04-20-12

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

C.U. to Breathaly ze Freshmen at Slope Day

By J R RICHARDS

Sun Senior Schmoozer

To curb the dangerous behavior stemming from the “ rampant binge-drinking culture” that has consumed Cornell’s student body, Boozin’ Smurphy ’73 vice president of student and academic services, confirmed Thursday that all freshmen must undergo mandatory breathalyzer tests before being admitted to Slope Day this year

“The new safety measures are unconstitutional, oppressive and a major buzzkill ” J os h B roc k ’ 1 4

The move comes, Smurphy said, as administrators have banded together to prevent irresponsible drinking practices that are known to occur on the last day of classes –– including inebriated productions of Shakespeare ’ s The Taming of the Shrew, p i n - t h e - t a i l - o nthe-freshman and drunken unicycling In addition to a d m i n i s t e r i n g mandatory breathalyzer tests, University officials said they will perform vigorous search procedures at the entrance to Libe Slope and increase surveillance at IFC-registered events taking place on Slope Day –– a measure Student Trustee Alan Booze 13 called “total b s Amid widespread student outrage, Norah Corn ’12, executive director of the Slope Day Programming Board, admitted that there was very little in the way of negotiation

“At first we were appalled at what we ’ re being

forced to do ” she said in an email last night “but after the administration threatened to shut down Slope Day entirely, we had no choice but to give in Luckily, while the University expressed concern over the ‘explosively pro-alcoholic’ messages contained in the songs of Taio Cruz, we were able to resist their suggestions that we replace our headliner with ArmenianCanadian children’s entertainer, Raffi ”

Josh Brock ’14 at-large representative for the Student Assembly, made a statement rebuking Cornell s rashness in addressing what he deemed a “multifaceted issue ” Brock said that the new safety measures were “unconstitutional, oppressive and a major buzzkill ”

Univ. Receives $420M for Weed Science Program

By PASCAL CAMBRIA Sun Staff Smoker

Cornell revealed a $420 million anonymous donation, the largest in the University’s histor y to create the new Shakur Center for Weed Science in the Department of Horticulture The donation was given anonymously over the phone, Day Hall administrators confirmed Thursday While the donor refused to

The donation will also be used to help fund a research project to develop a special Cornell Dining brand brownie to be distributed to freshman pre-med engineers at the end of prelim season

Director of Weed Science

Prof Toni Tommatoe, horticulture, said that while she was elated to receive the donation, she is still concerned about its implications for the future direction of the department

“With this new donation, the vast majority of our resources will be put toward the study of cannabis.”

P rof Ton i Tommat oe, hort ic ult u re

reveal his identity he told administrators that they “had no clue about what me and my homie Snoop Dogg came to do ”

Faculty members said the funding will allow the horticulture department to collaborate with the Department of Applied Engineering and Physics to develop advanced education technology that will allow Tupac to teach posthumous seminars on advanced blunt rolling techniques via hologram

We typically focus on invasive plant species but with this new donation, the vast majority of our our resources will be put toward the study of cannabis, Tommatoe said “I’m not sure the donors have an accurate perception of what our department actually does ” Tommatoe added that the department will be creating a Weed Science major to the College of Agriculture and Life Science’s curriculum for students who will study the ganja plant and be offered study abroad options in the Netherlands and Colorado

In preparation for the new

center, the University is renegotiating its relationship with Frito-Lay to triple its stock at Nastie’s The University will also be increasing its bandwidth limit to expand browsing of popular websites Reddit, Tumblr and Funnyjunk com

Professors in the horticul-

ture department praised the creation of the Shakur Center Cannabis has proven to reduce such ailments as glaucoma, alleviate stress and whoa, since when did we get to Atlantis?” said Prof Mary Jane Uana, horticulture

Political Rivals of Incoming S.A. Pres. Found Dead in WSH

Police discovered the bodies of six potential opponents to Alan Gotlin 13, who recently ran unopposed for president of the Student Assembly, in a room hidden beneath the floorboards of the Willard Straight Hall memorial room on Thursday

Each of the bodies –– who had been considered Gotlin’s chief opponents before mysteriously bowing out of the race –– were found with thousands of paper cuts from Gotlin’s multi-colored quarter cards They also appeared to have been forced to make “Got-Some” posters, which were found lying beside their bodies by police

Investigators apprehended Gotlin late Thursday night but later released him, saying they came away impressed with his leadership skills and said that they were convinced he had the right vision to lead Cornell s student body

“What a nice young man, ” Sgt Mickey Mark said “His eyes are so ” he said before drifting off

Mark also apologized for initially thinking Gotlin could be a suspect in the case, and said he hoped doing so would not hurt Gotlin’s presidency

“Do you know Gotlin? Gotlin must be one of the sweetest guys I know,” Mark said

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Editorial

Cautioning E xcessive Cautioning

THE SUN RECENTLY WROTE AN EDITORIAL EXPL AINING the benefits of a par ticular policy move by the University, but also cautioned them to avoid the problems with the policy While we think The Sun’s editorial position of praising the University while simultaneously cautioning it is beneficial, we caution The Sun not to write editorials that urge too much caution

Caution, in cer tain amounts, is good, as it prevents The Sun from doing really stupid things, like calling the University out on something The Sun knows nothing about Caution is also one of the best kinds of tape, as it is bright and yellow and really noticeable and prevents people from grievously injuring themselves In racecar driving, the caution flag helps racecar drivers avoid obstacles as they make their way around the track

However we caution The Sun from cautioning too much Have you seen how slow those cars go during caution laps? Like 20 miles per hour It’s literally the most boring thing ever, and we already thought NASCAR was the most boring thing on TV anyway Additionally, too much caution causes one to lose out on having a fun time Do you think those Secret Ser vice agents were using caution in Columbia? Think about all the fun they would’ve missed out on if they had just a little bit of fucking discretion

We also caution The Sun from using too many puns in its editorials, like the one in the last sentence above Really guys? Let’s just shine a little Sun light on this whole situation Nobody thinks they are funny, and they just make people cringe

In sum, The Sun s editorial positions are usually great and hold the University accountable for its policies However we caution The Sun from cautioning too much and hope The Sun takes some stronger positions, kind of like the ones that we envision those secret ser vice agents would take, especially in their affairs with Colombian prostitutes

For 130 years, The Sun has been keeping Cornell students apprised of the important issues that affect them For those same 130 years, we ’ ve been independent and able to report on the issues without influence from the University Today, we must take a bold step to continue bringing you, our readership, the highest quality content possible The kind of meaty slow-roasted content you deserve

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It has come to our attention that Thursday’s editorial, “Grading Turnitin,” was 83 percent plagiarized The Sun regrets this error Editorials are written collaboratively to serve as the voice of The Sun, and due to the amalgamation of writing that often comprises editorials, verification of contributed work is crucial to our credibility All work was submitted under the name of a Sun editor, and we wrongly trusted its integrity While under normal circumstances we would have utilized a verification program WriteCheck, for example due to recent cutbacks we were unable to afford such measures In order to avoid similar mistakes in the future, we have implemented several new policies

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Cornell Cinema to receive entirety of students’ tuitions

After years of bad blood between the two organizations, the Student Assembly decided Thursday to commit every dollar of every Cornell student’s tuition to funding Cornell Cinema Viewed as an olive branch from S A to the Cinema, the once-fledgling movie theater will now have around half a billion dollars to allocate each year On the decision which is one of her last S A President Rapacious Naps ’12 said, “I will admit, we were kind of dicks The Cinema is a cultural and educational landmark of our University When asked about possible financial altercations of such a gung-ho deal, Naps responded, “Considering I donated my watch and Uggs to the Cinema as well, I’d consider this deal not enough ” For the moment, a glowing Cherry Phesdoe, director of Cornell Cinema, told The Sun, “This opens so many new doors We are the big game in town now ” Already scheduled for next semester are guest speakers George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, James Cameron and his submarine as well as the reunited casts of Star Wars and The Room New films will now premiere a month earlier than set theatrical release dates, and the Cinema is expected to put both Cinemapolis and Ithaca’s Regal Cinemas out of business

“We have so much money now, ” Cherry exclaimed “We might just buy the original 35mm negatives for Citizen Kane City Lights, The 400 Blows, all of Lean, Scorsese, Hitchcock and Fellini literally everything and set them ablaze after entwining them into a Dragon Day effigy!” She then barked a disturbing drawn-out maniacal laugh

The Cinema’s reach is set to take over all of Tompkins County and the Finger Lakes region, extend to Buffalo and eventually monopolize the business as far as New York City Cherry murmured to herself, which The Sun overheard, “It’s because students aren ’ t in charge; that’s how we are getting away this Lack of transparency and poor student attendance the only reasons ” The phrase, “My precious,” was reportedly muttered by Cherry, as well

Meanwhile, all classes, programs, student organizations and all amenities have forever ceased All students are forced, Clockwork Orange-style, to watch the entire filmographies of Henri-Georges Clouzot, David Lynch and, for sake of irony, Stanley Kubrick

“It’s for their own good,” Cherry said, while brandishing a whip crafted from expired Kodak celluloid “S A has saved culture, and they are sure going to get their money ’ s worth This will not end until every student can name all the jump cuts in The Battleship Potemkin and Breathless ”

The Cinema has already taken over all of Willard Straight Hall and Ho Plaza and is expected to grow exponentially, using all Cornell acreage for movie theaters popcorn stands and Cherry’s exponentially-expanding throne Gun Hill is set for conquering tomorrow, and New York City’s Paramount Theatre will be reached before the end of the month The ultimate goal, which Cherry refers as their “Mise-en-scene Destiny,” is to spread culture all the way to the West, a land she claims John Wayne still roams

Santorum Raps for Record Store Day

who contributes a gangsta rap verse

In a surprise move, Camille & Haley Harris, the sisters responsible for the viral hit song “Game On Song for Rick Santorum,” will release their song on vinyl days after the presidential candidate stepped out of the race The Harris Sisters have rerecorded the song with Santorum himself,

