02-06-13

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Plans Emerge for First Ithaca Mosque

By JINJOO LEE Sun Senior Writer

After almost 30 years of planning and fundraising, Ithaca’s Islamic community has raised enough money to build the first mosque in the area something it hopes to see happen within the next three months “ We’ve been tr ying to raise money for the mosque since the 1980s,” said Ahmed Ahmed, a senior research associate in the College of Veterinary Medicine Ahmed said that the Muslim population in Ithaca and at Cornell consists of approximately 400 peo-

ple Fundraising within the small community which he said is made up of “mostly students” to build a mosque was difficult, he said Now, with funds in place, Ahmed said that community mem-

See MOSQUE page 4

Collegetown Shooting Suspect A rrested by Ithaca Police Dept.

McCargo

charged with 2nd degree assault

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

A man who reportedly fired several rounds at a victim on Jan 29 causing the victim to suffer a gunshot wound on the buttocks turned himself in to the police Monday evening

The Ithaca Police Depar tment named Tyrell McCargo, 22, of Cor tland, N Y a suspect in the Oak Avenue incident Thursday, and launched a search for McCargo

“He was made aware of

himself in,” said Officer Jamie Williamson, public

“He was made aware of our pursuit and turned himself in.”

W i l l i a m s o n

with assault in the second degree a class D felony

On Jan 29 at about 1:30 a m , IPD responded to a 911 call repor ting that gun shots were heard in the 100 block of Oak Avenue and that a dark-colored sedan was seen leaving the area

The victim was said to be in stable condition

iPhone App Connects Students to Emergency S

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

Obser ving that Cornell students face potentially dangerous situations such as walking home alone late at night from the library or from a party a group of students have created an iPhone application that they hope will increase their peers ’ safety

The students’ app, ResCUer, provides users easy access to the phone numbers of University resources such as the Cornell University Police Department and Gannett Health Services, according to Matt Joe ’14, a student who worked on the app

Joe and a team of students created the iPhone app in December when they realized that there was no resource that allowed convenient access to important emergency contacts The team is now a week away from releasing an app for Android phones, according to Joe

“It is just a one-stop shop for every single emergency number The way I see it is, Cornell provides all of these really useful resources, and we ’ ve created a really simple way to access [all of ] them," Joe said “Gannett and the administration put up posters saying ‘Put these numbers in your

phone,’ but not every student actually copies them down ”

options to users on its main screen: “Get help” and “Go home ”

A user who touches the “Get help” option is linked to various emergency services numbers, including that of the CUPD, Gannett and the Blue Light Services, according to Joe A user who touches the “Go home” option is linked to the numbers of Blue Light Services and local taxi companies

Users can also insert the phone numbers

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

The basement of Barnes Hall flooded Monday, forcing Cornell Career Services staff to evacuate while University staff responded As of Tuesday, 103 Barnes Hall the location of Cornell Career Ser vices remained closed, according to a sign posted at the Ho Plaza entrance of the building The flood occurred at around noon due to the cold water pipe of the building cracking, according to Joseph Lalley, senior director of facilities operations There were no injuries reported

After clearing out the building, the University’s flood response team started to clean up and clear the damage in the basement, Lalley said “Some water made it to Ho Plaza, but the appropriate notifications to environmental officials were made,” Lalley added Lalley said that, as of Monday evening, the cracked pipe was “back in order ” It was not clear what caused the building’s water pipe to crack, according to Lalley “ These things happen from time to time, but I think everyone responded appropriately and in good time,” he said

Today

and Religion In Times of Terror

4:30 p m , Amit Bhatia Libe Café, Olin Library

James Carpenter Lecture: Light in the Public Realm 5:15 - 7 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Tomorrow

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation at 150

9 a m - 5 p m , Level 2B, Kroch Library

Celebrate the Year of the Snake 4:30 - 7:30 p m , Okenshields, Willard Straight Hall

Staying Balanced: Stress Management Program 6 - 7:15 p m , Main Lounge, Anna Comstock Hall

Rosa Parks @ 100 4:30 p m , Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies and Research Center

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Weird News of the Week

Stewie, World’s Longest Cat, Dies in Nevada

Stolen Giant Cookie Sculpture Recovered in Germany

BERLIN (AP) German police have recovered a cookie sculpture that may have been stolen by someone impersonating the Cookie Monster

Spokeswoman Jacobe Heers says the 20-kilogram (44 pound) gilded sculpture was found Tuesday morning outside a university It was hanging from the neck of a horse sculpture with a red ribbon

