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By ERIC OBERMAN Sun Staff Wr ter

In response to a study published last week by the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, some Cornellians have conflicting opinions over whether or not the legal drinking age should remain 21 or should be changed to 18

According to the study, by keeping the country ’ s minimum drinking age at 21, up to 900 lives are saved yearly, due to a decreased number of inexperienced and intoxicated drivers

According to Deborah Lewis, alcohol projects coordinator at Gannett, minimum drinking ages do not solve all problems related to alcohol, but can be helpful

“While minimum age drinking laws are no ‘silver bullet,’ they are an important component of a comprehensive approach to reducing dangerous alcohol consumption,” she said

An aged issue | Deborah Lewis, alcohol projects coordinator at Gannett, said minimum age drinking laws are important to reducing dangerous levels of consumption

Third A nnual R ed Ideas Festival Hopes

To Encourage Ser vice

By SARAH CUTLER

Sun Senior Writer

Ideas across campus will receive a boost of support during the third annual Red Ideas festival in May, according to Isabella Greenberg ’16, president of the organization

This year ’ s festival will be held May 3 in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room and will feature Pamela Barnes, president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit EngenderHealth, as a keynote speaker

Simon Boehme ’14, who created Red Ideas in 2011, said Red Ideas was created to continue the “ strong culture of public service on campus ”

“I see the organization as a catalyst to encourage more students to be involved in public service,” Boehme said “When there is a need on campus, in the state or nationally Red Ideas can bring people together to talk about the idea and take action ”

S.A. C andi d at e s Talk Inclusion

ssembly holds forum to

By NABIHA KESHWANI

Staff Writer

The Student Assembly held a debate-style forum for candidates running in next week’s election to discuss issues regarding diversity on Cornell’s campus Tuesday

Candidates for S A president, executive vice president, international liaison at-large, minority liaison at-large, LGBTQ liaison at-large and women ’ s liaison at large participated in the debate discussed a variety of issues, including resources for international and minority students

Syed Ali Khan ’15, who is running unopposed for one of the minority liaison at-large seats, said the University should offer additional resources to minority students

“Cornell can do a much better job supporting minorities on campus, ” Khan said “ We need to be [better] funded ” Aditi Bhowmick ’16, a candidate for the

to bring the International students closer to these resources [at Cornell] Diversity is a twoway process, ” said Bhowmick, who is also a columnist and production assistant for The Sun Yamini Bhandari ’17, a candidate for the women ’ s liaison position, said women from segmented communities should be brought together in a town-hall style forum to discuss pertinent issues

“Sometimes as a woman I don’t feel safe on this campus, ” she said “ I want, as a woman, to feel on parity with men on campus ”

LGBTQ liaison at-large brought up ideas such as gender-neutral housing and expanding current communication programs Zak Palomino ’16 said he would recognizing asexual students as part of the LGBTQ community, while Mark Marrotto ’16 said he thinks recognizing how words have certain stigmas that can be hurtful to students is important

“When there is a need on campus, in the state or nationally Red Ideas can bring people together ... to take action.”

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“ResCUer,” a smartphone application that promotes safety on Cornell’s campus, and “MillionDollar$cholar,” a social business that helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds access a college education, are both examples of student ideas to come out of the festival The organization’s members spend each year voting on ideas they believe are p r o m i s i n g from a pool of student applicants, according to Greenberg Members then work with finalists to prepare them to present their ideas at the 2014 Red Ideas Festival, where an audience votes for three ideas they believe will be the most effective in creating change

Winners receive a monetary award to put toward their idea, along with marketing, branding and outreach support from the organization,

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Health Cooperative's Sick in America Series: The Weight of the Nation Documentary Screening and Discussion Featuring Dr David Levitsky 5 p m , 142 Goldwin Smith Hall

The Office of the Assemblies Elections President and Executive Vice President Debate 7:30 - 9 p m , 305 Ives Hall

Tomorrow

Three-Year Journey at Cornell Using Technology in Apparel Design Featuring Prof Huiju Park 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 153 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series: Elizabeth Cobbs-Hoffman, “America: Empire or Umpire, and at What Cost?” 4:30 p m , G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

Measuring the Impact of Improved Poultry Production On Community Health in Rural Zambia 5:30 - 6:30 p m , Paddock Lecture Hall, Veterinary Education Center

“The New Africa” Featuring Sangu Delle 6:15 - 8:15 p m , G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

BERLIN (AP) A German court has ruled that a prospective Berlin police recruit’s breast implants cannot legally be used as grounds to keep her off the force

The woman applied in 2012 to join the Berlin police force, but was rejected after authorities said her breast

implants would prevent her from wearing a protective vest or riot gear They argued the implants would mean the protective gear put so much pressure on her chest that there was a risk of fibrosis or other health problems

But a Berlin administrative court on Tuesday upheld her challenge of the decision, saying a doctor testified that protective gear should cause no greater health problems for a woman with implants than without The woman ’ s name was not released due to German privacy rules

NEW YORK (AP) The New York Times has printed a correction for misspelling 161 years ago the name of a black man who was sold into slavery and whose memoirs were turned into the Oscar-winning movie 12 Years a Slave

In a Jan 20, 1853, article, the Times misspelled Solomon Northup’s surname as Northrop and as Northrup

The Times corrected Northup’s name on Tuesday, after the errors were pointed out by someone looking at its archives

The correction said the article about Northup had “misspelled his surname as Northrop And the headline misspelled it as Northrup ” Northup was born in New York and was kidnapped

New Software Aims To Revolutionize Music Production

By ASHLEY COLLIS-BURGESS Sun Contributor

Jesse Orshan ’14 and Brendan Garrity ’13 have recently developed thinkplay, a technical startup that aims to revolutionize music creation by associating sounds made by physical instruments with digital effects, audio and video clips

“The whole concept [of thinkplay] is to allow instrumentalists to remain in the forefront of musical innovation, particularly as music becomes computerized,” Orshan said “It allows musicians to turn notes of their musical instrument into anything If you can think it, you can play it ”

According to Garrity, the thinkplay team is currently in the final stages of developing the software which is predicted be released this summer that works with pitchtracking hardware to store musical notes to play corresponding stored sounds and video clips when the software recognizes the note

By uploading audio and video media files that Users can make fully customizable “ePedals” which will store videos and sounds will each be assigned to a unique musical note, according to Orshan These files are then played through the computer whenever the musician plays the subsequent note on their instrument, according to the creators and can be shared and sold on a marketplace on the site

“You can put the ePedal up on an online site for sale and other musicians can download your creation, and you can download the creations of other users, ” Orshan said

Thinkplay was created through by the collaborative efforts of “music-loving” Cornell students in a wide range of majors ranging from applied economics and management to electrical engineering, according to Orshan

“The people on our team from Cornell have contributed through their time to help to code or [provide]

ideas on how to evolve software and take it to the next level,” Garrity said

Besides assistance from students and encouragement from professors, the co-founders also benefited from participation in Cornell’s eLab program for student startups, which provided the tools and resources necessary for developing the software, according to Orshan

