03-11-13

C.U. Alumnus, 22, Dies

In N YC Hit -and-Run

Quinn ’12 remembered as ‘loyal friend, ’ ‘mentor’

Andrew Quinn ’12 died Saturday in a hit-and-run accident while crossing the West Side Highway in New York City Quinn, a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration, was remembered as a model Cornellian and an exceptional brother of the Delta Upsilon fraternity by friends

“Quinn was one of the most dedicated and fun-loving people I knew,” Steve Gravani ’12 said “He was always the guy to put a smile on your face, regardless of the situation ”

Within hours of hearing about Quinn’s death, brothers of the Delta Upsilon fraternity were booking flights to New York City to share memories of Quinn and to support his friends and family, according to a statement released by Quinn’s pledge class Current brothers gathered at The Chapter House to share stories about Quinn, according to the statement

“Andrew was a loyal friend to us all; he was funloving, talented and ambitious,” the brothers wrote

“We are stunned by his loss and simply can ’ t believe that we won ’ t be able to live out the rest of our lives with him However, we are grateful for the time we spent with him and will cherish his memory forever ” Gravani said that Quinn was extremely hardworking, serving as a mentor to fellow hotelies in addition to being an exemplary brother of Delta Upsilon

“He was truly a model Cornellian and D U [brother], and I hope that he will be remembered for the positive impact he had on his friends, classmates

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Bearing injustice | A bouncer at Morrie’s, a former Collegetown bar, attempts to force out Gay Liberation supporters with a baseball bat in October 1970

University Re ects on Shift in LGBT P resence on Campus

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer

C o r n e l l’s LG BT Re s o u rc e Center promotes an understanding of issues pertinent to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning community on campus, according to students and administrators But some comm u n i t y m e m b e r s s a i d t h a t i t would have been hard to imagine such a center decades ago, when

C o r n e l l’s LG BT p re s e n c e w a s largely kept hidden

Logevall Named Vice

Provost for Int’ l Relations

Goals include strengthening C.U. Abroad

By SARAH MEYERS Sun Staff Writer

Frederik Logevall, director of the Mario Einaudi C

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Studies, was appointed vice p rovo s t f o r i n t e r n a t i o n a l relations

Logevall said his experie n c e s w o rk i n g w i t h A l i c e Pell, the current vice provost o f i n t e

and his background as a historian of the United States

a n d f o re i g n re l a t i o n s h a s helped prepare him for the position

L o g e v a l l , w h o s e f i ve - ye a r term begins July 1 , e m p h a s i ze d that it is important for Cornell t o m a i n t a i n a global focus in an “ i n c r e a s i n g l y i n t e r c o n n e c t e d world,” and said he hopes to focus on improving Cornell’s i n t e r n a t i o n a l s t u d i e s a n d programs

Formed in 1994, the LGBT Resource Center was originally run by three full-time staff members until the economic downturn in 2009, according to its current director, Matt Carcella

“All three of the people who were in those positions happened to leave those positions around the same time,” Carcella said “Because of the situation that Cornell was in financially, the department was able to rehire one

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encouraging that many students come to Cornell hoping to study abroad and said that he sees part of his job as “facilitating” just that “Students are coming in with a desire to have a crosscultural awareness and education,” Logevall said “One of the things the task force d i s c u s s e d [ w a s ] h ow t o include a strong internationa l c o m p o n e n t i n e a c h o f Cornell’s colleges ”

L o g e va l l s a i d t h a t h e hopes to secure funding for a va r i e t y o f p ro g r a m s t h a t e x p a n d s t u d e n t s ’ c r o s s - c u l t u r a l k n ow l e d g e i n order to “offer a ro b u s t a r r a y o f foreign languages

Logevall said he sees his role as vice provost as “advisi n g Pre s i d e n t [ Da v i d Skorton] and Provost [Kent Fuchs] as we begin to think

a b o u t h ow t o s t re n g t h e n

C o r n e l l’s i n t e r n a t i o n a l dimension, helping realize the president’s vision presented in his white paper, and supervising some of the stuff we ’ re already doing at the University, in terms of programs, teaching, faculty and outreach ”

Logevall said he finds it

a n d s t re n g t h e n Cornell Abroad ”

St i l l , L o g e va l l s e e s c h a l l e n g e s ahead

“I think we ’ ve lost some of the stature that we have, in t e r m s o f i n t e r n a t i o n a l engagement, ” Logevall said “ We have a ver y eminent p o s i t i o n i n i n t e r n a t i o n a l studies, that has eroded, to some extent, over the last three or four decades ” L o g e va l l a t t r i b u t e s t h i s “relative slip” to the fact that, post-World War II, Cornell was “ a pioneering institution with regard to international studies but since then, o t h e r u n i ve r s i t i e s h a ve caught on and other institutions have been emulating

Monday, March 11, 2013 Today

Blame It on the Brain: Cardiometabolic Disease From Mouse to Man

11 a m - Noon, Lecture Hall II, Vet Education Center

Putting Hot Matter on a Map

4 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall

Likeness and Likelihood in Classical Greek Art 4:30 p m , 122 Goldwin Smith Hall

The Art of the Queer Counterarchive 4:30 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

Tomorrow

What is the Secret to Managing Time?

Noon - 1:30 p m , ILR Conference Center

The New Normal for Natural Disasters 4:30 p m , 101 Phillips Hall

Book Talk: The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln 4:30 p m , 2B48 Kroch Library

Nutrition Panel Event

5 - 8 p m , LH1 Vet Education Center

weather FORECAST

Hi: 54° F

After months of ic y pr ecipitation and general gloominess, Ithaca finally pr esented us with some sunlight over the w eekend How e ver, this w eek will see a r etur n to fr eez ing w eather Ithaca seemes determined to lea ve Cor nellians with a str ong impr ession.

The day will start off with some showers, but do not despair! Sun will prevail later in the after noon

Hi: 49° Lo: 29° Shower s

Don’t put away your bulky coats yet Wednesday starts getting frigid again

Hi: 37° Lo: 28° Cloudy

W hat are you doing , Ithaca? The cold will leave all of us shivering with anticipation for spring break

Hi:

Compiled by Jinjoo Lee ’14

By JONATHAN DAWSON

Sun Staff Wr ter

Ithaca was ranked as the best college town for towns under 250,000 residents in the United States, a ranking that some Ithaca residents said reflects their perception of the city

This is the second time Ithaca has been rated ranked number one –– the first time it was ranked best was in 2010-2011 The ranking was based on a variety of factors including its academic environment, quality of life and professional opportunities The report with the ranking was published by the American Institute for Economic Research in October

According to the report, Ithaca has the highest number of college students per 1,000 population, the highest percentage of population ages 25 to 34 with a bachelor’s degree or higher and the highest percentage of workers who commute on foot, bicycle or public transportation

