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Faculty Senate Candidates Vie for Dean Position

Voice plans to strengthen shared governance, augment faculty input in University policy

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

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Ithaca Student Threatens Shooting

High schooler arrested, charged with school terror threat

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

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“One student became upset and made a ... threat of violence to the entire Ithaca High School community ”

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

Gov John Kasich’s (ROhio) home state victory will not slow Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton cleared her path to the Democratic nomination in Tuesday’s primaries, according to Prof Lawrence Glickman, history, and Prof Maria Cristina Garcia, history Clinton and Trump emerged as victors in the elections, and Marco Rubio (RFla ) dropped out of the race for the Republican nominee Rubio decided to suspend

his campaign after losing in his home state of Florida Trump and Clinton were both declared winners in four states; however, Trump conceded Ohio to Kasich, its governor Garcia said she was not surprised by the results of tonight’s Florida primar y, because Rubio “seemed unable to carr y his home state, ” she said While Kasich’s Ohio win was also predictable, Rubio’s campaign suspension could significantly benefit the

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Ed tor

Cornellians have elected Jordan B e r g e r ’ 1 7 St u d e n t A s s e m b l y President and Matthew Indimine ’18 Executive Vice President in the 2016 S A elections

Ne a r l y 3 0 p e r c e n t o f t h e Cornell student body voted in the elections, according to the assembly’s website “I hope to [instill] the importance of truly representing the voices of students who are often not included in many discussions or decisions,” Indimine said

Only six positions, including S A president, were contested this election cycle

Julia Montejo ’17 and Traciann Celestin ’19 were elected to ser ve as Minority Liaisons-at-Large on the S A , and Lauren Lang ’17 will be the Class of 2017 President, according to the S A website Akhilesh Issur ’17 was elected International Student Liaison-atLarge for the S A St u d e n t s a l s o e l e c t e d B j o r n Bjornsson ’18, Yuchen Wang ’17 and Daniel Engelson ’18 to fill the t h re e A r t s a n d S c i e n c e s Representative positions

and Rebecca Herz ’18 won positions as College of Engineering Representatives Daniel Engelson ’18, who ran

President, expressed his appreciation for the students in the College of Arts and Sciences who voted in the election “ They spoke their voice so that I, along with the other elects, could fight for them, and that is exactly what we will do,” Engelson said

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

A c e r t i f i e d re h a b i li t a t i o n c o u n s e l o r, C o o k s t u d i e s t h e w o r k - l i f e b a l a n c e , a c c e s s t o w o r k s i t e w e l l n e s s p r o g r a m s a n d s o c i a l i n c l u s i o n o f p e o p l e w i t h d i sa b i l i t i e s A l t h o u g h C o o k u s e s a w h e e l c h a i r, s h e s a i d h e r c o n ve r s a t i o n s a re l a r g e l y f o c u s e d o n h e r w o rk r a t h e r t h a n o n h e r d i s a b i l i t y “ If yo u k n ow m e o n e - o n - o n e , we ’ re n o t t a l k i n g a b o u t t h e c h a i r m o s t o f t h e t i m e

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U.A. Requests Information on Cost of Carbon Neutrality

By ZACH SILVER Sun Staff Writer

T h e Un i ve r s i t y A s s e m b l y p a s s e d a re s ol u t i o n i n a 7 - 1 - 1 vo t e , re q u e s t i n g a d d it i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n f ro m t h e Un i ve r s i t y a b o u t t h e c o s t s o f c a r b o n n e u t r a l i t y

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“Many people on campus feel that Cornell should make a stand on recognizing the importance of global warming.” P r o f E l l i s L o e w Zach

s o r t o f i d e a w h a t c a n d i d a t e s f o r o u r n e x t C o r n e l l p r e s id e n t i a l f e e l a b o u t t h e e n t i re t o p i c o f g l o b a l w a r mi n g ” A f t e r c a rb o n n e u t r a l i t y d i s c u s s i o n s , t h e U A u n a ni m o u s l y p a s s e d a re s o l u t i o n re c o g n i z i n g Pre s i d e n t El i z a b e t h Ga r re t t a n d h e r c o nt r i b u t i o n s t o C o r n e l l d u r i n g h e r t e n u re T h e a s s e m b l y h a d t a b l e d t h e re s o l u t i o n a t i t s p re v i o u s m e e t i n g b e c a u s e n o t e n o u g h m e m b e r s we re p re s e n t f o r a vo t e “ T h e