The creators of thinkplay said they imagine a future without the “ gap ” between the worlds of computer music and instrumental music as the program expands throughout the industry

“The worlds of computer music and instrumental music seem so disbanded,” Orshan said “Our goal is to bridge the gaps as well as allow all instrumentals to do things with their instruments that have never been possible before We see an entire generation of musicians who are redefining what musical instruments are and how music is created ”

Some Cornell students said they are optimistic about the future impact thinkplay could make on the music

industry

Valeria Ivanina ’14 said she thinks thinkplay will be useful for musicians of all skill levels

“The online marketplace will allow people from all over the world to buy and sell their own sound pedals, harnessing the creative energy of millions of people and getting their own one-of-a-kind sound creations out there to a greater audience ” she said

Echoing Ivanina’s sentiments, Rebecca Gendelman ’14 said Thinkplay can provide connection and rejuvenation in music for many musicians of a range of sounds

“Thinkplay will change not only the experience of music production, but of music perception as well ” Gendelman said “By blurring conventional boundaries between instruments and genres, thinkplay will incite incredible changes in music and in human interaction and expression ”

Students: Greek Academy Promotes ‘Con dence’

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

After its first semester being offered for academic credit, students that have taken Cornell’s Greek Leadership Academy a class for students involved in Greek life to collaborate and improve leadership skills say it provides a unique way to interact with other Greek organizations on campus

According to Amy Kohut, director of the Cornell Team and Leadership Center, the program was able to secure official course standing with the help of Prof Marcia Eames-Sheavly, horticulture Starting last semester, the course was offered as ALS 4940, a placeholder course number for trial or temporary courses

“We offered P E credit in the first two

years of the program but felt the content was rigorous enough to deserve the [academic] credit [this year],” Kohut said

The time commitment is equivalent to one academic credit, or five weeks of weekly three-hour sessions in the first semester In addition to these weekly meetings, Kohut said

Kohut added that students participate in “individual leadership coaching sessions” in the second semester Each student also writes a final paper of reflection

Each class session follows a theme, Kohut said These themes cover organizational development and self-development, “circles of influence” and community building

In fall 2013, 58 students participated from 27 chapters 16 chapters from the Interfraternity Council, 10 from the

Panhellenic Council and one from the Multicultural Greek Letter Council according to Kohut Eighty percent of Cornell sororities and 66 percent of fraternities have participated over the past three years Kohut said

“We ideally want at least two people from each chapter,” Kohut said “We had a number of chapters this year who sent three people, and one chapter sent six people ” Students that have participated say the Greek Leadership Academy has been an enjoyable opportunity

Jillian Knowles ’15, president of the Alpha Phi sorority, said she chose to enroll in the program because she wanted to develop a “fun” new member program for her sorority

“[Having] our members participate in this course was very important to us, ” Knowles said “It is a great chance for them to bond and gain trust during the early stages of becoming an Alpha Phi ”

Knowles said the class gave leaders in the Greek community a chance to come together to discuss challenges in the Greek system She said the program helped demonstrate how leaders could help “develop a strong group of brothers and sisters ”

“I enjoyed this class greatly,” Knowles said “I left with the confidence and courage to lead a chapter of 200 young women through Cornell’s unique Greek System ”

Connor Riser ’16, philanthropy chair of Sigma Pi and vice president of Programming for the Interfraternity Council, echoed these sentiments, adding that the Academy helped introduce him to the larger Greek Community on campus

“Sometimes people get caught up in their own chapters, but this class allows people to work with those not only in other chapters, but also across other councils,” Riser said

P olice R eport

Harassment on West Campus

Three individuals were referred to the Judicial Administrator for harassment at William Keeton House Thursday, according to the Cornell University Police Department

Disorderly Conduct

An officer was dispatched to take a report from a student regarding an unknown individual throwing full cans of beer at them as they were walking by, CUPD said

Criminal Mischief On Campus Parking Lot

An officer responded to a report from a staff member Friday regarding an unknown individual removing a wiper blade from their parked vehicle at the Sibley Hall parking lot, according to CUPD

Making Graffiti

An officer was dispatched to take a report from a student regarding an unknown individual spray painting graffiti on the west side of the building located at 6 South Ave, according to CUPD Police say they believe the incident occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning

Unlawful Possession Of Marijuana

An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator for unlawful possession of marijuana in Mary Donlon Hall Monday, CUPD said

Compiled by Annie Bui

Third Annual Red Ideas Festival Will Be on May 3

IDEAS

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Greenberg said

According to Greenberg, the club is uniquw in that it offers underclassmen a chance for readership, whle upperclassmen take on advisory roles

“Usually, when you join a club, you can ’ t be on the e-board until you ’ re older,” she said “One of our main goals is to give leadership opportunities to underclassmen ” Applications are open to any Cornell student with an idea that “improves the human condition,” according to Matt Stefanko ’16, the organization’s vice president

“Red Ideas is a stepping stone for many students who have great ideas about how they want to change things and improve humanity, but don’t know where to start, ” Greenberg said “This is somewhere you can go to explore your idea ”

Giselle Molina ’13 who won last year ’ s second annual Red Ideas Festival with the idea to train clinicians from Haiti in using “mirror therapy, ” a treatment for amputees suffering from phantom limb pain said she used her prize money to cover initial costs for 20 shatterproof mirrors and as the seed funding for airfare to Haiti

“The funds we won from the Red Ideas competition directly helped the project,” Molina said “Red Ideas did a really good job of showcasing the creativity, passion and entrepreneurial spirit of the larger student community, and I’m so glad I was able to be a part of it ”

According to Stefanko, the club hopes to offer this year ’ s winners mentorship and support, in addition to their monetary awards, through the formation of a “consulting arm ” of the organization

“One of the initiatives we feel strongly about is our ability to offer groups ways to improve beyond just funding,” Stefanko said “All of the groups are really good at one thing, but maybe they don’t have social media expertise or know-how to raise money ”

Greenberg said she hopes that more students will come to make use of Red Ideas, which she said “ can be a great resource for students ”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun com

C.U. Community Divided O ver Changing Drinking Age

DRINKING

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According to the Fall 2012 Alcohol and Social Life Survey conducted by Cornell, the percentage of students under 21 who do not drink is much higher than for students of a legal drinking age

“Thirty-six percent of under 21 years olds are non-drinkers versus 14 percent of students 21 and older,” Lewis said Students under 21 are also less l i k e l y t o e n g a g e i n h i g h - r i s k drinking defined as five or more drinks in a sitting for a male and four or more drinks for a female according to Lewis

Le wis said “visible enforcement ” of the drinking age also cuts down on underage and highrisk drinking

