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Debate Weighs Pros, Cons of Greek System

Debaters talk about exclusivity, sexual assault, binge-drinking in Greek system

By SARAH SASSOON Sun Staff Writer

The Greek system, which one in three students at Cornell are members of, has recently come under scrutiny for its association with binge drinking, hazing and sexual assault In light of the controversy surrounding the Greek system, the Cornell Forensics Society hosted a public

debate Tuesday questioning whether sororities and fraternities have done more harm than good for Cornell

Moderated by members of the CFS, the debate featured two sides: a pro-Greek side whose members consisted of leadership within the Greek

Council, Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council and an anti-Greek side that consisted of stu-

dent leaders advocating campus inclusion and women ’ s issues

While the anti-Greek side argued that the system exacerbates bingedrinking, sexual assault and exclusivity, the pro-Greek side argued that these issues are not exclusive to the Greek community

“Cornell is really not reflective of the average Greek system, ” said Alan

Call-in Campaign For Arrested Grads Mobilizes Activists

By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor

After Nancy Morales grad and Omar Figueredo grad were arrested last month for refusing to answer questions about their citizenship status, a phone campaign urging Cameron county ’ s district attorney office to drop the charges which the campaign’s organizers say are “trumped up ” has mobilized over 100 callers

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Brownsville after they refused to answer a border patrol agent ’ s question about their citizenship status Figueredo was arrested for failing to identify himself, resisting arrest and obstructing a passageway, while Morales was arrested for interference with public duties, a class B misdemeanor

The two students, who are U S citizens, said they refused to answer the agent ’ s question not because they did not have documentation, but because they wanted to put up an act of civil resistance against what Figueredo called “ an unauthorized form of intimidation and harassment that has become naturalized and normalized in the border region ” They were released on bond on Mar 26

Those who participated in the call-in campaign said they thought the charges against the two students should be dropped because the arrest epitomized racial profiling and harassment in the border region

More Than 100 Students Vow to Ignore Phones for Three Days

By CHRISTOPHER YATES Sun Contributor

If a f r i e n d d o e s n ’ t re s p o n d t o yo u r Facebook messages this week, he or she may be one of more than 100 Cornell students who have pledged to disconnect from technology for three days The commitment is part of a social experiment by CU [dis]connect, a student-led project that aims to encourage face-to-face contact on campus and beyond

Participants have vowed to spend three days without cell phones, Facebook or any other social media platforms and to actively p a r t i c i p a t e i n f a c e - t o - f a c e c o n ve r s a t i o n , according to Rudy Gerson ’15, founder of the project and a Sun columnist

“Our goal is to see what happens when technology is out of the picture from changing how we see ourselves to noticing more things on the way to class,” Gerson said

T h e e ve n t , w h i c h w i l l r u n f ro m

Wednesday to Friday, will include several events during which participants will discuss the impact of technology and social media on their lives and community According to Gerson, CU [dis]connect is working with Cornell Minds Matter, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Coffee Hour, the Ask Big Questions fellowship program, a fellowship that supports those who promote civil d i s c o u r s e o n c a m p u s a n d t h e St u d e n t Assembly to fund, promote and oversee the event

The project’s goal is not to discourage the use of technology or social media entirely, but to encourage students to reevaluate their relat i o n s h i p w i t h t e c h n o l o g y, a c c o rd i n g t o

Gerson

“We’re not anti-technology or anti-email We just want to look at the effects of hyperconnectivity, especially in regards to smart phones,” Gerson said

Around 100 Cornell students have signed the online pledge, and many others have

expressed views sympathetic to the group ’ s goal of promoting conversation on campus, according to Gerson

“I think CU [dis]connect is a great idea It’s remarkable how often we pass each other and fail to say ‘hello’ or even offer up a smile I’m guilty of it too Being able to disconnect from your phone and email even if only for a few hours can help you feel way

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Man in Cookie Monster Costume Arrested

NEW YORK (AP) A man dressed as the Cookie Monster has been accused of shoving a 2-year-old in New York's Times Square and has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child

Queens resident Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez was arrested Sunday afternoon He was arraigned Monday on charges including aggressive begging He didn’t enter a plea

A Connecticut family posed for a photo with the man dressed as the “Sesame Street” character Police say he demanded $2 but the family refused to pay A criminal complaint says the man shoved the toddler and yelled obscenities at the family

Circus Elephant Shot In Drive-by Shooting

TUPELO, Miss (AP) Authorities say a Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Tupelo, Miss Circus spokeswoman Melinda Hartline says the elephant was not seriously hurt Tuesday She says no other animals were harmed

The elephant, Carol, is part of a circus in town for a series of performances The Asian elephant was in an outside area of the Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena

Police Chief Tony Carleton says a vehicle drove past the arena about 2 a m and fired into the area Police are investigating

Sheep Employed to Mow Lawn in France

PARIS (AP) Will tourists soon see flocks of baaing sheep at the Eiffel Tower and bleating ewes by Notre Dame cathedral?

That could be the case, since Paris City Hall this week installed a small flock of sheep to mow the lawn at the city’s gardens, replacing gas-guzzling lawnmowers

Four woolly ewes shipped in from an island off the Brittany coast are currently munching the grass surrounding Paris Archives building The number of sites doing that could expand from October in and around Paris

The ovine-operation follows a successful stint last year by two goats that were hired privately by the Louvre to mow the lawn at Tuileries, central Paris' grand 17th-century gardens

Motorless and independent, the four-legged workers contentedly munch day and night oblivious of the France's strict 35-hour work week

A similar experiment in a park outside Paris even found that sheep droppings were a benefit, bringing swallows back to the area

Mixed Reactions to New C-Town Zoning Proposal

Common Council will vote on code

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Me m b e r s o f t h e P l a n n i n g a n d

Economic Development Committee presented a new plan for form-based code zoning with the aim of creating attractive developments that better meet community

n e e d s Tu e s d a y a t a C o l l e g e t ow n

Neighborhood Council meeting

According to Megan Wilson, a city planning department staff member, formbased code focuses on ensuring high quality construction in the Collegetown area, transitioning from lower to higher density

i n t h e c e n t r a l c o re o f C o l l e g e t ow n , enhancing green space in the area and promoting walkable neighborhoods The new plan is simpler than previous versions of the code

The plan divides Collegetown into six d i s t r i c t s : f o u r residential and two mixed use districts, with e

having specific

o r new construction

this summer

has been presented to the public, according to Wilson

’ 7 8 ( D - 3 rd Wa rd ) and Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward) spoke a b o u t t

re v i s e d plan at the meeting

elements payment in lieu of parking, an incentive height dis-

code and design and we ’ re now just focusing on one, the form-based codes The minimum parking requirements, and the other points of the

“Significant redevelopment is not mentioned in the plan.”

