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Jan 19 1 p m at Brown*

Jan 19 6 p m at Har vard*

Jan 26 2 p m Penn*

Jan 27 2 p m Oregon State

Feb 2 1 p m at Hofstra

Feb 2 6 p m at Columbia*

Feb 4 3 p m Hofstra

Feb 10 2 p m Bucknell

Mar 8-9 All Day at EIWA Championships

Mar 21-23 All Day at NCAA Championships *Iv y League Meet

MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING (0-4, 0-4 EISL)

Nov 10 L , 93-207 Har vard*

Nov 17 L , 93-207 at Penn*

Nov 17 L 87-211 at Princeton*

Nov 30 All Day at Ithaca College Invitational

Jan 7 11 a m /1 p m Yale*

Jan 12 11 a m /1 p m Colgate

Jan 18 2:30/4 p m Columbia*

Feb 2 12 p m at Brown*

Feb 15-16 All Day at Ithaca College

Mar 7-9 All day at Iv y Championships

Mar 8-10 All day at NCAA Regionals

*EISL Meet

WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING (0-4, 0-4 EISL)

Nov 10 L , 109-186 Har vard*

Nov 10 L , 143-157 Dar tmouth*

Nov 16 L 90-190 at Penn*

Nov 16 L , 88-193 Princeton*

Nov 30 All Day at Ithaca College

Jan 7 11 a m /1 p m Yale*

Jan 12 11 a m / p m Colgate

Jan 19 12 p m /1:30 p m Columbia*

Feb 2 12 p m at Brown*

Feb 15-16 All Day at Ithaca College

Feb 28-Mar 2 All day at Iv y Championships

*EISL Meet

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY (9-2-0, 7-1-0 ECAC HOCKEY)

Oct 13 7 p m Red/White Game

Oct 14 L , 1-3 Montreal Stars

Oct 20 W, 5-2 at Boston University

Oct 21 L 1-5 at Boston University

Oct 23 W, 5-1 St Lawrence

Oct 26 W, 2-0 Brown*

Oct 27 W, 3-2 Yale*

Nov 2 W, 4-0 Princeton*

Nov 3 W, 4-3 Quinnipiac*

Nov 16 W, 9-0 Colgate*

Nov 17 W, 9-2 at Colgate*

Nov 23 W 2-1 at Dar tmouth*

Nov 24 L 1-3 at Har vard*

Nov 30 7 p m at Clark son*

Dec 1 4 p m at St Lawrence*

Jan 12 2 p m at Nor theastern

Jan 13 2 p m at Boston College

Jan 15 7 p m Syracuse

Jan 18 7 p m St Lawrence*

Jan 19 4 p m Clark son*

Jan 25 7 p m at Yale*

Jan 26 4 p m at Brown*

Jan 29 7 p m Merc yhurst

Feb 1 7 p m Union*

Feb 2 4 p m RPI*

Feb 8 7 p m at Quinnipiac*

Feb 9 4 p m at Princeton*

Feb 15 7 p m Har vard*

Feb 16 4 p m Dar tmouth*

Feb 22 7 p m at RPI*

Feb 23 4 p m at Union*

*ECACHL Game MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD

Dec 1 Cornell Relays

Jan 4 Souther Tier Collegiate

Jan 12 at Nor thease Challenge

Jan 19 Upstate Challenge

Jan 26 at Armor y Invite

Feb 2 at Skyes -Sabock Challenge

Feb 9 Kane Invite

Feb 16 Deneault Invite

Feb 23-24 At Indoor Heps Championship

Mar. 2-3 IC4A Indoor Championship

Mar 8-9 NCAA Championship

Mar 16 at A ztec Invite

Mar 23 at Ir vine Invite

Apr 6 Oxford/Cambridge vs Cornell/Pen

Apr 13-14 at Bucknell Invite

Apr 20 at Upstate Challenge/Sam Howell Invite

POLO (5-2)

Oct 14 W, 19-17 at Skidmore

Oct 20 L , 6-15 at Virginia

Oct 28 W, 26-11 at UConn

Nov 2 W 26-16 UConn

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WOMEN’S POLO (9-0)

Oct 19 W, 13-12 at UVA

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To NCAA Tourney

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By BENJAMIN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Red Dives Back Into Action

AFTER TOUGH LAST SEASON, TEAM HOPES TO TURN THINGS AROUND

By JOHN McGRORTY

Sun Staff Writer

diligently to produce better results than last season The Red views its overall season success based on the team ’ s performance in the Ivy League Championship in March at Brown and not on individual dual success Thus far, the Red has fought four hard duals against Ivy League rivals Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn Although the squad has not had the success it expected in these duals, Cornell continues to post fast early season times

SWIMME R S TO WATC H

Sophomore Meredith Dr ummond was last season ’ s team MVP and the highest scorer for the Red at Ivy League Championships She also set school records in the 200 IM, 400 IM and the 200 breast

mented a new training

focuses a great deal of time and

h both in the pool and in the weight room In the off-season, Cornell devoted a lot of time to developing each individual athlete The focus on this development will pay off for the squad later in the season

Sophomore Katie Morin missed the

season due to illness but is back in action for the Red this season and ready to score big in the distance freestyle

“Erika [Travis, our trainer] has been helping us get stronger and more fit, so I think it just might take a little longer before we start to see all the strength work we are doing transition to the pool,” said senior diver James O’Neil “But once we do, I think we will see a lot more success, closer meets, and more wins for our record ” The Red also looks to its training trip to Puer to Rico over

break as a way to develop speed within the pool and a stronger team connection to one another This trip will have a significant impact on the development of this year ’ s team

“We have our big training trip to Puerto Rico in a month which really helps with team cohesion and the practices will definitely be hard enough to help us get to that next level,” said sophomore swimmer Bethany Douglas

The team has been training hard for the upcoming Ithaca College Invitational a race where the Red typically has won events on both the swimming and diving sides

Following winter break, the Red will pick up again with meets against Yale, Colgate, Columbia, Brown and Ithaca College before Ivy Championships

With faster times each meet and a constant team drive for continued strong performances, Cornell’s Ivy meets after winter break will be interesting Yale, Colgate and Columbia are all meets at Teagle Hall post break

“Post-break, I believe we will see more success for our team We all have goals in mind going into our winter training trips and we should be able to swim and dive much better in our January meets We are not going to let a few losses deter us If we remain positive and continue training as hard as we have been, we should be able to see faster swims, better diving, and more wins overall for our team I have no doubt we will improve throughout this season, ” O’Neil said

Making a splash | With one meet left before winter break and a training trip to Puerto Rico coming up, the Red has ample opportunities to prepare for the Ivy Championships

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This season has looked different for the Red so far After losing some key players to graduation and suffering a couple of injuries especially senior Steve Bosak, who is expected to return soon things didn’t seem promising for Cornell at the ver y beginning of this season However, it seems that the Red has persevered and some younger guys have stepped up to keep the team ’ s

Getting down and dirty | Sophomore Billy

momentum heading in the right direction

“It has been a fun ride, seeing guys get better each day Just coming in and wanting to get better is contagious It makes the older guys want to get better too, ” said senior Kyle Dake “ When you see those guys working so hard, we feed off of each other and I think that it will help us in the long r un ”

A three-time national champion that comes in the form of Dake is a nice bonus too He will be

competing this season in his four th weight class since he arrived on the hill he is currently at 165 lbs and l

championship

Head coach Rob Koll said Dake will “ u n d o u b t e d l y, ” w i n this season again, citi n g h i s d

i c a t i o n , mental attitude and skill as the keys to his success

Nevinger and sophomore Jace Bennett and 10 place winners for the weekend

Thanks to his wins, Garrett was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler o f t h e To u r n a m e n t a n d t h e E I WA

According to Dake, “Cornell is not to be messed with this year.”

The season began w i t h C o r n e l l’s f i r s t matchup against Binghamton on Nov 16 at home where the Red dominated t h e B e a r c a t s , 3 0 - 7 Hi

f r e s h m a n Na h s h o n G a r r e t

who won his matchup with a 1 4 - 1 m a j o r d e c i s i o n Also, Dake, took on Adam Lepkowski in the 165 lbs class and grabbed a win for the day Rounding it out was freshman Craig Scott who took on Cody Reed at 184 and narrowly won, 6-4, in a back and for th battle

Corn e ll t h e n c on t in u e d it s jam-packed weekend as it hoste d t h e Ne w Yo r k St a t e C o l l e g i a t e Wr e s t l i n g

Championships on Nov 17-18

The Red won the team title thanks to four individual champio n s G a r r e t t , S c o t t , j u n i o r M i k e

Wrestler of the Week for that week

“ T h e a d j u s t m e n t [

wrestling] was

bit difficult I took last year off and worked on a lot of things, that helped the transition [be] easier Once I got the hang of it though, wrestling in the college style is

Garrett said

“I think the coaches and Nahshon were the only ones that believed he is as good as he is [in the beginning],” added coach Koll “He reminds me a lot of a smaller Kyle Dake People are really taking notice of Nahshon [now] ” Garrett went 5-0 for the weekend at the state tournament and is currently 13-0 for the season so far an impressive feat for a rookie

“All of the older guys have given me some aspect of life or wrestling that I have grown from since I’ve been here It would be unfair to point out names

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

C.U. Police: Repor t

Of Att empt ed Rape

Proven to Be False

Video evidence refutes claims, police say

By KERRY CLOSE Sun News Editor

An attempted rape reported to have occurred on campus this September did not in fact happen, Cornell police announced Thursday Police say there is “irrefutable evidence” that the allegations were false and they may pursue charges against the person who made the attempted rape report, Chief Kathy Zoner said

On Sept 27, a female reported to the Cornell University Police Department that a male assailant had grabbed her on the Trolley Bridge –– which connects Oak Avenue and the Engineering Quad –– and dragged her into the adjacent woods before attempting to rape her The female told CUPD that there she struggled against her attacker before she was able to strike him in the face and flee from the scene

