03-06-13

Major C-Town Development Stalled After Board Decision

By TYLER ALICIA Sun Staff Wr ter

A proposal to build a new housing complex on College Avenue may have hit a roadblock The City of Ithaca’s Board of Zoning Appeals denied developer Josh Lower’s ’05 request for a variance an exemption from the city’s parking laws for his Collegetown project in an unanimous decision Tuesday Lower’s proposed “Collegetown Crossing” development project would create a six-story building that

would contain a GreenStar grocery store, as well as housing for 103 occupants at 307 College Ave

“As it stands now, the project is dead in the water, ” Lower said Lower –– who is working with GreenStar as a part of the project’s development team –– added that he is “ open to any ideas that can move [the project] forward ”

“We’re just going to explore all options,” he said As a result of the city’s minimum parking require-

C.U. Responds to Renewal of Act Against Violence

By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Writer

Members of the Cornell Democrats and Republicans expressed their support of Congress recently renewing the Violence Against Women Act a move that they say will continue to mitigate domestic violence

The act, which “transformed the way we treat victims of abuse,” will now extend protection to Native American women and members of the LGBT community, according to a White House press release

Jessie Palmer ’14, president of the Cornell Democrats, said the Cornell Democrats strongly support the renewal of the act because she said everyone deserves to be protected against any kind of domestic violence

“At the end of the day, it is the duty of the government to protect its people, and the inclusion of the new provisions is absolutely necessary, ” Palmer said “Pursuing abuse charges should be both more affordable and more accessible for people ”

Jessica Reif ’13, chair of the Cornell Republicans, agreed, saying she supports any legislation that ensures safety against domes-

Cornell Establishes First Cultural Center For Muslim Students

By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor

After spending about two years gaining University approval and securing a home, the Muslim community is celebrating the recent establishment of a Muslim cultural center the first of its kind at Cornell

The center which has been under consideration since 2010 was established in January after “countless meetings” with several University administrators, according to Nayab Mahmood ’14, internal vice president of the Committee for the Advancement of Muslim Culture

“We had to both convince them of the need for such a center and then convince them that it is a priority so that the logistics could be worked out, ” she said

“We had to ... convince them of the need for such a center.”

Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’67 said that although creating the center was “something [he] wanted to do from the outset, ” it was difficult to find a space for the center He added that “students who wanted to make this happen were wonderful They were patient with us ” Administrators and students said they began working on plans for the center at the beginning of the semester

The space which will be located in 208 Willard Straight Hall will both “showcase [the] diversity of Muslim culture” and “provide support for anybody identifying with Muslim groups, ” according to Ihsan Kabir ’14, president of CAMC, who took part in planning the center Kabir said the center will specifically be a cultural center, rather than a religious center

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“I agree with this expanded protection,” Reif said “Everyone should be protected against this violence regardless of their sexual orientation or immigration status ”

In mid-Januar y the Georgetown Democrats approached the Cornell Democrats to help them gain support from the Ithaca community to petition Republican Rep Tom Reed 23rd District of New York

to support this bill, according to Palmer Palmer said the group worked in conjunction with the Georgetown Democrats on this initiative until Feb 27

“We gathered over 200 signatures from the Cornell community in support of this

bipartisan agenda,” Palmer said “The petition not only encouraged Reed to support the bill but also urged him to get more Republicans on board and support other bipartisan initiatives during his tenure as House Representative "

According to Prof Michael Jones-Correa, government, the act will become far more effective because of the increased inclusivity, especially among undocumented immigrants

“Domestic violence is a significant issue among new immigrants,” Jones-Correa said “Underreporting this violence is a huge prob-

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Mark Bittman on Conscious and Mindless Eating 7:15 - 8:45 p m , Bethe House Common Room, Hans Bethe House CU Music: Cornell Symphony Orchestra With Concerto Winner 8 p m , Bailey Hall

Tomorrow

BOLD Leadership Seminar Series: “Use Your Business Skills to Make the World a Better Place” 1 p m , 102 Mann Library

9th Annual Best Chili on Campus Cookoff 11 a m - 2 p m , Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall

Weird News of the Week

106-Year-Old Mass. Man Gets High School Diploma

BEVERLY, Mass (AP) Fred Butler was married for 65 years, raised five children, served in the Army during World War II and worked for years for the local water department, but the fact he never earned a high school diploma always bothered him

Not anymore

The 106-year-old was awarded his honorary diploma Monday during an emotional ceremony attended by school officials, state lawmakers and Beverly Mayor Bill Scanlon

“I thank everybody who is responsible for this,” he said, wearing a mortar board hat and tassel and holding the prized document in his hands “I certainly appreciate it ”

Butler dropped out of school before the ninth-grade to accept a full-time job at a print shop to support his mother and five younger siblings

Daughter-in-law Cathy Butler says he regretted dropping out and always emphasized the importance of education to his children and grandchildren

Cathy Butler launched the effort to get her father-inlaw his diploma as a way to raise his spirits following the death of his wife, Ruth, last year

Fred Butler’s only concern was that he hadn’t earned it Scanlon put that concern to rest “It’s a long time to wait for your diploma,” Scanlon said, “but you ’ ve obviously earned it very well ”

Thousands of Caterpillars Seized at U.K. Airport

LONDON (AP) British customs agents made a creepy discovery when an airline passenger was found with 94 kilograms (207 pounds) of caterpillars in his luggage

The man claimed they were intended as food for personal consumption

The U K Border Force said Friday that inspectors at London’s Gatwick Airport found the dried caterpillars shrink-wrapped in cellophane and packed into hessian bags carried by a passenger travelling from Burkina Faso via Istanbul

The caterpillars were seized by authorities after the Feb 23 find because they breached restrictions on importing animal products The 22-year-old passenger was let off with a warning

Border Force spokeswoman Ingrid Smith said “the vigilance of our officers has stopped these dried insects from entering the U K , and possibly posing a risk to our food chain ”

‘Batman’ Hands Suspect Over to U.K. Police

LONDON (AP) A man dressed as Batman has brought a suspected burglar into a police station in nor thern England

O ver Tea, Skorton Talk s About His Life, Successes, Failures

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

President David Skorton joined more than 50 students for tea and cookies in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall to talk about successes and failures throughout his life Tuesday

