04-17-13

Trustee Hopefuls Share Stances

On D ivestment, Greek Life, Tuition

By DARA LEVY Sun Staff Writer

Student-Elected Trustee candidates participated in a debate Tuesday, discussing their vision of the duties of a student trustee and what their main priorities would be if elected Candidates touched upon a wide array of campus-relevant topics including Greek life, divestment and rising tuition

Sponsored by The Cornell Daily Sun and moderated by Sun Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Harris ’14, the debate featured six of the seven registered candidates Gregory Zalevsky ’15, one of the candidates, chose not to participate

The candidates began the debate by each explain-

ing the role of a trustee and what makes them most qualified All candidates highlighted the need for a trustee to make changes for issues on campus by meeting with students

Candidate Laci Taylor ’16 stressed the importance of being an “advocate for the student body ” She said she has gained experience advocating for students through working on the Student Advisory Council of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences “I have very specific ways to facilitate issues that I want to advocate for,” she said

Each candidate was also asked a specific question

In t e r v e n t i o n Pr o g . Helps More Than 10 0 Substance Users

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer

An intervention program intended to curb substance use among at-risk substance users has helped more than 100 patients including Cornell students at Cayuga Medical Center since January, according to a Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services report released in March

Known as Screening, Brief Inter vention and Referral to Treatment, the program was launched Jan 26, according to the report In the first step, “screening,” a trained health promotion advocate asks a patient a series of questions to assess the severity of his or her substance use In the next stage, “brief inter vention,”the advocate has a conversation with the patient to increase the patient’s awareness about substance use The final stage, “referral to treatment, ” provides those identified as needing more extensive treatment with access to specialty care, which may entail further contact with Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services or trips to Gannett Health Services

In SBIRT ’ s first eight weeks, 143 patients were seen by a Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services health promotion advocate 126 of

U.A. Passes Resolutions to Increase Campus Security

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer

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ONIA, Mich (AP) A Michigan judge whose smar tphone disr upted a hearing in his own cour troom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction

Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Cour t stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during cour t sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, the Sentinel-Standard of Ionia and MLive com repor ted

On Friday afternoon, during a prosecutor ’ s closing argument as par t of a jur y trial, Voet’s ne w smar tphone began to emit sounds requesting phone voice commands Voet said he thinks he bumped the phone, and the embarrassment likely left his face red

“I’m guessing I bumped it It star ted talking really loud, saying ‘I can ’ t understand you Say something like Mom,’” he said

Girard Township in nor thwestern Pennsylvania

Police say they explained to the woman, whom they are not identifying, that a divorce is a civil matter and that they could not make her husband leave the residence because no crime had been committed

Instead, police have cited the woman for disorderly conduct and misusing the Erie County 911 system

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GIRARD, Pa (AP) Police have cited a 42-yearold Pennsylvania woman for disorderly conduct after she called 911 requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave

Troopers say the woman called just after 1 a m Saturday asking that officers be sent to her home in

KL AIPEDA, Lithuania (AP) A Lithuanian woman says she has been raising three pumas in her three-room apar tment after fearing for their lives at the local zoo

Rasa Veliute, a 23-year-old volunteer at the zoo in Klaipeda, a Baltic Sea por t town, says she took the cubs home four months ago after their mother began neglecting them

The pumas also known as mountain lions or cougars are named Kipsas, Gipse and Kinde Veliute says they eat a lot of chicken and get along well with her East European shepherd dog

There is no Lithuanian law barring keeping the animals at home, and the zoo did not object to Veliute’s actions

But Veliute told repor ters Friday that the pumas have grown fast and will likely return to the zoo this summer

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Women’s Rights ‘in Danger Today’

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Staff Writer

On campus Tuesday, Joe Sammons, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, discussed the organization’s role in continuing to fight for women ’ s healthcare rights, which he said “ are in danger today ”

“Each one of you could find yourself in the unenviable position of having less rights and less access to healthcare than your parents did,” he said

Planned Parenthood is particularly important in rural areas, where there are often no other clinics providing the same services, according to

“Each one of you could find yourself having less rights and less access to healthcare than your parents did.” J

Sammons He cited Elmira, a city with the sixth highest teen pregnancy rate in the state, as evidence of the need for outreach and education about pregnancy prevention

“We need to talk to people wherever they are ––on the Internet, in schools, in malls,” he said “We need to talk to teens, but also to parents and teachers ”

Planned Parenthood has always had to fight to do its work, Sammons said

Founded in Brooklyn in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood was first a clinic and a source of information about birth control methods –– most of which were already commonly in use in Europe at the time When Sanger and other volunteers attempted to pass out information on the streets about birth control, they were arrested, according to Sammons

Planned Parenthood was later involved in the development of the birth control pill and spent 10 years lobbying the Food and Drug Administration to approve it for sale After the FDA approved the pill, it was illegal in many states until 1965 even for married couples to use it, according to Sammons

“Even now, I’m amazed by the discussion –– if you could call it that –– about women ’ s health,” Sammons said He recalled the all-male witness

panel last year in a congressional hearing about insurance coverage for contraception, as well as statements made about “legitimate rape ” by former Rep Todd Akin (R-Mo ), that he said led to the 18-percent gender gap among voters in the last presidential election

“Fundamentally, with [Republican] attacks on women ’ s health, people figure out what’s at stake here,” he said “If a woman doesn’t have access to birth control, she might have to drop out of school [and] change her education plans She’s got another mouth to feed It could even be deadly ”

Planned Parenthood has faced criticisms for providing abortions from pro-life activists and conservatives In 2011, some members of congress had proposed to cut all federal funds to Planned Parenthood, prompting heated debate about women ’ s reproductive health rights

Johanna Zussman-Dobbins ’13, president of Cornell’s Voices for Planned Parenthood, echoed Sammons’ sentiments about the importance of fighting for women ’ s healthcare rights

“It’s something our generation forgets –– how urgent this issue is,” she said “We’re post-Roe v Wade, and people don’t remember back-alley abortions ”

Though legislation in many states is “moving backward,” Sammons said, New York has an opportunity to make progress on women ’ s rights

Governor Mario Cuomo recently proposed a Women’s Equality Act, which would promote equal pay for equal work, stop pregnancy discrimination and stop sexual harassment in the workplace, among other goals