M e g a n W i l s o n

“Significant redevelopment is not mentioned [in the plan] We want to protect the character of the residential neighborhood,” Wilson said “All four residential districts have a maximum height of three stories It’s a hybrid code, form-based as well as the traditional code used We want to provide property owners some options ”

The plan will be voted on by the Common Council in the summer after it

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impact, but we wanted to take

sion,” Kerslick said “It was a breakthrough to break these components up ” McCollister echoed Kerslick’s sentiment, saying that the code revision “turned out to be an incredible opportunity ”

Still, the plan is lacking in some aspects, according to McCollister

“ The remaining obstacle or disappointment is having to take out the idea of incentive zones It was a dream for a lot of us to provide incentives for a mixed-used, year-round Collegetown environment,”

McCollister said The original plan proposed providing incentive zones, areas in the city where developers can create structures that are tax-exempt Monica Moll, a Collegetown landlord a n d b o a rd m e m b e r o f t h e L a n d l o rd s

Association of Tompkins County, echoed McCollister’s views on creating incentive zones for property owners

“It would provide citywide improvements The historic district has something extremely similar,” Moll said

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Tom Hanna ’64, chair of the East Hill

improvements that could be made to the form-based code plan

“Home ownership should increase in C o l l e g e t ow n , a f f o rd a b i l i t y s h o u l d b e reflected in our plans, [and] pocket-parks are needed; we need to target the kind of

population we ’ re looking for and anticipations for its development,” Hanna said “ D e v e l o p m e n t s h o u l d m a k e [Collegetown] a year-round retail community ” Tessa Rudan ’89, a member of the Planning and Development Board, said that community feedback would be taken into account as the city considers the form-based code plan

“Looking at this historically, taking things out [of the original plan] was a good decision Some of these changes do make sense, but I think the idea is to stay on mission, and to proceed from there,” Rudan said

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com

Prof. Toorawa : Dr. T Project Teaches Students About ‘Cool Things’

By LUCY MEHRABYAN Sun Staff Writer

The inspiration for “Dr T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker's Guide to Culture” a weekly

m e e t i n g t h a t t e a c h e s s t u d e n t s about pop culture first came

a b o u t w h e n Pr o f S h a w k a t

Toorawa, near eastern studies, tried to help students grasp ne w concepts in class by connecting ne w material to pop culture

When students were unfamiliar with the pop culture refer-

ences Toorawa made, he began to tease his students, saying he needed to teach another class, “Ever ything Professor Toorawa Thinks You Should Know but You Don’t ” “It is possible to be serious and to be a scholar and be interested in things that people don't think are serious,” Toorawa said T h

e e y e a r s a g o , To o r a w a began to teach that ver y class; now, ever y Tuesday, for precisely 2 6 m i n u t e s , To o r a w a l e c t u re s about three cultural things he

that day This week’s topics were A n t o n i o Ma c h

d o , a Sp a n

s h poet, Changi, an area at the east-

f Singapore and The Parallel Lines, an album by Blondie

“Something that is fun to do now has become a satisfying and ve

n g t o d o , ” To o r a w a s a i d w h e n s p e a k i n g about conveying general cultural knowledge to students

Exposure to different cultures is something Toorawa is familiar

w i t h To o r a w a w a s b o r n i n England, but raised in France and Singapore He went to an international school, and after graduating, he chose to move to the United States instead of taking what he said was the conventional route of going back to England to pursue his career

“In most of the world, you have to begin a specific course

I didn’t know how to choose where to go I

t h o u g h t about it and I d e c i d e d I l o v e d l i t e r a -

t u r e a n d w a n t e d t o l e a r n a n e w l a n g u a g e

Toorawa followed his advis o r ’ s a d v i c e , b u t t o o k s o m e detours along the way Toorawa went to college in 1981 and left school 16 years later While tr ying to complete h is Ph D, h e we n t b ac k an d f o r t h b e t w e e n t h e U S a n d Mauritius Island, where his family lived

He taught in the only university in Mauritius Island until

“It is possible to be serious and to be a scholar and be interested in things people don’t think are serious ”

O n e [ l a nguage] that I kne w was ver y hard and interesting was Arabic,” Toorawa said

W h e n To o r w a e n r o l l e d i n University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, his advisor suggested he take intensive Arabic because he would learn the lang u a g e f a s t e r By m a k i n g t h i s decision to plunge into Arabic, Toorawa paved the path toward his future career

Toorawa said that same advisor who he described as an Englishman who rode his bike to school ser ved as a role model to him One day Toorawa asked h i m , “ Ho w d o e s s o m e o n e become like you?”

Hi s a d v i s o r ’ s a n s w e r w a s , “Major in Arabic, get a Ph D in A r a b i c [ a n d ] g e t a j o b i n Arabic ”

with Cornell

courses such as NES 6723: The Arabian Nights: Then and Now and NES 4727: Ne w York, Paris, Baghdad: Poetr y of the City

Toorawa said he encourages others to assume a teaching role in the Dr T Project Toorawa says students, graduate students and faculty can also share three interesting things on Tuesdays,

Skor ton has been

guest in his series

it is about someone who says these are cool things,” Toorawa said

Raymond: Arrested Students Were ‘Courageous’

She ha s not seen many U.S . citi zen s challenge immigration law

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“Allowing border patrol to question people about their legal status in an airport where they already have to identify themselves if they want to board a plane is unnecessary, ” said Esmeralda Arrizon-Palomera grad, president of DREAM Cornell “It instills fear in communities that are already heavily policed ”

Arrizon-Palomera added that the two students’ decision to not answer questions about their citizenship status was a “decision to resist harassment from the border patrol” and was “right and necessary ”

Catherine Jung ’13, another participant in the call-in campaign, said the border patrol agent ’ s questioning near the Mexico-U S border was an example of racial profiling

“Why are we so intent on kicking [out] ‘Mexicans’ but not the ‘Canadians’? Is it because people associate Mexico with darker skin tone and equate this with [being] not American?” Jung said

Prof Paula Ioanide, comparative race and ethnicity studies, Ithaca College, said that after watching the arrest of her friends through the livestream video, she “ went into organizing mode and asked everyone I know [to call the Brownsville airport and the Brownsville Police Department] ”

After Ioanide found out what the charges were and where Morales and Figueredo were taken after their arrest, she and fellow organizers set up a call-in campaign to get the charges dropped

Ioanide said she was exasperated by the fact that refusing to answer the border patrol agent ’ s question led to Morales and Figueredo’s arrest

“When we exercise our [right to not answer a border patrol agent ’ s question], this is what happens?” Ioanide said Orlando Lara M F A ’11, another organizer of the phone campaign, shared Ioanide’s exasperation

“I had no idea the police would step in to arrest without warning,” Lara said

Although many calls were made to the district attorney ’ s office, Lara said many call-in participants’ calls were deferred to a federal agency, even though the arrest and subsequent charges

were criminal and had nothing to do with federal agencies

“[The D A ’ s office] is trying to tell people that they don’t have the charges in their office and that they should call the federal agencies Sometimes they’d say [call the] Border Patrol Agency, sometimes they’d say Immigration Customs Enforcement,” Lara said

As of Tuesday, however, the D A ’ s office started to accept the calls instead of referring callers to federal agencies, according to Lara

Virginia Raymond, a lawyer based in Texas, said Morales and Figueredo’s case is interesting because it highlights the contradiction between the application of immigration law at the border and the rights that the U S constitution guarantees Raymond said some immigration practices at the border violate constitutional rights, including guarantees of freedom of speech, prevention of unreasonable searches and seizures and equal protection

In most cases, Raymond said, the conflict between immigration law and the constitution is not challenged because when questioned by a border patrol agent, “ most U S citizens would usually say, ‘yeah, I’m a citizen ’”

She said the two students were courageous for exercising their constitutional rights because they called attention to the discrepancy between immigration law and constitutional rights Raymond said she has not personally seen any cases where U S citizens refused to answer border patrol agents ’ questions

“We haven’t had many U S citizens in a non-criminal context that I know of challenging immigration law and border patrol practices because most people just go along for the sake of convenience,” Raymond said “We use the privilege we have as U S citizens We don’t challenge the privilege and see the injustices that others must endure ”

Figueredo said that the case brought up issues “that people live with on a daily basis but aren ’ t conscious of ” The students has been in Texas since last week and are still figuring out details of how to get back to Ithaca

“Since last Tuesday, all we wanted to do was go back to Ithaca,” Figueredo said

Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun com

Cornell Greek Leaders S ay System Fosters Leader ship, D iver sity and Philanthropy

Toledo, along with other speakers on the pro-Greek side, also stressed the leadership oppor tunities that being a par t of the Greek system allowed him

Organizer Hopes C.U.