A local newspaper later received a letter demanding cookies be delivered to children at a hospital The paper also received a picture of someone dressed like Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster holding what appeared to be the stolen cookie

Montana Man Made Up Sob Story That Got Him Pizza

HELENA, Mont (AP) A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that gained him the clerk’s sympathy David Randall Lacey, 35, entered a Papa John’s pizza restaurant on Jan 22 with a bandanna over his face and gave the clerk a note demanding money, Helena police said He broke down crying and told the clerk he needed the money to support his wife and children, who were hungry The clerk made him a large pepperoni pizza and some chicken wings as he waited, and the man left

Law S chool Students

Re ect on the Job Hunt

Students who have secured jobs emphasize the

roles of University, profs in det erminin g their success

By SARAH MEYERS

Sun Staff Writer

Amid recent concerns about a hiring

c r i s i s f o r yo u n g l a w ye r s , C o r n e l l l a w school students who will be graduating this year and have already secured jobs shared their job search experiences and emphasized the need for proactivity in the job search

“ There was a time when anyone who went to Cornell was guaranteed a job on Wall Street sor t of like the ‘roaring twenties’ of hiring,” Chris Engler law said “I don’t know if hiring will ever return to pre-recession levels ” Engler who will graduate this May and has a position waiting for him at a midsize firm in Har tford, Conn said he found the law school’s career ser vices “ pretty helpful,” although he said it was targeted more at students working in larger cities As someone primarily interested in working in smaller cities, like Har tford and places in upstate Ne w York, Engler found he was required to do more research on his own

“ There’s a well-oiled machiner y for students who want to work in Ne w York [City],” he said “ There’s definitely a different recr uiting cycle for people interested in smaller markets ”

James Pyo law who will be working at the firm Davis Polk & Waldwell in NYC after graduation said he made

use of the law school’s career ser vices in looking for employment In August of his second year, Pyo attended a law schools p o n s o r e d c a r

which brought in representatives from a variety of firms for a three-day, nonstop cycle of first-round inter vie ws

“Cornell is tuned into all of these firms, so they know each one ’ s marketing schtick,” Pyo said “But a lot of it has to be figured out on your own talking to attorneys you know, going on the firm’s Web site, doing your own research ”

Pyo s a i d t h a t h e w a

“majority” of the students in his graduating class who are primarily interested in corporate law

“Cornell is more ske wed toward a corporate environment than some other toptier law schools,” Pyo said “I don’t know if it’s self-perpetuating or if there’s something about Cornell that does it ”

Although Pyo and Engler successfully found jobs, Engler said that some of his friends are still looking for employment

“In my class, some of my friends who don’t have jobs were more upset about it last semester but have had a ne w burst of

o p t i m i s m t h i s s e m e s t e r, ” E n g l e r s a i d

“Some of them are tr ying ne w things or tailoring their search really well to what they’re interested in ”

Scott Burnett law, who will be working for the Comptroller of the Currency, said he found that searching for public

sector jobs was markedly different from finding jobs in law firms

“Entr y level positions for government are hard to come by Firms have a lot of resources to get you up to speed, but the government doesn’t,” Burnett said Burnett found his professors to be one of the most valuable resources in the job search

r t a i n re s p e c t s , f a c u l t y a re j u s t a s u s ef u l ” Burnett said that government agencies tend to be more conser vative in their hiring than law firms He was one of seven

Burnett said he found that government jobs tended to require a higher level of

firms

“Government jobs want to see that you have an interest in their par ticular field,” Burnett said “Sometimes, there’s a misconception that government jobs are easy to get, but that’s misguided ” Still, all three law students expressed gratefulness that they had secured jobs

“Some of my classmates were unhappy [with their experience finding jobs], but a lot of this process is self-guided ” Pyo said “ You do ever ything in your power and the school’s career ser vices will help you, but it’s mostly up to you They can make a phone call or give you a firstround inter vie w, but beyond that, it’s all you ”

Weill Cornell Receives Millions to Study Elder Abuse

By REBEKAH FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

To combat elder abuse an issue the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a “significant public health problem”

Weill Cornell Medical College received a $13 6 million gift from a charitable foundation last month, according to Weill officials

The gift will be used to fund more standardized data collection on elder abuse and study effective ways to respond to such forms of abuse, according to Prof Mark Lachs, medicine, director of the New York City Elder Abuse Center

