04-01-13

Cornell Humanities Major Finds Job After Graduation

Parents of Bland ’07, English, history and philosophy major, say they’re glad ‘she’s ... moving out of our goddamn basement’

By dsafsdf Sun Senior Snoozer

After completing 35 unpaid internships, a former Cornell humanities major received her first offer of employment Monday

Susie Bland ’07 is the only humanities major in her class to have secured a full-time job, according to an administrator in the University’s Office of Advising for Useless Majors Bland who most recently interned for free at a five-person startup that sells arts supplies while picking up odd Craigslist jobs on the side will begin working as a minimum-wage sandwich artist at Subway this month

“ We’re really, really proud of our Susie,” Kate Bland, Susie’s mother, said in an email to The Sun on Sunday “But mostly, we ’ re glad she’s finally moving out of our goddamn basement err, I mean on to bigger and better things ”

The Cornell alumna, who graduated summa cum laude with a triple major in English, histor y and philosophy and $40,000 in debt, said she thinks her experience photocopying documents,

fetching coffee for super visors and answering phone calls made her “stand out ” among Subway’s candidate pool

“She’s an inspiration to all of us ” Bland’s 07 unemployed former roommate

“I’m so lucky,” said Bland, wiping a tear of joy away from her eye “ With this job, I’ll be able to pay off my debt by the time I’m 90 ”

When asked if she thought anything she learned in her classes on Tolstoy, Foucault or deconstructionism helped her secure the job, Bland said, “Um no Not really, actually ” Ne

majors, still unemployed as of Monday, expressed

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C.U. Alumnus: My Shocking Memoir

By REGINA “YOU

GEORGE Sun Queen Plastic

A Cornell alumnus published a 400-page memoir detailing his hazing experience at the Cornell fraternity, Lambda Omega Lambda, on Sunday evening In his account, Glen Coco ’12 says that LOL brothers forced him to engage in “unnatural” activities such as having to eat four oranges in a six-hour time window, memorizing and reciting the entire Twilight series for fraternity brothers and performing three sets of what he described as “girl push-ups ” “When I had to eat the oranges I did not know how to react It was just so much citrus,” Coco said “The girl push-ups, however, were the worst I couldn’t even do them, and my arms felt like Jell-O

Cayuga’s Schwasters

S e ek to Cu rb D r in kin g

By GING YU LEE Sun Staff Writer

In an attempt to curb high-risk drinking at Cornell, student volunteers in a new group, Cayuga’s Schwasters, have pledged to elicit buzz-kill behaviors at parties sobbing and clinging onto strangers, throwing up in the middle of a dance floor and playing sad ’80s ballads to discourage students from drinking

The group, which is being overseen by Gannett Health Services and Cayuga’s Watchers, says that instead of monitoring alcohol consumption at parties, it will demonstrate the negative consequences of high-risk drinking to students, according to Madam G ’13, founder of Cayuga’s Schwasters

“We think that by showing that drinking causes uncool behavior, other students will stop drinking to avoid being the partypooper, ” G said “Nobody wants to be a partypooper ”

Electric Eells, drinking health professional at Gannett, said Cayuga’s Schwasters was formed because negative reinforcement works more effectively than positive reinforcement in curbing high-risk drinking

“Studies repeatedly show that young adults and teenagers learn better from seeing the worst case scenarios,” Eells said “For example, a study showed that monkeys only stopped consuming candy when they were shown a picture of an obese monkey ”

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Club Misconduct Will Be Public, Resolution Says

By DARA LEVY Sun Staff Writer

Misconduct by any University-registered organizations such as a cappella groups, club sports teams and other student groups will be disclosed to the public if President David Skorton approves a University Assembly resolution

The resolution was unanimously passed by the U A on March 26 If enacted by the University, Resolution 5 will amend the Campus Code of Conduct to no longer protect the confidentiality of University-registered organizations

The resolution states that an organization’s records “ may be shared as deemed necessary to educate the community or to provide information to the community about the organization’s conduct ”

Currently, only Greek organizations must disclose misconduct to the public

Even with the amendment, the campus code will still protect the confidentiality of individual members of organizations in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, according to Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J D ’88

According to Gregor y Mezey ’09, chair of the U A codes and judicial committee, club misconduct will be handled in a similar manner as the way misconduct is handled

“The reason for the resolution is to be fair to the whole community, and to have transparency and equal treatment for all groups, ” Mezey said Student Assembly Representative and membr of the U A Peter Scelfo ’15 said

Cornell Tuition

Students expressed discontent over Cornell’s announcement Friday that it would increase undergraduate tuition by $1,945 for the 2013-14 academic year

The increase in tuition rates, which was approved by the Board of Trustees, will raise tuition to $45,130 for students in the endowed colleges and out-of-state students in the contract colleges These students will pay a total of $58,987 next year for tuition, room and board and mandatory fees

New York state residents in the contract colleges will see their tuition rates rise from $27,045 to $28,990 Their total cost of attendance will be $42,847, up from this year ’ s $40,902

According to Simeon Moss ’73, deputy University spokesperson, tuition helps balance “continued academic quality while recognizing annual increases in operational costs and the ongoing decline in federal and state support ”

“Cornell works very hard to moderate tuition increases and to provide access to a Cornell education for deserving students with need,”

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Dr Stephen Pacala Seminar: The Fate of the Land Carbon Sink 12:30 - 1:30 p m , 700 Clark Hall

Joan Kee Lecture: Sizing Up Scale

5:15 - 6:30 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

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Drawing Data Work

12:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

Developing the Next Generation of Technical Leaders for the Food Industry 4 - 5 p m , 115 Ives Hall

The Surge of Uncertainty: An Examination of America’s Strategy in Afghanistan 4:30 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Dr Nadie: Film Screening

7:15 p m , Film Forum, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Spring temperatur es still ha ve not r eached Ithaca, despite the fact that it is now A pril Expect to see slightly war mer temperatur es as the w eek pr ogr esses alongside typically gr ey skies.

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Grad Student Taught Women in Rwanda to Grow Mushrooms

By ANNIE BUI Sun Contributor

Br yan Sobel grad is tr ying to help women in the Rwandan town of Butare through what some would say is an unusual method: growing mushrooms

Sobel first taught women in Butare mushroom cultivation methods for two weeks in December 2012 The trip was one of many that Sobel has embarked on to promote international development, from a stay in Bangladesh to a garden-based learning ser vice trip to Belize over this past spring break

Sobel, who specializes in mushroom production and cultivation, promoted the nutritional and economic benefits of one specific variety oyster mushrooms, or Pleurotus ostreatus during his stay in Rwanda

Sobel spent one week traveling to various mushroom farms and shared his knowledge with growers in the Rwandan capital of Kigali There, he said, he obser ved different methods of mushroom cultivation than what is typically seen in the United States

“[In Rwanda], mushrooms are cultivated in a unique style They are contained in spawn packets, which are then buried in the ground,” Sobel said Sobel then traveled south to the city of Butare for his second week in Rwanda, where he aided members of a local women ’ s cooperative group The women who participated in the program were all recruited because they had a child in their family suffering from malnutrition, according to Sobel

Sobel said the cooperative ser ves an important function in the rural community and its inhabitants

“ The cooperative is formally recognized by the government, and ser ves to empower rural communities by allowing them to govern themselves,” Sobel said “ Typically, these cooperatives are given a savings account by the government that growers can use to promote micro-credit activities ”

