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C.U. Adopts Virtualization Technolog y

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Be c a u s e “f a s t e r ” m e a n s “ b e t t e r ” i n a n e f f i c i e n c yo b s e s s e d c u l t u re , b u s i n e s s e s h a ve e m b r a c e d v i r t u a li z a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y, w h i c h m a k e s i t p o s s i b l e t o q u i c k l y a n d c h e a p l y c o n n e c t a l o t o f p e o p l e a n d i n f o r m a t i o n o v e r a b r o a d a r r a y o f d e v i c e s Fo l l ow i n g t h i s t re n d , C o r n e l l h a s s e t u p i t s ow n i n f r a s t r u c t u re v i r t u a l i z a t i o n p ro g r a m t o re d u c e i t s s p e n d i n g , o p e n p h y s i c a l s p a c e a n d c re a t e a s t ro n g e r

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South A sian Council Mark s Inauguration

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Wr ter

On Sunday, the South Asian Council was officially inaugurated as the fifth umbrella organization an organization that provides funding and support to its member organizations under the African Latino Asian Native American Students Programming Board In addition to the SAC, ALANA includes Black St u d e n

ve American Students at Cornell and the Cornell Asian and Pacific Islander Student Union Each organization receives an allotment of University funding

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By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

It could be easy for a man who catapulted to fame with a 50-for-50 election forecast to become overconfident But statistical savant Nate Silver, who s p o k e a t a p a c k

that modesty goes a long way in the field of big data

Stepping out from behind the podium, Silver named one of

the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2009 introduced himself as a simple man

“I’m from the Midwest We don’t deal with that much praise or technology,” he said, gesturing at the screen behind him which briefly showed a panned-in shot of his face

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winner of all 50 states in the 2012 U S presidential election

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“It seemed really out of whack to me that a Google search for my name resulted in more hits

than searches for Vice President Joe Biden humble-brag! I had to wonder, why is a data geek getting this much love?” Silver said “Fortunately for America, Justin Bieber still has 100 times more traffic than Vice President Biden and I,” he added Silver said the election forecast model on his New York Times blog, FiveThirtyEight, is relatively simple: its methodolo-

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Monday, April 8, 2013

weather FORECAST

How to Choose Your List of Schools: Medical/Dental 4:30 p m , Barnes Hall Auditorium

Tod Papageorge Lecture: Looking Out

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

S E Cupp ’01 at Cornell 6:00 - 7:00 p m , 165 McGraw Hall

A pril show ers bring May flow ers and hopefully spring to Ithaca! Expect extr emely war m temperatur es (by Ithaca standards that is) and of course, persistent rain.

Doris Lecture: Lawrence Aber Noon, 102 Mann Library

Social Justice

- 4:00 p m , 423 Ives Hall Econometrics Seminar, Jerry Hausman 4:15 p m , Uris Hall

Debate on the Greek System 5:00 - 6:30 p m , 228 Mallott Hall

Students Pitch Projects to Better World at Ideas Festival

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Contributor

Student at the Red Ideas Festival –– an event that intends to better the Cornell and global communities through student-generated proposals –– pitched ideas ranging from creating a light bulb that mimics the sun ’ s rays to employing acid attack victims in India to repurpose old saris into household items

Giselle Malina ’13, who won Saturday’s festival, was awarded $1,000 for her plan to bring physical therapy to amputees in Haiti

Malina plans to send mirrors to Haiti in order to teach Haitian physicians the simple technique of “mirror box therapy”: using a mirror and a box to psychologically relieve phantom limb pain in amputees This therapy method, created by V S Ramachandran, a prominent neuroscientist, is a recognized method of therapy that cures phantom limb pain in 89 percent of those who suffer from it, according to Malina

Malina said she plans to travel to Haiti this summer to oversee the training of clinicians in the therapy and will

use the Red Ideas Festival award money to buy the mirrors that will be used in those clinics

“My ‘Red Idea’ is to bridge [the] gap to bring the information that is necessar y [to cure phantom limb pain] to those who need it the most, ” she said

Benjamin Gulak, the inventor of the Uno a dirtshredding electric-powered vehicle was the keynote speaker for the event Gulak spoke about risk-taking and its importance in his success, explaining that his choice to forgo college to continue working on the Uno was one of the best decisions he made in his life

“Just sitting in the audience listening to these presentations is really inspiring; to see that there are other groups out there like Red Ideas is really amazing, because we ’ re the new generation that is supposed to go and make these changes in the world,” Gulak said

Roshni Mehta ’15 presented a plan to employ acid attack victims in India to carr y out the repurposing of saris She proposed helping the women utilize used saris to make household items like duvets and bed sheets

She said acid attack victims are usually shunned by society and blamed for provoking the acid attacks

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By RACHEL WEBER Sun Contributor

“Unlike most organizations helping acid attack survivors, this enterprise is not charity It is employment to empower these women through the long run that we call life,” Mehta said

Another contestant, Jeremy Blum grad, along with a team, designed Sunn, an energy-efficient LED light bulb that emits wavelengths that correspond to natural wavelengths emitted by the sun Blum said it is increasingly important for both mental and physical health to have more exposure to the wavelengths of natural sunlight

Carly Dean ’14, Peter Gudonis ’14 and Nicholas Cassab-Gheta ’14 presented a hydroponic installation plan, designed to allow urban restaurants to grow their own produce inside buildings The students said they have already partnered with Stella’s in Collegetown, adding that their hydroponic installation will be implemented at Stella’s on Monday

Emma Court ’15, city editor of The Sun, and Anisha Chopra ’13, the creators of “ResCUer” –– a campus security smartphone application that allows students to access safety contact information at the push of a button

proposed to update and spread their application to other universities “Late night safety affects other campuses, not just Cornell,” Chopra said

