01-23-13

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TC AT Se e s Re c ord Ri der ship

For Si xth Consec utive Year

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For the sixth consecutive year, the Tompkins Consolidated Area

Tr a n s i t b u s s e r v i c e h a s b ro k e n records in ridership, seeing more than 4 million trips in 2012

Ac c o rd i n g t o TC AT Ge n e r a l Manager Joe Turcotte, this is a 4 7 percent increase from the 3 95 million trips of 2011 A trip is defined by a student ID swipe or when a bus fare is paid

The record moves TCAT into the “medium sized categor y ” of

Association, an accomplishment for a county whose population is slightly over 100,00 individuals, said Turcotte APTA uses these groupings to designate awards to successful transit systems

“Increase of gas prices were a factor in the spike in trips over the year, ” Matt Yarrow, service analyst for TCAT, stated in a press release In an interview with The Sun, Turcotte credited TCAT employees for making the increase in trips possible

By SARAH SASSOON Sun Staff Writer

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employees; [they] make TCAT safe, reliable and clean It’s all in the service delivery that makes people use the service over and over, ” Turcotte said However, the new record will not affect TCAT financially, as the

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By OLIVIA DANG Sun Staff Wr ter

In response to several recent massacres in the U S involving violent shooters, the Ithaca Police Department has trained its officers to respond to “active shooters” changing the way it will face situations with gunmen in the future

From November to December, police officers learned about effective shooting formations in hallways, breaching techniques, room and building entry methods and mental preparation for stopping an active shooter, according to IPD

While previously, police officers were trained to “ set up a perimeter and wait for the SWAT team to handle things,” the IPD’s training program taught officers how to respond to a threat before SWAT teams arrive on the scene, according to IPD Officer Jamie Williamson

“There is a better approach to responding to an active shooter scenario than what was currently in place ”

“The old school of thought for police response to an active shooter scenario was to set up a perimeter and wait for the SWAT team to handle things,” Williamson said “The SWAT team often takes valuable time to respond, formulate a plan and then act on that plan; all the while, people inside are possibly being killed or harmed,” he said

The new IPD protocol prepares each officer to respond to the scene, enter the building and locate and stop the threat as soon as possible, according to Williamson Coincidentally, the last day of the Active Shooter training took place on the same day as the Sandy Hook massacre

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Woman Creates Art Using Twinkies

RENO, Nev (AP) Long before Hostess Brands’ plan to shut down made Twinkies the rage, Nancy Peppin found something special about the cream-filled snack cakes

No, she doesn’t have a sweet tooth for them

But she has featured Twinkies in hundreds of pieces of quirky, satirical artwork because of an obsession with what she calls the “ultimate American food icon ”

Her works include her “Twinkies in history series,” which portrays how scientists such as John James Audubon, Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci would have sketched and written about Twinkies in journals or books

Her Audubon series on the “North American Twinkie (twinkopus hostus)” includes illustrations of three “important subspecies Cream-bellied Twinkie, Strawberrythroated Twinkie, Golden-backed Twinkie” as well as writings describing the “birds” and explaining their migration patterns

Her painting titled “The Last Snack” is a takeoff of da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” featuring Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and other Hostess products at a table with the same arrangement and background as da Vinci’s classic

Steven High, executive director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla , said he finds Peppin’s artwork and use of Twinkies as a metaphor to explore various subjects clever, humorous and imaginative

World’s Oldest Woman Dies

TOKYO (AP) A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world’s oldest living female just last month has died at 115

Koto Okubo died Saturday at a nursing home in Kawasaki City, according to city official Mitsuhiro Kozuka He said her relatives declined to release the cause of her death and family details

Born Dec 24, 1897, Okubo held her title for less than a month following the death of Dina Manfredini of the United States

Manfredini died within two weeks after becoming the world's oldest person

Jiroemon Kimura, a 115-year-old man in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, inherited that title He was born on April 19, 1897

The city official said Okubo had lived with one of her sons at the same nursing home

Frozen Soda Closes Road

READING, Pa (AP) Everyone knows soda can be bad for your teeth Sometimes, it can apparently threaten the morning commute, too

Police say two tractor-trailers collided on U S Route 422 outside Reading, Pa , around 12:40 a m Tuesday The Reading Eagle reports one of the trucks was carrying 2-liter bottles of soda

Hundreds of gallons of sugary drink spilled onto the highway and froze in the frigid early morning temperatures

Cornellians Help Prepare Presidential Inauguration

By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Wr ter

As President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term Monday the slew of inaugural festivities had a Big Red flavor, thanks to Cornell stu-

d e n t s s e r v i n g o n t h e Pr e s i d e n t i a l

Inaugural Committee

Me m b e r s o f t h e Pr e s i d e n t i a l

Inaugural Committee were responsible for organizing multiple events as par t of Inauguration Day, including the inaugural ceremony itself; the inaugural ball, a concer t for militar y children and families; the inaugural parade; the Commander-in-Chief ' s ball; and a national prayer ser vice, according to R o n e a l D e s a i ’ 1 3 , a n I n a u g u r a l Committee fellow

“ Ev e r y o n e o n t h e c o m m i t t e e worked so hard to reach the [inaugurat i o n ] , ” s a i d A d a m G i t l i n ’ 1 3 , I n a u g u r a l C o m m i t t e e Fe l l o w a n d

Student Assembly President “It was an amazing day and exciting to see the end product ”

Since the final week of December, Desai has been working on the compliance committee to ensure that ever y action taken during the inauguration adhered with the missions, goals and policies of the Obama administration

“For instance, I would help make sure that anyone involved in the inaug u r a t i o n h

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aligned with the Obama administration, from speakers to per formers,” Desai said “ We ensure that ever ything that takes place would be personally approved by Obama himself ”

One of the most rewarding par ts of Inauguration Day was obser ving the tangible impact he was able to make on the inaugural ceremony, Desai said

“[During the ceremony], I noticed a par t of the inauguration that I had personally changed as par t of my responsibilities,” he said “It was really exciting It’s a huge honor to say that you worked in the inauguration of a president that you strongly suppor t and to be present during that inauguration ”

