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Entrepreneurs and academics will speak about the future of cryptocurrency technology at an April meeting. | Page 3

Lucy Dacus, an indie-rock singer-songwriter from Virginia, is coming to Ithaca. | Page 6

Cornell wrestling finished the season at second place two years in a row. | Page 12

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Pulitzer-Winning Reporter Maggie Haberman Blasts Trump ‘[Trump’s] relationship with the truth was notoriously elastic,’ says New York Times White House correspondent

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is unpredictable.”

Haberman detailed her rise in the media world, the difficulties of Washington reporting, advice to Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and New young journalists and her personal connection to York Times White House correspondent Maggie Judaism during the Hillel Major Speakers Series Haberman, who spends her days covering the tumul- event.

President Donald Trump, she said, presents a tuous Trump administration, began her Statler Hall unique challenge to jourspeech on Monday with nalists covering the White something she said is rare “[Trump] never apologizes, he House: “He never apolounder this regime: an apolnever walks things back. gizes, he never walks things ogy.

He never admits an error.” back. He never admits an “My schedule is at the error,” she said. mercy of the President,” Maggie Haberman Haberman has covered Haberman said, after President Trump for his her original talk date was pushed last November. “Much of the entire tenure, but she started covering Trump long Washington bureau of The New York Times before he considered a presidential run. She said he faces the same fate … one of the most predictable things about the Trump era has been that it See HABERMAN page 5 Sun Managing Editor and Sun Assistant News Editor

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New Law Stiffens Penalties for Unsafe Housing Ordinance requires landlords to pay tenants evicted from unsafe housing

By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON

Common Council voted to stiffen penalties for landlords who lease apartments deemed unsafe Flooding toilets. Kitchens that or that surpass occupancy limdon’t work. Ithaca’s housing mar- its. The motion also strengthens protections for ket, notorious tenants. for horror stories Under the of terrible con- “The principal concern ditions at astro- should be the safety of previous law, Ithaca’s direcnomical prices, the people.” tor of planning has long been and developa headache for Alderperson Steve Smith ment could Cornellians and order any Ithaca residents alike. Soon, the laws policing building considered “unsafe” to unsound housing will get sharper be vacated, which could include buildings being judged “structurteeth.

Last Wednesday, Ithaca’s ally unsafe, unsanitary, constitute a Sun News Editor

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Third time’s the charm | Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 has been in office since 2011. He hopes to stay a few years more.

Svante Myrick ’09 To Seek Third Term As Ithaca’s Mayor

fire hazard or are otherwise dangerous to human life.”

However, under the original law, landlords who defied the order faced no threat of municipal penalty.

The new legislation opts to reign in the practice by taking a harsher stance, elevating the rental of unsafe units to a misdemeanor violation — a crime which could carry a maximum fine of $500 and imprisonment of up to 30 days, according to the proposed ordinance. It will also require landlords to pay damages to renters left homeless due to condemnation See LANDLORDS page 4

Tragedy in Ethiopia

By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun News Editor

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, who has helmed the City of Ithaca for almost eight years, has no intention of giving up his job anytime soon, announcing last week that he will run for his third term this November.

Earlier last month, Myrick teased voters about whether or not he would seek to extend his tenure beyond 2019, tweeting, “if I ran for reelection, would I have your support?”

But on March 6, the 31-year-old Democrat put any lingering doubts to rest with two words: “I’m running,” Myrick put simply in a Facebook post.

"I love this city and I'm proud of the progress we've made," he later added. "I believe we can do even better, See MYRICK page 4

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A 737 MAX 8 airplane is towed from the Boeing Plant to the Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Wash. An aircraft of the same model crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday.

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Professor Emeritus Richard Schuler Passes Away at 81 Friends said he had a great reputation among students, ‘a wonderful human being’

energy industry.

Schuler was “a wonderful human being,” Thorbecke said.

“I don’t know anybody who Prof. Emeritus Richard would be more willing to help Schuler, economics and civil you when you needed it. He and environmental engineering was always there for you. He used his dual background to was a genuine human being guide energy and infrastructure … he really cared for other programs in Thailand and the people.”

Schuler was well known as Philippines, died on Feb. 13. an excellent supervisor and had He was 81. a great repuA Cornell tation among faculty memgraduate stuber since dents who 1972, Schuler did research was an active with him, leader in the Thorbecke Cornell comsaid. munity, servBefore ing as direcbecoming tor for the a profesInstitute for sor, Schuler Public Affairs worked for the and the Waste Pennsylvania Management P o w e r Institute and Light and the NYS Company as Solid Waste SCHULER an engineer Combustion and as an Institute. He served on Cornell’s board of energy economist at the Battelle trustees for four years and on Memorial Institute. He spent the Faculty Senate for nearly 20. two years as the deputy commisErik Thorbecke, former sioner of the New York Public chairman of the Department Service Commission and was a of Economics at Cornell and founding board member of the one of Schuler’s best friends, New York Independent System described Schuler as “always Operator for 13 years.

An Allentown, Pennsylvania thoughtful and methodical ... whenever there was a prob- native, Schuler studied eleclem looming in the horizon, trical engineering at Yale he would always try to find a University before receiving his MBA from Lehigh University constructive solution.”

In his own research, Schuler and a Ph.D. in economics from studied the management and Brown University.

Schuler is survived by his pricing of infrastructure and utilities, as well as their eco- wife Mary, three children and nomic and environmental seven grandchildren. impact. His work in the field has included the evolution and Tomas Engquist can be reached deregulation of the electric at te68@cornell.edu.

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Building Blockchain | Cornell Blockchain will host its eponymous conference at Cornell Tech’s Bloomberg building on April 12.

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Blockchain at Apr. 12 Conference

By SHIVANI SANGHANI Sun Assistant News Editor

Slated for April 12, the Cornell Blockchain Conference will bring together businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics to speak on the evolution of the industry, future of blockchain and its potential revolutionary impacts on other fields.

Among those scheduled to speak are several members of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies

“The amount of networking opportunities that will be available for students who are interested in the blockchain industry is incredible.”

Lynette Ban ’19 and Contracts, an initiative spearheaded by faculty at Cornell, University of California, Berkeley, and five other universities from across the world. The initiative was found to explore blockchain code and the science behind it.

IC3 Co-Directors Prof. Ari Juels and Prof. Emin Gun Sirer, both computer science, and IC3 Chief Scientific Officer Prof. Elaine Shi, computer science, will also be speaking at the conference, said Joseph Ferrara ’19, president of Cornell Blockchain.

Also featured will be several Cornell alum who have founded firms that take part in the cryptocurrency business, including Tendermint CEO

and co-founder Jae Kwon ’05, Tezos CEO and co-founder Kathleen Breitman ’12, and co-chair of Blank Rome’s Blockchain Technology and Digital Cryptocurrencies Group Michelle Gitlitz ’12.

