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Fast and FuriousIn light of the Boston Marathonbombings, Rudy Gerson ’15considers other tragedies thatgarner less attention.

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Opinion

Weather

Batter UpThe softball team lost twogames to Albany, but has thechance to turn things aroundthis weekend.

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Sports

Not the NotebookMark Distefano ’16 praises ThePlace Beyond the Pines for its“unflinching, raw” examinationof the father-son relationship.

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Arts

Sigma Pi Brothers SayThey Tried StoppingMan in Racial Attack

In the aftermath of a racial attack at the Sigma Pi fraternity inMay, Sig Pi brothers told law enforcement officials they tried to stopthe individual responsible from throwing beer cans at the group ofblack students passing by the house.

On May 6, an individual individual on the roof of the Sigma Pifraternity reportedly threw beer cans and yelled racial epithets at a

group of black students passing byunderneath. Morgan Brabbs, a res-ident of Orlando, Fla., who wasnot affiliated with Cornell, pledguilty to disorderly conduct andwas fined $250 in June.

The incident sparked outragefrom minority leaders and prompt-ed several groups to demonstrateagainst racial bias in front of DayHall. However, documents revealedthree main differences between theSigma Pi brothers and Brabbs’

account and the victims’ accounts.While the victims said they did not hear any brother objecting to

Brabbs’ comments, Sigma Pi brothers who gave voluntary state-ments claimed they either tried to discourage Brabbs or pull himaway from the balcony at the time of the alleged attack.

After the “Trayvon” comment was made — referencing TrayvonMartin, the black teenager who was shot and killed in centralFlorida in February 2012 — a Sigma Pi brother “forcibly moved”Brabbs from the upper deck, according to a voluntary statement.

Three anti-fracking activists — including aCornell employee — who protested against a com-pany’s plans to build gas storage facilities in theFinger Lakes last month received a 15-day jail sen-tence Wednesday.

Melissa Chipman, Michael Dineen, a researchsupport specialist at Cornell, and Sandra Stein graberwere part of a group called the Seneca Lake 12, whichprotested the plans of Inergy, a propane supplier, tocreate natural gas storage facilities in undergroundsalt caverns under and around Seneca Lake.

The protesters blockaded Inergy’s gas compres-sor station site at the southwest end of Seneca Lakeon March 18, keeping the company’s trucks out foran hour before being arrested for refusing to dis-

band, according to Reed Steberger ’13.Seneca Lake 12 includes three others affiliated

with Cornell: Dennis Fox ’15, president of KyotoNOW!, K.C. Alvey ’12 and Mahats Miller ’13,according to Steberger.

Fox and Alvey, who were fined $375 for tres-passing along with the rest of the Seneca Lake 12,paid off the fines on March 20 using funds raisedby the people of Reading and Watkins Glen, twotowns near Seneca Lake, according to Fox.

Steberger said the Seneca Lake 12 protestedInergy’s plans to build the storage facilities becausethe abandoned salt caverns the company was eye-ing have a high likelihood of exploding and dam-aging the community around them if used.

Steberger also said he sees the creation of

By KRITIKA OBEROISun Staff Writer

City Sees Uptick inTowing FollowingStreet Cleaning

Citing a lack of advance notice and insuffi-cient signage, Cornell students whose cars weretowed this week expressed anger and frustrationwith the city and its street cleaning policies.

City officials said the uptick in cars beingtowed was a result of a delay in spring streetcleaning, which typically occurs during SpringBreak, when students are away from campus.

The Department of Public Works posts theschedules of the street cleanings online, sendsout notifications to Cornell and Ithaca Collegeand uses local radio stations and newspapers tonotify Ithaca residents before the cleaning tonotify residents, according to City Clerk JulieHolcomb.

“We do as much as we can to get the infor-mation out to people,” Holcomb said. “In addi-tion, we post signage on the impacted streets 24hours in advance of the work as required by theCity Code if vehicles are going to be towed.”

However, students whose cars were towed —leaving them with a $135 towing fee, as well asa $30 ticket — say they did not experience

People’s School Takes Arts Quad

The People’s School, an open, student-organized forum, returned to the ArtsQuad Thursday as a spring installment ofthe same-titled event held in October.

The People’s School invited people tostart discussions about community con-cerns, according to event organizers, andheld events over the course of the day,including discussions in the form of circlesof people sitting on the Quad.

Topics discussed during the course ofthe day-long forum ranged from ideas likecollective liberation to current issues suchas divestment, white privilege and policebrutality.

At noon, “the stump,” a woodenpedestal meant to commemorate the1960’s “stump” that was a center of stu-dent activism, was also brought out of win-ter storage for the event.

A poetry slam took place atop the

By JINJOO LEESun News Editor

See BIAS INCIDENT page 5

Victims described hearing additionalracial commentsincluding “GaryColeman”and “Tyrone.”

The stump | The People’s School meets on the Arts Quad Thursday. Tom Moore ’14, a for-mer Sun columnist, stands atop the stump.

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Chocolate RainStudents staged a mock oil spillon Ho Plaza Thursday to markthe third anniversary of the BPDeepwater Horizon oil spill.

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News

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By NOAH RANKINSun Staff Writer

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C.U. Employee JailedAfter Environmental Protest

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Line up |Protesters block the entry to anatural gas facility in Reading, N.Y. on March 18.

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Quotes of the Week

News, “Cornell Runners Recall Terror, Shock After Boston Marathon Blasts,” TuesdaySpeaking about the Boston Marathon explosions"Naturally, I thought [the explosion] was a garbage truck emptying a dumpster or something like that, butthen people looked frightened and everyone started quickly hurrying away from the direction of the finish[line]. You heard people saying 'bomb' and didn't know whether to believe it or think they were rumors.”

Lesley Kay Middleton, a Boston Marathon runner

Opinion, “Divestment: A Complicated Issue for Universities,” MondaySpeaking about the University’s ability to divest from fossil fuels“A substantial portion of Cornell’s current energy investments are held in private partnerships that requireassets to be locked up for a dozen or more years. Divestment would mean selling these assets at a dis-count, resulting in a loss for Cornell.”

President David Skorton

News, “Eight C.U. Frats Punished for Hazing, Alcohol Violations in 2012-13,” MondaySpeaking about his perception of a rigid interpretation of hazing“Many aspects of our pledging process, such as memorizing our value statements or requiring someamount of community service would be considered hazing,” he said in an email. “As I recall, these are thesame things I had to do for National Honors Society in high school, and our group was never disbanded.”

Renato Amez ’14, president of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity

News, “Plan Pushing Diversity in Organizations to Face Student Assembly,” ThursdaySpeaking about the implementation of initiatives to encourage diversity in student organizations“It would affect a very small number of student organizations next year,” Gitlin said. “The key thing is we’resaying this is a value — appreciating diversity and being an organization that includes all communities oncampus is a value of the diverse student body.”

Adam Gitlin ’13, Student Assembly president

Barnyard Fun Day / Student Livestock Show9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Livestock Pavilion

Baker Symposium: Catalysis and Synthesis at the Frontier

9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., Physical Sciences Building

Thai Festival 20136:30 - 8:30 p.m., Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

You Are Not Your Resume: Christian and Atheist Economists

Discuss Life, Success and Happiness8 p.m., Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall

Tomorrow

The scent of chocolate syrup wafted through Ho PlazaThursday as student activists staged a mock oil spill to mark thethree-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, thelargest accidental marine oil spill in U.S. history.

The students dressed in yellow cleanup suits while spongingoff stuffed animal fishes covered in the syrup meant to imitate oil.

“The display is hard to miss,” said Brendan O’Brian ’15, aparticipant of the demonstration and a member of theSustainability Hub, a student organization advocating campussustainability.

The event included students and professors delivering speech-es about the negative effects of offshore drilling.

Prof. Bruce Monger, atmospheric and earth sciences, spokeabout the importance of “[raising] your voice in order to makethings better and change things,” something he said he empha-sizes in his class, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 1540:Introductory Oceanography.

“This isn’t somebody else’s stuff. This is your stuff. These areyour whales and your fish as they are anybody else’s,” Mongersaid.

The demonstration was sponsored by Oceana, an interna-tional ocean conservation group. Throughout the event, studentscollected signatures for a petition the organization is circulatingagainst seismic testing, the practice of searching for gas reservesand predicting earthquakes by blasting sound pulses in the ocean.

Critics of seismic testing contend that the practice damagesmarine wildlife by blasting loud sounds and vibrations in thewater.

According to Alyssa Phelan ’14, Oceana’s petition will be sentto President Barack Obama to ask him to ban seismic testing.

“[Such testing] would kill 130,000 whales and dolphins andcreate the possibility of another oil spill,” Phelan said.

Alex Ilich ’15, one of the students participating in the demon-stration, emphasized the need to provide a sustainable energyalternative to fossil fuels.

“It’s one thing to say ‘no drilling,’ but that doesn’t help if wedon’t have an alternative,” Ilich said.

