‘Downtown renaissance’ | The City of Ithaca recieved a $1 8-million grant to improve the Commons (pictured above)
Commons Project Receives $1.8M
By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer
T h e C i t y o f It h a c a received a $1 8-million state grant last month that will be used alongside federal funds to revitalize downtown Ithaca in what Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, called a “ very sub-
stantial downtown renaissance ”
The grant was awarded by the state of New York to enhance economic development downtown, according to Mayor Svante Myrick ’09
The redesign of the Commons will improve aesthetics
Power Outage Stymies
Some Students’ Studying
Cornell experienced a brief “campus-wide power outage ” Wednesday, according to a University-wide email sent at 10:45 p m that evening
The email said outage resulted from “loss of steam ” in a central heating plant Power was restored by 11:05 p m , according to another email sent by the University Wednesday night
Some students said their studying was interrupted when they found themselves without power
Kendra Hayes ’15 said the power outage generated “ a lot of noise” from confused students who took to the hallways in her dormitory in Sheldon Court
“Some of my friends were reading, so [the lack of light] created some issues,” Hayes added Still, others were undeterred by the loss of light, according to Katy Reines ’14, who was studying in Duffield Hall when the building lost power for about 20 minutes
“Everyone was very chill and just kept working like nothing happened,” Reines said
Reines said that although fire alarms blared in Duffield for several minutes, the noise “didn’t seem to deter anyone ” “I guess everyone ’ s just as behind with work as me, ” she said ––
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C.U. Defends Medical Amnesty
By ELIZA LAJOIE Sun Blogs Editor
After Cornell revoked its recognition of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity this month in the wake of alcohol-related hazing allegations, a University official stressed the importance of taking advantage of Cornell’s medical amnesty policy in emergency situations
In October, two of the fraternity’s pledges were hospitalized after members of the fraternity called for emergency ser vices in relation to an alcohol-related hazing incident Though the medical amnesty policy p r o t e c t s o r g a n i z ations and individu-
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a l consequences if they call 911 in an emergency medical situation involving alcohol or dr ugs, it does n o t a p p l y t o instances of hazing, according to Travis Apgar, associate dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs
Still, the brother said he feels student safety could be improved if the University’s policy were to cover
“The reason we have to close [the fraternity] is that they hazed their new members They put their new members’ lives at risk ”
Apgar said that, while TEP called for emergency medical help after the October incident, its loss of recognition was not related to alcohol consumption, but rather to repor ts of hazing at the incident that sur faced several days later, as well as a histor y of similar violations
those related to hazing “ There’s no way of ignoring the fact t h a t t h e r e i s s t i l l pledging and hazing
Even when there i s t h i s c u l t u r e change, there should still be this idea that the human life is of the utmost importance and there just shouldn ’ t be any reason not to call,” he said Bu t Ap g a r s a i d t h e i n c i d e n t a l o n e d i d n o t re s u l t i n T E P ’ s l o s s o f re c o g n i t i o n T h e d e c i s i o n t o re m ove t h e f r a t e r n i t y f ro m c a m p u s w a s re a c h e d a f t e r t h e Un i ve r s i t y re c e i ve d f i r s t - a n d s e c o n d - h a n d re p o r t s , c o m p l a i n t s f i l e d o n l i n e a n d p o l i c e re p o r t s i n d i c a t i n g t h a t h a z i n g h a d o c c u r re d “ [ T h e a l l e g a t i o n s o f h
Vi g il Honors R ap e Vic tim
By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Staff Wr ter
While throngs of protesters gathered around India’s parliament in protest of the fatal gang rape of a 23year-old female student, a group of 70 students, faculty and local residents met in Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday to commemorate the death and raise awareness of sexual violence against women
On Dec 16, 2012, a female student was violently raped by a group of six men on a moving public bus in New Delhi, according to The Ne w York Times The victim later died from internal injuries caused by the attack The men, if found guilty, could face the death penalty, The Times reported The attack has sparked a debate about the treatment of
women and the legal penalties of sexual assault in India, where, according to The Times, rape is common and conviction rates for the crime are low The vigil began with the singing of “ We Shall Overcome” and a Hindi prayer song called “Aye Maalik Tere Bande Hum,” which was sung by mourners holding glow sticks in
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Sharing stories | Students, faculty and local residents gathered in Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday in a vigil for a rape victim in India
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Vigil for rape victim in India protests against rape culture
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Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun com
Help keep Ithaca Beautiful.
$4.5-million grant will provide funds for Ithaca transportation improvements
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and repair infrastructure that, in some areas, is about 100 years old, Susannah Ross, a senior associate at the Boston-based firm at Sasaki Associates and lead designer of the project, told The Sun in November
With this money, the city will re
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“ This pedestrian mall is going to have a complete facelift,” he said “It will look completely different than it does today ” Myrick also helped the city e
Transit Administration grant last summer to improve the TCAT bus system and the Commons, d
Grand Central Station” of Ithaca “ I c o n v i n c e d [ t h e Fe d e r a l Transit Administration] not only that a million dollars of TCAT upgrades were worth investing in, but also the Commons because it’s the hub of all our transit systems, ” Myrick said
Fu r t h e r m o re , My r i c k s a i d , enhancements such as GPS sens o r s a n d re a l - t i m e s i g n s a n d kiosks will let bus riders know when the next bus will arrive so the TCAT will increase its efficiency
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C o m m o n s a n d t h e TC AT enhancements are expected to cost between $10 and $12 mill i o n , a c c o rd i n g t o Jo A n n Cornish, the city’s director of planning and development In addition to the grant money, which adds up to $6 3 million, the city is expected to contribute $3 5 million to the project, she
said
However, due to insufficient funds, extra amenities that are currently in the proposal, including the installation of a fountain and small playgrounds, may have to be constructed at a later date o r e l i m i n a t e d f r o m t h e p l a n entirely A budget is being formulated to determine what the city can afford, according to Cornish
Regardless, the city will install new underground infrastructure so amenities that require underground work, such as fountains, can be placed at any point in the future
“ What we will do is make sure that ever ything underground can s u p p o r
Cornish said
The first discussions about revitalizing the Commons began in 1997, when people tripping over damaged sidewalks resulted in a series of lawsuits against the city However, instead of only focusing on the sidewalks, the city decided that it would revitalize the entire Commons area, Cornish said
“ We realized that if we were going to do this, we should do this all at once rather just than just piecemeal,” she said
Construction on the redesign is set to begin on April 1 and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2014, according to Myrick During the construction, retail spaces will remain accessible to customers
“[The construction] will actua l l y b e s l ow e r t h a n a m o re straightfor ward project because we want to keep access to all the businesses open, ” Myrick said “ We want to reduce noise, dust, [and] all the stuff that comes with construction ”
Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com
Cornell: Hazing Not Included as Part of Medical Amnesty Policy