Sobel trained the women growers in the basics of mushroom cultivation, and helped the women grow mushrooms

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International Development, through which he connected with the Sustaining Rwanda Youth Organization The mission of SRYO is to raise money to distribute among individuals in the community, according to Sobel

Prof Chris Wien, horticulture, who is involved with international agriculture and rural development studies at Cornell, ser ved as Sobel’s advisor for the trip

“[Sobel] embarked on this trip on his own initiative,” Wien said “He was assigned to the women ’ s cooperative in Rwanda because of his personal interests ”

Sobel, whose interests lay in international and enterprise development, said he believes that one of the biggest problems in communities such as the one he worked with in Butare is that community members sometimes become dependent on local organizations

“Some NGOs in this region may feel that their job is to bring in money that they can distribute among [the] individuals, [so their] mission may be more focused on money than on the lives of their stakeholders,” Sobel said “ There is difficulty in empowering the stakeholders, because it is based on a model where they are already given the inputs rather than learning how to obtain them ”

Sobel added that he believes the effects of teaching women to cultivate their own mushrooms are beneficial to both their own livelihood and their health

“Mushroom cultivation has the potential to become a regional enterprise for those who are looking to support their families, or can ser ve as a food source and improve nutritional status, ” Sobel said

Wien said that even though the trip was only two weeks long, the impact it had on Sobel was long-lasting and profound

“ The trip helped Sobel to decide whether this type of work is meaningful and something he would like to engage in in the future,” Wein said Wein added that the trip helped provide Sobel a perspective of the developing world

“[The trip] could provide him with more insight on what it takes to make a change in countries such as Rwanda,” he said

C.U. Ecolog y House Wins Conser vation Challenge

By LAUREN BERGELSEN Sun Contributor

All 16 Cornell residence halls par ticipated in the Campus Conser vation Nationals a competition focused on reducing the consumption of energy and water earlier this month The Ecology House, which reduced its energy costs by 12 7 percent in three weeks, won the competition

The dorm was followed by Low Rises 6 and 7 with a 10 5 percent reduction in energy costs and Clara Dickson Hall with a 8 6 percent reduction, according to the Building Dashboard website, a new system at Cornell that tracks ever y building’s energy usage

The residence halls’ efforts contributed to a reduction of $5,596 in energy costs over a three-week period of the conservation challenge

In total, Cornell students saved 34,977 kilowatt-hours and diverted 31,724 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to Building Dashboard

Throughout the competition, residence hall coordinators and students took efforts to plan, publicize and participate in energysaving sustainable activities and events

Alexa Bakker ’15, chair of the recycling committee at the Ecology House, said the dormitory hosted a variety of challenges for its residents, including not taking a shower for a day, taking a cold shower or taking a shorter shower Efforts were also made to turn down heaters, use cold water for laundr y and turn lights off, according to Bakker

“We came up with little fun challenges that were interactive and made people more conscious of what they were doing,” said Brian Magnier ’15, an advisor to the Ecology House’s recycling committee

The Ecology House also coordinated social events such as music performances and outdoor games to help reduce the building’s energy use, according to Magnier

“We tried to get everyone more centralized and out of their rooms to avoid having all of the lights on, ” Magnier said

The competition was monitored through Building Dashboard, according to Matthew Laks ’15, a resident advisor in Clara Dickson Hall who helped publicize the competition

According to Laks, many of the challenges buildings implemented came from the Building Dashboard site

“I advertised the competition to Dickson residents through emails with links to the Building Dashboard website where there were different pledges people could take, like turning off the lights when going to class or turning off the sink when brushing their teeth,” Laks said Bakkar said students had a positive reaction to the competition

“People got really pumped about the competition,” Bakkar said “Some people said some of the changes were crazy or weren ’ t sustainable, but in the end, the efforts reminded people how much they appreciate certain things and helped create sustainable changes ”

Bakker added that many of the actions taken during the competition have become lasting changes in the Ecology House

“We permanently turned down heaters in our building’s entryway and turned lights off in the lobby,” Bakker said “Some people have realized that they don’t need lights on when doing work, or they don’t need the heat on as high or [to use] the microwave as often ” The dorm has also invested in drying racks to reduce the use of the dr ying machines, added Magnier

Bakker said the competition helped students understand their role in energy reduction

“I think it helps people realize how much small actions can really impact energy use Seeing continued energy drop made people realize that what we ’ re doing is making a huge difference,” Bakker said Laks echoed Bakker’s sentiments, saying small actions can have a large impact

“It’s amazing how small pledges can make a tremendous difference Clara Dickson is the largest dorm in the Ivy League, and it can really save a lot of energy, ” Laks said

Magnier said many of the changes they made were simple to implement

“You don’t have to change a lot during your daily routine to get results you can see, ” Magnier said The Campus Conser vation Nationals had other benefits as well, according to Bakker

“[The competition] also promotes community through working together,” Bakker said “I made a bulletin board and kept track of our progress, but I couldn ’ t have made the energy drop alone Sacrifices were made by everyone ”

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into trouble and, if so, can choose to be part of a different organization with a more positive culture,” Grant said

the resolution shows that Cornell is being consistent with Skorton’s platform that “pledging as know it has to stop ”

“I think it’s very important that we remain consistent and that organizations aren ’ t given special treatment, ” Scelfo said

Grant said the types of misconduct disclosed would primarily deal with issues like harassment, incidents of hazing, providing alcohol to minors, property damage and the misappropriation of funds According to Grant, of the approximately 900 cases the J A sees regarding misconduct each year, approximately three to five of them deal with student organizations

The resolution “provides transparency for people who are looking into organizations to see whether or not they want to belong,” Grant said

However, only organizations found responsible for specific misconduct issues, as opposed to all allegations under review, will be reported, Grant said

The resolution also calls for the creation of a website for University organizations’ misconduct separate from hazing cornell edu, which Grant said she thinks will help students make informed choices when deciding what organizations to become involved with on campus

“If someone wants to be part of an organization that really honors its participants and creates a positive environment, he or she can see if it has gotten

Mezey said while he does not predict that a majority of students will use the misconduct reports in their decision to join clubs, the reports “could absolutely help some students become more comfortable in their decision ”

Scelfo said that before the resolution, the University was “underutilizing” its pre-existing hazing resources He also echoed Grant, saying he hopes students use the released misconduct reports as a tool in choosing what organizations they would like to becoming involved in

“Someone could very well want to join an a capella or social justice group that they see at the student organizations fair in August and have no idea that they’ll require you to wear a toga and drink 11 shots in order for you to get membership,” Scelfo said “That’s not fair to a student if an organization was found responsible for previous cases [of misconduct] ”

Jessica Reif ’14, president of the Cornell Republicans, said she does not expect her organization to be affected by the resolution Reif also said, however, that since student organizations are funded by the Student Activities Fee, individuals paying the fee have the right to know about any misconduct that takes place

“It creates necessary transparency in the community and campus as a whole,” she said

Dara Levy can be reached at dlevy@cornellsun com

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S.D. Seppini | Letters From a Young Curmudgeon

A nti-Va x x Is A nti-Fact

Last week the Journal of Pediatrics released a study that confirmed what every competent pediatrician and parent has known for some time: The number of vaccinations a child receives is in no way related to her risk of becoming autistic

Soon after the study was released, the Center for Disease Control announced that three cases of congenital rubella have been confirmed within the United States this year If reading this does not alarm you, it should Since 2008 there had not been one case of congenital rubella in the United States What is to blame for this and other outbreaks of previously eradicated diseases? It’s the rise of utterly misinformed and criminally negligent parents who do not vaccinate themselves or their kids In 1964 and 1965 the endemic rubella virus infected 12 5 million people and caused 11,250 “therapeutic or spontaneous abortions, 2,100 neonatal deaths” and 20,000 infants born with congenital rubella syndrome These three recent cases were found in immigrants’ children who, by no fault of their own, were unable to get vaccinations in their countries of origin The problem is that within American communities other children are left vulnerable to this reintroduced disease because some parents make a conscious decision to opt-out of vaccinations

The only public health concern even remotely related to vaccines seems to be nude model Jenny McCarthy and

Childhoot vaccinations ar and effective Parents wh knowingly choose not to vaccinate their chidren sh be held criminally liable

her anti-vaxx campaigns Or is it anti-fact? Or is that a distinction without a difference?