The shock of Santorum s gangsta rap quickly turned into intense speculation on the rap ’ s motive Though the former Pennsylvania Senator kept mum, he pointed to Mitt Romney’s “Who let the dogs out?” comment at a Martin Luther King Jr Day parade as inspiration for his newfound talent

“Mitt’s one consistency throughout his political career to reach out to a broader audience, any audience, inspired me to do the same, ” Santorum told The Sun “I intend to use my cultural sensibilities to insert God into the lives of gangsta rappers everywhere ”

An anonymous source calling himself “RonP a u l2 0 1 6 / 2 0 / 2 4 , however, has leaked the 20minute song to The Sun This new version is less of a song than a charged stream-

searching for solace at the precipice of civilization

“The Student Assembly should be happy they made this decision,” Cherry said “We would have taken extreme measures before long ” “For culture,” she concluded, with a smile

of-consciousness narrative by Santorum with backing vocals and guitars There is a moment when he calls “bullshit” on The New York Times and drops a possible racial epithet about President Obama before the Harris Sisters chorus drowns out the full word Santorum is at his best when he explains how homosexuality causes bad weather and the tr ue motive behind his National Weather Service Duties Act “Gay threat Seattle / is God’s place to battle / men who enjoy fellas / know when to bring umbrellas / my Weather Service Act/ keeps free forecasts wrapped / so homosexuals never know / when it’s gonna rain or snow / God will piss on their heads / and purify their beds / Socialists say Accuweather donations / was my Act’s main motivation / they can ’ t understand His clout / ain’t my problem, Santorum, out ” Santorum’s lyrical experimentation has many Sun Arts writers touting Game On” as the song of the year

More surprising than the rap itself is the response, because most pre-orders came from Williamsburg, Brooklyn

“My purchase is an act of micropolitical resistance that short-circuits intricate networks of power that like, oppress us, a patron of an obscure coffee shop said “That’s from Derrida or something Good thing it’s on vinyl, because I don’t buy from the iTunes capitalist monopoly ” When asked about the mocking response to Record Store Day, the day the single hits shelves, the confused Harris Sisters asked what a “record” is Meanwhile, Santorum was magnanimous “I’m not angry I can ’ t make the invisible hand become Jesus’s hand, but hopefully some will turn to God after hearing my gangsta rap

“Game On” will be released tomorrow, April 21

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Boothe Brings C.U. Education to NFL Pre-Game Ritual

By JEREMY LIN

New York Giants center and former Cornell football player Kevin Boothe ’05 won his second career Super Bowl this year The 6-5, 320-pounder attributed the win to his pre-Super Bowl ritual, which dates back to his days at Cornell Boothe, who graduated with a B S from the School of Hotel Administration in 2005, was seen “doing something strange the morning before the big game, according to his teammate and Giants running back Brandon Jacobs

“That morning I was sitting outside his room waiting for Kevin and he was taking a real long time,” he sad “So, I peeked my head in to see what he was doing Jacobs paused and shook his head at the memory

“Big Boothy was making both beds in the room, tucking them sheets in real tight and fluffing out the pillows,” he said “And then, I couldn’t believe it, but he took these two little mint chocolate bars out of his pocket and put them on top of the pillows ”

According to Jacobs, the center proceeded to take the dirty towels from the floor, fold them into perfect triangles and hang them neatly on the rack The running back could not tell The Sun anymore information though since at the time of Boothe’s ritual, Jascobs said he left the room quickly because, “I was afraid I was going to die from laughing ”

When The Sun caught up with Boothe a few days after the big game he did not deny Jacobs’ account

“I do it before every away game, ” Boothe said “It relaxes me, takes some of the pressure off and it brings me back to my days in the hotel school

Boothe did become slightly sentimental when referring to his alma mater

“Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I wasn ’ t a professional football player, he said Like every once in a while when I miss a tackle, or give Eli a bad snap, I think maybe I should have stayed behind the desk of the Statler ”

When asked if he was at all superstitious about the ritu-

al, Boothe was confident that it played a role in the team ’ s success

“We’ve beaten the Patriots two out of two times in the Super Bowl since I’ve been doing it,” he said “We all know it took some sort of miracle for that to happen ” As soon as Jacobs reached the locker room after witness-

rituals | Former Cornell football

rituals for reporters on Thursday, attributing the

and

That Time I Snuck Into a C.U. Locker Room

My best friend Danny and I played lacrosse in high school and by played I mean we were the best Water Cooler Attendants that the team has ever seen Need a towel or a cup of blue Gatorade? No problem we ’ re on it While we loved occupying the sidelines helping to hydrate the team and wearing special team sweatshirts (that we bought ourselves) I can t help but admit that we always wished we had the opportunity to get out on the field and prove to everyone that we know more about lacrosse than just compostable paper cups

Danny and I are seniors here this year and one night when we were talking about the 161 Things to Do list over a pitcher at Dunbars, we came up with a brilliant an idea We wanted to see what it was like in the locker room at Cornell So, we came up with the perfect plan: we were going to sneak in and find out Getting in shouldn t be too hard right? Well, we got to see the inside of the locker room but we also got much more than we bargained for The kick off “Operation ‘Kopf,”

Danny and I thought it would be a good idea to dress the part We went to the annual Cornell Athletics garage sale held in Bartels and bought jerseys, hel-

mets, shorts and cleats For less than $100, we somewhat looked the part

Though, we hoped our skinny legs wouldn’t be a dead giveaway So Phase

One disregard rules, acquire equipment was complete We moved onto the next phase back door cracked, don’t need a key

Danny and I figured that the best time to sneak into the locker room would be on game day Why not, right?

Everyone is hustling around and people are everywhere, so the bustle and confusion would be perfect for a quick looksie We suited up in the parking lot and figured that the best plan of action was

lege guys I feel like it was one of those you have to have been there moments So, Danny and I took everything in and when we turned around, ready to make a break for the door and the parking lot, the big door flew back open and the coach walked in Uh oh With our helmets on, you couldn’t quite tell who we were, so luckily no on e had n ot ic e d we didn’t e x ac tly b e lon g in th e loc k e r room We scrunched in with all the other guys to listen to the coach s pre-game speech, and one guy made a crack about how he never noticed that I shaved my legs before, but after a quick glance from the team captain he quieted down I looked at Danny and knew we needed to move out quickly, but suddenly things got re al w h e n e ve r yon e s tar te d talk in g about plans of attack and triangles and Lord knows what else and pointed to me and Danny Apparently we are about the same size as No 25 and No 8, so everyone thought we were them

Cor nell Hockey Player Named Next Bachelor On Hit Reality Show

Monday night a Cornell hockey player made headlines when he named the next lead star of season 17 of the ABC hit series The Bachelor

In a release, host Chris Harrison said that “We are very excited to have such a great athlete as the next Bachelor We’ve had a doctor, a winemaker, a prince and a few pretty boys in the past, but never a beaut like this guy He seems like a gem

The icer’s application essay no doubt a product of a freshman writing seminar assignment caught the eye of reality show’s producers Reproduced below, the essay was printed on the show’s website, where many women have already started writing in, begging for a spot on the new season

to strut towards the locker room and walk in confidently I like to live by a motto I heard a coach tell a locker room a long time ago: “If you don’t know it, fake it and fake it real good So, Danny and I were going to fake it “real good ”

We got to the big white doors and threw the doors open, not knowing what to except We were greeted by a blur of guys running around the locker room some were suited up, others were half dressed with slippers on but everyone was singing along to the iPod playlist that I can only imagine who made I can honestly say that “Call Me Maybe is not only a favorite karaoke song of pre-teen girls, but also big col-

The rest of the day was a blur, but let’s just say that Danny and I finally got our 15 minutes of fame on the field I got a shot off, but it went into the wrong net oops When the game was over, Danny and I finally made a break

As the team ran into the locker room, we hung a tight left and sprinted for the parking garage Hope that No 25 doesn ' t get in too much trouble for that own-goal If you ’ re reading this, sorry! So, that is the stor y of how we finally got to see the inside of the locker room and play on the field I don’t think anyone will ever believe that two girls actually did all that, but, hey, tr ue stor y We even have pics to

See LOCKER ROOM page 18

“I have spent the last few years of my life searching for something to complete me, just I have been unsure as to what it may be As a drafted prospect in the National Hockey League, I have spent the last 3 years playing at Cornell University an Ivy League school in New York Hockey has been a life pursuit of mine, and will continue to be such, yet the life I have always imagined has been one for two people, not just by myself I have an acute feeling that something in my life is missing, almost as if some part of me is lost I find myself overwhelmed at times, wondering if I will find the one person that my heart is seeking, yearning I have a persistent pang of loneliness that I realize now can only be assuaged by finding the one true love of my life After a couple unsuccessful forays into dating life both back home in Canada and here at school, I feel that the Bachelor is the only true medium to help me discover my one true love; my missing piece ” Season 17 of The Bachelor will air on June 17 at 8 p m on ABC

Compiled by Dusty McWheelerton

Ron Paul Stirs Lynah Faithful

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

The Ron Paul revolution roared through Ithaca on Thursday, as the Republican presidential candidate and anti-establishment icon implored a Lynah Rink crowd of more than 4,000 to join him and defeat the tyrants ” and “enemies of liberty” destroying America

Though widely thought to have a slim chance of beating former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney, Paul quickly dispensed with any notion that he would adapt to the university setting and deliver a dispassionate, professorial lecture

Instead, the boisterous audience was treated to a spectacle befitting the hockey arena politics as a contact sport, with Austrian monetarism and Constitutional originalism as the primary bludgeons

“The founders were very clear: Government was supposed to protect liberty And that was it It wasn ’ t about trying to police the world It wasn ’ t about trying to regu-

News

Scholastic Celebration

Three Cornell professors were recognized for their research and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Wednesday | Page 3

late the world economy, ” Paul said Paul slammed the Stop Online Privacy Act which would have expanded the federal government ’ s right to regulate copyright violations via online trafficking and blasted the War on Drugs But he always returned to train his fire on the chief culprit: “big brother government ”

“One thing we should know about liberty is that we do not get it from the government, ” Paul said “We get our liberty in spite of the government

Throughout the approximately hour-long speech, Paul’s visceral anger seemed to shoot out into the crowd and reverberate across the tall Lynah rafters He gave what many considered a stump speech, but was visibly animated at times, often punctuating his applause lines with a characteristic grimace or scowl

“If I can ’ t move into your house if I can ’ t take your car if I can ’ t spy on you, the government shouldn’t be allowed to, either, Paul said The government of a free socie t y

After $1M Donation, Gannett Looks for Permanent Funding

By JOSEPH NICZKY Sun Senior Writer

The University is working to find a permanent source of funding for the Gannett Health Center in order to avoid a significant reduction of its funding at the start of Fiscal Year 2013-14

After a string of student suicides, in March 2011, Gannett received a funding increase of $1 million through a combination of one-time alumni donations and internal University funding The University used $200,000 of this funding increase –– which was intended to improve Gannett’s mental health services –– to restore positions that had been cut from Gannett during the financial crisis, according to Greg Eells, director of counseling and psychological services for Gannett

“The explicit challenge is how to maintain that level of funding [and] anticipate continued growth in demand.”

