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IFD E xtinguishes Blaze in C.U. Parking Lot

Pub Event Planning Proves Dif cult for Student Organizers

By RACHEL RABINOWITZ

Sun Staff Wr ter

Although the first two pilot events in the new on-campus pub in Willard Straight Hall attracted a large number of undergraduate and graduate students, some organizers for the most recent event, a concert on Thursday night, said that there may still be some issues to work out before the Bear’s Den officially opens in the fall

Between 350 and 400 people attended Thursday night’s concert a performance by Israeli pop star Ivri Lider including undergraduates, graduate students and faculty and staff, according to Robert Callahan ’14, pub director of the Student Union Board The space was filled to capacity for most of the night, Callahan said

However, Yotam Arens ’12, one of the organizers of the event, said planning the concert “ was a very difficult process ” which he attributed to the pub still being in the “ preliminary stages ” of its development

“In terms of planning and working with the pub committee, because there were so many groups involved, there were issues of communication and it wasn ’ t always clear what the role of the staff from Cornell dining or the S A office or the pub committee was, ” Arens said “There is still a lot to be ironed out, in my opinion

Callahan said that the concert was the first event held in the pub with an outside organization the Super Bowl party launch event

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IFD arrived on the scene around 10

to find a car with its engine compar tment on fire The car was in close proximity to several other vehicles, according to an IFD press release

Cornell Environmental Health and Safety personnel secured the area and led firefighters to the scene

“Cornell EHS was on the scene first Those guys did a great job, but they only carr y fire extinguishers ” Basher said “A lot of times they tr y to handle it, but with some bigger fires they need our help They tried, they did a really good job ”

IFD firefighters extinguished the fire in under 10 minutes and no other cars were damaged according to an IFD press release

The cause of the fire was under investigation as of Wednesday night, according to Basher “ We’re not sure what caused it It was a problem in the engine compar tment, ” he said “It’s still under investigation ” Compiled by Rebecca Harris

Students, Faculty Doubt Ef cacy of Plagiarism Prog.

By MARGARET YODER Sun Staff Writer

One year after the Faculty Senate passed a resolution adopting Turnitin com as a strategy to reduce plagiarism on campus, the Judicial Codes Counselor Office which represents students accused of Code of Conduct violations has yet to see a case in which the software detected plagiarism

However, several students and administrators said they doubted whether this indicated a decline in the number of students actually plagiarizing their work

In a 2010 poll conducted by a Cornell organization 30 percent of 227 Cornell undergraduates surveyed admitted to some form of cheating Carol Grumbach, associate dean of students, said the real percentages are likely even higher, because not all students will admit to cheating

Last spring, the Faculty Senate voted to pass a resolution adopting Tunitin com as part of a broader approach to reducing plagiarism at Cornell,

Student Org. Reinstated After Forced Hiatus

By KAITLYN KWAN Sun Staff Writer

After a mandatory twomonth recess, Cornell’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team which builds race cars for an annual International Speedway Competition in Michigan was reinstated mid-semester The hiatus came after several FSAE freshmen told administrators that the organization was causing a great deal of stress and a decline in their academic performance

According to team leader Matt Byrne 12, the team was approached in early December by College of Engineering administrators including Prof Mark Campbell, director of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Dean of Engineering Lance Collins, who ordered that the group take a break to improve team morale and reduce stress among its members

“It felt like they were getting a little off-course,” Campbell said “If your goal is to win the competition

every year, it’s really easy to let that drive everything We needed the team to be a bit introspective of what their makeup was, what their outcomes were, such that all of the good things that they’ve done will continue to the future ” Campbell and members of FSAE declined to elaborate on specific complaints reported to the administration by freshmen members

According to Byrne and Campbell, the hiatus did not

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PUPIL POETRY

Alum Designs Golf Course

For 2016 Olympics in Rio

By CAROLYN KRUPSKI Sun Contributor

Gilbert Hanse M L A ’89, will design the golf course that will reintroduce the sport of golf to the Olympics at the 2016 summer games in Rio de Janeiro The course will be the first built for the Olympics since 1904 the last time golf was an Olympic event

The selection committee chose Hanse from a pool of distinguished golf course architects, according to a University press release

My design team was “thrilled a little bit stunned [and] humbled to have been selected, Hanse said Hanse started his company, Hanse Golf Course Design, in 1993 and has since designed several award-winning courses around the world, including the Castle Stuart course in Scotland He was named Golf Architect of the Year by Golf Magazine in 2009

Hanse attributed his successful career as a golf course architect to his experience at Cornell

and Monumental Horticulture, which gave him the opportunity to study in the U K and visit various British golf courses

“Cornell uniquely prepared me to go out in the world as a golf course architect,” Hanse said In designing the Olympic course, Hanse said that he focused his design on the selection committee’s three main objectives: environmental sustainability, compelling design and post-Olympics legacy to ensure that the course fit in Rio ” He explained that he wanted to “make the course look as if it was part of the natural landscape,” by reducing the amount of irrigated turf to match the sandy native grass ”

Hanse’s team of expert researchers and advisers for the golf course design included Ladies Professional Gold Association Hall of Famer Amy Alcott and Prof Frank Rossi, horticulture

“Big Red was well represented,”

“Cornell uniquely prepared me to go out in the world as a golf course architect.”

“I never thought it was a real career path until I got to Cornell, Hanse said “ The institution’s founding quote any person, any study it’s really true I had professors in the landscape architecture department who were so encouraging of me to go into this little niche, focus on golf and take classes in turf grass ”

While at Cornell, Hanse was a recipient of the Frederick Dreer Award for Landscape Architecture

Hanse said Rossi did research for us for the selection of proper turf grass We wanted to use as few chemicals [as possible] to keep them healthy and alive ” Rossi was tasked with developing the grassing plan and researching the native vegetation of Rio de Janeiro

Rossi said the region’s climate posed a challenge to the golf course design

“You have an abandoned sugar cane plantation with an Olympic village right next to it in a climate where there is not a lot of data on growing grass, ” he said Rossi said that Hanse wanted to make sure that the course would look impressive enough as the first Olympic golf course in more than a century and that it would be appropriately scaled for television

Our goal is to create a stage for the Olympics to be on Ultimately, the players create the drama,” Hanse said

However, Rossi added that Hanse and the team do not want to impose a burden on the Brazilians by leaving them with a course that is too difficult to maintain after the Olympics end

“You don’t have to spend millions of dollars to maintain a course, and it shouldn’t take a Ph D to manage, ” Rossi said

In order to ensure low maintenance costs, Hanse said he will maximize course irrigation by cap-

turing storm water from the surrounding area

“We tried to be responsive to what [the Brazilians] can afford from both an environmental and budget standpoint,” Hanse added Hanse’s commitment to environmentally-friendly architecture has inspired some Cornell students who hope to pursue careers in sustainable landscape architecture and engineering, including Joe Nelson ’14

“It is exciting for me to see that people recognize the need to design in parallel with nature ' s intentions, Nelson said “I hope his work inspires more people to think about how to efficiently serve [society’s] needs while simultaneously being mindful of our actions and how they affect the world around us ”

Rossi attributed the Olympic selection committee’s decision to choose Hanse’s design to the team ’ s efforts to responsibly integrate the course into the Rio landscape

“We were up against some pretty big names in golf Jack Nicklaus was a finalist,” Rossi said “But [Nicklaus] has a hard time building a course that you can manage for less than a few million ” In addition to sustainability and cost, other challenges included creating a course that will appeal to all levels of golfers and encourage the growth of the sport in Brazil

“This is one of the biggest golf course projects in the past fifty years and probably the next fifty years I think that the [selection] committee felt a sense of responsibility that countries that don’t pay a lot of golf may start to invest in it with it in the Olympics,” Rossi said “ This course may shape the business ” Current plans set course construction to begin in October, according to Hanse

C.U. Rewards Students for ‘Interracial Harmony’

By DENNIS LIU Sun Staff Writer

The University presented the Cornell DREAM Team with the 18th annual James A Perkins Prize for I n t e r r a c i a l Understanding and Harmony for the team ’ s work in raising awareness about the plight of undocumented students

The DREAM Team “has served the Cornell community well in raising awareness and furthering the true meaning of ‘ any person any study,’” Provost Kent Fuchs said

The Cornell DREAM Team is a student group created last semester to generate understanding about the issue of students’ undocumented status, according to David Angeles ’13, a member of the team who accepted the prize on its behalf

In Februar y, the group helped raise over $10,000 in donations for Eric Hyun Jae Cheon ’12 an undocumented student struggling to pay

off his debts for his Cornell education

“None of this would have been possible without the unwavering support of the Cornell community,” Angeles said “Had all of you not stood by us, we would have failed And so it is

of Anabel Taylor Hall

Past recipients of the prize include the Committee for the Advancement of Muslim Culture and the Cornell Farmworker Program

Organizations are chosen based on the number and diversity of

The DREAM Team “has served the Cornell community well in furthering the true meaning of ‘any person, any study

today in my mind that I think the Perkins Prize is not for the Cornell DREAM Team, but for Cornell ” The Perkins Prize awards $5,000 each spring to students or organizations at Cornell who make “the most significant contribution to furthering the ideal of University community while respecting the values of racial diversity ” It was presented in a ceremony held Wednesday in the One World Room

participating students their promotion of shared values and how well they enhance cooperation among students of different backgrounds, according to Fuchs