But after an “exhaustive investigation,” CUPD says the attempted rape did not occur and that the case has been closed

Zoner said that video evidence, among other sources, refuted the complainant’s claims

“For the times in question, I have video showing the [complainant] is somewhere else,” Zoner said “There is video and other objective evidence showing that [she was not] in the place she said she was ”

Over the course of their investigation, CUPD officers conducted interviews with a number of people, including the person who alleged the attack and her friends, potential suspects and witnesses The information from these interviews, along with the video evidence, proved “wholly inconsistent with the account provided by the complainant,” according to CUPD

Though the complainant has not been criminally charged, Zoner said this option is still under consideration

“[The report] caused considerable alarm among community members and resulted in the allocation of substantial resources that could have been devoted to other incidents currently under investigation by the Cornell police,” she said

Despite receiving a false report, Zoner stressed CUPD’s

Dean Remains on Corporate Payrolls, Sparking Debate About WCMC Research

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

T h e d e a n o f We i l l C o r n e l l

Medical College has remained a highranking director at two of the world’s largest medical companies since she was named to WCMC’s top post in Fall 2011 While some experts question whether her multiple allegiances endanger the objectivity of research produced at the medical college, others dismiss these concerns and say that the dean’s ties to industry should

be viewed as an asset

In addition to receiving an academic salar y from Cornell, WCMC Dean Laurie Glimcher receives sixfigure salaries annually from pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Waters Corporation, a laboratory equipment company, according to the companies’ filings with the U S Se c u r

Exc

Commission There are no allegations that Glimcher has used her position at Weill to do anything illegal or to steer the school to purchase those

University Intensi es Ef

to Recruit Veterans to Work Force

By

As part of a Universitywide diversity push, Cornell is trying to recruit veterans to the University’s faculty and staff –– efforts that have greatly expanded and accelerated over the past few years, according to Lynette Chappell-Williams, associate vice president of the Department of Inclusion and Workforce Diversity

“The initiative is moving quickly,” Chappell-Williams said “We expect that the connections that we are making will start to have a real impact ” The University has

focused on identifying strategies to help it connect with military talent and ensure that veterans become acclimated to the Cornell workforce once they are hired, said Davine Bey, manager of talent acquisition in Cornell’s Recruitment and Employment Center In particular, the University hopes to recruit veterans for non-academic positions –– such as engineers, facility managers and Cornell police officers, Bey said One initiative that has aided this effort was the creation of the Veteran’s Colleague Network Group in November 2010 This group

brings together veterans with similar backgrounds or experience in order to help them cope with the challenges associated with returning to civilian life, according to Chappell-Williams “ Veteran culture [and] military life it’s a different language than civilian life,” Bey said “There’s often a communication gap ”

Chappel-Williams said the group has proven effective in opening lines of communication about the specific needs of veterans

“It was when we formed the Veteran’s Colleague Network Group that we got

companies’ products

But leading research ethicists say such close financial ties to big business can prove harmful in less obviously wrong ways Having a medical college’s top official personally and financially invested in the profits of the medical industry can stifle acade-

research

said

George Frantz Lecture: Planning Disaster Resistant Communities 12:20 - 2 p m , Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

C U Music: Composers’ Forum 1:25 - 3 p m , 316 Lincoln Hall All Nighter 6 p m - 2 a m , Robert Purcell Community Center

C U Music: Jazz Band with vocalist Tessa Buono 8 - 9:30 p m , Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Avenue Salsa & Latin Dance

Tomorrow

The Chai Notes a Capella Fall Concert: “Tradition!”

Auditorium, Barnes Hall

to you You need to decide whether an o ccupying force which has b een implementing a systematic program of ethnic cleansing for decades has any foundation at all on which to claim self-defense You need to decide whether you stand with the o ccupier or with the o ccupied ” Tom Mo ore ’14 N ews, “C orn

Aft er 2011 Storms, C.U. Receives Grant to Repair Gorge Trails

Funding

By KERRY CLOSE Sun News Editor

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e m e n t f u n d s a l re a d y

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t o re s t o r i n g C a s c a d i l l a Go r g e t r a i l – – $ 1 3 m i l l i o n o f w h i c h h a s a l re a d y b e e n u s e d T h e g r a n t , t h e re f o re , w i l l p rove i n d i s p e n s a b l e t o f u n d i n g t h e re m a i n i n g w o rk o n t h e t r a i l , a c c o rd i n g t o Bi t t n e r T h e g r a n t w i l l f u n d b o t h d e b r i s re m ova l a n d i n f r as t r u c t u re re p a i r s , a c c o rd i n g t o Bi t t n e r “ T h e re ’ s b e e n s o m e ro c k a n d g r a ve l a n d s a n d w a s h e d d ow n i n t o t h e t r a i l a n d p a r t i a l l y b u r y i n g p a r t s o f t h e t r a i l , ” Bi t t n e r s a i d “ T h e n t h e re w i l l b e re p a i r s t o t h e t r a i l s t h e m s e l ve s , s t a i rc a s e s a n d r a i l i n g s ” T h e g r a n t w i l l a l s o a l l ow t h

t h e m w i t h b l a c k , m e t a l r a i l i n g s t h a t w i l l w i t h s t a n d f l o o d i n g b e t t e r ” He a l s o s a i d t h e g r a n t w i l l a l l ow t h e Un i ve r s i t y t o r a i s e s e c t i o n s o f t h e t r a i l t h a t a re m o s t v u l n e r a b l e t o f l o o d i n g by b e t we e n 1 2 a n d 1 8 i n c h e s

“ T h a t w i l l g i ve u s s o m e b re a t h i n g ro o m b e f o re t h e w a t e r e a t s

Kerry

Dear Uncle Ezra Shuts Down, Citing Need to Adapt to Web

By UTSAV RAI Sun Staff Wr ter

After ser ving the Cornell community for more than two decades, Dear Uncle Ezra ––a website through which students, faculty, parents and alumni could receive answers to any Cornell-related question –– is on leave

Dear Uncle Ezra was founded in the fall of 1986 and responds anonymously to readers ’ questions, grew so popular that it was profiled in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek

The website has not posted anything since May 10, with the expection of a post that states the website is “under construction” so it can more rapidly respond to its readers’ queries

“‘Dear Uncle Ezra’ wi ll be closed as we explore faster and better ways to respond to your questions The internet has advanced by leaps and bounds and our old and antiquated ‘Dear Uncle Ezra’ site is far too slow to meet your needs,” it states

Since its inception, Dear Uncle Ezra has inspired similar online ser vices such as “Go Ask Alice!” at Columbia University and “Ask Ralphie” at University of Colorado Boulder, according to its website

Students say they will miss the website and the wisdom it doled out

Joan Campos ’15 said Dear Uncle Ezra was an accessible way to obtain answers to questions she had about the University

“I am sad to see that it is going offline, and I hope it comes back soon, ” she said

C a m p o s s a i d t h a t D e a r Un c l e E z r a ser ved as “ an easy way to ask questions that students were sometimes too embarrassed to ask, either because they didn’t know where to find the answer or were afraid that it was a stupid inquir y ” She also added that the site helped her

learn about “fun Cornell traditions and myths ” Eleni Konidaris ’15 said she will miss Dear Uncle Ezra’s funny postings

“Uncle Ezra was, by far, one of my favourite columns It gave great advice that helped many students, including myself, especially the funny and random things one c o u l d l e a r n a b o u t C o r n e l l a n d f e l l ow Cornellians,” she said

Konidaris said she hopes the website will become active again in the near future

“I will greatly miss [Dear Uncle Ezra], so fingers crossed it comes back online soon, ” Konidaris said

Sejal Shah ’15 loved Dear Uncle Ezra for the interesting facts that one could learn about Cornell among other things posted on the site

“It’s really sad that Dear Uncle Ezra is temporarily closed It’s a unique site that has great witty pieces of advice for students, helps answer questions, and provides ways to learn more about the Cornell community, ” she said “I do hope that the site is back soon ”

Laura Harter ’15 used the column as a valuable resource while she was researching Cornell as a potential school to join

"To make my decision on whether to come to Cornell, I went on the Internet and looked up ever ything related to the school and one of the things that I stumbled on was Dear Uncle Ezra, which answered all my questions from sur viving freshman year to the different quirks of college life," she said

“It is unfortunate that it has stopped running for future students to use and love like I did,” she added

Utsav Rai can be reached at urai@cornellsun com

Univ. Says Ef forts to Recruit Veterans Have Been Successful

VETERANS

Continued from page 1

some great feedback about things that we can be doing to both hire more veterans, as well as to create a better environment for those who have ser ved in the militar y, ” she said

Prof Daniel Weed, naval science, vice chair of the VCNG, said the group is also focusing on reaching the community It has partnered with veterans ’ networking groups in the area, such as the Southern Tier Veterans Support Group, the largest in the Tompkins County area, he said

Among the VCNG’s primar y goals is helping veterans and other members of the Cornell community understand policies on matters such as taking time off before being deployed and taking care of someone who has returned from the militar y, Chappell-Williams said

The initiative to recruit veterans has had to address the stereotypes and misconceptions hiring managers often hold toward veterans, according to Chappell-Williams In response, the Division of Inclusion and Workplace Diversity has organized workshops within the human resources department “ to work with those who are in hiring situations to understand how to translate militar y experience into civilian experience,” Chappell-Williams said

When reading over applicants’ resumes, the language used to describe militar y experience is often hard for employers to interpret, she said

“It’s hard to understand that if [a veteran] managed a battalion it means that they managed a workforce,” Chappell-Williams said “It’s the same thing, just a different way of explaining it ”

In order to overcome these challenges, the Recruitment and Employment Center is creating outreach and awareness strategies to educate employers within the Cornell community about the value of of hiring veterans, Bey said

