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Thousands of Cornellians may face higher debt loads if a bill that supports subsidized Stafford loans expires on July 1, which will cause interest rates on the loans to double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. In the 2010 - 11 academic year, 3,340 undergraduates at Cornell received subsidized Stafford loans — need-based loans on which the government pays interest while students are enrolled in college. If Congress does not intervene, all loans taken out after July 1 will carry an interest rate of 6.8 percent, which will cost students repaying their loans after graduating from Cornell about $1,000 per loan, according to Prof. Steven Kyle, applied economics and management. To prevent the interest rate from increasing for one year — which will cost approximately $6 billion — Congress must create and pass a new law by July 1. The House will vote Friday on a Republican bill that would keep interest rates at 3.4 percent for one year by cutting money from President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. Democrats in the Senate hope to advance their own plan, which would keep the interest rates at current levels by increasing payroll taxes for some corporations. Financial aid advocates — including Cornell students and staff — have been fighting the interest rate increase for months. President Barack Obama gave speeches at colleges in Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina pushing Congress to keep the interest rate of the subsidized Stafford loans low, while 11 Cornellians went to Washington, D.C., to lobby members of Congress to support student aid, The Sun reported in March. Adam Raveret ’12, one student who travelled to D.C. on the trip, said that he “can only think of negatives to doubling the interest rate.” “It will make college unaffordable for low-income [students], which I think is a shame,” he said. Raveret said that the federal government should invest in educaSee LOANS page 4
Gateway to the future | Professors say they look forward to increased collaboration with each other when Gates Hall is complete.
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Denice Cassaro is pied in the face by Steven Hyde ’14, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, during its “AEPi Off” at the Israel Day celebration outside Anabel Taylor Hall on Thursday.
AAP Boosts Graduation Rate By KAITLYN KWAN Sun Staff Writer
After just 66.7 percent of the students entering Cornell graduated from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 2003 — the lowest rate for all colleges that year — AAP took several measures to improve its graduation rate. Of students entering Cornell in 2005, the most recent year for which numbers are available, 93 percent graduated from the college in six years. Many of the changes were made to the graduaCOURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY
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Since ground broke on Gates Hall in March, professors said they are eagerly awaiting the new $60 million computing and information sciences building, which they hope will promote greater collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science and Information
Science. “I think everyone is super excited; we’re watching the hall as it goes up out of our windows,” Prof. Eva Tardos, computer science, said. Computer science professors said they are looking forward to the completion of Gates Hall because they will have See GATES HALL page 5
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S.A. Decries Proposal To Change Calendar
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tion requirements of the college’s five-year Bachelor of Architecture program, to which AAP Dean Kent Kleinman attributed AAP’s low graduation rate. For instance, Carly Dean ’13, an architecture major, said approximately 10 people in her 60-person first year class transferred into another college. To help increase the graduation rate of architecture students, Kleinman said that he adjusted requirements for students’ mandatory thesis in 2009, so students would be more likely to graduate
As the Calendar Committee prepares to present its proposed changes to the academic calendar to the Faculty Senate, the Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution Thursday decrying both the changes and the lack of student input in the discussion leading up to the recommendations. Thursday’s resolution slammed the committee’s proposal on the basis that it did not adequately take into account student opinion. “[This resolution] shows our displeasure with the way the Calendar Committee is
moving,” Block said. “We felt they hadn’t done a good job at finding student input.” Overriding the disapproval of its undergraduate members — S.A. President Natalie Raps ’12 and Geoffrey Block ’14, at-large representative for the S.A. — the Calendar Committee recently passed a number of changes that it will present to the Faculty Senate for approval on May 9. These changes include the addition of two vacation days in February; condensing exam study period from seven days to four and exam week from eight days to six; shortening Senior Week from seven days to See S.A. page 5
Racing to Victory
Cornell’s Baja SAE Racing Team claimed first place in an international competition against 88 other teams this weekend. | Page 3
Two Worlds Collide
Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo ’13, discussing the paradoxical combination of poverty and paradise in Rio de Janeiro, concludes that Rio’s shanty towns are integral to its culture. | Page 10
Arts Mayoral Picks
Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 tells all arts-related, from his favorite music event in Ithaca to who he would cast to play himself in a biopic. | Page 11
Sports Gearing Up
The Cornell football team is set to play in its first scrimmage of the season this Saturday at Schoellkopf Field. | Page 20
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Racing Team Wins Single Car Event
By NIKKI LEE Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell Baja SAE Racing Team’s off-road, singleseat race car snagged first place last weekend in an international competition against 88 other teams. Twenty-eight members of the team traveled to Auburn University in Alabama April 19 to race their latest vehicle, “the ML08,” named for Prof. Michael Louge, mechanical and aerospace engineering and the team’s advisor. In addition to winning first place overall, the team took home third in overall design, first in suspension and traction, second in hill climb, second in acceleration and fourth in endurance. “We worked for it, for sure,” said team member Andrew Otto ’12. “It was one of those years where we did everything we could to make that happen.” Still, he added, “I don’t like to let my ego inflate. I try not to let that happen.” The team has been steadily improving since its inception eight years ago, according to team leader Brian Toth ’12. The weekend victory marked the team’s second first-place finish in competition, while its last six cars have placed in the top 10, he said. The team, which designs a new race car every year, is responsible for all aspects of designing, building, testing and even financing the project. Toth said that the team brainstorms over the summer, with preliminary and final design reviews occurring in the fall. Then, in January, the team spends a few weeks before the start of spring semester constructing the car, leaving a few months leading up to competition to test and fine-tune the vehicle. The team leader Matt Polnerow ’12 added that the ML08 is the product of a culmination of what he and fellow seniors have learned since freshman year. “We really took a step back and analyzed every little bit of our car,” Polnerow said. “Things that had carried over from years past and had worked, so we just kept using them. We actually took a step back … and often found out that they weren’t the best things for the application and redesigned our own.”
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The Baja men | A member of the Cornell Baja SAE Racing Team zooms in the vehicle built for this year’s competition at Auburn University this past weekend.
Toth added that while the car often undergoes major changes from year to year, this year’s model in particular was essentially built “from the ground up.” “This year … the only thing that was similar was the seat,” Toth said. According to Polnerow, the team ultimately fulfilled many of the goals it set at the beginning of the academic year to improve the overall performance of its car. For instance, with an emphasis on simplicity, team members shed more than 80 pounds from the vehicle compared to the previous model, he said. “It was definitely the simplest car we’ve ever made. We cut out a lot of the extraneous bits,” Polnerow said. According to Polnerow, the terrain has logs, rocks, jumps, tree stumps, giant ruts and holes. The course is “designed to break your car,” he said. He added that driving through the course also requires skill, due to inevitable contact between drivers who, in striving to pass one another, are likely to hit
each other in the process. “It’s definitely not your road trip family Sedan,” Polnerow said. The senior members of the team are usually the ones who race the car at competitions. Other times, team members are chosen to race based on the event in question; for example, the lightest driver will compete in an event that tests the car’s acceleration capacity. Polnerow was one of three drivers who participated in the fourhour endurance race last weekend. In June, Otto, Toth and Polnerow, who joined Baja SAE as freshmen because of their “love of cars and building things,” will participate in their second competition this year — and their last competition at Cornell. “Driving is the [most fun] thing I’ve done in college,” Polnerow said. Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun.com.
Community Gathers for Opening of Educational Garden By ROMMIA WHITE Sun Contributor
Members of the Cornell community gathered outside the Plant Science building Thursday for the opening of Cornell Garden-Based Learning’s first demonstration garden — a project aimed at teaching students how to grow and care for vegetable crops. A division of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell Garden-Based Learning seeks to promote ecological gardening by planting different varieties of vegetable, herb and flower seeds and implementing techniques to improve soil health. The garden is one of 20 created statewide for the Vegetable Variety Trial, a project
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lead by Steve Gabriel, an extension program aide in the Department of Horticulture. The project seeks to teach students and community members about the variety of plants and techniques available to gardeners operating on a small scale. “We decided this year to initiate a statewide demonstration of two things,” Gabriel said. “One is to just raise awareness that there’s actually different varieties of vegetables out there, and the other part is the ecological garden, which uses different techniques to promote soil health in the garden … So we’re kind of mixing the two in this demonstration.” According to Gabriel, home gardening is not always about producing the highest quantity of vegetables possible. It is also about appreciating the experience of grow-
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Graduate students compete in the “Battle of The Brews” in the Johnson School Atrium on Thursday. Students sampled each team’s homebrews and voted on their favorite.