Gitlin worked on content for the inaugural committee’s website and in the Inaugural Committee’s Office of Public Engagement in the weeks leading up the inauguration

2008, said that he was able to get a behind-the-scenes perspective of the presidential inauguration and understand the intentions of the event ’ s organizers

“ The inauguration committee at its core seeks to bring in as many different communities together at once to celebrate democracy and other American values,” he said

Gitlin said he saw many similarities b e t we e n h

Missing Ithaca Resident

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

A 20-year-old man who was reported missing by his parents was found dead at 1:51 p m Monday

Police found Joshua Endo, a City of Ithaca resident, dead in the woods about one mile away from his residence, according to the Ithaca Police Department Endo’s death was ruled a suicide No foul play is suspected, according to police

On Sunday, Endo was reported missing by his parents, who last saw him at about 4 p m Police launched a missing person investigation for Endo because “it was abnormal for him to be missing for an extended period of time ” Members of the Ithaca Police Department, Tompkins County Sheriff ’ s Department, the New York State Police and the New York State Forest Rangers worked together to search for Endo, according to the IPD

Akane Otani an be reached at news-editor@cornellsun com

Committee fellow and his position as Cornell’s S A president “[ While working for the Office of Public Engagement,] I’ve been exposed t o a l o t o f d i f f

across America, and heard about a lot of impor tant work and issues,” Gitlin said “ This is similar to some of the work the S A does, which constantly works to reach out to and engage students across the student body and academic community [at Cornell] ” Echoing Gitlin’s sentiments, George Ho r n e d o ’ 1 3 s

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Presidential Planning team

“I collaborated with various folks at PIC and the White House to coordinate a successful inauguration weekend for over 300 business CEOs and as well as for Vice President Biden’s family and friends,” Hornedo said in an email

Hornedo expressed his gratitude for being involved in the inauguration

“It’s just an honor to be here and have a small par t in something bigger t

swearing-in to the parade to the Latino ball, inaugural ball, and staff ball, it’s been an incredible experience ”

Emma Jesch can be reached at ejesch@cornellsun com

Weight Through Former C.U. Student

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell student Elsie Scheel, at 5’7 and 171 pounds, was described by The New York Times in 1912 as “ a near perfect specimen of womanhood,” whose “ very presence bespeaks perfect health ”

“According to Doctor Esther Parker, medical examiner of 400 ‘co-eds’ in the university, Miss Scheel is not only a woman of great strength, but in her physical make-up there is not a single defect,” the 1912 New York Times article stated Scheel, however, would be considered overweight by today’s body mass index standards, according to Prof Kathleen Rasmussen, nutritional sciences

“By today’s fashion standards, she would be too heavy,” Rasmussen said “In BMI, she would be heavier than normal weight ”

Scheel has become the unlikely personification of an ongoing debate on the relationship between weight and mortality, with a Journal of American Medical Association report published in January suggesting that the relationship between the two is not as clear cut as previously assumed

written just six years before the influenza outbreak, which in Ithaca killed 26 people per day,” he said “Being larger and more robust at that time could serve as a form of protection ”

But now, Rasmussen said, “ we have infectious diseases under control ” That leaves non-communicable diseases like heart disease and diabetes the main health concern for overweight people

The study’s obser vations could perhaps be explained by the health benefits of stored fat, as well as overweight patients’ increased likelihood of seeing a doctor and receiving optimal health treatment

But Prof David Levitsky, nutritional sciences, advised caution in interpreting the JAMA study, which focused on mortality the likelihood of dying rather than on morbidity, the likelihood of getting a disease

“By today’s fashion standards, [Elsie Scheel] would be too heavy In BMI, she would be heavier than normal weight.”

“We’ve got tons of data showing that if you ’ re large, you ’ re more likely to get diseases,” he said “And if you ’ re hypertensive or diabetic, for example, you ’ re more likely to die ” Usually, BMI reflects fat in the body and is related to long-term health effects, but it can be affected by several factors, Prof Mar tha Stipanuk, nutritional sciences, said

The JAMA report focuses on a study conducted by Katherine Flegal Ph D ’82 and her colleagues The study considers whether women like Scheel are at higher risk of death because of their weight The article looks at the relative mortality risks associated with “normal weight, overweight and obesity ”

“The researchers found a six-percent lower risk of death for overweight people,” Prof Jeff Sobal, nutritional sciences, said “ The relationship between body mass and death rates remains an unsettled issue Various studies have shown a strong and non-strong relationship between the two ”

Since Scheel’s days at Cornell, there has also been a cultural shift in the perception of weight, according to Sobal

“One hundred years ago, we had very different ideas about beauty and health At that point, more people were dying of acute disease the article was

“It’s difficult for me to say if Elsie would be considered healthy today, since I can ’ t see her; I would need to see the distribution of her weight, and how much muscle she had, and her bone structure, ” Stipanuk said “In general, having a BMI in the healthy range is considered good, but aiming at a BMI that one can maintain is also a desirable objective ” She cautioned that the JAMA study should not be seen as an invitation to accept the rise in obesity in the country

“In our culture, people are gaining weight, becoming overweight and then obese There are also children becoming obese,” Stipanuk said “This study shouldn’t cause us to be less concerned about that ”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun com

TC AT Ri dership Increases by 4.7%

financial gain without funding,” he said “Our budget is already set for 2013 It has been the same amount for the past five years, and we will only know of an increase [in the budget] in December ”

Though New York State has supported TCAT financially to keep its rates and wages the same without numerous budget cuts, the bus service still faces many problems, according to Turcotte

“[Right now], we are actually leaving people at stops, and hopefully we can overcome that with more funding Aging buses need to be replaced, we are outgrowing our TCAT facility, and our passengers are continually asking for better technologies to help them navigate the system, ” Turcotte said in a press release

Moreover, there are no plans to increase the bus fares as APTA statistics show a decrease in overall ridership when fares increase, according to Turcotte

Turcotte suggested more buses as a solution to increase efficiency

“Hopefully we can overcome leaving people at stops with more funding The simple solution is to increase the fleet size Creative scheduling for rush hours comes down to more buses,” Turcotte said

