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Johnson School students say the school’s programs better prepare them for the real world. | Page 3

Composer Philip Glass performed at the State Theatre Saturday.

The men’s hockey team defeated Ivy rival Harvard Saturday in a 3-2 victory.

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C.U.Students Oppose Vetoed Arizona Bill

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Student says legislation would create a‘terrible precedent’ if allowed

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell students on both sides of the political spectrum said politicians need to balance religious freedom with LGBT rights in light of an Arizona Senate Bill, which would have allowed businesses to use religious beliefs as a defense in lawsuits for discriminatory action.

Though the bill — passed by the Arizona Senate on Feb.

20 and vetoed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) six days later — does not explicitly mention gays or lesbians, many have labeled the legislation as “antigay” because it would have allowed businesses to deny service to gays, according to The Economist.

Members from both the Cornell University Democrats and College Republicans said See ARIZONA page 4

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Andrew Lopes ’14 tries his hand at handkerchief spinning at Asia Night Saturday.

Bridgette Brady Named C.U. Director of Transportation

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

The University announced Feb. 28 that Bridgette Brady has been named Cornell’s new director of Transportation Services.

Brandy will take the place of Ben Kuo — current interim director of transportation services — on March 31, according to a University press release. According to KyuJung Whang, vice presi-

dent for Facilities Services, Kuo was responsible for leading his department in insourcing the Campus-toCampus bus service during his seven-month term.

Brady has worked in the Washington State University transportation office for over 20 years and has served as the director of transportation services at WSU for the past five years, according to Whang.

“Under her leadership, her department’s focus shift-

ed from parking to strategic transportation demand management,” Whang said.

“This is very much in line with what I am trying to do at Cornell.”

Brady was elected to the board of directors at the International Parking Institute — an organization which provides education and technical services to professionals and the public — where she currently serves See BRADY page 4

Three Crime Alerts Issued Since Thursday Three crimes were reported and warranted the release of University Crime Alerts since Thursday, according to the University.

Police began investigating a report that a woman was raped between 10:30 p.m. on Thursday and 12:30 a.m. on Friday while attending a party at 6 South Ave. — the location of the Delta Upsilon fraternity — The Sun previously reported.

In addition, Cornell University Police received a report Saturday after a male victim was menaced at 410 Eddy St. around 1:00 a.m, according to CUPD. The perpetrator threatened the victim with a knife and told the victim to move.

During the reported menacing, the victim was not injured, police say. The investigation will be conducted by the Ithaca Police Department due to the location of the crime.

The University also released a third crime alert this week on Saturday after police began investigating a report about a drug-induced assault at a fraternity which occurred at 11:30 p.m. last Monday, The Sun previously reported.

The incident took place at 118 McGraw Pl. — the location of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity — after a female victim suffered a complete memory loss upon consuming a drink, The Sun reported.

— Compiled by Tyler Alicea

The Cornell Daily Sun Elects Its132nd Editorial Board

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun Associate Editor

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The Sun rises | The 132nd Editorial Board of The Cornell Daily Sun stands for its first group photo after being elected Saturday.

Now that six weeks of editorial compet — and a day in Kaufmann Auditorium that felt like six weeks — has come to a close, The Sun’s staff has entrusted a new crop of editors with the keys to the kingdom. Many members of the 132nd Editorial Board, however, still do not have keys to the building. The board may have to keep rely-

ing on the 131st to let them in, but the 132nd hopes it will soon be able to come out of the shadow of the 131st and can live up to its high standards. As hard it will be to top being selected as the best college newspaper in the country by The Princeton Review (ever heard of it?) last year, the 132nd is freshly caffeinated and just sleep deprived enough to get the paper out.

Without further delay, we are proud to present the

editors of The Sun’s 132nd Editorial Board: Haley Velasco ’15 was elected as our new fearless Editor in Chief. Hailing from what she calls the “great state” of New Jersey, her first decision as Editor in Chief was going to be to move The Sun’s offices to her home of Basking Ridge.

Unfortunately for her, we do not have enough money for the move, so the plan has See SUN page 4

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Engineers See Highest Starting Pay

By MANU RATHORE

unique education and academic excellence allow them to receive high salary offers. It’s a good combination of market demand and specialized skill.”

As the Class of 2014 receives job offers and joins the Sparrow said high salary offers for graduates of these workforce, Cornell Career Services administrators say colleges are also due to the colleges’ pre-professional that graduates from the College of Engineering earn the nature. highest starting salary on average compared to graduates “If you look at the top three [colleges at Cornell in from the other undergraduate colleges. terms of mean] salaries, they are from the pre-profesGraduates from the College of Engineering earn a sional schools,” she said. “These are students who come starting salary of $70,135 on average, according to to college with a profession in mind and [who] get the Career Services’ Class of 2012 Postgraduate Report — a credentials and enter their long-term profession immesurvey completed by graduates six months after their diately.” graduation. On the other hand, graduates from the Christa Downey, assistant dean and director of School of Industrial and Labor College of Arts and Sciences Career Relations ranked second, earning an “It is short-sighted to Services, echoed Sparrow’s sentiments. average starting salary of $52,365.

“Engineering students go to school Strong technical skills, attention look at this data and with the intent of being an engineer and to detail and supply-demand forces base a career choice on those are jobs that are going to pay well,” have helped engineering students to top of that.” she said. “Arts and Sciences students earn the highest starting pay on averexplore over 40 majors and have a variage, according to Mark Savage, direc- Christa Downey ety of interests so they are doing everytor of Cooperative Education and thing from communications to public Career Services for the College of Engineering. relations to research.”

“If you look at an area like computer science, I think Downey said competence in language skills, commuthere is going to be a huge gap between the demand and nication and analytical skills further add to the candidasupply for quite some time. This country is not produc- cy of students in the arts college. ing enough people to meet that demand,” he said.

“We have a very small curriculum across the college, “What happens is that those salaries are $20,000 higher and students are taking classes in a variety of courses than even that of all other engineers.” leading to a variety of academic experiences,” she said.

In addition to being high in demand, ILR graduates Savage said such “soft skills” add to the value of engiare able to receive high salary offers due to a well-versed neering students too, though they are often stereotyped education and leadership skills, according to Regina as lacking these professional skills.

Duffey Moravek, director of the ILR Office of Career “Engineers are often stereotyped incorrectly as lackServices. ing in some of the softer skills that someone in arts “ILR is a unique school dedicated to the study of might have,” she said. “[However,] soft skills or profeswork and employment globally,” Moravek said. “Their sional skills are just as important and when it gets down Sun Outreach Coordinator

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Engineering starting salary averages $70,135,Career Services report says

Raising the bar | College of Engineering graduates earn the highest starting salaries, followed by ILR graduates.

to it, employers are going to first and foremost look at professional skills such as working with teams and interpersonal skills.”

According to Moravek, leadership is seen as a professional skill that sets ILR students apart. “[Leadership] is a highly sought-after skill regardless of career field,” she said. “An ILR student working in financial services might be working next to someone who is also crunching numbers but can’t assess a company's culture, navigate, develop and influence relationships like the ILR candidate.”

However, Downey said students should not solely base their career decisions on salary statistics.

“It is short-sighted to look at this data and base a career choice on top of that,” she said. “We have [many] alumni who graduated in more difficult economic times but even then if you look at the alumni who graduated within the past 10 years, then they chose to do what they wanted to do and didn’t necessarily go after the highest salary and they are doing great.”

Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.

Johnson‘Better Prepares’Students for Careers,Officials Say

By AIMEE CHO Sun Staff Writer

Some professors and students at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management say they laud the school’s academic programs, faculty and strong sense of community for their roles in preparing students to thrive in careers after graduation.

The employment rate for graduates from the

business school — which was ranked seventh in the nation by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2012 — in the Class of 2013 was 89 percent and the mean base salary was $109,000, according to the Johnson School’s website. In comparison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s business school had an employment rate of 83 percent, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.

Prof. Soumitra Dutta, management, dean of the Johnson School, said the Johnson School’s immersion program — where students focus on an integrated curriculum of “applied experiences” — is one of the ways the business school helps prepare students for internships.

“Because [the students are] better prepared for internships, they usually succeed in having a stronger impression on the companies, and consequently, many more succeed in getting a job offer than what you see in other typical business schools,” Dutta said.

Simeon Iheagwam grad said his investment banking immersion program prepared him well

to “handle the task of an associate.”

“I worked on teams to analyze and present on various types of investment banking deals,” he said. “I have been very pleased with the quality of the programs over the course of my two years … what I think is the biggest advantage is the practical learning environment where students learn from hands on experiences.”