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“At the time, we were planning on outsourcing our after-hours service because of budget cuts We were actually cutting planning on cutting therapist positions, reducing our after-hours service availability So part of the money was to restore those cuts, ” Eells said “We added six therapists [but] some of that was restoring two therapists we were planning on cutting

As the money from these donations runs out, Gannett must find a stable source of funding It must also meet a rise in demand for its health services, according to Susan Murphy ’73, vice president for student and academic services

“The explicit challenge is how to maintain that level of funding [and] anticipate continued growth in demand particularly if health care reform continues to advance as we think it is and you want to provide parity of medical health and mental health as we do,” Murphy said

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

In the Name of Justice

Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo ’13 praises the decision to repeal the death penalty in Connecticut | Page 7

Last Hurrah

The men s lacrosse team faces Brown in its last home game of the season this weekend | Page 20

Opinion Weather Sports

Sunny Day HIGH: 81 LOW: 57

The driver of a white sedan appeared to have lost control and crashed into the outdoor seating area of the Gimme! Coffee café located at the intersection of Cayuga Street and Cascadilla Street on Thursday afternoon

According to initial police repor ts, three people were str uck by the car and one of them was hospitalized Chairs, cups, a Gimme! Coffee mug, dir t and books were stre wn across the street, and emergency responders had cordoned off the area and blocked traffic on the street Although it was unclear what caused the crash, witnesses said the driver of the car seemed to be pulling over to park when he or she lost control of the vehicle The driver, who several said was female, was repor tedly turning right onto Cascadilla Street in front of a black police car

Today

Friday, April 20, 2012

Colloquium: Paul Smoke

12:20 - 2 p m , Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Tips for the End of the Semester

12:20 - 1:10 p m , International Lounge, Willard Straight Hall

Middle East Policy in a Precarious Age: Iran and the Islamist Challenge

2:30 - 4 p m , 142 Goldwin Smith Hall

The Blind Spots in Concert 9:30 p m , Ivy Room, Willard Straight Hall

Tomorrow

Block and Bridle’s Barnyard Fun Day and Livestock Show

9 a m - 5 p m , Livestock Pavilion

Symposium: Creating a Culture of Community Engagement

11 a m - 3 p m , 423 ILR Conference Center

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Yale Noon, Schoellkopf Field

C U Music: Jazz Festival, Joe Salzano

2 - 3 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall

LUX Artist and Scientist Talks

3 - 5 p m , Auditorium, Milstein Hall

Quotes of the Week

Opinion, “Y.O.L.O.,” Thursday

Urging Cornellians to take chances in the spirit of the motto You only live once

“If you can’t act strange or careless in college, when can you? Being smart enough to know better shouldn t condemn you to a boring by-the-book life So stop saying no when you mean yes and take some damn chances, because even if you fall flat on your face and look like a complete a-hole I bet it ll make for a great story ”

Hazel Gunapala ’12

Science, “The Scientist: Prof. Selby Combines Physics and Music,” Wednesday

Speaking about the mathematical relationship that determines what music people find pleasurable or unpleasant

The amazing thing about our ears is that they take logarithims of the frequency ratios

News, “Cornell Police Patrols Rise With Heat,” Thursday

Speaking about Ithaca Police’s response to the uptick in student partying

“We have noticed an increase in partying We want a safe environment for everyone We will continue to maintain the positive quality of life in these neighborhoods ”

John Barber, deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department

News, Department of Theatre, Film and Dance Revamp Gets Mixed Reviews, Wednesday

Speaking about the potential drawbacks of the new, consolidated performing arts major I fear that prospective students will be discouraged from engaging in a curriculum that does not give full credence or even a title to a specific study

Claire Babilonia ’12

VICTOR A GAO / SUN SEN OR PHOTOGRAPHER

Charlotte Fabiani ’12 reads the names of Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust as part of Cornell Hillel’s tribute to Holocaust Remembrance Day Never forget

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul paid Cornell a visit Thursday evening, speaking at a sold-out event at Lynah Rink If you were a candidate in the presidential race, what would your campaign slogan be?

“Massive subsidies for broke newspapers ” Pond Raul ’15

Disregard females, acquire currency IDGAF ’14

“You get free health care! You get a free education!”

Oprah Winfrey Twin ’13

Compiled by David Marten

Three Cornell Profs Elected To Arts and S ciences Academy

By SHANE DUNAU Sun Staff Writer

The American Academy of Ar ts and Sciences –– an honor society that recognizes achievement in a variety of fields –– elected three Cornell faculty members as fellows on Tuesday The professors, along with 217 other inductees, will join “ some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, ar tists and civic corporate and philanthropic leaders” by becoming AAAS fellows, according to a press release from the Academy

This year ’ s Cornellian nominees are Prof Joseph Fins, division of medical ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College; Prof Steven Strogatz,

dozens of Cornell faculty in the AAAS, which was founded in 1780 Fi

“absolutely delighted, sur-

humbled” to be elected

He said he found the nom-

although he has worke d extensively in the medical field, he was recognized by the academy for his work in public affairs

“Although I’m a physician and I work in the sciences, I’ve spent my whole career tr ying to be a bridge between the humanities and the sciences, Fins said Fins attributed his multi-dimensional academic career to the liberal ar ts education he received at Wesleyan University

“I remember I would be carr ying a large organic chemistr y textbook in one arm and Ulysses under the other,” Fins said, recalling his time as a pre-med undergraduate Strogatz, another nominee, has also successfully combined work in the humanities and sciences into his career He has used his roles as both a professor and columnist for The Ne w York Times to teach a broad audience about the beauty and impor tance of math

“I’ve always felt like I wanted to teach That was the calling more than math, or anything else,” Strogatz said “ What I really liked tr ying to do is explain things in a clear way, in a way that makes them fun and interesting to people ”

Strogatz will be joined by his neighbor,

friend and weekly tennis par tner, Gilovich, at the AAAS induction in Cambridge, Mass , this fall A professor at Cornell since 1981, Gilovich has extensively explored people’s ever yday judgm

Gilovich said that he dre w from his work to

“

paigns to hone their message ” in the last two presidential election cycles a project he found extremely gratifying because he was able to “have an impact on

domain,” he said

Gilovich said his pro-

was a natural one Although he entered college thinking he wanted to be a lawyer, he said he found himself taking psychology courses and thinking, “Hmph, I must really like this ”

Gilovich emphasized the impor tance of critical thinking within any realm of education or major

a sentiment also echoed by Fins

“ The best way to succeed in a world with evermore communication is to have the basic ability to think critically and write well,” Fins said “I think the humanities cultivates those skills ”

Strogatz cautioned against specializing too quickly as an undergraduate For instance, he said, many of his students and advisees express a desire to pursue finance early in their college careers

“Cer tainly, those fields do pay ver y well by that measure, they’re ver y attractive but I just worr y that people are afraid to pursue their own passion or even figure out what their passion really is, he said

Fi n s , St r

a n d Gilovich will join celebri-

McCar tney in the 232nd class of AAAS fellows

“ There are a lot of good things that a person can do in the world It’s just hard to predict what that will be,” Strogatz said “ That’s the argument for a liberal education ”

Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun com

Study Shows People Less Likely to Lie on Online Resumes

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Wr ter

Resumes posted on the popular professional networking site LinkedIn contain fewer lies about work experience than trad i t i o n a l , p a p e r c o p i e s o f re s u m e s , researchers from the Cornell Social Media Lab said in a study

Because LinkedIn resumes are posted online and are visible to former employers and co-workers the researchers –– Prof Jeff Hancock, communication and information science, and Jamie Guillor y grad M S ’10 –– thought that people tell the truth more often on public LinkedIn profiles than on traditional resumes

To test this idea, the researchers surveyed 119 Cornell undergraduates who had not previously created a profile on LinkedIn –– one-third of whom were asked to create a public online LinkedIn resume for an international marketing consultant position The position offered “attractive international office locations,” along with a high starting salar y and signon bonus

A third of the participants created a private LinkedIn resume, while the control group typed a resume on a Microsoft

Word document

“ This job description was embellished so that it was supposed to be difficult for an undergraduate to meet the qualifications,” Guillor y said, noting that the job required three to five years of work experience

After participants created their resumes, the researchers asked them to report any information that was not the entire truth When asking participants to disclose false information they had included on their resume, Guillor y said that the researchers “provided them with statistics from other studies that demonstrated people lying often in their resumes and reminded them that lying on resumes is a common behavior ”

According to Guillor y, more than 90 percent of participants in the study lied at least once on their resumes “ We did see overall that it was more common for people to exaggerate and tell subtle lies than to tell outright lies,”

Guillor y said

Re s u m e s t h a t we re c re a t e d o n

Mi c ro s o

LinkedIn had more exaggerations about subjects’ previous work experiences than the public resumes posted on LinkedIn by

the experimental group However, the public resumes contained more lies about participants interests