“The amount of networking opportunities that will be available for students who are interested in the blockchain industry is incredible,” said Lynette Ban ’19, head of Cornell Blockchain’s conference team. “It is motivating how many Cornell alumni are blockchain leaders.”

The conference will spotlight four central topics — platforms, regulation, security tokens, and growth and adoption — each tackling a different facet of the burgeoning blockchain industry, according to Ban. Within the platform category, industry leaders will examine aspects such as developer experience, interoperability, and private data and private smart contracts, according to the event page.

The regulations category will incorporate discussions about intellectual property and the era of internet law. Meanwhile, the security tokens portion of the conference will feature experts discussing offerings of these assets and how they continue to evolve in the financial industry.

The final item on the agenda, growth and adoption, will highlight how “traditional firms and industries are embracing blockchain technology” — and the challenges faced when integrating blockchain and cases for its use — according to the event page.

Shivani Sanghani can be reached at ssanghani@cornellsun.com.

ILR Opens New and Improved Outpost in New York City’s Midtown Revamped building home to seven different ILR institutes, including the Worker Institute

By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun News Editor

Following in the footsteps of Cornell Tech, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations opened on Feb. 28 a new New York City outpost at an opening ceremony headlined

by Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-N.Y.).

The ILR school’s revamped Midtown outpost now occupies the 11th and 12th floor of the historic General Electric Building, located at 570 Lexington Avenue.

The space also marks a significant upgrade over its

previous 34th street location: The facility is a fully-fledged 40,000-squarefoot space that includes offices for nearly 100 people, in addition to a production studio, a cafe, full-service conference services and classrooms that can fit up to 150 students, according to the Cornell Chronicle.

ILR has a long history in Manhattan. After the school was founded in 1945, ILR soon established itself in Manhattan in 1948, said Interim Dean Alex Colvin in a Cornell Chronicle article. However, the newly renovated space is better optimized to achieve ILR’s

mission of working directly with unions and businesses while also furthering educational opportunities for students.

The new outpost is now

Law Program, the Institute for Compensation Studies, the Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies, and the Institute for Workplace Studies, accord-

“This new Manhattan hub creates a shared home for a wide range of Cornell programs and offices in New York City.”

President Martha E. Pollack the home of seven ILR institutes: the Worker Institute, ILR Executive Education, the Scheinman Institute, the Labor and Employment

ing to ILR’s website.

De Blasio — long considered a strong proponent of organized labor — said he hoped “generations of really

talented, committed people” will use the Midtown space to be trained to build “a productive, positive relationship between labor and management.”

“This expansion means a lot … your work is absolutely crucial. Your expanding can only mean great things for New York City and for this country,” de Blasio told the audience at the ceremony, according to a University press release.

“This new Manhattan hub creates a shared home for a wide range of Cornell programs and offices in New York City, strengthening our downstate presence,

the connections between our upstate and downstate campuses, and the connection between Cornell and New York state more broadly,” said Cornell President Martha E. Pollack to the Cornell Chronicle.

“It will support expanded opportunities for faculty research, student learning and public engagement, all in a wonderful new space that encourages collaboration across many disciplines,” she said.

Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at jstimpson@cornellsun.com.

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Myrick Announces Re-Election Bid For Third Term as Ithaca’s Mayor MYRICK

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and continue to be a progressive community that is welcoming and inclusive."

On Facebook, Myrick outlined his case for why he should once again be elected to City Hall, citing the construction of a waterfront trail along Cayuga Lake, the large-scale renovation of Ithaca Commons and doubling the amount of street paving among his accomplishments during his tenure.

“But we have so much more to do,” Myrick wrote. “The taxes are still too high … Rents are too high and the quality of housing is too low.”

Myrick’s annual State of the City address earlier this year hit on similar themes, when he vowed to finalize plans to construct 200 affordable housing units downtown. Among his successes, Myrick touted a decrease in property taxes and a policy that makes projects receiving tax reductions contingent upon constructing below-market-price units, the Ithaca Voice reported.

Myrick was first elected mayor in 2011, besting the Republican and two Independent candidates by a 29 percent margin on the way to winning every precinct. In doing so, Myrick set a slew of firsts for Ithaca: Only 24 years old at his inauguration, Myrick became both Ithaca’s youngest and first African-American chief executive. Four years later, Myrick ran without opposition.

Perhaps owing to his “youthful energy” and

“charismatic personality,” a Politico article wrote, Myrick has gained national attention typically reserved for much more prominent office-holders.

For instance, Ithaca’s controversial plan to create the nation’s first heroin-injection site garnered the mayor a spot on The New York Times’s front page. He has also been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list and Rolling Stone’s “Hot List.”

The accolades have led to speculation that Myrick harbors ambitions beyond serving a town of just over 31,000. According to the Ithaca Times, he was at one point approached by Democratic National Convention officials to consider taking on Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), Tompkins County’s Congressional representative, who was ultimately challenged by Cornell alumna Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 instead.

Despite the hype, Myrick maintains that his loyalties lie fully with Ithaca — at least for the next four years.

“I spent a lot of last year getting people elected to Congress, and God bless them, because it’s not for me,” Myrick told the Ithaca Times. “If I’m ready and the state’s ready for me, I would look at running for governor, but I’m not just interested in politics because I just want a job in politics. I don’t just want to be someone, I want to do something. That doesn’t mean just running for anything.”

Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at jstimpson@cornellsun.com.

Council Passes Harsher Penalties for Landlords

New legislation strengthens tenant protections, enforces codes LANDLORDS

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ordered by the City.

According to the ordinance, offending building owners would be compelled to provide financial compensation equal to “double the monthly rent, pro-rated for every day of displacement” until the end of the lease or the problems causing the “unsafe” designation are resolved.

The damages are intended to both incentivize higher safety housing and to reimburse renters who suffer “hardships” during the process of forced abandonment, such as “finding alternative housing [and] making arrangements to move belongs to new housing,” the resolution wrote.

Now, renters leaving unfit housing no longer have to worry about getting their money back, City Prosecutor Robert Sarachan, a staunch supporter of the just-passed changes, argued to the Common Council on Wednesday, the Ithaca Voice reported.

"Now [renters] can say, 'Boy, if I do have to leave, theoretically I'll be reasonably fairly compensated for it,’” said Sarachan.

At the same time, harsher punishments for misbehaving landlords will “provide clearer definitions to aid enforcement and additional incentives for compliance,” Sarachan wrote in a letter to the Council.

In a December email to The Sun, Donna Fleming (D-3rd Ward) of Ithaca Common Council expressed the concern that solely seeking compliance “rather than penalties” would do little to stop repeat offenders among landlords.

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Steve Smith (D-4th Ward), whose district includes Collegetown, argued that the changes could be a boon to the over 7,000 Cornell undergraduates who annually seek off-campus housing — some of whom have found themselves stuck in sub-standard or even illegal living conditions.

