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Resolution Criticizes Univ. for Israeli Ties

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By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

Students for Justice in Palestine will present a resolution to the Student Assembly Thursday calling for the University to divest from companies that “profit from the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories,” according to an SJP statement.

Citing human rights abuses and violations of international law by the state of Israel on Palestinian territories, SJP argues that part of the University’s endowment is currently invested in a way that does not carry with the University’s mission to better the lives of its students, residents of the state and others around the world and to carry out all financial transactions “with integrity.”

According to the resolution, Tata Motors, Sodastream, IngersollRand, Raytheon, G4S and Hewlett Packard are companies that the

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Pete Meyers, coordinator at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, discusses implementing living wages for workers during a panel discussion held in Ives Hall Thursday.

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New Group Offers Safe Space for HIV-Positive Students

By DARA LEVY Sun Senior Writer

A new support group that hopes to offer a safe space for HIV-positive Cornell students held its first meeting Wednesday night.

The group seeks to address a number of problems that HIV-positive individuals face on a regular basis, including the fear of others knowing of their medical condition, dealing with ignorance about HIV and the struggle of being on expensive medications, according to Leo Stellwag grad, the group’s co-founder.

Stellwag, who also runs a transgender support group, said it is difficult for HIV-positive students to find other diagnosed individuals on campus. As a result, the students can feel isolated and face “pos-phobia,” a fear of people who are HIV-positive.

One of the group’s goals is to help connect HIV-positive students who are not already a part of each other’s current support system, according to Lex Brown ’15, cofounder of the support group.

“Some of them have friends that would support them, but those friends are probably HIV-negative,” Brown said. “When you become positive, it’s a big life-changing event, and you end

up having issues connecting with people who are not that way.”

Resources currently offered by the University for HIVpositive students include testing, one-on-one counseling and access to a case supervisor, according to Brown.

The group wanted a peer-led support group on campus, rather than group counselling led by “an official with a title who people can’t relate to as well,” Stellwag said.

“There has been such a strong stigma on campus for HIV that none of the [HIV-positive] students would dare to say anything, and probably feel alone because See SUPPORT page 5

Astronomer Talks Saturn Space Mission

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Writer

Astronomer Carolyn Porco, director of NASA’s Cassini Imaging Laboratory for

Operations, spoke about her work with the Cassini space mission Wednesday.

The Cassini spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn for the past 10 years, collecting data and taking

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Out of this world | In a lecture titled “A Decade at Saturn,” astronomer Carolyn Porco speaks about the planet’s iconic rings and moons.

images of the planet, according to Porco. After over two years of travel, in July 2004, the unmanned spacecraft entered into orbit around Saturn.

“Cassini, as I speak, continues to orbit Saturn,” Porco said.

“When it is all done, I think it will go down as one of the most scientifically productive missions that NASA has ever conducted.”

According to Porco, after humans gained an understanding of gravity and mathematics, “unbridled imagination” and disregard of the “idea of boundaries” led to the first space explorations.

“They did this merely because of an innate desire to explore and understand their cosmic neighbors,” Porco said. “Tremendous accomplishments have indeed showed us great insights into the origins of our own planet and its sibling planets. We have seen exactSee PORCO page 5

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Quick response | Responders stand by at the scene of an accident on Tower Road Wednesday.

Bus Strikes Cyclist on Tower Rd. An accident between a TCAT bus and a cyclist occurred on Tower Road near Ives Hall Wednesday afternoon, according to police.

The 911 dispatch center received the report at 2:09 p.m.

Wednesday, according to Kathy Zoner, chief of police for the Cornell University Police Department. Upon receiving the call, dispatchers transferred the call to CUPD. The cyclist was transported to Cayuga Medical Center for minor injuries by Bangs Ambulance, Zoner said. The Ithaca Fire Department was also on scene.

Police are still investigating the incident and will conduct interviews with witnesses.

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University: Cancellation of Springfest Event Attributed to Alcohol Problems

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Cornell officials agree that the University’s decision to ban a live musical performance as part of the traditional Springfest format is necessary to prevent the alcohol-related problems that are tied to the event.

Springfest traditionally consists of an outdoor meal as well as a concert at the foot of Libe Slope. Last year Robert Cray and his band performed, attracting between 6,000 and 9,000 people to the event, according to University estimates.

And last year’s Springfest was marked by an unprecedented level of alcohol abuse, including one near death from alcohol poisoning, officials said.

Several complaints were also filed after the Robert Cray concert stating that the noise interfered with graduate students taking exams and completing other academic work, he said.

A consensus existed after last year’s concert “not to

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have the same type of outcomes” in succeeding years, according to David Drinkwater, acting vice president for campus affairs.

The decision not to allow a band to perform had widespread support throughout the University administration and was not made by any one individual, Drinkwater said. “Decisions of this kind are not made in isolation,” he added.

Prohibiting a band from performing on the slope is the best way to avoid taking the same sorts of risks again, Drinkwater said.

But although the University tried to prevent drinking on the slope two years ago by moving the scheduled band to North Campus, students responded with Take Back the Slope movement, as thousands of Cornellians brought their own radios and alcohol and populated the slope.

A band acts as an “attracted nuisance” and lures students from surrounding high schools, as well as Cornellians, to Libe Slope, he said.

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ExxonMobil Foundation Gives Cornell $467k Grant

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By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor

The ExxonMobil Foundation gave Cornell approximately half a million dollars last week — which will be distributed to various parts of the University — according to Lance Collins, dean of the College of Engineering.

The funds were given to the University last Thursday by Elissa Sterry ’79 M.Eng ’80, vice president of the intermediates unit of ExxonMobil Chemical, according to a University press release.

Collins said the $466,555 grant is part of the foundation’s Educational Matching Gifts Program which matches donations made by ExxonMobil employees, spouses and retirees to various higher education institutions across the country.

“For every dollar that is provided by alumni or friends of Cornell with affiliations to ExxonMobil, the company provides three dollars of matching funds,” Collins said. “The [money] represents the matching funds for gifts made to Cornell by 72 ExxonMobil employees, retirees and spouses.”

According to Collins, the funds will be allocated across the entire University.

“Generally the matching funds are applied to the same designation as the individual’s gift, unless the individual requests otherwise, which happens, but is rare,” he said.

Abby Westervelt, director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the College of Engineering, also said the parts of the University that will benefit from the grant depend on where employees choose to make their donations.

“If an employee says ‘I want to fund undergraduate research,’ than the three to one ExxonMobil grant will go to undergraduate research,” she said.

Collins added the funds are a “very generous” example of the corporate sponsorship of higher education.

“These funds extend the reach of the original gifts considerably and greatly benefit Cornell faculty and students,” he said.

Westervelt said the program is unique in allowing employees to take the initiative in deciding where the money should go. “[The ExxonMobil foundation] is

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wonderful because it allows the employees to decide where they want to contribute and what areas of the University they want to support,” she said.

She added that the program is a “standout” because it provides a three to one match to employee donations.

“Many companies do have a matching program, but it is much more typical to have a one to one match, she said. “The foundation will matches three dollars for every one dollar [employee donation] for up to $7,500.”

ExxonMobil employees, retirees and spouses donated more than $190,000 to the University in 2013, according to

Westervelt.

ExxonMobil, however, does have an interest in promoting science and technology education, according to Westervelt.

“So, they would like to see us — if we use the money differently — to put the funds into STEM education,” she said.

The ExxonMobil foundation gave approximately $30.5 million to 866 colleges and universities across the country this year, according to the University press release.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

Relay for Life Fundraiser Will Raise Money for Cancer Research

By SAMANTHA DeLOUYA Sun Contributor

More than 1,000 students will gather in Barton Hall Friday for College Against Cancer’s annual event, Relay for Life — an all-night event to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

Held to commemorate those who have survived their battle with cancer and honor those who have not, Relay for Life will span 12 hours, according to Alyssa Caputo ’15, co-chair of College Against Cancer. Parti cipants will walk the track in Barton Hall and partake in events to raise money for research.

“The idea of Relay is that it’s a 12 hour event because ‘cancer never sleeps,’” said Olivia Wittels ’14, co-chair of College Against Cancer. “Maybe it might not feel so comfortable to be awake at two or three in the morning, but a cancer patient never gets to decide when they’re going to have a bad night. So we stand in solidarity with them.”

Wittels said one of the organization’s “proudest” accomplishments was getting Greek life more involved in Relay for Life.

“Right now, we have every single sorority on campus signed up, and every single one of them have raised between $1,000 and $10,000. In terms of fraternities, which have historical-

ly had low attendance [at the event], more than half of the fraternities are currently signed up,” Wittels said.

“Hopefully this will continue to be a tradition because I think it’s a great way to show Greek life in a positive light on Cornell’s campus.”

College Against Cancer fundraised for the event since September, according to Wittels.