“ We realized that [safety] resources are there, but the issue is making it accessible to people who need it when they need it,” Chopra said

The attendees at the event said they were impressed by the ideas their peers presented

“I thought it was almost inspiring in a way to see my peers pursuing certain projects that really could make a difference,” Joanna Mleczko ’15 said “I was really impressed by the different ideas people had and how determined they were to make a difference, even though they were in college, making use of the opportunities and resources that Cornell could provide ”

Other attendees said the event, although inspiring, could reach out to more students in the future

“In order to really share these ideas, it would be better if it were a day festival so people can walk by and see it,” Katie Mayer ’14 said “ We were all there because we knew someone there I think this should be targeting people who aren ’ t involved yet, because when you see creative people around you, you are inspired to be creative too ”

Editor’s note: Emma Court ’15, Sun City Editor, is a member of the student team that developed the ResCUer app She was not involved in the editing of this article

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VIRTUALIZATION

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University move to Gmail is [one] example of how Cornell has embraced the cloud for economic reasons ”

According to Birman, cloud computing has emerged from a combination of widespread Internet access and a huge wave of new network-enabled applications

According to Andrea Beesing M A ’77, assistant director of unified communications and collaboration of IT@Cornell, infrastructure virtualization seeks to reduce Cornell’s overall IT costs and improve its service reliability by consolidating and virtualizing 80 percent of the distributed physical server infrastructure

“ The Infrastructure Virtualization Initiative was designed to save the University money by consolidating servers into the central data centers, ” she said

Last month, for example, as a part of its virtualization initiative, the University moved many of its tech services, such as the email and calendar system for about 24,000 faculty and staff, from a Cornell-provided local server, to an online-based cloud system, Beesing said

“The migration of [Microsoft] Exchange [email] accounts to the cloud is part of the larger strategy to deliver utility IT services more cost-effectively in order to focus more IT resources on academic

technologies,” Beesing said According to IT@Cornell’s website, through an increase in the number of servers a single staff member can manage and reductions in power and cooling costs, the University will save $2,845 per year for each physical ser ver that is virtualized

Currently, the CIT-managed data center staff oversees 2,000 servers, according to Beesing

Some units which have begun infrastructure virtualization projects include the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Alumni Affairs and Development, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology and Student and Academic Services, according to the University’s website

Birman said he wrote to Provost Kent Fuchs several years ago urging the University to explore the benefits of virtualizing its systems

“With virtualization, you can take a whole computer and package it into an image that will run on some other computer in an identical way, ” he said “We end up with one busy server hosting perhaps 10 or 20 desktop computer images or server images, and all those machines can be replaced with much cheaper, more energy efficient displayonly devices The benefits are really huge ” The project was mentioned again last September, when faculty and administrators gathered

for an all-day conference to give their input on the University’s strategic plan for IT@Cornell During the conference, Ted Dodds, the University’s chief information officer and vice president for information technologies, emphasized the need for cost-saving initiatives such as virtualization

“[The University has tried] to reduce the cost of those utility services that we all consume and need, but [so far, it] doesn’t actually differentiate the University from its peers, ” Dodds said on Sept 11 “But then [to] take the savings and the optimization we get from those utilities and reallocate to things –– that will make a difference ”

According to Birman, cloud computing, nonetheless, has its downsides, such as inconsistency in service and ineffective security

“My main criticism of today’s cloud model is that the cloud has not been ideal for hosting sensitive data or applications, like medical records, systems to transform the power grid into a smart grid [and] self-driving cars, ” he said

Last month, for example, the Cornell housing portal crashed during the housing lotter y because of the server ’ s limits –– a problem larger cloud ser vers could face as well, according to Beesing

Silver : ‘Big Data’ Has Not Produced ‘Big Progress’

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c o n f i d e n t w i t h d a t a , “ t h e re i s h a p p i n e s s i n t h e e n d p o t e n t i a l l y, ”

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S . A sian Council to Be 5th Umbrella Org. Under AL ANA

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Before the establishment of the SAC, organizations affiliated with South Asian students fell under CAPSU, according to Karan Javaji ’14, vice president of ALANA and the first president of SAC However, the major cultural differences between the South Asian community commonly described as including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal and the rest of the Asian community always led to a level of disengagement with respect to South Asian students, Javaji said

“The South Asian community never really engaged with the Pan-Asian community,” Javaji said “It has to be very organic; you can ’ t just expect a community to identify with another community ”

The idea of creating a specific South Asian Council was born in Spring 2012, when South Asian leaders on campus met to discuss issues facing the community and brainstorm how to move forward, according to Javaji

“The consensus at the meeting was that there should be an umbrella organization for the South Asian community,” he said

The plans for the council were met with the University’s support from the very beginning, according to Javaji However, it was still “ a very political situation” at that point in time, due to the potentially divisive nature of breaking off from CAPSU, he said

“A lot of sections of the Cornell community thought that this might be seen as a breakaway from the Asian community and might have huge racial implications,” Javaji said “We began talking with CAPSU and [the Asian & Asian American Center] At first, they weren ’ t very supportive of the idea, but it was a very strong community movement ”

However, students started to see that the formation of a separate council for South Asian students was “ a step towards integrating with the multicultural community” rather than “ a breakaway from the Asian community,” according to Jivaji

“There wasn ’ t anything to break away from in the first place,” he added

Wei Yang ’14, former president of CAPSU, echoed Javaji’s sentiments

“Initially, it was a very complex issue for both members of CAPSU and members of the South Asian Council to grapple with,” Yang said “One of the core issues that CAPSU has been dealing with in the past few years is [the notion that] ‘There is only one type of Asian,’ when the actual Asian and Asian-American community is completely diverse ”

