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Newsline Courthouse Outbreak

Three Tompkins County Courthouse employees test positive for COVID-19

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uring the last week, three people have tested positively for COVID-19 that work in the Tompkins County Courthouse.

The first two were revealed Wednesday of last week, while the third became public on Friday.

“A thoroughly deep clean and disinfect” was conducted on the courthouse as a precautionary measure. Tompkins County Administrator Jason Molino said any decision to close down the courthouse entirely would have to be made by the New York State Office of Court Administration. Almost all county employees, except for a “skeleton staff ” in the District Attorney’s office and the County Clerk’s office, had already been told to work from home.

“A contact investigation is underway and is being conducted by the Tompkins County Health Department nurses to identify close contacts and will advise them as to what steps they need to take,” Friday’s announcement said.

Sources have told the Ithaca Times that the three employees are all court officers. They are employed by the Office of Court Administration, not the county, and are not part of the New York State Police. Sources further said that beyond the three positives, there were at least four tests still pending to be returned.

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COVID-19 Testing

Local firm vying for new COVID-19 testing patent

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n Ithaca molecular testing company believes they have developed a new, quicker way to test patient samples for the coronavirus, the pandemic that’s already killed 3,000 people across the country and infected thousands more.

The company, Rheonix, is awaiting approval of their device by the Food and Drug Administration, which would potentially come in the next few weeks once Rheonix proves its invention’s worth.

According to Brooke Schwartz, the company’s VP of marketing and strategy, the new testing apparatus would mean cutting testing time significantly, from days to just hours, and allowing patients and doctors alike to know much quicker if someone is positive for coronavirus and to initiate treatment and isolation.

Rheonix is one of countless companies around the country that are trying to fill the gaps in testing created by the ravenous spread of the COVID-19 virus.

There have been plenty of

critiques levied at the currently available testing process, which includes a nasal or cheek swab sample being sent away to a separate facility with testing operated by the Center for Disease Control. The results of those tests are sent back to the local health departments or healthcare providers and patients are then informed of their results and instructed of next steps. The process has fluctuated, but seems to take somewhere between five and nine days, on average, from swab to results.

“We are getting ready to submit our data to the FDA for an emergency use authorization, we hope to do that in the next couple of weeks,” Schwartz said. “We hope to get the authorization very quickly and then to get products shipped within the next several weeks.”

The test would not be a doit-yourself test, as some have hoped would be developed soon and as has been discussed as a possible solution to testing availability issues. But because

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it would require very little manual intervention, the test would speed up the process exponentially.

“It is fully automated and doesn’t require sophisticated training but it still needs to be done by a lab technician, it’s not something you would do at home,” Schwartz said. “If you’re referring to collecting the sample at home, that’s an FDA call. All of these methods require a sample that’s collected from a patient, but right now all FDA is approving is samples that are collected by trained personnel at a collection site. To my knowledge, they haven’t approved any methods at home.”

This type of work would not be out of Rheonix’s typical wheelhouse, Schwartz said, though obviously it would be the first time they were trying to detect coronavirus specifically. Testing times and availability shortage has emerged as one of the primary themes of the ongoing pandemic, along with a continued need for more medical supplies like ventilators and personal protective equipment like N-95 masks. Schwartz acknowledged the widespread interest in the molecular testing field to find a testing solution, but noted that there are a variety of lanes different companies can pursue to address the problem.

“It’s a race for everyone to get testing methods on the market, it isn’t a one-size fits all testing market,” Schwartz said.

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baby supplies for those in need around the county due to the recent outbreak. The group is currently fielding inquiries from people in need, and those interested can reach the Child Development Council at info@ childdevelopmentcouncil.

org. The United Way and the Community Foundation both gave substantial money to jumpstart the effort, including $10,254 from UWTC and $10,000 from the Community Foundation.

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WHAT’S YOUR TIP FOR DEFUSING CORONAVIRUS RELATED HOUSEMATE (OR FAMILY) DRAMA?

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Cornell Freeze

Cornell announces staff hiring freeze and salary freeze amid COVID-19 concerns

C “Daily walks are the big sanity saver here.”

-Jennifer L.B.

“Vodka. All of it.”

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“We’ve established a safe word for when someone is sick of talking coronavirusrelated issues. CABBAGE!” -Alyvia C.

ornell University has announced a slew of new financial reforms intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the school.

The most significant implementations are a hiring freeze, which will mean a universitywide stoppage of staff and temporary workers (academic hires will be evaluated through deans). Additionally, in a move sure to affect a vast array of workers, the school announced a salary freeze that applies to nearly all increases due to take effect for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2020, that aren’t collectively bargained through a union.

“There will be no increases to existing salaries through bonuses, promotions, acting rates, changes to time status or additional pays without the approval of the respective dean or vice president and the vice president and chief human resources officer (for staff) or the provost (for faculty),” said

Southwest Dredging

State postpones dredging project indefinitely, Jungle stays untouched

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the letter, written by Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Executive Vice President Joanne

tense few days down at the Jungle, Ithaca’s homeless encampment, ended once again without the start of a long-awaited dredging project as the state canceled the construction citing the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

Mayor Svante Myrick announced the delay on social media last week. Construction was slated to start this week, and would have forced six campsites in the Jungle to move, including about 16 residents.

“Work was set to begin Monday on a dewatering facility in our southwest encampment,” Myrick tweeted. “This is [a] precursor to long overdue 1–7,

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dredging of the flood control channel. New York State has postponed this construction for the immediate future.”

The project has been planned and delayed and postponed for decades. For the last year, once again, it appeared that the dredging project, which is supposed to relieve the problematic flooding issues that often impact that part of Ithaca, was poised to start: In May of last year, residents and advocates were preparing to move campsites, but nothing came to fruition. Then, according to Mayor Svante Myrick, in late fall the City of Ithaca began informing residents once again that they would have to

DeStefano. “Any salary change requests already in process will be reevaluated. Salary increases related to faculty promotions are excluded from this freeze.”