“Pretty much all of our efforts and all the fundraising we’ve done throughout this

“Pretty much all of our efforts and all the fundraisiing we’ve done through this year has gone towards the relay.”

Olivia Wittels ’14 year has gone towards the relay,” she said.

Cornell’s Relay for Life has raised approximately $87,000 as of Wednesday night, according to the American Cancer Society’s website.

Mackenzie Kinard ’16, chair of the publicity committee for CAC said, said the organization’s goal is to raise $120,000.

“As long as we break $100,000, I know that we will be extremely proud.

Either way we’ll be proud of ourselves,” Caputo added.

The event will feature different entertainment groups,

which will perform throughout the course of the night.

“We have a capella groups performing, comedy troupes, you name it and we probably have it,” Caputo said.

According to Kinard, students and organizations will set up their own stations during the event to help raise more money. A smoothie bar, henna tattoo station and makeshift nail salon are some of the many installations to be expected.

College Against Cancer will hold its final fundraising effort with a bar night Thursday at Loco Cantina, according to Kinard. She said the organization will sell wristbands for the fundraiser, and all proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society.

“It’s the night before Relay so it’s a kind of a celebration — a way to get excited about what’s coming the next day,” Wittels said.

Wittels also said she encourages students who have not yet signed up to register online or at the start of the event Friday.

“Relay is still so special despite the fact that it happens every year,” she said.

“This is the 10th Relay I’ve participated in and it's just as important and relevant to me now as it was years ago.”

Samantha DeLouya can be reached at sdd47@cornell.edu.

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Org.Says C.U.Should Divest From Pro-Israel Companies RESOLUTION

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University either contracts with or holds portfolio and direct investments in that “participate actively” in the Israeli millitirization of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

For this reason, the resolution states that Cornell is in violation of international law and a “complicit” third party in human rights abuses.

The resolution posits that Israel’s actions include those that have violated United Nations agreements stipulating against “transfer[ing] parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” and that “all measures undertaken by Israel to exploit the human and natural resources of the occupied Arab are illegal.”

“Israel has repeatedly flouted international law and U.S. requests that it refrain from building settlements,” members of SJP said in a statement. “To this end, Palestinian civil society called in 2005 for an international movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions as a nonviolent method to pressure Israel to end its occupation. This resolution is an answer to that call.”

The resolution, which also calls for the University to make information about its assets public is being sponsored by Nicholas Vasko ’15, undesignated at-large, and Inge Chen ’15, minority liaison at-large.

Rachel Medin ’14 and Claire Blumenthal ’14, co-presidents of Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee, said they were “deeply concerned” that the resolution will be brought to the S.A. “The resolution is extremely controversial and upsetting to many members of the Cornell community which the S.A. represents,” Medin and Blumenthal said in an email. “We believe that this resolution is divisive and will create strong tensions between

students on campus, and therefore it is not in the S.A.’s best interest to support this misleading and hurtful resolution.”

At Thursday’s S.A. meeting, the general body will ask the sponsors questions about the resolution, and unless a motion passes to table it, it will be eligible to be voted on during the April 17 meeting.

A body of faculty members has also come to support the resolution and has created their own statement that has accrued 40 signatures as of Wednesday night.

Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, English, said that though the faculty statement is completely independent from SJP’s resolution — for example, the faculty statement features a critique of Cornell’s partnership with the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, while SJP’s resolution does not — the signers have expressed solidarity with SJP’s efforts.

“I do hope that the assembly brings the resolution to a vote so that a democratic process can go forward based on the resolution rather than tabling it and shortcircuiting that process,” Cheyfitz said.

According to SJP’s statement, this resolution supports Cornell’s “legacy for advocating for justice” and cites parallels to previous student efforts toward divesting from companies operating with South Africa under apartheid era.

“Much as thirty years ago, when campuses across the United States divested from South African apartheid and helped bring an end to that regime, today United States colleges and universities have a moral duty to divest from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and bring forth its end,” the statement said.

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

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ty,” Stellwag said.

Stellwag said the group also hopes to distribute stickers and informational cards across campus to they don’t know anyone that they can go and talk generate allies and awareness among the student to,” Brown said. “We hope this will give them a body.

“Personally I’ve heard someone say that HIVsafe haven to show that they are not all alone, that there is a group that they can feel comfortable with positive people are untouchable or un-dateable,” Brown said. “We felt that where they can be themselves something needed to be done and not have to hide anything.” on campus and that this is Stellwag added that the stig- “There’s still a lot of one of the steps toward it — ma against HIV-positive stu- education that needs to to make [HIV-positive peodents also exists in Cornell’s be done about HIV, even ple] feel comfortable and LGBT community. safe.”

“There have been negative within the queer The group plans to have things said within the LGBT weekly meetings in private student body which have created community.” locations on campus, accorda sense of not a safe space for ing to the group’s coHIV-positive people in the Leo Stellwag grad founders. Currently, only LGBT community,” Stellwag current and former Cornell students are allowed to said.

Much of this comes from misinformation, attend — though the group might decide to open according to Stellwag. He said he recently heard a up membership to Ithaca College or Tompkins student ask if one could contract HIV from kiss- Cortland Community College students. ing.

“There’s still a lot of education that needs to be Dara Levy can be reached at done about HIV, even within the queer communi- dlevy@cornellsun.com.

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Saturn Mission Will be Remembered as ‘Scientifically Productive,’ Astronomer Says PORCO

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ly what our cosmic place is.”

Porco said that her team has looked at the meteorology of Saturn, measuring wind speeds and determining the lifecycle of storms on the planet.

According to Porco, the team were “very lucky” to be in orbit when a major storm erupted on the planet in 2010.

The storm was the largest storm ever observed by a spacecraft, which lasted for some 200 days with massive lightning strikes.

Porco, who described Saturn’s iconic rings as a “tremendous visual spectacle,” said the rings — which are 280,000 kilometers across — could fit between the Earth

and the moon. The rings are composed of colliding bodies made out of water ice, ranging in size from small talcum powder-sized particles to bodies the size of small buildings, she said. These bodies are rotating around Saturn at a rate of approximately 20 to 40,000 miles per hour — but without any violent collisions.

The rings are relatively thin from top to bottom, about the height of one or two stories in an apartment building, Porco said.

Moving on to Saturn’s moons, Porco said that of the moons — Daphnis — is eightkilometers in diameter and is located between Saturn’s rings.

“Many of [Cassini’s] orbits took us exquisitely close to the moons,” Porco said. “In one

case we flew within 15 miles of one of the surfaces of one of the moons.”

Porco went on to describe characteristics of other moons — such as Dione, Tethys and Hyperion — that Cassini was able to obtain information about.

Porco said she hopes that one day, after the Cassini spacecraft has run its course, other missions to Saturn will follow. “[I hope] that someday, our descendants will return back to the Saturn system to visit [the planet] in a spaceship not unlike the starship enterprise,” she said.

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

Pa.School Stabbing Injures 22 MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16year-old boy with a “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him.

At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose liver was pierced by a knife thrust that narrowly missed his heart and aorta, doctors said.

Others also suffered deep abdominal puncture wounds.

The rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of their emer-

gency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought teachers rushing to help the victims.

Police shed little light on the motive.

The suspect, Alex Hribal, was taken into custody and treated for a minor hand wound, then was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown and charged with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. He was jailed without bail, and authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult.

At the brief hearing, District Attorney John Peck said that

after he was seized, Hribal made comments suggesting he wanted to die.

Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey described him as a good student who got along with others, and asked for a psychiatric examination.

The attack unfolded in the morning just minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an uppermiddle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh.

It was over in about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet of hallway, slashing away with knives 8 to 10 inches long, police said.

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Boycotting Israel hurts Palestinians To the Editor: Re: “GUEST ROOM: Why Cornell Shouldn’t Have Invited Ehud Olmert,” Opinion, April 8.

In a recent column, Emad Masroor ’17 used the canceled appearance of Ehud Olmert to give misleading accounts of Israel’s wars and criticize Cornell for its connections to Israeli institutions. Even more disappointing is Masroor’s outright rejection of any dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian leaders or activists and his denial of the existence of a second narrative. Sadly, rather than advocating for the mutual recognition, Masroor allies himself with a boycott movement that tries hopelessly to make Israel disappear and hurts Palestinians along the way.

His charges of mass expulsion and apartheid were already addressed in previous response, but a few points are worth repeating. Arab states started the 1948 war that created the Palestinian refugee problem, and Israel does not practice racism or apartheid. In fact, Israeli citizens of diverse religions and race have full citizenship and equality. Most Palestinians in the West Bank are represented by the Palestinian authority, living under its full civil and security control.