“These are issues that [recently] have been very important on campus, significantly because of [Cheon’s] situation as an undocumented student at Cornell,” said Cristina Lara ’14, a member of the Cornell DREAM Team “So when we were

awarded this, I think people were for the most part relieved that this is an issue that other people outside of our organization care about Lara said the Cornell DREAM Team intends to use a portion of the prize money to establish a scholarship for u n d o c

udents She added that

spaces on campus for

dents in the future

This year ’ s honorable mentions for the Perkins Prize went to the Women of Color Coalition for its Women of Color Conference in November and the Cornell Asian Pacific Islanders Student Union for hosting last month’s Asia Night and for securing byline funding Each group received $500 for their contributions

“Student of color issues are not limited to students of color, but rather it’s something that the Student Assembly

Pub Committee Reduces Pilot Events Before Opening

was hosted by the S A which may have contributed to these communication problems

“Because there were seven or eight different par ties [involved in the planning process], including co-sponsoring organizations, having a per fectly clear line of c o m m u n i c a t i o n w a s h a r d t o d o , ”

Callahan said “For example, one person from Cornell Dining would say one thing

a n d

o t h e r p e r s o n f r o m C I PA C wouldn’t know exactly what they meant ”

Shelby Rokito ’15, another organizer o f l

acoustics of the room made it difficult at times for ever yone at the concer t to hear the per former

Despite these issues, Callahan said he was happy with the test r un for co-sponsorship of pub events and that he felt the concer t ran as smoothly as all par ties involved could have hoped for

According to Callahan, the pub committee will work with Cornell University Maintenance to add ne w features to the space over the summer before the fall opening He said these additions will include a dimmer switch for all of the lights in the space, and a stage, sound system and stage lights will be installed

“It will be much more of a per formance venue and less [of ] a dining hall

when we use it,” Callahan said It will still be the Ivy Room during the day, but o n

begins it will be the Ivy Room and the Bear’s Den, and once the Ivy Room closes [for the night] it will just be the Bear s Den ”

While organizers complained of disorganization in the planning prior to the event, they said they still enjoyed the performance

“I felt a lot like I was in a coffee house, which was a per fect way to relax on a Thursday night,” Rokito said “I really enjoyed the per formance and the atmosphere ”

The concer t was the second of three events that the pub will host this semester before the Bear’s Den officially opens in the fall The pub committee originally planned to throw four pilot events this semester but will now host only one more event at the end of April, according to Callahan

“ We have reduced it to [three events] because Cornell Catering did not have the manpower to do a four th event before the study period began,” he said “ We all wish we could have done four events, but unfor tunately it just wasn ’ t able to happ

Dining’s schedule and Cornell Catering’s schedule ”

Callahan added that the committee has not yet determined what the final

event of the semester will be “ We are working to figure out the times specifically and what content we want to have ” he said

opened because of a delay in obtaining a liquor license The pub is able to ser ve liquor for its pilot events this semester because Cornell Catering has its own permit; they sold beer and wine on Thursday night, which was ser ved at a makeshift bar composed of Ivy Room tables A

President Natalie Raps ’12, because the layout of the space is now finalized, the committee can begin to expedite the process of securing a liquor license “It’s a ver y tentative process as to when the final date for the license will be given, so until then we are on a program-byprogram basis,” Raps said “ We are doing ever ything in our power to make sure [ t h e p u b ]

crossed

While the pub committee hopes to open the Bear’s Den by the star t of next semester, it is now up to Ne w York State to approve the liquor license

“ The plan is to open in the fall, however we don’t know the specifics because it’s up to the [Ne w York State Liquor Authority],” Callahan said “Obviously that’s a political process and it takes the amount of time that a political process would ”

The pilot events were chosen based on responses to an email sent out by the pub committee to all club officers at Cornell, according to CIPAC co-president Yotam Arens ’12, one of the concer t organizers

We thought it would be great for us to put on a per formance [in the Bear’s Den] because there’s so much excitement around the pub,” Arens said

According to Raps, the first two events were attended by “ a wide range of students,” in keeping with what she said the space was intended to do

“It’s definitely going along with the vision that all students are invited and [that there is] diverse programming that is a substitute for other activities on campus, ” Raps said “Bringing together the Je wish and LGBT communities was really successful and really fun to be at ”

Callahan agreed that the goal of the pub is to bring different groups together on campus

Our purpose is to cater to undergraduate students because we ’ re funded by the undergraduate Student Assembly, but our mission is to promote a culture for people who are of age to drink to come hang out w i t h p e

p l e w h o a

n o t o f a g e , Callahan said “Going for ward, we would like to work with the graduate S A to possibly get graduate funding as well ”

Rachel Rabinowitz can be reached at rrabinowitz@cornellsun com

Students, Admins Debate Ef cacy of Plagiarism Detection Software

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by electronically running papers through a database that compares documents with web content, publications and papers that have previously been submitted

The software will create an “originality report ” a percentage that indicates how much of a submitted paper was copied from an outside source It also highlights those sections However, it is at the discretion of the instructor to determine whether there was any actual plagiarism in the paper, according to Grumbach

While Cornell is using Turnitin to reduce plagiarism campus-wide, some students do not believe that Turnitin is targeting the assignments where plagiarism is most rampant

“I don’t think the issue is really with papers, it is more prevalent in the sciences where you are supposed to have the same answers as other people,” Christina Hardin ’15 said “I don’t think they’re looking at the right area Turnitin only looks at the arts it

doesn t look at anything science-related

Tobi Simon ’15 agreed, saying that she doubted Turnitin will have an impact on the amount of plagiarism on campus because she thinks the number of professors who actually use Turnitin is low She also noted the difficulty of plagiarizing an essay versus a problem set

“I don’t know too many people who plagiarized essays you can ’ t really copy what other people think when you ’ re writing about what you feel, whereas problem sets are really basic answers, ” Simon said “Math and science is definitely easier to copy I don’t think using Turnitin com will help plagiarism at all ”

Clifford Roberts grad teaches a Freshman Writing Seminar and uses Turnitin in his class Roberts uses Turnitin not for its primary purpose of detecting plagiarism, but rather for its secondary features such as online grading and commenting

“Insofar as it’s a plagiarism detection software, I haven t found it especially useful I actually find it more useful for the non-plagiarism stuff, like the comments and the fact

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should take an active role in and that the entire Cornell campus is really affected by, said Sharon Lau ’12, the outgoing president of CAPSU “Hopefully we’ll see administrators and student leaders collaborating together to create a more cohesive community ”

The Perkins Prize was established in 1995 by Thomas W Jones ’69 to recognize exemplar y Cornell students, faculty, staff and organizations Jones was one of the students who led the 1969 Willard Straight Hall takeover, when 80 African American stu-

d e n t s o c c u p i e d a b u i l d i n

protesting the lack of minority r

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ser ved on the University Board of Tr ustees

The award is named in honor of Cornell’s seventh president, James Perkins, who helped to

advance minority education in the 1960s Perkins was president

and resigned a few months later “I m just ver y delighted and proud that the Perkins Prize has evolved into giving voice to the kind of groups that are recognized today,” Jones said “ The undocumented student problem is something I think is just invisible to so many of us

President Dale Corson, Jones said the Perkins Prize awards ceremony was one of Corson’s favorite events “One of the ways that any one of us can continue to live beyond our own mor tal limitations is through the vehicle of prizes such as this that give voice to our ideals and our aspirations,” Jones said

Dennis Liu can be reached at dliu@cornellsun com

that it s incorporated into Blackboard so you can submit your papers through it,” Roberts said “I find all of the non-plagiarism stuff much more useful and I think those on their own make it worthwhile ”

Kyle Hogan, law, and a Judicial Codes Counselor appointed by President Skorton, said he believes that he will see an increase in the number of students caught plagiarizing in as a result of Turnitin However, he said he has not seen any cases arise this year as a result of the program

Hogan explained that if a student is found guilty of plagiarizing, the student’s punishment can range from a grade reduction to a failing mark on the assignment to failing grade in the class

Hogan said he typically sees about 100 cases of academic integrity violations each year involving both graduate and undergraduate students He noted that a number of these cases involve students accidentally plagiarizing written assignments

“We see cases where students are doing research online and they sort of internalize things that become their ideas in a sense, ”

Hogan said They don t remember where they originated from and they incorporate them into their paper and they look way too much like the source, which is problematic because they’re not intending to cheat It’s just in a sense a way that the mind works

Although many students doubt that Turnitin will have an impact on plagiarism, many staff and faculty said they are hopeful about the potential of the program

Tracy Mitrano J D ’95, director of information technology policy and David Faulkner, acting director of First Year Writing Seminars, said they hope Turnitin will be an encouraging teaching tool for students

However Faulkner noted that it is students’ responsibility to inform themselves about what academic integrity violations entail

“Cheaters should be punished,” he said “If more cheaters a caught by Turnitin, that’s good ”

Margaret

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initially have an end date They said that the team would be permitted to continue its work only after a proposal for self-improvement was submitted to and approved by the administration

“There was a tendency to put a good amount of pressure on our members,” Byrne said “ The administration picked up on that and gave us the opportunity to rework our structure and revise how we manage things ”

