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RED WORKS HARD TO REMAIN UNDEFEATED

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

Given last year ’ s 14-3 record and the Red’s trip to the NCAA quarterfinals against powerhouse UVA, there were great expectations for the men ’ s lacrosse program as it entered the 2012 season

Already more than halfway through the season, Cornell sits atop the Ivy League with a perfect 3-0 conference record, in addition to its 7-1 record overall Winning key games in March against Ivy rivals Yale, Penn and Dartmouth, as well as nationally ranked Denver, put the team in a good standing as it heads into the last four games of the regular season against Harvard, Syracuse, Brown and Princeton

Highlights of the season so far have included winning the season opener against Binghamton on Feb 28 at Schoellkopf

The Red ran off with its 14th straight victory in a home season opener with the 17-12 win over the Bearcats Senior captain and Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award finalist Rob Pannell scored a career-high 10 points in the game

Only four days later, Cornell welcomed the Army Black Knights to Schoellkopf, where the Red handily won its second game of the season in an 18-7 blowout to a team which beat Cornell 11-9 the year before Freshman attack Matt Donovan impressed coaches and fans alike in his second collegiate game, scoring four goals and two assists in the victory that earned him the honor of Ivy League Rookie of the Week his first of three for the season so far

had a bit off a bad stretch against some pretty good face-off guys, ” McMichael said “We started off strong and tailed off in those games against Denver and Yale, but in the past games we picked up Our goal as a team is 55 percent and I think overall we are right around there ”

After beginning the season with a perfect 3-0 start, the Red suffered its first and only loss of the season to national powerhouse Virginia Traveling to Baltimore, Md , Cornell lost 98 in overtime at the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic Missing reigning national player of the year Pannell due to injury, the Red fought a hard battle, which featured a late game rally by junior attack Connor English, who scored consecutive goals in the span of 21 seconds

our vocal communication with people on the end of the field and communicate with everyone so they know where they are going with the right position We are trying to take more of a leadership role on the defensive end and getting everyone on the same page ”

In recent weeks, Cornell has fought hard to return to the level of play it was at during the first few games of the season

The Cornell brand of lacrosse is known for its consistency, execution and high-intensity, which is something that DeLuca says the team is working hard to get back to

“We’re trying to take it one game at a time and try to improve on a daily basis in practice and improve on game day keeping it simple and focused,” he said Knowing that there are expectations and discussions out of the locker room, but we are trying to maximize our potential to be as successful as we can ”

Coach Ben DeLuca says that perseverance, fighting through adversity and consistency are keys to success.

“[Donovan] has been steady from the beginning and it’s impressive to see him contribute in that fashion ” DeLuca said “He’s worked extremely hard He’s far from perfect and has work to do on his game, but the effort that he gives on a daily basis is impressive ”

Showing that consistency and offensive execution is what wins games, the Red dominated Canisius, 19-4, on March 6

A major credit to the win was the Red’s face-off unit comprised of sophomore Doug Tesoriero and senior Mitch McMichael The midfielders combined to win 20-of-26 restarts at the face-off “ x ” Throughout the season, assistant coach Paul Richards has been working specifically with Tesoriero and McMichael, trying to help the face-off pair improve its wrist work, execution and speed At this point in the season, the face-off unit has won 100-of-187 re-starts, giving the team a 53 5 win percentage

We stated off pretty strong at the beginning of the year, such as against Canisius About halfway through the season so far we

Returning from the upset, Cornell hosted Yale on March 17, beating the Bulldogs, 8-7 While earlier games in the season featured double digit scores for the Red, Cornell struggled to connect in the offensive end of the field against Yale, as well as to execute at the face-off “ x, ” where it only won 6-of-17 restarts Playing against fellow Top-10 team Denver a few days later, Cornell barely escaped with a 9-8 overtime win Both teams were very evenly matched, which slowed down the offense and made scoring more difficult The defense put up a strong wall for the Red, staving off any overtime efforts by Denver Leading the defense this season are juniors Mike Bronzino, Jason Noble and Thomas Keith and senior Roy Lang, according to DeLuca

“The sole senior back in that end is Roy Lang, who we have asked to change his role slightly this season which I think has helped us play more aggressively,” he said Noble and Bronzino are stepping up this season to fill the space left by Max Feely ’11, who graduated last May

“Last season we lost [Feely], who was the leader in the defensive end,” Noble said “Mike and I needed to step up

Cornell beat Penn, 16-11, and Dartmouth, 7-5, over the past two weekends, as the team continues to work towards its season goal of remaining undefeated in the Ivy League, as well as undefeated at Schoellkopf Spearheading efforts on the offensive end of the field are seniors J J Gilbane and Scott Austin, junior Steve Mock, English and Donovan, according to DeLuca Sophomore Andrew West, junior A J Fiore and senior Brian O’Donnell have shared time in net for the Red

While DeLuca said that there is always room for improvement, the efforts that have been seen on all ends of the field have been producing results that cannot be discounted

“Our records speak for themselves the bottom line is we are finding different ways to win fighting through adversity, coming from behind, not playing to our potential [and] fighting through injury, DeLuca said It s never the same game in every game and it’s frustrating, but at the same time when you step back the guys have found decent amount of success despite the adversity We’ve scratched the surface with utilizing the depth of the roster with the perseverance and their ability to pull out wins despite their circumstances

The Red will graduate nine seasons at the end of the season Chip Daugherty, Matt Restaino, Austin, Gilbane, Lang, Langton, McMichael, O’Donnell and Pannell

“Every time you think that it’s almost over you just want to work harder and make more of the time you have left because your days are limited,” Gilbane said

BASEBALL

SQUAD LOOKS FOR YOUTH TO PL AY BIG ROLE

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Junior pinch runner Spencer Souza stood on third base in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie game, 33 Timing the Longwood catcher’s lazy throw back to the pitcher, Souza took off for home, sliding in safely and giving the Red (16-5-1, 3-1 Ivy league) its 11th win of the season one more than the team ’ s total from last year Souza’s late inning heroics two weeks ago have become standard for the Red, as they are just one example of the small things the team has been doing to help put it on the road to its strongest season since head coach Bill Walkenbach took over three years ago

“We really have no holes,” said junior infielder Brenton Peters

According to Peters, the team has improved from top to bottom Though the offense has been solid as of late, the Red’s defense has kept it in close games

“We always try to make a team as strong as possible up the middle, because those are the guys that anchor us, ” Walkenbach said And I think we have the best anchor in the Ivy League in [senior Marshall Yanzick] at shortstop ”

Yanzick is batting 303 with 16 RBI’s, and has been nearly flawless as the captain of the infield with a 924 fielding percentage However, though his statistics speak for themselves, Walkenbach believes his shortstop is just

BASEB ALL PL AYER S TO WATC H

Yanzick is hitting 303 with 16 RBI’s, but his contribution might be felt even more at shortstop, where he has been a reliable anchor all season long According to head coach Bill Walkenbach, the senior is also just as important off the field as a leader MARSHALL YANZICK

BRENT JONES

The freshman hurler has exceeded all expectations in his first year with the Red He leads the staff with a 2 35 ERA and 30 strikeouts Look for Walkenbach to continue to hand him the ball on the mound late in the season in pressure situations

as valuable off the field

“His leadership has been crucial to our success, ” he said Joining Yanzick in the middle infield is Peters, who has only made three errors on the season The junior and senior together make up a solid double play combination

“Marshall and myself have really meshed together up the middle,” Peters said

In the outfield, senior centerfielder Brian Billigen has been putting up huge numbers After winning Ivy League player of the week in the first week of the season for going 8-for-18 with a triple and homerun, Billigen is still batting 422

“Brian covers amazing amounts of ground out there,” Walkenbach said since the centerfielder also leads the team in stolen bases (8)

Billigen suffered an injury in this weekend s Ivy opener, and was replaced by freshman J D Whetsel According to Walkenbach, although Whetsel has big shoes to fill, the freshman has really come through for the Red

“We’ve been able to replace Brian with [Whetsel], who is actually the fastest player on the team

The Red’s three main outfielders sophomore Chris Cruz, Billigen and Whetsel all run sub-7 60’s

“Our outfield is making plays in the gaps that other outfielders don’t normally make because we have that kind of speed,” Peters said

Anchoring the Red’s defense, the pitching staff has continued to turn away opponents game after game Most recently sophomore Connor

Kaufmann, who is 4-1 in five starts, carried the Red to a 2-0 victory over Dartmouth with the team ’ s first no-hitter in 32 years Kaufmann received Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors for his standout performance on Saturday, March 31

Freshman Brent Jones and senior Rick Marks, the leaders of the staff, are third and fifth in ERA in the Ivy League at 2 35 and 2 76, respectively

Freshman Brian McAfee rounds out the Top-10 at 3 86 Jones is also fourth in the league in strikeouts with 30 Freshman reliever Kellen Urbon has four saves and an ERA of 75 in 12 innings

Of the 10 players Walkenbach recruited for this year ’ s team, seven are pitchers

“We’ve been lucky enough to get guys innings early enough to get their feet wet in college baseball, and they’ve performed very well,” Walkenbach said

Though the staff does look young and inexperienced to outsiders, Peters and Walkenbach see experience beyond their years in the young hurlers

“Basically, [the freshmen]

have had a lot of innings and they’ve emerged out of the freshman stereotype, ” Peters said “They’re no longer 18 or 19 year old wide, bright eyed kids coming out of high school they’ve risen to the occasion ”

With seven starters hitting over 300 at this point in the season, the Red’s offense has made drastic strides since last season, when only two starters finished over 300

“Experience is the biggest thing,” Walkenbach said “The seniors have learned about their approach to the game and they’re having much better at-bats from day to day ”

Billigen is second in the league in batting average, first in runs scored and first in RBI’s Cruz, the sophomore slugger, leads the conference in homeruns with seven Senior Frank Hager is also batting 351 with two homers

“It comes with confidence because we worked so hard throughout the fall,” Peters said “Our senior leaders have some of the highest batting averages on the team because they put in the work, whether it’s Frank hitting homeruns or Marshall getting on base and moving runners over ”

With a team that has a serious chance at competing in the Ivy League, Walkenbach said he believes there is still room for improvement

“We need to work on our consistency and staying healthy,” he said “We’ve come up against some good pitching lately, so our offensive numbers are down a little, but I expect that to rise as we ease into Ivy play ” Even in its losses, the Red has only lost by more than four runs one time, against Delaware State

“With the guys we have on the mound, we ’ re going to be in every game we play, and with one or two exceptions, that has been the case so far,” Walkenbach said With the bulk of Ivy play still to come, the Red has its work cut out for it against perennial powerhouses like Princeton However, according to Walkenbach, this team has the senior leadership that can help take the Red far

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group of senior leaders I’ve ever had, and one of the best freshman classes we ’ ve

FIGHT TO THE FINISH AS THE RED WORKS TO DEFEND SOUTHERN IVY DIVISION TITLE

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

The defending Southern Ivy League Division champions, the Cornell softball team begins the 2012 campaign in hopes of playing for the title in the championship series for the third straight year The Red (12-11, 3-1 Ivy League) began conference play against Harvard (15-8, 3-1) on March 30 and Dartmouth (712, 0-4 Ivy) on March 31 The Red split the doubleheader against Harvard, the same opponent it lost to in the finals last year, but came back to sweep Dartmouth the next day

1996, taking a team that went 6-35-1 in 1995 to 17-20 in just one year Blood has compiled over 400 wins in his career at Cornell, including six first place or share of first place finishes and five trips to the NCAA tournament after winning the Ivy League championship In recent years, Blood led the Red to three straight Ivy League Southern Division championships

With five seniors and two juniors, the Red has a solid base of experience that can help against its tough Ivy League opponents Blood noted the importance of senior captains Erin Keene and Katie Watts

Head coach Dick Blood believes that the quest to maintain the Souther n Ivy League Division title will be a ‘dogfight.’