But despite the difficulties TCAT faces with an increasing ridership, Cornell students have expressed their appreciation for the bus service Mike Fox ’15 said that TCAT has served him well this year

“It has saved my life since I’m taking Swahili in the Africana Center I have no idea how I could make that trip on foot every day, especially in the snow I’m a big fan,” Fox said Connie Potter ’16 emphasized the importance of a reliable bus service

“Students need easy access to a consistently updated bus schedule, which lets us know if our route is taking longer than usual to complete,” Potter said “We need to know if we can rely on TCAT to be timely, and if they’re having a bad day we need to know soon enough that we can arrange alternative travel plans ”

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com

Panel D iscusses Internet Media, Journalism

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have “revolutionized the way people communicate and given everyone a voice ”

While the need to be wary of news obtained from Internet media sources was a theme during the evening, Schiller and Miller both spoke about freedom of speech

“Freedom of the press is going to be abused but the idea is that, in the end, information will filter out, fall out and we will learn things we should,” Miller said

Above all, the panelists stressed the power of the news consumer

“It wasn ’ t the press that documented a lot of the police abuses during the Occupy movement; it was people like you with cellphone cameras, ” Miller said Schiller also emphasized the participatory and collaborative nature of new media

“None of us are in the ‘audience’ anymore; we ’ re all in it together,” Schiller said

She went on to further stress that, with easily accessible blog sites and networks, even the quintessential blogger sitting on his couch in his pajamas blogging can be a journalist “if [he is] producing journalism ”

Sarah Sassoon can be reached at ssassoon@cornellsun com

New Proto c ol Prepare s IPD Of cers

“Events such as Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook helped [the IPD] realize that there is a better approach to responding to an active shooter scenario than what was currently in place,” Williamson said

While Active Shooter training per tained mostly to violent shooter scenarios, the second training session, called Reality Based Training, focused on ever yday calls encountered by officers, Williamson said Specific examples presented to officers in the

bystander at a traffic stop and a barricaded violent subject, which could also possibly occur in an violent shooter scenario

Reality Based Training was held from Januar y 15th to Januar y 18th and almost ever y officer f

Depar tment attended, according to Williamson

The program ran for 24 hours a day for three consecutive days and required each par ticipating officer to attend three hours of training

Both Active Shooter training and Reality Based Training required officers to respond to roleplayed

scenarios, with other officers acting as victims and suspects After each scenario, the par ticipating officer was given feedback on his or her per formance in stopping the threat, according to a press release

The IPD utilized a vacant building in Ithaca to hold its role play training, which involved “minimal” cost, Williamson said Over six weeks, ever y IPD officer repor ted to the building for evaluation, required by the Active Shooter training program

Though no gun-related massacres have plagued Ithaca, the IPD takes gun violence “ ver y seriously” and is aware that the city is not immune to serious threats, according to Williamson

“It is our opinion that even one crime involving a gun is a problem; to that end, we will exhaust all of our resources to keep our streets safe,” he said All IPD officers and several from the Ithaca College Police Depar tment and Dr yden Police Depar tment attended the first training session called Law Enforcement Emergency Response to an Active Shooter, according to Williamson

Olivia Dang can be reached at odang@cornellsun com

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Sheriff: N.M. Teen Planned

To Randomly Shoot People

ALBUQUERQUE, N M (AP) The New Mexico teenager accused of gunning down five family members over the weekend ambushed his father as he returned home from an overnight shift at a rescue mission, then reloaded his rifles and planned to go to a Wal-Mart and randomly shoot people, authorities said Tuesday

Instead, 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego texted a picture of his dead mother to his 12-year-old girlfriend, then spent much of Saturday with the girl and her family, authorities said That evening, the teen went to the church where his father had been a pastor, and Griego eventually confessed to killing his parents and three younger siblings

“The motive, as articulated by the suspect, was purely that he was frustrated with his mother,” Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston said “He did not give any further explanation ”

Houston said Griego had planned the shootings for at least a week, but it’s unclear if he ever actually went to a WalMart or why he changed his mind about continuing the attack, which occurred the same day thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully at state capitals around the country to rally against stricter limits on firearms The “Guns Across America” events were being held just after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals

Griego told detectives he also contemplated killing his

girlfriend’s parents, Houston said

The sheriff said he didn’t know if Griego’s contact with his girlfriend avoided further bloodshed But he said she apparently knew what had happened, and officials are investigating whether she should be charged with failing to report the crime

“We know Nehemiah had been contemplating this for some time,” Houston told reporters at a Tuesday news conference Griego apparently had told others of his plans, but whom and when was still under investigation, Houston said

The teen waived his right to arraignment in adult court Tuesday on charges of murder and child abuse resulting in death, and a judge ordered him held without bond The case was assigned to public defender Jeff Buckels, who didn't immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment

The sheriff ' s office identified the victims as Greg Griego, 51, his wife, Sarah Griego, 40, and three of their children: a 9-year-old boy, Zephania Griego, and daughters Jael Griego, 5, and Angelina Griego, 2 All appeared to have gunshot wounds to the head

According to Houston and charging documents, it all began early Saturday at the family’s home in a rural area of southwest Albuquerque, when Nehemiah Griego angry and annoyed with his mother acted on what he described to investigators as homicidal and suicidal thoughts

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Judge Lets NYPD Resume Suspicion-less Stops

NEW YORK (AP) A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she decides what permanent remedies are necessary to prevent illegal stops in thousands of privately owned buildings

U S District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan lifted immediate implementation of the order she issued earlier this month concerning a program aimed at decreasing city crime

The judge earlier this month found that the city acted unconstitutionally in making trespass stops without reasonable suspicion at more than 3,000 Bronx buildings participating in the program, a finding that the city is challenging in a federal appeals court Scheindlin said the need for the appeal will be mooted by her order lifting the ban

Scheindlin said she believes her original ruling was correct when she found police sometimes stopped people who were merely entering or exiting buildings and not acting suspicious, but the city had shown it would be expensive to immediately implement an order that could be reversed in a complicated area of law