Dutta said students are often required to work together in groups, an “important characteristic for success in global economy.”

Prof.

Douglas Stayman, marketing, associate dean for MBA programs, added that Cornell’s location plays a

big factor in the creation of a strong community.

“Everybody moves here, as opposed to being in a big city where a lot of people already live there and they go home [at night],” he said.

“When everybody moves to Ithaca, it creates a real sense of community.

There’s a wonderful ability in Ithaca for people to be in constant contact with each other.”

According to Iheagwam, students enrolled in the Johnson School’s graduate programs are supportive of each other — with many of the older students helping younger students find jobs. This dynamic fosters a culture not found at many business schools, he said.

“As a first year [graduate student], the second year [students] served as the main resource for me when it came down to recruiting, classes and social activities,” Iheagwam said.

“Students support each other despite the fact that they are competing for jobs in the same field.”

Brett Davidson grad said the mentorship programs are tailored to helping students learn about their career interests and how to get a job.

“There’s a special knowledge gained from going through the MBA process that is handed down from class to class,” Davidson said.

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.

Sun Market Watch Approximately $500 Million Worth of Bitcoin Currency Vanishes The now-defunct Mt. Gox — an exchange once used for the online currency Bitcoin trading — said more than $470 million of the virtual currency had disappeared, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Unlike cash, which is difficult to track if stolen and widely dispersed, bitcoin transactions are logged in an online ledger, which anyone with a computer can access.

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World of business | Sage Hall is home to the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Stagnation to Replace Decline for European Car Markets Though experts believe Western European car sales will recover from a long slump in 2014, the industry has seen a loss of more than 2.5 million sales since the global financial crash, Forbes Magazine reported Sunday.

— Compiled by Annie Bui

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Sun Elects Editorial Board in Fewer Than Eight Hours SUN

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been postponed indefinitely.

Business Manager Catherine Chen ’15 is the most fashionable member of the board. While the rest of the editorial board opts for “office-chic,” she puts the board to shame with her very put together ensembles. And she’s as good with The Sun’s business department as she is with her clothes.

Also known as “Talisha,” T-Money, Ice-T, Ty-rant and many other nicknames that begin or end with the letter “t,” our new — very new — Managing Editor Tyler Alicea ’16 is ready to go the extra mile to report the news.

Unless it has to do with parking; then he will stay put.

Caroline Flax ’15 is the most mainstream Associate Editor to date. Her taste in Top-40 music and particular love of the song “Timber” makes all former Associate Editors shake their heads in disappointment. But she is in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, so we are going to let it slide.

Aside from his advertising savvy, our new Advertising Manager Matt Tomlinson ’15 has another gift: he’s impervious to the cold. Remember that day when there were subzero temperatures? Yeah, he was in shorts.

We are excited for our new Web Editor Nick De Tullio ’15 to be around to save us from viruses and anything else technical that plagues our website. Thankfully, with his black belt in Tai Kempo, he can protect us from pretty much anything.

Two-term Multimedia Editor Alex Rehberg ’16 is back and ready for action. He hopes to finally complete the project he started last year: a documentary on what it is like being over 6’5” at Cornell. He will be supported by

the fabulous Assistant Multimedia Editor Chardae Varlack ’15, who we all aspire to be.

While Design Editor Elizabeth Sowers ’15 may be a wizard with Quark and a die-hard Northern Californian, she was actually born in Upstate New York, so one might say she is really just returning to her roots.

Our Blogs Editor Rachel Ellicott ’15 is also back for another term. But her true passion lies in a screenplay she is writing: a romantic comedy that she will write, direct and play as the main character.

Although Scott Chiusano ’15 is probably the most athletic on board (which is not saying much), we have to question his sports knowledge given that he loves the Brooklyn Nets. Along with his team of assistants — also known as “The Three Girls” — the Sports section will be the best it can be. The most famous member of the team is Assistant Sports Editor Anna Fasman ’16, who starred as the Sun Baby on Teletubbies. True story. Assistant Sports Editor Sydney Altschuler ’16 will bring a little culture to the team with her love for the Victorian era, while Assistant Sports Editor Emily Berman ’16 is the brains of the operation — she knows her stuff.

Despite its smaller size, the News Editor team for the 132nd Board is a commanding group. Noah Rankin ’16 has to fight his tendency to use an Oxford comma when editing stories, but he is taking it one day at a time.

Anushka Mehrotra ’16 will make sure everyone is fed during the week, but it will likely be sushi. Annie Bui ’16 is the most aggressive of the bunch, making everyone in the office shake in fear when she calls for budget meetings.

Even though Sean Doolittle ’16 and Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15 were just elected Arts Editors, they have a tentative, delirium-generated plan to secede from the paper and

start writing their own hipster magazine. Non-One Direction lovers need not apply.

Science Editor Kathleen Bitter ’15 is not only our resident science poster child — she was also the covergirl for Country Folks magazine that one time. She will use her diversity of experience to bring us science the rest of us can understand.

Our dynamic photo team of News Photography Editor Kelly Yang ’15 and Sports Photography Editor Connor Archard ’15 are going to be great together. They really hold each other up. Literally. Just ask them how they met.

While she is our Dining Editor for now, Kay Xiao ’16 has already told her staff that she is quitting as soon as she gets her shot on the Food Network. Until then, she will be telling us what we want to hear: anything about food.

So turns out it is not our Sports Editor who is the most athletic — our Graphic Design Editor Nicole Hamilton ’16 completed a triathlon. You better watch out, Scott.

We have high hopes for Online Advertising Manager Zach Steele ’15. We even hear he can sell advertisements in his sleep.

Our Marketing Manager Emma Lichtenstein ’16 loves food so much she actually wanted to be Dining Editor, but found herself making more slogans than reviews, so she decided Marketing was probably better.

Despite her love of the outdoors, Social Media Manager Kathleen Shim ’15 has decided to stay indoors in Ithaca to help us keep our social media presence alive.

We believe Outreach Coordinator Manu Rathore ’15 is going to do a great job convincing people that we are not nearly as weird as we are.

Caroline Flax can be reached at associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

Student: Arizona Bill Evokes‘Feelings of Segregation’ ARIZONA

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they oppose the bill, despite both organizations not formally discussing the legislation.

Jared Ham ’15, treasurer of the Cornell Democrats, said he “steadfastly opposes” the bill.

“As a Catholic, religion and

religious liberty are of the utmost importance to me. I am proud to live in a nation where I can openly practice my religion,” Ham said. “I am disgusted by the religious right’s push to treat members of the LGBTQ community as inferiors and strip them of their rights.”

Kyle Datoush ’14, treasurer of

the Cornell Republicans, also said he would not have wanted the bill to be passed.

“Although I highly value religious freedom, I also value the individual rights and freedoms of people from all backgrounds, including the LGBTQ community,” Datoush said.

Kyle Ezzedine ’14, chairman of the Cornell Republicans, echoed similar sentiments, saying the bill “evoked feelings of pre-Civil Rights segregation.”

The bill was created in response to a New Mexico Supreme Court ruling against a photographer who refused to photograph a gay wedding, according to The Washington Post. The Senate passed the bill in order to protect religious beliefs, after a New Mexico Supreme Court ruled against a photographer who refused to cover a gay wedding.

Maxwell Schechter ’14, president of the Cornell Democrats, however, said the bill would have established a “terrible precedent.”

“I believe the Arizona legislature is yet another example of legislatures around the country pass-

ing bills with fueled emotions rather than logic, reason and intellect,” Schechter said.

Jevan Hutson ’16, the LGBTQ liaison for the Student Assembly, said he thinks the Arizona bill is “not legitimate and part of a vicious cycle” of conservatives

“As a Catholic, religion and religious liberty are of the utmost importance to me.”

Jared Ham ’15 competing against each other, which he said he believes helps the progressive agenda.

“This is a political move. I don’t see this as an actual substantive policy move,” Huston said.

“It’s something conservatives can use to say, oh look, we’re more conservative than other conservatives.”

Several businesses, LGBT advocates and Republican politicians have criticized the bill, according to The New York

Times. The National Football League, the Hispanic National Bar Association, Apple and Intel are among a list of businesses and organizations which threatened to withdraw their business from the state if Brewer did not veto the bill.

Though the bill in Arizona has been vetoed, several states — such as Idaho, Georgia, and Ohio — have similar religious protection legislations, according to The New York Times.

Schechter said he believes the passing of the legislation in the Arizona Senate shows the importance of mobilizing around important issues.