Cornell continues its march through the Ivy League as the team travels to Brown (3-13, 0-2) and Yale (7-15, 1-3) on April 6-7 The Red finishes its Ivy schedule with consecutive weekends against Columbia, Penn and Princeton, each with four game series Cornell has midweek battles scheduled for the upcoming weeks against local opponents Albany, Syracuse, Colgate, Ithaca and Binghamton

“We are going to have to work hard to get back to where we were, ” said head coach Dick Blood The Southern Division is loaded and it is going to be a dogfight ” Blood has headed the p

“[Keene and Watts] are instr umental in bringing our team together this season, ” Blood said “They both believe in the club and their voice has demonstrated a strong work ethic that the younger players follow ” Blood also expressed his enthusiasm for the younger players Sophomore Jenny Edwards leads the team in homeruns, RBI and runs scored, while sophomore Alyson Onyon leads the pitching staff in innings pitched, strikeouts and games started while boasting a 2 75 ERA

We have a solid nucleus of players,” Blood said “It is just a matter of whether they can all click together is another story ” Watts described the early season struggles of being able to perform well in all facets of the game

“We cannot seem to put all three pieces offense, pitching, defense together,” she said “Hopefully, with the pressure of the Ivy upon us we will be able to do it ”

record over Spring Break

“Our record does not reflect where we should be,” Watts said “The focus this season will be how we can remain consistent throughout and be able to figure out the opponents ’ strengths and weaknesses ”

Watts noted how many teams in the Ivy League have improved this season, particularly highlighting Penn as the most improved squad over Spring Break

Blood pointed out a few suprises that the team experienced at this early point in its campaign Senior Morgan Cawley leads the team in batting average, while freshman Linda Lauefer hit a clutch two-run homerun off Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Rachel Brown in the first game against Harvard Freshman Clare Feely boasts the team ’ s highest on-base percentage for 2012

ultimate goal of “fourpeating” its reign as

Despite the successful start against Harvard and Dartmouth, Blood and Watts remain cautious as to not get too ahead of themselves

“Yes, we expect to return to [the Ivy League Championship],” Watts said “But, right now we just have to focus game-by-game and take things one step at a time ”

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For the fences | Sophomore Christina Villalon is currently batting 235 this season, making her a key part to the Red’s offensive success

The Red got off to a strong start on March 31 - April 1 as it went 3-1 against Northern Ivy League opponents Harvard and Dar tmouth The team outscored its opponents 2624 over the weekend, while only committing four errors Senior Jenny Stoller pitched a complete game against Dartmouth, allowing just four hits and striking out six batters en route to her first victor y of the young season

S o p h o m o r e Lauren Bucolo blasted three of the six homer uns Cornell hit over the weekend

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h e a d e r s , the Red

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Each Ivy League game counts the same towards the final Ivy League record that will determine which two teams play in the final series While the Red was eager to beat up on the team that beat them in last year ’ s championship, Harvard, Cornell continued to focus on its other Ivy League rival, Dar tmouth Now the team ’ s focus shifts to Brown and Yale, the remaining two Northern Division opponents Columbia, Penn and Princeton, along with Cornell, comprise the Southern Division Whichever team wins in the championship series earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament Penn sits atop the Ivy League with a perfect conference record, 4-0, leading the Red and Harvard at 3-1

Erin Keene echoed Watts’s and Blood’s concerns about taking each game as it comes

“We are not trying to look too far in advance,” she said “We are just taking it one game and one weekend at a time and tr ying to get the job done ”

Every Ivy League game remains vital to the Red s

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Dominant force | Sophomore Alyson Onyon boasts a 2 75 ERA, a team best

Ivy League champions

“Opening with the defending champs [Harvard] was a great challenge for this year ’ s squad,” Keene said “I definitely think we rose to the occasion ”

The questions for this year ’ s softball team remain its ability to consistently play all facets of the game at a high level, all while taking each Ivy League game as the most important game of the season

SOF TB ALL PL AYER S TO WATCH

The sophomore pitcher has been instrumental for the Red this season. She leads the team in innings pitched, strikeouts and games started while boasting a 2 75 ERA As a freshman she struggled in the circle and saw limited game time but has proven to be a substantial team member this season

The sophomore leads the team in homeruns, RBIs and runs scored this season Last season, she earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors and finished the season ranked among the Ivy leaders in walks (third), RBI (sixth) and runs scored (eighth) She also led the Red with 29 RBIs

WOMEN’S ROWING / GOLF

ROWERS MAKE NCAASA T EAM G OAL

T h e w o m e n ’ s r ow i n g t e a m began its season with a strong

s h ow i n g a g a i n s t Sy r a c u s e o n Saturday, March 31, defeating one of its major rivals in ever y single

r ow i n g e v e n t Si n c e b e a t i n g Sy r a c u s e , t h e Re d h a s w o rk e d hard to maintain its momentum and to attempt to achieve the team ’ s overall goal going to the NCAA tournament at the end of the spring

While it is the spring season

t h a t q u a l i f i e s a t e a m f o r t h e NCAA tournament, preparation for the tournament really begins during the fall season when athletes train to meet their own personal fitness goals

“ The fall is a lot more about rewarding hard work, said head coach Hilar y Gehman “ You’ve got to love hard work You can ’ t be afraid of it, and you can ’ t shy away from it ”

According to Gehman, prac-

t i c e d o e s n o t c o n s i s t o f j u s t strength training and conditioning There are other important factors the team works on daily

“ We’re focusing a lot on how to really fine tune the recover y in b e t w e e n r a c e s , ” G e h m a n s a i d Nutrition and hydration are ver y important ”

Recover y will be ver y important for the Red during this spring season Most of the meets the team will race in are in a double duel” format, where the Red faces one team initially while two other teams race each other The winners from each race goes head-tohead in a final race, as the losers from each race face off in a consolation match In either scenario, the Red competes twice in one day, which is why recover y is such an important thing to practice, according to the coach

“ We want to tr y to be prepared for two races in one day before we have to really peak, which is at Ivy League championships,” Gehman said “It is challenging but it’s something that we train for ”

The Ivy League championships is the last major meet for the Red before the NCAA tournament This is the first year that the Ivy League championships are being hosted, primarily because the system for qualifying for the NCAA tournament will change starting in 2013 It used to be that the Ivy League was part of the Eastern

Sp r i n t s Row i n g L e a g u e , w h e re

selection to the NCAAs was based on a school’s performance in one of the five geographic qualifying regions, with Cornell competing i n t h e Mi d

c Re g i o n against schools like Syracuse The change will be from that of a regional qualifier system to a conference automatic qualifier system The five teams that win their conference will advance to the

NCAA tournament and compete against 11 other teams invited to fill “at-large” positions

According to senior captain Stephanie Lohberg, the Red will strive to place first in the Ivy League and advance to NCAAs automatically, but will also tr y to gain enough recognition to be invited as one of the “at-large” teams by racing and beating other

out-of-conference teams Lohberg says she is optimistic about the team ’ s chances, citing the Red’s preparation and ability to work hard as two of its most important qualities “ We’ve been working on being clean and aggressive in our races, ” Lohberg said “At a certain point, it comes down to who is willing to fight for that extra inch ”

While the Red was denied an invitation to NCAAs last year, the team is determined to qualify to be invited to the tournament at the end of this year “ We re

NCAAs We really want

invitation to compete

I n a D e e p I v y L e a g u e, R e d B e l i e v e s I t C a n C o m p e t e f o r T i t l e

Coming off of a last place finish in the 2010-2011 Ivy League championships, the golf team is looking to move up in the rankings and potentially make a run to win it all this season Losing Matt Jaye 11, after graduation last year, hurt the Red, according to senior captain Alex Lavin; however, the team should not be counted out of contention for the title just yet

“Last year we lost one of the Ivy’s best players in Matt Jaye,” Lavin said “But, this year we ’ re loaded with young guys looking to step up and guys back from injury, including myself ” Although no starting line-up is set in stone, both Lavin and senior John Dean have noted three sophomores Zach Bosse, Carl Schimenti and Craig Esposito as impact players to watch in the upcoming season The rest of the lineup could see many different players step up and play well to contribute to the team

“None of the spots are set in stone, so look for John Dean, [senior] Mark Baity, [Sophomore] Max Koehler and myself to work into the mix often,” Lavin said

Another noteworthy player is freshman Andrew Palmer, who Lavin said had a great season so far and could make it into the lineup with solid qualifying scores in the upcoming weekend

The most important thing that the Red is looking forward to is the team ’ s shot at the Ivy League Championship

“Ivies is the toughest, simply because everything is on the line,” Lavin said “It’s a tough field, extremely tough course, and it s win or go home

The Ivy League looks very deep this year, especially compared to recent years, according to Lavin While that provides for a lot of competition, it will not put the Red out of contention for winning the title, the senior captain said

“People have said Columbia and Yale are the two top teams, ” Lavin said “As I’ve said the Ivy League is ver y deep this year, deeper than it has ever been People have been talking about Cornell, Har vard, Princeton, Dartmouth and even Penn so we need to step up and take the title ”

When asked who is Cornell’s biggest in-season rival, Lavin did not really have one in mind, instead citing the opposition the Red faces in the Ivy League

“Our biggest Ivy opponent is probably Yale, but we love beating Har vard and Princeton [In the regular season] we see teams such as Colgate, Navy, Penn State, etc fairly often, but the rivalries aren ' t the same ”

The Red started its season at the Fireline Towson Invitational on March 30 through April 1, and will play at the Princeton Invitational and the Centur y Intercollegiate tournaments before going to the Ivy League Championship at the end of April with the hopes of coming out on top

Teeing off | The golf team is focusing on Ivies, the most important match of the season

X P E R I E N C E L E A D S VA R S I T Y E

A WARM SPRING BREAK GIVES ROWERS A LEG UP

By ALEX KUCZYNSKI-BROWN Sun Senior Writer

The Cornell men ’ s heavyweight rowing team boasts one of the most experienced first Varsity e i g h t c r e w s i n r e c e n t m e m o r y, i n c l u d i n g f i v e seniors and three juniors all of whom rowed for the Varsity squad last year Led by co-commodores

Jim Voter and Brian Searle, the senior-laden cre w features Gardner Yost, Alex Kar woski and Russ Mason, who are joined by junior class representa-

t i v e s C h r i s M a s s e y, K e v a n Z a d e h a n d Ji m Rectenwald

“ They’re coming along they’re stronger than ever, and they seem to be doing a lot of things right It’s now just a question of taking responsibility and stepping up and making this thing move, ” said head coach Todd Kennett ’91

Both the men ’ s and women ’ s teams enjoyed an unusually warm Spring Break in Ithaca, which e n a b l e d t h e c re w s t o g e t i n m o re w a t e r - t i m e , according to Voter

“ We’re used to going out there in the morning and busting up the ice before we ’ re allowed to row, ” he said “ This year because guys weren ’ t cold, they were able to produce better on the water, and as a result I think we got in better training ” Kennett was inclined to agree, noting “ We h a d a n i n c r e d i b l e Sp r i n g

B r e a k , a n d a r o u n d t h a t time I saw them do

s o m e t h i n g s t h a t w e r e p r e t t y darn special

I h a v e n ’ t h a d a g

s u c h e a r l y speed in par t to h a v i n g s u c h g o o d water in the Cayuga Lake Inlet, which tends to make

c r e w s r o w a l i t t l e b e t t e r

Fu r t h e r m o r e , K e n n e t t pointed to this past weekend’s races at the San Diego Classic as “ a pretty big wake-up call in that not ever ything is right ”