Staff is being given an additional 10 “health and personal days” off to support them.

The school normally employs about 7,500 nonacademic workers and staff members. Cornell has a $7.33 billion endowment. The letter, sent Monday morning, also notes that certain members of the leadership of the school have volunteered to take “salary reductions” for six months.

“Every dollar of these recaptured funds will be used to help meet the financial aid needs of our undergraduate, graduate or professional students,” the letter stated.

“Should additional faculty and staff wish to pursue this voluntary avenue to support student financial aid, please contact Kim Babuka (kb47@cornell. edu) in Human Resources.”

Included in the letter is the statement that through these financial reforms, they hope to continue full current pay for all staff and handle any financial change that students may undergo as a result of the outbreak, presumably preparing for an influx of student loan or financial aid requests.

Beyond the above moves, the school further reiterated its

travel ban (All Cornell-related travel is currently restricted to reduce the spread of COVID-19) and said that when travel is allowed again it will be limited to only essential travel, such as essential academic travel or that sponsored by research money. All summer programs that were scheduled to start before July 12 will either be canceled or transferred to all-online.

Finally, the letter said that all capital projects are being reevaluated for their efficacy and whether or not they should proceed considering the new landscape, and that all discretionary spending would be suspended immediately, including the hiring of outside consultants or any expenditure “not critical to the operation of the university.”

“We fully appreciate that these steps are significant,” the two wrote. “But until we can better understand the full impact of COVID-19 on the economy, financial markets and the university, these steps are essential to our being able to sustain our commitment to our employees and our students and to ensuring that Cornell has the funds necessary to continue to be a worldclass university.”

move in preparation for the state’s project in the spring.

“After a number of delays, construction for the dewatering facility will begin on Monday, March 30,” the city’s announcement said, which also outlined the impacted area of the construction. “All items within the construction site will be considered abandoned as of that date and will be removed. [...] Please ensure that any personal belongings are removed prior to March 30.”

At a meeting last Monday at the Jungle meant to reiterate that certain campsites had to be moved by March 30, some local homeless advocates, like Deb Wilkie of Ithaca Homeless Crisis, became nervous about disbursing the population and making them move during the public health crisis caused by the coronavirus.

“I am not opposed to the project or any part of it, my issue right now is the timing of

it,” Wilkie said.

The level to which the people would have actually been disbursed is unclear.

Myrick said the city would have been able to find enough hotel rooms to house each and every person (if they did want to take advantage of that opportunity, though some prefer to live in the Jungle for any variety of reasons), and that those who wanted to stay in the Jungle, which is cityowned land, would be allowed to and wouldn’t be subject to forced eviction. Carmen Guidi, of Second Wind Villages, said during the week he had agreed to buy a set of temporary shelters to house anyone who would be displaced by the moves. By that time, Guidi had aligned with Wilkie, growing nervous about not only displacing the residents but also about calling for people

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Coronavirus Rundown -

Here are brief summaries this week of stories covering every aspect of the coronavirus. You can read them in their entirety and more at Ithaca.com/news/coronavirus.

Bus service between Ithaca and New York City has been suspended indefinitely - a voluntary decision made by the various intercity bus companies that service the area. The decision was spurred, at least in part, by the fact that New York City has become a hot-spot of sorts for the spread of the coronavirus, although obviously with students home and travel discouraged, demand was likely already low as well.

Cornell student Olivia Chaudhury (left), IC student Sierra Guardiola (Right)

Student R eaction

Cornell, Ithaca College seniors reflect on leaving campus early Ithaca College senior Jamila Drecker-Waxman had been preparing for her senior recital on April 18 since winter break.

A vocal performance major, she had memorized everything a month in advance and felt well-prepared. Classmates and professors would be in attendance, and she was looking forward to celebrating the occasion with them. She was excited, and saw it as a rite of passage after four years.

But all of that came to a halt on March 17 when Ithaca College joined universities across the world in moving classes online for the remainder of the semester and sending students home, all due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. IC’s announcement came three days after Tompkins County reported its first positive case of the virus and a week after Cornell University made the same decision.

Although disappointed, Drecker-Waxman said she understood that her experience wasn’t as significant on a global scale. But nonetheless, ending four years of college so abruptly has been a challenging experience for everyone affected.

The Office of Human Rights joined Mayor Svante Myrick and other prominent local figures in condemning local incidents of harassment against Asian Americans - The targeting apparently began as the COVID-19 virus arrived in America and is potentially fueled by nonsense conspiracy theories that insist the virus is a Chinese operation meant to destabilize America.

Cornell seniors such as Brian Lee and Cheryl Kalapura expressed shock at the suddenness of the news. Kalapura said that it was hard to process and didn’t feel real.

“For a lot of us — we didn’t realize that it was like our last class that we would ever have at Cornell. ... We weren’t able to understand what we had until it was all gone,” she said.

Others at IC, like DreckerWaxman, Sierra Guardiola, and Connor Duffy, saw their college’s decision coming.

Before moving online for the semester, IC initially extended spring break by a week on March 11 and announced that remote instruction would last from March 23 through April 3. But the full online transition still hurt.

“It honestly kind of feels like a cruel joke that it happened over spring break because we all said goodbye with the intention of coming back in a week,” Duffy said.

Prepared or not, it’s an emotional time for a lot of seniors.

Guardiola said that many are feeling overwhelmed. Olivia Chaudhury, a Cornell senior, described feeling sad, but with a “numb acceptance.” Duffy

said many of his friends are feeling distraught.

These emotions stem from the abrupt change and a lack of closure, both academically and socially. Guardiola and her friends had a graduation bucket list that they never finished. Duffy said it felt like the rug was pulled out from underneath his end-of-year plans with friends. Lee, a biology major, was about to publish a research project that he had spent all of his four years working on. Nathan Revor, a Cornell student, was going to present his honors senior thesis at an on-campus conference. All struggled with rushed goodbyes.

After graduation, seniors will often face uncertainty around what their job prospects will look like. Even if he finds a job, Duffy is unsure if he’ll be able to go to work.