However, Sammons emphasized that politicians could not win the battle by themselves He urged the audience to take collective action to promote women ’ s rights

“Collective action brings power, ” he said “When it comes to Planned Parenthood, that means that you can decide if and how long you want to go to school It means you can decide for yourself if and when you want to have children That’s power We earned that power through years of work, and we ’ re not going to lose it ”

Drug Possession In Residential Dorm

An individual was referred to

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Hall, according to the Cornell University Police Department

Theft in Upson Hall

An officer was dispatched last Tuesday in response to a report involving the theft of a student’s purse, Apple iPhone, Coach wallet and Cornell ID, valued at a total of $850, from an unsecured room, according to CUPD

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being harassed by two students last Tuesday in Barton Hall, according to CUPD

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An officer was dispatched to Rand Hall in reponse to a report regarding a male individual in the buidling without authorization, according to CUPD The man was warend and released Compiled by Lianne Bornfeld

Barefoot March Raises Awareness of Children Without Shoes

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

About 100 students participated in an event that celebrated One Day Without Shoes, an international event that aims to raise awareness of children around the world who do not have shoes

The event –– which consisted of a barefoot march on Ho Plaza and indoor activities such as a photo campaign –– was orga-

nized by Footprints, a student organization that collects shoes and sends them to children in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to Amundam Mancho ’13, president of Footprints

The event was not intended to raise money, but to raise awareness about how many children around the world go without shoes, Mancho said

“We work to promote awareness about the global shoe disparity because shoes are something we take for granted in America,” Mancho said “It really gives us an opportunity to connect with children ”

Par ticipants in the event echoed Mancho’s sentiments about the importance of raising awareness about children without shoes worldwide

“It is a really great and sort of [an] underappreciated cause Lots of kids in the world get sick because they get infections from walking barefoot,” Joanna Barett ’16 said Valerie TitusGlover ’13 said that although the march was difficult, it was worth it

Andrew Crego ’14, president of Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity that co-sponsored the event, said the organizers tried to expand the event by including activities

“This year, we tried to make [the event] a little bigger by putting on games on Ho Plaza It is exciting this year to see other organizations stepping up and getting involved,” Crego said

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“[The march] was difficult; I won ’ t lie My feet feel kind of funky afterward, [and] the rocks were not a good feeling But the fact that it’s to show people what others go through every day is kind of worth it,”

Titus-Glover said “My parents are from Ghana, and a lot of people they know couldn’t go to school because they didn’t have shoes ”

Mancho said Footprints’ fundraising and awareness events –– such as One Day Without Shoes –– are aimed to work toward its primary goal of collecting and shipping shoes to children who do not have shoes

“Thus far, we have shipped over 3,500 shoes,” Mancho said

Crego said the rainy weather posed a challenge to the event “[Organizers] had to fight with the weather,” he said The event ’ s information booths were moved inside Willard Straight Hall to avoid the rain, though the march on Ho Plaza still took place outside, Mancho said

In contrast to last year ’ s event –– in which Footprints partnered with Deloitte, a professional service firm –– the event was co-sponsored by various campus organizations this year, according to Mancho Mancho said he hoped the outreach to other on-campus organizations would increase attendance

“Last year we were able to get about 50 students to march This year, we hope to get more people to come out, ” Mancho said Kevin Milian contributed reporting to this article

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those patients went onto screening, 100 went onto brief inter vention, 66 received referral to treatment and 33 were connected to services, according to the repor t According to the Cayuga Addiction Recover y Ser vices repor t, Cayuga Medical health promotion advocates said that, so far, the program has seemed to have a positive effect on par ticipants

“I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from college students I’ve met with in the [emergency room],” one advocate said “Some have reached out to me for follow-up suppor t because their experience in the hospital was a real ‘wake-up call ’ They’ve been ver y thankful for the chance to talk with someone about what happened and learn what steps they can take to avoid future problems ”

The follow-up and referral aspect of the program makes an especially big difference, according to another advocate

“One of the [nurses] helped me connect to a patient who had been in earlier in the night and had left before I arrived With her help, I was able to contact him, and he is now in treatment I thought it was also a great example of what a power ful par tnership this can be ”

The three steps involved in the program are fairly simple, but have also been suppor ted by a significant body of literature, according to Tim Marchell, director of mental health initiatives at Gannett

“[ The program] has been shown to be effective in identifying people with alcohol problems and reducing fur ther problems after the i

approaches like Alcohol-Wise, an online course required for all firstyear students, the program uses a patient-by-patient approach, or “ a targeted strategy to help individual students,” according to Marchell

Before Januar y, medical staff would have conversations with patients, typically shor tly before the patients were discharged, but did not begin the inter vention process with the same level of screening or follow-up with referrals directly after discharge, according to Marchell

“ What CARS proposed was that they could enhance the existing suppor ts by having health promotion advocates in the emergency room on weekend nights,” Marchell said “Having them available to provide some focused attention to individuals who are recovering from severe intoxication allows the emergency depar tment staff to attend to other patients ”

“[Gannett is] ver y encouraged by the SBIRT program, ” Marchell said “ We’re looking for ward to revie wing with CARS and Cayuga Medical Center how the implementation is going ”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun com

U. A. R esolution s P rovoke R eaction s

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Ser vices and the CUPD to work together to provide greater security on Cornell property through increasing the use of sur veillance systems and access control devices which include locks, card readers and physical obstacles such as doors, according to Zoner Additionally, to address privacy concerns, the

University Policies 8 1 and 8 4, which state that video sur veillance systems, keys and other access control systems must be managed responsibly,

according to the University Policy Office’s website Greg Mezey, ’09, director of food and beverage at the Statler Hotel, gave his support for both resolutions, describing Resolution 7 as being a “ step in the right direction ”

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Kyle Albert grad said he is “uncomfortable with how broad the resolution is” and said he wants a more specific plan detailing the steps Cornell will take to increase sur veillance and security

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com

Yankees Play ‘Sweet Caroline’ In Boston Tribute

NEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees paid tribute to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings by playing the Fenway Park favorite “Sweet Caroline” at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night

The popular sing-along song has been featured at Boston Red Sox home games since 2002

The Yankees honored Boston, home of their longtime rivals, by playing the Neil Diamond hit over the public-address system after the third inning against Arizona Yankees fans sang along, and some people in the crowd wore Red Sox hats and jerseys