Brooklyn Man Files Lawsuit

Over Police Beating

NEW YORK (AP) A Brooklyn man whose beating by two police officers was caught on videotape filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the officers and the city

Ehud Halevy’s complaint alleges that the 21year-old was punched about two dozen times in an Oct 8 beating that lasted more than two minutes He also was pepper-sprayed in the face, according to the complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court

A spokeswoman said the city Law Department would review the papers

n a Bruzzese, had responded to a call of a dispute inside the outreach center at the Aliya Institute in Crown Heights The synagogue has since said that Halevy was sleeping in a back room and had permission to be there

Video from a security camera shows the officers confronting Halevy At one point Vega lands a hard right that knocks Halevy onto one of the couches Halevy puts up a struggle, Vega pummels him and Bruzzese appears to hit him with a baton before he's finally subdued

Halevy was arrested on charges that included assault, resisting arrest and trespassing He spent four days in jail, but the charges were eventually dropped

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has called the video “disturbing ”

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Maintaining Momentum On Addressing Sexual Assault

IN SEPTEMBER ALONE, AT LEAST FOUR SEXUAL attacks were reported on or near Cornell’s campus While the issue of sexual assaults dominated social discourse on campus this fall, the incidents that sparked the dialogue are becoming an increasingly distant memor y In addition, the revelation that one of the reported assaults was false makes it easier for some to forget that sexual assault remains an issue Upon our return from a long academic break, it is crucial that the Cornell community not lose momentum in its efforts to address sexual assaults on our campus

A single false report should be considered an anomaly While exact figures are elusive, most national studies place the percentage of “unfounded” sexual assault allegations in the single digits The revelation of a false allegation, although a rarity, is nevertheless a serious detriment to a community that has fought so avidly to combat the problem of sexual assaults But we cannot let it paralyze us Neither a dearth of new reports over the last four months nor the stain of a false report mitigate the gravity of this issue The Cornell Police University Department, the administration and the student body must not allow the incident of a false allegation to overshadow the need to take action against sexual violence against women on our and other college campuses

In response to concerns from student activists, the University has initiated several reforms this year, including bolstering late-night safety by upping patrols, sending Cornellians weekly emails with tips for self-defense and re-assigning three Cornell police officers to exclusively investigate reports of sexual assault Additionally, Cornell will begin incorporating sexual assault prevention training into Orientation Week programming for incoming freshmen

While these actions by the University are welcome steps, we feel that the administration has not yet adequately considered student protesters ’ September demands to extend similar educational initiatives to administrators, faculty, staff and older students While targeting new students for this training is an significant effort, it will not be sufficient if we are to accomplish a more complete cultural transformation

We can do more

As a result of the high volume and concentration of the reports, we became witness to some of the most passionate displays of student activism to occur in recent years Students have successfully spread sexual assault awareness, but concrete reform must follow As we embark on a new semester this week, we ought not begin with a clean slate The efforts of student groups and leaders this past fall showed tremendous dedication to the cause: The sit-ins they staged in front of Day Hall drew impressive crowds and myriad focus groups were formed to discuss the underlying institutional weaknesses that enable rape to occur

Although sexual violence may never be completely eradicated in our community, the administration, the police and the student body can diminish its persistence by transforming dialogue into reality We exhort the University to improve the safety and wellbeing of its constituents through visible and measurable action, and we encourage the students of Cornell to continue to demand the same

Dan Rosen ’13 re ects on some of the 161 things he never did for better or for worse.

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By JACQUELINE CAROZZA Sun Contributor

Scientists have discovered the natural drug precursors for a number of medicines by obser ving how indigenous cultures use plants to treat diseases Many pharmaceuticals sold today, such as the anticancer drug Taxol and the analgesic Aspirin, had their chemistr y derived from plant sources

Spenser Reed ’14, a double major in f

joined the search for natural pharmaceuticals this summer at the Cornell Biodiversity Laborator y in the Dominican Republic In his research, Reed focused on evaluating the bioactive properties, or those that affect human cells, of plants used by indigenous groups to treat type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by the body’s destruction of

Reed ’14 Investigates Indigenous Remedies For Type 1 Diabetes

its own pancreatic beta cells, which are responsible for producing insulin A type 1 diabetic’s impaired production of insulin, a hormone that is critical in regulating blood glucose levels, results in a reduced ability to maintain a normal blood glucose range of

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Reed traveled to Punta Cana as a part of the Minority Health International Research a

reduce health burdens on underser ved populations, under the tutelage of Prof Manuel Aregullin, plant biology, molecular biology and genetics There he spent the summer doing fieldwork and learning about natural product synthesis in the classroom

Reed described his work as “prospecting” for plants that could be used in drugs, and taking a closer look at the chemistr y behind what makes these plant remedies effective

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Contributor

Many of us have gone shopping with a coupon where a genuinely nice cashier, in an attempt to save us money, decided to apply sales tax after the coupon We typically nod, smile and thank her for her kindness, but in reality, did she save us money? Multiplication’s commutative property says no

According to Prof Steven Strogatz, mathematics, it doesn’t matter which the cashier applies first: the sales tax or the coupon Either order will produce the same final price

That’s the type of ever yday application of math which Strogatz uses in his new book, The Joy of X, to demonstrate how math can be fun He aims to interest a wide audience, even those who have previously considered equations as public enemy number one

In addition to making math more appealing to the general public, Strogatz has devoted much of his career to studying epiphenomenon synchronization, or the coordination of events which appear to be happening for no particular reason His initial goal is to discover which systems tend to synchronize, but

the main purpose of his research is to discover why synchronization happens

Biological synchronization is when biological systems, which could be as small as cells in a heart or as big as the entire universe, fall into a sync, or rhythm This includes examples such as when fish swim in schools to increase chances of survival against predators, or when birds fly in flocks to decrease air resistance

One of Strogatz’s focuses includes the biological synchronization of fireflies in Southeast Asia A single firefly produces only a small amount of light that’s barely visible from far away, but along the river banks of Southeast Asia, hundreds and even thousands of fireflies have synchronized to create what appears to be a massive flashing light that can be seen from a distance

Strogatz theorizes that, due to the dense mangrove tree population in the area, the synchronization of flashing aids female fireflies in finding mates