Workman ’13, former executive vice president of IFC “I would say the Greek system [at Cornell] is headed in an extremely positive direction ”

Workman said the Greek system and the leadership within it provide a means to regulate issues such as binge drinking and sexual assault that are prevalent on campus

“ The Greek system is the place where individuals can feel safer because of the leadership str ucture, ” Workman said Workman said the leadership str ucture within the Greek system assumes responsibility for the safety of its members at its events, a leadership str ucture that he says does not exist at other student-hosted par ties

The issue of diversity and inclusion within the Greek system was prevalent throughout the debate

In response to the asser tion that the Greek system is racially exclusive, Juan Carlos Toledo ’13, Tri-Council Liaison and a spor ts writer for The Sun, argued that the University, IFC and Panhellenic councils work to make the system as inclusive as possible

While anti-Greek panelists argued that it is unfair that MGLC chapters do not have houses while IFC fraternities do, Toledo said the lack of housing was not a diversity issue, but an issue of a lack of strong alumni funding “MGLC fraternities and sororities are much younger

Our alumni network is not large enough to permit for them to donate to us directly,” Toledo said “[It’s not that] the current Cornell system is discriminating against these chapters The University is always opening up possibilities for funding [for the MGLC] ”

“I would not be the kind of leader or person that I know I am had I not become Greek,” he said

In retaliation, Michelle Huang ’14 said while the proGreek side “tries to argue there is something unique about Greek membership that facilitates leadership I think that leadership happens not because of Greek membership but in spite of it ”

Several issues were hotly debated, but the issue of exclusion remained the primar y concern of the anti-Greek panel

Although Workman and Carli Van Holmes ’14, president of the Panhellenic council, stressed that joining a Greek organization is a process of self-selection, Huang argued that the individuals who self-select to enter into the system usually fit a cer tain socioeconomic criteria

“Females who feel that they cannot afford to buy the nice clothes that you need for r ush simply don’t r ush because they don’t feel like it’s a space where they belong,” she said “ The system is inherently exclusionar y ”

The debate triggered several different responses from audience members, both Greek and non-Greek, elucidating that the issue continues to remain a controversial one

Van Holmes stressed that the Greek community continues to make changes and improvements accordingly “ The Cornell Greek community is incredibly open to dialogue and self improvement,” Van Holmes said

Sarah Sassoon can be reached at ssassoon@cornellsun com

more integrated into the Cornell community,” said Cristina Lara ’14, who said she will be participating in the event

Some students say they feel that social media and texting can actually facilitate friendship by overcoming physical distance and inconvenience

“Many assume that the use of phones and social media inhibits meaningful conversation and relationships, but I say that in many ways it does exactly the opposite,” Mark Yoon ’16 said

Others felt the project was simply infeasible for the average Cornell student

“It makes sense in the context of social media, but many Cornell students need to check their email for academic and professional purposes, ” Thora Bjornsdottir ’14, said

If the project proves to be popular with Cornell students, Gerson said he hopes the three-day event will blossom into an annual tradition

“We’re waiting to see the reaction, but personally, I’d like to see it become a yearly event But it won ’ t happen if the buzz isn’t there We want to see that something’s been gained from it all,” Gerson said

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To t h e Ed i t o r :

Re: “O H : D i ve r s i f y i n g t h e Gre e k Sy s t e m , ” Opinion, April 8

I’m writing in regard to Monday’s op-ed “Diversifying the Greek System,” written by Don Oh I believe that this piece makes clear that the author made no effort to understand neither the Greek System nor diversity at Cornell

In his piece, Oh laments the lack of diversity in the Greek System after a brief interaction with students on a sidewalk Upon seeing this group of “ more than 100 drunken individuals in funky clothing,” he concludes “they must come from some obscure Midwestern college in the middle of nowhere I felt sorry that they wouldn’t get to learn from peers with divergent cultural upbringings ” While I do not understand his need to inform us that college-aged students were drunk (gasp), or his ad hominum attack on the Midwest, what is most troubling is his assumption that racial homogeneity prevents cultural learning Diversity is not just about race; it’s also about different backgrounds and experiences I fundamentally disagree with Oh’s belief that individuals within a single race cannot learn about diversity from one another

Furthermore, Oh owes an apology to the numerous individuals in fraternities that identify as minorities Oh contends that while fraternities are supposedly open to all, “there is an asterisk that reads: Asians: must not have any accent; Blacks: must be from boarding schools; Gays: must act straight and keep their sex lives behind the door?”

In making this claim, he disregards all minority students within the Greek System who do not fit the stereotypes Oh presented and have no less experienced the struggles associated with being a minority

I have gay brothers who have taken me to gay bars in Manhattan I have a brother from Korea that brought me to his naturalization ceremony And another brother from Dubai who has taught me more about the Middle East than any class at Cornell And yet, if Oh were to look into the windows of my so-called “Jewish” house or see a group of us on the streets of Collegetown, he would likely again assume that we were a single-minded, homogenous group There is no doubt that my house could do more to be diverse, but to say that we have an environment that in anyway discourages ethnic and racial diversity is simply false Oh’s lack of understanding regarding the culture within the Greek system is evident

It is possible for diversity to exist even among individuals who share the same race If we as a community fail to acknowledge and explore the diverse set of beliefs and experiences that we are surrounded with on The Hill, regardless of the racial make up of the particular groups we interact with, we fail to experience the full diversity of this school In no way am I attempting to discredit the fact that the University and its students need to be more racially inclusive, but we must also not forget that diversity can take many shapes and forms

Geoffrey Block ’14

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CORRECTIONS

A previous version of a sports spring supplement article Tuesday, “Red Heads Towards Improvement,” incorrectly quoted Kristen Towne ’13 as saying, “We are better than anyone else ” In fact, she said, “We know better than anyone else what we are capable of ”

An article in the sports spring supplement Tuesday, “Rowers Open With Six Straight Wins,” contained text for a story about the women ’ s lacrosse team In fact, the article should have been about the women ’ s rowing team Additionally, the headline should have read, “Women Look for Positive Results in the Water ” The correct article can be found on Cornellsun com under that headline

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Beautiful and Inconvenient Truth

In a packed theater on the first warm Monday of the year, a rapt audience watches ice melt Cheers or snores could reasonably follow, but this audience sits in captivated silence The film is Chasing Ice, the subject is climate change and the evidence is entirely cinematic

Aside from director Jeff Orlowski, the man responsible for many of the documentary’s images is its star, James Balog This nature photographer studied science at the University of Colorado, but since he sees “the modern world of science [as] all about statistics and computer modeling,” Balog works in the artful medium of photography After shooting a popular National Geographic cover story on melting glaciers (“The Big Thaw”), Balog established the Extreme Ice Survey, a study that fuses art and science to visualize the effects of anthropogenic climate change The task Balog and his crew set themselves seems simple to take photos of glaciers with secured, timelapse cameras but faulty technology, violent weather and Balog’s own health present enough trials to make for, at the very least, a brisk 75 minutes

The time-lapse montages present the most naked and arresting “beautiful” would also be apt evidence of global warming I have seen yet It is a shame the filmmakers think the James Balog’s story even stands a chance Balog, who was in attendance at Monday’s Cornell Cinema screening and answered questions afterward, engages through his work, and Orlowski would have been wise to let that work speak for itself instead of padding the

film with footage of Balog spending time with his family, getting knee surgery, etc The resulting melodrama plays like network television programs, or the autobiographical sections of An Inconvenient Truth that your biology teacher fast-forwarded through It all diverts the narrative from the real protagonist: Earth This is not necessarily Balog’s fault, as the responsibility lies with the filmmakers to legitimize the material at hand But there is a whole montage of Balog making the CNN/NBC interview circuit, and one shot in particular of a studio makeup artist brushing up Balog’s face weren ’ t we talking about melting glaciers?