“Thank you NY Yankees for playing ‘Sweet Caroline’ for the people of Boston,” Diamond wrote on his Twitter page “You scored a home run in my heart With respect, Neil (hashtag)OneBoston ” A ribbon was shown on the scoreboard displaying the insignia of the Red Sox and Yankees and the words: “New York stands with Boston Pray for Boston ”

There also was a pregame moment of silence A message that read “United We Stand” showing the Red Sox and Yankees logos was posted on an electronic board atop the ballpark

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LaGuardia Airport Evacuated

NEW YORK (AP) Police fielded dozens of calls about suspicious-seeming items and briefly evacuated part of LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday as New York City remained on heightened alert after the Boston Marathon bombing

Police armed with rifles and extra patrol cars were stationed around the city, and security was tightened at hotels and landmarks such as the Empire State Building and World Trade Center site Two police sergeants were stationed in Boston to keep abreast of the intelligence gathering there Extra officers patrolled houses of worship, police increased bag searches in subway stations, the National Guard helped keep watch at airports and train stations, and authorities urged residents to be vigilant in a city that has become practiced at wariness since the Sept 11 attacks

While authorities say there have been no reports of any specific threats against the city, “the fact is: There remain people who want to attack us, and the moment we let our guard down is the moment that the terrorists are waiting for,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said

But while urging caution, the mayor and his security detail took the subway to work to show that it’s safe, and he urged people to go about their business And many did

“I don’t feel less safe now, because everything already changed after Sept 11,” said Anibal Lopez, a retired hospital worker whose agenda Tuesday took him to the crowded area near Penn Station

“We’re more alert, more aware but not more afraid,” said Lopez, 51 “We refuse to go into hiding We want to live our lives normally ” At Yankee Stadium, a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was set to go ahead as planned Tuesday evening The team declined to comment on security measures but said it was working with authorities “ to ensure a safe environment ”

Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, and more than 170 were wounded in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston race Monday

In a first for New York, the Boston city flag flew Tuesday, at halfstaff, at New York’s City Hall, on orders from a mayor who grew up in a Boston suburb and founded a gun-control advocacy group in 2006 with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino

Since 9/11, the New York Police Department often has increased security in the city in response to attacks elsewhere, sometimes also dispatching officers to the affected cities Two New York sergeants went to Boston on Monday night and were working in a regional intelligence center there Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said wouldn’t discuss what they have gleaned about the Boston investigation

“We believe, and the intelligence community believes, that we ’ re the number-one target in this country So anything we can get to help us better protect the city, we ’ re going to get, ” he said

With officials urging New Yorkers to call authorities if they saw anything untoward, scores of them did

Police said that there were 135 calls of suspicious packages or suspected bombs from around the time word spread of the explosion in Boston until 5 p m Tuesday, almost three times as many as the 48 calls in the same period last year All the reports were unfounded

At LaGuardia, wires protruding from a ceiling spurred a call to authorities and about an hour-long evacuation of the airport’s central terminal building, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport The wiring turned out to be part of a light fixture

Around the financial district, security measures looked the same as they always do, but Bloomberg noted that not all of the precautions being taken would be visible

Besides undercover officers, the city has invested heavily in security technology, including surveillance cameras, license-plate readers, and as chemical, biological, and radiological sensors Some 1,000 officers are assigned to counterterrorism work

Advocacy Groups Ask Arkansas Legislators to Block Restrictive Abortion Law

LITTLE ROCK, Ark (AP)

A pair of advocacy groups went to federal court Tuesday claiming that Arkansas’ legislators violated the constitutional rights of two doctors, and their potential patients, by banning nearly all abortions beginning in the 12th week of pregnancy

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the suit on behalf of Dr Louis Jerr y Edwards and Dr Tom Tvedten, who provide abortions at a Little Rock clinic, say Arkansas’ ban clearly contradicts the standard of viability established by the U S Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v Wade decision

“ We are asking the court to block an attempt to essentially outlaw all abortions past 12 weeks, so early that a woman might not know the complete health and status of her pregnancy, ” Rita Sklar, executive director of Arkansas’ ACLU chapter, said at a news conference

When the Republican-led Legislature passed the law last month, it was briefly the most restrictive abortion law in the countr y, including a near-ban at 20 weeks that it passed a week earlier In each case, lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov Mike Beebe, who predicted that neither law would stand up in court and that Arkansas would waste money defending them

North Dakota has since passed and even tighter restriction: 6 weeks

The lawsuit contends that Edwards and Tvedten could lose their licenses if they provide abortions starting at the 12th week of pregnancy, meaning the law denies “patients their constitutionally-guaranteed right to decide to end a pre-viability pregnancy ” It names members of the State Medical Board as defendants because the board is responsible for licensing medical professionals

Arkansas’ 12-week ban is tied to the date at which a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected by an abdominal ultrasound The ban includes exemptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother and highly lethal fetal disorders

The lawsuit filed Tuesday does not challenge Arkansas’ 20-week measure, as challenges to similar laws in other states are already pending The 20-week ban is based on the disputed claim that a fetus can feel pain by the 20th week and therefore deser ves protection from abortion It includes the same exemptions as the 12-week ban, except for fetal disorders

Rose Mimms, the executive director of Arkansas Right to Life, said anti-abortion groups like hers are hopeful that the new abortion restrictions being passed in conser vative-leaning states will land before the U S Supreme Court and be considered against new discoveries regarding fetal development

“ They didn’t have that kind of information when they decided Roe v Wade,” Mimms said, referring to the 1973 decision that legalized abortion until a fetus could viably sur vive outside the womb A fetus is generally considered viable at 22 to 24 weeks

Arkansas’ ban on abortions at 20 weeks took effect immediately when legislators overrode Beebe’s veto The 12-week ban is scheduled to take effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, which could occur late this week or early next week

Sklar said the Supreme Court has recognized that the Constitution protects a woman ’ s ability to make her own decision regarding abortions

“But our state Legislature ignored the law and voted to take a woman ’ s decision-making ability away, ” Sklar said

A lead sponsor of the 12-week ban, Republican state Sen Jason Rapert, said he hadn’t seen the lawsuit yet, but he said it wasn ’ t a surprise

“ We definitely are planning to defend it,” he said “It’s a law duly passed by the state of Arkansas ”