Masroor cites casualty figures from the Lebanon and Gaza wars, but omits how those wars began in the first place. Roughly 3,000 rockets were fired by Hamas and other terror groups before Operation Cast Lead, killing over 30 Israeli civilians. The 2006 war began when Hezbollah, the Iranian terrorist group in Lebanon, ambushed Israel Defense Forces vehicles on the Israeli side of the border, killing five soldiers.

Hezbollah then unleashed a barrage of rocket attacks at Israeli civilians. According to Col. Richard Kemp, a former British army commander who testified before the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the gaza war, “during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the combat zones than any other army in the history of warfare.” In both cases, Hamas and Hezbollah intentionally hid rockets and missiles in schools, hospitals and civilian homes, making it impossible to completely avoid civilian casualties.

The United States recognizes the legitimacy of both sides in this conflict, which is why it supports the Palestinians with $440 million of annual aid. America supports efforts to build mutual understanding because peace can help Palestinians and Israelis. In fact, Ehud Olmert is a passionate advocate for Palestinian statehood, frequently critical of the current government for not conceding enough to reach an agreement. He personally presented a two-state peace plan to Mahmoud Abbas at the end of his term, and he would have advocated strongly for Palestinian statehood at Cornell.

Cornell is associated with Israeli academia and businesses, both of which actually benefit Israeli-Arabs and Palestinians. Twenty percent of Technion’s students are Israeli Arabs, who are major contributors Israel’s high tech culture. Many Palestinians are employed by Israeli companies, and they almost always receive better wages than they would in Palestinian cities. Therefore, the boycott Masroor favors would only hurt the people he claims to be advocating for. In fact, improving dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian leaders and civilians, actually has the potential to improve Palestinian lives.

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his spring break, while my friends waisted jeans. But for one hour that evening embarked on adventures in the in a Starbucks in Union Square, our worlds Caribbean sun, I embarked on a jour- collided, and we shared a few laughs. If nothney of my own via the World Wide Web: My ing else, it was my first glimpse into what life after college might look like. first venture into online dating.

Halfway through our conversation, I Prior to this experience, I never would have considered meeting someone on the asked him why he uses online dating apps.

Internet. The closest I’d come to online dat- He explained that his work schedule is so ing was when my sophomore year roommate demanding and hectic that he hasn’t had the and I both made OKCupid profiles for shits opportunity to meet anyone. It was the same and giggles, only to deactivate them a week reason my friend Clara had made her profile later after receiving dozens of unsettling mes- — and it was one that made sense.

You would think that in a city like New sages. But as more of my friends accept job offers in unfamiliar cities and try to meet peo- York, meeting someone would be easy. But ple out of college, I hear more about more the unfortunate truth about big cities is that about people turning to social media to make you can go weeks at a time without talking to anyone at all. The subway is full of fascinatconnections.

So, over break, when my friend Clara ing people, but trying to strike up a conversagushed about a guy she’d met on OkCupid, I tion with a stranger on your morning commute is like waving a big red flag that says: “I decided that I was going to give it a try.

Clara warned me that out of every 15 am unstable.” In my 21 years as a New messages she gets, maybe one will be worth Yorker, only two people have ever approached looking into — which is why I wasn’t dis- me for my number. One was a 50 year old engineer from heartened when Colombia, and all of my initial other was a matches seemed You would think that in a city like the guy who claimed questionable. It took a few days, New York, meeting someone would to be on the New E n g l a n d but eventually I be easy. But the unfortunate truth National soccer was matched with a guy named about big cities is that you can go team (but was mysteriously Scott who seemed weeks at a time without talking to missing from the the least threatenonline roster). ing of the bunch. anyone at all.

Not a great track We started mesrecord. So if the saging and made online dating can plans to meet up help two people connect against all odds, within the week.

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous. maybe there’s something there.

Obviously, online dating isn’t without its I was terrified. I made sure at least three friends knew where I was going (Starbucks in share of imperfections. It’s superficial at best, Union Square), and I was preparing myself and dangerous at worst.* It won’t do everyone for the worst: He would be totally sketchy justice; some people take awhile to grow on and/or make me uncomfortable by suggest- us, and the snap judgments we make online ing we go back to his apartment. What I was don’t afford them that opportunity. But bearnot prepared for, however, was the seemingly ing all this in mind, it may have something to normal guy who walked into Starbucks, look- offer after all.

As for Scott, who knows what will haping a little nervous himself.

I recognized him from his pictures; he pen? We may make plans to see each other looked just as good in real life as he had in again — or, if we want, we can chalk it up to jpeg format. He went to shake my hand, I a one-time-only, unlikely meeting of two went in for a hug and we were off to a good people. After all, as Scott said (in reference to some financial conundrum that largely start.

We sat down and began with the basics: escaped my understanding): “Nothing venwhere we grew up, where we went to school, tured, nothing gained.”

If that philosophy is all that I take away etc. It felt strange — but oddly refreshing — from my foray in the world of online dating, to start from zero with someone.

It quickly became clear that we were in that’ll be okay. *AUTHOR’S NOTE: Always meet in a two very different places in our lives. He was public place and tell someone where you are in a suit, having come straight from work at a large financial institution; I had come from going. Make sure your phone is charged, and browsing around the Forever21 across the have an excuse ready if you start to wonder if street. He was thinking about pursuing an the “J” in “JDate” actually stands for “jail.”

MBA; I get heart palpitations whenever I think about the end of undergrad. He was considering investing in a friend’s company; I Liz Kussman is a senior in the College of Human was considering running back to that Ecology. She may be reached at ekussman@corForever21 and investing in a pair of high- nellsun.com. Up to Date appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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OPINION

Amy O. | Some Like It Rough

Warped Sexpectations F

or some reason, I thought I would have some crazy spring break (#springbreaknoshirts) tale of sex on the beach or sex in a grimy club or something to that effect. Alas, here I am back on campus and, even though I made out with two frat bros, I don’t have any super scandalous tales to tell. Not that I’m complaining really — doing anything in a grimy club honestly sounds like it’s a recipe for disaster (and by disaster I mean getting an STD).

To be completely honest, the closest I came to coming (see what I did there?) was reading this really trashy book on the beach. Oh, and it didn’t stop there. I purchased the whole trilogy and read the entire 700-page ordeal during the course of the vacation. What’s worse is that I couldn’t put it down. Come on, the twisted love story between a woman who obsessively stalks men and a man who manipulates women into loving him before crushing their hearts sounded like a really good read.

In my defense, I only bought this piece of trash because it was on the New York Times’ bestseller list. Whoever the F decided it belonged there should

probably have his or her eyes gouged out every single time, saying her name over and privileges revoked because there is and over. I’m sorry. Though this has hapjust no way a book in which every third pened to me on a few occasions, it has word is either “clit” or “throbbing” never been a consistent occurrence — should be a bestseller. I was expecting a and I don't think this is just me. Not thriller romance novel; instead, I pretty only do I know many women who can’t finish at all from sex at all, but also I much just got porn.

As I continued to read the series, I know very few people who have finished again and realized again and in every steamy See for us plebians, sex is actually not aMgaayi bn e. sex scene it’s just just how mind-blowing every time! Sex is usually t h a t unrealistic the sex kind of awkward! Sometimes, neither C o r n e l l men are is. The inept, but woman, party finishes! Having these crazy …

Alayna, T h e looks at expectations of what sex shouldaunrealisher man, coulda-woulda been simply isn’t fair. tic expecHu d s o n , tations a n d t h a t immediately gets turned on and wet. In the books like these establish piss me off. Just course of my life I don’t think I have ever recently, I took a guy home and he didn’t looked at a man and gotten wet without finish. Blame it on the alcohol or whatzero stimulation of any sort. And it gets ever you want, but he just didn’t finish. I didn’t finish. But guess what? Ultimately, worse.

In every sex scene, the sex is incredible it didn’t matter. It was drunken debauchfor both parties! Alayna reaches orgasm ery. It was whatever. I was just happy to multiple times and Hudson finishes roll over, be little spoon and pass out.

The problem here is that books like the Fixed trilogy set up completely absurd notions of what sex is supposed to be. See for us plebeians, sex is actually not mind-blowing every time! Sex is usually kind of awkward! Sometimes, neither party finishes! Having these crazy expectations of what sex shoulda-coulda-woulda been simply isn’t fair. It holds both parties to a ridiculously high standard that most people just cannot achieve.

I admit, reading the Fixed trilogy was fun. It was perfect for a beach vacation with my closest girlfriends who wouldn’t care that I was pretty much reading erotica on the beach. However, this book (and other books like it) have the potential to completely warp the expectations of sex for men and women alike. Forgive me for this angry rant but sex is great in all its forms. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s eh, but each time it is what it is and shouldn’t try to be anything greater than that.

Amy O. is a senior in the College of Human Ecology.