According to Ryan Kennett ’13, a subteam leader for FSAE, the team was not allowed to engage in any organized activity during the two-month break including work on its race car

The team typically works through January to build the car and complete it by Feb 1, according to Kennett The remaining time prior to the competition in May is dedicated to testing the car and making any necessary adjustments, he said

However, Kennett, who stayed in Ithaca over spring break to work on the car, said that the team is currently still in its building phase

To compensate for lost time, he said that the team had to scale back on some of the car ’ s features

“We’re still trying to do what we were going to do [originally] We’ve just kind of altered the way we were doing it before to make it happen quicker,” Kennett said “We’re behind schedule, but we’ll still be able to make it to the competition ”

Despite the setback, we re not losing out on all too much,” Costello said “We’re just happy to be back ” FSAE’s proposal for internal improvement which led the administration to reinstate the group ’ s privilege to build its car included a formal mentorship program for new members, fairer distribution of work among team members, improved relations with the administration and increased community outreach

Prof John Callister, mechanical

and aerospace engineering, and the interim faculty advisor for FSAE, said he felt that having the group draft the proposal would help the students learn responsibility

“It was important for them to figure out what they’re going to do in the future to avoid something like this happening [again],” Callister said “They sort of figured out how to fix their own problems which is something they needed to learn to do for themselves ”

Prof Mark Campbell, director of mechanical and aerospace engineering added that he was impressed with the team ’ s willingness to acknowledge its problems and better itself

“I can ’ t say enough about what this team has done They had the rug pulled out from them This is a team that is very committed and like a family and we shut them down,” Campbell said “It’s much more difficult if you ’ re 21 or 22 and you have one of the most important things in your life pulled out from under you and I give them all the credit for [dealing with that] ”

Since the team ’ s reinstatement, the changes they have made have proven successful, according Amanda Costello ’12, human resources allocation manager for FSAE

The new mentorship program is “integrating well [and] people are being cooperative and seeing the value in it, she said “It s become a part of the team culture instead of just a tacked-on proposal ” Costello added that she does not believe the administrators who mandated the hiatus “ want to see [FSAE] fall apart ”

“They really wanted to make sure they didn’t just punish us but also ensured that we understood what their concerns were and addressed them within the team, ” she said

Kaitlyn Kwan can be reached at kkwan@cornellsun com

NYPD: No Overt Foul Play In French Scholar ’s Death

NEW YORK (AP) The Ne w York Police Depar tment says there are no obvious signs of foul play in the death of a French scholar found in his hotel room

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Wednesday that Richard Descoings’ seventh-floor Michelangelo hotel room wasn ’ t broken into and the scholar's body didn't have obvious trauma

The naked body of 53-year-old Descoings was found Tuesday afternoon

Browne says a laptop and cellphone believed to belong to Descoings were found on a third-floor ledge It’s unclear how they got there Browne says they possibly were tossed out the window

Descoings was director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, better known in France as Sciences Po

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid homage to Descoings

Paramount to Add 500 Films To YouTube Rentals

NEW YORK (AP) YouTube and Paramount Pictures have reached a deal to make nearly 500 films available to rent online, even while their parent companies continue to feud over a $1 billion lawsuit

The agreement announced Wednesday makes Paramount the fifth major Hollywood studio to join YouTube’s online video store, a growing rental librar y that typically charges $2 to $4 per viewing 20th Centur y Fox is now the only major studio holdout

But Paramount seemed less likely to join given that its parent company, Viacom Inc , is still pursuing a 2006 lawsuit that seeks damages for alleged piracy by YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc A federal judge in New York r uled in 2010 that YouTube hadn ’ t broken U S laws governing digital piracy, but Viacom is appealing the decision

The Paramount films will be available on YouTube Rentals and Google Play Online movies and pay-per-view options have spurred heated competition between Google, Apple Inc ’ s iTunes store, Amazon com Inc ' s website and the subscription video ser vice from Netflix Inc

“Paramount Pictures is one of the biggest movies studios on the planet,” said Malik Ducard, director of content par tnerships at YouTube “ We’re thrilled to bring nearly 500 of their films to movie fans in the U S and Canada on YouTube and Google Play ”

The deal brings YouTube’s collection to nearly 9,000 titles For most movies, renters have up to 30 days to begin watching a video but must complete the viewing within 24 hours after star ting

Some Paramount films have already been added, while others will be made available in the next few months Among the films are Mar tin Scorsese’s Hugo, Michael Bay’s Transfor mers and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy

Woman Calm While Landing Plane With Stricken Husband

MILWAUKEE (AP) With her husband stricken in the pilot’s seat of their small plane, an 80-year-old woman assumed the controls and spoke to aviation officials with remarkable calmness as they guided her to the ground, according to an audio recording released Wednesday

Helen Collins can be heard saying repeatedly that she's low on fuel and needs to land quickly

You better get me in there pretty soon, ” Collins says matter-of-factly “I don’t know how long I’m going to have gas ”

The 45-minute recording released by the Door County Sheriff ’ s Department reveals a woman who sounds perfectly in control even though she didn’t have a pilot’s license and knew her 81-year-old husband had just died She occasionally conveys a sense of urgency, but always in a strong steady voice that doesn’t hint at any fear

Collins made national news Monday after her successful landing, in which she suffered a cracked rib and back injury

Her husband, John Collins, had an apparent heart attack less than 10 minutes before he planned to land at Cherryland Airport in Sturgeon Bay, about 150 miles north of Milwaukee, said James Collins, the couple’s son

On the flight recording Helen Collins doesn’t say much about her husband, focusing instead on her location and speed She tells airport officials she’s doing fine but that her fuel is extremely low

As she neared the airport, pilot Robert Vuksanovic scrambled a small plane to join her in the air and guide her to the ground At one point, Vuksanovic's wife came on the radio to let her know Vuksanovic was on his way

“It’s a hell of a place to be,” Collins said of her situation

“I know, but it sounds like you ’ re doing great, ” Vuksanovic’s wife replies

Collins had plenty of experience in a small plane, spending hundreds of hours by her husband’s side in the air Although she never got her license, she did get take-off and landing lessons some 30 years ago at her husband’s urging in case of just such an emergency, James Collins said

Vuksanovic can be heard encouraging Collins, telling her she s doing fine and guiding her to adjust her speed and pitch

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Editorial

Implementing Gorge Safety Initiatives

ON MARCH 28, THE UNIVERSIT Y ANNOUNCED that it will spend $1 56 million to make the gorges safer by spearheading initiatives that would prevent students from drowning or falling in Cornell’s gorges The money that has been allocated demonstrates that Cornell is finally making this issue a priority However, while the funding is necessar y, it is not sufficient to create solutions

Over the summer, three students died by either falling down the cliffs or drowning in the seemingly calm plunge pools In response the University formed a gorge safety steering group in August to look into ways to end the troubling trend gorge deaths The $1 56 million will go toward implementing some of this group ’ s recommendations, including the production of a gorge safety video, improvements to the gorge trails and other education, infrastr ucture and enforcement initiatives

With the summer months approaching, it is impor tant that the University tackle these proposals quickly This monetar y contribution, while providing the resources to realize the plans, does not guarantee that the plan will be implemented quickly and effectively As one victim’s parents pointed out in a letter published in The Sun in August, the informational signs now in place took three years to create and had not been in place on May 30, when one student drowned Nor were they posted when another drowned nearly a month later It is impor tant that the University not only spend money to tackle this problem, but use the money quickly or effectively

We are encouraged by many of the suggestions that the University said would be implemented Administrators have offered a timeline on implementation, and it is necessar y that they stick to it The University says that by late summer, a pilot program will shuttle students to such alternative, legal swimming spots as Rober t H Treman State Park Additionally, Cornell announced that education effor ts through which students will be trained to share information with their peers about regulations the hazards of swimming in the gorges and the locations of alternative places to swim, will star t this summer

Just as the seemingly calm waters of the gorges offer swimmers a false sense of security, we worr y that the money that is being put into this project will do the same We are happy to see a material commitment, but without effective and rapid implementation of gorge safety strategies, the commitment is meaningless

The Senior Experience

The Sun s list of 161 things to do before you graduate gives you a pretty solid basis for a bucket list But in my opinion, there s one thing we ladies should add to the list #162: Hook up with/seduce a freshman when you ’ re a senior Sounds kind of weird, right? Wrong But in case you have some moral quandaries about this (or are just concerned with the legality of the situation), I’ve made a nifty pro-con list for you

The Pros:

1) Age First thing’s first, these guys are in their prime They’re no longer jailbait, so it’s safe to make your move You can t hook up with anyone younger than a freshman without being a pedophile so get on the prowl at a frat party, you cougar This is your chance to practice becoming the next Demi Moore

2) Location, location, location A big deterrent to most who consider hooking up with a freshman is the fact that they live on North Except that’s not really an

issue, is it? What freshman is going to make you come to his dorm? What idiot is going to try and impress you with his tiny forced triple in Dickson? If this guy is at Cornell, he s smart enough to know that he’s not going to be able to impress you by showing you around North Campus So don t you worry, he ll trek his ass over to Collegetown to see you

