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Tr ust ees Est ablish Search Committ ee

To Replace Skorton

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

The Cornell Board of Trustees announced the formation of a Presidential Search Committee on March 28, which will nominate President David Skorton’s successor Skorton will step down from his current position at the University to ser ve as the secretar y of the Smithsonian Institution the world’s largest museum and research complex in June 2015 His departure from Cornell was announced March 10

The committee comprised of 19 members spanning numerous Cornell constituencies was appointed by Robert Harrison ’76, chair of Cornell’s Board of Trustees, according to a University release Representatives come from the Board of Trustees, faculty, undergraduate and graduate student bodies, University employees, the Weill Cornell Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences,

See SEARCH page 5

In light of his recent conviction for taking bribes while in office, Ehud Olmert former prime minister of Israel will no longer speak at Cornell on April 8, according to a Jewish National Fund press release issued Tuesday

The former prime minister was convicted of taking bribes to “ ease the construction of a huge housing com-

Jerusalem,” according to The New York Times He is now facing up to seven years in prison and is barred from leaving Israel Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003, super vising the Israel Lands Authority during the

complex called Holyland, The New York Times said The complex

Police Discover Mobile Meth Lab Near Green Street Parking Garage

This article appeared online on April 2

An employee of Tompkins Consolidated

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y embezzling nearly $250,000 from the company over the last several years, according to police Pamela Johnson of Cortland, N Y was charged for Grand Larceny in the Second Degree Wednesday after a “lengthy police investigation” stemming from irregularities

Department press release Johnson allegedly

unauthorized bank account under the guise of payments to a TCAT vendor In re

Police discovered a mobile methamphetamine lab near the Green Street parking garage Sunday after testing bottles filled with hazardous chemicals

, TC AT

Chairman KyuJung Whang who is also Cornell’s vice president for facilities issued a statement confirming that Johnson’s

Wednesday “ The TCAT Board of Directors and the TCAT management team are taking their obligations ver y seriously in the wake of

Ithaca police arrived on scene at approximately 1 p m Sunday near the 200 block of East Green Street and discovered approximately six bottles of an unknown chemical, which Lee LaBuff, assistant fire

chief for the Ithaca Fire Department, said could be reactive Upon arrival on the scene, responders tentatively assumed that the bottles were related to the production of meth, LaBuff added At approximately 6 p m , state and local police were on scene alongside IFD Technicians were able to confirm that the substance was m e t h a m

according to an IFD

press release An outside private company disposed of the substances While firefighters were on standby, LaBuff said the situation was “stable” and that the public was in no immediate danger He added that responders “ treat every situation as a serious hazard” when arriving on the scene

Compiled by Tyler Alicea

FORECAST

Dyson Business Program Ranked Third Nationally

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Wr ter

For the third year in a row, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Cornell’s Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management as the third best undergraduate business program out of 132 schools sur veyed in its 2014 rankings

This year, Dyson ranked behind University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce which were first and second respectively according to the rankings Director of the Dyson School Prof Chris Barrett, applied economics and management, said the ranking reflected Dyson’s high quality of students, faculty and alumni

Since the the Dyson program focuses on undergraduates, “they [are at] the center of attention for a world class faculty [which] is reflected in Dyson’s especially high ratings for student satisfaction,” Barrett said

According to Businessweek, many top undergraduate business programs are separate from graduate MBA schools, and a school with a highly rated undergraduate program does not necessarily have a similarly ranked graduate program

T h e Jo h n s o n Gr a d u a t e S c h o o l o f Management was ranked seventh by Businessweek in 2012

Students majoring in applied econ o m i c s a n d m a n a g e m e n t s

Dyson’s commitment to students was one of the program ’ s main strengths

Kwesi Acquay ’14 said “Additionally, the respect that Dyson has among the best employers in the world differentiates our program The top employers continue to make a concer ted effor t to recr uit Dyson students ”

“Dyson is committed to its students, as it continues to innovate with new initiatives to improve student experience ”

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“Dyson is committed to its students, as it continues to innovate with a number of quality ne w initiatives to improve students’ experience and career oppor tunities,”

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comes from the program ’ s small class size, according to Lawrence Ntim ’17

“It’s one of the smallest undergraduate business programs, ” Ntim said “ The second you get in, they nur ture you and focus on getting you the skills and tools to become an effective leader, communicator and innovator ” Because of the small size of its business program around 740 students, according to Businessweek

Dyson can foster a “collaborative, learning environment, ” Don Muir ’15 said “

emulates the real world working environment and corporate culture of today’s highly successful companies,” he said