“ In 2 0 0 3 , t h e Un i ve r s i t y implemented an environmental management plan to reduce dangerous drinking at [Slope Day] This plan included alcohol service to only those of age, ” Lewis said “When this approach began, students expressed concern that such e n f o rc e m e n t w o u l d u l t i m a t e l y lead to more dangerous drinking because students would pregame the event However, when we account for drinking both at the event and before the event, our e n v i ro n m e n t a l p re ve n t i o n approach has reduced high-risk drinking ”

Other members of the Cornell community, however, said they do not believe that a drinking age of 21 is effective in curbing highrisk drinking, despite the findings of the study

Michael Beveridge ’17, said he

supports a lower drinking age, because he said he thinks the current age does little to stop underage drinking

“The drinking age should be lowered to 18 because at 21 it only makes alcohol more taboo,” he said “It’s easy enough to get alcohol before we turn 21, so let’s make it legal and safer for both businesses and students by lowering the age ”

According to Eric Silverberg, president of Cayuga’s Watchers an organization that aims to combat high-risk drinking through bystander intervention minimum drinking ages change the drinking habits of students, but not necessarily in a positive way

“In my experience, the 21-year drinking age does not necessarily deter underage drinking Students can access alcohol on campus fairly easily,” he said “The law simply affects the ways that students consume alcohol and the locations in which they do so ”

Silverberg also said he was concerned that the drinking age forces underage students to hide their drinking, which he says can be risky

“One of the consequences of the law is that it drives drinking underground and out of the sight of responsible decision-makers,” he said “One of the most comm o n ve n u e s w h e re s t u d e n t s engage in high-risk drinking, for example, is in dormitory rooms behind closed doors Cornell has a strong pre-game culture, perhaps due in part to current drinking laws ”

Eric Oberman can be reached at eoberman@cornellsun com

Balik, Talbot: Assembly Actions Must Be Tangible

“I was one of two people who

Thaddeus Talbot ’15 spoke to their previous experience in the S A and how they will incorporate cultural considerations as president

Balik said she hopes to make the S A a “visionar y assembly” and stressed the impor tance of acting as an ally to students and organizations on campus

“So often we reach out but we don’t bring people in,” Balik said “I want to change that ”

She also mentioned her previous experience making “tangible differences” in the lives of students at Cornell

Talbot said he feels the S A is not as active and engaged as it could be, adding that it could do more to suppor t organizations in need

MGLC when they were on the chopping block for funding,” he said

Talbot also said he wants to

Resource Center and improve

grams

Juliana Batista ’16, the unopposed candidate for Executive Vice President, said she wants to build a website where anyone can send petitions to be read and create the “Morning Bell” a hub to see all ongoing events Student Assembly Elections begin on March 10 and voting occurs on various places on campus

Nabiha Keshwani can be reached at nkeshwani@cornellsun

An Honest Column Ab out Nothin g

If you have ever read my column before, you probably understand that there is a basic recipe I follow: Describe some anecdote that may or may not have actually happened (couch burning and rape van? Real Making things up on Wikipedia? Not real ) and then somehow try and tie it back to a larger and usually clichéd theme that is probably pretty obvious to basically everyone (Sidenote: If you have not read my column before, you ’ re likely in good company but don’t get to read as many John Stamos-related jokes as you usually might ) If you have ever talked to me about the genesis of most of my columns, you know that I typically start with a sentence that I want to use and will build the entire column off of that Sometimes, though, it is really tough to crank out 800 words based on a silly sentence I want to get published Sometimes it is a lot easier to just type a bunch of them in a bulleted list and make it easier for you, my beautiful readers, to see what I actually want to say With that said, here you go: an honest column about nothing

• I had a phone interview the other day (read: my sister was interrogating me about my social life) and accidentally used “ your ” instead of “ you ’ re ” at one point during the conversation I think that I got away with it, but it was pretty mortifying nonetheless

• The career services office recently tore apart my résumé to help me land a summer internship Apparently Oregon Trail and “Googling things” aren ’ t the type of computer skills that most engineering firms are looking for While we ’ re on the subject, I was always under the impression that dying of dysentery on Oregon Trail was a karma-induced death

If you have ever talked to me about the genesis of my column you know that I typically start of with a sentence ... and build the entire column off of that

that your pioneers suffered after relentlessly making fun of Terry that guy with the lisp in the other wagon One of my pre-med friends informed that is not actually the case I’m still looking for summer employment, if anyone ’ s hiring

• On a similar note, it turns out there is a pretty big difference between frolicking and fro-licking One of them is a fun thing to do through a field of flowers The other gets you kicked out of Olin, because The Man decided that “the library isn’t an appropriate place to lick a stranger ’ s hair ”

• Speaking of karma, it’s an idea I can really get behind It means that whenever I am a jerk to someone, they did something earlier to deserve it, right?

• Here’s a fun fact: The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn Scotland gets it

• It seems like this time of year fewer and fewer kids are looking both ways before they cross the street Maybe they are simply embracing YOLO, or maybe they decided that getting hit by oncoming traffic and shattering their hip is a better alternative to their back-to-back prelims the next day Looks like “The February Blues Break” didn’t do much for students mental health after all

• I am going to go ahead and change my name to “Finally Somebody” on Facebook and find photos that have no comments or likes Then I’m going to comment or like those photos to give that person a pretty devastating notification Just imagine the friend requests

• I’ve ordered dozens of club sandwiches in my lifetime and have never once been asked to prove that I am in fact a member of the club I’m not I really don t deserve those sandwiches

I find it pretty audacious that Snapchat thinks it can tell us who our best friends are

• I always seem to get conflicting advice when it comes to women: some of the time I’m told to “be charming and not super weird” and then other times I’m told to “be myself ” Make a decision You can ’ t have it both ways, ladies

• I think that in heaven, guacamole is included in the original burrito price

Despite the incohesive nature of this column, I am a live person, so I’m going to end on a pro life tip: It is easy to look at your life and think that if your GPA were better, you had a significant other or you could grow a beard like you always wanted, your life would be better In my opinion, that is unfair Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche defines maitri as “unconditional friendliness to oneself You re kind of stuck with who you are, so rather than worrying about making yourself better by someone else’s standards, it is probably in your best interests to just befriend yourself Or in other words, don’t let the haters get you down

Five Unexpected Things You Lose W hen You Lose Your Wallet

Th i s p a

end I traveled to B

h one of my friends and we had an absolutely amazing time We ate

y weights in chocolate-y waffles, walked through adorable Belgian cities and then, on the last day of our trip, my wallet was stolen My first

y panic, combined with kicking myself for not getting a zippered purse like my dad always told me to do But after I had cancelled all of my credit cards, f

new ID card, etc , I started t h i n k i n g about all of

were in my

what some might call a pasta aficionado As we w e r e l e a v i n g , I t o o k one of their business

c a r d s O f c o u r s e , I h a v e n ’ t b e e n b a c k since, and odds are I never would have, but the fact that I now am unable to is sitting in the back of my neurotic mind, nagging at my t h o u g h t s W h a t i f I suddenly wanted to eat a bowl of pasta in the v a g u e f u t u re w h e n I live in a vague location i n M a n h a t t a n ? T h i s p o s s i b i l i t y h a s b e e n removed from my life