ing a garden, he said. student assistant for the project. “We pro“For a home gardener, growing a white vide materials to teachers and educators that carrot can be more exciting than growing a they can use to teach in their school garden, traditional orange one,” Gabriel said. community garden, start-up projects or According to Gabriel, the project grew even in their garden at home.” out of feedback from a statewide survey that Hands-on learning is central to both the was sent out to all cooperative extension educational programs offered by Cornell offices earlier this year. The results conclud- Garden-Based Learning and the work stued that Cornell Garden-Based Learning ini- dents involved in the program do, said Carla tiatives could Stoffel ’12, a student assisbenefit from “I think that doing something for tant for the project. implementing “I hope people get more hands-on the environment is good for more aware of how fun work in their peace of mind.” gardening can be and how programs. important it is to do out“We do a lot Carla Stoffel ’12 door activities and how of education you don’t always need to and a lot of be indoors all the time classes, but we’re not necessarily demon- studying and doing homework,” Stoffel strating. People in offices really wanted to said. “You can take a break and be outside demonstrate something,” Gabriel said. no matter what the weather is, and I think Gabriel said that the demonstrations, that doing something for the environment conducted in small garden plots across the is good for peace of mind.” state, will also help expand Cornell GardenLeaders of the Garden-Based Learning Based Learning’s database, Vegetable initiative hope to target students and comVarieties for Gardeners. The database cur- munity members who may not have any rently holds 6,000 different vegetable vari- prior gardening knowledge. Stoffel, for eties. instance, said she was hired partially “We grew a bunch of the plants here and because of her lack of gardening experience. sent seeds out to all the extension offices, “They wanted a pair of eyes that was basically trying to coordinate efforts,” new to gardening so that I could assess the Gabriel said. “In future years, because fact sheets that they’re going to be publisheveryone will have the garden set up, we’ll ing,” Stoffel said. be able to coordinate further and do minor Leaders of the Vegetable Variety Trial research … This year is really just about get- hope to host events for the public in their ting things going.” garden throughout the summer. According Much of the organization’s initiative to Gabriel, the events will range from “how revolve around increasing general awareness to go from a lawn to a garden” to “yoga in about sustainable gardening, students the garden.” The group also plans on colinvolved in the project said. laborating with Dilmun Hill, Cornell’s stu“Garden-based learning educates kids dent-run organic farm. about gardening and getting closer to the environment by reflecting outside and Rommia White can be reached learning outside,” said Bella Harold ’15, a at rw427@cornell.edu.
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C.U. Increases Advising Services for AAP Students Univ.Fights for Student Loans AAP
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on time. While previously, students did not have a set due date for their thesis book — all the student’s final project materials — they now do. Kleinman hopes this change will help students finish their theses on time to graduate. Additionally, in an effort to increase support for students, the college created a new, college-wide advising group last year. According to Kleinman, the initiative encompasses academic advising, career services, diversity and inclusiveness and advising for the college’s study abroad programs in Rome and New York City. “This group offers coordinated support for AAP students in all degree tracks,” Kleinman said. “I don’t know if there will be a direct causal relationship between this unit and graduation rates, but I can state with confidence that we now have top-rate professional staff available to help AAP students manage very demanding courses of study.” Still, some students, reflecting on their experiences in AAP, said that the college’s low graduation rate stemmed from its heavy workload, which they said has led many — especially in the Department of Architecture — to transfer out of AAP into other colleges. Laura Filman ’12, a former architecture major, said she
transferred out of AAP because she was “essentially burnt out after three semesters, [as] the studio culture of the architecture major was extremely stressful.” Many other students who transferred out of AAP did so within their first semester or year of college, Filman said. According to Kleinman, the administration has tried to help incoming students understand and prepare for the difficulty of the college’s workload by briefing them on it during the admissions process. As a result, “my sense is that for those … students who choose Cornell to study architecture, the vast majority are passionately committed to the field,” Kleinman said. Many students said they were not necessarily prepared to decide what course of study they wanted to commit to when entering Cornell. “AAP asks incoming students to declare their interest and majors before they even start college, so basically you’re deciding as a 17-year-old what you’re going to be dedicating four or five years intensely on. I don’t think everyone knows what they want at that age,” said Karen Chi-Chi Lin ’13, an architecture student. Lin attributed the high rates of students transferring out of AAP to their desire to study other fields of interest — a phenomenon she said occurs in many colleges. “Some people realize they just
simply misunderstood their own interests before college and often transfer into something equally challenging but more in line with what they’re interested in,” Lin said. Others said that the restrictive course of study in the architecture program contributed to their decision to transfer out. Filman, who is now a computer science major, said that she transferred out of AAP because she missed taking classes that involved mathematical and logical problem-solving and wanted to expand her education beyond the given curriculum. “In architecture, it was hard to branch out and take a variety of other classes,” Filman said. “Getting a bachelor’s degree in architecture at any accredited design school takes a lot of commitment and passion, and most students that I know of in their late teens and early twenties are still looking to explore their interests.” However, Carly Dean ’13 said that she thinks that both AAP administrators and students help support students who are unsure they want to remain in AAP. “There’s a strong sense of camaraderie in studio, so when someone decides to transfer out, it’s sad, but they have a lot of support from faculty members and students during the decision-making process,” she said. Kaitlyn Kwan can be reached at kkwan@cornellsun.com.
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cation and not allow the interest rate on Stafford loans to rise. “Educating their citizens creates a better society and will better the country in general,” Raveret said. “I think that students deserve to have a lower interest rate ... I think that education is an equalizer. It makes the American Dream possible.” Karen LoParco, federal legislative associate in Cornell’s Office of Federal Government Relations, said that she also hopes Congress will act to prevent interest rates on Stafford loans from increasing. “We support a freeze on the current rate for Federal Stafford subsidized student loans, as long as offsets are not taken from other federal student aid programs to offset the cost of the freeze,” LoParco said in an email. Subsidized loans are a significant source of financial aid for students, especially if interest rates are low, according to Thomas Keane, director of financial aid for scholarships and policy analysis. While thousands of Cornellians use Stafford loans to help finance their education, Keane said that he does not think a rise in interest rates for the loans will deter students from attending Cornell. For instance, before 2007, the interest rate of Stafford loans was 6.8 percent — but Keane said that he did not notice students being deterred from applying to the University. “I think it speaks to the
strength that Cornell represents,” Keane said. Maintaining the interest rates of subsidized Stafford loans may also be important because other loans carry even higher interest rates. For instance, 2,200 undergraduates in the 2010-11 academic year used unsubsidized Stafford loans, which, unlike subsidized loans, are not need-based and charge a 6.8 percent interest rate. Some students at Cornell borrow at an even higher interest rate. The University’s institutional loans charge an eight percent interest rate, according to Keane. The additional $1,000 students will have to pay if their Stafford loan interest rates rise will also place a heavy burden on new graduates, Prof. Kyle said. “When you leave college, you’re just starting out, and that $1,000 is a big deal,” Kyle said. “[The rise in Stafford interest rates] will discourage people and make it hard for them. Bankruptcy laws today are very hard; you can’t get out from under a student loan.” Kyle said that cutting government spending through increasing interest rates — which decreases the amount of money that the government must spend on student loans — is not the right course of action for the economy. Instead, Kyle said, the government should follow an expansionary fiscal policy, or an increase in government spending. Margaret Yoder can be reached at myoder@cornellsun.com.
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Gates to Expand Lab Space S.A.: Students Not Heard by Calendar Comm. GATES HALL
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opportunity to share a building with information sciences faculty. “This is one of the most exciting things happening [for the computer science department],” Prof. Daisy Fan, computer science, said. Prof. Joe Halpern, chair of the Department of Computer Science, agreed with Fan, saying the new building will give the University “a chance for us to bring together computer science and information science together in one building.” “There’s something to be said for being in the same physical space,” he said. Because the two fields are currently housed in different buildings, Prof. Fred Schneider, computer science, said that “having been physically separated has made it harder for us to have really high levels of interaction with [the information science department].” For instance, Prof. Hakim Weatherspoon, computer science, noted that information sciences faculty are located on College Avenue, while computer science faculty are primarily housed on the Engineering Quad. Because many computer science courses are cross-listed, sometimes faculty have to hold office hours in both locations or use two different offices — in addition to handling other “minor inconveniences,” Weatherspoon said. With the new building, professors hope they will be less inconvenienced by the 10-minute trek from campus to Collegetown. Additionally, they said, they look forward to expansion of their building space. Schneider expressed his excitement over having “much more laboratory space” when Gates Hall is completed. Halpern, however, noted that while he looks forward to the expansion, “to be honest, we were hoping for more [space].” Construction has been “going well and on schedule,” according to John Keefe, facilities project manager for the University. According to Keefe, the con-
struction team is currently working on “shoring,” a process which involves installing the base foundations for the building and “a lot of digging.” “The target is for us to have construction finished in time for the computer science and information science departments to move in before the semester that starts January 2014,” Schneider said. According to Keefe, the building —which will be situated on Campus Road across from Barton Hall on the former site of the Grumman Squash Courts parking lot — will include a large auditorium and feature an exterior facade made almost entirely out of glass. The $60 million project will be financed by a $25 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the University received in 2006. Schneider expressed his belief that the gift represented Bill Gates’ desire for computer science to fully integrate itself into all academic disciplines. “[Gates] wants computing to get to the next phase, where it’s so important that it’s having significant impacts all over the academic scene, and Cornell was an obvious place where that value system was very strongly held,” Schneider said. Tardos also said she saw the potential for the computer science and information science departments to effect other areas of study. “I think Cornell has been a leader nationally and maybe internationally in having computer science integrated into other fields, especially communication and the social sciences,” she said. Additionally, professors hope, the new building will catch the eye of prospective students. “It’ll be a standout so when people come to visit, the first thing they see is the building they’ll be entering … This will attract [many] more people [to the University],” Weatherspoon said. Akane Otani contributed reporting to this article. Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun.com.