Skorton was introduced by Saadiya Mutawakil ’14, a member of Cornell Minds Matter, as a successful person who had overcome failure

“When you think of President Skorton, you may think of a doctor or administrator, but today you get to hear a little bit more He believes that even with failure, you can become a doctor, a dancer or a president of an Ivy League institution,” Mutawakil said

Skorton began the talk with a joke about Billy Joel not calling him back to go on tour –– a reference to the artist’s performance last year, when Skorton joined him on stage to play the flute

Using his life as an example, Skorton stressed the serendipity of life and said that failures do not determine one ’ s life

“Life is very hard to predict not impossible, but very hard Setbacks, or things we call failure, should be looked at as one more thing on a journey, and not your overall path,” Skorton said

Skorton spoke of his childhood as a first-generation American and his immigrant family’s financial str uggle His family, originally immigrants from Belarus, moved to Cuba and later Milwaukee, Wi

“We had a profound amount of financial problems when I was a kid, as [do] most of the Eastern Europeans there,” he said Skorton’s family later moved to Los Angeles and managed a shoe store, being comfortable in the Hispanic environment from their fluency in Spanish “I grew up in a multilingual home, with no one having finished or been to college,” he added

University of California at Los Angeles like his high school classmates before transferring to Northwestern University

“I really connect with transfer students, since I knew how hard it was to start without a class X or Y at Northwestern, but I still made friends,” he said “I did not have a super great GPA I wasn ’ t premed in my heart I was a [psychology] major, undecided until junior year ”

His largest academic failure occurred in medical school, he said, when he failed a microscope class

“Life is very hard to predict, not impossible, but very hard Setbacks, or things we call failure, should be looked at as one more thing on a journey, and not on your overall path ” P r e s i d e n t D a v i d S k o r t o n

Originally dreaming of a career in music, but discouraged by his father, Skorton said he decided to go to

“This was a pass-fail honors school, and the faculty was very student-oriented, so they were concerned The teacher took me to his lab and tutored me in the material I failed,” he said “He gave me the confidence to try again ”

Skorton closed the event by answering questions from the public regarding his thoughts about being a public figure, teaching at Cornell and decisions he has regretted making Skorton also emphasized the importance of mental health resources at Cornell

The event was sponsored by Cornell Minds Matter, an organization that seeks to promote overall student mental

and emotional health

“CMM was created in 2004 [by] students who were worried about mental illness, but now the organization has expanded to health management and student life, I consider CMM to be a big part of the caring community at Cornell,” he said “I think all of us are responsible for each other all the time When we forget about interdependence is when we fail as a society ”

Angelica Cullo ’15, head event organizer of CMM, said she thought the story of Skorton failing a course at medical school was an especially relevant topic to introduce to students

“It’s really important to encourage and reassure students to keep everything in perspective and keep balanced, even if they don’t succeed at something,” Cullo said Emily Bastarache ’14, who helped organize the event, said she felt the talk was successful

“It gives a face to the [University] president,” she said “I had never met him, and it was a nice opportunity to have him voice his opinions I identified with a lot of the struggles he felt through college, and it’s important for students to know that and understand ”

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Gabriella Lee can be reached at gdl39@cornell edu

C.U. Dems, GOP Support Renewal of Act

Students Hope That New Center Will ‘Humanize Image of Islam’

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“Getting the go-ahead for this center was huge It means the administration really understands the needs of the Muslim community . ”

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Board Says C-Town Project May Create Parking Spillover

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Chavez Dies After Struggle With Cancer

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The board said the potential detriments outweigh the potential benefits of the Collegetown project.

ments which stipulates that one parking space must be created for every two bedrooms built in central Collegetown Lower’s project would be required to develop a total of 57 parking spaces within 500 feet of the site, which he described as financially infeasible in a previous interview with The Sun Since the variance was denied, Lower will not receive an exemption from these parking requirements

In a resolution, the board said the potential detriments outweighed the potential benefits of the Collegetown project Some of the areas of concern the resolution addressed involved the spillover of parking into streets and other neighborhoods that could increase demand for parking in Collegetown

In order to mitigate these possible effects, Lower planned to offer all occupants of the proposed building access to TCAT services and carshare services

Hearings on the case were held by the board in November and December, according to Steven Beer, chair of the board Public hearings concluded on Dec 20, after which, all five of the members of the board drafted a motion denying Lower his request for variances

The drafted motion was presented and amended with what board member Moriah Tebor described as “corrections” at Tuesday’s meeting “We appreciate very much the case you have brought to us The board is obviously obligated to decide cases of appeals on existing zoning ordinances,” Beer said Beer did stipulate, however, that if the city changes its zoning ordinances, Lower’s case could be revisited

On Feb 5, the Board of Public Works made a recommendation to the Common Council that the minimum parking requirements be abolished If the Common Council were to remove these zoning requirements, Lower’s project would be able to move forward

“Parking requirements make small scale infill developments impossible,” Lower said

But the board, in its resolution, stated that Lower did not establish how other alternative plans for parking, such as underground parking, would be infeasible

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com

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DORAL, Fla (AP) Cheering Venezuelans in the U S waved their country ’ s flag and anxiously voiced hope that change would come to their homeland after the death Tuesday of long-ruling populist President Hugo Chavez

“He’s gone!” dozens in a largely anti-Chavez community chanted after word spread swiftly of the death of the 58-year-old leftist Many said they were rejoicing after nearly a decade and a half of socialist rule, heavily concentrated in Chavez’s hands

“We are not celebrating death,” Ana San Jorge, 37, said amid a jubilant crowd in the Miami suburb of Doral “We are celebrating the opening of a new door, of hope and change ”

Wearing caps and T-shirts in Venezuela’s colors of yellow, blue and red, many expressed cautious optimism and concern after the announcement of the death

But some were anxious, too

“Although we might all be united here celebrating today, we don’t know what the future holds,” said Francisco Gamez, 18, at El Arepazo, a popular Venezuelan restaurant in Doral

In Caracas, Venezuela’s foreign minister announced late Tuesday that Vice President Nicolas Maduro would be interim president and run as the governing party candidate in elections to be called within 30 days It wasn ’ t immediately clear when presidential elections would be held