The first Varsity eight cre w had a questionable outing in last Saturday s race, finishing third in the heat behind Navy, which ultimately led to Cornell being assigned an outside lane in Sunday’s Grand Final en route to a fifth-place finish Last weekend’s per formance aside, the men ’ s heavyweight coach remains confident that “there s still a lot of speed in this group ” Voter himself a three-year member of the top Varsity cre w spoke to the impor tance of using

the extra training the Red got in over Spring Break as an advantage over the rest of the competition That competition will be on full display at Eastern Sprints the league championship event held annually in mid-May that the cre ws spend all of their fall and spring season preparing for

“Anything can happen [by that time of the year] when you ’ ve got guys out of school, and they have a little bit of time to unwind and rest up and pay attention to what they’re doing,” Kennett explained It gets late enough in the year, the water gets fast; I don’t put anything by them ”

“I think they can medal at the Sprints, but they’re really going to have to buckle down and get serious,” Kennett said “It’s not always working harder, sometimes it’s working smar ter ”

“I think as a senior class and as a Varsity boat in general, our goal is to get onto the medal dock at Sprints It’s been a long time since a Varsity cre w has done that for Cornell,” Voter added

From there, it’s on to IRAs, which take place in

Lightweight

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However, as Kennett was quick to mention, “in order to get to the national championship, you have to go through Sprints ”

According to Voter, making it onto the medals dock at Eastern Sprints would put Cornell in a good spot to subsequently medal at IRAs

“Ideally it would be a gold medal, but I think we’d all be pretty happy with even a bronze,” Voter said

MEN ’S ROWER S TO WATC H

On the lightweight side, the goal “is to win Eastern Sprints and IRAs, according to senior commodore Michael Bohs “ That is our goal ever y year, ” he said, adding that he feels the team has been “saying” it the past three years, but this year something is different

Our juniors and seniors all got a taste of winning our freshman years, when we won the freshman event two years in a row, ” he continued “But that was just a taste, this year there is a sense of urgency to win and that sense of urgency is a result of guys tr uly wanting it ”

Like the heavyweight cre w, the l i g h t w e i g h t team had a p r o d u ct i v e S p r i n g Break as w e l l one that i n c l u d e d 18 practices over the course of nine days

“Each practice we p u s h e d o u r s e l v e s t o t h e brink, and as a result we were all exhausted by the end But we also kne w that we had gained so much from all the work we did, and we will definitely see the benefits throughout the course of the year, ” Bohs said

As far as specific improvements go, “there is always speed to gain, even for the Olympic rowers, ” according to Bohs

The commodore said that his team ’ s approach to practice is to put all focus and energy into each stroke so as to identify where the cre w needs improvement and then take the necessar y steps to adjust accordingly

“At the end of each practice, we want to come off the water faster than we were when we began the practice,” Bohs said

The senior co-commodore is one of five s e n i o r s t h a t w i l l lead the heavyweight first Varsity eight crew. Voter is a three-year member of the top Varsity squad His experience will be key to the team’s success this season

National Championship last year. A s a senior captain this year, he will help the squad improve its speed at each practice

The senior co-commodore rowed with the Varsity eight last season Searle was also a member of the second varsity-8 crew at the 2010 Easter n Sprints when they won a silver medal and finished fifth at the IRA s

Varsity eight and helped lead the crew to a four th place showing at t

pionship

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women s lacrosse began this season with exciting success, displaying winning habits and overcoming diverse challenges One such habit has been an ability to win on the road, as the

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Schoellkopof The Red (7-2, 3-1 Ivy League) has also been victorious in Ivy L

Princeton and Columbia, propelling the team into third place in the Ivy League standings with six games left to play A unique mixture of talent, senior l

d confidence makes this squad dangerous for opponents to f

pleased with how the season has progressed thus far the Red has high hopes for achieving even more as the season continues “ T h e

a a p “ We f e e l g o o d a b o u t t

u i n g t o i m p rove Ho p e f u l l y t h e b e s t i s ye t t o c o m e f o r t h i

the experience factor to help younger players and to benefit the team

It s something really special that not only are there so many seniors, but we ’ ve all played together since we came in as freshmen,”said senior attacker and for ward Jessi Steinberg “Being a b l e t o s p re a d o u r w i s d o m t o t h e underclassmen, take them in under our wing and show them how dedication has made the program into something special, is really awesome All nine seniors do a really good job of checking in and making sure ever ything is doing well, which takes alot of pressure off of the captains ”

all three years, but this year we realize that it’s our year and we want to make a statement

This friendship and unity is not limited to the seniors it is a defining characteristic of the entire team

Both the players and coaches value this unity and fully appreciate the ways in which it benefits the entire team

“One of the main reasons I wanted to come to Cornell was because of how close the team was, ”Steinberg said “How close we are off the field and how much we genuinely care about each other really translates to our play

have contributed to the Red’s success

The team has benefited from contributions from a wide range of players, and it has executed a strategy of commanding aggressive play It has also been s u p

However, two concepts dominate the

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THE ROAD TO NCAA NATIONALS: Red Focuses On Creating Solid Unit To Improve Dominance

m e n t a l a p p r o a c h t o p r a c t i c e s a n d g a m e s

Continual improvement is far more than an encouraging trend

According to Graap, since Ivy League universities

s t a r t t h e s e a s o n l a t e r t h a n o t h e r Divison I conferences and have less practice time before the season, being able to adjust and improve throughout t h e s e a s o n i s e s s e n t i a l i n o rd e r t o achieve success

Im p r ov i n g i s p e r h a p s t h e m o s t impor tant factor in a season, ” she said Because of the late star t date, and the way the Ivy League sets things up with little practice time, it becomes necessar y that we get stronger throughout march and April ”

The strong senior leadership consists of nine seniors who lead the team both on and off the field They have spent their entire college careers a t C o r n e l l a n d a r e u s i n g

d throughout their time at Cornell, but they have never had a team with as much talent and potential as this one, according to Steinberg

“Since I’ve been on the team this is the first year that our confidence has been through the roof,” she said “ We have so many talented players and it all stems from knowing that ever y girl on the field is contributing in some way Knowing how talented we are and how well we work together as a team is really something special ”

According to senior midfielder and c a p t a i n K a t i e K i rk , t h e s e n i o r s a re friends both on and off the field, and shared motivation to succeed has made the friendship even stronger “ We re not only good friends on the field, but we suppor t each other off the field as well,” she said “Being determined, focused, and having our number one goal as having a great season has brought us together We have strived to be good

on the field ”

A c c o r d i n g t o Gr a a p , t h e t e a m s coherence also ser ves to build leaders h i p, c

standing of each individual’s unique personality and capabilities

Our team embraces the idea of taking care of each other and suppor ting each other off the field,” she said “ We take alot of pride in that We spend alot of time in the offseason together doing things like community s e r v i c e , t h e H o f f m a n C h a l l e n g e

Course, and different leadership exercises We get to know one another other off the field so we can get a sense of the strength, character and leadership that each individual brings This team can embrace each other’s differences and uniquenesses and really suppor t each other There are always differences between people, so it’s nice that the players feel good a b o u t b e i n g t h e m s e l v e s a n d b e i n g unique

M a n y f a c t o r s

The immediate goal for the Red is to finish in the Top 4 in the Ivy League standings, which guarantees a place in the Ivy League playoff tournament The winner of that tournament is automatically selected for the national NCAA tournament Belief in each other and on-field success have made the team confident that it can achieve that goal, according to Steinberg

“I feel so confident about our players and coaches,” she said “Ever y single person on the field is a threat It’s awesome that from the freshmen to the seniors, ever yone is so talented and is really stepping up But it s also nice to know that there is so much room for i

improving and keep playing well, the sky’s the limit

Of cer in Discrimination Claim

Black Student Organizations

React to Trayvon Shooting

By DAN TEMEL

Staff Writer

As anger swells over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old AfricanAmerican male, Cornellians gathered in solidarity at Ujamaa Residential College Thursday to discuss critical issues surrounding the tragedy

On Feb 26, Martin who was walking, alone and unarmed, to the home of his father’s fiancee was spotted by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch member Zimmerman called the Sanford Police Department to report Martin’s supposedly suspicious behavior while he followed the teen The two later engaged in a confrontation, which resulted in Martin’s fatal shooting

Zimmerman says that his shooting of Martin was self-defense Though the lead homicide investigator in the case said he did not believe Zimmerman’s claim, Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged

Martin’s death has galvanized activists around the country and at Cornell to demand justice for his shooting

Thursday’s forum was hosted by the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, which along with the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association and Black Students United co-sponsored a rally yesterday that drew more than 50 people to commemorate Martin’s death

Kappa Alpha Psi invited Darrell Butler ’87, a diversity and professional development consultant, to moderate the discussion Butler said he is from the Orlando area and has had conversations with Martin’s family, as well as with the mayor of Sanford, Fla the city where Martin was shot

After providing a summary of the facts of the shooting, Butler challenged forum participants to look beyond racial issues and examine Martin’s death from a different lens, asking, “How do we break the cycle of killing black men based on assumptions?”

Butler said that after the shooting, he had “the talk” with his seven-year-old daughter about how to respond when a stranger approaches He said that the expe-

Sgt Douglas Wright, an Ithaca Police officer who is suing the city for racial discrimination, was the second-highest paid employee in the Ithaca police and fire departments in the most recent pay period for which records are available During that period, his pay was higher than the two officers who, his lawsuit says, were unfairly promoted at Wright’s expense Wright took more money home than 43 more senior members of the police and fire departments and was paid $12,000 more than the chief of police during that pay period, according to SeeThroughNY net, a non-profit organization that gathers government expenditures in New York State Wright received a total of $113,474 46 during that one-year period, which ended March 31, 2011, SeeThroughNY figures show In the two prior years, Wright was also one of

the 10 highest-paid employees in the police and fire departments a group that includes about 140 personnel

Wright said that overtime work often inflates officers’ earnings, and that “other types of time if not taken as time off, are paid out ”

“Officer pay is often increased by thousands because they work many hours of overtime throughout the year, ” Wright said in an email “It is not the officer’s fault the overtime exists Due to the unpredictable nature of police work, there is a rather high frequency of overtime

The figures from SeeThroughNY are the officers ’ total pay, which includes overtime, the organization says His high compensation does not directly contradict the claims he makes in his lawsuit, but it may raise questions about the extent of the dis-

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Father of LEED: Green Bldgs Create Jobs, Reduce Energy Use

By BYRON KITTLE Sun Staff Wr ter

Rick Fedrizzi, co-founder of the United States Green Building Council and father of the LEED standard for evaluating buildings’ environmental impact, spoke at Cornell Thursday about how sustainability initiatives could spur economic growth while creating a healthier global environment

Fedrizzi said that sustainable buildings are on the “ center stage ” of the planet s environmental issues, because the world’s population is increasingly growing around centralized urban areas

“Energy, water, waste materials, human health, all of the social implications of climate change –– all these things matter, ” Fedrizzi said “But when you consider that the great

majority of the world’s population is now living in cities that only occupy two percent of the world’s land mass using up two-thirds of all energy [and] producing more than twothirds of all [carbon dioxide] emissions buildings are the way that we can at least do s o m e t h i n g dramatic ” Fe d r i z z i c o m p a r e d LEED to the nutritional facts found on food packaging: The certification could be an easy way for individuals and organizations in the construction industry to evaluate a building s potential for sustainability and show how making a building sustainable could be economically advantageous

“When we look at the idea of sustainability through the lens of green building,” Fedrizzi said, “ you build green it saves energy it saves money it creates jobs, it improves infrastructure and basically we grow [the] real estate market in an entirely different way

“We also know that there’s a solid economic case in all of this.” R ic k Fed rizzi

A c c o r d i n g to Fedrizzi by 2 0 5 0 , America will require almost s e v e n t y q u a d r i l l i o n

BTUs of energy a drastic increase from the amount needed today to remain sufficiently powered By focusing exclusively on renewable and nuclear energy, Fedrizzi said that number could be reduced to around sixty quadrillion BTUs But Fedrizzi added that the most

drastic reduction of energy use would occur by focusing on the potential to reduce energy consumption through creating green retrofitting jobs to upgrade existing buildings to make them sustainable

“In doing so, you can drop the energy demand to about 30 [quadrillions] of energy by the year 2050 ” he said “We also know that there’s a solid economic case in all of this And the more that I can prove that we are absolutely creating value, creating jobs [and] that we are able to do all of this in the name of a healthier planet and a healthier human population, then I think we ’ ve got no problem moving [green building] to a ten-trillion-dollar market Such a move toward sustainable

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Today Friday, April 6, 2012

Quotes of the Week

Opinion, “Living a Dream,” Tuesday

Speaking about the struggles of DREAMers Cornell s undocumented students

After assimilating to American culture through years of primary and high school education, they are suddenly outcasts in a society that wants nothing to do with them

David Angles Albores 13

Gimme! Coffee Tasting

a m - 2 p m , Cornell Store The Sustainable Rural Cities Program 12:20 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Society for the Humanities Lecture

4:30 - 6:30 p m , Guerlac Room, A D White House

Tomorrow

Introduction to Deer Medicine and Management 9 a m - noon, Lecture Hall 2, Schurman Hall

Men’s Lacrosse vs Harvard 1 p m , Schoellkopf Field

Kids Science Day at the Big Red Barn 2 - 4 p m , Big Red Barn

Islam Awareness Week Presents: Crossing the Line: NYPD Surveillance 4 p m , Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Cornell Hawai’i Club Lu’au 2012 7 - 9 p m , Statler Hall Park Atrium

A&S STUDENTS!!

