Prof: Grants cover smaller tuition portion, so they are less able to ‘mitigate inequality’
By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Wr ter
As Feb 15 –– the date by which incoming freshmen must submit their financial aid applications ––approaches, professors and campus politicos criticized the state of Pell Grants, a n e e d - b a s e d grant for lowi
m e u n d e r g
d uates, in the U n i v e r s i t y ’ s financial aid packages
According to the Office of Federal Student Aid, the maximum Federal Pell Grant award for the 2012-13 year was $5,550
Jessica Reif ’14, chair of the Cornell Republicans and member of the University’s Financial Aid Review Committee, said that though Pell Grants are an important part of a student’s financial aid package, they no longer form the foundation of financial aid packages at most four-year institutions
“Pell Grants can make a huge difference for students, particularly at
community colleges and less expensive four-year institutions,” she said
“At institutions like Cornell, the maximum award for a Pell Grant only comprises a small fraction of the total cost of attendance ”
For the 2011-12 year, 18 percent of enrolled Cornell undergraduate students received a Pell Grant, according to Thomas Keane, director of financial aid The number of Pell Grant recipients at Cornell has increased by two percent between the 2009-10 and 2011-12 academic years
“Generally, students qualify if their family income is less than $45,000 with one child in college,” Keane said “If there are more children in college, the income figure goes up ”
According to Dan Kuhr ’13, chair of the Financial Aid Review Committee and Human Ecology representative on the Student Assembly, although the grant ’ s value has not kept up with the cost of tuition, its overall value has been increasing
“Without a program like Pell, it would make it a lot harder for some
See PELL GRANTS page 5
By KRITIKA OBEROI Sun Staff Writer
In t h e w a k e o f s t u d e n t c r i ti c i s m o f a l a c k
a s s a u l t a t C o r n e l l , t h e Un i ve r s i t y re c e n t l y l a u n c h e d a
we b s i t e t o p rov i d e a c c e s s t o i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t s e x u a l
a s s a u l t a n d s u p p o r t t o p e o p l e
w h o m i g h t n e e d i t “ T h e re a re a l re a d y m a n y r e s o u r c e s a t C o r n e l l , ” s a i d
To m m y Br u c e , v i c e p re s i d e n t f o r Un i v e r s i t y c o m m u n i c at i o n s “ T h i s we b s i t e w i l l m a k e i t e a s y t o f i n d t h e m i n a p i n c h ” T h e w e b s i t e , w h i c h l a u n c h e d Ja n 2 5 , re p re s e n t s a n e f f o r t t o a c c u m u l a t e a l l o f t h e Un i ve r s i t y ’ s s e x u a l h a r a s sm e n t a n d a s s a u l t re s o u rc e s i n o n e p l a c e It c a n b e a c c e s s e d a t s h a re c o r n e l l e d u a n d i n c l u d e s a n e w s s e c t i o n t h a t f e a t u re s l i n k s t o p e r t i n e n t l o c a l n e w s s t o r i e s “ It i s a o n e - s t o p v i r t u a l re s o u rc e c e n t e r f o r i s s u e
C.U. Ranked Top Employer for Women
By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer
After the University was recognized as one of the top 10 nonprofit employers for female executives and working mothers, female professors and admistrators lauded the University’s emphasis on a work and life balance for women
using safety rope
IFD said the man was walking in a “ no tresspassing” area The press release urged others to stay on marked trails
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IFD also urged those who use the trails to remain aware of trail markers and to not walk alone
Compiled by Caroline Flax
In addition to recognizing the University for supporting women executives, Cornell was
See WOMEN page 4
The University was included in the 2013 rankings of the National Association for Female Executives, a women ’ s professional organization Cornell has not appeared on the list since 2008
Arts
KEANE
Monday, February 11, 2013
weather FORECAST
Hi: 40° F Lo: 28° F R ain shower s
Biophysics Colloquium 1:30 p m , 700 Clark Hall
Coffee House: Teaching in K-12: Could It Be Your Calling?
4:45 - 5:45 p m , Carol Tatkon Center
Darwin Days Keynote Address With Dr Alycia Stigall 5 - 6:30 p m , Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Commemorative Lecture
Featuring Wes Moore
5 - 7 p m , Sage Chapel
Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary 7:15 p m , 100 Schwartz Center for Performing Arts Tomorrow
CALS Study Abroad 101
1 - 1:30 p m , 170 Roberts Hall
Crawling from Biology to Physics: Orchestration of Biochemistry and Mechanics Driving Cell Motility
4 - 5 p m , 700, Clark Hall
Sustainability of What for Whom?
4:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House
This week will start out with unseasonably war m temperatur es. A welcome change after a weekend spent dig ging out of snowdrifts, but pr epar e for mor e pr ecipitation in true Ithaca fashion. Trade in your parka for a raincoat this week and savor the brief hiatus fr om the bitter cold
Not as warm as yesterday, but still milder the the Nemo blizzarding from this past weekend
Hi: 31° Lo: 23° Snow Shower s
Prepare to celebrate the sun finally peeking through the clouds today
Hi: 36° Lo: 19° Par tl y Cloudy
Expect both sun and balmy temperatures almost breaking into the 40s!
Hi: 39° Lo: 29° Par tly Cloudy
Sun and and more relatively mild temperatures continue into the weekend Enjoy!
Hi: 35° Lo: 21° Par tly Cloudy
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Compiled by Erica Augenstein
since 1880 yeah, we’ve been around awhile... The Corne¬ Daily Sun
New Diversity Committee Promises ‘ Tangible Impact ’
By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Wr ter
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Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com
Ithaca Named Top City for Patent Issuance, Invention
By
In a Fe b 1 Br o o k i n g s
Insitution repor t that presents patenting trends on a regional level, Ithaca was ranked 19th nationally for most patents granted per capita, with 97 patents granted per year from 2007 to 2011
Ad d i t i o n a l l y, C o r n e l l w a s ranked the top patenting company in Ithaca, with 73 patents issued in 2011, according to the report
According to Alan Paau, the Un i v e r s i t y ’ s e xe c u t i v e d i re c t o r and vice provost for technology transfer and economic developm e n t , C o r n e l l re c i e v e s f u n d s specifically to conduct research,
which adds to the number of patents that are granted in Ithaca “Indeed, Cornell contributes [to] and influences the inventiveness of Ithaca ver y much,” Paau s a i d “ [ C o r n e l l s p e n d s ] m o re than $700 million from various sources a year to do research, and s o m e o f [ i t s ] re s e a r c h re s u l t s become patentable inventions ” Prof Aija Leiponen, applied
e c o n o m i c s a n d m a n a g e m e n t , echoed Paau’s sentiments “ Mo s t o f t h e p a t e n t s t h a t make Ithaca so highly ‘inventive’
a re a c t u a l l y a p p l i e d f o r b y
C o r n e l l Un i v e r s i t y i t s e l f, ” Leiponen said “Cornell, along with other major research universities, applies for many patents on inventions deriving from the scientific discoveries of its faculty ” According to Prof William Lesser, applied economics and mana g e m e n t , C o r n e l l also contributes to t h e n u m b e r o f p a t e n t s i s s u e d i n Ithaca through new c o m p a n i e s t h a t form as a result of new technologies discovered at Cornell “ Mu c h p a t e n t i n g h e re [ i n
It h a c a ] i s a t t r i b u t a b l e t o t h e Cornell Center for Technology
u s e o f a machine to identify subtances based on molecular weight ––w a s c
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marketing manager, the company has purposefully stayed in the Ithaca area
“Most of the reasons Advion is located in Ithaca is due to the strong talent pool in the area ”
“ The work [Henion’s] Cornell laborator y performed led to several industr y-changing technologies as well as contributed significantly to Advion’s founding,” Boardman Lummus said “ On e o f t h
remained located in Ithaca is due to the strong talent pool in the area Cornell’s strong science, technology and engineering programs contributes heavily to the talent Nearly all of the inventors listed on Advion’s patents have ties to Cornell ”
E n t e r p r i s e a n d C o m m e r c i a l i z a t i o n , w h i c h l i c e n s e s i n v e n t i o n s m a d e b y Cornell employees,” Lesser said “Another explanation is the number of startups by Cornell faculty and students They are heavily involved in the fields of software and biotech, both major foci of patenting ” L e i p o n e n s a i d s o m e o f Cornell’s patents have also been l i c e n s e d t o s t a r t u p c o m p a n i e s and have become “ ver y successful products and ser vices ” Ithaca-based Advion Inc –– a c
Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun com
DARWIN CHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Cornell University Undergraduate Horticulture Club held a plant sale Friday in the Physical Sciences building, selling plants suitable for dorm rooms and office environments
JESSICA J ANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Cornell Fashion Collective held a model call on Saturday for students to model in their 29th Annual Fashion show, which will take place this spring
REBEKAH FOSTER Sun Staff Wr ter
Univ.: Website Will Tackle ‘Under-Reported Crime’
Cornell community It is also the result of a report by the University’s Incident Management Team, which recommended the creation of a virtual information and resource center
“This is the first big step in that direction,” Bruce said
Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J D ’88, said that the website aims to ensure clear communication between the University and students
“We want to make sure that people understand the resources, because it’s a very under-reported crime,” she said
Bruce said he hopes the website will become an asset to the Cornell community
“[It] is our sincere hope that this website will grow into a valuable resource center available to anyone in the community needing assistance or seeking to provide help to a friend or colleague,” he said
Three University divisions are collaborating to develop and maintain the site: University Communications, Student and Academic Services and Human Resources and Safety Services, Bruce said