Chavez, though cancer-stricken in recent years, had led the oil-rich Latin American nation for years by espousing a fiery brand of socialism All the while he bickered with a succession of U S governments over what he called Washington’s hegemony in the region

Many in Florida’s large Venezuelan community and other such pockets around the U S are stridently anti-Chavez and had fled their home country in response to the policies his government instituted

One of them is Marcel Mata, a 28-year-old

opponent of Chavez, who now lives in New Orleans He moved to the U S from Caracas, Venezuela, during a turbulent period in 2002 and said the prospects of an election were dizzying for opposition forces long unable to defeat the seemingly larger-than-life Chavez

After 14 years of Chavez, Mata said: “It’s hard to believe There seemed to be no end in sight and now there’s a sense of hope ”

Mata said Maduro may not have the campaign allure of the charismatic Chavez, adding “there’s no way anyone in his party can fill his shoes ” But he said he is nervous about the transition no matter who wins, warning there could be trouble

A large number of professionals and others left their country beginning after Chavez became president in 1999 Many did not agree with his socialist government, became frightened of soaring crime or sought better fortunes abroad

Doral has the largest concentration of Venezuelans living in the U S They transformed what was a quiet suburb near Miami’s airport into a bustling city affectionately known as “Doralzuela ”

The restaurant El Arepazo is at the heart of the community and sells arepas, corn flour patties stuffed with fresh cheese and other fillings

Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered at its tables with family and friends, riveted to the news broadcasts from their country Tuesday

An estimated 189,219 Venezuelan immigrants live in the United States, according to U S Census figures Besides Florida, there are sizable Venezuelan communities in Los Angeles and New York

At Mil Jugos restaurant in downtown Santa Ana, in Southern California’s Orange County, the Briceno family rejoiced Daughter Norah Briceno left her country 14 years ago after struggling economically under Chavez despite a master ’ s degree in finance and a popular restaurant

She sold her business to a friend and opened an identical restaurant in California

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BRYAN CHAN ’15

SCOTT CHIUSANO 15

MEGAN ZHOU 15

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ANNA TSTENER ’14

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Sciences

CORRECTIONS

The Tuesday sports section featured two incorect photo captions A sports caption, “Better, faster, stronger, ” incorrectly stated that the picture was senior Bruno Hortleano ’13 In fact, the player pictured is Zinzan Fern ’15

A sports caption, “Third time’s a charm,” incorrectly stated that guard Stephanie Long ’14 shot two-three pointers in the Red’s loss to Brown on Friday In fact, Long shot two-three pointers in one minute in the game

SCIENCE

By BOB HACKETT Sun Senior Writer

Bob Hackett ’12 was a senior writer for The Sun’s science section who came to Ithaca on the weekend of Feb 16 to write a story

Prof Kyle Lancaster, chemistry and chemical biology, named one of 30 “rising stars tansforming science ” by Forbes’ magazine last December, interrogates molecules for a living So far, aged only 29, he’s been prodigiously successful “ To paraphrase the movie

Taken, I’ve spent a career developing a very particular set of skills,” Lancaster said “Skills that make me dangerous to molecules, so they can ’ t hide their secrets from me ”

He is not an ex-CIA agent He is a chemist specifically, a spectroscopist: one who employs different types of light (“spectra”) to look at or observe (“-scopy”) matter

“What we do is we probe these molecules with a whole bunch of different wavelengths of light,” Lancaster said, listing visible light, X-rays and microwaves Each form of light can be used as a tool to reveal otherwise unseen or hidden molecular information For instance, microwaves can help you see how many electrons are in different spin states, he said, and ultraviolet-visible photons may let you glimpse oxidation states, couplings and ligand field strengths

“In our current efforts we ’ re using X-rays to see what types of atoms are bound to a transition metal,” Lancaster said “We use a technique which is called K-BetaX-ray emission spectroscopy and, specifically, we look at what is referred to as the ‘Valence to Core’ transitions, or ‘V2C ’”

The method is a violent one, he said Essentially, his team bombards an atom with high-energy, high-intensity X-ray radiation until it rips an electron out of that atom ’ s lowest level orbital, where electrons are most tightly bound To further illuminate the technique, he drew an analogy to people

If you are going to try to get information out of someone there are several routes you can take, he said You can butter someone up, take them out for a nice dinner, get them on your side and have them give you the information willingly Or you can take the alternative

Basically, grilling them until “eventually [the person or molecule] will tell us everything that we wanted to know, and some things that we didn’t,” he said When it comes to chemistry, in the archetypal Good-cop/Bad-cop dichotomy, Lancaster assumes, by his own admission, the latter role

Once the X-rays have stripped that critical electron from an atom, “[the atom] will do anything It will sell out its own mother to get that electron hole refilled,” he said Occasionally, the

Prof. Kyle Lancaster: Molecular Interrogator

atom will do so by stealing an electron from a neighboring atom This process emits a photon of a certain energy level which, when measured, may reveal important information about the atoms

“One of the first people to use this for chemical applications,” he said, was Prof Serena DeBeer, chemistry and chemical biology, Lancaster’s post-doctoral research advisor, under whom he studied before she transitioned to the Max Planck Institute in Muelhiem, Germany two years ago

“That’s why I came here to work with her, to learn the technique,” Lancaster said Cornell is home to one of the very few facilities in the world that can achieve the intense photon energies needed to perform the kind of chemical interrogation that is Lancaster’s specialty That facility, where waves of X-ray light collide with molecular matter, is the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source, located beneath the Upper Alumni Athletic Field

In a 2011 paper published in Science Magazine in which he was the lead author, Lancaster solved, along with DeBeer and various collaborators, what Forbes’ repor ter Matt Herper has described as “ an old chemical puzzle” “ sort of the great outstanding question of bioinorganic chemistry,” Lancaster said For a decade, scientists had been trying to figure out the identity of the central atom in a very important molecule, a catalyst that has been responsible for the flourishing of life on this planet: nitrogenase Since nitrogenase splits nitrogen gas to make ammonia, it seemed to make sense that

the central atom, “Atom X,” might be nitrogen

“That’s sort of the nice, feel good answer, ” Lancaster said Others, however, believed Atom X to be oxygen, especially since, within nitrogenase, it is coordinated to iron, a metal that often pairs with oxygen Still others argued that the mystery atom did not exist at all, that its apparent presence was an artifact of the crystal structure And yet another sect thought it might be carbon