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son its recognition was revoked
Interfraternity Council President Chris Sanders ’13, who has worked throughout his tenure to promote the University’s medical amnesty, said that even if the policy does not apply to certain situations, fraternity members will still prioritize others’ well-being and call for assistance, no matter the disciplinary risks
He also said that a major, student-driven shift is necessary if Greek culture is to remain relevant on campus
“People have the audacity to continue to haze with hard alcohol or alcohol in general There needs to be a change We can ’ t just idly stand around and say it’s bad administration policy,” Sanders said “People need to make a conscious decision to be healthy and safe ”
But the TEP brother said he feels the University’s efforts to promote medical amnesty to fraternity houses and other organizations have made the policy seem more inclusive than it is in reality
“It felt like it was a clear-cut thing I think that’s why everyone was so excited,” he said “[We thought] if there ever is an instance where someone is sick, you can always call without fear for yourself or your organization ”
The TEP brother said he believes Cornellians involved in Greek life should not be “afraid” of administrators, but rather should aim to work collaboratively with them
He also argued that TEP’s punishment does not represent a solution to the problems of the Greek system on campus
“It’s really unfortunate that the University continues to act reactionary and [thinks] that this won ’ t happen again,” he said
Eliza Lajoie can be reached at elajoie@cornellsun com
Teen Per former at O bama Inaugural Event s Fatally S hot in Chicago Park
CHICAGO (AP) A 15-year-old girl who had per formed in President Barack Obama’s inauguration festivities is the latest face on the ever-increasing homicide toll in the president’s hometown, killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her
Chicago police said Hadiya Pendleton was in a park about a mile from Obama’s home in a South Side neighborhood Tuesday afternoon when a man opened fire on the group Hadiya was shot in the back as she tried to escape
The city’s 42nd slaying is part of Chicago’s bloodiest Januar y in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008 It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementar y school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws
Hadiya’s father, Nathaniel Pendleton, spoke Wednesday at a Chicago police news conference, which was held in the same park where his daughter died
“He took the light of my life,” Pendleton said He then spoke directly to the killer: “Look at yourself, just know that you took a bright person,
Chicago Police Superintendent Garr y McCarthy consoled him, the girl’s mother and 10-year-old brother
Hadiya was a bright kid who was killed just as she was “wondering about which lofty goal she w
Stewart, told The Associated Press Hadiya had been a majorette with the King College Prep band
“She was a ver y active kid, doing dance, cheerleading, who felt like she could accomplish just about anything, a ver y good student who had big dreams about what she wanted to be, a doctor, an attorney, ” said Stewart, a Chicago police officer
and attorney “She was constantly getting good grades ” Obama was asked about Hadiya’s death in an inter view with Telemundo, which led to a discussion about gun control Also Wednesday, White House press secretar y Jay Carney said Wednesday that the president and the first lady’s “thoughts and prayers are with” the teen ’ s family, adding: “And as the president has said, we will never be able to eradicate ever y act of evil in this countr y, but if we can save any one child’s life, we have an obligation to tr y when it comes to the scourge of gun violence ”
In Chicago, gangs routinely and often indiscriminately open fire Mayor Rahm Emanuel and McCarthy are pushing for tougher local, state and national gun laws and longer prison sentences for offenders
About three blocks from Hadiya’s school, she and a group of 10-12 young people, including members of her volleyball team, had taken refuge under a canopy at a park to avoid the rain Tu
behind the park, ran at the group and started shooting, and then jumped back over the fence and into a white Nissan The group scattered, but Hadiya was shot once in the back and a teenage boy was shot in the leg
Police said Hadiya had no arrest record and there was no indication she was a member of a
McCarthy said there are no indications that anyone in the group was gang-affiliated He said the police suspect that the gunman may be a member of a gang that considers the park its turf and that he mistook somebody in the group as someone from an encroaching rival gang McCarthy vowed to put a police officer at the park “24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year ” if that is what it takes to show the gang that the park belongs to no one but the community
Queens District Attorney Interview Wording Deemed Illegal Magic
NEW YORK (AP) A state appeals court on Wednesday struck down language that the Queens district attorney ’ s office has used in its systematic inter viewing of thousands of arrested individuals before arraignment, calling it unconstitutional
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ambiguous language, preventing the office from effectively describing rights to defendants in a program it has touted as a way to reduce the prosecution of innocent people
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viewed pursuant to the program are told, through the Miranda warnings, that they have the right to remain silent, the preamble suggests that invoking that right will bear adverse, and irrevocable, consequences, ” the
court wrote “Such a suggestion conveys that suspects have a right to remain silent only in the most technical sense ”
It added: “Simply put, suspects cannot
rights if they are not effectively advised as to what those rights are, and the consequences of foregoing them Indeed, effective advice as to the nature and consequences of a sus-
essence of the solution devised by Miranda to combat the compulsion inherent in custodial interrogation ”
In a statement, District Attorney Richard Brown said the program in effect since June 2007 no longer contains the statements cited by the court He said the office already has revised the program created to prevent
Wednesday’s ruling
He said the program has resulted in the dismissal of charges against more than 100 innocent people before arraignment and the
reduction of charges and the lowering of bail recommendations in scores of other cases to more accurately reflect credible evidence He called the program “ an integral part of our making certain that justice Is done with respect to each and ever y one of the cases that we handle ”
Taylor Pendergrass, senior staff attorney with the New York Civil Liberties Union, said the ruling “lays bare the deeply troubling reality that the Queens District Attorney’s program has resulted in the systematic violations of core constitutional rights for over ten thousand individuals since 2007 ”
He added: “ The court ’ s appropriately unequivocal ruling leaves little doubt as to the unconstitutionality of any program by which prosecutors, as a matter of policy, m
making statements almost all of whom are indigent and a majority of whom are people of color just before they are appointed an attorney to represent them ”
Orlando forward Glen Davis was forced to leave the Magic’s game against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night after hurting his left foot in the first half
Davis played 4 minutes, 20 seconds and scored the Magic’s first basket before being taken out of the game It was not clear how he was injured
Both teams came into the game short-handed as Orlando was without leading scorer Aaron Afflalo and the Knicks were without veteran backup point guard
Jason Kidd
Kidd, who sat out the second half of Sunday’s win over Atlanta, was again out with a sore lower back
Coach Mike Woodson said Kidd may have tweaked his back playing extended minutes with starting point guard Raymond Felton out recently An 18-year veteran, Kidd has averaged 28 5 minutes this season roughly three to five minutes more than Woodson wants
Afflalo, who is averaging 16 7 points, missed his second straight game with a strained left calf
N.Y. Thruway Plans to Lay Off 234 Workers
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Weiller says the layoffs of
Weiller says no toll increases of any type are planned The layoffs are expected to save $20 million The authority’s total is budget is $977 million