Last year, two Cornell students were forced to abandon their house — and temporarily seek refuge in a library — amidst no hot water, overflowing toilets, and insufficient heating in winter, The Sun previously reported.

The students criticized the Ithaca Building Department, the agency charged with overseeing landlords, for inaction.

But under the previous legislation, the agency could do little more to enforce codes than send a written warning.

"The principal concern should be the safety of the people,” Smith said at Wednesday’s Council meeting. “It was the right thing to do to guarantee the safety of their tenants and make sure their competitors guarantee the safety of their tenants."

Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at jstimpson@cornellsun.com.

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NYT Correspondent Reflects on Covering the White House HABERMAN

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Cornell New Exhibit Examines History of Photography

A new exhibit in the Kroch Library examines how early photography influenced people’s geographic awareness back in the 19th century. It draws on the library’s Rare and Manuscript Collections and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. After photography’s debut in 1839, the new medium was seen as uniquely suited to the task of accurately describing geography. At the same time, traditional illustration methods such as wood engravings, etchings and lithographs offered varied and romanticized interpretations of their subjects in a growing number of publications dedicated to travel and exploration.

Local Man Found Guilty of Murder, Sentenced to Prison

Construction at Harold’s Square in Ithaca Commons has resumed after the owners hired a new contractor, The Ithaca Voice reported.

Construction was put on hold when the owners parted ways with their original contractor, Taylor the Builder of Rochester, in January. McGuire Development, which co-owns the project with L Enterprises, previously said construction would be resuming in February with LeChase at the helm.

Erecting the building’s steel frame requires the use of the 300ton crane that has loomed over the Ithaca Commons since last March. It remains unclear when The Commons playground, closed due to the construction, with re-open, however.

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Google agreed to pay $135 million in exit packages to two top executives — Andy Rubin and Amit Singhal — who left the company after being accused of sexual harassment and covered up the reasons for their departures, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Mr. Rubin was accused by a subordinate of pressuring her into oral sex, while Mr.Singhal was accused by a female employee of groping her at a “boozy off-site event,” according to the lawsuit cited by The Journal.

The complaint, which cites information from Google, says the company agreed to pay Mr. Singhal about $45 million, the first time that number has been made public. It only ended up paying $15 million because Mr. Singhal later joined a competitor.

— Compiled by Yuichiro Kakutani ’19

was known as “Page Six Donald” when she worked at the New York Post in the 1990s.

However, Haberman never planned to spend her days writing articles in transit between New York City and Washington, D.C. Though she grew up with a journalist father, Haberman first headed to Sarah Lawrence College to pursue fiction writing before the lack of job prospects landed her in the tabloid — and eventually newspaper — business.

“I haven’t written fiction since the day I started reporting news,” she said, noting that she is a “million miles away” from where she was in college.

Early in her career, Haberman answered phones and contributed to The New York Post by day, and tended bar by night.

“It was some of the best training that you could ever have for being a journalist … the skill of bartending is being able to make conversation, and then when that runs thin, start asking a lot of questions. And when that runs thin, start asking more,” Haberman said.

Haberman first began to hear whispers of a Trump run for president as early as 2011, when she interviewed Roger Stone for her then-employer Politico after hearing rumors that Stone had been in the room during potential campaign talks and was working on a strategy for the The Apprentice star.

After speaking to Stone, who stressed that he wasn’t working for Trump while simultaneously laying out a detailed plan for his election bid, Haberman received a call from Trump himself. She said he told her insistently that, despite the evidence, “Roger Stone doesn’t speak for me.”

“It was a very early window into the disorienting sensation that has become familiar for journalists who are trying to establish

some agreed-upon facts during the Trump presidency,” Haberman recalled.

“His relationship with the truth was notoriously elastic,” she said.

Four years later, Haberman was hired at The New York Times — a paper she said that Trump “always has felt has never gave him his due, and whose approval [Trump] has always sought,” even before Trump pivoted from real estate mogul to politician.

When The Times received a tip that Trump would run in the 2016 election, and her editors asked Haberman to break the story, she said no.

“To be clear, I didn’t think he was going to [run],” Haberman said. “In hindsight, not the best call.”

In the years since, Haberman

Trump’s diehard supporters.

“My Twitter mentions were suddenly a cesspool,” Haberman recalled in her speech.

And a year ago, Trump called Haberman out on Twitter as a “third rate reporter” and “Crooked [Hillary] flunkie” for proposing potential disloyalty between lawyer Michael Cohen and the President.

With the recent sentencing of Cohen for campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud, Haberman said in the interview that her prediction “speaks for itself.”

“The second of [Trump’s] two tweets was ‘Cohen will never turn on me,’” Haberman said. “Ten months later, I feel like … eh, the story held up.”

Although both make mistakes, “the difference between media and

“I’m used to gender-based attacks, especially online. What I was less used to was attacks about being Jewish.”

Maggie Haberman has covered the ins and outs of what goes on behind closed Washington doors, but doesn't think that her long experience with Trump is what defines her journalism.

“If you cover someone for a long time, you might better understand what motivates them, you might better understand how they think and how they operate,” she said in an interview prior to the speech. “But that shouldn’t form your coverage.”

Despite the accolades that coverage has won her, including a shared Pulitzer Prize, not everything has gone smoothly for Haberman over the years.

After The Times printed a Haberman-bylined story with a headline stating that Trump had made a “call to register Muslims” in the United States — when in actuality he had left the question “open-ended” — Haberman experienced firsthand the furor of

politicians is that we do corrections; we correct the record,” said Haberman.

Haberman stressed to The Sun that journalists must have compassion throughout all of their dealings, which she said was one of the best things that the next generation of reporters could learn.

“Just rememb[er] that they’re humans and that things that seem trivial to you might matter a great deal to them,” she said, especially when the source is a private citizen rather than public official.

Over the course of her time in the industry, Haberman said she has faced challenges both in tangling with officials and with factors outside of her control.

“It’s hard for women in this business. Women are not afforded the same opportunities; women are not in leadership positions in the same way,” she said in the prior interview. “A man who acts

emotional and screams is going to be just seen as being tough, and a woman who does the same thing is going to be seen as being crazy.”

“And every stereotype you have ever heard, for the most part will play out in some way,” she continued.

Haberman’s measured voice grew rough only once throughout the night — at the end of the talk, while speaking about her family and the anti-Semitism that has come as closely as a swastika spray-painted onto the synagogue where her children attended preschool.

“I’m used to gender-based attacks, especially online,” she said. “What I was less used to was attacks about being Jewish.”

Anti-Semitism has spread in recent years, Haberman said, expressing that news coverage of the issue has improved since the 2016 presidential run when there was “frankly, not enough.”

The event concluded with the tables turning on the seasoned correspondent. She took questions from the audience, answering queries about what she’s done lately to relax — watching Captain Marvel with her kids, where she “fell asleep for the first half hour” — and gave advice: “Stay away from Twitter.”