I carry my wallet with me literally everywhere, so I’v accumulated a fair amoun of plain old stuff that I normally don’t give a second thought to.

m y wallet with me literally e

l d stuff that I don’t nor-

m a l l y g i v e a s e c o n d thought to But now that it’s all gone Well, here’s the list:

1 T h e b u s i n e s s card of that tiny but

g re a t re s t a u r a n t : A small anecdote: On my

s i x t e e n t h b i r t h d a y, I rented bikes with my friends in Central Park,

t h e n w e r o a m e d a r o u n d t h e V i l l a g e

u n t i l we we re n e a r l y

d y i n g o f h u n g e r, a t which point we ended up on the stoop of a

r a n d o m l i t t l e It a l i a n

r e s t a u r a n t It t u r n e d out to be one of the greatest plates of pasta I’ve ever eaten; that’s saying a lot, as I am

and I’ll miss it

2 Ticket stubs: I am a bit of a hoarder of ticket stubs, and I even have one of the silly books you have probably seen on infomercials that stores all of my movie and theatre tickets But apart from those in the book, all of my stubs from France were still in my wallet Now, who knows if I w i l l e v e r r e m e m b e r t h e s e c u l t u r a l e x p e r iences Along with these stubs were actual, real, not-yet-redeemed tickets, which some might argue are more import a n t t h a n t h e b e e nt h e re , d o n e - t h a t s o uvenir variety Call me a n o s t a l g i a a d d i c t , b u t the full tickets were easily replaceable, the others were unique! All I

have now is an album full of empty pockets

3 The wallet itself: Okay, I think you can tell by this point in the l i s t t h a t I h a v e a n u n n a t u r a l a t t a c h m e n t to menial objects, the t y p e o f t h i n g s s o m e might call tchotchkes

My wallet could be yet another ridiculous item

t h a t I a t t a c h s i g n i f icance to, but this one was actually expensive, and relatively new It’s one of those long wall e t s t h a t a c t u a l l y f i t s paper money without b e n d i n g i t i n h a l f,

which makes me feel like a real grown-up, and it has enough pockets for all of my weird frequent froyo-er cards, which is super rare

4 L i b r a r y c a rd : R i g h t a f t e r t h e t h e f t occurred, I was easily able to cancel my credit cards, because, well, this sor t of thing happens all of the time

There’s a procedure for i t B u t w h a t a b o u t those weird cards that I’ve accumulated in my l i f e : l i b r a r y, Pa n e r a , St a r b u c k s a n d a f o r em e n t i o n e d f r o y o punches? The path to replace these is much less clear, and there’s no w a y Yo g u r t C r a z y i s going to believe that I had nine punches on my card next fall when I get back to Ithaca (I

did, I swear! I was so close!) These are the sadnesses of my life 5 Your mind: We’ve all heard so many stories about people’s stuff getting stolen abroad, and of course I live in constant fear of most things, so I think about it fairly often, but I was super unprepared for facing firstly the Belgian police and secondly the world without a wallet This might seem obvious, but you literally have no money or means of obtaining it without a wallet I’m a worst-casescenario type of person, and what if I had to bargain for my life? All of my bargaining power was gone Also all my means of buying food, because I’m also a c o n s t a n t - e a t i n g type of person Hard times I recently read an article saying that we overuse the word “ rant, ” but I will still say that this concludes my rant on losing my wallet Having moved past the hyperventilation stage of the theft, I would like to ask the pickpocket: What is your endgame here? You can ’ t use my credit cards, I had like five dollars in there, and now you have my student ID, on which I look like an international criminal So good luck with that But do enjoy that wallet; I just want it to be happy, with a devoted owner Love, Sarah

Sarah Byrne is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She may be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun com Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

SCIENCE

Resear chers Find That Mountain Bir ds Climb W ith Incr easing Temperatur es

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Contributor

Recent research has found that as tropical temperatures climb as a result of climate change, mountain-dwelling tropical birds are doing the same

While climate change is not a new concept, the study conducted in Papua New Guinea aimed to examine the virtually unexplored question of climate change’s effects on birds, according to Benjamin Freeman grad and Alexandra Class Freeman, a staff researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

History as a Baseline

“Climate change has a big impact on today’s world and there’s a problem in that nobody had really measured how climate change is impacting tropical birds,” Freeman said “In our studies, we read about field work that Jared Diamond had done in the 1960s, and we realized that would give us an opportunity to go back to the same places, observe where birds live now and compare that to the historical baselines ”

Using 47 years of data previous research created a launching pad for a local study with wide applications, according to Class Freeman

"In the present, these [data] are valuable [We] got permission to work on this mountain to study climate change effects in the tropics to see whether diversity has changed,” Class Freeman said “This ties a globally ambiguous symptom of greenhouse gas use to a real-world effects evident in bird species ranges on a spectacularly isolated mountaintop ”

After months of collecting data, the researchers found strong support for the existence of this trend of the birds’ ascent Birds have shifted both the upper and lower elevation boundaries of their preferred habitats, Freeman said An Unsustainable Pattern

The impending effects of this trend could be lethal for birds, according to Class Freeman, who said it can only continue for so long before the population exceeds carrying capacity Carrying capacity is the maximum number of members of a species that a habitat can support

"Bird species living at the top are stuck, with no place to go, leading to their probable extinction if climate trends continue similarly,” Class Freeman said “Mountains are cone-shaped, thus populations are much denser at the top there is a sharing of

smaller space by all species that inhabit mountaintops currently and those moving upslope This demonstrates that slight changes in climate can cause large changes in behavior ”

The particular lifestyle needs of these tropical birds make for an even grimmer picture when faced with relocation, according to Freeman

“These are very different from our Ithaca birds that happily fly from Ithaca College to Cornell,” Freeman said “These are birds that are born in a small patch of woods If they’re lucky enough to survive, they stay in one patch their whole lives ”

Due to the nature of interactions between species in an ecosystem, the effects of climate change are felt by all species in direct and indirect ways

“The birds that eat insects that live in the understory tend to be born somewhere and live nearby their whole life,” Freeman said “It’s a little warmer, so it probably changes the insects that live there which may affect the birds ”

According to Freeman, this trickle-down effect of global climate change spells disaster for an increasing population of birds in a decreasing area of suitable habitat

“A couple species that we studied that live on the mountaintop and are likely to go locally extinct are [the] Crested Berrypecker and Crested Satinbird,” Freeman said “Even if a species persists there’s less land area, and smaller populations will be supported for each species We think mountain extinctions are going to happen ”

The researchers themselves said they were surprised at the extent of the trend

“We didn’t know really what to expect, ” Freeman said “It was surprising to me that so many species were moving up slope so strongly ”

Class Freeman said the uniformity of the trend at a variety of elevations was especially surprising