Participants with private resumes did not lie as much on their resumes because “they can only lie so much,” Hancock said

“Our thinking is that they’ve already accomplished what they wanted to do,”

Hancock said “ They’ve already lied about previous jobs, so they don’t want to feel like a liar We don’t know for sure, but that’s what we think ”

Some participants in the study lied about the length of time worked at a particular company Other lies, such as specific interests or recreational activities, were difficult to verify with other people

“It’s really difficult for someone to say, I know you re not interested in traveling or learning a different language,’” Guillor y said “[The participants] chose to lie in a way that is safer for them, but makes them look slightly better

” Hancock said that job applicants might be more inclined to lie on resumes tailored for competitive jobs

“If they tried to get a less attractive job, they probably would have lied less,” Hancock said “ They lie for specific goals, like self-presentation ”

The types of lies obser ved included bending the truth for example, altering the length of time worked at a job omitting information and outright lies Although researchers did not specifically study the type of lies found in resumes, Guillor y said that they did not see many outright lies

“ We didn’t seen any differences in the amount of deceptions across groups in the way that people lie, which shows that people are lying with similar frequency, but a

between the different experimental conditions private versus public conditions,” she said

Although the study showed that people

In resumes, employers might still find online resumes useful, Guillor y said

“You see that this employee has a lot of connections from people that are trusted and who can see and verify their information,” she said “It should push more people to be more truthful on their resume whereas on a paper resume there isn’t the same level of verification from employers ”

Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun com

Gannett Seeks Funding

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Murphy said the University must take into account both the rising costs of health care –– and the subsequent increase in student financial aid to cover these costs –– when seeking a permanent source of funding for Gannett

“We know we need to bring in some additional revenue because you can ’ t rely on these one-time funds all the way along Once you begin to do that, how do we make sure we ’ ve got the cost the revenue stream as well to cover the financial aid, so that isn’t a barrier?” Murphy said

One possibility the University is exploring, Murphy said, is charging students a health fee, folded into their semesterly tuition, to use Gannett’s services This would replace the per-visit fees that some students who are not covered by Cornell’s student health insurance plan or another carrier that waives them –– must pay, she added

“We know many of our peer campuses have health fees that are part of their funding streams, ” Murphy said “That isn’t how we do [it] at Cornell right now and so that s certainly something we are trying to take a look at to see if there’s a model there that makes sense for us ” However, Murphy said the health fee might not be implemented

Citing increasing demand for its services, Gannett is also considering constructing a new building The idea was originally introduced in 2007, but was indefinitely postponed in 2008 due to the financial crisis, The Sun reported in March

Although the University has yet to approve any plans, Murphy said she hopes the new facility will be open by 2018

“The vision is an expanded facility,” Murphy said “We can document that we are well beyond the capacity of that building ”

David Marten contributed reporting to this article

Joseph Niczky can be reached at jniczky@cornellsun com

Harvard May Change Finals Schedule

By THE HARVARD CRIMSON

evening final exams and a shortened exam period if a proposal

Top College administrators at the meeting also voiced support for a plan to a n n o u

dates before the semester s t a r t s b

current eight but include three exam slots each day morning, afternoon, and a ne w evening time Ha

i d s t u d e n

s w o u l d never have to take three exams in a single day, but they might be scheduled for two exams on one day more often

l y struck down an Undergraduate Council proposal to introduce a new senior seminar program modeled on the popular freshman seminar program

At t h

Undergraduate Education Jay M Harris outlined a possible plan for a restructured exam period, which would last six days rather than the

Computer science profess o r a n d f o r m e r Ha r va rd Dean of the College Harr y R Lewis expressed support for the proposal “I think it would be great to shrink exam period by two days, even if it meant that there was a

o resolve the enormous compression that I think exists, especially at the end of the fall term, Lewis said

This story was originally published in The Harvard Crimson Thursday

Paul Urges Crowd: ‘

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should be strictly limited: The government should be there to protect your privacy, [but] it s been flipped upside down

The speech seemed, in some respects, indistinguishable from a men ’ s hockey playoff game A humming excitement preceded the main event The Cornell pep band played “Don’t Stop Believing ”

The fans were in form

“End the Fed! End the Fed!” they thundered from the bleachers, letting out continual whoops and shouts “President Paul! President Paul!”

A rare protester stood up with a sign calling Paul a “bigot,” an “antisemite” and a homophobe ” The rest of the audience disapproved, heckling him: “Asshole! Asshole!”

A man sitting next to him then grabbed the protester ’ s sign, ripped it to shreds and threw it to the audience a move that was greeted with raucous applause

Many of Paul s fervent supporters said they came from the more conservative counties and townships around Ithaca One such attendee was Randy Childers, an automotive technician from Romulus, N Y

“He’s the only patriot running for office,” Childers said of Paul “I’m a student of history Any change in government is always implemented by those of college age they re the ones who have the energy, who have the passion, who haven’t been indoctrinated yet ” Members of the crowd, though, were not uniformly members of the Ron Paul revolution And though the event proceeded smoothly, not all students shared the fervor for Paul

Melanie Berdecia ’12, a member of the Cornell DREAM Team an organization which strives to raise awareness about the difficulties faced by undocumented students said that prior to the rally, DREAM was contacted by administrators who were really concerned” about the possibility of the students protesting against Paul's presence on campus

Although DREAM ultimately did not protest the rally, the organization, as of Thursday evening, had created a Facebook event titled Ron Paul: Not So Common Sense Immigration Reforms, outlining its viewpoints

“We don't want to be violent, but we want to communicate our discontent with Ron Paul and his policies,” Berdecia said

But for Paul, the tide of history is on his side, not on that of his opponents

“People say, ‘Why do you want to go back to the gold standard, back to the 19th century? I’ll tell you what: They want to go back, to tyranny, and we want to go to the future of liberty,” he said Despite formidable odds, Paul emphasized that his campaign “is alive and well ”

“This revolution to restore our freedoms must continue,” he said “We must continue and never give up ”

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Diversity in the College of Engineering

To the Editor:

Re: “Engineering College Trails in Minority Enrollment,” News, April 16

The front page stor y in the April 16 edition of The Sun highlights a critical issue, both for Cornell as an institution and for our nation: the underrepresentation of certain demographic groups in engineering and science The ar ticle per forms a ser vice by highlighting some of the challenges that minority students face, things that more traditional engineering students don’t even have to consider The College of Engineering recognized these challenges more than eight years ago and invested in an infrastr ucture to enable the success of these students by appointing an Associate Dean for Diversity and creating a nationally recognized Diversity Programs in Engineering office

These investments have paid off in many ways that are not reflected in The Sun ar ticle The college is richly multiethnic and multiracial, with a vibrant mix of women, Asian, Hispanic, African and Native Americans that is the envy of many of our peers The five-year graduation rates of our underrepresented minority students are far above the national average At Cornell, 75 percent of our URM student earn an engineering bachelor’s degree in five years Nationwide, just 52 percent of Hispanic Americans and 31 percent of African Americans receive an engineering bachelor’s degree within five years It is tr ue that enrollments of URM students in engineering at Cornell slightly lag the national average (by about 3 percent), but we would prioritize graduation rate over enrollment any day! Diversity Programs in Engineering suppor ts all of these undergraduate groups with a suite of events that are open to all students who wish to par ticipate For these accomplishments and others, Cornell Engineering s Diversity Programs in Engineering office was honored at the White House with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) in December of 2011

The Sun has helped make people aware that success of minority students in engineering depends significantly on ver y real external factors related to being a minority and having nothing at all to do with ability Can Cornell Engineering do better at recr uiting and retaining underrepresented minority students? Absolutely! But, the strides Engineering has made in the last eight years show that we are on the right track

Prof. Alan Zehnder, mechanical and aerospace engineering, associate dean for diversity and faculty development in the College of Engineering

Prof Rick Allmendinger, ear th and atmospheric sciences, former associate dean for diversity and faculty development in the College of Engineering

Puttin g Capit al Punishment to Death

Recently, the Connecticut House of Representatives decided by a vote of 82 to 62 to repeal the state ’ s use of the death penalty Considering that the state Senate reached the same decision the week before and Governor Dannel P Mellow’s words that he will sign the proposal it is safe to say that Connecticut will become the 17th state of the union to bar capital punishment This also means that it will become the fifth jurisdiction in as many years the others being Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York to abolish the imposition of the death penalty for future crimes For reasons that I will discuss below, I applaud Connecticut’s decision and hope that other states will also exercise proactive measures to join the abolitionist trend

First of all, I believe that states with de facto moratoriums on capital punishment, and states who rarely use the death penalty, should not wait for the Supreme Court to change its stance Based on previous cases, it is reasonable to conclude the Court does not seem very interested in making the death penalty unconstitutional For example, in Furman v Georgia (1972), the Court held that death penalty statutes in the United States constituted cruel and unusual punishment and, therefore, violated the eighth amendment to the Constitution applied to states through the 14th amendment

The Court in Furman focused on the fact that, at the time, death penalty statutes were so broad and ambiguous that they allowed jurors to consider factors irrelevant to the case e g race when sentencing a defendant to death As a result the mandate of Furman was the following: “Where discretion is afforded a sentencing body on a matter so grave as the determination of whether human life should be taken or spared, that discretion must be suitably directed and limited so as to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action ” (Gregg v Georgia)

Furman’s decision led to a national de facto moratorium on capital punishment that came to an end in 1976 when the Supreme Court assessed new death penalty statutes limiting the level of discretion given to sentencers In a series of cases known as the July 2nd Cases, the Court dismissed any possibility of considering that the death penalty in and of itself –– regardless of the circumstances –– violates the eighth and 14th amendments It did so by declaring constitutional several state statutes, the most prominent one being Georgia’s

In sum, the Supreme Court has made it clear that what violates the constitution is not the death penalty, but the manner in which it is determined and imposed As a consequence, litigation in cour ts has focused since 1976 on reforming, but not outlawing, capital punishment