When asked by an audience member to reveal the identity of the anonymous author of The New York Times op-ed last September who claimed to be a White House staffer, Haberman cited the divide between news and opinion sections in the paper. “I really don’t know who the person is,” she said. “I really don’t know — swear to God, I don’t know.”

And Haberman laughed at the final questioner of the night, who asked her to posit whether Trump would be reelected in 2020: “I’m not falling for that one again!”

Sarah Skinner can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com.

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Happy Dave’s Playlist May Need Some Work

kenshields has a big role to fill on campus.

As the only swipe-in dining hall on Central Campus, the volume and variety of people it must serve is extensive. Catering to that number of restrictions and preferences is task enough, but what about catering to that many open ears?

Starting with a solid mix of pop-chart songs from the mid-’90s through the aughts, the only real genre it fits is familiar but out-of-date. Occasionally, an ’80s throwback or recent hit graces the speaker, but they’re used sparingly. “Sexy Back” and “Dynamite” are right at home, and “Africa” by Toto is a special treat greeted by rippling chuckles.

One of the great senses I get from the playlist is a general interest in being as innocuous as possible, generally cheery or catchy, though occasionally reflective or sad.

A friend who says he’s been listening and analyzing the playlist three days a week since he arrived at Cornell two-and-a-half years ago said, “It’s the nostalgia that keeps me coming back.” While the music covers enough of a time period that it doesn’t seem to be pandering to nostalgia, it covers most of the popular music that we’ve lived with throughout our lives.

It’s comforting and heartwarming to hear the music that accompanied middle school dances and family barbeques, without the crowd density to bring out the inner disdain for those events.

Despite the lack of complexity and innovation, there’s a lot to be said for just comforting, fun music.

It’s a consistent conversation starter and a midday pick-me-up. If you added much more character, or artistic prowess, that decreases its ability to crowdplease, and to serve the interests of the visitors in all. For example, when a slightly more controversial song comes on the speakers — Monday around 1:30 it was an Evanescence tune — the sense of camaraderie wanes as people are no longer united in their tastes. The playlist gives the dining hall character and solidifies the vibe. In the rooms of Okenshields where the tunes do not reach, the refraction of all of the conversations coming together and the lack of music creates chaos and anxiety. The complete lack of taste and freshness are tragic necessities, but compensated by the convenience and lack of otherwise reasonable options — oops, I’m supposed to be talking about the music, not the food.

But does Okenshields have a larger role to fill?

Should it challenge the simple musical canon, and worry more about being vibrant than unexceptional?

Does it do well enough presenting a variety of musical styles and narratives?

I don’t know. Part of me wants to say that, while students are being challenged by their courses and their extracurriculars and their peers, they should be able to come back to the consistency and banality of a meal at Okenshields. But the other half says that any opportunity to put the margins of art on display should be taken. What could the music that didn’t make it big offer to the diners of Okenshields? What opportunities are being lost by presenting the same music that many diners already know?

Further, the narrative I so often hear about Okenshields — and one that I have furthered in this column — is that it shines because it’s familiar and nostalgic. But who isn’t that the case for? I’m sure many of the people at surrounding tables didn’t grow up with the songs on this playlist. I somewhat did, but in the years since coming to Cornell, I’ve revised my memory of the soundtrack of my childhood to include the songs that my friends remembered.

I don’t think I knew the Kelly Clarkson .

Resident Bad . . or was it Christina Media Critic Aguilera . . . no it’s the Carrie Underwood song “Before He Cheats” before I listened to it on drives around the Finger Lakes. But I feel and act as if I did.

While sharing music like this has proved to be beneficial and an enjoyable part of my time at Cornell, I worry about this revisionist memory. The demand of creating a dominant playlist fundamentally serves to whittle away at the diversity of art which we enjoy and share, privileging the music chosen as our nostalgia when there is no simple unanimously nostalgic playlist.

I don’t know if that could or should be considered in creating the playlist, and the large number of people who do find enjoyment in the playlist surely is an indication that it is doing good things for campus; cheering people up, calming them down, comforting them. It’s hard to disagree that it is fun. There is, sometimes, more to music than just that.

Katie Sims

Katie Sims is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ksims@cornellsun.com. Resident Bad Media Critic runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Dacus to Perform At The Haunt

BY KATIE SIMS SUN ARTS COLUMNIST

Lucy Dacus is bringing her sunny voice and canny lyrics to The Haunt this Thursday, accompanied by openers Mal Blum and Fenne Lily.

The 23-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist put out her second album, Historian, just over a year ago, but it was far from sophomoric. Her unique voice and poignant lyrics were radiant and catchy, as well as substantive. She holds no bar on her topics of choice — exposing grief, hurt and courage with earnestness and transparency, but also courage and hopefulness. While her narratives are often somber, I would never call them bleak.

It’s hard to find a reason not to like Dacus’ music, and her live recordings are spectacular.

Dacus has been on the road for this tour since the beginning of February, and spent the back half of last year releasing music and on tour with boygenius. Dacus joined forces with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers to make up boygenius, and indie fans and publications were immediately hailing the trio as a “supergroup.”

Their six-song eponymous EP backs it up, with artful harmonies and songwriting that just gets better and better the longer you listen. Dacus and boygenius’ biggest fan is perhaps NPR Music, who ranked boygenius their number 12 album of 2018, and Historian number four. They’ve also hosted both Dacus and boygenius for Tiny Desk concerts that put their talent plainly on display.

Dacus’ most recently released song is a cover of “La Vie En Rose,” put out just before Valentine’s Day as part of a series commemorating holidays throughout 2019.

The show starts at 8:00 p.m. with doors opening at seven.

Tickets are available online through Ticketfly, and people under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Katie Sims is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

She can be reached at ksims@cornellsun.com.

Featured Weekly Arts Event: If Beale Street Could Talk At Cornell Cinema

The Oscar-nominated If Beale Street Could Talk will run this Thursday at 6:45 p.m. at Cornell Cinema. The event will feature commentary by Dominique Thorne ’19, a current undergrad and cast member of the film. The screening is slated to last roughly two hours, so come prepared to get cozy. The movie is directed by Barry Jenkins who also directed Moonlight in 2016, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Tickets to the event can be purchased on the Cornell Cinema website for around $7.

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The Science of Maple Syrup: From Tree To Pancake Stack and Everything in Between

By ABIGAIL BETRUTCZYK Sun Contributor

Twenty miles southwest of Cornell’s Ithaca campus grows a forest of sweet trees. The tubing at their trunks carry sugary sap awaiting to be transformed into a crowd-pleasing breakfast staple: maple syrup.

In the Arnot forest, a 6000 tree-section wis an integral part of the Cornell Maple Program.

But how do you get from sap to syrup? Aaron Wightman, the extension associate at the Cornell Maple program highlights the food science behind the maple syrup making process.

