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C.U.Considers Cutting Free TCAT Bus Passes

“My overall main question is where is our tuition money going?”

Aline Schechter ’16

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer

Due to Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit’s $700,000 budget deficit, the University Assembly is considering a resolution calling for Cornell to revoke free TCAT bus passes for first-year undergraduate and graduate students.

According to the resolution, which was discussed during a meeting Tuesday, a primary cause of TCAT’s losses is an increase in ridership on behalf of first-year students. George Ruizcalderon ’15 — the sponsor of the resolution — said he hopes that the transportation service will be able to meet their loses and continue operating without financial concerns by charging first year students a fee for the bus service.

TCAT passes have been complimentary for both first year undergraduates and graduate students since 2006, according to Ruizcalderon, chair of the University Assembly Campus Infrastructure Committee. All other students are able to purchase bus passes for a discounted price of See TCAT page 4

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Bus business | George Ruizcalderon ’15 addresses the University Assembly about free first-year bus passes and the program’s impact on the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit deficit.

Ithacans Criticize Proposed Haven Elections Postponed Cornell Heights Development Due to Community Unrest Developers plan to get ‘one-on-one’ input from community

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Ithacans spoke out against a proposed apartment complex at 7 Ridgewood Rd. at a Planning and Development Board meeting Tuesday evening, citing a lack of finalized plans and concern for the character of the historic neighborhood.

Due to concerns over the “cementious compound” being built in the Cornell Heights historic district, Walter Hang — founder of Toxics Targeting, Inc., a compiler of environmental information in New York State — created an online petition against the development that has reached over 900 signatures. The modern-style apartment com-

plex is planned to be built among Greek houses and other preserved properties in the district.

Adam Walters — an attorney representing CA Student Living, the developers of the proposed project — introduced the project to planning board and described the changes the project has undergone since its inception, including downsizing from one large, connected structure to three separate buildings with mostly interior but some exterior parking.

According to Walters, the developers want to proceed at the planning board level and make any needed changes to the plan before presenting the final plan to the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission.

“We’ve revised a lot of material,” he said. “Our See HEIGHTS page 5

Property man | Attorney Adam Walters defends the proposed Cornell Heights development at City Hall Tuesday.

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limit, causing at least one student to be asked to leave by advisors.

The elections were officially Executive Board elections for postponed after the presidential Haven, the LGBTQ Student vote ended in a tie and unrest Union, were cut short Tuesday continued. after arguments erupted over “There was an escalation in presidential candidates, in an the lobby between the candienvironment that several stu- dates, and then there was more dents described as “unsafe.” escalation in the memorial room Tensions arose after one stu- while the e-board was in converdent — Adam Jaani ’14 — was sation [after the vote],” said ushered out of the Willard Carol James, an advisor to Straight Memorial Room by Haven. “Candidates were being Haven advisors put on the spot after breaching and put in a the “communi- “The elections got to position where ty norms” set they were presa point where it at the beginsured into makwasn’t about the ning of the ing a decision elections. candidates.” right there, “The elecwhich was not Jadey Huray ’14 tion process fair or just.” was poorly The tie had organized, leaving students feel- occurred between Dineen and ing unheard,” Jaani said.

Dominic, according to James.

The presidential elections, Dineen, who had been in the which drew over 100 students, race for several weeks, called for were structured so that each of Dominic to resign on account the three candidates — Bailey of only joining the race the day Dineen ’15, Haven vice presi- prior, citing a lack of experident, Mo Cliffstone ’15, facilita- ence. tor for Peer Educators for Dominic, on the other hand, Gender and Sexuality, and James was endorsed by current Haven Dominic ’16 — had the oppor- president Jadey Huray ’14 for tunity to speak about their plat- bringing a platform that she said form, followed by a question- would provide “unity” for the answer period and a “communi- organization. According to ty conversation” with a strict five- Huray, the other candidates and minute time limit for each candi- some of their supporters repredate. Students, however, continSee HAVEN page 5 ued to speak out after the time Sun City Editor

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Lincolnton, and that at some point during the process, the man stuck her foot in his mouth. Harris said the man apparently tried the same thing at another WalMart 15 miles away, where he told a woman he was conducting a survey on the feet of different races and nationalities.

The second woman also agreed to take off her shoes, but left when the suspect asked her to remove her socks.

Both confrontations happened Monday, March 17.

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Landfill Search for Old Atari Games to Occur ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — Organizers say a planned dig into a New Mexico landfill for a rumored cache of what some consider the worst Atari video game of all time is expected to proceed despite state environmental regulators’ concerns.

Fuel Entertainment and LightBox Interactive are seeking to excavate an old Alamogordo landfill that reportedly was a dumping ground for “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” game cartridges.

Jonathan Chinn, an executive producer at Los Angelesbased LightBox, said Thursday that the search hasn’t been halted.

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Syracuse Student Will Run to C.U. for Pike Fundraiser

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By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer

Robert Faugno — president of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Syracuse University — will run 54 miles to Cornell from Syracuse next month to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which helps children with life-threatening illnesses.

Faugno, a senior at Syracuse, said he is running in honor of the 18th birthday of his sister, who suffered from a brain tumor and is a former “Wish Kid,” someone who was helped by the organization. He said he has been working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation for a few years and was inspired by the determination of those in the program.

Faugno said his run will symbolize the “impossible journey” of kids that are part of the program.

“I met some Cornell Pikes at one of our National conferences, and we talked about working together in the future because our chapters were so close,” Faugno said. “And one day I just came up with this idea of running [to Cornell].”

Cornell’s Pi Kappa Alpha chapter wanted to give Faugno their full support after he explained his cause, according to Daniel Rosenthal ’15, public relations chair for Cornell’s Pi Kappa Alpha — also known as “Pike.”

“As soon as we heard about what he was planning on doing and his reasons behind it, we knew we had to put our full effort towards supporting our brothers and such a wonderful cause,” Rosenthal said.

Upon arriving in Ithaca, Cornell’s Pike and Kappa Delta sorority, which are co-sponsoring the fundraiser, will welcome Faugno, according to Rosenthal. He said fundraising events on that day will consist of a cupcake

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Prof. Roger Reeves, poetry, University of Illinois at Chicago, gives an informal poetry reading at Buffalo Street Books in downtown Ithaca Tuesday evening.

sale with members of Faugno’s family — who are also the cast of the television show Cake Boss — on Ho Plaza.

In addition, Pike and Kappa Delta will sponsor a 5K run at the Cornell Plantations on April 12 and half of the proceeds will go to Kappa Delta’s national philanthropy, Prevent Child Abuse America, according to Michelle Kim ’16, vice president of community service for Kappa Delta.

Faugno said the goal of the fundraiser is to raise at least $50,000 to fundraise about eight wishes. Fulfilling the average wish for the foundation costs approximately $6,000, he said.

“We have set the bar very high with a goal of raising

Police Report Unlawful Possession of Marijuana At Clara Dickson Hall An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator Friday at Clara Dickson Hall for unlawful possession of marijuana, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

Theft at Helen Newman Hall An officer was dispatched Friday to take a report from a student at Helen Newman Hall regarding the theft of an unsecured iPhone, according to CUPD.

Trespassing at Alice Cook House An officer was dispatched Friday to take a report regarding trespassing at Alice Cook House, according to Cornell Police.

Unlawful Possession of Alcohol At Keeton House An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator Saturday at Keeton house for the unlawful possession of alcohol, according to CUPD. — Compiled by Zoe Ferguson

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Kent Esslinger ’15 gives a sermon at Anabel Taylor Hall Tuesday afternoon as part of the fourth annual Harold I. Saperstein ’31 Student Topical Sermon Contest.

$50,000 dollars. Our hope is to come as close as possible to reach this goal,” Faugno said.

Kim said Cornell Kappa Delta’s collaboration with the Syracuse chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha demonstrates the strength of the Greek community.

“Kappa Delta will not only be working with Cornell's chapter of Pike but also the chapter at Syracuse,” Kim said. “The Greek system is a very tightknit community that defies the borders of just our Cornell community.”