Science, “‘Purple Wonder’: Small, Dark and Delicious,” Wednesday

Speaking about the new, purple strawberry created by Cornell horticulturalists The color is not purple like Barney purple it s more a deep red wine or burgundy color

Prof Courtney Weber, horticulture

News, “Rights Advocates Spar Over Policy On Sexual Assault,” Wednesday

Speaking about the University Assembly’s pending resolution to lower the standard of proof required in sexual assault accusations

The consequences for someone expelled for sexual assault are enormous and will follow him throughout his life leading to rejection by other schools inability to qualify for the bar and a great deal of stigma To impose those consequences on someone requires a rigorous standard of proof

Prof Cynthia Bowman, law

News, “Cornell Mourns Death of 8th President: ‘A Remarkable American Story,’” Thursday

Speaking about the death of former University President Dale Corson (1914-2012) For me and for many faculty he was our hero He was a great scholar and certainly one of a kind

Prof William Fry, plant pathology

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Professors Analy ze Obamacare

By SYLVIA RUSNAK Sun Staff Wr ter

After the Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments last week about the constitutionality of one of the nation’s most contentious pieces of legislation, President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Cornell professors weighed in with reactions and predictions for the case ’ s outcome

“I would say that the oral arguments shifted views here in the Law School, from the expectation of a relatively easy victory for the government to thinking it's too close to call,” Prof Kevin Clermont, law, said in an email Tuesday

If upheld, the health care bill, signed into law by Obama in March 2010 and now often called Obamacare, would require almost all Americans to purchase health insurance plans or face fines, beginning in 2014 This particular aspect of the bill arguably its most hotly debated component is known as the individual mandate

“The idea behind the individual mandate was that you want as many people in the health insurance market as possible so that everyone ’ s cost is lower,”

Prof John Blume, law, said If there are people that don’t have health insurance, they are the ones that drive the cost of the system ”

However, Blume added that the issue before the court is whether an individual mandate is constitutional and if the government can force Americans to purchase health insurance

The question is whether Congress can “require someone to effectively have health insurance or penalize them,” Blume said

According to Clermont, most professors in the law school expected the Supreme Court to see the act having an economic impact that would be “sufficient to authorize congressional action ”

“The early expectation was based on the notion even among those of us who believe in a limited federal government that the Supreme Court's cases had already gone so far in expanding the Commerce Clause power that there was no logical way to strike down the Health Care Act,” he said

Prof Theodore Lowi, government, cited legal precedents that the Court has previously interpreted to give Congress the power to impose national provisions similar to the individual mandate He referenced Wickard v Filburn a 1942 Supreme Court decision that upheld the Roosevelt administration’s policy of restricting the amount of land on which farmers could grow certain produce and Social Security, which Lowi said is a form of forced saving

Lowi said these “significant precedents” give him hope that the Court will ultimately decide to uphold the legislation Even the strict conservatives on the Court “have to be supportive of the previous courts, ” he said

Still, Clermont criticized the oral arguments, calling them sad and saying they exposed the politicization of the Court ”

“Mere precedent and logic looked insufficient to deter the Justices’ voting those merits along ideological lines,” he said

Still, according to Clermont, some professors at the Law School maintain that conservatives’ questioning at the oral arguments was “largely bluster,” and that some conservatives will still vote to uphold the act now that they have had the opportunity to voice their opinions

On the third day of arguments, the Justices considered whether the individual mandate could be severed from the entire bill, allowing the Court to uphold the constitutionality of the rest of the act while striking down the mandate

Blume said that both the bill’s defenders and opponents argued that Congress would probably not have passed the legislation without including the individual mandate

“That’s sort of the economic engine that makes the entire thing run and without that it’s not really sustainable,” he said “The irony about this is [that] twenty years ago, the private mandate was a conservative idea Now it’s being criticized as being a liberal idea, and that’s not the origin ”

However, Blume added that it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to vote down a piece of legislation “this broad and this significant that has such an effect on the national economy ”

“I think it was normally believed going in that almost everyone would vote to uphold it, and after the oral arguments, you saw lots of people saying ‘It looks like the individual mandate is going to be struck down five to four’ and ‘We don’t know what’s going to happen to the other parts, ’” Blume said I’m not sure I see [the Justices] doing that at the end of the day, but I wouldn’t bet my entire IRA on it ”

But having followed the oral arguments closely Blume said he still believes that “the most likely outcome, although not certainly definite, is that the Supreme Court upholds the law by either a five-tofour or a six-to-three margin ”

The Court is expected to rule on the case in June

This week, Ryan Gosling saved a journalist from being hit by a taxi in New York City If you were about to be hit by a car who would you want to rescue you?

RYAN GOSLING! AGAIN! Gosling Stalker ’13

Betty White She’d kick that driver’s ass Old Soul ’15

Ryan Gosling, holding a puppy And then I’d make a Tumblr about it Hey Girl ’12

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High School Students Experience Engineering First-Hand at Cornell

By ROMMIA WHITE Sun Contributor

Graduate students from Cornell's College of Engineering welcomed 41 families to Olin Hall on Saturday for the third annual WOMEN event, an outreach program designed to give female high school students the opportunity to experience the study of engineering first-hand

The program allows high school students and their families, the majority from nearby rural areas, to take part in hands-on laboratory experiments and attend informational panels Members of WOMEN which stands for Women s Outreach in Materials, Energy and Nanobiotechnology hope the event will inspire more female students

to pursue careers in engineering

“We are trying to get women to actually think about going into engineering when they go to school,” said Kathy Rogers grad, a chemical and biomolecular engineering student “Females are underrepresented in a lot of the engineering majors ”

In addition to exposing students to engineering disciplines, members of WOMEN said the program also helps recruit students to Cornell, in particular

Cornell typically targets the closer high schools,” said Deirdre Costello grad, operations facilitator for WOMEN “I think it’s good exposure for Cornell to reach out to schools outside of Ithaca ”

As an outreach coordinator for WOMEN, Rogers said parents have

expressed increased interest in Cornell because of their children’s experiences with the program

WOMEN invited students in the 10th grade, Rogers said, “because next year, the girls will start looking at colleges and start figuring out what they want to do ” She said that the event gives students an opportunity to learn how to best prepare to apply to the engineering college

According to Prof Susan Daniel, chemical and biomolecular engineering, who is the faculty coordinator for WOMEN, the program is maintaining a long tradition of encouraging young women to pursue STEM science, technology, engineering and math majors at Cornell

This has “had an impact on getting our undergraduate classrooms nearly 50-50 female [to] male, at least in chemical engineering,” Daniel said

In addition to learning more about the field of engineering, the students who visited Cornell on Saturday were able to participate in several interactive, hands-on experiments in Olin Hall, Costello said

For instance, the high schoolers learned about viruses watched students demonstrate how to make nylon and took part in a laboratory experiment in which they were taught how to make lip gloss and perfume, according to Rogers and Costello Later in the day, parents were able to join their daughters in the lab to experiment with extracting DNA from bananas

Parents could also attend a financial aid seminar and to take a campus tour

Additionally, faculty spoke to parents at an informal seminar about the latest news in engineering at Cornell

According to Daniel, survey results from previous WOMEN events show that parents appreciate the chance to be involved in the program

“Our formula seems to be just right, as our feedback is always incredibly positive,” Daniel said “We find that many rural parents haven’t had much college experience themselves and don t have a really clear picture of engineering, so it is critical to engage them to equip them with the correct information that can effectively influence their daughters’ decisions toward STEM careers and college

The program is also well-received by participating high schools, according to Costello

“Not only are schools sending students back each year, but more and more schools are accepting Cornell’s invitation,” she said Daniel said that, ultimately, “ everyone wins” in the WOMEN program

“The 10th grade girls get a taste of college life and a chance to see what is thrilling about science and engineering; the parents get information that helps them prepare their daughters for college and encourage them into STEM careers; the graduate students learn how to lead and mentor; and the faculty get the chance to promote science, ” she said

Rommia White can be reached at rw427@cornell edu

C.U. Aims for LEED Certi cation

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building practices has been ramping up at Cornell, where the Board of Trustees as part of the University’s Green Building Initiative, has required all new buildings on campus that cost more than $5 million to achieve at least LEED silver certification the third highest rank attainable since 2011

Prof Sheila Danko, chair of the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, agreed that pursuing LEED certification made sense for Cornell, but said that it was not a one-size-fits-all undertaking Additionally, Danko said, some organizations, including some governmental institutions, have questioned the appropriateness of LEED

[It s] a really important question that’s being asked a lot right now, ” Danko said “Why should we go through this? Why should we pay all of the extra money and expend the extra time and energy to do this? It costs money to hire people to document these things ”

For a building to be considered for any LEED certification Danko said, its owners are required to do “ a lot of extra work,” such as compiling checklists of quantifiable environmental performance calculating water use and air quality, recording materials used for construction and documenting how the building was constructed

After the owners of the building have produced all necessary documentation, they must calculate how many points are potentially achievable under the LEED standard and submit a request to be certified for that number of points

“The process is very labor intensive,” Danko said “To document the fact that you did it in such a way that somebody else can review it critically and assess whether or not you met [the LEED standard] that’s where all the extra work comes in

Still, Danko said Cornell decided to pursue LEED certification to raise societal awareness around green projects and to start a dialogue with the community on what it means to pursue environmental sustainability

“To a large extent, it’s about the value of communication; it’s about raising awareness; it’s about walking into a building and seeing the seal [and] going, ‘Oh, I think I know what that means, or What does that mean?’” Danko said “That might not be appropriate for some other institutions It’s not that they re wrong and we re right for doing it for us at Cornell, it is about educating the populace ”

Prof Ying Hua, design and environmental analysis, a member of the United States Green Building Council, said she is working with students on campus to explore how occupants of sustainable buildings become aware of what standards like LEED actually mean

“This is a good way to communicate with building users to introduce this as something special about this building and to give people a reason to learn more, ” Hua said “LEED is not just an evaluation system, but quite an effective education tool ”

Hua is also working with students from Cornell University Sustainable Design, an interdisciplinary group that promotes environmentally friendly structures, to create course material that other colleges could use as a framework for integrating sustainable building practices into their curriculum

According to Danko, the University pursued the maximum number of LEED points possible equivalent to platinum status for the new Human Ecology Building, located behind Martha van Rensselaer Hall Although the building’s construction standards fell short of the goal, it achieved gold status, the second-highest standard

Fedrizzi, who toured the campus before his speech, said he was blown away by the LEED-certified buildings in the College of Human Ecology, adding that they have created a more pleasant working environment for students

“I’m looking at these hallways filled with sunlight and these natural wood finishes,” Fedrizzi said “When you start to look at just what’s happened on this campus you see that the transformation is really beginning ”

Byron Kittle can be reached at bkittle@cornellsun com

Racial Issues D iscussed at Forum

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rience provided an opportunity to learn from the circumstances of Martin’s death

Additionally, Butler said that the shooting demonstrated a need for increased youth mentorship

“We can view this as a teachable moment for teenagers who we have not been able to mentor yet, ” Butler said “Let’s do something different from what were conditioned to do get away and scream as loud as you can, A stranger is trying to hurt me!