Students and professors said they expect Dyson to continue on its trajector y and remain a top undergraduate business program “ With the renovation of Warren Hall wrapping up next winter, some exciting ne w faculty joining the program this summer and an even more selective group of incoming freshmen next year, we aspire to improve further in the rankings in the coming couple of years, ” Barrett said

My rick ’09 Talks Healthcare on Meet the Press

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on March 30 to discuss what host Chuck Todd described as being the “single biggest issue” driving American politics: healthcare

Myrick alongside journalists Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report and Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times participated in the roundtable segment of the program and spoke about issues of healthcare coverage and their relevance nationally, as well as to the

Cornell and Ithaca communities

Former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R) also took part in the discussion

When asked by Todd if there was much discourse in Ithaca on the topic of healthcare and coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Myrick said people were generally “excited” to get covered

“Particularly young people are signing up, which is good for us one of the things we have is a huge pool of talent at Cornell,” Myrick said “Young people with great ideas want to start their own companies [and] create their own jobs, but they’re not able to do it because they need health insur-

ance

”

Myrick went on to say that much of this demographic who still needs health insurance end up taking jobs in fields they do not enjoy or work at companies they have no desire to work in

“We [end up] los[ing] out on a lot of innovation, because they’re not able to take these chances,” he said

With regard to the Senate midterm elections in November and the question if Democrats would be able to maintain their majority in the face of turbulent discussion surrounding healthcare

Myrick said he believes voters will be most concerned about issues pertaining to the

future

“To me, it’s the future elections are always about the future,” he said “And Obamacare and the debate over it is increasingly going to become the path ” Myrick elaborated on this point, saying that even if in the near future people would be “insured all over the country, ” many would still be concerned with large issues such as job creation and educational attainment

“Who is going to create jobs? Who is going to help my kid go to college? Who is going to help us build a better countr y? ”

Myrick said “If the Republicans continue to talk about the past, I don’t think they’re going to be successful ”

The mayor, however, also spoke of what he saw as a pressing issue to Ithaca and the entire country When asked by Todd what he considered the “biggest problem” he was facing as mayor, Myrick simply replied with “ potholes ”

“[Potholes are] a national epidemic,” Myrick said to Todd “The problem is broader than that there’s a reason why we can ’ t afford to fix those potholes, and that’s something every mayor across the country is struggling with ”

TCAT to Employ Forensic Auditing Firm to Inspect Agency Records

these grave allegations,” Whang said “ The TCAT board and management team are firmly committed to ensuring that such incidents do not occur in the future We are reviewing all of our accounting p r o c e s s e s a n d w i l l i m p l e m e n t a l l n e c e s s a r y changes ”

Ac c o rd i n g t o W h a n g ’ s s t a t e m e n t , TC AT i s employing an independent forensic auditing firm to “further scrutinize the agency ’ s financial records” in the wake of the incident Wang also said the company will seek to require Johnson to make full restitution to the company

It h a c a Ma y o r Sv a n t e My r i c k ’ 0 9 a n d Jo e l Malina, vice president for university relations, issued a joint statement Wednesday conveying their disappointment over the “ ver y disturbing news ” “ The County, City and Cornell have for years found in TCAT a solid partner in area transportation We b

“It is deeply disappointing to learn that a steward of these resources allegedly put her personal interests ahead of [the community.]” S v a n t e M y r i c k ’ 0 9 a n d J o e l M

and have

Myrick and Malina went on to demand the recover y of all of the lost assets to TCAT as well as improvement to the company ’ s internal controls to ensure that a similar incident could not occur “ We know that if the Board finds that lapses in oversight and control enabled this activity to occur over the course of several years, it will hold appropriate individuals accountable,” they said

Chief of Police John Barber commended IPD’s role in the investigation, according to the IPD press release

“I’m proud of the effort

Fre

My

and members of the IPD Investigative Division who worked diligently to solve this crime,” Barber said “

amount of concentration and attention to detail to adequately prepare the case for prosecution ”

proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt

“It is important for people to realize that the criminal justice system will ultimately decide guilt and innocence, but this is a strong case, ” Wilkinson said in an IPD press release “It was a superb job by all of the people involved in investigating this crime ”

Student: Cancellation O f Olmert’s Cornell Visit

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resources necessar y to operate a high quality transit system, ” Myrick and Malina said “It is deeply disappointing to learn that a steward of these resources allegedly put her personal interests ahead of the taxpayers, funding partners, and riders who support and rely on TCAT ever y day ”