Anika Sethy can be reached at asethy@cornellsun.com.

Snowstorm Causes Multiple Accidents on Campus cle. No injuries were reported, he said.

The other weather-related camMotorists were caught off guard pus accident that occurred during by a snowstorm — which led to a the snowfall was a two-car crash large number of minor vehicle acci- around 9 a.m. on the 800 block of dents on and off campus — Stewart Ave. The vehicles’ occuMonday morning, according to Lt. pants were evaluated by emergency Thomas Basher, public informa- responders and declined transport tion officer for the Ithaca Fire to the hospital, according to Honan.

Department.

Honan said he was not able to “[We saw] upwards of 15 to 20 separate incidents [Monday morn- provide an exact cause for the acciing],” Basher said. “We didn’t have dents because the reports are still being processed. anything He added that major, but CUPD also assistfrom 7 to 9 “We responded to three ed other local a.m., we police agencies were busy separate motor vehicle all over the crashes on campus ... two with two separate crashes. place.”

“One of these D a v e were weather related.” crashes was on Honan, State Street, and it d e p u t y Dave Honan involved multiple chief of the vehicles,” Honan Cornell University Police Department, also said.

Basher said Monday’s storm said CUPD was “very busy” dealing with routine calls and motor vehi- came within a short period of time, which he says left motorists with cle crashes during the snowstorm.

“We responded to three separate little time to prepare accordingly.

“We went out on a call at 3 a.m. motor vehicle crashes on campus,” he said. “Fortunately, none of the [Monday], and there was no snow. vehicle occupants were injured. Of … When I got up at 5 a.m., there these crashes, two were weather was a lot of snow — about an related and the third was a car [ver- inch,” Basher said. “The roads got really cold and greasy — people sus] deer crash.”

According to Honan, the first were slipping and sliding everyweather-related accident on cam- where.” pus occurred at approximately 8 a.m. at Hasbrouck Apartments, Annie Bui can be reached at where a plow struck a parked vehi- abui@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Considers Revoking Free First-Year Bus Passes TCAT

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$200 instead of the usual $600 that TCAT charges to non-Cornell customers, according to the University’s commuter and parking services website.

Ruizcalderon said TCAT needs to receive a $1 subsidy for every student who receives a complimentary pass to continue offering this complimentary service. Currently, TCAT only receives a $0.86 subsidy for every $1 it would normally receive if riders were paying for the service.

In past years, TCAT was able to meet this $1 benchmark, however, increased student use has diluted the subsidy amount received per student, Ruizcalderon said.

According to Ruizcalderon, Cornell has contributed an annual subsidy to TCAT of a little under $4 million, while New York State’s contributions are determined on a per-rider basis at $0.40 per rider.

“Ridership has increased every year but the subsidy amount Cornell gives has not changed. This has created the drop from the $1 subsidy per ride to .86 cents per ride,” Ruizcalderon said.

If the $0.86 subsidy does not increase, TCAT representatives and University transportation officials at the meeting said the only sensible option is to revoke free ride privileges for first year students.

Ruizcalderon said he recognizes that all first year students will not purchase the bus pass if they offer it for $200, however, he predicts more freshmen will continue to purchase bus passes than other students due to the location of freshmen dorms.

Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14, vice chair of operations for the U.A., suggested that the University could subsidize a set number of single rides for freshmen and Prof. Ronald Booker, neurobiology and behavior, proposed charging students an additional activity fee or only offering complimentary services for popular routes, such as those to campus or the Ithaca Mall.

Benjamin Kuo, interim director of transportation services, said University officials have considered these options, however, none would be able to address TCAT’s current subsidy deficit, since it is directly correlated to increased freshmen ridership.

Ruizcalderon added that charging an activity fee is not preferable because he felt it would be unfair to charge all students for a service that some may not use.

Aline Schechter ’16 said she is concerned that the University does not direct more money towards funding TCAT. “My overall main question is where is our tuition money going?

[University Assembly members] said that the Cornell endowment had more important priorities, but that is not Cornell’s only source of revenue,” she said. “No one could give me a good reason as to why our tuition is increasing and why this money can’t be used to fund the TCAT and other projects that could benefit the entire student body.”

University Assembly Chair Jim Blair said the University allocates a certain amount of funding to transportation services every year and that these funds are already being put to use.

University Assembly members said they encourage community members to maintain a “historical perspective” when criticizing the resolution, since it is a relatively new initiative.

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Haven Voters Say They Felt Ithacans Debate Cornell Heights Development ‘Silenced’ During Elections HEIGHTS

only considered the development’s effect on Ridgewood Ave. and not Highland Avenue, which is adjacent to the property. goal is for you to have all the information you seek Attendees also said they were concerned about to make an informed decision. This last scheme the property’s unusual location, since it is not locatfits well with the footprints required by the ILPC.” ed on higher land like typical Cornell Heights resiIn response to the petition against the develop- dences, according to Ithaca resident John Dennis. ment by residents of the Cornell Heights neigh“Its a dank, lifeless hollow. It would be a borhood, Walters said CA depressing place for students Student Living plans to get to live. All other properties on input from community mem- “We feel the property is the neighborhood are on bers directly. slopes, but not this one,“ “Along with the ward mem- unique ... and we can Dennis said. bers of the Cornell Heights develop it in a thoughtful Dennis also stressed the neighborhood, we are planning potential of automobile accia one-on-one meeting that will and respectful way.” dents due to a street curve on happen before the next plan- Adam Walters Ridgewood Road. ning board meeting,” Walters “Putting this kind of densisaid. ty in the neighborhood will Bill Demo, a resident of the create more hazards on an neighborhood, however, asked the Planning and already dangerous road,” Dennis said.

Development Board to block any additional develJohn Schroeder ’74, a member of the Planning opment in Cornell Heights. and Development Board, said while he agreed “I will have that many more bottles of beer and Cornell Heights’ zoning needed revisions to better piles of vomit when walking my dog in my neigh- protect the historic district, the board had no legal borhood. If the city allows this area to become basis not to proceed with the environmental ‘Collegetown Lite,’ it will not remain as a historic review. district,” he said. “The Cornell staff and retirees “Yes, we need some updated plans for the enviliving there will slowly depart and leave a student ronmental review, but they can be submitted in ghetto behind — and by that I mean unkempt the coming months,” said Schroeder, who is also renting properties.” the Production Manager for The Sun. Other attendees, including Hang, echoed their Walters, however, urged the Planning and opposition to the proposed housing development, Development Board to proceed with the project citing the lack of finalized plans and disregard of and said that plans will be finalized after input traffic impact to the area. from the community.

“It would be absolutely inconceivable to me “Our goal and job is to listen to legitimate conthat [the Planning and Development Board] cerns, but we do think the process should start, would proceed with outdated plans and no final since it’s a lengthy one. We should look at the project,” Hang said. “This project is not ready for overpopulation of students and address the conconsideration in final form, there’s no way around cern; we are quite comfortable with the traffic that. Please take no actions, especially when there’s studies that have been conducted,” Walters said. massive support for [the] protection of the Cornell Kevin Millian can be reached at Heights neighborhood.”

According to Hang, CA Student Living has kmillian@cornellsun.com.

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sented an ongoing “fragmentation” of the community.

“The elections got to the point where it wasn’t about the candidates as much about who you came to support and what political ideologies you had. I think that’s where it became exceedingly problematic,” Huray said. “I think what happened and how it blew up just demonstrates the sheer fragmentation of the community.”

Other students said they were bothered by the way the elections were handled by Huray and the advisors.

“I think situations like these show a fundamental flaw in election structures that invite students to come vote. While ideally it portends to be democratic, in reality it ends up being a popularity contest that I think is biased,” Anthony Santa Maria ’14 said. “I hope that in the future there is a more in-depth selection process that is more comprehensive of applicants’ skills and experiences.”

A main point of contention was the short amount of time for discussion of each candidate, which some students felt was “silencing.”