Ilich added that wind energy is a cost-effective way to providepower that could create three times as many new jobs as the oil

industry.Prof. Chuck Greene, earth and atmospheric sciences, came to

the event in support of his colleague, Monger.Greene said there are many alternatives to oil that can “power

our society,” but said it is important to find sources that wouldmeet society’s demands for power even “when the wind’s notblowing and the sun’s not shining.”

Dr. Luvelle Brown, the Ithaca City School DistrictSuperintendent, joined members of the Cornell communityThursday to discuss ways in which the district is hoping touse social media and technology to communicate to teach-ers, students and other schools.

Brown focused the discussion on increasing the schooldistrict’s online presence through the use of social media,which he said can be a “tool to engage, empower and edu-cate young people.

“The district has a YouTube, Facebook [and] Twitter[presence] and is going to be launching an improved websitethis summer,” he added.

Brown also emphasized the importance of connecting theschool district with Cornell as it seeks to increase the effi-ciency of its communications.

“Everything we do has a connection to Cornell in someway. We have someone from Cornell come and help us withall our initiatives. It is very important for the ICSD and theUniversity to work together,” he said.

Some of the biggest areas of opportunities and challengesfor the ICSD, according to Brown, include managing its use

of social media and its television presence.“As a school district, we have a window of time right now

to do some pretty powerful things that can then be used asa model for folks all over the country,” he added.

For instance, the district has started broadcasting itsboard meetings under Time-Warner Ithaca,” said SethPeacock, first vice president of the ICSD Board oEducation.

“Brown’s commitment to communication has moved usforward,” Peacock said.

Members of the audience were given the opportunity toask questions and give advice to Brown at the event, whichwas hosted by communicators@cornell , a network ofCornell staff working in the field of communications .

Ellen Hartman, a technical writer at the University, askedBrown about what methods of communciation the ICSDcurrently uses.

“It might be interesting to develop a communicationsrepresentative from the school to get feedback,” she said.“Where are teachers getting their training to do more inclu-sive communication with the students?”

Responding to Hartman, Brown said the school districtis working to promote effective communication betweenteachers and students through training sessions.

“This past January, we had a day-long session for every-one on inclusive practices and [hosted] multiple workshops.We have followed up with instructional coaching aroundthis issue,” Brown said.

Cal Walker, outreach liaison to the ICSD for Cornell,said it is important for the school district and the Universityto maintain close communication as the district moves for-ward with its initiatives.

“We’re always looking to help connect resources at theUniversity with the school district to collaborate in areas ofmutual interest,” he said.

Brown said he thought that the collaborative discussionwas successful.

“It was a wonderful opportunity to listen and learn,”Brown said. “The conversation is a perfect example of thecollaboration that the school district is trying to foster withthe University.”

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Ithaca City School District SuperintendentStresses Importance of Social Media,Technology

School is in session | The superintendent of the Ithaca City School District speaks about education and the importance ofcommunication among teachers and students at Cornell Thursday.

ZAC PETERSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRASun Contributor

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at am2359@cornell.edu.

Mock Oil Spill Raises Awareness of Drilling

Like oil and water | To raise awareness of the danger of offshoredrilling, Emma Johnson ’16 cleans up a mock oil spill Thursday.

DIANA MAK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By EMMA QUIGLEYSun Contributor

Emma Quigley can be reached at eq26@cornell.edu.

With just two weeks of classes left, what is onyour mind as the end of the semester approach-es?

“How many CTB runs can I make in oneday before it becomes a diagnosable prob-lem?”

–– Tuna Melt Obsessor ’15

“How much reading I can put off beforefinals. Oh, also, whether or not I should startgoing to class ...”

— Slacker ’14

“How soon I can trade the TCAT for theurine-drenched, dark hole otherwise knownas the subway. Hey, at least it’s reliable!”

— City Slicker ’15

“Are the massive black bags under my eyestemporary? Or will I forever look like a pale,out of shape raccoon?”

— Concerned ’16

“Now that the semester is ending, maybeit’s time I finally drag myself to the gym. Thatmembership must be collecting cobwebsright about now.”

— Love Handles ’15

–– Compiled by Lianne Bornfeld ’15

the storage facilities as a move to facilitate frackingahead of Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) releasing adecision on whether or not the state will remove a banon fracking.

“While Governor [Andrew] Cuomo debates allow-ing horizontal drilling in New York State, the frackingindustry has been slipping in the back door by build-ing infrastructure and trying to lock in our depen-dence on fossil fuels,” Steberger said.

Fox echoed Steberger’s sentiments.“While New York State citizens are mobilizing to

oppose hydro-fracking in the state, these same compa-nies are entering into the communities with little to noregard for the people of these communities," Fox said.

Although the Seneca Lake 12 among othersexpressed environmental concerns with fracking, oth-ers in New York State believe the practice is a valuableway to revitalize a struggling upstate economy.

Fox said he believed the cause was worth riskingarrest, citing community support.

“What really sold the involvement for me, was thesupport from the community that we were organizingwith. ... They were overwhelmingly positive in theirsupport for the people blockading the facility,” he said.

According to a website maintained by GreenUmbrella — an environmental group affiliated withthe protest — five of the Seneca Lake 12 have alreadypaid their fines in court, with many of them usingmoney donated by inhabitants of towns nearby to paythe fines. The final three protesters will appear in theReading Town Court on May 1, according to the web-site.

Both Steberger and Fox characterized the fightagainst Inergy’s creation of the storage facility as a fightfor the future of the environment.

“As students and young people, we recognize thatthe fight communities are facing on the frontlines isthe same fight to protect our future,” Steberger said.

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Activist Says ‘Now Is the Time to Fight’PROTEST

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Kritika Oberoi can be reached at koberoi@cornellsun.com.

Students: Warning Period Was Too Shorta fair warning before thisspring’s street cleaning. RowanBateman ’14 said he has had hiscar towed twice during thecleaning.

“They put up the signs at 8p.m. and they expect the car tobe gone by 8 a.m., which seemsridiculous to me,” Bateman said.“Even if you were a 9 [a.m.] to 5[p.m.] working person and gothome at 6 p.m. and parked, thenthe car is gone when you areabout to go to car at 8:30 to goto work.”

Adam Berggren, manager atCharlie’s Towing and Repairing— a service used by theDepartment of Public Works fortowing — said that Charlie’s hasseen an increase in the numberof cars towed in the Collegetownbecause of street cleaning thisyear.

Berggren said Charlie’s hastowed around 40 to 50 cars perday from the area during the

cleaning this week.Holcomb confirmed that

there has been an increase in carstowed this year, and attributedthe increase to street cleaningthat usually occurs duringSpring Break being delayed.

“Originally, the Collegetownarea was scheduled for streetcleaning when the students wereon Spring Break as there is alower volume of vehicles parkedon the streets,” she said.“However, this year, it snowedon those dates, which postponedthe cleaning of those streets tothis week, when there was ahigher volume of cars on thestreet.”

Holcomb said thatDeparment of Public Works isunsure as to why the signage wasineffective this year.

“We don’t want to tow cars astowing cars slows down opera-tions, it is hugely inconvenientand there is huge cost for ownersassociated with it,” she said. “Atthis time, we are not sure whythe signage seemed to be ineffec-

tive and so many cars weretowed.”

Tyler Helmann ’13 said thatstudents use their cars less fre-quently than other residents andthus need a longer period ofnotice.

“If anything, there is an issuewith not getting enough noticeas students park for a longerterm than other people might,”he said. “It was probably the lackof me noticing that there weresigns. You also don’t see signsafter your car is towed.”

Ethan Keller ’15 also saidthat the warning period to avoidtowing is too short.

“Even if they did give uswarning, that does not seem par-ticularly ample, especially if youare on vacation somewhere fortwo days or something,” he said.“It seems like a week long warn-ing would be more fair, especial-ly because of the towing.”

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Manu Rathore can be reached atmrathore@cornellsun.com.

stump, which was thenmoved to Ho Plaza,where it will remainuntil further notice, pos-sibly through the sum-mer, according toMarshall.

“The People’s Schoolis a group of students,faculty and staff seekingto engage in genuinelearning,” said ChristianTurner ’13, who led dis-cussions during theforum on the topic ofcommunity.

Daniel Marshall ’15,a People’s School orga-nizer and member of theBarton HallCommunity, a group ofstudents that aim to“build communitythrough discussion andaction.”

“The hope is thatsome people want to dosomething with [thePeople’s School],”Marshall said. “It’s sort

of an assumption, too. Ifyou get people in a pub-lic space together to talkabout their experiencesin any way that theywant to, you’ll get somesort of collective efferves-cence, and you’ll getsome sort of organiza-tion out of that.”

Even though therehave only been twoPeople’s Schools this aca-demic year, Marshallsaid he thinks that thiskind of discussion maybe more prevalent in thefuture, especially sincetopics like sexual assault,focused on in October’sforum, are still relevantto students.