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Newtown Residents At Hearing Urge Stricter Gun Laws
NEWTOWN, Conn (AP)
Newtown officials and parents of children killed in last month’s elementary school massacre, often in emotional testimony, called on state lawmakers Wednesday night to turn the tragedy into “ a moment of transformation” by banning high-powered, militarystyle rifles and high-capacity magazines while providing better care to the mentally ill
Several hundred residents, many wearing stickers urging more gun control measures, attended a public hearing held Wednesday night in the wake of the Dec 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead Lawmakers are considering possible changes to laws and policies affecting guns, mental health and school safety
Bill Sherlach, whose wife, Mary, a school psychologist, died in the rampage, said that he respects the Second Amendment but that it was written in a longago era where armaments were different
“I have no idea how long it took to reload and refire a musket,” he said “I do know that the number of shots fired in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in those few short minutes is almost incomprehensible, even in today’s modern age ”
Unlike a legislative subcommittee hearing held Monday at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford on gun laws, which lasted hours into the night and attracted hundreds of gun rights activists statewide, the crowd at Ne wtown High School on Wednesday was overwhelmingly in favor of gun control
“ Turn this tragedy into a moment of transformation,” said Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son, Dylan, was among those killed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who fatally shot his mother in their home and then drove to the school to carry out the massacre before committing suicide
David Wheeler, whose 6-yearold son, Benjamin, was killed at Sandy Hook, said a more comprehensive system of identifying and monitoring individuals with mental distress needs to be created “ That a person with these problems could live in a home where he had access to among the most powerful firearms available to non-militar y personnel is unacceptable,” he said “It doesn’t matter to whom these weapons were registered It doesn’t matter if they were purchased legally What matters is that it was far too easy for another mentally unbalanced, suicidal person who had violent obsessions to have easy access to unreasonably powerful weapons ”
But Newtown resident Casey Khan warned that further restrictions on gun rights leave “good and lawful citizens at risk ” While one of the few to speak in favor of gun rights, Khan still received applause from some in the audience
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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, at a news conference at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif , Jan 15, 2013 Even with a strong earnings report, the company’s stock dropped after hours before recovering on Wednesday, Jan 30
As the issues surrounding high-risk drinking and hazing continue to dominate campus dialogue, the role of medical amnesty inevitably enters the conversation Some have argued that medical amnesty should shield organizations from punishment for all behavior including hazing that is uncovered as a result of a medical emergency call And many in the Cornell community are unaware that amnesty is not so comprehensive The University must combat this misconception that medical amnesty can be used to protect hazing First, it must educate the community on the limits of amnesty protocols Doing so will allow the University to place the onus on student organizations from Greek chapters to athletic teams to musical groups to eradicate the behavior that leads to these alcohol- and drug-related emergencies in the first place
In Sept 2011, New York State passed its Good Samaritan Law, under which students on- and off-campus can seek protection from underage drinking charges if they call 911 on behalf of an individual in need The policy complemented Cornell’s existing protoc
Administrator But these protocols do not ensure blanket amnesty for entire student organizations whose medical emergencies are the result of illegal hazing activity; nor should the University offer such protection to these groups
We support the use of medical amnesty as applied to individuals We emphatically encourage students to act morally and intelligently in emergency situations by calling 911, knowing that they will face neither legal nor collegiate judicial consequences for making that decision Efforts by the Greek governing councils, the Student Assembly and the administration to spread awareness about the importance of calling for help are noteworthy and have helped to increase safety at Cornell But they have not gone far enough in elucidating the boundaries of amnesty protocols The gift of amnesty and it is a gift cannot be exploited as a safeguard against punishment for engaging in humiliating, dehumanizing or other wise abusive behavior against fellow Cornellians
The word “ amnesty ” carries a weighty connotation Its implication is that it is allencompassing, but students should know that certain egregious actions will be met with consequences The University has not done enough to clear the fog surrounding medical amnesty policies These protocols have been in place for months without proper education, and we believe that this oversight has led some groups to act as though they are beyond sanction In the aftermath of crackdowns on hazing, including the recent expulsion of one fraternity and the suspension of several others, the administration is just now beginning to shed light on what medical amnesty truly means for students Although we wish these clarifications had come sooner, we commend the University for taking the necessary steps toward denying student organizations an auspice under which to continue hazing
CORRECTION
An editorial Wednesday, “Myrick: One Year Later,” incorrectly stated that Svante Myrick ’09 sold land occupied by Ithaca Community Gardens to a private developer In fact, the Community Gardens has not been sold
Winter in Ithaca : Where Are Your Pants?
When I told people that I was going to Cornell, the one thing that I always heard first was “Oh, it’s cold there ” Sometimes it was a variation like “Bring a jacket,” or the classic “Brrrrr!” But no matter what it was, people always wanted to talk about the weather and how devastating it would be It would have been one thing if I had grown up in Thailand, El Paso or even San Diego Maybe then I would have been cautious But I am from Colorado In my younger days, when I met kids from other states and they heard I was from Colorado they would always ask me, “Do you ski a lot?” “Does it just snow all the time?” or “Do you ride a horse to school?” (Yes That was an actual question I received at age 14, believe it or not) Colorado is
rugged; it’s the land of Chipotle and skiing Colorado was for pioneers and cowboys and South Park and the legendary stylings of John Denver
And then last year rolled around and winter in Ithaca never really seemed to come It would drop down to the 30s for a day or two, but then the sun would shine again and things would start to thaw Needless to stay, when I returned to Cornell in mid-January this year, I was cocky I have endured -14 degree days at home I thought that I knew cold and that there was nothing to worry about
And then the first week of classes came I remember walking around campus and thinking to myself, “This is the coldest I have ever been in my life This is absolute zero ”
Who was it that settled here in 1790 (Ithaca’s founding year), lived through one day like last Tuesday and said to him or herself, “Yes This is a good place to live We should definitely put ourselves through this again next winter?” 1790 was before central heating, before warm buses and before North Faces and Ugg boots
Either way, they put a school here And one thing I noticed last week (in addition to how my regular banana became a frozen banana on my way to class) was the diversity of wardrobes that could be seen around campus Here are brief descriptions of a few of my particular favorites:
THE CARTOON CHARACTER