“If millions of Americans and interests all over the country hadn’t made their voices heard, it might have gotten even farther,” he said. “I am actually more encouraged by the way this bill motivated people than I am discouraged by the fact that the Arizona legislature passed this bill.”

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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on the Advisory Council and Sustainability Committee, according to the Institute’s website. She also co-chairs the State and Regional Associations Committee.

Brady is also a founding member and president of the Pacific

Intermountain Parking and Transportation Association, an organization that strives to facilitate discussion between people involved in parking and transportation programs, the organization’s website said. The organization also serves to support those with a “vision to be a recognized leader in advanc-

ing solutions that optimize access and mobility in the communities it serves.”

In addition to Brady’s accomplishments in implementing and developing various transportation programs, Whang said he was impressed by her dedication to addressing sustainability in transportation.

President David Skorton recently announced aims to attain carbon neutrality on campus by 2035, a goal that requires renewed attention from the transportation department, Whang said.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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Federal Officials Seize Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Lid in NYC

Rallying for support

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials have seized an ancient Roman sarcophagus lid from a New York City storage facility on behalf of Italian officials who say it was looted from Italy decades ago.

A marble statue of a reclining half-clad female is carved in the lid of the funeral box.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents said Friday the statue appeared at a public exhibition in New York as recently as last week. Authorities don’t know when it entered the U.S. Federal prosecutors said in court papers filed Thursday the statue is believed to be one of the antiquities illegally obtained by Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina.

Becchina was convicted in 2011 of trafficking in plundered Roman artifacts. He ran an antiquities gallery in Basel, Switzerland.

NYC Introduces Proposals to Stop Speeding Habits of Taxi Drivers NEW YORK (AP) — Perpetually rushed New Yorkers have been telling cabbies to “step on it” for as long as there have been taxis, but the city wants to brake that hurry-up habit, in part by attacking the financial incentive to speed.

Cabs could be outfitted with black-box-style data recorders and devices that would sound warnings — or even pause the fare meter — for going too fast, even as speed limits on most city streets would drop from 30 to 25 mph.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who made the proposals as part of his broader safe-streets plan, says drivers of New York’s signature yellow cabs rightly should play a particular role in his push to curb traffic crashes.

“They set the tone on our streets,” de Blasio said.

While traffic advocates applaud the ideas, they are getting a bumpy reception at taxi stands. Cabbies fear friction with passengers and feel they’re being scapegoated, and riders say they’re torn between the drive for safety and the need for speed.

“When I’m in a rush, anything is appreciated,” New Yorker Emily Baltimore said as she waited in a cab line outside Penn Station this week.

New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission says it is still exploring the ideas, which would require a range of approvals. The traffic safety plan also includes more taxi-rule enforcers, stiffer penalties for cabbies’ driving violations and many provisions aimed at all cars, not just taxis.

Deadly auto wrecks have dropped sharply in the nation’s biggest city, from 701 in 1990 to an all-time low of 249 in 2011, as officials redesigned dangerous intersections and made other changes. But recent pedestrian deaths have pushed the issue to the forefront.

Nine-year-old Cooper Stock was in a Manhattan crosswalk, holding his father’s hand, when a left-turning taxi hit them Jan. 10.

Cooper was killed. The driver was ticketed but hasn’t been criminally charged, though authorities are still investigating. Under current rules, the accident wasn’t grounds to suspend his otherwise clean license.

Cooper’s mother says cabbies need to be held accountable for making streets safer.

“They should be the best drivers in the city. They are professional drivers,” said Dana Lerner, a psychotherapist. While her main goal is tougher consequences for taxi crashes, she feels black boxes and other technology could deter bad driving.

The results would ripple through traffic, as cabbies’ driving “dictates behavioral norms to other drivers,” said Paul Steely White, who runs Transportation Alternatives, a group backing de Blasio’s plan.

While New York’s more than 50,000 cabbies may have a hard-driving image, they note they have eight hours a day worth of reasons to be careful.

Just about 4 percent of the roughly 200,000 vehicles involved in accidents citywide last year were yellow cabs, according to an Associated Press analysis of police statistics.

A 2004 study showed taxis had a below-average crash rate, on a permile-driven basis, though a 2010 city report suggests they play a bigger role in collisions that kill or seriously injure pedestrians. Taxi and carservice cabs were involved in 13 percent of those crashes, though they account for only about 2 percent of the cars on the road, the Transportation Department report showed.

Cabbies feel de Blasio’s traffic safety plan unduly singles them out for scrutiny, a sentiment hardly lessened when a news camera caught the mayor’s official, police-driven vehicle speeding two days after he unveiled the plan. And taxi drivers and owners fear slowing down could mean losing business.

“People want to go, hurry, because they don’t have a lot of time.

They spend money to save the time,” says Jawad Habib, a cabbie for 21 years who says he makes sure to know traffic rules. He fears a lower speed limit could lengthen taxi trips enough that “who’s going to want to sit in the cab? ... They’ll go to the bus.”

The drivers’ union, the Taxi Workers Alliance, and the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade owners’ group raised some red flags at a City Council hearing, though the owners’ organization supports the lower speed limit and some other ideas.

Some limousine and car-service fleets around the country have seen accidents drop by 50 percent or more after installing data recorders, said Matthew Daus, a former New York taxi commissioner who’s now president of the International Association of Transportation Regulators.

But the devices can be unpopular with drivers and can bump up against legal questions in an industry in which many drivers are independent contractors, not employees.

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A man waves a Crimean Tatar flag during a rally suporting Crimea in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine Saturday.

Rising Popularity of Hummus Drives Chickpea Growth, Benefiting Farmers SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The rising popularity of hummus across the nation has been good for farmers like Aaron Flansburg.

Flansburg, who farms 1,900 acres amid the rolling hills of southeastern Washington, has been increasing the amount of the chickpeas used to make hummus by about one-third each year to take advantage of good prices and demand.

“I hope that consumption keeps increasing,” he said.

Lawmakers in the nation’s capital hope so, too. The new federal Farm Bill contains two provisions that are intended to boost consumption of chickpeas even more, along with their companion, so-called pulse crops peas and lentils.

Acreage devoted to chickpeas has exploded in the past decade in Washington and Idaho, which grow some two-thirds of the nation’s supply. Chickpeas require little water, and that’s a major plus in the dry region, Flansburg said.

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HALEY VELASCO ’15 Basking Ridge, N.J. Editor in Chief

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CAROLINE FLAX ’15

MATT TOMLINSON ’15

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n my time at Cornell, I have witnessed should not be allowed to demand identifiand participated in several demonstra- cation without “legitimate suspicion of tions and political actions because I felt unlawful activity”; faculty must be allowed a moral and social obligation to take to participate in demonstrations such that action. Though personally, I have mixed their right to expression is prioritized over feelings about direct action and physical the vague obligation to act as “agents of the forms of protest. At times, I even question University”; the right to assemble without the efficacy of a march or a banner-drop, filing a UUP form be preserved with all especially on this campus. I find that ambiguous language eliminated or clarified Cornell culture encourages the student and finally that CUPD and “event manbody to be individualistic or highly com- agers” receive more, and better, training partmentalized — apathetic if not myopic regarding demonstrations and freedoms of — and even fearful of expressing dissent- expression. The proposed change to the ing opinions, at least in a candid way. I’m campus code of conduct directly contranot saying all students are prone to this, dicts the Faculty Senate’s recommendations, but I think it presents a particular chal- adding ambiguity instead of clarifying it, lenge to organizing in this environment. and opening up acts of self-expression to Nevertheless, even in an age where a policing through permitting and further retweet might reach a wider audience than managing free speech via the “policies of the a megaphone, there is nothing quite like space in question” such as the UUP. The UUP is just one example of the an assemblage of people, “bodies in alliance,” united by an idea, by a set of type of paper shuffling that the amendprinciples. Direct action, using one’s body ment would enable the administration to and voice to send a message, has proved slap on protesters, but it’s the one we curnecessary time and time again as part of a rently have. So let’s take it as an example of long tradition of civil disobedience in this a policy that could be newly enforced country and in democratic movements under the proposed amendment. I’m not around the world. This is an essential pil- convinced requirements for UUPs will be lar of the cherished right to freedom of imposed uniformly. For example, as the expression, and protecting the integrity of Faculty Senate report states, students are this right requires constant vigilance. required to submit a UUP form three weeks in advance, When it comes to but the requests self-expression, there’s a social The Use of University Property Form are often submitted late or pressure that does is just one example of the type of processed without the work of policpaper shuffling the amendment review as in the ing even before case of the Nov. 19 codified rules and would enable the administration to incident.