“That seemed fairly preposterous to people,” Lancaster said, referring to the carbon camp “But it was still a possibility ”

The contest came to an end after his team published their results from the K-Beta-X-ray emission spectroscopy technique

Nitrogenase had succumbed After rounds of brutal X-ray interrogation at CHESS, the obstinate atom squealed, releasing tell-tale photons at an energy level of 7,100 electron volts, characteristic of only one element Atom X: carbon, after all

“It sort of cemented my place in the bioinorganic community,” he said, noting that his previous graduate study work and papers in copper and iridium also contributed “I think it was a nice way of showing that I am a pretty serious business spectroscopist ”

Ironically, Lancaster’s field, bioinorganic chemistry, is characteristically defined by the absence of carbon-metal bonds

“The organometallic community that is to say, the folks who bind carbon to metals with regularity were very amused to find out that the arguably most important cofactor in bioinorganic chemistry, which has sort of got a little sibling rivalr y to

organometallic chemistry, turned out to be an organometallic cofactor, ” he said “So now I guess I find myself as an organometallic chemist as a result ” Having demonstrated that he and his team can solve difficult problems, Lancaster is gearing up to continue tackling and understanding fundamental questions in chemical catalysis, such as: How can we build a better catalyst? How can we build one that produces less waste? That doesn’t

rely on precious or toxic metals? And, how can we draw inspiration from biology, which achieves very difficult chemical transformations, when designing catalytic processes?

“The bottom line is that we ’ re interested in solving or understanding systems and solving problems that are relevant to minimizing the burden we place on this planet,” he said “Transition metals have granted humans immense power to transform matter And the ability to rationally control how they do so is really the grand challenge of inorganic chemistry in the 21st century ”

In addition to science, Lancaster used to D J in his spare time back in Southern California, where he grew up and attended school In his lab, which is currently being assembled, he claims to have the best sound-system in S T Olin He also enjoys red wine Malbec, in particular, after recently spending time in Argentina, a country known for that varietal which he drinks at wine hours on Friday’s with some colleagues in the chemistr y department

His advice to students now studying at the University, regardless of major, is that if you are doing what you love, things are going to pan out Worked for him, he said

Regarding his naming on the Forbes’ list, Lancaster said he“feels honored ” “I hope I can continue to deliver good science,” he added

Macaulay Library Goes Public

By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Staff Wr ter

The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the largest and oldest scientific archive of audio and video recordings of wildlife in the world Now, its collection of more than 150,000 recordings of everything from ivory-billed woodpeckers to humpback whales is available to the public online

According to Greg Budney, audio curator at the library, this is the conclusion of a 12year project to digitize every record at the library The collection began in 1929 with three recordings of songbirds taken using a film camera in Stewart Park, Ithaca and since then has expanded to include species from all over the world, submitted in a variety of audio formats

“The very first recordings of wild birds made in North America were made in Ithaca,” Budney said

The collection was originally launched as a comprehensive way to study animal behavior in a variety of species using a centralized database of audio and video recordings Today it serves the same purpose, as well as being an educational tool, a resource for musicians and mix artists, and much more, Budney said

The complete digitization and online availability of the library means anyone from a biology student trying to learn bird calls to a Hollywood movie maker looking for sound effects can access and use the library In fact, audio files from the library have been distorted and used as sound effects in movies such as Harry Potter and Jurassic Park

The videos and sounds are also used by schoolteachers to show their students the variety of colors, sounds and movements in nature without having to travel to South America or the Arctic, Budney said

“We’re at the Lab of Ornithology, but we

have recordings of birds, frogs, fish, insects, whales, you name it,” said Mike Webster, director of the Macaulay Library

The library is not like Uris Library or Olin Library, however At the Lab of Ornithology, the servers that allow anyone to access recordings are only one small room in a large space made up of offices, climate-controlled storage spaces and audio and video mastering studios

There recordings that come in from researchers all over the world are converted to a standard digital format in order to be “ as accurate a copy for science as possible,”

Budney said

But even with all the latest technology, the library has not forgotten its roots Lining a shelf in the main area are over a dozen audio and video recorders dating back to the early era of movies with sound and analog recording equipment The oldest camera on the shelf is crank-operated and doesn’t have a single electronic component, according to

Budney

The library also has the paper records that were included with submissions of recordings, many of which are from prominent contributors to the field of ornithology There are several dozen books filled with audio descriptions from such prominent ornithologists as Ted Parker, who could identify over four thousand species of birds by ear, and Linda Macaulay, the library’s benefactor and namesake

Through the evolution of analog recorders and paper records to digital file formats and internet accessibility, the curator of the Macaulay Library said it has stayed on the cutting edge and maintained its status as the preeminent source of natural recordings in the world and a true asset to Cornell research and outreach

Kathleen Bitter can be reached at

Engineering Outreach Program Builds Robots

By AMIT BLUMFIELD

Giving young children hands-on engineering experience will get them hooked for life Ben Finio, a post doctorate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Prof Robert Shepherd, mechanical and aerospace engineering, live by that philosophy In the hopes of creating an early love for technology and engineering in children, Finio and Shepherd, in collaboration with Prof Hod Lipson, mechanical and aerospace engineering, hold workshops at the Ithaca Generator, where children can become involved in fun and engaging activities relating to STEM fields

Activities vary, but include practical experiments involving 3-D printing, electricity and most recently, soft robots, which were initially developed at Harvard University

Upon arriving, the children, aged between five and 12 years old, and their parents listen to a quick presentation by Finio, who briefly explains what they will be making Finio also shows video demonstrations of what the final products should look like and how they should behave The children, with the assistance of their parents as well as Finio and Shepherd, then begin

their task of creating soft robots As opposed to the rigid, metallic form of typical robots, soft robots are flexible, elastic and more easily maneuverable

To make a soft robot, the kids combined a silicon rubber mix, a gel-like substance “often used in the film industry to make fake body parts or masks,” Finio said They then pour the mix into a mold of their choice According to Finio, there are several kinds of molds, which are 3-D printed, each of which creates a soft robot with a different function Some molds are designed to create movi n g ro b o t s , w h i l e o t h e r s a re designed to create robots which latch onto objects by wrapping around them