This time of year –– late winter to early spring –– is prime for maple syrup production, especially in New York, the second largest producer of maple syrup.

“The trees store their energy in the form of starch for their dormant period in the winter, but as winter moves closer to spring, the trees start releasing enzymes,” Wightman said, including “the same enzyme that you have in your mouth to help dissolve starch: amylase.”

Once amylase is coursing through the tree,

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Sugar house | This Arnot lodge is where the syrup gets processed.

it converts the stored starch to sucrose. But, according to Wightman, that sucrose sap cannot flow without the freezing and thawing that happens between the cold nights and warmer days during this winter-spring limbo.

“When it warms up, the CO2 inside the

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Something sweet | The Cornell Maple Program produces the Cornell Syrup sold across campus. stem expands and creates positive pressure, so when you drill a hole in the tree, the sap is going to get squeezed out,” Wightman said.

Wightman also explained that the freezing causes the opposite process. The cold temperatures cause the gas inside the stems to contract, creating a vacuum that sucks more water up into the tree.

Once the producers have this slightly sweet sap, they need to concentrate the sugar. To do this more efficiently, some sugarmakers utilize reverse osmosis. Wightman explained that the Arnot Forest’s reverse osmosis machine has a membrane with holes small enough to allow water through, but not larger sugar molecules.

Under pressure, this separates the water and sugar, and concentrates the sugar in the sap, turning a 2 percent sugar solution to a 20 percent solution.

However, for the product to be legally called “maple syrup,” it needs to reach the magic concentration of 66 percent sugar. To achieve this, the sugarmakers boil the sap, which further concentrates the sugar solution and also introduces the classic maple flavors and caramel colors.

According to Wightman, the color is what determines the four different grades of maple syrup, from golden to very dark amber. The color depends on the types of sugars inside the syrup and the timing of the season when

it was collected.

“The only sugar that comes out of a maple tree is sucrose, and sucrose has a pretty high caramelization temperature,” Wightman said.

“But as it passes through the collection system, yeast and bacteria will break down some of that sucrose into glucose and fructose.”

He explained that as the sugaring season gets longer, more bacteria and yeast from the air are introduced to the sap through the tubing, making more fructose and a darker syrup.

Fructose has a low caramelization temperature at 110˚C (compared to sucrose’s 160˚C) and therefore acquires a dark tint when cooked.

Lately, changes in the length of syrup season suggest that climate change may be impacting maple syrup production.

“Back when I first started making syrup as a child in the 1970’s, we didn’t tap our trees until March. Now a lot of big producers will tap their trees before Christmas. We’re seeing more of those freeze-thaw cycles earlier in the winter,” Wightman said.

Though this may not seem like a problem, the earlier start means the trees are being tapped for a longer duration of time.

This poses technical challenges, according to Wightman.

“When you tap a tree, it actually starts to slowly lose productivity over time. The main reason is bacteria and yeast get sucked back

into the tree … and that makes the tap hole dry out more quickly.” Wightman said.

To help prevent this contamination and drying out, the Cornell Maple Program is developing new tubing systems. According to Wightman, one gadget is a check valve that allows sap to flow out of the tree, but closes when the tree tries to suck sap back in.

Another technology solution is tubing with ionic silver that sanitizes sap that passes back through the spout to the tree.

Despite these challenges, the maple industry continues to boom. A recent grant from the USDA is making it possible for the Cornell Maple Program to continue research, provide expertise on production and improve sustainability on sugarbush management.

The Cornell Maple Program also has plans to create a new sugar house facility and a new line of research in other maple products including maple kombucha, maple wine, maple vinegar and even maple soda.

And, if you are ready to try out some maple products or just love the classic maple syrup on pancakes, keep an eye out for Cayuga Nature Center’s Maple Fest on March 17.

Abigail Bezrutczyk can be reached at ab985@ cornell.edu.

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Maple wine | Alternative maple products are fermented in jugs.

Prize-Winning Author and Environmentalist Bill McKibben to Give Virtual Lecture at Cornell

By ANIL OZA Sun Contributor

Author and Environmentalist Bill McKibben is set to deliver a lecture, titled “Reversing Course on Climate Change and Divestment: The Middlebury Story,” on March 13 at 7pm in Call Auditorium via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public.

McKibben is an author and environmentalist, best known for his work on The End of Nature. The book is widely regarded as the first book to address climate change when it was published, 30 years ago. Since the publication of The End of Nature, McKibben has served as a consistent voice for environmentalism, writing numerous other books and articles.

McKibben is also the founder of the website 350.org, a grassroots organization

that aims to reduce carbon dioxide levels to 350 parts per million. They aim to meet this goal mainly through divestment in the fossil fuel industry, removing investments in companies that extract fossil fuels.

As the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, McKibben’s efforts were instrumental in the campaign for Middlebury to divest in fossil fuels.

Despite hesitance by Middlebury’s trustees, the activism of students and faculty, including McKibben, led to Middlebury’s successful move toward a more clean and sustainable campus.

“Worldwide and across the US, the number of other institutions divesting is just going up exponentially,” said Prof.

Robert Howarth, ecology and evolutionary biology. “Divestment has been discussed for quite some time but not active-

ly on campus in the past three plus years.”

It is time for the campus to reintroduce the question of divestment in the fossil fuel industry, and whether it is feasible for the campus. “The University Assembly is not taking a position that we should divest, but as an academic institution we would like to facilitate open discussion on the issues that involved,” Howarth said.

The event is being sponsored by the executive committee in conjunction with the campus infrastructure committee of the University Assembly, as well as several student organizations, including, Cornell Environmental Collaborative and Climate Justice Cornell.

The event will begin with a presentation, followed by a question and answer session.

Anil Oza can be reached at ajo35@cornell.edu.

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Sarah Lieberman | Blueberries for Sal

Listening To Opinionated Women T

he last year and a half (or so) have been marked by some uncharacteristic interpersonal drama, mostly in the form of internet harassment and (at least) half in response to columns that I’ve written. My Greek life column was met with the most serious antagonism, but I can’t deny that basically any piece of writing that I’ve put out in the world has resulted in angry emails, internet comments and some uncomfortable conversations.

Recently, I’ve resorted to less controversial subjects, sinking my teeth into the heart-warming and uplifting spectrum of opinion writing.

A few weeks ago, I read Mary Beard’s essay “The Public Voice of Women,” and there was a special type of familiarity in the pages. Beard details a history of women being told to stop talking. From Penelope in The Odyssey to modern-day journalists on Twitter, most any attempt from a woman to speak outside the domestic sphere is met with a hailstorm of “go back to where you belong.” In seeking to avoid criticism or controversy, was I myself, in my writing, creeping back into privacy? In the words of Mary Beard, she “re-privatizes her voice.”