The jury is no longer out Childhood vaccinations are safe and effective Parents who knowingly choose not to vaccinate their children should be held criminally liable Not vaccinating one ’ s child is akin to driving a newborn baby on a street filled with speeding cars, yet choosing not to put the baby in a car seat There are laws that require parents to use car seats for their children in order to protect the child’s interest Why not implement laws that promote society’s best interest and protect a group of people newborn babies who are unable to protect themselves?

When an adult chooses not to vaccinate him or herself, it puts more than just the individual at risk For example, in 2010, in California alone nine babies who were too young to receive the whooping cough vaccine died from the disease, which was ostensibly caught from unvaccinated adults (often their own mothers)

In many cases, once a critical mass of immunity is reached, even those without immunity are protected because the disease can no longer sustain itself within the population People who free ride on herd immunity also jeopardize it Once that critical mass is lost and a traveler reintroduces the disease from another country with poorer immunization practices, herd immunity can be shattered Roughly 80 to 86 percent of the population must be immune to polio for herd immunity to be effective Washington State, for example, has an opt out rate of 6 2 percent, which might eliminate herd immunity for many diseases and leave children defenseless against dangerous pathogens This statistic is particularly disturbing The polio vaccine has a 95 percent success rate If 100 percent of people took the vaccine, five percent would not become immune Normally this would not be cause for concern However, combine this with the fact that 6 2 percent of parents opt their kids out of vaccinations in Washington state, and the rate of immunity drops dangerously close to the herd immunity threshold

It’s time lawmakers put the interests of children and society before those of misinformed parents Just as parents must strap their children into a seat belt, regardless of whether their conscience tells them otherwise, safe vaccines should be mandatory and parents who dodge them should be held criminally responsible

Co mm ent of the day

“Really now? Applicants grow to over 40,000, early decision acceptance rates plummet to match that of Dartmouth’s, yield has been steadily increasing and is now over 50 percent, and yet they only drop the acceptance rate by 1 percent? At this point I get the feeling that the admissions crew is doing everything they can to accept as many people as possible Four or five years ago we were more selective than Vanderbilt, Wash U, Chicago, Northwestern, etc and now we’re getting creamed by them At this rate, our ranking/prestige will continue to decrease which means fewer and fewer top students are going to want to come here perpetuating the cycle ” seriously?

Jing Jin | Ringing True

Re: “Cornell Releases Class of 2017 Regular Decision Results,” News published March 28, 2013

The Global Land Rush For Food and Fuel

Landgrabs are nothing new the imperialist scramble for Africa being the most egregious example and neither are agricultural land grabs, such as the fruit plantations of the Central American “banana republics ” Outsourcing production has always meant capitalizing on the natural resources of another place and more recently, it has also meant capitalizing on loose environmental and labor regulations in less developed countries

A 2012 Oxfam briefing reports that in the past decade, an area of land equal to eight times the size of the U K has been sold in rapidly accelerating global land transactions According to Michael Kugelman of the Wilson Center, a BrazilianJapanese venture is planning to farm 54,000 square miles of land in northern Mozambique for food exports These agribusiness schemes exacerbate the problem in areas of chronic hunger and malnourishment and have farmers growing cash crops for export, rather than food crops for consumption

As the Brazilian-Japanese partnership ProSavana shows, it’s no longer just the developed countries playing a game that Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute calls a “ new form of colonization ” Mittal points to Indian corporations’ land grab in Ethiopia as a case in which South-to-South exchange of technical expertise and resources has been used to pay lip service to profit-oriented, rather than development-oriented, foreign investments

Contrary to expectations for social and economic benefits, the Oakland Institute

found that foreign investments that went to nonfood export crops such as sugar benefited from tax incentives and did not spur substantial job creation Such results are consistent with ones in Sudan, where the United Arab Emirates was growing sorghum – a Sudanese food staple to feed camels, and in Sierra Leone, where a Swiss biofuel operation provided 50 jobs far short of the 2,000 it promised to create

The pressure to control land will only intensify with

and contribute to environmental degradation and ultimately, to localized climate disasters that set off ripples of insecurity

The Arab states, which are highly vulnerable to drought and fluctuations in global food supplies, are absolutely unwilling to move away from carbonintensive fuels Paul Krugman of The New York Times writes that as much as one-fifth of some Arab states ’ budgets go to subsidizing gasoline and cooking fuel The insistence

The pressure to control land will only intensify with population growth, lower crop yield and increasing insecurity of food.

population growth, lower crop yields and increasing insecurity of food and energy supplies Global food production, supply and prices are at the mercy of local climatic conditions, and a localized hazard can instantly become globalized, according to Troy Sternberg of Oxford University Sternberg has drawn out the connections between a oncein-a-century winter drought in China and the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer

Agriculturally poor nations are compelled by insecurity at home to seek food supplies abroad, but doing so incites further insecurity abroad by depleting food sources and displacing farmers In terms of agribusiness, raising cash and biofuel crops are less ecologically sound practices

In the U S , the transition from coal to natural gas, brought on by stricter environmental regulations and low gas prices, has also turned exporters to China

on exhausting oil reserves and resistance to developing a more diverse and secure global energy portfolio contributes indirectly, but not insignificantly, to rising instability

Jockeying for energy supplies has also brought the land grabs to developed countries’ backyards Since strident environmental activism has stalled the transnational Keystone XL pipeline, Canada has been looking to send its exports beyond the U S Following a Chinese state-run oil giant’s takeover of a domestic energy company, Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured those wary of increasing foreign control of energy resources that only in “exceptional” circumstances would companies owned by foreign governments be allowed to acquire properties in the Alberta oil sands

The Obama administration has granted “ultra-cheap” coal leases in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana In the relatively green states of Oregon and Washington, there has been fervor over the pollution from mile-long coal trains and ecological destruction from the construction of new ports In short, residents of the Pacific Northwest don’t want to pay the human and environmental costs for someone else’s energy use, just as countless communities in developing countries haven’t wanted to pay for the industrial and agricultural ventures of other nations

Although the increasing land deals have intensely local consequences, the mechanisms behind them operate at the level of national governments, transnational corporations and international financial institutions Like Canada, Argentina and Brazil are planning to limit or ban new land concessions The Oxfam briefing also calls for the World Bank to freeze its land investments, as it has done before due to social concerns, and evaluate its practices Local unrest can generate attention, but in this case, change needs to be top-down

Jing

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

C h a t t i n g w i t h a L e g e n d

BY RACHEL ELLICOTT Sun Blogs Editor

On Friday night, singer and activist John Legend took the stage in front of a sold-out crowd at Bailey Hall After the performance, The Sun sat down with Legend to talk about Slope Day, life on the road and how to pursue one ’ s dream

THE SUN: Growing up, did you ever imagine that you would be such a, excuse the pun, legend?