“Ithaca [is] a great place to live and everything I know a fair amount of people that are happy, even people who work in service sector jobs,” said Pete Meyers, coordinator at the Tompkins County Workers Center

Zach Shulman, senior lecturer of management, said that professional opportunities have been expanding in Ithaca

“There really has been a blossoming of entrepreneurial activity in terms of companies that are starting here [and] students who are interested in entrepreneurship and starting companies while they’re students or faculty and staff starting companies as well,” Shulman said

Shulman added that Ithaca is attractive for both families and businesses because it has a rich natural setting and has “ great ” educational opportuni-

ties

“I asked a guy why he chose to settle here, and he said that it’s the best city between New York and Toronto,” Shulman said

Shulman added that the supportive nature of the Ithaca government in addition to its thriving population is another factor that contributes to Ithaca’s status as best college town, even though the city may not have a lot of money

“The city is very supportive, but it doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around,” Shulman said “We have a growing base of people, we have lots of people wanting to start companies, we have a lot of research coming out of Cornell which produces good technology and it’s a right mixture,” he said

In order to have a better entrepreneurial environment, however, the city needs to provide space for business startups, according to Shulman

Cornell provides assistance to students wanting to start a business through eLab However there is no requisite space for companies to set up shops in Ithaca, according to Shulman

Another component of the study analyzed the “brain gain or drain,” which is the year over year ratio of population living with a B A degree Ithaca was the fifth highest in the brain gain category

Speaking about brain drain and gain, Michael Stramm, president of Tompkins County Area Development, said that Ithaca’s success depends on keeping jobs and expanding the workforce

“If we can create a broad range of employment opportunities working with these entrepreneurs, we’ll be able to keep our own population and attract new people who want to work,” he said

Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun com

Activist Group Condemns Har vard’s Link to Gunmakers

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Three Cornell Fraternities Suspended Due To Hazing Allegations

As a result of hazing allegations made about two weeks ago through Cornell’s online anonymous hazing-prevention website, three fraternities Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Delta Phi were suspended, the University announced March 3

Google Will Fund Cornell MOOC

With a $50,000 grant from Google, four Cornell professors will transform their class –– ‘Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations in Social Science’ –– into a massive open online course, or MOOC, enabling them to offer the course to countless students worldwide for free, according to the University

Students: LGBT Resource Center Is ‘ Home Away From Home’

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Quinn Was ‘Dedicated’

Warm,’ Friends Say

and colleagues,” Gravani said

Lizzie Brooks ’14 remembered Quinn as a warm and genuine person who was never without a smile

“He took time to be a friend, listened to what you had to say and loved to share with others what he enjoyed,” Brooks said “He made such an impression ”

As a Cornell undergraduate student, Quinn impressed professors of the hotel school as part of a team of six undergraduate students from Cornell’s minor in real estate to earn first place against ten other universities in the Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition, a competition in which teams analyzed and presented investment recommendations to a board of judges

Siheng Han ’12, who worked closely with Quinn during the competition, described Quinn as a great teammate and friend

“[He was] so dedicated that he could tell the difference between an Arial-styled question mark and a Verdana question mark,” Han said

“I really want to thank him for being a good friend,” Han added

Logevall: C.U. Can Excel in Int’ l Studies

Logevall said he believes that t

what Cornell has done It’s a compliment, in a way, and also to be expected Pioneers don’t remain pioneers forever ” However, he said he has also

words and action ” “ We have many faculty and

world leaders, and there is

lot

being done at the University,”

Logevall said “But in previous decades, we haven’t always made the kind of commitment as a University that we needed to make, in this area ”

resources is crucial to accomplishing his goals as vice provost and securing Cornell’s future as a leader in international studies “ The challenge will be to maintain the strengths that we have and build on them, to identify ne w areas where we c o

ments and really tr y to build up what we ’ re doing, and to make sure that we involve all parts of the campus A key part of this is going to be to secure the necessar y resources fundraising, seeking outside support as well a

Logevall said

Looking ahead, Logevall said that Cornell has the potential to return to its former status as a forerunner in international programs “ We can really do a lot to reclaim an eminent position in international studies, international programs, international engagement, in order to prepare our graduates to compete and thrive in a world that is growing more and more interconnected,” he said “It is imperative for

involved with the rest of the world ”

Penn. Resident s: Gas Drilling Cont aminat es Wat er

PI T TS BU RG H ( A P )

What causes clear, fresh countr y well water to turn orange or black, or smell so bad that it’s undrinkable?

Re s i d e n t s o f a we s t e r n

Pe n n s y l va n i a c o m m u n i t y h a ve been tr ying for more than a year to get that question answered in their quest to get clean water back

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Some of them say the water

by

Others point to pollution from old coal mines They’ve also been told it could even be a baffling mix of natural and manmade rea-

sons that change the water over time, like the leaves change on trees But no one knows for sure, and they say the uncertainty is maddening In late 2011, the drinking water for about a dozen residents in the Woodlands, a rural community about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, began to change At

drilling, or fracking, being done 2000 feet away But state tests showed the water wasn ’ t contaminated by drilling, and even more confusingly, many of their neighbors reported no problems

Families with bad water then

turned to federal officials But last summer the U S Environmental Protection Agency quietly sent a

y agreed with the state finding, since most of the chemicals found in the water could have occurred naturally

McIntyre wasn ’ t satisfied, noting that the EPA “ never set foot on my property to test the water t

respond to a request for comment on why the agency didn’t retest the water

Still, the residents with water problems were hopeful that the

Atlanta-based U S Agency for

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Registr y was looking at the issue

But last month the agency said it “is not actively investigating complaints from this area ” “I’m just ver y, ver y frustrated,” McIntyre said So was John Stolz

He’s t h e d i re c t o r o f t h e Duquesne University Center for En v i ro n m e n t a l Re s e a rc h i n Pittsburgh Stolz said state and f e d e

detailed reviews, so a Duquesne team has been monitoring water quality and sur veying households in the Woodlands, in what is one

of the most in-depth sur veys of alleged impacts of gas drilling in the nation With funding from two foundations, a team has regularly tested area water for more than a year “ We’ll see black water, we’ll see orange water, there’s often times an odor,” Stolz said

Overall, about 50 out of the 150 households in the community have complaints “ There are certain areas that clearly don’t have any problems,” Stoltz said And, he added, a well that has bad water one month may be clear the next, and a few homeowners even say that their well water improved after gas drilling began

Even in areas with no nearby oil and gas drilling, the water quality in some aquifers changes n a t u r a l l y, g

say

“It varies even within the same aquifer It can var y from the top of the aquifer to the bottom, and from one side to the next, ” said Mike Paque, executive director of t h

Water Protection Council

The wells themselves may be causing the problem, too Stoltz said the depths var y from 90 feet to 900 feet deep, with an average of about 130 feet Pennsylvania is one of the only states with no standards for rural water well construction, meaning multiple other factors could be contributing to the problems