Butler emphasized the need to hold elected officials and voters more accountable for enforcing the fair use of self-defense under laws such as Stand Your Ground, which Martin’s shooter George Zimmerman has used as a defense for his actions The Stand Your Ground law allows citizens to use deadly force to defend themselves when they believe their lives are in danger, even if they could retreat from the situation

“A challenge of the law is a good thing, and even the writer of the law said he did not intend for it to be used like this, Butler said How do we move forward and hold our elected officials accountable? How do we hold the voters more accountable?”

Janelle Boyd ’13 said the shooting raised a number of complex issues

“Has it ever been looked at that an adult killed an adolescent that Zimmerman was 28, and Martin was 17?” Boyd said “What can we do and how should we look at it? What are we fighting for and what is the bigger picture?”

Students said the conversation also provided a chance to talk about other hot button issues that may have contributed to the environment in which Martin was shot

“The biggest thing that stuck out to me is that [Martin’s death] transcends a racial issue,” said Bashir Alhadi ’13 “A lot of things were said [at the forum] that introduce different variables like age and socioeconomic status ”

Butler said he hoped the forum empowered its participants to become more passionate about issues of social justice –– a goal that Boyd said she felt the discussion achieved

“Awareness is important and my voice counts and if we get other people on board, then we can really make a difference,” Boyd said “This is deeper than Trayvon Martin, and it has become bigger than him ”

Alhadi said she is optimistic about spreading awareness about racial profiling and police misconduct to the wider Cornell community

“We wanted to use this to kick off the weekend purposefully,” Alhadi said “This is an issue pertinent to the community and something that is not going to change overnight

Mark Seals II ’12, another member of Kappa Alpha Psi, also praised the event, calling the discussion “ very informational ”

“I felt we had good representation and good discussion,” Seals said Everyone had different points and we can now take into consideration each perspective ”

Dan Temel can be reached at dtemel@cornellsun com

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crimination he argues he suffered Wright, who is the second white Ithaca Police officer to allege discrimination, says that he was unfairly passed over for promotions twice In both instances, he says, a black officer was promoted instead of him due to the black officer’s race Wright is seeking $10 5 million from the lawsuit’s defendants, who include the IPD, former Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson and other city officials

Wright “has been deprived of income in the form of wages, benefits, promotional opportunities and job assignments which were made or denied because of [Wright’s] race and defendants’ discriminatory acts and policies,” the lawsuit states

“The defendants unfairly and routinely endorse, support and believe the word of AfricanAmerican and minority employees over that of [Wright] and male Caucasian employees,” the suit says The city filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on March 22, arguing that Wright s assertion that he is white and was not promoted “cites no facts to suggest that one thing had anything to do with the other The city s motion says that Wright’s lawsuit is “built entirely upon the bald assumption by Plaintiff Douglas Wright that his promotional failures were due to his race ” In the lawsuit, Wright cites two

incidents in which he was eligible for a promotion but saw a black officer receive the promotion instead

Wright alleges in the suit that in 2007, he was passed over for Pete Tyler, a black officer who is now deputy chief In 2009, Wright was eligible for promotion again, but was passed over for Marlon Byrd, the lawsuit states Byrd, who is also black, is now a lieutenant

Because white male employees are excluded from positions of visibility, authority and power, ” Wright and other white males in the police department receive “lower regard, lower pay and fewer benefits,” the lawsuit states

But in the 2011 pay period, Wright received about $1,000 more than Byrd and almost $20,000 more than Tyler, according to the SeeThroughNY data

Paul Wagner, an attorney who is representing the City of Ithaca, declined to comment on the lawsuit Other city representatives and police officials did not respond to requests for comment Wright is the second white Ithaca Police officer to make racial discrimination allegations In another lawsuit, filed in May 2010, Chris Miller claims he faced harsher discipline than his non-white colleagues He also argues the city retaliated against him for filing a human rights complaint

Michael Linhorst can be reached at mlinhorst@cornellsun com

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The Sun’s Berry Patch reporters have no ethics They also have a thirst for blood They recently decided to bring together one male and one female from some of Cornell’s most aggressive campus organizations to fight to the death This year, the Cornell Republicans, the Cornell Democrats, the Student Assembly, Cornell Organization for Labor Action, Pep Band and the Association of Computer Science Undergraduates kicked off the competition May the odds be ever in their favor

Right out of the gate, the Cornell Republicans started battling it out It was like a vicious Presidential primary where only one of the two could win The most handsome and rich of the two came out alive, severely wounded He was quickly taken out by a member of the Cornell Democrats, who pounced down from the trees on the embattled Republican, ending his life with severe blows to his character and a ton of negative political advertising

Cymbal Guy was one representative for the Pep Band His first feat during the competition was to ensnare the snare drummer, the other Pep Band member competing He was then free to turn his attention to the rest of the field Known for his endurance when playing the cymbals really loudly at Cornell Hockey games, he also proved his endurance in the challenge When one of the COLA representatives came at him running naked, armed with a bullhorn and angry letters to President David Skorton, Cymbal Guy took him out with one quick blow of his cymbals

The other COLA member tried to get everyone to disaffiliate with the competition, just like he tried to get the University to disaffiliate with the Fair Labor Association He was about as successful at the former as he was at the latter, and was killed soon after A Student Assembly candidate had a similar idea He tried to draft a resolution to get The Sun to end this competition, but The Sun doesn’t really care about the petty requests of the Student Assembly, so that ended quickly

The computer science group proved to be the most crafty Immune to the idea of sleep, they came in with the biggest advantage They quickly discovered that the best option would be to construct a giant booby trap outside of Libe Café, ensnaring everyone who walked in the door This successfully took out everyone on the Student Assembly, the Cornell Democrats and the COLA representatives, as these groups couldn t resist the temptation to go into their usual roosts

Cymbal Guy saw his opportunity After years of going to athletic games, he decided to use his connections on the sports teams, sending a horde of athletes to take out the nerds once and for all Cymbal Guy, finally defeating the competition, let out a deafening roar Now, the campus, left without its leaders, is turning to Cymbal Guy for guidance He now writes letters to Skorton and runs naked through the Arts Quad to protest all clothes made by workers Skorton is confused

Letters WRC apologizes for poster controversy

To the Editor:

Re: “Students Deface Posters They Call R acist Against A sians ” News March 26

Dear Members of the Cornell Community,

As many of you may know, the upcoming event “An Evening with Margaret Cho,” for which the Cornell Women’s Resource Center is a sponsoring organization, has been the center of a much-publicized controversy concerning the font used in the original event adver tisement The font that was used is called Chop Suey, and it has a histor y of being used to represent Western orientalist ideas of Chinese culture and identity

The WRC would like to extend a sincere apology for our oversight in the production and distribution of the poster The font choice of the original poster is racist, and we wholehear tedly apologize for offending anyone in the Cornell community By allowing actions like this to occur on our campus, we perpetuate an environment and culture that condones and trivializes racism While the WRC did not design or approve this poster, as a sponsor of the event, we accept responsibility for the content of any materials used to promote it

We acknowledge that many people had various responses to this font, and within the WRC, we have used this as a learning experience to better ser ve the Cornell community We hope that ever yone involved and affected by this controversy will use it as a productive means for respectful dialogue around issues of race, identity and intersectionality in the Cornell community

We stand in solidarity with all those who work for social justice and for the full and authentic expression of ever y individual’s complex identity

Rachael Blumenthal ’13, Jessie Bonney-Burrill ’12, Margo Cohen Ristor ucci ’13, Emily Coon ’12, Eva Drago ’12, Rhea Fernandes ’12, Julianne Freeman ’12, Ashley Harrington ’13, Rebecca John ’14, David Murdter ’12, Hillar y Or zick ’13, Samantha Pedreiro ’12, Deanna Ping ’12, Narda Terrones ’14, Dominique Thomas ’13 Cornell Women’s Resource Center Advisor y Board

A positive look at tenured profs

To the Editor:

Re: “Cor nell Leans on Tenured Profs,” News, April 4

The Cornell Sun s coverage of statistics suggesting that Cornell has a high ratio of tenured to adjunct faculty framed this finding primarily as a negative thing a problem to be solved While The Sun did include quotations to the effect that Cornell’s lower levels of adjunct faculty was of benefit to the University, all of these were placed in the second half of the ar ticle and on the inside pages apparently in mitigation of the overall disappointment at Cornell’s commitment to tenured faculty

I would suggest that this is rather something that Cornell should take pride in A commitment to hiring faculty such that they have a degree of financial security, access to full employment benefits and the full use of institutional suppor ts does not seem to be something that should prompt apologies or the wringing of hands Attempts to increase the use of adjuncts should alarm Cornell students concerned that their professors are able to give their fullest attention and commitment to students’ academic development As an instance of the broader phenomenon of the casualization of the labor force, students should be equally concerned about the consequences of a trend toward greater economic insecurity for workers in all spheres

Simon Gilhooley grad

CORRECTION

An article titled “Students, Faculty Doubt Efficacy of Plagiarism Software” that appeared on Thursday stated that the Judicial Codes Counselor, which is charged with assisting students with Code of Conduct violations, has not yet seen a case in which Turnitin com a plagiarism detection software detected plagiarism While this is, in fact, true, the Judicial Codes Counselor does not necessarily see all of these cases Each individual college s Academic Integrity Hearing Board first hears them The Judicial Codes Counselor only sees cases when an accused student requests assistance According to Carol Grumbach, associate dean of students, the number of cases the CJC has encountered does not mean that Turnitin com is ineffective

FROM THE EDITOR

On page 5 of Wednesday’s Sun an advertisement with the heading “Senior Recognition” appeared While it was not readily apparent that it was distinct from The Sun’s news coverage, it was in fact a paid advertisement The opinions contained in the advertisement do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Sun, its editors or contributors

When E xtracurriculars

Are Much More Than Résumé Building

One of the reasons people choose Cornell for veterinar y school is that Cornell claims that students have an earlier oppor tunity for practical experience than they would at many other schools This is tr ue I know that there are at least a fe w schools where dealing with animals is not an essential par t of the curriculum until students enter clinical rotations in their final two years (most vet schools are set up so that students are in lectures / labs for the first two years and rotating through the different depar tments in the hospital for roughly the last two years) and here we have the chance to star t working with animals from day one We learn how to do physical exams on all kinds of species at the same time as we learn about their anatomy, so we will really be able to apply our theoretical knowledge in a practical setting In this block of classes that has just star ted after spring break, we ’ re going to have the chance to practice specific clinical skills on different species

That being said, I ve always been a proponent of the practice makes per fect mentality, and I had anticipated that vet school would involve a lot of practice I am also continually impressed by how confident the third and four th years seem to be in dealing with their patients and I assumed that this confidence was something they picked up in the first two years of vet school What I’m coming to realize is that this confidence is not something that they necessarily picked up in a strictly academic setting While it’s tr ue that we get a lot of hands on experience before clinics, “ a lot” is relative and really means that we get to practice routine procedures at most a handful of times