She may be reached at amyo@cornellsun.com. Some Like It Rough appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Donny J. | Headshakes and High Fives

The Column You Didn’t Know You Needed H

ello loyal readers, I’m back from my month- Everyone knows the most difficult part about sex is takes exceptional skill, however, to receive. Where do long literary hiatus. Hope you all have been clothing removal. Guys have all those complex buttons, you put your hands? Do you moan or not? Your lovehaving the best sex of your lives (or at least, for girls have Fort Knox holding the back of their bras parts are center stage right now, so own it! Here’s what now). Here at Sex on Thursdays, we’re all about advice together. But we all know the hardest part is below the you do. You have two options: 1) if the oral is good, then just lie there and let the natural noises come out — and funny experiences. Is it possible, however, that waist. That’s right … the socks.

If girls are in heels, perfect. I didn’t have enough foot don’t force anything, and 2) if the oral is bad, then we’ve been overlooking key areas of sex? I mean there’s only so much that can be said on how to give a good grime from outside of my sheets, anyways. If you have ignore your inner voice telling you to jump right to the blowjob or how threesomes are most exciting when the a nice pair of whites, however, you’re going to need sex and fake as many noises as humanly possible. When inevitable group high-five happens. So today, I shall be some real Jedi shit to get those off. Beginners are going done, fist bump your partner and switch.

Bottom, the Most Difficult Position: At this point, filling in the gaps (crude pun not-intended, but YOLO) to have to deal with standing/laying down completely you and your partner are no doubt turned on and teaching you all how to fine-tune your from this flawless foreplay. But that romp. inevitable comes into both your Grinding, Not Just for People With Skill: Everyone knows the most difficult part about sex minds: Whoquestion should be on top when storming We all know the art of conversation is dead castle? That’s right, not you! You’re the and the only way to meet your future wife is is clothing removal. Guys have all those complex the headline, not the opening act. Hell, Moby by randomly grinding up on them. Believe it has his own book and he doesn’t even or not, some people are uncomfortable with buttons, girls have Fort Knox holding the back of Dick show up until the last chapter. So start out on walking up to complete strangers and dryand set the stage, but remember now humping them, and thus they lack proper their bras together. But we all know the hardest isbottom not your time. Feel free to grab, stroke and technique. Here’s what you do: Make eyekiss whatever ever you want. Now’s the time contact. If she swarms in with all her girl part is below the waist. That’s right ... the socks. for moans, dirty talk and a little reciprocal friends, she obviously telling them, “Oh my thrusting of your own. But don’t give the god, girls! There’s this total hottie checking opening act too much action; like I said, me out over there, he’s all mine for the night!” Now you deftly stumble through a crowd of naked except for your feet, then realizing and having to you’re the headliner, so when it’s your time, get up there awkwardly stop what is already such a smooth night. and own it. other guys on their own journey and initiate contact.

Cuddling: I want you to cuddle your partner as hard The rest is easy. The beat of the song is not necessary The skilled are capable of removing the socks along to know at all; remember grinding is just about moving with your shoes, and the trained elite (such as myself ) as you can. Nuzzle and kiss the crap out of them, left and right at your own choosing. And be sure to be can sneak them off with that little thumb trick at the because you are one tender son of a bitch.

Now give yourself a high-five, because you are a sex just out of phase with her swaying — girls like guys same time as your pants. Try it while your roommates watch, because practice makes perfect and you’re going machine. who can follow, albeit slowly.

The Art of Sock-Removal: After your sweet dance to want as much input as you can get.

Receiving Oral 101: Giving oral is a cakewalk — moves have won each other over, you’re inevitably endDonny J. is a senior in the College of Engineering. He may be reached ing up back to the crib for three minutes of pleasure (or penises are easy enough to navigate and I only needed a at donnyj@cornellsun.com. Headshakes and High Fives appears alterin my case, three and a half minutes. Helloooo ladies!). diagram for the vagina the first, like, three times. It nate Thursdays this semester.

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DINING GUIDE

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More than Eggs and Bacon: Brunch at Café Dewitt Made with ethically-sourced ingredients, Cafe Dewitt’s breakfast, lunch and dessert provide freshness, flavor and satisfaction.

By YOO KIM Sun Dining Contribtor

As a freshman, I found it quite easy to believe that brunch at RPCC on Sunday is as good as it gets. However Café Dewitt, a celebrated local restaurant that s e r v e s gourmet brunch, is just a quick bus ride away. Nestled comfortably inside of Dewitt Mall on North Cayuga St., Café Dewitt caters to local college students looking to escape the monotony of dining hall food, in addition to local residents seeking good food and good company. While it may be difficult to find the time to take a bus offcampus just for some food, Café Dewitt proves the worthwhileness of venturing out to satisfy one’s brunch cravings every once in a while. So what exactly made my dining experience so enjoyable?

crunchy bread and melted cheese on top, it looks appetizing and builds anticipation for the first bite. The soup itself is served steaming hot with a golden-brown layer of melted cheese hiding layers of sweet caramelized onion and softened bread simmering in a tasty broth.

My biggest complaint when it to comes French onion soup is an excess of salt.

Cafe Dewitt’s had just the right amount.

It was perfectly seasoned and chock full of flavorful goodness.

The soup itself is served steaming hot with a golden-brown layer of melted cheese hiding layers of sweet caramelized onion and softened bread simmering in a tasty broth.

FRENCH ONION SOUP I love a good cup of French onion soup, and Café Dewitt does it right. Served quaintly in a white bowl with a thin slice of

Farmhouse Breakfast

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When it comes to brunch, I am a diehard omelet fan. I decided to take a chance and try the Farmhouse Breakfast. It’s a standard breakfast dish, with two eggs cooked any style, a choice of meat, bread and roasted potatoes. I ordered my eggs scrambled with chicken apple sausage and a baguette. It’s hard to go wrong with scrambled eggs, and the ones I was served came cheerfully yellow and warm, reminding me of the fresh eggs my mom slides off the pan and onto my plate at

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home. The chicken apple sausage was a nice substitute for bacon: perfectly spiced and not too greasy. They were delicious when eaten with the eggs.

The baguette came toasted and still warm with some of their homemade cranberry jam, but the real star of the Farmhouse Breakfast was the side of roasted potatoes. I strongly dislike potatoes that are under-salted, under-cooked and cold.

However, these potatoes were truly excellent, cooked to a toasty brown hue, perfectly salted, and packed with a

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CRÈME BRÛLÉE Full, but not quite satisfied, I craved something sweet at the end of my meal. For a restaurant that specializes in brunch, it was nice to see desserts on the menu. I ordered crème brûlée, which had a customary layer of caramel on top that I cracked with my spoon. It was sweet and warm, a tasteful juxtaposition to the creamy and rich custard base. One bite of it had me immediately reaching for the next bite, despite being already extremely full. It is a dainty and sweet dessert; light enough that you won’t regret it afterwards and just sweet enough that you’ll feel the remnants of its sugary creaminess even after you’ve washed it down with some coffee.

THE TUNISIAN The Tunisian is a dish that co-owner Josh Eckenrode believes is one of Café Dewitt’s signature dishes, and something that I plan to try next time. Available on the lunch menu, it includes regionallysourced lamb sausage garnished with Spanish sauce, carrot apricot chutney, pomegranate-cumin vinaigrette,

mixed greens served with local chevre and two fried eggs.

Made with locally sourced ingredients and eggs, it’s what Café Dewitt is most famous for.

Voted best brunch by The Ithaca Times in 2005, 2008 and 2010, it’s hard to go wrong at Café Dewitt. It’s been around for 41 years and has passed the test of time, catering to local Ithaca residents and working to create a friendly environment where customers and staff grow to know each other. A small European style café with tables and seating spread out into the mall’s walkway, the layout gives off what Eckenrode describes as an almost funky atmosphere.

What was once a little coffee spot for the people who lived and worked in the Dewitt building, the cafe is now an indoor café with an outdoor feel. With a penchant for using almost no pre-prepared food, the restaurant aims to satisfy customer appetites with ethically sourced local foods. Its unique location and delicious food make it a popular local haunt, one that I think I’ll find myself returning to. It doesn’t hurt that the co-owners are Cornell alums.

Yoo Kim can be reached at yk493@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Fashion Spotlight Speaking with Senior Designer Caterina Gutierrez ’14

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

Caterina Gutierrez ’14 invited The Sun to her office in the Latino Living Center on Tuesday to get a glimpse of her new collection and her work process. Talking with Caterina required many pauses — for me to ask for spelling and clarification — as her collection is intricately tied to Mexican culture and every decision that went into each piece of clothing is a careful nod to one story, game or stereotype or another. Caterina’s collection, she says, reflects her belief in the ability to use clothing as the impetus to a performance, and each look she designed corresponds to a specific character. She showed us a blouse with the words “My Parents Went to College,” studded on the back, part of a look which she calls the “Educated Cholla,” and precedes by acknowledging its sarcasm and calling herself “kind of, like an asshole.”