Who is regulations are slap on protesters, but it’s the one to say the requiret a n g i b l y we currently have. ment of threeenforced. Yet a week advance proposed amendnotice won’t be ment to the Campus Code of Conduct — which will selectively applied based on the beliefs of a be voted on by the University Assembly student organization? Even if active disnext Tuesday, March 11 — newly threat- crimination doesn’t take place, there is no ens this right in an already repressive guarantee that the system won’t slow down and speed up anyway — affecting stuatmosphere.

As of right now, the Code recognizes dents’ ability to plan and take action on demonstrations as “legitimate forms of issues they care about. If “respecting the self-expression” and clearly states in Title I, policies of the space” can mean forcing Article III, B.3, “Because outdoor picket- students to meet a time requirement, it is ing, marches, rallies, and other demonstra- not only unreasonable, but in practice a tions generally pose no threat of long-last- suppression of free speech. Aside from the ing exclusive use of University grounds or issue of the UUP specifically and dubious property, there appears to be no need for a enforcement policies more generally, there mandatory permit procedure for such out- simply should not be a set of criteria for door activities.” The proposed change is to self-expression and the rules certainly add a qualifying statement: “Such activi- should not be rewritten by the people ties are allowed so long as they respect the enforcing them. World events move fast policies of the space in question.” This and bureaucracy moves slow; in campus proposed amendment comes after reviews life, students are often forced to organize of a November, 2012 protest and counter around budget deadlines, prelims, conferprotest meeting on Ho Plaza and the ensu- ences and other events while still trying to ing events. These included a student being respond to and engage with global issues in pushed to the ground by campus police, a an effective and timely manner.

Cornell is a private institution; its camstudent being misidentified as “unaffiliated” with Cornell and threatened with pus is private property, and it is within its arrest and CUPD demanding that partici- rights to make the change. If Cornell pating faculty members show their IDs wanted to, it could amend the Campus Code to require people to wear visible with no cause, to which they refused.

The police and their contacts at Day identification badges, to authorize police Hall hold that one of the groups filed a Use to corral protesters into a free speech zone, of University Property form and the other to build a fence around the property and did not, but both were using amplified have us all check in and out. While sound. Therefore, the unregistered party Cornell might be within its rights in doing did not have an equal right to continue. so, it would be considered a serious threat However, the Code clearly states that the to free speech on campus and our integriUUP is unnecessary for demonstrations. ty as an institution. The proposed change The Faculty Senate carried out an extensive to the Campus Code should be seen in the review of the incident and found that both same light; we need to be cutting red tape, groups were in accordance with the Code, not making room for it. that there was no threat of escalation, and Castle is a senior in the College of Arts that the only violent party seemed to be the Anna-Lisa and Sciences. She may be reached at amc394@corcampus police. Their report includes sever- nell.edu. Nonstop Biweekly Real Talk appears al recommendations: the campus police alternate Mondays this semester.

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My Life in Your World

t has been almost two years for me in America: land of the free, soul of the soulless. When I stepped out of my airport shuttle into chaotic Manhattan for the first time in my life, I was lost in a second. The average person was taller than me, and everyone and everything was daunting. My father, who was as bewildered as I, got yelled at by a lady who looked like Darth Vader because he did not have cigarettes to offer her.

Both of us knew that despite my exuberant personality, this was not going to be anything I had ever experienced before.

Nevertheless, the racing pulse of New York City convinced me my life was about to change forever.

We took the bus to Ithaca and coming from India, I had never seen any place so sparsely populated in my entire life.

Like every dramatic story, we reached Ithaca when the clock struck midnight and honestly, both my father and I were more than eager to run back home. The next day, as soon as international orientation, PREPARE, started, I got lost in the excitement: socializing, making new friends and have not stopped ever since. My father barely saw me for the rest of orientation, and I am so thankful to him for letting me go. I do not have any siblings, so there is no one else who I can be more grateful to than my parents who had the courage to let me find my life and dreams in a world so removed from theirs.

All of us who go to Cornell are here in the first place because someone in our family supported us and believed in us unconditionally, and we often stop believing in ourselves when working through a “rigorous Ivy.” On those stressful nights, I remember the unwavering faith someone has in me, even if they are so many miles away.

It was difficult watching my dad leave because I was on my own like I had never been before. I had my international friends from all over the place — Costa Rica to Kenya to Colombia — that I had met through PREPARE, and it was reassuring having each other. But then regular orientation started and America flooded into my life.

On those stressful nights, I remember the unwavering faith someone has in me.

At first, I swear I thought I would drown. I was so nervous before the rest of you — who are now some of my best friends — arrived to the point where I almost wanted you to not come. In hindsight, I feel so naive doubting the opportunities going to Cornell would offer me. I went to my first fraternity party skipping at the front of a large group of freshmen and I pretended to love it even though I had never felt so international in my life. I missed my PREPARE friends for the first week, and every time I noticed a familiar struggling international face, it was a relief.

Two years later, we have all come such a long way. We know our way around campus, how the traffic here works, what to actually order at Collegetown Bagels, most of the songs people play at parties, our professors’ accents and so on.

This change has been possible just because we have accepted the fact that in order to truly feel like we belong, we have to let the world around us in, and get over the hesitation that comes inherently with being away from home. My first semester at Cornell was all about “browntown.” I then met my best friend who had grown up in Delaware, but was more invested in Bollywood and all of the joys of being Indian than I was.

That was when I realized the enchantment of it all struck me.

What are the odds that two people who have grown up on opposite corners of the world, meet at some point in their lives and become indispensable parts of each others lives? I think that is the point of going to a university like Cornell, and we are not likely to realize this till we are dangerously close to graduation.

So I started taking small leaps of faith. I started talking to people even if they were devastatingly good-looking, spoke up in class despite being aware that I speak in a very different accent, fell in love, fell out of love, started writing a column and getting praised and yelled at for it, got lost in some sketchy bus stop at Harrington and have loved it all. I have always believed that embracing diversity is a two-way street. I feel that everyone who goes to Cornell and makes it through every challenging week is an adventurous person already for getting this far. Why restrain ourselves once we get here? If you invest everything you have in Cornell, it will give you so much more back. This goes especially for international students who have the terrific opportunity of bringing the world so close together everyday and I doubt we realize how incredibly lucky we are and I hope everyone is cherishing every day on the hill — because the days are already flying.

Aditi Bhowmick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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rade inflation at CORNELL?!

My fellow classmates may wonder exactly which hallucinatory substance I’ve been smoking and reckon it must be from the past weekend’s party to commemorate the next editorial board at The Cornell Daily Sun. One may even see it as a statement of protest, since the newly schedule spring break will rob me of the rare opportunity to ramble on April Fool’s. It could also be a mistake of misplacing the prefix “in” rather than “de” before the root “flation.”

Despite all these intelligent, uncanny conjectures, I stand firm behind my point in a sober, sharp conscience.

I can visualize students on the Science Hill — Baker Hall, the Physical Science Building and Rockefeller Hall — and the Engineering Quad jumping out of their chairs with burning red faces, enumerating endless incidences in which their hardest efforts resulted in dissatisfactory, substandard grades. Under the current system, with a blatant display of one’s precise percentage score on previous prelim after callous curving, it’d be absurd to argue Cornell’s grading system is inflated by any means.

One may advise me to take classes outside of “easy” departments as sociology and human development and enroll in a hardcore science course before I draw a premature generalization of Cornell’s rigor.

This very response encapsulates Cornell’s problem: GPA depends on one’s major.

When you fall behind the fast pace of science courses, you’re simply out of luck for the materials that accumulate through the semester. Humanities,

on the other hand, allows far greater leniency and flexibility: If you are not fond of one of class-assigned books, you can write your essay on another book. You don’t like an essay prompt, you negotiate with professor and possibly create your own project. To request any accommodation remotely resembles these in a science course would result in dismissal from office hours or no email reply.

Cornell’s science departments deliberately insist on unreasonably harsh grading in attempt to allegedly guide students. Its governing philosophy aims to weed out less-than-

When a premed student has a bad GPA, she can go to a second-tier medical school. Computer science majors get recruited to Silicon Valley firms based on their past experiences and projects, not by their numerical GPA. To secure a true humanities profession, on the other hand, you must be off-the-chart brilliant.

Obtaining a tenuretrack faculty position at any four-year institution is virtually impossible without the right timing, connection and luck, on top of one’s impeccable credentials.