Each division will create content related to its individual department, according to Bruce For instance, the HR department, specifically CUPD, will be responsible for public safety, while SAS, epecially Gannett Health Services, will be responsible for medical information, counseling and treatment
As the website recieves feedback from the Cornell community, there will be opportunity for further growth, Grant said
“It's not intended to be stagnant, ” she said
Zoner echoed Grant’s statement, saying that the website will grow with its exposure to the community
“It’s the University’s initial launch, so we don’t expect that we have everything exactly in place It will be growing as we increase connections to our community,” she said
Carol Wu ’16 said the website is a valuable opportunity for people to educate themselves about sexual assault
“I feel like this is a very good resource for people, whether they’re looking to get educated about this or if they need to find a place to get help It’s a great centralized resource, ” Wu said
C.U. ‘Supportive’ of Female Employees
WOMEN
commended for its organizational culture; its work, life and educational programs; and the University’s initative to hire, retain and advance women in the academic fields of science, engineering, math and technology, according to a University press release
Mary Opperman, vice president of human resources, said she is proud of Cornell’s recognition
“We apply [to be ranked] so that we can benchmark our practices against companies and organizations across the country and learn about best practices,” Opperman said “We are always pleased when our own practices are recognized ”
Cornell will receive the NAFE recognition on March 20 in New York City and will be featured in the Febr uar y/March issue of Working Mother magazine, according to a press release
Top women executives at the University including Opperman and Vice Provost
Barbara Knuth said Cornell is actively promoting the advancement of women into leadership positions and providing a supportive environment for women with families
“I have been promoted, received many opportunities to learn and grow and have [had] the opportunity to work with other dedicated professionals who are committed to the mission of Cornell,” Opperman said
Many of the University’s top women executives said they have had excellent experiences
Barbara Knuth, dean of the graduate school, who star ted working at Cornell in 1986 as an assistant professor in the natural resources department, said she felt supported as she rose through the ranks to become vice provost and dean of the graduate school in 2010
“Through my entire career at Cornell, I have felt quite supported as a woman in my various positions,” she said
Women executives and tenured faculty said the University has provided them and their families with a variety of accomodations throughout their careers
Prof Susan Fleming, management and organizational behavior, is a single parent with a five-yearold son She said the School of Hotel Administration has been extremely flexible and supportive
“It’s okay to have kids It’s okay to miss a meeting because you have a family commitment That is one of the reasons I was excited to get the opportunity to be here and love working here,” Fleming said
The resources available at Cornell range from on-campus child care to flexible work arrangements and parental leave, among others, according to Eileen McCoy Whang, the University’s dependent care consultant
However, the working environment for women at Cornell has changed significantly over the past two decades, according to Joanne DeStefano, vice president for finance and chief financial officer
“President [Hunter] Rawlings [III] was the first president to promote women to leadership roles
Since President Rawlings, both President [ Jeffery] Lehman and President [David] Skorton have been supportive of women leaders, ” DeStefano said
Women currently represent 50 percent of Cornell’s senior man-
agers and 33 percent of corporate executives, according to NAFE Additionally, 28 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty members are women
“Early in my career there were very few role models,” DeStefano said “Today I feel there are sufficient women leaders to be role models or mentors ”
On NAFE’s Top Ten Nonprofit Companies for Women Executives, all but Cornell are in the healthcare industry This may be attributed to the fact that, according to Fleming, there is still “work to be done” in terms of the challenges faced by women in academia
However, Cornell is taking strides in the right direction and has demonstrated a number of initiatives pushing for diversity, Fleming said
“As a broader institution, my impression of Cornell is that they care about these issues and they want to be supportive of women and especially increase the number of women in science, technology, engineering and math,” Fleming said
Fleming added that progress for women in the workplace in general has not reached its peak
“This award is based on comparisons with other nonprofit organizations, and most organizations, frankly, aren ’ t great for women, ” Fleming said “Across the corporate world and academia, the bar is not high enough yet ”
The University will continue to pursue improvements for its executives, faculty and employees, according to Opperman
“Men and women will benefit from a continued emphasis on work [and] family balance,” Opperman said “Really excellent work comes from really healthy, well balanced workplaces ”
Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochaczevski@cornellsun com
Kritika Oberoi can be reached at koberoi@cornellsun com
Prof: Grants ‘Create Equal Opportunity’
PELL GRANTS
Continued from page 1
students to access higher education,” Kuhr said “At Cornell, a Pell Grant is a good first step It can help ambitious students afford Cornell’s tuition and break even ”
Jessie Palmer ’13, president of the Cornell Democrats, said that although Pell Grants do not fund a large part of tuition, they can start a discussion about the cost of college education
“Pell Grants help to fund the American value of education,” Palmer said “Financial aid and the cost of tuition should be concerns of all Cornell students, whether or not they receive aid ”
When the Pell Grant was first created in 1972, it was a “terrific program, in terms of the percent of tuition covered,” according to Prof Suzanne Mettler, American politics and public policy However, she said that because the cost of tuition has “skyrocketed” over time, there is a large divide between the price of tuition and the value of the grant
“Pell Grants create equal opportunity; it’s a way to mitigate inequality,” Mettler said “Now, the grant has much less of a role in influencing this income inequality because it hasn’t increased at the same rate as the cost of tuition ”
Mettler said that this gap may cause students from low-income families to drop out of college or not enroll because the gap between the Pell Grant and the tuition is too great
“Today, people with low incomes are only about as likely to graduate with four-year college degrees as they were in the 1970s,” Mettler said “This is a disaster in modern economy because our country and our economy needs more people have to have college degrees It’s critical for who we are as a nation ”
Prof Richard Vedder, economics, Ohio University, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington, D C , said the Pell Grant’s biggest problem is that it does not serve its intended function
“Many students who are receiving aid through the grant don’t fall into the original targeted demographic,”
Vedder said “I think that we should restrict eligibility to those who are truly poor and show academic promise ”
According to Vedder, the Pell Grant program would be more effective if it was not only need-based but also performance-based
“The Pell Grant isn’t just supposed to help lowincome kids get to college,” Vedder said “It’s supposed to help low-income kids succeed ”
The grant program also requires downsizing, Vedder said
“We need a reduction in this program, ” he said “We’re way in over our heads: U S debt is huge We have to either cut back the public expenditures or vastly increase our tax revenue Part of this reduction has to come out of the federal higher education aid program ”
Reif said that though she supports federal financial aid, there are areas in the Pell Grant system that should be changed, such as federal funds being allocated to forprofit universities
Mettler echoed Reif ’ s sentiments, saying that providing grants to students at “for-profit” universities is not an ideal use of government funds
“For-profit institutions such as the University of Phoenix use 25 percent of [federal] student aid,” Mettler said “However, too often these are almost worthless degrees, that leave their students hardly better off than before they attained their degree, and unable to pay back their loans Student borrowers who attend forprofits account for nearly half of all student loan defaults ”
But Kuhr said the University has worked to ensure its Pell Grant loan levels will have a significant effect on student financial aid
“Cornell has adjusted its loan levels for financial aid, to make the program more sustainable,” he said Pell Grant recipient Hee Jin Cheon ’16 agreed that the grant helped her afford Cornell’s tuition
“Although Cornell grants made up a large part of my financial aid, the Pell Grant was important,” she said “That additional $3,000 to $5,000 made me be able to come to Cornell I really appreciate this money ”
Emma Jesch can be reached at ejesch@cornellsun com
Airports Returning to Normal Aft er Nor theast Snow storm
NEW YORK (AP) Airports in New York, Boston and Connecticut were ramping up ser vice Sunday, as they worked to return to normal operations following a massive snowstorm that crippled parts of the East Coast and led to thousands of flight delays and cancelations
Airlines said they were operating close-to-normal schedules on Sunday, a busy day for air travel
Meanwhile, trains and public transportation networks were also struggling to get back to full operation in time for Monday morning’s commute
Boston’s Logan Airport opened at 11 p m ET on Saturday, after closing in anticipation of the storm along with airports in New York City and Connecticut
As of Sunday afternoon, Boston was still experiencing delayed and canceled flights and officials urged passengers to check with their airline before heading to the airpor t Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport opened early Sunday morning, also advising passengers to contact individual airlines about possible cancellations