Strogatz also studies synchronization within physics In one of the United States’ military bases, there are several atomic clocks, all of which are averaged out to produce what is known as atomic time

“It never ceases to amaze me to read papers where the authors are able to find cytotoxic and antimutagenic properties in plants that the native people have been using for thousands of years, ” he said “ We’re just validating it These people have discovered it ”

regarding Dominican medicinal plant use and speaking with indigenous healers in Punta Cana, Reed selected five plants to sur vey for anti-diabetic properties One of his choices –– the avocado leaf –– particularly stood out because it was rumored to be helpful in treating diabetes when brewed in a tea

“As a type 1 diabetic myself for 15 years, my eyes just opened when I heard this,” Reed said “After I searched the literature and found that nothing about [the] avocado leaf had been thoroughly investigated, I thought how interesting it could be to study [the] avocado Perhaps we ’ re missing the chemistr y behind it ”

To determine the bioactivity of his plant selections, Reed conducted a variety of in vitro tests after extracting compounds from the leaves His trials included an antibiotic test; an allelopathy test that measures the ability of extracted compounds to influence growth and metabolism; and a toxicity test The avocado leaf performed the best of any of the plants on these preliminar y procedures, Reed said

Reed even performed an oral glucose tolerance test on himself His experiment involved drinking a sugar water solution and then a tea made from one of the plants of interest, prepared as the Dominican natives would He monitored his postprandial, or after-eating, blood glucose levels ever y 30 minutes to determine the effects of the five plants

The results for avocado leaf came in positive

“None of the other plants had any effect

except for the avocado leaf, which was able to keep my postprandial glucose range ver y t

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Currently, the only long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes is injection of insulin into the body to compensate for the body’s inability to produce the hormone on its own The efficacy of the avocado leaf and other medicinal plants with anti-diabetic effects have only been hypothesized

“ They are potent antioxidants, and may be able, through a series of biochemical pathways, to influence blood sugar regulation,” Reed said

Another possible explanation for their effectiveness, according to Reed, is that they act as insulin secretagogues, which are products that are able to stimulate the body’s damaged insulin-producing machiner y Reed will continue studying the antidiabetic properties of plants in Aregullin’s lab this semester, but this time he will be

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“Once we find out that a plant has some biological properties and we elucidate the chemistr y, we can isolate individual chemicals and tie them to certain biological effects,” he said

Reed hopes his work will eventually lead to an animal model or a cell-based assay

Reed’s next step is to move from isolating and characterizing the bioactive chemicals in traditional plant remedies to testing their effects in live organisms “ That would really be the pinnacle for me, both as a student and as a diabetic,” he said

Jacqueline Carozza can be reached at jac553@cornell edu

Prof. Steven Strogatz Studies Synchronization

Every clock in existence has at least a slight deviation from perfect timekeeping Atomic clocks are devices that use the electromagnetic spectrum of atoms to maintain the most accurate time known

Researchers have previously found that atomic clocks, when located in the same facility, begin synchronizing with one another Synchronization is undesirable because it decreases the accuracy of atomic time Strogatz realized that synchronization is an often–overlooked phenomenon, but understanding why it happens could lead to solutions to potentially stopping undesirable synchronization

Strogatz theorizes that synchronization happens all around us

Whether it’s tiny fireflies producing lights together, or the most accurate clocks available synchronizing to one another –– thereby reducing their accuracy –– synchronization is unavoidable

One way that Strogatz demonstrates synchronization is by using two small metronomes moving at different frequencies The two metronomes will not synchronize when sitting on a stationary surface, such as a table, but when placed on a moving platform created by a piece of cardboard on top of two

rolling tubes, the metronomes will synchronize

In addition to research and public outreach, Strogatz also values teaching, whether in the classroom or on Twitter where his tweets earned him a spot as one of Scientific American’ s top scientists to follow Over many years of experience as a renowned professor, he has developed many ideologies and methodologies to his teaching The advice he offers to others is: “You shouldn’t give an answer until the student is ready to ask the question ”

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If you are one to judge a movie by the duration of time spent thinking about it after wards, I promise that the contemplation period after Holy Motors will outrun that of any other movie you ’ ve seen recently You will find yourself agonizing over it, in the best way possible Much of the film’s myster y arises from wondering what drives the protagonist, Monsieur Oscar, to don 11 different roles in a day-long limousine ride through Paris

His first appearance as a well-off bourgeois statesman who dresses up as a gypsy to panhandle on the Pont Neuf resembles an act of empathetic voyeurism; his subsequent transformations into a performance capture artist for a video game then an accordionist reveal a more fetishistic

intent Beyond that, Oscar plays an overbearing father who interrogates his daughter on her social life, an assassin who kills his doppelganger and a leprechaun-looking bum who kidnaps a model (Eva Mendes) to dress her in a burka Each new episode emphasizes director Leo Carax’s immense artistic variety, who is capable of generating horror, sympathy and social commentar y all at once, but does not cross from stimulating the audience to exhausting them

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f u l s p o k e n lines that film’s ability to excite us and let us lead double lives is being threatened In a scene when Oscar runs through Pere Lachaise cemeter y in Paris, a tombstone reads “ Visit my website” the Internet and social media outlets create a virtual lifespan that may outlive us and threaten our appreciation of art At one point, a sinister movie producertype randomly appears in Oscar’s limousine and tells Oscar, “You’ve looked a bit tired recently Some don’t believe in what they’re watching anymore ” Oscar says he “misses the cameras Now they are smaller than our heads,” to which the old man asks, “Isn’t this nostalgia a bit sentimental?” Through the dialogue, Carax comments on the supposed degeneration of film But when Oscar is asked “ What makes you carr y on, Oscar?” Carax poses his solution: Oscar replies, “ The beauty of the act ” If film will sur vive incoming technologies because of its b e a u t y, Ho

widescreen cinematography beautifully saturates the Paris landscape and provides visual excitement throughout the slower portions of the stor y The cast is studded with attractive performances as well: Eva Mendes as a model passively

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kidnapped by her erect (literally) beast Oscar, Kylie Minogue as an old flame of Oscar’s singing “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” in a portion of the film told through music