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three; and changing the Wednesday before Thanksgiving from a half day to a full day off. Slope Day will also moved from Friday to Wednesday. Both Block and Raps said their priority as committee members was to focus on student mental health. “What [the calendar changes] does is shorten exam period, study period, [and] Senior Week, in order to get two days in February,” Block said. “I didn’t think that was a good net benefit for students or mental health.” Gitlin said he hopes to form a “grassroots campaign” in which members of the S.A. and other student groups convene at the Faculty Senate meeting in May to protest the changes. Block added that he did not think the proposal was likely to pass in the Faculty Senate. “There were a lot of professors who didn’t understand the changes,” he said. “I’d be surprised if there [was] a lot of support in the Faculty Senate for this.” Given the rarity of alterations to the academic calendar –– which has not been changed since 1984 –– Raps emphasized the need to take time to arrive at a solution that would most benefit students. “There’s no saying that this will not be brought up again for another 30 years,” she said. “This is our one chance to have our voice heard.” Mueller said next year’s S.A. will continue the work started by Raps and Block. “I did want to point out that next year’s [S.A.] executive board will fully be supporting our efforts to improve mental health,” he said. “It is very important to us.” Both Raps and Block emphasized the need to improve dialogue on the topic among both students and administrators. “I don’t think that [Raps] and I want to end the conversation on the calendar right now,” Block said. “I think we can still have this discussion.” Diversity Debate
Also proposed at the meeting was a resolution created in response to the recent restructuring of the University Diversity Council and the subsequent announcement of new diversity initiatives by President Skorton on Feb. 16. The initiative, titled “Towards New Destinations,” creates four areas of focus –– composition, engagement, inclusion and achievement –– and allows individual colleges to prioritize these areas based on their individual needs. College deans and vice presidents are responsible for choosing five diversity initiatives specific to their departments’ needs and taking action to meet these goals. The S.A. resolution –– spearheaded by Nate Treffeisen ’12, S.A. vice president for outreach; Stephen Breedon ’14, S.A. hotel representative; and Roneal Desai ’13, S.A. minority at-large representative –– outlined a number of what they perceived as shortcomings of the plan, including its lack of student representation.
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Desai said the reduction of the UDC’s membership from 25 to five representatives eliminated the group’s student voices –– perspectives he considers “absolutely necessary.” “My rationale is very strongly pushing for a student representative on the [UDC],” he said. “At the end of the day … having a student who’s on the S.A. takes it one step further … You need an actual student there to delineate what’s important and what’s not.” However, Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of students and director of intercultural programs, who is a member of the UDC, said that student input is a priority for the committee as it moves forward. “We’ve heard from administrators and students who feel their words aren’t imprinted on this document. It’s not perfect,” Alexander said. “There’s a lot of room for you to create your own bullet points on this diversity initiative.” The resolution also pushed for increasing the number of underrepresented minorities on campus, as well as improving their academic and extracurricular experiences on campus. Block, however, said that the resolution should not solely direct its focus of “underrepresented minorities.” “We can’t forget about minority students that don’t necessarily technically qualify under underrepresented status,” he said. “Asians, for example, might be underrepresented” in the strength of their voice on University issues, even though “they’re over-represented in numbers.” Additionally, the resolution criticized the vague language of Skorton’s initiative. “[The UDC] needs to define what they mean by ‘diversity’ and ‘identity.’ It’s currently … a blank slate,” Treffeisen said. “To make this diversity plan successful, it needs to be defined to ensure that groups are not being left out and the diversity of protected classes are being considered and prioritized equally.” During the meeting, the S.A. made amendments to the resolution that they said addressed the needs of both LGBTQ and undocumented students –– groups the University’s original initiative does not specifically reference. However, in part due to these alterations, members of the S.A. balked at passing the resolution, saying they needed more time to consider its points. “I can’t support it as it’s changed so much,” said Peter Scelfo ’15, a freshman representative for the S.A. “In order to properly make this decision, we need another week.” The S.A. decided to postpone the vote on the resolution to its meeting next Thursday. Treffeisen said he hopes to use the additional time to garner additional feedback from both S.A. members, students and student groups affected by the initiative. “It’s good to have as much input as possible in terms of student politics,” he said. Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.
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these squatter settlements spread across the periphery and hang over the city’s richer neighborhoods. These favelas lack the necessary resources for decent sanitation and infrastructure, all of which are far from scarce in neighborhoods such as Ipanema. Despite an extreme inequality in urban and environmental conditions — as slums also tend to locate themselves in areas of soil and water contamination — the shanty towns attain a sense of community that is absent in the upper class neighborhoods. In spite of the hardships and uncertainties in their lives, the favelados — illegal hilldwellers — display a communal identity and organization that is nothing short of remarkable. Not only had I noticed it when I visited these communities, but also
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Janeiro are, in a peculiar way, accustomed to social inequality. Crammed between the ocean and the mountains, there will rarely be a neighborhood completely divorced from any favela, also addressed as community — the “politically correct” term for such squatter settlements. Obviously, this modifies the environment of upper and middle-class buildings. For instance, from the window of my friend’s house, one comes across slums encroached on steep hillsides in the background, not to mention young kids and beggars juggling at streetlights or selling candy. Having become such a common occurrence, it goes by unnoticed, transformed into “landscape” as is denoted by publicity jargon. One looks, but fails to see; one walks by, but takes no notice. This is the reality of many Cariocas — Rio’s residents — spread throughout the city. Although Ipanema is one the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, it is the home of a communing population of beggars, who occupy the corners of the busier and more commercial streets. Even inside middle and upper class residences, you cannot escape this reality, key to Rio’s identity as a beautiful, yet almost tragic city. The front façade of windows overlooks the beach, a center of touristic activity. However if we were to turn slightly to the right, our eyes would meet the Favela do Vidigal, resting on a hillside and hanging over the ocean. This squatter settlement, like most of its precedents, was initially made up of isolated barracos — or shanties — hidden under the region’s dense canopy of vegetation. However, through time, these isolated residencies have become self-built, independent communities that span kilometers across the once-deemed uninhabitable terrain of rocky cliffs and hillsides. Rio’s urban disparity is an ideal example of social inequality in the city. This is particularly evident when one sees how many of
through my interaction with Rio’s citizens. The building where my friend lives — in Ipanema — is small in size; only five families inhabit it. However, there is almost no social connection amongst them. A formal greeting on the occasional elevator ride is the extent to which neighbors interact. Unfortunately, this is the case for the majority of buildings in middle and upper class urban spaces. One of the few spaces within Ipanema that provides a sense of community is the beach — which is ironically full of low-income Cariocas seeking to make money for their families. Although many consider Rio de Janeiro — with its five-million inhabitants — a cosmopolitan city, I think it is a beach town at heart. From morning until nightfall, both the rich and the poor inhabit the city’s beaches. The coast becomes pivotal in separating Rio from other Brazilian cities sharing a common social inequality, for it brings together people of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds; it is the one space where social inequality has no voice, despite Ipanema’s label as an upper class neighborhood. In effect, this natural microcosm is a dynamic space of social use where its occupiers are reclassified by their interests and affinities. Like most neighborhoods, Ipanema has its share of attributes as well as injustices. Yet, the social inequality that is a part of Rio de Janeiro’s identity as an urban city provides for obstacles that interfere with the functioning and beautification of the neighborhood. Yet, to eliminate the shanty towns that surround Ipanema might not prove to be the solution to its problems, for they possess valuable characteristics that are essential to Rio’s culture. 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.
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Beyond the Blast Barriers
et me tell you a story. It happened in July 2008, when I worked on an ambulance squad in Ashkelon, Israel. One afternoon, we drove to an Israeli hospital called Barzilai to pick up a sick Palestinian boy and his father. Our job was to transport them to the Erez border crossing so they could return home to the Gaza Strip. After I hoisted the young man’s gurney into the ambulance and set
car bombs that might make it past the soldiers at the gate. After we entered the blast zone, a gate closed behind us. Suddenly, we were alone, surrounded by the 15-foot-high walls of concrete. All I could see of the outside world was a square of blue sky above me. A gate opened on the opposite side from which we had entered, and two soldiers in full combat gear hurried in. They
Jonathan Panter The Storyteller up his oxygen, I gave his father the briefest of smiles. As I shut the ambulance door, he smiled back and said in Hebrew, “thank you.” We drove a little way from Barzilai, towards the highway. We then pulled over to the side of the road and put on our bulletproof vests. The driver took out his pistol. Then we made the half-hour drive to Erez. To get to the actual, armed checkpoint that leads into Gaza, we had to enter a walled enclosure about 30 feet across. This area is meant to contain blasts from
threw open the back door of the ambulance and pulled out the Palestinian, and his father hurried out behind him. The old man looked back once, and our eyes locked for the briefest of moments. Then the back door of the ambulance slammed shut, and he was gone, escorted by the soldiers, through the gate, out to wherever he was going, to whatever life he was going to live, out there beyond the blast barriers. The engine started, and we returned to the highway. The driver exhaled in relief, glad to be gone from Erez.