However, if states who barely impose the death penalty and states with de facto moratoriums on capital punishment exercise proactive measures such as Connecticut

to ban the death penalty, the Supreme Court may change its tradition If the trend of abolition keeps its consistency, lawyers may eventually be able to convince the Court that under the evolving standards of decency implied in the eighth Amendment, capital punishment is cruel and unusual punishment under all conditions

Even though the death penalty is not the center of attention of most Americans

lawmakers should not ignore that this practice unjustly denies life a fundamental right to many of our citizens First, the adversarial component of our criminal justice system seriously harms capital defendants Since most defendants are individuals of low economic status, they do not have the resources to employ competent counsel

Capital defendants’ lawyers typically perform poorly from discovery one of the first but most important parts of a trial because it is the source of the case ’ s theory

Therefore, defendants are already doomed from the beginning of the proceedings

Although the sixth Amendment protects defendants from ineffective assistance of counsel, the truth is that the Court’s standards to determine an IAC claim are pretty

vague, creating room for arbitrary decisionmaking, such as discrimination

The vague “henious atrocious and cruel” (HAC) aggravating circumstance included in almost every death penalty statute is another example of the arbitrariness in capital punishment It is difficult to imagine a first-degree murder that will not fall within the HAC category And although the Supreme Court has created a standard limiting the discretion in HAC provisions, the fact is that these standards are also subject to numerous interpretations Another problem with the death penalty is the high level of discretion granted to judges and lawyers in the questioning of potential jurors or voir dire during the jury selection process Basically, judges have the power to allow any question that does not mention race in explicit terms Frequently, the prosecution makes questions that implicitly ask jurors about views on race and other controversial subjects As a result, the judge allows it the juror answers it and the prosecutor can then use a peremptory challenge to strike a juror that is sympathetic to the defendant without having to justify the action Finally, strong empirical evidence such as the one presented to but rejected by the Court in McCleskey v Kemp shows that race plays a central factor in whether a defendant is sentenced to death or not I believe in retribution In theory, I think that for the sake of justice we are compelled to punish people and make sure they get their just desserts I also believe that some crimes are so atrocious that the perpetrator deserves a punishment of death However, a retributionist’s ultimate goal is justice And, in practice, I am strongly convinced that capital punishment in the United States for the reasons mentioned above is extremely unfair More injustice results from this process than the “justice” done by executing an individual We must not forget the death penalty is qualitatively different from any other kind of punishment; it is irrevocable This is precisely why the Supreme Court created the concept of super due process for capital punishment proceedings But even under current super due process standards, there is room for arbitrary and capricious action There was before Furman, there still is, and if we do not take any proactive measures the future will not be an exception

Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at aortiz@cornellsun com I Respectfully Dissent appears alternate Fridays this semester

Vet S chool Surpri ses

Now that the school year is almost over which is something I won ’ t admit out loud, but writing it down seems okay I’ve been thinking of the things about vet school that have surprised me over the last years I thought brainstorming for this column would be a little like pulling teeth (why is that even still a saying? I hope my dentist doesn’t find it hard to pull out teeth, and I don’t remember it being par ticularly painful), but it turned out to be surprisingly easy

I ll star t with the things that relate directly to what we learn I feel like we ve learned how to make animals come alive metaphorically, at least for now – under our finger tips I pet my cat and I can picture what’s underneath all that fur or I look at my horse and have a much more complete understanding of how he moves Here’s a stor y to help this make sense for you When I was ver y young, someone told me how to differentiate male sparrows from female sparrows Ever since then, ever y time I saw a sparrow I would think in my head “male sparrow!” or “female sparrow!” but when I casually mentioned something about a male sparrow to a friend a little while ago she looked at me like I was crazy (If you ’ re curious, male sparrows are the ones with the pretty dark brown streaks on their heads) Vet school has made it so that when I look at an animal I see so much more than I used to

I’ve also been surprised at the amount and variety of animal contact we ’ ve had I didn’t ever really process that a vet school curriculum would include vaccinating llamas and trimming sheep hooves However, I’m incredibly grateful that we get the oppor tunity to do things like this, because it makes ever ything that much more real for me, and makes me star t to understand that one day I ll be the one directly responsible for the lives of other creatures Additionally, my friends in med school have to practice things on themselves I think vet school wins on that front (well, on all fronts, clearly, other wise I wouldn’t be here, but this is a good example), because as much as I love my classmates, I would much prefer not to practice sticking needles into them

WWhich brings me to the social aspect of vet school I’m used to the undergrad Cornell, which is so massive that you never expect to know even half the people in your classes, and even in the small seminar classes you almost never interact with each other outside of class I’m not complaining I loved the feeling of fitting into a niche as par t of something bigger, and I kne w what I was getting myself into Which makes the contrast with vet school Cornell even larger Almost ever yone in my class knows each other and we see each other often outside of school (on the rare occasions that “outside of school” exists) For tunately, the people are all fantastic I’m not saying that we re all best friends, but we all seem to respect e

well Although the upperclassmen say that by the end of the four years, the way y

changes pretty dramatically Hopefully that doesn’t happen to us I also wasn t expecting Ithaca itself to change for me as much as it has I ve only been to the ar ts quad once this year, and basically only go into Collegetown to meet friends who are still undergrads

Re

to tell people in Ithaca I was an undergrad at Cornell, the reaction was more “Oh Cornell ” On a more flippant note, I was surprised to find that I could be (almost) fully functional at 8 a m on a regular basis, to the point that sleeping in on the weekends means waking up at 9:30 And to think, I used to drag my feet to those 9:05 classes and absolutely refuse to take 8:40s Also, vet school has changed my wardrobe into a strange hybrid of flannel (comfy), fancy (when interacting with clients) and farm (when interacting with large animals) Seriously, though, in the beginning I would have told

Wegman’s trips My life is also considerably more dependent on my car than it ever used to be We drive ever ywhere to school, shopping, home, back to school again It feels a lot like living in suburbia and being in senior year of high school again

Speaking of Ithaca, I also feel like the general attitude of the community to the vet school is different from the attitude of the community to Cornell in general This one could be all in my head, but I’ve noticed when I tell people I’m in vet school they say, “Oh vet school! Cool!” Usually followed by “So I have a dog ” But when I used

you that I was going into the whole experience with no expectations Clearly I must have had some if so many things over the last year surprised me I would say that I was excited to see what second year has to bring, but that would only be a half tr uth because there’s a lot of learning and a set of exams before the summer time and I’ve heard that fall of second year is one of the hardest par ts of vet school So instead, I suppose I’ll say, I’m excited to see how the rest of vet school will continue to surprise me And that’s the tr uth

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

Clinical Genomics as W C MC

hat are you going to do if a student commits suicide after finding out they have the genetic marker for early onset Parkinson’s disease?

This is not a typical discussion between p ro f e s s o r s a n d u n i ve r s i t y p re s i d e n t s

However, a new class at the Tri-Institutional M D - Ph D p ro g r a m a t We i l l C o r n e l l

Me d i c a l C o l l e g e , Sl o a n - Ke t t e r i n g a n d Rockefeller University engendered such concerns In fall 2011, Dr Chris Mason, Cornell professor and head of the integrative functional genomics laborator y, envisioned a class for M D -Ph D students in clinical genomics Mason’s work focuses on developing the promises made over a decade ago during the Human Genome Project From the entire 3 1 million base pair genetic code, the field of clinical genomics seeks

to extrapolate not only expected reactions to drugs, but susceptibility to disease and predicted long-term health outcomes Mason proposed an unorthodox textbook for the class: the students would perform their class research on themselves by sequencing their full genome So how did this goal led to a flurr y of inter-institutional emails, meetings, invectives such as the one above and to an extent fear?

On a s u p e r f i c i a l l e ve l , p e r f o r m i n g genomic analyses of one ’ s own genome appealed to our scientific curiosity and perhaps, to our narcissism What could be more self-indulgent than gazing at your own reflection for 10 weeks, albeit genetically? Dr Olaf Andersen, the head of the Tr i - In s t i t u t i o n a l M D - Ph D p ro g r a m , concisely described the perils of genetic sequencing, saying, The chance of finding something as deleterious as early-onset

Pa rk i n s

extremely small Still, the chance is finite and non-zero and we have to be prepared for that possibility ”

Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately few genomic conditions are as strikingly b

Parkinson s disease Far more likely is that an analysis will reveal a 30-percent increased chance of heart disease or a 15-percent decreased chance of diabetes Mason contextualized, “Clinical genomics is all about probabilities, and nothing is set in stone ” Andersen countered by describing the concept of the “incidentalome;” essentially, ever yone is walking around with 100 or so mutations that according to current scientific literature, should have immediate phenotypic expression (e g congenital deaf-

What’s Up, Doc?

ness) but in reality, do not

Probabilistic correlations and the incidentalome highlight the work needed in clinical genomics From a clinical perspective, such in-depth genomic sequencing is akin to a whole body CT screen Some medical centers market this as a proactive way to stay healthy, by imaging the body in detail However, in reality, such screens either reveal nothing, giving a patient a possibly false sense of health, or reveal abnormalities that will eventually prove unremarkable but will induce multiple followup tests and associated costs and morbidities Andersen concluded, “ We simply do not have the infrastructure or knowledge in place to responsibly care for outcomes students may discover Clinical genomics is a powerful tool, but we must proceed cautiously