The date for Johnson’s next court appearance has not yet been determined

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

o r n e l l a b o u t h ow

Is r a e l m a i n t a i n s a d e m o c r ac y a m o n g s t i t s Mi d d l e E a s t n e i g h b o r s , T h e Su n p re v io u s l y re p o r t e d T h e e ve n t w a s t o b e h o s t e d by C o r n e l l Hi l l e l S a m a n t h a We i s m a n ’ 1 5 , p r e s i d e n t o f H i l l e l , s a i d t h a t w h i l e t h e o r g a n i z a t i o n w a s “d i s a p p o i n t e d ” d u e t o t h e c a n c e l l a t i o n , t h e s i t u at i o n w a s n o t u n d e r t h e i r c o n t r o l “A l t h o u g h we a re d i s a pp o i n t e d h e w o n ’ t b e c o m i n g , t h e Je w i s h Na t i o n a l Fu n d w a s b r i n g i n g h i m a n d i t w a s u l t i m a t e l y t h e i r d e c i s i o n , ” s h e s a i d “ It’s u n f o r t u n a t e ,

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun com

1 JAN ROCK ZUBROW ’77, trustee

2 PROF BARBARA BAIRD M S ’75, PH.D. ’79, chemistr y and chemical biology, trustee

3 JOSEPH BURNS, PH.D. ’66, dean of University faculty

4 DAVID CROLL ’70, trustee

5 PROF JONATHAN CULLER, English

6 ROSS GITLIN ’15, undergraduate student trustee

7 LAURIE GLIMCHER, Stephen and Suzanne Weiss dean of Weill Cornell Medical College

8 ROBERT HARRISON ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees

RONALD MCCRAY ’79, trustee

MITTMAN ’71,

NOLAN ’80, MBA ’82,

,

PILLSBURY ’69, trustee

LISA SKEETE TATUM ’89, trustee

TISCH ’71, trustee

SANFORD WEILL ’55, trustee emeritus

BARTON WINOKUR ’61, trustee

PROF. MARIANA WOLFNER ’74, molecular biology and genetics, trustee

Trustee Jan Rock Zubrow ’77

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All Mom, No Tiger

Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother might be shocking or just plain wrong, but if her initial goal was to sell books she has marvelously succeeded “Tiger mom ” is now a phrase that has spread beyond Chua’s dreams as part of our modern lexicon, used pejoratively to describe any mother who instills discipline for successful children But let’s cut to the chase: Nowadays, people use “tiger mom ” with racial undertones, evoking unspoken stereotypes of Asian women like a shortcut to avoid actually mentioning the stereotype itself

I can ’ t tell you to stop saying a word, or command you to use it in different way it is a free country, after all But a free country also means I can snarkily ridicule things I don’t like, and until my editors fire me for being annoying I’ll continue to do just that I’m also not going to defend Chua, because any person who recklessly generalizes entire cultures “Chinese parenting” is superior to “Western parenting” is unworthy of defense If we can ’ t take the fundamental assumptions of her latest book at face value, then we shouldn’t assume her other contributions either at face value Being an authoritarian is Amy Chua’s description of Amy Chua If she described herself as the “unchill mom, ” Chua is still describing Chua

But with Chua’s encouragement, much of the mainstream media has exploded the term from its strictly ascribed boundaries of parenting into a cultural conversation that doesn’t exist Chua, in a later interview following publication of Battle Hymn, smugly told The Guardian that “When I show this book to immigrants and immigrants’ kids, they were like, exactly, this is how it is It’s funny, they relate, it’s not controversial for them ” Rather than question this association, the media went along with it If you write something generalizing the negative reaction to Chua as American “fears about losing ground to China,” for example, then you should reconsider publishing it

Putting Chua on a pedestal means accepting her equivalence of “Chinese parenting” whatever that is with anecdotes like telling her daughter if she doesn’t master a piano piece that she would take her “stuffed animals and burn them ” Subsequent news stories on these anecdotes describe them as cold, coercive, draconian and domineering We have a stereotype for this: It’s called a dragon lady And thanks to most people buying that logic, every Asian woman in America with children now runs the risk of being labeled a tiger mother I’ve had friends who know nothing about my childhood jokingly describe my mom as a tiger mother I don’t feel offended, but like well-meaning people asking me where I’m “really” from it’s pretty annoy-

By the time I was bor n, [my mother] a computer prog rammer at the bank where she, years ago, worked as a s ple money counter