Yang said the proposal for a South Asian Council brought these concerns to the forefront, challenging the notion that the Asian and Asian-American community is homogenous

“It’s not about the splitting-off from the Asian and AsianAmerican community or any kind of separation from the larger community, but recognizing that there are specific

“It’s not about the splitting-off from the Asian/Asian-American community ... but recognizing that there are specific issues in the South Asian community that we need to devote more resources to.”

issues in the South Asian community that we need to devote more resources to, ” Yang said

Though University funding for the SAC will not be discussed until next spring, the inauguration marks an accomplishment for internal community-building among the South Asian community on campus, according to Javaji

In the past year, the South Asian community has informally joined together for events such as a vigil honoring a highly publicized rape victim in New Delhi and a “Chai and Chat” that drew more than 150 people to discuss the SAC’s planned vision More events, including workshops and doc-

umentary screenings, are planned for this week, according to Javaji

“It really seems that SAC and its member organizations are really committed to making it successful,” said Olivia Obodoagha ’15, an ALANA ambassador who was involved in the SAC inauguration event Obodoagha also mentioned that the inauguration of SAC, including a fashion show and cultural performances, exemplified a new way of launching ALANA programming by featuring cultural events, rather than hosting a talk or a lecture

Mariyah Ahmad ’13, former president of the Pakistani Students’ Association, and Nipun Bhandari ’13, former president of the Society for India, also were involved in establishing the SAC and say they have high hopes for the new umbrella organization

“There was a dire need for an organization that represented South Asian interests and a resource that South Asians could turn to in times of need,” Ahmad said “Though CAPSU is doing a phenomenal job at representing Asian interests, the fact that most South Asians do not self-identify as ‘Asian’ resulted in the South Asian population not utilizing the resources offered by CAPSU The SAC was formed to fill this gap, to raise awareness of the South Asian region and to provide a support system for South Asian individuals ”

Bhandari agreed, saying the SAC will give voice and presence to future South Asian leaders

“The SAC has the potential to serve the South Asian community in a variety of ways: advocacy, emotional and financial support, cultural promotion [and] educational opportunities,” he said

The inauguration event also served as the kickoff to South Asian awareness week, featuring a fashion show, a performance by Tarana, the South Asian a cappella group on campus, and a gallery of South Asian art and photography

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

NYC Is Pressed to Settle Central Park Jogger Case

NEW YORK (AP) New York is a safer, less fearful place than it was in 1990, when murders hit an all-time high, race relations were raw and the city felt under siege from drug deal-

e r s a n d g a n g s o n “ w i l d i n g ” sprees But one major piece of unfinished business from back then still hangs over the city and its legal system: the Central Park jogger case

Five black and Hispanic boys were convicted that year in the rape and grisly beating of a white woman jogging in the park, and they went on to serve six to 13 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence linking someone else to the crime

They sued police and prosecutors for $250 million But the lawsuit has languished for a decade with no resolution in sight

Now, a growing chorus of lawmakers is asking New York City to settle with the five men And the pressure is likely to build in the coming weeks with

the broadcast of a documentary on the case by filmmaker Ken Burns It airs on PBS on April 16

“All of us want this over, but i t ’ s a b o u t s o m e o n e t a k i n g responsibility for what they did to us, ” said one of the five, Yusef Salaam, now 38 “The money can ' t buy back our lives ”

The attack on 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili occurred on April 19, 1989 It was one of the most notorious crimes in New York City history and it mesmerized the nation, serving as a lurid symbol of the city’s racial and class divide and its rampant crime It gave rise to the term “wilding” for urban mayhem by teenagers

“Drugs Guns Gangs New York City was just crime central at that time,” said former New York Detective Kirk Burkhalter, recalling an era so blood-soaked that the city had a record 2,245 homicides in 1990, compared with 414 last year “You were scared to ride the trains after dark It was such a different place ”

N.Y. Moves Toward Adopting Wind, Other Green Energy

ALBANY, N Y (AP) A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state ’ s decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be

The study, led by researchers from Stanford and Cornell universities, provides a theoretical road map to how New Yorkers could rely on renewable energy within 17 years It would require massive investments in wind turbines, solar panels and more from the windy shores off Long Island to sun-exposed rooftops upstate

“It’s doable,” said co-author Robert Howarth, a Cornell professor of ecology and environmental biology “It’s way outside of the realm of what most people are talking about But I think people have been too pessimistic about what can be done ”

In fact, New York has been

increasing green energy production for the past nine years under its renewable portfolio standard, which is funded by a surcharge of less than a dollar on monthly e

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e n - Gov George Pataki began the program in 2004 with the goal of New Yo rk re

resources for a quarter of its electricity by 2013

That goal, tweaked three years ago, is now for the New York St a t e En

a n d Development Authority to support the production of about 10 4 million megawatt-hours of energy from hydro, wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas annually by 2015

The authority reported this week that it was 46 percent of the way to the goal at the end of last year

The goal could lead to roughly 30 percent renewables by 2015, once clean-energy purchases by consumers and resources added by t h e L o n g Is l a n d Powe r Authority are factored in

With two years to go, clean energy advocates say it will be difficult for New York to hit the 2015 renewable target But they believe the larger point is that New York is making progress “ To me, the long-term commitment to continue to invest in resources is more important than the particular target you set, ” said Valerie Strauss, interim executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, a group that represents renewable energy interests