“The issues thatbrought us here beforehave not been reallydealt with,” Marshallsaid. “I think one of theinsights of the lastPeople’s School is thatthese are issues of com-munity and issues of cul-ture. When you thinkabout ‘how do you build

culture,’ ‘how do youbuild community,’ it’swith conversations andpeople meeting eachother in public spacesand talking about it. It’sthe beginnings of a slowprocess that might turninto people expecting tosee things like this oncampus, and then won-dering why it doesn’texist.”

Other organizers ofthe event also praised themission of the People’sSchool.

“I think the People’sSchool is about buildinga legacy of public dis-course at Cornell, inIthaca and our commu-nities back home,”Michael Ferrer ’16 said.

Aubree Keurajin ’15said that the People’sSchool forum offers anexperience not availablein everyday student life.

“I think it’s reallyimportant that there’s aspace that people areable to come to and have

the conversations thatneed to happen, andthere isn’t a space for thatin other places,” saidKeurajin, who led a dis-cussion about divest-ment.

Ihsan Kabir ’13 saidthat the forum wasincredibly easy to partic-ipate in and learn from,even if one didn’t neces-sarily have a lot of back-ground understandingof the topic.

“I think a big part ofenvironmental justiceand social justice is edu-cation,” Kabir said. “Ithink [the People’sSchool] is a fantasticmeans to do that. Forsomeone who had only aone or two article back-ground in learning aboutcollective liberation, Ithought they were veryreceptive [to me].”

School Builds ‘Legacy of Public Discourse’PEOPLE’S SCHOOL

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Noah Rankin can bereached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Another brother said he repeatedly told Brabbs to “Stop fuckingthrowing shit.”

The victims, however, said they did not hear anyone on therooftop telling others to stop throwing objects or to stop makingverbal comments. According to one victim’s account, they “justheard laughter.”

Additionally, though all of the victims said someone threw aglass bottle in their direction, Brabbs and all the Sig Pi brotherswho gave voluntary statements to police denied the allegation orsaid they did not remember a glass bottle being involved.

Another point of difference related to the racial comments thatwere allegedly yelled from the fraternity’s rooftop.

Although everyone who gave a voluntary statement said theyheard a comment referencing Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-oldAfrican American who was shot and killed in February 2012, thevictims described hearing additional racial comments. The vic-tims said they heard references to “Gary Coleman” — anAfrican-American actor — and “Tyrone,” while Sigma Pi broth-ers and Brabbs denied hearing anyone say anything racial but“Trayvon.”

Court documents also explain additional details about thenight. At the time of the incident, Brabbs, was visiting Ithaca witha friend whose name was redacted in court documents. The twomen spent the day drinking at Sig Pi before heading to bars inCollegetown, according to court documents.

Brabbs returned to the fraternity with an unknown female atabout 1:45 a.m. After the unknown female left, Brabbs joined sev-eral brothers on Sigma Pi’s rooftop. According to Brabbs’ friend’sstatement, Brabbs was upset when the unknown female left.

When he went to the rooftop, Brabbs said he decided to throwan open can of beer at a tree like “he and other members of the fra-ternity had been doing all day.”

Brabbs saw a group of people on the sidewalk when he said inthe documents that he tossed a beer can near them, and a blackmale who walked to the front door of the fraternity verbally con-fronted him.

The black male, whose name was also redacted in the court doc-uments, said to police that Brabbs threw not a beer can, but a glassbottle, in his direction. The male and his friends, who were walk-ing back home from a party, saw the bottle land in the grass “withthe neck of the bottle dug in,” according to another victim’saccount.

Brabbs, however, said in the documents that he does notremember throwing a glass bottle toward the group. None of thebrothers said Brabbs threw the bottle, although they said Brabbsdid throw two beer cans near the group.

When the victims heard the bottle landing on the ground, themale said he immediately looked up at the fraternity house andsaid, “Are you serious? What is your problem?”

Documents DetailCon!icting AccountsOf Alleged Attack

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Jinjoo Lee can be reachedat jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

In the race for undergraduate student trustee, the choice could not be moreclear. ______ is by far the most ______ candidate for this position, and his/her______ sets him/her well above the other candidates. If elected trustee, we willbe excited to see ______ follow through on the goals outlined in his/her plat-form. For instance, he/she has promised to increase ______ for ______; pre-vent further administrative ______; and save the ______ from University con-trol. Although we do not presume to know whether the other candidates are_____ morons who got into Cornell as a result of connections or just puredumb luck, we feel safe taking an educated guess that this is true.

The experience ______ has gained from serving as President/VicePresident/Representative of ______ on the ______Assembly/Council/Board/Committee will help him/her fulfill the role of atrustee. Although the student trustee is only one of 64 members of the Boardof Trustees — and probably holds less than ___ percent of its influence in prac-tice — the position is still extremely/very/super/the most important. The stu-dent trustee is all that stands between ______ and the ______ apocalypse. Forthose of you who have spent more time this week ______-ing about this racethan ______-ing, it will be well worth it when ______ is elected next week.

We believe it is not hyperbolic to assert that ______ is the only solution toall of the University’s most pressing problems. Rising cost of tuition? ______ isON IT. Sexual assaults and bias incidents? A vote for ______ is a vote for safe-ty. Looking for someone to preserve fratstar life at Cornell? Go with ______.(Or, he/she has vowed to advocate demolition of the Greek system if that’s whatyou’re into.) If you give a crap about our good green earth, you better believeyour only option for student trustee is ______. If you don’t support him/her,we believe you must be racist/sexist/homophobic/ugly, as well as a supporter ofthe destruction of this University. We urge you to vote accordingly.

OPINION

When one thinks of CornellUniversity, what is his or her firstthought? Its Ivy League recogni-

tion, top-notch faculty and research certain-ly come to mind as they are all factors thathelp distinguish Cornell from other institu-tions all over the world. In fact, the UnitedStates is home to many of the world’s lead-ing academic institutions, and the value of ameaningful education has always played asignificant role in shaping the views andbeliefs of the American people. However, inrecent memory, this “American value” hasencountered sharp criticism. Despite sever-al decades of reform, public education inthe U.S. is now often associated withinequality of opportunity, achievement-based outcomes and low graduation rates.With this in mind, universities like Cornellcan be seen as a sort of safe haven from allthat has plagued the American educationsystem: They provide an intellectually stim-ulating environment for their students andtry to ensure that each student grows into athoughtful, motivated and engaged citizen.However, in light of recent events, this maynot be the case anymore.

Unfortunately, this perception of theUniversity as a place where knowledge iscreated, sustained and renewed for the bet-terment of its students has recently beencalled into question. According toBloomberg News, Republican governors inquite a few states are pushing to link “fund-ing for universities to graduates’ successfinding jobs, saying schools need to providestudents with the skills employers demand.”In particular, governors Rick Scott ofFlorida and Scott Walker of Wisconsinattacked degrees like anthropology and gen-der studies, claiming that they don’t pro-duce opportunities for post-graduationemployment. According to North CarolinaGovernor Pat McCrory, states should sup-port universities based “not on butts inseats, but on how many of those butts canget jobs.” Ultimately, these governorsbelieve that because these humanitiesdegrees lead to “unemployable graduates,”funding for these programs should be cutand reallocated toward degrees with more“economic value.”

A couple of things are lacking in thisargument. What exactly does the “econom-ic value” of a major or degree even mean?And what kind of skills are employersdemanding? These governors might have aspecific idea of what is “economical” or

“skillful,” but these concepts constantlychange and reinvent themselves as time goeson and the job market adapts. For example,60 years ago, computer skills were not inhigh demand — modern computers andother technological devices that are com-monly used today didn’t even exist yet.Nonetheless, there were still students thatmajored in computer science. Of course,with the rapid modernization that occurredduring the last century, these skills havenever been more desired by employers.Thus, the idea that certain majors providestudents with the “skills” and “economicvalue” that they need in order to be employ-able upon graduation is a constructed andnormative concept; as the world around uschanges, the skills that are needed change aswell, ultimately changing the value of whatwe study in college.

Furthermore, when these governorsargue that degrees like anthropology andgender studies do not provide students withthe skills they need to be successful post-graduation, they’re not only diminishingthe reputation and quality of the U.S.’sleading academic institutions but also call-ing into question the very values and tradi-tions that this country was founded upon.Our world thrives and sustains itself onprogress. Whether that involves biological,technological or intellectual progress, theone tool that is necessary for any advance-ment in society is education. Regardless ofwhat is being studied, providing peoplewith an environment that fosters intellectu-al growth and mental stimulation is crucial,as it produces world citizens who are awareof their surroundings and are ready andwilling to make an active contribution tosociety. If the leaders of our country decidethat certain areas of study are not importantenough or worthy of our time and money,then a proverbial slope will surely be creat-ed, until all subjects are deemed worthy orunworthy.

As our governors fight over how valuablea degree in anthropology is, remember notto take for granted the education that we allreceive at Cornell. Cherish the fact that wehave the choice to study whatever ourhearts desire and hope that that right isn’ttaken away from us anytime soon.

