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By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Wr ter

Six candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Rep Tom Reed (R-NY) in New York’s 23rd congressional district engaged in cordial debate in a panel organized by Cornell Democrats

Natalie Brown ’18, Cornell Democrats president, said that the event was intended to “provide a platform for people to see what [candidates] are up to and to give students a real voice to see what someone who will be representing them in the future will offer for them "

According to Luciano Hamel, roughly 100 community members, including students and staff, attended the panel to watch candidates Linda Andrei, Max Della Pia, Rick Gallant, Tracy Mitrano J D ’95, Ian Golden and Eddie Sundquist debate

Community member Ingrid Sydenstricker did not come to support any candidate specifically, but because she was "interested in seeing who has the greatest chance at beating Tom Reed ”

“Dethroning” Reed was a common theme throughout, as the event began with Emma Runge ’20, Cornell Democrats political director, saying that the night was " one of our first events in our efforts to vote Tom Reed out of office "

guidance | Cornell’s

Tuition talk | Candidate Tracy Mitrano J D ’95 called the price of college education a “policy issue” during Wednesday’s panel

a former

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Muslim Chaplain Counsels Students, Builds Community

By EMILY YANG Sun Staff Wr ter

After being appointed Cornell’s first Muslim chaplain in August, Yasin Ahmed spent his first semester at Cornell counseling students,

advocating for more Halal food on-campus and setting up community service opportunities for students

While Ahmed lamented that Muslim students for decades had little religious guidance on-campus, he

also expressed enthusiasm for being the first chaplain of his faith, a position which endowed him the unique opportunity to “build a new community from the ground up ”

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decreased its wait period compared to last semester after adding two therapy staff positions, and plans to add two more staff members, Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, announced in an email on Wednesday afternoon “ The impact of these hires has been immediate, as wait periods for this semester are shorter than those experienced in the fall,” Lombardi wrote in the email

It is unclear by how much CAPS reduced its wait periods University spokesperson Sharon Dittman said the University will respond to The Su n ’ s i n q u i r y re

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n g mental health issues “in the near future ”

CAPS director Gregor y T Eells admitted to the

St u d e n t A s s e m b l y i n Januar y that the demand for mental health resources far outstrips the ser vices

p r ov i d e d b y C A P S employees at levels unseen since 1996

“The impact of these hires has been immediate, as wait periods for this semester are shorter ” Ryan Lombardi

“ Un f o r t u n a t e l y, l a s t semester wait times were l o n g e r t h a n w e w a n t e d them to be for other student needs While we aim to schedule all brief phone assessments within one business day, the wait time was often several days,” Eells told The Sun in an email in Januar y “And while we aim to schedule all non-urgent appointments within two weeks, last semester students sometimes had to wait several weeks to a month to see a counselor,” Eells added CAPS seeks to add two more counseling positions to further shrink wait time, Lombardi said

“ We realize that demand will continue to grow, ” Lombardi wrote “As such, we will be adding two additional therapy staff positions in CAPS with recruitment beginning immediately ”

In Januar y, the Cornell Chronicle, which is run by the University, issued a statement reaffirming Cornell’s commitment to strengthening its mental health ser vices for students One of the University’s top three priorities for the semester involved “matching CAPS staffing levels with community expectations for timeliness and frequency of care ”

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Collegetown last fall, Black Students United demanded that the University hire two more p

September It is unclear whether these new positions will be staffed by people of color

However, the Januar y University press release stated that another one of its priorities was “recruiting and retaining talented health care

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Military Women Share Experiences With ‘Systematic Biases’

By JACOB WEXLER Sun Staff Writer

Major Amanda L Minikus J D ’15 was in Afghanistan when she received her acceptance letter to Cornell

“I was in this craphole,” she said, referring to where she was stationed in Afghanistan “I was like ‘[Cornell] looks like a magical kingdom’ rolling grassy hills and a beautiful clock tower ”

Minikus and five other militar y women, four of whom are current or former Cornell graduate students, spoke in a panel honoring Women’s Histor y Month on Wednesday

The six women answered a series of questions about their personal experiences in the militar y, at Cornell and the process of “overcoming systematic biases to pave the way for future generations of women ”

Fleet Master Chief April D Beldo, Minikus, Lt Alicia Jane Flanagan grad, Capt Molly Heath, recruiting flight commander for Cornell’s Air Force Reser ve Officers’ Training Corps, Shannon Boyle grad and Natoshia C Spruill MBA ’14 participated in the panel

The panel members all gave a range of different reasons for joining the militar y Spruill had family members in the ser vice; Beldo desired more “ structure and discipline” in her life; Minikus wanted to ser ve after witnessing the 9/11 attack

“Sept 11 was in my senior year at high school,” Minikus recounted “ That directed me I wanted to do

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something about it ”

“ The United States Naval Academy also had a really nice swimming pool,” Minkus added, who captained the academy’s varsity women ’ s swim team

A ser vice member since 1983, Beldo recounted the times she faced sexism while in the navy One time, her commanding officer told her, “I don’t want an aviator I don’t want a female ” “ That was a challenge,” she said “You are making a decision without even knowing what I can bring to the table ”

Beldo said that, while the encounter was discouraging, she did not ask to be reassigned and continued on in her assignment with an “I will show you ” attitude

Spruill and Boyle, who are both mothers, commented

on the difficulty of balancing their ser vice, studies and children

“ There are always trade-offs,” Boyle said “It’s how you choose to prioritize ”

But despite the sexism her fellow colleagues faced, Minikus argued that ultimately “people follow good people,” regardless of “whether you ’ re female, male, white, black, hispanic ”

The panel members agreed that female ser vice members are becoming more accepted within the militar y

“I think the Air Force has done a good job of tr ying to create a supportive environment for women, ” Heath said

Cornell Alumna May Become First Native Women in Congress

By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Assistant Managing Editor

Sharice Davids J D ’10 is hoping to make history on election night

Running for Congress in Kansas’ third district, if elected, D id would be the first female American representativ Congress and the first ope representative from Kansas

“I didn’t realize that hadn’t been a Nativ women in Congress,” Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, a Native American tribe in Wisconsin, said “I was kind of blown away by that, actually ”

“I mean, it’s 2018,” Davids added “We’re still having firsts?”