Flight-tracking website FlightAware com said about 450 flights were canceled on Sunday, a busy travel day for airlines
Only 20 are expected for Monday
In all roughly 5,700 flights have been canceled since Friday, when the airports shut down in anticipation of the storm Friday saw the most cancelations, according to FlightAware, with Saturday a close second Airlines waived ticket-change fees for passengers in the affected areas
Airlines tr y to get ahead of big storms by canceling flights in advance
They want to avoid having crews and planes stuck in one area of the countr y They also face fines for leaving passengers stuck on a plane for more than three hours, under a rule that went into effect in 2010
Delta Air Lines Inc said that as of Sunday morning, its flights were back to normal In all, it canceled about 1,200 flights due to the storm
United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said the airline was operating at all airports Sunday, though it was experiencing some delays because of the weather United is part of United Continental Holdings Inc
American Airlines spokesman Kent Powell said that by Sunday afternoon the storm-related cancellations had become “almost a non-issue ”
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time has come for comprehensive immigration reform My father and his family immigrated to the U S from the Soviet Union what is now Belarus in order to find better opportunities and a more secure life Like countless other immigrants over the course of American history, he worked hard, paid taxes and, eventually, became a US citizen He passed on to me an appreciation of the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship But under current U S immigration policy, people like my father have fewer chances of creating a better life for themselves and their families here
The so-called “brain drain” has been a significant problem for many years, and some argue that making it easier for highly trained immigrants to come to the U S to work or to stay here after earning an advanced degree would put developing nations even farther behind According to the International Organization for Migration, the African continent, with a population of nearly 850 million people, has only 20,000 scientists and engineers
According to an April 2012 article in The New Times-Kigali, at least a third of science and technology professionals from developing countries are currently working in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and the U S , where they are more likely to gain professional recognition, enjoy more career opportunities and better pay International graduates from China, countries that were part of the former Soviet Union and India, according to a report released by the National Science Foundation last fall, are returning to their home countries at very low rates (3 7 percent, 4 1 percent and 5 2 percent, respectively )
Nonetheless, national origin should not determine economic destiny, and there is some evidence that a new model of “brain circulation” rather than “brain drain” is starting to emerge In this model, skilled workers, regardless of national origin, move around the world more freely than before, to the benefit of all nations
Although far from universal, there is evidence that some Western-educated tech entrepreneurs are returning home to set up enterprises in their home country or to work there In the U S , the highly educated children of immigrants whose parents often worked so hard to be allowed to live and work in the U S are moving back to the family homeland, particularly in countries undergoing rapid development like India, China, Russia, Brazil and, to some extent, South Africa Until the brain circulation model becomes substantially more widespread, however, any comprehensive immigration reform must provide incentives for some of the talented individuals educated in the U S to return to their homelands to drive progress there
The second major issue I see as critical to immigration reform is how to harness the advanced scientific and technical skills of some of the talented immigrants who are graduates of U S master ’ s and Ph D programs At Cornell, nearly a fifth of our students and more than 44 percent of our graduate students are from other countries Many would gladly stay in the U S after earning their degrees, contributing to the innovation and entrepreneurship that increasingly drive our economy and their skills could be utilized without depriving American citizens of available jobs
The Partnership for a New American Economy, a coalition of big-city mayors and business people co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has calculated that by 2018 there will be more than 230,000 advanced degree jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields that will not be filled even if every single new American STEM graduate finds a job Far from taking jobs away from American citizens, allowing more talented international degree-holders to
find work in the U S would help meet a significant national need
The Department of Homeland Security has authorized Cornell’s applied sciences campus in New York City, including the TechnionCornell Innovation Institute, to accept international students As Cornell Tech develops, I expect that many graduate students will come from other nations, and because close relationships with high-tech companies and entrepreneurs are built into Cornell Tech’s curricula, they will be eager to continue the high-tech entrepreneurial ventures they began as graduate students by remaining in the U S
Highly trained foreign nationals who have earned advanced degrees in U S graduate programs promise to contribute to our economy in significant ways An analysis released by the White House in May 2011 noted that immigrants had a major role in starting a quarter of the highest-growth companies including Intel, Google, Yahoo and eBay between 1990 and 2005, and these companies directly employ an estimated 220,000 Americans within the U S Other research indicates that 76 percent of patents from the top 10 patent-producing U S universities in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor
Finally, DREAMers Among the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants are many young people who were brought to this country as children through the decisions of others They grew up as Americans, sometimes not even knowing their illegal status until they were young adults
After Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act, designed to open a pathway to citizenship for undocumented young adults who seek to attend college or serve in the military, President Obama, in June 2012, issued a memorandum that gave young undocumented immigrants the opportunity to avoid deportation and obtain work permits Reports are that, since the application process opened last August, as many as 5,000 young people a day have applied, and reportedly no eligible applicant has been turned down But the pathway to citizenship is still closed to these young people, as, in many instances, is the opportunity to benefit from in-state tuition and federal and state financial aid programs that would make college attendance more affordable We may need to rethink our approaches to financial aid in ways that are sensitive to undocumented students’ new legal status
Making the provisions of the DREAM Act part of comprehensive immigration reform will give the undocumented children of illegal immigrants, some of whom are among America’s most talented and promising students, a chance to become productive, tax-paying citizens And that will be good, not just for the young people who stand to benefit, but for the nation as a whole In 2010 the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the DREAM Act would reduce the budget deficit by $1 4 billion over 10 years because of increased tax revenues More recent estimates by the Partnership for a New American Economy suggest that “giving DREAMers an incentive to pursue college and allowing them to work here legally will add 1 4 million jobs and generate $329 billion in economic activity over the next 20 years ”
As Congress and the White House move forward with immigration reform this year, I hope they will keep in mind the needs of our DREAMers, the potential of the highly trained scientists and engineers from other lands to contribute to America’s competitiveness and our broader responsibilities to build capacity elsewhere in the world until a true “brain circulation” model becomes a reality
Carl Ferkinhoff Guest Room
P romoting STE M
The name Cornell is synonymous with excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics the STEM fields Throughout Mallott, Bradfield, Clark, Olin, Uris and many other buildings across campus, students, postdocs and professors seek to unravel the mysteries of the large and small, the mind and body They apply these discoveries to useful technologies to better the human condition But will this always be so? Will Cornell always be the recipient of three-quarters of a billion dollars in research funding? In 50 years, will Cornell, and the United States as whole, still be at the forefront of scientific discovery? If we don’t have a scientifically literate citizenry, can we ensure that our country will adequately fund science? While-oft discussed by pundits and touted as political talking points, the STEM education crisis and it is a crisis in the United States represents a real threat to the successful economic future of United States and to the future of institutions like Cornell
As a Teach For America corps member, I experienced first-hand the biggest challenges in STEM education Until stepping into my high school chemistry or physics classes, many of my students in Baltimore had never performed a lab experiment Science, to my students, meant finding definitions in a textbook They had gone through 11 years of education and had never written a lab report, never measured the pH of acids or bases, never plotted the distance versus time traveled by a toy car All are simple things that are vital to teaching students a scientific worldview
This is the opportunity gap in all its sobering glory Across the country, we are far from receiving a passing grade in STEM education, but it is low-income and minority communities that are especially hard-hit For instance, the National Science Foundation reports that only 17 percent of science undergraduate degrees are awarded to African
“How can we stand by and do nothing in the face of educational inequalities in our country?”