JOHN LEGEND: [Laughs] Uh, I imagined it, but you never know what real work it takes to get here, you know When you ’ re a kid it’s just kind of a distant dream You hope someone discovers you; you hope someone hears you and makes you a big star But in real life, it’s much more entrepreneurial than that When I was a kid, it was more just like a distant dream of a kid, you know, who sang at a lot of talents shows and sang at church and all these things and thought, “I could be on TV and do what those guys are doing ” So when you have that kind of a dream it doesn’t connect to real life yet cause you ’ re just some kid singing in Springfield, Ohio at [his] grandfather’s church When I moved to New York, well, actually, when I want to Philadelphia to go to UPenn, I started to see what it would take [I] started meeting people in the business, started making demos and, you know, just trying, not only to get discovered, but actually to make an active effort to get in front of the right people, write the right songs that would propel me to where I am now and it took a long time It took me from ’98 to ’04 trying to get a record deal and then actually getting it so, ya know, it happened eventually And it’s kind of how I dreamed it would be, but I didn’t dream of all of the work that would have to go into it [laughs]

SUN: Did you ever think of pursuing another career?

J L : Oh yeah I mean, I thought about being I used to love Matlock; I wanted to be a trial lawyer I wanted to be a chef I wanted to be the President of the United States

SUN: Not ambitious at all, then

J L : Yeah, I just wanted to do, you know I wanted to be the next Dr Martin Luther King I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always felt like I should be doing something that was grand and big, you know?

SUN: Was your family always supportive?

J L : Absolutely Always supportive

SUN: So who were some of your biggest musical influences?

J.L.: My grandmother She taught me how to play gospel piano and organ, and I still play like her to some degree And then I love Stevie Wonder I love Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone and, uh, Nat King Cole Those are some of my bigger musical influences, just to name a few

SUN: Who would your dream collaboration be with?

J L : I don’t really have a dream collaboration at this point It’s more like just the right song, the right music You never know when some magic can happen because now it’s like I just love making songs and, you know, you never know when the right thing is going to come along I’ve written with unknown artists and felt like [those] were some of my favorite songs Then I’ve worked with more established artists and had some really good success with that too I just don’t worry so much about, oh I need this name or that name; it’s more like the right song, the right time and you know, and then you can make something beautiful

SUN: If you could give advice to a musician who is just starting out, what would you say to them?

J L : Well, work hard, practice a lot, get great at what you do like one of the best in the world at it So if you ’ re a singer, try to be one of the best singer in the world ‘ cause that’s literally what the standards are If you ’ re a dancer, try to be one of the best in the word As soon as you enter this arena, you re competing with me, you re competing with Justin Timberlake, you ’ re competing with Beyoncé, you ’ re competing with Alicia Keys, and they’re not gonna go away So, you ’ re gonna have to figure out how to be worthy of being on the same radio station as those people and the same iPod as those people

SUN: Speaking of iPods, if I were to look at yours right now, what would be the most played and what would be the most recently played?

J L : Well, unfortunately, this’ll sound very vain, but the most played is me because I’m listening to my own album a lot trying to finish the mixes and the mastering process By far the most listened to will be John Legend [laughs] I don’t listen to a lot of other music while I’m finishing my album so I’ve been in a bit of a vacuum Last album I listened to was

A L e g e n d a r y P e r f o r m a n c e

BY RACHEL ELLICOTT Sun Blogs Editor

While most probably went to see “An Evening With John Legend” to hear him sing, Legend spent a little over half of his per formance speaking about education equality causes, stating that “ We have to talk about problems before we can talk about solutions Legend, a wise 34 year-old, nine-time Grammy Award winner from Springfield, Ohio, holds board positions on the national board of Teach For America, The Education Equality Project, the Harlem Village Academies and Stand for Children and the Harlem Village

He star ted off his speech on Friday by telling us, “ We’ve got to strive to make equality in education a reality, not just an aspirational slogan ” So, what can we here at Cornell do about it? “ You, as Cornell students, are empowered to be great leaders You are equipped to succeed in your studies, your internships, your hobbies, your relationships Embrace that control [over our destiny], and use that power [of education] for good Take a look at your resources and consider applying some fraction of that towards a cause that’s close to your hear t If you choose to do so, you ’ re going to make a positive impact and leave a lasting impression on the world,” he said to the audience

He allowed seven people to stand and ask questions

These ranged from how to improve the quality of teachers in public school systems, to what the inspiration behind his latest album was, to whether or not he would be hosting SNL any time soon Legend proved that he is passionate about serious issues, and that he has a great sense of humor and poise about him he commanded the room the entire night He seemed like the type of guy anyone could be friends with Then, he moved on to what we had all been waiting for If you could mix honey, silk and a baby’s bottom together, you would almost come close to the smooth quality of John Legend’s voice almost Legend star ted the music por tion of the night with his most recent hit, “ Tonight (Best You Ever Had),” and he captivated the audience instantly Earpiercing girly screams abounded as ever y female in the audience (and I’m sure some of the guys) wished John Legend would be the best they ever had He only played four more songs: “Used to Love U,” the first live per formance of his ne w single “ Who Do We Think We Are,” “Green Light” and, perhaps his most popular hit, “Ordinar y People ” I’m pretty sure that ever yone could have sat there listening to him sing all night, but all wonder ful things must come to an end Legend somehow left the audience wishing for more, while still feeling privileged that they were able to hear him perform at all

American Gangster by Jay Z, which was done a few years ago I still love it; it’s one of my favorite albums of his SUN: What s your favorite part and least favorite part about being on tour?

J L : My favorite part is I really love performing, I really love being on stage, I really love being in front of new audiences every night and having that challenge of winning them over every night I love that I love the rush that I get from it; the excitement of the crowd I love performing songs that I spend a lot of time working on with the band and, you know, writing and all these things, so I love that and that feeling That’s why I do this [laughs]

My least favorite part, when you have a lot of shows, you know, it’s a lot of wear and tear on my voice It starts to get a bit taxing after a while, when you ’ re doing four or five shows a week for weeks at a time It can be pretty taxing, so that’s the toughest part, but I still love being on tour

SUN: If you could give advice to your childhood self, what would it be?

J L : Like Blake Griffin? [laughs] Um, you know, I’d say don’t be afraid Don’t be afraid to take risks Don’t be afraid to push yourself out of your comfort zone I would give that advice to everybody here at Cornell, too [laughs]

SUN: So you also went to an Ivy League school

J L : A rival [laughs]

SUN: A rival, yes Well I wasn ’ t going to say that, but J L : [laughs]

SUN: Have you ever been to Cornell’s campus before?