We were, and the images, whether still, moving or time-lapse, redeem this film from its dips into bathos or narcissism I wonder what any global warming deniers could possibly say after witnessing them, but who cares what Sean Hannity thinks, anyway There is a spectacular sequence where a glacier the size of lower Manhattan “calves” (separates) off its surrounding fjord, and the cameras just watch The voice-over jumps back in too early for my cinema vérité tastes, but the high resolution digital camcorders show us icebergs three times taller than the Empire State Building rolling forwards and backwards, or, in one stomach-churning shot, soaring miles out from the water and then submerging once again The five-minute episode sells the whole movie, although, as Balog was quick to remind us in the postscreening Q&A, over 4 million people have already seen the video, for free on YouTube (one of them, unknowingly, being me last December)

Zachary Zahos

Cornell Cinema

ly handsome and self-promoting in person as on screen I mean that last adjective in good humor, for Chasing Ice has earned its fair share of honors, including a White House screening on April 22, and Balog made a point in listing as many as his prepared notes could accommodate In all seriousness, though, Balog peddled some real nuggets of wisdom, especially in his survey of the people who should worry about global warming: “If you eat food, breathe air, drink water or pay taxes, climate change affects you ” He also addressed the hybrid nature of his work when he said, “The combination of art and science reveals what one cannot do on its own ” When you realize that the footage of crumbling glaciers represents only a microcosm of an escalating global trend, what is revealed is not so much a number or idea but the urge to let loose all the expletives you know in the direction of your nearest Congressman

After the film, Balog proved to be as aphoristic, rugged-

Midnight in Ithaca:

com

Stephane Wrembel at the Carriage House Café

BY ASHLEY POPP Sun Staff Writer

As I stood in the door way of the concer t hall, I unknowingly began to speak to r e n o w n e d j a z z g u i

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House Café He was heading back to Ne w York City the next night, to my hometown of Brooklyn ( Wrembel and his band frequent the hipster areas of the borough, playing shows mainly in Park Slope and Williamsburg, not in my more conser vative neighborhood of Bay Ridge) With a show that was supposed to star t at 8 p m , and the time being just that, I thought he would politely excuse himself to go on stage Instead, he led me downstairs for an impromptu inter vie w, in a ver y French accent

When I realized who it was I was s p e a k i n g t o , I a s k e d t h e m u s i c i a n t o describe the genre of his music, to which he answered, “ That’s a long explanation ” And he wasn ’ t joking Ten minutes later, I had learned Wrembel’s music was a mixture of classical, jazz, rock, blues, Indian and anything else you could think of But

he made the distinction quite clear: His style incorporates all of these, but is none of them Wrembel explained that he saw himself as a shaman Experiencing his music is like going on a journey; it is a visual experience as much as an aural one Considering he wrote the both themes for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Vicky

makes per fect sense All of his per formances aspire to put a cer tain image in the audience’s head, just as scores function in films

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Award-nominated films I wondered what St

sleepy town of Ithaca But Wrembel had been coming here for years 15, in fact Calling Ithacans “cool people,” Wrembel was happy to come here as many as three times a year With Ithaca College and Cornell, he explained, there was “lots of science and stuff floating around, not to mention Carl Sagan’s ghost ” Wrembel’s song “ Voyager” is a tribute to the late astronomyl professor Dr Carl Sagan W h e n Wr e m b e l ’ s b a n d m a t e s star ted signaling to him from across the

room, I kne w I had to wrap things up quickly So Wrembel left me with some words for my fellow college students: Embrace “the cannibal inside” live out our passions by acting on instinct, rather than over thinking These, of course, are words to live by at a place like Cornell

As Wrembel began his set, we found ourselves in Ne w Mexico with a song aptly named “ The Voice of the Deser t ” Right away, it was clear Wrembel was in a class all his own His fingers moved in a flurr y of passion and grace Even if you could not visualize the images associated with the songs, watching Wrembel’s hands w a s e n t e r t a i n m e n t e n o u g h Ne

“ Tsunami ” Strangely enough, Wrembel had never been to the countr y but had composed the piece based on the disaster Wrembel has a pretty strong fan base in Ithaca, seeing as he’s been here so many times Mia Park Ph D has seen Wrembel multiple times “His shows are ver y similar,” said Park “ There’s so much passion and they’re all genuine ”

Carriage House soon And for a mere 20 dollars, he’s an act you can afford to see, but can ’ t afford to miss

Ashley Popp a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciencces She can be reached at apopp@cornellsun com

STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT| Christina Aguilar ’13

tle exaggerated [They are] clothes that you wouldn’t find anywhere

While she may come from a small town south of Houston, Christina Aguilar ’13 is a metropolitan girl with an edg y fashion sense She thinks that the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad would look more regal in a top hat This April, at the 29th Annual CFC fashion show, she will debut her “ contemporary, stark and fluid” senior collection “ Turbulence ”

THE SUN: So let’s talk a little about why you chose to be a Fiber Science and Apparel Design major

CHRISTINA AGUILAR: Initially, I didn’t know why I wanted to go to college and what I wanted to do, and I applied to a lot of different majors I visited here before I came and I really liked the program I kind of liked the dynamic between the students I know that at a lot of other schools it seems like a really harsh and competitive environment among design students, but here it just kind of seemed like a big family, and I like that

SUN: What other programs did you apply to if you weren ' t sure about fashion design at first?

Aguilar: I did really various things like business major, engineering an assortment [laughs]

SUN: Wow, a lot of diverse talents there So tell me: Who’s your favorite designer and did they inspire your senior collection in any way?

C A : I have a lot of different designers who I admire right now, one of my favorite designers is Ann Demeulemeester I really like the silhouettes of her clothes I feel like I can always relate to her aesthetic and her lines; her stuff ’ s really beautiful

SUN: How would you describe your own sense of fashion?

C A : I’m really into super modern, contemporary fashion clothes that are a little experimental I think that the clothes I design are pretty much date-wear, but with a twist, a little bit edgier I’m interested in producing basics [with] silhouettes a lit-

ISUN: To those who don’t know, can you explain what the senior collection is?

C A : With Cornell Fashion Collective, if you ' re a fourth level, which means you ' ve been doing this for four years, you ’ re allowed to show 11 looks and 11 models most people have a bit fewer than that Basically, you conceptualize this collection for the whole year and you work on it the whole year It does take a long time because you have to have fittings some people do a lot of experimentation with their own fabrics

SUN: So what’s the typical day like during this busy time?