Although this is a handful more than at many other schools, it still doesn’t seem enough to me to create the level of confidence and skill that I want to have before entering clinics

What it really comes down to is that we have to take advantage of the tons of extracurricular activities offered to us I think that these are the things that give us the prac-

tice and self-assuredness that I’ve admired in the upperclassmen I’m used to prioritizing extracurriculars below academics, but I’m star ting to think that in vet school, they should be on slightly more even footing The multitudes of oppor tunities provided to us are not only fun and interesting, but also incredibly valuable practice For example, there’s a community healthy pet clinic that the vet school par ticipates in twice a month Owners bring their pets in, and for $20 they get routine shots, a physical exam, parasite preventatives and other routine maintenance The clinic is primarily staffed by students (who have completed the first block of classes in which we learn anatomy and how to do physical exams) with a fe w veterinarians from Cornell and the surrounding area on hand to offer help when needed I par ticipated in a clinic last November and found it to be exhilarating and motivating and my c

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with clients and their animals skyrocketed

In the same vein, underclassmen are encouraged to v o l u n t e e r ( f o r f u n o r f o r credit) in the Community Practice Ser vice at Cornell’s hospital Here, the third and four th years are the primar y clinicians, but the first and second years are the ones who get to greet the client and take a detailed histor y that we then present to the upperclassmen There are also several jobs in the hospital that we can take advantage of, and wet labs r un on a regular basis by the student clubs For example, last weekend I par ticipated in the large animal symposium which was put together by several of the student clubs who had invited guest speakers for one of the days and then divided the other day up into a series of labs Doctors in the hospital had volunteered their time to teach

Whenever I tell my friends what I’ve been doing since graduating in December, it usually comes as a bit of a surprise I can only assume the surprise comes from the fact that I star ted an apparel company called Bora Wear that gives par t of its proceeds to an orphanage for HIV+ children called TOTO Love even though: 1) I never spoke about entrepreneurship as a potential career option and 2) I wasn t a Fiber Science and Apparel design major And I completely understand where this

don’t see my underlying passion and vision Simply put, I want to make Africa a better place I

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us specific techniques and then super vised as we practiced some of them

As the year has gone by I’ve learned how to manage my studying so that I have enough time to do the activities I find most interesting (until it’s around two weeks before an exam, and then the studying takes over completely) I should emphasize that besides being good practice, all of the extracurriculars are a lot of fun and always help me refocus myself so that I remember why I’m studying so much and get excited about vet school all over again All that being said, I’m just a first year maybe I’ve got it all wrong and Cornell is a magical place where the upperclassmen have just learned how to do things by intuition and didn’t need any practice at all I’ll repor t back when I

get there, but right now I think I’ve learned that vet school itself is just a place where we learn all of the information we ’ re going to need to use in the future, but it’s taking advantage of the activities that aren ’ t formally par t of the curriculum that really gives us the skills to succeed

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun com Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester

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e l y we re n ’ t b e t t e r b u t t h e c o n ven i e n c e t h e s c a l e a n d t h e o r d e r o f A m e r i c a w a s m i n d b o g g l i n g It w a s t h e n t h a t I d e c i d e d t h a t m y g o a l w o u l d b e t o m a k e A f r i c a a b e t t e r p l a c e En t e r i n g C o r n e l l a s a C i v i l En g i n e e r, a t t h e s u g g e s t i o n o f m y f a t h e r, I s a w m y s e l f r a d i c a l l y a l t e r i n g t h e i n f r a s t r u ct u re o f t h e c o n t i n e n t , m ov i n g t ow a rd m y i n e v i t a b l e No b e l Pr i z e D e s p i t e t h e s e l o f t y a m b i t i o n s , I s o o n c a m e t o t h e re a l i z a t i o n t h a t e n g i n e e r i n g w a s n t f o r m e T h i s c o l l e g e w a s s u p p o s e d t o b e t h e m o s t p r a c t i c a l , ye t I w a s n t s e e i n g t h e a p p l i c a b i l i t y o f t h e i n t e g r a l o f s i n ( x ) t o t h e s t re e t c h i l d re n i n Na i ro b i Yo u c a n c a l l m e n a ï ve o r a “ Qu i t t e r ! , ” a s m y En g i n e e r i n g f r i e n d s d o , b u t I n e e d e d s o m e t h i n g e l s e t h a t b e t t e r s e r ve d m y p a s s i o n Eve n i f yo u d o n ’ t f i n d m y s t o r y t h a t i n t e re s t i n g o r c o m p e l l i n g , s t u d i e s h a ve s h ow n t h a t p a s s i o n m a k e s a d i f f e re n c e

James Muna ’12 Guest Room

G o a l s , D u c k w o r t h e t a l w a n t e d t o a n s we r t h e q u e s t i o n w h y s o m e i n d i v i du a l s a c c o m p l i s h m o re t h a n o t h e r s o f e q u a l i n t e l l i g e n c e ? Ac ro s s s i x s t u d i e s , t h e s e r e s e a r c h e r s f o u n d t h a t g r i t , “ w o r k i n g s t r e n u o u s l y t o w a r d c h a ll e n g e s , m a i n t a i n i n g e f f o r t a n d i n t e re s t ove r ye a r s d e s p i t e f a i l u re a d ve r s i t y a n d p l a t e a u s i n p ro g re s s , ” a c c o u n t e d f o r s i gn i f i c a n t i m p a c t o n s u c c e s s o u tc o m e s “ ov e r a n d b e y o n d t h a t e x p l a i n e d by I Q ” C o r n e l l i s a w a s h w i t h h a rd w o rk e r s a n d t a l e n t e d p e op l e , b u t t h o s e t w o t r a i t s m e a n n o t hi n g w i t h o u t s o m e u n d e r l y i n g p a s s i o n I know ever y Cornellian wants to be a success I know you want to graduate from this university and make some indelible mark on this planet But if you are not following some passion or interest, then you are lowering your chances to succeed Just to be clear, wanting more money isn t the kind of passion discussed here We are talking about a drive that gets you out of bed and you never stop thinking about We are talking about you being on the edge of financial r uin and still moving for ward We are talking about being happy and enjoying ever y moment of your tumultuous journey If your interests and your trajector y don’t line up, why are you doing it? Why are you making yourself

i n s u c c e s s In 1 8 6 9 , Si r Fr a n c i s Ga l t o n p u b l i s h e d t h e f i r s t s o c i a l s c i e n t i f i c s t u d y t h a t a n a l y ze d g e n i u s a n d g re a tn e s s G a l t o n c o l l e c t e d b i o g r a p h i c a l i n f o r m a t i o n o n e m i n e n t j u d g e s , s t a t e sm e n , s c i e n t i s t s , p o e t s , m u s i c i a n s , p a i n t e r s , w re s t l e r s a n d m a n y o t h e r s Ab i l i t y, h e c o n c l u d e d , w a s n o t e q u a l t o s u c c e s s ; i n s t e a d , h e c l a i m e d a c h i e ve r s we re t r i p l y b l e s s e d by “ a b i l i t y c o m b i n e d w i t h ze a l a n d w i t h c a p a c i t y f o r h a rd l a b o r ” In De ve l o p i n g Ta l e n t i n Yo u n g Pe o p l e , Be n j a m i n Bl o o m l o o k e d a t t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f w o r l d - c l a s s p i a n i s t s , n e u ro l o g i s t s , s w i m m e r s , c h e s s p l a ye r s , m a t h e m a t i c i a n s a n d s c u l p t o r s Bl o o m f o u n d t h a t t h e g e n e r a l c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f s u c c e s s we re a s t ro n g i n t e re s t i n t h e a re a , a d e s i re t o a c h i e ve “ a h i g h l e ve l o f a t t a i n m e n t ” i n a c h o s e n a re a a n d a w i l l i n g n e s s t o p u t i n g re a t a m o u n t s o f t i m e a n d e f f o r t ” In t h e i r s t u d y Gr i t : Pe r s e ve ra n c e a n d Pa s s i o n f o r L o n g - Te r m

suffer? Why are you resigning yourself to a life of unhappiness? With a profound attachment to your goal, you will f

Without that passion, it becomes that much easier to give up and live a life of mediocrity

I didn’t apply to a single job, much to the chagrin of my father Admittedly, I had no idea how to be an entrepreneur If it wasn ’ t for Dan Cohen and the entrepreneurship Lab (the business incubator at Cornell) I don’t think I would have fully pursued Bora Wear But this business is all about my passion and my vision The beauty of someone purchasing something at borawear com is that it isn’t just about the unique clothes, but it is about the fabrics we use and the textile jobs that we create, it is the smiling faces we will bring to the children at TOTO Love, and ultimately it will be the jobs we create when we open a factor y in Kenya and star t producing things there

Don’t just follow the crowd Don’t just look for the biggest paycheck Don’t just compromise your beliefs and values Do something that you care about Do it because you want to be successful Do it because you want to be fulfilled Do it because when you succeed you will be leading a life that you will be proud of And isn’t that wor th the str uggle?

James Muna graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences this December He may be reached at jmm548@cornell edu Guest Room appears periodically this semester

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After childhood, there seems to be something unsatisfying about fair y tales Damsels in distress, unremittingly evil antagonists and chivalrous princes are all good and well, but wouldn’t it be nice if the damsel could save herself once in a while? Doesn’t the villain have any good qualities, let alone sympathy? And why is it assumed that spoiled, pampered princes are ever y girl s ideal? Given the sle w of fair y tale adaptations coming to cinemas this year, it would seem that quite a fe w of us want something more than archetypical characters and dubious messages about not only gender roles, but also about good and evil Some movies and books have succeeded in reinventing the fair y tale However the greater par t of retellings seem to have nothing ne w to say: The characters are as static and onedimensional as ever, and the troubling messages only come across more strongly than before And despite all the hype Mirror Mirror directed by Tarsem Singh is unfor tunately of the latter categor y

The movie opens with the queen ( Julia Rober ts) narrating Snow White’s pitiful saga: after her mother dies, the king takes a ne w wife who wrestles the throne from the princess and declares it to be her own At the same time, the queen declares this stor y to be her own, which sets expectations quite high: Who doesn t love an indepth study of an antagonist’s psychology? Suffice it to say that these expectations are completely deflated almost immediately All sympathies lie with the soft-spoken and spineless Snow White (Lily Collins), who has not been allowed to leave the castle since her father passed away

One cannot help but suspect that it is not the evil queen who stands in her way, but rather Snow White’s lack of conviction; once one of the stock ser vant characters convinces her to leave the castle and see the plight of the people for herself, she goes merrily on her way without so much as a Halt!” from the ridiculouslydressed guards While walking through the forest, she meets the handsome and conveniently n

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Hammer), who has just been

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White to be their girlfriend for the umpteenth time, the joke got rather worn out

One could say that the clichés and silliness were selfaware and therefore slightly more palatable But no a m o u n t o f s e l f - a w a r e n e s s could make up for the shoddy c h a

Directed by Tarsem Singh

Featuring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts

towards each other is instantaneous, albeit contrived, but it is thwar ted by the queen ’ s plan to marr y the boy Snow White is exiled from the palace so that the queen can have her way with Alcott Hilarious high-jinks ensue If only that were the case! The dialogue is wooden and painfully unfunny: At one point, two of the guards pinky-swear to one another that they will not tell the queen about Snow White s outing to the village The dwar ves ’ salivating over Snow White is irritating and

cled, albeit small, men The queen ’ s laborious effor ts to retain her youthful glow are too close to the tr uth to really be laughable; when she slathers bird droppings on her face and tells herself to go to her happy place, one can easily imagine Julia Rober ts enduring a similar procedure outside the context of the movie