J L : Yeah, I came here with Kanye [West] many years ago I was trying to decide whether or not I had before, and then I remembered that I had been here with Kanye He was performing here around 2004 I think it was the Fall of ’04 and it was just before my first album was coming out I was on the road with Kanye, kind of getting exposure He knew I was about to come out and he was putting me on his tour just so people would start buzzing about me so I could sing and play with him, and one of the gigs we had was playing at Cornell It was right on the, it was right on the river outdoor concert

SUN: So what do you think of the campus? Have you gotten to see it at all?

J L : It was beautiful then I think it was probably around I don’t know if you have spring fling or something like that

SUN: It was Slope Day

J L : Yeah So it was nice weather; it was a beautiful day

SUN: Yeah, today it was not so great

J L : [laughs] I’m used to it; I’m from Ohio

SUN: So you were roommates with Kanye’s cousin?

J L : Yeah, at Penn

SUN: And that’s how you got in contact with him Was he the one who jump-started your music career?

J L : It was a few different things but I think he was the most impactful of all the different kind of people that I met who helped me along the way

SUN: Thank you so much

J.L.: Thank you It was my pleasure

Rachel Ellicot is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at blogs-editor@cornellsun com

Spring Breakers:

LAURA BOLAND Sun Staff Writer

While vacation may be over for many college students, the allure of partying spring break away on a beach in Florida still lingers

This is the atmosphere that Spring Breakers seeks to capture with unexpected twists It begins with four friends, Faith (Selena Gomez), Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy ( Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty (Rachel Korine), who are desperate to trade their dorm rooms for poolside parties, but can ’ t come up with the funds for the trip to St Petersburg So three of the girls, Brit, Candy and Cotty, come up with a scheme to rob a local fast-food joint They manage to carry out their plan using squirt guns, hammers and a stolen car and soon after, the four girls depart for Florida

Their spring break is a haze of alcoholsoaked parties that is, until all four are arrested in connection to their drugging and party habits

Spring Breakers

porary young adult culture, which becomes exaggerated to the point of absurdity Korine uses the same slow-motion shots of seminude men and women cavorting on the beach, consuming impossible quantities of alcohol and jiggling every possible body part for the camera over and over again Apparently it is possible to create a makeshift bong out of a baby doll The only time the girls are not wearing something strappy is when they are wearing sweats with ‘DTF’ emblazoned on the back, Nikes and pink masks with unicorns stitched on top These outfits don’t exactly propel the girls to M I A levels of badass, but it certainly seems like Korine embraces this kind of Nicki Minaj look as powerful

The film itself is a candy store of color

Almost everything that can be neon is; it’s almost like Korine was tr ying to make Florida one giant dance club

Directed by Harmony Korine

Starring James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens

Luckily for the girls, Alien ( James Franco), a self-proclaimed gangsta and hustler, pays their fines and takes care of them But Alien has his own schemes, which the girls quickly and willingly become involved in Spring Breakers demonstrates director Harmony Korine’s fascination with contem-

ICombined with a stellar soundtrack courtesy of Skrillex, Spring Breakers feels at times like an extended music video Behind the slick, ultra-stylized c i n e m a t o g r a p h y,

Korine borrows some of the techniques of fellow art-house director Terrence Malick

The recursive close-up shots of the girls’ faces and the disembodied voice overs allow the characters’ emotions to rise through the surreal surroundings without being forced In

the amoral landscape of the girls’ exploits, Korine proves there is still some humanity and showcases this quite nicely It was quite intentional that Korine drew his cast from the roster of former Disney Channel stars The actresses ’ presence in the film alone would have been enough to make his point Each of the main characters is not given many features to distinguish her from the group except for Gomez’s Faith, who is defined by her tepid Christian faith Gomez, Hudgens, Korine and Benson all convincingly manage be both careless young girls fooling around on scooters and volatile, brutal criminals, and deliver mature performances Franco’s Alien is a delightfully unexpected character From his grills to his gold pot leaf necklace, from the $ tattoo on his neck to the BALLR license plate on his custom car, Alien reeks of cliché Franco’s performance, however, allows Alien to be

both creepy and consoling when he interacts with the girls, and the relationship Alien later builds with Brit and Candy is full of subtle power plays Franco brings out the darkness in Alien, who played by anyone else would have been a harmless wannabe Spring Breakers is genuinely enjoyable and funny While it tries to be many things, it never takes itself too seriously (as my favorite scene, in which the four girls join Alien on his patio to sing “Everytime” by Britney Spears, while Alien plays a white grand piano and the girls dance in circles with masks and shotguns like gangster nymphs, illustrates) It is an engaging take on the old cliché of ‘girls gone wild,’ and will be enjoyed even after spring break ends

Laura Boland is a sophomore in the College of Human Ecolog y She can be reached at ljb259@cornell edu

Places, Spaces and All That Jazz

was struck this morning by an article well, a series of articles from the New York Times’ Kia Gregory about the fate of the Lenox Lounge, a once legendary jazz haunt where Coltrane was rumored to have played, where James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston were rumored to have hanged and where Langston Hughes narrated “The Story of Jazz ” The club lay somewhere on Lenox Avenue between 124th and 125th streets, not far from Minton’s Playhouse on 118th where Charlie Parker played with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke and laid the foundations of bebop, making the neighborhood a sort of jazz Mecca

But the Lenox Lounge closed early this year amidst controversy, with the owner and landlord bickering like two toddlers pulling at opposite ends of a Raggedy Ann doll Ricky Edmonds, the building’s owner, is suing Alvin Reed, the lounge’s owner, for stripping the place of its iconic fixtures and furnishings as he left at the beginning of this year Edmonds is demanding not only that Reed return the items for the club’s new owner Richard Notar, a managing partner of the Nobu Japanese chain, but also pay $50 million in damages Reed, on the other hand, plans to take the loot up the street to 333 Lenox Ave , where he hopes to reopen the Lenox Lounge in its cozier new home

So in theory, we now have two Lenox Lounges

Reed’s new club at 333 and the Notar Jazz Club at the original location, complete with a bar, fine dining and even a bakery Or do we have no Lenox Lounges? Was there something in the walls, once rattled by the blow of Miles Davis’ trumpet, or was all that contained in the couches that supported Ralph Ellison’s critically acclaimed rear-end and maybe, just maybe, has the ink stains to prove it? Or are we just getting all worked up about the name, which Reed’s going to move a couple blocks down, hoping no one is the wiser?

I, too, have places and spaces that get me all worked up I

got a little sore when the United Artists movie theater in my hometown of Bethesda, Maryland, was bought out by Regal and I nearly shed a tear into the last beer I drank at L’Art Brut Bistro in Paris, my abroad gang ’ s favorite midweek hangout that even my cynical sister admitted was kind of cool But if you stripped the bar of its woodwork, kitschy artwork, and smooth-talking bartenders, we might as well have been hanging out at Burger King

That’s the thing about memories; they’re grounded in places and spaces, acted out by people, but by no means floating errata If place didn’t matter, I never would have paid double-digit euros for a plate of olives and a small, served by an arrogant Spaniard in a white tuxedo at Cervecería La Alemana in Madrid, one of the many cafés in which Hemingway scribbled away angrily in his notebook Or around four euros to sit outside Les Deux Magots where Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir used to write, read and bicker

The other thing about memories, though, is that they are all in the past These places may memorialize the memories, but they certainly can ’ t promise new ones memories, like good produce, have to be grown organically

So if we were to go to Lenox Lounge, sit in the Zebra Room, close our eyes and pretend to hear Coltrane tooting away on his horn, maybe in an imaginary session with Thelonious Monk tapping away on the keys and Kenny Clarke rattling his symbol at the end of a mean drum roll, we ’ re essentially lying to ourselves The thought might be beautiful, but it’s a bald-faced lie And what’s wrong with that?