Looking at energy generated in Ne w York, which excludes imported power that can be used for the energy authority’s targets, a b o u t 2 0 p e rc e n t c

m hydro, which includes decadesold projects along the Niagara and St Lawrence rivers Wind accounted for 2 percent, and other renewable sources accounted for another 2 percent, according to 2011 figures from the operators of the state ’ s power grid

‘Will She or Won’t She’ Question Following Clinton

speeches urging her to run for president Audiences listen with rapt attention as she discusses the plight of women and girls in developing countries

state, the “will she or won

she” question already is following her around, like the activists who

Hillar y ” signs outside speeches at

Lincoln Center

This past week, Clinton came off a two-month break with a soft roll-out of sorts

She gave her first two public speeches since leaving the State Department, released details of a book scheduled for June 2014 and plans to join an advisor y

Leadership Coalition

The mere makings of a public

schedule for the runner-up of the

race is enough to get political tongues wagging over what it all means for the 2016 campaign

The speeches and news coverage offered an early indication of some of what awaits her as she considers whether to seek the W h i t e

e e years: adoring supporters, young and old, former political advisers to her husband begging her to run, and potential rivals sizing her up

WORKING ON TODAY ’ S SUN

Design Deskers Jayant Mukhopadhaya 15 Tyler Alicea 16

NIGHT EDITORS Connor Archard 15 Esther Hoffman 13

DESKERS Jinjoo Lee ’14 Lianne Bornfed 15 SPORTS DESKER Scott Chiusano 15 ARTS DESKER Arielle Cruz 15 NEWS NIGHT EDITOR Kritika Oberoi 16

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Chr y sali s: A Rec urrin g Phenomena

As freshman year is rapidly approaching its curtain call, I find myself in an increasingly retrospective frame of mind each day My hours of abstruse musings have led me to believe that if we look clearly, there are patterns of recurrence and replication everywhere such that when we stand at the threshold of an ending year, we can say we have come full circle College is essentially a chrysalis with distinct stages which every person who has taken up this challenge goes through How is it that one can detect a freshman as easily as one can point out an American drawl in England?

As such, there are so many archetypal “freshman” things to do As a freshman, you will be brimming with enthusiasm, will find it odd to stay at home and do problem sets on a Thursday and will strike up a conversation with every new person who sits at your table at Okenshields You can make a thousand mistakes but it’s okay, “ you ’ re just a freshman ” You can actually spend your summer break doing what summer breaks are meant for: nothing It is the one year of your entire life when passions run high and your spirit transcends all record breaking heights simply because you are blessed with the privilege of knowing nothing However, the most important thing that will happen to you during your freshm i

that you will mess up and might be left trying to construe where exactly the semester went and whether or not it was an absolute waste But the promising fact of the matter, ladies and gentlemen, is that at the end of the year, the weight of being successful and having traversed emotional and mental distances is again replaced by the lightness of beginning It is only then when you will truly perceive what, after all, is the whole point of the struggle of the “life on the Hill ” Because all of a sudden, freshman year is over in a flash and you leave RPCC and Nasties behind never to turn around and look back again As you transcend from the innocence of North Campus to the indulgence of sophomore year, you will find yourself growing up Frat parties are not the highlight of the week anymore; they are replaced by rare weekends when you actually get to see all the people who you consider your closest friends The sophomore slump will likely try to obliterate you, but you will probably survive You will make better mistakes than the ones you made in your freshman year (for the most part )There will be a new lot of freshman babies who will replace you and in the whole process, there will be a remarkable group of very fine men and women who will exit this recurring cycle of college life By the end of your sophomore year, you will probably be knocked out by the realization that you might have to actually graduate in only two years

In your junior year, you will likely be rewarded (finally) for those all-nighters you pulled because you spent your days organizing logistics for twenty different student bodies or clubs or wait, The Cornell Daily Sun It seems that junior year is when life is actually a requiem and your professional, and I hope earnestly, your personal life is a glorious haze

Finally, you will be initiated into the indispensable senior year which was always lurking around the corner to consume you with all the nostalgia, deluges of happiness and sadness alike it brings forth like the perfect finale to a phenomenal trilogy of movies With your last and final year on the Hill, a hallowed look will begin to set in on your brow because you have seen all and known all that is to know You have served your time at Cornell and have come out the other end of the spiral simply to realize that you are back where you started, richer nevertheless in terms of memories, a little more sensible (hopefully) and with friendships and relationships that will last at least a lifetime I have asked every senior I know which year was their very best at Cornell and they are always at sea, simply because each of these four stages are extremely crucial in making you the strong, admirable person you are with the ability to go through any sort of weather literally and metaphorically

Co mme nt of the day

“What does the relationship that minority brothers in Sigma Pi have with the minority community on campus have to do with this incident at all? Just because they don't hang out with all other minorities they aren't minorities anymore? I am displeased with the level of racism that you and other people on campus who disregard those brothers seem to display Racism doesn't just go one way Implying that minorities would want to be part of an organization that disrespects people of their creed, color, race or religion is ridiculous, and glossing over the fact that those people exist in order to justify your race fueled ‘displeasure’ seems just as racist as the incident itself ”

Sam Sampson Re: “Students Express Skepticism at Sigma Pi Fraternity Brothers’ Actions,” News, published April 5, 2013

Noah Karr-Kaitin | Plain Hokum

Why I Am

Teaching for America

Next year, I’ll be teaching 8th Grade Algebra in Weslaco, Texas as a Teach For America corps member For the handful of you who don’t know where Weslaco is, it’s located on the U S -Mexico border, about 50 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico

This is the story of how I decided to take my talents to south Texas (to borrow a turn of phrase from Lebron)