This person obviously isn’t an actual cartoon character actual animated figures tend to stay within their cartoons However, these Cornellians wardrobes’ may as well belong to one Day in and day out, these people manage to wear a very slight variation (sometimes less) of the exact same thing They range from teaching assistants to fraternity guys to girls who only own sweatshirts and leggings Anyone can be a cartoon character the only qualification is to find one clothing combination and stick with it You may see someone, perhaps my freshman writing seminar teacher, who decides to wear black from head to toe everyday Some choose to wears boat shoes and a Patagonia fleece
whether it is in the mid-sixties and sunny or it is 10 degrees with a bonechilling wind ripping across the arts quad And, of course, there is the multitude of girls who wear leggings and Uggs every day Somehow, though, despite an Ugg endorsement from Tom Brady, this look hasn’t quite made it to the male community at-large THE WINTER WARRIOR
This person dresses like they are going to face the punishing cold of K2’s north face Each morning when the temperature dips a bit below comfortable, this person can be found adding an extra 40 pounds in clothing to his or her frames He or she covers him or herself head to toe, only leaving a small gap visible for the eyes Now, while I must admit that this person probably isn’t
feeling the crippling cold outside, Cornell tends to keep the insides of its buildings consistently a little too hot There is no way that person is comfortable sitting in the heat in class or trying to be responsible for all of that clothing after taking it off To give them credit, though, he or she is definitely not cold when walking outside THE TOUGH GUY
Alright, man I saw The Social Network too, and however cool Jesse Eisenberg may have looked running across the Harvard campus wearing a gray hoodie, flip-flops and white socks while designing the most influential website of our generation, here in real life, you just look silly We are not at Harvard You are not Jesse Eisenberg You are not designing Facebook You know what other movie I saw? Everest People’s appendages froze solid and turned black from frostbite They had to go through devastating physical therapy and rehabilitation and even then their fingers still fell off And those people were wearing the most technologically advanced cold-weather gear of all time Now, Cornell may not be quite as cold as high-altitude Nepal, but it’s close enough Wearing cargo shorts, a light hoodie and sandals isn’t impressing anyone Take care of yourself You look ridiculous And you definitely don’t want Everest-esque frostbite
Like I said, these are only a few of the styles I noticed walking around campus And in an opinion column it might be nice to somehow tie this article together into a neat ending about how these styles represent Cornell’s greatness Everyone can find a place where they belong and still expose themselves to all types of people (and harsh elements) while growing as an individual I’m not going to do that, though I just want this column to be a message to the tough guys out there: Invest in some pants Your calves make everyone around you uncomfortable
Christo Eliot is a sophomore in the College
Christo Eliot
The Tale of the Dingo At Midnight
Dining Guide
Carnivores Venturing Into the Unknown
Ithaca’s most innovative vegan creations
By CLARE DOUGAN Sun Staff Writer
If hipsters were sandwiches, they would be the bánh mì Obscure, cross-cultural and visually appealing, this French-Vietnamese fusion food is both tasty and cool As Hipster Kitchen, I’m sort of obligated to be into it; thankfully, it’s hard not to love
A crash course, for those of you not fortunate enough to have ever stumbled across this delicacy: Literally, bánh mì is the Vietnamese name for French bread Here in the Occident it’s come to mean the sandwiches made with said bread, which often uses rice flour in place of wheat flour, resulting in a light, crispy baguette-style loaf Meat usually tender bits of pork, swathed in silky marinade is the main ingredient, and more often than not, a thick smear of rich pâté lies atop one face of the cut baguette, providing a pleasant contrast to the crunch of quick-pickled vegetables and cilantro garnish With the addition of mayonnaise and sriracha, it’s hard for me to imagine a more perfect sandwich for the decadent carnivore
deprivation ranges from ritualistic to impossible Let it be known that I’m totally down with a diet rich in vegetables, grains, fungi and fruit However, when animal-product substitutions come into play, I’ve always found that vegan food falls flat I couldn’t imagine that this sandwich would live up to my standards So, naturally, I ordered it
I couldn’t imagine that this sandwich would live up to my standards So, naturally, I ordered it.
Thus, I was amazed to see a vegan version of bánh mì on the menu at Cafeo, the tucked-away Collegetown coffee shop notable for awesome espresso drinks with a subtle Vietnamese twist I’ve had its regular, meat-inclusive bánh mì (at the Cornell Farmer’s Market) and loved it, but I have to admit that I was skeptical of a meatless variety It’s hard enough to make something vegetarian; vegans take abstemiousness to the next level, where self-
Cafeo has triumphed Its vegan bánh mì is different from but no less delightful than their classic version (termed the “Special” on their menu) Tofu is used in place of pork, and though the texture is not even remotely meatlike, the marinade is identical I’m usually pretty nonplussed by tofu, but this stuff was marvelous: succulent and balanced Equally astonishing was the mushroom-nut pâté swapped in for the meat kind Savory, mellow and rich, it’s one of the only nut pâtés I’ve ever tasted that wasn ’ t drastically over-salted The pickled vegetables and cilantro required no modification, and I couldn’t detect the presence of any questionable vegan mayonnaise, which must mean that they’re using something good I was dining with a friend and thus was able to taste the meat version and the vegan version at the same time I couldn’t pick a favorite This is, by far, the most innovative dish I’ve ever encountered and one of the best lunches available in Ithaca Meat-eaters and herbivores alike ought to give it a try
Now Taking Graduation Reservations
Vegan gems prove that they’re just as good as the real things
By AUSTIN BUBEN Sun Staff Writer
For some reason, so much of my life has revolved around tacos Growing up, tacos meant one of two things: Either that it was Tuesday or Mom didn’t know what else to make for dinner Needless to say, I ate a lot of them (it’s ok, Mom) My first year at Cornell, I had a hole in my heart; I couldn’t for the life of me find a good taco in Ithaca What’s a good taco, you ask? It’s simple: A good, hot tortilla (crucial), some kind of MEAT filling (so juicy that it drips down your forearms), freshly made salsa of whatever scoville heat unit, some variety of sharp white cheese (not cheddar) and some shredded iceberg lettuce serving no nutritional value, only texture I remember going to Viva Taqueria the first time my freshman year and being appalled by the menu Who in their right mind would put tofu in burritos
(#IthacaProblems)? I gave up on filling the void that is until I had a moment of weakness at Agava and became vulnerable to tofu (scary, I know) The East Hill Vegan tacos at Agava are a definite must-have Whether you are vegan or not, don’t let the title steer you away These tacos should be enjoyed free of social and cultural boundaries What makes them great? The fact that they meet and exceed my previous definition of a good taco
The hot tortillas (whether you choose flour or corn) are the perfect vehicle for the (juicy!) marinated and grilled local tofu, salsa verde (freshly made), tomato, sweet corn and cabbage slaw that adorn them As much as the purist in me resists change to “trendy” spins on classics, it is innovative dishes like Agava’s East Hill Vegan tacos that open my mouth as well as my mind
Clare Dougan can be reached at cdougan@cornellsun com
Austin Buben can be reached at abuben@cornellsun com
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Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity Spring Recruitment
Information Sessions: Wednesday 1/30 and Thursday 1/31 at 5 PM
Location: 122 Rockefeller Hall
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
If Gorilla Manor was Local Natives’ freewheeling, flowerchild of a debut, Hummingbird represents its moody, teenage successor equally the audible nectar listeners have come to expect, but with the increased range of emotion and energy of an ever-maturing band