While the historic nature of her electoral victory did not factor into Davids’ decisionmaking, she did acknowledge the historical significance of her campaign Davids announced her campaign on Feb 15, entering a packed field of six other D atic candidates with no clear fronr The winner of the Democratic r y will face incumbent Rep n Yoder (R-Kan ) in November Andrea Ramsey, who had peared to be the frontrunner, ended her campaign in December 2017 after the Kansas City Star questioned her on a 2005 lawsuit in which a male subordinate accused her of sexually harassing and then firing him

“I felt there was a void after [Ramsey] left,” she said, referencing the lack of women in the race following Ramsey’s departure “I looked at the field of

candidates and thought I have the skill set and the qualifications to do this job and I think I bring a unique and interesting experience to the race ”

“To be frank,” Davids said, “I think we should have a woman in every single race ”

While law school can seem daunting to many, Davids said her time at Cornell was when she “hit [her] stride in life ”

In fact, Davids met her campaign finance director in law school

“I loved my time at the law school, I felt like I really grew, not just academically and professionally, but just meeting people who had different perspectives,” she said As for her platform, Davids is focused on gun safety, health care reform, immigration reform and public education While she hopes Congress will act on some of these issues before the next session, she said that she didn’t “have a strong reason to believe” that action would be taken

“There are all kinds of [policies] that just don’t make sense and we haven’t seen any

S.A. to Host Diversity Summit With 9 Student Organizations

By STACEY BLANSKY Sun Staff Writer

The inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Summit will bring together leaders of student organizations on March 18 to share strategies and possible challenges to making Cornell a more accepting community

The event will consist of a series of workshops led by nine Cornell organizations, including Outdoor Odyssey, the International Students Union and the Cornell Women’s Resource Center

Mayra Valadez ’18, vice president of diversity and inclusion for the Student Assembly, will be spearheading the event and said that she invited organizations that were not usually associated with diversity and inclusion to approach the topic of inclusivity from a new angle

“The burden is placed on multicul-

tural organizations,” Valadez said “My idea was to bring together student organizations that you wouldn’t necessarily think about when you hear ‘diversity and inclusion ’”

She mentioned that, although the summit has been in the works since before fall, student offenses that occurred last semester made this event especially timely

“Last semester, we saw a lot of events shake our campus that were unprecedented and it was hard to think about how we could respond to those events as a student body,”

Valadez said “[The event] is a way that the S A , in particular, can bring together leaders of byline organizations and other organizations on campus that are doing really good things ”

According to Valadez, the organizations will collaborate with one another and have full autonomy in regards to

the topics they choose to present to attendees, as long as they acknowledge intersectionality and cater to students that their organization does not directly represent

“We have a lot to learn from our peers and this is an opportunity for these organizations to put on their own individual workshops,” Valadez said Valadez explained that, while organizations are created to further the agenda of their own academic or socio-cultural goals, they inherently influence how their members interact with their peers

She hopes that attendees of the conference will come out with the knowledge that they have the autonomy to change their organizations from within

According to Deepa Saharia ’18, diversity chair for Outdoor Odyssey, the mentality that Outdoor Odyssey lacks

action on them,” she said Davids, who was a white house fellow in the final year of the Obama Administration, graduated from Johnson County Community College and later the University of Missouri-Kansas City Davids, who was last in Ithaca for her reunion weekend, will be returning to Cornell on March 23 to speak to the Women’s Law Coalition on the importance of women “supporting each other ” The next day, she will speak at the Tribal Economic Summit on how to “[navigate] tribal issues in the new administration ” “I bring a new perspective that was missing in this race That is missing in Congress and throughout all levels of our government, ” Davids said “I don't just speak for women, for working-class families, and for minorities I speak as a woman, as a member of the working class, and as a minority ”

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An elderly female was hit by a motor vehicle Wednesday evening at the corner of West Buffalo Street and North Geneva Street

According to an Ithaca Police Department press release, a “personal injury motor vehicle accident” occurred at 6:21 p m IPD, Bangs Ambulance and the Ithaca Fire Department responded to the accident “ The pedestrian is being transported to [Cayuga Medical Center,] but other than that, she’s fine,” Ithaca Police Sgt Matthew Cowen told The Sun

According to the IPD press release, a motor vehicle making a turn onto North Geneva Street struck the pedestrian as she was walking on a crosswalk IPD gave the car ’ s driver a uniformed traffic ticket for “failing to yield right of way ” Compiled by Anne Snabes

Field of Democratic Congressional Candidates Criticizes Rep. Tom Reed,

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teacher, said he doubted Reed had talked to "constituents to actually get to know them ” Last March, Tom Reed spoke

to community members at the Southside Community Center in Ithaca and was greeted by protesters, The Sun previously reported

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President Donald Trump’s administration, as well After catalogu-

ing his history of public service, Della Pia concluded his opening statement by saying that “certainly, qualifications alone do not necessarily dictate who gets elected, otherwise we wouldn't have the president we have,” provoking

laughter from the audience

After opening remarks, several previously-selected questions were posed to the panel, asking about topics ranging from state relationships with Cayuga Indians to gun control Each candidate was allotted a specific amount of time per question

Mi t r a n o e n t e re d t h e e ve n t with the highest poll ranking a c c o rd i n g t o t h e To m p k i n s County Democratic Committee online straw poll, followed by Della Pia and Golden, respectively

A f t e r t h e e ve n t , Mi t r a n o

attributed her success to a combination of personality and policy and compared herself to the current and previous U S presidents “ Ob a m a p ro m i s e d p e o p l e hope, and then he got confronted with that terrible economic situation, and he wasn ’ t able to deliver on it, [though] he did his best,” Mitrano said “Trump came in and he preyed on the resentment of the people who felt so disappointed I’m not interested in encouraging people’s resentment

I’m offering opportunity ”

When asked about her appeal to university students specifically, Mitrano discussed the increasing burden of college debt

“This country doesn’t seem to understand that the cost of college education is a policy issue

not an individual one I’ve been talking about zero percent [student] loans since before some of t h e s e c a n d i d a t e s we re b o r n , ”

Mitrano said

As candidates and their staffers mingled with students after the event in the Ivy Room, Andrei discussed health care policy, while Sundquist offered his opinion on Ithaca roads Mitrano, while sharing her views on bipartisanship in Washington, said, “I just got a d o n a t i o n o f $ 5 0 0 f ro m a Republican yesterday and that isn’t my first ”