“Fucking Arabs,” he said, and I nodded. And that was it. Let me tell you another story. Tibor, my dad’s longtime friend, was a Holocaust survivor. He lost his whole family in the camps and ghettoes. After the war, he immigrated to the United States to start a new life. He built a career as a prominent psychiatrist, married and raised children. And then Tibor, by his own screw-ups and emotional problems, threw it all away. He divorced his wife and abandoned his children, moving to Florida to live off what few savings he had. He was definitely a depressed and confused person, but a lovable one as well. Tibor doted on my siblings at family events; he told stories; he womanized; he was a gourmet chef; he loved following the stock market; he was a gentleman. He died alone. Tibor had requested cremation in solidarity with the relatives he lost in the Holocaust, and since he left much of his estate to my father, we came into possession of Tibor’s ashes. And we had no idea what the hell to do with them. For a while the ashes sat in a cardboard box on a little wooden table in my house. But then I felt bad for Tibor, in a grim and stupid sort of way, sitting there and watching people walk by all day. So I put his box on the top bunk of my bed. It’s been there for over a year. That’s it.
For my past two semesters as a columnist, I’ve told stories and tried to extract morals from them. But life doesn’t have built-in lessons. There are no written conclusions; the moral of the story is up to us. What about stories with no moral? What moral is there that I looked into a Palestinian man’s eyes, and then he disappeared? What moral is there that Tibor’s ashes are sitting on the top bunk of my bed? Why tell those moral-less stories, and why really, come to think of it, tell any stories at all? I’d like to suggest that some stories just need to be told, for the telling’s sake. They need to be told because, well, if we don’t tell them, it’s as if the moment never happened. If I don’t remember that old Palestinian man, whom I was supposed to hate without knowing why, then maybe it’s as if no such man ever existed in my life. It’s as if there’s nothing beyond those blast barriers at Erez, just a void, and it’s as if those ashes on my bed aren’t part of a real, human history of a man named Tibor and his family. Without the story, the ashes would be just common dust in a cardboard box. Nobody would know, anyway. Jonathan Panter is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jpanter@cornellsun.com. The Storyteller appears alternate Fridays this semester.
Lawyers in the Best Sense: Paying Off Debt and Giving Back P
eople come to law school for a whole host of different reasons. Most personal statements speak of a desire to alleviate international injustices, to fight for equality and generally improve the world. Somewhere along the way, however, many of these plans get derailed. Opportunities to join prestigious law firms, a new-found interest in subjects like tax and the desire to make a lot of money are among the myriad reasons for which people stray from their initial paths. Debt is generally the major catalyst. Even for those who come into law school debt-free, most leave law school with a six-figure debt cloud hovering over their heads. Despite the existence of loan repayment programs at top law schools, including Cornell, the fear of one day being unable to pay those loans back motivates many students who would not otherwise be interested to work high paying firm jobs for at least two to three years after graduation. The attrition rate at major firms is high, and most students know that they won’t truly enjoy the work, but they’re willing to put their dreams and social lives on hold for a couple years to pay down debt. There are, of course, some students who came in to law school knowing exactly what they wanted to do — whether that be firm work, government work or otherwise — who are graduating with the same plan in mind. I’m happy for them, but I think they’re exceptions, not the norm. After graduation, I’m planning to work at a law firm in labor and employment law. I knew very little about labor and employment law before coming to law school, and I really didn’t know what kind of law I wanted to practice. Like many of my peers, I was drawn to law firm work because of the potential to pay down debt. Fortunately, I’m very interested in labor and employment law and the firm was a great fit for me personality-wise, so I know I’ll enjoy what I do, but part of me wants to make sure I still find time to do the type of public interest work I mentioned in
my personal statement. Earlier this week, I was in South Carolina helping attorneys prepare for a post conviction review hearing in a death penalty case. The work was extremely interesting, and the stakes were very high. Additionally, the people I worked with, through the Cornell Capital Punishment Clinic, are extremely gifted at what they do — the world needs more lawyers like them. Although I don’t think I could ever do death penalty work fulltime, I think it would be really fulfilling to take on a criminal defense case once in a while to give back and interact with different clients. Regardless of where my legal career takes me, the perspective I gained from working in the clinic has instilled in me a need to do some type of public service work whenever possible. I urge you to think carefully about the type of pro bono work in which you engage. If you’re interested in capital defense work, try to seek out opportunities to help out death penalty resource centers or capital defenders’ offices. If you’re more interested in estate planning work, link up with local organizations who offer free will and trust services to indigent clients. Seek out organizations that engage in the type of public interest work that interests you most. It will be a nice break from your routine, and you’ll make a real impact on people’s lives. Legal aid organizations are more strapped for cash than ever before and all of them most certainly have more cases coming in than they can handle. For those of you headed to law firms, congratulations!
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Chuck Guzak Barely Legal What I’m saying is, you can have both. You can work for a large law firm to earn the money you need to turn that giant debt cloud into a positive net worth while still engaging in, albeit on a more limited scale, some of the public service work you may have hoped to do initially. For those of you who were never interested in public service work, I urge you to give it a shot. As many can attest, it’s extremely rewarding. This is my last Barely Legal column, and I thank you all for reading this year. I’m extremely proud of the Class of 2012, and regardless of where you’re heading, I wish you all the very best. Chuck Guzak is a third-year law student at Cornell Law School and he assigns and edits submissions for Barely Legal. He may be reached at cmg258@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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COMICS AND PUZZLES
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A Cornell alumnus and Ithaca’s youngest mayor ever, Svante Myrick ’09 appears in The Sun on an almost-daily basis. But today, The Sun explores a different, lesser-known side of our mayor. In an arts-focused interview conducted last week, Myrick weighed in on Slope Day, discussed which superhero would make the most valuable city employee and picked the actor best suited to star in his biopic.
Tim McGraw and Bonnie Raitt, that’s probably my nightmare. I mean, I like a whole lot of different styles of music. Different I’m fine with, but the weepy, sappy, sugar-sweet, saccharine nature of some of that country? I don’t think I could make it. SUN: If you could spend ten minutes with any writer, alive or dead, who would it be? S.M.: I always wanted ten minutes with Kurt Vonnegut. First, he’s just hilarious and he’s got this fantastic worldview I’d love to
Men. There are days I’m convinced Cornell has her locked in a basement somewhere. Whenever the pre-freshmen are visiting, it’s 70 and sunny, but the rest of the year, when they want the students inside studying, it’s overcast and freezing. I think she’d be the best one if we can just get her out of that basement. Let her make it sunny all year. SUN: You and the City Council form a band. What’s it called and what kind of music do you play?
THE SUN: What’s the best arts event you’ve attended in Ithaca? SVANTE MYRICK: Porchfest. The music is so varied. So you’re just walking down the street and in one block you’ll see the Gunpoets, these phenomenal local rappers; in the middle of the block you’ll see the Grady Girls doing their Irish music with strings and banjos and violins, and then at the end, you’ll get to see Cody Austern-Aceto with his ukulele singing with his high clear voice. It’s the most amazing confluence of musicians in a setting that you never get to see. SUN: What sort of band, event, artist or other act would you most like to see in Ithaca? S.M.: That’s tough, we’ve got some great local folks, and because of Ithaca College and Cornell, I’ve gotten to see people I never thought I would — Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Ratatat. I mean, it’s hard to covet! But I know for Slope Day, there’s always the usual that people hope for. Are the Red Hot Chili Peppers still what everyone wants?