An additional challenge veterans must overcome is the stigma that many of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder To address this, “ we are helping individuals understand these stereotypes and how they are not true across the board,” Chappell-Williams said

In addition to addressing misconceptions, Cornell is undergoing rebranding efforts to send the message “that we are an employer of choice,” Bey said

“You’re going to begin to see messaging and marketing campaigns that are specifically aimed at hiring veterans, ” he said

Weed said the initiative has already experienced success among both veterans and members of the Cornell community

“ There is tremendous community support for veterans in the area, and veterans here greatly appreciate that,” Weed said

The University is also tr ying to take advantage of its location to attract more veterans According to census data from 2000, veterans have a preference for smaller towns, which puts Ithaca in a great position for recruiting individuals, according to Chappell-Williams

Weed echoed this sentiment, drawing on his personal experience moving to Ithaca

“Once I came to Ithaca, I found that the opportunities here were outstanding The community is exceptional,” Weed said “So many of us, when we come here, want to stay because we enjoy the community, the people, the lifestyle and the opportunities here ”

CUPD Pledges to Continue To Combat S exual A ssault

commitment to thoroughly investigating all sexual assault reports it receives

“Just because this particular incident was proven to have not happened does not in any way, shape or form affect how we investigate every crime,” Zoner said “We always take every fact given to us seriously We approach everything with the belief that facts presented to us are true ”

She also said that CUPD remains concerned by the number of reports of sexual assault it has received this semester, emphasizing that the department intends to

continue with increased patrols on weekend nights and sending out weekly emails to the community encouraging people to take proper safety precautions

“[The false report] was by no means the only report of sexual assault,” Zoner said “We want to reassure our community that we ’ re there for them and we are a resource If someone has been assaulted, we want to provide safety for them to report the crime to us [The false report] doesn’t mean that a real report [of sexual assault] couldn’t happen ”

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Leaders of Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting effort approved an $11 million grant to a biomedical company even though the proposal wasn ’ t reviewed, according to an internal audit that deepens the troubles of a state agency that has been denounced in recent months by some of the world's top scientists

The discovery was uncovered during an internal review of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, and its grant to Peloton Therapeutics Inc in 2010 was among the first it handed out The Dallasbased company ' s commercialization award remains one of agency ' s largest taxpayer-funded grants to date

The Associated Press on Thursday first reported the audit's findings, which were later announced by the agency Tim Kutzkey, Peloton's acting chief executive officer, declined comment and referred questions to CPRIT In a statement, the agency said the company was unaware that “CPRIT processes had not been followed ”

The cancer institute is home to the nation’s second largest pot of cancer-research money, behind only the National Institutes of Health, and has awarded nearly $700 million But it has come under intensifying scrutiny as several scientists, including two Nobel laureates, resigned in protest claiming the agency was charting a new politically driven path that put commercial interests before science

CPRIT said the internal review did not uncover problems with any other commercialization awards

The Peloton revelation is the latest blow to CPRIT, which launched in 2009 to widespread acclaim among scientists and cancer survivors but has spent the past year unraveling Dozens of scientists have resigned from the agency ' s peer review panels en masse in recent weeks, some of whom criticized the fund for “hucksterism” and “suspicion of favoritism” on their way out the door

Pelton’s application would have been presented to the agency ’ s oversight committee by Jerry Cobbs, the agency ’ s chief commercialization officer Cobbs announced his resignation this month, and his last day was set for Friday

Members of the oversight committee are appointed by Gov Rick Perry and other state elected leaders

The panel has the final say on whether an award is funded, but under agency rules, all applications must be reviewed by an outside panel of peer reviewers who evaluate the scientific and commercial merits of the proposal

The agency ' s statement did not explain how Pelton’s application made it through the process without anyone noticing that a review never took place It only said that Cobbs “improperly included” the proposal in a slate of other recommendations to the oversight committee in 2010

Attempts by the AP to reach Cobbs were not immediately successful Thursday evening

Bill Gimson, the executive director of CPRIT who vowed that his reeling agency would recover from the growing onslaught of criticism at its annual conference in October, said in response to the audit's findings that the agency must have the state ' s trust “We proactively initiated this comprehensive review in the effort to be transparent and ensure good stewardship,” Gimson said

Peloton’s funding has been halted and the company ' s application is undergoing a second review, the agency said

According to Peloton's most recent annual report to the CPRIT, which was obtained by AP, the company has attracted $18 million in outside investments since it was founded in 2010 by Steven McKnight, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center “Peloton Therapeutics aims to become a leading oncology company through the discovery and development of superior therapeutics, delivering extraordinary value to its employees, investors, and ultimately, cancer patients,” according to the company ' s application summary

CPRIT started behind a push led by cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and Perry spent most of its first five years basking in praise and industry awe of the unprecedented amount of taxpayer dollars committed to a state-run, cancer-fighting effort But those plaudits abruptly gave way to rebukes starting in May,

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Special Edition: Climate SCIENCE

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Science Editor

Winter 2012 in Ithaca has been notably snowless despite December’s rapid approach. The past decade has brought an increase in global temperatures, a decrease in arctic ice and an increase in destructive hurricanes – with Hurricane Sandy battering the Northeast this past month in an unprecedented series of weather events. What appears to be a drastic change in regional weather patterns, many scientists attribute to global climate change. The temperature changes occurring on the Earth are expected to have a cascading effect that may change the lives of many of the planet’s flora and fauna. This week in Science we take a look at what climate change it is and its possible effects toward extreme weather and species extinction, as well as how Cornell scientists are monitoring it to help create future mitigation plans.

The Mechanisms of Climate Change

“Climate change refers to a long term change in the properties of the climate system,” said Prof. Charles Greene, earth and atmospheric sciences. Recently, climate change has been used to refer to man-made changes that cause global warming. Although many factors combine to produce climate change and global warming, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and nitrous oxide are some of the more wellknown factors. While the most concentrated greenhouse gas is water vapor, according to Greene, carbon dioxide is the most concerning greenhouse gas, because humans are changing how much of it is airborne most rapidly.

Although the climate is always changing, recent changes may exceed what some scientists can explain through natural variations in climate change. According to Prof. Arthur DeGaetano, earth and atmospheric sciences, the scientific evidence points towards human created increases of greenhouse gases as the primary cause for these changes. He said in an email “as the concentration of these “greenhouse gases” increases in the atmosphere, the Earth loses less and less to space. This in turn warms the atmosphere and oceans.”

DeGaetano referred to these processes as feedbacks. The feedbacks, he said in his email, often exaggerate the changes that increased greenhouse gases produce. “For instance, as temperatures warm, the area of the Earth covered by ice will shrink. Ice reflects large quantities of the sun's energy to space. With less ice, more of the sun’s energy is absorbed by Earth, further warming the climate,” he said.

According to DeGaetano, the warming may also lead to changes in precipitation that may cause normally dry areas to get drier while wet areas get wetter. Scientists are currently using climate models to predict future temperature changes cause by climate change over the next hundred years, and plan to use that data to create possible ways of mitigating its effects.

A Link to Hurricane Sandy?

Earth’s climate system is complex, so climate change affects almost all weather patterns in some way. But are these changes to blame for current extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy? Scientists have said that no one weather event could be linked to the effects of climate change.

“The question of whether climate change affected hurricane Sandy does not have a simple answer. I would say yes and no,” said DeGatano. “Climate change did not cause hurricane Sandy, it may have helped to increase the storm's strength.”

Scientists have compared the effects of climate change on hurricanes like Sandy to that of steroid use in major league baseball players. Although a player may increase the amount of homeruns he hits in a season while on steroids, it would not be possible to determine which specific homerun was the result of the steroid use. Only the increasing trend can be measured. This related to climate change and super storms because scientists cannot attribute an individual hurricane, whether it is Sandy or Katrina, to climate change. But they can attribute the increasing trend of strong storms to climate change in general.

“Scientists are expecting more extreme weather conditions like

higher frequencies of heat waves and droughts in some regions, floods, harsh winter cold and snow storms in other regions,” said Greene.

According to DeGaetano the take home lesson from Hurricane Sandy is that it shows the impacts of climate change. One of the impacts, he said, would be rising sea levels, which may reach more than two-feet in some locations.

“Most of Sandy's impacts were caused by very high storm surges. Her winds and motion caused sea-levels to rise by over 12 feet in some locations,” he said. Increased sea levels may strengthen typical storms, like the ones generally seen every 5 to 10 years, to be levels similar to that of Sandy, said DeGaetano.

Extinction and Climate Change

In addition to impacting weather trends and sea levels, climate change has an effect on the lives of species on earth as well. Slight changes in temperature can make a once habitable location less than suitable for certain species to live in. As a result, many organisms that are sensitive to slight changes in temperature are faced with two options: relocate or perish.

“Species start trying to adapt to climate change, and if they can, then fine, they move somewhere else,” said Prof. Warren Allmon, earth and atmospheric sciences, and an author of the book Climate Change- Past Present and Future: a Very Short Guide. “But if they can’t move somewhere else, what do they do? And that’s when they start disappearing.”

He said that climate change is a current threat for the extinction of many species living today. Increased temperatures have already caused certain species of insects, birds and marine species to change their geographic ranges. According to Allmon as little as two-degree increases in temperature could kill off coral reefs and push maple sugars outside of New York.

Allmon uses exhibits at the Museum of Earth, where he is director of the Paleontological Research Institution, to help explain the link between climate change and extinction. Many museum visitors ask him, if life goes on after certain species go extinct, why is extinction a problem? The problem, he said, deals with the quality of life on earth after certain extinction events.

“The short answer is, you wouldn’t have wanted to live on the Earth the day after the dinosaurs disappeared, and you wouldn’t want to live on the earth if global temperatures go up 5 degrees. And you don’t want your grandchildren or your great grandchildren to live on that earth, either.”