Americans Worse yet, only three percent of the U S science and engineering workforce is black How can we let this stand? As members of a community who have been so clearly shaped by our education, how can stand by and do nothing in the face of the educational inequalities in our country? I don’t believe we can
Ending the educational injustices and the crisis in STEM education in the U S will take an all-hands-on-deck approach, and the Cornell community has an important role to play We must do everything in our power to ensure that students at all levels think with scientific minds and have the basic scientific knowledge to be active 21st century citizens
In the coming years, the Tech Campus in New York City will provide a unique opportunity for improving STEM education, especially for low-income communities But, right now, there are already many outreach programs across campus that share science with students and other community members
These programs include the Cornell Prison Education Program, Expanding Your Horizons and REACH, just to name a few I encourage all to take advantage of these programs, including those run by your own departments or by the Public Service Center
Faculty members have an important role in setting the norms for outreach in their research groups Actively encouraging outreach, and participating in it themselves, can go a long way in instilling the importance of outreach in those they mentor Engaging with younger students helps undergraduate and graduate students learn to communicate their work and think about it from different perspectives important skills for any successful scientist As university scientists, we enjoy the wide range of support for our research We have an incredible opportunity to pay that forward
Students, take what you ’ ve learned and help someone else get to where you are now Mentor a high school student Tutor Visit public school classrooms and share science demonstrations Seniors, as you prepare to leave college behind, consider entering the classroom as a teacher By teaching, you can use your Cornell experiences to help ensure that all children get an excellent STEM education Many of your classmates have already chosen to do just this by joining Teach For America Applying to Teach For America by Feb 15 can help fill the need for teachers like you: Teachers who are passionate and knowledgeable about science
The university is often described as an ivory tower It is easy to fall into this thinking, but the truth is we are far from the idealized intuition that is separate from society The future of Cornell, and the country as a whole, depends on the education of all children, regardless of race or income a pursuit in which we are currently falling short We have the power to change this, if we choose to What will you choose?
RShane
Seppini Letters From a Young Curmudgeon
Free to Be Oucking Ff fenssive
oughly three weeks ago at the Cornell versus Yale men ’ s hockey game, something went awry Students’ freedom of speech and expression was abridged for no demonstrable reason
A student was kicked out of the hockey game for questioning why he and his friends were told to cover their shirts, which read “Yuck Fale ” It is disconcerting that Cornell University would willingly limit the freedom of speech and expression of its students, simply because someone else might be offended What’s equally problematic is the University’s decision to enforce this limitation using the Cornell Police force I find this offensive, much more so than shirts with gibberish written on them, and you should, too Apparently, Cornell University ushers, administrators and police do not think you and I are capable of looking away when we see something that displeases us Novelist Brad Thor wrote, “I live in America I have the right to write whatever I want And it’s equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people ” The same goes for words printed on shirts
I attended my first Cornell hockey game last night and watched the men lose to Princeton The best
part of the match was the boisterous and belligerent environment it fostered Obscene chants were screamed by hundreds of college students enjoying themselves Students mercilessly taunted one of the opposing players; they were having fun being collegeaged fans The students acted the way one would expect them to at a sporting event in which players hurtle into plexiglas with less than a foot separating the rink from the front row
Nobody (except maybe Princeton’s number six) was negatively affected by any of the banter being spewed from the student section
Children weren ’ t running amuck because they had been scarred by obscene language, adults weren ’ t flabbergasted when we urged the Cornell players to “kill him ” But, even if they had been, they have the right to choose another form of Saturday night entertainment This is particularly true in the case of “Yuck Fale,” a nonsensical phrase that means nothing unless one rearranges the letters
Easily offended adults should seriously consider alternative forms of entertainment, if not cognitive behavioral therapy, if their experience is so tainted by a shirt that they cannot enjoy the game
The University cannot claim to support free speech
in principle and also disallow its potentially offensive free expression Defending free speech is not a balancing act; one unit of free speech outweighs infinite units of offense felt by those with slight spines and overflowing saline pouches for tear ducts
We must be free to wear shirts anywhere on campus that read “Yuck Fale,” and we need not provide justification Because who among us is qualified to determine what is truly obscene and to set the limit on what you re allowed to see, say and wear?
The students at the Cornell vs Yale game committed a victimless crime and yet were punished by being dragged from the game by the police as well as being JA’d for, according to the victim, “unreasonably loud and belligerent behavior ” One would be foolish to attend a Cornell men ’ s hockey game with the expectation that attendees won ’ t be “unreasonably loud and belligerent ” It is childish to coerce someone into covering his or her shirt by threatening to involve the police
The Cornell University Police should not be perched on all fours waiting for the University to open its kennel door so they can bark at students who exercise their freedom of expression
The students who bravely defied the order to cover up their shirts have worn them on campus without
incident since last homecoming No riots were incited, students who saw the shirts did not overrun Gannett’s psychological services and nothing resulted from the shirts, except for the occasional smirk or high five Why then is Lynah Rink different from Ho Plaza? The University should not establish free speech zones by limiting students’ rights in certain venues The United States of America is the smallest free speech zone in which I am content
The Cornell vs Yale game was televised on NBC, which some might argue necessitated removing the shirts I already exposed the idiocy of the FCC’s piddling censorship laws The fact remains that the shirts do not have words printed on them that violate the FCC’s unjust obscenity rules Thus, this is an excuse not a valid justification
I came to Cornell with the belief that freedom of speech is a necessary condition of institutional legitimacy As my last semester ends, Cornell University’s actions have shown that this is indeed the case
Calamari by Any Other Name
For the past month, U K grocery stores have been pulling beef products containing up to 100 percent horsemeat off shelves Criminal investigations have determined that highly profitable Polish and Italian mob operations substituted cheaper alternatives for beef
According to BBC, hippophagy (literally, horse-eating) initially emerged in response to economic pressures The practice “spread in Europe in the 19th Century, after famines caused several governments to license horse butcheries ” The connotation has held hence the expression “ so hungry I could eat a horse ”
Horsemeat that contains traces of the drug phenylbutazone is banned for human consumption, but government officials have yet to declare that the recalled products are a health risk The outrage has more to do with deceptive practices that cheat consumers out of money and violate their rights to make religious and ethical food choices
Mislabeling of food products is rampant, but most are cases of dishonest marketing of a product’s attributes (such as labeling California olive oil as imported from Italy), rather than gross misrepresentation of a product In the case of U K beef, consumers thought they were eating cow meat when they were actually eating a mixture of meats or a different meat altogether Similarly, a 2011 Boston Globe investigation found that 48 percent of fish sold in
Massachusetts were a cheaper species being passed off as a more lucrative one Numerous economic and ecological costs stem from mislabeling Those who order Atlantic cod because it is fresher and supports local and sustainable business practices would balk at the news that they’re likely eating Pacific cod When tilapia is consistently listed on menus as red snapper, market exposure conveys to consumers that red snapper is abundant when it is actually overfished Conversely, when endangered species are used as substitutes and not listed on menus, even educated consumers cannot avoid contributing to their overfishing In exploiting people’s willingness to shell out for locally or sustainably harvested options, fishmongers and restaurateurs thwart efforts to protect fish stocks through public education