3) Meal Swipes Sunday brunch at RPCC Enough said

4) Respectful Freshmen aren ’ t accustomed to our hook-up culture It’s highly likely that many of them haven’t had a one night stand (a number of them are probably still virgins, actually) so they aren ’ t going to jump into your bedroom expecting sex on the first date ” They might even be a little shy (unless they’re drunk, in which case, all bets are off ) So take a moment to enjoy the company of a slightly more respectful person

5) Inexperience Once you get to senior year, you get pretty damn cocky You think you know what’s up, and maybe you do Sometimes that’s nice, but freshmen can offer you something else Freshmen are malleable They’re still willing to learn, so you can shape them into the hook-up you want them to be Want them to text you more? Want them to stop drunk dialing you? Whatever you want, you can probably get because let’s be real the ball will pretty much always be in your court As the cool / sexy / experienced upperclassman, you can easily manipulate your freshman to be at your every beck and call

6) Eager to please What I’m getting at here is you’ll be on the receiving end of a lot of oral sex There s nothing like some good ’ole cunnilingus on a Saturday night

7) The Diploma Drop There s an

expiration date on the hook-up, so you can drop ‘ em easy peasy when senior week rolls around No beating around the bush, no lame excuses, no “I’ll definitely call you when I come visit!” It’s like the Turkey Drop for incoming freshmen, except for graduating seniors

The Cons:

1) Um they’re barely 18; are you seriously considering sleeping with someone that young? I Atticus flinched at the very suggestion (Atticus flinching is when you make like Atticus Finch and flinch at the mere thought of something immoral)

2) The other age issue They’re under 21 so you won ’ t be able to take them to the bars I suppose there are some freshmen out there who have fakes, but I can ’ t imagine that many of them do

3) There is no three, actually So, I gave you seven pros and two cons I think that list speaks for itself go find a freshman Now In fact, if you ’ re a junior, you should just crash one of the campus tours and

claim a pre-frosh for yourself

Okay, but really, there is one last con Freshmen are inexperienced I did list this as a pro, but it can also be a con for those of you with a conscience By the time we get to senior year, we have become weary of others We know how this system of hooking-up works If you have a regular hook-up, you know it’s just that a hook-up You try not to get emotionally attached If anything, you want to care less than they do You want to call the shots You want to send the booty text, not receive it You know what it’s like to get burned by someone who you thought was more than a sex friend It s only natural to want to protect yourself Then this freshman comes along with no agenda He s not jaded Not yet, anyway He hasn’t been used and abused He appreciates you So the surprise is when you find that your freshman is a real person One who doesn’t deserve to be taken advantage of Wait, did I just talk you out of hooking-up with a freshman? Shit What I meant to say was that someone older and more callous is going to play him for a sucker anyway, so it might as well be you You, who may have just developed a conscience You, who will take care to play the game just right so that your wippersnapper may simply think of you as beguiling And all the better you ’ ve just enhanced his freshman experience by giving him street cred for having hooked up with a senior when he was a lowly freshman Congratulations you emotionally unavailable jerk / manipulative mastermind

Feels Like the First Time

Think about the best sex you ’ ve ever had Now that I’ve brought a smile to your face, think about when that sex occured Was it the first time you ever had sex with that person?

Probably not

A while back I was talking to one of my guy friends about his sex life, which I ofen like to do with my guy friends

He had just gotten out of a relationship that lasted four years or some similarly crazy long time Of course he was having some ne w sexual experiences with a fe w ne w girls, but it wasn ’ t the same

He had a rhythm with his ex that doesn ’ t come easily with shor ter stints of sexual relations

The first time I have sex with someone ne w, well I wouldn’t say I do my best work I spend most of the time tr ying to discern their personal style, and I m not talking about if he looks good in blue Is it fast or slow? How is he with his hands? How long is this going to last? How do I look in this lighting? Am I sleeping here tonight? How long before it’s r ude to kick him out?

O f c o u r s e t h e s e are impor tant questions, but I also find

Rduring that first time, we are all much more inhibited And not only are we more inhibited, but clearly we overthink things Sure, I have some tricks up my sleeve but I won ’ t pull them out pun intended now! Even if I just learned an innovative ne w hand-job technique at the dinner table of my sorority, it never seems right to whip it out pun intended that first time

Maybe this is a personal problem

Maybe you ’ re reading this thinking, “Morgan T , you ’ re crazy It doesn’t matter if the person is different, my moves are always the same! I never over think anything I just picked random classes during course enroll! Clearly I’m amazing in bed!” (If this is tr ue, and you ’ re actually amazing in bed, call me)

But I guess my philosophy on sex is different Different people have different needs, different desires and prefere n c e s M a y b e y o u r j a c k h a m m e r i n g style worked on your high school girlfriend, but sex isn’t one-size-fits-all pun intended

Although there is something to be said for confidence that first time, there is a trade-off to this In my travels, I’ve found the more confidence in bed the

first time, the less likely there will be any improvement in subsequent rompings A more confident lover the first time, the more stubborn and unperceptive later At least this is what I’ve found

But what about one night stands? W h a t I c a n s a y i s t h i s : On e - n i g h t

stands are different Generally, onenight stands are booze-filled, adventurous, spontaneous horses of a different color Personally, if I’m looking for some great sex, I’m not going to go out to find the next guy at the bar, strike up conversation, say “let’s get out of here,” warn my roommate and bring him back to my place Sure, those times are always fun and exciting but they rarely will leave you with that ultra-satisfied

best-sex-you-can-remember feeling You have to build up to that Sex is not like riding a bike It’s like driving a car Sure you got your license at sixteen, but that doesn’t mean you were ready to hop in a Porsche Boxter and drive it like it’s supposed to be driven And while some cars are inherently better to

drive, that first time is always a little awkward and jumpy The horsepower, t h

,

h e smoothness of the ride, the gas mileage Different ever y time, and always takes some getting used to

The Mi ssionar y at Work

ight foot, green Left hand, blue “Simon says, leg above my shoulder, now bend your right knee ” When your sex mate begins to shout out these directions you don’t know whether to feel turned on by the kinkiness or to feel a bit pedophilic You may be brought back to the fourth grade when Twister was the equivalent to a one night stand and when Simon was some fictional dictator, not the guy tr ying to strip you down In those days, the hokey pokey did not bend you over after you turned yourself around

During sex, I discover college guys miss playing these childish games They seem to believe that tr ying odd, dangerous and uncomfortable sex positions makes them adventurous Attempting a new sex position is as

er place We can call it a sort of meditation, where minds and hands wander unconsciously I am advocating sex without awkward position changes, sex that flows like yoga, sex that can get you there and make you hold on for dear life Unlike my view of spiritual sex, many men think of sex visually, as men are visual creatures Men crave to see women from the most intimate of angles during sex They want to see the act of sex rather than focus on the feeling

important to a guy as beating the next level in Call of Duty College guys expect acrobatics in bed Sorr y, but real women, even young, supple, college-age women, are not as flexible as the girls you see in porn, the gymnastics portion of the Olympics or bent into a 2’ x 2’ box at the carnival Most girls cannot put both of their legs above their heads or do the splits I can but I am an exception Guys like to fantasize about the innumerable possibilities when it comes to positions, but get real Let s keep sex positions in the realm of the humanly possible

To me, sex is about a rhythm between two people, or three or four Sex rocks the boat Thank you for your wisdom, Aaliyah Good sex transports people to anoth-

Now, there is no one who would call me a straight missionar y girl, but give the old-fashioned way a chance once in a blue fuck There really is some truth to its long lasting prevalence among maters worldwide On the first entrance missionar y is an easy way in We can compare m i s s i o n a r y o n t h e f i r s t thr ust to walking into a building through a door, but not an automatic door, I hope Many times I have tried the spoon position for t h e i n i t i a l e n t r a n c e We could say that the guy didn ’ t walk through that door, but scooted up to the window and squeezed his way through Sex this tough does not please girls, neither does a new position that requires a list of instructions complete with pictures We don’t want to be bent ever y which way, we want pleasure It was an unfortunate event that first taught me this lesson

It’s time to take a trip into the beginnings of my sex life: My deflowerment, as some may call it He was from Minnesota and we had met at summer camp How innocent, right? Well, not quite I called him Matt, but the boys called him Mammoth I knew what I had coming to/inside of me

He visited me one weekend and we had decided beforehand that we wanted to go all the way So the ver y first night, he snuck into my bed, which, unlike at sum-

mer camp, did not creak when the movement got going

An Irish Enlightenment writer, Edmund Burke, once said, “Our patience will achieve more than our force If only Edmund had brought Matt some of his wisdom before that night We may have started out slow, both of us a bit ner vous, but soon the touching turned into grasping and the kissing to tonguing We wanted to have each other, and so it came time for that pivotal moment in any virgin’s life the BIG shaBANG

He was kissing my neck and rubbing real close to my mole hole, as we shall call it He held me so tight in front of him It was his first time, so I think he imagined some magic door down there would open right up for such a fine penis as his own Let us remember I am young and a virgin The boy lying next to me is nicknamed Mammoth, and he is tr ying to do me SPOON POSITION Now it is obvious to all of us sex fanatics that the “ spoon ” position is possible only after 15-20 minutes of manual stimulation of the mole hole, 5-10 minutes of oral stimulation, or missionar y for a rhythmic 2-4 minutes Again, Matthew, “Our patience will achieve more than our force ” Slow it down and tr y it out another way I told him to get on top of me and this is where I was introduced to the real Mammoth Of course he lasted a good three minutes and that was that, but my goodness, did I feel a big difference between the two positions