Many of the characters that Caterina uses in this collection are taken from the Mexican equivalent of a Bingo game, Lotería.

Specifically, she showed us a dress covered in Spanish gendered slurs and explained that it is a reference to the stereotype of over-feminized Brown girl, seen in the Lotería character of La Dama. Caterina’s designs confront stereotypes, she says, by bringing them to the forefront — “These are mean things for you to say but I’m going to sugarcoat them with some glitter.”

Caterina’s collection has a distinctive handmade aesthetic, which she says is a reference to the assumptions made about Latin American arts and crafts culture. Many of her designs are hand-beaded or handsequined, and with the help of a laser cutter, she has engineered intricately windowed pieces that are to be reminiscent of Cinco de Mayo tissue paper decorations.

One of the last pieces we saw was a sheer corset, designed to be a part of a mermaidinspired piece and an acknowledgement of the oversexualization of Hispanic women.

Caterina’s collection will be worn entirely by plus-size models, she now tells us, and she’s excited to confront the audience’s expectations for femininity by showing them the “big girl nips” they’re not expecting to see.

Most of all, Caterina hopes that her designs can inspire confidence — she wants everyone who wears them to feel like “the coolest person in the world,” even after they take them

off — and that they will be a warm acknowledgement of the somewhat stereotypical assumptions about her culture as one of excessive emoting and revelling. “Over-thetop: That’s sort of what our culture has been thought of. We have this attitude of you guys are sort of dicks, but we’ll have a party anyway.”

matching red and white striped shorts. Body glitter required.

THE SUN: When did you start designing?

How did you end up at Cornell for design?

SUN: Could you give us a little preview of what to expect at the April show?

What type of collection are you showing? What are the inspirations behind it/the philosophy guiding it?

CATERINA GUTIERREZ: I started designing when I was around eight. I first began with Barbie clothes, but since I had no idea what I was doing, a barbie dress turned into a Barbie pillow. ‘Make it work,’ right? I’m an Ivy legacy. My dad graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the ’70s and because my siblings didn’t go Ivy, I had no choice but to. It was a hard choice at first, deciding to come here instead of a traditional art school, but I really appreciate the opportunities that I've had to explore other areas of study. Plus, between you and me, I’m pretty (secretly) conceited. People are always impressed with an Ivy grad.

C.G.: My current collection is all about the highlighting the multi-faceted nature of the Nueva Latina identity. My characters are ones you might find on an updated version of the Mexican bingo game, Lotería. Lots of color, lots of glitter and lots of winged liner. The main image I was inspired by was a picture from an International Women’s Day March in Mexico in 1991. The image

SUN: How would you describe your design style? What inspirations should we be able to see in your designs?

C.G.: My design style is something of a glam rock chola. My aesthetic philosophy is “Fuck it. More sparkles. Now hand me my beer, but remember it’s my last — I’ve got church in the morning.” I always say I’m a drag queen trapped in a chola’s body. I think that explains it pretty well. Because I’m always so inspired by my culture, I’d hope you can see these Mexican influences. From the colors I choose to the music I play when working, it’s always about having a good time.

SUN: What are your goals for designing?

What type of person do you imagine that you’re designing for?

C.G.: My major design goal is to promote confidence. As a designer, and more recently as a designer that specializes in plus-size attire, I’m all about ensuring that the person wearing my clothing feels like they’re untouchable.

There’s a term for these fly girls that gets used in cholo culture — firme hyna — essentially a dope chick. I want my audience to feel like they’re the firmest of hynas, even after they’ve changed out of my clothes.

SUN: If you could design for one celebrity, who would it be and why?

C.G.: Richard Simmons. As a fat girl from the start, I’ve always appreciated RSims love for oldies and inappropriately short bedazzled shorts. I dressed as him for Halloween a few years ago and wear the costume often. You haven’t lived until you’ve Sweat to the Oldies with Richard in

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is a black-and-white photo of a woman smoking a cigarette, holding a sign that reads “ni santas, ni putas. sólo mujeres.” In English: “Not saints. Not whores. Just women.” Just Women. There’s a description of pachucos (the ancestor of cholos) that described them as being “sinister clowns who did not want to be integrated.” For this collection in particular, my aim is to acknowledge that we're just people, not the stereotypes that we're given. The other inspirational image is a print done by my hometown pal, Michael Martinez, of a Mezo-American figure pointing and saying, “be chingnona everyday” — “be [the shit] everyday.” This word has been the most inspiring and uplifting thing for my models and me. So much so, I recently bought a necklace that says the term. And it sparkles. It’s created the firmest of hynas. Be ready for it.

SUN: Could you talk a little bit about your experience in the Fashion Collective? I don’t think a lot of our readers are very clear on what it is or what the experience is like.

C.G.: This is my third and final year designing for the collective. I first participated my freshman year, when I created an all black ensemble because I guess I was feeling very goth at the time? I also was part of the Pendleton Scholarship Team — a yearly collaboration with Pendleton Woolen Mills and

FSAD. That was a fun year. I took a break from designing during my junior year to try to figure out if I really was interested in fashion anymore and spent the year doing costumes for a few plays in town. I think it was then that I got most interested in this idea of identity and how clothes are used to create a persona. The fact that they were all rave plays just added to the party effect. I think I'm most excited about this collection because it's been in the works for a really long time. There was a period where I lost all interest in design and sort of dropped it, but I've been finding all these photos of Chicanos in the ’70s — the activists, the homegirls, the bookworms. I even came across some of my parents when they were younger. My mom was the ultimate ’70s dreamgirl and my dad was at the forefront of the Chicano Movement. There's a great picture of him with this huge fro, wearing a boycott grapes button a la Cesar Chavez. It's a draining process, a lot of needle pricks, and even more identity crises, but it's all worth it when you see your work come together and see those chingnonas owning your work on the runway. It is the spirits of my people that really drive me to create something memorable.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Teju Cole at Goldwin Smith

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talk a little bit about how Twitter has come to be used as a genuine creative space?

KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole, author of the novella Every Day is for the Thief, the novel Open City and several Twitter short stories and political statements, will visit Cornell today. His novel Open City, details the experiences of a young Nigerian immigrant as he interacts with various immigrant communities in post-9/11 New York City. The novel was praised by The New Yorker, citing its post-colonial modernist influences — J.M. Coetzee and W.G. Sebald — as well as its place amongst the great writers of the 21st century. The narrative voice received special attention as possessing “an interesting combination of confession and reticence.” Open City was the 2012 recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Internationaler Literaturpreis, and it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Cole is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Granta, and serves as a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. Cole will give a reading in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall, today at 4:30 p.m. as a part of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Reading Series. The Sun spoke to him before his visit about his most-recent novel, Open City, and his opinions on the contemporary role of the author.

THE SUN: Your novel, Open City, was reviewed largely in terms of being “post-colonial” and the way that it dealt with the immigrant experience. Can you comment on that? Was it something you were consciously aware of while writing?

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T.C.: Thank you. The format itself invites literature: It has formal limits (140 characters) and, since we’re all glued to our phones these days, it is an almost unmediated means of conveying sentences from one person’s mind to another’s. It’s quite magical, and I think many people have rightly taken that as an invitation to literary creativity.

SUN: The tweets “Seven thoughts on the banality of sentimentality” and the White Savior Industrial Complex. These are incredibly political (and amazing). What role do you feel the novelist plays in the political sphere?

T.C.: Hopefully a fearless and natural one, with interventions that are more to the good than in the opposite direction. Writers in most countries consider political engagement of some sort to be part of the duty of writing. The odd exception seems to be the United States, where some writers are “political” and the others simply mind their own business and produce novels for their publishers to sell. I think in a place like Mexico, or Nigeria, or India, or Spain, I wouldn’t be considered particularly political. (I don’t organize rallies, I don’t fast in protest or chain myself to gates.)

SUN: How do you begin to write a cerebral novel about New York City? Knowing what type of company you're going to be in, the coveted canon that you’re trying to break into. I imagine that takes a lot of courage.

TEJU COLE: I think the book was received in many different ways, post-colonial being only one of them. Some critics saw the modernist preoccupations of the work as well — in the sense of a Woolfian stream-of-consciousness, I mean, and the obvious references to Joyce — and some others located it in a particular international style of writing, people like Ishiguro and Coetzee, who are not necessarily “post-colonial” in their primary concerns. I was aware of all these possibilities while writing, but I wouldn’t say I incorporated immigrant narratives in any mechanical way: To me, all Americans, with the exception of the very earliest, are immigrants. The intense diversity of the city is apparent from its subway passengers at any given moment. So, the motivation was simply to show New York City as it is, rather than as the writers of Sex and the City or Friends would like it to be.