Dean Candidates Present Platforms

Stress transparency, shared governance

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Ohio governor, according to Glickman

“The fact that he won and Marco Rubio dropped out after getting steamrolled in his home state of Florida means that Kasich might have a little momentum in his battle with Ted Cruz to be the dominant ‘non-Trump’ candidate,” Glickman said

Glickman added that he believes Kasich’s chances of receiving the nomination remain slim

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun com

“Kasich may have a chance in states with what remains of moderate Republicans, like Pennsylvania and New York,” he said “Still, it’s probably too little and too late Winning one state out of 29 that have been contested, especially when it’s his home state, makes it premature to see him as a serious contender to Trump ”

Glickman speculated, however, that the most serious consequence of Kasich’s victory was its effect on the Trump campaign

“Because [Ohio] is a winner-take-all state, Trump may now have a hard time accruing all the delegates he needs to win the nomination on the first ballot,” he said

Glickman added that Tuesday was an important night for the Clinton campaign, as Clinton “regained some of the momentum she lost after her stunning defeat in Michigan,” he said

In fact, Clinton outperformed Sen Bernie Sanders (D-Vt ) among low-income white voters in Ohio a demographic Sanders has been championing according to Glickman

“If Hillary can solidify her support among working-class whites, that could really help her, given the strong support she has earned so far among African American voters, ” Glickman said “It will be interesting to see if that pattern holds in Illinois and Missouri ”’

As a researcher of U S -Cuba policy, Garcia said she found it remarkable that neither party ’ s Florida victor “pandered to the hardline pro-embargo Cuban American vote in order to carry the state ”

“For the first time in half a century both the Republican and Democratic victors favored normalization of relations with Cuba,” Garcia said “The tides have turned ”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun com

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nity at this time,” according to the email

As a precaution, however, police will hold increased patrols around the school, the release said

The case is currently under investigation, and no further information about the context of the threat has been released, beyond that it involved a mass shooting with an AK-47, according to the release Rollins-Young was released to the custody of a family member under the super vision of Day Reporting, according to Ithaca Police He is due back in court on March 25

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun com

Ferguson City Council Votes To Accept DOJ Reform Deal

FERGUSON, Mo (AP)

The Ferguson City Council has unanimously agreed to accept a U S Justice Department plan to overhaul its embattled police force and municipal court system after a brief attempt to revise the deal led to a federal lawsuit

Elected leaders in the St Louis suburb where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown Jr helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement voted Tuesday night to approve the DOJ consent decree

Brown’s father, who attended the meeting but didn’t speak publicly, shook hands with Ferguson’s mayor and several council members after the vote

The agency and Ferguson reached a tentative agreement in late January after months of negotiations, but the council rejected the plan in February over cost concerns, prompting the Justice Department to sue the next day

The lawsuit remains pending as a federal judge must still approve the preliminary agreement

Vanita Gupta, head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement that Ferguson “took an important step towards guaranteeing all of its citizens the protections of our Constitution ”

Assurances from Gupta that the city won ’ t be required to provide its police officers with pay raises a provision they feared could bankrupt Ferguson led to the consent decree’s tentative approval at a meeting one week ago

A city analysis had indicated implementation costs could approach $4 million in the first year alone That led the Ferguson council to propose amending the agreement in February with seven provisions aimed mostly at keeping costs in check

City Manager De’Carlon

Seewood said Tuesday that the new measures will cost Ferguson “ a little over $1 million” in the

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first year, about $700,000 in the second year and $600,000 in year three

Those estimates don’t include technical assistance and grant money Ferguson could receive for its efforts, he added

By contrast, the costs of fighting the federal government in court could have been substantially higher

“Thank you, ” retired teacher Gerry Jasper told the council “I’m glad our city isn’t going to go down the tubes ”

The 131-page consent decree is intended to correct problems identified in a scathing Justice Department report last year that found sweeping patterns of racial bias throughout the city’s criminal justice system

The agreement calls for the hiring of a monitor to ensure Ferguson follows the requirements New diversity training will be instituted for police, software will be purchased and staff hired to analyze records on arrests, use of force and other police matters

And within 180 days, all patrol officers, supervisors and jail workers will be outfitted with body cameras

The city had been under federal scrutiny since the August 2014 shooting of Brown, who was black and unarmed, by white police officer Darren Wilson, who was cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department in the shooting and whom a St Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wesley Bell, one of three new council members either elected or appointed to office since Brown’s death, suggested that the sweeping DOJ agreement could transform Ferguson into an exemplar of police reform Each of the new council members is black in a city where so are more than two-thirds of its residents