Once the molds are filled with the rubber mixture, they are placed in an oven for ten minutes The heat from the oven solidifies the rubber by cross linking bonds within the material, this connects the polymer chains that make up the rubber Heating the mixture, however, is only half of the process, because the end goal is to insert a tube connected to an air bulb into the air ducts within the robot allowing the robot to be inflated At this point, the air ducts are unsealed, said Finio

To seal the air ducts in the robot, the children place their robots on a pre-made thin sheet of the rubber mix, seal the edges with more mix,

and then place the sheet back in the oven until the new mix solidifies, sealing the air ducts Finally, an air tube is inserted into the air ducts, and then the ducts can be inflated or deflated with the connected bulb According to Finio, the ultimate function of the soft robots, which is either to move or wrap around an object, is caused by the inflation and deflation of the sealed air ducts within the robots

Shepherd and Finio hope that activities of this kind will make up for the lack of engineering activities provided for children during a typical school day

It is a “physically engaging, yet

simple way of making robotic systems, ” Shepherd said Finio added that “by middle school, most girls will lose interest in STEM fields ” Finio and Shepherd hope that by providing engaging engineering experience early on, young girls will be more motivated to study STEM fields later in life About half of the children at the workshop were girls, who seemed to be just as fascinated by the experiment as the boys Ultimately, Finio and Shepherd said they want this type of STEM field experience to be included in a typical school day, and not just be a weekend activity According to

Finio, since teachers are evaluated by how their students perform on standardized tests, nothing beyond standardized test material is being taught, which is a shame He said that although standardized tests do have their benefits, it is important for children to also have experiences beyond them, such as hands-on activities in STEM fields

Furthermore, Finio said, “children need to know that it is OK to be wrong, which is not something they learn through standardized testing ”

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ablumfield@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Associate Managing Editor

The power of Michael Haneke’s Amour borders on paradox On the one hand, this film imparts a quiet, rich message of how art, in all its forms, provides the ultimate respite from the harsh realities in life, like illness, attacks and aging However, the film so fully immerses the viewer into a suffocating depiction of these realities that the experience of watching it becomes its own struggle It is not a film I recommend lightly, nor one everyone should see, but it grasps the human condition with such conviction and insight that anyone prepared for its brutality should explore its cavernous depths

Amour

The first scene gets right to the point: Firefighters break through the locked door of a posh, worn Parisian apartment and find the wizened corpse of Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) on her bed, hands crossed and surrounded by flowers From the start, writer-director Haneke shocks us with an image of absolute serenity and truth Flashback several months back to octogenarians Anne and Georges ( Jean-Louis Trintignant) attending a concert of one of her former piano students, Alexandre (Alexandre Tharaud), and then returning to their apartment, where the rest of the film remains These opening shots are composed entirely of long shots, as if these two could be any elderly couple strolling the city As tempting it may be, however, it is wise not to identify Anne and Georges with kindly grandparents you have or had Rathe, it is better to conceive of thtem as young lovers still so enamored with each other that the perils of age sneak up on them unawares

Directed by Michael Haneke

Starring Jean-Louis Trintingant, Emmanuelle Riva

This “attack” hits Anne the morning after the concert, when she stares off at the breakfast table, not responding to Georges’ concerns Her subsequent surgery (not depicted onscreen) renders her right side paralyzed; coping with this abrupt rearrangement of responsibility tests Georges, as well as the boundaries and definition of love (amour) Cheery stuff There are moments of levity Anne spinning donuts with her electric wheelchair, or Georges describing his friend’s “bizarre” funeral that never deign to “I’ve fallen and I can ’ t get up ” levels of irreverence, but the mood only darkens as Anne loses her facilities and, for George, his patience

Film students will likely study Amour for its restrained camera movement, long shots and varied compositions within a single setting (which calls to mind the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu) Amour could just be a clinical textbook example of how to make a soulless and agonizing ‘ art film,’ but Haneke’s direction provokes real feeling Haneke wants us to empathize with Anne and Georges, two characters who may just be us some-

day in the future He also, however, allows us to be frustrated with them, particularly the helpless Anne As Anne regresses into a more infantile state framed in unglamorous, laborious closeups and Georges grows more irritable, Haneke leaves his audience to just witness their acts, free of sentimental cues or melodrama It’s not forced but real, which is why it’s so tough

There is a subtle undercurrent regarding the ineffable, healing power of art throughout the film As cultured, bourgeois Parisians, Georges and Anne appreciate music, cinema, painting, photography and literature, and Haneke includes a scene with one or both of them interacting with each of these mediums and finding strength therein The most touching, naturally, relates to cinema, when Georges recounts how he was overwhelmed by a film he saw when he was a young boy “I don’t remember the film but I remember the feeling,” he tells Anne, who is enraptured by his story And so the cycle continues: She will cherish her feelings when hearing his story, and he experiences them once again through the act of confiding to his love When ailments and age impede on a devoted relationship, Haneke reminds us that art can alleviate the

painful path to, well, you know, the end

Amour recently won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and, back in May, the Palme d’Or, the prestigious honor bestowed at the artsy Cannes Film Festival Any fears that this is a pretentious, boring film should go unfounded; instead, this is an emotionally draining, arduous two hours that will leave no one unscathed I have not even mentioned the performances of Riva or Trintignant, though their eminence needs no description But it is Haneke who deserves the utmost praise for his Oscarnominated screenplay (a Freudian can analyze the meaning of the pigeon and dream sequences to no end) and direction He put his all into this honest and unflinching masterpiece though you may just resent him for it

Amour is now playing at Cinemapolis

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Losing My Religion ( But Not My Virginity)

Fourteen-year-old Laney Waters (Molly Stoller) is a selfdeclared lesbian She is also a writer, a dreamer and a “humpback,” as her best friend, Maribel Purdy (Ally Poole), calls her Her mom Elise (Erin Jerozal) is her daughter’s rationalist counterpart, fearful for her adolescent and fledgling motivations

The second installment in the Kitchen Theatre’s 2013 run of Crooked is led by a

embarks on discomforting yet bold journeys, beginning with a monologue from a seemingly overcon-