Like many Cornellians, I was born into the type of family that all but guaranteed I would graduate from a good college I was born in Massachusetts, the best state for public education in the country My family lived in one of the best public school districts in the state My dad is a professor at Tufts, and my mom and stepmother both have graduate degrees If you knew these few basic facts about me when I was born, you could have predicted with a high probability of success that I would be graduating from Cornell this May Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my dad also went to Cornell

best colleges ” The study examined every student in the country who took the SAT or the ACT, and deemed anyone who scored in the top 10 percent as high-achieving The study’s most worrisome finding was that “only 34 percent of high-achieving high school seniors in the bottom fourth of income distribution attended any one of the country ’ s 238 most selective colleges ” Compare that to high performing students in the upper quartile income bracket who attended one of these schools at a rate of 78 percent

These high-achieving, low-income students have done the hard work They have overcome the challenges of poverty to the extent that they

Low-income students, even those who are quite bright, simply do not have the academic capital around the to find their way to advantageous universities

Hawk-eyed readers will recognize a common trait among all of these things I’ve listed: I had no control over any of them Before I could even crawl, my educational future was largely determined for me Insofar as my college degree proves critical to my future career plans, a whole world of opportunity stood ahead of me from the moment my parents brought me home from the hospital

Of course nobody gets to college, especially Cornell, without working hard enough to earn a spot However, my family provided me an undeniable advantage over those whose families lacked the academic capital of my parents

There is ample research to support this conclusion A study published by the Brookings Institution two weeks ago found that “ most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation’s

an organization that professes to proscribing a sort-of solution for the problem of educational inequity TFA recruits high-performing college students to commit to spending two years teaching in a low-income school district Corps members are paid a first year teacher’s salary and perform the duties of any other full-fledged teacher The hope is that they will focus their future energy on solving the problem of educational inequity both in and outside of the classroom In fact, many TFA alumni are now in positions of authority in school districts across the country

are prepared to enter a selective university Yet they do not, because “the students often are unaware of the amount of financial aid available or simply do not consider a top college because they have never met someone who attended one ”

Sociologists have hinted at this finding for many years This study proves that low-income students, even those who are quite bright, simply do not have the academic capital around them to find their way to advantageous universities This poses a problem beyond just trying to ensure that students are afforded the opportunity to graduate In coming to terms with statistics like these, I was overwhelmed by a profound sense of unfairness I do not feel guilty about where I am, but I feel quite strongly about the supreme injustice of a society in which one ’ s potential can be so substantially checked by factors outside of their control

When discussing Teach For America, many people get heated It is

There are many who object to TFA I’ll let you research the objections yourself In applying for TFA, I relied on my own sense of self and experience in lowincome classrooms, and came to the conclusion that not only could I handle the responsibility of teaching, but that I thirsted for it TFA is not for everyone, but it is for me

Furthermore, as the Brookings study shows, insuring that low-income students have successful college graduates around them to teach them about the college application process can go a long way in making sure many more students break out of the cycle of poverty they all too often find themselves trapped in

A few months ago, I was talking to a group of Cornellians and asked if a TFA corps member had taught any of them One student raised his hand and said that one of his high school science teachers was in TFA He then told me that he would have never gone to Cornell without that science teacher When I asked him why, he replied that he had never heard about or even considered Cornell, but at his teacher’s urging, he decided to apply

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY TERESA KIM Sun Staff Writer

W h e n y o u f i r s t e n t e r t h e Now S c re a m ! Hi p Ho p

C o l l e c t i o n Ex h i b i t i o n , y o u f e e l a r u s h f o r Hi p Ho p ’ s p a s t A t o n e c o r n e r y o u s e e a w a l l t h a t re f l e c t s u p o n t h e g l o r y o f a f r o s A t t h e o t h e r e n d o f t h e r o o m y o u s e e o l d v i n y l s a n d re c o rd p l a y e r s B e h i n d y o u i s a p o r tf o l i o o f s t re e t a n d g r a f f i t i a r t A l l t h e w h i l e , w h a t w a s u n d e r s t a n d a b l y a m i x t a p e o f f a m o u s b e a t s d r ow n s o u t

t h e s o u n d s o f t h e l i b r a r y s c r i b b l i n g p e n c i l s , k e yb o a rd p u n c h e s a n d h a i r p u l l s f r o m a b ov e I u n d e rs t o o d t h a t t h e s e a r t i f a c t s w e re re p re s e n t a t i o n s o f t h e m a n y b r a n c h e s o f a c e l e b r a t e d g e n re , b u t , a t f i r s t , I p e r s o n a l l y f a i l e d t o e x p e r i e n c e a c o n n e c t i o n t o t h e s e

Live mural painting took place this weekend at the Cornell Press Building as a part of a series of events called Unbound From the Underground Organized by Ben Ortiz, the event welcomed over 50 graffiti artists to the site. Now Scream! and Sunday night’s performance by rapper GZA at The Haunt, were also part of the series

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Mother of Exiles Takes Aim at Big Issues

BY MADELINE SALINAS Sun Contributor

Mother of Exiles, now playing at the Schwartz Performing Arts Center, is set in a high school classroom on the Arizona-Mexico border It showcases six multicultural students at odds with their teacher, Ms Andrews, a Princeton grad with hopes of instilling hope and opportunity in their isolated border community Students horse around and bicker as class starts late due to an assembly informing the student body of the recent armament of teachers several students were unaware

The class rehearses a play written by their teacher on the liberties of United States citizenship, obvious fuel for tension given the ethnic diversity of the characters Rehearsal is continuously disrupted by the students’ cynical criticism of the script and, more broadly, the society that has deprived immigrants of safety, opportunity and acceptance among non-immigrant populations