Without certain state-mandated tests being held, Cameron Costello, an IC music education major, said he won’t be able to receive his teaching certification; and due to the closure of many public sites, Chaudhury’s doesn’t know if she’ll be able to find work at a museum after graduation.

Plans regarding commencement currently differ between the two schools. While IC said it is targeting an August 1-2 commencement weekend,

Cornell has not announced a location or date, only saying that a physical celebration in Ithaca will occur at some point.

“There are so many things that are up in the air at this point, and it’s that uncertainty that I think is really getting to people and just causing a lot of the sadness,” Costello said.

Despite the disappointment and challenges of ending their college years so abruptly, each senior who spoke with the Ithaca Times understood their school’s decision to move classes online.

“It’s one of those things where there’s really nobody to blame,” Duffy said. “It just kind of happened. It’s kind of like a weird space where I can be upset, but I don’t know where to aim that feeling toward.”

Revor said that although college students, especially seniors, are upset, he’s proud of how people have maintained a global perspective. But Guardiola said the toughest part is still remembering that this is a global issue and to not have a selfish attitude.

“I’ve been trying to think of it as it’s bigger than just a senior in college,” she said.

“Everyone, no matter where they are and what stage of life they’re at, they’re missing some milestone right now because of what’s happening.”

A food service worker at Mango Mango Dessert in Collegetown tested positive for COVID 19- leading the Tompkins County Health Department to advise anyone who had visited the restaurant on March 14 and March 15 to contact the health department so that they could advise about next steps. The health department has become more willing to release information about people who have tested positive, particularly if they have a job that involves public interaction.

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Democracy Matters: Why We Need Voting by Mail in New York State

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could dampen voter turnout, compromising the integrity of our elections. The 1918 influenza outbreak occurred in two waves, one in the spring and one in the fall, and that November, voter turnout in the 1918 midterm elections plummeted. If the coronavirus pandemic lingers or appears in a second wave this fall, voters will not want to show up to polling places. We should not force New Yorkers to choose between protecting

s communities across the nation continue to grapple with coronavirus, there has been significant concern about how the pandemic will impact our elections.

This past weekend, Governor Cuomo postponed the New York State Presidential Primary from April 28 to June 23, the same date as the state and congressional primaries.

This was the right decision. Still, even with the later primary date, there is a serious risk that the coronavirus pandemic

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was long months ago, but we didn’t have t 6 a.m. the sky is less black, more much of a St. Patrick’s Day, and might not gray, outside the bedroom window. have much of an Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Tree branches are in relief. They’re Fourth of July, or Labor Day, either. winter-spindly, sticking straight up on top, A rabbit, or cat in gifted mimicry, halflike hair on scared cartoon characters. hops and streaks across the asphalt.

But trees don’t get scared. They are A sole human figure appears, a young calm by nature: silent and solid. man walking swiftly with a satchel in Their denizen birds stir plenty, though. one hand, uncovered clothes on hangThey’re not uncool, just peppy. Nature’s ers in the other. It has the air of a covert alarm clock, by 6 a.m. they’re starting to activity intended for darkness, to escape chirp and sing. notice. Or maybe, overtly, an argument You’d chirp and sing, too, if you could just ended (badly); or someone had finally fly. Life is pretty charmed when those had enough. are your callings, you eat all day without Soon, a more common scene unfolds, paying (or gaining weight), don’t pay rent, an old man walking a dog: familiar figdon’t answer to anyone, are beloved for ures in the roster of early risers. your good looks (and song), and your More accurately, the man is walking third-biggest worry, of only three, is with the dog: no leash. Maybe, like the windmills. young man, the old man is purposely out When humans awake they start worearly, trying to avoid detection of a dodgy rying almost immediately, in general, but act: a small municipal one (leashlessness) especially lately. this time.

Awake, for good The man and or not, you think dog look to be why not join these about age 70 and unworrieds of 10, respectively, nature outside for which supposedly a while, before the makes them the day fully impinges. same; but try tellYes, no, yes, no. ing that to the dog.

See, human, you’re Unbound by thinking and convention or fretting already. mechanism, the Just get up and go. dog waddles into Switching from the street. The man pajamas to sweats barks at him, to no is hardly even avail. “He’s losing changing.

(Photo: Javiera Argandoña) his marbles,” the Out the front man offers, which door, close it at this stage of life quietly behind you: the neighbors are still for the dog probably just means the front sleeping. They’d prefer to be getting ready ones. for work or school, but that’s not happenThe dog is safe enough for the time ing lately, so let them rest as long as they being because lately, at no time of day, do can. many cars travel the roads.

The creek is a few blocks away. Go visit.

All of a sudden these days there is Like the birds and trees, the creek doesn’t nowhere to go, or there are good reasons know about viruses. not to go anywhere, or bad ones, like a Look and listen. The creek is a fluid missing job. athlete that runs and talks at once. It But there’s still home, and now there’s seems faster and louder so early, espelight, at least in the sky. cially now, with not just few but no cars You can go back to bed, which might running and grinding alongside. be pleasant, or stay up, which might be Ducks descend on the water in silpromising, with some will, strength, and houette. They seem to favor the street-lit luck. places, but then you realize these are the Up but nowhere to go, you consider, only ones you can see. There is plenty of but nowhere to go but up. random quacking.

There’s fresh water from the tap and Above, a robin on a wire sings loudly, coffee in the kitchen. On the wall in the brightly, inches from the street lamp, kitchen is a postcard of Buddha. The gesalone, performing in a star turn spotlight. ture he makes with his hand means “Help For whom hardly matters. Maybe in fact many people.” its audience is vast, cloaked in nearby Eternally, one supposes, but especially trees. Probably so. Meanwhile, anyway, it now, this goes for everyone, including has you. you, both as entreaty and promise.

A house across the creek still has Christmas bulbs lit. Why not: Christmas

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their health and exercising their right to vote.