According to the CDC, elder maltreatment includes physical abuse, sexual abuse,

emotional abuse, neglect, abandonment and financial abuse of people over the age of sixty

WCMC’s Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology which conducts research to improve the quality of life for the elderly, according to its website is one of two institutions to receive the largest portion of a donation from the Irene Diamond Fund to counter elder abuse WCMC and the American Federation for Aging Research will each receive 34 percent of the $40 million gift Columbia University and Brown University also recieved funding from the fund for research on aging

“This donation will be the largest foundation gift ever received by the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine,” said

Larry Schafer, vice provost of development at Weill “We are grateful to be among such a highly-respected group of institutions chosen by the Irene Diamond Fund to receive donations in support of aging ”

WCMC’s Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology will use the gift to expand its Elder Abuse and Neglect project, a project that conducts research on and creates protocols for elder abuse, along with operating the NYC Elder Abuse Center WCMC has already created a multidisciplinary team to evaluate elder abuse victims in Brooklyn, according to Lachs

“With this grant, [WCMC’s Elder Abuse and Neglect project] will expand to all the boroughs,” Lachs said

In addition to its work regarding elder abuse victims, WCMC was a founding partner of the NYC Elder Abuse Center, which aims to improve how professionals, organizations and systems respond to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, according to NYCEAC’s website

The CDC website states that over 500,000 older adults are believed to be abused or neglected each year in the United States According to the website, the figure is likely an underestimate “because many victims are unable or afraid to tell the police, family or friends about the violence ”

Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun com

A CUPD officer was dispatched to take a report on unknown individuals writing graffiti on a stop sign on Campus Road on Monday No subjects were apprehended Theft on West Campus

The theft of a Radio Flyer wagon and grill cover from Flora Rose House was reported Friday

Harassment Reported

A student reported being verbally harassed by unknown individuals around Forest Park Lane on Friday

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Titan: Saturn’s Frigid Moon

Cornell professors help search for life and ice

By SARAH COHEN Sun Senior Writer

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uncovered more about Titan than previously known The Cassini mission, sponsored by NASA and ESA, the European Space Agency, has two parts: Cassini and Hu y g

Saturn, studying the planet, its rings and its moons Huygens descended through Titan’s thick atmosphere and landed on the surface in 2005, where it collected more detailed data of the moon s solid surface for several hours

Similarities With Earth and Moon Titan’s gravity is about the same as that of Earth’s moon, but unlike Earth’s neighbor, Titan is the only moon in the solar s y s t e m t h a t h a s a t h i c k a t m o s p h e r e , according to Prof Jonathan Lunine, earth and atmospheric sciences The atmosphere, like Earth, is made up of mostly nitrogen, but it has hardly any oxygen Titan is frigid with average temperatures of -180°C, about -320°F There is no water on Titan, but in place of water, there is methane, which can be transformed by sunlight in the atmosphere into more complex organic molecules Some of these molecules are liquid, such as methane, ethane, and propane, while others are solid As a result, Titan has seas, lakes and land covering its surface

Covered by a Different Type of Ice

“ There is ice on lakes on Earth because ice floats, but the standard wisdom of methane lakes and seas is that methane ice on a pure methane lake will sink because methane solid is denser than methane liquid Likewise, if you have a pure ethane lake and you form ethane ice, it will sink,” Lunine said Lunine and Jason Hofgartner grad calculated that a mixture of ethane and methane in the hydrocarbon seas of Titan may allow for floating ice

Hofgartner did a detailed analysis of the

var ying amounts of methane, ethane and porosity Porosity, having pockets of air in the ice, is common on Earth’s ice

“ The easiest way to prove this is obviously to go to Titan and see whether the ice floats or sinks But we don’t have any-

Hofgartner said To confirm their predict

Cassini has taken of the lakes and seas on Titan

These lakes, when entirely filled with liquid, appear uniformly black on the image Some of the lakes, however, appear

reflective spots according to Hofgartner

This reflectivity could be caused by ice If the reflectivity changes as the seasons on Titan change, it is possible that could be indicative of ice As the ice warms, it will float to the surface before it melts away Only another probe on Titan, however, could actually determine if there is floating ice on Titan “ The way I’d really like to do this is to make a model similar to Huygens, about three meters across and we’d like to drop it into one of the seas of Titan and make measurements directly and possibly detect i

Learning about ice on Titan can affect future missions to the lakes and seas on Titan, Lunine said

Indication of Life on Titan?