The other troubling ethical concern is religiously forbidden meats being used as substitutes The U K investigations uncovered that halal meat from the distributor, 3663, contained traces of pig DNA A spokesperson said that the products had been distributed only to prisons, which is far from reassuring since prisoners have none of the choices available to the public
Religion also came up in the “Doppelgängers episode of This American Life, which vetted the possibility of bung, or pig rectum, being a stand in for calamari A taste test proved that the switch is all too plausible Aside
from the ick factor, the segment touches on the difficulty of regulating food that doesn’t pose an immediate safety or sanitation risk If you ’ re like me though, you instinctually feel that pork rectum should be a sanitation concern Alas, even if the Food and Drug Administration wanted to go hunting for bung that’s served up as squid, its regulatory capability has been hampered by budget cuts The U K Food Standards Agency is in a similar bind, and the environment secretary has indicated that grocers should pick up the tab for food testing A crackdown on mislabeling is needed, but consumers, especially the ones buying cheap beef products, will only be further punished should grocers pass on those costs to them
The problem with horsemeat, escolar and bung isn’t that they’re unfit for human consumption It’s that some individuals can afford truly local and ethical options and should be able to trust that they’re getting the goods they paid for Other individuals for religious, ethical or otherwise personal reasons cannot afford to eat false substitutes but are forced to unwittingly In either case, that decision should not be plucked away by swindlers looking to profit from bait-and-switch schemes
Jing Jin Ringing True
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
W e A r e W h a t W e W e a r :
BY DAVEEN KOH
Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor
Storm Tharp ’92 is in illustrious company
Gordon Matta-Clark and James Siena, among others as the youngest Cornell alumnus to hold a monographic show at the Johnson Museum of Art Tharp returned to Cornell last week to paint a mural with fine art students and talk about his solo exhibition, Third Person, which features his stirring ink and gouache portraits (until April 7 at the Johnson) and his serendipitously assembled fabric sculptures which grapple with “gratitude and forgiveness” (until Feb 22 at Milstein Galler y) The Sun spoke to Tharp about “good” art, his myriad influences (which span Cornell professors to Japanese printmakers) and why people are obsessed with fashion
THE SUN: How did it feel to be back at Cornell? You’ve said that preparing for the show has been an intense and hectic experience
STORM THARP: What I meant to say about the “intense and hectic” had more to do specifically with the conception and production of the wall mural in Milstein Hall I am not a muralist However, I am a selfprescribed per fectionist, and I came to understand quite immediately that I had been too ambitious in my vision for that wall I found myself in a hectic worr y to get that wall accomplished to my liking It was ver y challenging, but also ver y rewarding Returning to Cornell after 21 years was psychically intense My life is busy and I was not exactly prepared for the emotional impact of seeing this beautiful campus covered in snow It’s truly a majestic location
SUN: How did the Milstein collaboration come about, and how was it like working with students?
S.T.: Well, first of all, Milstein Hall is just incredible The architecture students that get to work in that facility really have it made, and I think it’s ver y appropriate to provide a context for design students to share in what is possible and is a reflection of their study
The Milstein galler y was offered to me as a twin location for my show at the museum I loved this idea It really grew out of p r o g r a m m i n g b e t w e e n De a n [ K e n t ] Kleinman, professors in the art department and curatorial and educational programming at the Johnson I felt ver y lucky to have been invited to share my work in that context
Working with students was wonderful They were helpful, kept me company and had good heads on their shoulders I worked most with senior thesis students and a super talented grad student It was great It’s difficult for me to delegate duties to get my work done That will never be easy But thank God I had help at my disposal the project would have never been accomplished other wise
SUN: What were some crucial lessons that you learned at Cornell?
S T : The crucial lessons were always the same Whether it was drawing with Zevi Blum, or painting with Elanore Mikus, or photography with Jean Locey or intaglio printing with Elisabeth Meyer they all encouraged me to let go Elanore was specifically diligent in breaking my habits of “good” painting I realize now, I had no idea what “good” was In fact, “good” is no longer a word that I associate with art making in any regard
The same occurred in many years of working with Jean Locey I would hand in my contact sheets; pictures I really connected with and Jean consistently encouraged me to print the frames that made no sense to me I have always suffered from a pre-existing notion of what I wanted My Cornell education helped break me of that tendency and taught me to accept the proposition of unknowing There is more potential for surprise and enlightenment in this regard
That said, my work is still tightly buttoned I have to work hard to let go It’s like a t h l e t i c i s m : r i g i d p e r f e c t i o n i s n o t h i n g without grace and buoyancy
SUN: Your exhibit at the Johnson is entitled “ Third Person,” and your works have ver y compelling, literar y titles Love Nothing More, for example, reads like poetr y To borrow a quote from the Whitney Museum, you paint “ strange and beautiful” people What inspires these narratives? I’m tempted to say that you paint like Vladimir Nabokov writes
S.T.: Oh God If only I could paint like Nabokov writes If that were the case, I would be the greatest painter on the planet It’s a good question though Who does paint like Nabokov writes? That might be impossible Perhaps, the entire career of Gerhard Richter can find itself in three of my favorite novels by Nabokov It’s easier to think about who paints like John Cheever writes Or who paints like Wallace Stevens writes poetr y I don’t think about these things in this shape exactly but I have made works inspired by all of those writers If you ’ re familiar with Lolita, you will recall that great moment when The Enchanted Hunters is later re-framed as The Hunted Enchanters within the narrative God, I love that
But let me be clear: I should read a lot more! I am currently catching up on a whole syllabus of required reading that I never got around to Most of it is theor ybased, which I reject like cough syrup, but it nonetheless is quite helpful
SUN: You have a wide range of influences, from 1970s American cinema to the w o r k o f Fl e m
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Schjerfbeck Why do you continually return to Japanese portrait prints?
S T : I was going to suggest that perhaps Hiroshige or Utamaro are equivalent to
Nabokov But I’m afraid they are not However, I can say that the flatness of what is depicted is fundamentally influential Take the fabrics and the prints and the folds in an Utamaro portrait and you will find one of the greatest sources of inspiration in my work I continuously look to him for help I steal from the masters of Japanese printmaking all the time The bokashi fade of a Hiroshige background is as important to me The demarcation of heaven and earth in a colorful fade is both realistic and metaphoric There is not a single landscape painter on this planet who has influenced me more And I won ’ t even get started on Japanese erotica Shunga Sociologically, it is phenomenal I have never seen anything like it If only the U S had a sexual awakening in this regard But alas, no
SUN: In your portraits there’s an emphasis on the subjects’ clothes, which tend to be ver y finely rendered and tactile, notably in Sweater (R abbit) (2010) and Blue Bird (2010) In contrast, the subjects’ faces are often ver y airily rendered What motivates this contrast? Are we what we wear? You’ve mentioned that you once wanted to be a fashion designer why is fashion so important to you?
S T : Why is it important to anyone? I am fascinated by the idea that we wake up and select items that represent (an idea) of ourselves to everyone that we come into contact with So yeah, a grand peacock of a person is fun to dissect and learn about, but equally I am interested a character who goes out of his or her way to fight fashion and norms of dress That person is as much of a peacock Wearing your clothing follows much of the same politics as making your art
I am aware of this quote by the art historian, Jack Hay that has resonated with me for some time: “Nakedness, it could be said, obscures rather than reveals, and garments define rather than hide ”
SUN: In High House (2010) and Fireplace Road (2009), you apparently use blocks of color to depict places There’s such a rich tradition of color field painting in art histor y Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko the list could go on Were you drawing on any of that?