Voting by mail would solve this problem. It meets voters where they are, allowing them to vote from the comfort of their homes. The evidence from other states that have made this switch, like Washington, Oregon and Colorado, is encouraging. In Washington, for instance, which saw an early surge of infection rates, voter turnout has not been impacted. In fact, Washington’s March Presidential primary set a record for turnout.

New York State should follow this lead.

Last year, the state approved a package of historic election reforms, including early voting. But our state still doesn’t allow what’s known as “no excuse” absentee voting. In order to submit an absentee ballot in New York, you must have a valid reason. These reasons include absence from your county of residence on Election Day, illness or disability.

As part of last year’s electoral reforms, the state did set in motion a constitutional amendment that would allow no excuse absentee voting, but the measure hasn’t become law yet, and the process to make it a law is not a speedy one. Amending the constitution in New York takes a majority vote of both chambers of the legislature in two successive legislative sessions.

The proposed amendment must then be approved by the public in a general statewide vote. Under this process, the soonest the amendment could appear on the ballot is 2021.

With new cases of coronavirus appear-

ing all over the state, and the June primaries less than three months away, we don’t have the luxury of time. The state gives counties the power to expand absentee voting during public health emergencies, something Erie County recently announced it was doing. However, a patchwork response is insufficient. The state must act—and act quickly.

There have been some encouraging signs. Last week, New York State Attorney General Tish James called on Governor Cuomo to sign an executive order that would expand absentee voting for the Presidential primary and authorize the New York State Board of Elections to mail a ballot to every registered voter in the state.

This is the right direction. But making the switch to voting by mail won’t be easy. States that have successfully made this transition have typically done it over the course of years, not months. Still, it is crucial that we take this step now. We live in an increasingly unpredictable world. In the last two decades, we have witnessed two major disruptions that brought life in New York State to a standstill: 9/11, and now, the coronavirus pandemic.

The coming years will likely be difficult ones for New Yorkers. Our elected leaders will be confronted by grave decisions at the federal, state and local level as they grapple with the painful budgetary impacts of this crisis. We must give voters every opportunity to choose those leaders.

Democracy is central to who we are, and it must be protected. Allowing everyone to vote by mail is a proven means of expanding ballot access and safeguarding democracy.

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to help with the move in the middle of a quarantine. It’s a moot point now, though, because of the state’s decision, but Guidi hopes it isn’t re-initiated too soon.

“These people cannot physically move by themselves,” Guidi said, advocating that the project be delayed at least until the stay-at-home order was lifted in New York

State. “Me? I have no problem, I’ll be there day and night moving. But it takes more than one person. At first I said to myself ‘I’ll just get a whole bunch of volunteers and we’ll do it together.’ But talking to other people, they were saying that I’d be putting a lot of people at risk, both volunteers and the people in the Jungle.”

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he Reality surrounding the fivesquare-miles of Ithaca must be disappearing. Isn’t it ironic that those most vociferous in telling Ithaca to “Go-Green” don’t pay taxes there to make it Happen?

Facts Trump opinion. While solar is touted as the White-Knight to save us from fossil fuel. It is actually four-times more polluting than nuclear power, according the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Isn’t that just great—more pollution from less power at higher Prices?

We haven’t seen anything yet if Cuomo’s plan becomes reality—2,996 MW of solar farms upstate. Those farms may require up to 63,000 acres—compared to the Horseshoe Solar project being built in Caledonia and Rush. (Combined surface area of Cayuga, Owasco, Skaneateles, and Otisco lakes equal about 60,000 acres) Up here where the sun doesn’t shine that much, solar doesn’t generate all that much either. 2,996 MW of upstate solar-farms will produce only 3,800,000 Megawatt-hours during the first year.

Another fact: electricity from solar panels decreases by about 1% per year during the first 10 years. By 25 years panels produce only 50% of their original output. At what point do the solar panels get scrapped?

Guess who will pay to dispose of all this hazardous waste? By comparison; 614 MW Ginna nuclear plant produces about 4,700,000 Megawatt-hours of electricity per year, and has been since 1969.

Shouldn’t conserving our Greenbacks be the best way to Go-Green?

Rick Nudd Walworth, NY

The impacts of the Environmental Bond Act

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on March 17. Subsequently, the state announced that the person announced on Friday has been at home in isolation since their samples were taken, though that date is not specified. They were last at the courthouse on March 20, and the courthouse was again undergoing a deep clean and disinfectant process.

The state also said that the Tompkins County Health Department had completed its contact investigation into the first two cases and had contacted anyone who may have been exposed and instructed them on the necessary next steps.

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Tompkins County currently has 70 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 as of Monday afternoon, with over 1,000 tests returned. There have been other confirmed cases at Ithaca College, Cornell University, the Ithaca Tompkins International Airport, Collegetown restaurant Mango Mango Dessert and the DeWitt Middle School community in Ithaca, with surely more to come. Thus far, two people have been hospitalized and none have died so far.

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overnor Cuomo is urging voters in November to approve a $3 billion Environmental Bond Act designed to tackle climate change and environmental issues in New York State. The need for such funding is abundantly clear.

The Adirondacks are heating up twice as fast as the global average, weather events like Super Storm Sandy will continue to become more frequent and severe, and other costly climate impacts and disasters are looming. Of course we must continue to fight with a Bond Act that is clear, transparent, and based on objective scientific research. But a critical question remains: Who pays the bill? The proposed Bond Act, called the Restore Mother Nature A p r il

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Bond Act, is expected to be paid back by everyday New Yorkers. But New Yorkers didn’t create the climate crisis. The fossil fuel industry did. So why should the public front the money? It’s no different than a billionaire neighbor dumping a truckload of garbage at your front door and telling you to pay for the cleanup. In 2020, it’s long overdue for New York politicians to break free of the fossil fuel stranglehold and ensure that the Environmental Bond Act is funded by the industry that knowingly dug the climate crisis hole that Mother Nature is clambering to get out of.