I am merely suggesting that you do what works If doggy-style is the way you want to hit it, then doggy all day I am making a stand to say that complex sex positions are not all they are cracked up to be Slight changes in angles, focus and speed can make one position hit you in all new zones of pleasure Trust what feels good, not what is on the daily calendar in the book of 365 Sex Positions

Morgan T is a junior in the College of Human Ecolog y She may be reached at morgant@cornellsun com After Midnight appears alternate Thursdays this semester Mona M is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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By BRANDON HO Sun Staff Writer

How

Collegetown Goes Crazy for Fro-Yo

some pseudo-replacement to ice cream called fro-yo, showered with the detritus of a kitchen explosion At Yogur t Crazy, you walk into a condensed superm a rk e t w h e re t h

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n t s are in dispensers, and you dump your goods into a 16- or 20ounce bowl instead of into your grocer y bag

I hate this place I really do Especially when that red velvet cupcake yogur t oozes a richness akin to cream cheese, leaving an

a f t e r t a s t e s o r e m i n i s c e n t o f chocolate that I couldn’t help

b u t s l u r p a n o t h e r s p o o n f u l

More so when that premium

p e a n u t b u t t e r f r o - y o t a s t e d almost as natural as nuts in a pod, with its toasted nuttiness and luscious, silky texture Not to mention the cappuccino flavor that reminds one of Parisian al fresco cafes in one ’ s sugar-high brain, obliging a side of espresso on a lazy Sunday afternoon

The décor – don’t even go there The electric purple and lime green colors are such an

e y e s o r e t h a t C o r n e l l i a n s a r e lured in by the dozens like bees to honey, as they create their

o w n h e a l t h y m u l t i c o l o r e d desser t The cheeky, rainbowcolored logo brings out the child in you, where a large, empty bowl is your canvas, and you

c r e a t e y o u r o w n m a s t e r p i e c e with frozen yogur t as the paintbr ush and toppings as the paint

How can you bring yourself to love (or hate) a concept that can hardly go wrong? Who’s to say t

Or that Cap'n Cr unch or Fr uity

Pebbles belong in a bowl of milk during breakfast and not in a swirl of yogur t as a hangover fix?

Alright, who am I kidding? I love this place Dammit, I love it Even if the cookies and cream yogur t tasted nothing like cookies and the low-fat cake batter fro-yo could have been a block of sweetened butter in its past life Even if all the probiotic, c

fudge and caramel

with the liberal heaps of sugar thrown in for flavor? Even if all the non-fat, no-sugar, no-dair y, no-gluten disclaimers made me feel like the subject of some k i n d o

ment, as if I was so desperate to get in shape that I had to pay the price of a full meal to get a fe w pathetic calories, and empty ones at that But in all honesty, putting all

sarcasm aside, Yogur t Crazy is a b r e a t h o f f

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t h a t Collegetown has needed for a long time Over the years, hanging out in town at a Red Mango or Pinkberr y huddled around tables with friends and mingling

a m i d a p r e d o m i n a t e l y y o u n g clientele has somehow become chic It’s always color ful and creative, always customized to our

unique tastes and, most importantly, ver y social the ver y reason why the fro-yo experience at Jason’s Grocer y and Deli can never match up to that of Yogur t Crazy The health benefit is just an excuse to indulge in a good old sugar coma and to soak in a semblance of convivial t

more than just the local fro-yo place; it brings us together in our mutual love for that delectable creaminess and satisfaction in mixing up our own delicious creations Wo u l d y o u l

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Yogur t Crazy? Tr y it yourself with a fe w friends, that is

April 5, 2012

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Be afraid, fellow collegiate music consumers, as we are getting to that sad age where some of the bands we listen to are the same age as we are Case in point: Brad

O

Oberhofer, is 20 years old The former NYU student and Tacoma transplant trades in the sor t of indie rock that evokes Brian Wilson comparisons and works in the whimsical sounds of whistling and glockenspiels to create a sense of romanticism His homemade replications of those Phil Spector-helmed “ Wall of Sound productions have been making rounds on the web since 2009 Now, with three years of touring under his belt, Time Capsules II shows a bit more brawn and a bit more brains, all while retaining a childlike perspective on love and its associated thrills and spills

Most evidently, Oberhofer exchanges a sonic palette that most resemblea Wavves’ shambling and distor ted output circa “No Hope Kids” for one that more accurately represents his background in classical music Arpeggiated pianos, twinkling bells and swelling strings buff up the formerly shoestring production values of tracks like “oOoO Oberhofer s live shows are spazzy and chaotic (albeit charmingly); his arms flail to produce rapid-fire downstrokes and there’s little sign of orchestration save a lone glockenspiel In contrast, this

A couple of weeks ago, Madonna released her first ne w album in four years A definite improvement from her last album, Hard Candy, MDNA has grown on me over the past fe w days It seems that ever y year that Madonna reinvents herself she tries to break into the young pop demographic, releasing songs like 4 Minutes,” and most recently, “Give Me All Your Luvin’ ” Ever y time, she brings that sense of complete confidence that only comes with being a music legend As confident as she is, her audience doesn’t always have the same faith Her ne wer songs have had their moments in the sun, but they have never quite reached the status of her early classics like “ Vogue” and “Like a V i r g i n ” “ 4 M i n u t e s ” m a y h a v e r e c r u i t e d Ju s t i n Timberlake and got its four minutes on Glee But 20 years after its release our generation still knows “Like A Virgin and in 20 years I don t know think we ll be able to say the same for “4 minutes” or for the ne w “Give Me All Your Luvin’ ”

One of two of the singles from MDNA, “Give Me All Your Luvin’, is catchy and features popular ar tists like Nikki Minaj and M I A The song is fun but doesn t exactly pack that attention-grabbing punch Minaj a n d M I A m o v e t h r o u g h t h e s o n g s u p p o r t i n g M a d o n n a a n d s c r e a m i n g h e r n a m e ( “ L - U - V MADONNA”), but their edgy, hard-hitting styles seem a little awkward next to Madonna’s light 80s

Rainis

overblown swagger

Album opener “HEART” evolves from a delicately and patiently played piano line into a bona fide ivor ytickler backed by trilling bells, melodramatic violins and a slamming, heavily reverberated snare dr um “Haus” star ts off innocuously enough, with a simple spindling guitar riff, but manages to, at different times, change keys and time signatures The post-chor us ’ 6/8 jig dissolves into arrhythmic chaos before returning to the opening riff and joyous chor us, where Oberhofer plaintively expresses his desire to “build a house with you ” The intelligent, maximalist compositions throughout seem some what at odds with Oberhofer’s vocal and lyrical stylings His rhyme schemes are relatively elementar y and his are vocals undoubtedly unrefined, but it all plays into Oberhofer’s puppy dog-eyed pledges of devotion to his unspecified lover His best lyrical turns come when he veers into more cr yptically put together descriptors (“ The city’s feeling queer and crass/with beer cans growing blades of grass/to look like something ne w”) and geekily adorable admissions (“Like Mahler and Mozar t, you tear me apar t”) His chor uses o

momentum and meaning through repetition (“ When I saw your face, I kne w I was in love right away”) or merely seem like excuses to carr y a catchy melody

While young Oberhofer undoubtedly displays a bevy of clever tricks, whether they are unique arrangements, compositional left turns or winning melodic phrases (“Away FRM U” and “Cr uising FDR” are just two of the highlights), throughout the entirety of Time Capsules II, he falls shor t of offering an album that shows any sor t of arc Perhaps this is due to its preoccupation with romance, a topic that can become a little overbearing when discussed by someone who delivers a message of such simplicity and yearning

Still, the kid is 20 years old Like Ke$ha, love is his dr ug And, also like the heavily criticized paramour with pop songs made for amphetamine-fueled benders, he hasn’t yet seen the ugly side of the dr ug Let him work through his innocence on record After all, it is sweet; just remember that a little too much sweetness can cause a cavity

James Rainis is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and

He can be reached

sound Madonna still sounds like, well, Madonna, but with faster, more current beats I have to admit, when I think of Madonna, I tend to think of being a kid and dancing around to “Celebrate at a Fun Craft bir thday par ty, hanging out with some girl friends and singing into hair br ushes Songs on her ne w album with titles like “Gang Bang,” just seem like they’re working a little too hard to be in this generation Hearing the lyrics “drive bitch” come out of Madonna’s mouth just isn’t incredibly satisfying That being said, some of the songs are just classic Madonna Lyrics like “Ooh la la you ’ re my superstar ” are reminiscent of her old style Other par ts of the song like “ you ’ re my Abe Lincoln coz you fight for what’s right” I can ’ t decide whether to scorn or love, but I’ll think love, for their sheer “what?” value

The second single on the album, Girl Gone Wild, is my favorite of the bunch The electronic sound allows Madonna to find the place where 80s and 2012 mesh and find harmony The techno sound fits her voice well and the lyrics sound more like her and less like she’s tr ying to fit into a ne w generation I urge anyone and ever yone to check out the music video It is properly R-Rated, but if you ’ re up to it, Madonna and her chiseled male back up dancers definitely make a statement I couldn’t help watching it and thinking: how the hell is that woman 56?