Cartel Money Laundering Trial Begins in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A multimillion-dollar horse racing and breeding operation run from an Oklahoma ranch was actually a front for a notorious Mexican cartel to launder millions of dollars in drug money, prosecutors alleged Tuesday at the beginning of a trial for five defendants charged in the scheme

Jose Trevino Morales, the younger brother of the suspected leader of the Zetas drug cartel, is charged with money laundering conspiracy His trial along with four co-defendants facing the same charge began Tuesday in Austin, Texas

Prosecutor Douglas Gardner told jurors Tuesday that Trevino had been put in charge of the scheme by his brothers, who are alleged to be at the top of one of the biggest, most versatile and violent criminal organizations in the world The scheme went through $16 million in horse-related expenses in 30

months, Gardner said Gardner described a conspiracy in which horse owners, trainers and others crafted bank deposits to hide the true source of the operation’s funding He said they created companies that bought horses with the cartel’s money and even fixed the outcome of horse races

“The Zetas make money by drugs, extortion, bribery and send the money to the U S to buy racehorses,” he said Gardner alleged Trevino, 46, ran the operation for his brothers Miguel Angel Trevino Morales and Oscar Omar Trevino Morales He alleged a Mexican businessman, Francisco Antonio Colorado Cessa, bought horses for the Zetas through his oil services company, which authorities say was also a front for the drug cartel

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David Fischer | Fischy Business

Taking a Lesson From the Romans

My father who seems to get a lot of face time in these columns (don’t let the fame go to your head, Dad) recently went on one of his customar y New York Times article-sending binges As a result, I found my Gmail inbox flooded with various movie reviews, obscure travel articles and one article about a humanities major that actually got a job (not to be confused with The Sun’s April Fool’s day article with the same content) However, among the electronic flotsam, I found one intriguing article about a radio station based in Helsinki, Finland that broadcasts an approximately five-minute long news segment in Latin a language long considered “dead” ever y Friday night The Finnish Broadcasting Company has been broadcasting these short segments (called Nuntii Latini or “Latin News”) since 1989, the year that communism collapsed in Eastern Europe

After reading the article, I decided to put my high school Latin abilities to the test and listen to one of the broadcasts I listened to last Friday’s segment which featured reports on Margaret Thatcher’s death, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö’s recent diplomatic venture to China and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent restoration of the Soviet era “Hero of Labor” award (called Heros Laboris in the broadcast) Listening to t h e s e b i t e - s i z e d p o r t i o n s o f n e w s c o m m u n i c a t e d through the ancient language of Cicero was both disarming and slightly exhausting Although I did not understand most of the words said in the broadcast other than the names of contemporar y figures navigating the website written entirely in Finnish and listening to the Finnish-accented Latin words reminded me of the musty, non-air-conditioned rooms in which I learned the language Although

the process was not the cushiest, I felt some positive nostalgia while I listened to the broadcast Although I have eschewed the study of Latin at Cornell, the hours that I spent parsing lines from Virgil’s Aeneid or remarking on the lack of hilarity inherent in Roman comedies shaped the way in which I think about my schoolwork and how I consume information

Now, I do not want this column to seem like an over wrought praise of how the study of “dead languages ” can enrich your life in a way that living languages cannot because I don’t actually believe that is true Rather, I think that even a cursor y study of any foreign language will change the way that people think When I arrived in Ithaca I thought that I had gained enough knowledge from my high school Latin classes to enroll in its closest cultural and geographic successor, Italian The added opportunity of speaking the language instead of just reading it, as I had in Latin, allowed me to explore a different dimension of foreign language I was never able to before At first, I experienced a bottleneck of thought I was unable to translate what I wanted to say in English to Italian and was frustrated by my inability to communicate However, as I learned the language, verbally expressing my thoughts became easier

My experience fulfilling Cornell’s language requirement was a positive one I took three Italian classes, satisfied the College of Arts and Sciences’ language requirement and then ceased my study Although I think that the requirement should be shorter (two classes would be sufficient to gain a similar level of linguistic understanding), I also believe that all of Cornell’s colleges and schools should have a language requirement The simple act of learning how to express yourself in a different way teaches you how to express yourself, even in your native tongue, in a more clear and succinct way

Although the idea of a radio station that does news reports in the language of the Romans seems to be solely an intellectual exercise, it is an extension of this idea

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through a different medium, and ever yone who listens profits from the effort Likewise, a University-wide language requirement would allow all Cornell students to also participate in this linguistic transmutation, an important part of education

Co mm ent of the day

“You ask, ‘Why would anyone want to destroy such a noble celebration?’ They do it for the very same reason that people place bombs at family restaurants, at religious gatherings, on crowded buses and at weddings. They’re demented, deranged and have no regard for human life whatsoever The Boston Marathon, a night club in Bali, hotels in Mumbai, the WTC, trains in Spain, buses and Sbarro pizza in Israel there’s no justification for any of these deadly attacks, and those apologists who try to justify the acts of terrorists anywhere are also justifying the actions of whoever set the bombs in Boston, regardless of their reasons ”

seriously?

Re: “LETTER: The Boston Marathon: A running monument sullied,” Opinion published April 16, 2013

Jon Weinberg | In Focus

Journalism for All

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In case when we don’t know victims or parties involved, w cannot forget the impact of social media use for reading and reporting news.

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Solving an Evolutionar y Puzzle:

Researchers find evidence linking lungs to fish

By MOYOURI BHATTACHARJEE Sun Contributor

Dar win’s Origin of Species outlines the foundation for the theor y of evolution and described the idea that apes and humans had a common ancestor It is not intuitive, however, to link species that look extremely different, such as fish and humans, on an evolutionar y timeline

Pr o f A m y Mc Cu n e , e v o l u t i o n a r y biology and ecology, Sarah Longo ’11 and Mark Riccio, director of Cornell’s Mu l t i s c a l e C o m p u t e d To m o g r a p h y Facility, have uncovered proof that lungs and fish gas bladders are evolutionarily linked

According to Longo, as organs that are filled with gas, lungs and gas bladders are str ucturally similar However, they have d i f f e r e n t f u n c t i o n s L u n g s a r e v i t a l organs for air-breathing ver tebrates, as well as some fish and snails, which allow them to obtain oxygen from the air Rayfinned fish, the largest class of bony fish, use gas bladders, also known as swim bladders, to control their depth in the water by inflating or deflating the sac with gas, usually oxygen This organ allows fish to maintain a cer tain depth in the water without having to expend energy because of buoyancy