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“It’s ver y unclear where the problem came from,” McCarrier said He said he accepts the state finding that drilling didn’t cause the problem, but that authorities are still tr ying to find solution for the people who say their water is undrinkable

That has put local officials in the middle of a fight

The Woodlands is an unincorporated area that was laid out with no rights of way for public water or sewer lines, and even the idea of extending a public water line to the area has created divisions Some people who live within a quarter mile of McIntyre say t h e y h a ve n o w a t e r p ro b l e m s whatsoever, and they don’t want to pay for improvements they don’t see a need for

McIntyre said a water company is willing to bring a feed line to the edge of the community and put a pump house in But the Woodlands residents would still need to form an association to manage and pay for water lines and hookups

Residents met in Januar y with lawyers to discuss filing lawsuits

But one expert said any claim would be complicated by the variations in water quality and the lack of a contamination finding from state or federal agencies

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S.D. Seppini | Letters From a Young Curmudgeon

Long Live The Lefty

Lefties, read this to equip yourself with the necessary knowledge to combat right-handed misers and, dare I say, left-handed apologists who will stop at nothing to diminish your gift If you are not one of the fortunate few lefties, still read on to learn how you might easily help lessen the disparity between the life expectancies of lefties and righties

Left-handers have been shunned for more than 6,000 years, often by people who would respond to this charge with an indignant, “Impossible!” Less than 70 years ago, my grandmother had her left hand tied behind her back by scurrilous nuns who called left-handedness “Satan’s curse ” Understandably, this caused psychological damage It is one thing to be told you are the devil’s spawn; it is another altogether to know the appendage that wrote ideas and works such as the Special Theory of Relativity and The Metamorphosis is deteriorating

I spent two months this winter in India It saddened me to see that lefties are ostracized and virtually non-existent During one meal, I picked up my puri with my left hand and before I could reach my mouth the stranger across the table said in a stern tone, “Stop that What are you doing? Your left hand is dirty and your right one is blessed ” What a coincidence, I thought, that the hand with which the gentleman was more coordinated happened to be the sacred one After being interrupted, I heard the man and his friends discussing Gandhi I asked him if he knew that Gandhi had been left-handed “Impossible,” he said “Gandhi was a great man, he couldn ’ t have been ” While I shrugged off the man ’ s unintentional insult, knowing that young left-handed children in the 21st century are still being forced into right-handedness troubled me Where I lived in southern India, the left hand was for wiping one ’ s rear and the right was for the important stuff, regardless of one ’ s natural proclivity (I was, however, delighted to visit a Montessori preschool outside of Mysore, India, that encouraged its students to use either hand)

Left-handers have been shunned for more than 6 years, often by people w respond to this charge w indignant, “Impossible!”

While most American lefties no longer undergo such blatant discrimination, there is another insidious force at play today Left-handed people must submit to a world set up for right-handers We use right handed mouses, paper, binders, knives, scissors, handshakes, belts, watches, microscopes, workstations, can-openers, buzzsaws, school desks, twist-off lids, mugs with illustrations, microwaves and subway ticket taker machines among countless others In three out of my four classes this semester there is not a single left-handed desk in the room When I point this out people say, “So what? Just reach across to the right ” Imagine having an armrest instead of a writing surface on which to take timed tests

To some righties I’m sure these inconveniences seem unimportant at best and simply annoying at worst There is, however, a legitimate concern for lefties in America According to a study in Neuropsychologia, within the population of 10 year-olds, 15 percent are left-handed Within the population of 90 year-olds, though, there are almost no lefties for lack of a better word left Lefthanded men have an average life expectancy of 62 years, a full 16 years less than the 2010 overall average life expectancy 78 And lefties are between 1 2 to 1 8 times more likely to suffer fatal accidents In other words, being left handed in a right-handed world is dangerous Lefties are also much more likely to suffer from heart problems according to a study in the Clinical EEG & Neuroscience Journal Could this be the result of the added stresses that come with being a lefty in righty’s world?

The next time one of you righties thinks about taking that lefty aisle seat in class, please don’t, and for those of you doing Teach for America next year, buy a few pairs of left-handed scissors for your students Because who knows, you might help save a lefty’s life

Co mm ent of the day

“I find it inappropriate to criticize members of a student governance body for not being good activists Activists play an important role on a college campus, but that is not the job of a student government The appropriate role of a student government is to work WITH the administration to make the campus better for students It may be difficult for some people to swallow, but occasionally the administration actually has good reasons for making certain decisions. The job of good, effective student government leaders is to learn from and compromise with the administration while helping the administrators to learn more about student concerns ”

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The Green Beat Takes a Beating

Td climate repor ting at the nation’s largest dailies have been roundly criticized as a fateful blunder by journalists and readers In Januar y, The Ne w York Times announced that it was dismantling the environment desk, reassigning, but not firing, the two editors and seven repor ters in the section Similarly, The Washington Post is reass

repor ter, Juliet Eilperin, to c ove r t h e W h i t e Ho u s e

Most recently, The Times, at the strategic hour of 5 p m on Friday March 1, gave the pink slip to the Green blog, a platform which many had hoped would compensate for the move away from focused environmental coverage

published what the print edition missed While the decision to eliminate the environment desk was supposedly made to increase the relevance and audience of environmental ne ws, it’s impor tant for the public to hold the editors accountable for better integrating environmental stories into p o l i t i c a l , b u s i n e s s a n d

s o c i e t a l n e w s Z i v k o v i c said he sees potential for the restr ucturing to push e n v i r o n m e n t a l a n g l e s “ ever ywhere, in all sections of the paper ” He seems to think “the greens ” can subversively gain a monopoly

If The Times can’t support environmental coverage, I’m hardpressed to think of any media outlet that can or will

humans’ role in creating the environment There is evidence that multifaceted s t o r i e s m a k e f o r n e w s wor th reading University of Colorado professor Max Boykoff has identified four m a i n t h e m e s i n c l i m a t e repor ting political, scientific, meteorological and c u l t u r a l W h e n o n e o r more of these themes are addressed in a stor y, “ coverage intensifies and is sustained ” But couldn’t the human angle have been brought into environmental stories as effectively as bringing t h e e n v i r o n -

that can or will L a s t y e a r, e v e n a s worldwide climate covera g e c o n t i n u e d i t s t h re ey e a r d e c l i n e , t h e Ti m e s published the most stories of any ne ws outlet on clim a t e c h a n g e G l e n n K r a m o n , a n e d i t o r w h o h a s b e e n r e a s s i g

technology from the environment desk, said then that “climate change is one o f t h e f e w s u b j e c t s s o impor tant that we need to be oblivious to cycles and just cover it as hard as we can all the time ” He even specifically attributed the p

