Stephen Afadapa began Friday morning with a 15th place finish in the high jump

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Tigers’ Pitching Quiets Red’s Offense in Final Ivy Games

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Staff Writer

On Senior Weekend at Hoy Field, C o r n e l l d r o p p e d t h r e e o f f o u r t o Princeton to close out the Ivy League segment of the Red’s season The Tigers (2218, 13-7 Ivy) sewed up the Lou Gehrig Division and the Red (14-24, 7-13 Ivy) remained mired in last place Cornell has one more game this season at Binghamton Wednesday

The games on Friday were moved up a few hours to avoid impending rain, and game one of the weekend started at 10 a m Cornell head coach Dan Pepicelli

said the rescheduling did not change his team ’ s preparation and he was happy they were able to get the games in Princeton’s bats were not deterred either, as they jumped out to a first inning two-run lead and led 3-0 midway through the fifth Junior third baseman Tommy Wagner credits his team ’ s toughness for not ending the game ’ s stor y right there “ We have been coached to play just as hard and with the same intensity no matter the situation in the game, ” he said “As the game continued, we were able to put together good at bats and score some runs to let us back in the game ” Wagner, hitting 341 on the season,

sick with the flu, went hitless in his four at bats in the morning game on Friday and did not play for the rest of the weekend

Pepicelli said that junior pitcher Paul Balestrieri was also sick this weekend, and pitched on Saturday instead of Friday as planned

Cornell scored the tying run in the bottom of the seventh (and last scheduled) inning and had the winning run on third with just one out in the inning The men failed to capitalize and Princeton won the game 4-3 with a run of its own in the top of the eighth

“One run right there is going to make the diff e r e n c e o n e w a y o r another,” Pepicelli said, a d d i n g t h a t i t w a s unfortunate Cornell was not able to score a fourth run in the seventh “ We haven’t had a ton of [offensive] opportunities this year ”

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“Dale is an extremely talented ball player,” said junior first baseman Cole Rutherford “He had been working hard with Coach [ Tom] Ford during the week on his timing and this weekend just proved how lethal of a hitter he is He’s been solid for us the entire year, this weekend was no different ”

“The seniors have been a great group. They helped institute the changes and culture that I wanted ”

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The second game on Friday saw a near c o m p l e t e s h u t d o w n o f t h e C o r n e l l offense Princeton junior pitcher Chris Powers did not allow a baserunner until the seventh inning and the Red lost, 6-1

“He was a good arm, ” Pepicelli said “I thought he did a really nice job We couldn’t get anything offensively ”

Saturday saw the series shift venues to Princeton Game three was all sophomore centerfielder Dale Wickham He homered three times and drove the four Red runs in a 4-3 Cornell victor y A three-homer game is not in the recent annals of Cornell base-

The final game of the series again saw Cornell’s bats go dormant, yet again The Red did not score until the ninth inning against junior lefthander Keelan Smithers, losing 7-2 “ The lefthander did a r e a l l y n i c e j o b, ” Pe p

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weekend’s offensive struggles are an excellent “snapshot of the season ” He said the team will have to go back to the drawing board this offseason to be better

“I’m really disappointed in the season, ” Pepicelli said “It’s not the work ethic they gave us ever ything ”

Between the two Friday games, Cornell honored its graduating seniors Pepicelli appreciates their adapting to a new head coach after three years under a different one

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Spotlight | The Red’s performance on the “big stage” at the Penn Relays bodes well for this weekend’s championship