And this begs the question, how much of our culture, how much of the places, spaces and things we cherish are based on the fact that we are so content fooling ourselves? Would we enjoy climbing to the top of the Empire State Building if we didn’t pretend King Kong was swinging above us? Would faded highway billboards seem ominous if we didn’t know they marked Daisy and Jay Gatsby’s hit and run?

At the end of Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s character Gil Pender abandons 1920s Paris for Paris of the 2010s, an easy decision considering the girl waiting for him on that rainy bridge But how many of us would have stayed with Marion Cotillard in whatever decade she wanted to stay in? What’s wrong with living in the past if it makes us enjoy the present?

Don’t expect me to give you any answers now I have just reached my word limit

Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at alerner@cornellsun com Slow Lerner appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

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NEW YORK (AP) Two main attractions will be missing when the New York Mets host San Diego in their season opener Monday

Chase Headley, the biggest bat on the Padres and last season ' s NL RBI leader, is sidelined for a few weeks with a broken thumb

Johan Santana's future is far more precarious

After re-tearing the anterior capsule in his pitching shoulder, the one-time Mets ace is scheduled for another surgery Tuesday that he hopes can save his career

So the opening day assignment goes to Jonathon Niese, suddenly thrust into the role of No 1 starter for a team that traded Cy Young Award winner R A Dickey during the offseason

“It's Jon Niese’s turn He’s now that guy, ” manager Terry Collins said Sunday at Citi Field

Born on the day the Mets won the 1986 World Series, Niese established career bests across the board last season when he went 13-9 with a 3 40 ERA in 190 1-3 innings

The fast-working lefty will face a Padres lineup also minus promising young catcher Yasmani Grandal, suspended for the first 50 games after testing positive for testosterone Left fielder Carlos Quentin should be ready to go, though, after he was slowed this spring with discomfort in his surgically repaired right knee Top prospect

Jedd Gyorko takes over at second base

Niese said this spring he won ’ t try to “fill anyone ’ s shoes ” But he acknowledged Sunday that he'll probably be a little anxious on opening day

New York announced the decision to go with Niese on March 21 the same day David Wright was appointed team captain after Santana stalled at spring training

“It’s kind of sunk in now, ” Niese said “I’m not going to treat it as an opening day I’m going to treat it as a midseason start I’m going to prepare the same and just be ready

for it I don’t think we really have an ace on this staff I think everybody contributes equally ”

Pitching for the Padres will be Edinson Volquez, set to make his third consecutive opening day start He got the ball last year for San Diego and in 2011 with Cincinnati

Solid arms for sure, but this matchup of fourth-place teams that held their money tight last winter probably won ' t make many national headlines on a day when the likes of Stephen Strasburg, Justin Verlander and Felix Hernandez are on the mound

Not to mention across town, the Yankees will be hosting the rival Boston Red Sox at the exact same time

“I love Eddie out there, especially that first game with his stuff You know he might throw a few pitches but he's going to get outs He’s nasty, ” Padres outfielder Will Venable said Volquez, an All-Star with the Reds in 2008, has a ten-

dency to be wild But he played a pivotal role for the Dominican Republic team that won the World Baseball Classic this spring

The right-hander was 11-11 with a 4 14 ERA last season after he and Grandal were part of the four-player package Cincinnati sent to San Diego for pitcher Mat Latos in December 2011

“Edinson Volquez is very capable of throwing a hell of a game, ” Padres manager Bud Black said “I think our guys are physically and mentally ready to do it They're in a good frame of mind ”

Of course, the Mets are optimistic at this stage as well

Nearly the entire squad showed up for a voluntary workout Sunday to prepare for the opener Wright and second baseman Daniel Murphy are expected to play after both were sidelined by ribcage injuries until just a few days ago

four goals and an assist

After becoming all-time leading scorer for the Cornell men ’ s lacrosse program last week against Penn, fifth-year senior attackman

Rob Pannell got in on the action with three points one goal, two assists on three consecutive goals in the third period

The Red scored its seasonhigh 21st goal early into the f

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Joyce also received some playing time in goal after Donville made three saves and relinquished one score in ten minutes Fiore finished the game with five saves and collected his ninth win on the year

Having been plagued periodically by poor clearing this season, the Red rebounded against the Big Green by going a perfect 22for-22 on clearing chances and k

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re e by senior defenseman Jason Noble to Dartmouth’s 18 An allaround effort was extended to the faceoff, where junior midfielder Doug Tesoriero went 18-for-26 en route to the Red’s total of 19 f

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The 21-5 blowout against the Big Green marks the Red’s largest margin of victor y since a 19-3 win over Colgate on Mar 2, and the biggest margin over an Ivy League opponent ever in head coach Ben DeLuca’s ’98 tenure

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Dartmouth, the Red remains in sole possession of first place in the Ivy League and is poised to move up in the rankings following No 19 St John’s upset of No 1 Notre Da

Bucknell on March 19th and has

Schoellkopf Field this season

Next on tap for the Red is a trip to Cambridge to take on Har vard (4-5, 1-1) this Saturday Cornell will then close out the year with road games against No 9 Syracuse (6-2), Brown (5-3, 11) and No 10 Princeton (6-2, 21) The team will be looking to avoid last season ’ s disappointing finish, in which the Red also began the year with a 9-1 record, but fell to Brown and Princeton to close the season, ultimately missing the NCAA Tournament

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tacked on three more runs to make the final score 8-5

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only one of them earned sophomore starter Brent Jones found himself with a five run deficit to work through The offense did not let him down The Red came right back in the bottom of the frame to score five runs of its own The squad loaded the bases with one out, scoring its first run on an RBI walk by junior first baseman Ryan Plantier Swinford followed that up with an RBI single to

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starter from the game after just a third of an inning Whetsel then hit a two-out double, scoring Cruz and Plantier to cut the deficit to one But the Red’s potent offense was not finished yet, as Tatum followed with an RBI single, tying the game “ We were ver y confident, we knew we would be able to score runs at some point,” Cruz said “It just so happened that we s c

which also helped to put them d ow n b e

they’d be able to coast ” Jones settled down after his rocky first inning, pitching four m o

Sophomore hurler Eric Upton came in to shut the door, pitching two scoreless innings without allowing a hit The Red also

o r twelve hits in the matchup with Yale All but two of the starters recorded a hit and four starters Whetsel, sophomore catcher Matt Hall, Cruz and Tatum had multiple hits

According to Cruz, this balance in the lineup will prove i

Red moves for ward this season “ That is going to be huge for us From one to nine, we have guys who can swing it,” he said “ We have four or five guys that could be three, four or five hitters and are dispersed througho

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day due to inclement weather

Now 3-0 in the Ivy League with another conference game still to be played, Cruz said that his team will remain focused on bringing the same mentality into its games this week “ We’re just working on having good at bats and playing good defense behind our pitchers, ” he said “If we do all the small things, we know we’ll be all right ”

Against Tigers

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s lacrosse team hoped to rebound from two consecutive road losses in its home matchup with Princeton on Saturday, but the Red sustained another disappointing loss