Nearly every day on Twitter, we can witness attempts to silence or androgynize female voices. Writer and professor Roxane Gay does a particularly great job of calling this out. Just this week, I watched her defend her words and her opinion to a devoted mansplainer, just as she does day after day. At a talk given at Cornell on Monday, New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman brought up her critics, calling the internet a “cesspool” and drawing attention to how difficult the climate is for women writers — on Twitter and beyond. She said she doesn’t ever flinch until they bring up her children. I often wrestle with how this particular type of abuse can be both baffling and utterly expected.

It’s not the online commenters that disagree with me that bother me. In fact, I welcome those who disagree with me.

That sort of discussion energizes and impassions my writing. I would not have the grit to be a writer if I suffered so much over differing opinions. I’m more so calling out the comments that question my intellect, insult my character and extend far outside the bounds of a simple disagreement.

I’m often told by those close to me to ignore the angry crowd of voices at the helm of my inbox. And for the most part, I try to. But day in and day out, I am provided with more and more examples of how this crusade against nonmale voices is violent. In high school, I rejected a boy at my school, which led me down a year-long struggle with death-threats, harassment and physical

aggression against myself and those close to me. The words this boy used after the initial rejection ring with familiarity in many of the hateful comments I receive.

Most of them tell me to shut up. Lots of them call me stupid. All of this for speaking my mind. The way in which I have been and continue to be talked down to, belittled and shamed for no more than sharing my opinion reeks of misogyny.

Beard says, “It is not what you say

Nearly every day on Twitter, we can witness attempts to silence or androgynize female voices. that prompts it, it’s simply the fact that you’re saying it. And that matches the detail of the threats themselves. They include a fairly predictable menu of rape, bombing, murder and so forth (this may sound very relaxed; that doesn’t mean it’s not scary when it comes late at night).”

I couldn’t agree with this more; I can’t treat every threat as mere white noise all the time. I am thankful for Beard for giving me some sort of solidarity in this struggle. Women journalists are absolutely attacked at the slightest perceived transgression, the slightest tip-toe from the domestic sphere.

There are intersections here.

Undoubtedly, some women also face racist, transphobic, classist or ableist attacks.

I realize that my identity offers me great privilege, being a white-passing woman at an Ivy League institution, I am offered platforms for which I should feel deeply indebted.

I don’t necessarily believe one of my avid, dedicated internet trolls will read this column and experience a change of heart.

But I do believe I have friends that have access to circles where people speak about women in violent ways, in ways that seek to silence them.

Simply recognizing and calling out this behavior on sight is a great way to be an ally to the opinionated women in your life. I could be better at this as well. For example, sometimes at the dinner table, in class or in a one-on-one conversation, I catch myself repeating, “You’re not listening to me.”

Maybe more effective would be, “Listen to me.”

So, I am asking for more listening. I am asking for questioning every instance of anger in response to a woman transgressing only in so much as she’s asserting her right to a voice. I am asking to watch misogynistic language, watch reactions to something as simple as an Instagram post, watch the ways in which you can seek to empower, rather than silence, the voices of women.

I am asking for questioning every instance of anger in response to a woman transgressing only in so much as she’s asserting her right to a voice.

Sarah Lieberman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at slieberman@ cornellsun.com. Blueberries for Sal runs every other Tuesday this semester.

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DongYeon (Margaret) Lee | Here, There, Everywhere

The Need for Fundamental Reform in the Catholic Church

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nger, sorrow, disbelief — these were just some of the emotions I felt upon receiving news that our university’s Catholic chaplain Father Carsten Martensen received allegations for sexual abuse of a minor in the 1970s. To any other individual, this may have been just one of the many recent attestations of the Roman Catholic clergy’s sexual abuse cases. Yet, I had never personally experienced, nor did I ever expect, such allegations arising from within my very own community. The news came as an utter shock and disturbance — to think that the chaplain who had provided significant guidance and wisdom throughout my time here at Cornell may have possibly exploited a child and kept silent for all these years.

Catholicism has been an important part of my life, especially at Cornell. In all honesty, my knowledge on the Bible and of the religion itself is deficient, but being a part of the Catholic community has in many ways enabled me to grow and overcome difficulties throughout the years. I was able to find peace of mind through praying and seeking guidance from a higher being, and I had looked forward to Father Carsten’s positive energy attending mass each week.

So, I deliberated over and over again whether to write about an issue that so personally affects me and my loved ones. But I believe that not speaking up is nothing short of condoning misdeeds. Instead of turning a blind eye or remaining silent, members within the community must demand immediate action to resolve the larger problem of a culture that has sustained such acts. The issue of

sexual abuse among Catholic priests and its cover-up have long disserviced the original purpose of the church — far beyond this specific allegation.

The Catholic Church’s response to cases of sexual abuse has been meek so far. For the past several decades, claims have continued to emerge worldwide. One of the most recent large-scale cases involves the Pennsylvania Catholic Church’s cover-up of over 300 priests who had victimized more than 1,000 victims during a span of 70 years. Such news illuminates the process and culture through which sexual misconduct has been disregarded or tacitly permitted. Priests are safeguarded by an institution that conceals cases of sexual misconduct time and time again, so as to protect the abuser more so than the victim.

Last month, the Vatican held its first-ever summit on sexual abuse, a milestone amidst the church’s lukewarm responses that have failed to openly rectify or even discuss the issue. Pope Francis’s address in the four-day summit focused on the present day, acknowledging the matter in question as a serious and pertinent call for present-day resolutions. Yet, his statements were disappointing in many ways — as he provided guidelines calling for a change of mentality and stronger rules, but laid out few concrete measures for fundamental reform. To the dismay of many Catholics, he did not take definitive actions such as the church-wide dismissal of abusive priests and bishops who conceal sexual abuse cases.

The Catholic Church must seek progressive measures and put an end to the power relations that sustain a culture

Priests are safeguarded by an institution that conceals cases of sexual misconduct time and time again, so as to protect the abuser more so than the victim.

of dominance and avoidance of uncomfortable matters.

A practicable first step may be supporting state legislation lifting the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases specifically involving minors. The church must scrutinize and look into all possible options to determine which course of action would be most suitable to tangibly stop the

If true, the abuser ought to never fully be absolved of his crime, as the victim will never wholly recover from the trauma. implicit allowance of abuse.

I hope that the Cornell Catholic Community and Diocese of Rochester will react promptly and righteously to these horrifying allegations of sinful acts, as the church so preaches. I, like many other Catholics, appreciate that the matter has been revealed to the public instead of being covered up, which has been the case for so many priest abuse claims. If true, the abuser ought to never fully be absolved of his crime, as the victim will never wholly recover from the trauma. I urge the Diocese to thoroughly investigate and continue to work with both sides to reveal the truth. I further implore our faith community to ensure taking serious reformative measures to prevent sexual abuse, especially against minors, regardless of the outcome of this specific allegation.