According to Allmon, the rates of climate change that are occurring now may not be unprecedented in the history of the

Earth, but they are most likely unprecedented in the 10,000 year history of our species. “The message from the geological record is not that this has never happened before, the message is that when climate change of this magnitude happens, large and unpredictable things can occur.”

A striking example of an extinction event happening now that is related to climate change is coral reefs. Currently coral reefs are suffering under multiple problems such as having pollutants dumped on them from people, silt dumped on them from erosion and warming ocean waters that are becoming more acidified. Although corals could probably survive one of these insults, they may not thrive in the face of all of them, according to Allmon.

“It’s like with people,” he said. “Your roommate has one bad habit you can tolerate it, but if your roommate has ten bad habits you can’t.”

Coral Reefs and a Warming Ocean

Coral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystem in the ocean, providing shelter for 25-50 percent of the world’s marine life. In addition to providing fish with a place to call home, coral reefs also help create nutrients for other marine wildlife. The corals are like cathedrals of calcium carbonate that are covered with algae. The algae form a symbiotic, or a mutually beneficial, relationship with the coral. They act as the coral’s solar powered energy source using photosynthesis to fix carbon dioxide into organic compounds.

But coral reefs are currently threatened by warming ocean waters because slight increases in water temperature can make them more susceptible to certain diseases. Using a remote satellite study scientists have found that regions where the most warming has occurred also have the highest probabilities of coral disease outbreak. The worst damage from coral disease occurred in the Caribbean in 2005 and 2010, which were two of the warmest years on record besides this year.

“It’s kind of ironic,” said Prof. Drew Harvell, ecology and evolutionary biology. “Here you have these creatures that only live in the tropics, and yet a two-degree temperature increase totally blows their symbiosis. And it’s partly because the algal symbiosis are so temperature sensitive.”

Harvell studies coral microbial interactions, or how corals interact with a fungus or a protozoan, or bacteria. The central focus of her lab group is the immune system of the corals and how corals are susceptible to climate change. She said that the warmer ocean temperatures caused by climate change can create massive coral bleaching, which is when the normally brown, green, purple or orange coral turns white. Coral bleaching occurs because the algae attached to the coral break down as a result of the increased

temperature. This causes no longer connect with their color. Devoid the coral to die, which life that depend on

“The effect of the their leaves turn white” you went outside and like on the reef.”

According to Harvell, much effort studying sentinels for impacts resources. The coral providing an easy to ing and disease.

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The sea fans are susceptible aspergillosis. To fight fungal proteins, which ors, protect it from ty act as the front lines gus from spreading. lesions have been growing years due to the warmer the increase in ocean bode well for the sea C

To identify the change, scientists have identify changes in climate change. Prof. Natalie Mahowald, type of modeling Model (CESM) to simulate The CESM is a climate Foundation and the The CESM provides mate states by splitting al boxes that can partition or oceans or a combination about a few kilometers dred kilometers wide columns that hold anywhere

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ture. This causes the coral to turn white because they are er connect with the algae in their tissues which give them or. Devoid of its endosymbionts for a long time can cause to die, which would cause adverse effects on the marine depend on it.

“ effect of the bleaching is as if all of the trees outside had ves turn white” said Harvell. “You’d be pretty shocked if t outside and all the trees were white, that’s what it looks he reef.”

A rding to Harvell, one of the reasons she has spent so m fort studying the corals is because she thinks that they are for impacts that are affecting sustainability marine s. The coral acts like the ocean’s canary in the coalmine, g an easy to see warning of the impacts of climate warmdisease.

R ed to the coral reef are sea fans, another organism that H studies which are similarly affected by climate change. fans are susceptible to a fungus-caused disease called osis. To fight the disease, the sea fan creates zones of antiroteins, which are identifiable by their bright purple colect it from aspergillosis’ advances. The zones of immunithe front lines in the sea fan’s efforts to prevent the funm spreading. As scientists like Harvell have studied, the have been growing faster and bigger the in the past 15 e to the warmer temperatures. Their research shows that ase in ocean warming caused by climate change, does not ll for the sea fan’s defenses.

Climate Models: Predicting the Change

T dentify the regions that are most susceptible to climate scientists have tools like climate models which help them changes in the atmosphere and predict future effects of change. Prof. Peter Hess, biological engineering, and Prof. N Mahowald, earth and atmospheric sciences, have used a modeling system known as the Climate Earth System M CESM) to simulate past, present and future climate states. SM is a climate model supported by the National Science ion and the Department of Energy.

T CESM provides a computer simulation of different clim tes by splitting up the Earth into millions of 3-dimensionthat can partition off certain areas of the atmosphere, land s or a combination of the three. These 3-D boxes are only few kilometers in height, but typically stretch a few hunometers wide in latitude and longitude. The boxes stack in that hold anywhere between 30 to 40 vertical layers.

According to Hess, the models look at how heat moves within a box and transfers between boxes. The typical box in the computer simulation has incoming heat radiating from the sun. It also has outgoing heat, which can be lost transferred through wind and water processes like condensation and evaporation. The models can provide average temperature in a box over the course of years.

When predicting the climate under different scenarios, the scientists input different codes into the computer simulation. The CESM consists of millions of lines of code. Some of these codes are variables within the system that can be altered, such as CO2 emissions. The system will show what temperature changes occur when the variables for CO2 emissions are changed within the model formulation.

“If I add so much CO2 emissions for the next hundred years, [the model] will tell what the temperature will be over the US or over Europe,” said Hess.

There are many different types of scenarios that scientists use when predicting climate change. Two of the most reference scenarios are the “climate commitment” scenarios and the “business as usual” scenario. According to Mahowald, the “climate commitment” scenario portrays the climate in the future as it would be if CO2 levels stayed constant at the current level of about 390 parts per million. The “business as usual” scenario predicts what future climates would be if carbon dioxide emissions continued to increase at the same rate as they are now — about 1-2% per year. Mahowald said that this scenario would increase CO2 levels by 3 or 4 parts per million per year into the atmosphere, bringing the total amount to around 700 to 800 ppm by 2100.

The “business as usual” scenarios is not synonymous with a worst-case climate change scenario, rather it’s the result of aggressive mitigation in future carbon emissions. The “carbon commitment” scenarios would occur if only a miniscule amount of carbon emission was produced in the future and alternative sources of energy came more prominently into play worldwide.

Mahowald uses climate models as one of her primary resources for providing as a scientific view on the current condition of climate change as well as its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment report. The report, which is one of the key documents in the scientific and policy debates on climate change, is due to come out sometime between 2013 and 2014.

Both and Hess and Mahowald pointed out that though the models provide useful estimates, scientists still need to treat the predictions with caution. Still, models like the CESM are the best methods for predicting future climate change effects according to Hess. He said that the model provides a way to interpret different chemical measurements in the atmosphere as well as shows how the different processes and observations are linked together.

“It lets you experiment with the system because the Earth isn’t something you could put in a laboratory, so one of the easiest ways to experiment with it is with one of these models.”

Mahowald agrees. “They’re one of many tools that help us assess how much CO2 we can emit safely as well as identify regions of vulnerability” Mahowald said. She also said that by identifying vulnerable areas, scientists could help make efforts towards creating resiliency in those regions for the future.

Kathleen Bitter contributed reporting for this article.

Nicholas St Fleur can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun com, Sarah Cohen can be reached at scohen@cornellsun com

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Daniel Craig’s Bond is a gritty, emotive take on the beloved superspy After the narrative mess that was Quantum of Solace, however, some thought that the Craig Bond was heading for the boondocks Luckily, Skyfall vindicates this Bond with a vengeance This Bond flick captures much of the old allure of the Sean Connery and Roger Moore days, with its eccentric villain, played by the inestimable Javier Bardem, chewing the scenery in the tradition of Dr No and Ernst Blofeld And it’s a relief that the silly gadgetry fetish of the Brosnan era (invisible car?) has all but disappeared from the franchise Regardless, this Bond delivers action and a surprising emotive punch, delving into the depths of Bond’s vulnerable soul

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These actors brilliantly execute this fabulous piece of writing to produce a film that is hilarious, bloody and tremendously entertaining

Sure, make fun of Cloud Atlas all you want, for its nearly three-hour length or race and gender-bending actors or whatever But, for the few of us who actually saw it, the film, directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, prevails as an unbelievably ambitious human story that engages from start to finish Connecting six storylines that span as many centuries, Cloud Atlas juggles SFX heavy action, screwball comedy, tragic romance and countless other genres It’s a bit rough around the edges, yes, but it’s all in service of a message that champions civil rights and kindness Cloud Atlas is a sincere, spectacular epic that, by some mad miracle, exists at all

There is no film like Beasts of the Southern Wild The Sundance-winner is a coming-of-age fantasy set against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina that serves as both a fairytale and a piece of gripping history Hushpuppy and her alcoholic father live happily together in the impoverished Bathtub, a piece of land beyond the levees When a great storm and mythical beasts charge towards the Bathtub, Hushpuppy must grow up quickly to save her sickly father

First-time actors Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry are absolute powerhouses as Hushpuppy and her daddy, and young director Benh Zeitlin films his characters and the natural world that surrounds them with intimacy and love Painfully real and absolutely magical, Beasts of the Southern Wild restores your faith in original storytelling

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BY KATERINA ATHANASIOU Sun Senior Editor

Chances are you are familiar with Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger’s best-known work He’s also the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who had unprecedented access to Philadelphia’s mayor, Ed Rendell, and recently wrote a memoir, Father’s Day On Thursday, Bissinger visited Cornell as part of the Lawrence and Judith Tanenbaum Distinguished Speaker Series of The Sigma Phi Society to give a talk about college sports The Sun sat down with Bissinger to talk journalism, corruption and the pain and joy of writing

THE SUN: How did you transition from writing about court corruption to high school football?