The Tigers (6-3, 3-0 Ivy League) overcame Cornell (6-3, 2-2 Ivy) by a score of 12-10 What began as a back-and-forth contest in the first half developed into a large Princeton lead early in the second half, and the Red was never able to fully recover

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Cornell leading, 8-7 According to senior attack Caroline Salisbur y, the Red had a better start to this game than it had in the previous two games

“Finishing the first half with the lead was really great, because in the last few

g a m e s we re a l l y d i d n ’ t start off that strong, and

o n e o f o u r f o c u s e s throughout the week was to start the game strong, ” she said “ We did that well and it was exciting ”

The Red lost its lead and dug itself into a deep hole when Princeton scored five straight goals at the start of the second half to take a four goal lead According to senior defenseman Kate Ivor y, the Red’s inability to secure possession of the ball led to the Tigers’ scoring streak

“ We couldn’t win the draw control, so we needed to play a lot of defense and didn ’ t have possession of the ball,” she said “It goes back to really needing to play a full 60 minutes We played the first half

well, but again we weren ’ t able to play a full 60 minutes well ”

Salisbur y agreed, adding that the Red’s defense was put under intense pressure because of how often the Tigers controlled the ball

“ The defense can only stop them for so long if they’re continually maintaining possession of the ball,” she said

The Red scored two goals to cut the deficit to two, but failed to complete the comeback Princeton employed a timekilling strategy, passing the ball around while preventing the Red from causing enough turnovers to p r o d u c e t w o m

pressuring the Tigers’ offensive attack, but turned the ball over too many times once it actually had control

“ You definitely need to step up and pressure them with aggressive play, which we did and we would come up and pressure their for wards and the ball would be on the ground, but we failed to pick it up, ” she said “Or w e w

u s e a turnover [and] we would make a bad decision on the pass and turn the ball over to them, so then they maintained possession for a good portion of the second half We did a good job pressuring and played aggressively, but we weren ’ t able to convert it into solid possession time for our team ”

Nonetheless, according to Ivor y, the Red improved certain aspects of its game against the Tigers, and will likely return to its winning ways if the team works together diligently to improve its play

“Despite the loss, we saw improvement

in other areas of our game, ” she said “ We just need to build off of those positives and fix, as a team and individually, what we need to do in order to gain more confidence We need to continue trusting each other, stay relaxed, and just have fun

DiMagno Named to All Ivy League Second-Team

Women’s basketball player Allyson DiMagno was named to the second-team All Ivy League at the end of basketball season

She was at the top of the Red’s roster in both scoring and rebounds, averaging a doubledouble on the season with 14 7 points and 11 5 rebounds per game This is also DiMagno’s second award from the conference, as she received honorable mention last year

DiMagno switched positions this season, from guard to forward, proving her prowess on the low block and on the boards

Her 16 double-doubles this season are the most by any Ivy League women ’ s basketball player since the 2009-10 season

She enters her senior year ranked fourth overall in rebounding totals by a Red player, hoping to break the school’s record if she can corral 236 more boards next season

Not only was she third in the Ivy League in scoring, she also led the conference in field goal percentage at 47 percent

DiMagno was named conference Player of the Week four times this season, another school record

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Cr uz ’ s Return, Strong Pitching Prove Int egral

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Sports Editor

Assistant

With the explosive bat of junior outfielder Chris Cruz back in the lineup this weekend, the baseball team got the boost it needed, winning its first three games of the Ivy season on Hoy field Dominant pitching helped the Red to a sweep of Brown on Saturday and the squad returned to the diamond Sunday afternoon to come from behind and beat Yale

Sophomore left hander Nick Busto gave the Red yet another solid outing on the mound, going the distance against Brown, only allowing one run while striking out five Though Busto got only three starts last season, he has now cemented a spot in the starting rotation and has compiled a 3-0 record with a team-low 1 41 ERA

“He’s been huge, obviously the stats speak for themselves,” Cruz said of the young hurler “He’s been able to throw very well and fill in the spot we needed, especially with [junior pitcher] Connor Kaufmann being out He’s just been really big ”

The Red gave Busto some immediate support in the opener of Saturday’s doubleheader, jumping out to a 4-0 lead after the first inning The first two runs were a testament to the Red’s plate discipline, as the first one scored on a passed ball and the second when sophomore outfielder JD Whetsel was hit by a pitch

Busto didn’t need anymore help than that, though the Red put two more runs on the board in the sixth He coast-

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ed for the rest of the game his only bump coming off a Brown run in the third leading his team to a 6-1 victory

Although the Red got another impressive pitching performance from sophomore Brian McAfee in the afternoon game, the story of the second contest was Cruz’s bat The junior went four-for-four with an RBI, blasting his first homerun of the season in the fourth

“That was awesome It was fun just to be back in general, but being able to produce like that I really let the guys know that I’m back and healthy,” Cruz said His team was certainly lucky to have him back After

Back in the saddle | Junior outfielder Chris Cruz went four-for-four with a

taking a 1-0 lead in the second off a safety squeeze by junior infielder Ben Swinford, Brown tied the game up in the fourth Cruz changed that with one smooth stroke, though, sending a pitch from Brown’s starter Dave St Lawrence over the right field fence of Hoy field Swinford and sophomore outfielder Kevin Tatum also chipped in with one hit and one RBI apiece, giving the Red a 4-1 victory and a sweep of the doubleheader with the Bears

The following day against the Bulldogs, the Red came out lethargic Allowing five runs in the top of the first

After his histor y-making triumphs at the NCAA wrestling championship last weekend, senior Kyle Dake was awarded the 2013 W I N Ma g a z i n e / Cu l t u re Ho u s e Dan Hodge Trophy

This prestigious award is considered wrestling’s equivalent to c o l l e g i a t e f o o t b a l l’s He i s m a n Trophy, and is given to the top wrestler in the nation each season

T h e c r i t e r i a f o r t h e a w a rd , according to WIN Magazine’s website, includes a wrestler’s record,

Red Pummels Dartmouth on Senior Day

number of pins, dominance on the mat, past credentials, quality of competition, spor tsmanship/citizenship and heart The winner is chosen by a committee of former Hodge Trophy winners, media and retired coaches Dake received 41 of 43 first place votes from the committee and came out ahead of Penn State junior Ed Ruth, who is now a two-time NCAA champion "I was really excited when I got the telephone call,” Dake said “It was the cherry on top of a perfect season It is pretty awesome to be

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Film Dept. Replaced by Pixar Movies

ZEDDIE ZOIDBERG Sun Staff Aesthete

In a move described as “forward-thinking,” “economical” and “just plain common sense, ” the University announced on Saturday that all film professors and courses will be replaced with a continuous loop of Disney-Pixar movies Critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies like Finding Nemo, Up, Monsters Inc , Toy Story and The Incredibles will now play at all hours, all day and on all screens in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts and Cornell Cinema, effectively negating the need for paid faculty or structured curriculum in Cornell film studies

“Pixar makes great movies it’s as simple as that,” Performing and Media Arts department chair Hector York told The Sun “What other film studio puts out one masterpiece after another, year after year? I mean, Wall-E, Up and Toy Story 3 were all released back-to-back If that’s not worth emulating, I don’t know what is,” York said “With nuanced and likable characters, beautiful visuals and family-friendly content, Pixar movies are the best in movies right now, and the department feels that students can learn from them, and only them,” York said