DongYeon (Margaret) Lee is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at margaretlee@cornellsun.com. Here, There and Everywhere appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Edem Dzodzomenyo | Ed’s Declassified

Digest the Unpalatable Truth About Your Soup I

n contrast with Zeus’s “bright work areas and healthy local food choices” as advertised on its website, the Syracuse-orange haze and pre-packaged, microwaveable foods in Amit Bhatia Libe Cafe seem like what consumer theorist Alfred Marshall would call a package of inferior goods. But I suppose I resist the argument that Zeus is better than Libe because the justifications only consider the merits of one eatery over the other.

Let’s not kid ourselves: Nowhere in the John M. Olin Library outside of free pizza on finals week will you find edible food. But that’s not the point.

Libe is where most of us have messed around since freshman year, before we were cool enough to discover Zeus. It’s a lively hub of collegiate activity. Where else on campus can you encounter the delightful oxymoron of a dehydrated “quinoa meal” or distract yourself during study breaks with friends in such close proximity to an academic workspace? It’s kind of a solidarity thing. You eagerly skip to Libe from the stacks for your study break to spend too much time ranting about the problem set, gossiping and snacking on single-pack Doritos.

By contrast, Temple of Zeus (to be henceforth affectionately denoted as Zoos or TOZ) is not a great place to mess around. Patrons are too busy pretentiously busying themselves and precariously sipping their soups. The atrium boasts a pristine, robust and authentic architecture unmatched by the hallmark plastic furnishings and grimy carpeting of Libe’s, which is soiled and well-worn from traffic and hooliganry. TOZ’s vibe is shiny and cute, but I’ve been in the upper echelon of higher-ed and around wealthy East Coast progressives long enough now that anything as shiny as Zeus’s marble slab tables feels disingenuous.

The core of the debate between two of the highest-traffic cafes on campus is

not just an aesthetic concern: It is also an economic one. My once-a-week oat milk chai with a shot of almond syrup light ice sets me back $6.95. The first time I tasted the spicy, silky in-house brew, my eyes nearly rolled to the back of my head with the bittersweet dread of discovering an expensive new habit. It’s no question that the made-from-scratch foods and beverages in Zeus are better than the slop sold in Olin Library’s makeshift cafe — the chai in Libe comes from concentrate. A significant problem, though, is that Zoos does not accept BRBs while Libe does, making it more accessible to people on financial aid or without considerable disposable income.

In a microcosmic analogy to the real world, Olin is a gas station snack aisle in a food desert and TOZ is Whole Foods.

My pushback against the popular belief that Zeus is better than Libe is not simply that one serves rich patrons and that the other serves average ones — that one is pretty and one is not. The prices themselves are not markedly disparate, especially when considering that TOZ sells food with actual nutritional value.

But the argument that a negligible price difference is equal to accessibility is an inadvertently classist one, mainly because of Zeus’ no-BRBs stipulation. Yes, many Cornellians I know do appreciate and frequent both regardless of economic background, but albeit at varying degrees for those of lower socioeconomic status.

The potential consequences of this disparity illuminate inequalities so glaring they could be found in a public health case study on nutrition. I can visualize a graph tracking the soaring academic and personal thrivation of the stealthy TOZ patron as the high sugar content of every syrupy concentrate and snack pack leads Libe kids to suffer energy drain, a fatty liver and eventual acceleration of the skin aging process.

The appeal of Zoos’ prime grub is somewhat overshadowed by its inaccessibility and its sophisticated ambiance often overrun by the presence of pseudo-intellectual hipsters.

When I do see professors, they’re grabbing their soup from the line and hurriedly retreating to eat lunch in their offices. Once a hub of academic exchange for scholars of the humanities, TOZ these days is filled with patrons conducting anything from conference calls to office hours to sorority lunch date takeovers. I kid you not: On “Theta Thursdays,” members of my sorority gather under the dome and spill into the atrium with our reusable soup tins and wooden spoons, wearing our swag and eager to chat about our days. Heck, I’m active in a GroupMe — “SoupMe” — dedicated to the daily dissemination of updates on the cafe’s broths, bisques, chowders, bouillons, stews and cream-of’s.

Over the past few years, the mainstream adoption of exotic imports like avocados, quinoa and nut milks have

The core of the debate between two of the highest-traffic cafes on campus is not just an aesthetic concern: It is also an economic one.

modeled that what seems healthy and sustainable can have the same, and sometimes even more, devastating economic and environmental consequences as their traditionally manufactured counterparts.

That is to say, the world is not better off for your choosing fair trade avo toast over genetically modified staples like tomatoes and potatoes. These studies have shocked many socially progressive adults into recognizing that their preferences serve few outside their own tastes and preferences.

It’s what I like to call the “hipster paradox.” In the same vein, I haven’t been able to find any data that Zeus is significantly more sustainable, and the 10-cent monetary incentive to use non-perishable cutlery and bowls honestly is not enough to lug extra stuff around in my schoolbag. You probably won’t find any less plastic and food waste in the ergonomically shaped compost/recycle bins in TOZ than you will in the poorly classified ones in Libe. In Libe, on the other hand, a reusable mug actually does yield a significant discount — $1.50! Unheard of in Zoosland.

I appreciate Zeus’s support of the local food economy and certainly don’t fault its managers for their choice in brand presentation. But I urge you, the customer, to be wary of ostensibly “better” options, especially when it comes to the accessibility of sustainable food choices.

It is automatically so because of its aesthetic appeal? What, exactly, makes it better? I therefore challenge you to enjoy your soup, but with a caveat: Be prepared to look deeper and potentially digest the unpalatable truth you find about what might just be another millennial consumerist paradox.

Edem Dzodzomenyo is a junior in the College Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ejd93@cornell.edu. Ed’s Declassified appears every other Friday this semester.

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Sundoku Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

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The Cornell Daily Sun

Yianni Diakomihalis, Chas Tucker and Max Dean all won their respective weights at the EIWA.

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Wrestlers Eyeing Nationals WRESTLING

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“This is the best Chas has wrestled probably his whole career,” Koll said. “He’s really been on a tear.

He is certainly capable of not just placing but winning the national championship if he wrestles perfectly.”

Dean’s title, however, featured a harder-fought bout.

A year removed from a pin at the hands of Lehigh’s Ryan Preisch in the EIWA finals, Dean avenged the defeat with a 3-0 win that consisted of 1:54 of riding time by final buzzer.

“Gabe — I mean Max — knocked off someone who pinned him last year,” Koll said with a slip of the tongue, alluding to the elder Dean who was a four-time EIWA champion and is now an assistant coach for Cornell. And with Max’s first-place finish, someone with the name Dean has owned the 184 title five of the past six years.

For the three runner-ups, Koll was comforted by the wrestling he saw even if it didn’t earn them the title.

In the case of Arujau, the No. 1 seed entering the tournament, it was “one mistake and it cost him,” Koll said in reference to second-period four-point nearfall move by Princeton’s Pat Glory, a wrestler Arjuau beat by fall a month prior.