S.T.: Not really The (usually) monochromatic painting was a way to battle against the portrait works The process and action are ver y different and I revel in the differences But I would not be pursuing the works if they were not related Unlike some color field painters, who reject the metaphorical and relational attributes of the landscape and the figure, I am tr ying to b r i d g e t h o s e t w o s e e m i n g l y d i v e r g e n t modes of painting When I paint in pure color or pure abstraction, I am interested in the representation of that color emotionally So I often illuminate that idea with titles that refer to place or body or person, versus Untitled or Yellow Square Agnes Martin, for example, employed Untitled for many of her abstract works, but she also applied
titles like Happy Holdiay and Love Loving I think it’s a ver y important distinction SUN: I found your selection of studio paraphernalia at the Johnson Museum ver y intriguing Do you see these displays as a k i n d o f s e l f - p o r t r a i t ? I ’ m re m i n d e d o f Arman’s Premier Portrait-robot d’Yves Klein or Tracey Emin’s My Bed
S.T.: Great question and I’m happy that you enjoyed the vitrines of ephemera the Tracey Emin reference is not a favorite, but I appreciate the association There is a confessional quality I suppose that binds us, and a frankness about sexuality that I find important and interesting as much as it showy and eye-rolling to some In a way, all that stuff just means more to me than what ends up on the galler y wall I have to thank Andrea Inselmann for i n c l u d i n g
e s , thoughts, per versions and loves my work is not possible without them So to see it for what it is, and how I use it daily is significant to me I will look at a notation on a piece of paper, that I wrote subconsciously while on the phone, and think to myself: “that is so much better than anything you are making now ”
SUN: Tell me more about your fabric sculptures
S.T.: The sculptures represent my belief in change, and the artist’s necessity to move on, regardless of whether the impulse is wise or certain In some regard, the formal attributes in the work, the clinical and static elements, are deliberate It’s like looking under a microscope to examine the question at hand For me, the question had to do with a desire to transform, and the trap of holding on to what you know Of course, the work is infused with other emotional facets The carnality in the drawings, I think, saddle up with these questions precisely The door is open Walk through it
SUN: You’ve said that you ’ re not interested in repeating yourself What are you working on right now, and what’s next for you?
S T : Right now I am earning some money and it doesn’t involve art making That is just a reality I face as a working artist But soon, I will be back where I left off I am enjoying this exercise in reduction whilst not abandoning the visually opulent
SUN: Any final words for college students, aspiring artists or other wise?
S T : I don’t think it takes a lifetime to find your voice, and I don’t think it takes an eternity to gain some kind of momentum in your work It’s possible that it can come effortlessly and quickly But it is important to understand that you, too, will change You will have to find your voice again, and again and again
Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture Art and Planning She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com
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Banff Mountain Film Festival Friday at 7 p m in Bailey Hall Oscar Nominated
The Banff Mountain Film Festival is the product of an annual international film competition that focuses on “the spirit of the mountain ” The competition results in an amalgamation of films and documentaries about mountain culture, remote landscapes, action sports and the environment which then travels internationally to 32 countries, reaching 245,000 people at over 635 screenings ever y year The 2013 screening for Cornell University will be held on Friday at 7 p m in Bailey Hall General admission tickets are on sale now, running 12 dollars for students
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Screening this week at Cornell Cinema
The Oscars are fast approaching, and to celebrate, Cornell Cinema is showing all of the nominated shor t films There are awards given in three categories documentar y, animation and live action and all r un from between five and 25 minutes Among the most anticipated animation nominees is “ The
Simpson at the provokingly named Ayn Rand Daycare Center In the live action categor y, “Cur fe w, ” a stor y about a young man who is about to commit suicide when his sister calls asking to babysit his niece, sticks out as a favorite Without a doubt, this series is a convenient way
This Valentine’s Day, whether you watch a movie with a crush, with your friends, or with a bar of toblerone, that age old dilemma remains: what to watch? You could go see Die Hard on the big screen, but if you ’ re looking for something a bit more indie, check out Price Check at Cornell Cinema, a film about jobs, love, getting what you want and figuring out what you want to begin with It doesn’t sound too romantic it is literally about a company that prices groceries for supermarkets and this rom-com has none of the usual big budget stars, unless Edward Herrmann counts, but it manages to counter these deficincies through its wit and depth Ar i e l l e Cr u z Price Check
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8 p m on Wednesday at the State Theatre
Ending the Tyranny of Nor mal
The nine films nominated for Best Picture this year are all pretty spectacular Quentin Tarantino finally seems to have garnered the recognition his fans all know he deserves with Django Unchained Daniel DayLewis, as most critics have noted, embodies the title character of Lincoln so fully that for the length of the film, most of us forget we have little to no working knowledge of what the President was actually like And Ang Lee’s poetic mastery of the moving image shines in Life of Pi, a book-to-film translation that, against all odds, does justice to Yann Martel’s brilliant prose But the one film that I am really pulling for, despite an admittedly uphill battle against its competitors, is David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook Silver Linings tells the story of Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) as he leaves his mental health facility and attempts to win back his wife, English teacher Nikki (Brea Bee), by studying her curriculum and crudely navigating around her restraining order Despite being released from the facility, Pat is still mentally unstable, aggressive, prone to outbursts and intimidation and uncompromisingly loyal to his friends, family, and girlfriends It seems clear early on that Nikki and Pat are not meant to be, especially when he befriends Tiffany ( Jennifer Lawrence), another mentally unstable character who is herself climbing out of a manic episode following the death of her former husband After a tumultuous start, the two become friends, forming an unlikely and bizarre bond over their mutual distaste for the reality that surrounds them
In a symbolic scene early in the film, Pat is up late at night, reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, the book currently assigned to his wife’s class When he finishes, he slams the book shut and tosses it out the window, shattering the glass and waking up his parents as he proceeds to scream about how unsatisfying he found the classic tale Because of
his own romantic difficulties, Pat spits in the face of this tragic love story and, unwittingly, proceeds to form his own, falling into an unlikely relationship especially so given the norms governing Blockbuster dramas like Silver Linings Jeffrey Eugenides also problematized the classic love story in his ironically titled 2011 bestseller, The Marriage Plot The novel tells the story of self-indulgent romantic Brown University English-major, Madeleine, a who constantly flips through the pages of her dog-eared copy of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse No matter how hard she tries to choreograph her perfect love story, she finds herself constantly coming up short, falling for a troubled genius with manic depression, making drunken mistakes with her most pretentious classmate and rejecting her secret-admirer outright despite his undying affection As if to symbolize Eugenides own rebellion, Madeleine finishes The Marriage Plot a single woman, having rejected nearly every other man in the book
Both of these works represent a huge shift away from the typical love story 30 or 40 years ago, imagining a romance about two people with bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia might have seemed cruel satire But both The Marriage Plot and Silver Linings Playbook are deeply romantic both stories emphasize their own seriousness, as if to suggest that the only way to be “ crazy in love” is to actually be crazy Maybe our hyper-entertained culture has simply grown tired of love stories between, ugh, normal people (insert sarcastic voice here), or maybe we ’ ve begun to deconstruct what normal really is In the age of online dating, where people seem more likely to end up married to someone they met on eHarmony than in high school, Russell and Eugenides suggest that love doesn’t need some pristine vessel to be romantic There’s something pretty fantastic about the love story wherever you manage to find it In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook and at the the-
ater in Aurora, Colorado, our country ’ s dialogue about mental health seems to have taken a sour turn Of course, a small minority of mentally ill people is indeed violent and these people need help wherever they can get it But we must remember, no matter how boorishly Congressional committees frame the debate, that we are not a society of normal people and outcasts Upon further examination, normalcy becomes a façade, perhaps suitable for the Oscars of yesteryear, but unfit for us twenty-first century critics Though Pat or Tiffany might have indeed been troubled in a negative sense, their romantic success reminds us of the need to instigate a coup against the tyranny of normal Both characters triumph against the antagonists within themselves and win the audience’s admiration in the process Though we may be more mentally sound than these characters, we are by no means morally superior