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SUN: I keep hearing Lady Gaga, which will never happen. And it would be terrible. S.M.: Yeah, I’m not sure about her. The best Slope Day I ever saw was Snoop Dogg because he had a full band with a horn section and drums. When you’re playing in an open space like that, one person on stage or even a group of people dancing on stage will get boring after a while. Plus, with the energy that a group like the Red Hot Chili Peppers would bring — that’s why I always wanted to see them at Slope Day. SUN: What’s your idea of the worst concert ever? S.M.: If I had to sit through three hours of
hear more about. Plus, he was a Cornellian and he wrote for The Sun. In ten minutes, we could go deep pretty quickly because we’d have a common understanding with the Cornell and Ithaca connection. SUN: Which comic book superhero would be most beneficial as an employee of the City of Ithaca? S.M.: The Flash is very tempting, because he could fix all of our potholes in an afternoon. Superman is tempting, too: imagine how much better our air service would be if he could just carry the planes. Of course Wonder Woman with that lasso could make criminals tell the truth, but I think the best superhero for Ithaca would be Storm from X-
S.M.: Well, I can’t sing and I can’t play any instruments very well, but I would be a phenomenal backup dancer. A doo-wop, Supremes type of thing. I’d put Eddie Rooker up front and Seph Murtagh on piano. It would be like Prince and the Revolution with a lot of backup vocalists and dancers. And all the songs would be about taxes and potholes. We’d have to create a committee to come up with a name. That’s perfect: a band-naming subcommittee. SUN: What are five of the most played songs on your iPod? S.M.: This is going to be embarrassing. It’s probably Prince, with “Little Red Corvette,” Adele’s “Cold Shoulder,” probably “Some People Hate” by Jay-Z and undoubtedly
Kanye West, something from 808s and Heartbreak. Maybe “Robocop.” Oh, and “Pretty Wings” by Maxwell. SUN: Three movies that changed your life? S.M.: Hoop Dreams, a phenomenal documentary about two young men on the southside of Chicago. They start following them in eighth grade and follow them for six or seven years on their quest to make it to the NBA. It ends up shedding light on the education system and the drug culture and the impacts of all sorts of urban and federal policies on the lives of young people. Do the Right Thing, a Spike Lee movie that I just love. And Cool Hand Luke. I love the whole movie, but there’s this one scene where they’re tarring the road and Paul Newman starts working three times as fast as everybody else. His enthusiasm is contagious and the job that was supposed to take them all day gets done in a couple of hours and they get the rest of the day off. That scene just blew my mind. SUN: Who do you want to play you in your biopic? S.M.: [laughs] In my biopic! Yeah, when they make the world’s most boring movie. They’d call it Committee Meetings: The Svante Myrick Story. Well, on the one hand, you want them to be handsome, but not that handsome. I think my brother would do a real good job, but if not him, I’m going to go a whole different way and say maybe Shia LaBoeuf. It’ll be an alternative take. Or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. I think he embodies how I feel about how I look, if not necessarily how I actually look. [The Sun notes there is, in fact, a resemblance.] SUN: Would you rather have President Skorton follow you around with his flute for the rest of your life or President Obama follow you around singing Al Green? S.M.: Oh my god, could they not team up? Al Green would work really well with the soul flute. President Skorton gets down, but when Obama sang Al Green, that gave me chills. I think I’d take President Obama, with all due respect to President Skorton. It’s mood music, you know? Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.
From Holland to Cornell ELENI KONSTANTOPOULOS Sun Staff Writer
“Sometimes I just daydream and I come up with story concepts. I have no idea how but at some point I just woke up, I was thinking and it just popped into my head. This idea about a white girl falling in love with a black man, a relationship with all the racial turmoil and strain that goes on with that. I worked it out and this is what came afterwards,” Wybren (Ian) de Vries ’14 told The Sun, regarding his inspiration behind his award-winning screenplay Colors. Colors follows Elisabeth Vandersteen in late 19th century America as she struggles with coming to grips with her racially charged environment. In this post-Civil War southern town, the KKK still strongly lurks among the people, including her own family. When the father discovers Elisabeth’s friendship with an African-American, Thomas B. Adams, he furiously sends her away. When she returns eight years later, however, her family’s tightly held prejudice remains in equal, if not larger, measure as before. The forbidden friendship is rekindled, now with a romantic undertone. This twist unlocks a cataclysm of disastrous events. The story can appear common to someone hearing it for the first time. If someone else tried to pen this idea into a screenplay, it would have probably resulted in a terrible cliché.
White girl meets black boy. Children grow up and fall in love. Family opposes. Who hasn’t heard a version of this tale before? Nevertheless, Ian manages to spin a potentially mediocre plot into a truly captivating story by developing character threads with rich backstories and concluding with a truly spectacular and unexpected ending. The finale leaves a bittersweet taste in your mouth; to me, this taste resembles life. The ending speaks volumes about the screenplay as a whole — a script anchored in realism. There is no sugarcoated moral story to be told here. I won’t give away too much in fear of spoiling a potential movie’s ending. “Writing the first draft took eight weeks in total,” Ian said as he described the process required to write a screenplay. “The actual words, meaning the actual 120 pages, I wrote in three nights and three days. All of the seven weeks and five days before that was preparation work. Writing screenplays is very different from writing books since screenplays have to conform to a very strict structure for it to be interesting as a film. A lot of it is coming up with the concept, writing background stories for your characters and their quirks, thinking about how they relate to other characters … Most if it is the preparation; as soon as that prep work is done you can turn in into an actual screenplay.” Naturally, I had to ask what actors he envisioned playing the characters of his screenplay. “I’ve thought about Daniel
Day Lewis as the father … that would make the movie of course. The rest [of the characters] are much younger, so obviously different people but I can’t really think of any really big names,” ponders Ian. Ian is a remarkably interesting and multifaceted individual. After leaving his homeland Holland to finish school in England, Ian took a gap year before coming to Cornell. During this time, he attended the New York Film Academy for five months where he wrote Colors. After this, he travelled to Ghana, serving as a soccer coach and, later, a soccer analyst for the local TV station. Ian remarks, “I was the only white person on television at the time, so everybody would recognize me on the streets. They would come up to me … and ask me to comment on the Ghanaian soccer team.” When asked about his submission to the Ivy League Film Festival, “I found out through a friend who told me about [the Ivy League Film Festival]. I just decided to submit and that’s how I got there,” Ian said. “There” being a finalist in the Ivy League Film Festival’s category of Feature-Length Screenplay, the world’s largest student-run film festival. This year it was held at Brown University from April 9-15. And oh yeah, he won first place. Eleni Konstantopoulos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekonstantopoulos@cornellsun.com.
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A Classical Conversation LIZA SOBEL Sun Staff Writer
Hailed as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world, the Australian Chamber Orchestra is performing Friday night in Bailey Hall at 8 p.m. before heading to Carnegie Hall as part of their North American tour. The concert features a diverse group of composers, including the works of Anton Webern, George Crumb, Arnold Schönberg, Schubert and Schumann. The Sun had the opportunity to chat with Richard Tognetti, the ACO’s first violinist and Artistic Director since 1989. THE SUN: How did you start playing the violin? RICHARD TOGNETTI: I am from a small town in Australia, and playing the violin wasn’t exactly normal. What transpired was that a local gentleman got a scholarship to go to Japan to study this strange, then fairly new method of teaching kids to play the violin and other instruments, called the Suzuki method. Then he came back and inaugurated this teaching method in quite a few schools and it just stuck with me. I just loved it from the first lesson. SUN: Did you know immediately that you wanted to be a violinist? R.T.: I can’t remember not wanting to be — let’s put it like that — after that first lesson. SUN: Describe Friday’s program. Is there a common theme between such diverse composers? R.T.: George Crumb and Anton Webern, the genesis of that comes from Crumb himself. I rang [Crumb] many years ago; I had the honor of being able to speak with him and asked the composer if he minded if I made an arrangement of his string quartet Black Angels for string orchestra. He obliged and wished me luck. We performed it around the place. Then we were invited to Ojai Music Festival in Southern California last year, and we knew he was going to be in attendance. The idea struck me that we could present part of his Black Angels quartet, mixed in a combustible and synergistic kind of way, with a very similar composer from the Second Viennese School, Anton Webern (1883-1945). I thought, “Wouldn’t it be interest-
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ing to get these textures and try to combine them so that they kind of ignite in some way?” They’re not fighting with each other, but they certainly create tension. Both of them arguably work in miniatures. I say arguably with George Crumb because I don’t think he deliberately wrote miniatures like Webern. Also, they’re textural geniuses. I thought, “Well, this would be in the very least amusing and interesting.” So we tried it out in front of [Crumb], and he loved it. As far as I’m concerned, that’s as great as we could get. We’ve played it now in Chicago and Toronto and are looking forward to playing it at Cornell. Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht speaks for itself and of course sings and resonates perfectly with Webern. That’s a clear line. So much tension builds from the Webern and Crumb that sort of a deafening silence comes out of it. When we go into Maria Schneider’s piece, the first words sung by the incandescent Dawn Upshaw are perfectly still. It’s as though Maria had written this opening with the notion of Webern and Crumb in mind. Of course she hadn’t; it’s just a coincidence. There’s a sweetness that is not present in the Webern and Crumb that creates a relief. There’s an American-ness that somehow comes out of the Crumb that goes into the Schneider. That’s the logic behind this rather strange, daring, ultimately fulfilling program, and of course, I hope that the audience comes along too. The songs by Schumann, Brahms and Schubert are sort of like a homecoming after the Schneider. Then [Dawn Upshaw] comes out and sings these beautiful and affecting, old school Germanic love songs with hidden messages and exquisite harmonies that we all know and love. Then we launch into the stratosphere with Verklärte Nacht. SUN: How do you balance being a performer, composer and Artistic Director of the ACO? R.T.: By working 29-hour days. It is sometimes difficult and sometimes I want to go lock myself up to go compose
A&E COURTESY OF AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
and practice. Being a performer, you’ve got to tread the boards, unless you can cut yourself off from the world and just be a recording artist. SUN: How do you find audiences in Australia and the United States, versus anywhere else you go? R.T.: I actually think that American audiences can be more gregarious at the end if they like something. The English reserve does pervade the audiences in Australia more. I think there is more of a difference from city to city than country to country. It depends on the size of the hall and the acoustics. I go without prejudice and I relish playing to people who have never heard a classical music concert before. One of the feelings is that they have transcended themselves as a result. SUN: What projects are you working on? R.T.: I’m working on a project called The Reef. It’s a work in progress, but this project involves going to a really isolated part of Australia where the desert meets the sea. It involves exotic indigenous music and new compositions that reflect young children’s stories. SUN: Do you have anything else you’d like to say? R.T.: I can’t wait to be at Cornell. Liza Sobel is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lsobel@cornellsun.com.