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on repor ting, and he fittingly uses economic terminology to describe the ideal shift: “Instead of the e n v i r o n m e n t a l v e r t i c a l , The Ne w York Times will now have an environmental horizontal ” Andre w Revkin, author of The Times’ Dot Ear th blog, some what dramatically made the same point on his Facebook page after t h e e n v i r o n m e n t d e s k’s dissolution, saying that the desk had been a ghetto for t h e t o p i c a n d f o r t h e repor ters I agree with him w h e n h e s a y s , “ E n v i r o n m e n t i s n o t a b e a t E n v i r o n m e n t a l i m p a c t s a r e a r e s u l t o f h u m a n d e c i s i o n s a n d actions ” Any writing in journalism, nonfiction, prose or poetr y that focuses solely on the environment c a n p o t e n t i a l l y o b s c u r e

mental angle into human i n t e r e s t s t o r i e s ? I h a v e indeed noticed more frequent and broad mentions o f e n v i ro n m

m e s , b u t a p

a g r a p h toward the end of a stor y hardly does justice to the hugeness and complexity of these concerns These angles best ser ve as a comp l e m e n t , n o t a r e p l a c ement, for full environmental coverage Fi n a n c i a l p r e s s u r e s forced the Times to prioritize, and the same is tr ue f o r i n d i v i d u a l r e p o r t e r s When their job is to cover the White House or technology, they simply cannot devote as much time to researching and repor ting environmental issues And really, if the Times can ’ t s u p p o r t e n v i r o n m e n t a l coverage, I’m hard-pressed to think of a media outlet

ing, which may lead to a decline in the volume and quality of environmental coverage as I suspect it will

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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n g G o o d n e s s : A n E ve n i n g W i t h To n i M o r r i s o n M FA ’ 5 5

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Last Thursday, Cornell welcomed back author and professor Toni Morrison MFA ’55 for a public conversation about her novels and other works Prof Morrison, Robert F Goheen Professor of English, Princeton University has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved She is the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature Africana Center Director Prof Gerard Aching M A ’90 Ph D ’91, German studies, set the stage for what would be an intimate conversation-style interview between Morrison and long-time colleague Prof Claudia Brodsky, Princeton University, Comparative Literature, saying, “ personal empathies are rare, valuable and worthy of celebration ”

Opening the discussion, Brodsky declared an appreciation of Cornell’s special awareness of the fact that “the literary imagination has to do with the lives we lead, and not just in an abstract way ” This served as an apt segue into Morrison’s memories of her time as a student Of her decision to come to Cornell, she stated that there were three main reasons: the faculty she “remember[s] at least three of them” the beauty of the seasons in Ithaca and Cornell’s “pink” and liberal” reputation, largely spurred by its notoriously non-denominational Sage Chapel She reflected fondly, paused for a moment and then asked, “The agricultural school is that still here?”

As Morrison began to discuss her recent lecture series at the Harvard Divinity School, entitled “Goodness, Altruism and the Literary Imagination,” she sought to dispel the notion that evil is more interesting than goodness in literature Morrison stated that goodness in literature is “personified very often as mute, ” while the theatricality of evil grants it a “blockbuster audience ” “Evil has vivid speech; goodness bites its tongue, ” she said, citing the many ways in which the glamorous portrayal of evil throughout literary history has overshadowed that of goodness “I was always a little bit bored by demonstrations of evil,” Morrison said “It always relies on the same things a top hat and a cane, maybe a little theme music But goodness doesn’t have anything because it can ’ t use anything ”

“Good” characters, she remarked, are “ never clever or sophisticated or educated ” It’s a trend related directly, she thinks, to World War One and “certainly World War Two” events which construed goodness as trivial What Morrison gets at here is the very predication of postmodern literature, which asserts that violent, catastrophic events such as World War Two, the Holocaust, the dropping of the atomic bomb and more recently, the attacks on the World Trade Center have shattered perceptions of human beings as basically good and undermined the ability of art to express what is truly noble Theodore Adorno once said, “To write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric,” and Walter Benjamin once wrote, “The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out ” Morrison’s narratives have all striven to find a way to push against this perceived absence of goodness, be it through the bildungsroman of A Mercy, the story of a sacrificial scapegoat in Sula, or the homecoming epic of her most recent novel, Home “Goodness is really and truly hard,” Morrison said, explaining that trying to find words for it is all [she has] ever really known ”

“Goodness is really and truly hard trying to find words for it is all I have ever known ” T o n i M o r r i s o n M F A ’ 5 5

But when Brodsky asked her friend if she found there to be anything different about very recent literature, she said she didn ’ t think so In fact, she said she has not really read a lot of contemporary literature This admission was more than a little worrisome In a Paris Review interview, Morrison responded to a question about whether or not, as a child, she had known that she wanted to be a writer She responded, “No I wanted to be a reader I thought everything that needed to be written already been written or would be I only wrote the first book because I thought it wasn ’ t there, and I wanted to read it when I got through ” What has happened to that “ or would be?” Has she given up thinking that that hope can be realized?

Of what recent literature she has read, Morrison said there was sometimes beautiful language, but the “thrust and effort is toward trying to describe something corrupt or lacking,” and that it was all just “ too easy ” While it’s easy to see where she’s coming from contemporary neuroses do little but shift the

blame for evil, and much of the current literature falls somewhere between helplessly angry and completely irrelevant it is a little insulting to insist that there is no one else out there writing about goodness What about Dave Eggers, who is often cited as someone who picks up where Hemingway leaves off and puts in what he left out? Who wrote, in his novel What is the What, “How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive and so we must fill the air with our words I will fill today, tomorrow, everyday until I am taken back to God ” What about Miranda July and Jennifer Egan and Cornell’s own MFA candidate Stevie Edwards who writes, in her poem “Goodbye to the Poetics of Recklessness”: “Keep every death you ’ ve hoarded in me I don’t need your gaudy chandeliers of ‘just one more time ’ I can close my eyes and be filled with light ” Morrison complains of the glamour of evil in our writings, but there are writers today whose work says and sometimes nearly shouts that peace can be glamorous, too Beloved, the novel that earned Morrison her Pulitzer, tells the story of a slave who, upon impending capture, kills her infant daughter to spare her the pain of slavery Brodsky referenced a conversation that she and Morrison had previously, saying “ you had trouble finding a couple of sentences in your own text in which the act of infanticide is committed ” Morrison says she didn’t realize this while she was writing, but that afterwards, it made sense because structure is message: “the act that those kinds of sentences represent was already done and had already happened What’s more interesting is how could it happen and what is next?” The same applies to Paradise, in which the first sentence is “They shot the white girl first ” We never find out which girl is the white girl and, therefore, the predominant act of violence is buried in the text “I don’t want you to think about the thing, ” Morrison says, stumbling over these words of emphasis “I always thought that evil needed the drumroll and that is because it is not interesting it is only devastating ” Brodsky then asked Morrison about her play Desdemona, written as a post-script to Shakespeare’s Othello and occurring in the after-life of its main characters The biggest twist to this addendum is the removal of the character of Iago Morrison says he weighs the original play down he is constantly talking, and he represents the “white gaze ” Challenging her on this point, Brodsky asked “whose eye, whose language,” is viewing and telling the story Here she brought the discussion back to the “African-American novel” what it is, what it should be, what is usually isn’t What it is usually, she says, is either a defense or an aggressive attack of an oppressor But if you take out the oppressor completely, “ an open world appears ” Morrison then spoke about a moment in her novel Home when goodness finally speaks, with a character breaking down and near-shouting, “Inside you is that free person Locate her and let her do some good in the world ” The force of the revelation as it is foisted upon the main character is, “ you ’ re a girl, you ’ re black, you ’ re young, and that might be problematic to you But you ’ re a person ” It’s a point that we, tragically, are still not done making Oppression of any one member, any one subgroup, of mankind, diminishes us all It’s not about sym-