The play climaxes when school administrators take possession of a student-crafted manifesto which reflects the class’s ongoing debate regarding the American government The school is put on lockdown and the class’s internal search for a culprit ensues Under the pressure of the threat, Ms Andrews withdraws her handgun from her purse and it remains visible for the remainder of the play as interrogation shifts from one student to the next Ultimately the interrogation settles on Ms A, whom the students feel has betrayed the constant message of hope she had endorsed The playwright’s critical opinion of weapons further comes out when a student, Adriana, undermines the chaos of the scene by confessing that her sister has been kidnapped and criticizes the undervalued danger individuals in the border states face Ms A having

been showcased in asides with her Mexican father and clearly conflicted about handling a gun abandons her pretentious, raciallyambiguous façade and confesses that she is from the town the play is set in and she is very astute to the challenges faced by the students Eventually, the police enter the classroom and the cast comes together as bullets aim for the author of the manifesto While the climax extinguishes some of the teenage angst of the characters, poetic statements on life, freedom and acceptance are scattered unsparingly from the beginning of the play and, as a result, level what could be a much more effective plot

Latina raised in Pennsylvania to her character in the play, “[Ms A] decided to reject her culture and assume a role of ambiguity I always felt more culturally right but reaching, in the opposite of Magda pushing it away ” Their experiences growing up in Latino families in

The set of the play is simple, a couple of posters typical of a high school classroom and a large Jasper Johns style collage of the statue of liberty showcasing the play’s key motif The actors move through every corner of the intimate Black Box Theatre, making the drama of the gun palpable in the audience The most memorable moment, however, is the entrance to the theater, where ushers disguised as border patrol officers frisk audience members for identification and documentation to accompany their tickets Once they pass inspection, audience members are directed to aisles cluttered with roadblocks

Unlike most shows at the Schwartz Center, Mother of Exiles was typecast Deanalis Resto, playing Ms A, relates her upbringing as a

the U S helped several of the actors relate to their roles in a similar way

The role of Adriana, whose sister is kidnapped in Mexico, hits close to home for actress Liliana Esparza who was born and raised in Mexico before moving to the TexasMexico border While Adriana’s situation and the fear expressed by many of the characters may seem far-fetched to audience members, Esparza expresses familiarity with these kinds of circumstances and the prevalence of ethnic diversity in border communities Esparza states, “I hope [the audience] will go home and look up where people are in danger,” expressing her desire for people to learn and connect more with the challenges faced by immigrant populations

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ve g e t a b l e b a l l f ro m t h e C a m b o d i a n f o o d s t a n d , a n d m o s t i m p o r t a n t l y, s i t i n m y d a rk d o r m ro o m a l o n e a n d w a t c h T V Yo u s e e , s p r i n g i s a w o n d e r f u l t i m e : b i rd s s i n g , c o u p l e s d o c o u p l e - y t h i n g s d re s s e d i n s e e r s u c k e r a n d m a d r a s a n d Do n Dr a p e r g r a c e s t h e w o r l d w i t h h i s c h a r m i n g s m i l e By the time you are reading this, I will have watched the Season Six premiere of Mad Men and I will be talking about nothing else (course enroll, schmourse enroll ) Spring doesn’t just mark the return of the best television show ever (former Ar ts & Enter tainment editor Zachar y Zahos does not get to say it’s Breaking Bad when he doesn’t even watch Mad Men), but also other really really great TV shows If you ’ re looking to procrastinate star ting that term paper, don’t bother with the great outdoors here is what you should be watching

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Inspired by the 2009 French film Skirt Day, a film exploring the migration of the Turkish community across the German border, playwright Elaine Romero explores issues including immigration and the armament of teachers, two pressing controversies in the U S The play does not shy away from taking a stance on either issue and the actors ’ passions and fears only encourage empathy for those dealing with these issues In light of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Romero’s play could not have be performed at a more appropriate time The controversy of arming teachers is a key element of the play and placing a gun on stage certainly makes a statement Resto explains, “A weapon on stage is always its own character, you have to give it life The audience will only believe that it will hurt someone if you make them believe it,” and the shaky hands and desperation of actors does not fail to portray the urgency of the situation

“This play has a lot of themes, but there’s one thing driving it forward the whole time that keeps you hooked, actor

Madeline Salinas is a freshman in the College of Human Ecolog y She can be reached at mms338@cornell edu

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magic of a year ago, and the Red fell to Dartmouth in the first game of the series on Sunday

a f t e r a w a l k o f f w a l k f o r t h e Green in the bottom of the ninth

The Red got another solid

p i t c h i n g p e r f o r m a n c e f ro m sophomore hurler Brian McAfee, who went seven innings without allowing a run in that game The bullpen was unable to hold on to

t h e s c o re l e s s s t re a k , t h o u g h

Freshman Michael Byrne came in to pitch a scoreless eighth, but a f t e r a n i n f i e l d h i t a n d t w o walks, the Red found itself on the losing end against the Green

The Red’s bullpen has been a strong point this season and in the past, although it has taken a hit with the loss of sophomore closer Kellen Urbon who was named Ivy League Rookie of the

Year last season According to

Peters, though, the relief staff is strong enough to carr y the team in his absence “ Mi c h a e l By r n e , Ma t t

Horton, those guys are always real reliable,” he said “ They can come in in any situation and we have the utmost confidence for them to get us out of it, so there’s no doubt about our bullpen ”

The Red bounced back in the second game against the Green on the back of another impressive outing by junior left-hander

Zach McCulley In his first collegiate complete game, McCulley allowed four hits, struck out five and retired the final ten batters he faced Unlike in McAfee’s start, though, the Red’s offense gave McCulley some support