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Iwas out of state during winterbreak when I learned from ahousemate that our apartment

had been burglarized. Our frontdoor had been pried open withwhat we assumed must have been acrow bar; the TV from my roomstood on the floor by the frontdoor, as if someone had left in ahurry; and items had been removedfrom our bedrooms and arranged inpiles in the living room, in a man-ner reminiscent of the ways chil-dren arrange their candy after anight of trick-or-treating so they cantrade it with theirfriends.

Once the initialshock of the bur-glary subsided, Ibecame angry.However, my angerwas not directed atthe burglars as muchas it was directedtoward my landlord (I will not men-tion my landlord by name here, buthere is a clue: the same landlordswho take care of the property wherethe porch collapsed under Cornellstudents last fall), who, I believe,failed to take minimal precautionsto prevent the theft from occurringin the first place.

In October, my housemates andI informed our landlord that ourmail and packages were beingstolen. One housemate lost a pairof running shoes, another lostbirthday cards containing cash andchecks and I lost a hilarious beerhat. When one of my housematesinformed our landlord about thethefts, my landlord merely askedhim whether he had filed a policereport. Only when our mail contin-ued to go missing did our landlordsend out an email (at my request)to the tenants in the building stat-ing that mail and packages hadbeen going missing, that the policehad been alerted and that packagescould now be sent to their office.

However, because my landlorddid not install a lock on the frontdoor of our building, which leadsdirectly to the mailboxes, or on themailboxes themselves, our mail con-

tinued to go missing. One wouldassume that installing a lock on afront door and several mailboxeswould not be too much to ask of alandlord, considering the fact thatlandlords have a legal obligation totake minimal precautions to ensurethat their tenants have a safe place tolive. Yet, although my landlord knewthat someone had been habituallycoming onto the property and steal-ing his or her tenants’ mail, he or shefailed to do either of these thingsbefore the break-in at my apartment.

Soon after the break in, Iexchanged emails with my formerproperty professor, who advised meto look up the New York Tenants’Rights Guide.

Prior to discovering the guide, Ithought that I was powerless tohold my landlord accountable forfailing to take minimal steps tosecure my building. The guide,however, changed everything — Itnot only helped me identify myrights under New York State law,but also gave me the confidence todemand them.

The best part about the guide isthat you don’t need to be a law stu-dent or a lawyer to understand it.So, without further adieu, here ishow YOU, the lowly tenant, cantake steps to learn about and pro-tect your rights:

1. Download the PDF version ofthe guide from the website, lookthrough it to identify any provi-sions your landlord has breachedand highlight those in the PDF.

2. After you’ve identified andhighlighted the relevant provisionsin the guide, draft a respectful yetfirm email to your landlord regard-ing the provisions you identified inthe guide and copy and paste the

relevant portions of the guidedirectly into the body of the email.

3. Attach the PDF version of theguide, with the relevant sectionshighlighted, to the email and send.

4. That’s it! Now sit back andwait for your landlord to respond.

6. If your landlord neverresponds to you or refuses toaddress the issues addressed inyour email, think about contactingyour attorney or reporting yourlandlord to one of the agencies list-ed in the back of the guide (thank-

fully, I never had todo this).

Less than a weekafter I followed thesteps listed above, mylandlord respondedto my requests andinstalled: a lockedmail box for ourapartment; a lock onthe front door of thebuilding; a lock on

our laundry room door; and apeephole for our apartment door(conveniently installed right at myeye level, approximately five feetabove the ground).

Obviously, it is always preferableto completely avoid dealing with anunresponsive landlord. However, ifyou ever find yourself stuck with alandlord who refuses to respectyour rights as a tenant, rememberthat you can protect yourself byusing the guide (however, pleaseavoid doing anything drastic, likesuing your landlord or withholdingrent, without first consulting alawyer). With the year almost overand the balance in my bankaccount dwindling, I look forwardto recovering my security deposit(less any “lawful deductions” ofcourse). My hope is that, after read-ing this article and the Tenants’Rights Guide, you too will be ableto assert your rights as a tenant andlook forward to getting back yoursecurity deposit.

One day after the tragic explosions that interrupted theBoston Marathon, The New York Times ran a frontpage story entitled “Blasts at Boston Marathon Kill 3

and Injure 100.” Of course, I learned about this tragedy muchsooner from the numerous iPhone notifications, the generalbuzz on campus and the abundance of Facebook posts fillingmy news feed.

Students, faculty and staff alike have all been mourning withfamily and friends affected by this unfortunate event. However,I simply wasn’t taken over by a similar overwhelming sense ofloss. Fortunately, I was not personally affected by this tragedy.I had no family or friends in Boston. I didn’t identify with thenationalistic sense of invasion, and I struggled to feel the sameemotions many around me seemed to be expressing. I felt con-fused.

I couldn’t help but think of every other tragic story happen-ing in the United States, and even abroad, that goes untold.What about the explosions at the Boston Marathon made everynews outlet around the world run it on their front page? FromBBC to al Jazeera, and even Spain’s national newspaper El País,this story made the front page. Perhaps the international appealof the marathon and the myth of American domestic securitymade this story that much more exceptional. I don’t knowexactly, but I know I couldn’t help but think of all the othertragedies we don’t seem to talk about.

Let me clarify: I am not downplaying the tragedy of thisevent, nor am I trying to delegitimize the mourning of all thosewho have been affected. These are simply my personal strug-gles.

As I scanned the rest of the front page on Tuesday, I cameacross another headline, which read “For3 Years After Killing, Suspect Sits in

Jail.” This particular story outlined the ruined life of a youngman suspected of murder who has waited in jail for more thanthree years for a trial that never seems to come. His life is for-ever changed, his mental condition is immeasurably scarredand perhaps unsurprisingly, he is black.

I wonder how many stories of pending court cases like thisare left unreported to the American public. The right to aspeedy trial has become an illusion for many who lack theresources to hire a lawyer or post bail. I thought of all of the sto-ries that detail the particular flaws in our criminal justice sys-tem, and how the American public simply is not talking aboutthe forms of racial control manifested in the current reality ofmass incarceration. Racial undercaste doesn’t ring like the word“terror.”

This journalistic creed comes to mind: “If it bleeds, it leads.”What makes a story more “ingestible” than another? Why dothe everyday tragedies of growing structural inequality withinAmerica not cause us all to mourn like the attack on the BostonMarathon has? I am fascinated by what makes the front pagesof our newspapers and what does not, defining the very contentof our daily conversations.

In a globalized world, when nearly every catastrophe onearth can be seen with a click of a button, where do we drawthe line about what we consider our problems and what weconsider out of our hands? We now look back to the Holocaustas a tragedy of intervention. If American forces only intervenedsooner, many lives could and should have been saved. But whatabout the millions dead in North Korea? Or the 70,000 andgrowing in Syria? Upwards of 20 improvised explosive devicesgo off in Afghanistan per day, and we don’t even blink an eye(Thanks, Professor Patel). Is it our varied expectations for secu-rity around the world?

We expect our domestic security to remain perfectly intactwhen our country is heavily involved in countless wars andconflicts abroad.

Terrorism has become our nation’s call to action. Congressrushes through bills that deal with national security against ter-rorist threats, but can’t seem to pass reasonable gun control lawsor judicial reform. The rule of law is put on hold for extrajudi-cial actions taken to “fight” the War on Terror, but what aboutthe war on minorities, on gays? What about the struggles anddomination occuring between American citizens everyday?

In mourning the lives taken and the innocence lost from thetragedy in Boston, I think of the tragedies of those who aren’tgiven a voice here in our backyard and around the world. It’sdifficult to mourn for some when so many are ignored.

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Cristina M. Quiñones-Betancourt is a sec-ond-year law student at Cornell LawSchool. She can be reached at cmq5@cor-nell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternateThursdays this semester.

If you ever find yourselfstuck with a landlordwho refuses to respectyour rights ... rememberyou can protect yourself.

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I couldn’t help but think ofevery other tragic story happening in the United States,and even abroad, that goes untold.

Rudy Gerson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Hemay be reached a rgerson@cornellsun.com. Rooting Around columnruns alternate Fridays this semester.

At a fleeting moment of calm about an hour into Trance, aseductive hypnotherapist named Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson)looks into the eyes of the man next to her and asks, “What is aperson, Franck?” Franck, a suave art thief played by VincentCassel, keeps his eyes to the ground and responds, “Not my lineof work.” As I do what critics do and try to glean some profun-dity from this film, perhaps I should accept that Trance occupiesa different “line of work” than Danny Boyle’s more ambitiousworks, like Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and 127 Hours. Thedirector’s colorful and kinetic style still gets your heart racing, butit’s all just spectacle over a schizophrenic story with characters toocold and convoluted to touch.