pathy, it’s about empathy derived from a recognition of the absolute arbitrariness with which these oppressions have been assigned and administered; that is, based on randomly selected specifics of a lowercase “h,” lowercase “ c, ” human condition

One of the most important relationships in Morrison’s play Desdemona is between the title character and her nurse and servant, Barbary Morrison abandoned the name “Barbary” for a “ new Mali name, ” after realizing that it is a word that is used “when people really want to say Africa ” In truth, the history of the word “barbarian” is closely tied to the geographical term Barbary, to the “Berbers” of North Africa, and the Latin word “barbaricum,” meaning “land of the barbarians ” But the Greek “barbaroi” means simply “those who do not speak one ’ s own language,” and in recent literature it has been used predominantly to imply wordlessness, or silencing by exclusion Desdemona thinks that she and Barbary were always friends, to which Barbar y replies, “ You don’t even know my name ”“But,” she says, “I have thought long and hard about my sorrow No more willow Afterlife is time and with time there is change My song is new ” Morrison s emphasis on names is not reserved only for the politically-renamed Barbary Desdemona herself tells us that her name means “doomed,” or even “death But she also notes, “I am not the meaning of a name I did not choose ” She loved Othello for his stories, the ones that Shakespeare never told and Morrison now tackles Of her own life she says it was “shaped by my choices, and it was mine ” What is implied here is said explicitly in Prof Aching’s introduction: Reading and writing have a literal capacity “ to build historical complexities ” Morrison conveyed with awe to the audience in Statler Auditorium that the native language of Rokia Traoré, the Malian composer and singer who wrote the music for Desdemona, is Bombara a spoken-only language In order to perform her music publicly, to have the lyrics passed around and projected, Traoré had to translate an unwritten language Morrison doesn’t know for sure, but she imagines Traroré must have developed a way to write it down so that she could create these translations Just for herself It is, she feels, the only explanation

“We die That may be the meaning of life But we do language That may be the measure of our lives,” Morrison stated in her 1993 Nobel lecture Her gift as an author comes from the way she doggedly researches the time periods and people that history has forgotten in order to give voice to those who are unable or as-of-yet unwilling to find and take it for themselves It is also found in the way she encourages us all to “do language ” “Make up a story, ” she said in her Nobel lecture She means it indiscriminately: “For our sake and yours, forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light Don t tell us what to believe, what to fear Show us belief ’ s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul ” To borrow a phrase from her work, she is “doing the good that God refuses,” giving something that is more interesting, more “hard-won,” more altruistic than silence, more glamorous than the evil of silence In short, she is translating goodness

Kaitlyn Tiffany s a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at Sciences She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun com

Arts Around Town

Golden Dragon Acrobats

Saturday at 3 p m at the State Theatre

Looking for something fun to get you through this final week before spring break? Look no further, because this Thursday the Golden Dragon Acrobats present “Cirque Ziva” which celebrates the traditional art of acrobatics As if it wasn ’ t excited enough to simply watch dancers defy gravity, impressario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Change add the elements of traditional dance, incredible costumes, and theatrical techniques to create a truly beautiful performance

Gabrielle Velkes ’16

Shift Exhibition

March 11-15 at Tjaden Hall

What does it mean to shift identities? To shift between public and private? To shift perspective? These are a few of the questions that inspired the works of five Architecture, Art and Planning students which will be on display this week in the Olive Tjaden Gallery Artists Eliza Kuzmenko ’16, Thanh Nguyen ’16, Rachael Schimmoller ’16, Melody Stein ’16, and Jin Young Yoo ’16 contributed to this group exhibit, which seeks to define and reinterpret the idea of “shift ” While each artist uses different mediums to explore their unique ideas on the topic, all the pieces relate to the central theme of this showcase of compelling Cornell artists

Laura Boland ’15

Bat Boy

March 28 at 8 p m in Risley Hall

It’s a bat! It’s a boy! No, It’s BAT BOY! Based on the fictional article that appeared in Weekly World News, Bat Boy takes on the struggles of a half-boy, half-bat adapting into society Obviously, it is set to a a pulsating rock score This musical explores the hypothetical of what would happen if a humanoid was introduced in a typical small town in America and explores what happens when human sympathy is tested

A Few Good Films

BY TAJWAR

This is not a review of Stoker The first foray into Englishlanguage films by Korean director Chan-wook Park looks creepy and ridiculous fun Also, it is a good excuse to stare at the painfully attractive Matthew Goode Unfortunately, going to the Best College Town in America has its downside one of those being waiting for a later release date Urgh, the worst There were some notable movies released last week, but I could justify avoiding every single one of them Even a combination of Nicholas Hoult and Ewan McGregor in Jack the Giant Slayer is not attractive enough to tempt me to that CGI propelled fable regurgitation mess (Given the picture’s mere 27 million box office take away in contrast with its 190 million dollar budget, I wasn ’ t the only one who felt this unenchanted )

Then there was the option of 21 and Over, or The Hangover: College Edition Readers, I’ve been 21 for quite some time as have many of my friends Been there, done that I feel the movie would hit better with underage dreamers or older nostalgics When you are the actual age portrayed, a Hollywood-ization of your milestones is just not as much fun Also, apparently it has this whole graduation plotline and that’s one thing I will not touch with a ten-foot pole Also I have a sneaking suspicion that Jeff Cheng doesn’t really want to be pre-med but is doing so to please his family Jeff, if you ’ re reading this such a bad call Take it from a confused liberal arts major: Dreams are overrated

It is still such a bad time of the year for movie releases January is the traditional dumping ground for bad flicks, when the unwatchables are unshelved However, February and early March are hardly any better It will still be weeks to months before we fully recover I just want to curl up in an oversized theater seat with a bucket of popcorn, but the film gods (thanks for the verification of their existence, Ang Lee) are just not having it