BUZZ BISSINGER: Well, all journalists have a dream of writing a book I had a Harvard Nieman Fellowship in 1985 It was an incredibly stimulating year You can take any course at the university you get to meet all these professors and amazing people I took a trip out west with a friend and that’s when you would see these stadiums and they were immaculate the grass would be watered even if there was a drought I decided there are a few places to do this Texas, a town in Georgia, or Western Pennsylvania Then I called a few college recruiters and they said you have to go to Texas I went to Odessa not technically a small town, but it felt like a small place because it’s so isolated This was high school football it was a really big deal

SUN: Many students are interested in journalism but aren ’ t sure where to start Where did you begin? Was it your education at Andover and UPenn or external influences?

B.B.: It was definitely my education My uncle had been a photographer for Life after college He had worked on the Princeton paper and he had actually also written on the Andover paper, too And because of him, I became enamored with journalism and Andover had a weekly newspaper and I joined it and fell in love with it And I really learned the basics of journalism I often wonder if my life would have been different if I had not been afforded that opportunity And at Penn, like the Cornell paper, it comes out five times a week I went there the first day and basically lived there for the next four years It was great worked with really smart people and as you say, there’s a lot on the line You’re covering a community and a complex community,

and a community filled with some of the most thin skinned people there are administrators But you become a key source of news and that was great training and off I went to join the professional life

SUN: Journalists are motivated by different causes a drive for public service, a love for investigation, a passion for storytelling What does your personal connection to journalism stem from?

B B : I was always drawn toward the storytelling part It was a massive puzzle of public documents and interviews and trying to put them together to tell a story That was the part that was most challenging to me, and that I loved the best I think most of the great nonfiction writers, and most of the best journalists enjoy putting together a puzzle There’s no greater feeling than finding that document you never thought you would find

Sam Bromer is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun com

SUN: What has been your biggest challenge in all your years of writing either situational or overall?

B B : I think my biggest challenge was writing A Prayer for The City It was a long time, it was trying to write something exciting about government, and government moves slowly You’re writing about things that aren ’ t inherently sexy it’s not like high school football where kids are being sent out like gladiators to an early death It’s politics It took me five and a half years to write the whole process and it was hard There were times when I got extremely depressed I couldn’t find the voice for the book and I lost confidence But, you know, bit by bit you see pathways, and it’s the book I’m the proudest of That and Father’s Day

SUN: We’ve been really lucky at The Sun to have different journalists come to Cornell and have had the chance to meet with them Last spring, Ian Urbina shared a few stories about what he does as an investigative journalist Do you have any stories about being an investigative reporter in Philadelphia?

B.B.: It’s endlessly arduous Weeks and weeks and weeks to find a little crumb When I was doing A Prayer for The City, the thing about Ed Rendell is that he is like a kid He loved to give me access So I remember, and it was a really

important piece in the story It was at the beginning when the labor unions were up against the city It goes on for months But all that matters is the meeting they called it “the meet ” between the head of the unions and Rendell There’s no way they’re gonna let me into that meeting No way So there was his head of security who said Rendell had two entrances to his office And so he propped [the door] open I sat on my hands and knees so I could hear their meeting That’s reporting, just a hell of a lot of work

SUN: How did you keep yourself motivated on your long term assignments?

B B : It’s hard I went through a terrible depression I took medicine, which I still take now What kept me going was that there were certain moments that were so magical And so engaging

So the best thing about writing is that when it goes well, it’s almost orgasmic But when it goes bad, it’s really bad You just get stuck The best advice I heard from my friend who writes mysteries is that whatever you do, you have to write every day And I keep to that When you become confident with where you ’ re going, that’s when it becomes really exciting

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Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning She can be reached at kathanasiou@cornellsun com

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The Red continued to Albany, N Y over Thanksgiving break for the Journeymen Northeast Duals where Cornell was able to defeat Drexel, Central Michigan and Oklahoma University

The matchup against Drexel was a slaughtering, with Cornell beating the Dragons, 40-0 The last two were much closer with the win over Central Michigan being 17-15 and the victor y over Oklahoma University being 2513 for the Red

For the day, Dake and Garrett went 3-0 and Bennett was able to earn bonus points in all three of his wins

Cornell will head into this we e k e n d a t t h e L a s Ve g a s Invitational for a two-day showdown against some tough competitors

“[Las Vegas] is one of our biggest tournaments historically and one of the tougher ones that we have gone to It tests where we are I am expecting the same thing this year There are some t o u g h t e a m s t h i s ye a r Michigan is going to be there It is going to be a good test, ” Dake said

The team will continue on to the Grapple at the Garden for the first time on Dec 16 “ We are going to be in front of a bunch of Cornellians We are hoping to make it as much of a home event as possible,” coach Koll said

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The wrestlers for the Red will face up against the University of Missouri and Oklahoma State two matches that are expected to be extremely challenging The Red will then continue into next s e m e s t e r w i t h t h e So u t h e r n Scuffle in Tennessee and then head into regular play for the rest of the season The culmination of the season will be the National Du a l s w h i c h w i l l b e h e l d i n Ithaca at Friedman and then the t e a m w

y spring for those who qualify

“[ We will] prove to the whole countr y that Cornell is not to be messed with this year, ” Dake said Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com

For Love of the Game and Family

For those fellow students that I have scared with my yelling, I sincerely apologize I have tried to explain to those who I have visibly offended, but I am sure that there are many more of you that have suffered emotional damage from my irrational displays

While this shows my recent dedication to Northwestern, one of my first Northwestern memories also defines the way in which my family commits to college football

I was probably four or five years old, and it was just me and my dad heading to the Northwestern game in Evanston I wasn ’ t feeling well, and I got sick in the car

Where most parents would quickly turn home and feed their child soup and take the day off, that was simply not an option for my family

Rather my dad bought me a new t-shirt, we threw out the old one and then proceeded as if nothing had happened While this may seem like an unreasonable decision, it is not only one that is not surprising to anyone that knows my family, but it is also a decision that I support in every way

In this way, Northwestern football has always been a part of my life I missed many birthday parties throughout my childhood, and from the age of four to eighteen, I only missed two home games

My friends always struggled to understand the appeal of leaving our house on the weekend at precisely 7:00 a m to tailgate until precisely 10:30 a m , head to the stadium to watch the pregame, watch the game and then stay at our tailgate until 5:00 p m However, this is how my fall Saturdays have always been spent

From there, it evolved into a matter of pride No matter the weather, time of day or circumstances, the Newcombs would be at

Ryan Field Through hot Chicago games at the end of August, through downpours (where my father always lovingly preached “Once you ’ re wet, you ’ re wet, you’ll live”) and through snow, we have stayed to support Northwestern to the very end

I have understood throughout my life that this dedication was well past obsessive and into insanity, and it was only a couple of weeks ago at a Cornell football game where it started to hail that my friend turned to me to say, “Your family does this how many times a year? And for fun?”

Outside of our Northwestern family, it is clear that our decisions are not rational They are not reasonable, and many would not understand why they are a staple of my life

I say all of this to try and help any reader to understand that in many ways my love of Northwestern is no longer a choice It is truly a sick way to feel, and I guarantee that the stress that the “Cardiac Cats” (for all of their extremely close games) have caused will undoubtedly take years off of my life

However, I am forever proud of my family and our commitment to Northwestern For the sports fans out there, there should be even more respect for this support given that Northwestern is not a team that wins consistently While their histor y has much improved in my lifetime, there is still a lot of heartbreak as a Northwestern fan A lot

Where some families eat dinner together, spend holidays together, or share a hobby, my family shares Northwestern football It is an activity that has brought us closer my whole life, and something that we will always do together So yes, my family may be ridiculous, but yes, we do this for fun

Annie Newcomb can be reached at anewcomb@cornellsun com

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players within the Canada hockey program, ” Jenner said, “[but the] bottom line is we ’ re going there to win and they stand in the way We’re thinking about our job and what we have to do ” Despite having fewer than 4,000 undergraduates, Clarkson’s Cheel Arena will remain a hostile road environment in a battle of Top3 teams “It’s a tough crowd to play in front of Clarkson has a lot of wild and supportive fans but it’s fun,” Jenner said “When you ’ re a high-level athlete, you like going into those not-sofriendly arenas and seeing if you can quiet the crowd, so we ’ re excited ” Meanwhile, St Lawrence has caught fire with a 7-1-1 record following an 0-5 start to the season The Red picked up a 5-1 victory against the Saints earlier this season, but St Lawrence holds a 32-26-4 record in the alltime series, including a notable 3-1 win in the 2011-2012 conference playoffs Despite having an even smaller undergraduate population, 2,300, the Saints have also maintained a strong hockey program “[Both schools] have a history of having very strong women ’ s [hockey] programs, ” Jenner noted “They’ve always been at the top end of the ECAC and we never take these teams lightly Clarkson’s given us a lot of trouble when we go there and St Lawrence obviously they beat us in the ECAC final last year They have a tradition of

high quality women ’ s hockey programs and that’s what we ’ re trying to build here at Cornell so we definitely don’t take them lightly as opponents ” For the Red to emerge from the weekend unscathed, it will need to play grind-it-out hockey against a Clarkson team that has only given up more than two goals twice this season and a St Lawrence squad that has done so only once since playing Cornell on October 23rd “Both teams play a pretty physical game so we have to expect to battle with them right away, ” Jenner said

“Our main goal is just to get back into the win column.”