C A : [Laughs] I’m pretty much nocturnal right now, it's pretty crazy I know a lot of people do stay [in studio] many nights I’m personally really good friends with the janitors here because I see them all the time

SUN: So let’s talk about your collection What’s it called?

C A : My collection is called “Turbulence ” I was interested in doing a line of basics pieces that I would wear and [that] I thought would be sort of the building blocks of a wardrobe But I wanted to play with movement, lines and silhouettes [For] some of my pieces, when the model’s walking in them, they might move or shift I like the idea that when you ’ re walking, the forms can be sort of distorted

SUN: What’s the hardest part of your design process from idea to creation?

C A : I guess the hardest part for me is getting what [I] want in 3D forms I feel like I draw a lot I’ll draw all these shapes and then when you ’ re actually having to pattern that in muslin, it just gets really complicated I think the hardest part is getting the designs you have in your head to manifest in real life

Sun: Are there times when you had a design that became something totally different when you actually started creating it?

C A : [Laughs] Yeah, I think that happens all the time

SUN: Do you have one standout item from your collection that you ’ re going to save for last?

C A : You should come to the show and see!

SUN: The media portrays the fashion industry as really harsh and cut-throat, a la The Devil Wears Prada Is there some truth to that?

C A : I think there are definitely some pretty intimidating characters, but it’s not always like that As long as you go in and you ’ re motivated and you work hard, you’ll be fine There might be some people who are just mean, but I haven’t encountered anyone like that

SUN: So what would you say to people who don’t normally follow fashion to entice them to come to the fashion show?

C A : You don’t have to know a lot about fashion to enjoy it We’ve been working really hard, there are a lot of talented designers who are showing, there’s going to be a lot of great models walking in it It's going to be great fun, it’s always a great show

Katherine Carreno is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at kccarreno@gmail com

Remembering Roger Ebert

write these words on Sunday, about 72 hours after the news broke, and it will take around the same amount of time for this finished column to find its way into the paper you are holding or the website you are browsing Six days is an eternity in the world of opeds, but it’s barely enough time to digest the New York Times alert that lit up my phone Thursday afternoon: “Roger Ebert, Longtime Film Critic, Dies at 70, Chicago Sun-Times Reports ” I was just starting to study for an accounting prelim I had later that evening, and it’s putting it lightly to say that I was in no mood to hit the books For many of us, this is a celebrity death without precedent

President Barack Obama summed up Roger’s legacy in an official White House press release, surely the first for any late movie critic: “For a generation of Americans Roger was the movies ” While I would amend the statement by making “generation” plural, the essence remains true Roger changed how we, the general public, went to the movies Watching movies was no longer sufficient you had to think about, talk about, even yell about them, as he and Gene Siskel did on TV for over 20 years Their passion exposed art house, independent and foreign films to a worldwide audience, and Roger’s accessible reviews provided a roadmap for all those who felt in over their head For Roger, insight did not require obfuscation, and elitism did not equal good taste Star Wars and Indiana Jones were not below consideration, for they were and are treasures of cinema alongside Badlands, Nosferatu and Vivre Sa Vie

might furnish a posthumous fourth Moving past his famous “thumbs up, thumbs down” rating system and the legendary one-liners he hurled at trash like Armageddon, we find Roger to be a critic of great nuance and optimism In The Great Movies, he took a magnifying glass and a mirror to classics and hidden gems alike He would scrutinize a scene ’ s composition and lighting in one paragraph and reflect on themes like death (Gates of Heaven), being (Persona) and greatness (Amadeus) in the next Even as he broke down the most confounding films, his words remained personal, brilliant and unpretentious Look no further than his essays on The Tree of Life, 2001: A Space Odyssey and La Dolce Vita, three of his favorite films of his that now align with my own It was his praise that inspired me to see them, think about them, see them again and purchase their posters that now stare at me from the walls of my room

These disparate films all met Roger’s strongest writing in The Great Movies, a series that has filled three published books and

Then you have his more recent reviews, like his write-up on Synecdoche, New York, which might as well be the most beautiful piece of film criticism ever written (and which I shamelessly ripped off for my Perks of Being a Wallflower review last year) On his blog, he talked politics, love, science, religion, memory everything, really These themes carried over to his bustling Facebook and Twitter accounts, platforms not accustomed to Roger’s sincerity and original wit (A memorable tweet: “To a friend uncertain about moving: Every city you move to already contains friends of a lifetime you have not yet

met ”) Staunchly liberal yet disdainful of political correctness, Roger adhered to no rules but his own, which he always admitted were subject to change His words were not some holy truth so much as true to himself, his feelings and his engaged and unironic worldview What other public figure won his fame and fortune through honesty, levelheadedness and common sense?

I regret never meeting Roger, a man I knew so well My mom reminded me over spring break to reach out to Roger and express my gratitude, but after a halfhearted attempt at finding his email address, I abandoned this simple task What would I even say? Besides, I will graduate in a couple years, and then I can make movies or write about them with Roger as a peer, though certainly not an equal And, before that, I will find the time to go to his annual Ebertfest, at least, when it doesn’t conflict with school

So, yeah This loss cuts deep Roger ignited my love for the movies Roger tackled the issues of his time, and all time Roger inspired the world in his open struggle with cancer Roger loved Chaz, his wonderful wife Roger was a presence It is fitting that he titled his last blog, published two days before his death, “A Leave of Presence ” In it, he announced the return of his cancer, his resignation from day-to-day reviewing duties but also his

excitement “ to do what I’ve always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review ” I had the bitter fortune of reading it the day before he died, and I left a comment that ended with the note, “I look forward to sharing many more movie-watching years with your prose guiding the way ” In retrospect, I realize that “ years ” was pushing it, considering his ailments Then again, I consider the blog’s last line, the words he might have known he was parting us with: “I’ll see you at the movies ” If he meant what I think he meant, then, Roger, I’ve been seeing you for years

Zachar y Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun com A Lover s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays

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SCIENCE

Euclid Mission Studies Galaxies

Prof.Rachel Bean to participate in European space mission

By SRINITYA ARASANIPALAI Sun Contributor

Prof Rachel Bean, astronomy, was one of the 40 U S researchers chosen to be part of the Euclid mission, which will attempt to map the geometr y of the dark u n i v e r s e T h e m i s s i o n , l e d b y t h e European Space Agency, was named in honor of the Greek mathematician, Euclid who is considered the father of geometr y

According to Bean, the idea behind this mission is to complete a census of the galaxies in the universe dating back to the time when the universe was one-third the size it is today

Such a census is performed by studying the light emitted by these galaxies Some of the galaxies emitted light a long time ago, but it takes a significant amount of time to reach Earth due to the great distances between galaxies

St u d y i n g t h e s e l i g h t s i g n a l s g i v e s researchers like Bean a snapshot of the universe when the light was emitted

The Euclid mission is looking to pick up light signals from galaxies both near and far and will be working primarily in the optical and near-infrared wavelengths of light For this purpose, a telescope 1 2 meters in diameter is scheduled to be launched in 2020

Some of the key questions this mission seeks to answer are about the number and distribution of galaxies in the universe, the evolution of the universe in the past few

billion years and the creation of the universe

The researchers involved in this mission will study the optical signals to estimate the position of the galaxies