Womack, meanwhile, “had numerous opportunities to win the match against someone who he’s never been close against,” said Koll of the senior’s 3-1 loss to Jordan Kutler of Lehigh. And Honis, who upset his

finals foe, Princeton’s Patrick Brucki, the same dual meet Aruaju pinned his, couldn’t get a late takedown to tie up a close bout and dropped an 8-6 decision.

As for the remaining three wrestlers, Furnas probably had the most realistic shot to “wrestle over his head” and earn an NCAA bid, but he lost a heartbreaker via sudden victory in the quarterfinals and “seemed to be recovering from that match and didn’t wrestle up to his ability,” in the ensuing consolation match, Koll said.

Santoro, who had an up-and-down season, “picked a bad weekend to be less than on,” Koll said, while the freshman Berreyesa “has some weaknesses that [need] to be addressed” but “we just think so highly of him,” the head coach added.

Regardless of the overall disappointment, Cornell now has two weeks to prepare for the holy grail of the sport: team and individual titles at PPG Paints Arena. Regardless if that number is six or seven, all the wrestlers Cornell sends to Pittsburgh feel they have a chance to at the very least contend for the crown. And regardless of the tough weekend, enthusiasm is at an all-time high.

“Good doesn’t cut it at the national championships, you have to be great,” Koll said. “Those six wrestlers we are sending all have the ability to be in the top eight, All-American level.”

Zachary Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Sports

TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2019

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Red Disappointed With 2nd-Place EIWA Finish

By ZACHARY SILVER

WRESTLING

Sun Senior Writer

When you do something 11 years in a row, and especially if that something is at the highest caliber of your practice, expectations are inevitable.

That’s the case for Cornell wrestling, which, before last season, owned 11 consecutive EIWA team titles. But now, that streak has turned into one of finishing second-place two years in a row.

This past weekend at Binghamton, three Cornellians were crowned champions and three others finished as runner-ups to make six automatic NCAA qualifications while the Red had to watch Lehigh capture its second consecutive EIWA team championship, 153 to 139 in the team score.

“Can’t pretend to say we were thrilled with our performance,” said Head Coach Rob Koll. “Although six of our stars really shined, the guys we were hoping could wrestle over their heads weren’t able to do so.

“It’s hard to be upset with six finalists,” Koll added.

“But we are greedy, and we expect more.”

“It’s hard to be upset with six finalists, but we are greedy, and we expect more.”

Head Coach Rob Koll Returning NCAA champion sophomore Yianni Diakomihalis (141), junior Chas Tucker (133) and sophomore Max Dean (184) all won their respective weights at the tournament — the first titles for the latter two — while freshman Vitali Arujau (125), senior Brandon Womack (174) and senior Ben Honis (197) all fell just one win short of the crown.

Disappointment ensued for the remaining four weights, as senior Jonathan Furnas (149), junior Adam Santoro (157), freshman Andrew Berreyesa (165) and senior Jeramy Sweany (285) all fell short of an automatic bid to the NCAA championships, set to be held from March 21-23 in Pittsburgh. Only two of the four, Berreyesa and Sweany, finished in the top eight.

“We’ve had better depth in the past, and this year we had too many guys not place — almost half our team essentially not scoring points,” Koll said. “[But] at the end of the day, I’d rather have six great wrestlers going to nationals than 10 better than average wrestlers, because at

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Looking ahead | Despite finishing second in the Eastern tournament, the Red is confident in the six wrestlers it will send to the NCAA tournament.

the nationals if you’re not great you’re not doing anything anyway.”

For Sweany, though, Koll is optimistic that the senior, who is placed seventh at EIWAs, can earn an at-large bid to the dance, which will be announced by the NCAA later this week.

As for the automatic bids, Koll said he is as confident as ever in the cohort of wrestlers the program is sending the NCAA championships, highlighted by the reigning national champion Diakomihalis — who earned the Coaches’ Trophy for most outstanding wrestler — and two fellow returning All-Americans in Dean and Womack.

“Those six guys are six guys who all can place,” Koll said. “And a good national championship makes an Easterns go away real quickly.”

Even for the wrestlers less proven on the national stage, all three inhabit the national top 10 rankings at their weight.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had six that are going to be seeded in the top 12 in the country,” Koll said. “It doesn’t win an Eastern tournament, but it can score a lot of points for a national championship.”

Both Diakomihalis and Tucker breezed to their titles, never being taken down in their path for first. The former, still undefeated on the season, moved to 3-0 lifetime against nationally-ranked No. 13 Nic Gil of Navy with an 8-2 win while the latter took down Josh Terao of American for his first title a year after settling for runner-up.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Bounces Back From Crushing Loss to Clinch Spot in Ivy Tourney

By AMAN GUPTA Sun Contributor

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Redemption | Cornell avenged a February home loss to Dartmouth on its way to clinching the final spot in the Ivy tournament.

On Friday, women’s basketball suffered a lopsided road loss that could have been demoralizing. Less than 24 hours later, the Red’s players laced them up again with a trip to the Ivy League Tournament on the line.

The Red started the doubleheader weekend extremely slowly in Cambridge, recording more turnovers than points in the first half against Harvard — the Red turned the ball over 16 times while scoring just 12 points in the first.

Harvard put in a solid shooting performance, making 34.5 percent from the perimeter on 29 attempts, while Cornell struggled mightily from the field, managing an abysmal 27.3 percent. The final score was ugly: 80-38 in favor of Harvard.

“Harvard knew they needed a win and they were unquestionably the better team on the day,” said Head Coach Dayna Smith. “They scored 26 points from second chances, clearly showing their determination and immense ability to press.”

Due to the poor start, Smith decided to use her bench players earlier than usual, saving the Red’s legs for the all-important second game of the weekend doubleheader.

“The loss did not affect us too much, as we knew the Dartmouth game was pivotal and we knew we needed

100 percent focus,” Smith said.

The Red had to quickly regain its confidence during the short turnaround before the game against Dartmouth.

“The team had a very high intensity during the shootaround on Saturday,” Smith said. “This positive mentality was reflected in our first half performance.”

Cornell’s shooting woes against Harvard did not follow to the Dartmouth game as the Red improved to 47 percent from the field in game two. The Red was far more defensively sound as well, only allowing Dartmouth two second-chance points and 10 points off turnovers on the way to a 57-47 win.

“Laura Bagwell and Samantha Will were our standout players,” Smith said. “Both of them were terrific and had the ability to take on the Dartmouth defense with ease.”

The Red will now take on a formidable foe in the Ivy League tournament in top-seeded Princeton, led by reigning Ivy player of the year Bella Alarie.

“Princeton is a terrific basketball team and this is definitely a tall task to overcome,” Smith said. “They are a tough and scrappy team … we have immense respect for them.”

Cornell will take on Princeton in New Haven on March 16 at 6 p.m.

Aman Gupta can be reached at ag744@cornell.edu.