“The world is watching us, ” said Bell “We’ve got an opportunity to show what change looks like Shame on us if we can ’ t meet this challenge ”

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Philip Susser | An Ithaca State of Mind

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Cor nell Resear chers Study Snapchat’s Appeal

Study finds ephemerality of app unites users

By KATHERINE QUINN Sun Staff Wr ter

Researchers from Cornell Social Media lab and ReImagination Lab have studied the social media application platform Snapchat in hopes of learning how its unique design features affect our relationships with technology and with each other

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“Because of this feature of ephemerality, it allows people to be more informal, losing inhibition with content sent to close friends,” said Pamara Chang, a fifthye a r Ph D

“ Whereas there’s this notion of impression management and self-presentation concerns with other applications like Facebook or Twitter where you do have a larger audience ”

Unlike originally text-based platforms like Facebook or Twitter, Snapchat is a mobile application primarily based in sending image and video content Users can add friends and send photos or videos, called “ snaps ” , to whoever they select in their network They can preselect a set amount of time between one and ten seconds that a recipient will be able to view the content before it auto-deletes This feature highlights the unique transient design of the app and could explain its popularity, especially among college students

In the study, researchers inter viewed undergraduate students who were regular Snapchat users to see how this ephemeral feature of the app ’ s design would affect user communication The short lived nature of content transmitted through the app affected the content people felt they could share

Researchers found that people were more likely to share goofy, unfiltered content or content not related to tasks through Snapchat In addition to set viewing windows and auto-deletion of content, users can see if and when the recipient has viewed the content, and if they took a screenshot of the content The reassurance that

content will quickly disappear permanently from both the sender’s and receiver’s phones appeases a user ’ s typical concerns of privacy when it comes to social media

The study also found that the relatively small network on Snapchat versus that of Facebook or Twitter influenced user communication with similar effects

“ The network is a lot smaller, and a lot closer,” said Chang “On larger platforms, you have this large diverse group of friends On Snapchat, it’s ver y few and it’s ver y selected It would be your closest friends rather than a larger network of professors and other students that you met once in a class ”

The study reflects that the app is most popular between close friends or romantic interests, that is, rela-

tionships that are close enough that both parties feel comfortable sharing ever yday, mundane communication

However, many users also enjoy the larger communities created by Snapchat’s location specific features like geographic filters or the Ivy League snapstor y The geofilters allow users to overlay snaps with a design indicating their location and the Ivy League stor y incorporates snaps from users across universities in the Ivy League

While taking a screenshot of a sender’s snap was considered a default “ norm violation” for archiving what was meant to disappear, the study finds this practice is accepted between users who are close friends or in cases when the shared content is out of the ordinar y Chang and Xu say this exception to the temporar y nature of the app ’ s content provokes questions as to whether users want more or less ephemerality in their social networks

The study was published and presented at the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing journal proceeding conference in San Francisco from Feb 27 to Mar 2 Social media industr y representatives also attended the conference and in response to the study, raised questions about a possible trend toward ephemerality and whether it should be integrated into larger platforms

“It’s an interesting perspective for social media designers to think about,” said Xu “ What are the benefits and the costs to having ephemeral features?”

It is evident that other developers are taking note of the app ’ s unique features Xu cited an new communication app, Telegram, as an example that takes Snapchat’s appeal into account The app deletes transmitted messages after a certain amount of time

While the study finds that ephemerality encourages close relationship maintenance, it does not conclude whether this feature of design would be as successful or popular integrated into other platforms Xu said that answering this question would require “ a more comprehensive comparison between Snapchat and other social media”

“ The stories are super fun,” Paroma Chakravarty ‘16 said “I like to compete for the Ivy League stor y ” While these features are favorable components of the app, users do not feel as connected to larger communities included in these features as they do to their smaller networks of friends

In sharing content rather than simply showing it, Snapchat’s design uniquely couples clear digital ownership and close feelings of connectedness As Bin Xu, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the department of information science and co-author to the study puts it, this feeling of “knowing people in the moment ” is fostered by Snapchat’s design as a mobile application and the ephemerality of snap content

Studies like this pave the way for future exploration into human-technology interaction and how technology and design influence human communication Research into the effects of social media design provoke questions as to the implications of text versus image and videobased applications or the extent of influence of design trends like ephemerality

By studying the intersection of social media platform design and human communication and interaction, the authors hope to promote further explorations into ephemeral features and interdisciplinar y research on digital sociality