“Lower elevation birds were moving up at about the same rate as upper, [which is] surprising mainly because you might expect some species to just expand if they could tolerate all temperatures which we suspect they can, ” Class Freeman said “Species might be engaged in complex competition for habitat and food as they are squeezed into a smaller area at the top of a mountain ” Not Just for the Birds

This complex interaction between species does not exclude humans, and according to Freeman tropical birds are not

the only ones feeling the effects

“People there already know they can grow coconuts up the mountain where their grandparents could not they see it as a good thing but also people are getting malaria in places where they weren ’ t before,” Freeman said

Like the birds, humans can only advance so far up the mountain before reaching the top, and the end of new land to use

“In Papua New Guinea, the concept of land ownership as we know it here doesn’t exist,” Class Freeman said “When you inherit your family’s given tract of land, if at some point you can t grow anything on it due to climate change effects, you'll be in a difficult place because you can ' t just go up to the next plot it’s not yours to take "

Though the increase in temperature is small, according to Class Freeman, even a slight change could have large effects for both bird and man

“Our research shows that the impacts are felt globally even where there is only slight climate warming,” Class Freeman said With increasingly constricted amounts of land suitable for habitats desired by birds as well as crops desired by humans the livelihoods of both groups are threatened, according to Freeman

“It’s climate change some people benefit, just as the birds expand into new areas, [but] they contract into marginalized ones, ” Freeman said Their whole livelihood is growing coffee, [and] that might disappear There’s winners and losers, [and] most of the mountain birds are losers ” The Bigger Picture

According to Freeman, the implications of the study were much wider in scope than its own temporal boundaries

“Climate change tends to be invisible maybe it’s [visible] in the arctic, but the changes are so minimal we don’t see it You only see it if you look back to to a historical baseline [and] compare that to what is happening now, ” Freeman said

The study’s applications outspan the geographical boundaries as well, according to Class Freeman

“Our study on the climate change demonstrates that the changes we feel in a tropical forest without infrastructure or

anthropogenic change was largely caused by northern, industrialized countries,” Class Freeman said “It was strong insight into the effects of fossil fuel use on remote tropical forests Industrial countries, like the USA are doing this to the world and you can see the effects "

Future Study

Raising further questions about climate change’s effect on tropical birds and every step in between, the study has led the researchers to look to future possibilities for study in this field, according to Freeman

“Understanding the ecological interactions that are important and somehow linked to the temperature increase that would be an aspect for further study,” Freeman said

Unfortunately, long-term studies on climate change effects are not easy to conduct, according to Class Freeman

“[There are] a lot of different things that you'd have to tease out to get to the bottom of exactly why we are seeing species shift upslope,” Class Freeman said “Sadly, there are very few places in the world where you can set up a 50-year research plan to systematically test hypotheses related to range shifts along an intact, protected, tropical mountain transect ”

According to Freeman, the researchers plan to take the challenge

“We’re going to do some research in the way that species interactions such as competition might influence species responses to climate change,” Freeman said “The same patterns are happening in the mountains here ”

Further studies could show whether or not the trend of ascent means doom or conquest for these high-aiming birds

“[We call it an] escalator to extinction [that the birds are] going up until they run out of room If they’re the losers, the escalator is running quickly,” Freeman said “Or, it’s king of the hill We don’t know which is the more correct scenario, [so] we ’ re going to do some experiments in the Adirondacks ”

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Nabila Reem Khondakar can be reached at nkhondakar@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

What Is Cinema?

BY ZACH ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman interviewed the greats in his field like David Lynch, Robert Altman and Mike Leigh for his feature-length documentar y What is Cinema? In turn, The Sun spoke with Workman over the phone Sunday, before he visits Cornell Cinema to introduce his film Thursday He shared his thoughts on film as art, Oscar movies and the ever-elusive cinematic canon

THE SUN: I watched your film last night and enjoyed it How did it come about?

CHUCK WORKMAN: Well, [three years ago] I made a film called Visionaries, which was about Jonas Mekas and avant-garde film A producer saw it and he really liked it, and he said, “I want to make another film that is more accessible but also might have Jonas in it ” That happens often, people will see something that you make and they want the same thing, but they just want to put their name on it That’s why people make the same films over and over again in Hollywood or television But in my case, that doesn’t usually happen I saw it as an opportunity to explore films, cinema as art rather than commodities of entertainment

SUN: “Commodities of entertainment” extends to stereotypical examples like Transformers, but I was interested with your sequence about “melodrama ” You applied that not so much to the Douglas Sirk, ’50s stuff, but to

C W : To Titanic, etc

SUN: Titanic, The Artist, Gladiator

C W : Well, yes, it is melodrama

SUN: Is that a way of writing off the sort of “Oscar movie?”

C W : Yeah, but I’m not writing it off It’s a different kind of filmmaking The Robert Altman quote: “I make love, they make shoes ” To me, you might think a lot of Gladiator But in the end, they are oversentimentalized, formulaic films with happy endings or sad endings that are satisfying As much as we might honor the work of a director, if we are auteurist, as a piece of film, they seem to be lacking So that’s why they are all in the same spot

SUN: You’ve worked on the Academy Award montages, correct?

C W : Totally, so it’s films that I have worked with my whole life It’s a Wonderful Life is a film I’ve used constantly But [it’s] not necessarily cinema as art It’s about separating cinema from movies They are both narrative films not always narrative, but feature length films we might see in a theater but they are very different in their effect and the intent of the filmmaker

SUN: You speak of formula, and lately I’ve been trying to appreciate the “ genre film” more I find there are cool things that Cronenberg and, back in the day, Hitchcock did within that formula, and do you think those films can be as much of cinematic art as those released by Janus Films?

C W : I think Hitchcock can do it Hitchcock moves past it I show a scene where there’s nothing going on beside Cary Grant standing in a corner on a highway in North by Northwest There is artistry in the framing and, also, it takes three minutes for anything to happen! In Psycho, it is a horror genre but it is so much beyond the horror genre, it’s no longer genre It’s like saying Crime and Punishment is “crime genre ”

SUN: Is there any genre filmmaker today who transcends that?

C W : Well, the Coen brothers might

SUN: I see

C W : I really enjoy their films, but I’m not sure their intentions are in the world of [Robert] Bresson, let’s say So my criteria are whether a film stands by Bresson or Resnais It’s hard because those people have different intentions What’s coming off the screen is something else, something we can ’ t explain Most of these films are very story-oriented In my film, Ken Jacobs and Hitchcock both pretty much say, “Story isn’t so important ”

SUN: You have the Kurosawa quote about “ a good movie is interesting and easy to understand ”

C W : Well, that was ironic After you watch an incredibly complicated sequence that he took forever to shoot, he says, “Oh, it’s very easy to do ” It’s not easy

SUN: In the documentary section, you have Shoah, Portrait of Jason and a Frederick Wiseman movie beside Michael Moore Do you think there is a disparity in style between Moore and that more classic, cinema verite style?