“The way that they were allowing certain people to speak and certain people to not speak necessitates that some people to vocalize, if they’re not gonna be granted a mic,” Tyler Lurie-Spicer ’15 said. “In one instance, a person went up to [the advisors] and asked to speak at the microphone because he had a personal issue, and they said no, so he asked me to speak out. I think the way that the space works is that it is further marginalizing those who don’t have access to the mic.”

Huray defended the rules that were set for the elections, saying that the community norms balanced “efficiency and effectiveness with providing dialogue.”

“I tried to stress the importance of integrity and the importance of leaving biases at the door, regardless of who you came with,” Huray said.

“But it clearly turned out that people ignored that, and that they came in with their own biases and prejudices and perpetuated them. I think there was a lot of contention that people were being silenced — but it’s not as much silence as due process, as much as the fact that we tried to be conscious of time.”

James agreed, though mentioned that the uproar may have been inevitable.

“The community rules and asking people to abide by those was definitely part of that structure that we wanted to keep people safe, both emotionally and physically,” James said. “Given the reality of the three candidates running for president, I don’t know that there’s anything we could have done differently that would have changed this particular outcome. We did our best to create an environment where people could vote and speak and move Haven forward.”

Betrearon Tezera ’14, however, said he thought the fact that a student was ushered out by advisors, with police officers stationed outside of the memorial room, was not evidence of a safe environment.

“I am personally offended and I feel personally violated. What happened here is akin to police brutality. We were policed not only by our voices, but by our bodies,” Tezera said. “I completely respect community rules, but I hold as a primary community rule that nobody should touch another person’s body without permission. That is a violation, and that is what happened. And I am incredibly embarrassed by the way things were handled.”

James defended her decision asking Jaani to leave and said he was never physically touched or pushed.

“We asked people to live by the community norms, and I said that people would be asked to leave if they didn’t,” James said. “And he was not living by community norms, so we asked him to leave.”

Juray said she was “appalled” at the way the elections ended, calling divisions among the Haven community “toxic.”

“Today, all people have seen is their own ego, their own entitlement [and] their own beliefs about what their community should be,” Huray said. “Instead, it should be a conversation. It should be a dialogue, and I feel that people were such hypocrites today, and that truly disappoints me and hurts me. Honestly at this point, I don’t feel safe moving forward.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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egardless of one’s status as student a clarification of Cornell’s legal justificaor employee, laboratory work is rife tion for denying worker’s compensation with toxic chemicals, electrical haz- rights to graduate students. Dean Knuth ards, potential pathogens and countless has made it clear that any changes will other dangers. Indeed, Cornell’s extensive come on the administration’s timeline, Environmental Health and Safety policies and I can only hope no injuries occur and programs demonstrate a clear under- while administrators deliberate.

In August 2013, I sustained a severe standing of and respect for the dangers that researchers confront every day. Post- injury in a laboratory accident, which has docs, laboratory technicians, faculty required hospitalization, two surgeries and members and custodial staff all face these dozens of physical therapy sessions. The dangers and are legally guaranteed cover- accident has left me with permanent age in the event of an injury. Their gradu- impairment of my dominant hand. It wasate student colleagues, however, are n’t my fault and it wasn’t Cornell’s fault; it was a “no-fault” accident. Had this injury denied this basic guarantee.

Historically, the stakes for labeling happened to any of the post-doctoral graduate students as employees are quite researchers, laboratory technicians, faculty high for universities, who would then be members or custodial staff, who face simlegally obligated to furnish students with ilar hazards, they would have no worries labor standards, safety requirements, col- about medical expenses or living costs lective bargaining rights and workplace while recovering.

Despite being injured in service to injury benefits. Fatal student accidents at UCLA and Yale recently served as wake- Cornell, as a graduate student, neither my up calls to many in the scientific commu- stipend nor out-of-pocket medical nity on the handling of graduate student expenses are guaranteed. At first, I was in injuries, events seemingly ignored by shock. How can the administration expect Cornell administrators. Should the cost of students who are paid so little to support these programs be more important than themselves while they are unpaid and unable to work? the safety and How can there be well-being of no formal policy graduate students?

Historically, the stakes for to handle student When the labeling graduate students injuries? Why was Graduate and Professional as employees are quite high I never given an option to purchase S t u d e n t for universities, who would insurance? My Association passed a resolution then be legally obligated to concerns were met neither symrequesting a writfurnish students with labor with pathy nor underten explanation of standing. student injury standards, safety requirethe policy, Cornell ments, collective barganing a d mToi nsayi s tthat ration administrators responded quickly rights and workplace injury was dismissive of me would be genand aggressively, benefits. erous. I was told reportedly calling in no uncertain the resolution “misguided and ill-informed.” If the terms that graduate students can not GPSA resolution is ill-informed, it is only expect a guarantee of coverage, and that I because administrators refuse to make should feel lucky for whatever I am grantthese policies available to students. As is, ed. Eventually, I was offered a portion of injuries are handled on a “case-by-case” my stipend and medical coverage for a basis by a committee of anonymous indi- limited period of time. The awarded comviduals. Not even the injured are allowed pensation has failed to cover my full period of recovery. Offers from the black-box to know who oversees their case.

As the system exists now, Cornell may committee reflected little respect for my deny compensation to students for any needs and no discernable consideration of reason, especially when students could my injury.

Administrators have refused to furnish potentially be at fault. There is no means for appeal, no forum to express criticism students with details of the black-box and no written evidence of the system’s injury committee that handles cases. As an workings. To an outsider, it might appear undergraduate or graduate student, it is in that Cornell’s policy relies on ambiguity your best interest to learn what you can and keeping students uninformed of their expect if you are injured at work. Because the injury policy is not publicly available rights.

Dean Knuth argues that the current in writing, I urge every student to ask “case-by-case” system offers students a administrators for information regarding better option than workers compensation. how they will be covered in the event of a She claims it can pay more in short-term workplace injury. Perhaps, if enough stucases, but ignores the fact that workers dents inquire, administrators will finally compensation offers unlimited periods understand the importance of this issue.

It would be unfair to say that no good away from work and a guarantee of support regardless of fault. Recognizing the has come from speaking with administrashortcomings of workers compensation, tors. In a meeting with risk management, administrators should feel compelled to I discovered an important truth: If you are furnish graduate students with a compre- a student, you have no voice on campus hensive injury compensation policy, pro- when your interests are at odds with viding coverage beyond the legal mini- Cornell policy, and you must find your own advocates. It is a shame that the safemum.

Though reform may be on the horizon, ty and well-being of thousands of students the timeline remains unclear. is at odds with Cornell policy.

Administrators recently formed a task force to evaluate the student injury policy.

The issue has also attracted the attention of the New York State Worker’s Richard Pampuro is a graduate student. He may be reached at rpp47@cornell.edu. Guest Room Compensation Board, which has asked for appears periodically this semester.

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OPINION

Rebecca John |

Mushroom Rage

A Few Thoughts On Food Politics

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s immigrants we are told that we do not know how to value life. We do not know how to tend to it, how to nourish it, how to enjoy it. We come from places where people are dying, killing each other. We do not know how to live, how to eat. I remember eating my lunch in a corner in the 4th grade so that the white girls wouldn't make faces about the way the food my mom made for me smelled.

When my parents came to this country, they practically memorialized the first time they ate a McDonald's hamburger, a rite of passage for new immigrants trying so hard to become "American." Food is political, it is a part of identity and a part of a larger assimilatory project of global capitalism.

Veganism, for example, is sold to us increasingly in a package that fits into capitalism perfectly instead of critiquing it.

NGO's, corporations, institutions like Cornell, even Beyoncé are promoting veganism. When corporations start endorsing something, it is enough to make anyone suspicious. The focus is on productivity, on making more food to feed a growing population for less.

There needs to be a critique of the way mechanizing food production in a way that works swimmingly with capitalism and colonialism, rather than in opposition to it, is deeply problematic and not revolutionary at all. A scroll through Cornell Vegan Society's Facebook page shows posts lauding Israeli prime minister for "moving towards a deeper understanding of animal consciousness.” Now if only if he could care about Palestinians too? What kind of food politics places animal rights over genocide, instead of perhaps understanding how the exploitation of animals and humans is all built into the capitalist colonial system.