Mason discovered that the legal implica-

tions lagged even behind logistical considerations Administrators conferred with legal counsel at Cornell’s affiliate, NewYorkPresbyterian [??1] Hospital, and discovered that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has no provisions for this type of information Approval from the WCMC Institutional Review Board was also unnecessar y as full genome sequencing was not technically an experiment The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 also did not apply Ironically, such ambiguity both scientific and legal was a driving force behind sequencing students’ genomes As Mason explained, “the plan was to have students examine their own sequences and say, hey, I ve got an allele for taller than average height, but I can barely qualify to ride a rollercoaster Some of the gene interactions are beyond our current knowledge, there are environmental considerations as well and just as in Gattaca, your genetic code is not the final determinant of your life ” To gain more insight into the genetic counseling component, I spoke with Dr Jessica Davis, a professor and clinical geneticist at NYPH and the Hospital for Special Surger y Dr Davis cautioned, in teaching counseling it is important to not get swept away by the tech hype ” When asked to explain the expected role of the general physician, Dr Davis prognosticated that, “genetics will be part of ever ything,” but intense analysis will fall to the genetic counselor How many are in the United States and Canada? About two thousand For something that promises to become as ubiquitous as blood tests, two thousand trained professionals for a population of over 300 million highlights the discordance between expectations and logistics

Other universities are pushing for levels of genetic sequencing of students with var ying success Stanford University recently conducted a similar genomics class in which students were given single nucleotide polymorphism panels These are not as revealing as a full genome sequence but can identify known common gene variants The University of California at Berkeley, pre-

sumably not wanting to be outdone by their perennial cross-bay rivals, attempted to test the entire incoming freshman class for SNPs i n n u t

f California green-lighted the project but said that individual data could not be returned to students

WCMC are eager to develop a promising new technology while administrators seek protection from disruptive outcomes legal and other wise The M D -Ph D students are symbolic for the underlying argument Are the students in the clinical genomics class acting as researchers, clinicians or patients? This unique oppor tunity first enticed the students but also proved to be a frustrating conflict of interest

Mason stipulated that in order to conduct the full genome sequencing for students next year, “the concerns of administrators and institutions will have to be mollified But unfortunately there is always a chance that a student will discover a BRCA mutation [indicator of strong predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer] ” The bottom line is, “ more information is always a good thing It may be daunting, but that is exactly why we need to train scientists to properly interpret the data ”

Earlier this year two companies, Life Technologies and Oxford Nanopore both claimed to be able to sequence the entire human genome in less than a day for about $1000 With technology improving and costs decreasing, the question is if we as clinicians will utilize genomic sequencing, but when And will we possess the skill set to do so as competent physicians?

Hemingway timelessly replies, “ The shortest answer is to do the thing ” For $1,000 and with appropriate training and computing power, anyone can dig through their genome I may have found my graduation present

Daniel Rosen is a first-year M D -Ph D candidate at Weill Cornell Medical College He may be reached at dar2039@med cornell edu What’s Up Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

S w e d i s h S o u n d s o f S i l e n c e

BY MARTHA WYDYSH Sun Staff Writer

This Sunday, Cornell Cinema will host a special viewing of Terje Vigen (A Man There Was), presenting a unique live accompaniment by Swedish film composer and musician Matti Bye on amplified piano, glockenspiel and electronic instruments This 1917 film, directed by Victor Sjöström, marked the beginning of the golden age of Swedish silent film Based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen, it tells the story of an indigent sailor who tries to run the English blockade of Norway's southern coast in a small rowboat, desperately attempting to smuggle food back to his starving wife and daughter Terje Vigen is captured by a British commanding officer, and years later, when this same officer's family finds itself dependent on Terje, he must decide whether to be benevolent or to take bitter revenge

Matti Bye breathes new life into this film with his original score Bye’s music is distressing, full of the trepidation that Terje Vigen’ s stor y requires; he captures the colors of anguish in his hair-raising, ghostly melodies Bye is considered one of Sweden's most important composers of film scores as well as an extraordinary musician and improviser on the piano He is most popularly known for writing a series of avant-garde scores for such early Swedish silent film classics as he has so masterfully done in this film

The screening of Terje Vigen will also include the 15-minute film, The Birth of a Moving Image, a tribute to early filmmaking, directed and animated by David Giese The piece also featuring live accompaniment by Bye is a visual re-mastering of the oneminute film Danse Serpentine from 1900 by the Lumière brothers, using only material from the original 35mm reel

The Sun was lucky to have a chance to hear from the talented Matti Bye himself:

THE SUN: You have parents who were highly involved in the visual arts: a mother

who was an actress and a father who was a playwright What got you interested in music as your own medium for art?

MATTI BYE: I was a shy child, and perhaps music was a world in which I could be very much alone a hidden place But one thing is the same in all of these art forms: the drama! I think a lot of what composing film music is about entails drama and getting the right dramatic curve

sical background helped me to improvise directly from the films but later when they asked me to write music for small ensembles and record the music for DVDs, I became more and more of a film music composer

SUN: In Terje Vigen, you fill a large void that exists in a movie with no original score What are some challenges you met with this great responsibility? Do you think that adding

SUN: What made you want to write scores for classic, timeless Swedish silent films such as Phantom Carriage, Häxan and, of course, Terje Vigen? Is there something special about silent films that draws you to them?

M B : I love the time of early filmmaking because it was a time to explore and invent the language of storytelling in moving images Live music was always used to accompany films because there was no dialogue The story had to be explained through images and music This bestows a very challenging task onto a musician You get very involved, having to explain the story as a composer My first years accompanying silent films, I did only at the piano My clas-

music to these films changes their character?

M B : The beautiful thing about music for silent films is that you can add psychological levels that you don’t recognize in the images Maybe this is only my interpretation of the stor y and the characters in it, but I have the freedom to do this This is what makes this ar t form so exciting and vivid

SUN: Can you describe the composition process for your film scores?

M B : I watch the film over and over I read the novel I try to empathize with the characters, almost like an actor getting a new role in a play Instrumentation is also very important, as this is what sets the color

SUN: It has been said that your work is concerned with the tension which exists between moving image, sound and music, taking the viewer on a unique and lyrical journey of the world of dreams and illusions through a multi-sensorial experience of storytelling This is especially perceptible in Terje Vigen What do you have to say about this special bond of music to the story?

M B : Music sometimes embodies the feelings we experience when we react to images, and it can open up the imaginative subconscious I personally love when I get involved in an artistic experience an exhibition or a concert, when there is room for me, a space where my creativity can be part of the artist’s work I want this phenomenon to happen for my audience when I perform my film concerts I hope I create moods and hidden places where the spectator can be a part of this experience

SUN: I found the score of Terje Vigen to be powerfully suspenseful and foreboding How do you choose what feelings to bring out in each moment of the films you score?

M B : I want to bring sounds to the story that help the audience to participate in this very special moment we create together Everyone has their own experience of the film, and in this way you can truly call it a gesamtkunstwerk [German for “ an allembracing art form”]

SUN: You also enjoy performing piano in the form of improvisation What do you feel is the biggest difference between this type of impromptu performance and composing?

M B : When I compose, there is time for reflection In improvisation, I have the feeling of absolute transience in the moment I never perform in the same way two times; it is always different depending on the film, audience, place and mood I’m in during this very special event

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A Cabin Worth the Nightmares

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Staff Writer

“You think you know the story ” Braced for some bad plot twists, eerie dramatic music and the twitching impulse to cover my eyes, I approached The Cabin in the Woods ready for a scary movie

I am not much of a scary movie buff Horror movies, with their endless chainsaws, blood and torture chambers they’re not my thing That being said, The Cabin in the Woods defies these conventions, going so far as to being one of the most entertaining movies I have seen in a long time Never fear, horror fans, Cabin is not lacking in blood, gore or torture chambers It still comes with your standard slutty co-eds and jocks with bodies that can ’ t exist outside of Hollister ads But as far as I know, a horror movie plot has never been done quite this way before The movie begins in an office building The camera follows what appear to be two egotistical middleaged researchers They are working at some corporation in fierce competition with another in Japan But before we have a chance to figure out what these people are doing and why they are even relevant, we are forwarded to our five co-eds

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They are getting ready to go on a trip to you guessed it a cabin in the woods Screenwriter Joss Whedon’s affection for Scooby Doo-esque gangs isn’t lost here We have our attractive, athletic Fred and Daphne couple Of course our Fred by the name of Cur t (Chris Hemsworth) is our gang captain There’s the nerdy girl (Kristin Connolly) as well as our classic stoner boy (Fran Kranz) There is no dog to replace Scooby, but Jesse Williams does look a lot like Lil Bow Wow

The gang gets on their way and everything seems normal enough They have a keg, they’re making painfully corny jokes, there’s a creepy guy at a gas station who might as well be holding a sign saying “You’re Gonna Die!” life is good But as time goes on, little things like a bird vaporizing in a force field, an earpiece-wearing man on their roof, the flipping back and forth to the “research” company all leave us wondering: What is really happening?

The clues we get along the way, and the more-than-obvious hints before someone gets killed, should make this movie pretty benign But if anything it feels like this movie takes advantage of our pauses for comedic relief and scares us just the same

I am dying to review this in more depth seriously my fingers are twitching, but I care too much about all of you too much to spoil it Part of the beauty of this movie is that when you go in, you think you know the story Even when

you get more and more information the plot seems pretty predictable But two-thirds of the way through, you’ll be thrown a curve ball and think, “Damn, good thing Arielle didn’t spoil this for me She’s awesome!”