C W : Yes, I think there is a disparity but I think what Michael Moore is reaching for is just as important as what Fred Wiseman is doing It’s just that he’s doing it in a different way The filmmakers who are more political have a big place in cinematic art, like feminist filmmakers I put Michael in there because he represents, yes, a popular genre but he has very pure intentions [His films] are beyond entertainment Of course he’s not like Shirley Clarke or

others in that sequence but he works for me because he is out to do something with his filmmaking It’s an interesting question, “Does Michael belong there?” I think he does

SUN: You bring up a good question in the film about viewers today being very obsessed with meaning and decoding certain aspects of films I’m thinking of the Hitchcock quote you include: “I’m not interested in content It’s the same as a painter not worrying about the apples he’s painting, whether they’re sweet or sour Who cares?”

C W : The ineffable is what I talk about, mostly If it’s an important film, you can ’ t really explain it Hitchcock and Lynch are showing you things that come to them; for Lynch, through a dreamlike state and for Hitchcock, almost a symbolic state Memento would be great if it weren ’ t a gimmick, although it’s a very intelligent one It needs metaphor If you neglect style and focus just on story, what do you got? If you look at Renaissance art, it’s all the same subject: religious characters Yet they’re all different because their style is different

SUN: I’d like to talk about [Iranian director Abbas] Kiarostami Um, I guess I’d like to say I love Kiarostami and think he’s amazing What are your thoughts on him? I could tell you really like him too

C W : I do What’s that movie where it’s just a woman driving around in a car?

SUN: Ten

C W : Yeah When he said something about certain movies you fall asleep in, I actually fell asleep watching that one It was late afternoon, I was tired – exactly what he said But I’m still talking about it 10 years later, even when I fell asleep during it He’s just got a way of making his film that is so unique and so direct, in a way That’s what pulls you in You’re constantly looking at it And he plays with it, like at the end of Taste of Cherry It’s so simple that it becomes poetic Often I don’t get it, and I think, “What was that about?”

SUN: Exactly And you want to return to it because of that question

C W : Of course See that is another difference between commodity and artistic cinema You do go back to see When Harry Met Sally again, for the fun of it But you ’ re not going to see anything new You want to have that same, superficial experience again Most people have no idea, they look at films as something to pass the time It’s a difficult fight sometimes, to make people understand that these films are important They hold on to the “I liked it, I didn’t like it” mindset

What does that mean?

SUN: Last week I saw the Claude Lanzmann movie The Last of the Unjust When I finished my review of it, I realized I said nothing about whether I liked it or didn ’ t like it I was talking about the movie

C.W.: Yes, it has nothing to do whether you like it It is very hard to like a three and a half hour film, where it’s just got one guy talking I liked it, I sat through the whole thing But that opinion does not ultimately matter

SUN: But then whether you like The Avengers or not matters, since that’s the point

C W : Yes Everyone likes a McDonalds hamburger, but many do not like a certain a type of cuisine It’s up to us to reach out to those things and ask, “What is it that I didn ’ t like about that film? Many people I respect did like it, so maybe I should try again ”

SUN: Are there any canonical filmmakers whose reputation you take issue with?

C W : I don’t believe there is a canon yet, since you say “canonical ” This film, if it has any intent, is to start and establish a canon I think John Ford is an interesting director but I can ’ t see him as a master I don’t think Douglas Sirk is a master I think they are interesting craftsmen, not artists, though they have artist moments It’s not totally black and white, there’s a lot of gray Welles, Altman and Kubrick, for me, are the three greatest American directors, and they didn’t make it in Hollywood Kubrick left voluntarily, but he had problems

SUN: As for the question of the canon, doesn’t the Sight and Sound list establish something like a canon?

C W : Yes and no I wouldn’t put The Godfather there There are polls, 10 years ago, that said Casablanca was the greatest movie ever, and polls 20 years ago that said Gone with the Wind was the greatest movie ever made Hollywood sentimentalizes romantic pieces of nothing, of fluff, and considers them the greatest ever The Godfather may be an interesting exception, but even Coppola believes The Conversation is his greatest For him, The Godfather was just a job If you ask him today, he will say, “I wanted to make The Conversation and then I got sidetracked ”

Chuck Workman will introduce What is Cinema? at Cornell Cinema on Thursday at 7 p m

Zach Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com

TKeep Calm And Kyar y On

here is something inherently disturbing about kawaii culture Hello Kitty is for young girls, not the livery of major airlines Grown women caked in makeup to look like porcelain dolls used to be a sign of serious arrested development rather than the forefront of an aesthetic movement But in Japan and increasingly, worldwide kawaii is big business, and there’s no bigger ambassador of the culture than Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Right now, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more recognizable Japanese pop star than Kyary The current tastemaker on all things kawaii, she actually got her nickname because her fashion went against the Japanese grain Back in high school, a friend of her began calling her “Kyary,” a Japanization of “Carrie,” because of her affinity for Western fashion and blonde wigs Today, she’s among the main exporters of Japanese pop culture and seen as the epitome of the Asian reaction to American trends

Outside of Japan, Kyary represents a subculture of kawaii In her native country, she supposedly represents a subculture too, but there’s absolutely nothing underground about it Kyary’s most recent album, Nanda Collection, topped the charts, and she’s appeared in commercials ranging from employment search engines to Kentucky Fried Chicken Sure, most Japanese people don’t go about their daily lives wearing bleach-blonde wigs, but you ’ ve relinquished all underground cred when you ’ ve appeared in a KFC ad Kyary Pamyu Pamyu doesn’t seem to need cred, though Despite being the queen of kawaii, she approaches the culture with a level of self-awareness that flies right over many of her followers’ heads Originally a fashion blogger in the kawaii capital of Harajuku, Kyary has a keen awareness of the movement ’ s aesthetics To most kawaii fans, the culture is simply about overloading on bright colors and trying to look as cute and childlike as possible Many of them strive to inundate even the most obscure parts of their lives with pink dresses and smiles, but that look is the only end-goal Kyary, on the other hand, has an innate awareness of the boundaries of kawaii While she’s never explicitly said anything along these lines, it’s clear that she a c k n o w l e d g e s the ridiculousness and inherent creepiness of dressing like a five year old girl’s feverish dream

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This subtle subversive attitude rears its head fairly visibly in her music videos “Mottai Night Land” depicts the singer laying on a plush, pink bed in a Disney princess dress pretty standard kawaii fare The clip also features backup dancers wearing pastel shirts, suspenders and clown-like striped pants, all still par for the course But these dancers are wearing ghoulish masks and standing in front of giant crosses The video is in vibrant color, but there are constant allusions to the dark side of what she’s promoting Similarly, “PonPonPon,” the most watched YouTube music video in Japan’s history, superimposes a green and black striped CGI goose with a halo of bullets over a room full of pink kids’ toys It’s easy to get lost in the cuteness, but her dark imagery is just obvious enough to make a statement