Blame the film’s clinical and surprisingly unfunny tone on its“puzzle film” structure, a popular form of modern movie story-telling that reaches a breaking point in the hands of screenwrit-ers Joe Ahearne and John Hodge. The “puzzle film” establishes anaccepted version of reality and breaks itthrough one or many plot twists, all ofwhich conspire to trigger — to borrow acolloquial term — a “mindfuck” in theviewer (think Inception or The UsualSuspects). Trance takes this formula to anextreme, loading three back-to-back plottwists into the last 30 minutes. This bar-rage of information reduces characters tocogs of an overly complicated and leakyplot, devoid of any humanity that madethem relatable in the first place.Reorganize the nonlinear procession ofscenes into chronological order and you will grasp what hap-pened, but certainly not why.

With all the film’s twists and turns, this plot summary willstick to the strong opening 20 minutes, which hint at the layersupon layers of motivation driving these characters. Up to hisneck in gambling debt, art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy)agrees to collude with Franck and his gangsters in their auction

house robbery of a multi-milliondollar painting. For some reason,Simon goes off-script and assaultsFranck during the hand-off,receiving the swift end of a shot-gun to his temple in return. As itturns out, the package Simonhands over does not even containthe painting, Francisco Goya’sWitches in the Air, and its where-abouts go unknown to everyone,including Simon, because thatblow to the head wiped out hisrecent memory. After a needlessly gruesome torture scene,Franck forces Simon to enter hypnotherapy, where Elizabeth canunlock his memories and find that elusive painting. As you canprobably guess, the movie cares less and less about the painting— our “MacGuffin” — as it moves forward.

For its first half, Trance puts a welcome spin on the crime filmgenre by having a bunch of macho gangsters literally sit around

and wait for a meek Rembrandt enthu-siast to deal with his feelings. Elizabethrecognizes that many of the obstaclesthat prevent Simon from restoring hismemory involve his fears of Franck orinfatuation with her, so she organizessome pretty weird role-playing in orderto put Simon … at ease, let us say. Thisleads to one of the more inexplicablevisual motifs in all the annals of filmhistory: Rosario Dawson’s pubic hair, orlack thereof. For Simon, the sight of it

sets off a way of reconciling his memoriesand the lack of irony as to its inclusion should strike us all asinspiring, if also unabashedly stupid. This explicit sexualitysegues into a much darker third act, where the men turn intohypermasculine machines that murder, rape and commit domes-tic violence. During this bedlam, Elizabeth plays a more centralrole, making for a nice thread of female empowerment, yet itcomes out of nowhere and latches onto characters who, after so

many plot twists, we have ceased to care for.Trance boils down to an exercise of style over substance, but

with Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle at thehelm, oh, what style it is. A pioneer in the now-dominant realmof digital cinematography, Dod Mantle shoots films like almostno one else, except perhaps Roger Deakins (Skyfall). Through hishigh-definition lens, London highways throb like blood-redveins and neighborhood restaurants radiate fluorescent blue.Boyle and Dod Mantle achieve a distinctly modern visual look,although they call back to old films like The Third Man, withabundant canted angles and nocturnal European cobblestonestreets. Pause the film at any second and you’ve got yourself adesktop wallpaper.

Danny Boyle directed Trance in the midst of overseeing theopening ceremony to London’s 2012 Olympic Games. Hedeserves praise for maintaining his prolific output, and lesserefforts like Trance are easily excused when put in this context.Besides, very few acclaimed directors these days work at such apace; the studio system giants back in the day did and they over-saw their fair share of duds (Hitchcock’s Topaz, Bergman’s TheSerpent’s Egg). Maybe “dud” is too strong. McAvoy, Cassel andDawson bring their own assets that complement Boyle and DodMantle’s visual feast. But beauty, in all its forms, cannot salvage astory that mistakes complexity for nuance and shock for awe.

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Hecan be reached at zzahos@cornell.edu.

Too Many Twists,Too Little HeartZACHARY ZAHOS

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This year marked the 66th anniversary ofJackie Robinson’s opening season in MajorLeague Baseball. However, this JackieRobinson Day (April 15th), baseball players’ceremonial abandonment of whatever jerseythey normally wear in favor of one with thenumber “42” seemed particularly significant.This, of course, is due to the release of thefilm 42 on Friday — a biopic that celebratesthe life, the career and the legacy of one ofbaseball’s most iconic players.

42 tells the heroic story of how one manchanged the course of baseball and Americanhistory, overcoming enormous obstacles tobecome a household name, a champion forequality and a damn good ball player.Although some historical inaccuracies create amythic quality about the film, there would beno purpose served in telling this story anyother way. 42 does not claim to illustrate acomplicated portrait of an American icon orthe nuanced relationship between Robinsonand Brooklyn Dodgers’ club president andgeneral manager, Branch Rickey.

42 is a standard and formulaic sportsmovie with all the familiar tropes of a film ofthat genre — and I say that in the best way.Formulas exist for a reason, and as long asfilms are well-written, well-acted and interest-ing looking, they can be great films (see SilverLinings Playbook, the epitome of an excellentromcom, for proof). Just because 42 is a fair-ly conventional sports movie, does not meanit’s not worth your time.

The film opens with a montage laying out

the historical sceneupon which JackieRobinson entered theworld of MajorLeague Baseball in1947: the celebratoryreturn of America’sboys from World WarII and more impor-tantly, the return ofAmerica’s baseballplayers, all 400 ofwhich were white.This was particularlytroubling to BranchRickey, played beau-tifully by HarrisonFord in one of hisfirst consciously “old”roles, who realizedthe need integratebaseball.

Although thefilm does portrayRickey as somewhatof an activist, 42does a great job ofbalancing this idealof activism with thehard facts: As shown,Rickey understood the amount of money hecould make with an African American on theteam due to the Dodgers’ diverse fan base.This theme, equality through cash, is woventhroughout the film. Early on, whenRobinson (Chadwick Boseman) is still in theNegro Leagues, he convinces a racist propri-etor of a gas station to let him and his Kansas

City Monarchsteammates use thewhite bathroom byconvincing him thatallowing the entireteam to do so wouldresult in a lucrativesale.

In addition to itsvisual wonders (thebaseball uniformswere cuter, the carswere gorgeous, andRachel Robinson’sdresses and hairstyleswere ador able), 42succeeds in inter-spersing clever dia-logue with the appro-priate amount ofcheesy one-liners.Like the cheesymo ments in thegame of baseballitself (the SeventhIn ning Stretch forexample), there isthe moment in thefilm when the for-merly racist Dodger

embraces Robinson in front of a crowd shoutingracial epithets. But for the most part, 42 avoidsbeing overly saccharine.

Indeed, not every Dodger is ultimatelywon over by Robinson’s skill. The film alsoreminds viewers that racism wasn’t (and isn’t)just a southern phenomenon or just expressedby a few vocal outliers, but rather the prevail-

ing attitude. Alan Tudyk, best known for hiscomedic roles, plays the despicably racistcoach of the Phillies who defends his actionsby pointing out he is just as terrible to HankGreenberg and Joe DiMaggio as he is toRobinson. He is presented not as one crazyindividual, but rather as someone who justarticulates society’s views — albeit more loud-ly.

42 also does not alienate those who mightnot be as big of a baseball fan as myself.Though I would argue that it is especiallyenjoyable if you do like watching baseball orappreciate the references to other baseballgreats like Ty Cobb, only a basic understand-ing of the rules is necessary to follow the base-ball-y parts of the movie (they’re basically thesame as kickball).

After some laughs and tears, and couplebits that went on a little too long — again likethe game of baseball itself — at the end of 42,one leaves with a sense of accomplishment:we did it! We integrated baseball! The badguys get traded to the Pirates, the good guysall get into the Baseball Hall of Fame, JackieRobinson is joined by Don Newcombe andRoy Campanella and everyone can pat them-selves on the back for a job well done.

42 is entertaining and heartwarming, butit’s important to remember that it is still a fic-tionalized version of history. As long as youkeep in mind that racism didn’t end whenJackie Robinson won Rookie of the Year in1947, it’s all good.

66 Years Later, 42 Lives On

Julia Moser is a sophomore in the College of Artsand Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cor-nellsun.com.

BY JULIA MOSERSun Staff Writer

42Directed by Brian HelgelandStarring Chadwick Boseman

TranceDirected by Danny BoyleStarring James McAvoy,Rosario Dawson

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Derek Cianfrance burst on the scene in2010 with Blue Valentine, a quietly devastat-ing, scrappy and thoroughly realistic look atthe formation and deterioration of the bondbetween man and wife. Three years later, hisnext effort proves itself to be sprawling andoverzealous while still managing to be thor-oughly engrossing throughout. While ThePlace Beyond the Pines isn’t exactly lean, restassured, it is mean.

Ryan Gosling plays Luke, a tattoo-cov-ered, chain-smoking motorcyclist withbleached blonde hair and an explosive tem-per. Things pick up when he learns a previ-ous one night stand with his friend Romina(Eva Mendes) hasproduced a babyboy namedJason. Luke’s dis-covery promptshim to close thebook on his reck-less gear-head lifeand prevent hisson from turningout the way hehas. There wassome speculationthat Gosling couldhave been rehashing his work on Drive here,but the results are all to the contrary. Goslingbrings ferocity and a touching warmth to hisscenes with his infant son.