The critics, too, see Holy Motors as a harbinger of a new era in cinema The Los Angeles Film Critics awarded it the Best Foreign Language film award and

esteemed 90th percentile on Rotten Tomatoes I only regret that Oscar voters disagreed when they chose to omit t

Fo re i g n Language Film categor y They have left the film behind, but I can ’ t say that I have

Holy Motors is the best film I saw this year and has reenergized my passion for contemporar y cinema I predict that you will hear a lot about Leo Carax in coming years Emanuel Levy has named him the new “enfant terrible” of cinema and clearly Carax is driving film for ward If Carax has a new future for cinema in mind, I cannot wait for it

Henr y Staley is a freshman in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun com

But Why Can’t I Save the World?

fter watching Zero Dark Thirty for a second time and binging on both 12e p i s o d e , 1 2 - h o u r s e a s o n s o f Homeland in just three days, I was struck by a pang of melancholy For reasons that don’t trouble me nearly as much as they should, this realization had little to do with my supine disregard of exercise or summer

i n t e r n s h i p a p p l i c a t i o n s In s t e a d , I f e l t insignificant and small, humbled by the extraordinar y acts that both Zero Dark Thirty’ s Maya ( Jessica Chastain) and Carrie (Claire Danes) of Homeland achieve, the latter on a serialized basis

Granted, these two heroines are among the most flawed protagonists in film and television history; Carrie spends significant screen time crying, screaming, panicking, bugging her eyes out or and this is how Claire Danes wins all the Emmys colliding her many bipolar symptoms at once, while Maya sits on the opposite end of the clinical spectrum, possessing more of a psychopathic coldness that I consider to be the film’s apparentl y - t o o - s u b t l e c r itique of America’s

c a l l o u s , p o s t - 9 / 1 1 f o re i g n p o l i c y Re g a rd l e s s , a s I e m e r g e d , b l e a r y

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of them) can prescribe witty retorts and enviable bravery to a character and, with a mental breakdown here and a sobbing fit there, still pass off the creation as human It is when we believe that these superhumans could even possibly be real that the aforementioned sadness, the most unwarranted of phenomena, creeps in

Let us take a more agreeable example, especially as I remember the more unsavory details of Maya’s character For me, Harry Potter embodied this saintly, yet still powerfully empathetic, protagonist Here is a teenager, just slightly older than me when I first read The Deathly Hallows in 2007, vanquishing the greatest evil his world has ever seen How does he do it? (*Spoilers, I guess*) He walks into a dark forest, guided by the souls of all the family and friends who have perished in the decades-long war he is about to end and accepts that, to fulfill his destiny, he must die Harry follows through every step without curling into the fetal position

m a , I c o u l d n o t resist the superficial allure of such “heroic” work I want to join the CIA!

Even after admiring the gray tones of counter-terrorism in Homeland and defending Zero Dark Thirty’ s anti-war message to anyone who will listen, I find myself at the most base and opportunistic of temptations

As damaged as Carrie and borderline sadistic as Maya may be, they pull off peerless feats of deduction and investigation that are based on hunches only they believe And that’s pretty cool In the vacuum of fiction, a writer (or, in the case of Homeland, a room

or crapping his pants he approaches his certain demise with maturity and grace

And, after flatlining right there in the Forbidden Forest, he returns to life to kill Voldemort in front of all his peers Rowling likely intended Harry’s defiant victory to strike the reader as inspirational and comforting, yet I found myself plummeting into an existential crisis as I examined my own life and found my worst struggles woefully pathetic compared to Harry’s Gee, I haven’t levitated a feather, no less slayed anything close in size or strength to a basilisk or He-Who-

Must-Not-Be-Named!

Am I alone in finding some of our culture ’ s most popular and satiating movies, TV shows and books inherently depressing? That I expect an answer from a rhetorical question may hold an answer Moving away from the morally questionable heroines of Homeland and Zero Dark Thirty, the hagiographic elevation of protagonists in more crowd-pleasing works like Harry Potter, Star Wars or Les Misérables may very well provoke an unintended moment of self-reflection

The Sopranos knows this well: In a very meta s c e n e , g a n g s t e r C h r i s t o p h e r Mo l t i s a n t i freaks out after reading in screenwriting books about how every character has an arc “Where’s my arc?” he asks

Of course, the only way to cast off this pall of self-deprecation is to build your own character in a video game, that is Super Mario Bros or Call of Duty don’t cut it, as they focus only on objectives within a predetermined playing style, leaving no other options for the player but to master the mechanics Bioware’s sci-fi trilogy Mass Effect, rightly considered a masterpiece of the medium, still falls short in granting the player complete control of his or her destiny Although the player must make a plethora of in-game choices, the core narrative still follows one of three good, bad or neutral pre-determined paths that all funnel into basically the same ending The storywriter has more authority over the narrative than the player, which is no different than noninteractive media like film and literature

This brings me to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the black hole that annihilated the rest of my free time over winter break, and then some This game makes no attempt to emulate cinema through shot reverse shot dialogue exchanges, “ cutscenes ” or “quick time events, ” a la Mass Effect Rather, Skyrim throws the player into a massive world of high fantasy, borrowing names and creatures from Norse and Camelot folklore and severing all other ties from the world of our own Sure, there is an epic story involving a

prophecy and a mythical villain, but like

by Bethesda Studios, the plot serves as a vehicle for gameplay and not the other way around

A game like Skyrim offers an oddly empowering experience Why stick to a sword, bow or fire spell when you can wield them all simultaneously? The citizens of nine cities and countless villages, forts and dungeons depend on your agency to decide a Civil War, reconcile warring factions and kill a plague of dragons, in whatever order you choose Or you can forget about all that and buy a house, collect potions and assist the local business owner in finding his lost family relic But be wary about investing too much into your character: The humbling heroics of Harry Potter and Homeland have nothing on realizing that your video game character is living a more listless life than your own

Zachar y Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at arts-andentertainment-editor@cornellsun com A Lover s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays

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guard but he’s back on track and we expect him to be a big contributor as we go into Ivy League play ” Returning to Newman for the final game of the break, the Red gave its fans a historic performance with a 103-84 rout of the Panthers It was only the second time in the past 20 years that the squad has put triple digits on the scoreboard Gray led the way with 24 points, followed by senior forward Errick Peck with 16 and Cressler with 15 The Red shot 72 percent from the floor in the second half, including 62 percent from beyond the arc

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Red Captures Four Wins on Tough Winter Break S chedule

B aske tba l l s quad suf fers lo sin g re c ord

0n tw o we ek, fo u r-st at e ro ad tr ip

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Wr ter

During winter break, the Cornell men ’ s basketball team embarked on a tough road trip that covered four states in four road games and included a game against then-No 1 Duke (16-1) The trip began with a 66-55 loss on Dec 17 against Vanderbilt (7-9) at Nashville, Tenn The Commodores stormed out to an early 12-point halftime lead, but Cornell respond-

as the Red coughed the ball up a season-high 26 times and the Blue Devils converted those turnovers into 35 points

The Red then visited Boston University (9-10) and lost its third game in a row, 70-57 The starters struggled this game, scoring just nine of the Red’s 57 points Sophomore guard Devin Cherry, junior forward Errick Peck and junior forward Dwight Tarwater all were in double digits off the bench, although Peck committed eightt u r n o v e r s

“We’ve had some ups and downs, been trying to figure ourselves out.”

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ed with a 14-4 run out of the locker room to cut it to two Vanderbilt then went on a 12-2 run to expand the lead to 12 and never looked back Sophomore forward Shonn Miller led the Red with 15 points and 13 points, and senior forward Eitan Chemerinski went 4-4 from the field for 10 points off the bench

The Red next played Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium and realized why the Blue Devils were ranked No 1 in the country, as they blew out the Red, 88-47 Duke forward Mason Plumlee, a candidate for Player of the Year, scored 18 points on 8-8 from the field and grabbed nine rebounds Turnovers proved key in the game,

The Red had a great start as it led the Terriers, 3530, at the h a l f

H o w e v e r , Boston pulled away in the second, outscoring the Red 40-22 Turnovers were again a problem, as the squad turned the ball over 19 times

The Red finished its trip on a positive note, beating St Francis (Pa ) (1-16), 79-67 Senior guard Johnathan Gray and Peck led the way with 21 points each Junior guard Dominick Scelfo played a then-season high 19 minutes in the game and contributed five points, two rebounds and one assist St Francis was led by a balanced effort, as five players all reached double digits

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun com

Balanced , con si stent scoring carries C.U. into new year

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Two days before the New Year, the Red celebrated a tough road win, 79-77, over in-state rival Binghamton in Vestal, NY The squad got off to a hot start, outscoring the Bearcats 41-26 in the first half, but allowed Binghamton to crawl back into the game in the final twenty minutes

14 but was held to just one rebound Bucknell’s physical forward Mike Muscala scored 13 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for a double-double, and Cameron Ayers led all scorers with 16 points

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but after ward the Red never looked back Miller started off the run with a 3-pointer, and a layup by Scelfo on the next possession put the Red up by four Cressler’s five-point streak midway through the half then gave Cornell a comfortable 14-point lead

“Cressler is a big guard who can really shoot the basketball.”

Sophomore forward Shonn Miller started off the game with a 3-point play and after forcing a turnover, senior guard Johnathan Gray followed suit by knocking down a triple from beyond the arc Three minutes later, senior forward Eitan Chemerinski got hot, scoring five straight points to give the Red an early 10-point lead Consistent shooting by Gray, senior guard Dominick Scelfo and freshman guard Nolan Cressler kept the Red in a comfortable lead in the first half

However, the Bearcats came out of the locker room on a mission, continuing to chip away at the Red’s lead with their 3-point shooting With 2:30 left in the game, Binghamton cut the deficit to seven points After another layup by Chemerinski, Bearcats guard Jordan Reed scored five straight points to shrink the Red’s lead to just three with 50 seconds left After a timeout, sophomore guard Galal Cancer knocked down a big free throw to narrowly put the game away

The Red was unable to follow up this intense victory in its first game of the new year against Bucknell on Jan 2

“We’ve had ups and downs, been trying to figure ourselves out, ” said head coach Bill Courtney “We’ve struggled with turnovers and missed open shots, but as our guards get used to different roles, they’ve understood what we want out of them ”

In the 72-56 loss to Bucknell, the Red struggled to connect from the field The squad shot 36 percent from the floor, compared to the Bisons’ 62 percent Senior forward Josh Figini scored a team high 15 points and Miller put up

Women’s Hockey Defeats Conference Foes

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Wr ter

The final games of 2012 and the first of 2013 came in hostile territory for the w o m e n ’ s h o c k e y t e a m

However, the Red was able to come away with a 2-2 record against tough ECAC rivals No 4 Cornell (14-4, 10-2 ECAC) played two opponents ranked within the Top-10 nationally: No 7 Clarkson (18-6, 10-2) on Nov 30 and No 3 Boston College (17-4-2, 10-2-1) on Jan 13 Both of those matchups ended in losses for the Red, but the team was able to bounce back and defeat conference rival

St Lawrence (13-9-2, 7-4-1 E C AC ) o n De c 1 a n d Northeastern (12-9-2, 6-61) on Jan 12

The 4-2 victory against St Lawrence was perhaps the team ’ s most impressive win on the road trip The squad came up against a tough ECAC foe and was able to kill nine penalties and block 18 shots Junior for ward Jessica Campbell had the eventual game-winning goal in the third period and added an assist for three total points on the d a y Ju n i o r g o a l t e n d e r Lauren Slebodnick recorded 22 saves in the win Cornell’s subsequent 4-2

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goals for the win Campbell was again the star of the show, scoring two goals

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Slebodnick made 25 saves in the matchup In Nov

breaking goal on the power play at 12:03 in the third

Washington, D C to take on American the team with which Courtney began his coaching career and escaped with a 68-60 victory Balanced scoring was key for the Red against the Eagles, with four players Gray, Miller, Scelfo and Cressler reaching double figures American was able to take a short-lived one-point lead two minutes into the second half,