Of course the reasoning is there no one is in the mood post-holiday season, any movie of potential merit will have to hold out until next award season cycle and the intriguing festival films have only just gotten picked up for distribution

At least there’s Netflix (Instant) Here are some relatively recent releases bundled together for your viewing convenience to appease you until things start to pick up in a few weeks

The Relatively-Acclaimed-Independent-Movie-(ThatYou-No-Longer-Have-an-Excuse-Not-to-See):

I know some people who grade movies on whether or not

they’re worth purchasing a movie ticket Given the lack of visual effects in most independent numbers, they can often fall on a see later list that is soon forgotten Luckily, Netflix’s got your back this time these are worthwhile visits While no film listed today is really a major release, these in particular ones fall together because they echo with similar parts cutesy and melancholy

Safety Not Guaranteed Mark Duplass, Aubrey Plaza and Jake Johnson shine in one of the most preciously constructed films of the year The characters are raw and awkward and it all work together beautifully in a movie that both mourns regrets and celebrates taking chances

Like Crazy Young love, in all its tragic post-college and self-indulgent long distance glory Watch it and sniffle over aching longing and growing apart from your soulmate

Sleepwalk With Me- Minimalistic but ever so earnest, this film explores the pains of growing into your comedic voice/life choices

Friends With Kids Another installment in the unconventional love genre, this time in the form of talkative NYC dramedy, a staple style of writer-director(-Jon Hamm partner) Jennifer Westfeldt Watch it for the occasional cute insights and strong comedic timing It’s a messy film, but it’s worth it alone for the always charismatic Adam Scott He’s intense and can mold his expressions like play dough Basically, I will watch him in anything

Submarine Imagine Rushmore, but younger and Welshier It’s quirky and dark with all the pangs that come with figuring life and love out

The Girl-Crush:

The other day Stephen Colbert got James Franco to confess which of the three leading ladies in The Great and Powerful Oz he had had the biggest thing for After playing it diplomatically (wow, Disney’s taught you well James), Franco lets the answer Rachel Weisz slip For once, I actually totally understand James Franco I too adore her (Well that, and our shared disdain for Anne Hathaway )

The Constant Gardener Rachel Weisz is my drama equivalent of Tina Fey That’s why it frustrates me to no end that more people haven t seen her Oscar-winning role This film shattered and refused to mend my ninth grade heart

The Deep Blue Sea This emotional rollercoaster criminally ignored or disqualified by most award shows is available for streaming as well There’s not a more gorgeous construction of passion’s aftermath Weisz gives the dictionary definition of a powerful performance that will leave you haunted

The Guys-Chris-Evans-is-a-Real-Actor, Like-For-Real: (This category exists because there is not a single Matthew

Goode movie available for streaming, because the world hates me Alternatively, the juxtaposition of seeing a superhero in a low key affair reminds us that the earth-shattering blockbusters are still months away )

Guys, Chris Evans is more than just Captain America In fact, he initially turned down the role to avoid the super hero stigma I think it just comes with the 8-pack territory, but the world wanted him to don that patriotic spandex That doesn’t mean Mr Evans has not acted since becoming a comic book legend

Puncture Evans is acting is heart out It’s sloppy and formulaic at times, but it’s worth the delicate moments (Fun fact, in The Perfect Score Evans’ character gets rejected from Cornell Worst decision Thurston’s ever made )

For the Painful-and-Borderline-Racist-Drinking-GameViewing:

Sometimes, you just want to hate on something I’ve got a movie perfect for your running commentary

A Warrior’s Heart Starring two Twilight vampires, this movie about high school, loss and lacrosse does not brag the most nuanced screenplay (Or acting Or editing Or cinematography ) There’s no excuse, however, for it playing like a B version of the worst Nicholas Sparks narrative possible It’s sloppy, painful and our teen protagonists fall in love during some some strategically exchanged glances (I’m just not sure exactly when though) The worst offense however is that this movie attempts to gain depth by further exploiting Native American culture to create a sloppy metaphor about warriors It’s not cool It’s also the very best Netflix has to offer in hate watching If everything else on this list fails you, this is one to enjoy

Tajwar Mazhar is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at tmazhar@cornellsun com

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U.S . Defeats Canada, Moves to Second Round

PHOENIX (AP) Adam Jones doubled in the tying and go-ahead runs in the eighth inning, Eric Hosmer hit a three-run double in the ninth and the United States beat Canada 9-4 on Sunday to advance to the second round of the World Baseball Classic

Down to their last several outs, the U S trailed 3-2 after seven innings before breaking loose Team USA and Italy advanced in Group D while Canada and Mexico were eliminated

Jones and Hosmer both had a rough week at the plate but came through with the United States on the brink of what would have been a humbling loss Jones’ hit was his second in nine at-bats Hosmer was 3 for 13

Gold Glove second baseman Brandon Phillips contributed, too, making a diving stop to prevent Canada from tying it in the eighth Heath Bell pitched a scoreless seventh to get the victory for manager Joe Torre’s team Jimmy Henderson took the loss

Canada’s Michael Saunders, of the Seattle Mariners, hit a two-run homer off starter Derek Holland and was chosen the Group D MVP, going 8 for 11 in the tournament

The United States finished group play tied with Italy at 2-1 but gets the No 1 seed because of its 6-2 win over Italy The U S meets the loser of Sunday’s Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico game Tuesday in Miami

David Wright, whose grand slam lifted the U S past Italy Saturday night, doubled and walked three times Ben Zobrist had three hits, none of which left the infield

Canada, coming off a 10-3 win over Mexico that featured a bruising ninth-inning brawl, finished 1-2 The Canadians have not made it out of the first round for any of the three WBCs

But they looked in great shape much of the afternoon against the United States, which was looking to avoid its worst showing ever in the tournament The Americans made it to the second round in 2006 and the semifinals in 2009

For the third straight game, the U S fell behind early

Justin Morneau, who was 8 for 12 in the tournament for Canada, doubled to start the second, then Saunders hit Holland's 1-0 pitch into the bullpen down the right field line to make it 2-0

The U S tied it with two runs in the fourth, one unearned

Joe Mauer led off with a single and Wright walked Zobrist put down a near-perfect bunt for a base hit, with third baseman Taylor Green throwing wildly to first and allowing a run to score Jones’ sacrifice fly to center brought in the tying run

Green, playing third for Canada because Brett Lawrie was hurt just before the WBC began, also had an error in the second when he dropped Zobrist’s high pop fly ball in the bright sunlight

Canada regained the lead at 3-2 in the sixth Joey Votto drew a leadoff walk from reliever Glen Perkins, took second on Morneau's single Saunders struck out looking and Chris Robinson flied out, advancing the runner to third Adam Loewen’s first-pitch single brought Votto home