Working a nine-to-five to provide for hisson isn’t exactly in the cards for Luke. A bet-ter alternative, as suggested by his mechanicbuddy (Ben Mendelson- fantastic), is rob-bing banks. In the sequences that follow,Cianfrance and cinematographer SeanBobbit show off some phenomenal camera-work. We get to follow Luke from his trailerto his bike in a long, flowing tracking shot,

like we follow Henry Hill through theCopacabana in Goodfellas. Then, we get tosee him make several furious getaways.Cianfrance undercranks the camera asGosling rips down the road on that chopper,in hyperspeed time lapse, against the trees inthe movie’s title.

That’s only one third of the movie. It isn’tfor some 45 minutes that we pick up BradleyCooper as Avery, a cop destined to clash withGosling’s rough-riding outlaw. The resultingscuffle turns Avery into a local hero in thesuburban town of Schenectady, New York.Like Luke, Avery is a father to an infant son,and is saddled with guilt and circumstancesof corruption. In his case, corruption takesthe form of a crooked investigator on theforce (Ray Liotta), who insists on bursting

into a home with-out a warrant tosteal illicitmoney. With ascarce amount ofscreen time,Liotta is terrify-ing to watch ashe goes frombeing Avery’sfather figure tohis enemy. Ontop of this,

Avery’s family life isinextricably intertwined with Luke’s familyin a way that can’t be revealed without spoil-ers. Let it suffice to say that Avery has darksecrets in his past, and his sweeping themunder the rug is detrimental to the future ofhis son, A.J..

For its final and best third, the movieleaps forward fifteen years, and zeroes in onthese troubled fathers’ sons, in their teenageyears. Ma.j.or props to Gosling and Cooperfor their gutsy, close-to-the-chest perfor-mances, but they are bested by EmoryCohen as A.J. and Dane DeHaan as Jason.

The credit for making the last of the film theboldest and most powerful section belongs tothese two young actors, who are downrightspellbinding as they get inside the heads ofthese boys. Cianfrance wisely keeps us fixat-ed on the confusion, torment and familialabuse both of them undergo, and it pays offin spades.

The two boys become friends throughcasual conversation at school. Jason’s parentsrefuse to tell him anything about his biolog-ical father. A.J.’s dad senselessly attacks himfor hanging out with the son of a man he hasa dark history with. These family problemstranslate into drug addictions and troublewith the law. More importantly, they bringthe ugly relationship their fathers had witheach other dangerously close to light. Whenthe secrets are finally out in the open, all hellbreaks loose. What emerges is a staggeringportrait of the sins committed by the fathers,paid for by their sons. This is all sorrowfullyclear in the performances of DeHaan andCohen.

Just like in Blue Valentine, throughoutThe Place Beyond the Pines, Cianfrancedemonstrates his knack for injecting sceneswith an emotional horsepower that is

painfully sincere and entirely realistic.Here, he applies that gift to an expansive,messy narrative that aims higher than it canreach, and that’s where the film earns thema.j.ority of its points. The overstuffedambition of Pines may be a detractor forsome, and at two hours and twenty minutes,the film does feel closer to two hours fortyfive, but Cianfrance’s honesty and unrelent-ing focus on his actors carries the film. Thestory could have easily overwhelmed thepower of the performances, but thanks to aheartfelt script and highly attentive direc-tion, that doesn’t happen.

In a day and age when so many movieswould rather aim so low as to hit nothingthan bite off more than they can chew, thegrandiosity of Cianfrance’s film is commend-able. Yes, Pines is long-winded, and yes, ittakes unnecessary turns. But it’s also anunflinching, raw examination of fathers andsons and the damage they inflict on eachother.

Gosling, Cooper Shine in Pines

Mark DiStefano is a freshman in the College ofArts and Sciences. He can be reached atmsd97@cornell.edu.

BY MARK DISTEFANOSun Staff Writer

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The Place Beyond the PinesDirected by Derek CientranceStarring Ryan Gosling, BradleyCooper

Good and evil are the twin opposites ofour ethical compass, and the strugglebetween good and evil is a conceit that

powers the narratives of a huge variety of liter-ature. Stories, from religious texts to fantasynovels, depict good protagonists fightingagainst evil antagonists for the salvation or pro-tection of the world. The problem of the por-trayal of evil in such narratives, though, is thatalthough it evil meant to be an inscrutablemonolith, it is nonetheless fascinating. Why,the reader asks, does evil do what evil does? Arethe demons that possess people to do evil thingsmanifestations of a cosmic being that lurks inthe depths of some hellish dimension, or arethey demons of the mind, conjured out of aphantasm of imagined or real injustices? Thestock fantasy narrative, such as those employedby Tolkien, has no answer.

More contemporary fantasy and literature,however, tries to venture an answer. Often, con-temporary responses stem from a postmod-ernist rejection of the old good-evil paradigm.Postmodernists see the established moral para-digm as an attempt by the powerful to forcetheir captive audiences to blindly accept normsand cultural biases, so as to inculcate a sense ofgroup solidarity. By establishing on their ownterms what values were associated with good,and what values were associated with evil, theycreated a convenient meta-narrative for peopleto use in order to identify who was good, andwho was bad. Unfortunately, this simple bina-ry system was often used to demonize politicaland cultural outsiders, and sparked conflictssuch as religious and racial wars.Postmodernism encouraged skepticism of suchconvenient meta-narratives. It exhorted peopleto question their assumptions about what wasgood and what was evil. In doing so, the hope

was that people would come up with moredeliberate and authentic moral systems bywhich to live their lives, and not just outsourcetheir moral decision making capabilities to ahigher authority.

Postmodernist literature deals with this con-cept in many ways, but one of the means bywhich it does so is by deconstructing tradition-al heroic conventions. The traditionalCampbellian hero’s journey can be seen as ameta-narrative that governs conventional epicfantasy. In it, a simple protagonist is thrust intoa world beyond his (and it’s usually a his) imag-ination, undertakes a journey, overcomes chal-lenges against an implacable foe and tri-umphantly returns with gifts and powers tohelp his fellows at home. Such stories almostalways exclusively focus on the virtuous hero;

the evil is merely a narrative cipher to drive thecentral conflict and invite tension. The first StarWars movie is such an example, as is Lord of theRings, The Chronicles of Narnia and theArthurian legends. Campbell even cites the sto-ries of the Buddha, Christ and Prometheus asnarratives that follow this mythic convention.

Postmodernist literature, especially fantasy,overturned this trope by questioning the basesfor the conflict, often by making both protago-

nist and antagonist morally ambiguous butsympathetic characters. Examples of thisinclude the Chronicles of Thomas Covenantseries by Stephen R. Donaldson, in which thetitular Thomas Covenant, an embittered leperand misogynistic rapist, is thrust into a fantasyworld and told he is its savior. Another exampleis Kirill Yeskov’s 1999 sequel to The Lord of theRings, in which he portrayed Sauron as theactual good guy of the series, and Mordor as arealm where races could mingle freely, theunderprivileged orcs were given a place in soci-ety, and where technological progress was pur-sued to better the lives of the people of Middle-Earth. In contrast, the elves, dwarves and FreeMen were portrayed as luddite conservativeswho wished to maintain the status quo in orderto preserve the extant power structures thatgoverned the land. The Lord of the Rings, then,was seen as a “history written by the victors” inwhich Sauron and his good works were demo-nized.

Such postmodern narratives (and there aremany more where that came from, including,but not limited to, the later Star Wars novels,Brandon Sanderson’s canon of work, Despicable

Me, and the musical Wicked) were attempts tointroduce a degree of scepticism in their read-ers, to question their wholesale acceptance ofthe common tropes of fantasy literature asdelineative of the moral order of the world.Transpose such scepticism into the real world,and readers would realize some of our moralconventions for what they were: Meta-narra-tives and human-made constructs designed topreserve existing power relations. Thus, post-modern literature has often been accused ofmoral relativism and a rejection of the notionthat there is any absolute standard of moralityat all. Postmodernism, however, answers itthus: it has never sought to deny absolute moraltruth, but rather, it encourages one to questionif it is that easy to know absolutely what moraltruth is. Put another way: even if good and evilexist, it is not always so clear who is good andwho is evil, especially when the winners writethe histories.

Colin Chan is a senior in the College of Arts andSciences. He can be reached atcchan@cornellsun.com. Armchair Aestheticsappears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Garland LeadsRockies to 11-3Win Over Mets

DENVER (AP) — Despitethrowing in 28-degree weather,Jon Garland was surprised howquickly his pitching hand gotcold.

That didn’t prevent him fromthrowing a biting curveball, alongwith some heaters.

Garland worked seven solidinnings to give the ColoradoRockies an 11-3 win over theNew York Mets in the wrap-up ofa wintry series at Coors Field onThursday.

“I was surprised at how fastmy hand got cold, because it did-n't seem that cold out there withthe sun,” Garland said.