Laney She reads one of her latest short stories to Elise, her practical mother, who sits on the couch, concerned by the level of graphic detail in her writ-

pride in her works but her mother suggests that she should replace the violent stream of thoughts with

tossing aside her daughter ’ s creative outlet with joking remarks Her mother’s hurtful comments, which seem more forced than voluntar y, awaken Laney s insecurities over the physical disorder she carries, dystonia, which contorts the body into abnormal positions In Laney’s case, dystonia causes shoulder spasms

create for themselves Eager for “ new experiences to help her writing,” Laney acquiesces to being converted into Maribel’s religion Soon, she misjudges Maribel’s fer vor for Jesus as a romantic longing for Laney herself and as quick as she is to judge, she is just as fast to declare herself a lesbian

When the three women are together, repressed pasts are re ve

Maribel, who uses religion to disguise her own sexual inhibitions, clearly is more keen to learn about what sex than the healing power of Jesus At one point, she declares, “I’m

ing a multitude of sides that conflict with many of their actions and words The static set, which includes only a couch and a table, provides an incentive for the actors to accentuate their many personas Jerozel and Poole skillfully bend their words and bodily movements

Stoller has the harder task of doing this whilst carr ying a hump While she never fails to physically remind us that her hump is a distraction in her daily life, her overtly energetic movements across the stage are more reminiscent of a precocious five-year-old than an inspired 15-year-old Unlike the other two actresses, Stroller rarely distinguishes her character’s profound

At school, she meets Maribel, a fellow outcast who believes that Jesus can cast away all of the humiliations that Laney will face and redeem her from a life of sin Maribel’s honesty comes through in her naïve view on sex This provides a context for which the two girls can explore these sensitive issues even further within the secure zone they

going to be a celibate And since I’m never going to have sex, I want to hear all about it ” Without hesitation and against the will of her embarassed daughter Laney’s mother proceeds to aid in Maribel’s quest for answers, though this response says much more about her personal experiences than about sex itself: “Sex is most meaningful 10 years later in your relationship when you can accept the body you ’ re in and your partner can too And then you ’ re just thankful that he’s just next to you – that’s when it feels great ” All of the characters carr y the responsibility of portray-

Noncreative Fiction

As I turned the corner onto Dryden Road and tr udged through the Collegetown slush, hands in my pockets and cheeks huddled behind the neck of my jacket, the thought that materialized was not entirely my own: Hey, this reminds me of the cover for The Freewheelin Bob Dylan Adjusting to that image, I hunched my back even more and forced an apathetic scowl (it looks better than wincing at every gust of Hoth-like wind) I then probably rattled off movies defined by their snow-swept settings: Fargo, The Shining, The Thing, Eter nal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Artists do not create from a blank state, a tabula rasa or do they? After taking “Intro to Creative Writing” last semester and “Screenwriting I” this spring, I have come to appreciate the creative process, because damn, it doesn’t come easy to me As you might pick up, I associate many things with works of music or cinema Since picking up movie criticism as a hobby in my sophomore year of high school, I have hammered in critical thinking as my approach to art This devotion to watching a wide range of films and breaking them down makes for a fun education, but if this passion is not siphoned now and then to a more creative outlet, it sort of just stagnates To me, brainstorming short stories or scripts takes much more effort than I believe it should, with intertextual references rather than original germs of thought dominating my thought processes

This is a problem many must face, though, particularly those who try to phase out of the heavy academia they have entrusted in for so long in favor of making a mark of their own

While creative genius may not be teachable, format, parameters and allusions certainly are, which is why I take these courses here at Cornell, and why anyone seeks out the masters of a craft and asks for advice and assistance

Right now, I see screenplays as an easy entrance into this world They are not the final artistic product but the catalyst to future collaboration with other talented actors, cinematographers, editors and directors (the latter two of which I am most interested in pursuing, more so than creative writing)

The question of creativity How to harness it? Where to point it? Do I have it?

intrigues me, as the answers, so far, have only peeked out of the shadows According to Ne wtonian principles, pure creation is impossible, and this must apply to the creation of art as well If there was any “ pure ” artist, working in a void without any precedent, it was Homer when he babbled or bard-ed or whatever about Patroclus and Odysseus But even Homer found inspiration from historical events and allowed his genius to fill in the rest The creative process takes in far more information and experience

somewhat abrasive per-

unpeeled onion, we are left with the surface exterior of Laney, who exposes only her jejune passions and never brings the chilling satisfaction of convincing us that she

teenager than a character in

play

described the play as an “eavesdrop on conversations not meant to be public The play does not adorn its language with flower y words Instead, it presents conversations you would hear while sitting on the toilet of the girl’s bathroom in high school scandalous, harsh and ultimately charming

Crooked will be shown at the Kitchen Theatre through March 17

Teresa Kim is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at tk359@cornell edu

than it puts out An encyclopedic knowledge of some subsection of art assists greatly here; the filmmaker, painter or writer can amalgamate disparate past works, fuse them together and emerge with a “wholly original masterwork,” as some critic is likely to call it (In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco spoke of literature’s endlessly referential nature: “Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told ”) A keen, say, journalistic eye of the world around can provide that spark too, for, as Robert McKee harangues in the Charlie Kaufman-penned Adaptation, “People are murdered every day People find love, people lose it and if you can t find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don’t know crap about life!”

There is a reason why the Academy Awards present two separate writing awards, one for Best Adapted Screenplay and the other for Best Original Screenplay I don’t know what that reason is, but I’m sure there is one and that it has more to do with credit-

ing logistics than quantifying creativity The brilliant David Cronenberg has adapted William S Burroughs and Don DeLillo into films that allow his directorial nuttiness to run amuck, while self-taught filmmakers like François Truffaut, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson sift through their expansive cinematic memories when writing and directing films that remain uniquely theirs Even the most idiosyncratic movie makers like David Lynch or the Coen Brothers find inspiration in their own past (as the Coens do in A Serious Man) or through actively engaging with their subconscious (à la Lynch) Nobody pulls this stuff from thin air, basically So, for now, I ll continue to watch old movies while allotting time for other, more active outlets and perhaps a few more wintry strolls through Collegetown