Light stretches as it travels, since the universe is constantly expanding This stretching leads to a phenomenon called “redshift” in which the wavelengths shift to the longer wavelength region of the spectrum, or the red side The longer the light travels, the more the light stretches By studying the amount of redshift in the light signals from a galaxy, we can estimate how far the light has travelled and hence the position of the galaxy

Researchers are looking to use two different techniques for this purpose The first one, photometr y, involves studying the color of the light emitted by galaxies The amount of light emitted by the galaxies in the “redder” band of wavelengths will be compared to the amount of light in the “bluer” band of wavelengths to estimate the amount of redshift

The second technique to be employed is spectroscopy, which involves looking at the spectra of specific atoms Each atom or molecule emits light at specific wavelengths, both in the lab or anywhere in the universe But due to the redshift of the light as it travels across the universe, the wavelength of the light detected from distant atoms will be larger than that of the wavelength from atoms measured in the lab By measuring the difference in wave-

lengths in the spectra, the amount of redshift can be estimated

Most research uses only one of these techniques, but the Euclid mission will

method will provide a quicker estimate of the position of the galaxies, enabling the study of more galaxies, while the latter method provides a more precise measurement

The cosmos is not only made of visible stars, however, but also of dark matter and dark energy Dark matter and dark energy are estimated to comprise 95 percent of all the mass and energy in the universe Dark matter is invisible matter which does not interact with light but is known to be affected by gravity

Evidence for the existence of dark matter comes from studying the rotation of stars around galaxies: these stars rotate faster than expected, hinting at the existence of dark matter

Dark energy, on the other hand, can be thought of as an anti-gravity phenomenon, the evidence for which comes from the fact that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, which is contrar y to Einstein’s postulation that the universe should be contracting due to gravitational effects This missing piece of physics was coined “dark energy ”

To study dark matter and energy, the Euclid mission will map the properties of gravity in the cosmos by looking at how the passage of light is distorted due to

gravity as it passes through the cosmos towards Earth This technique is called gravitational lensing and is sensitive to all matter and energy in the universe, including dark matter and dark energy Bean will be co-leading one of the tasks of the Euclid mission by applying this gravity sur vey to test gravity on cosmic scales

Bean will use Cornell’s institutional m

Aperture Synoptic Telescope (LSST) facility located in Chile to sur vey half the sky and provide measurements of the cosmos that will be complementar y to the Euclid mission

Bean will also lead a group of scientists in the LSST Dark Energy Science collaboration, which works on how to test fundamental theories with obser vations In particular, she will be working on translating theories that motivate dark energy, such as the particle physics model, to what would be expected in galactic obser vations

“Astronomy, at the moment, is seeing a renaissance in the sheer amount of data that is coming in and the ties between theories and obser vations Obser vations are really driving how the theories are developing, and this is an extraordinarily exciting time for students interested in this area to get involved,” Bean said

Srinitya Arasanipalai can be reached at sa588@cornell edu

By CAMILLE WANG Sun Staff Writer

Golf is returning to the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Prof Frank Rossi Ph D ’91, hor ticulture, is the lead agronomist creating this golf course

Today, he may responsible for the Rio 2016 course, but Prof Rossi’s fascination with grass began at an early age, when he first star ted to push a lawn mower His passion led him to pursuing a career as a golf course superintendent and eventually, a professor of hor ticulture

“I have literally been a student of this plant my entire life I felt like a light went off one day – I literally had no aspirations to be a scientist But along the way, I realized that I had par ticular skills and talents and interests that lay beyond just the maintenance of golf courses, and more in the overall study of the system I think at the hear t of it I’m a biologist,” Rossi said 20 years ago, Rossi and a group of undergraduate students convened as the first pioneers in researching sustainable tur f management However, the topic has only star ted garnering attention in the past five years

Now, Rossi’s research focuses on developing environmentally responsible management systems for tur f grass areas, such as lawns, golf courses and spor ts fields He aims to grow the same quality of grass but with less “stuff,” such as pesticides, water, etc Not only is his research environment a l l y - f r i e n d l y, i t i s a l s o e c o n o m i c a l l yfriendly, as people do not need to buy as many products to sustain the same tur fgrass

“Let me give you an example Midterms – you ’ re studying, you ’ re grinding, you ’ re a n x i o u s A n d w h a t h a p p e n s ? Yo u g e t stressed out, you encounter a germ and you

Prof. Frank Rossi Grows Better Grass

get sick If you take melatonin or something natural, you ’ re still studying but you ’ re not getting sick This is what we do with tur f You culture that system so that it doesn’t get so sick it needs an antibiotic,”

Rossi said

Rossi helps culture tur fgrass system by choosing the right grass, fer tilizing properly and using alternatives to synthetic pesticides By building a stronger plant system to begin with, the grass will be less likely to need pesticides to remain healthy

Because nobody had ever explored tur f sustainability from a broad perspective, Ros s i trave le d ac ros s t he glob e talk in g about his research According to Rossi, his research program has been “wildly successful” in reducing pesticide and fer tilizer use all around the world

On one golf course on Long Island, on which he has been working for the past 14 years, Rossi and his team have cut pesticide use by 85 percent while maintaining the q u a l i t y a n d a

However, to get to this point, his team failed in some initial stages In the first few years, the grass died as they completely removed the pesticides that had been maintaining the health of the grass system for the past 70 years

“ When you pull out the chemicals that keep the diseases away, the population of plants collapses And then we figured that we wouldn’t be able to do it without spraying anything,” Rossi said They ultimately decided to minimize the amount of pesticide sprayed, as well as to use an organic pesticide derived from plant and fungus products

Not only does Rossi work on sustainable development, he has also worked as a private consultant for several major projects involving tur fgrass He played a significant role in the creation of Lincoln Center’s

rooftop park, Yankee Stadium’s field, the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf course and many more

In making Lincoln Center’s rooftop park, Rossi faced challenges in designing a lightweight soil that would still suppor t tur f and in finding grass that would work in that environment Although the rooftop park is not the most energy-efficient system, Rossi said, it is sustainable in a different sense – from a social perspective

“For something to sustainable, there are

includes the social benefit from a tur f area I can tell you, people love that lawn As we and our population become more urbanized, the value and impor tance of green

space is greater It has so much social value that maybe the input is warranted,” Rossi said

Ultimately, regardless of where his private consultant work will lead him, Rossi said he hopes to continue the dialogue in tur fgrass sustainability that he helped initiate “ What I think we ’ ve done is we ’ ve created a foundation for a long term conversation in our industr y about how we need to be more efficient with our resources We were poised here to be a leader of that conversation because we ’ ve always been working on it,” Rossi said

Wang can be reached at cwang@cornellsun com

Runner - Up Scientific Discover y of the Year

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Staff Writer

Genetic diseases can be cured using synthetically-produced prot e i n s a n d k n ow i n g h ow a pathogen’s proteins bind to DNA can help create these cures In 2

plant pathology and plant-microbe biology, and his research team at Iowa State University, discovered “ a mechanism by which bacterial p

DNA targets, ” a discover y that allowed him to be named one of

Breakthroughs of 2012 ”

The biggest breakthrough of

Magazine, was the discovery of the Higgs Boson

Bogdanove's research involves

t pathogens – microorganisms that cause diseases in a host – inject proteins called “transcription activator-like effectors” into plant cells d u r i n g t h e i n f e c t i o n p ro c e s s

According to Bogdanove, the proteins are then transferred into the nucleus, at which point “they find sequences in the genome that are specific to each individual effector ”