So p h o m o re o u t f i e l d e r J D

Whetsel and junior first baseman

Ryan Plantier both had two hits and an RBI

On Saturday, the Red took on

Har vard in Cambridge, Mass In keeping with the theme for the team so far this season, sophomore pitcher Nick Busto was stellar on the mound again He handed the Red another complete game victor y, allowing just one run while fanning seven

“He’s been real solid for us, ” Peters said “ We expect when he’s on the mound that we’ll see a lot of strikes, we’ll get ground balls and fly balls Our pitching staff has done really well and he’s another arm that props us up ”

Though Cornell struck first in the third with an RBI double by

Ma t t Hall, the Crimson responded in the bottom of the frame with a run of their own The Red did not waste much time getting back on top, scoring two runs in the top of the next inning off a

by

Conor McCabe That was all the suppor t Busto needed, as he

cruised to a 3-1 victor y for his fourth win of the season

The second game of the series was a disappointment for the Red Sophomore Brent Jones we n t t h re e a n d o n e t h i rd innings, allowing seven hits and three runs Despite his rough outing, the Red still found itself with a four-run lead going into t h e b o t t o m o f t h e s e ve n t h inning The Crimson’s offense woke up in that inning, though, capitalizing on some walks by the Red’s relievers and putting up seven runs in the frame

“It was just a lack of focus, and ever ything seemed to piece together for them while nothing was really going right for us, ” Peters said “ They put a big crooked number up on us at a crucial point in the game ”

T h e Cr i m s o n ’ s b i g i n n i n g silenced the Red’s offense, as it was unable to fight back in the final two innings, falling 10-7

“ We need to learn to close out games more efficiently and step on the toes of the other teams

w h e n we h a ve t h e c h a n c e , ” Peters said

After taking three out of four in its first weekend of Ivy play, the Red split in both of its series this weekend The Red begins play against Lou Gehrig Division opponents next weekend with an away series against Columbia According to Peters, despite the early losses, the team is still in good position on the brink of divisional play

“ We definitely would have liked to be better [at this point], b u t we ’ re c o m i n g u p o n a n impor tant par t of the season where we play guys in our own division,” he said “If we win three out of four or four out of f o u r a g a i n s t t h e m , t h e n we should be in the Ivy championship series with no problem ”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

Pannell Re ects

On Returning to Cornell as Senior

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English to tighten the deficit to 12-10 Pannell followed with an unassisted goal to cut the lead to 12-11

With just 3:30 to go, senior midfielder Max Van Bourgondien stepped up in a big way for the Red Assisted twice by English, Van Bourgondien registered a hat trick in the game ’ s closings minutes to hand the Red a decisive 1412 victor y over the Crimson Equally impressive was the fact that the Red held Harvard scoreless for the majority of the final period, despite three penalties in the closing minutes A big part of the team ’ s momentum shift was a vast improvement in faceoffs won in the fourth period (7-of-10) relative to the first three periods (5of-19)

The showdown at Cambridge brought out the best in the Red seniors Mock scored a team-high six goals and Noble forced six turnovers on the defense, while senior goalkeeper A J Fiore finished with 11 saves Not to be overlooked, however, was Cornell lacrosse all-time points leader Pannell, who finished the game with two goals and three assists Throughout the season, Pannell has reflected on his decision to return to Cornell for a final year of collegiate lacrosse “It has been a crazy ride,” the fifth year senior who missed most of last season due to injury said “To lose something that you love so much you don’t realize how much you love it until you don’t have it anymore ”

According to Pannell, being on the sidelines for a season gave him a newfound appreciation for the hard work of all of his teammates

“I’ve started every game since I’ve been here at Cornell and I didn’t know what that feeling was like to watch from the sideline,” he said “It gave me a perspective on what guys on our team do some guys on our team never start a game at Cornell, but put in the same work that I do, and the same effort and go to every practice and every weight-lifting session It certainly made me more appreciative of what I have here and being a member of the Cornell lacrosse program ” The victory makes Cornell the first Ivy team to reach four conference wins this season (4-0), and gives the Red breathing room against the next closest challengers

No 8 Princeton (6-3, 2-1), No 16 Yale (6-3, 2-2) and No 17 Penn (6-3, 2-2) With the conference schedule over halfway completed, if the Red can hang onto first in the Ivy League standings, then it will host the annual Ivy Men’s Lacrosse Tournament at Schoellkopf field in early May

The Red’s next test, however, will be against a non-conference opponent Cornell will head to nearby Syracuse to take on the No 8 Orange (7-2, 2-1 Big East) on Wednesday evening for the Red’s final non-Ivy action of the regular season

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

Red Drops Fourth Straight To League-Leading Green

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s lacrosse team hoped to end its three-game losing streak when it played Ivy-League leading Dartmouth on Saturday, but the Red (6-4, 2-3 Ivy League) fell short, suffering another defeat The Big Green (8-3, 4-0 Ivy League) ultimately won the contest by a score of 95

According to junior midfielder and captain Chelsea Rowe, the Red is frustrated by the current losing streak

“It’s a balance,” she said “Obviously we ’ re disappointed that there have been four straight losses, but with the team we have, we ’ re not discouraged and we believe that we can go far this season

I don’t think that one person on the team has any thought about giving up We’re going to keep pushing and sometimes adversity makes you stronger, and that’s what we hope will be the case with us We have a lot to build on and a lot of potential, so we ’ re looking forward to the next game, putting what’s in the past behind us, but also learning from it ”

The Red started the game effectively and held a 2-1 lead, but Dartmouth responded with four straight goals to go up 5-2 heading into the second half According to Rowe, the Red got out to a strong start, but couldn’t maintain its control throughout the entire game