Ethan Gormley NYPIRG Project Coordinator at SUNY Cortland

In response to “March 30 COVID-19 Update: One released from hospital, one remains” “I was tested today and have to give kudos to the TCHD and the medical staff there. Extremely well organized. And Patrick and Tayo were SO good it was almost fun.”

Christian Nielsen-Palacios, via Facebook

In response to “Third Tompkins County Courthouse employee tests positive for COVID-19” “Court staff putting themselves at risk, prayers for speedy recovery.”

Judge Scott Miller, via Facebook

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n response to “March 23 COVID-19 Update: Testing rapidly rising, now 16 positive cases” “As the week has worn on it is easier to get tested by filling out the online form by self reporting. Later in the week, now, many more are sampled. Graph still is exponential. If sample rate is linear (which is not quite true), this means disease is likely spreading through community by unknown carriers. Its hard to separate sampling effects from infection rate with so little data and changing ease of being sampled.”

Kris Merschrod, via Ithaca.com

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s the coronavirus outbreak continues to infiltrate every aspect of daily life, anxiety and stress are becoming the norm for people across the country and locally. That can come from fear over health, finances, social disconnection and a host of other factors that now seem unavoidable.

Luckily, a spate of community-based efforts from organizations large and small have risen from the panic, especially over the last week or so. It started from businesses themselves, touting gift cards people could purchase that would provide short-term financial relief to restaurants or local businesses sure to feel the brunt of the state’s restrictions and the students leaving. But the efforts have evolved since then to envelop a wide swath of struggling populations, from donations to the homeless shelter to community mask-making efforts and many more.

Perhaps the most pressing issue, primarily nationwide but not forgotten in Ithaca, is the need for medical equipment, both ventilators and personal protective equipment, especially masks. Adrienne Huffman organized the Ithaca Mask Makers through a Reddit post before quickly finding dozens of volunteers willing to join the assembly line-style creation process.

Cornell and Cayuga Medical Center have also jumped into the maskmaking initiative, as Cornell has opened up the basketball court in Bartels Hall to be used for weekday hours of mask production, being led by Cayuga Medical Center’s Director of Surgical Services Carol O’Driscoll. Considering the necessary social distancing practices that have been recommended by the government, O’Driscoll sought a larger space, and Cornell volunteered to host them in the large unutilized space in Bartels. Now tables spread across the floor with volunteers working at a safe distance on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“We have learned through our surgical blanket project, that our sewing community is vast, and know there will be a critical need to get masks to front line medical staff, not only in our community but to those surrounding us,” said Martin Stallone, the CEO and President of Cayuga Health.

The school has donated 2,500 N-95 masks separately to the the Tompkins County Emergency Operations Center as well.

Groups organized on the internet have become a hotspot for exchange of infor-

L o av e s & F i s h e s ru n n i n g i t s p i c kmation and resources for citizens, centered on the groups Mutual Aid Tompkins and Mutual Aid Tompkins Immediate Needs, both of which are dedicated to connecting people with others who can help them out if their situations worsen because of COVID-19.

Aiming to support bartenders, restau-

those establishments remain either closed, in the case of bars or hair salons or others, or with severely restricted service and hours, in the case of restaurants.

In Collegetown, a somewhat similar fund has been established by two former Cornell students, Marco Levy and Rob Karp, who both graduated in 2019. When

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rant workers and other hospitality employees who’ve seen their jobs curtailed, Ithaca Tip Jar has become the most prominent city-wide funding call. Workers can enter themselves on a spreadsheet and community members can contribute to a worker at random from the names on the list, or choose a specific person to donate to. To this point, the tip jar has gathered 363 names of local hospitality industry workers, and continues to field donations as

they heard about the schools closing, one of their first reactions was to start calling around to Collegetown restaurants and forming a plan.

“We had a lot of really good memories there,” Karp said. “We felt a pretty strong pull toward getting involved and trying to help some of those businesses stay alive while they’re going to obviously be struggling.”

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tracting restaurants to enroll, said Levy, knowing that they might be wary of getting caught in a scam at such a threadbare time. Regardless, they’re still dedicated to building enough capital to help restaurants that choose to sign up bridge the gap, hopefully.

In terms of grassroots efforts in the housing market, the newly-formed Ithaca Tenants Union has continued its push for a rent freeze, or more accurately a rent suspension, which would provide relief for people struggling or no longer able to pay their rent due to the massive economic downturn and job losses. That push has been able to generate significant interest from both the public and some government officials: Mayor Svante Myrick has called on the state and federal government to order a suspension of rent payments in accompaniment with a suspension of mortgage payments. The latter would theoretically shield landlords with mortgages who would lose rent payments from their own financial pitfall, eliminating a cost that many use to justify the rents they charge.

But Myrick has rebuffed calls from the tenants union and others to impose a rent stoppage at a city level by stating that he and Common Council cannot legally do so, and that the power rests with those in higher government. Regardless, a petition backing the rent suspension has gained nearly 4,500 signatures in just over two weeks on Change.org, arguing that the “necessity and fragility” of housing should provoke government action even at a local level.

“We write to you, those in the highest positions of power, to help our current and future predicament,” the petition reads. “The New York State moratorium on evictions was a good place to start. But with massive job losses already beginning now, how can we be expected to retroactively pay our rent when this crisis is over?

We demand that Ithaca rents be frozen by city legislative action immediately until the COVID-19 crisis passes. That is, until there are tests that show this is no longer a threat posed to all of our communities.”

The Landlords Association of Tompkins County has previously stated that they are hesitant to embrace any temporary housing payment reforms, calling the eviction moratorium a disruption of business, but acknowledged that they are still findin their way as well.

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nounced Tuesday morning, they’ve partnered with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to “collect and distribute much-needed meals for food-insecure families.” Food insecurity is not a new problem in Ithaca, but several food pantries in the area have had to suspend service during this time out of their own fears of becoming a risk for coronavirus spread. The new program aims to address that newly-developing deficit for, according to the school, the 800 households who utilize food pantries in the area.