the eighth time One more hit album and Madonna may dethrone Barbara Streisand

All in all, Madonna is better when, she (as one of her songs is titled) Don’t Give A ” I love Madonna for her beauty and confidence and her ability to just be Madonna Her better songs are the ones without Nikki Minaj and M I A , when she isn’t tr ying to rap and tailor her songs to followers of the Young Money crowd

Madonna isn t Nikki Minaj, and lets be honest, no one wants anyone but Nikki Minaj to be Nikki Minaj

Listening to MDNA is a fun time if you take Madonna for what she is: 80s and a little electronic, romantic in the way people were in the past She sings a b o u t l

“Superstar” right now, I’m feeling the urge to dance around a little in Libe Café Watching “Girl Gone Wild,” I can ’ t help wanting to be that fierce at her age I can ’ t help wanting to be that fierce right now Will this album go down in histor y? Probably not But who gives a it s Madonna

Arielle Cruz is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at acruz@cornellsun com

Guiltless Pleasures

The term “guilty pleasure” implies that you have to feel guilt for enjoying something Sometimes you hate that you love what you love Considering I have absolutely no shame, the guilt in my guilty pleasures is more implicit than explicit, but we all have those things we d rather not admit we enjoy (I see you, Gleeks) I like to tell people I like my guilty pleasures ironically as in, I will ironically go to the midnight premiere of that Twilight movie But honestly, I have some pretty low brow interests Tomorrow, I’ll probably be wondering why I ever released them for print Here are some politically, socially and morally incorrect things I should probably not tell you that I enjoy:

The Biggest Loser: Okay, in all seriousness, I know this show is an inspiration to millions of overweight or unfit Americans struggling with their body image and finally finding the motivation to fuck it I like consuming entire pints of Ben & Jerry s while watching lardy Midwesterners crawl their way through halfmarathons There’s something so luxurious (and yes, sadistic) about being a fat ass while watching others suffer for being a fat ass “Run, Forest, Run,” I bark at the television as I double-fist the Cherry Garcia and Phish Food Dorito dust speckling my chin

Procrastination: I don’t know anyone who doesn’t procrastinate, but the extent to which I procrastinate is almost criminal You know that episode of Spongebob where he puts off writing that essay for boating school? Well, that basically describes my entire academic career accomplishing so little in a day that I literally doubt my own self worth is pretty much my baseline emotion

Not Shaving for Awkwardly Long Periods of Time: I’m Asian Hairlessness is pretty much the one evolutionary advantage Asians have Nonetheless, I do at times require some maintenance and yet I pretty much try to avoid shaving for as long as possible Weeks, maybe Months, possibly

ASeasons, sometimes

Tyler Perry Movies: You know when something is so bad it s good? Yeah, that s not what a Tyler Perry movie is They re pretty much just horrible, but it’s like a car crash that you can ’ t look away from Tyler Perry often plays a central character in a film produced by Tyler Perry for a movie entitled Tyler Perry Like, this isn t a joke That s how much of a narcissist Tyler Perry is He even thought his film, For Colored Girls, would win him an Oscar because he is obviously deluded And his movies are just as ridiculous as he is The craziest shit goes down in them Janet Jackson kills her husband and then falls in love with The Rock Macy Gray performs an abortion Oh child, what is this alternate universe with beautiful black people leading soap opera lives? When and where can I join? I mean is it my fault I identify with black entertainment?

Pretending It’s Your Birthday at a Restaurant: If you ’ ve never done this, don t speak to me

Momofuku Crack Pie: The Momofuku restaurant empire in Manhattan is making bank out of addicts like me Their upscale fusion restaurants are amazing, but their milk bar and bakery will FedEx these $44 crack pies, which are basically my sole reason for existence It kind of tastes like the gooey part of a pecan pie but filled with more butter and crack If you ’ ve ever wondered what the secret formula is in a Krabby Patty, well I’m starting to believe that it must be whatever they put in these crack pies

Space Jam: This is one of those films that is so egregious you wonder if it s now considered art Is this a filmmaker s interpretation of modern day surrealism? How can Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Bill Murray and Danny Devito, all coexist in a storyline? Why is this happening? Why is Michael Jordan acting? Is that Newman from Seinfeld? Shhhhhhh Just trust in the movie Trust in the 90s Besides, R Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” was my jam in kindergarten

Maury and Jerry Springer: I ain’t never said I was a classy lady I do enjoy a good catfight between two inbred cousins

over a deadbeat dad I love when weaves get ripped out and mascara gets smeared I fail to blink when they announce the results of those paternity tests I like to say, “You go, Glen Coco,” when Jerry or Maury comment on the situation with sass and wisdom I’m even fond of that weird camera angle and static fuzz on those clips where the baby daddy explains why he’s NOT the father I often clap when the tagline of the episode reads, “14-year-old Yvonne had sex for a cheeseburger ” And I may or may not have called the 1-800 number to be in the studio audience of these shows once or thrice

Alice Wang is a freshman in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at awang@cor nellsun com Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays this semester

Ballads of Love and Hate

s it is with a lot of music junkies, it is very hard for me to pick just one album that I call my favorite As a self-proclaimed hip-hop head,” I had various hip-hop albums run through my head while brainstorming for this column: Watch The Throne, the magnum opus of Jay-Z and Kanye West, or any of their solo albums, particularly The College Dropout by Mr West and The Blueprint by Jay-Z But what it came down to was the “Recently Played” playlist in my iTunes library While the 25-song playlist consists of its fair share of hip-hop songs, all 16 tracks from Live Vol 3 by The Avett Brothers had a home there

I am a firm believer in the idea that, should there be a choice between studiorecorded and live versions of a song, the live version will be the better track nine times out of ten While emotion and passion are often expressed very well in the studio version of a song, the vast majority of artists really let themselves loose during their live performances Live Vol 3 is a fantastic example of this

So really, I could have picked any of their albums and written about that But Live Vol 3, recorded in 2009 in their hometown of Charlotte incorporates the band’s best works while expressing a range of emotions that could never be found in a studio-recorded album

There is nothing quite like a band performing in their hometown Throughout the album, the band pauses to thank their fans for propelling them to the heights of popularity, even saying, “You’ve taken us all over, all over, and all over, and it will never be repaid although we’ll try ” The depth of this emotion is heard when Seth Avett begins to play the fan favorite, “The Ballad of Love and Hate ” Avett prefaced by a lengthy bout of applause, launches into the first verse, and

The Avett Brothers, a folk rock group from North Carolina, have risen to prominence in about the last five years or so

Fronted by brothers Seth and Scott Avett, the band incorporates, in my opinion at least, the best parts of country music (diverse instruments, profound subject matter) without any of the annoying parts (sounding the same as every other country song) That said, this feeling is felt throughout the band’s discography, from their bluegrass-esque early work to their more recent folk-rock tracks

promptly forgets the words to his own song

He tells the audience “I’m so happy right now I can barely stand it,” collects himself, and starts over again There aren ’ t many times that you can experience an artist becoming overwhelmed like that

In addition to all of this, another great aspect of the album is the varied subject material of the songs

Let’s take Jack Johnson, for example While he is one of my favorite artists, it is easy to detract from him based on the lack of

diversity in his songs More or less, he says in many different ways that he loves his wife Don’t get me wrong; again J J is one of my favorite artists

But listening to Live, Vol 3, it’s almost impossible to hear the same message twice For example, let s look at tracks eight to ten: “When I Drink,” Murder in the City and I Killed Sally’s Lover ” Within the span of these three songs, the audience hears things like heartfelt remorse (“When I drink, I say things I don’t want to say / I do things I don’t want to do, I talk mean to you”), a song meant to comfort the brothers’ family (I’ll talk about “Murder in the City” in depth in a little bit), and a song about being so in love (or bat-shit crazy, depending on your point of view) that you kill your ex s new mate Again, there are very few places (even amongst live albums) in today s music that you are going to find diversity like that contianed within these three songs And even when the song is a love song, the brothers talk about aspects of love that you probably haven’t even thought about yet

But more so than any of the previous reasons that I have mentioned, I can relate to this album in a very big way Particularly to the song “Murder in the City ” Throughout its verses, Scott Avett touches upon subjects that just about anyone can relate to In the second verse, Avett asks his father which brother he likes more, and then lists some of the faults of the two He then sings, “A tear fell from my father’s eye, I wondered what my dad would say / He said, ‘I love you, and I’m proud of you both in so many different ways ’” In the last verse, Avett describes what

he wants done in the event of his early death He tells his family to forget about his belongings and such, but instead, “Make sure my daughter knows I love her, make sure her mother knows the same / Always remember there is nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name ” As someone who has recently experienced the loss of a very caring grandmother, that last line has helped me to realize that there are some things that are a whole hell of a lot more important than any frustrations I may or may not be experiencing here at school

Hopefully, after my rant, you’ll decide to go and experience for yourself my favorite album If not, that’s fine too Just know that you ’ re missing out on something good

Andy Volosky is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at avolosky@cornellsun com

or email anthonybusse@gmail

Madson, McGuire Talk Nicknames, the Hunger Games

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hood inside of dog crates?