Mauer opened the eighth with a single, then Wright walked Torre made an aggressive move when, with Willie Bloomquist pinch running for Mauer, he sent both runners moving on Henderson’s 1-2 pitch to Jones Jones connected, bringing both runners home Shane Victorino singled Jones home to make it 5-3

Canada made it a one-run game in its half of the eighth but would have tied it had it not been for a spectacular defensive play by Phillips His diving stop of Loewen'’ bases-loaded grounder allowed one run to score, but kept the U S in the lead

The U S broke it open off Scott Matheson and closer John Axford in the ninth

Phillips started it with a double Jonathan Lucroy had an RBI single, then Wright walked once again Axford came on and allowed the infield single to Zobrist Jones struck out but Hosmer, a late addition to the team when Mark Teixeira was injured, cleared the bases with a shot to deep center

Torre benched Miami’s dynamic young slugger Giancarlo Stanton in favor of Victorino in left field He also moved Ryan Braun to designated hitter and put Zobrist in right Mauer, the DH in the first two games, was the catcher Stanton was hitless in the first two games, although he did have a pair of deep fly balls in the opening loss to Mexico

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Reaching a miles-tone | Senior guard Miles Asafo-Adjei scored a season-high 15 points in his final game in a Big Red unifor m It was not enough to help complete a comeback against Har vard

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knew he had to step up and was aggressive all game, ” Asafo-Adjei said “He was able to get some shots to fall early and that got him going and kept him hot for the rest of the game He’s capable of doing that every night and it was fun to watch ”

Freshman guard Nolan Cressler also played well in the loss, scoring 14 points on three three-pointers while grabbing seven rebounds Despite his youth, Cressler has been a consistent scoring option for the Red, especially in the last four games, where he has averaged 16 8 points per game

“[Cressler’s] such a good scorer and teams started to realize that as the season went on They started game planning for him,” Asafo-Adjei said “As the season continued, he found different ways to score The Ivy League season was a great learning experience for him He’s been a constant source of offense for us the entire year and he’s going to be a great player down the road ”

“I got some shots to go early, so I just tried to attack the whole night.”

In the season finale against Harvard, the Crimson had a chance to secure the Ivy League’s NCAA bid and the excitement in the building was noticeable

Miles Asafo-Adjei

“There was a great energy in the building; everyone knew they had the chance to clinch the title,”

Asafo-Adjei said “They were playing with a lot of energy and the crowd was very loud The atmosphere was more hyped than usual ”

The Red did a good job defending forward Wesley Saunders the leading scorer in the Ivy League at 16 6 points a game as he shot just 3-11 from the field However, he was 8-12 from the free throw line and still finished with 14 points

“The biggest thing was just to try and keep Saunders away from the basket,” Asafo-Adjei said “His entire game is trying to get close to the basket and get easy shots, so we just wanted to keep a man between him and the basket and make all his shots tough, which we were able to do He was still able to score in double figures he got to the line which helped out but for the most part, we did a good job on him ” Despite falling behind by 16 with just nine minutes to play, the Red put together a run and trailed by only five with two minutes to play However, the injury-depleted Red just couldn’t keep up with the Ivy League champions Asafo-Adjei played well in the loss, scoring 15 points, a season-high, on 6-8 from the field

“With all our players injured, I was just trying to be a little more offensive minded the last couple of weekends,” Asafo-Adjei said “I got some shots to go early, so I just tried to attack the whole night I didn’t get to play much the night before against Dartmouth because I was in foul trouble, so I just wanted to help my team in any way possible ”

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R ed Ad va n c e s to NC A A Tournament

“We just stuck to out game plan and didn’t really shy away from that, from the start, ” she said “We knew the goal was going to come when we needed it, but we really established our game on them and forced them to try to keep up with us the whole time, and it worked out for us in the end ” Jenner scored the game ’ s first goal after the Red forced a turnover, allowing her to skate towards the net undefended She quickly moved the puck to her backhand and lifted it over the goalie's glove and into the back of the net According to head coach Doug Derraugh, the Red’s consistent pressure on Harvard caused the important turnover, and Jenner was able to capitalize

“One of the things we talked about before the game was being aggressive from the start, and just before that turnover we went hard on the forecheck and closed off the walls,” he said “That’s what started the turnover, and when you turn it over to Brianne Jenner,

that’s a dangerous play It’s always important to get that first goal, especially in a championship game ”

The Red was unable to convert on a series of power play chances, including a five-on-three, before it eventually scored on its final manadvantage According to Campbell, the Red improved on each chance it received and was able to finally come through with the game on the line

“You just have to keep going on the power play There [are] always going to be open lanes and open chances, and you just have to take what you get, ” she said “It was a matter of getting their penalty kill out of place and getting them to bite on what we want Every power play kept building off the next It’s not like each was more frustrating than the previous one, we just said let’s go out and do it again, and it came together at the right time ”

The game-winning goal occurred after a Cornell shot forced Harvard’s goalie out of position, leaving the Red with an open net

“It was just kind of a scrum in the corner and I just threw it out in front of the net, and it went through the crease to Emily Fulton who was left alone in front,” she said “She kind of made a nice move and deked out the goalie, it popped out and somehow literally landed on my stick I had a completely open net, and the rest is history ”

These two games drew record attendances, creating an atmosphere very much like that of the men ’ s hockey games

“I don’t think you can say enough about the crowd,” said junior defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi “We joke that we had the occupy Lynah thing going on twitter, but the support that we got from other students in the community was incredible It’s like your 6th man out there It definitely helps a lot and we couldn’t thank everyone enough for coming out ”

With the Red now entering the national tournament, it will face increasingly challenging opponents with Mercyhurst as the first test in the quest for an NCAA title

“If we just keep on playing the Big Red style of hockey that we ’ ve been playing all season long, and if we believe in ourselves and our system, I think we can go a long way, ” Rougeau said

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Strong Individual Performances Lead C.U. at Ivies

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Wr ter

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“Despite our record, we are very happy with how this season went. The Ivy League is getting exremely fast ” J a m e s O ’ N e i l

Wa l k e r a l s o re c o rd e d c a re e r t i m e s i n t h e 2 0 0 b a c k s t ro k e , w h i c h s c o re d p o i n t s f o r

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St Jo h n h a d a s t a n d - o u t Iv y

Miller’s 13 Points in Past Eight Games Puts C.U. Back on Track

lead to 3-1

In g a m e t w o , t h e Re d needed to overcome some e a r l y a d v e r s i t y w h e n Pr i n c e t o n s c o r e

play goal midway through the first period to take a 1-0 lead Ferlin got the Red on the board in the second off

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M i l l e r T h e a s s i s t w a s M i l l e r ’ s f i r s t o f t h r e e o n t h e n i g h t , a n d t h e r e d - h o t f o r w a r d n o w h a s 1 3 p o i n t s s i x g o a l s , s e v e n assists in the