“ The seas of Titan are a reser voir of carbon chemistr y, different from anything that we have on the Earth Even though we have hydrocarbon reser voirs in the sediments in the Earth, they are contaminated with terrestrial life and with water Titan is pristine,” Lunine said Lunine recently began working with Prof David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics; Prof David Usher, chemistr y and chemical biology; and others to determine the possibility of more complex carbon forms on Titan in the absence of water

“ You need to rethink all the familiar chemistr y you know from this planet,” Usher said

A l t h o u g h t h e r e h a v e b e e n m a n y hypotheses of life in other places in the solar system, “ we are tr ying to make the hypothesis that there could be a nonwater life, a little more grounded, to make it not as air y-fair y, ” Shalloway said

According to Shalloway, life is about compartmentalization Within compartments, higher organisms lower entropy, o r c h a o s L ow e r i n g c h a o s w i t h i n a n organism makes reactions more likely to occur The simplest possible kind of compartmentalization is a sphere In water environments, this kind of simple sphere is called a micelle Micelles are formed of m o l e c u l e s t h a t h a v e t w o p a r t s T h e hydrophilic, polar, water-loving, part is

on the outside, facing the water environment, while the hydrophobic, water-fearing, part is on the inside On Titan, Shalloway said, this would be reversed The hydrophilic parts would be on the inside since the environment is hydrocarbon, not water

“If you had a micelle that facilitated the reactions that make the structures that you needed to make micelles, that’s life,” Shalloway said

Another necessar y thing for life is that the compartment would need to capture energy in order to make the reactions happen There are several high-energy sources on Titan, including a molecule called acetylene This molecule contains a triple bond between two carbons; triple bonds are ver y high in energy

But according to Shalloway, one more thing still needs to happen There needs to be something that gives the reaction enough activation energy to start the reaction Without this much energy, a reaction will not occur How to obtain the activation energy needed for these hypothetical organisms is currently one of the main studies of this project, according to Usher

According to Shalloway and Usher, this research is meant to inform future probes to Titan on what is possible to look for and find

“ What we would like to do is to provide hypothesis that could be tested the n e x t t i m e N A S A g o e s t o Ti t a n , Shalloway said

Most of what is known about Titan c o m e s f r o m Hu y g e n s

However, scientists have made calculated speculation about the moon, and this research could help make future missions to Titan with equipment that could confirm or deny the existence of certain types of ice or higher forms of life in the seas of Titan

“ Titan is a world that has as complex a set of processes as Mars and in some ways as complex as that of the Earth,” Lunine said

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When I first saw the posters and heard the premise for Warm Bodies, directed by Jonathan Levine, my first thought was, “Ew Zombie Twilight ” This expectation of disgust was compounded by the fact that Stephanie Meyer endorsed the novel and that Summit Entertainment, the production company behind Twilight, was associated with the new movie

However, upon seeing the actual trailer, I could see definite potential in the plotline and characters In order to approach the movie without a sense of bias, a few weeks ago I flew through the book and found a sweet, short and cleverly written story I was hesitant upon seeing the movie: The film industry, after all, has been known to wreck dozens upon dozens of perfectly great novels Luckily, Summit did not extend their streak of trashy films: Their creation mirrors Marion’s novel novel in its brevity, clever lines and sweet, quirky plot

Warm Bodies follows R (Nicholas Hoult), an eloquent speaker and deep individual whose attempts to convey these fine traits meet the obstacle of his being dead, or rather, undead You know striding around, grunting, moaning one syllable words, eating brains out of his pocket that sort of thing Occasionally R looks at his best friend M (Rob Corddr y), grunts “Hungr y, ” waits for M’s response (“City”) and goes off for a midday snack

Simultaneously, we have our heroine Julie (Teresa Palmer), her boyfriend Perry (Dave Franco) and her best friend Nora (Analeigh Tipton), along with a few other survivors going out on a mission to find drugs outside the safety of their giant wall, which guards them from the city that lies beyond This wall and their mission originate from the same source: the leader of the last humans in this city, General Grigio ( John Malkovich), who also happens to be Julie’s father Inevitably, the two hunting parties clash as R and his zombie pack come to snack on Julie and her friends Upon seeing Julie, however, R falls in love You know the story: boy