Basically, proteins are strings of amino acids, each of which have a specific shape, analogous to Lego blocks

According to Bogdanove, just as Lego blocks need to fit perfectly in order to stay firmly attached, each individual protein also latches onto a location in the genome that happens to fit its specific shape perfectly These TAL effector proteins can activate the expression of certain genes and ultimately alter the host cell’s biology

The implications of activating genes are significant Every cell in t h e b o d y c o n t a i n s t h e s a m e genome, so why is the functionality of a hair follicle cell different than the functionality of a kidney cell? Each type of cell activates a different set of genes, so by altering the activation of genes, the functions of a specific cell could be

completely distorted TAL effectors, for example, distort the plant cell function in ways that benefit the pathogen

Additionally, Bogdanove notes that “there are circadian rhythms to our gene expression ” These c yc l e s c a u s e t h e p a t h o g e n t o secrete hormones into our blood s t re a m s w h i c h m a k e c o n t ro l sleepy-ness or hunger, as well as many other functions By altering the activation of genes, these cycles could be disrupted

Bogdanove was also involved in discovering that “ at least one class of pathogens have figured out how to alter gene expression in plant cells to benefit the pathogen ”

On e e x a m p l e o f t h e s e pathogens is Bacterial Blight of Rice During infection, the bacteria inject a TAL effector, which activates a certain gene in rice which encodes a protein that transports sucrose

“The pathogen teases the cell i n t o s e c re t i n g s u g a r i n t o t h e apoplast, or extracellular space, ” Bogdanove said This sugar secretion becomes food source for the pathogen

Bogdanove’s largest discover y, however, was the determination of exactly how TAL effector proteins recognize where to bind in the genome Within each sequence of 34 amino acids in a TAL effector, Bogdanove noticed that the only different amino acids are the 12th and 13th spots

Us i n g a c o m p u t a t i o n a l method, Bogdanove and his team discovered that “the way these pro-

teins recognize the sequence of DNA bases to bind to is exactly the 12th and 13th amino acids, which are different in every amino acid sequence within a protein ”

They hypothesized that each set of those two amino acids calls out a single nucleotide in the DNA By pulling out just the 12th and 13th

sequences are encoded which allow the protein to know where to bind to in the genome

The most important result of Bogdanove’s discovery that amino acid sequences in proteins are the same except at the 12th and 13th positions is that researchers can now create a protein that binds to

Unlike how pathogens harm the host, scientists can now find proteins that could bind to certain locations of the genome in order to benefit the host

Another important application o f B o g d a

s re s e a rc h

h e determination of the functionality of certain genes Using TAL effector proteins fused to DNA-cutting enzymes, scientists can break the genome at a certain location to target a certain gene and see the implications of disabling that specific gene

Future research may focus on genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, which is caused by specific genes which can now possibly be targeted and eliminated

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ablumfield@cornellsun com

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WASHINGTON (AP) What does it all mean?

That’s the question facing spelling whizzes across the country, who learned Tuesday that they will have to know the definitions of some of the those tough words they’ve been memorizing in the dictionary For the first time, multiple-choice vocabulary tests will be added to the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee

“Changes are not a surprise, but these changes are massive,” said Mirle Shivashankar, whose daughter, 11-year-old Vanya, is among the favorites after finishing tied for 10th last year “It came as a shocker We’re going to have to change the way we prepare a little bit ”

The changes will make it easier to nail down the nine to 12 competitors who make it to the final round, which will look the same as it has for years to prime-time TV viewers, with spellers taking turns until only the champion has avoided the familiar doomsday bell The changes do add a wrinkle to the televised semifinals, however, as even the best onstage spellers could find themselves eliminated from the finals if they perform poorly on the multiple-choice test

“I’m on an email group and we talk about spelling, and a lot of the returning spellers were really, like, shocked, and they were surprised about the change that’s happened,” Vanya Shivashankar said “But it’s going to be really cool and fun to see how the bee will be because it will be spelling and vocabulary ”

Executive Director Paige Kimble said the changes were driven by the desire to reinforce the competition’s purpose to encourage students to improve their spelling and broaden their knowledge of the language

“What we know with the championship-level spellers is that they think of their achievement in terms of spelling and vocabulary being two sides of the same coin,” Kimble said

Vocabulary has been a regular part of the bee during its 87-year history, but it’s always been the spellers asking for the definition to help them spell the word

Now the tables will be turned, with the spellers taking a computer test that looks like something from the SAT A sample question provided by the Spelling Bee reads as follows:

“Something described as refulgent is: a) tending to move toward one point, b) demanding immediate action, c) rising from an inferior state, d) giving out a bright light ”

The correct answer is d

The vocabulary tests will take place in private rooms and will not be part of the television broadcasts, but they will count for 50 percent of the point totals that determine the semifinalists and finalists

“In the long run I think it’s a change for the better because it tests spellers’ all-around knowledge of the word as opposed to just the spelling of the word,” said 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali, also one of the favorites after finishing third the past two years

But what about right now? Arvind and the rest of the 281 spellers in this year ’ s bee now have less than two months to change their study habits ahead of the May 28-30 competition near Washington

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“I’m just going to review all the words for their meanings one more time, if I have enough time,” Arvind said “But it’s going to be a little difficult to adjust to this right now ”

Shivashankar, who coached daughter Kavya to the 2009 title and now coaches Vanya, said he thinks there’s a good purpose behind the changes, but he wishes they had been announced at the start of the school year

While Shivashankar was concerned about the anxiety the changes could add to an already nerve-racking competition, his daughter already sounded ready to tackle the challenge

“We’re just going to try to our best and understand the words more, ” Vanya said “Before we were studying the roots, and now we ’ re using the root to understand what it means, which we kind of did before, but we have to spend more time on each word, understanding every single part of it ”

While the finals format remains unchanged, the televised semifinals will have a different payoff Spellers will continue to be eliminated if they misspell on stage, but there will be only two semifinal rounds The results of those rounds will be combined with the computerized spelling and vocabulary tests to select the finalists

The issue of determining the number of finalists has been problematic in the past because of the need to fit the bee into its allotted broadcast slot Parents and spellers were upset in 2010 when officials abruptly halted the semifinals in the middle of a round because spellers were being eliminated too quickly

The bee, working with its television partners, usually prefers to have nine to 12 spellers in the finals That will be easier to accomplish now because the bee can take the spellers with the most points, with wiggle room to account for ties

“Previously, we just knew that we were going to spell until we had a reasonable number of children to bring into the finals,” Kimble said “Now we have some definition around how that happens ” Kimble said she’s open to the idea of having the vocabulary test take place onstage in future bees, but she wants to try the computer format first and see how it works

The national bee waited until all the regional bees were completed to make the announcement so that everyone would start on equal footing The national bee will supply materials and suggestions to help local bees introduce a vocabulary test next year, Kimble said

“In the long run, it’s pretty good, right?” said Srinivas Mahankali, Arvind’s father “But in the short-term for the competitors right now, I think it’s a little more complicating, definitely ”

Rutgers Univ. Pledges To Hold Investigation O f Coach Rice S candal

NEWARK, N J (AP) Rutgers University is pledging to get to the bottom of how a basketball coach who kicked and shoved players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them was allowed to stay on the job and to make sure the same thing isn’t happening in other sports

The university said Monday that the school’s Board of Governors would meet Thursday to discuss hiring an adviser to report on what went wrong with Mike Rice