Some have accused the four-piece outfit from Silver Lake, C A (the west coast ’ s answer to Brooklyn’s Williamsburg) of being a living, breathing Urban Outfitters commercial, which with its propensity for acid washed denim vests and ill-fitting cardigans is understandable In a way, the particular brand of indie pop-rock that Local Natives achieves via rolling drums and haunting echoing vocals is so utterly of the moment that such comparisons to the ubiquitous hipster-mecca superstore seem vaguely appropriate In the wake of 2008’s Chillwave movement, Local Natives has found a sweet spot balance between insanely catchy melodies, unobtrusive guitar riffs and the implementation of unique musical techniques that solidifies them as an integral and defining part of the current indie music scene
While the band does stick with its signature practice of layering high and low octave vocals on top of one another for that extra punch of depth and resonance, something remarkably new that Hummingbird brings to the table is the repeated use of dramatic “drops,” which add an EDM level of momentum to its indie ballads Songs like “Bowery” and single “Breakers” showcase this method
Tegan and Sara spent the first decade of their career making their names synonymous with charming indie-folk duo On their first six records, the twin sisters paired acoustic guitar with twee vocal harmonies, baring their souls on lovelorn and often understated albums Records like This Business of Art and So Jealous were all about introspection, reflection and, eventually, expression On The Con and Sainthood, released in 2007 and 2009, respectively, they forayed tentatively into more upbeat territory for the first time, though their music could never be considered to have a dance-y vibe
Their newest album, Heartthrob, signals the duo’s first significant shift in sound Synth-heavy and pure pop, Hear tthrob sounds unlike any of Tegan and Sara’s previous material In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Sara claimed that the band “wanted to take a big step ” Heartthrob is certainly a major change for the duo
In the past, the two have basically been the Taylor Swift of indie Canada, that is to say that each of their records seems to be a breakup album Desolation and heartbreak remain a theme on Heartthrob, but it’s deliv-
Both create short punctuated silences that, when broken, give way to thundering drums and spine-tingling choruses Amazingly, the Natives avoid the curse of sounds bleeding together into a multi-instrument mess Instead, they have created a powerful contrast that is miraculous and downright exciting
Although the album does have these explosive tracks, equally important to note are the slower, subtler ballads In this way, the album is a clear departure from Gorilla Manor, in which songs were for the most part uniform in terms of upbeat, sunny style to the extent that the song “Airplanes” (which was written about the death of a band member’s grandfather) sounded just as playful and lively as the others
The same is not true for Hummingbird A difference in tone is evident from the very first track of the album “You and I,” which begins with a minor key (that is present frequently throughout the album) that gives the song a vaguely mysterious air playful in a more dangerous way
The difference between the happier, fuller songs and these relatively more reserved numbers is made very clear “Ceilings,” which ruminates lovingly about the summer sun as the refrain “silver dreams bring me to you ” is repeated throughout, is audibly different from the subtle sadness heard in the sparseness and mournful vocals of both “Three Months” and “Colombia” beautiful homages to keyboardist /singer Kelsey Ayer’s late mother Lines like “Ohh,
ery is much more straightforward and, often, far less original than their previous albums
Perhaps this is a side effect of the pop production: everything about Heartthrob is large and obvious, foregoing subtlety in favor of heavy drum-and-bass programming
Aside from the flaw in originality, however, the album’s directness is largely successful Heartthrob feels immediate, and the many approaches it takes to love seem urgent, yet never stagnant The bombastic opening track “Closer” tells of temptation, as the girls outline a plot of seduction “All I’m dreaming lately is how to get you underneath me ” over a disco-inspired groove It is sweeping and grandiose and one of the more successful pop songs released in recent months, thanks in large part to producer Greg Kurstin
In “Goodbye, Goodbye,” Tegan and Sara pack an impressive number of new waveesque hooks into three minutes think more Missing Persons than Metric The third track, “I Was A Fool,” is one of the least emotionally impactful on Heartthrob, relying on post-breakup clichés like “stand still is all we did / love like ours just never fits” or the
every night I ask myself am I loving enough, am I?” bitingly illustrate the bitter loss of an important figure and all of the regrets and uncertainties that go along with such trauma The suddenness of tragedy is encapsulated as the song pleads, “I’ve got to go on now; having thought that this wasn ’ t your last year ” The band tackles similar issues of loss in a new, more personal and ultimately more effective way than ever before
Though some early reviews have complained that Hummingbird is just business as usual: the same pretty, simple songs that won the group acclaim in its first attempt to me, this couldn’t be further from the truth In its sophomore album, Local Natives builds upon the beautifully easy elegance that earned them fans in the first place, adding intricate melodies and minor chords that grant a level of depth and emotional complexity that, with hindsight, was sorely missing from Gorilla Manor The group hasn’t lost its “je ne sais quoi” factor that makes every song an instant favorite, but it has also managed to diversify its sound enough to stave off musical stagnation This impressive evolution of stylistic range illustrates the growth that Local Natives has experienced as a band over the past three years and solidifies them as a real force to be reckoned with
Lucas Colbert-Carreiro is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at lcolbert@cornellsun com
repeated refrain of “I was a fool for love ” It’s not that “I Was A Fool” is bad per se, but it is simply one in a lineup of many synth-pop love songs that are hard to distinguish from each other which can never be very good Next come “I’m Not Your Hero,” “Drove Me Wild” and “How Come You Don’t Want Me,” all maintaining the Heartthrob status quo of irresistible ‘80s hooks
“I Couldn’t Be Your Friend” and the album’s first single “Now I’m All Messed Up” deal with the aftermath of a romantic rupture, perhaps the “love that just never fit ” “I Couldn’t Be Your Friend” questions the classic “ we can still be friends” myth while layered in vocal “oh’s” that would somehow make both Lady Gaga and Sufjan Stevens proud The latter track, “Now I’m All Messed Up,” according to the band, began as a piano ballad That is until producer Kurstin programmed some throbbing drum and bass into it This is the strongest song on the record and offers some of the ladies’ most nuanced lyrics of the album (“Why do you take me down this road if you don’t want to walk with me?”) It showcases Sara’s vocals at their best, though the production often
masks her impressive range Heartthrob closes with “Shock To Your System,” a slow, pulsing track that sounds as though it could have been made by Peter Gabriel’s producer For all their radio-ready bluster and newfound accessibility, Tegan and Sara do risk alienating their fanbase (though if the fawning Soundcloud comments are any indicator, the devotees are far from disappointed) For longtime Tegan and Sara fans, it may seem overproduced or too drastic a departure from their former sound Even for newcomers, Heartthrob may at times feel as though it’s trying too hard, grasping at musical straws that vanished when 1990 came around Tegan and Sara’s new sound, however, dares to attract a totally new following Brazen and unrepentant, Heartthrob may not be what Tegan and Sara fans expected, but it’s a major and in many ways largely successful statement from everyone ’ s favorite Canadian twins
Gina Cargas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun com
Lucas Colbert-Carreiro
Gina Cargas
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Concerts to Look Forward To: Spring 2013
It is a given that all of us here at the Ar ts and Enter tainment section are big music buffs From rock and roll to indie to EDM, we love it all, or at least someone in our section does If it’s got a beat and melody, in the words of Liz Lemon, we “ want to go to there ” Of course listening to our favorite albums in our rooms or on the way to class is a great par t of the day, but nothing can beat going to a live show So when great bands come to the area, we want to know about them, and we hope that you do too Here are some of the announced shows we are looking for ward to in Ithaca and the s u r r o u n d