[both laughing] C: Well, one day I don’t think this happened very often but I remember one day we used to live on a little farm and my mom had a horse And one day she had to go take care of the horse and my dad was at work he worked at Cornell and my sister and I were being bad or something like that My mom was like “I have to go to the barn for a little while, I’m going to put you in the crate ” And we thought it was great fun We were in it for like an hour It was probably child abuse, maybe, but we thought it was fun

I was going to say, I feel like that might be traumatizing for a lot of people but you seem to have enjoyed the experience?

C: Yeah, I think we were little enough that we could make up some game

F: She just said it one day; she was like “When I was little my mom used to put us in the dog crate I liked it ” And we all just looked at her

Fran, I’m told you also have a special relationship with your dog

F: I LOVE my dog My dog is named Maggie, but I call her Dave It probably creates an identity crisis because she s a female black dog, and she’s so cute But I call her Dave, I don’t really know why She’s had a lot of nicknames, and that’s the one that stuck the best It’s a long progression of names that turned into Dave, and that’s

what it will be forever I love my dog

7 Cecelia, how did you get your various nicknames?

C: It’s really unclear One of my nicknames is “Guenveur,” which is my middle name, which I used to hate Now I don t really care, it’s fine, I just don’t really like words that begin with “G ” Then there’s “Cheech ”

F: I don’t like that one

C: I think “Cheech” came from “Cheechelia,” which is like the Italian version of Cecelia Then “Cheech and Chong ” Our friend Caroline was “Chong” for maybe a day, but I was “Cheech” forever

F: “Cheech” was the only thing that stuck

Well, one of your teammates warned me, and said that if you tried to tell me your middle name was “Guenveur,” to not believe it

C: It’s true

F: It’s so true

C: It s not a very pretty name, I m glad it’s not my first name

I read it as “Guinevere” at first based on the way it’s spelled, and I thought “well that’s kind of cool ”

F: It looks like it could be cool, but it’s pronounced like “Denver” “Genver,” and I think that’s pretty gross

8 Now Fran, if you could tell me about “the man in the green jacket” on the squash team

F: I don’t know, I just kind of-maybe have a crush on someone on the squash

team that I ve never met before, who wears a green jacket in the wintertime

Do you know his name?

F: I know his first name he was in our Prisons class, you were in our Prisons class, too

C: Yeah, you sat in front of us!

Okay, you’ll have to tell me off-the-record, because I do know a couple squash players

F: Alright, I’ll tell you off-the-record It’s like a weird freshman crush, and I was like “Oh my god I’m in love with this man in the green jacket, and I don’t even know who he is ”

Have you ever played squash before?

F: Nope, maybe I should take up squash

9 Tell me about your relationship with the lightweight senior class [collective groan]

C: You can go first

F: They are our very good friends Let’s see, the lightweights yeah, they’re our friends Freshman and sophomore year I would say we weren ’ t actually friends with them You know, things happen But we ’ ve grown to be close with them, and one of our housemates is dating one of them

C: They’re probably going to move to Hawaii and live in an eco-village Then get married!

F: Yeah, we like the lightweights I’m told you ’ re in love with three in particular

[laughing] F: Oh no Ian Horton ’12, Michael Bohs ‘12

Red P repares to Play in New Arena

the Nationals tournament has us playing SMU first and if we best them, we go on forward to UVA,” Van Loon added Both of those teams are very open teams that play a fast running game, so their style of play is really similar to what we encountered against Texas A&M last time ” Although both teams handily defeated the Aggies in March, Playing at Texas A&M s ERG Polo Complex will pose a new challenge, according Van Loon “The arena is completely new to

the entire Cornell program ” he said “We’ve seen pictures of it, but we don’t know how they built their goals and how they built their corners all those choices affect how the ball plays off the walls ” Hoffman added that the horses could pose another challenge

“We’ve never ridden the Texas A&M ponies before,” she said “At this point in the season we ’ ve gotten kind of accustomed to riding other people’s horses, but we haven’t traveled in a while, so hopefully we won ’ t be too rusty ”

Both squads hold away records of 1-3, and have played only once on the road each since November In

addition to the challenges posed by unfamiliar horses and arenas, the women also hope to overcome a history of inconsistent play, Hoffman said “If we aren ’ t doing very well in the first chukker, we lose focus a little instead of staying in the game she said “[Head coach] David [Eldredge ’81] has been trying to hammer focus into our play rather than thinking about ten other things at once Hopefully we’ll be able to get into it quickly and get our heads about us ”

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[both laughing] F: We all love Ian and Mike Syzmoniak ’12?

C: Syzy, Bohs and Ian are three of our good friends

But just friends? Purely platonic?

F: Just friends, platonic

C: We’re all jealous of Ian’s fro

F: Yeah, Ian has really nice red hair

10. Say you were the last two people in The Hunger Games what would you do?

F: We had this conversation last night we would be the last two people in the Hunger Games, first of all, because we would win The Hunger Games

C: We decided we would either do what Katniss and Peeta do, and pretend to eat berries

F: Or we would probably just sit there, and wait for something to happen Because that’s what we like to do We just sit on the couch and

C: watch things happen

Well, that could work to your advantage

F: Exactly, because they would all have to wait

And on that note, who would be your sponsors sending you gifts?

F: We decided Liz would be my sponsor

C: and [women’s rowing head coach]

Hilary [Gehman] would be mine I hope she would sponsor me

F: I think she would sponsor you

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By ALEX KUCZYNSKI-BROWN Sun Senior Writer

For this week’s edition of 10 Questions, columnist Alex Kuczynski-Brown 12 sat down in Libe Cafe with rowers Cecelia Madsen ’12 and Frances McGuire ’12 known by their teammates as “ Team Awesome ” They discussed the coach who brought them both to Cornell, Cecelia s allstar show dog Fran’s dog’s identity crisis their strateg y for winning The Hunger Games, and how they’re attempting to live vicariously through themselves via Twitter (follow @teamawesomeprbl!)

1 How did “ Team Awesome” come about?

F: So we started living together sophomore year We became best friends and spend a lot of our time together

C: We have a lot of classes together

F: and we have the same major And we ’ re both on the rowing team And last year was it last year?

C: Yeah

F: One of our teammates, Tracy [Eisser 12], just started calling us “Team Awesome ”

C: I think someone was like “We wish we could be as awesome as you guys ”

F: And then sarcastically we were like “Okay, we ’ re going to be ‘ Team Awesome’ ” And that’s how that started

C: It was definitely a joke

F: Yeah, it’s not serious

I understand you guys made a corresponding Twitter account (@teamawesomeprbl) that utilizes the hashtag #teamawesomeproblems What can you tell me about that?

F: Well we made that, and what can we say about that

C: Basically, we talk about things that we think are funny

F: stuff we do that is really stupid that no one else would do

C: It’s modeled off of @whitegrlproblem

F: Our coaches read that Twitter sometimes They also found my Twitter once, and I got in trouble for that You’ve got to protect the tweets protected tweets are the way to go

F: That was a lesson I learned @teamawesomeprbl is not protected, but we keep those clean

C: But @CornellRowing is following us!

F: Yeah, we tried to get them to follow us, and they wouldn’t and they wouldn’t and they wouldn’t and finally they did

I was reading through some of your tweets in preparation for this interview, so I have to ask: how did your Wikipediabased paper on the Cold War turn out?

[both laughing]

F: It went pretty well actually we did some more research not on Wikipedia A little bit

C: Hopefully our professor will not read this

I also appreciated your Twitter bio: “ We live vicariously through ourselves ”

F: I wrote a paper this semester on The Most Interesting Man in the World for one of my classes, and the Dos Equis man commercials [were inspiration] for our bio

C: It used to be “We hate everyone ” [both laughing] it was something like that

I also saw you tweeted “ we want wedding rings” on Feb 11, and was reminded that I’m supposed to ask Fran about her wedding plans How’s that going?

F: Well, I mean I have a series of husbands I’m not only going to have one

there’s going to be more than one I don’t think I can say who they’re going to be [both laughing], but there’s a husband that I’m going to marry in the next two years until I can marry someone that’s younger than me And then who am I going to marry last? [thinking] I don’t know there’s a three-husband plan

Are they connected to Cornell in any way?

F: I think one of them might be yeah, one of them is

C: One or two

2 You both rowed in high school, so what made you want to come to Cornell?

F: I got recruited for rowing, and I think the reason that I chose Cornell I was pretty committed to going to UC Berkeley until February of my senior year of high school And then our coach from freshman year, Dan [Fronhofer] who doesn’t work here anymore was like “Hey, you should think about coming to Cornell ” Both of my parents went here, so I was like “I don’t want to go to Cornell” and then I met Dan And Dan is really attractive, and he somehow convinced me that I would rather come to Cornell in the cold, than go to California for school

See, usually I have to ask the follow-up question that being: “You know, this is what you say, but your teammates tell me it was because of your freshman coach Dan what’s-his-name” but apparently you just admit that right off the bat

F: I readily admit that

Was that the same for you, Cecelia?