T.C.: I didn’t overthink it. This comes from not being a native New Yorker, I think. I loved the city’s complexity but was not overawed by its literary legacy. What moved me was the post-9/11 mood, which was very hard to get down in writing. I wanted to explore that mood in a complex way. There are many New York stories that have been told too many times, but not this particular one. In fact, the first successful stab at the problem was in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, which was published the year before Open City (but which I didn’t read until I finished writing my book). It’s probably relevant that O’Neill is not a native New Yorker either.

Being an outsider can give you fresh eyes on a situation. And I definitely wasn’t thinking about breaking into a canon. I just wanted to do a fairly difficult book and not disgrace myself in the effort.

SUN: I loved your “Seven short stories about drones.” Can you

SUN: Can you talk a little bit about your writing process? Open

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City is an amalgamation of narratives, but it is also steeped in critical theory and intimate knowledge of art, music and literature on the part of your narrator. How did you come to marry these things?

T.C.: This is a narrator with a wide-ranging mind — not too difficult to do, since most people have a complex and complicated experience of the world. Everyone these days has read lots of books, has seen lots of art or watched lots of movies. All it took was faith in the details, and I simply wrote the details down. And I suppose I also trusted the flexibility of the novel as a form, a flexibility that has been inside it since the sixteenth century. I can take the pressure. We can afford to push it, though often we don’t.

SUN: Could you talk a little bit about your “origin story,” as it were? What were the most important experiences, educational or otherwise, that contributed to your growth as an author?

T.C.: I love unsystematic self-education, and my ability to stay in any formal course of study for long is probably the key influence on my writing. I’ve been lucky to trust my instincts and my obsessions. And I’ve been luckier to have those obsessions actually lead to a number of coherent projects. If I had a more rigid approach to these things, I think I wouldn’t have done work satisfying to me. So, my origin story is reading early Joyce and thinking: Wouldn’t it be marvelous to be able to move a reader in just this way?

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Kai Sam Ng When Todd Terje announced his first album It’s Album Time last year, or to put it into perspective, 10 years after he started releasing music, fans felt disappointment. A third of the songs on It’s Album Time were singles, albeit brilliant singles, that he had already released in some form in those ten years. “Inspector Norse,” from 2012 It’s The Arps EP and one of that year’s instant club classics, is there with its shimmering Balearic synths and infectious laid-back Mixolydian tune. Also from It’s The Arps are both parts of the bouncy space disco suite “Swing Star,” along with last year’s “Strandbar.” Yet, the album still surprises and shines in its brilliant deliriousness, an absolute joyride to listeners’ ears and idiot-proof in getting even the most cynical and miserable partygoer to dance to its infectiousness.

Terje associates in a trio of Norwegian dance DJs, including Prins Thomas and Lindstrøm, who brought back elements from the ’80s space disco to create long, 15-minute soundscapes (Lindstrøm is particularly good at this). Aside from their own professional affiliations, categorizing them together in the same genre would be a misattribution.

Lindstrøm single-handedly carved out “Space disco” as we know it today — far from its origin of ’80s European copying attempts at American funk and afrofuturism — as slow spacey minimalism oozing sex appeal. Meanwhile, over the past couple of years Terje has musically deviated from his fellow peers, moving in a less serious direction and embracing campiness. Terje’s musical evolution works well with his dry wit that shows up in everything he does, from the cheekily named It’s Album Time (he tells FACT that “I could also have gone for It’s Money Time or It’s Bestseller Time”) to nam-

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ing “Strandbar” after a music executive’s dismissal of “Inspector Norse” as mindless beach dance.

“Inspector Norse” may have sounded less serious than his previous singles “Eurodans” and “Snooze 4 Love,” but the song injected a personality beyond indie’s aloofness, hinting at a Terje willing to let go of all genre pretenses. Its quirky flair is mainstream in scope, but intelligent enough that it can hold its own without the human behind the song. Terje recognizes this: in this album’s version of “Inspector Norse,” he fades into the sound of a crowd singing along to the song’s melody. In this sense, Terje’s musical evolution mirrors Space Disco’s own morphing into Hi-NRG in the ’80s when disco pioneer Patrick Cowley began experimenting with synths: with less intellectualization came unforgettable floor tunes that ultimately wielded greater influence in the genre. It’s Album Time delivers on the promise of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories to bring back disco, but avoids Daft Punk’s narcissistic self-importance that ultimately crippled the album into impersonal drivel. It’s Album Time is actually fun.

Every song that follows the “Inspector Norse” formula — “Delorean Dynamite,” “Strandbar,” “Oh Joy” and “Preben Goes to Acapulco” — seem too impossibly simple and easy to be so good. The drums oomph at a steady 4/4 beat with an occasional snare. The synths bounce simple melodies that, throughout the song, repeat in some form. The bassline chugs the same course in the background. A fifth grader could likely recreate the song in five minutes. Only Terje, however, could conceive these songs in their brilliantly simple form, meticulously crafting the melodies to so perfectly that they refuse to stale. “Strandbar” is pure samba joy mixed

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with a bit of house, and transitions effortlessly into the delirious “Delorean Dynamite” with its groaning and pitchshifted bass. A funk guitar appears in the second half of the song, finishing off in dizzying heights. “Preben Goes to Acapulco” arpeggiates between highs and lows on sleek, spacey synths, like a sleeker cousin of “Leisure Suit Preben” that meanders in strings. “Oh Joy” reads like a history of Terje’s musical evolution, starting with a blend of space disco and Strauss-like fanfare, and culminating in a celebratory lap of repeating synths. “Alfonso Muskedunder” revels in its ’80s jazz lounge campiness into a brilliant piece of electrokitsch with a heart.

An extraordinary cover of Robert Palmer’s “Johnny and Mary,” with Bryan Ferry guesting vocals, serves as the album’s unexpected highlight. Palmer’s original version shares the same off-beat, bouncy aesthete as Terje’s music, but Terje deviates, cutting the speed in half. The result is radiantly emotive: light, shimmering synths and Ferry’s husky vocals enhance the same yearning in Palmer’s original version. Terje’s cover, along with Jai Paul’s “Crush,” is one of the best song covers in recent memory. That he could place the song right after the whirlwind “Delorean Dynamite” testifies not only to his musical prowess, but also to the album’s complexity beyond a simple concatenation of singles. In the end, it doesn’t matter how many old songs there are in the album: If the result is this good and this well put together, Terje can do whatever he likes.

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com.

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Rockies Win Over White Sox

DENVER (AP) — D.J. LeMahieu’s bat upstaged his glove as the defensive specialist transformed into an offensive catalyst.

LeMahieu’s two-run single broke a tie in a six-run eighth inning, sending the Colorado Rockies to a 104 win over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday.

He finished with three hits, including an RBI double in the sixth that tied the game at 4.

Buoyed by his big day — on an afternoon he was honored for his work in the field last season, no less — LeMahieu helped the Rockies take two of three in the series.

“Felt good to come through,” said LeMahieu, who drove in a careerhigh three runs.

“They just kept Colorado broke open a finding the holes.” tight game in the eighth with its Robin Ventura biggest inning this season. Justin Morneau started the rally with a single off Scott Downs (0-2), who was pulled for reliever Ronald Belisario.

The Rockies sent 10 batters to the plate, and LeMahieu had a clutch hit to center. Pinch-hitter Josh Rutledge and Michael Cuddyer added run-scoring singles, while Carlos Gonzalez hit a two-run double down the line.

Rex Brothers (1-0) got two outs in the eighth to earn the win.

“Need to keep the momentum,” Gonzalez said.

The momentum shifted in the sixth. Morneau led off with a double and hustled to third after left fielder Dayan Viciedo bobbled the ball on the warning track. Starter Erik Johnson retired the next two hitters and appeared he might escape the jam when LeMahieu lined a ball at right fielder Avisail Garcia.

Earlier in the game, Garcia robbed LeMahieu of a hit on a similar play. So LeMahieu figured Garcia would come up with this diving catch, too.

“Thought I was out,” LeMahieu said.

Garcia leapt forward and had the ball in his glove,

but when he landed, the ground jarred the ball loose, allowing Morneau to trot home with the tying run.

Garcia stayed on the ground for several minutes with a jammed left shoulder before walking slowly to the dugout. The team said X-rays were negative for a fracture or a separation.

“Right now I have pain,” said Garcia, who’s scheduled for an MRI on Thursday.

Chicago didn’t ask for a video review to determine whether Garcia possibly held the ball long enough for an out.

“You really have to have a positive view of whether it was a catch,” White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “You have to have the glove around the ball to be a catch.”

Chicago’s bullpen melted down, giving up six runs in 2 1-3 innings. Belisario gave up five of the runs in the inning, then left with tightness in his back.

“He got the ground balls. But they just kept finding the holes,” Ventura said. “And it kept going, kept going after that.”