So instead I will say this: you don’t have to be a scary movie fan to like this film If you enjoy Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Men in Black movies, sci-fi or simply the craftiness of cinema, this movie is for you Only Joss Whedon could ve taken the horror/sci-fi genre and mocked it with such self-awareness and still invest in each story strand so deeply Director and co-writer Dre w Goddard and Whedon attack and scare you, but also give you your sweet revenge

Arielle Cruz is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at amc465@cornell edu

BY JULIA MOSER Sun Staff Writer

When Titanic was released back in December of 1997, I was four years old I did not see it until two or three years later, on a tiny little television set with a VHS player, tucked in a cabin surrounded by the relative solitude of Upstate New York I remember lying stomach-down on my grandparents’ bed, surrounded by six of my cousins and my sister, upset none of them wanted to watch Scooby Doo and the Witch’s Ghost with me While the details of that first viewing escape me, I do recall a somewhat awkward conversation with my mother the following day about why the redheaded lady took her clothes off for the greasy-haired man

One long night in the last intervening 12 years, I saw Titanic again, but I’m guessing that took place sometime in the early 2000s When I watched it this weekend in 3D, several things surprised me

The running time: this film is 195 minutes long Three hours, 15 minutes That is three hours, 15 minutes I could have spent catching up on my Russian homework or reading The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Instead, I spent three hours, 15 minutes being force-fed a fictional history about a true event in which 1,514 people tragically died I had a flashback to the time I was forced to see another James Cameron film, Avatar, and how after about an hour I looked down at my watch only to have the friend I was seeing it with tell me we had another two to go

Besides the length of Titanic, I was shocked by how unbe-

Ilievably cheesy the plot was It s a good thing I m an excellent eye-roller, because that was what I was doing during the majority of the movie I wanted to die in my seat when Leonardo DiCaprio asked Kate Winslet where she wanted to go and she responded, “To the stars, ” as she stared longingly into his eyes

The other main sensation I experienced during Titanic was the feeling of being hit over the head with a club while James Cameron yelled at me, “Class discrimination! Treatment of women! The hubris of humans thinking they can conquer nature!” Not that I disagree with the points that Cameron bombarded me with, but again, my eye-rolling skills came in handy And I know that many have brought up this point, but Leonardo DiCaprio did not have to die! They both could have easily fit onto the door I just don’t understand The whole re-release of Titanic in 3D kind of offends me Well, 3D kind of offends me As a lucky winner in the 20/20 vision genetic lottery, I hate the feeling of glasses resting on the bridge of my nose (especially for three hours) But I just don’t quite understand the point of Titanic in 3D It really only makes sense during the scene when the boat hits the iceberg So for those first two hours I had to see Leonardo DiCaprio’s greasy hair in 3D (which I don’t even really want to see in 2D) and Kathy Bates’ hats in 3D again, not really worth it

And if I’m not mistaken, it was James Cameron himself who made such a fuss three years ago about how wonderful he was for shooting Avatar in 3D, and how only posers shoot something in 2D and then convert it into 3D later Now James Cameron is all like “LOLJK I want to build another

Reefer Madness

n 1971, a group of students at San Rafael High School in California began congregating around the statue of dairy demigod Louis Pasteur at 4:20 p m each day to smoke cannabis and search for an abandoned crop of illegally grown plants They never found it, but 4/20 became a countercultural rallying cry for smokers everywhere

4/20 has become to pot smokers what St Patrick’s Day is for drinkers the same absurdity Today, the University of Colorado at Boulder plans to shut down its entire campus to prevent the yearly congregation of 10,000 people (and ~30,000 joints) on Norlin Quad, a hazy space equivalent to the Arts Quad here at Cornell

In Colorado, Amendment 64: The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012, seeks to enact a more sensible policy The CDC pins the number of alcohol-induced deaths in 2009 at 24,518, excluding accidents and homicides Why are there much stricter policies for cannabis as a drug, despite its relative safety?

Remember that picture of President Obama in a straw hat smoking a joint? Last week at the Sixth Summit of the Americas, Mr Obama said, I know there are frustrations [with the War on Drugs] and that some call for legalization the United States will not be going in this direction ”

Legalizing all drugs may not be the best policy, but perhaps the legalization of cannabis would be something more akin to the “middle ground” sought by presidents Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala

Pledging to reduce the “southbound flow of money and guns to the region” looks great on paper, but so far the United States' actions have been focused on the supply-side Did they sleep through Economics 1101? The Mérida Initiative provides money and guns to the region; cartel

profits still rise, and nothing changes

While the profile of your average cannabis user has changed, the image has not Look at the way Michael Phelps was demonized after pictures of him ripping a bong [like a champ] surfaced on the Internet and became an international scandal The man won eight gold medals! Cannabis is not exactly performance enhancing, but it helps with eating 10,000 Calories a day and sleeping, though

All forms of media are responsible for perpetuating a number of stereotypes about “ stoners ” that are entirely false That engineer next to you in your Fluid Dynamics prelim could be blazed out of his mind How about the Above the Influence commercial with the talking dog? These media campaigns receive support from tobacco and alcohol companies, Phillip Morris and Anheuser-Busch for example The pharmaceutical industry still funds Partnership for a DrugFree America, which is just as absurd as it reads Today, Ritalin, Klonopin and Oxycontin are commonplace These are not harmless drugs by any means Yet cannabis is still a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (1970), which means that it has a “high potential for abuse” and no medical use While a good portion of medical marijuana patients may not have a medical need, the American Medical Association reversed its stance on marijuana in 2009 and encouraged the government to pursue cannabis research So why Schedule I?

Those who profit from the illegality of cannabis are satisfied with the status quo It’s like Weeds on Showtime I hate this show, and I’m not a hater The producers of this show have made a lot of money exploiting the image of weed and juxtaposing it with a lot of half-naked MaryLouise Parker I’m not sure most people understand that Weeds is just a rehashing of 1930s Reefer Madness sensationalism, when cannabis and hemp became an issue for those who sold competing goods

house (Yes, that is my James Cameron impression )

The Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912, so the film was rereleased as a centennial celebration of the deaths of 1,514 people? I can only assume that’s why this is happening now When most of us think back on our experience of watching Titanic, we don’t think about those 1,514 individuals We think about Jack and Rose Jack and Rose never existed, and I fail to see (or feel) why their story is so much more monumental than the actual dramas experienced by 3,000 people I remember Titanic as being a film that changed people’s lives It was this unbelievable, larger-than-life experience that taught a generation to seize each and every moment, to run around screaming, I m the king of the world! Re-watching it this weekend, I am confused It’s just not a very good movie

And I don’t think my apathy towards this film is related to it being a romance I love romantic films, in general, but the problem here is that I feel no sympathy towards either Jack or Rose They’re both just kind of annoying and whiny (and this is before they have a real reason to be) Jack is a creep He falls in love with her (by the way she is supposed to be 17) after knowing her for a couple of hours (including a really poignant moment in which he teaches her how to spit) He also ignores her when she tells him to leave (when I took self-defense as a PE in high school, we called this “disregarding no ) Rose also is kind of a spoiled brat In one scene, her mother explains to her why running off with Jack is a selfish thing to do, and then she does exactly that But, alas, they are on a boat, so there’s really no place to

Julia Moser is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun com

ZANDER ABRANOWICZ 14 / SUN STAFF SMOKER

The stoner film genre isn’t any better However, that should not prevent you from enjoying a wonderful Friday with your close friends watching a good movie (The Big Lebowski is my personal favorite) and not thinking about issues like laws regarding cannabis To quote Chris Tucker in Friday, “I know you don’t smoke weed, I know this; but I’m gonna get you high today, ‘ cause it’s Friday; you ain't got no job and you ain’t got shit to do ”

Prof Carl Sagan said it best in a piece he wrote the same year those Californians coined the term 4/20: “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world ” It is unreasonable to expect change from the couch To blindly continue with unsuccessful policy is the real fog of reefer madness

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

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The Red lightweight rowing team will also be competing this weekend against MIT and Columbia in the Geiger Cup The race, which will take place in Cambridge, Mass , has been in place for over 50 years, according to head coach Chris Kerber

“It’s pretty much been the same for over 50 years, and that’s pretty exciting,” he said “Its pretty exciting for myself in my fourth season and it’s pretty exciting for the guys to race people they may know ”

Kerber’s expectations for the races this weekend similar to those of last weekend’s races, include plans for team improvement

We’re looking to get better on the water, optimize our race plan and even hone our skills and that’s happening on a weekby-week basis,” Kerber said “Each week is concluded by one of these races We take each week at a time ”

According to Kerber, the Red will be battling a headwind on the Charles River A headwind spreads out the competition and could therefore effect the results He said that the Red has adjusted race plans accordingly

We re racing some crews that are highly ranked in our league,” Kerber said “That also helps us adjust and modify to have focuses down on the course ”

This year ’ s lightweight team is led by a very strong senior class and an advanced sophomore class, which creates a competitive environment According to Kerber, the challenges provided from the younger team members really push the older members

In a similarly structured competition last Saturday against Princeton and Yale, the Red performed very well In the morning, it crushed Princeton, but was defeated in the afternoon by Yale

“Each one of these times down the course is an opportunity for us to put forth our best and then kind of study it and analyze it and make it better each week,” Kerber said

Tina Ahmadi can be reached at tahmadi@cornellsun com

Women’s Rowing Looks to Win Its First Ever Dunn Bowl Against Brown

Coming off a second place finish at the UVA Invitational, the No 16 women ’ s rowing team will host No 10 Brown and No 1 8 C o

Saturday on the Cayuga Inlet

The race will begin at 8:35 a m , as the Red looks to win its first ever Dunn Bowl in the varsity eight race The Cornell and Brown regatta is one of the oldest in the Ivy League, but in 1933, then-head coach John Dunn decided the race needed its own bowl

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taken the trophy ever y year However, since 2000, when Columbia star ted to compete in the race as well, the Red has come in second place five times

For the six seniors on the varsity eight squad, the Dunn bowl marks the last time they will row in Ithaca The team ’ s last regular season race of the season will be in Hanover, N H against Dar tmouth, before the squad heads to Camden, N J for the long-awaited Ivy League Championships

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Last Stand for S quad at Ivies

she said

Kenny has also had the oppor tunity to ride at Ivies ever y year

Women’s Lacrosse

Finishes Off Conference Play Against Yale

After defeating a tough No 11 Loyola team last weekend the women ’ s lacrosse team lost to Syracuse, 16-9, in a midweek

On Saturday, the Red will resume Ivy play on senior day with its final game of the regular season on Schoellkopf Field T

League) looks to secure a spot in the Ivy League tournament with a win over Yale (5-8, 2-4) The Bulldogs are coming off

against Brown and Columbia, although they have not defeated a ranked opponent yet this season Yale is led on offense by

Crow, who has 29 goals and 11 assists on the year Goaltender Erin McMullan has a 10 63 goals against average In 33 total meetings between the two teams, Yale has been

matchups Last season, Cornell won big 14-3 thanks to a 13-0 r un in the middle of the game led by four goals from senior attack Jessi Steinberg and three f