Though I know he faces stiff competition, I will be rooting for Mr Russell on Oscar night He navigated this story terrifically
Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at alerner@cornellsun com Slow Lerner runs alternate Mondays this semester
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19’5 25 ” Seniors Claire Dishong andLindsey Patterson went 1-2 in the pole vault, clearing 12’1 5” and 11’9 75” respectively
Up next for the Red is the Marc Deneault Memorial Invitational hosted in Barton Hall on Saturday, Feb 16th The meet is dedicated to the memory of Marc Deneault, who ran for the Red before passing away in a car accident 12 years ago Taylor spoke about how this meet in particular is an emotional meet, due to both its origin and the fact that it is the last stepping stone before the Heps
“The Denault meet is a memorial meet for Marc Denault,” he said “It’s an emotional meet, but a lot of the kids who know they’re going to be competing at the Heps will take that weekend off But for the rest of them, it’s the biggest meet that they’ll be in to this point because it’s their chance to make the Heps team ”
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to waste Especially with Miles being probably the fastest point guard in the league It makes our jobs a little bit easier to deny ”
On the offensive end, the Red saw significant production from its three point specialists junior guard Dominick Scelfo and freshman guard Nolan Cressler Scelfo knocked down five threes for 15 points and Cressler shot five of six from the field for 14 points
“They’re both great shooters I think any time they get looks, we are confident they are going to knock them down,” Chemerinski said “We did a good job dribble penetrating and kicking it out for some easier threes ”
Scelfo has seen a boost in his playing time in the start of Ivy League play as he continues to produce consistently Against Harvard, he recorded a career-high five assists, including a rim-shaking alley-oop to Miller
“Dom plays with a lot of confidence [and] we see it in practice This was one of those games where every shot he got he was looking to shoot We have to have that looking forward,” Gray said
With an even record once again after splitting an Ivy weekend series, the Red understands that it is no longer enough to take one out of two games With Har vard and Princeton both losing their first conference games this weekend, the Red is right back in the running, Gray said
“It comes down to what kind of mentality we bring in, we have to focus on one game at a time,” Gray said “ We can ’ t focus on what Harvard or Princeton is doing, we ’ ve got to focus on winning the next game What we have to do now is get good practices in Monday through Thursday so we ’ re well prepared for the weekend That’s where it starts in practice ”
Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com
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weren ’ t going our way, ” Ferlin said “But I think, overall, we were happy with the way we played [Saturday] offensively, blocking shots and boxing guys out in front of the netand stuff we haven’t been doing in the past few games I think all-in-all, we ’ re starting to turn the corner ” The Red will have two more opportunities to snap the losing streak next weekend, traveling to face Dartmouth on Friday and then heading to Cambridge on Saturday There, it hopes to avenge a 4-1 loss to Harvard from earlier in the season
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Red Remains Ice Cold, Puts Losing Streak at Seven
By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Wr ter
A high-profile matchup against the nation’s No 2 team and a dominating performance against an Ivy foe turned into another nightmare for the Red, whose losing streak now stands at seven straight games
Cornell (8-13-2, 4-10-2 ECAC) was unable to upset conference-leading and No 2 Quinnipiac (21-3-4, 14-0-2) in a 4-1 loss Friday at Lynah The Red later fell in a 1-0, gut-wrenching thriller to Princeton (9-10-4, 7-6-3) on Saturday Cornell is currently 11th in the ECAC, ahead of only Harvard (5-15-1, 3-12) in the conference standings
“I’m proud of our guys, ” said head coach
Mike Schafer ’86 following the Princeton game “I don’t know when this [losing skid] is going to turn It’s to the point where it’s almost comical that you could generate that many scoring chances and get that many opportunities and [not score]
For Schafer, though, his team is still performing the way he expects
“[A]s a coach, all I can ask for is the things that we ’ ve been doing and to keep plugging away and not get frustrated It’s tough to get that many scoring chances and [not come away with a win],” he said
The Red outshot Princeton 39-12 on Saturday and had a 9-0 shot-on-goal advantage in the third period Junior forward Andrew Ammon broke the scoreless tie early
Take your aim | In a tightly contested matchup against Princeton on Saturday, the only shot that got past junior goaltender Andy Iles was a ricochet off the goalpost
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one through five just played harder, we pressured the basketball ever y single moment and we kind of sped them up
They were tr ying to work the shot clock so that may have
g o t t e n t h e m o u t o f t h e i r rhythm ”
Fo l l ow i n g t h e j u m p e r b y Peck, head coach Bill Courtney
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After the break, senior guard
brought the squad within two “ We w a n t e d t o l e t h i m decide whether to take it to the basket, or if his guy backed off him to shoot it,” Gray said “ We can ’ t go wrong with his decision He played a phenomenal game ”
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Da r t m o u t h , t h e Re d’s p e s k y defenders were bothering the Green from the ver y first pos-
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p o i n t g u a rd A l e x Mi t o l a t o turn the ball over
into the second, however, with a shot that ricocheted off the post to give the Tigers a decisive 1-0 lead The Red maintained a high level of aggression, pumping up the Lynah crowd while only accumulating a total of three penalties
Still, despite a flurry of near misses in the game ’ s final minute, Cornell was unable to send the game into overtime in what was Schafer’s 600th career game as coach of the Red
make the final score 4-1 in favor of the Bobcats
“Quinnipiac doesn’t give up many scoring chances,” Schafer said
“Look at the shot chart it looks like a cluster bomb went off in front of [Princeton’s] net.”
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“Look at the shot chart it looks like a cluster bomb went off in front of [the Princeton] net, ” Schafer said
The Red had ample opportunities on net, but was unable to connect
“[I]t’s pretty frustrating We hit a couple posts, had so many chances -- obviously outshot them by a lot,” said sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan, who, along with senior defenseman Nick D’Agostino, generated plenty of pressure by playing up from the defensive end “It’s frustrating, but we played our hearts out tonight and we left everything out there And every guy in the room can say that can look themselves in the mirror and say they played their hearts out so [you] can ’ t ask [for] much more than that ”
Against No 2 Quinnipiac on Friday, the Bobcats struck early on a wrister from senior for ward Mike Dalhuisen that rattled through the legs of junior goalie Andy Iles Quinnipiac struck again during a secondperiod power play to take a 2-0 advantage and notched a third goal to open the final period Senior forward Greg Miller put the Red on the board late, but Quinnipiac put the game on ice with an empty-netter to
Although both weekend games ended with the same result, the atmosphere in Lynah became electric Saturday night as the Red flipped the switch, generating constant pressure on the Princeton net Despite not coming away with the win, Schafer said he appreciated the team ’ s effort and the highintensity environment
“We need our fans,” Schafer said “This is the first time we ’ ve gotten our fans involved in the game [since] the Yale game We need our fans to help carry us We need to play that kind of hockey in order to keep them excited The fans appreciate the kind of effort that was given [Saturday, including] blocking shots I heard the fans cheering for Greg Miller to go down and block a shot Those are the small victories that we ’ ve got to claim for ourselves and plug away and keep on going, and come out the other side [as a] better team, better players, [and] better coaches ”
Though the team ’ s frustration during this losing streak is evident, sophomore forward Brian Ferlin said he feels that the promising effort against Princeton may be a page-turner for the Red
“It’s just one of things where pucks
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own end, and give credit to them for breaking up our breakout, but we didn’t do a good job of executing ”
According to sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier, the Red has had a tendency to start slowly in away games and must make an effort to improve in the future
be able to be ready, regardless of where we ’ re playing, who we ’ re p l a y i n g , a n d w h a t t i m e we ’ re playing That’s the way it is in the playoffs If you ’ re going to win in the playoffs, you need to play as well on the road as you do at home, and I don’t think we were as ready as we needed to be at the start of this game ” The Red did just the opposite in the game against the Tigers, scoring the game ’ s first goal on a p ow e r p l a y Ac c o rd i n g t o Derraugh, the Red was aggressive and was on the attack early in the
“We did a good job carrying over the defensive intensity from the last ten minutes against Harvard.”