C: I am from Ithaca, and I applied to Cornell and three other schools, and my parents were convinced that Cornell would be my safety school, which it actually ended up being my safety school because I was rejected from everywhere else [both laughing] So Cornell was kind of like my last option at college right after senior year, and I wasn ’ t recruited because I was really bad at rowing in high school

So I just contacted the coaches the summer before Cornell, “I’m kind of interested, let me know ”

F: and then she met Dan

C: Then I met Dan, and it was all over from there

3 Speaking of coaches, why the obsession with assistant coach Liz Dennison?

[both laughing] F: I don’t really know,

but I just have a really good relationship with Liz, and I always have I don’t know why I think I bothered her enough to make her like me back, I hope

C: Yeah, she’s funny

F: We have a picture of her in our living room that she saw once when she came over

C: She was also the crown of our Christmas tree

F: Instead of a star, we had a picture of Liz

C: We also really like our lifting coach, Jeremy We wanted to give him a shout out in the article He’s been really important to our team

I’m told that your post-graduation housing plans include living on Liz s front lawn in a tent

F: It’s true, we asked her once she probably doesn’t remember

C: But she did tell us that we could, and then she asked “Well, what are you going to do in the winter?” And we said that we would live in her living room

F: We said we would move the tent to her living room

And how did that go over?

C: She kind of laughed, and then walked away,

F: So we took that as a yes, that’s fine you can totally live on my lawn ”

4 On that note, I know this is the worst question in the world, but what are your plans for post-graduation as far as a career is concerned?

F: Well, we ’ re both Government majors, which doesn’t really give us that many options

C: We thought about entering The Amazing Race

F: We think we would win The Amazing Race

C: We think we’d be really good at that, but I think you need a lot of funding

F: We also once took a class here “Political Theory and Cinema,” and we wrote a play And it was really good, and we got an A+ in the class, and that’s the only assignment we had to do So we wrote a combined play So maybe we’ll be like playwrights

C: Comic playwrights [both laughing]

What was the play about?

C: It was based on Alfred Hitchcock’s

movie Rope We just kind of made a satire of it and used the classroom as a setting

F: We had our crazy professors killing Alfred Hitchcock, and it was just I don’t know but we got an A+! So that’s all that matters

5 I understand that a bunch of the seniors on your team live together on Linden, and that you named your house “ TK ” What does that stand for?

F: It stands for “Todd Kennett”

I should have guessed

F: but that’s the shortened version It’s actually the “Todd Kennett Center For Kids Who Can’t Row Good And Want To Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too based on Zoolander, which we watched the other day on the bus

Does he know this?

C: No, but I guess he will now

F: That’s actually a really good question

C: I don’t think he does

F: Well, now he does He can know that

6 Cecelia, I know you used to train and show dogs in high school, so what was that experience like, and were you sad when you had to give it up upon coming to Cornell?

C: Well actually, one of the first races in the fall I had to miss because I went to a dog show instead And my coach wasn ’ t happy about that But yeah, doing dog shows was really fun, but it was kind of weird because there weren ’ t very many people my age that do it It’s usually old people menopausal women who are overweight but it was fun I used to be really embarrassed about it, but now I don’t really care

F: We like to make fun of her a lot for this She has a lot of Corgis and all of their names start with “S” and two years ago we went to her dog’s birthday party at her house [both laughing]

C: It’s coming up! April 10

F: That is coming up

Was this Sage? Because I’m supposed to ask about Sage the all-star Corgi

C: Yes her name ’ s Sage She’s 12 almost 13! She was really important to me when I was in high school

What’s this about spending your child-

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This weekend, the men ’ s and women ’ s tennis teams are set to play Har vard and Dar tmouth

The men will be hosting nationally ranked Har vard (16-1) on Saturday at 2 pm and Dar tmouth (14-1) on Sunday at the same time

“ We are not treating these matches differently than we have any other match this season, said head coach Silviu Tanasoiu “ We are preparing in the same way we always do and we are hopeful that we are going to be a lot more successful than we have in the past

The Red (7-12, 0-1 Ivy) is coming off a four game losing streak, having fallen in a close 4-3 match against Columbia last weekend In all six of Cornell’s 4-3 losses this season, the doubles point determined the winner

“ We had a ver y close match against Columbia [last weekend] that taught us a lot of things, and hopefully we are going to be able to learn from our mistakes and p l a y b e t t e r a g a i n s t H a r v a r d a n d

Dar tmouth,” Tanasoiu said

No 20 Har vard opens its Ivy season at Reis Tennis Center this weekend The Crimson enters in on a 12-match winning

s t r e a k T h e y o u n g R e d s q u a d b r i e f l y crossed paths with Har vard this season in

October during the USTA/ITA Nor theast Regionals

“Har vard has been playing some good tennis, said freshman Venkat Iyer They are a good team, but so are we and we definitely feel capable of taking them down We feel more than ready for the match and we are excited for the challenge We have been playing good tennis in practice and we ’ re excited to hopefully get the win on Saturday ”

D a r t m o u t h i s c o m i n g o f f a s e v e nmatch winning streak of its own

“ We all know what we need to do on the cour t, ” Iyer said “ We’ve gone through a lot of things like discipline, focus being dialed in ever y day in practice [ We need] energy, discipline and stamina to play the tennis that we want to play If we can execute the type of tennis that we want I think we will be fine ” The women ’ s team (8-5, 0-1), which has played its last four matches on the road, will play two more away from Reis

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Hanover N H this weekend

“I think that it can make a difference playing on the road,” said sophomore Ryann Young But, we learn to tune out their fans and focus on our game We can ’ t let the little things bother us ”

On Friday at 2 p m the Red women takes on Har vard (7-1) and then faces Dar tmouth (6-8) on Saturday at noon

“ We are definitely looking for ward to g

Stevens “ We had a really close match last year with Dar tmouth, it was 4-3 and came down to the last singles match on the cour t This year we are looking for ward to another good match with them ” Har vard has won six of its last seven matches If the Red can come away with a victor y on Friday, it will be Cornell’s first time beating Har vard in Cambridge Even at home, the Red s lone victor y over the Crimson was April 6, 2007, as the two teams ’ all-time series record is 31-1 in favor of Har vard

They are definitely two really competitive teams, but with that were still going to go in fighting,” Young said “ We proved that we can play with any team in the

Red Finishes Regular Season in Texas

By GINA CARGAS

Sun Staff Wr ter

The men s and women ’ s polo teams travel to College Station, T X to take on Texas A&M this weekend The Cornell women (11-5) and men (9-7) will play their last games of the regular season before hosting the USPA National Championships in two weeks

When the teams met at Oxley in March the men topped the Aggies,

22-16, while the women finished with an 18-11 victory Though the Red dominated in both games, senior men ’ s captain Branden Van Loon said the Red anticipates a difficult rematch this weekend

“After playing Texas A&M in our arena, it’s very evident that they’re a talented and skillful team, ” Van Loon said “Pretty much all the players that come are going to have to give their best game and utilize their strength on the field

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Van Loon emphasized the off-field bond the men have formed as an advantage for the Red

“ The amount of communication and trust we ’ ve been building between team members has been a great advantage,” Van Loon said “In addition we ’ ve been focusing on really hitting the ball away and not handling it too much

” Senior women ’ s captain Ali Hoffman cited

endurance as the Red’s greatest strength

“We re able to outlast a lot of teams because we put a lot of outside work into building up our strength and endurance,” Hoffman said “Going into this, having just played for the last three months almost without a break, we ’ re in really good shape Plus we have a lot of confidence coming off our win at Regionals

” Last weekend, the women beat Har vard and UConn to qualify for Nationals After defeating Skidmore and losing to UConn, the men finished as runnerup and advanced via a wildcard spot Even with nationals on the horizon, both squads are focusing on Texas A&M in training

“Our whole mantra has been taking it one game at a time,” Hoffman said “We’re not focused on a game that still seems a million years away ” “ The schedule for

league we just have to stay focused, compete well and not really think about our ner ves ” Cornell has some strong players up its sleeve, including Young who generally plays at the No 3 spot who is 11-1 in s i n g l

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Perelman and Rosemar y Li had a 10-1 record in doubles “ We’re working on playing the big points well,” Young said “ We are really working on putting the ball away, a lot of doubles practice as usual because the doubles point is so impor tant ”

“ The girls have been working hard all week preparing for both matches,” Stevens said

The softball team is coming off a hear tbreaking eightinning home loss to Albany after starting the game off with a quick 5-1 lead This weekend the Red is back on the road, heading first to Providence, RI for a double-header with Brown and then to New Haven, Conn for a series with the Yale Bulldogs

This will be the Red’s (1213 3-1 Ivy League) first conference weekend on the road, and the squad is looking to snap a two game losing streak after being swept by Albany However, the team has won three straight conference games its only hiccup being in the Ivy opener against Harvard Cornell picked up its offense as of late, batting 321 over a nine game stretch to raise its season total to 259 As a team, the Red has also gone yard 26 times Seniors Morgan Cawley and Kristen Towne are leading the team at 341 and 306 respectively Sophomore infielder Jenny Edwards and senior infielder Erin Keene both have five long balls The Bears (5-13, 2-2) just swept Columbia, after dropping their first two conference games to Penn Brown will be led offensively by Stephanie Thompson, who is batting 544 with a team high 17 RBI’s

The struggling Bulldogs (717, 1-3) have lost four straight games Only one Yale starter is batting over 300

The Red will likely throw the combination of senior Lauren Marx, sophomore Alyson Onyon, senior Jenna Stoller and freshman Brittany Sutton on the mound this weekend Marx and Onyon lead the staff with a combined 10 wins and 2 08 and 3 56 ERA’s respectively

After the four Ivy games this weekend, the Red will return home for a non-conference midweek matchup with Syracuse

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