Princeton junior for ward Andre w Calof who the Red had identified as a player to contain fr ustrated his opponent one final time this season by getting the puck in open space and dishi n g t o t e a m m a t e W i l l MacDonald, who scored and cut the lead to 3-2 with less t h a n a m i n u t e re m a i n i n g The Tiger push was too lit-

t l e , t o o l a t e , h o w e v e r, a s Lowr y added an empty net

turnaround from two regul a r s e a s o n l o s s e s t o t h e Ti g e r s , p a r t i c u l a r l y a 1 - 0 defeat in Febr uar y in which the Red outshot Princeton 39-12, but was unable to net a single goal

With a 2-0-0 record on the weekend, the Red is now up to 6-1-1 in the last eight g a m e s Fr i d

v i c t o r y marked the Red’s first-ever postseason win at Princeton’s Ho b e y B a k e r R i n k a n d improved the team ’ s record

Cornell outshot the Tigers 44-24 over the second and third periods of both games, and this time was able to capitalize.

p a s t e i g h t g a m e s w h i c h boosts his career total to 97

The upperclassmen continued to step up as senior d e f e n s e m a n Ni c k D’Agostino str uck early in the third period with a shot

t h a t w e n t o v e r C o n d o n ’ s blocker After seeing fe wer

t h a n t w o m i n u t e s o n t h e power play last weekend, the Red welcomed a Princeton

s l a s h i n g p e n a l t y a n d t o o k advantage, with D’Agostino scoring again to extend the

g o a l t o p u n c t u a t

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s w e e p , e l i m i n a t i n g Princeton from the conference tournament

The weekend sweep was notable for numerous rea-

s o n s C o r n e l l o u t s h o t t h e Tigers 44-24 over the second and third periods of both games, and this time was able to capitalize with eight goals over that span The h a r d - f o u g h t v i c t o r i e s a n d efficient scoring marked a

head coach Mike S

14-2-2 The Red is now 7-2-1 all-

Princeton, and is back to 500 for the first time since late Januar y Depending on the outc o m e o f

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dDar tmouth series, the Red w i l l t

Quinnipiac or Rensselaer for a best-of-three quar ter final series beginning Friday

Mills

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s n o t w h a t i t h a d e x p e c t e d , O ’ Ne i l s a i d

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun com

By BENJAMIN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Wr ter

With two consecutive thrilling victories against St Lawrence and Har vard in the ECAC playoff tournament at Lynah Rink, the Cornell women ’ s hockey team became the 2012-2013 ECAC hockey

c h a m p i o n s D e s p i t e falling shor t of this title

l a s t y e a r, t h e Re d h a s now won it in three out of the past four seasons and has earned an auto-

m a t i c t i c k e t t o t h e NCAA tournament

T h e Re d f i r s t ove rcame St Lawrence (1914-5, 12-6-4 ECAC) on Saturday, 4-2, and then took down Har vard (246-3, 17-3-2 ECAC) on

Su n d a y, 2 - 1 B o t h g a m e s f e a t u r e d

r e c o r d - h i g h c r o w d

According to senior defenseman and captain Lauriane Rougeau, although the Red has worked towards this title all season long, its sights are set on even greater achievements

Spor ts

“ Winning this title means a lot,” she said “Especially after losing last year, we really wanted to get this one back All y e a r w

moment [But] it’s not over yet and we still have the automatic bid to the final eight, but we will enjoy this win for sure because it’s a big win for us This week we will keep working hard, because the job is not

national championship

from freshman for ward

three goals, including the game-winner with under two minutes to go in the third period The Red had taken a 2-0 lead earlier in the game, only to see St Lawrence come back to tie the contest at two before Woods sealed the win Sunday’s contest against the Crimson was another Lynah thriller Junior forward Brianne Jenner str uck first, but

Mmm mmm good | Junior forward Jessica Campbell found the puck on her stick in front of the net with less than two minutes to go. Her game-winner gave the Red the ECAC title.

Har vard was able to tie the game at one Junior for ward Jessica Campbell then netted the game-winner on a power play with under two minutes left in the game

According to Campbell, the Red’s success was a testament to its ability to execute its plan and keep the Crimson back on their heels

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

After vowing to come out fighting against Princeton, the Red icers continued to stay in a groove this weekend, advancing to the ECAC Hockey Championship tournament ’ s second round

The ninth-seeded Red (14-14-3) took down the eighth-seeded Tigers (10-16-5), 4-0 on Friday and followed up with a 4-2 victory on Saturday evening to sweep the bestof-three series The Red will advance to the quarterfinals, where it will face either the one-seed Quinnipiac or two-seed Rensselaer,

depending on the outcome of Sunday’s games

During the series opener at Hobey Baker Rink, the Red and the Tigers battled back-and-for th, searching for scoring opportunities deep into the second period About midway through, sophomore forward Joel Lowr y passed from behind the net to fellow sophomore forward Brian Ferlin, who was able to assist sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan to get on the board, 10 Then, to cap the second period, senior forward John Esposito beat Princeton goaltender Mike Condon on a quick shot to break the game open at 2-0

After scoring his first collegiate goal last weekend at Brown, freshman for ward Christian Hilbrich followed through on a breakaway to extend Cornell’s lead to 3-0 in the third period Sophomore forward John McCarron added an empty net goal to cement the final at 4-0

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men ’ s basketball team finished up its season on the road this weekend with two losses, extending its losing streak to six to end the season On Friday night, the Red (1318, 5-9 Ivy League) lost to Dartmouth (9-19, 5-9), 76-62, and on Saturday, Harvard (199, 11-3) beat the Red, 65-56

Injuries have been a big factor in the Red’s late-season collapse The squad again played this weekend without three of its regular starters sophomore forward Shonn Miller, senior guard Johnny Gray and sophomore guard Devin Cherry It has been very difficult to replace them on both sides of the court, according to senior captain and point guard Miles Asafo-Adjei

“Scoring is the thing we [miss the most] It’s something all those guys do and the majority of our points come from those three,” Asafo-Adjei said “Defensively, all three of those guys are our better defenders and defense is something we try to hang our hat on all year To lose three of your better

defenders, it’s tough; it’s tough to replace ” The Red noticeably missed its starters against Dartmouth on defense, as the Green shot 52% from the field Dartmouth was led by center Gabas Maldunas, who scored a career-high 28 points on 9-14 from the field and 10-12 from the line in just 29 minutes of work He also grabbed eight rebounds, blocked four shots and had three assists

“[Maldunas] is a very, very

mobile big guy, ” Asafo-Adjei explained “He got most of his points off drives from the free throw line and that’s something that our big guys aren ’ t necessarily used to guarding ” For the Red, senior forward Errick Peck did all he could to keep his team in the game, scoring a career-high 26 points and grabbing a team-high 7 rebounds

“[Peck] played great; he