“But besides that, my bodyfelt fine. I was throwing curve-balls, sliders, a lot of offspeed. Ithink the key was early on thecurveball was being called for astrike. So, guys couldn’t just takeit. They had to respect it, and Ithrew enough fastballs in therefor strikes to keep them off bal-ance.”

The crowd was announced at18,341 as the Rockies, winners ofsix straight, matched a teamrecord for the coldest home start.A game against the MontrealExpos on April 12, 1997, wasplayed in a similarly frigid condi-tions.

A pair of Mets-Rockies gamesin the previous three days werepostponed because of heavysnow. The day before the Metsarrived in snow-bound Colorado,they had Sunday’s game inMinneapolis postponed becauseof wintry weather.

“This has been a tough trip,”Mets manager Terry Collins said.“We're glad it’s over and we knowthe weather’s going to startchanging soon, start getting base-ball weather. We didn’t swing thebats today either. We didn’t get alot of opportunities. We’ve got tostart taking BP like we normallydo and get back on our sched-ule.”

Garland (2-0) allowed tworuns and six hits in becoming thefirst Rockies starter to go seven ormore innings since JhoulysChacin also went seven againstSan Diego last Sept. 2.

He walked none and struckout four.

“So far, he’s been real good atpitching down and his sinker iseven better than I thought itwas,” Rockies manager WaltWeiss said.

“He knows what he’s doingout there. He’s got a plan and hewas able to execute it.”

Garland said the Rockies’ hot-hitting at the plate has helpedhim on the mound.

“The confidence is therebecause you know that at anypoint, they can strike,” Garlandsaid. “So, you’re not as picky. Youstill don’t want to give up runs.You want to get as many outs aspossible. But in the back of yourmind, you know that this team isnever out of it.”

That was certainly the caseagainst the Mets.

Troy Tulowitzki homered andhit a go-ahead single. DexterFowler and Josh Rutledge also hithome runs as the Rockiesremained unbeaten in six homegames this season.

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Avoiding mistakes will be keyagainst a Brown squad that relies ondisrupting its opponent and takingcontrol of the pace of play. The Bearsspecialize in the aggressive 10-manride, which is typically used to pressurethe clearing team in desperation situa-tions.

“This week in practice we havebeen stressing the clearing becauseBrown does a 10-man ride,” Pannellsaid. “But I think the biggest thing[head coach Ben] DeLuca has beenfocusing on in our practice has beenour defense. ... The slightest adjust-ments can go a long way.”

The Red’s defense will have to con-tend with Brown’s balanced offensiveattack led by freshman Henry Blynn,who has 24 goals and eight assists onthe season. Junior Sam Hurster is aclose second with 19 goals and sixassists.

“[Brown’s] got a lot of great shoot-ers,” Buczek said. “Defensively, they’vegot some very athletic guys. ... One ofthe biggest things we’ve been stressingon the offensive end is to avoid sillyturnovers and make sure unforcederrors are kept to a minimum. If wecan do this ... everything will workitself out.”

One of the Red’s biggest x-factorsthis week will be the play of Buczek.On a team led primarily by seniors, thesophomore from Cincinnati is in themidst of a breakout year, including a

four-goal performance againstSyracuse.

“Connor’s been great,” Pannell said.“He made the transition from attack tomidfield, and has really been a physicalpresence at midfield and done a greatjob. He’s probably the best outsideshooter on the team ... and allows us tostretch teams’ defenses.”

Buczek attributed much of hisimprovement this season to the coach-ing staff ’s dedication to working withhim.

“This year I’ve been working hardwith the coaches, with the guys aroundme and everybody’s really helped meout a lot — to help me grow to thepoint where I am now,” Buczek said. “Ihave to give all the thanks to my team-mates and coaches for that.”

While Buczek and Pannell look tokeep the Brown defense on its heels,the Red is feeling confident and —with last season’s disappointing finishin mind — focused on finishingstrong.

“We feel great,” Pannell said.“We’re very excited to have this oppor-tunity to continue our season and itstarts at Brown, so we’re going to takeit one game at a time. Every game is asimportant as the next. ... Our teammorale is great, and everybody’s on thesame page. ... I certainly like where ourteam’s at a lot more this year thanwhere we’ve been in years past.”

Red Focuses on ContainingBrown’s 10-Man Ride Approach

M. LAXContinued from page 16

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

a two-run homer to regain thelead, 4-3.

Onyon couldn’t contain theGreat Dane’s hitters in the bot-tom of the sixth, however, andAlbany took the lead on threehits — two singles and a double— for three runs. The Red failedto score in the top of the seventh,allowing the Great Danes tocomplete the sweep of the mid-week doubleheader.

“In the second game, it was apretty back and forth game anda lot of things could have goneeither way,” Towne said.

The Red (16-20, 6-6 IvyLeague) will enter the series

against Ivy-league leading Penn(21-5, 10-2), looking to snap afour-game losing streak. Cornellstands in a three-way tie forfourth place in the conferencewith Princeton and Columbiaright now.

According to Towne, theteam needs to avoid playingtense if it wants to perform wellthis weekend.

“I’m really hoping we can justtry to relax and take a deepbreath and not play so uptight,”she said. “I’m hoping we playthem tough and get some goodgames out of them.”

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The Red has an opportunity to clinch aspot in the Ivy League Tournament with awin at Yale (7-5, 1-4 Ivy League) on Saturday.No. 20 Cornell (7-5, 3-3 Ivy) has lost five ofits last six games and is coming off a toughloss on Tuesday to No. 5 Syracuse (9-4), 16-4. A victory Saturday afternoon would ensureCornell the fourth spot in the conferencetournament in two weeks.

The loss on Tuesday to the National run-ners up from a year ago was, for the mostpart, a one-sided affair. The Orange led 9-2 athalftime and was up 13-2 at one point in themiddle of the second half. Despite allowing16 goals, sophomore goalie Carly Gniewekhad a career-high 14 saves for the Red. Seniormidfielder Kelly Lang led Cornell in scoring,netting two goals in the loss.

“Syracuse was a tough game,” said juniormidfielder and captain Chelsea Rowe. “Welearned that we need to push each other hard-er in each practice. I think we failed on ourexecution and our transitioning. We’ve onlyhad one practice this week, but we have madesure to focus on the little things and our dis-cipline.”

Looking forward to Saturday, theBulldogs lead the all-time series against theRed 19-15, but Cornell has gotten the best ofthem in their last five meetings, including a

17-9 victory last year. Senior attackerCaroline Sailsbury had five goals in the bigwin.

Yale has only managed one Ivy League winthis year, which came last weekend in a closematch against Columbia, 13-12.

“We don’t want to dwell on our recentsuccess against Yale,” Rowe said. “We aregoing to need to play together and executeour game plan. Yale plays zone defense, so weare going to have to move the ball quicklyand look for open draws.”

Cornell hopes to change its recent trendover the past six games (1-5). The squadstarted the season 6-0, but has struggled eversince an 11-10 loss to No. 3 North Carolina.The Red was able to save its conference tour-nament hopes last weekend with a 9-7 victo-ry over Brown.

“One of our goals this year was to be IvyLeague champs and we would like to be incontrol of our own destiny,” Rowe said. “Wehave a chance to begin that quest on Saturdaywith a win.”

Saturday is Cornell’s last Ivy League gamebefore facing two non-conference opponentsto finish off the season. The Red will faceBinghamton and Boston next week atSchoellkopf Field on Tuesday and Saturdayrespectively.

Laxers Hope to Clinch Ivy Tournament Berth

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

By SCOTT ECKLSun Staff Writer

On to the next | Senior attacker Caroline Salisbury had five goals in a win over Yale last year,and hopes to lead her team into the Ivy tournament with a victory over the Bulldogs on Saturday.

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Relaxing Is Key to SnappingFour-Game Losing Streak

on the stingiest defense in theentire league to win games. Onoffense they are just as boring,relying on the fundamental postgame of David West and solid, butunspectacular plays on the perime-ter by Paul George, George Hilland Lance Stephenson. TheHawks — as I’ve writtenbefore — are the definitionof average. They chugalong, make the playoffs,then lose because they justdon’t have the talent. Thisyear seems to be no differ-ent, and average just won’t be suf-ficient against a good Pacers team;Pacers in five.

(4) BROOKLYN NETS VS. (5)CHICAGO BULLS

The Bulls are a very scrappybunch. They play their hearts outand can really get up for big games(see: breaking the Heat 27-gamewin streak and the Knicks 13-game win streak). However, with-out Rose, they don’t have the tal-ent to make it through a gruelingseven-game series. The Nets arenot a perfect team, but DeronWilliams looks like the great play-er he was in Utah and combinedwith Brook Lopez’s emergence thisseason, that should be enough tobeat the Bulls. Nets in six.