“It’s more challenging for families to access food right now, especially families who are low income and usually use the emergency food system, such as pantries and meal sites,” said Amanda Palme, programs and partnerships manager for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier in a press release for the initiative. “With schools being closed, children are home, and a lot of families rely on schools to feed their children at least twice a day. And many people have found themselves out of work.”

Cornell will be increasing their order to about eight-times more than normal, to about 16,000 pounds per week, which will

F r e e b r e a d g o o d s ava i l a b l e d a i ly o u t s i d e o f C o l l e g e t ow n B ag e l s , p r ov i d e d b y It h ac a B a k e ry ( P h o t o b y C a s e y M a r t i n) be shipped to the Robert Purcell Community Center. The food will then be repackaged and distributed by Cornell dining staff at the basketball court at GIAC, hopefully to 200 families on Tuesdays and another 200 on Thrusdays. The goal is to provide three-day supply packages to families of four. The food pantry is not accepting one-time donations but can be supported via a fundraiser at www.giving.cornell.

edu/campaigns/cornell-food-pantry/.

Food-based efforts have been popular throughout the community, led by the United Way of Tompkins County’s various efforts. Additionally, Loaves & Fishes announced this week that they’d be expanding their services from their normal Cayuga Street location, providing food for those going hungry in the Jungle, the city’s homeless encampment in its southwest

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By Steve Lawrence

T he m an know n a s “ Tick ” got some point s for c re ativ it y, but it wa s none the l e s s a sa d song.

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ou know that song ‘Behind Blue Eyes,’ by The Who?” Tick asked.

“Well, our motorcycle club has modified it as our theme song.” Putting forth a valiant effort, Tick made an attempt to channel his inner Roger Daltry.

Sounding more like a hound dog howling at the moon, he crooned, “Nobody knows what it’s like to be the back man… to be the sad man… behind our wives.”

Jim Tickerson (hence the name “Tick”) is a member of an outlier motorcycle “club” (not “gang,” mind you) that faces its share of ridicule—if not outright scorn— from other clubs. “In our club,” Tick explained, “the women pilot the bikes and we men sit on the back. Our club’s name is ‘Dudes on the Back of Bikes,’ or D.O.B.B., but we refer to ourselves as ‘The Dobbers.’”

He shook his head and added, “I’ll tell ya man, we catch a lot of crap for our choice to ride on the back.” When asked if his wife earned her nickname “Scary Merri” as a result of her riding habits, Tick said, “No, she can handle the bike, for sure.” With a wink and a grin, he added, “She’s sitting right here… I would say that no matter

what.”

Another club member goes by the name of “Jimmy Ho,” and he settles into the saddle behind his wife, a stout woman known as “Marge in Charge.” Ho said, “Marge kept her own last name, so she is

in charge, for sure. She does big-ass bench presses and leg presses at the gym so she can manage the weight of the bike with me sitting on the back.”

Ray Martini rode many thousands of miles over the years, crashed a few bikes, cars and hang gliders, but when he married a biker chick known as “Nickel Bag” Eastlake, he decided to join the Dobbers and saddle up in the back. “My wife is a lot stronger than I am,” Ray confessed, “and I have a tendency to doze off, so I’m happy to let her pilot the big machine.” Nickel Bag added, “Sometimes I have to grab him by the collar and yank him back up on the bike at 80 miles per hour, but hey, that’s why I do so many 50-pound curls.”

Two of the couples declined to remove their helmets for the group photo

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and I asked why. One guy called himself “Clark the Dark,” the other identified as Billy “Goat” Dumialiddle. When I asked how they got to know one another, Goat, sporting what looked suspiciously like a prison tattoo, said, “Did anyone ever tell you that you ask too many questions?”

Okay, then… I asked their drivers why they chose to remain anonymous in the photo, and one of the women answered, “Well… let’s just say that there are some relationships in which parole officers are not supposed to engage.” Got it...

As the Dobbers saddled up, I found myself envious of them. I have ridden motorcycles for many years, and I have never had the opportunity to relax, to look around, to embrace the experience without the demands of being the one doing the driving. I asked the guys how they made the choice to switch seats, and Ray Martini shrugged and said, “Nickel said something about ‘needing more empowerment,’ I thought she said she ‘needed more power tools,’ so I just said I was on board.”

I love it when our paper publishes on April Fools Day, and now I want to wish all our readers the very best as we navigate these trying times. For 27 years, I have loved the connection I feel with all of you.

My email address is no secret—it is listed in the masthead every week—but should anyone feel the need or the desire to connect, please do so at stevesportsdude@ gmail.com. I have a mountain of jokes, a molehill of wisdom, and I love to stay connected in these isolating times. Love you all.

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TCAT Cuts

TCAT implements further service cuts Election 2020

Cuomo pushes presidential primaries back to June

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ew York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced at a press conference on March 28 that he will be issuing an executive order to move the state’s presidential primary date from April 28 to June 23.

June 23 is also election day for the state’s legislative and congressional seats.

Cuomo said the primary was moved to that date so that citizens will only have to come out to vote once, rather than multiple times.

“On the theory of risk, reward, we’re supposed to have a presidential primary election that’s coming up on April 28th,” Cuomo said. “I don’t think it’s wise to be bringing a lot of people to one location to vote. A lot of people touching one doorknob, a lot of people touching one pen, whatever you call the new device on the ballots, so we are going to delay that and

link it to an election that was previously scheduled on June 23rd. The June 23rd is for state legislative races and Congressional races. We’ll move the presidential election to that date.”

“Ironically, I had advocated that it be on that date all along anyway, so there’s only one election and people only needed to come out once. Everybody wants to vote, everybody wants to do their civic duty, but don’t make me come out and vote 11 times. Put the elections together so I can go to the ballot once and this will actually do that.”

In addition to the deadline change, Cuomo also issued an executive order to move the tax filing deadline for personal and corporate taxes to July 15.

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ompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) has announced that it will be enacting an additional service reduction that will start on March 30.