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Grace Ahn can be reached at gsa33@cornell edu

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Truffaut at Cornell Cinema

If you are a film buff, a film major or a filmmaker, the work of Hitchcock should be running on a 24 hour loop inside your head If you are any of the above and haven’t seen the man ’ s work, a self-respecting film buff would cr y, “ What the MacGuffin is wrong with you?” and prescribe you a steady diet of Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho and others I’m afraid I am not one of said film buffs who would do such a thing Yes, I am a PMA major and aspiring filmmaker, but I have never been overtly enamored with the classic films of the great director Personally, I’m more partial to his earlier work The Lady Vanishes, The 39 Steps and I even wrote a paper in Global I about the perceived lapse in quality apparently noticed only by myself and Pauline Kael as Hitch entered Hollywood

And yet, in spite of not being a devout Hitchcock apostle, I found Hitchcock / Truffaut to be a fascinating and wonderful documentar y For even if you know little about the world of filmmaking, you most likely have heard the renowned director’s name, and perhaps that of the equally renowned Cahiers du Cinema critic and later Fre n c h Ne w Wa v e d i re c t o r Fr a n c o i s Truffaut Hitchcock / Truffaut, directed by film historian Kent Jones who is no stranger to fans of t

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thanks in part to a series of influenced conducted with a young upstart and humble cinephile who was a great admirer of the man ’ s work Francois Truffaut debunked the theor y that Alfred Hitchcock was a so-called “light entertainer” and forever cemented his reputation as one of the great innovators of the movies, not merely a Master of Suspense or a television personality, but a master of staging, composition, stor ytelling and drama

In this regard, even I would have to agree For Hitchcock

see a stor y that is only possible through the combination of imager y and sound Hitchcock was a die-hard purist

Some of the work dissected fascinatingly throughout the film includes the aforementioned classics Vertigo and Psycho To hear Peter Bogdanovitch, who directed Paper Moon and is one of the great American film historians, discuss the impact that Psycho first made when it hit theaters is nothing but a thrill When the shower scene came up, according to Mr Bogdanovitch, Hitch had the audience so firmly in the palm of his hand that there was a firm, sustained shriek that echoed throughout the theater for a full minute To demonstrate, Mr Bogdanovitch shrieks for about 10 seconds on camera Martin Scorsese talks about the subtle framing and nearly-trite camera angles Hitchcock selects all the way up to the shower scene, during the picture’s first 45 minutes If you are a Scorsese admirer (I am) you will be enthralled, but even if you are unfamiliar with him, the passion and the ver ve that he and the other Hitch disciples bring to the table ignites a flame in your chest

love of cinema, the creative process and the extensive possibilities of the art form itself It includes corroborative stories from many other practitioners of the medium whose films you might recognize: David Fincher (Gone Girl), James Gray (The Immigrant), Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom) and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall Street)

It is a stor y about the singular influence of one filmmaker ’ s vision and the generation of newcomers he inspired,

was one of cinema’s great formalists determined to coax the medium to its fullest potential and do things no filmmaker before him had tried before He was tired of seeing films that looked like stage plays; movies that looked like they ought to be played beneath a proscenium arch Movies that were full of photographs of people talking, which bore no resemblance in his opinion, to the art of the cinema Hitch reinvented the medium and utilized it to tell stories in a way that was exclusive to it When you see a Hitch film, it’s true that the characters and stor y might come second to the visual pyrotechnics, but you will indeed

David Fincher comments, “If you think you can hide your seedy preoccupations in life and choose a profession like a film director you ’ re nuts!” And indeed, Hitchcock openly embraced his seedier, more unseemly obsessions with murder, voyeurism and icy blondes by putting them front and center in his movies James Gray makes an impassioned case as to why you must be able to understand the inner-workings of Vertigo even if you know nothing about the art form Hitchcock / Truffaut is that rare film you may leave with a full-hearted desire inside you to become a film critic, a cinephile or even a filmmaker It is that special, infectiously enthusiastic art documentar y which inspires just as much love for the art form it studies as it lavishes upon it

Hitchcock / Truffaut plays at Cornell Cinema Wednesday, March 16 at 7 p m Editor Rachel Reichman will be present, along with director Kent Jones via Skype to discuss the film

Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com

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Sticking the landing | The gymnastics team pulled off a close victory over West Chester this past weekend, defeating the Golden Rams 192 350-192 000