A Farewell to Arts
rts suffered a devastating blow last week ...
It all began with a rumor, a whisper. Text messages, tweets and speculative Facebook threads followed. The air was heavy with anticipation. Whispers soon became shouts, the voices of Yogurt Crazy loiterers swelled with enthusiasm: Justin Bieber, Cornell University Class of 2016. Oh my f****** God. But, as tends to happen with rumors, Bieber ’16 was quickly dispelled. I didn’t want to believe it wasn’t true. I really didn’t. But the online backlash was too powerful to ignore. Justin Bieber isn’t Cornell bound, and he apparently never was. (As a recent Sun blog post explained, a Cornell student started the rumor as a joke). My initial “OMFG!” of hope and excitement quickly turned into an “OMFG!” of indignation, fear and profound disappointment. As I get ready to bid Cornell goodbye and leave the Arts section behind, Justin was my reassurance: I could leave knowing the arts and liberal arts at Cornell had a protector. With Justin (musician, auteur, film star) at the campus’ helm, I thought, the arts will be restored to their rightful glory. Theatre, Film and Dance will return. Cornell Cinema will play movies to completely full theaters and visual culture colloquia will be as well attended by undergrads as a capella shows. When the rumor was debunked, my ini-
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tial dread returned. Without Justin, what does the future hold? All joking aside, I am worried about the fate of liberal arts at Cornell. In a short month, I will be an alumna. When I come back to visit my alma mater in a year, 10 years or 20 years, what will the school look like? What will its students care about? Diversity of opinion is one of the things that makes Cornell great. I’m glad I chose to get a liberal arts degree in a place where there are people studying things like hotel management or agriculture. Had I chosen a small liberal arts college where the most popular major is, I don’t know … gender studies, I would have graduated with a skewed perspective of the world. Cornell has, to some extent, popped the sheltered, liberal bubble I was accustomed to living in. I worry about what I see as a trend towards
Hannah Stamler The Basement Tapes careerism on this campus. This academic year, AEM grew into the formidable “Dyson School.” Cornell pledged to devote itself to a new tech campus. And while the Arts Quad is (finally) getting a new humanities building, the project and its symbolism are not enough to convince me that the humanities at Cornell are alive and well.
I don’t think the obsession with a career is a phenomenon unique to this u n i v e r s i t y. Nationally, it seems like students are more focused than ever on the socalled “next step,” on getting that dream job. They spend ZANDER ABRANOWICZ ’14 / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR their college years racking up internships, which are often little ode to Arts and Sciences is the most unpaid (a concept that frankly strikes me as appropriate way to say goodbye. Cornell has nothing more than a sparkly form of exploita- profoundly shaped me. Thinking about leavtion) and enrolling in “practical” classes with ing overwhelms me. To say I’ll miss it would be a gross understatement. a real-world component. All I can hope for is that students in the Education has an inherent value. Realworld experience only has a hallowed place Class of 2016 (despite being Bieber-less), and within an educational culture that maintains all the classes afterwards, have the chance to post-graduate employment as the object of a experience Cornell as I did. Of course, things will look different in the college education. Call me old-fashioned, privileged or naïve, future. There will be new buildings and, if the but the way I see it, college is not merely the past couple years are any indication, I won’t path to bigger and supposedly better things. recognize most of the Collegetown bars It may not be the ‘real world’ in the sense that (R.I.P. Palms, Dino’s, J-O’s). But I’m okay the term is used, but I’ve found these past with all of that as long as the school’s spirit four years to be incredibly, sometimes remains similar. I want to make sure the Arts and Sciences is still around, still relevant and painfully, real. Maybe this is a bit too heavy for my last still promoting intellectual engagement. column ever at The Sun. Last-ever columns are usually filled with weepy reflections and Hannah Stamler is a senior in the College of Arts sentimental “thank you’s.” and Sciences. She can be reached at hstamler@corI couldn’t stomach the idea of another col- nellsun.com. The Basement Tapes appears alterumn like that. And in some sense I think my nate Fridays this semester.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For Justin Turner and the New York Mets, this was a true walk-off win. Turner drew a bases-loaded walk in a sensational 13-pitch at-bat and Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning as the Mets rallied past Heath Bell and the Miami Marlins 3-2 Thursday. Pitching for the first time in a week, and working in a steady drizzle, Bell (0-3) couldn't find the plate and sent the Marlins to their fifth straight loss. The All-Star closer walked four and threw a whopping 46 pitches. Turner batted for reliever Ramon Ramirez with one out. The Mets' pinch hitter deluxe fell behind in the count 0-2 and later fouled off seven pitches before his walk tied it at 2. "That situation, I think it's what every kid dreams about," Turner said. "Except that they dream about hitting it out of the park, not drawing a walk." After a forceout at the plate, Nieuwenhuis hit a one-hopper off the right-field wall. Before that drive, the Mets were 0 for 16 with two walks when batting with the bases loaded this season. "My hands are numb from clapping so hard," Mets starting pitcher Jonathon Niese said. The excitement, however, was tempered by the news that Mets starter Mike Pelfrey has a partial tear of a ligament in his right elbow. Pelfrey said he is "99 percent" certain he will have reconstructive Tommy John surgery that will sideline him until next year. The Mets trailed 2-1 when David Wright drew a leadoff walk in the ninth. One-out passes to Ike Davis and Josh Thole loaded the bases for Turner, who's 3 for 8 as a pinch hitter this year. With each foul ball, Turner became more determined. After four straight fouls on a full count, Turner took a fastball low and away. "When you're up there for that long, you kind of get that locked-in feeling," he said. "I don't know if he's ever thrown that many pitches in an inning in his career." The 46 were indeed the most Bell has thrown in a save situation. In five other outings, he's tossed more. "I felt really good. I felt that my pitches were there. I felt like I threw the pitches where I wanted for the most part. I think 95 percent of the time, I was right where I needed to be," Bell said. "Yeah, I did walk some guys." As for the matchup with Turner, "I thought I'd get him, and then I just pulled on a fastball," Bell said. "That pitch, I wish I could have that one back." The Mets finished off a three-game sweep. They were helped by Bell's third blown save in five chances during his first year with the Marlins. It was the second time this series that the Marlins walked four consecutive batters. Four pitchers combined to do it Tuesday night. Ramirez (2-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Jose Reyes, Hanley Ramirez and most of the Marlins remained stuck in hitting slumps. Miami scored a total of only six runs during its fivegame trip to Washington and Citi Field. Reyes was hitless in four tries and went 1 for 12 in his first series against his former team. Booed loudly in every at-bat, the fleet leadoff man grounded into a close, inning-ending double play in the eighth with runners at the corners. Ramirez, the former NL batting champion, also was hitless in four atbats and is an 0-for-20 rut. Niese and Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco each pitched seven sharp innings. Niese gave up two runs on four hits in seven innings, walking none and striking out six. Nolasco allowed one run and five hits.
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Rangers Defeat Senators in Game Seven
NEW YORK (AP) — Rangers defensemen Marc Staal and Dan Girardi scored 4:18 apart in the second period, Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves and top-seeded New York eliminated the pesky eighth-seeded Ottawa Senators from the playoffs with a 2-1 victory in Game 7 on Thursday night. Staal broke the scoreless deadlock, and Girardi gave the Rangers a 2-0 lead with his first career NHL playoff goal. Lundqvist allowed Daniel Alfredsson’s power-play goal in the second but stood tall the rest of the way to send the Rangers into an Eastern Conference second-round matchup with the seventh-seeded Washington Capitals. The Rangers hadn’t hosted a Game 7 since their Stanley Cup victory over Vancouver in 1994, but they stayed perfect at home in deciding games — winning their fourth. New York is 4-5 overall in Game 7, and the Senators dropped to 0-5. Lundqvist withstood tons of pressure from the Senators, who spent most of the closing 5 minutes in the Rangers’ end. The win wasn't secure until Sergei Gonchar tripped Carl Hagelin as he skated toward the empty net with 36.2 seconds remaining. Craig Anderson was nearly as good in the Ottawa net, making 27 saves. New York rallied from a 3-2 series deficit for just the second time, building off the momentum of its 3-2 victory in Ottawa on Monday night in Game 6. Just like in that one, when the Rangers scored three goals in the second period, New York used the middle frame to take over. While waiting for their big guns — Marian Gaborik and Brad Richards — to spark the offense, a pair of defensemen stepped up to get the Rangers going. Rookie Chris Kreider, whose first NHL goal was the winner Monday, forced a turnover and got the puck into the Ottawa end. Ryan Callahan nudged it ahead to Derek Stepan, who sent a pass from the right circle to the left circle to Staal for his first goal of the series 4:46 into the second.