After struggling in the first two weeks of the season, Jose Abreu heated up at hitter-friendly Coors Field, where he almost wound up.

Abreu was 2 for 4 with a double on Wednesday.

He had four hits in the series, including his first two homers of the season. The Rockies made a strong push to obtain the Cuban slugger in October before he signed a $68 million, six-year contract with Chicago.

Rockies manager Walt Weiss said Abreu was as good as advertised: “All the reports were this guy is a legitimate middle of the order bat. I think we saw that.”

Before the game, the Rockies recalled Rutledge from Triple-A Colorado Springs, giving the team a backup for shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, who has been bothered by tightness in his right quadriceps. Weiss gave Tulowitzki the day off just so he’s not “run into the ground this early.”

To make room on the roster, Colorado optioned struggling right-handed reliever Wilton Lopez to Colorado Springs. Lopez has an 11.37 ERA in four games.

Russel Compares Gay Athletes’ Struggles to Those of Black Athletes AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — NBA day Civil Rights Summit.

Hall of Famer Bill Russell said Former President Bill Clinton is Wednesday that gay athletes’ cur- scheduled to address the summit rent fight for equality and accep- Wednesday night, and President tance reminds him of some of the Barack Obama is scheduled to same struggles black athletes speak Thursday.

Brown and Russell were key faced in the 1960s.

Russell, who won 11 NBA figures, as athletes and black championships with the Boston leaders, during the civil rights movement.

Celtics, said talk Both men said about whether “Only question about a they approached gay athletes can gay teammate: Can he civil rights as a be good teamstruggle for mates or if they play?” respect for might disrupt human beings locker rooms are Bill Russell based on their the same questions black athletes heard years character and merit, not the ago, when colleges and profes- color of their skin.

Their comments came just sional leagues were struggling with the concept of integration. hours after UMass basketball “It seems to me, a lot of ques- player Derrick Gordon became tions about gay athletes, were the the first openly gay player in same questions they used to ask Division I men’s basketball.

The former athletes also about us,” Russell said during a panel discussion at the Lyndon addressed the question of B. Johnson Presidential Library whether college athletes should in Austin, which is hosting a be able to form unions and colsummit celebrating the 50th lectively bargain with their unianniversary of the Civil Rights versities. Brown said he opposed unionizing college athletes, but Act. Russell said he would have also said he disliked the model of only one question about a gay the NCAA. “It’s not going to be a struggle teammate: Can he play?

Russell, 80, joined NFL Hall between the NCAA and the of Fame running back Jim union, that will just be [about] Brown, 78, on a panel about money ... put the value back on sports and race during the three- education,”Brown said.

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Minnesota Wild Wins Against Boston Bruins ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Mikko Koivu scored for Minnesota and Ilya Bryzgalov denied all three Boston shots in the shootout, lifting the Wild to a 4-3 victory over the Bruins on Tuesday night that clinched a wild-card spot in the Western Conference playoffs.

Koivu, who had two assists, switched to his backhand to flip the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask in the second round.

When Bryzgalov stopped Brad Marchand’s try with his pad to end it, he pumped his arms as he skated out of the crease to celebrate with his teammates. The Wild will be the seventh seed and face the division winner with the fewest points.

With Bryzgalov pulled for the extra skater late in regulation, the Wild had the Bruins in brief disarray on the defensive end, and Ryan Suter knocked in the tying goal with 65 seconds remaining.

The Wild kept up the pressure, outshooting the Bruins 6-2 in overtime, but misfired on a couple of close-in chances and had to settle for the shootout.

As play was about to begin for the third period, the overtime loss by ninth-place Phoenix at Columbus that guaranteed a place in the postseason for Minnesota was announced to the crowd and received with a hearty cheer.

But the Wild went out and assured themselves of a top wildcard slot by rallying for the win.

Jason Pominville had two goals and an assist for the Wild, who only advanced past the first round in one of their previous four appearances, when they reached the Western Conference finals in 2003. With two games to go, they have 96 points.

Reilly Smith, Patrice Bergeron

and Loui Eriksson scored for the Bruins, who fell to 16-1-3 in their past 20 games.

Late in the middle period, Zdeno Chara wound up from the point on a power play. Eriksson and Gregory Campbell were parked just outside the crease, and the puck appeared to deflect first off Campbell’s stick before Eriksson poked it in for the lead with 3:42 left before the break.

The Bruins, who clinched the No. 1 seed for the Eastern Conference playoffs, held leading scorer Jarome Iginla out for the third time in the past four games because of a lower-body injury.

Iginla became the biggest threat to the Wild during his days with then-division rival Calgary. His 67 points, including 37 goals, in 71 career games are the most by any Minnesota opponent.

Pominville put the Wild in front a mere 65 seconds into the game on the first shot of the night with just 24 seconds elapsed on a power play, when his slap shot got through a crowd and into the upper right corner past Rask.

Bryzgalov, the latest unlikely leader to emerge for the Wild, made 44 saves over the past two games to blank Pittsburgh and Winnipeg and put Minnesota on the brink of the postseason. His shutout streak ended at 145 minutes and 15 seconds, when Smith snagged a clearing attempt by Kyle Brodziak and sent in an unassisted power-play goal for his 20th score of the season.

Bergeron gave the Bruins the lead midway through that actionpacked first period, and Pominville answered 28 seconds later with his team-leading 29th goal. Erik Haula won the faceoff, and Matt Moulson picked up the puck and snapped it across the crease to Pominville for the tap in.

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Men to Compete in USPA National Championships “We’re feeling great heading into this tournament, we match up very well against Westmont. We had great practices The Cornell men’s and women’s polo heading into the week and Ignacio’s wrist teams both had strong seasons. They seems to be coming around.”

Feldman also explained that competed throughout with a the team has a game plan in hunger to win and their hardplace. work and practice ultimately Men’s Polo “We have a well constructed paid off, as both teams game plan to handle the Uretz advance to the USPA National Cornell brothers of Westmont,” he said.

Intercollegiate Championships “The game will be rough, espeafter being victorious at the cially in this slower, deeper footUSPA Northeast ing. Defense is going to win this Intercollegiate Regionals last When we make the finals, game. week in Storrs, Conn. vs. we’ll be hoisting the trophy.”

Though both teams are With an exceptional starting going to face tough opponents lineup, including Feldman, at Nationals, which will begin freshman Ignacio Masias and on Wednesday and will be junior Nick Stieg, the team is held through Saturday, they Westmont looking forward to showing its are going into the tournament competitors how well the men with confidence.

April 10, works together. Although the After achieving the proHouston, Texas team has an impressive record of gram’s 20th regional title last 13-5, three of its losses are to week when it beat Skidmore Virginia, which will prove to be College in its last match, the men’s team remains in good spirits and is a for the Red if forced to play them in the ready to take on its opponents at championship game of Nationals. The team is optimistic in Nationals. The team its expectations, and is will start off the looking forward for its N a t i o n a l “We’re feeling great headupcoming matches.

Championships facThe women’s team ing Westmont ing into this tournament. played its first match College on Thursday. We match up very well of the National chamThe winner of the against Westmont.” pionships against match will play California Polytechnic against SMU or Nik Feldman State University yesVirginia, depending terday. The team went on who wins, the into the match with April 12 champiconfidence and was ready to face its onship game.

Said senior captain Nik Feldman, tough opponent. The Red came out vicBy ELANI COHEN

Sun Staff Writer

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Riding to the championships | The women’s polo team defeated Cal Poly by 23 goals Wednesday.

torious when the match ended in its favor, 25-2.

Its next match will be against the University of Virginia — who beat SMU Wednesday morning — in the finals on Saturday. With winning their 14th

national title very close in the horizon, the women’s team is excited and enthusiastic for its upcoming match.

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.

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sophomore attackman Dylan Donahue to take back the lead with just over two minutes left on the clock. From then on, the Red was unable to crack the Orange’s lead, trailing for the entirety of the final two periods.

Staats dominated the second half for the Orange, taking advantage of scoring opportunities to put away numerous creative goals. He tallied four unanswered goals, including a highlight reel-like effort where he collected a ground ball, raced past a Cornell defender while clearing another in the unit and then spun to tally a spectacular goal for the Orange.

According to junior defender Jordan Stevens, the Red made some costly mistakes in the second half that gave Syracuse the edge.

“We made some mistakes that cost us some key possessions in the third and they took advantage,” Stevens said.

Staats’ heroics put the Orange ahead, 12-6, with just under ten minutes left in the game. Rice and Staats teamed up one final time to extend

the lead to 13-7 with 6:50 on the clock, maintaining the lead despite the Red’s twogoal spurt in the final minutes of play. However, Cornell came alive with Hogan scoring to steal the momentum back for a 3-1 run to make it a 13-9 game.