Gymnasts Top West Chester, Prepare for Championship

By BRITTANY BIGGS Sun Staff Writer

Looking to set the pace for the ECAC Championship this weekend, the Cornell gymnastics team traveled Pennsylvania to compete against West Chester University The Red was able to pull out a very close win, 192 350 to 192 000

Winning by 350, this close victory was made possible by top finishes in major events Freshman Kaitlin Green was able to secure a win in beam and bars to assist the team in its win Green was followed by teammate junior Elana Molotsky who tied for second in the bars Freshman Lyanda Dudley also had a big weekend, coming in third in beam and scoring 9 775 on floor to secure a second place finish on floor

With a short week coming up, Molotsky underscored the importance of the upcoming practice schedule

“Going into next week’s championships we only have three days of practice at home, so the team will be looking to increase the number of repetitions in order to stray away from those uncharacteristic mistakes,” she said “We will be concentrating on focus and confidence as those are the two things that really helped us succeed as a team at Ivy League Championships ”

“We have the potential to hit more school records at this competition if we put it all together ”

Aware of what lies ahead, the team sought to use this competition as a springboard for Saturday’s championship Even with the win, more can be done to ensure a strong competition on Saturday, according to Dudley

“Despite some really great performances, Saturday’s meet was definitely not our best showing as a team, ” Dudley said “Truthfully, this is not the pace we wanted to set going into championships However, I believe this past weekend is a strong motivation to get back in the gym this week and work harder than ever That drive will set us up for success this upcoming weekend ”

Molotsky was similarly critical of the recent meet

“Although it was not one of our best performances this season, it was a good learning experience,” Molotsky said “We had some uncharacteristic falls on floor and bars, but the team really stepped up on vault and beam to keep our score at a reasonable place ”

Bartolo Colon to Play His Best Season Yet

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Cornell has a big weekend ahead, competing against Ivy League competition, Penn, Brown and Yale, as well as strong teams from William and Mary and Temple University

“Saturday’s meet was a good way to get out last minute jitters before our upcoming ECAC conference championship,” said assistant coach Melanie Dilliplane “We made some mistakes on bars and floor so we will go into the gym this week and work on those parts of the routines that have been giving us problems ”

Despite the errors made over the weekend, Dilliplane said the Red is prepared to make big waves at the championship

“On bars we need to focus on hitting handstands and sticking dismounts and on floor we need to clean up our tumbling and dance,” Dillipane said “We have the potential to hit more school records at this competition if we put it all together All of the teams have been scoring about the same off and on all season so we certainly have the potential to win this meet The last time we won was during the 2011 season ”

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Red Continues Slow Start With Losses to Saint Francis

C.U. looks to get back on track with fve-game tournament

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hoped for, but we improved a lot as the weekend progressed,” Weinberg said “Our bats came alive, our defense became tighter, and we were able to stay in the final game ”

Weinberg said she knows the losing streak is taking its toll on the team but stressed that Cornell is determined to stay focused and improve in time for Ivy League play in early April

“It’s been tough on our morale,” Weinberg said “I think that our competitive drive to do better and succeed during league play is keeping us focused ”

Farlow said she is also tr ying to remain positive but needs certain aspects of the team ’ s game to improve

“ We’re hitting the ball hard, and I feel pretty happy about where that is, but our pitching definitely has to sharpen up and our defense isn’t quite perfect yet, ” Farlow said

Cornell opens up a five-game tournament in Fairfax, Virginia next weekend against none other than Saint Francis

“It’s not panic time yet, but we have to start improving right now, ” Farlow said

Grapplers Head to NYC for NCAA Championship

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Senior Writer

Coming off of numerous post-season Ivy awards announced Tuesday afternoon, the Cornell wrestling team will head to New York City on Thursday to compete in the NCAA Wrestling Championships The tournament will take place over the course of three days at Madison Square Garden and nine men will be wrestling for the Red

After a bumpy start to a season plagued by injury and illness, head coach Robert Koll managed to bring his squad to a 6-5 overall finish in the regular season and qualified nine out of a possible 10 wrestlers for the tournament this weekend Just yesterday, it was announced that Koll earned the title of Ivy League Coach of the Year along with Princeton’s head coach Chris Ayres While Koll and his players have much to be proud of at the end of the regular season, they are all still working hard coming into the NCAA Championships

“I expect they will all wrestle as hard as is humanly possible,” Koll said

In terms of preparation for the weekend, the Red has had just a little under two weeks to recuperate from the team ’ s EIWA Championships victory to mentally and physically train for NCAA’s Koll’s main

focus leading up to the championship tournament was keeping players healthy and injury free