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DER VS. (8) HOUSTON ROCKETSThe storylines for this matchup

write themselves; James Hardenand his beard facing his formerteam. Kevin Martin trying toprove that he’s more than capableof filling Harden’s old role. RussellWestbrook fighting the notionthat Harden would have been abetter fit if he was the one leftalongside Durant. However, when

you filter out all these storylines,what you get is a juggernaut led bythe league’s second-best playeragainst a young team that plays ata ridiculously fast pace. TheRockets are going to try to pushthe tempo at every chance they getto speed up the Thunder.Unfortunately, it won’t help. TheThunder are also young, athletic,fast and even more talented, with

the ability to adjust. James Hardenwill most likely single-handedlywin a game with a spectaculareffort, but the Thunder are toogood; OKC in five.

(2) SAN ANTONIO SPURS VS.(7) LOS ANGELES LAKERS

I wish Kobe was healthy; thiswould have been a classic. Evenwithout him, this series promisesto be fascinating. Many people arewriting off the Lakers withouttheir leader, but they are still ateam with two All-Stars in or neartheir primes in Dwight Howardand Pau Gasol. They have the tal-ent to win this series. Additionally,Ginobili has been out for a fewweeks, Parker looks hurt and TimDuncan remains 36 years old. Butthe biggest mismatch in this seriesis the coaching; Gregg Popovichshould win Coach of the Yearevery year, with his ability to makesubtle adjustments on defense andoffense to adapt to an aging andchanging roster. Meanwhile, MikeD’Antoni can’t create anythingresembling a coherent defensive oroffensive scheme. Spurs in six.

(3) DENVER NUGGETS VS. (6)GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS

This series is going to be just as

fast-paced as the Thunder-Rockets. The Nuggets are going tomiss the presence of DaniloGallinari and his shooting, ball-handling and ability to step up latein games. However, the majorityof his minutes will be going toWilson Chandler, who hasarguably been the Nuggets’ bestplayer these last few weeks. TheWarriors’ biggest strength all year

has been the three-point shooting ofStephen Curry andKlay Thompson. Un -for tunately for them,this plays right intoDenver’s hands. The

Nuggets have three athletic, long,good defenders on the wing inAndre Iguodala, Corey Brewer andChandler to stick on either Curryor Thompson if they get hot.Nuggets in five.

(4) LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS VS.(5) MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES

This will most likely be theclosest series of the first round, pit-ting the high-flying Lob Cityagainst the gritty, defensive-mind-ed Grizzlies. These two teamsplayed each other last year in theplayoffs, but have both improvedsignificantly. The Clippers have amuch more refined offense(although they still turn to ChrisPaul isolations late in games), butthe Grizzlies have made a lot ofinternal improvement, especiallywith the play of Marc Gasol. It’stough to bet against Chris Paul,but I think if Tony Allen can slowhim down just a little, the entireoffense will suffer. Truth is, I don’tknow if Allen will be able to, so Iflipped a coin for my prediction:Grizzlies in seven.

OKC’s Versatility Will Help Topple Rockets

Many people are writing off the Lakerswithout their leader, but they are still ateam with two All-Stars in their primes.

LIAOContinued from page 16

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornell-sun.com. Playin the Field appears alternateFridays this semester.

SOFTBALLContinued from page 16

Skyler Dale can be reached atsdale@cornellsun.com.

On her own |Junior ChristinaVillalon had the

Red’s only hit in adisappointing loss

to Albany onWednesday.

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Cornell and Princeton are currently tied for the mostall-time Ivy League lacrosse titles with 26 apiece. A Redvictory over Brown this weekend would change that.

The No. 7 laxers will travel to Stevenson Field inProvidence, RI with the chance to clinch home fieldadvantage for the 2013 Ivy League Tournament. With awin in the 3 p.m. matchup on Saturday, the Red (10-2, 4-0 Ivy League) would capture sole possession of the confer-ence regular season crown and cement Schoellkopf Field asthe host site for postseason play.

“It’d mean a lot to us,” said senior attackman RobPannell. “[Hosting the Ivy League Tournament wouldgive] the seniors another home game, which [was] one ofour goals to start the season.”

The Red will first have to get past the Bears (6-5, 1-3),who have defeated Cornell in three of the past five meet-ings — including a 10-9 upset last season.

“I think it will be a good test for us,” said sophomoremidfielder Connor Buczek. “They’ve been pretty impres-sive in the league so far and they’re obviously fighting fortheir playoff lives right now, so we’ve got a lot on the linein this one.”

It has been over a week since the Red played its lastgame — a 13-12 loss to No. 5 Syracuse — so the Red hashad ample time to prepare for this important Ivy matchup.

“It’s been a long week-and-a-half since we playedSyracuse. ... So we’ve had some time to relax, but [we’ve]also been getting after it this week in practice and we’reexcited to get out there against another opponent,” Pannellsaid. “Ivy League games are always exciting, and Brown’s avery talented team and always finds a way to give us atough game. It’s an important game for us to get headed inthe right direction.”

The Red outscored opponents 62-31 en route to fourconsecutive victories before falling to No. 5 Syracuse (9-3,3-1 Big East) on a last minute goal on April 10th. Both of

Cornell’s losses this season have come by just one goal, andthe team is looking to iron out trouble spots againstBrown.

“[H]aving a tough loss like Syracuse keeps you workinghard every single day because, you know, we can be ourbiggest proponent, but we can also be our biggest enemy,”Buczek said. “And we thought in that game we just madetoo many mistakes, so we’re working hard every single dayto correct that.”

Sports 16FRIDAYAPRIL 19, 2013The Corne¬ Daily Sun

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Laxers Play forLeague Record,27th Ivy CrownBy CHRIS MILLSSun Staff Writer

Pick me up | Sophomore midfielder Connor Buczek has given the Red a significant boost this season after moving from attackto the midfield position. He is currently second on the team in assists with 13 and third in points with 44.

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Spring is in the air and thatonly means one thing; theNBA playoffs are about to

start. Let’s not waste any timeand jump right into a few predic-tions.

Eastern Conference(1) MIAMI HEAT VS. (8) MIL -

WAUKEE BUCKSThis is a mere formality. The

Bucks are playing some good bas-ketball, especially after the J.J.Redick trade, but this is a biggermismatch than a one-seed vs. a16-seed in the NCAA tourna-ment. The Heat are a dominantteam, and LeBron James andDwyane Wade are both healthy;there’s not much else to say. Heatin four.

(2) NEW YORK KNICKS VS. (7)BOSTON CELTICS

Now this gets a little interest-ing. Two veteran teams with sto-ried histories, both with a ton ofpride. The last time these twoteams matched up in the playoffswas 2011, when the Celtics easilydispatched the Knicks in fourgames. But this time, things arevery different. In the last meeting,Carmelo had only played 27

games in a Knicks uniform anddid not seem comfortable in theoffense at all, while the Celticswere two years younger and had ahealthy Rajon Rondo — whothey will be lacking this timearound. The only non-Carmeloplayer still on the roster from that2011 team is Amar’e Stoudemire,who will be sidelined due to

injury during the playoffs. With amuch improved supporting cast— including J.R. Smith, TysonChandler and Raymond Felton— and an improved offensivescheme, the Knicks have drasti-cally improved as a team, whilethe Celtics have taken some bigsteps backwards. Pierce andGarnett will do everything intheir power to win the series, butI see the Knicks winning it in sixgames.

(3) INDIANA PACERS VS. (6)ATLANTA HAWKS

The Pacers are the least flashyteam in the NBA and as a result,have flown under the radar allseason. They play at one of theslowest paces in the NBA and rely

NBA Playoff Predictions

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Playing the Field

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Red Looks to Bounce Back Against PennSOFTBALL

After being swept by Albanyin a double-header, the softballteam is looking to turn thingsaround in its four-game serieswith Penn this weekend.

In the first game against theGreat Danes Wednesday, juniorChristina Villalon recorded theRed’s only hit.

Cornell’s hitters struggled toget on base all game, largelybecause of an excellent perfor-mance from Albany’s ace, juniorBrittany MacFawn, who walkedjust two batters in her one-hitcomplete game, improving to 16-

6 on the season.“The first game was pretty

tough,” said senior catcherKristen Towne. “They had theirtop pitcher … she pretty muchhad our number hitting-wise.”

The Red’s own starting pitch-er, junior Alyson Onyon, went sixinnings and gave up just threeruns on six hits, but got the lossdue to the Red’s weak offensiveshowing.

However, the bats picked upfor the Red in the second game.After three innings of scorelessplay, Cornell struck first with apair of back-to-back homeruns— the first from sophomore out-fielder Linda Laeufer to center

and the second from freshmanTaylor Goodin to right — givingthe Red a 2-0 lead.

After pitching four shutoutinnings, Cornell freshman MegParker gave up a two-run home-run and a single in the bottom ofthe fifth. Onyon then came on tofinish the inning, but not beforeallowing the inherited runner onfirst to advance on a wild pitchand sacrifice fly, and then scoreon a double.

The Red struck right back inthe top of the sixth when Laeufersingled to center and juniorinfielder Jenny Edwards knocked

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Searching for offense | Junior pitcher Alyson Onyongave the Red six solid innings in her start against Albany,but the offense could not give her any support.

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