According to an ar ticle in American M i d l a n d Na t u r a l i s t b y Pr o f A l a n

Boyden, Rutgers University, analogous str uctures are examples of convergent evolution in which two similar anatomical str uctures developed independently but did not come from a common ancestor For example, wings in bats and birds developed independently – the two did

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Homologous str uctures are examples of d i v e r g e n t e v o l u t i o

Porcupine quills and seal fur are homologous str uctures because, although they now ser ve different purposes, they originally both developed from the fur of a common ancestor

Be c a u s e t h e s t r u c t u re s o f t h e t w o organs are similar, biologists have debated whether they are analogous or homol-

ogous str uctures, as well as what order they evolved in if the str uctures were homologous While some researchers like R i c h a r d O w e n a n d C h a r l e s D a r w i n believed that gas bladders evolved into lungs, others such as Prof Karel Liem, Har vard University, believe that lungs evolved into gas bladders

McCune, Longo and Riccio determined that lungs and gas bladders are homologous str uctures by showing that several ray-finned fishes, such as sturgeons and paddlefish, have pulmonar y ar teries similar to those used by organisms with lungs Using computed tomography, they showed that the common ancestor of all ray-finned fish originally had lungs which were supplied by a pulmonar y ar ter y

“Looking at the fish, you star t to see that the gas bladder is ser viced by the pulmonar y ar ter y primitively, and then the connection is lost when you get to the derived taxa, ” McCune said

To detect the similarities between the two str uctures, Longo looked at the one thing that all lungs share: their blood source Pulmonar y ar teries ser vice the

lungs by providing the blood supply

Longo and McCune used a variety of techniques to analyze the fish, including d i s s e c t i o n a n d c o r r o s i o n c a s t i n g

Corrosion casting is the process of injecting plastic into the vessel system of an organism and melting away the flesh to expose the str ucture that was created by the plastic According to Longo, both techniques are destr uctive to experiment s a m

m o re detailed analysis of str uctures

Computed tomography is an imaging procedure that uses computer-processed x-rays to create slices of specific areas of an organism Digital processing is used to generate a 3-D image of the inside of an object from a large series of 2-D X-ray images

“ This is a 3-D matrix that you ’ re visualizing, and that is what allows you to look inside,” Riccio said Micro-CT scans enabled researchers to look at resolutions of 25 microns, about the width of a human hair

“ While the Micro-CT can only go up to 25 microns, it can accommodate living specimens,” Riccio said Much like an

around the specimen and take multiple shots at different angles “ They allow us to vis u alize , qu antify, and analy ze to answer questions that no one had been able to answer before,” he said

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“It’s kind of like doing a digital dissection The Micro-CT scans are like the Magic School Bus With the CT scan, you can shrink and go on a field trip inside of the fish,” McCune said While the physical evidence provided by the fish answered whether gas bladders evolved from lungs, McCune’s lab also used genetic testing to cement its findings

Moyouri Bhattacharjee can be reached at mb2282@cornell

By LISA GIBSON Sun Staff Writer

The platypus is one of the most unique mammals on this planet and can only be found in eastern Australia Even if you look in the right places, chances are, you m i g h t n o t g e t t o s e e o n e Ho w e v e r, Heather Delanty ’14 and Shira Ellenson ’14 saw at least five when they spent a week in Yungaburra, Queensland, cond u c t i n g a p o p u l a t i o n d e n s i t y r e s e a r c h study on platypus

They also wrote a popular science ar ticle to wrap up the project, with two other study abroad students, Gene Fukui ’14, Oberlin College, and Patrick Mershon ’14, Kenyon College They are all studying abroad for the semester with the School of International Training, which has a rainforest, reef and cultural ecology program located in Australia

The unique characteristics of platypus make them excellent species for studying evolution Aside from their physical idiosyncrasies which include a duck-like bill, otter-like fur, a beaver-like tail, retractable w e b b i n g b e t w e e n t o e s , a n d v e n o m o u s spurs in males, platypus have many other distinctive features

P l a t y p u s b e l o n g t o t h e o r d e r monotremes, defined as being a mammal that lays eggs Genetically, they also have ten different sex chromosomes which are not fully understood, and their genome contains both mammalian and reptilian components

P l a t y p u s a r e e l u s i v e a n i m a l s w h i c h spend most of their time diving under water searching for food According to the SIT research group, however, when they dive to search for small inver tebrates their eyes, nostrils, and ears close, so they must

Students Study Platypus Populations

rely on another sense Platypus hunt using electroreception – they are receptive of electric current, which is generated by ner ves and muscle contractions in a living animal Platypus also have pressure sensors to receive changes in pressure waves caused by movement, which, combined with their electric sense, allows them determine the distance to their prey

The platypus does sur face for air and to eat and digest its prey This is when the students were able to see the mammals and note travel direction and record sur face and dive times 20 students were stationed in pairs along Peterson Creek equipped with synchronized watches ready to conduct a visual sur vey over a span of 810 meters They recorded sightings four times throughout the week for an hour each time, three evening times, and one in the morning

After data was compiled, the students made a conser vative estimate that at least five individual platypus inhabit the creek

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p u s remained under water for about 73 percent of the time with an average sur face time of 10 seconds and an average dive time of 35 seconds

The purpose of this week long study was to gather baseline information about the habitat quality and platypus population of Peterson Creek Shor ter dive times are indicative of a quality habitat because the platypus does not have to spend as much time searching for food, Delanty said The area around Peterson Creek used to be farmland, and the area has recently been reforested in a community effor t to restore the natural ecosystem Previously, there had been almost no platypus habitat research in this area

According to their paper, “ The relative-

ly shor t dive inter vals found in this sur vey suggests that Peterson Creek remains a high quality habitat for platypus despite its moderate level of human disturbance ”

Based on scientific readings, Delanty said that platypus prefer creeks at least four meters wide and between 0 5 and 2 meters deep Platypus also prefer slow moving pools over fast moving shallow waters Peterson Creek was obser ved to be a good fit within these parameters