The Case for the Arts Column Warm Bodies

With my year-long tenure as Ar ts and Enter tainment Editor for The Cornell Daily Sun coming to an end, I have been reflecting on what, if anything, I took from this experience To balance the many headaches, the job had some cool perks: inter vie ws with visiting

e n t e r t a i n e r s a n d f a m o u s a l u m n i , e a r l y (legal) access to some music and movies, dialogue with campus ar tists, etc But the most consistent pleasure of the job resides here, nestled at the bottom of the second Ar ts page, open to ever yone I’m referring to The Sun’s daily Ar ts column, and after reading pretty much ever y one since last Januar y, I have come to regard this oftenoverlooked soapbox as perhaps the best thing in the whole paper

Judging by the number of ‘hits’ they receive on The Sun’s website, an Arts column is read by far fewer people than the average Opinion column or Arts concert or theatre review That is to be expected, and I will admit that we lack a clear way to blazon this content online This is less of a problem in print, where a column may occupy over half the second page and catch your eye with its clever cartoon (drawn by our sleepless illustrators Santi Slade ’14, Zander Abranowicz ’14, Alex Holm ’14 and Rachael Singer ’16) Yet cold statistics persist and remind me that a typical Arts column just does not attract the full readership that it could Allow me to run through our current stable of columnists the jokesters, ranters, tearjerkers, philosophers and not-as-many-hipsters-as-you-may-think who keep the Arts section running strong Trading off Mondays are Julia Moser ’15 and Adam Lerner ’13, the two of which

meets girl Boy kills girl’s boyfriend and eats his brains Boy brings girl back to the zombie airport hangout and keeps her safe in his abandoned jet, etc

Now, I’m not sure if you ’ ve figured this out by now, but it’s not so subtle: There is starcrossed romance between a zombie named R and a girl named Julie R has a best friend named M (*cough* Mercutio)

and Julie has an old love interest name Perry (Try pronouncing Paris like you are French or just pretentious) Nora even wants to be a Nurse and there is a discussion that occurs while Julie is standing on a balcony So, this is not zombie Twilight; it is zombie Romeo and Juliet It even carries the same themes of love and mending longstanding differences Aw, so adorable

To be quite honest, though, Warm Bodies is actually very clever and amusing In order to make the movie more accessible to the age group to which they attempt to appeal, writer and director Jonathan Levine made all of the characters younger, in a sort of reverse Percy Jackson effect (which I am still upset about I mean, I understand the writers couldn’t let Percy be 12 like he was in the novel No teenager or 20-year-old would see a movie about a 12-year-old! Oh wait, almost forgot the FIRST HARRY POTTER but I digress) The relationship between R and Julie is played up a bit and some of the more amusing scenes in the novel (including one involving a drunken zombie) have been deleted, but overall the movie manages to maintain a charming, clever message throughout

could not be farther from each other in tone and intent Julia specializes in selfdeprecating confessionals that pore over her loves like Car y Grant, the Obama sisters and 30 Rock (which, you’d think, we’d be done reading about by now) Her infectious hyperboles may prove too abrasive for the groggy student picking up the paper before his or her Monday 9 a m class, but perhaps they are just the cure Adam’s column, on the other hand, leans academic with a humanities bent, mixing politics, literature and theor y in his discussion of anything from street art to the Olympics to The Wire Reading an entr y by each of these respective writers back-to-back is the literar y equivalent of an Icy Hot Patch

On Tuesdays, Emily Greenberg ’13 and Arielle Cruz ’15 trade off a biweekly slot while former Arts and Entertainment Editor

Peter Jacobs ’13 inhabits his not-so-little niche on the other weeks Emily always stays topical in her enjoyable analyses of current trends in arts-related technology, from 140character flash fiction to the GIF file She has a knack for merging the art and business worlds in her pieces, by which I mean she will definitely have a job after she graduates

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through a nostalgic lens yet retains her readers with perceptive and often hilarious notes and non-sequiturs about pop culture While Peter mainly sticks to covering music (and occasionally TV or film), his opinions never

does not resort to cheap irony at the end of his 800-word l ove l

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The bulk of Warm Bodies relies on the chemistry between R and Julie, which Palmer and Hoult evoke surprisingly well There was a logical progression in the relationship, and their mutual love of music made for a few adorable montages The comedy in the film is essentially found in R’s internalized monologue, due to his inability to voice more than a few syllables at a time, along with M’s one liners (literally, as zombies can ’ t really speak more than a line at a time) The movie chose to use its single allotted “fuck,” due to its PG-13 rating, hysterically and, though his screen time is minimal, Corddry is subtly funny and perfect for his role