“We have run short, intense practices,” Koll said “Not a lot of live wrestling At this point in time the only thing we can do is get hurt They are ready ”

Heading into the weekend, Koll wants his players to go in focusing on their first matches and not looking too far ahead and getting distracted, he said

“All too often guys started looking two or three matches into the bracket,” he said “[They] need to get there first ” While Penn State has the most points c o m i n g i n t o t h e t o u r n a m e n t , Ko l l explained that for each weight class, the toughest opponent can be from any given school competing Thus, it is important that the Red not underestimate any other squads this weekend and that each player steps on the mat ready to fight

Despite a rough start and early season, the Red squad is back in fighting shape, overcoming earlier problems with sickness and injury

“Our biggest problem [this season] has been our health,” Koll said “ We fixed this having ever yone get sick earlier in the year ”

While Koll has undoubtedly played a huge role in getting the Red to this point, the squad boasts plenty of talent beyond the coaching staff including senior and Ivy Wrestler of the Year Nahshon Garrett and freshman and Ivy Rookie of the Year Joey

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In last year ’ s championship, the squad was able to take home fifth place and Dean took home a national title Realbuto was good for second and Garrett came in fifth place for his respective weight class With some fresh faces and an overall strong regular season, the Red heads into this year ’ s tournament positioned for success

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Shaky Pitching, Big Innings Doom

Have you heard the story about the house cat looking at itself in the mirror and seeing a lion? Or the one about our perennial narcissist, Kanye West, insisting that he is in fact God? But my favorite is the one about the 285-pound, 42year-old Mets pitcher who, I think, can be a dangerous batter Just two days ago, the Mets pitcher, former Cy Young winner Bartolo Colon, hit a monster home run during a spring training batting practice session Mets beat reporter Marc Craig claims it “took out a tree branch ” After setting his season high in hits last season with eight I can

see a batting title in Colon’s near future It’s no coincidence that Bartolo’s new contract has an incentive clause worth $50,000 if he wins the Silver Slugger Award

“I don’t have delusions of grandeur,” Bradley Cooper said in the movie Limitless “I have an actual recipe for grandeur ” Well, I certainly have grandiose delusions for New York’s favorite near 300-pound Dominican, Bartolo Colon

Such a graceful athlete this cookie pouch of a belly flailing in the wind as he rounded first base en route to his first career double last May Minutes after, social media jumped on Colon as GIF after GIF was distributed

Red as Softball Remains Winless

Saint Francis extends Cornell’s losing streak to eight games

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

Three tough losses in two days have left the Cornell softball team still searching for its first win after another disappointing weekend against Saint Francis

The Red Flash (12-12) took three straight from the Red (0-8, 0-0 Ivy) which is now off to its worst start in recent history

First year head coach Julie Farlow ’97 and the rest of the team said they were not happy with the weekend’s results and know they must improve

“We’re going to have to start making some quick adjustments and get some W ’ s on the board,” Farlow said

On Saturday, Cornell lost both games of a doubleheader by the same score of 12-4, both lasting just six innings in each

After a big first inning two-run home run by senior Meg Parker gave the Red a 2-0 lead in the first game on Saturday, Saint Francis came back with five in the bottom half of the frame to take back the lead, a phenomenon that Cornell is becoming very familiar with

“So far this season, when we do have a lead it’s short lived,” Farlow said “We have to do a better job of shutting down the other team when we ’ re ahead ”

Cornell got a run in the third but sophomore Maddie Orcutt failed to get anything going on the mound, giving up four runs in the sixth, ending the game an inning early and falling to 0-3 individually on the season

In game two, Saint Francis was first on the board, putting up a four spot against sophomore right-Hander Sierra Stone in the second When Cornell came to bat in the third, the Red pieced together a nice comeback, featuring home runs by junior shortstop Olivia May, sophomore first baseman Megan Murray and sophomore designated hitter Tori Togashi to tie the game at four

But it did not stay that way for long, as Saint Francis immediately answered and got four runs b k in th b tt m half of the inning F once again ended th allowed the Red Fla a series win

Cornell has not well thus far this sea Farlow admitted av runs allowed per acceptable

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promptly gave all four back in the bottom of the inning Parker would give the Red its second lead of the day with a tworun home run in the fifth

After five innings played, the women led, 7-4, but Saint Francis rallied for five in the sixth and handed Cornell its eighth straight loss to open the season

“[Sunday’s] loss was probably the most disappointing one since we were really in the game, ” Farlow said

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