Not to say that there wasn ’ t some laughter in the theater, but after the dwar ves asked

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White, but she also acts like Snow White She never raises her voice above a whisper and her idea of rebellion is crashing a masked ball which her stepmother has expressly forbid her to attend Her sympathies with the star ving peasants make her some what more likable, but it is never indicated that she plans to do anything about it other than wring her hands and shed a fe w tears Like many writers and directors before him, Singh is under the mistaken impression that putting a sword in a woman ’ s hand suddenly makes her stronger While the montage in which Snow White learns how to fight shows her determination, it also makes one wonder: Why doesn ’ t she use this strong will of h e r s t o o v e r t h r o w h e r s t e pmother, help her people or at least claim her prince? Why is she content to simply stay in the woods? Her romance with the prince is one of the shallowest love stories ever depicted: After a handful of meetings in which they ogle each other, they decide they are in love and of course the movie ends with a lavish wedding Perhaps they do d e s e r v e e a c h o t h e r ; Pr

n c e Alcott has about as much personality as a rock, though he is considerably better looking In the end, Mirror Mirror makes no attempt to subver t or even trouble the gender stereotypes and myriad other issues raised in the original fair y tale Yes, the girl learns how to wield a sword, but does she really learn how to speak her mind and fend for herself? Yes, the boy gets the girl, but what does it mean if their relationship is based purely on physical qualities? Mirror Mirror is that deceptive, pretty apple that disappoints from the ver y first bite

Lubabah Chowdhury is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at lchowdhury@cornellsun com

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy tells the story of George Smiley, a semi-retired British intelligence agent recalled by his boss in the early 1970s to investigate a Russian mole planted in the top ranks of Smiley’s former employer MI-6 His task is fraught with confusion from the get-go Known internally as the “circus,” MI-6 has a weak immune reaction to their intelligence leak, and transforms from a potent intelligence apparatus to an asylum for paranoia Director Tomas Alfredson throws us into a fog, and it’s only at the end of the movie that the sky begins to clear up

Through a series of flashbacks and parallel narratives, the movie adapted from John le Carré’s classic spy novel chronicles Smiley’s investigation of the circumstances surrounding Operation Testify, an attempt by MI-6 to find the Soviet Union’s mole inside British intelligence The operation culminates in a meeting in Budapest between agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) and a defecting Hungarian general, who possesses ostensible knowledge of the mole’s identity

The movie begins with scenes from the mission Prideaux is shot in the back by Hungarian agents shortly after leaving his meeting, which turns out to have been a setup Buccaneer field agent Ricky Tarr (Tom Hardy) soon enters the picture We learn that it was Tarr who originally acquired knowledge of the mole and tipped off Oliver Lacon (John Hurt), the civil service intelligence agent who assigned Smiley to the task But Tarr obtained this information through a love affair with the wife of a Soviet agent, creating a conflict of interest that influences

“Yhis later actions With Tarr on his side, Smiley enlists Peter Guillam, Tarr’s immediate superior, in a spy operation against the top four members of the circus Their code names are the title of the movie

But the new team doesn’t operate smoothly Personality faults strain communication and provide a sub-context that casts doubt on many of their actions Tarr has his love affair, which he hopes to continue if Smiley can pull off a swap of agents with the Russians Guillam, a dweeby, awkward spy, is professionally oriented He is reluctant to engage in devious activities, even if they are

Smiley is cold

He’s not an engaging protagonist, though his success in his former career as a spy does make him the most interesting professionally Each seems to possess an agenda of his own

The viewer only gets a general picture of how these characters ally with one another through scattered, anachronistic recollections As a consequence, the present remains unclear throughout the narrative And even when the characters do open up with information or recount a memory of an important event, their stances remain unclear For instance, it only becomes possible to understand Tarr’s connection to the chain of events after enough details emerge to clarify the relationship between cause and effect Simliarly, Smiley conceals his intentions, and his stoic demeanor suggests little prior disposition towards his former colleagues He negotiates with his teammates obliquely, providing them with enough information but remaining at arm ’ s length

Because of the general sense of mistrust, personal conflicts and the nature of espionage, ver y little information in the movie is reliable

“Everything the circus thinks is gold is shit,” one of the top agents admits later in the movie It’s true, we learn The viewer joins Smiley in his task to swim to the bottom of this shit, but the account is impersonal We’re treated like a fellow-spy Alfredson’s visual and audio techniques assist in this mission From across the street or in adjacent buildings, we see characters meeting While this makes for a captivating cinematographic experience, it makes events difficult to interpret The transition between scenes is choppy, leaving the viewer guessing what event or time period the narrative has just entered

of espionage madness is not confined to individual cases It flourishes in its collective form It is a homegrown attitude of the industry as a whole Is a cure at hand? I doubt it,” he wrote

The disease that Le Harpe describes counts delusion, paranoia and fantasy as some of its most dangerous symptoms

If one feels like an outsider, it’s only because that’s what a spy is: an outsider, privy only to the information he or she gathers or is granted access to Above all, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy portrays an organization sickened by mistrust The film examines the problems bound to arise in an agency committed to a national purpose, but whose currency of communication is necessarily clandestine

In a 2008 essay in The New Yorker, Le Harpe, a former British spy, reflected on the general attitude he encountered while working for the British security service MI-5 and its emergence in his fiction “The superbug

The Filmpocalypse

ou are the generation of lost photographs,” a family friend told me as he handed me another Leica camera body to examine The camera had a solid yet reassuring quality to it, like a semi-automatic weapon with a harmless trigger He went on, “I used to work at Bel Air Camera and I met my wife there when I was your age I know cameras There’s just something about film that digital technology can never achieve

It seems that film is out and digital is in Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January, following Polaroid to the technological graveyard What’s amazing to me is that Kodak actually invented the first digital camera, but chose not to focus on developing the technology for fear of undermining their monopoly on film Oops

I’m no Luddite I appreciate the convenience of digital imaging technology (and technology in general) as much as the next man Digital images are generally a lot easier to work with: we don’t have to make our film pass through the X-ray machine at the airport, we don’t have to wait more than a second to see what our pictures actually look like, and we can carry thousands of them with us in a chip not much bigger than our thumbnail

The jump to the digital has been largely driven by these convenience factors, but digital images have no permanence

There are no negatives of digital images You might have seen a jpg of Keanu Reeves this week on the internet with a quote: “Archiving digital images is a technological dilemma The idea of that discovered shoebox of pictures, or wedding album, will not exist digitally in your camera or on your computer or in a ‘cloud’: you should print them ”

How many of your pictures does Facebook own? We’ve all blindly scrolled through and agreed to the Terms of Service Suppose Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day, unsat-

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Smiley finds himself in the midst of one of the worst episodes of this plague: members of the agency are definitely paranoid and obsessed with fantasies about the mole’s identity Le Harpe experienced something similar In the 1960s, while he was working for MI-6, he weathered a wave of communist paranoia that swept the agency and led to a blood letting If the events of the story seem muddled, or if Le Harpe remains confused about the events in his own biography, the nature of the disease amongst spy agencies is much clearer

Joey Anderson is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at janderson@cornellsun com

isfied with his life as a billionaire, longing for a Charlie Sheen-esque harem and a garage full of Bugattis, Paganis, and Ferraris instead of his single modest Honda Fit, and so decided that Facebook photos would cost $100 a year Would you pay? I personally wouldn’t want to lose the 750 photos my friends and I have taken over my 6 year Facebook membership I’m not quite sure any of those photos exist anywhere else anyway We’ve put all of our photographic eggs into only a few digital baskets, which are tenuous at best Digital image technology is partially responsible for furthering our own narcissism Cameras are omnipresent, as are Photoshopped magazine cover models You don t like the way you look in that picture? Push that trash button and try it again This is nearly impossible to do with film; it’s hard to know immediately if you’ll get a shot “right,” and either way it costs you some money We all know that guy or girl on Facebook or Myspace with all of their pictures thoroughly vetted to portray themselves in the image they desire, rippling 6-pack abs and all And to a certain extent, that’s all that we see of others Gone is the private photo album, saved only for your close friends and grandchildren We “Like” to see others keeping up appearances and showing themselves off to the world It is a compulsion created by the panopticon of Facebook and social media: your digital self is being watched constantly, but you can ’ t be sure when or by whom

We might be hooking up with the digital but we still love film Consider Instagram, Apple s 2011 “App of the Year

All it does is make your digital photos look more interesting and lifelike by putting a film-like filter over them Film is what makes the Ride of the Valkyries scene in Apocalypse

Now so incredible since all of the helicopters and guns have to be genuine, not just digitally added ghosts Film is reel Keanu Reeves is releasing a new documentary this summer entitled Side By Side, in which he speaks with filmmakers like James Cameron, Danny Boyle and George Lucas about the shift from film to digital cinema I can ’ t think of a better person to tackle the uncanny valley and the issues with digital 3D than Keanu, who brought the world into the age of CGI with The Matrix way back in 1999

This week Google began testing their new augmented reality glasses, with the potential to overlay digital images onto our everyday lives It’s an amazing sign of progress, but a reminder that we must overcome the shortcomings of digital imagery and cameras in our art and our culture before we can move forward

I bid farewell to my family friend, who had given me another antiquity, a fountain pen, before bounding down his brick front steps and into my car I tuned in to K-EARTH 101 1 only to hear Paul Simon pleading with the world, “Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away ”

Patrick Cambre is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at pcambre@cornellsun com L A Daze appears alternate Fridays this semester

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Red, having lost to Cornell each of the last 14 times the two sides met

“ We had a good game against them last year, ” said senior midfielder Mitch McMichael We shut them down pretty good ”

While the Red has dominated the Crimson as of late, the team knows that Har vard is a serious contender this year and is not to be taken lightly “ We expect to see a really talented team, who’s going to be eager to play a tough game against us, ” Daugher ty said “ We beat them twice last year –once on their field – and we beat them pretty handily in the Ivy Tournament at Schoellkopf We look for ward to seeing a hungr y group who’s ready to take a shot at us ”

On the field, Har vard has received par ticularly strong per formances from senior attackman Jeff Cohen, who leads the Crimson in both goals and points, with 36 and 40 respectively

“[Har vard] is ver y specialized,” McMichael said “Jeff Cohen, no 23, is obviously their top player We had a good game plan against him last year shut him down pretty good, so that’s one guy we have to worr y about ”

Squaring off against McMichael in the face-off spot will most likely be freshman midfielder Keegan Michel, who has won 61 percent of face-offs while

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also leading the Crimson in ground balls with 36 Between the pipes, the Red will be looking to get the ball past junior goalkeeper Harr y Krieger and freshman netminder Jake Gambitsky, who will be splitting time Sophomore attackman Daniel Elipp will also pose a serious threat to the Red, tallying 19 goals and 14 assists for the Crimson this season

Despite Har vard being a daunting opponent, the Red has spent much of its practice time this week tr ying to improve its own game instead of preparing specifically for the Crimson, believing that is the best way to prepare for Saturday “ We’re focusing a little bit less on Har vard and a little bit more on ourselves,” Daugher ty said “ We’re getting back to basics and working on fundamentals: stick-work, ground ball play, and getting back to our fundamentals – which make Cornell Lacrosse what it is We’re focusing more on us this week ” While the team as a whole feels that it needs to do more to get to the point where it should be, the

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impressed by cer tain Cornell players, with standout freshman attackman Matt Donovan earning his third Ivy League Rookie of the Week award and injured senior attackman Rob Pannell being named a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CL ASS Award

Zach Waller can be reached at zwaller@cornellsun com

C.U. Trie s to Defeat

By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Wr ter

The women ’ s rowing team will travel to Princeton, N J and New Haven, Conn this weekend to face Princeton, Radcliffe, Columbia and Yale Coming off an impressive season opener last week, the No 16 Red are prepared for one of its toughest races yet