Running at about an hour and a half, you never really find a dull moment in this film It is fast-paced and fun: The perfect combination of our modern fascination with zombies and end-of-the-world scenarios with a romance that springs from legitimate points of connection The movie is adorable, fresh and entertaining, and though there are really no true surprises, the blunt dialogue, unorthodox romantic element and witty remarks make the movie worth a watch

Marissa Tranquilli is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun com

l l Me Maybe,” and he continually and successfully bridges the gap between hipsterdom and mainstream Kai Sam Ng ’14 achieves the same non-condescending balance on alternate Wednesdays you may recall his enthusiastic appraisal of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and its family values My fellow Arts Editor Daveen Koh ’13 taps an endless well of insight in her Thursday column, where she renders the wrath of Hurricane Sandy or an art museum ’ s sacred beauty in equally poetic measure Her personal treatises on topics like constructivism and conceptual art never buckle under heavy diction or syntax; she somehow steers clear of pretension week after week Alice Wang ’15 has found a different voice for herself on the other Thursday slot There, she loads her musings on music and art into flippant bursts of lingo and lists; her hilarious piece on the late Andy Warhol’s continuing output is fiendishly clever Colin Chan ’13 directs his intelligence to current pop culture phenomena, like the Disney-Lucasfilm buyout or the jingoism of Battleship, ever y other Friday He dives into these events with the intent on wringing any broader social or political context out of them; I don’t think I need to even say he succeeds Filling in for the incendiar y, stream of consciousness rants of former Ar ts Editor James Rainis ’14 is Henr y Staley ’16, who will likely be going all Jean-Luc Godard on the colonialist undertones of Ben Affleck’s Argo when he kicks

off his column this Friday

All the above writers are united by a drive to make sense of their obsessions, whether they are pop songs, presidential campaigns or readymade art Some of these topics may seem slight when compared to t

Opinion section, yet there are few other venues for students to think through what they are learning in class and commit this abstraction to paper, for all to see Often, an Arts columnist will refrain using the pronoun “I” at all and end up with some of the most personal prose he or she has ever written And we can just be grateful that said prose is such a pleasure to read

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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groups Part of the team will compete at home in Barton Hall in the Kane Invitational, while another group is traveling to BU

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Senior distance runner Andy Arnold is traveling to BU this weekend and said he is excited at his prospective chance to make histor y for Cornell

“I’m looking for ward to the 3K at [BU],” he said “I want to crush it this weekend and potentially go after a school record ”

For others, another chance to race and get into better shape is what matters heading towards the Heps Senior distance runner Brett Kelly said he wants to see himself and the rest of the team continue to improve

“ We have a lot of our guys getting into really good shape so we should have a good weekend,” he said Fr

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opportunity we can to improve as individuals and as a team, ” she said Taylor said it is challenging it is for coaches and athletes to individualize the process of a season so each athlete is ready when it is time to perform, while having the entire team in mind He added that track and field can come down to minor differences “ The difference between first and second can be [under and inch or less than a second],” he said “ You tr y to bring ever yone ’ s strength, fitness and technical skill together on the same day It’s challenging for the coach and the athletes ”

Juan Carlos Toldeo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun com

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C.U. Polo Prepares for Cavaliers’ Challenge

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that the team ’ s slow start was partly a result of the level of play of the Skidmore team

“The team has a little bit of difficulty adapting to the slower style of play that we were playing with the Skidmore team, ” he said “All in all, after the first chukker that resolved pretty nicely ”

The game was the men ’ s third face-off against Skidmore The Red topped the Thoroughbreds, 19-17, in its season opener despite missing junior captain Nik Feldman, then beat Skidmore again one month later, 28-13 This latest match-up marked the Red’s largest margin of victory against the Thoroughbreds

“We don’t want to infect anyone else either It’s a precautionary thing as much as anything,” he said

Van Loon said that by allowing the horses to rest, the team hoped to reduce the effect of the illness

“It’s definitely a reflection of the improvement of how the team has grown”

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“We still have a lot of the season left to go, so the goal is that we nip this in the bud and the program will be affected minimally,” he said “ When we have colds, we don’t perform as well, so it’s not fair of us to expect the horses to perform when they’re sick ”

“It’s definitely a reflection of the improvement of how the team has grown over the past several months,” Van Loon said

The Red was scheduled to play Yale next weekend at Oxley, but a horse virus that has spread through the barn forced the cancellation of the upcoming games The virus is similar to the common cold and the games were cancelled partly to reduce the risk of the virus being carried to other team ’ s barns, according to Eldredge