harassing that friend of yours with a car right now
AER
FEB 7, THE HAUNT
AER is really one of those bands that is hard to describe They have a reggae sound with distinct rap vocals; unlike the harsh rap of ar tists like Odd Future and Busta Rhymes, these guys want to spit and relax
A E R ’ s s t y l e i s s y n o n y m o u s w i t h f l a t brimmed hats paired with khaki shor ts and l a c
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Car ter and David from Wayland, Mass , switch back and for th on their tracks from soft and soulful singing to catchy rap lyrics for the college crowd with songs like “Feel I Bring” and “Floats My Boat ” “Fresh AER Movement” is coming to Ithaca for the second time this academic year in Febr uar y This concer t should be a par ty, minus the sticky frat house floor
BL ACK FRANCIS
FEB 9, THE HAUNT
VKur t Cobain once admitted that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was an attempt to “rip off the Pixies ” On Feb 9, the man he jipped is coming to The Haunt Known for his unhinged, alternative style and his unconventional (to say the least) lyrics, Black Francis, born Charles Michael Kittredge Thompson IV and alternately known as Frank Black, has cer tainly been around the block a fe w times Critically accoladed and hailed as one of the great rockers of the early ‘90s, Black Francis can still yowl, coo and scream his way through some of the greatest songs of the modern era
JEFF MANGUM FEB 13, STATE THEATRE
The anomaly of seeing reclusive Neutral Milk Hotel mastermind Jeff Mangum may have worn off since the indie man of myster y reemerged for a solo tour in 2011, but, come on, it s Jeff freakin Mangum, and he s coming to our ver y own State Theatre On
grainy YouTube videos can tell us) promises intimate, sing-along renditions of tunes from the classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea as well as earlier NMH tracks Br ush up on your Mangum lyrics for what’s sure to be an unforgettable evening on Feb 13
GREEN DAY WITH BEST COAST
APR 1, BLUE CROSS ARENA
With the weather we ’ ve been having, perhaps we ’ re overdue for some California sunshine Prolific punk legends Green Day have sold 70 million albums worldwide and 25 million in the U S alone Now, Joe, Mike and Tré are touring with on-the-
Shard s of Hope
isitors to artist Michael Genovese’s solo show Lines and Cracks and Zebras and Horses at the OHWOW Gallery in Los Angeles have cause for concern massive, silvery cracks run along the otherwise pristine gallery walls The room appears to be on the verge of crumbling These fault lines are not really chasms (although you can never really be sure about these things in contemporary art) They are more like casts of chasms, memorials to anything that might take on the form of a line, however sacred or banal Accompanied by a book of line-dominated images, notably a thunderous herd of zebras, the impossibly reflective sculptures are arresting for their scale and symbolism Each sculpture is the convergence of disparate worlds: Pompeii frescoes meet Metallica; a crack from an Iranian Mihrab dated 720 A D fuses with a mortar line from the vicinity of Castillo de San Marcos in Florida Looking at them, it’s entirely appropriate to feel like you ’ re in the throes of an earthquake
In an inter view with ArtSlant magazine, Genovese explained that his work is about “designating value” to fragments of life Whether it’s staring at stray hairs in the bathtub or gazing at a historical landmark (a very loaded term, in the context of this show), these moments mean something because, in that instant, we are registering the things around us and trying to make sense of them By turning a crack, usually associated with damage, into a sculpture, Genovese alters the meaning of the crack I like Genovese’s work It can be simultaneously gentle and violent as it interrupts the everyday and forces you to look at everything twice The art I am most drawn to often doesn’t conventionally look like art It’s the kind of art that can be mistaken as debris and accidentally get cleared away by a zealous museum cleaner, as happened to Gustav Metzger’s installation at the Tate Britain in 2004 Incidentally, Metzger’s work was conceived as a comment on the finite nature of art
rise sur f pop phenoms Best Coast for a night of legendar y hits and unhinged fun What more can we say? It may be in Rochester, but we are happy to make the trip
DEERHOOF
APR 13, THE CLUB @ WATER STREET
I never really understood how bands could be classified in the genre of “noise” (after all, there is no genre for silence yet) but Deerhoof manages to pull it off, and brilliantly at that Both cuddly and absolutely crazy in turns, the group ’ s sound is impossible to explain Like a stor y that ends with “ you had to be there,” each of its tunes manages to tread the line between greatness and absurdity That’s just the way we like them
BUDDY GUY
APR 21, STATE THEATRE
It’s hard to believe, but the 74-year-old,
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ture critic Oliver Wainwright has rightly pointed out), is a baffling and unmistakable sight in London’s South Bank
Among the most prescient critics, I think, is Prof Hal Foster, art, of Princeton University In an interview with The Guardian, Foster prefaced his critique of the building by admitting his ambivalence about perceiving the building as image It is too tempting for many critics to condemn The Shard as no more than spectacle Foster does not succumb He reminds us that architecture can bring order to urban life, and “ too often in cities people are lost” as they don’t have “symbols to guide them ”
Another urban intervention is The Shard, presently the tallest building in Western Europe and London’s highly metaphorical monument to the new kind of financial world, among other things The Renzo Piano-designed building, with a top like a shattered beer bottle (as The Guardian’s architec-
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee is still refining his fabled West Side sound Star ting out in faraway Lettswor th, L A , Buddy’s first stringed instr ument was a selfmade diddley bow But from these humble roots, Guy made a name for himself, first as a phenomenal session guitarist then as a l
Today, he has been recognized as one of the greatest to ever play the guitar On April 21, do not miss an evening with one of the last living legends of blues
We hear through the grapevine that there will be a pretty fantastic show coming up on May 16 or 17 We’re talking Fiona Apple level We don’t know what it is yet, but we ’ re going to hold off on buying those tickets home
Compiled by Sam Bromer, Arielle Cruz, Meredith Joyce and Sydney Ramsden
The Shard, a striking pyramidal assemblage of splintered triangles, could certainly come in useful as a landmark That’s at least one point its detractors can agree on Foster’s allusion to orientation is also unsurprising, since it’s a well-established tenet of urban theory The landmark is one of the five elements of the city’s new image proposed by the urban planner Kevin Lynch; the stronger and more prominent these elements are and the more harmoniously they are stitched together, the more legible a cityscape is I found most of Foster’s commentar y almost disappointingly uncontroversial, until he seemed to light up, near the end, when he likened The Shard to “radical surgery ” where “they stick a needle into your heart to get it to go again ” The violence Foster employs is, I believe, justified His view is that, juxtaposed with other iconic buildings like the Borough Market, The Shard disrupts the neighborhood There is no attempt at mediation, to bridge the gap in scale between the pedestrian strolling along the Thames and the gargantuan building I am inclined to agree with Foster’s assessment, though I will add that if The Shard is indeed a monument to a glittering financial world, then the violent disruption is fitting