The public transportation agency said that falling ridership, which is at about 10 percent of what it is normally due at least in part to the ripple effects of the coronavirus, is one of the reasons for the adjustment. This is the second time this month that TCAT has taken similar action, though TCAT did not announce specifics and said details would be released later today.

“While adjusting service to better match rider demand and also to provide some relief for drivers with more flexible scheduling, TCAT planners kept in mind that many people still need to go out for medical appointments, and to pick up groceries and prescriptions,” TCAT’s announcement said. “Probably for the first time in TCAT’s history - other than when severe storms make it dangerous to travel TCAT is asking people to stay home, practice social distancing if you need to go out, and listen to the medical professionals.”

The changes include a reduction in frequency of Route 10 to every 30 minutes, as well as: a reduction in service for Route 13, which will now go from the Commons to Northside and Fall Creek, and the elimination of Routes 11N; 11S: 53; 72, 74; 75; 81, 83W; 83; 90; 92 and 93. The indoor Green Street waiting station is also closed.

Other adjustments can be found online or through TCAT’s app.

However, routes that normally only run on weekdays have been extended to run on weekends as well.

The adjustments will also be able to provide TCAT drivers with more rest and relief.

“The new schedules will be in effect tentatively through end of spring service period May 23, but they are subject to change depending on how the crisis evolves in the coming weeks,” TCAT’s announcement said. “Given the unpredictability, riders are strongly advised to check TCAT’s Bus Tracker and MyStop and other apps before boarding.”

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Dan Berrigan and the “America Is Hard to Find” Rock Mass, 50 years later Through the eyes of a Cornell student at the time

By Marjorie Z. Olds

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y the time Mary Gilliland began her freshman year at Cornell University in 1969, she had devoted much time, energy and interest delving into her spiritual faith. In 1970, although no longer attending Mass, she loved and respected the ethics, the icons of the Catholic religion. She was pleased that Jack Lewis, the director of Cornell United Religious Works at the time, had invited Father Dan

Berrigan to serve as a chaplain and assistant director of the department on campus.

“I spent time with Father Dan talking about how we could each change the world. We would sit in his office near the Anabel Taylor Hall Coffee House, and sip cappuccino, which he introduced to us in the coffee house he created. We could hear folk musicians playing in the War Memorial Room down the hall... continued on page 16

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Getting Tested

The process from fever to negative

By An dre w Sul livan FLCN Spor t E ditor

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he only fever I had felt over the past two weeks, since my staff mates and myself burrowed ourselves into our quarantined chambers, was cabin fever. Two Sundays ago, though, I started running a mild fever. I figured I just caught a chill from the run I took the previous day, but in this climate, I wasn’t ready to scoff at something like this.

When I heard about the new sampling center opening up at the Ithaca Mall I registered to get tested the day the news broke. A little after noon this past Thursday, I drove over to the mall to get tested.

The whole operation looked like a road test with hundreds of orange cones outlining the course. I pulled up to the entrance of the sampling center where I was greeted by a woman, who was decked out in the en-vogue COVID-19 gear – N95 mask, rubber gloves, isolation gown.

“You ready for COVID testing?” she said in a cheerful tone like it was an amusement park.

She then opened the gate to move on to the check-in point. Following the cones, I looped around and parked myself next to another woman in the same outfit. She asked for my driver’s license and my registration ID number, which you receive after filling out the online registration form.

After a few more personal information questions, I was cleared and then guided by a couple of traffic directors to the lane where I would wait in line to get tested.

To pass the time, they suggest you tune into 96.3 FM to listen to a recorded broadcast where Dr. Lloyd Darlow calmly outlines the do’s and don’t’s as well as the overall testing process.

This is Dr. Lloyd Darlow. On behalf of the Cayuga Health System and the Tompkins County Department of Health, welcome to our sampling center … During this process, remain in your vehicle at all times … Please follow the directional signs to help keep flow of traffic, so that we may attend to those that need assistance

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Route 13 between Ithaca and Dryden.

We are open and accepting new patients.

… Please respect the privacy of everyone.

We ask that there be no videotaping or photography of your visit … From all of us at the Cayuga Health System and the Tompkins County Health Department, thank you for visiting our testing center …

When it was my turn, I drove up and parked inside one of the large white tents where I was introduced to two doctors.

One of them explained the testing methods: two 10-second nasal swabs—one in each nostril—and a throat swab.

I was then told to sit back and relax, which is utterly impossible when you know someone is about to probe your nostril with a stick.

It was going to take anywhere from two to seven days for the results from the cultures. In the meantime, I waited in mandatory isolation until I got the call.

Luckily, it took just two days for the doctors to get back to me, and thankfully the results came back negative.

It’s hard to believe I have to say this, but as of this moment, it’s still needed to be said: take this illness seriously. It’s already killed thousands and it’s still ramping upwards Even if you’re feeling the slightest of symptoms, get tested if you can.

That goes for everyone, but especially for younger individuals like myself (I’m 24). You’re not untouchable when it comes to a virus like this. Yes, the chances of you dying from the illness are slim, but, of course, there’s still a chance. A recent

death of a 17-year-old from California was linked to COVID-19.

Almost two weeks ago, I tried talking one of my close friends, who’s in his 20’s, out of traveling down to North Carolina and staying in a cabin with some of his friends from school. He said he wasn’t worried about the virus because it “doesn’t really [affect] people our age.”

I explained to him that even though he’s more than likely going to live and endure a mild case of it, if he were to contract COVID-19, he could still become infected with the virus, show no symptoms, and become a “carrier,” spreading it to those who are at most risk of dying from it (i.e. the eldery and people who have compromised immune systems). Yet, he said he wasn’t worried about that because those who are at high risk “have already been taking precautions for stuff like this.”

People like my one friend need to step back and consider the lives that surround them in a situation like this. Just because the people who are at a high risk of becoming severely ill and/or dying from the virus are already taking the necessary precautions to protect themselves doesn’t mean those who are at a lower risk don’t have to be equally as cautious. Those with a lower risk need to do their part as well in protecting themselves, because if you’re willing to put yourself at risk, then you’re complicit with the possibility of putting more vulnerable individuals at risk.