“We had the goal to play a full 60 minutes going into this game and to start from the opening whistle,” she said “I think we

did that really well, but as it went on there were still pieces that we were missing We played really hard and with a lot of heart, but things weren ' t coming together for us and I don’t think we played to our full potential unfortunately ”

The Red cut the lead to 5-4 at the beginning of the second half, but the Big Green again responded with four straight goals to claim the lead for good According to Rowe, Cornell’s failure to gain possession of the ball made room for Dartmouth’s goal streak, and the Red needs to improve its draw control strategy for its upcoming games

“We can improve with draw controls just by making sure that we come up with the ground balls,” she said “So we ’ re working on our strategy, so hopefully we’ll have a better strategy for draw controls and controlling the ball going forward ”

According to Rowe, the Red saw some positives on the defensive side of the game, despite the loss

“Our defense is really coming together We’re playing better as a team, and we ’ re helping each other out, ” she said “We also caused a lot of turnovers by pressuring the ball and hopefully that will continue to be one of our strengths going forward ”

The Red will next host Brown this coming Friday The Bears have had a strong season and sit above Cornell in the Ivy League standings According to Rowe, despite the highly competitive nature of the Ivy League, it will be beneficial for the Red to focus on executing its own game-plan rather than worry about its opponents

“[The] Ivy league is a very competitive league, but going forward we just need to play our game and focus on that, rather than exclusively focus on the opponent, ” she said “Obviously we have our strategy points for different players, but I think we just need to

focus on improving the little parts of our game, going out there with no fear, and playing our hearts out ”

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R A C K & F I E L D

Huber ’12, Hagberg ’12 Tackle New Hurdles Together

Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12 came to Cornell with the same plan as many athletes to run track for four years, graduate and move on to professional jobs Little did

they know that one summer, in 2011, an opportunity to help some friends would arise out of nowhere and would shape their careers after graduation in a different path than most of their ILR classmates

“We started in the summer of 2011 at Cornell and it was kind of a last second start We realized that a lot of our

friends were looking for summer storage in the Ithaca area and we had a lease for our apartments and we weren ’ t going to be in town So we filled up our rooms and locked our doors with all of our friend’s belongings over the summer, ” Huber said “Then we got serious about it for the next year That’s when we built our website, got our insurance, rented a warehouse and we ended up storing for about 250 clients in Ithaca ”

The small-time operation, now called Storage Squad, worked so well that summer that the two student-athletes looked to continue it into the following year Balancing running, being senior captains, ILR coursework and the startup of their company, the duo was more than busy But that didn ’ t seem to stop them in the slightest

“We started in the summer of 2011 at Cornell and it was a last second start ” N i c k H u b e r ’ 1 2

To add to their list of accomplishments, as they finished out senior year, the two combined for multiple Cornell schools records, as well as Ivy titles and National finishes

In his final year with the Red, Huber finished fourth in the 110 hurdles, fifth in the high jump and again claimed a title by winning the decathlon with a school-record

7,632 points at the Outdoor Heps, earning him a spot in the NCAA Championships He placed 11th in the country and left Cornell as the school record holder in the pentathlon (3,707), heptathlon (5,550) and decathlon (7,632)

“I ended up having a lot of fun with track I came as one of the last guys who was recruited on the team I was a hur-

Seniors Lead La xers in Comeback Win

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

Trailing 12-9 with just over nine minutes remaining in the fourth, the Red men ’ s lacrosse team faced one of its biggest deficits of the season in front of a hostile Crimson crowd Saturday at Harvard Stadium

Spurred by an improved faceoff percentage and critical contributions from key players in the closing minutes, the Red (10-1, 40 Ivy) rose to the occasion with a five-goal frenzy to stymie Harvard (4-6, 1-2) and leave Cambridge with a stunning 14-12 victory

For the second game in a row,

senior attackman Steve Mock put the Red up 1-0 with a quick, unassisted strike in the game ’ s second minute From that point on, however, penalties plagued the Red Cornell finished with a total of nine penalties to Harvard’s two, including one-minute infractions on sophomore midfielder Connor Buczek, senior defenseman Jason Noble and sophomore short stick defensive midfielder Mike Huttner in the first and early second The Red struggled to clear going 2-5 in the first and Harvard capital-

ized on one of its man-advantage opportunities to knot the score at 3 apiece early in the second

“You saw it in the Penn [and Bucknell games] our clearing certainly needs to improve,” said senior attackman Rob Pannell

“And that’s just going to come with repetition and practice every day and making sure guys are doing the right thing ”

After several back-and-forth scoring runs put the Crimson up 12-9, it was time for the Red to make a decisive run and rebound in the team ’ s first close contest since a 9-8 defeat against Bucknell on March 19th Buczek began the scoring spree with a long-range goal off an assist from

Red Splits Series Against Rivals Har vard, Dartmouth

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Senior outfielder Chris Cruz

before He had stared into the same set of eyes before, stepped to the plate with the game on the line before Almost a year ago, Cruz had given his team its first Ivy League championship

“It was real intense,” said senior infielder Brenton Peters “You had guys yelling ‘hit that guy ’ or ‘this is awkward ’” Cruz ripped a pitch from Olson down the first base line, b u t i t w a s s n a g g e d by t h e Green’s first baseman, ending the threat and allowing Olson to breathe a sigh of relief

“I’m pretty sure it was laying in the back of his mind, because he didn’t throw Chris a single fastball,” Peters said “He definitely didn’t want that to happen again ” Cruz could not recreate the

to give his team a thrilling win in Ivy play