Staal, limited to 46 regularseason games because of the lingering effects of a concussion sustained last season, thrust his hands up in delight when his shot beat Anderson. Staal had only two goals in the regular season. It didn’t take all that long for Madison Square Garden to erupt in cheers again for another blueliner. Rangers forward Brandon Prust had the puck knocked off his stick, but teammate Brandon Dubinsky was there to get it and smack it into the slot to Girardi, who wound up for a hard slap shot just a few feet from the crease and slammed it past Anderson at 9:04. Like Staal, Girardi isn’t known for great offensive prowess. He had five goals while playing in all 82 regular-season games, but had scored only once in the previous 44 — including the first six of this series. Just when the nervous towelwaving fans began to relax and feel confident that the Rangers would survive and move on to the second round, Alfredsson gave the Senators a big boost and brought back the tension. Ottawa went on its second power play when Michael Del Zotto was called for cross-checking nemesis Chris Neil in front of the net. Alfredsson, who missed three games in the series after an elbow from Hagelin in Game 2 gave him a concussion, made New York pay. Alfredsson took a pass above the left circle from Chris Phillips and one-timed a shot past Lundqvist with 8:26 left in the second to bring the Senators back within a goal. The Rangers didn’t get their first power play of the night until Filip Kuba went off for interference with 1:24 left in the second, but New York did little with the advantage that carried over into the third. The Rangers’ second power play at 3:51 of the third was even worse, and nearly costly, when Milan Michalek had a chance right in front of Lundqvist after a turnover. Ottawa kept lots of pressure in the Rangers’ end throughout the scoreless first period. The Senators had the lone power play, and moved the puck all around
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the New York zone, but Lundqvist stayed square to every drive that came his way. He took one deflected puck in the middle of his Statue Of Liberty mask. The biggest hit of the opening frame was a cruncher from Girardi, who leveled fellow defenseman Erik Karlsson with a big open-ice check in the Rangers’ zone. Neil heard plenty of derisive chants, boos, and other things during various shifts. He has drawn the ire of the Rangers and their fans for his hit on Brian Boyle that gave the New York center a concussion and sidelined him for the final two games of the series. After taking a hit from Del Zotto in Game 6, Neil issued a threat toward Del Zotto that he would catch the young Rangers defenseman with his head down at some point. NOTES: Former Rangers defenseman Matt Gilroy rejoined the Ottawa lineup after being scratched the previous three games. He replaced Matt Carkner, who was a healthy scratch in Game 1, played in the second game, was suspended for Game 3, and was in the lineup for the previous three. ... Dubinsky was shaken up midway through the third after a collision with Ottawa’s Zack Smith along the boards. ... Staal has three career playoff goals. Alfredsson has 47. ... It is the first time since 1996 that no Canadian teams reached the second round.
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with 23. Goaltenders Isabel Harvey and Kellie Roddy, who split time in the net, both have goals against averages over 11. The Red, though, has some significant weapons of its own. Senior attack Jessi Steinberg has put a mark on her career with 44 goals thus far. Despite her success over the past four years, Steinberg remained modest when talking about the important game coming up. “Our game against Brown is our most important game yet,” she said. “Since I have been at Cornell, we have not made it to the NCAA Tournament. We need to stay focused and win this game against Brown, which will take us one step closer.” Steinberg is accompanied by senior Olivia Knotts on offense. She is one goal shy of the 30 goal threshold. Junior
attack Caroline Salisbury has tallied 38 goals on the season, including a hat-trick in the Red’s most recent non-conference matchup with Binghamton. The trio provides a dynamic offensive attack that will plague Brown throughout the game. “At this point in the year we, as a team, are faced with a huge game,” said junior midfielder/defender Kate Ivory, who suffered an injury earlier in the season. “Over the course of the season we have embraced challenges and collectively have grown as a team, nothing about this game is any different.” The Red has already secured a spot in the Ivy League tournament after Penn beat Princeton Wednesday night. However, a win over Brown would give the Red the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament, putting them in even better position to make the NCAA Tournament. Lucas Pitman can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
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especially defensively, to get better athleticism on the football field and to utilize a couple of our better athletes and impact players in a more productive way.” One of those acrobatic athletes is defensive back Nick Tandy, who will be a fifth-year senior in 2012 but is sitting out spring play. Tandy recorded 27 tackles and three interceptions last season, earning a secondteam Academic All-American award, after transitioning from running back during last spring’s practices. Shane Savage, the Ancient Eight’s top wide receiver in 2011, will join Tandy in fulfilling his fifth-year eligibility in the fall. He has also missed spring action. For the players on the field Saturday, though, the game represents a long-awaited opportunity to test out new roles and showcase skills. Cornell began spring practice on April 3 — four and a half months after the Red’s final win of the 2011 season at Penn — and has completed four weeks of team meetings and activities in preparation for the battle on Schoellkopf. Going forward after the game, Austin recognizes the importance of taking a short break from physical activity, but he warns his players not to take off too much time. “I think more than anything, they have to stay in great shape [this offseason],” he said. “It’s easy right now once you get out of Spring Ball and you’re done with the school year to take a breather. And you do need some down time — a few days to catch your breath and relax. But you can get out of shape very, very quickly and you can lose strength and size and speed … So we’re trying to guard against that.” Quintin Schwab can be reached at qschwab@cornellsun.com.
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WOMEN’S ROWING
Red Seeks Revenge From Green By ALEX GATTO Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell women’s rowing team will travel to Hanover, NH this weekend to face Dartmouth in its last regular season rowing match. The Red, fresh off of a victory over Columbia in the varsity eight race at last week’s Dunn Bowl, is eager to race and defeat Dartmouth, as a win could provide the momentum it will need for its conference final, the Ivy League Championships. “We’re looking to finish the regular season strong and race to our potential,” said head Coach Hilary Gehman. According to Gehman, the Red will still be looking to improve its rowing performance at this week’s match. She remains confident that the team has not yet reached its peak level of performance, but is saving that level for the Ivy League Championships. “Obviously the goal is to win races and to win as many as we can, but it’s also a great opportunity for us to race our best, and to really put together that full race, start to finish, that no one else can do,” Gehman said. “If that produces a win, then that’s icing on the cake.” For some of the members of the team, the match against Dartmouth represents a personal battle stemming from the Red’s last encounter with the Big Green
at last year’s Ivy League Championships. According to senior captain Margaret Cook, the Red defeated Dartmouth in last year’s regular season only to lose to the Green at the Ivy League Championships. Dartmouth went on to receive an invitation to the 2011 NCAA tournament, a spot Cook adamantly believes should have been Cornell’s. “There’s always a bit of personal attention in the Ivy League, but this year especially prevalent with it’s Dartmouth,” Cook said. “If any team got our spot at NCAAs last year, it was them.” Both Gehman and Cook are cautiously optimistic about the Red’s chances this year at Ivy League Championships. They both cited last year as an example, where the Red dominated in the regular season only to lose in the conference Championships. The squad does not want a repeat of that this year. “I never want to underestimate a team that’s ranked below us,” Gehman said. “There’s a lot of motivation to a crew that’s ranked below another crew. There’s an underdog mentality that I think can really kick in.” The Red has been preparing for the Dartmouth match all week. According to Cook, practices have begun to take on race-like conditions; with every boat pushing every other one to the very
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Getting personal | Senior captain Margaret Cook said the race against Dartmouth means more this year after the Green stole a spot from the Red in the NCAA tournament last year.
fastest they can go. “The coaches have made more of an effort to simulate race situations during practice,” Cook said. “Even when we do pieces and starts, the coaches will act like match officials and help us get in the race-mindset.” Cook remains confident that a strong overall performance this weekend will be the key to defeating Dartmouth, citing the team’s depth as one of its greatest strengths. Gehman, too, was quick to point out how well the team has been performing in practice, and expects the same this weekend.