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Mi l e s A s a f o - Ad j e i f o u l e d Chambers, but he missed the front end of the one-and-one, giving the Red the ball back with 11 seconds to go Peck
c o r r a l l e d t h e r e b o u n d a n d brought it down court, putting up a three-pointer that did not fall “ The call was to keep the court spread for Errick to go one-on-one low on his man
We wanted to let him have
a n o t h e r c h a n c e t o p u t u s ahead,” Gray said Peck who had a team high 17 points in the game
g a v e t h e Re d a n i m p o r t a n t boost in the final minutes with
t w o f r e e t h r ow s , t w o b i g rebounds and the jumper that
“We did a good job carrying over the defens i ve i n t e n s i t y from the last 1 0 m i n u t e s a g a i n s t Ha r va rd a n d s t a r t e d o f f with great energy, and I think that got us going a little on offense,” Chemerinski said
Even though the game was postponed a day because of the snowstorm, the delay did not cause the Red to forget what had carried it back into the game on Friday night AsafoAdjei was especially effective on the defensive end, shadowing the Green’s point guards wherever they moved on the court
“We’re at our best when we ’ re scrambling around, up in the ball handler’s face,” Gray said “We have so much speed and athleticism, if we don’t use it it will go
“ This seems to be a trend we ’ ve been having at the beginning of away games, and this is something we need to change immediately,” she said “ We can ’ t sit back on our heels like that because from now on it’s crunch time, so we need to make sure to come out with a fast start, and that will be crucial for us the rest of the season ”
The Red had chances to come back, outshooting Quinnipiac in the second and third periods However, it couldn’t score until late in the third period, when Quinnipiac already had a 3-0 lead and the game was almost over According to Saulnier, the Red could have had more offensive success if it had been able to get more pucks to the net
“Getting the puck to the net
m o re i s c r u c i a l , ” s h e s a i d
“Sometimes we tr y to be a little too pretty with it We need to get back to the basics and doing the little things that we do rightwhich is get the puck, move it fast and get it to the net
” According to Derraugh, playing on the road is no excuse for a lethargic start to the game
“ The main thing is that we need to be better at the start of the game, ” he said “ We’ve got to
game “ We did get off to a better start, getting the puck into their end, creating some turnovers and a lot of opportunities early in the game, ” Derraugh said Cornell also outshot Princeton by a wide margin and controlled the puck for most of the game
According to Saulnier, playing a solid team game and controlling the puck are important keys to the Red’s success “ We’re having our best games when we have the puck and are m ov i n g a r o u n d , p l a y i n g w i t h confidence and playing our style of game, ” she said “ We got back to the basics and did the little
things right We worked as a t e a m a n d d e p e n d e d o n e a c h other, and thats how we came out with the win ” Princeton tied the game at the beginning of the third period, but t h e Re d a n s we re d w i t h t h re e straight goals to seal the win One notable statistic was that the Red only took one penalty throughout the game According to Derraugh, making sure the team does not take penalties is an important ingredient for winning
“ That’s something we ’ ve been stressing in the second half If you ’ re going to be successful at the end of the year, you ’ ve got to be disciplined, stay out of the penalty box and keep your emotions in check, and we did that well against Princeton ” The Red now looks for ward to n e x t w e e k e n d’s h o m e g a m e s against Har vard and Dartmouth Har vard is one point behind the Red, but is two games ahead in the ECAC standings, so the game against Har vard may determine who will win the Ivy League According to Derraugh, the Red is excited to play for the ECAC and Ivy League titles at the season comes to a close
“ This is a veteran group of players that have been in these situations, so they know what needs to be done in order to be successful this time of year, so they feel good about the work they’ve put in all year to give themselves the oppor tunity to win the Ivy League championship and go further in the playoffs,” he said
Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun com
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By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Wr ter
When senior distance runner Nick Wade crossed the finish line of the mile race at the SPIRE Invite in Geneva, OH Saturday, the clock read 3:59 998 A mere 002 seconds had boosted Wade into Cornell track and field history as he became the first Red athlete to ever run a sub-four-minute mile breaking the school’s record in the event
Wade’s performance is just one example of what the men ’ s track and field team has been working towards throughout the season to reach each individual athlete’s peak
“I think every meet is an opportunity to ramp it up and get really close to your maximum performance,” said head coach Nathan Taylor “That’s what we work on week in and week out, and I think we ’ re getting close to that ”
into two different groups this weekend Part of the team competed at the SPIRE Invite while the rest stayed at home to compete at the Kane Invitational hosted in Barton Hall
Originally scheduled to compete at Boston University for the Valentine Invitational, the meet was cancelled due to adverse weather, according to men ’ s head
coach Nathan Taylor
“We didn’t end up traveling to Boston,” he said “[But] the team performed very well [in Geneva] We had some great performances this weekend ”
Wade’s was just one of those impressive finishes, as senior Brett Kelly moved up to No 2 all-time at Cornell in the 5k with a 14:09 17 finish In shorter distances, sophomore Hong Cho became No 10 all-time in the 800 with a time of 1:51 96
The women ’ s team also had a successful weekend, qualifying a total of 15 runners for the ECAC championships next month
tastic [at the SPIRE] Back home, there were [also] some fantastic performances ”
With less than two weeks to go until the Heps Meet, hosted by Harvard, the men ’ s and women ’ s track and field teams split up
Women’s head coach Rich Bowman said he was pleased with how his team fared
“It went very well,” he said “It was fan-
While the ultimate goal for the team is winning the Heps championship, Bowman added that it is important for each athlete to continue to grow and improve until the championship meet comes around
“I think that each week, we ’ re trying to put people in position to do well when the championship part of the season comes in,” he said “And I think we ’ ve been doing that Each week, we seem to be having good things happen ” Freshman Hillar y Holmes finished fourth in the 60 hurdles with a time of 8 88 and won the long jump event with a leap of
By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Dartmouth’s Connor Boehm went up for a layup under the hoop, finding himself beneath the 6-7 frame of sophomore Shonn Miller, who swatted his shot away The black jersey-clad crowd of Newman nation rose to its feet as Boehm got the ball back and tried to go up with it again Miller was still waiting, blocking the second attempt, this time into the hands of one of his teammates These were just two of Miller’s six rejections on the day and part of a team defensive effort that stifled the Green all afternoon forcing them to turn the ball over 18 times and eventually giving the Red a 79-56 victory
Though the Red ended the weekend with a win, it was not so successful Friday night against Harvard (13-7, 5-1 Ivy League), when a late game comeback came up just short in a 67-65 loss
The Crimson was dominant in the first half, heading into the locker room with a 16-point lead Every time the Red tried to make a run, it was effectively silenced by the shooting of Crimson guards Siyani Chambers and Christian Webster The rookie Chambers led the Crimson charge with 18 points and 11 assists, while Webster connected on five shots from beyond the arc en route to 17 points
The first 15 minutes of the second half told a similar story, with the Crimson remaining dominant on offense, trying to work the shot clock to their advantage With 4:21 left in the game, the Red trailed by 15 However, Cornell turned up its defensive pressure and went on a
13-0 run that ended with a jumper by senior Errick Peck to put the squad within two with 42 seconds to go
“We did a good job pressuring every pass, every dribble, making it as difficult as possible for them to be comfortable in their offense,” said senior forward Eitan Chemerinski “When we do that, we get easy opportunities off fast breaks, and that is when we are at our best ” In that stretch, the Red forced the Crimson to cough the ball up twice, with one of the turnovers leading to a transition dunk by Miller
“It wasn ’ t anything as far as x ’ s and o ’ s We made a couple minor adjustments to stop the ball from getting out of the paint,” said senior guard Johnathan Gray “Everybody
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Eight-Game Win Streak Snapped by Quinnipiac
By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer
The No 4 Cornell women ’ s hockey team failed to extend its eight-game winning streak in its first game this past weekend, but the Red (20-5, 15-3 ECAC) bounced back with an encouraging win the following day Quinnipiac (16-9-3, 10-5-2 ECAC) defeated the Red on Friday, 4-1, but Cornell beat Princeton (9-14-2, 4-12-2 ECAC) the following day by the same score
The Red’s sluggish start against the Bobcats put the squad into a hole from which it could not recover Quinnipiac outshot the Red in the first peri-
od and took a 1-0 lead Cornell was more aggressive in the second period but could not score, and the Bobcats extended their lead to 2-0 According to head coach Doug Derraugh, the Red failed to overcome the Bobcat’s aggressive forecheck and was back on its heels at the start of the game
“They got pucks in deep on us, and they’re an aggressive forechecking team, ” Derraugh said “That caused us to have turnovers on our breakouts, which created chances for them right off the bat For the first 10 to 12 minutes, we spent most of the time trying to get out of our
One for the records | Senior distance runner Nick Wade became the first Cor nell runner to break a four-minute mile on Saturday