Students across campus expressed widespread approval to the department changes Hundreds of Cornell students changed their Facebook profile picture to an image of Woody

from Toy Story holding a movie camera, and the announcement has inspired many ecstatic social media updates “I grew up with Toy Story, and now I’m learning from them, too? #thuglife, tweeted @CUMovieGirl

“Hold on, I’m thinking of a good Monsters University pun, ” wrote Ted Polata ’14

The University expects an influx in film students as a result of these departmental changes

“Cornell belongs with NYU, UCLA and USC as one of the top 10 film schools in the world,” President David Skorton said in a Sunday press conference that streamed online and as an inset on Schwartz Center televisions during a screening of A Bug’s Life “With our 100 percent commitment to the works of Disney-Pixar, Cornell will produce the next wave of great filmmakers,” Skorton said

Kane and Breathless are pieces of shit in comparison,” Prof Fred Kirsanoff, performing and media arts, told The Sun “I don’t know why I even tried,” Prof Sally Andrews, performing and media arts, said as she hurled a box of David Bordwell textbooks into Cascadilla Gorge

For the most part, laid-off film professors sounded optimistic about the direction of their department, despite having lost their jobs “Up is a damn fine film damn fine Citizen

Bob Dylan to Nap at Barton Hall

sources close to the artist, Dylan confined himself to his b e d r o

At press time, a University official has informed The Sun that the School of Hotel Administration may follow suit and convert all of its classes into looped screenings of Ratatouille

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Bob Dylan’s prolific career has been marked by intense innovation From the folky rambling of The Times They Are A-Changin’, to the bluesy cynicism of Highway 61 Revisited, to that uncomfortable, awkward era where he was a born-again Christian, to the raspy, incomprehensible deadpan of today, Dylan has consistently pushed the envelope in terms of lyricism, composition and performance The famed musician is also well-known for his admiration of British actress Tilda Swinton, who he recently referred to as “[his] rock ”

It was no surprise, then, when Dylan announced that in his upcoming performance at Barton Hall, he will be “ napping in a glass box for 45 minutes” in front of the sold-out crowd According to Dylan spokesman Dick Cherr y, Dylan’s foray into performance art was “inevitable ”

“Bob has been looking for a way to expand the boundaries of his craft for decades now, but he was lost until he saw Tilda at MoMA,” Cherr y explained, adding that Dylan “literally started weeping” when he witnessed Swinton in her glass-enclosed slumber It was not the first time Swinton had driven Dylan to tears: according to

Swinton’s performance in The Chronicles of Narnia, and approached Wes Anderson for “ a role, any role” after seeing Swinton in Moonrise Kingdom

Dylan scholar and historian Davis Brickfield called Dylan’s unprecedented decision “ a watershed moment with serious repercussions for music the world over ” As Brickfield declared, musicians are “ no longer confined to the realm of sound ” Brickfield also drew parallels to Dylan’s 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival, where, for the first time, he premiered an all-electric set that famously angered fans expecting folk music

On campus, however, reactions to the performance’s alteration were mostly positive Besides a single tweet from @Likeimrollingstoned, which read, “dylan=judas fug dis shyt,” students expressed gratitude that they would be able to tell their friends and family they had attended a Dylan concert without actually having to hear his music

“ Yeah, he seems like an interesting guy and all, but in all honesty, I didn’t really want to hear him sing anyway, ” said Shane Richards ’15 “Plus, I can ’ t even imagine how many favorites my instagram-selfie with Bob Dylan’s gonna get ”

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Upon first listen, Ke$ha’s ne w album, Snuggles with Snuggles, sounds just like ever y other Ke$ha album However, after analyzing more closely the lyrics of this ne w batch of songs, one realizes that this album comes as something of a surprise from the award-winning young star generally known for addressing themes such as drinking, par tying, binge drinking, being slutty and drinking

While Ke$ha fans are used to lyrics like “ We been keeping it PG/But I wanna get a little frisky/Come gimme some of that yum like a lollipop/Let me set you free”, Snuggles with Snuggles’ first track, “Furr y Paws” reveals an ar tist in the midst of a transition opening with the words, “Hearin’ you pitter patter/Gonna get you a tuna platter/You don’t deser ve no Iams, Meow Mix, Pedigree, Friskies/You got the cutest whiskies,” it is clear that Ke$ha has found a ne w inspiration or just really, really loves cats

Another more soulful track, similar in tone to “ Wonderland,” “Feathers Dangling from a String” is a touching vignette about a moment of playful glee shared with Ke$ha’s dearly depar ted Mrs Penelope Fennywor th Ke$ha sings, “Ain’t it funny how time flies, fades into meows/Now I wanna see you jump for that feather thing, but it’s time to say our ciaos ”

Although some were dismayed by this abrupt change in subject, the artist has allegedly received ver y few complaints from her fan-base It seems that not many of her listeners actually pay that much attention to Ke$ha’s lyrics Said one crop-top-clad tween drinking a 40 from a paper bag at the Ithaca Mall, “ You mean she was actually talking about a cat, and not her vagina?”

Along with the ne w theme accompanying Ke$ha’s admittedly still quite catchy ne w album is a ne w spelling of her name Above the picture of the ar tist posing seductively in a glitter box on the album cover, is her name; instead of the dollar sign between the e and h, there is a paw print Ke$ha has not commented on whether or not this ne w spelling also indicates a ne w pronunciation (Ke-paw?) (Cat-sha?) Personally Snuggles with Snuggles is my favorite Ke$ha album yet, and I look for ward to the music videos

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, including my own, have these pet dogs,” Gee said “All we want is to show them off! We have the cutest little miniature poodle, Mitsy, and I want everyone else to be jealous of her!”

In coordination with the new team, Cornell Fitness Centers will also offer a new physical education class: Introduction to Dog Shows, according to CFC coordinator Gretchen Weiners

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In the class, students will learn how to properly groom their pets, as well as how to walk the walk while guiding dogs down the runway, according to a Boston terrier found walking down Tower Road

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University use funds from the endowment in order to construct dog parks outside of every residential hall on campus

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After an early end to a basketball season in which the Red was forced to watch rival Harvard advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament, the basketball team has already begun preparing in the offseason: by playing badminton

Members of the team often train at Helen Newman Gym in the offseason, playing pickup games to stay in shape

“ We re a l i ze d we we re doing it all wrong, ” sophomore forward Chandler Bee said “Pick-up in the gym just w a s n ’ t g i v i n g u s a g o o d enough sweat, so we moved over to badminton ”

Su r p r i s i n g l y n i m b l e around a badminton net, Bee does not look nearly as lost as he does walking around campus when he has his trusty racket and birdie in hand

“The day after I first played Chandler, I was never so sore in my life,” sophomore forward Joey Tribbiani said This

could be a testament to the physical rigor of the sport, or the fact that Tribbiani has been spending too much time sitting on the bench

Senior guard Ross Geller was sidelined for the final games of the season, but he is getting back in shape on the badminton court

“ Jo e y m i g h t b e a b l e t o dunk on me, but he can ’ t touch my spike at net, ” he said

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“Badminton is the perfect balance of exercise and mental toughness,” Bee said “Sure Harvard was playing Arizona in the second round of the NCAA tournament last week, but they won ’ t know what hit t h e m n e x t ye a r o n c e b a dminton helps us realize our full potential