Win or lose, Cornell will end 2012 with a w i n n i n g record and at least seven conference victories With this weekend’s road trip marking the last hockey action until January 12th at Northeastern, however, the team wants to finish the year on a high note

“We’re going to be ready to go this weekend,” Jenner said confidently “[Last weekend’s Harvard game], despite the outcome, just fuels the fire more I think we just want to get back onto the ice as soon as possible and show that’s not our team that’s not what we ’ re going to be like this year Some things happen and we ’ re going to learn from it and move on and be better from it ”

“Our main goal is just to get back into the win column We just want to go out and sweep, ” she said

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

Cornell Faces ECAC Rivals in Home Weekend

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The No 12/12 Red (4-3-2, 1-3-2 ECAC Hockey) returns to Lynah Rink this weekend to finish out the fall semester with two home games against ECAC and upstate Ne w York rivals Clarkson (2-5-5, 2-1-1) and St Lawrence (6-4-2, 0-2-2) Cornell takes on Clarkson at 7

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p m on Friday Nov 30 and then St Lawrence on Saturday at the same time

“ We’ve done the job non-conference, now obviously in-conference we have to get the job done, and all we can control right now are the two games we are looking at in front of us, ” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86 “Both opponents, Clarkson and St Lawrence, have always played us tough St Lawrence especially, they are ver y similar to ourselves They have had some great games out of conference but not enough in conference so it’s going to be a tough weekend But our focus has been really zeroing in on what we want to get accomplished And we want to play with that same pace and physicality that we played with against Michigan on Saturday ”

The Red comes off a big weekend, where it won a

Michigan, junior goaltender

ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week award on Tuesday

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tain Erik Axell, who also scored his first goal of the seas o n a g a i n s t M i c h i g a n “ E s p e c i a l

Christmas break, it would be nice for us to win these two games and get back in the middle of the pack and gain some momentum ”

The match-up against the Golden Knights will feature some familiar faces, as Clarkson’s head coach Casey Jones used to be the Red’s associate head coach, until he left to go to Clarkson two years ago

“It would be nice for us to win these two games and get back in the middle of the pack ”

man for ward Teemu Tiitinen scored his first collegiate goal at Madison Square Garden

“ These games are ver y impor tant it’s back to the ECAC so we need to get back on a roll here in our own league,” he said “But I think if we just come out and p

Michigan we’ll do fairly well, so we just have to come out strong ”

Although the Red boasts a 3-0 record out of league, these two games are cr ucial to the team ’ s place within ECAC Hockey, as Cornell currently sits in eighth place in the leauge

“Our league record right now isn’t ver y good, so these games are huge for us, ” said senior for ward and tri-cap-

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“ This league is so good and we play all the teams and it’s all so close and ever ything like that, it’s always one of those weekends,” Axell said “I mean, with Casey Jones, their coach for two years and then he comes back here, he’s played here, he knows our team ver y well and ever ything like that so it’s going to be a really tough match-up and a really tough game It’s going to be another tough test for us this weekend, but we ’ re excited for it and we are working hard We are ready for the weekend ” This weekend will prove to be another charitable one for the Red, as the team is

charities this weekend On Friday night is the annual Teddy Bear Toss Bears tossed onto the ice will go to the Cops, Kids and Toys Foundation, and the proceeds from selling the bears will go to the Franziska Racker Centers and to the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes

On Saturday night, Cornell will host its annual Give the Gift of Family Reading book drive Fans can par ticipate by bringing books to the game to donate to the cause The team is working with the Family Reading Par tnership to help low-income families have these books as gifts to give to their children over the holidays

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun com

Cor nell Falls to Stony Brook to End Two-Game Winning Streak for the Red

The Red (3-5) could not overcome a 14-0 r un by the Stony Brook Sea Wolves on Wednesday, falling 76-53 and snapping a two-game winning streak T h e Se a Wo l v e s d o m i n a t e d t h e boards with a 36-20 advantage, led by freshman Jameel Warney’s 19 points and 11 rebounds in just 20 minutes off the bench Leading the Red on the glass with five boards was sophomore for ward Shonn Miller It was only the third time this season Miller recorded fe wer than six rebounds in a game Although senior guard Johnathan Gray posted a season high 17 points hitting five of six long balls from b e y o n d t h e a rc s e n i o r f o r w a rd Eitan Chemerinski was the only other Red player in double digits with 11 In his third star t of the season, freshman guard Nolan Cressler chipped in with 9 points, but the Red’s bench normally an integral par t of the offense

was all but silenced on Wednesday Sophomore guard Devin Cherr y who has recorded double figures in five of the last six games did not score on Wednesday, and senior forward Errick Peck was held to just one point

The Red got within 12 points at the end of the first half and cut the deficit to 11 early in the second half after a three pointer by Gray found the bottom of the net, but the squad could not get any closer than that With one game left on Saturday before winter break, the Red will take on Colgate (3-4) at home The squad faces off against a Raiders team that is coming off an 87-51 shellacking by nationally ranked Syracuse The Red hopes to catch the Raiders while they are down and go into break with one more win under its belt

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By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

After an exciting road trip against ECAC competitors Dartmouth and Harvard last weekend, the Red will head north to battle another pair of rivals Clarkson and St Lawrence to cap off the calendar year

The No 3 Red (9-2, 7-1 ECAC) is looking to rebound from a 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Crimson but will face stiff competition from the No 2 Golden Knights (12-2, 60 ECAC) and the Saints (7-6-1, 5-1 ECAC) Cornell plays Clarkson on Friday night at Cheel Arena and will then head to Canton, N Y to face off against St Lawrence Saturday afternoon at Appleton Arena

“This road trip is always a challenge for us, ” said junior forward Brianne Jenner “We have two of our toughest road trips in a row Harvard-Dartmouth and now Clarkson-St Lawrence It’s always tough to go in [there] The atmospheres are not always welcoming at those two arenas, which is a compliment to the program[s] Clarkson took our spot last week in the national poll so

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obviously we want to claim that back Our goal is to go in to sweep this weekend ” Jenner’s return to Cornell following a brief interlude in Canada has been a much-welcomed addition “It gets you into high-level hockey [as] everyone ’ s kind of getting into their in-season zone, ” Jenner, who was named ECAC play-

er of the week on November 20th, acknowledged Although Jenner has some familiarity with the Red’s upcoming opponents, the rivalry on the ice will be anything but friendly “I’ve played with a lot of the Clarkson

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men and women ’ s Swimming and Diving teams look forward to the upcoming Ithaca College Invitational to put themselves in a strong position going into winter break The Ithaca College Invitational, from Friday November 30th through Sunday December 2nd, is a yearly meet in which Ithaca College hosts a variety of other Universities and Colleges in a weekend long swimming and diving meet The Red will travel to Ithaca College’s A&E Center Aquatics Pavilion and compete throughout this weekend in attempts to win the entire Bomber Invitational

The Red traditionally has a great deal of success at this meet Last year both teams won the entire meet overall, with very strong performances on both sides On the men ’ s side the Red won with an over-

all score of 1,996 points, the next closest team scoring just 1,401 5 On the women ’ s side the Red won with 1,975 points, beating the next closest team with 1,316 The Red has the ability to have a very strong showing and establish a great deal of speed going into winter training This meet gives the Red the opportunity to develop their times even further and to continue to make strides before their next Ivy League meet against Yale University after break

“I believe that as a whole the team is feeling really good We've put in some serious work this season and since we are resting a little and shaving for the meet, this will be a chance to see how much we ' ve accomplished,” said sophomore Timothy Satterthwaite The Red looks to improve on its prior results and have an outstanding showing at Ithaca College this weekend

“The Ithaca Invite provides an opportunity to swim and dive in a Championship-like atmosphere in the middle of the season, ” added Sophomore Diver Thomas Hallowell

This year however, the Invitational will be different This will be the first year that Colgate will be attending the meet Traditionally, the first time the Red would face Colgate would be in a regular season meet This year the Red will face Colgate both in its traditional dual setting and in the Invitational “I think it will give us a great opportunity to see what Colgate's team is looking like this year We beat them last year, and we ' re really hoping to beat them again Having a chance to face them now will be a good opportunity to race hard and dive well,” Hallowell said

This weekend gives the Red a great opportunity to put itself in a championship style environment and prepare itself for the type of situation that will be presented later on in March With break just around the corner and training trips not too far in the future, the Red looks to continue to develop as a team going forward

“This is a great opportunity to swim fast and have a good idea of how fast we can go mid season before the next month and a half of hard training in Puerto Rico and during the break,” Satterthwaite said

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By ARIEL COOPER

Staff Writer

The equestrian team had a rocky start to this season, struggling to match last year ’ s nearly undefeated record While it has been difficult to adjust to the changes in its roster and coaching staff, the Red’s almost perfect victory at its home show two weeks ago gave the team a confidence boost for the rest of the season

“We’re really confident now after the Cornell show that we can make up the point deficit and end up the regional champions,” said senior tri-captain Emily Kowalchik

The Red currently sits in third place in the region behind Alfred and Ithaca, according to Kowalchik There is only an eight point gap between the two teams

“I’m hoping that we can go ahead and win the rest of the horse shows as a team and that the girls will do well individually to qualify for the nationals,” head coach Todd Karn said

to 11th place in the Cacchione class at nationals At the moment, freshman Meridith Meyer, Kowalchik, and sophomore Georgiana de Rham are in second, third, and fourth places respectively in the Cacchione Cup competition

For Meyer, placing this high in the Cacchione during her first year on the team is a big achievement

“It’s really cool and unexpected,” she said

Meyer came to the team with a lot of previous experience In high school she competed on the A circuit, which are high level horse shows In terms of her chances of moving up in the Cacchione, Meyer said “You never know,” she said “I’m not saying it’s not possible but I won ’ t be too disappointed

if I don’t because I still have three more years ”

For de Rham, improving her riding skills means more to her

“For me, it’s not really about the point standings or being the Cacchione rider,” she said “I really care a lot about learning how to ride well and being consistent and effective on a horse ”

Meyer, de Rham and Kowalchik are separated by only a few points

“This year has by far been the closest race between Cornell teammates, ” Kowalchik said “At this point it’s hard because Maria van Buskirk from Ithaca ran away with the lead very early on But we made a lot of headway at the Cornell show We closed the gap [and] there is no longer anyone between her and Cornell riders ”

2012-13 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

• First place finish in the Cornell Show on November 11 with 47 points

• Currently in third place in the region

However, regional champion is not the only title that the squad is looking for this season There is another competition, the Cacchione Cup, in which the team ’ s open riders compete against other individuals in the region The rider who gets the most points during the season wins the Cup and goes on to nationals to compete in a special class against the other region’s Cacchione winners