Her music, even more popular than her visual image, is also steeped in faint eeriness Bouncy tracks like “Kimini 100 Percent” fit squarely into the kawaii mold, but they’re countered by the slightly flat, marginally abrasive electronic chorus and the almost parodic dubstep breakdown of “Invader Invader ” “Ninja Re Bang Bang” sounds like a cross between a lullaby, an 8-bit video game and a pachinko parlor, with enough of a dark, adult background to counteract the hypnotically creepy childish vocals Kyary knows that overly saccharine music has an inherently disturbing quality, and she embraces it consciously Ky a r y Pa m y u Pa

s constantly referred to as the Japanese Lady Gaga, but that’s not a fair comparison Their similarities basically end at t

they’re both huge pop stars who dress strangely, and that’s about it On one hand, Kyary influences fashion much more so than Gaga does But more i m p o r t a n t l y, L a d y Ga g a ’ s music doesn’t differ too much from standard American pop tropes, while Kyary’s music is wildly more innovative than the J-Pop norm With her experimental music and subversive aesthetic, it’s astounding how much worldwide influence Kyary has She’s a mega-brand in and of herself, and it’s based around a style that she subtly yet consciously mocks Still more surprising, though, is how much of the world takes her at face value Even many of her most devout fans can ’ t crane their necks around her gargantuan lace dresses to see her creative critique of a culture that she was integral in building Those who don’t get it love Kyary Pamyu Pamyu as well, but her music and persona take on a whole new life when you realize where her true genius lies

Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun com New Cult Ever y Day appears alternate Wednesdays

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t h a t , a n d t h e Re d c o u l d n o t bounce back from a two-run hole after the Midshipmen capitalized on some defensive misplays in the middle innings

Ju n i o r r i g h t - h a n d e r Bre n t Jones took the mound in the second game of the series He was solid for six innings, allowing just four hits and no earned runs The Red scored an insurance run in the top of the ninth off an RBI double by junior catcher Matt Hall, which proved to be the difference in the game Junior reliever Nick Busto worked two scoreless innings, and junior closer Kellen Urbon came in to shut the door, despite allowing a run in the bottom of the ninth

“The bullpen is going to keep

“Im sure our bats will heat up as we get more games in.”

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us in every single game we play this year The talent our team has there is top-notch,” Cruz said “Coach Marsh has done a great job with the pen and they have a strong game plan when they go out there They will without a doubt be a stopping force for the team this year ” Strong starting performances were certainly a theme throughout the weekend for Cornell as well In the deciding game of the s e r i e s , j u n i o r s t a r t e r Br i a n McAfee allowed just three hits all singles in five innings of work, while giving up one earned run Sophomore reliever Michael Byrne proved the true depth of the team ’ s staff this year, going for the final six innings of the game and allowing just one unearned run and four hits

“ When you have guys like Michael Byrne and Kellen Urbon coming out of the pen on the

weekend, it is reassuring,” Cruz said “We know that they are going to go out there and shove, which allows the offense to go out and perform without any added pressure ”

According to Swinford, the Red has high hopes for its pitching staff this season

“We expect them to be the best in the league again this year, ” he said “We have very deep talent there, including guys that didn’t get the chance to come out of the bullpen in our first three games ”

Navy tied the game up in the bottom of the eighth off Byrne, but the young reliever put up zeroes in the final three frames, setting the stage for the Red’s lategame heroics Cruz’s double started things off, and Hall brought him home with a double of his own, giving the Red the 3-2 lead

Though the Red put up another insurance run, one was all Byrne n e e d e d a s h e s h u t t h e

Midshipmen down in the bottom of the eleventh to secure the win

While the Red only scored a combined nine r uns in three games, Swinford said it was not cause for worry just yet

“I’m sure our bats will heat up as we get more games in, but it’s n i c e t o h a ve t h a t b u l l p e n t o always rely on ”

Cornell won the 2012 Ivy

L e a g u e c h a m p i o n s h i p w i t h a large crop of freshmen playing big roles Those freshmen are now juniors, and though there are only six seniors on the team, Swinford said that there is an abundance of leadership up and down the roster

“We may only have six seniors this year, but the junior class is full of veteran players with great leadership as well,” he said “All around, we have a lot of experience on this team that will really show its value in close, important games down the stretch where nerves become a factor ”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

S ali Sets Two Records At Ivy League Champs

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell men ’ s Swimming and Diving team traveled to Cambridge, Mass to compete in the Ivy League Championships at Harvard University The Red recorded 561 5 points over the weekend, concluding its season with an eighth place overall finish in the Ivy League The squad also saw many individuals achieve success, breaking personal as well as school records

Freshman Dylan Sali finished sixth in the 200-backstroke and recorded an NCAA B time to cap the weekend Sali set a pair of school records early on in the weekend, breaking the 100-back record with a 47 70 split as part of the 400-medley squad on Thursday, only to best his time again on Friday with a 47 61 He finished in third place for the Red and posted an NCAA B cut time He stopped there, however, failing to clinch another in his backstroke event on Saturday Senior Ben Catanese also made the C final on Saturday, coming in 18th place with a time of 1:48 86 Sophomore Zac Cesaro stepped in for Catanese as an alternate in the evening session and placed twenty-third overall with a 1:51 62, just shy of his prelim time of 1:50 49

“Although we didn't place well overall as a team, [the] Ivy Championships were a great experience,” junior diver Thomas Hallowell said “The Championship meet gets

Race to the finish | Senior Ben Cantanese made the C final in the 200-Back, coming in 18th with a time of 1:48 86

faster and faster every year, and being able to set some school records this year really made it a great meet all around ”

Junior Tim Satterthwaite and sophomore Taylor Adams both finished in the C final for the 100-free on Saturday, posting times of 45 13 and 45 46, respectively The Red also finished the meet with another Top-10 school time in the 400-free relay, with Satterthwaite, Adams, senior Harry Harpham and senior Taylor Wilson posting a 3:01 79, the eighth fastest time in Cornell history for that event

Despite landing a low overall team rank, the sqaud is happy with its results and proud of the men who achieved personal bests

“I would say that yes the team is happy with how the meet went Our relays finished higher than they have the

past few years and [we saw] some amazing drops from Dylan Sali and Kevin Kreher,” Satterthwaite said

The Red looks forward to filling its roster with young talent next year and has high hopes for the future of its program, according to Hallowell

“This year was definitely a step in the right direction for our program, and I think I speak for every member when I say that we are looking forward to next year, ” he said “We have a lot of great kids coming in in the fall and a lot of guys who are eager to step up and make a difference on the team ”

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun com

U.S. Team Needs to Generat e Bett er Q uality Of fense to Measure Up

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Sochi games Again, the US team had a strong set of NHL players on the roster, as well as an elite goaltender in Jonathan Quick And again, the U S overmatched its opponents in the preliminary round When the U S beat Czech Republic and Canada overcame Latvia in the quarters, it set up another battle between the North American heavyweights, this time for a berth in the gold medal game against Sweden

The game ended in a 1-0 Canada triumph, but the U S never really stood a chance Canada dominated on attack, consistently generating high quality scoring chances Spectacular saves from Quick were all that prevented this game from being a

blowout This was no repeat of 2010 Canada obviously asserted its superiority over the U S , and then went on to defeat Sweden for the Gold

These games revealed that Canada’s team is stronger, more talented, and better coached than any other in the world Most U S players are hard workers but dont have the speed or the skills The Russians have the speed and skills but do not know how to play as a team The Canadians have it all

The situation is similar in the world of Women’s Hockey The rivalry between the two elite teams is bitter Canada had the best of the U S in Vancouver, but the U S had a two goal lead with under seven minutes to play in this year ’ s game Then, Canada stormed back to tie the game and went on to win it in overtime, tak-

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Red’s freshmen class has been performing well thus far

“ The freshmen have played with a lot of maturity and they’ve been playing really well They’ve learned very quickly how to fit in with the college way of playing,” Fleck said “The older guys are playing well, as well, and helping the freshmen through ”

On the women ’ s side, the Red went 11 over the weekend

The team split its singles matches against Rutgers on Saturday, but lost the doubles

point to fall, 4-3, to the Scarlet Knights

According to junior Lauren Frazier, experiencing a tough loss may create opportunities for learning and growth moving forward

“We know that we were right there with that team, ” Frazier said “If you win, you ’ re just like, yeah we did great, but when you lose you really think about what went wrong ” The Red stepped up its game on Sunday against Farleigh Dickinson University, winning with a decisive 5-2 final result

The squad attributes its ability to

bounce back to high energy levels and team support, according to Frazier “I think the second day our energy was much better,” Frazier said “ We might have been a bit more tired, but it’s almost easier to pump yourself up [that way] ” Cornell was scheduled for a third match against Lafayette on Sunday, but the match was postponed due to inclement weather in eastern Pennsylvania

Olivia Wittels can be reached at owittels@cornellsun com

ing home the Gold once again Hockey’s popularity in America is growing rapidly, with more people attending NHL than NBA games this season It is starting to really enter the mainstream of

American sports culture, and along with that, fans are eager to see America produce the best of the best That could very easily occur sometime in the future However, in the Sochi games, Canada made a

convincing statement with no room for doubt: in hockey, Canada remains the best in the world

Benjamin Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun com

Red Beats Navy in 11 Innings

Cruz hits double at top of eleventh, sparks two-run rally for win

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor

Senior outfielder Chris Cruz may have only had one hit in the baseball team ’ s season opening series against Navy this weekend, but it was an important one Tied at two in the third game of the series, Cruz started off the top of the 11th inning with a double to the gap in right-center, sparking a tworun rally that Navy could not recover from in the final frame

Cruz who hit the walkoff home run that sent the Red to the NCAA tournament two years ago was sidelined for much of the 2013 season

senior infielder Ben Swinford, this has given the team some confidence moving forward

“Coming away with close wins early in the season will definitely build our confidence and prepare us for tough games to come later during league play, where it matters most, ” he said

“Coming away with a close win will definitely build our confidence and prepare us for tough games to come...”

“It feels really good to be back in the action and have a part in a big team win,” Cruz said “I had a rough weekend offensively to say the least, so it was big to play a part in the extra innings win ”

That win lifted the Red to the series win, taking two of three games from a Navy team that won 13 conference games last season All three games were decided by either one or two runs, and according to

The Red lost the first game of the series, as senior starting pitcher Zach McCulley lasted three and two thirds innings, allowing six hits and four runs, only one of them earned Junior reliever Eric Upton took over from there, shutting out Navy’s offense in the final two frames

Cornell’s offense jumped out to a quick start, putting one run on the

Whetsel led off the game with a single, and senior shortstop Tom D’Alessandro followed suit with one of his own Whetsel was caught stealing later in the inning, but a two-out double by senior infielder

Ryan Plantier plated the first run of the game

Navy starter Anthony Parenti settled down after

Bases loaded | Chris Cruz hit a double to the gap in right-center at the top of the 11th, breaking the tie and instigating a two-run rally that set up the win for the Red

Men Sweep; Women See Mi xed Results

By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer

The men ’ s and women ’ s tennis teams both had a busy weekend, hosting two opponents each and playing backto-back matches On Friday, t h e m e n k i c k e d o f f p l a y against Middle Tennessee State University and edged out the Blue Raiders for a 43 decision The Red won two of its three doubles matches against the foe, with freshman Bernardo Casares Rosa and junior Alex Sidney cruising towards an 8-1 victory at the No 3 spot Junior captain Sam Fleck and freshman Chris Vrabel captured the doubles point at the No 1 position with an 8-5 win

The doubles point proved crucial, tipping the scale in the Red’s favor as the team split its six singles matches with MTSU The Red struggled with doubles play in earlier matches this season, so earning the win off the doubles point definitely boosted team morale, according to Fleck

“ We won both doubles points this weekend pretty convincingly, against good

t e a m s , ” Fl e c k s a i d “ T h a t gives us a lot of confidence going forward that we can continue our success in doubles ” Fleck also added that with t h e c u r re n t d e p t h o f t h e squad, the doubles pairings are not as rigid as they were last season

“Last year we had very set doubles pairs at one, two and

three but this year it’s a little bit more open I think it will depend on who’s playing well at the time and who pairs up well together,” he said “We have a few more options if guys are playing really well or if people are struggling a little bit ”

On Saturday, the Red foll owe d u p i t s w i n a g a i n s t MTSU with another victory against the fiftieth ranked

Fleck and Vrabel teamed up again at the No 1 doubles spot for an 8-3 win Junior Ja

match, 8-6, at the No 2 spot to secure the doubles point for the Red At the No 6 singles spot,

Brandon Videtich, but rallied to win in three sets, 2-6, 6-0, 6-4 Sinclair’s win also clinched Saturday’s match for Cornell Sophomore Stefan Vi n t i , f re s h m a n C a s a re s Rosa, and Vrabel all won their singles matches against Nebraska at the No 2, 3, and 5 spots, respectively Despite being new to the

Canada Rules O lympic

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics produced a memorable gold medal game in Men’s Hockey between the traditional hockey powerhouse of Canada and a young, determined team from the United States The U S had beaten Canada in the preliminary round of the tournament and convincingly over-matched each of its opponents in the path to the gold medal game To

some observers, it seemed that this was the time for the U S to finally beat Canada for the gold and justify its equality to hockey’s founding country once and for all It was a tight game from start to finish but appeared to be Canada’s to win at 2-1 late in the third However, with only 30 seconds remaining, Zach Parise tied the game for the U S Numerous Youtube classics depict the Canadian anguish at that tying goal Bear in mind that almost 80 percent of people in Canada were watching this game However, that anguish turned into wild celebration when Canada’s star Sydney Crosby slid the puck through Ryan Miller’s legs for the victory The Canadians had satisfied the expectations of the home-crowd, and the U S left disappointed with the Silver This all provided great backdrop for the