Working at a museum or a national news media outlet is quite appealing, but you’d

It is pointless and highly problematic to compare GPAs at Cornell. A 2.7 in the engineering school requires a bigger time commitment than achieving a 4.0 in some disciplines. competent, committed students to better prepare students for competitive medical school admissions. But who gets to decide what field to pursue other than the students themselves?

The hubris rhetoric that these departments somehow possess power and authority to determine students’ academic trajectory based on numerical competition is incredibly mindboggling. Clearly, Cornell’s primary priority is to maintain high medical school acceptance rate by removing “less than stellar” pre-meds rather than assisting individual students to reach their goals.

What I find amusing about that argument is that if a department’s GPA should incorporate the competitiveness of respective field, shouldn’t the bar be even higher for the humanities?

better have distinguished quality.

If Cornell really wants to weed out students based on future probability of making it into a professional school or finding a job, there should rarely be any As granted in the humanities, since that would be a more accurate, statistically representative figure for the grim future of humanities major. It is pointless and highly problematic to compare GPAs at Cornell. A 2.7 GPA in the engineering school requires more time commitment than achieving close to 4.0 GPA in some disciplines of humanities.

When I disclose my close-to-4.0 GPA, it is not to brag, but shout out the extreme disparity in the number of hours it takes to get an A in the humanities versus the hard sciences.

My work nowhere nearly mounts to my counterparts in the sciences, yet I somehow end up with a much higher mark.

Cornell administration defends the current system, assuring students and parents that by inserting median grade next to each class, employers and grad schools will gain more comprehensive perspective on the academic achievement of a student. This is a deceptive lie. When you apply for a competitive internships, firms may receive hundreds of applicants for a few spots. We like to hoist ourselves as “special” with our Cornell pedigree, but there’s a dozen of other schools with compatible caliber. We like to entertain the idea of prospective grad school admission committee taking a careful look at our transcripts, probing the contents of each class as well as your relative standing in lieu of the median performance, when in reality, all they see is school, major, GPA, and internships and research experience.

This salient inequality must end. To diminish the numerical gap, we can either enforce harsh grading rubrics onto every discipline or we can adopt “the Brown model” and elevate grades in the sciences. I personally think Cornell should adopt “the Princeton Model” by limiting a number of As given to each class, but what’s most important is giving every student a fair chance at their future after college.

This blatant discrimination in grading benefits neither the students nor the school’s reputation.

Don Oh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He may be reached at doh@cornellsun.com. Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Philip Glass Brings Perpetual Motion to State Theatre

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

If you have ever said a word over and over until it sheds all meaning and becomes its own sound, raw and devoid of attachment, then you know what the sound world of Philip Glass feels like. His melodies evolve in just such a way, nurturing new aspects with every iteration until they blossom of their own accord. His music has been called many things, from hypnotic to interminably monotonous. Its repetitive arpeggios and insistent themes have polarized listeners for decades. His admirers — myself among them — take comfort in his recognizability. His many critics, on the other hand, are often guilty of the very monotony of which the iconoclastic composer stands unfairly accused. Either way, resistance to his minimalist (im)pulses is futile: There’s nothing minimal about them.

But this is only half the story. Many will have heard Glass the composer, whose soundtracks for such films as Koyaanisqatsi and The Illusionist have long tickled the ears of even those unfamiliar with his name. Saturday night’s intimate chamber concert at the State Theatre was a choice opportunity to experience Glass the musician. Poised mountainously at a rococo baby grand piano, he took concertgoers on a journey through his varied career by way of its most essential colors. To that end, he opened with a spirited performance of “Mad Rush.” The song was written — he explained to the audience — in response to a commission for a piece of “indefinite length.” This comment

brought a collective chuckle and showed Glass as one at ease with his critics. It was obvious that the piece was originally written for organ as its waves crashed over one another in a gorgeous tumble. He also performed three selections from his Metamorphosis series. Like a jump between dream levels in the film Inception, each movement proceeded from a deeper place.

The crosshatching of their dynamic pianism recalled the “stagger” technique of Baroque harpsichordists, and served to make an already resonant instrument brim with overtones.

Although Glass has never been BRYCE EVANS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER his own best interpreter, he has found in Tim Fain a viable partner in “Chaconne.” Excerpted from the seven-movement time. The American violinist, also no stranger to cinematic Partita for Solo Violin, it ranks among the solo violin crossovers (he can be heard in Black Swan and, most recent- works of Eugène Ysaÿe as a true inheritor of Bach’s hally, 12 Years a Slave), has emerged as one of the most excit- lowed craft. The purity and surety of Fain’s tone was alive ing and innovative violinists of our generation. It was in the with purpose as he leapt through a near constant chain of spirit of affinity that he joined Glass on stage for a smat- double stops. Concertedly, his strings sang the most tering of scenes from The Screens. This incidental music, recent music on the program, bringing everything back written for a stage production of the play by Jean Genet, to Glass the composer and reminding us of just how he was by turns sprightly and mournful. So, too, the conclud- has evolved. ing Pendulum, condensed here from a trio to a duo.

Yet it was Fain alone who secured the performance’s Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be most stirring memories in the form of a two-part reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

The High Cost of Survival

BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

In 1944, the Third Reich released Theresienstadt, a propaganda film billed as “A Documentary from the Jewish Settlement Area.” S.S. Major Hans Günther coerced Kurt Gerron, a successful German-Jewish actor, into directing a beautified look at the Theresienstadt concentration camp and promised him his life in return. The resulting film showed the outside world a hamlet of happy Jews reading, eating toast, running in the sun and playing chess. It is a typical propaganda film edited in a cut-cut-cut fashion, where any given shot lasts no longer than a couple seconds and truth lies outside of the frame.

Before a final cut was complete, the Nazis deported Gerron, his wife and the film’s cast to Auschwitz, where they died on Oct. 28. It should be noted that the gas chambers closed the next day.

Claude Lanzmann includes a clip from the film Theresienstadt in The Last of the Unjust, a new documentary that screened at Cornell Cinema last Wednesday. Watching Nazi propaganda today exposes obvious lies, for we all know what the European-Jewish experience at the time was really like. But Lanzmann screens this clip in the opening section of his film to call attention to his own cinematic style. The Last of the Unjust unfolds over three hours and 40 minutes, a span of time ruled by long takes, wide-angle shots and general quietude. Lanzmann

encourages — nay, forces — you to consider what you are watching, to annotate an open document rather than accept what is on-screen.

There is no way you will leave The Last of the Unjust and see Benjamin Murmelstein, the film’s subject, as anything less than a complicated and compelling human being. When Lanzmann interviewed him in 1975, Murmelstein lived in Rome in selfimposed exile because some prominent fellow Israelites believed that he should be hanged. From December 1944 to the war’s end, Murmelstein served as Theresienstadt’s “Elder of the Jews,” the man tasked with talking to, and from some Jewish perspectives, “collaborating” with the Nazis in charge, most notably Adolf Eichmann. Somehow, he was the only Elder, anywhere, to survive the war. After seizing the camp in 1945, Allies in Prague grilled him, “How are you still alive?” “How come you’re alive?” he said in reply, likely leaning forward and peering into their eyes as he does to Lanzmann here.

With his beady eyes and Hitchcockian jowls, Murmelstein makes a fascinating presence to fill a screen for over three hours.

Lanzmann does not attack a man some have accused of negligence, at best, and genocide, at worst, so the portrait you will take of Murmelstein is mostly sympathetic. An Elder of the Jews

The Last of the Unjust Directed by Claude Lanzmann Starring Benjamin Murmelstein, Claude Lanzmann

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“must be condemned, but he cannot be judged,” Murmelstein says near the end, with his hands behind his back and looking most wise. His predecessors, Jakob Edelstein and Paul Eppstein, were executed, the former forced to watch his wife and son die before receiving a bullet himself. You can say Murmelstein, faced with the challenge to “accomplish something without having any power,” was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Among the historical episodes Lanzmann prompts Murmelstein to retell, two words stand out: embellishment and emigration. Embellishment relates to the aforementioned Nazi documentary and how Murmelstein coordinated efforts to make Theresienstadt look clean and pretty for a Red Cross visit.

After comparing himself to the “pragmatic and calculating” Sancho Panza, Murmelstein tells Lanzmann, who is on camera for most of the film as well, “If they hid us, they could kill us. If they showed us, they couldn’t.” While this embellishment occurred near the end of the Holocaust and thus did not have much diplomatic impact, this reasoning is inherently paradoxical: If you lie about your conditions to save your own skin, don’t you risk warping a systematic atrocity into a non-issue?