“It’s the most prestigious award that an IHSA rider can achieve,” Karn said

Last year, Bronwyn Scrivens ‘12 won the Cacchione Cup and rode

Still, the Red is confident that it will go far as a team this season The team plans to attend a Tournament of Champions in January, which will mean that it will have attended one more show than the rest of the region before the season starts up again The last show before break falls on Dec 8

“This is the first time that we ’ ve ever had a show in the middle of exams so I don’t know how that will go, but I think [the] general attitude is so much more positive after our huge win at the home show,” Kowalchik said After his first semester with the team, Karn is impressed by the team and the way that the season has been going “It’s a real team effort and it’s nice to be a part of and nice to see ”

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a solid 2011-2012 indoor season, the men and women ’ s track and field teams are poised to make another run at the Heps championship, which will be hosted this year at Harvard

Both teams finished second to Princeton and Columbia, respectively, at last season ’ s indoor Heps championship, and the main goal this year is to bring the crown back to Cornell

“I think overall we ’ re going to do great, ” said senior co-captain Libby O’Brien “I know we lost a lot of great seniors from last year but we ’ ve picked up some new great athletes ”

Notable returners for the women ’ s team include O’Brien who was a part of the Red’s Heps champion 4x400 team as well as shot put Heps champion Victoria Imbesi, high jump Heps champion Ailish Hanly and cross country Heps champion Katie Kellner

The men ’ s team is also returning numerous strong athletes They include NCAA finalists Montez Blair in high jump and Stephen Mozia in shot put, two-time Heps champion in the long jump Steven Bell, Heps champion Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom and Heps champion in the pole vault Peter Roach

“I think we ’ ve got about five or six very good freshmen,” said head coach Nathan Taylor “I think they’re real talents, and [I can] see some great things from them three months from now ”

“The freshmen are looking very motivated,” said senior sprinter Bruno Hortelano “I see them with a real goal in mind, they’re really willing to work for a victory ”

Senior co-captain Ailish Hanly spoke highly of the freshmen class

“I’ve been really impressed by the strength of these girls mentally Their attitude is so positive,” she said

One of the new faces on the men ’ s side is freshman decathlete Ryan Hynes

“It’s definitely a big transition from high school to college,” he said “My days are really long with a lot of really intense training ”

Aiding the Red in its quest for the Heps title is this year ’ s schedule setup

“The schedule is favorable,” said women ’ s head coach Richard Bowman “The Ivy League championship is being hosted this year at a banked track at Harvard, and we have a few meets that are going to have banked tracks ”

Notable meets for the Red this season include the Invite at The Armory in New York City on January 26th, followed immediately by the Sykes-Sabock Challenge at Penn State on February 2nd

The Red will have five meets in Barton Hall this season including the Cornell Relays on Dec 1 and the Kane Invitational on Feb 9

“I think we ’ re poised to do very well,” said women ’ s senior co-captain Katie Kellner “We’re returning a lot of big contributors and Heps champions from last year ”

Looking beyond the Heps, though, Taylor believes that his men ’ s team contains athletes who have a legitimate shot at competing on the national level at the NCAA finals

“The men ’ s team has ten guys who have a real shot at making it to the [NCAA Finals],” he said “I’m excited to see them compete ”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL /POLO

BAL ANCED SCORING,DEEP BENCH KEY FOR RED

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Coming out of its fourth below 500 season in a row, the women ’ s basketball team has finally had the chance to rebuild The Red has gone from a sophomore heavy team to a squad led by seniors and juniors who have the experience and camaraderie to bring the team back to the top half of the Ivy League

In her tenth season with the Red, head coach Dayna Smith believes that the nine seniors and juniors she has on the roster this year have what it takes to move the team forward

“They are whose leading us every day, on the court, at practice, off the court, ” said Smith

“They’ve played together for so long, they’ve gained a lot of experience through the years and they’ve learned how to lose, they’ve learned how to win ”

The Red’s starting five this year consists of two seniors and three juniors: seniors Clare Fitzpatrick and Spencer Lane and juniors

Allyson DiMagno, Stephanie Long and Shelby Lyman With the exception of Maka Anyanwu ‘12, this is the same starting five that took the floor for the Red last year

“Last year was a nice step for this particular group We have most of our scoring back, most of our minutes played back, and I think that’s what you have been able to see make a difference so far, especially in the close games, ” Smith said

With a record of 3-3 in its tough nonconference schedule so far, the Red’s offense has come from a variety of players Although junior forward Allyson DiMagno is the only player averaging double figures, the squad has five other players averag-

ing six or more points per game

“We’re not made up of super athletes, and we don’t have one superstar, ” said senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick “We’re a team of balanced scoring ”

The Red is also fortunate to have a significant portion of its offense coming from the bench

The squad’s third leading scorer, Taylor Flynn, has come off the bench in all six games, averaging 8 7 points in just 19 7 minutes per game

“We really stress team b a s k e t b a l l and our o f f e n s i v e system is n o t g e a r e d t o w a r d s one person, so we ’ ve been happy that our scoring has been balanced, and as of late

we ’ ve had some bench scoring,” Smith said “[Senior guard] Taylor Flynn has come along in the last two games scoring 26 and 15, [senior forward] Kristina Danielak has come in and hit some big baskets for us, [junior guard] Aspen Chandler has come in and hit some 3’s ”

Although the offense is starting to come together as a unit, the

Red has struggled to score in some of its narrow defeats Against New Hampshire last Sunday, the Red shot 33 percent from the field, 21 percent from behind the arc and missed 12 free throws

However, the Red turned up its defensive pressure in the second half and fought its way back into the game

defense, we will be in every game we play ”

The Red forced 19 turnovers as a team in the game

“We know we can score, but defense is what creates our offense,” Fitzpatrick said “Making teams feel uncomfortable is what will create our transition game and help us move into our offense ”

Under pressure | The Red has used its intense defensive pressure as support for slow offensive games

C o m p e t i n g a t N a t i o n a l L e v e l

By EMILY BERMAN

Sun Staff Writer

After solid performances at last year ’ s national championships, the men and women ’ s polo teams entered this season with high expectations Success has been the story so far, with the women ’ s team riding undefeated including first place at the Bill Field Invitational and the men posting a 5-2 record

Through nine games, the women outscored opponents by a staggering 236-68 While the majority of the matches have been relatively easy wins, both games against defending national champion UVA were competitive ending in one and four goal victories for the Red

“I feel that we ’ ve made very good progress [in communication] as evidenced by the UVA game once it clicks, it clicks,” senior captain Ali Hoffman

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Junior Kailey Eldredge will continue to be a big scorer and a dominant force for the Red this year. Last season, in the matchup against Solena Polo Club, she scored 12 of the team’s 17 goals K

said “Going into next semester, that is definitely going to be something we ’ re focusing on ”

Despite the success at the recent invitational,

t e a m shouldn’t underestimate anyone

“Just because we won the field tournament, it doesn’t necessarily mean we ’ re a lock-in for nationals,” she said

The men ’ s team didn’t make it to the finals at the invitational it lost the semifinal game by one goal to Colorado State

“For the men, I can honestly say that they have performed through the Field tournament a little bit higher than my expectations,” head coach David Eldredge ’81 said “I felt that we were in the mix I wasn ’ t sure that we were as close as we showed we were in the tournament ”

Following regular season play, the regional tournament kicks off in late March Should the men and women ’ s teams either win the region or perform well enough to secure a wild-card bid, they will make an appearance at the National Championships in April

For the men, the road to the National Championship

“We shot poorly but o u r d e f e n s e kept us in the game, ” s a i d Di Ma g n o “ I t s h o w e d us that if we p l a y g o o d

According to Smith, the squad’s strong man-to-man pressure was what kept it in the game

“We pressed a lot, we had a very intense man-to-man, that was probably our best manto-man defense that we played in the half court the whole season so I was really happy with that,” she said

The Red was also outrebounded that game, and has been outrebounded in all but two of its games so far this season This has been a focal point for the team, as it struggled to compete on the boards last year as well

“Rebounding is really what killed us last season We played a lot of zone and it’s harder to rebound out of a zone, ” Smith said

“Although we ’ ve made some strides, if we can get our rebounding to come full circle, it will definitely go a long way, ” DiMagno who is averaging a double-double in her first six games added

With the start of Ivy League play lurking in the distance, the Red’s nonconference schedule serves as a jumping off point, a forum for the team to discover where it most needs to improve

“I think this year we have the tools to compete with anybody in the league, we just have to learn in this nonconference season how to be consistent within a game, hold on to leads and finish the small plays,” Smith said “We want to win, and I think this group is ready to do that, so our expectations are going to be very high ”

finals consists of difficult teams “It’s a tough hill to climb

’ ve shown they’ve been able to compete so far with [the

Hoofin’ it |

Both the men’s and women’s teams are at the top of the region, striving to compete for a run at Nationals

SQUASH /GYMNASTICS

NEWCOMERS READY TO BATTLE

C.U. Continues

To Climb Ranks

By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer

After an unprecedented run at the College Squash Association’s Potter Cup, the Cornell men ’ s squash team ended its 2012 season fourth in the nation While two of the team ’ s top three players graduated last spring [Alex Domenick and T h o m a s Sp e t t i g u e ] , s e n i o r c o - c a p t a i n Nick Sachvie returns to hold down the top spot in the lineup for the third consecutive season

The Red graduated two other players last spring Dave Hilton and Will Hartigan but gained four new freshmen for the 2012-13 squad Graham Dietz, Karan Kankariva, Abhijit Maljk and Geoff Keating (whose joins his brother, junior Br yan Keating) are the team ’ s newest additions