Cressler who has been a key scorer for the Red as both a starter and reserve began to put up more consistent numbers over the break He scored in double figures in three of the final four games of the break, including a 15-point performance against Old Westbury

“He is a big guard who can really shoot the basketball and is extremely intelligent on the floor,” Courtney said of Cressler “He’s gone through some typical ups and downs as a freshman

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Building Momentum, No. 6 Red Defeat s Har vard

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

After toppling Brown in a lopsided 356 victory on Saturday afternoon, the No 6 Red traveled to Cambridge, Mass , where it picked up its second Ivy win of the day with a 24-15 defeat over the Crimson Freshman Nashon Garrett brought a high intensity to the mat in the first period against Harvard rookie Jeff Ott The 125pound wrestler notched a takedown in the first 10 seconds, but Ott managed to

reverse him Garrett earned an escape, but was taken down once more, allowing Ott to pick up three back points Garrett picked up another escape and a takedown, but Ott led 8-6 into the second period

“When we went to Harvard, there were some highs and lows,” said senior Kyle Dake “Garrett, at 125, was a little sloppy in the first period, but showed his true ability and put a ton of points on the board to get the major ”

Making good on a nearfall, Garrett tied the score at eight and entered the third

C.U. Continues Strong Start

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

After one of the strongest starts to the season in program history, Cornell scored even higher this past weekend at the Pittsburgh Quad Meet on Saturday night

Po s t i n g a 1 9 0 3 0 0 a t Ge o r g e Washington less than one week

b e f o re , t h e Re d i m p rove d 1 5 points to finish the Pitt meet in

third place with 191 800

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Beckwith “In gymnastics we don’t concentrate as much on the winning or losing unless it’s other Ivy teams or rivals, so much as team score Going up a point and a half in our team score is the most important

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re d a 195 650 Cornell finished in a comfortable third place ahead of Temple, which accrued 190 000 points

“ We beat Temple, which is always a good indicator for us of where we are, ” Beckwith said

A f t e r f a l t e r i n g o n f l o o r a t George Washington, the Red came back and gave a strong performance falling just short of a school record with a 48 700 (their record is 49 000) Senior captain Sarah Hein scored a 9 775 with her routine She earned a career best debuting a new routine

“We went up a full point on floor, which is two tenths per person, ” Beckwith said of the team ’ s

period with a renewed fire The rookie started down, then quickly escaped and picked up a takedown Bringing Ott to his back once more, Garrett picked up his last takedown and some riding time to clinch the 17-9 major decision

En t e r i n g t h e 1 3 3 - p o u n d s m a t c h u p, Cornell held the lead, 4-0 However, the Crimson was quick to close the gap Sophomore Bricker Dixon faced off against Harvard sophomore Ryan Osleeb, but after a scoreless first period, Dixon was the first to light up the scoreboard with an escape from the opening down position Osleeb escaped to open the final period and took Dixon down with 38 seconds left to take a 3-1 lead The Cornell sophomore escaped, but was unable to close, as Osleeb picked up a 3-2 decision

The gap tightened to 4-3 in favor of Cornell, but according to Dake, Dixon’s loss is not indicative of the skill of the Red’s 133-pound division

Moving to 141 pounds, Cornell had senior Joe Stanzione step in for junior Mike Nevinger Stanzione faced a tough opponent with No 10-ranked Steven Keith, who compiled an 8-0 lead with riding time in the first two periods The Cornell senior chose to start from the top position in the final period, and he managed to pick up one point after Keith was penalized for his second stall warning Harvard picked up the win, as Keith earned an 8-1 decision

With Harvard edging the Red out by two points, 6-4, Cornell needed to make u p g ro u n d No 1 5 C h r i s Vi l l a l o n g a squared off against a familiar face as Harvard freshman Todd Preston got in position At 149 pounds, Villalonga domi-

nated the match-up He accumulated an 11-0 lead after the first period, in which he notched a takedown and three three-point nearfalls Preston was in a tough deficit, so he chose to start the second in neutral Finishing the match quickly, Villalonga grabbed a takedown and two additional back points

Villalonga won a 15-0 technical fall at the 6:43 mark and moved Cornell into the lead, 9-6 Dake noted his teammate ’ s ferocity on the mat

“ Villalonga absolutely dominated his high school teammate, ” he said

With a three-point cushion, junior Jesse Shanaman was primed to contribute to the Red’s lead Facing off against No 8-ranked Walter Peppelman brother of Cornell junior Marshall Peppelman Shanaman had a tough break The Harvard wrestler escaped from his chosen opening down position at the start of the second, earning a 1-0 lead, which he maintained throughout the match

“Shanaman should have had a takedown against a returning All-American in Walter Peppelman at the end of the third,” Dake said of the referee’s call that time had run out “[Shanaman] realizes that he needs to take matters into his own hands and not leave anything up for question We are expecting [him] to get on the podium in March [at the NCAA tournament ]”

Tied at nine all, No 1-ranked Dake proved once more that he only needs a short amount of time to get the job done He won by fall for the second time of the day beating Brown’s Jack Roberts earlier

Jenner, Slebodnick Ear n ECAC Honors

Women’s ice hockey junior for ward Brianne Jenner and junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick both earned awards this week after the team went on a three-game winning streak Jenner earned the title of ECAC Hockey Player of the Week, while Slebodnick was named Goaltender of the Week

Both players turned in strong performances against ECAC foes Jenner scored three goals against Syracuse and two assists, two goals and two assists

against St Lawrence, and capped off the week with a goal and an assist against Clarkson Her goals sealed the victory for the Red in all three games This is Jenner’s first Player of the Week award this season Jenner also won the award twice last year, and was named Rookie of the Week three times during the 2010-2011 campaign

Slebodnick blocked 13 shots against Syracuse, 16 against Clarkson, and 20 in a shutout over St Lawrence The shutout

was Slebodnick’s second of the year This is her first Goaltender of the Week award on the season and the fourth of her career She won the award twice last season and once during her freshman year Slebodnick also won Rookie of the Week in 2011

The Red continues its season this week with games at Yale and Brown on Friday and Saturday