After the cancellation of the Yale games, the next matches on the schedule are home games against the University of Virginia, one of the Red’s toughest competitors Eldredge said he does not think the horses’ illness or the cancelled games will hurt the Red when the teams take on the Cavaliers

“I don’t think it’s going to affect the teams that way, ” he said “It’s more of a bummer of a situation for the Yale squad, not getting to come up and play us which is something we were kind of looking forward to ”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun com

Dartmouth, Fall to Har vard

By KATIE SCHUBAUER Sun Staff Wr ter

This past weekend had its ups and downs for the men ’ s and women ’ s squash teams Both t e am s b e at Dar t m ou t h , 7 -2 , in Han ove r, N H o n Sa t u rd a y b

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“It was good to get a convincing win over a team nipping at our heels, like Dartmouth,” said senior women ’ s team co-captain Jaime Laird

Junior Jesse Pacheco, ranked No 2 for Cornell, defeated Melina Turk, upping her record to an impressive 9-0 However, on

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o f Har vard The Crimson, which is ranked second, managed to defeat sixth-ranked Cornell, 9-0 Laird said she was disappointed with Sunday’s results

“ We were hoping for a better result against Har vard, but they had the better lineup on paper and they were able to put up a great performance,” Laird said

The men ’ s team fared somewhat better, losing 6-3 to third-ranked Har vard Senior Arjun Gupta and sophomore Michael Sunderland both won their matches in five games at the No 3 and No 5 spots, respectively Junior Br yan Keating gave the Red its third point with his four-game victor y at the No 7 spot

“ We had some momentum going into the Har vard match,” said senior co-captain Nick Sachvie “But it’s always a challenge playing at another team ’ s home cour ts We kne w it would be a tight matchup and we had a few close matches, but we couldn’t deliver the win Har vard is a big rival of ours, so losing was a bit disappointing for us ”

Starting Friday, the Red will finish its regular season with a three-match weekend On

Friday, Cornell takes on No 1 Princeton at the Belkin International Squash Courts in Pr i n c e t o n , N J b e f o r e h e a d i n g t o

Pennsylvania to play Franklin and Marshall on Saturday and Penn on Sunday Last year, the men ’ s team handily defeated both Franklin and Marshall and Penn, 9-0 The team is hoping to redeem the 6-3 loss to Princeton “ This weekend we have three big matches,”

Sachvie said “Princeton is at home Friday and as of right now, they’re the top-ranked team in

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the countr y A good showing against them would fire the team up going into the next two matches and would get ever yone fired up for a top four finish at Nationals like last year ” The women ’ s team defeated Franklin and Marshall, 9-0, last year and is hoping for sim-

Princeton and Penn will both prove to be tough matches, as the teams are ranked No 1 and No 3, respectively, but that the Red is feeling optimistic about its chances

“ This team is the strongest I’ve been a part of my 4 years here We’ve had closer matches against teams ahead of us than ever before,”

Laird said “ The final matches this weekend and Team Championships next weekend are our chance to prove that Cornell is in contention for the title this year and for years to come ”

Katie Schubauer can be reached at kschubauer@cornellsun com

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The Red will begin its season on Feb 23 on the road against Canisius and will star t home competition on March 2 against Har vard For now, the hype of the 2013 season is rising as the preseason polls have been released Last season, the Red had a competit i v e g o , f i n i s h i n g t h i rd i n t h e Iv y League and making Cornell’s second Ivy tournament appearance in histor y The Red’s overall record ended at 11-5 a n d t h e s q

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C.U. Aims to Rebound at Big Red Inv it ational

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Wr ter

Supporting seniors |

The Red’s next competition is the team’s senior meet, a chance for the squad to celebrate its departing members

events, the Red took home three individual victories Senior Sarah Hein came in first on bars (9 725) and floor (9 750), while sophomore Christine Wong (9 725) came out on top in beam The Red also scored above 191 0 for the second time this season Despite the loss, the team has said it will continue to work hard

“Towson is a really great team We went out and had a good meet with a few minor mistakes,” said sophomore Abbie Thompson We’re really working on putting pressure on ourselves in the gym and trying to make every practice feel like a meet ”

With half of the season over, the pressure is on as the Red works toward its goals

Maher are all seniors, the team hopes to rally behind them and give them a good end to their careers with the Red The squad said its goal for the season is to win the Ivy League Championship

“I’m really looking forward to supporting the team ”

“We’re almost to the halfway point in our season now, so it’s really important that we make every routine count in practice and that we go into the meet knowing we can hit,” said sophomore Taylor Madison “We’ve been struggling on beam this season, so there have been a lot more pressure situations in the gym as [we] practice for the pressure of a meet Overall, beam went much better than it has been, but there is definitely room for improvement in the upcoming weeks ”

Next on the agenda for the Red is the Big Red Invitational Cornell will host four other schools Yale, Ithaca, Brockport and defending meet champion Southern Connecticut in Teagle on Saturday Also known as the senior meet, the invitational will give the departing team members a chance to celebrate four years on the Hill

“The Big Red Invite should be a great meet for us, ” Madison said “We’ve been building on our success each week, so this should be our best meet yet I think we all really want to make it a great day so that the seniors can celebrate a great four years of Big Red Gymnastics The senior meet is always a blast because we get so many parents of team members, and it’s really fun to celebrate all that the seniors have done for our team as leaders, friends and mentors ”

Since tri-captains Mckenna Archer, Sarah Hein and Ashley

Red Routs Skidmore in Return

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Staff Wr ter

More than two months after its last game, the men ’ s polo team was back in action this past Friday against Skidmore at Oxley Equestrian center Despite surrendering the first goal, the Red soon jumped ahead of the Thoroughbreds and eventually claimed a 28-9 blowout victory

The Red was originally scheduled to play Southern Methodist University last weekend for its first game of the semester, but the Mustangs men ’ s team was unable to make the game after the cancellation of its flight into Ithaca The women ’ s team played, however, and secured an easy 27-3 win over the Mustangs After playing

last weekend, the women had the weekend off to rest up before the next set of games

Although the men ’ s game against Skidmore was the Red’s first competitive match-up in months, head coach David Eldredge ’81 said that the team was quickly able to shake off the rust from break

“They actually looked very good,” he said “The first chukker, there was a little bit of rust, but they’d had a little more time to prepare than the women before they played their first game they definitely performed right up to my expectations of what I was looking for ”

Senior captain Branden Van Loon added

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“I’m really looking forward to supporting the team as we approach our championships We’ve had great energy so far with a team of 25, and I’d really like to see us keep that momentum up as we get into the more competitive part of our season, ” Madison said “We’re all working together to achieve a common goal of winning Ivies this year, so I’m excited to watch as we start to see our hard work in the gym pay off The three seniors, who are also our captains, deserve to go out with a win so we ' re all doing our best each day so that we can achieve that ”

Thompson is also looking to do her personal best for the team

“My personal goal is to continue to support my team and represent us as a group to my best ability And I personally hope that this year we win Ivies,” Thompson added “Our three captains are all seniors this year and I think they all deserve it They work so hard and inspire all of us in so many ways As leaders, I couldn't ask for any more ”

The captains’ strong leadership will be missed next season, Thompson said

“It’s going to be really difficult to figure out how to function in and out of the gym without them next year They’re my biggest support team and motivate me every day,” she said

With motivation and good team spirit, the Red hopes to keep up its momentum for the rest of the season

“As a team, we ’ re really coming together and supporting each other in everything we do The energy and intensity has been building with each meet and with each practice,” Thompson said In general we ’ ve been constantly improving and we plan on continuing to build throughout the season ”

Ariel Cooper can be reached acooper@cornellsun com

C.U. Prepares for Heps Meet

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

With the Heps Meet within sight, the men ’ s and women ’ s track and field teams were in action this past weekend, building towardsbeing fully prepared to compete to reclaim Heps titles for both squads The Red competed both at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge, hosted by Penn State, and the Bomber Invitational, hosted by Ithaca College

At Penn State, the Cornell men placed third of twelve teams, while netting three event wins at Ithaca College Men’s head coach Nathan Taylor said this past weekend was another important stepping stone for his team

“It was another good stepping stone to the championship part of our season, ” he said “It’s coming up fast ” Taylor added that his team saw d i f f e re n t t e a m s a t Pe n n St a t e , which will better prepare his athletes

“It was good to see some different teams, ” he said “I thought some of the guys competed very well I think in general, it was a good meet for us ” Despite many of Cornell’s athletes competing at Ithaca College, the women ’ s team finished in sixth place out of thirteen teams, while n e t t i n g t w

head coach Rich Bowman said despite their smaller size at Penn State, his athletes had a great meet

“We were a smaller group, ” he said “We weren ’ t at full strength, but the group that came competed very well Our 4x400 team ran very well, for the top time in the [Heps] so far this season The high jump group again did very well We really had a great meet ”

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