Shannon McHugh

Although a win on Saturday will put the Red in a good position in the conference, it will

seniors, who will be

Schoellkopf Field The seniors’ accomplishments in their four years include leading the team

and upsetting No

Florida, 96, last year

A win on Saturday would keep the Red at least tied for third in the conference heading

weekend of Ivy League play, when the team will face Brown

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“It’ll be a nice end of the year end of the season send-off,” said senior co-captain Katie Fink

Cornell is typically a strong competitor at Ivies The Red has placed second in the show for

t h e p a s t t w o ye a r s b e h i n d Da r t m o u t h a n d Brown, according to Kowalchik When it comes to horseback riding, the Green and the Bears are the squad s toughest competitors in the Ivy League Currently, Cornell and Brown are tied for the most Ivy wins

“I’m always excited for Ivies because we ’ ve won it six times now and if we win it this year

we’ll have won it the most out of ever yone, ” said head coach Chris Mitchell

The Red is determined to beat the Bears and bring the Ivy Cup back to Ithaca, but the competition will be stiff Unlike Cornell, Brown will be moving on to nationals as a team this year, according to Mitchell

“I think we re all pretty evenly matched I t h i n k C o r n e l l a n d B r o w n a r e a l i t t l e b i t [stronger] than Dar tmouth this year, ” he said

The members of the Ivy League take turns hosting this exclusive competition Last year, the Iv y S h o w t o o k p l a c e a t C o r n e l l ’ s O x l e y Equestrian Center This year the competition is being hosted by Yale and Columbia at a private facility in Bethany, Connecticut, according to Mitchell While Yale rides at the facility regularly most of the riders who will be competing on Sunday are not familiar with it

“It’s kind of neat to go to a place that’s almost that neutral,” Mitchell said

Another unique feature of the Ivy Show is that the squad is able to bring more riders than it can bring to a regular season horse show

The majority of the team that s been showing all year is showing at Ivies,” Kowalchik said

For most of the seniors, the Ivy Show will be their last one with Cornell Only Bronwyn Scrivens, who qualified for nationals, will have the oppor tunity to show again this season as a senior For senior Melissa Kenny, the Ivy Show has been a significant par t of her career with the Red It was the first show she was able to compete in as a freshman, as well as the first she competed in over fences

“It’s been kind of the ‘show of firsts’ for me, ”

It s been a really cool oppor tunity to be able to go to all the Ivies,” she said

Additionally, the Ivy Show is a unique opportunity since only the eight members of the Ivy League are able to par ticipate

“It’s another show that we get to do that 99% of the teams in the IHSA don’t get to have so it’s definitely a cool oppor tunity,” Kowalchik said

Senior Caroline Rusk will also be competing with the Red for the last time at Ivies She recently qualified to move into the open division and will be competing in open fences for the first time Rusk was also named an MVP at the team ’ s end-of-year banquet

“I’m a little ner vous because the bar will be raised a little bit [and] the level of competition will be higher,” she said

According to Kenny, even though the last show will be tough for the seniors they are still looking for ward to Sunday’s competition

“I hope to do really well,” she said “It’s my last show and after having been on the team for four years it’s kind of bittersweet because I’m really excited to be able to show and be able to compete but it’s also going to be my last show ”

The show will be a good way to round off the season

“It’s a really nice way to bring ever yone together It almost feels like a showcase in some ways because we re kind of showing how far each of us has come, ” Rusk said

Coming off of a successful regular season, the team is confident in its ability to per form well at the Ivy Show

“ We had a ver y solid season this year so I think that will be reflected in our turnout at Ivies,” Fink said

The squad hopes that its hard work all season long will come together at the competition

“ We’re definitely as prepared as we ’ re going to be because we had stepped up the practices for regionals and zones, Kowalchik said

“I expect my girls to give me ever ything they’ve got as they’ve been doing all year, ” said Mitchell

Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun com

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game, ” Donovan said “You can throw records out the window ” Led by senior attackman Parker Brown, who has notched 27 points on the season, the Bears currently sit in fifth place in the conference and will be desperate for a win as they look to snatch the fourth and f i n a l s p o t i n t h e Iv y L e a g u e Tournament On the field, big contributions are coming from sophomore attackman Sam Huster, who has racked up 21 goals so far, and freshman attackman Nick Piroli, who has tallied 18 While Brown has had its strong moments, the team has suffered several blowouts this season, leaving the squad with an average of nine goals per game while giving up an average 10 goals per game “ They have a pretty balanced o f f e n s e , ” Mc Mi c h a e l s a i d

“Defensively they’re pretty typical They have a slower-paced offense that we might be able to take advantage of ” Look for Cornell to tr y and jump out to a quick lead as it tries to crush the Bears’ spirits early on

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Iv y League play as it moves into its final regular season weekend – an away weekend at fellow Ivy League leader Princeton However, don’t expect the Red to look past the Bears, a team that has proven dangerous this season – just ask Duke or Yale what Brown is capable of –and will be hungr y to tr y and gain a p o s i t i o n i n t h e Iv y L e a g u e Tournament by bringing an end to C o r n e l l’s 1 6 - g a m e h o m e w i nstreak, the longest in the nation, on senior day

“It’s an Ivy League opponent, ” Donovan said “ With it being senior day – it’s going to be the last time the seniors get to play on Schoellkopf in the regular season –that’s probably going to play a pretty big role and I think you ’ re going to see more of the same from the seniors who have been so instrumental in our season thus far ” “ We’re just looking at it as the n e x t g a m e o n o u r s c h e d u l e , ” McMichael said

Zach Waller can be reached at zwaller@cornellsun com

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Red Hosts Brown in Last Home Game

By ZACH WALLER

Staff Wr

After a well-deserved weekend off, the Cornell men ’ s lacrosse team will get back into things this weekend when it squares off against Ivy foe Brown The Bears make the long trip from Providence, R I for a 3 p m senior day faceoff on Saturday at Schoellkopf Field

After trouncing the No 14 Syracuse Orange last Tuesday by a score of 12-6, the No 3 Red (9-1, 4-0 Ivy League) took a long-awaited weekend break as it prepared for its final regular season home game While the Red should enter the game refreshed and ready to finish out the season strong, the Bears (5-7, 1-3), will enter tomorrow s contest riding a wave of success it hasn’t experienced all season The Bears recently took down Penn and Providence and took Yale to four overtimes in what ultimately ended up in a loss, 11-10, all in the last two weeks

“There was a little bit of frustration before the Syracuse game, ” said senior midfielder Mitch McMichael “We just weren ’ t playing up to our potential I think the guys are a little more relaxed after the

Syracuse game We re still just as focused, we re still not content with how we ’ ve played I think it was a good stepping stone in the right direction to get a pretty decent game against Syracuse I think we re going to build off of that momentum gained from the Syracuse game and bring it into the Brown game, ” said freshman attackman and four-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week Matt Donovan “It’s a whole new opponent and we ’ ve got to focus that way ” While Brown’s record may not be impressive, what is impressive is how well it has been able to hang in with some of the big names in college lacrosse, most notably No 5 Duke, who narrowly escaped the Bears in Durham, N C , fending off a late Brown rally to sneak out a close 9-8 victory In the Ivy League the Bears have been just as competitive, holding every Ancient Eight opponent to within one goal with the exception of No 13 Princeton who shellacked the Bears 13-2, back on March 31st

“It’s going to a tough game it’s an Ivy League

By TINA AHMADI Sun Staff Wr ter

The men s heavyweight rowing team is geared up to compete with Princeton and Yale in the Carnegie Cup this weekend in Ithaca The Carnegie Cup varsity races described by head coach Todd Kennett ’91 as one of the oldest races in which the Red competes were started by Andrew Carnegie’s wife

Both Kennett and senior co-captain Jim Voter have high expectations for the race According to Voter although Princeton and Yale are two of the top teams in the league, the Red can compete in terms of ranking and ability

“We’re anticipating a really close race, ” Voter said

According to Kennett, the Red has some rowers who are very strong and some who are really adept in the boat The Red has long-term plans for increasing boat speed, which include focusing on individ-

S quad Prepares for Ivy Show on Sunday

Although the Red may not have made it to nationals this year, there is still one final show left for the team this season The Ivy Show is an extra invitational held annually for the eight Ivy League universities The stand-alone competition has no bearing on the squad s overall season, so it allows the riders to compete together one last time in a more fun, less pressure-filled environment

“This is basically just one last time for us to compete as a team this year, said junior co-captain Emily Kowalchik “We re not trying to qualify for anything anymore; this is just a time to enjoy showing as a team ”

ual improvements

“Everyone’s going to have to do what they re good at really well and attack their weaknesses,” he said “We’re capable of producing some good boat speed ”

Kennett said that the cup this weekend would be a good measurement for the future

“If we do well, we can say okay, this is a great performance,” Kennett said “If not, we ve got to go back to the blackboard and change what we ’ re doing to find the speed to win the league I’m happy with the work the guys have been doing, and it’s important we have a maximal effort because it’s our last race for three weeks ” The Red is coming off some success from last weekend against Syracuse and the Naval Academy According to Voter, the team came in second place to the Naval Academy by just a few feet

Kennett said that it was a pretty tough race and that the Red had raced against the Naval academy for three consecutive week-

ends now

According to Kennett, the team has been thinking of scenarios and potential courses to maximize its boat speed

“In rowing you have very little contact with the other boat,” Kennett said “As long as you keep your focus in it, that s what it’s about It’s about how much boat speed you can create ”

According to Voter, the race should attract a decent crowd, especially since the Boatyard Grill will be open for breakfast during the races

“It’s more than just being a good race against two of our rivals in the Ivy League,” Voter said “It’s also a home race for us, and for the four seniors in the boat it’s their last home racing during their time here It’s a chance to bring a win in front of our home fans, and we ’ re going in with a little bit of a mental edge in that aspect as we hope to bring home the Carnegie Cup