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

Sun Sudoku

Red Look s to Improve for Southern Connecticut

Cornell prepares to improve upon the team’s beam performance heading into this weekend’s competition

improving its beam scores and continuing

face for the Red as Brown won the Ivy League Classic two weeks ago, finishing with a score of 193 925, 900 better than the Red’s second place score of 193 025 West Chester is coming off of a first place

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Southern Connecticut, who has four first place finishes this season Of the four teams competing next week, Brown aver-

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191 550, the Red averages 191 125 and West Chester averages 186 781 Southern Connecticut’s season high is 188 975

“We counted two falls this weekend but plan to improve ” M e l a n i e J o r g e n s e n

improvements in the other three events “ We need to be more consistent on beam We counted two falls this weekend

Southern Connecticut this weekend We

are practicing doing cold sets on beam this week It mimics the setting we compete in, where we warm up between one and one and a half hours before we actually compete This should help us hit beam and get back to the 193s,” Jorgensen said As the team approaches the final portion of the season, it is impor tant that each athlete keeps focused and polish all four events for the upcoming meets With the E

G Nationals on the horizon, it is necessar y for the Red to continue building on the successes that it has had this season The Red is currently in a position that would

Championship in Shrevepor t, L A The top eight teams qualify for the USAG Nationals and the Red are currently in sixth and are 1 135 points ahead of the eighth place team Temple “ We need to really focus on being consistent and confident as we go into the last four meets of our season Towards the end of season, it is especially impor tant to stay healthy and keep up our momentum so that we are in the best possible position for ECACs and USAG Nationals,” Archer said

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at tmaggiohucek@cornellsun com

TENNIS Continued from page 16

-tion level up, play our best and we would be fine,” Tanebaum said

The team has had a strong start to the semester, with victories against University Of Maryland Baltimore Countr y (6-1), St Johns University (6-1), Army (70), Albany (6-1) and FDU (7-0)

“We’re going to be playing a few matches in Charleston over break, and that’s going to be more challenging because the matches are going to be outdoors, and we ’ ve been playing indoors,” she said

The team will be travelling to Pittsburgh for its next two dual matches, the first on March 9 against University Of Pittsburgh and the second on March 10 against Duquesne University

Deeya Bajaj can be reached at dbajaj@cornellsun com

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Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun com

Red Heads to George Mason For Second Weekend Games

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Wr ter

The Cornell women ’ s softball team heads into weekend two of the George Mason Patriot Classic after a strong start to the season and tournament last weekend

Following the trend of last year ’ s overall 66 record at the classic, Cornell came away with two wins against Rider University and two losses against Rutgers and George Mason, respectively

Cornell came out strong in its first game against Rider, posting a final score of 9-1 However, later that same day, The Red found itself struggling to score runs and pull out a win versus opponent and host of the classic, George Mason, losing 6-1

Coming off its loss against the Patriots, Cornell faced fierce competition in its game against Rutgers, struggling to find a place on the scoreboard until the fifth inning In the end, Rutgers was able to score an impressive five runs in the last two innings, leaving The Red trailing by eight through the games finish

However, the women were able to come back and finish the weekend off strong once more against Rider “ The first weekend down in Virginia is always a bit tough because our competition typically has at least a weekend’s, if not more, worth of games on us, ” junior outfielder Christina Villalon said

Heading into weekend number two of the classic, The Red is more confident after a week of play and practice Cornell will start off Saturday against strong competitor Monmouth College, who head into the weekend with a record of 4-2 The women will continue the three-weekend classic with two games against the Longwood Lancers, who hold a striking 9-4 record for this season and one game against the host Patriots

Although The Red is to face some ver y strong competition in the weekend to come, Villalon added that, “Coach Blood usually puts together a balanced practice plan over the course of the week that allows us to get in at least a little bit of work on ever ything ”

Additionally, the women will come into

this weekend not focusing on the team ’ s performance from last week, but rather concentrating on the current opponents and what Cornell has worked on in practice

“You can ’ t get complacent with your per formance on a week-to-week basis; sometimes you are going to have a good weekend and sometimes you are going to struggle,” Villalon said

Squash Finishes at Individual Championships

By KATIE SCHUBAEUR

Sun Staff Wr ter

The 2013 squash season officially came to a close on Sunday upon the completion

o f t h e I n d i v i d u a l C h a mpionships, which were held at Trinity College in Har tford,

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Sachvie and Owen Butler, as well as sophomores Michael Sunderland and Ryan Todd

S e n i o r c o - c a p t a i n s M a g g i e R e m s e n a n d Ja i m e L a i r d , sophomores Lindsay Seginson and Danielle Letourneau and

j u n i o r Je s s e Pa c h e c o re p resented the Cornell women ’ s team

Fo r b o t h t h e m e n a n d w o m e n , t h e t o u r n a m e n t i s d i v i d e d i n t o t w o s e p a r a t e d r a w s : t h e f i r s t ( c a l l e d t h e Pool Division for men and the Ramsay Division for women) comprised of the top 32 play-

e r s , t h e s e c o n d ( t h e m e n ’ s

Mo l l o y D i v i s i o n a n d t h e women ’ s Holleran Division) with the next 48 players

B o t h S a c h v i e a n d Letourneau advanced to the quar ter finals in the ‘A’ draw of the men and women ’ s brackets, respectively With these top eight finishes, both players will qualify for first-team All-American Ryan Todd, playing in the Molloy Division, proved to be

t h e f i n a l m e m b e r o f t h e Cornell team standing Todd advanced to the finals of the s e c o n d r o u n d c o n s o l a t i o n before falling in a four game

l o s s t o Tr i n i t y ’ s Z a y e d Elshor fy, seeded four th in the overall bracket

W h e n a s k e d a b o u t t h e results of this weekend’s tournaments, Sachvie said he was ver y pleased with how well

t h e n i n e m e m b e r s o f t h e Cornell teams competing at Individuals played “Coming to the end of the

s e a s o n , e

drained from such a heavy schedule, but ever yone really stepped up and did well at Individuals A fe w of us had some tough draws, but overall we did better at individuals

t h i s ye a r t h a n we d i d l a s t year, ” Sachvie said The Cornell squash teams w i l l g r a d u a t e s e v e n p l a y e r s this year: Sydney Chirls, Lexi Glassman, Jaime Laird, and M

and Nick Sachvie from the men ’ s team

Devoy for a great season and a great past fe w years with the program, ” Sachvie said “ We owe a lot of our success to such suppor tive coaches and a great team environment ”