The Democratic primary will be held on June 26 As a closed p r i m a

re d Democrats will be able to vote to nominate a candidate, who will go on to challenge Reed in the general election in November

According to Runge, the candidates have said they will support the nominee, whomever that may be

The Cornell Democrats will likely endorse a candidate closer t o Ju n

Ru n g e

Although she couldn’t specifically identify a candidate yet, she said the event helped, and that they would make the decision after “ more research and getting to know the candidates better ”

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun com

Muslim Chaplain Pushes for Halal Food Options in

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Cornell Dining Halls

“ We c a n c re a t e s o m e t h i n g dynamic, robust and beautiful,” Ahmed added “This is an opportunity to be a model for how to build a thriving Muslim community, or any holistic community on a college campus ”

A h m e d w h o s t u d i e d a t Hartford Seminary to become a c h a p l a i n , p re v i o u s l y s e r ve d a s chaplain at multiple schools in Connecticut, including Trinity College, Choate Rosemary Hall and Medina Academy

A c h a p l a i n w h o p rov i d e d Ahmed with spiritual guidance in college while he felt lost inspired him to become a chaplain himself, Ahmed said

“When I was in college I had a lot of friends with mental health issues, and I started looking for answers to the questions that were inside my heart,” he said “I found the space to ask those questions with a chaplain, and I realized that we needed more chaplains on campus, especially within the Muslim community ” Ahmed leveraged the Jewish c o m m u n i t y ’ s c o n n e c t i o n f o r obtaining kosher food to introduce Halal dining options, started a freshman support group and promoted student-led sermons d u r i n g we e k l y s e r v i c e s s i n c e August

But despite consistently advocating for the interests of Muslims on campus, Ahmed said that the c h a p l a i n ’ s j o b i s n o t j u s t t o “ answer everyone ’ s needs, but to facilitate their needs” by taking advantage of Cornell’s resources

“The more people I meet, the

more people can give specific advice I feel like I’ve tapped into not even one percent of the institutional resources in terms of the people here and the incredible experiences they bring to the table,” he said

Ahmed said that the most rewarding part of his job has been counseling students

“The way we talk about life at Cornell is often about surviving rather than thriving,” he said “When someone can come in and say ‘I’m struggling’ and to be there for them is the most meaningful thing I experience here ”

Syed Samin ’19, president of t h e Mu s l i m Ed u c a t i o n a l a n d Cultural Association, said Ahmed has grown MECA’s reach and allowed the organization to host “ great speakers” in lectures

"We're really happy to finally be able to say we have a chaplain,” Samin said “Yasin's been a great resource for many students on campus, providing pastoral care and spiritual advice, and creating programs and initiatives to address the salient problems facing our community ”

Looking to the future, Ahmed

p l a n s t o c o n t i n u e d e ve l o p i n g community service missions, such as a Habitat for Humanity project in collaboration with Protestant and Catholic groups He hopes that Cornell will be able to grow a diverse Muslim chaplain team to address a variety of issues

“I’m still learning the landscape, but I’m even more hopeful about our future after our first semester, ” Ahmed said “There’s so much possibility here ”

Emily Yang can be reached at eyang@cornellsun com

CAPS Adds 2 Therapy Positions

professionals, particularly underrepresented minority staff ”

The third priority was “investing in other key elements of the comprehensive approach to support student well-being, campus health and safety,” according to the Chronicle

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“Coalition on Mental Health” with students, faculty and staff participation under the leadership of Skorton Center, which is tasked with developing mental h

Wednesday’s email

“We know Cornellians struggle, too, ” Lombardi said in the January Chronicle article “We take this seriously, and are committed to supporting our students’ mental health and wellbeing at Cornell While we have made great strides and many i m p rove m

more ”

The student-led, independent mental health task force launched in February will also take part in

the coalition, Natalie Brown ’18, co-chair of the task force, said “We were honored to be invited and we ' re optimistic about the great work this coalition can do,” Brown said “With students, faculty and administrators together, we can move forward to improving systems of mental health on campus ” L

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“We conducted two student surveys about services at Cornell Health in 2017, but the new surve

those students who utilize CAPS This will provide new and more specific data that will help to inform our practices moving forward,” Lombardi wrote in the Wednesday email

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answered that they have been “unable to function academically for at least a week due to depression, stress or anxiety” in the latest 2017 PULSE survey

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun com Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun com

S.A. Summit to Promote Diversity

mentality that Outdoor Odyssey lacks an obvious connection to issues of identity or equality is problematic and should not stop organizations in a similar position from occupying space within the diversity community

“It is still part of the way in which a lot of groups on campus function,” Saharia said “The reason that we are connected to it is the reason that all people are connected to issues of inclusion and identity ”

She said that, as the diversity chair within an organization, recognizing the power of institutional change is important because individuals are constantly participating in institutions in order to survive in our society

“It is important for organizations to recognize their capacity to make people more conscientious,” Saharia said “My goal with improving the diversity program with Odyssey is to give myself and my peers in the program the capacity to follow through in our time at Cornell, and in our lives beyond that ”

Dean Xu ’18, ISU president, said his organization wants to

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raise awareness to all students across campus, not solely international students, because the organization is tr ying to speak to diversity in a broader sense

“We wanted to talk about how to better engage international students on campus and also how we, as the International Student Union, can engage more students that don’t identify themselves as international,” Xu said “We do realize that there is a lot of intersectionality across the community ”

Xu said that, while most of ISU’s member are international, many of them are also involved in other organizations on campus, allowing them to generate new ideas based on the diversity of thought

“A lot of our members are very involved in other organizations that deal with other communities as well, and can provide a perspective on how we can improve in connecting those communities,”

Xu said “The change starts when different people in the same community get together, and that is represented through student organizations ”

Stacey Blansky can be reached at sblansky@cornellsun com

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IKelly Song | The Songbird Sings

Female Leaders Aren’t Bitches

already know how this will go I’m standing up to deliver a speech in front of an organization’s executive board, my name adorning the title of president, but my face screaming something else to the panel that eyes me with raised eyebrows I’m petitioning a policy yet again I’m angr y, I’m invigorated, I’m explosive I get a few eye rolls Someone clears their throat

The familiar feeling of shame washes over me Am I being overly emotional,

The familiar feeling of shame washes over me. Am I being overly emotional, am I causing unwanted drama?

to them, makes ever yone stop and listen Even me I am leaning in, I am absorbing ever y word, because I know they are right, they are saying things I would say too

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watched my female friends stand up in the same fashion, with the same words of fairness poised on their tongues, with the same altr uistic motives as the man sitting next to them They have read the same number of books before delivering this h have practiced in gy bathroom mire same thousands

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am I causing unwanted drama? I pause mid-sentence Standing there with a collared shir t and my hair falling over my face, I am overcome by the familiar sense of being unjustified to hold my place at the head of the table I am stepping out of line, I am being overbearing, I know it I sit down

Ever y female leader has spent her life tr ying to walk the fine line of being bold but not bitchy, driven but not anal and kind but not a pushover She has juggled tr ying to be sociable but not fake, passionate but not neurotic, focused but not hard-headed But tr ying to find that line time and time again has broken something vulnerable, has made so many young girls curl in a corner of a room and wonder what is wrong with them; ask themselves why they are problematic no matter how hard they tr y That line is almost impossible for anyone to walk on, and anyone who tries is destined to fall; but we will get back to that line time and time again, so often that we forget we are even doing it

My best friend who works with me on an eboard asked me a month ago why I am “ so soft” about ever ything He asked me this because we constantly stay up until 3 a m venting about the same issues, peppered with the same expletives and exasperated sighs “ Why can ’ t you just tell this stuff to the board?” he kept asking me

I didn’t know how to answer him for t h e l o n g e s t t i m e My h a l f - h e a r t e d responses were that I might lose my respect as a leader, that people might think I’m being negative, that it might r uin my friendships And finally when he asked me again one night, I said, “Because they’ll think I’m bitchy ”

My answer didn’t make me think twice It felt like a natural answer, like a matter of fact, no angr y connotation intended It wasn ’ t until I sat on my bed the next night and thought about our conversation, when I realized, why is it that I have never thought of him that way? Why is it when he speaks out with the same concerns, he is passionate, he is determined, but I am afraid they will think of me as crazy?

Time and time again I have watched my male colleagues stand up, face heated and eyes focused, demanding justice and fairness They pound their fist down or simply sit at their seat and raise their voice by a notch I have seen how it quiets down a room, pulls ever yone closer

pissed ever yone off, when her colleague will be renowned for what he has done?

There is something about a woman ’ s anger that is perceived as territorial Defensive Negative When they raise our voice they are nagging, when they point a finger they are aggressive I have heard ever y type of description for ever y female leader that has stood her ground: anal, type-A, neurotic, crazy

We pledge that we are not anti-feminists, that we would never say such a thing Yet how thoroughly has this discriminating mentality become ingrained that even my own female friends believe it, that I answered my friend, “they’ll t h i n k I ’ m b i t c h” s o n a t u r a l l y ? How much has this sentiment seeped into our subconscious that even I believed it as I stood at the table, and the other women sitting at the table believed it too? How many times have we watched one of our

Men and women alike have come to believe this perception that our female leaders are too emotional.

woman colleagues and cringed because we think she is too nitpicky, she is too aggressive?

We are all contributing to this dialogue This is not a play on a gender card This is not a let’s-bash-on-males card either This is a reality card; men and women alike have come to believe this perception that our female leaders a r e t o o e m o t i o n a l Pe r h a p s w h e n a woman stands up at the table, she feels the same wave of anger as the man next to her Perhaps it is because she is “ emotional,” or she feels aggressive, but what if she has a good reason to be? It just takes a moment to listen to her, to learn from her, to give her the same chance as we do our male leaders Anyone should be able stand up for themselves and be seen as outspoken and vir tuous and bold But why is it only that half of us are right now?

Kelly Song is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached

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Athought, to appease those who can ’ t or don’t eat gluten But for many Gorgers regulars, it’s the star of the show

Be a Man (Salad)

bed of fries A blanket of meat or fried eggplant or seitan (a wheat-based meat substitute) Fruits and vegetables for flavor A sauce or dressing Maybe a sprinkling of cheese

This is the “ man salad,” a specialty of the downtown sandwich shop Gorgers Though they are known for their fun and filling sandwiches, Gorgers will ditch their gloriously fluffy loaves of bread for a base of french fries at your request

Dimly lit with classic teenage bedroom posters along one wall, Gorgers conveys a laid-back ambiance From the bench made of snowboards to the oven fan plastered with stickers, something within this establishment is sure to catch your eye Perusing the chalkboard menu, you can smell cooking fats and hear classic rock or hip hop; this is your ideal sub shop

At the bottom of their menu,

t u c k e d a w a y l i k e a f o o t n o t e , Gorgers asks, “Gluten Free?” then suggests that you “ Tr y any of [their] subs as a Ma n S al a d ” On their menu, it looks like an after-

The teriyaki man salad, with seitan (subbed for chicken) on top of fries and coated with teriyaki sauce, was flavorful, and the addition of roasted pineapple chunks and caramelized onions added little bursts of moisture, sweetness and tanginess The texture of the seitan strips was a little spongy, but it was probably the best meat substitute for the job

The chimichurri man salad steak with onions, lettuce and the chimichurri sauce that gives the dish its name was similarly tasty The sauce to fries ratio was balanced, so that the fries were neither dry nor soggy That said, the meat was nicely cooked but cut into miniscule pieces that made them hard to reach with a fork, especially given the comparatively large fries that lay beneath Past the challenge of eating it, it was immensely enjoyable

T h e m a n s a l a d i s a g o o d gluten-free option, but it’s still j

onto fries It turns into a heaping mess of oily materials coated in a sauce of your choice, but what’s so bad about that? The combina-

tions are generally good, with a wide variety of fillings and sauces that complement each other

When you order this item, you (should) know what you ’ re getting into

It’s called a man salad

We had to look someone in the eyes and ask him for a “ man salad ” It was flat out degrading

numerous benefits of eating fresh greens every once in a while

We love Gorgers We really do

It’s across the street from the The Sun’s office, and their fries, subs, and flatbread and hummus fuel our late nights However, the name “ man salad” is truly abhorrent, and we hope to see the day when none of Gorgers’ menu items are gendered

Serves: hunky sandwiches

Vibe: masculine

Price: $

Rating: ½

Rating once you remember it’s called a man salad: 3 5 – 2 = ½

Manliness After Eating:

d a t i n g

The sheer magnitude of this d i s h i s a l i t t l e i n t i m

Multiple potatoes ’ worth you can watch the cook cut them yourself of fries and the contents of a 12-inch sub is no starter or light lunch It’s enough for a big dinner and lunch the next day, and for $10, that’s not half bad

After making it approximately h a l f w a y t h ro u g h t h i s c o l o s s a l meal, Megan remarked, “Really, the name ’ s the only thing holding me back ” Oh Right

From where does the man salad earn its virility? Are only m e n c a p a b l e o f h a n d l i n g t h e excessive volume of food, or its high concentration of carbohydrates and fats? Must men be exempt from the light and nutritious pleasure that is a healthy and well-balanced salad? Is the “salad” itself a man?

It’s worth noting that Gorgers does have salads Normal ones with real lettuce and everything We h o p e t h a t t h e m e n w h o saunter into Gorgers feel safe and supported buying these salads, a n d t h a t t h e y a p p re c i a t e t h e

Megan: on a scale of one to overt sexism: way too confident

Katie: on a scale of zero to 20 hours per week in the gym: seven, but talking about it all the time

Associate Editor Katie Sims is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Projects

Editor Megan Roche is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences They can be reached at ksims@cornellsun com and projects-editor@cornellsun com respectively

The Inside Tip on How to Tip Like a Pro

By CATHERINE HORNG Sun Staff Writer

As a m e d i n i n g h a l l s a n d

cafes around campus; their set menus often lead to predictable and repetitive meals ever y day

While these campus eateries are

d e f i n i t e l y a t t r a c t i ve t o m a n y students who can just swipe their way into the all-you-caneat halls or utilize their tax-free Big Red Bucks, some days eat-

i n g i n C o l l e g e t o w n o r t h e Commons can be the solution to your food woes However, e a t i n g o f f - c a m p u s a l m o s t always comes at a price: the cost of a tip

While giving out a little gra-

a l r e a d y p a i d for your meal

m a y n o t b e ve r y c o m m o n in other countries, tipping is a c o m m o n cour tesy in the Un i t e d St a t e s and something

er or waitress alone; tips are o f t e n p o o l e d a n d h e l p o u t workers behind the scenes such a s b u s b oy s , r u n n e r s o r b a rtenders Consider your meal as a whole by remembering how clean the table was, how courteous your hostess was and the q u a l i t y o f t h e m e a l i t s

l f A d d i t i o n

wage for employees that receive tips is much lower than the s t a n d a r d m i n

w a g e , meaning they often rely on tips to make a reasonable living To give a 20 percent tip, simply divide your pre-tax total by five For 15 percent, a little more math is required: move t h

t a x total to the left, divide that in half and add that to the number you got before you divided it in half These n

“As college students, most of us have little pocket money to spend, but tipping is not the place for us to cut back ”

t h a t m y p a re n t s u s e d t o take care of whenever I ate out with them When eating out

w i t h f r i e n d s , I w o u l d a l l ow them to calculate the required tip and thre w in however much they told me I owed When I first left home to go to Cornell, I also left behind my parents ’

a n d f r i e n d s ’ k n o w l e d g e o f

e x a c t l y h o w m u c h t o t i p

Though many restaurants now

o f t e n p r i n t o u t t h e r e c o mmended tip on their receipts, this is not necessarily tr ue for a l l re s t a u r a n t s i n t h e It h a c a community

Ti p p i n g c a n b e v e r y straightfor ward; however, figuring out what amount is considered appropriate can be fairly tedious There are even apps dedicated to figuring out just how much to tip But instead

o f u s i n g u p t h a t p r e c i o u s phone storage space, here are some tips on how to tip like a pro For restaurants, tips usually range from 15 to 20 percent, depending on how good the ser vice was If your ser ver was neglectful or r ude, 15 percent is sufficient If you were par t of a rather large par ty, such as a club gathering, and your ser ver h a d t o d e a l w i t h a r ow d i e r group, be a little more gratuitous Consider factors such as how friendly they were, how f a s t t h e y b r o u g h t y o u y o u r m e a l , w h e t h e r o r n o t t h e y c h e c k e d o n y o u d u r i n g t h e meal or if they annoyed you by checking too much

Remember, tips should not reflect the ser vice of your wait-

amount of tip to add to the e n t

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i n between is also c o n s

d e r e d a c c e p t a b l e I f you don’t want to calculate the e x a c t a m o u n t ( a s d i v i d i n g $19 74 by five can be difficult), always round up; the ser vers d e s e r v e a l i t t l e m o r e r a t h e r than a little less

When you order meals to go, whoever brings the food to your door is entitled to a little extra After all, they likely had to find parking, tr udge in the snow and find the right door to knock on, all so that you could get some hot chow mein from A p o l l o ’ s i n a r e a s o n a b l e amount of time For orders $20 or less, tip a minimum of $3, even if that means tipping 25 percent for a $12 order For larger orders, tip the standard 15 to 20 percent For more inconvenient orders placed in the middle of bad weather or when the restaurant is far ther away give a little more, as they had to r ush over so that you could eat in the comfor t of your dorm or apar tment

As college students, most of us have little pocket money to spend, but tipping is not the place for us to cut back The restaurant business is a fastpaced, stressful industr y whose workers sacrifice their comfor t for ours Fur thermore, many students have entered the service industr y in order to pay for college, and even if you a r e n ’ t i n t h e i n d u s t r y n o w, many of these ser vers could be yo u r c l a s s m a t e s , s o d o n ’ t b e stingy

Catherine Horng is a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences She can be reached at ch756@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Fighting The Good Fight in Trump’s America

BY ASHLEY DAVILA Sun Staff Writer

The stakes are real and authentic in The Good Fight on CBS All Access This rawness is visible in the show’s opening sequence, which intersplices explosions of luxury items like aged Scotch and Birkin bags with footage of top news stories, including Trump’s criticizing the media and the rally in Charlottesville The show’s connection to current America is even deeper than just these references Each episode is give the title “Day XXX,” which represents the number of days Trump has been in office as each episode airs

This show does not attempt to escape or shy away from reality as some other shows do, but rather embraces the uneasiness and division within the real world Politics plays just as vital a role as the main characters in moving the plot forward This show mainly follows three female leads with totally different perspectives: Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) and Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie)

Diane is a lawyer and a fierce supporter of women ' s rights for many years At the start of the show, she was poised to retire to France but is forced to find a new job after losing all her money in a Madoff-esque ponzi scheme concocted by Maia’s father Maia is Diane’s goddaughter and her parents were billion dollar hedge fund managers (pre-Ponzi scheme) Now, she is trying to balance her family’s scandal, life with her girlfriend and a new career Both Diane and Maia find work at an all-black law firm called Reddick and Boseman Lucca is an associate at that same firm who acts as a mentor and lawyer to Maia

The first episode of the second season opens at the funeral for famed Civil Rights lawyer and name partner Carl Reddick (Louis Gossett Jr ) His daughter Liz Reddick (played by Broadway star Audra McDonald) quits her job as

Shay Collins

Sorority Noise’s March 2 release YNAAYT is almost entirely composed of stripped-down songs from their 2017 release You’re Not as as You Think Many bands have released essential demo, remastered or acoustic albums Some present wholly new takes on fan-favorite songs Others let listeners peek behind inside the recording process and hear the band play around with yet to be finished tracks

YNAAY T doesn’t provide any such insights or revelations It feels rushed and underdeveloped, lacking new melodies and interesting ideas At the end of last year, a Spotify recap told me that I listened to Sorority Noise more than any other band in 2017, largely thanks to You’re Not as as You Think So I’m certain that something other than songwriting prowess is amiss on YNAAYT

The main problem with the album is Sorority Noise’s deviation from an approach that worked consistently Since their 2013 formation, the emo quartet has excelled at pairing angst-ridden lyrics with crushing riffs Consider “Using,” one of the band’s biggest hits from their 2015 release Joy, Departed Vocalist/guitarist Cameron Boucher sings about going back to smoking and abusing drugs, but also learning how to “love more myself before anyone else / Become more than just a burden ” Boucher concludes the song with a declaration of selflove: “I know I’m more than worthy of your

United States Attorney because she was admonished for tweeting that Trump is racist During Carl Reddick’s eulogy, another lawyer says he was “born when Nazis were marching in the streets and died when Nazis were marching in the streets ” The show continues to remind the viewers that the stakes are real, especially for minorities

At the close of the last season, Maia’s father, Henry (Paul Guilfoyle), evaded prison, which caused Maia to be arrested This season, she is out on bail with a tracking device and an impending trial date Guest star Jane Lynch plays antagonistic FBI agent Madeleine Starkey, who hopes to catch Maia in a lie and find Henry At the funeral, Starkey presents Maia with a picture of a woman supposedly helping her father withdraw money from an account in Abu Dhabi and also a taped conversation between Maia’s father and a woman laden with sexual content Maia’s memory is triggered and we see her remember flashes of this woman as her tennis instructor She remembers her in part because she was attracted to her, but now sees that she missed the fact her father was having an affair with this woman Starkey tells Maia that if she helps the FBI find her father she will not face trial

One of the scenes that shows what The Good Fight does best is when the Lucca and the firm’s private investigator, Jay (Nyambi Nyambi), show Maia how the recording she heard of her father was faked They demonstrate how voices can be manipulated showing her the same sexually explicit dialogue, except with the voices of Maia’s father, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence Jay reminds Maia and the viewer that new technology exists that allow conversations to be manipulated He pointedly says “mistrust everything ” This warning about the dangers of technology is ever-present in the show and also transfers to fears of the world around us Diane Lockhart had previously embodied “the good fight” by first being the name partner at her old firm, then by bravely facing her setbacks and finding a new firm But she has seen so much loss in her own world she is seemingly unraveling

time” over a high-energy emo arrangement Sorority Noise hit their stride on You’re Not as as You Think The album kicks off with the anthemic “No Halo” (a song title I’ve been on the fence about getting tattooed for months), and only pauses its breakneck pace with “First Letter from St Sean” and its lo-fi conclusion, “New Room ” The album’s best moment, however, comes just after the two-minute mark in “A Better Sun ” The band repeats an ebbing beat for the first half-or-so of the song Boucher shouts out some of his emo contemporaries, alluding to Julien Baker’s “Sprained Ankle,” Modern Baseball’s “Just Another Face” and Into It Over It ’ s “P R O P E R ” Then, after an anxious and hilarious line “This is the part where I did cocaine / To impress every one of my mouth breathing friends” a massive hole turns into the sky out of nowhere, raining down volcanic ash At least, that’s what it felt like the first time I heard “A Better Sun ” A distorted pick slide ushers in layers of wall-of-sound guitar and bass, filling the entire sonic field

But the raw emotion of “A Better Sun” is nowhere to be found in the YNAAYT rearrangement of the song Adam Ackerman’s organ anchors the take from the beginning and, dynamically, the whole song goes nowhere On You’re Not as as You Think, producer Mike Sapone (Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Cymbals Eat Guitars)

and numb to new developments in this second season At the end of the funeral, as she retreats to the back of a town car after micro-dosing on mushrooms, she stares into the stars with a sense of wonder In this moment, Diane seems to take on a different persona: one that cares less and isn’t as enraged

This shift should make for an interesting new season and fresh character arc

The Good Fight embraces rich storytelling in a way that many shows do not, making the conscious choice to elevate the narratives of highly successful women in the legal field

These stories just so happen to also be the stories of those who are often demeaned: a woman of color and a gay woman, for example These multifaceted characters are uplifted and allowed to be different and utterly flawed, thanks to witty dialogue It makes me hopeful to see new television shows that are not afraid to acknowledge the world in which we live Our current political climate demands that people engage in conversation and this show helps start it

Ashley Davila is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at amd395@cornell edu

O O T E S T S P I N S

crafted balanced, but explosive, songs Listen, for example, to the perfect placement of the bass that comes in 40 seconds into “Car ”

However, Boucher mixed and recorded YNAAYT, and the whole album sounds flat Whereas every track on You’re Not as as You Think stacked up tension that often came crashing down all at once, most of the tracks on YNAAYT fail to build tension in the first place They’re beautiful and wellwritten songs; I loved them on You’re Not as as You Think, after all But YNAAYT will leave any listener who’s heard Sorority Noise’s previous releases wanting more A pressing question: why did Sorority Noise release YNAAYT almost exactly a year after You’re Not as as You Think? Demo and rearranged albums can give fans a way to revisit long-beloved or long-forgotten albums Death Cab for Cutie released Transatlanticism Demos a decade after their breakthrough Transatlanticism’ s release Brand New put out Leaked Demos 2006 in 2016 And Sorority Noise waited a year? Stated otherwise, I’m not sure I see a place for YNAAY T in Sorority Noise’s discography

But the album is not completely without high points “Chelsea Hotel No 2” is a poignant, atmospheric take on Leonard Cohen’s wry ballad Even given the talents who have recorded the song Lana Del Rey, Rufus Wainwright Sorority Noise’s

version feels unique and worth revisiting Additionally, the band’s sunken, reverberant take on “Leave the Fan On” feels subtler and more haunting than the distorted, drumheavy original version

Still, Sorority Noise probably would have done better to hold on to the songs that did hit the mark and add them to a later anthology There are diamonds in YNAAYT, but you’ll have to sit through a lot of rough music to get to them To be fair, every album is not for every listener I have long preferred Sorority Noise’s fleshed-out, full band releases Forgettable, Joy, Departed, You’re Not as as You Think to their acoustic one It Kindly Stopped For Me

In the end, Sorority Noise announced that they will be taking a hiatus following their upcoming tour with Remo Drive Maybe the group is taking a needed creative break Maybe this will be the last Sorority Noise release we ever hear After listening to YNAAYT, though, (and I say this selfishly, considering that I already have my ticket to see them on tour) a hiatus may be welcome for the group, if only artistically YNAAYT sounds like a band without many new ideas unnecessarily rehashing recent material

Shay Collins is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com

Laxers Use Hot Start to Dominate Binghamton

Petterson scores 5 goals, Piatelli adds 4 as Red beats up on Bearcats for 2nd win of season

By JACK KANTOR and DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sun Sports Editor

Cornell men ’ s lacrosse was a force to be reckoned with on Tuesday night

Just two days after notching his first career goal against Albany, freshman attack John Piatelli led the way for the Red, notching four goals and a pair of assists in Cornell’s 182 victory over the Bearcats at Schoellkopf Field

“I was just waiting to get that first [goal],” Piatelli said “Once I got that first one, that gave me a lot of confidence I got a lot of selfless teammates and I just finish when I can ”

Junior attack Clarke Petterson added five goals of his own, while sophomore standout Jeff Teat, the Red’s leading scorer, put up a relatively quiet three points on the day

“Teams have been pushing on Jeff; they know how much of threat he is,” Petterson said “I think we are a really wellrounded group and if they [shift on] Jeff, it just leaves more space for the five of us to work on the field ”

After a slow start to the season fundamentally, Cornell (2-2) executed the basics well on Tuesday

“Overall it was a great, complete game, ” said interim head coach Peter Milliman “We were really proud of the way we played throughout, intensity stayed consistent right up until the end ”

The Red jumped out of the gate with a dominant first half, putting up 10 straight goals on Binghamton (0-6) to start the night

While the team struggled with the clear in its first few games, Cornell seemed to finally find its groove, executing 21 of 22 clears against the Bearcats

“There was a level of patience today,” Milliman said “We’ve been working on them pretty hard and making sure we [take] time to let the clear develop ”

With the lead growing throughout the contest, the Red opted to substitute out its starters entering the final quarter and managed to notch two scores with its reserves

“We finished strong, ” Milliman said “We got some good minutes out of a lot of people and all in all [it was] a good

season

answer to Sunday’s [loss to Albany] ”

“We were hungry to get back out on the field,” Petterson added “This Tuesday game for us was the best thing that could happen ”

Next up for Cornell will be No 20 Penn State on neutral turf at the U S Lacrosse Headquarters

“I think the venue is going to be exciting,” Milliman said “It’s a nice, new venue [U S Lacrosse is] hosting a ton of games down there I think it’s going to draw a different crowd outside of our normal recruiting and playing area ” Milliman’s squad will look to rise above 500 for the first

Icers Host Quinnipiac in Quarters

Cornell plays Bobcats in playoffs for 5th time in 12 years

Continued from page 16

lightly Picked to finish second in the conference in preseason polls, Quinnipiac is getting hot at the right time and is fresh off a series win at Yale in which it dispatched the Bulldogs, 5-1 and 4-1

“You don’t think of them as a ninth seed,” Schafer said “They had some issues throughout the course of the year, but watching them on video they seem to have cleared up a lot of those issues over the last month ”

The Red swept the regular season series with Quinnipiac, earning a 2-1 victory on the road in November when the Red was No 18 in the country and Quinnipiac No 11 and a 1-0 win at Lynah Rink in early January The shutout victory was the Red’s first win over Quinnipiac at Lynah since 2011

The 1-0 win was a crucial turning point in the Cornell crease Senior Hayden Stewart, who had made three straight starts and seemed to have taken over the starting job, sat out with an injury Galajda found out a couple hours before gametime he’d be the starter, made 28 saves in a shutout and ended the job battle for good Stewart didn’t see the ice again until the season finale at Union

“It’s going to be an exciting series,” Galajda said “ We’ve

played them twice this year already and they’ve been two tight games ”

The Bobcats, who have four double-digit goal scorers, have also found recent success between the pipes Their newlyminted starting goaltender freshman Keith Petruzzelli had a 1 72 goals against average in February and posted a 4-1 record He held the Bulldogs to one goal in each of his team ’ s two wins in New Haven

Quinnipiac defenseman

Chase Priskie has eight powerplay goals this season, with three in his last four games Freshman Odeen Tufto leads the team with 32 assists Both have contributed to a strong man-advantage attack

“They like the one-timer and they have Priskie out there with Tufto,” Galajda said of the Quinnipiac power play unit

“Those are two great players, but I don’t think we really change anything, we just kill the way we kill every game ” Even as things got tougher late in the regular season, the hallmark of this year ’ s Cornell team has been its ability to find ways to win

“We only lost four games this year, so I wouldn’t say we ’ re cold,” Schafer said “[Is Quinnipiac] playing well?

They’re playing well, they’re a good hockey team It doesn’t

matter what opponent came in here it really makes no difference ”

Quinnipiac is on a roll, and Schafer said it will be quickly evident whether or not the Red is also playing its best hockey at the right time

“ We’ll find out on Friday night,” Schafer said “I thought going down the stretch drive it was a grind It was a grind with all the injuries, it was a grind to sustain to go to first place and capture that No 1 seeding ”

While Quinnipiac was busy dominating Yale, a bye week gave the Red some much needed rest and healing Schafer said Tuesday he’s hopeful that junior forward and co-captain Mitch Vanderlaan, who missed the last month of the regular season, will suit up this weekend

“[Vanderlaan is] a really great player for the whole sheet of ice, all 200 feet,” Rauter said of his co-captain “So especially with him back I think we’ll be extra lethal ”

Junior defensemen Brendan Smith and Alec McCrea are also healthy, as is freshman forward Cam Donaldson

Game one Friday and game two Saturday are set for 7 p m If necessary, game three will face off at 4 p m Sunday

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun com

time this season against the nationally ranked Nittany Lions (3-2)

“They are very good and we are going to have to be sharp in a lot of areas, ” Milliman said “But if we can compete on the offensive and defensive ends like [against Binghamton] and fight in the middle of the field, scrap the faceoffs, it’s going to be a battle ” Faceoff will be at noon Saturday in Sparks, Maryland

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun com Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun com

Hoopers Hope to Avenge 2 Past Losses to Crimson

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“[The game plan] is going to be getting my teammates going early.”

Tim Morales can be reached at tmorales@cornellsun com

In Role Reversal, No. 2 Red Faces Resurgent Quinnipiac

Top-seeded Cornell takes on 9th-seeded Bobcats in teams ’ 5th quarterfinal meeting in 12 years

In 2016, top-seeded Quinnipiac downed an onthe-rise Cornell team in three hard-fought games in the ECAC quarterfinals after dominating conference play all season This weekend, the roles will be reversed in a matchup between the conference foes

No 2 Cornell (23-4-2, 17-3-2 ECAC), the top seed in the ECAC, will host ninth-seeded Quinnipiac (16-16-4, 9-11-2) in a best-of-three conference quarterfinal series at Lynah Rink this weekend, with the winner advancing to the conference semifinals at Lake Placid

“They were on a roll,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 of the 2015-16 Bobcats, who advanced all the way to the national championship game “They had a great team, we got it going late in the year there There are a lot of similarities right now and we need to be ready things are flip-flopped ”

The Bobcats are a familiar playoff foe for the Red After this weekend, the two squads will have squared off in the quarterfinals four times in the last eight years Each of the last three series between the teams has gone to game three

“It seems like almost every year it’s either Union or Quinnipiac,” said senior forward and captain Alex Rauter “They’re one of our big rivals and the biggest thing is they’re a tough team to play against, just like us It’s chippy, it’s physical, so we need to bring that mentality and play bigger and play smarter ”

In 2016, the eighth-seeded Red, who had posted a ho-hum 8-8-6 conference record, downed Union before falling to Quinnipiac in three games

Despite Quinnipiac’s ninth-place finish in the ECAC this season, Cornell isn’t taking the Bobcats

Game 3 (if needed):

Role reversal | In 2016, an up-and-coming Cornell team pushed top-seeded Quinnipiac to the limits in a hard-fought quarterfinal matchup This weekend, the Red is the ECAC’s best and will host a squad playing its best hockey at the right time

Red Takes on Harvard in Ivy Tourney

the No 4 seed, the team isn’t the favorite to punch its ticket to the Big Dance

NCAA tournament and the loser heads home

“Regardless of what happened this season, we made it in and it’s like a new s e a s o n , ” s a i

Gettings

f y i n g f o r t h e Iv y Tournament last weekend with a win over Dartmouth, two Columbia losses and a Princeton loss, the team is confident in its chances against the top-seeded Crimson and is anxious for redemption

“I think everyone is happy that we made it It’s been a goal of ours to get to the tournament, ” said second year head coach Brian Earl “We’re putting that behind us now and now we ’ re getting back to work with a team that we think can go up pretty well against ”

“This is what we ’ ve been working for all year, ” Gettings said “We knew we just had to make it into the top four ”

With its first goal of the season achieved, the Red will shift its mindset to finishing strong, something the team has struggled with, especially against this Harvard team

Morgan and Gettings, Leaders of PlayoffBound Men’s Basketball, Earn All-Ivy Selections

Just ahead of the Ivy League postseason tournament, Cornell men ’ s basketball was honored with two All-Ivy selections on Tuesday

Junior guard Matt Morgan earned a unanimous first-team selection and classmate Stone Gettings earned a second-team selection Both played major roles in leading a squad ranked sixth in the preseason poll to fourth place and a spot in the conference playoffs

Morgan’s first-team selection comes after two second-team appearances in his freshman and sophomore campaigns The guard once again upped his scoring averages from the previous two years, ending the regular season with 22 6 points, 4 6 rebounds and 3 2 assists per game

A 126 day long season will come down to what could be one final game this Saturday as the Red takes on Harvard in the semifinals of the Ivy League basketball tournament

The Red is two wins away from earning its first NCAA tournament berth since its historic 2010 season in which it advanced to the Sweet Sixteen but, as

The Crimson, who swept the season series between the teams, is the first to stand in the way Ha r va rd w o n t h e f i r s t m a t c h u p thanks to a second-half comeback and emerged victorious in last weekend's contest in double overtime

But none of that matters now, as the winner moves on for a chance at the

“We’ve been there twice, right on the cusp, ” Earl said “[ We] held the lead for most of our first game here and took them to overtime there ”

The Red led Harvard for 14 consecutive minutes in the second half of the first matchup, but lost the lead with

Gettings earned his first All-Ivy selection after a stellar transition from a role player into one of the Red’s top scoring options alongside Morgan The for ward recorded a 39-point game against Delaware earlier this season the highest single-game total for a Cornellian since 1960 and finished the regular season with averages of 17 0 points, 6 7 rebounds and 2 9 assists

Compiled by Joshua Zhu