The squad is certainly a young one this year nine of the sixteen members are u n d e r c l a s s m e n b u t t h e Re d’s s i x seniors, including its other co-captain, Owen Butler, will cer tainly show the newest members the ropes

“ The older members of the team know how the team dynamics work and how the actual schedule works for us, ” men ’ s head coach Mark Devoy said

The Cornell women ’ s squash team also earned a higher national ranking at the end of the 2012 season, beating rival Stanford, 5-4, in the Howe Cup last Februar y As a result, the Red moved up from seventh to sixth in the countr y, and hopes to continue improving its standing this season

The women only graduated two mem-

Head coach Julee Devoy remains positive about this season, as the women went 3-0 at the Cornell Round Robin and

bers of the 2011-12 team, [Clare Berner and Lauren Sachvie], and thus is optim i s t i c t h a t i t s re t u r n i n g p l a y e r s a n d newest members will continue to build upon the success that the Red had last spring

Leading the Red this season are senior

c o - c a p t a i n s Ja i m e L a i rd a n d Ma g g i e Remsen; sophomore Danielle Letourneau is also back, starting at the squad’s number o n e p o s i t i o n At t h e C o r n e l l Ro u n d Robin two weekends ago, Letourneau defeated Stanford’s Pamela Chua, who she also defeated last season during the Howe Cup to give the Red a 5-4 victor y and its No 6 national ranking

The squad also welcomes four freshmen this season: Br ynn Daniels, Reut Odinak, Olivia Wherr y and Abbey Foster

The newcomers ’ talents are promising, as Abbey Foster clinched Cornell’s 5-4 win over rival Stanford at the Cornell Round Robin Foster played high up in the lineup during the tournament she rotated between the No 2, 3, and 4 spots and is excited about her potential to help the Cornell squash program improve

“Hopefully I can continue to play well, keep winning matches and help the team get better and move up, ” Foster said

We were ver y competitive and we were ver y happy with

are] sort of an indication of where the team ’ s starting out, and as I’ve said, we can keep building from here ”

Continuous building | The Red prepares for a tough season.

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Senior co-captain Nick Sachvie will continue to lead the Red He is a third season starter and is ready to hold down the fort Last season, he had an 11-8 record and was named first team All-Ivy League and second-team All-American honors

Junior Jessenia Pacheco is currently in the No 3 spot for Cornell and will continue to battle this season Last year, she posted an 11-7 record and earned a national ranking of 26

Red Holds High Expectations for Season

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The gymnastics team is ready for its season to begin, and with experienced veterans and a host of fresh faces, the squad has high expectations

“We have the biggest and deepest team we have ever had and we expect to have the best season we ’ ve ever had,” said head coach Paul Beckwith

This is no small compliment for the Red, which with four wins and four second place finishes is the most successful Ivy League gymnastics team in the past decade

One of Beckwith’s main sources of confidence in the team is in the return of some very seasoned athletes Junior Melanie Jorgensen on bars is an individual Ivy and USAG Collegiate National Champion, while senior tricaptain McKenna Archer on vault and junior Lexi Schupp on bars are ECAC

Champions Furthermore, Jorgensen, Archer and senior tri-captain Sarah Hein on vault are All Americans

“I would say I have high expectations,” Archer said “Everyone has been working really hard and I’m hoping its going to be a good season ” Archer has also had some success outside the gym, as she was awarded the Richie Moran Award, which honors “academics, athletes and ambassadorship,” and is one of the most prestigious awards given to Cornell athletes

However, the Red looks quite different than it did last year, as nine new freshmen have been added to the roster

“It brings in a lot of new talent, really changes the dynamic of the team, ” Archer said Beckwith also expressed excitement for the wide variety of competition the Red will be facing this season

“We have a really good schedule this year, ” he said “We’ve got the first meet of the year against George Washington and North Carolina, and Temple and Penn, which is going to be a great meet, and then we have Pittsburgh and Maryland in

MC KE NNA ARC HE R

our second meet We see a lot of big schools this year and we are seeing some new schools, such as New Hampshire and Penn State Some really big schools and we have some smaller schools, so a good, varied schedule ” The gymnastics team is looking to improve upon its record from last season and continue on the path to success “ We have been Ivy champions four out of the last seven y e a r s , ” Beckwith said

“Last year we had four kids with mono that really hurt our whole team effort, [so] last year was sub par, but there was nothing we could do about it a lot of our starters were sick

So this year, people

• Finished second at the 2012 USAG national championships

• Won the ECAC title on vault in 2011

• Named Richie Moran Award Winner for 2012

• Member of the Red Key Society and the 400 Club with a 4 0 GPA

seem to be healthy and we are really looking forward to getting back Two years ago we won the ECAC championship, and we ’ re really hoping to do that again and win Ivys again as well We were second last year, which wasn ’ t bad but was a let down from where we [were] ” Although the team ’ s first meet is not until midJanuar y, the squad has already begun preparing for competition “ O u r goal is to have routines ready almost two m o n t h s before we compete so that we don’t have to stop w o r k i n g new skills when it comes time for compet i t i o n , ” B e c k w i t h said

Turning things upside down | Squad hopes to return to ECAC Championships

FENCERS START SEASON OFF STRONG

Red Hopes to Continue Momentum

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Spor ts Editor

The fencing team is off to a strong start, with two tournaments in the books as the Red heads into its last competition of the semester at Brandeis on Dec 2

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Philadelphia, Pa on Oct 27 at the Temple Open the largest fencing meet of its kind before travelling to Fairfield, Conn on Nov 11 to c o m p e t e

t e i g h t schools in the Sacred Heart Invitational The Red had a strong showing at both tournaments with Cornell having its best performance to date at Temple A few weeks later, the team emerged victorious in its second tournament of the year, recording a winning record against ever y school it faced

“Our tournaments are getting progressively more dif-

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a c h Oleg Brusilovsky “In our first tournament when we went to Temple and it was the best performance in histor y at the Temple Open We medalled in ever y categor y and we were particularly impressed by [junior] foilist Christie McIntosh who beat a former world champion in the championship bout ”

Each squad has been experiencing a successful start to the season, from foil to sabre to epee At Temple, in a competition featuring more than 30 universities and 600 individual competitors, the foil squad placed five f e n c e r s i n t h e Top-32, with three plac-

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McIntosh bested the competition in a field of 81 foilists and earned a gold medal, with freshman Ediona Sera tying for third and freshman Angelica Gangemi placing fifth Sophomore Allison Berdichevsky took 10th, while sophomore Alexis Mandon rounded out the group with a 32nd-place finish The foilists had a program-best finish at the 33rd annual Temple Open “ The foil squad has been really great so far [this season,]” McIntosh said “ We’ve got two freshm e n starters who’ve had a great

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Tournament] and Ediona Sera came in third at Temple ”

The foil squad went undefeated while at the Sacred Heart Invitational, beating eight strong competitors McIntosh dropped just one bout, finishing 19-1, while Gangemi stole the spotlight with her unblemished 19-0 record

“Our season is picking up and getting m o re c h a l

n g i n g , McIntosh said “ We’ve had a great showing at Temple and Sa c re d He a r t

s warming us up for Brandeis ” Brandeis will offer the team its first real taste of strong competition for the year, according to the junior Cornell will face off against teams from Boston College, North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, St John's, MIT and host Brandeis

“The toughest by far is going to be St John’s,” Brusilovsky said “This is a much stronger tournament overall than what has happened previously The team is ready with a great deal of enthusiasm ” The sabre squad also had strong showings at Temple and S a c r e d

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Philadelphia, seniors Audrey Speer and Beverly Yang tied for third, while freshman Alaina Uhouse and senior McKellen Rattray were close behind, finishing in 28th and 29th Sophomore Kristen Holl rounded out the group with a 53rd-place finish

This season, the upperclassmen-heavy squad has been working hard to build a strong framework for the underclassmen and to transform a traditionally individual sport into a more team-focused activity

“ The sabre squad has four seniors, one junior, two sophomores and one freshman, so a lot of this season has been the seniors making sure that our sabre squad is going to be really secure when we leave,” Speer said “ That means doing a lot of drills, watching each other fence and supporting each other during competition and a lot of team bonding at practice ”

At Sacred Heart, the squad continued its undefeated streak, as Speer led the way with a 22-1 finish Yang, the team captain for the Red, finished 18-3 for the day, while Uhouse split at 11-1 Looking to the future, the Brandeis Invitational and Ivies in the spring, Speer says the squad is working to remain focused and sharp

“ We are looking at continuing our undefeated streak,” she said “Next semester is going to be even harder with the Ivy competition because the Ivy League is particularly strong in sabre ” Rounding out the team, the epee squad is looking to build off of its strong start to the season as it approaches Brandeis and next semester

“For the Temple Open, we did really well,” said sophomore Olivia Weller “ We had three finalists in the [Top-6] out of the five finalists we brought We did really well and it was one of our seniors, Maria Napolitano, [sophomore] Khelsi Clarke and myself ” Freshmen Ahley Muller and Taylor Wong rounded out the Cornell competitors, claiming 20th and 31st place, respectively Sacred Heart proved a challenge for the squad, as it finished 6-2

“ We had room to improve where against certain schools we were 5-4 and just needed one more bout and we would have won, ” Weller said of the performance at Sacred Heart “ There is room for improvement and that’s our motivation for Brandeis coming up We want to pull more weight for the team ”

The Red will face a great deal of competition in the upcoming months, as the Ivy League Championship First Round will be in early Februar y According to Brusilovsky, in fencing at least 80 percent of the National Team is at Ivy or Ivy-like colleges, so the Ivy Championships will showcase a lot of talent

Ready for action | The foil, sabre and epee squads are prepared to take on tougher competition as the season progresses, culminating in the Ivy Tournament

C HRI STINE MC IN T O S H

• Took 18th at the NCAA Championships last season

• Took sixth at the NCAA Regional Championships last season

• Posted the most wins (37) during the 2010-2011 season

• Won gold at the Temple Invitational this season