University President Robert Barchi said that employees are going through video of practice sessions from other sports to see if any other troubling behavior needs to be rooted out

The scandal has had far-reaching implications on the university’s athletic department

Rice was fired on April 3, a day after a video of him at practice was made public Athletic Director Tim Pernetti later resigned, as did an assistant basketball coach and the university’s top in-house lawyer

On Monday, the university chose former dean Carl Kirschner to serve as acting athletic director while a search is conducted for someone to fill the job permanently

There’s been widespread anger over the video, which was presented to university officials in November by a former basketball program employee who last week sued the university, claiming he was let go because he was a whistle-blower A person with knowledge of the situation by who requested anonymity because the investigation has not been made public, has told The Associated Press that the FBI is looking into whether the ex-employee, Eric Murdock, unlawfully asked for money in exchange for not making the video public

Gov Chris Christie said at a news conference Monday that Rice needed to be fired promptly and that his antics cost him credibility with athletes and their families

“What parent would let this animal back into their living room to try to recruit their son after this video?” he asked

Christie also said that he wants to know why Rice was not fired even before the university knew about the video of his behavior at practice

That’s a question that the investigation being commissioned by the university could look at

Questions of who knew what about Rice’s behavior and when, and what they did about it, are likely to loom large as the investigations continue

On Monday, Christie said anyone who knew about the behavior previously and did not act to oust Rice was in the wrong He criticized the reaction of those who knew about it and did not fire the coach months ago, when the video was given to university officials and viewed by at least Pernetti, university interim counsel John Wolf and Chairman Mark Hershhorn of the university Board of Governors’ athletics committee

In a statement released by his lawyer late Monday, Hershhorn said he did call for Rice’s firing on the day in early December that he watched the video He said he told Pernetti that if the video was authenticated, Rice needed to be immediately terminated Contrary to his recommendation, Hershhorn said, the university chose to discipline Rice instead of let him go

The Rutgers administration would not comment on Hershhorn’s account of events

Meanwhile, a group of five Democratic members of the state Assembly made a half-dozen requests for information from Rutgers Monday under the state ’ s Open Public Records Act

comfortable to play the game again ”

According to Koehler, another factor may have been the weather conditions and the setup of the tournament

“We played both rounds in one day, and we started out at 8:30 in the morning in 35 degree weather and 20 mph winds,” Koehler said “We didn’t really have that much time to practice the past week with the weather [in Ithaca], so we were kind of rusty and didn’t have the confidence I think ever ybody improved in the second round, so I think, at the point as a team, we ’ re getting better with every round [Right now], at the beginning of the season, we just need to get reps in and gain the confidence we need to compete ”

The Red did perform better in the second round, improving the team ’ s total combined score by 28 strokes Junior tri-captain Carl Schimenti showed the most improvement, shooting an 83 in the first round and a 71 in the second Freshman Brandon Eng also impressed, improving from an 83 to a 76

Cornell Gymnast s Head to USAG Collegiate Nationals To Close Out Team Season

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Senior Writer

On Friday, the gymnastics team travels to the Gold dome in Shreveport, La , where it will participate in the USAG Nationals against seven other teams in a three-day event

“USAG Nationals is the national gymnastics championships for the Top8 teams in the country with seven scholarships or less,” senior McKenna Archer said “Qualification is based on each team ’ s [regional qualifying score,] which is e s s e n t i a l l y their average team score for the season ”

2012 for the first time since 2000, the Red is focused on performing well as a team and advancing to the final round, according to Archer

“Our goal is to have everyone hit during prelims and qualify to team finals,” she said “We have a strong team and huge potential, so I’m excited to see how far we can go this weekend ”

Not going to USAG nationals as a team last year ended a string of 11 consecutive seasons in the Top-8 for C o r n e l l

“USAG Nationals is the national gymnastics championships for the Top-8 teams in the country ”

C o r n e l l was the sixth to qualify among a field of 13 hopeful teams competing for a spot in the championships With a regional qualifying score of 192 240, the Red joined the ranks of Bridgeport, Texas Woman’s, Air Force, Seattle Pacific, Penn, Brown and host school Centenary

Leading the pack for Cornell is junior all-around Melanie Jorgensen, a two-time USAG All-American Jorgensen, who was named USAG national champion for bars as a freshman, scored a RQS of 9 795, which ranked her fifth on bars Archer, senior Sarah Hein and junior Elise Kerner will also look to give a strong showing for the Red, as all three were 2012 USAG All-Americans

Having missed qualifying for the USAG Collegiate nationals as a team in

Looking ahead to next weekend, the Red will continue its season at the Princeton Invitational, where Cornell will face much of the same competition it did at the Yale Spring Opener

“I know a lot of Ivy League teams will be there I think at least six so we’ll get some more experience against them,” Koehler said “A lot of the same schools [at the last] tournament will be there, too ” A factor working in the favor of the Red next week is their familiarity with the course, as four of the five starters have played at Princeton before, while none had played at the Yale course last weekend

“Four of the five starters have played that course, so we know the course pretty well; there’s nothing too complicated about it,” Koehler said “Last week, none of us had played the course before, and it was kind of a quirky course This coming week, the course is [straightforward] and I think our game matches up pretty well ”

After playing poorly in the first tournament, the Red now knows that it has to improve and prepare better for tournaments, which it plans to do starting this week

“The first tournament was good for us because it showed us how unprepared we really were, ” Koehler said “We didn’t play our best, but after that [showing], we know that we didn’t take the right steps to prepare You can only blame so much on the weather; we need to blame ourselves and we just need to be better prepared for this upcoming tournament This week, the weather looks good, so we ’ re all going to try to get out there and play a lot of golf out and regain that confidence we need ” Although the season has just started, the team recognizes how they only have a couple weeks left in the season the spring season this year is just four tournaments in four consecutive weekends

“We just need to keep moving forward because spring season is so short,” Koehler said “Three more weeks and it’s the Ivy League Championship; we just need to keep improving week by week, getting more confidence in ourselves and as a team to do well and hopefully by the time the [Ivy League Championship] roll around, we’ll be at the top of our game ”

The Red has finished in at least sixth place every year, and p l a c e d

Top-4 every year from 2006-10 The Red captured a share of its first USAG national title during the 2009 season

On Friday, the eight teams will be broken down into two sessions of four team each, where teams will compete head to head to see who will progress to the final round The top two finishers in each session will advance to Saturday’s team finals Also competing on an individual level are gymnasts from Lindenwood, Southern Connecticut, Temple, West Chester and Yale One Sunday afternoon, the highest qualifiers from Friday will compete for individual USAG National titles

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After not playing in an official match or tournament since October, the golf team looked very rusty in the Yale Spring Opener, the first tournament of the spring The Red finished last in the 13-team field, with its five players shooting a combined score of 644 in the tworound tournament Villanova placed first with a combined score of 583, 9-strokes less than its nearest competitor

The Red started off poorly in the first round, with all five players shooting at least an 83 Some of this was due to the team ’ s nervousness in starting the spring season, according to junior tri-captain Max Koehler

“Everybody was jittery on the first few holes,” he said “After hitting a few big shots, you settle down and regain the confidence in yourself and make it more

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C.U. to compete in national tourney this weekend

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The Cavaliers are ranked No 1 for the men, while the C

national tournament, the women lost to top-ranked UVA in the finals by a score of 17-13, while the men dropped to the Cavaliers in the semi-finals, 28-10