Meanwhile, I will continue to roll my eyes at hipster food appropriation that gives all sorts of "ethnic" foods a vegan twist. In Craving the Other, Soleil Ho discusses how food becomes an experience in cultural tourism and self-discovery: “Andrew Zimmerman, host of Bizarre Foods, often claims

The veganism that is promoted through mainstream liberal politics does not acknowledge or understand such histories, or engage sustainability with questions of access. that to know a culture, you must eat their food. I’ve eaten Vietnamese food my whole life, but there’s still so much that I don’t understand about my family and the place we came from. I don’t know why we can be so reticent, yet so emotional; why Catholicism, the invaders’ religion, still has such a hold on them; why we laugh so hard even at times when there’s not much to laugh about. After endless plates of com bi, banh xeo, and cha gio, I still don’t know what my grandmother thinks about when she prays.”

Veganism as practiced by white liberals tends to whitewash and appropriate foods, without any sort of understanding of where and who it comes from. It erases histories and ways in which foods are a part of histories or resistance. In countries occupied by the United States military after World War II, surpluses of cheap canned meat (spam) made their ways into native diets and became both a comfort food and reminder of occupation as well as resistance to it. The veganism that is promoted through mainstream liberal politics does not acknowledge or understand such histories, or engage substantially with questions of access. In fact what we see is certain food achieving “trend” status, upping their prices and making them more financially inaccessible, a phenomenon referred to as food gentrification.

Some people think that veganism promotes a compassion for animals that is the first step to cultivating a broader sense of compassion that will end suffering in general. However, it is perfectly possible to have compassion for animals and still be complicit in violence towards other human beings who are seen as not human enough. Only a radically shifted idea of who and what constitutes a human will broaden our sense of compassion, and compassion alone without material and structural changes will not end human and animal suffering.

I wonder if vegans care as much about the farmworkers and food workers that are exploited in the food industry as much they do about the animals that are abused.

Rebecca John is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at rj224@cornell.edu. Mushroom Rage appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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“That’s great. Cornell can increase tuition by $2,000 and no one gets hurt. The really rich can afford it and students on financial aid see no impact, according to Prof. Ron Ehrenberg. Well, the rest who pay full freight, they either don’t exist or don’t matter.”

Cornell Greek Guy Re: “Cornell Approves $1,920 Increase in Tuition for Undergraduates,” News, published March 24, 2014

Bill Schecter ’68 |

Guest Room

A Conversation About Tradition And a Proposed Memorial

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helps radition define the Cornell experience. As students, we all sat in the same classrooms, shared meals at the Straight, worked to the point of exhaustion in Uris Library, partied (occasionally) in fraternities or Collegetown, gloried in the beautifully dramatic landscape and felt bound together in a tradition of excellence. We have all felt — and still feel — part of something larger than ourselves. Yes, tradition has its uses.

How strange, then, to consider that our alma mater, the repository of so many well-loved Big Red traditions, was born in defiance of tradition. A hardworking, generous visionary, Ezra Cornell, had the audacious idea to create a university that “can provide any person with instruction in any study.” Any person? Any study? We all know these words serve as our University’s motto. But how many know that this statement of astounding ambition was prefaced by this equally remarkable and untraditional sentiment: “Coeducation of the sexes and entire freedom from sectarian or political preferences is the only proper and safe way for providing an education that shall meet the wants of the future.”

The vision was untraditional from its inception and only came to fruition through the further defiance of tradition.

A 2006 University exhibition celebrating the founder’s bicentennial informed us that, “As soon as it became clear that it was a fortune, he promptly rejected conventional practice and sage advice, and directed that those riches be used to found a unique university.” Ezra Cornell rejected “conventional prac-

tice.”

So did another man who signed into law the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, which helped realize the founder’s vision. That man was Abraham Lincoln. His effectively signature reversed the veto of his predecessor, James Buchanan, who had opposed the idea of public support for higher education.

President Buchanan defended tradition.

We can’t be surprised that Abraham Lincoln placed the public good above the revered precedent of tradition. After all, in his second annual message to Congress delivered just months after signing the Morrill Act, President Lincoln

memorial be raised to Michael Schwerner ’61, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman (son of Cornell graduates).

These young men were murdered in Mississippi 50 years ago because they chose to take part in a great movement dedicated to realizing our nation’s democratic promise.

They fought to ensure that all Americans could exercise their sacred right to vote, the foundational right upon which all others depend.

We do not have many outdoor memorials at Cornell. Perhaps that’s the tradition. After all, a great university such as ours has graduated a multitude of distinguished alumni. So why should this proposal, which calls for a promi-

Tradition helps define the Cornell experience.... How strange, then, to consider that our alma mater, the repository of so many Big Red traditions, was born in defiance of tradition. wrote these imperishable words: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves…”

He was referring to our greatest national crisis, but these words still have meaning for us in our own “stormy present.”

As the sesquicentennial celebration of our University approaches, a group of alumni — now joined by distinguished faculty, hundreds of students and more than two dozen campus organizations — has proposed that a prominent outdoor

nent and highly visible display, deserve “exception status?”

There are several factors that impel us to “think anew,” a habit of mind that’s also a valued Cornell tradition. The hundreds of students who have expressed their support have not done so because they believe that these three martyred individuals are more distinguished than any alumni of Cornell University.

From the Student Assembly to Hillel, from Black Students United to the Interfraternity Council, from Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union to the Latino American Law Student Association, students have come forward to pledge their support because they understand

that the proposed memorial is symbolic of a great social movement that forever changed American life and that still inspires us to create a “more perfect union.”

The supporters of the proposal understand the power of a symbol to serve as a continuing call to service and citizenship, and to unity beyond race, religion and region.

Given campus conflicts still vividly recalled, the proposed memorial offers a sesquicentennial vision of healing, hope and promise.

The Civil Rights Movement, to which Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman gave their lives, changed America. But let us never forget that the Movement also changed Cornell. Our University has long offered “instruction in any study,” but only during the past 50 years have these riches been offered to “any person.” The courageous action initiated by President James Perkins in 1964 to effectively begin de-segregating Cornell was made possible by a movement whose participants were prepared to shed their blood. The Movement helped all of us — including James Perkins — to “disenthrall” ourselves and to “think anew.”

This is why on the occasion of the anniversary of their deaths, and the University’s sesquicentennial year, Cornell should agree to raise this memorial. We are a better world, a better country and a better university because of courageous citizens like Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.

Bill Schechter ’68 is coordinator of the The SchwernerChaney-Goodman Memorial Project. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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SCIENCE

Biology

Physics

Prof. Studies Disappearing Sea Stars

By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Staff Writer

Since July of last year, sea stars across the East and West Coast have been dying by the hundreds of thousands, according to Prof. Ian Hewson, microbiology. As a result he is investigating whether a waterborne microorganism is behind what has now been coined “sea star wasting disease.”

Commonly known as starfish, different species of sea stars are part of the class Asteroidia. Hewson said the most diverse and abundant populations of sea stars are found along the Pacific Coast of the United States.

According to Hewson, researchers realized that sea stars were dying beginning in the summer of 2013, when lesions appeared on sea stars at roughly the same time in different coastal area of the country, from Southern California to Alaska.

“Initially it seemed like [the disease] was restricted to one or two species,” Hewson said. “However, it has since progressed pretty rapidly into other species of sea stars, to the point where hundreds of thousands of sea stars are completely disappearing.”

Previous mass sea star deaths have been correlated to dramatic climatological events, such as El Nino. El Nino is a periodic warming of a band of water in the Pacific Ocean that develops off the coast of South America.

In the 1970s El Nino caused a massive upwelling of nutrient rich water which created ideal conditions for several pathogens that killed off sea stars. But, according to Hewson, no climate-related link has been found with the current sea star wasting disease.

Hewson said he began working on the project in October.

“What really triggered my activity was when, within the span of a day or two, sea stars in the Vancouver and Seattle aquariums — which had housed sea stars for the past 40 years — all died,” Hewson said. “That was an indication to me that there was something perhaps waterborne, something capable of making it into the aquariums and wiping out their sea stars.”

Research on sea star wasting disease was funded by a National Sciences Foundation Rapid Response Grant,

which is awarded based on the urgency of the problem.

“This is by far the most extensive event today that’s happened, and also the most wide ranging as far as the number of species affected by the disease,” Hewson said.

Multiple institutions across North America are collaborating to find the cause of sea star deaths, each approaching the problem from different angles.

According to Hewson, the University of South Florida and Cornell are investigating potential water-borne disease agents, while Western Washington University and the University of California Santa Cruz are investigating potential environmental causes of sea stars death and the impact of sea star deaths on the ecosystem.

To find what disease agents might be behind the sea-star deaths, Hewson said he compared the abundance of different parasites and viruses in healthy and diseased sea stars.

Hewson said he extracts the pathogens from the sea stars, sequences their DNA and compares them to the known DNA sequences of all organisms collected in GenBank, a nationally-funded genome database.

This comparison tells Hewson what pathogens are actually present in the sea star, he said. Finally, using a technique called quantitative PCR, he can find the abundance of each pathogen in sea stars by measuring the relative amounts of their DNA present.

“This can tell us whether there is more of organism X associated with the diseased [sea stars] than with the healthy,” Hewson said.

According to Hewson, the approach does not rule out the possibility that some of the pathogens might be opportunists which colonize a sea star that has already been compromised.

To overcome these issues, Hewson said he uses an approach where potential pathogens are isolated from the diseased sea star and exposed to a healthy sea star.

After observing the progression of the disease in the inoculated sea star, he reisolates the pathogen from the sea star, thus providing a direct connection between the pathogen and the disease.

But finding microorganisms in diseased sea stars does not necessarily mean those pathogens are causing the disease,

COURTESY OF PROF. IAN HEWSON

Sickly stars | Sea stars across the Pacific coast of the United States have been dying of “sea star wasting disease,” which causes the lesions shown above, according to Prof. Ian Hewson, microbiology. Hewson is investigating the causes of the disease.

Hewson said. One of the major hurdles in studying sea stars from a microbiological standpoint, according to Hewson, is that sea stars constantly take up sea water, and therefore also constantly take in the bacteria that live in sea water.

“Essentially they are sea water, and it is difficult to exclude a lot of bacteria from the analysis because they have it running through their veins, so to speak,” Hewson said.

Another issue is that pathogens may later infect the sea star after it has been compromised by the original disease agent. Hewson compared the problem to that of when HIV was yet to be determined as the causative agent behind

severely compromised immune systems.

“When HIV first started, the main symptoms that people were turning up with were all manners of weird infections, which were not actually the root of the disease,” Hewson said. “It took some time to find what the cause was, the HIV virus. We’re dealing with a situation not unlike that.”

While the research is still ongoing and candidate pathogens are still being identified, Hewson said he believes that as of now, it is possible that multiple disease agents are behind the sea star deaths.

Reem Khondakar can be reached at rkhondakar@cornellsun.com.

COURTESY OF PROF. IAN HEWSON

Marine mystery | Hewson studies the causes of “sea star wasting disease” by isolating individual bacteria from infected sea stars and exposing healthy sea stars to them. He then investigates the symptoms that arise as a result. Hewson said he believes that multiple pathogens may be behind the massive number of sea star deaths.

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SCIENCE

BICEP2 Telescope at South Pole Finds New Support for Big Bang Theory

By KATHLEEN BITTER

extremely short period of time, which Niemack described as “the first trillionthof-a-trillionth-of-a-trillionth-of-a-second after the big bang.”

The expansion was rapid enough to create ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves, which are predicted to exist by Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, according to Niemack.

Up until this latest finding, gravitational waves had never been directly observed.

Using the BICEP2 telescope, which is located near the South Pole, researchers were able to see direct evidence of these gravitational waves, according to Niemack.

According to the BICEP2 results release, the telescope is located in dry, cold Antarctica in order to minimize interference in measurements from water vapor in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The experiment was led by John Kovac of Harvard University, according to the project’s results release.The release also said that BICEP2 is not an acronym, simply a name.

BICEP2 and similar telescopes of the last decade use novel detector technologies that allow it to contain more super-sensitive detectors than previous technologies, according to Niemack. But BICEP2 is specialized to look for evidence of gravitational waves.

“The BICEP2 project ... is explicitly optimized to look for this one possible signal from inflation,” Niemack said.

BICEP2 is also a new way of studying the physics of the universe at high energies, according to Niemack. He said that with improved measurements from future

Sun Science Editor

Last week, a team of scientists from 12 collaborating institutions announced a major discovery for the field of cosmology and astrophysics: They had found the “most direct evidence yet” for signs of the big bang, according to Prof. Michael Niemack, astronomy.

To understand the discovery, start with the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB which is left-over light from the big bang that is still present throughout the universe today, according to Niemack.

The first detection of CMB in 1965 provided the first strong evidence to support the big bang model, Niemack said.

Studying the CMB has allowed scientists to learn a lot about the universe, including its age — 13.8 billion years — and more about its contents, including dark matter, Niemack said. Dark matter is the largely-undetectable type of matter that does not reflect or absorb electromagnetic radiation but is thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe.

The CMB is still a large part of cosmology research today, Niemack said.

One important aspect of the CMB is that it looks exactly the same throughout the universe, according to Niemack.

“One of the theories that was developed to help explain the astounding uniformity that we observe in the CMB is called inflation,” Niemack said.

The theory of inflation states that right after the big bang occurred, the universe went through a large expansion in an

telescopes and more data from BICEP2, scientists will be able to study physics at energies that are one trillion times larger than what is being studied at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator.

“This opens a completely new path to studying the high energy physics of the early universe,” Niemack said. “Prior to the results from BICEP2, we had no strong indication that this path actually existed.”

New developments in CMB research are driven by creating increasingly sensitive detectors for telescopes that are then focused on the same area of the sky for years at a time, Niemack said.

The next step after the BICEP2 study is confirmation of the result by other groups, according to Niemack. He said he and other scientists are already looking at how to optimize their own telescopes in order to replicate the BICEP2 findings.

Niemack works on a similar telescope to BICEP2, called the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Niemack said the Atacama telescope has a larger lens than BICEP2, which allows it to have 20 times better resolution on the sky and work for a variety of projects, including dark energy research and looking for new clusters of galaxies.

“We are in the process of upgrading the detectors for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, and we plan to have about 3,000 superconducting detectors — about six times more detectors than BICEP2 — in operation later this year,” Niemack said.

Niemack said the team at the Atacama

Cosmology Telescope is currently looking at how to adjust their measurements over the coming years in order to test the BICEP2 results with their higher-resolution instrument.

The team also plans to look at whether the same signal is observed at different wavelengths of light in order to learn more about the physics of inflation, according to Niemack.

Niemack said this research would be able to provide confirmation of the BICEP2 results as well as take a deeper look into the physics of the inflation of the universe.

Physicists are always looking to improve the quality and precision of their instruments in order to learn more about the origins and state of the universe, according to Niemack.

“We are pursuing the design and development of new telescopes, superconducting detector technologies and analytical techniques to enable extraction of new information about our universe,” Niemack said.

According to Niemack, the Atacama Teloscope is poised to pursue a wide range of research in the field of cosmology, including confirming the BICEP2 results.

“In addition to our current work with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, this combination of approaches will enable us to characterize microwave signals from inflation and dark energy in much greater detail to learn more about the birth and future of our universe,” he said.

Kathleen Bitter can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Big Red Carpet

Interviews with Cornell’s finest student filmmakers

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

As an aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, I find myself in good company here at Cornell. True to its motto, this university contains majors and studies of all shapes and sizes, including the film department, solidly headquartered at the sub-basement level of the Schwartz Center. There are a number of writer-directors here on campus busily putting together film shoots and screenplays throughout the semester. When I’m having trouble getting a story to gel (although it fortunately did last night), there’s a company of filmmaking collaborators to turn to, many of them members of the Cornell Film Club (yes, we have one!). Though it’s small, it’s a tight-knit community of devotees radically committed to making high-quality cinema.

I recently discussed the discipline of filmmaking with three Film Club members, Laurence Rosenzweig ’14, Dan Spector ’14 and Ryan Larkin ’14. We chatted about how they have studied the medium at Cornell, and what their plans are for the future in entering the industry.

THE SUN: What films inspired you and had the strongest influence on your wanting to make films?

RYAN LARKIN: The films that inspire me most tend to have a psychological bend or focus. Ingmar Bergman’s Persona ranks high on the list, as does Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi classic Blade Runner. The film project I’m creating this semester draws direct inspiration from Chris Marker’s La Jetée.

LAURENCE ROSENZWEIG: When I was 15 years old, my dad told me to watch this movie about Jack

Nicholson acting like a crazy man in a mental hospital. A few months later, I was skimming TV channels and stumbled on that very same movie, which was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I watched the rest of it that day and became entranced by the wonderful world of film. The sentimentality of learning about the film from my dad conflicts with my actual favorite film, Boogie Nights. Paul Thomas Anderson’s vision of Dirk Diggler’s rise and fall in the porn industry is perfect.

DAN SPECTOR: My favorite film is Good Will Hunting. I like it when there’s mentoring in movies and Matt Damon and Robin Williams are such delightful smart-asses, but the film still deals with the very relatable feelings of loneliness and growing up. Also, Elliot Smith’s guitar is accompanying all their conversations, which pretty much did it for me.

Not being able to resist the opportunity to weigh in myself, I must say these are some excellent choices for inspirational films. Blade Runner is an immersive, futuristic experience, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the high points of ’70s New Hollywood, Boogie Nights is a masterful example of bravura indie filmmaking that likewise made a huge impression on me and Good Will Hunting is a simple, riveting story — written by two childhood friends in their college years, no less.

SUN: What films have you made thus far, and what types of films are you trying to make?

R.L.: I’ve made several short films, including a documentary about the colorful residents at a local retirement home (Beachtrees) and a 16mm piece about a late-night poker game with psychological undertones (Masquerade). I’m always interested in making films that explore some fundamental question I myself have wrestled with.

L.R.: They say people don’t go to the movies to watch real life. They want spectacle. I want to do both. I like pointing out things people take for granted and highlighting them to raise personal questions for the audience members. My last two short films, Delivered and Message. Send.

Failure., exploited society’s reliance on text messaging. There’s nothing that frustrates me more than when a couple sits at a restaurant and they each look down at their own phones to text other people. But the worst part is when I’m guilty of it.

D.S.: I just really like films with good stories.

Because I am a younger filmmaker and do not have many resources, it’s probably smart to keep things simple and really

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draw the audience in with a story that challenges people. I recently finished a comedy called Bus Boys, which I spent six months on in the writing process, so that the story would be right.

SUN: Where are you hoping to take your career in film after leaving Cornell?

R.L.: I hope to find a career that will offer me a creative outlet through some form of media production.

Such a career would enable me to continue doing the kind of work I have found so fulfilling here at Cornell.

“I’m always interested in making films that explore some fundamental question I myself have wrestled with.”

Ryan Larkin ’14 L.R.: My goal is to start a career in technology. My passion is 100 percent filmmaking. But I am an Information Science major and I love designing and building technology, too. As long as I am being creative, I am happy. But free time while not working at a tech company will be devoted to making films, with hopes of eventually migrating into the film industry.

D.S.: My friend is writing this super-fantastic book about a ’90s pop idol and a crazy manager who ruins his career. It really inspires me and I’d like to adapt it into a screenplay and make it. Jimmy, if you are reading this, I promise I won’t do it until you publish it.

On Saturday, April 12 at 5 p.m. at Cornell Cinema, there will be a screening of student-directed movies produced by the Cornell Film Club. These will include Larkin’s film Masquerade, Rosenzweig’s film Delivered, DiStefano’s film Directed by... and Spector’s film Bus Boys.

Mark DiStefano is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

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Swinging Singles

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Johnny Cash

YG

“She Used To Love Me A Lot”

“Really Be”

By Jael Goldfine

By Calvin Patten

By Calvin Patten

No one does nostalgia like Johnny Cash. In his lost single, “She Used To Love Me A Lot,” to be released March 25 on an album of tracks originally recorded in the early 1980s called Out Among The Stars, it is unclear whether Cash is mourning the loss of a lover, or an era. “She used to love me with a love that wouldn’t die / looking at her now I can’t believe I said goodbye / It would only take a minute to turn back the clock / She used to love me a lot.” In his somber baritone, Cash croons about a disenchantment with himself, that could mirror the one America was going through during the ’80s, as his career hit an all-time low. Thirty plus years after Cash recorded the track, and 11 years after his death, it’s hard to hear the track in context, but it’s a nostalgic treasure plucked from an era long past.

Of course, today, Cash’s cult of adoring baby-boomer groupies salivate over his every thundering syllable, but this song is more than a piece of Cash paraphernalia, or an ode to The Man in Black — it’s sweet, melancholy rockabilly blues at its finest, and as only Cash can deliver.

YG’s latest single, “Really Be (Smokin’ and Drinkin’)” is a Compton affair presented by some of the newest stars of the left coast. Featuring Kendrick Lamar and produced by the L.A.-based duo of Ty Dolla $ign and Terrance Martin, “Really Be” leaked last week in support of YG’s debut studio album, My Krazy Life. Ty Dolla $ign serves up a classic, West Coast g-funk styled beat for the two Comptonraised rappers to jump on. YG’s first verse finds him briefly channeling his inner Ice Cube, discussing how his substance abuse is a necessity in the face of the poverty, death and violence that propagate the streets. This is not a bummer of a song though — YG may superficially acknowledge the struggle, but this man is absolutely faded, first and foremost. His second verse finds him in more familiar territory, dealing with “a bitch that’s irritatin’ from all these questions she askin’.”

Unsurprisingly though, it is Kendrick that takes the cake, detailing how the deaths of two of his friends has him getting high, despite his disinterest in that lifestyle.

“Why the fuck I've really been smokin'? / What the fuck, I'm the sober one,” he exclaims. Leave it to the good kid to find legitimate consciousness in a YG song.

Six years since “Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)” and four years since “Exhibit C”, Jay Electronica has taken a few minutes to remind the world that he is still the greatest rapper you have probably never heard of.

While he has appeared on occasional tracks (notably Big Sean’s “Control,” where I preferred his verse to Kendrick’s), he has largely been unheard from. On Sunday, however, rapping with ferocity over Drake & Soulja Boy’s “We Made It” alongside label boss Jay Z, Jay Elec again gave us reason to believe that his anointment as a rap legend has been merely delayed.

Following the opening Eastbound and Down sample, Jay steps into Drake’s first verse, largely miming, as Drake had, the “Versace” flow. Elec focuses on Five Percenter teachings, claiming to be “the Farrakhan of rap,” while also apologizing to fans that have waited so “patiently.” Hov tries to keep up, dissing Drake (“Sorry Mrs. Drizzy for so much art talk/Silly me rappin’ 'bout shit that I really bought) about Drake’s Rolling Stone quotes, but after Elec’s hell and brimstone sermon it just sounds petty.

Ironically paralleling “Control,” this “We Made It” freestyle will generate clicks due to Hov’s statements, but it is Jay Elec that sends other artists looking for cover.

Jael Goldfine is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com.

Calvin Patten is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com.

Calvin Patten is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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or the first time in what feels like forever, I had a real conversation with my brother. His name is Nick, he is a freshman at UCLA and he is just over a year younger than me, though you would not think it if you put the two of us back-toback. By that, I mean he frequents the gym a lot, and it is there, back home, where he would advise me on what exercise to do and precisely how to do it. He makes a great trainer, and I thank him for helping his little older brother, but in our house or driving around, at dinner or just lazing about with nothing better to do, I sensed a distance between the two of us.

So it was a pleasure to call him Wednesday evening, after missing two of his calls, and hear nothing about video games, money or fitness — our go-to topics for half-hearted discussion over the last few years. Instead, he could hardly contain his excitement as he ran through everything that’s lately been on his mind: student government, campus activism, careers and the Westboro Baptist Church. Regarding that last one: Apparently members protested near UCLA a few days prior, brandishing their infamous “God Hates Fags” signs. I told him to save his bile for evils less fringe and trollish than that dinosaur, but I knew his head was in the right place.

Nick is starting to look at the bigger picture. It took me until second semester freshman year to do the same, to see college as a

means not only to read books, have fun or get a good job but to change: First internally and then, you hope, out in the open. I never thought I’d talk divestment, the IsraelPalestine conflict and diversity in college admissions with my brother, but there he was, chewing through these issues and more with a passion that tells me further research and even action await in his future. In all likelihood, he will best my knowledge on these subjects, regardless of whether they are tied to his college curriculum or not. That is what is special about this kind of awakening: Important questions, regarding geopolitics, racism, faith and so on, leave the classroom and colonize your downtime, breeding lifelong pursuits and re a l i g n i n g A Lover’s Quarrel your prioriWith the World ties.

I have used this line before, and I’m sure I stole it from somewhere, but the way I see it, you go to college to become a person. Sure, you may have scored a 2400 on the SATs and led your debate team to the championships and wrote a tear-jerking college essay that, together, proved to an Ivy League admissions office how much of a hot commodity you are. But the real test comes after, away from parents, class rankings and other ruthless motivators.

In fact, college offers so many avenues for distraction that it can undo all that high school overachieving, which may not be a bad thing for some. For the rest of us, however, bridging the obligation (studying, worksheets, etc.) with the distraction (music,

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writing, activism, etc.) becomes the newest and mind-blowing possibility.

I realize now how little I thought before.

Maybe I was also a little happier, on the whole, back then — me in my ignorance. Then one day, months into the college experience, away from home and immersed in ideas that I didn’t totally understand, I came to a deflating realization: I do not matter. I was taking an astronomy course at the time, so the verdict may have been closer to “None of SANTI SLADE / this matters.” If we keep SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR this to comprehensible earthbound terms, the ramifications are the same: All those superlatives on your transcript amount to nothing in the grand scheme of things. It’s a rather depressing subject of consideration and it will always be, since once that internal switch turns on it cannot be turned off.

The only viable response to that humbling epiphany is as follows: But I want to matter!

Whether you scream it aloud or never summon those exact words, therein lies the reason you get excited at anything more substantial than ice cream, from here on out. You think humanitarianism motivates fracking protesters or U.S. presidents? It does, of course, but so does reputation, self-importance, ego. We are too narcissistic a species to base our lives

solely on the needs of others, and anyone trying to do good, by writing some preposterous novel or building the most efficient solar panel, knows this, deep down.

My brother is coming to grips with the effort, fueled from within, it will take to realize his dreams in life. His idealistic, go-getter oratory spells a future politician, entrepreneur or physician. Whatever path he chooses, he will outearn me, that’s for sure. I look forward to being there as witness and, now, confidante.

Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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UNC Tops Michigan St. In NCAA Tournament

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) the second round last year and — Freshman Diamond missing the tournament in DeShields had 24 points and a 2012. Now they're heading west season-high 12 rebounds to help to face the Oregon State-South North Carolina beat Michigan Carolina winner on Sunday.

State 62-53 on Tuesday night in Jasmine Hines matched her the second round of the NCAA season high with 16 points tournament. while Tori Jankoska had 14 for Fellow rookie Allisha Gray the Spartans, who just couldn't added 10 points for the fourth- keep up with DeShields and the seeded Tar Heels (26-9), who Tar Heels. The Spartans shot led by nine at halftime then just 32 percent in the first half to trail 36-27, and the dominated then went 1 for 16 opening minutes of The Tar Heels to start the second the second half to turn the game into had reached the half — including a 9½-minute stretch a rout. North regional of 15 straight missCarolina ran off 14 straight points to semifinals just es — to watch the Tar Heels speed blow the game open, with once in the past out of sight.

Redshirt freshDeShields scoring five seasons. man Aerial Powers, twice during that who had a huge flurry to build a 5731 lead with 11½ minutes left performance in the first-round that allowed the Tar Heels to win against Hampton, struggled coast to the Stanford Regional's all day and finished with two points on 0-for-5 shooting for round of 16.

The Tar Heels pressured the Michigan State.

The teams entered Tuesday's fifth-seeded Spartans (23-10) and turned the game into the game coming off very different up-and-down pace they wanted. first-round games. Michigan They finished with a 17-4 edge State dominated Hampton to in fast-break points and 15 win by 30 points, with Powers points off turnovers in a huge going for 26 points and setting a improvement from their first- program tournament record round struggles against UT with 18 rebounds.

North Carolina, meanwhile, Martin.

The Tar Heels had reached had to rally from 18 down after the regional semifinals just once halftime to beat U.T. Martin in the past five seasons, losing in 60-58.

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SOFTBALL

Red Goes 1-3 in Weekend Tournament

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

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Strikeout | Sophomore pitcher Meg Parker recorded seven strikeouts on Saturday and added a three-run homer at the top of the fifth inning.

This weekend, the Cornell softball team traveled to Dover, D.E. to compete in the Sean Savage Memorial Tournament for Epilepsy Awareness.

The Red went 1-3, splitting a pair with Central Connecticut and dropping a doubleheader to the host, Delaware State.

The Red opened play on Saturday with a pitcher’s duel, culminating in a total of 10 hits from both teams combined. In the circle for Cornell was sophomore Meg Parker, who recorded seven strikeouts on the day. The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the sixth, when a Central Connecticut RBI single to center field dropped Parker to 3-4 on the year.

The Red rebounded in the nightcap, however, beating Connecticut State in a decisive 5-0 victory.

“The shift in momentum between the first game, which resulted in a 1-0 loss, and the second game, which we won 5-0, was really just due to our hitting,” said freshman outfielder Jessica Bigbie.

“In between the game we talked about how we were struggling with the pitcher and made adjustments going into the second game, which resulted in some timely hits and eventually the win.”

Scoring began in the fifth with senior outfielder Lauren Bucolo’s bases loaded walk. Senior infielder Jenny Edwards’ sacrifice fly to center field brought in another run, and Parker’s three-run homer provided the Red with a cushion. Senior pitcher Alyson Onyon also contributed to the shut out,

holding Central Connecticut to only three hits.

Next for Cornell was a doubleheader against the host, resulting in 2-0 and 3-1 losses to Delaware State, dropping the Red to 7-10 on the season.

In the first game, Delaware’s defense came out strong to keep Cornell off the scoreboard. The Red left six base runners stranded to hand the foe the shut out.

Cornell got on the board first in the second contest, but an error in the third led to three runs for the Hornets. Onyon held Delaware to five hits and struck out three.

The Red hopes to put more points on the board as it prepares to compete in the Ivies, according to senior infielder Christina Villalon.

“Our main team goal is always to win Ivies,” Villalon said. “With Ivy play beginning on Friday with a doubleheader against Dartmouth, and Saturday against Harvard, the road to the championship is upon us.”

Cornell kicks off its Ivy season this weekend, hosting two doubleheaders on Niemand-Robison Field. The Red will matchup against Dartmouth on Friday, March 28 and then face Harvard the following day.

“We are learning from every game,” Bigbie said.

“Wins as well as losses are learning experiences, teaching us what adjustments need to be made to come out on top the next pitch, the next play, the next at bat, the next game.”

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun.com.

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often dry workplace relationships. Sure, there is usually gambling involved, and like any form of gambling, it can get out of hand if people start investing excessively. But the fact that the tournament only comes around once a year makes it less likely to encourage bad and wasteful habits. In most cases, it fosters good times, friendly competition and immense excitement. Even the President has caught march fever, filling out a bracket with ESPN every year.

It’s not just the chance of winning pools or the single elimination format that make the games so exciting. It’s also about the nature of the play.