Yet, despite the Red’s last minute run, the Orange netted one more just before time was out, to finish with a 14-9 upset over Cornell and hand the Red its second loss of the season.

Despite the end result, Stevens said that the Red strategized for the match and felt good going in.

“We had a good game plan going in and felt confident … execution was our issue,” he said.

The Red looks to turn the tides this weekend in its matchup against No. 16 Hofstra.

“We are excited for the opportunity to play at Hofstra this weekend and we are looking to get back on track,” Stevens said.

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

their head coach and stars and seemed all too likely, as they were one of two contenders in a garbage conference.

And the veteran Heat squad seemed content on spotting the Pacers a three game lead while they enjoyed life in South Beach as two time champions. But the fire has not been there for Indiana lately. The Pacers just have not been the same team, losing seven of nine games. Roy Hibbert is slumping big time, Paul George has been chucking and Frank Vogel is left scrambling on how to manage the remainder of the season. Should he rest his starters? Should he bench Roy Hibbert? Vogel and his squad need to find answers to these suddenly pressing questions, as they fall back into the pack at the wrong time.

Of course, the Heat have no qualms about taking advantage of a slumping Pacers team. The Heat eliminated the Pacers lead in the conference standings, looking like the only contender in the East throughout the process. The Nets do not match up especially well with the Heat, despite sweeping them in the regular season. They are old and Deron Williams does not look like the same player. The Wizards are still too young and the Bulls are still undermanned, no matter

how hard they fight and claw. I in? cannot see any team in the botI have always felt the NBA and tom six of the East playoff field NHL playoff races do not receive giving the Heat much of a series. enough attention, with the NHL That is not to say the Heat is not getting enough attention not vulnerable. For once, LeBron period. The playoffs themselves probably will not win an MVP, get so much attention, yet the Dwyane Wade is hurt and old, and race for it seems to get no burn. the team is not Maybe that is especially deep. the point. Why The NBA and NHL The best litmus risk burning out playoff races do not test will be a public interest if receive enough huge matchup in playoff intrigue Miami with the does not peak attention.

Pacers Friday until a week or night. If the two later, after Pacers can pull a win out this close the first round dismantling of the to the playoffs, all of the bad press East’s eight and seven seeds will subside and the Pacers can (which does not seem as much as earn their top seed back. Fortunes a foregone conclusion as it once turn quickly in the NBA. was). Or maybe it is because the The much deeper and just spots being competed for are usuplain and simply better Western ally the last two spots in a playoff Conference features an under field of half the league, otherwise the radar and intriguing jockey- known as middling teams. In the ing for playoff positioning, high- NFL and MLB, any playoff team lighted by a four way race for the really has a viable chance of winlast three spots in the West. The ning. But just because the fight between the possibly under Bobcats sneak in does not mean performing but still sharp shoot- anyone believes they will get more ing Warriors, the veteran laden than one playoff win, not to menMavericks, a young and surpris- tion the requisite sixteen they ing Phoenix squad and the need to win it all. defensive minded Grizzlies is So as an interested NBA fan, heated. This race might not take it upon yourself to seek out cross the finish line until the last and watch the home stretch run day of the season, as each of the in the West. A good team will get four will have at least one more left out, and it will be playoff calgame against each other, includ- iber basketball. ing a showdown on the final day of the season between Mavericks John Zakour can be contacted at and Grizzlies. Win and you are jzakour@cornellsun.com.

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THURSDAY APRIL 10, 2014

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ROWING

Men’s,Women’s Rowing Start Spring Season

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

With the snow finally cleared from the water, all three Cornell Rowing programs kicked off their spring seasons this weekend. The lightweight rowing team came out of the inaugural competitions with the most success, as its varsity boat beat both Harvard and Penn. For all of the boats, this weekend was a good benchmark as to what the ensuing months with hold for each team.

On Saturday, the heavyweight squad took on Harvard “The race went on Cayuga Lake and won a very well. Harvard pair of races. The third and fourth varsity boats for the Red was ranked No. 1 started the season off well, defeating Harvard’s boats by in the preseason considerable margins. In the varsity eight race, the Red finpolls.” ished in fewer than three secChase Crimmen onds behind the Crimson, a result which senior Chase Crimmen deemed respectable.

“The race went very well. Harvard was ranked number one in the preseason polls and we typically are much farther behind the pack at this point because of how late we get on the water,” he said. “This was the closest we’ve been in our first race in my four years here.”

The heavyweights now have two weeks to prepare for the

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Slip Sliding Away | The men’s heavyweight team took on Harvard at home, winning a pair of races by a large margin. The Red was unable to win its other races, but finished a lot closer to Harvard than in the past at this point in the season.

Goes Cup, where they will host Syracuse and Navy.

The lightweight crew team also competed on Cayuga Lake and took home the Matthew’s Trophy and the Leonard Cup. The varsity eight boat defeated Penn handily, finishing over 15 second ahead of the Quakers and capturing their 20th consecutive Matthew’s Cup. Harvard also raced as guests in the Matthew’s Cup and finished more than a second behind the Red, leading the Crimson to fall to Cornell for the first time in a varsity eight race since 2008.

With only a week on the water to prepare, the boats performed at a high level as they also won the varsity four and third varsity races. Additionally, the team took back the Leonard Cup after it won the majority of the races. Next week, the Red will travel to Princeton to take on the Tigers for the Platt Cup. The women’s rowing team, however, had a disappointing

start to its season in New Haven. Entering the season ranked No. 19, the Red was swept by Yale, who stand at No. 9. The varsity eight race was closely contested but saw the Red finishing one second behind the Bulldogs.

Yale dominated every other race and finished far ahead of the Cornell boats. The early season struggles are easily understood though, as the boats have had only a week of training on the water due to winter weather conditions.

The Red will look to improve next week when they travel to Cambridge to take part in the Class of ‘75 Cup against Harvard-Radcliffe and Princeton. Last season, Cornell fell short in the varsity eight race and thus looks to reclaim that top spot.

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at tmaggiohucek@cornellsun.com.

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half time, when the Orange took over and dominated on attack to take the Red in a decisive 14-9 win.

The Orange jumped out to a quick start, takCornell gave up its second contest of the season in front of an energetic home crowd of almost ing a 4-1 lead after a pair of goals by junior mid3,000 on Tuesday, falling short against No. 7 fielder Henry Schoonmaker and two more from Syracuse. The Red now hold a 9-2 overall record junior offender Kevin Rice. The Red’s offense for the season. The contest remained close until remained quiet. However, a goal by the Red’s junior midfielder John Hogan, sandwiched between the Rice pair, got the ball rolling. After Rice responded with his second goal, Cornell kicked it into high gear for the remainder of the half.

It was the Syracuse attack duo of junior Randy Staats and Rice that set the tone of the game from the onset. Rice found the back of the net off a pass from Staats for an extra-man goal with a minute and a half left in the first quarter. Later in the second, Staats assisted Rice again, giving Syracuse a 4-1 lead.

However, the Red fired back with a 4-0 scoring run, including two from senior attackman Dan Lintner in a span of just 16 seconds, to take its first lead SYRACUSE @ CORNELL of the night at 5-4.

14 9 However, Cornell Game: 2ND FINAL 1ST could not sustain Syracuse 8 14 6 the lead for long, Cornell 4 9 5 as the Orange responded with a quick goal by senior midfielder Billy Ward to even out the score.

Syracuse pressed on, racking in another goal by MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER junior midfielder Hakeem Lecky on a pass from Scoring big | Junior midfielder John Hogan scored

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

two goals for the Red on Tuesday.

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he Knicks, still nowhere near .500, were briefly in playoff position about a week ago. Thanks to the magic of the Eastern Conference and a plummeting Hawks squad, a garbage season was almost pulled from the receptacle. Phil Jackson was poised to receive some credit

undone by a one point loss to the Wizards. This performance, followed by a loss to the Heat coupled with a surprising Hawks trashing of the Pacers on the road, means that the high priced Knicks, coming off a season where they were the second seed in the East, will likely miss the play-

John Zakour Point Blank from afar, since he seems to have given the Knicks a new positive spirit animal. But it might just have been the bad teams they were playing.

Then again, the Knicks are in the Atlantic Division of the East. They play bad teams all year long, and still could not get anything going. So in very reliable fashion, the Knicks decided to get it done at the very last minute, bordering on too late. However, the Knicks good streak of play, which included a win over Golden State on the road, was all

offs.

The Knicks and the Pacers, old historical rivals, are inexorably linked in my mind. The Indiana Pacers seemed like they were transforming into a contender after dispatching the Knicks in last year's playoffs and pushing the Heat to seven games in the conference finals.

All season long, the Pacers seemed hell-bent on attaining the top seed in the East and the NBA. It was their mission, one that was talked about openly by See ZAKOUR page 15