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Once upon a time, there was magic, and a world populated by wizards, elves and all manner of mythological creatures.

But rather than learn a complicated illumination spell, it was easier to invent the light bulb. This leads to a modern world that still hearkens back to the storybook: suburban little boxes with mushroom roofs, castles turned theme restaurants.

In this droll, inviting milieu, two elven brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot (Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) are given a magic staff left to them by their late father. The boys—Ian the unsure and insecure sort and Barley the blustering screw-up—try to resurrect their dead dad but only succeed in bringing back the lower half of his body.

The guys climb into their ’70s beater van with a Pegasus painted on it in a madcap road trip/quest to track down what they need to finish the spell.

It’s only afterwards, taking in the rosy glow of the end credits that I realized that “Onward” was something of a reunion for two of my favorite cast members from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Tom Holland’s Ian is certainly very close to what he’s done with the character of Peter Parker in the recent “Spider-Man” movies, and Chris Pratt is doing a variation

on the brash, loud-mouthed Peter Quill in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films.

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is a dowdy delight as the kids’ up-and-at-‘em mom, likewise Octavia Spencer and Mel Rodriguez as, respectively, a brassy manticore and a cop centaur, who is also the kids’ mom’s new boyfriend.

Think of your very favorite Pixar movies. I’m thinking of “Coco” and “Wall-E” and “The Incredibles” and “Inside Out” and the first three “Toy Story” movies.

Behold! Forsooth! “Onward” ranks up with the very best films that the studio has produced. ● ● ●

Ben Affleck wasn’t my favorite Batman for sure, but even back in the day when he was making junk like “Pearl Harbor” and “Paycheck,” I knew he was a very talented actor. I’d seen his promise early on in films like “Chasing Amy,” “Dogma” and “Changing Lanes.” He’d co-written his own movie early on and won an Academy Award.

Since his “Gigli” days, he’s turned out to be a talented filmmaker, too, helming “The Town” and the Oscar-winning “Argo.”

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Father Dan’s office door was always open.”

Berrigan, an anti-war advocate, was Gilliland’s guiding light during such a turbulent time in American history, she said, during the “crisis and crossroads” that was the Vietnam War. He was celebrated at a campus-wide festival at Cornell called the “America is Hard to Find” festival, named after a poet he had written by that name.

war.

Having been convicted for his latest anti-war activities in Catonsville, Maryland, by April 17th he was on the lam from the law, refusing to turn himself in to begin a prison sentence. “He recognized

a ‘higher law,’ which moved him to try to halt the War in Vietnam,” she said.

“On April 17, 1970, following an Easter pageant by Bread & Puppet Theater and during a Passover Seder on the stage

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so many times before it opened that I was derisively referring to it amongst friends as “Not Hoosiers.” That is the curse of doing this job as long as I have: Most movies, you feel like you’ve seen them a thousand times. But as Roger Ebert once wrote, it’s not what it’s about but how it’s about it.

“The Way Back” does manage to hit every sports movie and recovery movie cliché, but done in understated ways that respect the audience’s intelligence and never come off as didactic or mawkish.

Affleck taps into an anger that I haven’t really seen since his extended cameo in “Boiler Room,” and the supporting cast is top-notch, starting with the team itself, where we meet the usual school archetypes: the team leader, the screw-up, the lothario. Then there’s Janina Gavankar as his estranged wife; Brad Inglesby’s screenplay is very smart about where in the story we discover the reason that Jack began drinking. Al Madrigal as the team’s

assistant coach and John Aylward (“Down with Love”) as the Father who recruits Jack are also low-key and effective.

It’s common knowledge that Affleck has some experience with addiction, and it’s the little fetishistic details—the way he puts the next beer in the freezer, the way he ritualistically raps his fingers on the can that he’s opening—that make the character cast a real shadow. And “The Way Back” has enough respect for all of its characters that the story’s not over after the last winning game of the season. ● ● ●

I suspect that Sam Mendes got the idea of shooting a feature film in one unbroken shot when he directed a similar sequence as the opening of the James Bond film “Spectre” set in Mexico during “Day of the Dead” festivities. What turned out as a spectacular opening sequence still won’t prepare you for Mendes’ latest, the Oscarwinning 1917 (Universal, 2019, 119 min.), now available on iTunes and home video.

Father Berrigan speaks before the huddled masses. (Photo provided)

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On April 17th Alan Sorvall and John Hostetter (now deceased), friends of Mary’s, played the Mass. They composed the music to lyrics by Dan Berrigan.

Before the festival Alan and John recorded and released their rock mass to raise money to pay the speakers and performers. At the end of their LP Father Dan is heard reading poetry he wrote about his Catonsville action and the ensuing trial.

“The rock mass expressed the belief personified by Dan Berrigan, that each of our lives could make a difference,” Gilliland said. “That the folk mass, the arts could move people, to facilitate change as we worked for peace and justice [...] The ‘60s in America spawned a unique generation who felt a spiritual idealism, and for many of us Dan Berrigan was our hero.”

By 1970, the U.S. had bombed Cambodia. The horror at Kent State was exposed over national television. For Mary and many of her friends and young people all over the country, that idealism fueled practical reactions. “We went out in droves in 1970, throughout Tompkins County and the surrounding areas to register people to vote, to increase citizen participation in our government.”

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“Alan and I visited Dan February 26, 2015, the year before his death to let him know this project was in the works,” Mary delineates on her website others who assisted her in creating this. “We put the website up on November 11, 2016 on Armistice Day [...]

Armistice Day celebrated and honors the making of peace after WWI.” See https://americaishardertofind.wordpress. com/ for photos, music, essays by Father Dan Berrigan and remembrances of Dan Berrigan and the April 17, 1970 America is Hard to Find Festival he inspired. April 17, 2020 will be the 50th anniversary of the America is Hard to Find Festival at Cornell University. Mary invites everyone to celebrate and send a response or rememberance to the website if they have one.

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