The community effor t to restore vegetation to the r ural creek has been an impor tant factor for the platypus population in Peterson Creek The area is also unique in that agriculture effects such as “ r unoff from high fer tilization have ar tifi-

ecosystems, causing high productivity of cer tain prey species at the expense of overall system diversity Higher prey densities tend to favor larger numbers of platypus in these areas, ” Fukui said Human activity generally has a negative impact on the quality of the habitat Many tourists also go to the vie wing platform to see the platypus Fu

morning sur veys should have been done to get a better count, as there would have been less tourist traffic

Scarecrow Gene Helps Plants in Dr y Climates

potential to grow crops 50 percent more efficiently in dr y climates

Wo r l d w i d e h u n g e r m a y become a problem as the population continues to grow, yet a solution might lie within plants In the lab of Prof Robert Turgeon, plant

b i o l o g y, p o s t d o c t o r a l re s e a rc h associate Thomas Slewinski found a gene that is currently repressed in most plant leaves that has the

This research was part of a collaborative effort led by Prof Timothy Nelson, Yale University

Previously, this gene, dubbed the “Scarecrow gene, ” has been studied in the stems and roots of plants Slewinski, however, discovered that the gene is also found in the leaves of certain plants

Plants use photosynthesis to

obtain energy through light, but, according to Slewinski, not all plants use the same pathway to do this The C3 pathway is the most common photosynthetic pathway in plants and is found in important crops such as rice The C4 photosynthetic pathway is used in corn, sorghum and millet, which are grown in arid climates

Plants that use the C4 synthetic pathway use water, nitrogen,

a n d s u n l i g h t 5 0 p e rc e n t m o re effectively in areas where water is more scarce than those that use the C3 pathway

According to Nelson, the C4 pathway is more effective in dr y climates because it separates the processes of photosynthesis into two locations within the plant: bundle sheath cells and mesophyll cells

Bundle sheath cells, not found in C3 plants, are cells that surround a leaf ’ s vascular core where n u t r i e n t s a re t r a n s p o r t e d

Mesophyll cells form around the b u n d l e s h e a t h T h e S c a re c r ow gene plays a role in this type of s e p a r a t e a n a t o m y u s e d b y C 4 plants called Kranz anatomy

Because the C4 pathway splits a step of the C3 pathway into two locations, it is less energy efficient in areas where water is abundant

In dr y climates, however, C4 is b e t t e r t h a n C 3 b e c a u s e t h e enzyme RuBisCO is relocated to the bundle sheath cells, separating itself from the other half of the pathway in the mesophyll cells

Ac c o rd i n g t o Sl e w i n s k i , RuBisCO is a central enzyme to both C3 and C4 photosynthesis pathways because it is involved in t h e u p t a k e o f c a r b o n d i ox i d e

However, RuBisCo can also cause energy loss when exposed to oxygen Unlike in mesophyll cells, oxygen levels are kept low to prevent this type of energy loss in bundle sheath cells, Slewinski said “C4 has evolved independently 66 times,” Slewinski said This

fact led Slewinski to the hypothesis that the gene existed in ever y plant, but was being repressed By b re e d i n g p l a n t s w i t h a m u t a t e d S c a re c r ow g e n e w i t h plants with no mutations in the Scarecrow gene, Alyssa Anderson ’13, an undergraduate researcher in the Turgeon lab, determined the effect of the scarecrow gene

While both C3 and C4 plants with a mutated Scarecrow gene had impairment in their stems and roots, as was expected, the Kranz anatomy of the C4 leaf samples was also damaged

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mutated gene looked normal This supports the hypothesis that the Scarecrow gene is repressed in C3 leaves but has an effect on Kranz anatomy in plants with C4 photosynthesis

“Evolution works in a ver y simple way: by using things it already has in new ways In this case, C4 leaves took basic housekeeping genes that are used in lower parts of the plant,” Slewinski said

The energy loss wasted in C3 photosynthesis is a difficult biological problem, but, according to Turgeon, Slewinski’s work gives

toward understanding the development of Kranz anatomy

The lab’s future studies will include identifying what activates or deactivates the Scarecrow gene

Lisa Gibson can be reached at lgibson@cornellsun com Samantha Klasfeld can be reached at sjk96@cornell edu

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DAVEEN KOH Sun Staff Writer

There is no air on this Savage Mountain Pummelling walls of ice, a lawyer and a physicist tear through the big questions of life and love, with more than a few raucous jokes thrown in On a narrow ice ledge, thrust out from the formidable K2, two mountaineers are stranded Their hopes of escaping the icy clutches of the world’s second tallest mountain are fading fast with the diminishing daylight Taylor (Tim Mollen), a hardened district attorney, makes another troubled attempt to retrieve a rope crucial for the pair’s descent He asks Harold (Eric Sterbenk), who is nursing a shattered leg, to talk to him Harold, a mild-mannered physicist with a penchant for bawdy anecdotes, quickly turns from the banal to the sacred

There are too many ironies in Patrick Meyers’ K2, which concludes the Readers’ Theatre 2012-13 season Meyers drew on the experiences of the first American mountaineers who conquered K2 in 1978 for his screenplay; the main characters Harold and Taylor are based on Louis Reichardt and Jim Wickwire, respectively It is poignant and sad that, in what could be their final conversation, Taylor and Harold rely on platitudes as they wrestle with the ever-elusive existential questions Life is about “holding on, ” Harold declares, as he takes another swig of oxygen from the mask firmly pressed against his face In his hazy state, Harold’s offers somewhat grandiose statements about finding God in the details in the study of quantum mechanics and in the creation of life I found God, he says one moment, and in the next, “I saw God die ” He goes on to make the case for “blind faith ” His wife had a difficult childbirth, and confronted with the possibility of losing both his wife and son, Harold sought refuge in the hospital chapel He prayed to a God he didn’t believe in, and the miracle he thought had no odds of happening occurred

Bathed in memories of love, shared with his wife and son, Harold smiles meditatively “Love is overpriced, Taylor retorts, perhaps too bitterly Taylor, who prefers womanizing to commitment, sees no need for the kind of wide-eyed romantic love Harold champions He accuses Harold of being a romantic, and the two friends continue to squabble, even as they approach an inevitable question In his weakened state, Harold is unlikely to survive another arduous descent Left with only one rope, Taylor has to decide if he’ll go back alone, or die on the mountain with Harold