Meaning making is a highly tenuous exercise, as should by now be obvious The more theory I try to read, the more apparent it seems that interpretation is the unification of seemingly unrelated elements, like how Genovese merges ancient Italian frescoes with American heavy metal Nevertheless, the whole exercise makes perfect sense to me, because I have never been able to forget the words of the first theorist I encountered at Cornell In The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch wrote, “Nothing is experienced by itself, but always in relation to its surroundings, the sequences of events leading up to it, the memory of past experiences ” I know it can all go very wrong you can end up very lost or injured as you invest more of yourself into everything that you read and write There’s also a fine line between creative interpretation and well, delusion, and who should be the judge of where that boundary lies? When so many others seem to have said something cleverer, why should I expect to arrive at something newer and better? I defer to the wisdom of those who have sought and found Former Prof Colin Rowe, architecture, wrote in The Cornell Journal of Architecture with characteristic adventurousness, “Therefore to agitate and to animate a very few ideas we will begin with a set piece which is going to be partly history and partly parable ” Or more simply put by Renzo Piano, designer of The Shard, “The best things in life are always a little dangerous ”
Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning She can be reached at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun com Darn That Dream appears alternate Wednesdays this semester
COURTESY OF BLACK FRANCIS
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HARRISBURG, Pa (AP) Jerr y Sandusky lost a bid for a new trial Wednesday when a judge rejected his argument that his lawyers were not given enough time to prepare for the three-week proceeding that ended with a 45-count guilty verdict on child sex abuse charges
Judge John Cleland’s 27-page order said lawyers for the former Penn State assistant football coach conceded that their post-trial review turned up no material that would have changed their trial strategy
“I do not think it can be said that either of the defendant’s trial counsel failed to test the prosecution’s case in a meaningful manner, ” Cleland wrote “ The defendant’s attorneys subjected the commonwealth’s witnesses to meaningful and effective cross-examination, presented evidence for the defense and presented both a comprehensive opening statement and a clearly developed closing argument ”
He also rejected post-sentencing motions regarding jur y instructions, hearsay testimony and a comment by the prosecution during closing arguments that referred to the fact that Sandusky, who did not testify at trial, gave media inter views after he was arrested in November 2011
Cleland said the prosecution’s closing was not presented in a way that “ was either calculated to, or did, create in the jurors a fixed bias toward the defendant ”
Sandusky also argued that charges should have been thrown out because they were not sufficiently specific, but Cleland said the lack of specific dates did not prevent Sandusky from pursuing an alibi defense
“ The defendant has simply argued the offenses did not happen,” Cleland said
One of the jur y instruction issues was whether Cleland should have talked to them about the amount of time it took for the victims to inform authorities that Sandusky had abused them
“No one who has had the slightest experience with child sexual abuse or given a whit of thought to its dynamics could conclude that failure to make a prompt complaint, standing alone, is an accurate indicia of fabrication,” Cleland said
Sandusky is ser ving a 30- to 60-year state prison sentence for the sexual abuse of 10 boys, including violent attacks inside Penn State athletics facilities
Also Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously approved a bill that aims to keep Penn State’s $60 million fine to the NCAA over the Sandusky scandal within the state
The measure, sponsored by Sen Jake Corman, a Republican whose district includes State College, would require such fines of at least $10 million to be deposited into a state-administered account, and be spent on Pennsylvania programs that address childhood sexual abuse
Williams Finds Fault In New York Not Receiving Penalty After NFC Championship
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Caldwell ’12 Returns to Berman
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SWIMMING AND DIVING
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With the regular season coming to a close, the Red wants to capitalize on its effort throughout the long winter season to achieve the end results the team has worked towards
“ We have worked really hard this year in and out of the pool, and I know all of that hard work will pay off,” he said “For some, our hard training has really s h ow n t h ro u g h a t s o m
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On the other side, the women ’ s swimming and diving team (1-6) also looks to end its season successfully Last year, the Red had an extremely successful win against Brown and the team wants the same result in this meet
“ The team had a strategy meeting this morning, so we are now all on the same page about how to approach this
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According to Morin, the two teams compete on similar levels, but the Red hopes its recent intense practice will give Cornell the advantage
“Brown is definitely our closest competition in the Ivy League,” she said “Coming off of a win at Colgate and a loss at Columbia, we have definitely been working hard the past few weeks to tr y and get ourselves in that championship frame of mind ”
In addition to the swimmers, the divers have also has been practicing hard
in order to pull out the victor y “ We have been working hard at practice during this past week to tr y and take down Brown this weekend,” sophomore diver Elisha Elovic said “ They are a close Ivy competitor and the divers have just been putting out heads down and putting in the work to tr y and win ”
The early morning workouts have been making the difference, Douglas noted
“Our team is definitely more fit and more mentally ready to compete in the league because of the work done at 6 a m in Bartels,” she said
The women are confident that they c a n h a v e t h e l e v e l o
c e s s t h e y achieved last year and put themselves into the right competitive mindset going into the final part of the 2012-13 season
“ [ In Iv y C h a m p i o n s h i p s ] w e a r e looking to improve in what we did last year, ” Morin said “ We are looking to just go in and race and tr y and get our hands on the wall before ever yone else Ho p e f u l l y, w e w i l l g e t s o m
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The men are hoping the meet against Brown will prove they are a contender in the Ivy League and prepare the team for the championships
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r s w i l l h a v e tapered, but I think a victor y at Brown will leave us with the taste of victor y as we head into Championship season, ” Hallowell said “It's really important to have great swims at Brown so we can assert ourselves as competitors in the Ivy League ”
John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun com
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Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun com
Men’s Basketball
After defeating Columbia, 6663, on Saturday to split its
Lions, Cornell is tied with Brown, Yale and Columbia for third place in the Ivy League The Red went 8-9 during its non-conference schedule, playing teams from the Big Ten, Pac 12, SEC and ACC While the Red w
matchups against teams in the power conferences, the team put up a good fight against Vanderbilt in a 55-66 loss Har vard and Princeton currently sit atop the Ivy League with undefeated records of 2-0 and 1-0, respect i v e l y T h
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Princeton and Penn this weekend with a chance to improve its conference standing
Skyler Dale
Derraugh Becomes Winningest C.U. Ice Hockey Coach
By HALEY VELASCO
Lynah was buzzing Tuesday night as the women ’ s ice hockey team took on Mercyhurst at 7 p m With the game ending in a 4-0 win, head coach Doug Derraugh became the winningest coach in Cornell’s women ’ s ice hockey history
Currently, he stands at 136 wins one more than Cornell’s first ever head coach Bill Duthie
“If you stay in it long enough, you ’ re bound to get there eventually,” Derraugh said in a statement “But I’m very, very blessed to be in a situation where the administrators really supported women ’ s ice hockey here at Cornell ”
The action began when junior defensemen Hayleigh Cudmore grabbed a goal thanks to a pass from sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier, putting the Red up 1-0