Neck-in-Neck With Penn, Softball Looks To Secure Ivy South Division Title The softball team hits the road this weekend for its final Ivy League series, a four game set with the Princeton Tigers that could decide who takes the conference’s South Division Title. The Red (20-21, 11-5 Ivy League) comes into this series tied for the top of the division with rival Penn (28-15, 115). The Quakers also have an extremely important series
this weekend against Columbia. Between the Red and the Quakers, the team that wins the most games this weekend will come away with the South Division Title and will battle Harvard in the Ivy League Championship series. However, if the two teams are still tied after this weekend, they will play a one-game playoff to decide who will
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Four straight | With an improving offense led by senior Morgan Cawley, the Red heads to Princeton for a final series that could decide the South Division Champion.
represent the division in the conference championship. The scenario of Cornell and Penn going down to the wire to decide who will play in the Ivy League Championship is not an unfamiliar one. Last season, the two teams went down to the final game of the season, with the Red coming out on top in a 1-0 nailbiter, securing its third straight South Division Title. After getting off to a slow start, the Red offense has come alive as of late, now batting .312 with 23 homeruns on the season. Senior infielder Morgan Cawley leads the squad at .321 with 12 RBIs and sophomore infielder Jenny Edwards has provided some much-needed power with 8 homeruns and 24 RBIs. The pitching staff has provided a solid backbone for the team all season. Seniors Lauren Marx and sophomore Alyson Onyon have a combined record of 15-6 on the season. Onyon also leads the team with 94 strikeouts. The squad is looking for its fourth straight South Division Title, while the Tigers are looking to stay in the race with a sweep of the Red. Princeton is led by Kelsey VandeBergh, who is hitting .333 and Alex Peyton who sports a team-best 3.31 ERA. The Red will round off regular season play with a doubleheader against Binghamton the Wednesday after the all-important series with Princeton. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
“They don’t have the depth that we have … That will certainly be our strength,” Cook said. “Bringing our Agame every race will be the most important factor for this weekend.” “I think we’ve had a really great week of practice, and I think the boats are excited and ready,” Gehman said. “I expect good things.” The Red will face Dartmouth Saturday at 9 a.m. Alex Gatto can be reached at agatto@cornellsun.com.
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the Ivy League Tournament, Princeton enters tomorrow’s showdown as the team to beat in the Ancient Eight and will be looking to add home field advantage in the Tournament to the share of the Ivy League crown that it has already laid claim to. “We know that we can’t bring the same performance that we brought against Brown to Princeton,” said senior midfielder Scott Austin. “In a rivalry like the one we have with Princeton, you know it’s going to be a heated battle.” Led by sophomore midfielder Tom Schreiber and senior goalkeeper Tyler Fiorito — both Tewaaraton Trophy nominees — Princeton surges into tomorrow’s contest with the satisfaction of knowing that, for the 26th time in 55 seasons, it has earned at least a share of the Ivy League title. However, the Red, which has already claimed 26 championships itself, will be looking to one-up the Tigers by nabbing it’s 27th. “There are a number of factors which make this game huge,” Daugherty said. “This game will determine whether or not we will be Co-Ivy League Champions in the regular season and it gives us seniors another chance to play at home next weekend, back at Schoellkopf Field. With all those implications, it’s a huge game. It’s going to be a wild atmosphere. We couldn’t be more excited to get after ‘em.” With the third best defense in the country, largely due to the work of Fiorito, who has averaged a .711 save percentage and 4.83 goals-against in Ivy League play, Princeton will be looking to shut down the Cornell offense and get
the ball up the field to guys like Schreiber and senior midfielder Jeff Froccaro, who have together combined for 80 points on the season. Schreiber himself has already tallied 50 points on the year, the first Tiger to reach that mark in a season since the Boston Cannons’ Ryan Boyle did it as a member of the ’04 Princeton squad. Although there has been a lot of buzz around the Princeton team lately, it is important to recognize that Cornell is still in control of its own destiny and it is up to the Red to earn the right to host the Ivy League Tournament. With a win over the Tigers tomorrow, the Red would secure its tenth-straight Ivy League title — six of them being shared with Princeton — tying the current school record, which began with the 1974 season and lasted until 1983, a period which included two national championships. Cornell boasts one of the most balanced offenses in Division One lacrosse. It is one of only three Top-10 schools that does not possess a player ranked in the Top50 in the category of points per game. Against Princeton, look for a big contribution to come from senior midfielder Roy Lang, who was named one of 25 Tewaaraton nominees (one of three from the Ivy League, along with Schreiber and Fiorito) on Wednesday. Lang has been solid for the Red this year, forcing six turnovers, nabbing 22 ground balls and notching 18 points. “It’s a rivalry that we really cherish and it’s a game that we have circled on our calendar every year,” Daugherty added. “We respect Princeton, but they’re a team that we would love to beat.” Zach Waller can be reached at zwaller@cornellsun.com.
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FOOTBALL
Red Gears Up For First Scrimmage By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Staff Writer
Coming off its first .500 season since 2007, the Cornell football team culminates 11 practices with the annual Spring Game on Saturday at 1 p.m. on Schoellkopf Field. The players will separate into Red and White units for intra-squad competition, a game that is free and open to the public. After Saturday’s scrimmage, the Red will enter arguably its most anticipated offseason of this century as it returns 17 of 22 starters from 2011, making the team a formidable competitor for the Ivy League crown. Most of the pieces from the Red’s most prolific offense ever remain intact, including rising junior quarterback Jeff Mathews, the 2011 Bushnell Cup winner as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year. A stout trio of wide receivers and an improving offensive line return to surround Mathews, providing the Red with a more experienced attack than in years past. “We have a veteran team now offensively in most positions,” said head coach Kent Austin, who will enter his third season at Cornell after a three-game rise from 2010. “Terminology is now understood, expectations are understood, [and] assignments are understood … I think our guys have done a great job picking up where we left off at the end of last year.” The Red scored at least 24 points in eight straight games to end last season — the longest streak of this kind in the program’s 125-year history — but not everything on offense will look the same this fall. Tight end and running back
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Putting the pieces together | Rising junior quarterback Jeff Matthews, last year’s Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, looks to lead the experienced Red to a successful 2012 campaign.
Ryan Houska soon graduates, leaving the Red without its do-it-all player and one of its team leaders, which Austin acknowledged has caused him to already explore different offensive arrangements. “We’re trying to do a few extra things and put in a few extra looks this spring to see if we can carry it into the fall and see if we can expand our offensive production,” he said. Defensively, Cornell returns eight starters, but its three losses are all crucial ones. Cornerback Rashad Campbell,
linebacker Brandon Lainhart, and defensive end Zack Imhoff were All-Ivy players in 2011. Still, several experienced defensive players will be back, and safeties coach Kim Dameron has implemented a new and more basic system. “I think the guys have done a great job learning the system — things have been simplified,” Austin said. “I think we’ve done a pretty decent job at moving personnel around, See FOOTBALL page 18
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
C.U.Jockeys for Tournament Position By LUCAS PITMAN Sun Contributor
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Lang way to the top | Senior midfielder Roy Lang was recently nominated for the Tewaarton Award and will play an integral role in carrying the Red over Princeton.
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Squad Fights for Ivy Title
season, head coach Jenny Graap emphasized the importance of staying focused on the task at hand. “This is a huge Ivy game, obviously a crucial game for Cornell tournament qualification, a lot is on the line,” she said. “We need to focus on being efficient on offense, generating consistency, vs. and playing tight defense.” Keen on her scouting report, Graap also pointed out two talented players for Brown — Kaela McGilloway and Bre Hudgins — as forces that could give the Brown Red a handful this weekend. McGilloway has 22 goals and Tomorrow, 12 p.m. 22 assists on the season, leading Providence, R.I. the team with 44 points. Hudgins leads the team in goals
The Cornell women’s lacrosse team travels to Providence, R.I. on Saturday to take on Ivy League opponent Brown at 12:00 p.m. Not only will this be the final game of the Red’s undoubtedly successful regular season, but it is one with a lot riding on it. The Red (10-4, 4-2 Ivy League) currently holds a favorable position within the Ivy League standings, positioned third behind Penn and Dartmouth. Brown (6-7, 1-5) sits in the cellars of the conference, a mere seventh place in the Ancient Eight standings. Despite Brown’s struggles thus far this
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into tomorrow’s contest on a three-game Sun Staff Writer win streak, which includes a 21-6 shellacking of Dartmouth two weeks ago and a 12-5 drubbing of With the Ivy League regular seaHarvard last weekend in son title on the line, the Cornell Cornell Cambridge. men’s lacrosse team will head to “We didn’t really deserve Princeton, N.J. this weekend in an to win that game,” said effort to join the Tigers at the top of senior midfielder Chip the conference and gain home field Daugherty of the loss to advantage in the Ivy League vs. Brown. “We have a lot of Tournament. The Red will meet the errors to correct with ourTigers on the turf Saturday at 7 selves. [We’re] focusing on p.m. for the nationally televised simple things, like commumatch-up (ESPNU) at Princeton’s nication on defense, stick Class of 1952 Stadium. Princeton work and fundamental After last weekend’s disappointshooting.” ing, 10-9, loss to Brown, the No. Tomorrow, 8 p.m. Unlike the Bears, who 7/8 Red (9-2, 4-1 Ivy League) has Princeton, N.J. entered into last weekend’s spent the week regrouping and game fighting to gain the preparing itself to not make the fourth and final position in same mistakes against Princeton that it did against Brown. The No. 12 Tigers (9-3, 5-0), on the other hand, come See M. LAX page 19
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Scoring surge | Junior attack Caroline Salisbury, who has 38 goals so far this season, scored a hat-trick in the Red’s latest matchup with Binghamton.