Yet even while Murmelstein offers eloquence and reason in his defense, he comes across as unapologetically callous and political. His motto, “Survival through work,” echoes, to a disturbing degree, the sign, “Arbeit macht frei (work makes you free),” that welcomed prisoners to Terezin, Auschwitz and other camps. By working within the Nazi bureaucracy to help his people, Murmelstein had to adopt somewhat of a Nazi mindset, emphasizing numbers and paperwork over empathy. One of his truest conclusions is the following: “I did things that others didn’t do, but I’m not a hero. I’m not mad.”

The Last of the Unjust also digs into the bizarre MurmelsteinEichmann dynamic, flirts with blacker-than-black humor involving misplaced cyanide and spends a lot of time with Lanzmann, in the present day, as he tours Theresienstadt and reads from the Elder’s writing. But the most powerful moment includes neither him nor Murmelstein in the frame. The camera first stares at a wall of names, illegible at such a distance, and pans 360 degrees across Prague’s Pinkas synagogue, where 80,000 such names cover the walls in tribute to the local Holocaust victims. They bleed across the screen, unable to be read and thus, again, willingly ignored. Then without zooming in, the camera finds a crop of names in close-up and Lanzmann gasps, “Then all of a sudden, they become legible.”

To see the Holocaust, nearly 70 years later, for what it was demands not scope but focus. Hone your eyes in on the individual and you will uncover a bundle of paradoxes that amount to one human life. Most did not make it, but Benjamin Murmelstein did. He tells Lanzmann his life for him to make sense of it, and Lanzmann, in turn, passes the burden onto us.

Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Town Alumni Poets Reading Series

Funny Face

4:30 p.m. on Thursday at Goldwin Smith

7:20 p.m. on Wednesday at Cornell Cinema The first in Cornell Cinema’s Springtime in Paris series, the legendary magical pairing of Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire in Funny Face can be seen on Mar. 1 or Mar. 5. However, the Mar. 5 show will be accompanied by a fashion show presented by vintage clothing store, Petrune. The runway show begins at 7:20 p.m. and the movie is at 8:00 p.m., tickets are $8 for students and $10 for the general public (regular pricing for film alone). S’wonderful.

S’marvelous. S’Springtime.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany

The English department’s Barbara & Davis Zalaznick Reading Series will bring a trio of Cornell alums to Goldwin Smith this Thursday, including Jose Perez Beduya, MFA ‘04, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, MFA ‘11 and Anne Marie Rooney, MFA ‘11. All three are lauded poets, with credits ranging from Beduya’s debut collection Throng published in 2012 by &Now Books, Rogers’ fellowship at The Kenyon Review and guest appearance on The Rumpus, to Rooney’s Gulf Coast Poetry Prize.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany

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Perfect Pussy

7:00 p.m. on Tuesday at the Haunt The Syracuse-based punk quintet Perfect Pussy emerged from the underground after the success of their single “I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling,” and are set to make waves with their debut album Say Yes to Love on Mar. 18. Frontwoman and songwriter Meredith Graves is known for her radical honesty, explaining the origins of the band’s name to Pitchfork last October saying that it was meant, to a certain extent, to fend off sexism in her genre: “Are you going to call me a cunt? Are you going to tell me I’m ugly? Well here’s my band name — do your worst, motherfucker.” Cat Names, Summer People and King Size Pegasus will open the show. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., opening acts begin at 8:00 p.m., tickets are $10.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany

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Rise of the Art-opsy

ip-hop is dead. Rock is dead.

Classical music is dead. Jazz is dead.

How do these phrases make you feel? On what basis am I making these claims? How is it that an inanimate, abstract cultural institution is capable of moving onto the hereafter?

There are few topics more divisive — or more alluring — than the cultural postmortem. Critics enjoy nothing more than to discuss, to no end, the “death” of a genre, a medium or an art form, if not for their own sick, sadistic pleasure, then because this sort of click-bait attracts ungodly amounts of attention. Notorious rubberneckers, thinkpiece readers are attracted to a wreck; when this wreck encompasses an entire industry — or better yet, an entire genre, as in Slate’s recently publ i s h e d “Requiem” for classical music in America — feeds will certainly be buzzing.

Moreover, loyal patrons of the subject in question tend to defend it without an evenhanded assessment of the argument they counter, lending more legitimacy to the very critiques they are trying to derail. When they do so, responders succumb to one of the Internet’s cardinal rules: Do not feed the trolls.

In an age where circulation is measured not by paper sales, but by web traffic, this is counterproductive — in advertisers’ minds, any traffic is good traffic.

If Slate’s requiem, or at the very least its

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title, exemplified the sort of cynical draining of subtlety common in these “postmortems,” the responses it generated represent near-farcical attempts at cover-up worthy of Weekend at Bernies. While some addressed directly the absurd premise that an art form that has existed since at least the 1300s could simply up and “die” and discussed the possibility that, just maybe, the very definition of classical music has transformed over the past seven-or-so centuries, many cultural commentators opted instead to take the corpse, throw a pair of sunglasses on it, take it to the beach and call it a day. To the skeptic reader, this latter approach comes off like the journalistic equivalent of the first of the famous five stages of grief: denial.

As a w o rseThere’s No Place than-averLike Brome age classical pianist and a slightly better student of jazz guitar, I can understand where these emotional, dismissive invectives are coming from. It is hard to see the artform you love struggle to find an audience, and even more difficult when it is perceived to be circling the drain. Yet, the truth is that arguing endlessly about whether or not classical music, or rock, or jazz or any cultural institution is “dead or alive” is, for lack of a better term, an unproductive circle-jerk.

Those most guilty of perpetuating these arguments often do so not out of benevolent concern, but because it is easy (and, significantly, in a journalism environment itself plagued by

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prophecies of its demise, profitable) to play coroner.

Even more difficult is finding solutions to the realworld problems these artists face. In the case of classical music, these problems are not insignificant.

As Vanhoenacker correctly points out, the financial state of the classical music industry is dire. All over the country, symphonies and opera houses are filing for bankruptcy, as classical audiences age and younger music fans fail to replace them. Fine — from an economic standpoint, things don’t look great. If you believe that an art form’s “health” is dictated not by the quality and innovation of the works being created, but solely by its ability to create profit for those who partake in it.

But the metaphor of an entire genre “dying” is insufficient when artists are willing to adapt to, and enter into conversation with, the broader cultural context. As Julian Johnson pointed out a few years ago in an article for the New Republic, most critics fail to recognize that change is not death. If anything, in fact, pressure to adapt has had a positive effect on the quality of music being created. Recently, Bryce Dessner, lead guitarist for the National and recipient of a Master’s of Music from Yale, teamed up with

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Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead and fellow student of classical music, to release a split album of classical works. Obviously, this release is not nearly the first to cross-pollinate classical with other “lower brow” genres, but it is a hopeful sign of innovation and growth for a genre sorely in need of it.

In the same way that the invention of the airplane did not lead to the demise of the automobile, the inexorable flow of time does not necessarily mean that old mediums will be destroyed by new ones. If only critics would recognize this and move on to talking about what really matters, like whether or not Beyoncé’s cat is pregnant.

Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com. There’s No Place Like Brome runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Quinnipiac, 1-1, the same night. If Clarkson had beaten Quinnipiac, the Red would have needed to win, increasing the already sky-high pressure on the bench as the coaching staff attempted to stay up-to-date with the ongoing Clarkson match, while managing the Cornell game at the same time.

“We were getting some updates on the bench that Clarkson and Quinnipiac were tied in overtime, and it took so long we didn’t know whether we were going to have to pull our goalie in overtime to try to go for the win,” Schafer said. “It was a little hairy there, but a great comeback from our guys.”

Harvard notched its first goal only 1:20 into the first period to temporarily silence the sold-out Lynah crowd, which had christened the ice with the customary fish throwing.

With the Red in the box for charging, Harvard forward Sean Malone parked himself unguarded by Iles’ left side and scored an easy back-door goal after being fed the puck. Harvard’s only other goal of the game also came with the Red on the penalty kill, marking a bad night for the Red’s otherwise reliable defensive special teams play.

“We made a couple of major mistakes on penalty killing, which is really kind of unusual for us,” Schafer said. “It was frustrating that way.”

Junior captain John McCarron got the Red on the board less than two minutes after Harvard’s second strike, cutting the deficit to 2-1.

Junior defenseman Jacob MacDonald attempted the initial scoring chance, but the puck came back out and after working around Lowry, he sent it to McCarron at the top of the left circle. McCarron’s shot sailed high on the right past the blocker of Harvard netminder Steve Michalek, who had put up several impressive saves through the first half of the game.

MacDonald set up the Red’s next goal as well, breaking into the zone after deftly avoiding an offsides call. Freshman forward Jeff Kubiak picked up the puck and sent it across the slot to classmate Matt Buckles, who fired it past Michalek’s right pad to tie the game with less than three minutes left in the second frame.

“He was awesome all weekend,” Schafer said of MacDonald. “You see the confidence of that young man grow over the last six to eight games; he’s been outstanding. [He] played a big part in our success over the last 10 games and it’s great to get another threat on the blue line.”

Despite several chances, both teams failed to score in the third period, and senior goaltender Andy Iles came up with several huge saves in the first two minutes of overtime to keep the Red in the game. Iles foiled back-to-back attempts by the Crimson, including defusing a Harvard three-on-one attempt, before Bardreau and Lowry were able to combine for the winner.

“You really couldn’t have drawn it up any better,” Iles said. “Probably a little closer than you guys in the stands would have liked, but we fought hard all night. Their kid played pretty well in net, it was just a matter of time before we cracked the seal and finished that game off.”

The Red was put in the high-pressure, ECAC-bye must-win-or-tie position after dropping Friday’s game to Dartmouth, 1-0, the night before. It was the first time the Red had suffered a shutout loss to the Green at Lynah since 1960. Despite the loss, Iles earned his place in the record books as the all-time career saves leader, beating former Cornell star and current Edmonton Oilers’ goaltender Ben Scrivens for the mark.

“Anytime you can get compared alongside some of the great goalies we’ve had here, it’s humbling,” Iles said. “It’s something that’s an honor, [but] I’m not trying to worry about the individual stuff right now.”

With the win against the Crimson, the Red secured the fourth place spot in league standings alongside first-seed Union, second-seed Colgate and third-seeded Quinnipiac. This fourth-seed spot secures the Red its week of rest while eight other ECAC teams battle it out in the first round.

“From day one our goal was to win a national championship, and obviously you don’t do that overnight,” Bardreau said. “You’ve got to take baby steps, and I think this was just one step along the way.”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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Donovan executed the plan well to clinch the win for the Red, landing his fifth goal of the game with 1:41 to go to make it a 15-14 decision.

Although the Red made some mistakes throughout the tight contest, the squad was happy with the results and credits the captains for stellar performances, according to Buczek.

“Although we didn’t necessarily perform as well as we

would’ve liked to, it’s always exciting to get a road win against a tough opponent. …

[We had] great performances by two of our leaders and captains, Tom Freshour and Matt Donovan [who] really propelled us to this victory,” Buczek said.

The Red will play host to Canisius College this Tuesday, March 4.

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

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everyone was trying to stay calm in the huddle and make sure that both offensive and defensive players knew which game plan coach was going over,” he said.

“Everyone wanted to make sure we could give our offense a chance to put the game away.”

Both squads were charged with numerous penalties throughout the game, creating suspense as both teams looked to find equalizers or extend leads. Overall, both did a fair job clinching man-up goals, with Cornell going three-ofsix and the Wolverines going fourof-eight.

Michigan got on the board first with a goal just 13 seconds into play. Cornell quickly responded, knotting the game, 1-1, with a goal by Lintner. Back-and-forth scores continued and the squads went into the first break at 5-4 in Cornell’s favor.

The Red had a scoring opportunity at the start of the second, but could not convert. The Wolverines then made a quick turnaround on a save by Michigan goalie Robbie Zonino as Mike Francis found the back of the net to tie the score up again, 5-5.

With two players out on penalties for Michigan, Cornell was two-man up for the first time in the game. Unfortunately, the squad missed a crucial opportunity to set up a two or three-goal lead and only tallied one by senior forward Connor Entenmann.

At the 8:20 mark, Donovan scored to give the Red its first twogoal advantage of the day, making it a 7-5 game. Unfortunately, Cornell blundered shortly after and recorded a two-minute penalty. Sophomore Kyle Jackson capitalized on the advantage and scored just 10 seconds into play.

Tesoriero fended the Wolverines off by winning the ensuing faceoff, gaining possession for the Red to kill the penalty.

Michigan quickly got back on the board, knotting the game at 7-

7. Tesoriero won the face-off again and then sent the ball to Edmonds, who buried a goal just eight seconds later to re-establish the Red’s advantage. Hogan quickly put away another to lift the Red to a two-goal lead, but the Wolverines recorded one right after.

Both squads jumped out to a quick start in the second half as the Wolverines tallied one score and the Red recorded three. For the first time in the game, the Red had a three-goal advantage.

The Wolverines rallied, however, and tacked on two goals at the end of the third quarter.

At the beginning of the fourth, senior Joe Paoletta registered a goal for the first time in the game, making it 13-11.

Minutes later, the foe put forward a strong offensive push and found the back of the net twice to tie the game again at 13-13.

The Red fought back hard and quickly responded with a goal by Lintner to restore its lead.

Just when it appeared that Cornell had escaped an overtime period, a Red penalty gave the Wolverines the man-up advantage and Michigan senior Ian King came through on the equalizer.

That goal sent the game to overtime, and set up Donovan’s eventual heroics. Donovan said that he analyzed his defenseman matchup early on, anticipated what his moves would be in overtime and adapted accordingly to beat him and put one away for the win.

“I was able to test my defenseman out early and felt good about the matchup. Since Dan [Lintner] is so good inside, I knew they’d be slow to slide, which gave us the ability to re-dodge a lot,” Donovan said. “Once we went to overtime, I knew I could get a step on my defenseman and was fortunate to find the back of the net after a couple great saves by Michigan’s goalie to end the game.”

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Red Drops Two Ivy Contests Cherry, Smith lead squad’s offense in weekend matchups

By NIKITA DUBNOV Sun Staff Writer

The Red took its recent struggles on the road this weekend, visiting Harvard on Friday night and Dartmouth on Saturday. The Crimson, the top team in the Ivy League, presented a tough matchup with its talented backcourt. The Green, on the other hand, is a team that Cornell was able to beat in one of its two victories this season.

Harvard (22-4, 9-1 Ivy League) welcomed the struggling Red to Cambridge, fresh off a 59-47 win over Princeton the weekend before. The Crimson came out with a flurry of strong offensive plays and a lockdown defense that the Red struggled to penetrate. Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler and junior guard Devin Cherry — Cornell’s scoring leaders CORNELL @ HARVARD — shot a combined one-for-eight in the first half.

47 72 Freshman Darryl Smith was the only Red player who was able to exploit the defense, leading to Game: 2ND FINAL 1ST nine first half points for the slashing guard.

Cornell 29 47 18 Harvard, on the other hand, found its stride Harvard 34 38 72 midway through the second half, going on a 15-0 scoring run. At the break, the Crimson owned a CORNELL @ DARTMOUTH 34-18 lead.

The second half told a similar story, despite 78 87 Cornell’s attempts at mounting a comeback.

Game: 2ND FINAL 1ST Harvard’s balanced scoring — with three players Cornell 48 78 30 in double figures — helped to prevent that surge.

Dartmouth 36 51 87 The Crimson’s freshman point guard Siyani Chambers put together 15 points and four assists to give his team the upper hand. Cornell left the matchup with a disappointing 72-47 loss, but looked ahead to its game against Dartmouth the following day.

On Saturday evening, the Red pulled into Hanover, N.H. with confidence after having previously beaten the Green (10-16, 3-9 Ivy) two weeks before.

The start of the game was marked by back-and-forth lead changes between the two teams. The Red came out with a strong attack and was able to establish a 15-9 lead before the Green countered and took over. The score at halftime was 36-30 in Dartmouth’s favor.

The second half was all Dartmouth, though, as the Green extended its lead to 12 just three minutes in. The Red made a few runs at reestablishing the lead, but Dartmouth was able to counter every time. Dartmouth’s guard Alex Mitola scored 33 points, connecting on eight of his nine three-pointers, helping his team to a 87-78 victory.

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Efficient production | Junior forward Ned Tomic provided a spark for the Red off the bench against Dartmouth, scoring 12 points in just 13 minutes of play.

Cressler had an off-night shooting the ball on Saturday, going three-of-seven from the field for nine points. However, other players were able to step in. Sophomore guard Devin Cherry put up 22 points, three assists and three rebounds and junior forward Ned Tomic provided a spark in the paint by adding 12 points in just 13 minutes.

Senior forward Dwight Tarwater, who has struggled offensively as of late, shot sevenof-10 from the field en route to 23 points.

The Red has two games left in a season that has been plagued by injuries and disappointments. The team will return home to honor its seniors this weekend when it faces Princeton and Penn.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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Harvard in draw controls and groundballs, the turnover differential prevented the Red from creating as many scoring opportunities.

Opportunities on goal were critical for the Red as the team’s shooting percentage took a notable hit from last weekend. On top of the impressive nine saves by Harvard goalie Kelly Weis, the Red had trouble putting shots on goal in the second half. Of the 12 shots taken, seven missed their target. Moody went scoreless on the day, only notching one assist.

“We had a few unlucky shots that went off the post that [had they gone] probably one inch one way would’ve gone in,” “Anything can happen, and she said. “But as a team, you have to make up for that, if moving forward, [the one person [does not have] Harvard game] is going to the best shooting day.”

Though its first Ivy jump-start us as we go into game ended in a loss, the Red has a long season in our next games. ” front of it. However, for the Rachel Moody team to reach its stated goal of an Ivy Tournament championship, it will start with a packed stretch of three games within seven days of each other, beginning on Wednesday.

Two of the top prospective teams in the Ivy League — No. 17 Penn and No. 19 Princeton — got off to slow starts this weekend with losses to non-conference foes. On the other hand, Yale made a statement with a 12-5 rout of Dartmouth and Brown has raced out to a 3-0 record. The only thing that is clear now is that the road remains open for any team to make a run at the regular season title.

Moody recognized the importance of the upcoming slate of games, especially since one game comes against an Ivy League opponent.

However, she also emphasized that the Harvard game was a necessary wake up call. “[The Harvard game] opens our eyes and gives us a shock,” she added. “It lets us know that we really don’t have that much room to have any more losses in the Ivy League. But anything can happen, and moving forward, it’s going to jump-start us as we go into our next games.”

Ryan Quinn can be reached at rquinn@cornellsun.com.

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Down to the wire | Just one loss separates Penn, Princeton and Harvard, the top three teams on the women’s side.

ith Ivy League basketball heading into the homestretch of the regular season, this weekend’s intense games did not disappoint. With the top three teams in the standings separated by just one win, the games for Penn, Princeton and Harvard this weekend were especially important. Penn and Princeton both won easily on Friday night, defeating Brown and Yale respectively. Harvard had a tougher time, though, against Cornell, defeating the Red, 70-66, in a game that was tightly contested down the stretch. The Crimson was led by guard Christine Clark, who had 18 points and seven rebounds. The following day, Brown upset Princeton in a 61-58 victory that made the race for the top spot in the league even closer. Lauren Clarke had 24 points and four rebounds for the Bears. Brown made two key stops in the final 24 seconds that kept Princeton from connecting on a three that would have pushed the game into overtime.

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Men: Harvard in Control Down Remaining Stretch Y ale came into this weekend just a game behind Harvard at the top of the Ivy League standings.

However, the Bulldogs fell to Princeton on Friday night, 57-46, putting Harvard in good position to take the conference title for the second year in a row. Yale was cold from the field in the loss, connecting on just two of twelve shots from beyond

the arc. The Ivy League’s leading scorer, T.J. Bray, led the Tigers with 19 points and six rebounds.

The Crimson continued to prove that it is a cut above its competiton in the Ancient Eight, beating Cornell, 72-47 and Columbia, 8047, effectively taking the Lions out of the race for the top spot in the league. The Crimson was led by three-point specialist

Laurent Rivard, who connected on six-ofeight three-pointers en route to 21 points. Yale bounced back on Saturday, escaping with a 7063 win against Penn, but the Bulldogs have to hope for some Harvard losses next weekend in order to keep their chances at an NCAA tournament bid alive.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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A cut above | With two more wins this weekend, Harvard remains the top team in the Ivy League with two games to go.

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

MONDAY MARCH 3, 2014

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Down Harvard in Dramatic Fashion

Lowry nets game-winner in O.T.; Red captures ECAC Hockey Playoff bye in first round

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The officials skated back onto the ice, first a referee and then a linesman. The crowd, which had celebrated

so riotously only a minute ago, stood comparatively quietly. Then the refs made the call: the goal was good.

And Lynah roared again.

It was a wild finish to the Red’s biggest game yet this season, as the men’s ice hockey team clinched a first-

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Fishing for glory | Junior forward Joel Lowry scored the game-winner in overtime to lift the Red over its Ivy rival Harvard.

round ECAC Hockey Playoff bye in a come-frombehind overtime victory over Harvard in Cornell’s senior night game.

“It was a great victory; perfect senior night for those guys in the sense of clinching home ice, beating Harvard in overtime, great crowd,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “[It] doesn’t get much better than that.”

Junior Joel Lowry notched the overtime game-winning goal for the No. 11 Red (15-8-5, 11-7-4) with 36.3 seconds remaining in overtime to hand the team a 3-2 victory over its perennial Ivy League rival.

Junior center and assistant captain Cole Bardreau set up the play, driving into the zone past several Crimson players and leaving the puck in the crease. Lowry pounced on the uncovered puck, attempting to poke it in and eventually succeeding. The Red’s celebration was cut short after the officials decided to review the play, but Lowry said he was confident on the ice that the play would stand.

“When they were reviewing it, I was pretty sure it was going to count, so I was pretty excited,” he said.

“That felt awesome to get our seniors a win on [senior] night — you don’t want to go out on a loss for them, and for us to beat our rivals like that in overtime was huge. It was a really exciting game; [I’m] really proud of the way the guys battled back after going down 2-0. I think that was a really quality win for us.”

If the Red had dropped the game, it would have lost the first-round bye slot to Clarkson, who tied See M. HOCKEY page 12

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Crimson’s Defense Stifles Laxers In First Ivy League Loss of Season

By RYAN QUINN

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from the Red with four minutes left in the game.

The Red’s offense started in similar fashion to its contest against Temple last weekend, scoring three of the game’s first four goals. Junior co-captain Lindsay Toppe picked up where she had left off as she paced the Red in the first half with four points.

Junior Sarah Hefner filled the stat sheet again with two goals and seven draw controls and sophomore Emily Tripodi added another assist to her teamleading total of six.

However, the Red could not build any separation between themselves and the host Crimson. For every offensive run Cornell was able to put together, Harvard responded in full. By playing an aggressive style of defense, Harvard stifled the Red’s offense while also creating more opportunities for themselves.

Senior CORNELL @ HARVARD Rachel Moody some 7 10 gave credit to her Game: 2ND FINAL 1ST o p p o n e n t ’s Cornell 1 7 6 defense, but Harvard 5 5 10 did not believe that it was the primary reason for the offense’s shortcomings.

“I think they definitely played pretty aggressively,” she said. “But we weren’t supporting each other as much as we could have to get the best looks. We made some mistakes ourselves by forcing feeds or shots.”

While the Red did keep pace with the Crimson in many statistical categories, the glaring difference in the box score was turnovers. While Cornell committed 13 turnovers and forced three, Harvard turned the ball over just eight times while forcing seven turnovers. Despite the Red out-performing

Back to the drawing board | Junior Sarah Hefner had two goals and seven draw controls, but the Red fell to Harvard.

See W. LAX page 14

Sun Staff Writer

In its first Ivy League game of the season, the women’s lacrosse team was shut down in the second half against Harvard, suffering a 10-7 loss.

Although the Red (1-1) took a one-goal lead into the half, a stingy Harvard defense limited the squad to just one goal after the break. The Crimson’s 5-1 run in the second half saw them finally pull away

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Five for fighting | Junior attackman Matt Donovan had five goals against Michigan, including the game-winner in overtime.

MEN’S LACROSSE

Red Defeats Michigan In Overtime Thriller

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER

junior midfielder Connor Buczek, senior midfielder Dan Lintner, sophomore midfielder This Saturday, the Cornell John Edmonds and junior midmen’s lacrosse team traveled to fielder John Hogan led Cornell’s Ann Arbor, M.I. to face the offense. Senior midfielder Doug Michigan Wolverines for the Tesoriero broke Cornell’s record for career facefirst time in off wins, going NCAA his- “Everyone wanted to 15-of-33 on tory. While the day. the Red ulti- make sure we could give The Red mately came our offense a chance to stressed the out on top importance of with a 15- put the game away.” keeping its 14 overtime Doug Tesoriero composure victory, the going into an game was overtime period against the intense from start to finish.

Junior attackman Matt Wolverines, according to Donovan was instrumental for Tesoriero.

“Before overtime had started, the Red with five goals, including the overtime goal that gave Cornell the win. In addition, See M. LAX page 13

Sun Assistant Sports Editor