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Staff Writer

Although the women struggled against the Patriots last weekend, with another win and more practice under their belts, the team is sure to be aggressive competition for the tournaments host, as well as for the other teams the Red is to face during weekend number two of the classic

The Cornell women ’ s fencing team travelled to Harvard this past weekend to compete in the Ivy League Championship tournament at the Albert H Gordon track in Cambridge, Mass The results of the Round Robin had the Red in fifth place out of seven teams, with a total of two wins and four losses

Although the numbers may not show it, the tournament was a victory for the Red, who came in last place last year The squad not only snatched two wins this year but also fought hard in every match The Red’s perseverance made each bout competitive; the squad battled from start to finish in each match, giving its rivals a run for their money and making them really earn their wins

“Even though our results didn ’ t come out with us on top, we were still ecstatic because we felt we put up a fight with every school we faced We fought hard for ever y touch and even the bouts we lost, we lost by a small margin,” freshman Ashley Muller said

The Red wrapped up the first day with a disappointing three losses against Princeton (22-5), Harvard (16-11) and Brown (1512) The Red regrouped by coming back on day two determined to win

The squad was successful in turning its stats around as it grabbed two wins on Sunday to slide into fifth place

Hi g h l i g h t s i n c l u d e d t a k i n g down Penn for the first time since the 1970s The tight contest concluded with the Red stealing a 1413 win from the Quakers

“Our win against Penn was

especially rewarding because we haven’t beaten them in many years and it felt great to finally achieve that goal,” Muller said

The Red crushed Yale in a much less suspenseful match-up with wins in all three weapons

“The energy in the crowd was

which made

feel really supported and gave us that much more determination to succeed,” Muller said

This tournament is the most competitive of the Red’s season as the best of the best battle for the

Champions The team has made huge strides since last year, as seen by the two win difference, and hopes to continue to improve and s

against its Ivy League foes this

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On Saturday, the Cornell women ’ s tennis team had its fifth consecutive victory this semester

The team defeated Albany 6-1 on Saturday morning and then beat Farleigh Dickson University (FDU) 7-0 later in the day at the Reis Tennis center in Ithaca

“We had a lot of illnesses last semester, so it’s great to see the team geared up and a lot more confident this semester, ” sophomore

Lauren Fraizer said “We’re also playing duel matches, which are a lot more fun as opposed to only playing tournaments, which are

long and strenuous It was great playing Albany and FDU at the Reis center because it’s always fun playing on the home courts as people come out and cheer for us ”

The Red won all of its doubles matches on Saturday Senior Sarah O’Neil and Frazier won their matches 8-5 against Albany and 82 against Farleigh Dickson while senior Christine Ordway and junior Ryann Young defeated Albany, 8-4 and FDU, 8-3 In the third doubles team, freshmen Christy Kung and Dena Tanebaum won their match against Albany 82, and Kung partnered with freshmen Laila Judeh for the match against FDU, where they won 8-6

T h e C o r n e l l g y m n a s t i c s

team did not have its best score of the season on Saturday but still managed to remain competitive in the 2013 Rutgers Quad Meet The Red’s overall team score of 191 325 was enough to edge out William a n d Ma r y ( 1 9 1 1 0 0 ) a n d Brockport (188 750), but not enough to top Rutgers who had a phenomenal meet and set multiple school records

Ru t g e r s f i n i s h e d w i t h a 195 975 on Saturday, which set a school record for overall team score while also setting program high scores on the

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The team sustained only one loss through the day in the No 1 singles match where Rocio Lopez (A) defeated O’Neil (C) 6-4, 3-6, (10-4) The Red won all of it’s other matches against both teams with No 1 O’ Neil (C) winning her match against Anna Rapoport (F), 6-2, 6-2 No 2 Ordway (C) wion, 6-2, 6-0 against Albany and 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 against FDU In the match against Albany position No 3 was played by Tanebaum (C) who won her match, 6-2, 7-5 and Young (C) won the No 3 match against FDU, 6-0, 6-0 Judeh (C) at No 4 won her matches, 6-2, 61 and 7-6, 6-1 respectively In the No 5 matches Frazier (C) defeated Sarah Iannone (A), 6-2, 6-1 and Tanebaum

(C) won the match against FDU, 60, 6-0, Sophomore Sara Perelman (C) at No 6 had a quick victory against Albany at 6-0, 6-0 and Frazier who played No 6 against FDU won her match, 6-2, 6-0

vault and floor

The 191 325 was not what the team hoped for, as it had improved its team score to over a 1 9 3 t h e p re v i o u s we e k

However, barring a 46 425 on the beam, the Red scored over a 48 in all of the events

“It was a great meet in terms of keeping the team energy up and positive It makes a difference when you ’ re out there and the energy is high, and I felt that it showed in most of our p e r f o r m a n c e s , ” s a i d j u n i o r Mackenzie Sato “We had a tough beam rotation and had to count falls but we really picked it up on floor and vault to finish the meet strong ” The Red had six gymnasts

finish in the top seven with two of them placing in the top five

The highest event score for the Red was on the floor

( 4 8 5 7 5 ) ; h i g h l i g h t i n g t h e

floor performance was Sato, who scored a career high 9 800 which earned her fifth place

The top finisher for the Red on Saturday was junior Melanie Jorgensen who scored a 9 800 on the bars and would earn herself third place in the event

The Red have been consistently good on the bars all season with Junior Alexis Schupp also finishing sixth on bars with her routine earning her a 9 725

“Bars in particular was outstanding, with each person in

“We’ve been on a roll so far –working hard on and off the court, and we were pretty confident that we just had to keep our competi-

lineup nailing their routines, although the scores did not necessarily show that,” said s e n i o r t r i - c a p t a i n Mc Ke n n a Archer

On the vault, Archer and freshmen Alicia Bair finished in sixth and seventh with a 9 750 and 9 675, respectively Sophomore Maia Vernacchia had the team ’ s highest individual score on the beam with a 9 600

This week the Red will head to New Haven, Conn for a q u a d m e e t w i t h So u t h e r n Connecticut State, Brown and West Chester Brown will be a familiar