Teams are desperate to win, often edging out the competition with just enough offense and all-out defensive efforts.

Teams never give up; almost every year we are treated to a game in which a team blows a multi-digit lead to lose a game in the final minutes or seconds.

Almost every year there are a

handful of huge upsets, sending powerhouse teams home early on. Because defenses are so stingy, winning depends on playing a strong team game.

It’s more about playing as a team than about how many stars you have to hog the ball.

And lastly, every team believes and gives it their all. When tipoff happens, the seeding goes away, and it’s all out on the floor.

For much of the year, basketball fans are restricted to the NBA, which is a far different experience. NBA teams don’t put forward the same tough defense as those in the college game. There is far less passing and creativity on both sides of the court. There are some fantastic teams, some dreadful teams, and not many teams in between. Clubs with the best and highest paid stars usually perform the best because they’re able to make the strongest individual plays.

Now, this is largely because of the fact that the NBA has the best players in the world, so some are simply talented enough to carry a team on their

shoulders. In college, the number of players who can win with individual effort alone is very small. But somehow, this lower concentration of talent doesn’t degrade the quality of the game. In fact, it raises it.

This year’s bracket will likely be as exciting as ever, because there doesn’t seem to be an obvious favorite. Louisville is the defending champion, and the sqaud may feel slighted at only receiving a No. 4 seed. It’s not out of the question for them to go deep in the tournament yet again. Additionally, there were a number of upsets in the major conference tournaments — UCLA beat Arizona and Viriginia beat Duke, for example. Duke has already been upset, but it will be interesting to see if those other teams can keep the momentum up and succeed in the tournament. The answer is anyone’s guess, and only time will tell.

But for now, I can’t wait to see the rest of the drama of March Madness 2014 unfold.

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

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dence.”

The Red could not support Kaufmann, though, mustering up just one run in the seventh inning. Karl started things off with a walk, and junior catcher Matt Hall moved him to third with a single. Swinford brought Karl in with an RBI single, putting the potential tying run in scoring position.

But the next batter hit a hard lineout to right field, and the threat subsided, allowing Sacred Heart to take the series sweep.

The Red’s midweek doubleheader with Albany was cancelled due to expected inclement weather, so the team will have to dive headfirst into Ivy play this coming weekend with a doubleheader against Dartmouth on Saturday followed by a doubleheader against Harvard on Sunday.

“We just [have to] try to bounce out of the slump and get the bats hot going into the Dartmouth and Harvard weekend,” Swinford said.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S TENNIS

C.U.Sweeps St. John’s at Home

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer

The No. 38 Cornell men’s tennis team swept No. 74 St. John’s, 7-0, on Saturday afternoon for its fifth consecutive win of the season.

The Red gained a quick 2-0 lead after winning the top two doubles matches. Junior Sam Fleck and freshman Chris Vrabel won the No.1 doubles match 8-1, and juniors Jason Luu and Quoc-Daniel Nguyen won 8-5 at the No. 2 spot.

The team was happy to get the early advantage with the doubles wins, according to Fleck.

“Doubles was great this weekend,” he said. “We played with a lot of energy on all three courts and we really worked on the stuff we had been practicing in training.”

According to Vrabel, the team focused on playing aggressively and attacking at the net in the week leading up to the match.

“In doubles practice this past week, our coach was really focused on being aggressive — especially at the net,” Vrabel said. “Me and Sam did that really well so we were able to win pretty comfortably.”

In singles, both the No. 2 and 4 positions went to three sets. After losing the first set, sophomore Stefan Vinti, currently ranked No. 121 in the country, and junior Alex Sydney each came back to win the next two sets in a decisive manner.

At the No. 5 position, Vrabel clinched the win over two close sets, 6-3 and 7-6.

“I felt like I started the sets a little slowly, but then I got more into the groove as I went on and felt in control of the

point,” Vrabel said. “I was really more aggressive and it worked out.”

Vrabel said he adjusted his play by taking less risky shots to maintain consistency and save points.

“I feel towards the beginning of both sets I was going for low percentage shots and wasn’t giving a large margin, so I adjusted a bit and didn’t hit as close to the lines,” he added.

At the No. 1 position, Fleck enjoyed a comfortable win, only dropping one game in his two-set match. Coming off an injury, he is proud of his performance and hopes to continue to improve moving forward.

“I struggled a little bit previously, but it’s improving every week and this weekend it was much better,” Fleck said. “I was much more confident. Hopefully I’ll play just as well this weekend.”

Cornell will kickstart its Ivy season on Saturday at 1 p.m. when the squad takes on Columbia at the Reis Tennis Center.

The team expects a fight in the upcoming game against Columbia and is ready to go all-in to claim the victory.

“We want to continue what we’ve done,” Fleck said.

“It’ll definitely be a close match. All Ivy matches are very competitive. Everyone is around a similar level.”

The team hopes to keep its winning streak alive and build upon its solid 10-4 record.

“Our team has been playing really well recently and we hope we can make it a good match and get the win,” Vrabel said.

Danielle Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun.com.

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Teamwork triumphs | Junior Sam Fleck, along with freshman partner Chris Vrabel, gave the Red the early lead with an 8-1 win at the No. 1 spot.

March Madness Red Stumbles,Falls to Sacred Heart Trumps Pro Sports

BASEBALL

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Sun Sports Editor

After scoring 46 runs in a series with James Madison University last weekend, the Cornell baseball team’s bats fell relatively silent on Saturday and Sunday in a road trip to Brooklyn, N.Y. The Red was swept in four games by Sacred Heart, handing the Red its first series loss this season.

The Red had no answer for JMU’s starting pitcher Kody Kerski, who tossed a four-hit shutout in the opener while striking out nine. Junior Brent Jones pitched well enough to win, going five strong innings to allow just four hits and one run while striking out seven, but the offense was unable to support him.

“We found ourselves in a slump this weekend,” said senior infielder Ben Swinford. “Tough to say why, but [the] good thing is, slumps are temporary.”

In the nightcap, Sacred Heart got off to a hot start, scoring two runs in the first inning off junior starter Nick Busto. Cornell rallied in the top of the second, though, scoring three runs off RBIs by junior outfielder and reigning Ivy League Player of the Week Ryan Karl, Swinford and junior outfielder J.D. Whetsel.

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The Red’s offense, however, was stymied after that point, putting up zeros through the final five frames and eventually falling, 5-3.

“As a team we just could not string our hits together,” said senior outfielder Chris Cruz. “We were able to get hits, but most were not consecutive so we were not able to push any runs across.”

Going into Sunday’s game, the Red could only hope for a split of the series, and sophomore leftie Michael Byrne took to the hill to try to put his team on that track. Both starting pitchers w e r e domin a n t through t h e first three i n nings, allowing no runs across. In the f o u r t h , Cornell got on the board first.

Whetsel led off the inning with a single, and junior infielder Kevin Tatum moved him over with

a line drive base hit to left. Senior first baseman Ryan Plantier got Whetsel over to third with a lineout to centerfield, and then Cruz brought him home with an RBI single.

The Pioneers came back firing in the bottom of the frame, though, plating six runs to take a 6-1 lead.

The Red could not get its bats going after that, and although freshman reliever Paul Balestrieri and junior closer Kellen Urbon both delivered scoreless innings of relief, the squad could not climb out of the early hole, dropping game three, 7-2.

One high point for the Red came in the series finale in the form of senior pitcher Connor Kaufmann.

After leading the team’s staff in its 2012 run to an Ivy League title and NCAA tournament berth, Kaufmann was sidelined last season due to an injury. In his first start returning to the rotation, Kaufmann allowed just four hits and two runs, fanning five while walking just one batter. Both of the runs he surrendered came in the first inning, but Kaufmann settled down and took control after that, going the distance for his team.

“It is very promising [having him back] and just strengthens what is already a strong staff,” Cruz said.

“All of us know what Connor can do when he is healthy, so seeing him back just builds more confidence.”

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Back in the game | Senior pitcher Connor Kaufmann, coming off an injury, allowed just four hits and two runs.

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