The team will race the three schools on Saturday morning at the Class of 1975 Regatta in New Jersey, before heading straight to Connecticut to take on Yale in the afternoon

According to head coach Hilary Gehman, recovering between back-to-back races will be the Red s greatest challenge

“It’s not an ideal situation to get right on a bus for three hours after you race, get off the bus and race again,” she said “We’ll definitely be working on recovery ” Gehman emphasizes the importance of getting the squad walking around the bus to make sure muscles are moving, while senior Anna Psiaki claims “chocolate milk and maybe a neck massage ” are crucial to post-race recovery

In the history of Cornell women s rowing, the Red has only defeated Princeton once, in 1983 Psiaki says the Tigers pose the biggest threat on Saturday

“Sometimes we look at Princeton as this unbeatable force,” she said “But they’re girls just like us that work hard every day and I think we have the ability to work harder than them and beat them one stroke at a time ”

The Tigers opened their season with mixed results, winning two of their five events against Brown and Michigan

While Princeton might be its strongest opponent, senior Taylor Goetzinger says the Red does not underestimate the other teams, especially Columbia

“Some of our boats have never beaten Columbia before,” Goetzinger said They’ve snuck up on us when they shouldn ’ t have but we ’ re prepared for that this year ”

Columbia has beaten the Red in the 1st Varsity for the past two years, while 2011 marked Cornell s first win over Yale in nearly ten years Radcliffe, too, has increased its speed this year, Gehman said

Despite these skilled competitors, Psiaki believes the Red is mentally prepared to take on the challenge

“I think our greatest strength is our instinct and competitive spirit,” she said “We have so many people that are fighters and want to win above anything else ”

Beyond this determined mentality, both Gehman and Goetzinger cite the team ’ s depth and speed across the board as major advantages going into this weekend

“We don’t just have one or two fast boats,” Gehman said “I think all of our boats are going to be competitive, and our varsity is really fast this year which is an added bonus ” “ We’re really excited about our speed this year, ” Goetzinger the seventh seat on the 1st Varsity boat added “How we compete against Princeton and Yale will tell us a lot about where we stand in the Ivy League ”

Due to a recent change in NCAA qualifying this is the first year that there will be an Ivy League championship for women ’ s rowing Prior to this season, the Ivy League was a part of the Eastern Sprints Rowing League However, the NCAA will instate a new conference qualifier system as of 2013 The winning team from each conference will advance automatically to the NCAA tournament, while remaining

schools compete for at-large invitations The Ivy League championships will take place in May

According to Goetzinger, Cornell’s program has been steadily improving in recent seasons In 2010, the Red achieved its first national ranking since 2004, and it narrowly missed out on the NCAA tournament in 2011

“Our program is kind of up and coming over the past few years, ” Goetzinger said “We’re going from the underdog position to a crew that can hang with anyone ”

To prepare for this weekend, the Red has concentrated on stamina, recovery and mental focus

“As a team we decided to start preparing for this race last weekend,” Goetzinger said “We needed to get our minds in the right place for racing these teams and for recovering in between races ”

“We’ve been doing a lot of full-out race pieces back-toback to try and prepare for the double race format,” Gehman said

Although they have a difficult weekend ahead of them, all three women are confident that the Red has the ability to win

“We’re out for blood,” Psiaki said “Nothing and no one can hold us back ”

Red Plays Host to April Open at Barton

By SHAYAN SALAM Sun Staff Wr ter

The men ’ s and women ’ s track teams will compete at home this weekend as they host a variety of teams during the April Open Competing at the meet will be Syracuse, Binghamton, Buffalo and other schools Additionally two Canadian universities, Carleton and Toronto, will both make the trip down to compete at Cornell

So far, the Red has had a successful start to the outdoor season Both teams fared well during their spring break trip to California meets, and numerous athletes placed in their events during last weekend’s Ithaca Invites

According to women ’ s head coach Richard Bowman, the meet should be an opportunity for every athlete to experience some fresh and strong competition

“It will be competitive in almost every event with some great athletes It’s time for people to start to make their mark in the outdoor season, ” Bowman

said According to senior captain and decathlete Nick Huber, the meet is an important one for the men ’ s team as well, because it will be a rare opportunity to compete in the decathlon

“It s really big for a lot of guys, we re going to race really hard,” he said “The decathletes are going to be competing in probably one of three decathlons this year Pretty much everyone on our team is competing and we’ll be going full strength ”

The decathlon, a grueling two day event, will test competitors over the course of the weekend

This meet will also be the first outdoor meet where everyone on the team will compete together

Choosing the people to compete in each event will be really hard when we have so many good girls in each event

However, I think that’s a good problem to have because it means we have depth on the team, said senior sprinter Melissa Hewitt

“We’ll have everyone at the same place at the same time which will help us feed off each other and get into a rhythm,” Huber said “It will be very unified this weekend compared to the California meets and Ithaca Invite ”

The April Open, along with the Bucknell Invite and Upstate Challenge will be the three meets the teams will participate in before qualification meets like Penn Relays begin

“These next three meets will be determiners of who will be able to qualify and go to our championship meets, ” Bowman said “These are meets where almost everybody on the team can compete and get a chance to make their mark ”

Both teams will soon find themselves in championship season, with only a month to go until the Ivy League Championships

“We try to take it one weekend at a time and do the best we can, but when championship time comes around we ll be really excited,” Hewitt said Bowman echoed her sentiments, but understands that his team needs to be cautious about becoming complacent, even though it performed well in indoor season

“ We felt pretty good about the indoor season, and we ’ re really lucky to have these meets to sort ourselves out, ” he said “We want people to understand that just because something went well during indoor season doesn’t mean that we can let up at all That was a long time ago and we want the good things to carry over but we also don’t need anybody settling ”

Squad Hits the Road To Play Brown, Yale

with five starters batting over 300 Junior infielder Cody Slaughter leads the team at 339 with 13 RBI’s and two long balls However, Brown’s pitching staff has struggled so far this season Only two starters have ERAs below seven Heath Mayo, who has the most wins on the team with two in five starts sports a 4 50 ERA

The Red’s offense, though, which has been solid in Ivy League play, will likely be without sparkplug Brian Billigen, who suffered an injury last weekend Billigen is leading the team in all offensive categories except homeruns

“We’ve got to remain healthy It hurts to lose Billigen,” Walkenbach said

The Bulldogs (6-18, 0-4) have dropped four straight conference games to Columbia and Penn They are riding on Cale Hanson’s offense to carry them through the deep Ivy league Hanson is batting a team high 463 and has stolen five bases On the mound, Pat Ludwig leads the team with a 2 27 ERA, but he has yet to record a win in five starts Junior Nolan Becker has also started five games, and has a 1-3 record with a 5 54 ERA

With the possibility of pushing past Princeton and Penn in a three-way tie for first with wins this weekend, the Red is focusing on putting teams away early, according to junior infielder Brenton Peters

“We need to improve on getting ahead on a team that s already down, he said “We ve let a couple teams that we got ahead of stay around ” The Red was guilty of this on Wednesday, when it let the Griffins hang around and come back from a four run deficit to make the game a nail-biter

“We have to do a better job making sure teams know we ’ re going to stay ahead and not let them back in the game, ” Peters said

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Red S et to Battle Har vard at Home

Looking to remain undefeated in Ivy League play, the men ’ s lacrosse team takes to the field this weekend to face surging Har vard Things kick off Saturday at 1 p m with the Red welcoming the Crimson to the tur f at Schoellkopf

Fo l l o w i n g l a s t w e e k s w i n a t Dar tmouth, the No 5 Red (7-1, 3-0 Ivy League) sits in a three-way tie atop the conference standings and will be looking to make that position more exclusive by knocking off Har vard (54, 2-0), who also shares the honor (along with No 10 Princeton) While the Red continues to dominate in the wins column, having won its last four contests – including 3 Ivy League victories – the team is still not satisfied with the way it has been playing and knows that it will need to step up its game if it hopes to down a team like Har vard “ We aren ’ t too happy with the way we got our win last

weekend,” said senior midfielder Chip Daugher ty “Our stick-work was poor and we didn’t r un our offense We made a lot of improvements this week and we ’ ve had a good week of practice so far We’re really excited to have another home Ivy League game ” Har vard comes into the contest having won three of

With a 3-1 record in Ivy play and a 7-2 record overall, the women ’ s lacrosse team is poised to make a run for the Ivy League Championship a feat that has not been accomplished since 2006 Coming off a huge over time win against Princeton, the Red looks to build on its momentum against Dartmouth at home on Saturday, and hopefully climb even further in the national rankings

Dartmouth (7-1, 3-0 Ivy League) has always been a good team, and we have been working all this week to focus and develop a strategy against them,” said senior midfielder Katie Kirk

When Cornell (7-2, 3-1) faces off against the Green this Friday, the team will be facing a Dartmouth squad that is loaded with talent and looking to make a run at a national title this year

The Green is currently ranked in the Top-10 in two national polls In addition, the Green is coming off a two game winning streak, and has suffered its only loss to nationally ranked Florida “Dartmouth is a good team, and we have had a lot of trouble competing with them in the past, ” said junior attack Veronica Lizzio “At the same time, every Ivy game is important, and we prepare accordingly for each one ” However, despite Dar tmouth’s firepower, Cornell is still riding its overtime win against Princeton last weekend Senior captain Jessi Steinberg’s impressive performance earned her the title of womenslax com Player of the Week Her four goals and one assist against the Tigers propelled the Red to victory In addition, senior

defender Cacki Helmer is having a career season, earning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 12 for creating numerous turnovers and collecting eight ground balls

“The win against Princeton was great, said senior attack Olivia Knotts “It kept us in the running for the Ivy title, and made the game against Dartmouth this week mean even more ”

In addition to staying in contention for the conference title, a win against Dartmouth would give the seniors a victory against a team that they have yet to defeat in their careers at Cornell

“This game against Dartmouth has some extra meaning for us, ” Knotts said “Not only would it give us a major victory in Ivy League play but it would give us our first win against a team we have not defeated in three years ” Cornell will face off against the Green on Saturday at 7:00 P M The game will also be Cornell’s “Pink Game” this season, as t-shirts will be sold and donations will be accepted to raise awareness for breast cancer

After giving up an early four-run lead, sophomore infielder Ben Swinford’s RBI double in the top of the seventh inning gave Cornell the victory in the first of two non-conference games with Canisius on Wednesday In the nightcap, the Griffins handed the Red just its second loss in the last 11 games, 7-3 Canisius (17-16) plated four runs in the fifth inning of the first game, but the Red was able to fight back in the seventh Freshman infielder Kevin Tatum started off the late-inning rally with a walk and an advance to second on a wild-pitch He then came around to score on what would eventually be the winning run on Swinford’s double down the right field line Tatum scored two of the team ’ s five runs, and Swinford was 3-3 with 3 RBI’s in the game

“We’ve had a great influx of young hitters,” said head coach Bill Walkenbach When one guy gets hot it takes pressure off other guys and our offense snowballs from

there ”

The Red also got another solid relief appearance from freshman Kellen Urbon He threw a scoreless bottom of the seventh to close out the game and record his fifth save of the season In the second game of the doubleheader, errors plagued the Red Of the seven runs the Griffins scored, only three were earned The offense also had no answer for the four different pitchers Canisius put on the mound, as it only recorded three hits

Last weekend, the baseball team rode sophomore Connor Kaufmann’s no-hitter – the first in 32 years – to a sweep of Dartmouth in the first weekend of Ivy League play This weekend the Red will head to Providence, R I for two games with Brown, and then to New Haven, Conn for a series with the Yale Bulldogs

The Bears (4-18, 2-2 Ivy League) are coming off series splits with both Columbia and Penn They sport a formidable lineup,