Junior forward Brianne Jenner scored two goals in the first shortly afterward For the second goal, Jenner deflected the puck off of her shin pad and went the other direction on a breakaway She used her skills and slapped a backhand around a Mercyhurst defender and the Red went up, 2-0 For the third goal, Jenner took a pass from senior defensemen Laura Fortino, shot at the Lakers’ goalie which rolled over the goal line and gave the Red its third goal for the day The goal for Jenner marked her 150th of her career and Fortino earned her 93rd career assist and is No 5 on Cornell’s all-time list for assists
Junior forward Jessica Campbell had a goal in the third period scoring the Red’s fourth point of the night and the Red took home the shutout thanks to some assistance from freshman forward Taylor Woods and junior defenseman
Alyssa Gagliardi
“I was real happy with the way our team played,” Derraugh said “It was good to see us get off to a good start [and to] come ready to play ”
Junior goalie Lauren Slebdonick grabbed her third shutout this season with 18 saves in total during the game The “W”
puts her at 41 for her career, tying her with Alanna Hayes ’99 for the third winningest goalie in all of Cornell history
The win for the Red is the team ’ s second straight over Mercyhurst and kept the team at a perfect 10-0 at Lynah for the season Cornell returns to Lynah Friday, when the team will face off against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at 7 p m in its first
game of the Do It For Daron Series for charity Fans are being encouraged to wear purple to help support the charity, which focuses on raising awareness and creating conversation about youth mental health
Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com
Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Red Lo ok s to End With Win at Brown
By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer
On Saturday, the men ’ s and women ’ s swimming and diving teams will travel to Brown University to close out the regular season The Red aims to end the regular season on a high note and build strong forward momentum heading into championship season
With Ivy League Championships fast approaching, the Red will attempt to gain its first Ivy League regular season win against Brown University
“We have been focusing as a team and working on the little things that are going to help us score more points and have greater depth,” sophomore freestyler Katie Morin said
The men ’ s swimming and diving team (1-6) is looking forward to the meet after last year ’ s extremely close finish with Brown Last season, the meet came down to the final relay, and the Red lost with its closest finish of the season at 155-145 This year, however, the Red aims to put the past behind the team,
implement its hard work and beat Brown
“We have had a couple of hard losses, but I think the whole team is ready to finish the season strong, ” sophomore diver Thomas Hallowell said “We lost a heartbreaking meet last year to Brown, losing on the last relay, so I know everyone is motivated to go and beat them in their own pool ”
Hallowell added that the men are likely to have a close
C.U. Hits the Road at Penn, P rinceton
By SKYLER DALE
Sun Staff Wr ter
After completing a sweep of Columbia on Saturday, women ’ s basketball (10-6, 2-0 Ivy) is set to square off against the Princeton Tigers (10-5, 1-0) and the Pennsylvania Quakers (7-8, 0-1) on the road this weekend
The Red, which hopes to keep its perfect Ivy season alive, needs to have a strong defensive game to lock up the Tigers and last year ’ s Ivy League Player of the Year, Princeton’s talented senior guard Niveen Rasheed
Since her freshmen year, when she won Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Rasheed has dominated the conference This season she has scored 15 points or more in 11 of the team ’ s 15 games and has averaged 16 4 points per game She has also grabbed an average 8 9 rebounds a contest
“Rasheed has been the best player in our league for the last few years, ” head coach Dayna Smith said
In order to beat Princeton, Smith believes the Red will have to play carefully on its offensive and defensive ends
“[We have to] rebound [and] play team defense,” Smith said “[We] have to take care of the basketball ” Nevertheless, she remains realistic about Princeton and the formidable Rasheed
“I don’t think you can shut her down, but I think you can limit the damage that she does,” Smith said
In addition to Rasheed, the Tigers have a solid supporting cast of
guards and for wards, including junior forward Kristen Helmstetter and sophomore guard Blake
Dietrick
The Tigers lead the all-time series against the Red by a margin of 4420 and 15-7 during Smith’s tenure
In the last match up between the two teams, the Tigers dominated the Red 75-39 on the road
After battling with the Tigers at 7 p m on Friday, the Red will take on the Quakers at the same time
Sunday
While Penn has lost three games in a row, it played well against the Big East’s Villanova Wildcats on Jan 16 in a 48-44 loss
The Quakers have a similar team structure as the Tigers, centering around one key athlete, junior guard
Alyssa Baron
“She’s another player that’s very capable of scoring twenty person a game, ” Smith said While Baron’s 15 1 points per
game make her Penn’s only player averaging over 10 points a contest, sophomore for ward Kara Bonenberger and freshmen guard Keiera Ray each have nearly nine points a game Ray earned her second Ivy League Rookie of the Week award on Monday
The Quakers have the all-time lead over the Red, 48-19, but Cornell has won 10 of the last 14 games against Penn, including both games last season
Smith stresses the importance of limiting her opponent ’ s best players in each of the weekend’s matchups
“[We can ’t] allow both team ’ s stars to take over, ” she said Ultimately, the Red has been preparing for its physically exhausting double-header this weekend with a challenging goal: to remain perfect in the Ivy League
Skyler Dale can be reached at sdale@cornellsun com
finish again this season
“It is definitely going to be a close meet We lost by the smallest margin last year, and neither team has lost any of its motivation Every race will be a battle and we are going to have to perform really well to be successful,” he said
Let the Bandwagon Go By
Remember when sports contests got so heated that fans of the opposing teams would actually engage in physical violence against one another?
Picture bare-chested, beer gut-toting middle-aged men attempting to box one another during some random football game Not the prettiest sight, I’ll concede, but a stereotypical depiction of what happens at sports venues
What drives other wise sensible and logical people to the point of physical altercations against each other at sports venues everywhere? It’s not cheap beer, or even the stereotypically male need to assert one ’ s dominance over others, although the case could be made It’s loyalty, plain and simple Loyalty to a team, to a city, or even to a specific identity or affinity is such strong emotional motivation to sports enthusiasts
A trend that I’ve noticed recently that somewhat baffles me is meeting fans of any given team who, for lack of a more respectful phrase, have no seemingly logical reason, purpose, or need to cheer on that team I’ve met Oklahoma City Thunder fans
from New York, Miami Heat fans from northern California and New England Patriots fans from South Florida If you’d like to know what my reaction to hearing this looks like, just picture the Jackie Chan WTF meme
Juan Carlos Toledo
Showtime at the Forum
Furthermore, another trend that I must admit I loathe more than the aforementioned geographical oddities in loyalty has got to be the spike in the size of a team ’ s fan base when the given team begins to win, seemingly out of nowhere Trust me, if you didn’t notice the ridiculous growth in the Miami Heat fan base after the summer of 2010, then you must have been living under a rock for the past two-and-a-half years
Of course, there’s the one case that I will say I absolutely detest above all the rest, and that’s the growth of the Los Angeles Clippers’ fan base since the acquisition of point guard Chris Paul
If you know a thing or two about basketball, then you might be saying to yourself right now that I’m just another salty Lakers fan based on my column moniker who is witnessing the rise of
Cornell vs Brown Saturday, 12 p m Providence, R I
Laps on laps on laps | The swimming and diving teams will head to Providence, R I to match-up against Brown University in the teams’ final meet of the regular season and prepare for the Ivy League Championships
MATT HINTSA / SUN FILE PHOTO
Striving for perfection | Junior guard Allyson DiMagno and the Red prepare for back-to-back games at Princeton and Penn this weekend