On Wednesday evening, the Readers’ cast gave an unnerv-

BLIND FAITH MOVES A MOUNTAIN AT THE READERS’

ing performance of Meyers K2 The intensity of the show was remarkable considering the absence of majestic props like the famous 55-foot simulated ice wall that, in itself, earned applause during the 1983 Broadway production Instead, these actors are armed only with music stands and water bottles Still, the mountain roars and the snow rages, largely due to the intricate work of composer Peter Rothbart and classical guitarist Matthew Ocone A narrator (Sonali Samarasinghe) reads the stage directions

Meyers’ script is not without its faults the characters make for an almost too stereotypical odd couple, and Meyers relies too much on clichés to convey gems of existential wisdom Some critics have questioned the credulity of the dialogue when both characters are gasping for breath at 27,000 feet and are trying not to be buried by incessant onslaughts of snow But under Anne Marie Cummings’ direction, Mollen and Sterbenk make the meandering dialogue feel gripping and realistic A wild-eyed Mollen, who played the frenzied Vanya in the Readers’ production of Uncle Vanya last season, was consistently arresting as he growled and whimpered his way through Meyers’ sometimes tepid lines Sterbenk, as Harold, managed to be believably calm and good-humored His conversation is measured, yet effervescent

As Harold and Taylor pause their frenetic debates to carry out “situation assessments, ” the paltriness of their training in the face of the mountain’s treachery is all too clear It makes you wonder: Why would anyone climb mountains for a hobby? If it s mostly for the adrenaline, doesn t that make the hobby a little too selfish? At one point, Taylor even exclaims that moun-

Ltain climbing is only his pastime, not his life The play raises so many important questions but resolves none which is terrifying

An hour after leaving the play I was still reeling from the intensity of Mollen and Sterbenk’s sparring, and perhaps something else I felt as if I’d heard it all before, seen it all before But which movie was that, exactly? Many of us are such accomplished procrastinators, we rarely get around to untangling the most basic questions about life, even when the impetus to do so persists everywhere we look Look no further than Terrence Malick’s 2011 film The Tree of Life Or, after an exasperating hour-long run about Taughannock Falls, peel a sheet of ice off a rock and hold it against the waning light K2 opens on Apr 26 at the Black Box Theatre at Lehman Alternative Community School For ticket details, visit www thereaderstheatre com

Daveen Koh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art & Planning She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun com

Sharing Isn’t Always Caring

ast month, Amazon acquired Goodreads, a website dedicated to sharing book ratings with friends and giving English majors a purpose in life The website itself is relatively basic, but being the only social network centered around books has made it the primary place for hungry readers to find good recommendations After a couple of high-profile scandals, including authors manipulating ratings on their Amazon product pages, Amazon really needs Goodreads to rebuild customer trust

This raises the question: Why do we rely so heavily on ratings about anything and everything?

In the music world, ratings are universal and quasi-necessary to the listening experience The closest thing to Goodreads for music is RateYourMusic, which allows people to rate every album in existence (even the obscure ones) out of five stars You can also rate songs or albums as you ’ re listening with Pandora’s thumbs up and down or Last fm’s hearts The star-shaped outlines of iTunes and Spotify beckon you to fill them in with solid, hard-edged stars that exude an aura of permanence And let’s not forget the countless rating schemes that “official” music reviewers use from Rolling Stone’s four-star system, to Pitchfork’s insane decimal system and “Best New Music” designations

tion unless you ’ re within a circle of professional critics This allows for an extreme divergence between aggregate scores and critics ratings who are so well-known that they exist above the fold and can peacefully co-exist with the opinionated hopefuls in the general public Some websites like Rotten Tomatoes aggregate reviews from critics, while others like IMDB aggregate ratings from thousands of users at once Regardless of how they compile the ratings to create recommendations, the opinions of Joe Movie hold as much weight as the eloquent words of Roger Ebert or A O Scott

TV shows have also succumbed to the ratings obsession, but as a relatively new field of scrutiny, these ratings are very messy Not only do publications use multiple rating schemes (the letter grade seems to be the most popular at the moment), they seem to disagree on what should be rated Should each episode, season or entire show be rated? Can we rate reality

Ratings are even more ingrained in film culture, and have been prevalent even longer than music reviews have As a result, reviews for film are much more institutional than other media forms You might write a great review for a movie, but it’s not going to get much atten-

TV shows? What about live acts? The levels of nuance have made TV ratings all the more confusing; not that that has stopped The Onion’s AV Club from rating the same Game of Thrones episode twice (for “ experts ” and “newbies”) or Television Without Pity from

rating American Idol

Admittedly, ratings are necessary in order to navigate the overwhelming amount of information that exists nowadays You like some things and not others, so it makes sense to look to a source with similar tastes to tell you what is good and bad But, on the other hand, the maxim “everybody’s a critic,” has been taken to ridiculous levels Consider some of the one-star reviews of Homer’s The Odyssey: “There was way too much going on, too many characters and the plot story doesn ’ t seem to make any sense ” Here’s another: “Incredibly boring ” My favorite: “It read like a bad game of Dungeons and Dragons ” So these people were admittedly high school students who didn’t pay attention in English class, but nevertheless, their opinions are factored into the overall rating that most people look at (currently at 3 64 stars) The Odyssey is nevertheless a classic, and it will be assigned to resentful high school students regardless; but think about all the other books that don’t enjoy classical status Do we want similar reviewers influencing ratings and telling us what’s good?