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Speaking of my mother: My mother grew up in the slums of Macau and when she turned 16, her father died She dropped out of high school, weaving baskets to support her family Later, she took a job at a bank to count money and went to night school She worked up the ranks, teaching herself English and a little German to read computer mainframe manuals She taught herself assembly code to work with those computers By the time I was born, she was a computer programmer at the bank where she, years ago, worked as a simple money counter

Chua would probably categorize my mom as “Western ” When it came to raising me, my mom did make me play the piano and violin, but she explained to me the importance of learning, rather than using force or threats She told me to do my best, and never denigrated my achievements as “ not good enough ” She rather I genuinely enjoy something than have it forced upon me

Why didn’t my mother raise me in the same way that contributed to her success? After all, my mom ’ s own upbringing seems to confirm Chua’s assertions that the “Chinese culture” of discipline, drive and ambition contributes to success It’s really simple: My mom was under the pressure to support her family and care for her younger siblings; something, of course, that Chua doesn’t mention much in Battle Hymn For Chua, the drive to success is simply the parental imposition of pressure, not something as basic as putting food on the table In this way, Chua masks complex economic realities: Chinese parents don’t work hard because they want their children to be “math whizzes or music prodigies,” they want to open opportunities for their children that they never had This is not a “Chinese” or “Western” thing; this is a fundamentally human thing Lackluster book sales of Battle Hymn in China and its title there, Being a Mom in America are both revealing on how tepid her argument linking “ success ” and “Chinese culture” really is Misattributing success also works the other way too in misattributing failure For every success story like my mom ’ s, there is probably someone who worked just as hard and wasn ’ t successful While Chua plays minstrel to the model minority stereotype, the assumption of Asian Americans pulling themselves up by their bootstraps is at the core of denying Asian-Americans fundamental educational services like ESL and Special Ed: we “learn faster,” so we don’t need those services as much Chua also says nothing about the enormous cultural, language and economic barriers that Asian Americans face, and how they denigrate the mental health of students However, this might be on purpose: A study undertaken at my high school showed how Chinese students suffered serious emotional blows from dealing with that pressure This year, she and her husband touted in their new book those same Chinese students are exemplary of Chinese success Ultimately, whether she’s right or wrong, let’s not pretend Chua represents anybody else

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Collegetown a feature length film by Hugo Genes 10 and starring former Sun Arts Editor, Graham Corrigan ’11, and Faye Tsakas ’13, seeks to tackle issues prevalent in colleges and beyond Genes and Tsakas studied Applied Economics and Management and American Studies respectively during their time here at Cornell

In a mixed documentary and narrative form, the film takes us through college culture, exploring “the social and financial factors that determine career choices made by graduates of our universities, according to Collegetown’s Indiegogo campaign page

The Sun had a chance to chat with Genes and Tsakas about what inspired them to create the film, the film’s direction thus far and their goals for its impact on the nation’s youth

THE SUN: How did you come up with this concept?

HUGO GENES: A lot of it came from personal experience at Cornell I’m not trying to focus strictly on Cornell I think this is something that’s happening at a lot of universities But as I mentioned, I went to Cornell as an undecided major Open-minded to see where I would end up and what I would study I was kind of open to anything; I didn’t know what I wanted to do After a few months on campus, I became aware of investment banks and their presence on campus, receiving emails for events Its presence on campus quickly got me enthralled, and it’s an unknown when you enter college I didn’t really know what these financial terms meant, I didn’t know what investment banks did I think that’s the case a lot of the time In high school you ’ re not paying attention to those things, at least most people aren t, and then college comes and I knew I was taking out debt to go to Cornell In the back of my head I did have these financial pressures of what would I do after college to make money to pay those off I was recruited by Wall Street at Cornell; I interned there When I decided not to work on Wall Street, I thought that meant I would find another industry or I would find another sector or something to work in, but trying to look for other jobs, I realized that the financial industry has a huge scope right now and kind of a stranglehold on other industries So if I was looking at jobs in other types of work in New York City I was seeing that I would still be working in finance in some way or servicing finance or making a lot less money So those kind of stresses that I was having sparked my idea to reanalyze what happened in college I think in college there were a lot of social situations not I’m not that proud of I had a lot of fun in college, there were a lot of great things about it But I think there were definitely some situations that were morally or ethically questionable

F T : Or exploring why people have that mentality even

H.G.: What causes it and what we can do about it because I don’t think it really needs to continue It shouldn’t suck It shouldn’t be like some cliff you go off when you graduate And it did feel that way When I graduated it was like night and day in terms of my friends and what was expected from us, and the happiness level from my peers was extremely low A lot of people not enjoying their jobs, working crazy hours They didn’t realize the decisions they were making on campus would set them up for this

SUN: You mentioned the morally questionable things that you experienced at Cornell Do you want to speak to any of those instances specifically?

H G : We’re looking a lot at application processes because I found that investment banks and consulting firms try to mirror the way colleges recruit in high school: The brochures and the wording They’re selling a career to you as a young person And Greek life

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when they’re in a recruitment, they have a reference point They’re not hearing about an investment bank for the first time in college that would be ideal

F T : The films these days don’t actually show any real footage of what college is like for our generation right now Social media culture there’s a lot of stuff in movies and television that really dramatizes [the issues], especially with fraternities and sororities and Greek life So I think we ’ re kind of thinking to show in some ways a more realistic depiction a real snapshot of what top tier college culture is like at this time in 2014

SUN: Neither of you majored in film How did you get involved?

F.T.: I was a Visual Studies minor I took a lot of film classes at Cornell Hugo took some too, actually Both of us were interested in film or performance in some way or another all throughout college

H G : This is my first feature film I’ve made

going through

SUN: Did you have to get permission to film [here]?

H G : Because we ’ re moving in so many different spaces and different types of stages, permission is a big thing I’ve talked to lawyers about what I can and can ’ t do If you ’ re on the street, it’s public space If someone has a camera, you don’t need to get permission from people on the street to film If it’s like at a party you have to put a sign up There’s different things you have to do I’m not trying to single people out; I’m not trying to dehumanize people I’m not saying, “Hey, you work at Goldman-Sachs ” I’m not trying to find individual people that are doing things I’m trying to look at trends to understand pressures that affect a lot of people So when I’m getting real footage that is questionable in terms of legal issues, I plan on blurring things, I plan on making people unrecognizable so there’s no way for anyone to have an issue

When I’ve talked to Cornell students in the past about looking critically at the recruitment process for Wall Street students talked to me about why I’m singling out a major, like why are you saying major in Applied Economics and Management is bad or something, and I wanted to point out it’s not singling out a major at all It’s trying to say that certain industries such as finance are actually overshadowing other industries and making kind of an umbrella over other majors If you re a film major, the issues in this film pertain to you just as much because the way Hollywood looks at films now, they make financial deals for it It’s not about singling out a major, it’s about looking at social and financial pressures all students are going through whether they know it or not

recruitment process mixes into that in a similar way as well I think Greek life set me up with the mentality of don’t ask questions Listen to guys one or two years older than you and don’t really question what they say That kind of don’t ask questions mentality I saw throughout the recruitment process for Wall Street It was kind of like if there were questions asked they were alley-oops for the alumni that were recruiting; they were questions you kind of already knew the answer to I remember bringing up a question about oil and war at an event at Cornell and it did not go well The whole room was shuffling, like God forbid someone asks a question about world issues to a Goldman-Sachs executive What s wrong with that? Isn’t that what these events are for? To ask those questions? Isn’t that what college is for, to ask questions about society and figure out what you can do to influence it?

SUN: What are your goals for the film?

shorts before and I worked on a documentary before that was shorter But this is my first feature film All my professors warned me I feel like we took a huge bite of something, chewing every day It’s a bit overwhelming but it keeps me going

FAYE TSAKAS: The whole film is Hugo’s vision, but I ve been talking to him for awhile I think it was once Hugo started talking with others about it and realized that a lot of people had similar experiences and sort of just paying attention to how many people were talking about student debt and how many news articles were written about student debt, about financial institutions all these things sort of subjects that were gaining more momentum, and I think that’s where we saw more importance in the issues

H G : We’re definitely targeting a young audience I want pre-teens and teenagers That’s why we ’ re making it a mix of documentary and drama The documentary form doesn’t attract children as much as drama or narrative does So we ’ re mixing a lot of different film styles to try to gear this towards a younger audience I’d like teenagers to see this so that they can see scenes that are realistic, that are based on people going through them and that reenact what they went through so that when a young person is at a college recruitment office hearing about the financial aid package or hearing about the school, or

A big idea in the film was to use as many social actors as possible There’s a character in the film in a lot of student debt Chances are that character’s played by a person who is in student debt in real life If there’s an actor in the film being recruited or interviewing someone for a recruitment, chances are they’ve been through that process in real life We’re asking them to re-perform in those scenes what they’ve experienced throughout their college career or shortly after That’s what I think differentiates this from movies like Wall Street or Frat House, or even American Psycho where Wall Street is portrayed but there’s some sort of glorification going on, there’s movie stars involved This tries to find truth by trying to get people that really experienced these things and played these roles in society and play them on screen

F.T.: All are based on true stories, some of it is fictitious writing But based in some way or another on real conversations that happened with people our age We have a lot of friends who went to Cornell who are working on it in some way or another even if just giving ideas or writing one scene So Hugo does the real majority of the work, but it’s kind of this collaborative process so that we ’ re able to show from many different perspectives the things that young people are

F.T.: I just think especially at Cornell the bulk of the on-campus recruitment is you know, I was not interested at all in finance, I found it almost difficult to be recruited by other types of industries I found that it was overwhelming in terms of recruitment that goes on in the financial industry So what does it say when our “best and brightest are being pulled heavily in one direction? Not even just that direction, just in any direction Student debt is the highest debt; it surpasses credit card debt in terms of the amount of debt that this country has I think really there are these social and financial pressures for students who want to get a good education and take out loans to get a better education How does this system of student loans and debt that our society has play out? The film is supposed to make you think about other alternatives

H.G.: I just want to put it out there that I loved my time at Cornell I’m looking back critically, but that’s just for self-improvement, for a little bit of therapy and because of unhappiness that I found in my peers after our time up there I love it there, and I think it has opportunity to be such a formative aspect of people’s young lives that sets them up for how they think in terms of career and for the rest of their lives as a professional in whatever they go into There’s something off there that’s worth investigating and figuring out what we can do so we make sure that we all leave in college with the right platform and a wide perspective on it

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

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Niese was sharp into the sixth inning of his injur y delayed first start of the season Sunday, when the New York Mets lost 2-1 to the Cincinnati Reds, missing an opportunity to finish off a threegame sweep

“I was ver y, ver y impressed, h i s v e l o c i t y s t a y e d c o n s i s t e n t throughout the game, ” manager Terr y Collins said of Niese “He’s got a repertoire that’s going to get people out ” Niese (0-1), who was slowed by shoulder weakness and elbow inflammation this spring, held Cincinnati to two hits through five innings but gave up three straight singles to open the sixth, b e g i n n i n g w i t h Re d s f i l l - i n starter Alfredo Simon (1-0) Chris Heisey, in the lineup for B i l l y H a m i l t o n , w h o h a s a jammed left middle finger, and Brandon Phillips each singled to load the bases, and Joey Votto followed with a sacrifice fly and Ryan Ludwick singled to left for a 2-1 lead

Jay Bruce then grounded to first base, ending Niese’s day on his 90th pitch

The left-hander allowed six h i t s a n d t w o r u n s i n 5 2 - 3 innings in front of dozens of dogs at Citi Field on Bark in the Park day

“I feel good, felt like the ball was coming out of my hand pretty well, obviously didn’t have any pain,” Niese said Collins thought the Mets had a chance to take a lead in the seventh when d’Arnaud sent a drive to left but it was caught at the w a r n i n g t r a c k , e x t e n d i n g t h e

catcher’s hitless start to 0 for 15 “ T h e r e ’ s n o e a s y a n s w e r s here,” Collins said “ The only way you do it is grind it out and have an approach, stick with it ”

The Mets went into the seas o n w i t h t h e 2 5 - y e a r - o l d d’Arnaud as their primar y catcher and no veteran backup the system He missed much of last year on the disabled list and hit only 202 (20 for 99) in a 31-game stint in New York

D’Arnaud was acquired from Toronto along with top pitching prospect Noah Syndergaard for R A Dickey after the knuckleballer won the CY Young Award in 2012 and the Mets are expecti

t a r t i n g catcher for years to come

R i g h t n ow, t h o u g h , a l l Collins is concerned with is if d’Arnaud is letting this slump affect him psychologically

“I’m worried about his mental approach more than anything,” Collins said

Sa i d d’ A r n a u d : “ My s w i n g feels good, just tr ying to make good contact ”

D’Arnaud threw out Phillips tr ying to steal second base in the third inning

Simon pitched seven impressive innings in his first start since Sept 28, 2011, for Baltimore, but manager Price tapped the right-hander because Mat Latos i

a n d elbow operations And Simon didn’t disappoint He allowed just four hits including Juan Lagares’ RBI single in the second and threw 79 pitches

Manny Parra retired all six b

career save, pitching the ninth instead of J J Hoover, who gave up Ike Davis’ walkoff grand slam Saturday Parra struck out Davis to end it Sunday

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place spot behind gymnasts from perennially strong gymnastic universities like Florida, Oregon State and Penn State

Winning the event, and advancing to the NCAA Championship, was a pair of Florida gymnasts who boast Olympic experience Bridget Sloan of Florida competed for the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the next year won the World Championship for all around in London Mackenzie Caquatto, also of Florida, tied for first with Sloan, scoring a 9 950 Caquatto has had experience competing for a spot on the Olympic team and has competed at the World Championships before

In her four-year career at Cornell, the three time USAG All American Jorgensen has accomplished some impressive feats Her top score on bars, 9 875, is the second best score on the event in school histor y In 2011, Jorgensen was crowned individual champion on bars at the Ivy League Classic, and followed that up with a USAG National Title in the same event This season she again won the individual bars championship at the Ivy Classic

Jorgensen’s qualification for the 2014 NCAA regional was the first time a member of the Red had been invited since 2011, when Melanie Standridge competed on the beam

“It was one of the highlights of my career, ” Jorgensen said of the event this weekend “I couldn’t have done it without the support of my teammates and coaches ”

This coming weekend, Jorgensen will compete in her last event for the Red, looking to further her legacy at Cornell The Red will travel t o Br ow n t o c o m p e t e i n t h e U S AG C o l l e g

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the season, again from the upper right Paoletta followed with his second of the day and senior midfielder Connor Entenmann capped the upperclassman rally Cornell’s longest for the afternoon with a strike at 6:22 to give the Red an early 4-1 advantage

“ We came out playing great, ” said interim head coach Matt Ker wick “I thought we were well prepared Really, all the credit goes to Har vard ”

The Har vard attack relentlessly peppered freshman goaltender Christian Knight all afternoon, outshooting the Red 32-12 over the final three quar ters of play Despite an impressive 14 saves for Knight, the Crimson went on r uns of three, four and then five consecutive goals, each separated with a strike by one of the Red’s lone bright spots, junior midfielder John Hogan

Following a feed from Paoletta to senior attackman Dan Lintner to break a second quar ter tie, Hogan took a flip from Edmonds and buried a deep shot from 12 yards away to notch the first of his three goals while extending the Cornell lead to 6-4

Coach Ker wick’s attack str uggled to generate a push as the contest progressed, however Two of the Red’s top three points leaders, Buczek and junior attackman Matt Donovan, were each held scoreless on the afternoon

“[Har vard] didn’t shy away from any of us, ” Buczek said “ They pushed out our hands, got out on us, and packed it in behind it It’s tough to dodge to the goal when you see a slide and you see another defenseman right in front of you They did a really good job of just packing it in and making it look like there was less space than there was on the field ”

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“Maybe this is what this team needed to knock us down a peg and now we can really re-focus ” C o n n o r B u c z e k

u a t e , w h o dominated senior midfielders Doug Tesoriero and Cole McCormack 20-6 from the face-off X

“[ They] controlled the face-off with their wing play,” Ker wick said “ We played a lot of defense in that game and you just can ’ t put that much pressure on your defense when you ’ re playing a talented team like Har vard ”

Trailing 8-6 midway through the third, Hogan helped keep the Red in the game with a left-to-right scamper across the middle of the grass The junior, while falling, fired an over-the-shoulder shot to the lower left-hand corner of the net to cut the deficit to one

The Crimson continued to surge, however, scoring four more times before the end of the third and maintaining possession to open the four th Cornell was out-ground-balled for the first time this season, 34-30, including an 18-9 disadvantage during the second half

“ They were extremely efficient on offense, using long possessions to find the best shot,” Ker wick said “ They wanted it a little bit more when it was on the ground I think that was the difference The tough ground balls, they were really fighting and scrapping for them ” Hogan showed a little scrappiness of his own, racing toward the left hash and firing just before being pushed to the ground by a Har vard defender to break the 5-0 r un Less than a minute later, sophomore attackman John Edmonds backed into a defender to create space in front of the goal and shoveled it in to cut the Crimson lead to 13-9

A promising r un came to a halt as Har vard managed to milk away the game ’ s remaining 9:35, and a final tally with 6:39 left in the quar ter proved to be the nail in the coffin for the 14-9 victor y With the defeat, the Red becomes the final team in college lacrosse to tumble from the ranks of the unbeaten

“[ W ]e’ll learn from it and get better and move on to the next game, ” Ker wick said

Although the team ’ s upcoming contest against Syracuse won ’ t factor into the Ivy League standings, the Red will get a test from a Top10 squad that has remained undefeated outside of the ACC

“Maybe this is what this team needed to knock us down a peg and now we can really re-focus when we have the Orange in 72 hours,” Buczek said “It’s never a good thing to lose, but if you ’ re going to lose, it might as well be now [rather] than at the end of April or before May rolls around ”

Buczek and company will have to prepare fast to face the Orange, which is coming off a 10-8 win over Binghamton last Wednesday Tuesday’s matchup will feature two of college lacrosse’s top offenses (Cornell ranks second in the nation with 14 3 goals-per-game, Syracuse twelfth with 12 2) and will mark the Red’s penultimate home game of the regular season

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Red Gives Blood 600 Career Wins After Ivy Sweep

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Wr ter

Spring break proved to be pivotal for the Cornell softball team, as the Red went on the road for two important series with Ivy League rivals Facing both Yale and Brown in conference play, Cornell swept both teams to deliver head coach Dick Blood his 600th career win These wins brought Cornell to a 4-2 record in Ivy competition, putting the squad in a tie for first place in the South Division with the Columbia Lions

In the first contest against Yale, sophomore pitcher Meg Parker took to the mound She held Yale to only two hits while striking out 10 for her fourth win of the season The game remained scoreless after the sixth, but some last inning heroics secured a 3-0 victory for the Red Parker and senior infielder Christina Villalon got on base to get things started in the top of the seventh, and senior infielder Jenny Edwards brought both of them in with a double, snapping the scoreless tie Sophomore catcher Leanne Ianucci brought Edwards in with an RBI single, giving the Red an important insurance run Parker then came out in the bottom of the seventh and put the Bulldogs away Parker said the team gained momentum from the win in the opener against Yale

“I was so happy I could keep my team in the game by throwing a shutout,” Parker said “We celebrated the game one win by winning three more games ”

Senior Alyson Onyon took the circle in the second game

of the doubleheader Striking out four, Onyon led the Red to the second victory of the week Yale tied the game in the fifth, but an error by the opposition and an RBI by freshman outfielder Jessica Bigbie pulled the Red ahead for good Cornell then traveled to Rhode Island for its second doubleheader of the weekend against Brown Parker returned to the circle for the opener and was brilliant once again The sophomore struck out seven and scattered seven hits in six innings of work She also assisted her own cause in the batter’s box, going two-for-three, including a homerun, in the Red’s 8-3 win over Brown Cornell returned for the series finale, sending Onyon out to the mound once again She struck out eight and allowed only four hits to the Bears’ offense, putting the Red’s offense in good position to secure the second straight sweep The offense delivered, putting up seven runs on 14 hits

The race for the Ivy League crown just got a little tighter

A 16-game winning streak against the Crimson and an undefeated conference record heading into Saturday’s game

a t S c h o e l l k o p f w e re b o t h undone as No 2 Cornell (9-1, 3-1 Ivy) was outpaced, 14-9, by rival Har vard (6-4, 3-0)

The Red will look to recover this week when the team hosts No 1 0 Sy r a c u s e ( 6 - 3 , 1 - 3

things where maybe we rode

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK

Staff Writer

Sophomore outfielder Michiko McGivney led the charge with a triple and a homerun Villalon and Bigbie also chipped in two hits apiece, helping the Red to a 7-1 victory The win was a milestone for coach Blood, marking his 600th victory and making him the first coach to do so in school history

“I am so happy to be a part of team 21 and experience Coach Blood's 600th win,” Parker said “He is such an amazing coach and this team wants to win more than anything ”

The Red hopes to channel its momentum from this weekend’s wins when it takes on Colgate (5-12) on Tuesday in a non-conference home matchup

Senior gymnast Melanie Jorgensen stood tall in the Penn State Recreation Center Among competition that included the nation’s best collegiate gymnasts, Jorgensen represented the Red in proud fashion at the NCAA Regional Qualifiers

Out of the entire field of gymnasts on bars, only t h

N C A A Championship Knowing she would need an almost perfect routine to have a chance at qualifying, Jorgensen scored a 9 850, 025 points short of her all time best Her routine earned her a seventh

5 yards down the right hash and fired high from seven yards out to draw first blood for the Red at 12:29 in the first quar-

response to tie the game at one

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ACC) Tuesday at 7 p m “It stings, but we ’ ve got all of our goals still intact,” said j