According to the Goodreads community, the current “Best Book Ever” is Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, followed by Twilight a distant second and then a bunch of Harr y Potter books To Kill a Mockingbird comes in seventh Are the first six greatest books ever, as voted by the Goodreads community, timeless classics? I tested it for myself, starting with the “Best Book Ever ” As I read, I had great difficulty suppressing my inner snob Why is the prose so awkward and dry? Is it just me, or are the characters more hollowed-out than a termite-infested tree? While we ’ re on diseased-tree metaphors, the plot holes are bigger than those in an Asian longhorned beetle-infested tree

I decided that Goodreads wasn ’ t for me

My next “Great Read” will be something that I accidentally find on a library shelf and decide to read for myself, rather choosing thanks to the recommendations of others

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations He can be reached at kng@cornellsun com You ve Got To Be Kitsching Me appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

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Fa l l t o Ya l

By DEEYA BAJAJ Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s tennis team had a tough weekend, facing a 6-1 loss against Yale on Saturday at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Conn , and a close 4-3 win against Brown at the Varsity Tennis Center in Providence, R I , the following day This weekend’s matches led to a 13-3 record for the season so far and a 2-3 record in the Ivy League

The Red gained only two victories against the Bulldogs Freshman Laila Judeh won her No 5 singles match 7-5, 64 a n d s o p h o m o re Lauren Frazier and junior Ryann Young

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to play the deciding match and it was extremely close It could have gone either way, but she won, which was awesome ”

Judeh is confident in the team ’ s chances at its upcoming matches against Princeton and Penn

“Our next match is against Princeton which is an away game, ” she said “We have a good chance of winning if we keep doing the things we have the whole season After that, we ’ re playing Penn at home We only have two matches left for the season, so we are going to give it everything we have ”

“We only have two matches left for the season so we are going to give it everything we have ”

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“It was a tough loss against Yale the matches were close but we competed well, gave it everything we had and that’s all we can ask for,” Judeh said

The match against Brown was a nail-biting experience with a very close win for the Red

The team started the day with a win in the doubles matches by Frazier and Young, who won their match at No 2 8-5 The singles matches had wins for Cornell in the No 1 position where senior Sarah O’Neil won her match 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Young at No 3 won her match 6-4, 6-3, Judeh won her match 6-4, 6-0 at No 5 and at No 6 ,Frazier defeated Brown’s Olivia Hsu 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3

“Winning against Brown was exciting,” Judeh said “They were a good team, and we basically just played the way we have the whole year and our hard work paid off We won 4-3, which is the closest it gets Sarah O’Neil had

The women ’ s tennis team ’ s match against Princeton is scheduled for April 19, and the match against Penn will be played on April 21 at the Reis Tennis center in Ithaca The men ’ s team lost to Yale 4-3 on April 13 in a close match played at the Reis Tennis center in Ithaca The team won two of its doubles matches with

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Unfortunately, the team only won two out of six of its games in the singles matches with Fleck winning 6-3, 6-2 at No 2 and Luu winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 at No 5

The team then played against Brown, where it won the match 5-2 The Red won both of its doubles matches, with junior Venkat Iyer and sophomore Alex Sidney winning their match 8-4 and Berman and Fleck winning their match 8-6 The third doubles match played did not finish

In singles, the team won 6-4, 5-7, (10-8) at No 1 where Iyer defeated Brown’s Michael Riechmann At No 2 Fleck won 6-1, 7-6, Luu at No 5 won his match 7-5, 6-3 and Berman at No 6 won 6-3, 6-4

“Yale was a hard loss, but we rebounded well against

Rowers Sweep P rinceton, Look To Continue Strong Performances

Cornell will host Columbia and MIT in its next races

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with junior Ryann Young in the Red’s loss to Yale

Brown They are a strong team so it was a good win,” Beman said “The team ’ s definitely excited to play our last two matches of the Ivy season, and we have a good shot at winning both ”

The men ’ s team is getting set to play Princeton at the Reis Tennis center on Friday followed by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Sunday

Deeya Bajaj can be reached at dbajaj@cornellsun com

Prepares for Upstate

“The key to our success this weekend was our mental toughness and race maturity ”

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By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

With less than three weeks left until the

He p s c h a m p i o n s h i p m e e t h o s t e d by Princeton from May 4th-5th, the Red continued its outdoor track and field season by competing at the Bucknell Invite, while the men ’ s team sent some of its athletes to a meet hosted by George Mason

The women ’ s team competed strongly,

adverse weather, his team kept their eyes set on their events

“There are basically two meets, ” he said “There’s a Saturday component that contains the throws and the distance We had some really special things happen in the d

On Sunday, the rest of the team got to compete [It was] a little windy and cold, but they didn’t really let the conditions get to them ”

“[It was] a little windy and cold, but they didn’t really let the conditions get to them.”

claiming eight events wins and 21 ECAC qualifying marks Women’s head coach Rich Bowman said that despite there being

Notable performances for the

Leah Ferrara winning the 3K in

javelin with a throw of 148’3”, senior Claire Dishong winning the

Ebolutalese Airewele winning the 400m in 55 68

The men ’ s weekend culminated in two new school records and 24 IC4A qualifying performances Junior Will Weinlandt set the new school record in the 800m with a time of 1:48 43, while sophomore Stephen Mozia set the new school record in the discus with a heave of 184’5” According to men ’ s head coach Nathan Taylor, it was a

Golfers Finish Tenth at Princeton

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

After a rough start to the spring season, the Cornell golf

Princeton Invitational this weekend, their second tournament of t

d tenth in a 14-team field, shooting a combined +59 in the three round tournament Yale placed first with a combined score of

+16, while host Princeton came in third with a combined +19

Despite still finishing in the bottom half of the teams, the Red showed serious improvement from last weekend, when the squad finished last in a 13team field, according to junior tri-captain Carl Schimenti

“This weekend was definitely an improvement; most of us were able to shoot a couple good s c o re

i said “I think the big key for us is

to play some more competitive rounds this spring and get used to playing under tournament conditions ”

S c h i m e n t i l e d t h e t e a m , shooting a combined +11, which was tied for 24th in the tournam e n t In t h e s e c o n d ro u n d , Schimenti broke par, carding a one-under 70 Junior Zach Bosse started off the weekend with a very promising two-under 69, but had a rough third round, including a sextuple-bogey 10 on the 16th hole, a par-4 He finished the tournament +14, tied for 36th overall Freshman Brandon Eng also had a solid

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weekend, finishing tied for 48th with a combined +18

“Zach Bosse played really well on the first day and really well t h e l a s t d a y e xc e p t

“Brandon Eng played well for the first and third rounds, and Craig played well for two rounds as well, so all of us are getting there Right now, we can ’ t put it all together, but we ’ re showing some signs of improvement right now ”

The biggest area of weakness for the team at the moment is its s h o r t g a m e , e s p e c i a l l y i t s putting, according to Schimenti

“I still think a lot [of ] our short game putting mostly [gave] a lot of us trouble this

good weekend for his team

“Some of the events went really well,” he said “Stephen Mozia’s ne w school record in the discus was great I thought the pole vault guys jumped well We really dominated that event The other big per-

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer