2.20.12 Issue

Students Delay Legal Careers

Amid job crunch, fewer recent alumni pursue law after graduation

By JUSTIN ROULLIER Sun Staff Writer

The number of Cornell undergraduates enrolling in law school immediately after graduation has decreased 44 percent over the last five years, according to data released by the University’s Career Services Office

In 2007, 5 9 percent of the University s graduating class went to law school in the fall after graduation, while only 3 3 percent of the Class of 2011 attended law school the subsequent year, according to Jane Levy senior associate director of Cornell Career Services

cent of the students that the Cornell Law School admits have three or more years of work experience That seems to be true at many others schools

One student who felt pressure to defer law school was Emily Cusick ’12, an ILR student and the president of Kappa Alpha Pi, a pre-law fraternity at Cornell

“Some of the pre-law students in my fraternity have just decided to do banking for the next couple years, ” Cusick said “They get these lucrative banking offers, and they just can ’ t say no A year off would probably deter me from law

“Some of the pre-law students in my fraternitiy have just decided to do banking for the next couple of years.” E m i l y C u s i c k ’ 1 2

Within the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the decline has been even steeper, according to Harry Katz dean of ILR Twenty-six percent of the ILR Class of 2007 enrolled in law school for the academic year following graduation, compared to only 12 percent of the class of 2011 –– an almost 54-percent decrease Katz noted, however, that only students who enroll in law school for the semester after they graduate are included in the data

“Law schools increasingly encourage students to work before they go on to law school,” Katz said “The dean of the law school, Stewart Schwab, tells me that 50 per-

There would be no impetus to go to law school, so I’m going to law school next year just to make sure that at the end of the day I become a lawyer ” Katz cited the economic downturn as another factor causing the trend

“The cost of law school has gone up and the number of job opportunities has gone down,” he said “People may be discouraged to hear of the more limited hiring going on in major law firms after the 2008 financial crisis ”

According to Richard Geiger, associate

See LAW page 5

Cornell’s Famed Hot Trucks Fight New Municipal Fee

By DAVID FISCHER Sun Staff Writer

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, the owners of Cornell’s historic food trucks may be discovering soon

The owners of Louie’s Lunch and the Hot Truck appealed an annual $2,153 fee assessed for the first time last summer, by the Board of Public Works On Feb 27, the board will decide

whether or not the truck owners will have to pay the fee, proposed by the board in response to a state audit that indicated the two trucks were selling on city streets without properly paying the city Albert Smith, the owner of the Hot Truck, and Ronald Beck, the owner of Louie s Lunch, have both filed appeals

See HOT TRUCKS page 4

Despite Snow, Chili Cook-Off Heats Up Downtown

By TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Staff Writer

Offering more than 55 varieties

snow, rain and shine, but

did not discourage the community’s enthusiasm for the chili, cheese and cornbread provided by businesses such as D P Dough Stella’s Restaurant and Viva Taqueria, among many others

“That’s Ithaca for you!” Patty Clark event manager for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, exclaimed at one point, as the pour-

ing rain abruptly gave way to sunshine

“We got all kinds of weather this year but I guess it didn’t work against us the whole time,” Clark said The 14th Chili Fest drew more than 5 000 visitors over the course of the day, according to Clark, who said that an increase in vendors this year prevented lines for chili from becoming unbearable

“The chili lines were a lot shorter this year ” Clark said “Because we had so many entries, there were different places to spread people out ” GreenStar Cooperative Market, a Chili Fest fixture gave out 15 gallons, or 1,300 cups, of chili on Saturday, according to Debbie Lazinsky, who works in the grocery store ’ s marketing depar tment Lazinsky emphasized the importance of Chili Fest for the business’ visibility

“We saw a lot of people that I don’t feel are regular customers, so it is great exposure for us, ” Lazinsky said

GreenStar won third place in the vegetarian categor y for its chili, which is made with local black beans

“GreenStar is all about good, healthy food,” Lazinsky said “Any chance we have to go into the community and serve healthy, homemade food is great for us ”

Collegetown Bagels took the prize for best vegetarian chili, while best meat chili went to Razorback BBQ and Red Jacket Orchard walked away with first, second and third place in the category for best local beverage Jeff McCall, from the New Roots Charter School cooked in Chili Fest for the first time this year after moving from Texas He said that he

Monday, February 20, 2012

weather FORECAST

Help! I Don’t Want to be a Pre-Med Anymore Now What?

5 p m , 3330 South Balch Hall

Global Poverty Project: 1 4 Billion Reasons

5 - 6 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

The Race to Conserve Asia’s Vultures 7:30 - 9 p m , Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Tomorrow

The Millennial Generation: Understanding and Engaging Today’s Learners

3 - 4:15 p m , 525 ILR Conference Center

Meet the Author: Gary Fields 4 p m , Cornell Store

Paving the Way For Sustainable Destinations 4:30 - 5:30 p m , B08 Sage Hall

Getting Started with Vegetable Gardening 6:30 - 8:30 p m , CCE-Tompkins Education Center

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Bring out the water proof apparel there is a 30 percent chance of precipitation

43° Lo: 32° Rain/Snow Shower s

The week ends with a cold blast, with dropping temperatures and snow showers Hot chocolate with cinnamon?

YES

Rain and snow showers signal unpleasant slushiness but also call for colorful rainboots and a delirious session of skipping about Hi: 38° Lo: 22° Snow Shower

C.U. Students Gather

For LGBTQ Conference At Brown University

By RACHEL RABINOWITZ Sun Staff Wr ter

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similar goals,” Treffeisen said “It brings people together ”

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n d Qu e e r Iv y League students gathered this weekend at Brown University for the third annual IvyQ conference, hosted this year by Brown’s Queer Alliance IvyQ is the first conference to bring Ivy League schools together to discuss issues facing LGBTQ students on campus

“The goal is to bridge the Ivy community for LGBTQ students and to explore issues” such as relations between the gay and straight communities, i

issues facing the LGBTQ community, said Benjamin Gordon ’14 one of IvyQ’s Cornell organizers

This weekend s conference attracted almost 500 students, an increase from the event held

a t C o l u m b i a Un

r s i t y i n spring 2011, which drew 400 students, and from the first

Iv y Q a t t h

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f Pennsylvania in spring 2010, which drew 300 students

De s p i t e t h e h i g h ove r a l l t u r n o u t a t t h e c o n f e re n c e ,

St u d e n t A s s e m b l y LG BTQ

Rep Nate Treffeisen ’12 said he feels that Cornell is behind on LGBTQ acceptance when compared to fellow Ivy League universities Only about 30 students from Cornell attended the conference

“We’ve got a long way to go when looking at other Ivies in terms of general acceptance on

c a m p u s a n d g e n e r a l s o c i a l

o p e n n e s s , Tre f f e i s e n s a i d

“While the structured events and organizations are very similar, I’ve found that students on campus at most of the Ivies generally feel more comfortable [about being openly gay] than a lot of Cornell students feel

”

T h e c o n f e re n c e a t t r a c t s LGBTQ students and allies supporters who do not personally identify as LGBTQ

f ro m a l l e i g h t Iv y L e a g u e schools and a few other universities, according to Gordon

“It’s great in general because you ’ re meeting people with

According to IvyQ’s website, the conference attempts to create a cohesive Ivy League LGBTQ community by teaching LGBTQ students and allies to examine their own identities while valuing the unique personalities of others

T h e c o n f e re n c e ’ s we b s i t e was created as a forum for participants to anonymously submit thoughts, feelings and personal experiences surrounding gender and sexual identities before the conference, accordi n g t o t h e Iv y Q we b s i t e Su b m i s s i o n s we re u s e d a s material for discussion topics developed by IvyQ organizers for the event

According to Treffeisen, the program was primarily organized into small discussion sessions with speakers Session topics included health and sexual assault, identity, queer histories and sex and body positivity

The conference isn t particularly about policies and things like that,” Treffeisen said “It’s learning how to be yourself and learning how to live It’s about gay history and gay life

Social events such as a talent show, a dance, an outing to downtown nightclubs and an o n - c a m p u s m ov i e s c re e n i n g were also offered to give participants a chance to socialize outside of the workshop setting

A career fair on Saturday provided students an opportunity to network with IvyQ’s m a i n s p o n s o r s , i n c l u d i n g

Oliver Wyman, JP Morgan, Cre d i t Su i s s e , B o o z & Company and McKinsey & Company

“It’s mostly a learning experience, but you re making connections at other schools on a professional level and on a friendship basis that you can ’ t necessarily get on a day to day basis, Treffeisen said “You get to see what gay life is at other colleges ”

Rachel Rabinowitz can be reached at rrabinowitz@cornellsun com

City Leaders Honor Black Histor y Month

By WESLEY ROGERS Sun Contributor

African-American community leaders, drawing from their own life experiences, spoke about the i

honor of Black Histor y Month at

To

Librar y on Saturday

Susan Currie, director of the To

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Pu b l i c Librar y, said that the talk was “ our celebration of Black Histor y Month ”

The panel consisted of four leaders from the

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Maynard III, a teacher

Marcia J Fort, the exec-

ernment programs, and that the little bit of investment that was made in our family was exactly that, an investment, not a sunk cost, but a gain ” Additionally, Myrick said that ser ving others goes beyond repaying a debt and that through ser ving others, “ not only would I be making up what I owe, but I would be making a larger difference than I ever could by seeking just to enrich myself ” O t h e r s p e a k e r s a l s o t a l k e d about how to help youth in the

“You really are how you are seen until you have an opportunity to define yourself ” S v ant e My ri c k ’ 0 9

community

Aloja Airewele, a trained physician who works as a case manager for the American Red Cross

Myrick shared personal anecd o t e s , o f t e n t o b o i s t e r o u s applause

My r i c k r e f e r e n c e d h i s l i f e stor y, noting that he grew up homeless, and said this was the reason he pursued a career in government

Myrick said that neither he nor his siblings would be “the contributing members of society that they are now ” without gov-

Airewele, the trained physician who works for the American Red Cross, said that sometimes help can be provided by saying “ come with me, I’ll show you how it’s done ” Prompted by an audience question, Myrick added that, to keep youths from following “bad leaders,” they have to “feel comfortable enough not to f o l l ow w i t h o u t c o n s t a n t approval ” The talk then moved from a discussion of leadership to a discussion of race in the Ithaca community

Airewele asked the other panelists if they ever felt like a minority in this community,” to which they all responded “ yes ” While Myrick said that he perceived that “people in our generation” have a “ greater opportunity to define outside of race, ” he added, “ you really are how you are seen until you have an opportunity to define yourself ” For instance, For t said she often felt like a minority because she was typically the only black member of an organization A l t h o u g h C l a r kMaynard, the teacher at B e v e r l y J Ma r t i n Elementar y School, said that racism is not going t o g o a w a y, ” s h e expressed hope that the community “ can get to a point where we are aware that we are doing this and correct it ”

Attendees said that the event was a success, with Myrick noting that it was “ ver y well-attended” considering that the chili cook-off was happening at the same time across the street Cu

To

Pu b

i c Librar y, said the event affirmed that the Tompkins County Public Librar y is “ a place for community connection

Wesley Rogers can be reached at wsr35@cornell edu

After Survey, Administrators Say C U Staff May Be Overburdened

Results of the 2011 Cornellwide employee survey revealed that 23 5 percent of the 5,647 employees who responded said they either disagreed or strongly disagreed that they were compensated fairly for their work University administrators said that

Libraries are housing exhibits commemorating the past and present of the black community throughout Febr uar y The displays are par t of a series of projects organized this year by students on the Black Histor y Month committee

Compiled by Jinjoo Lee

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Owners of Louie’s Lunch, Hot Truck Challenge New City Permit Fee

HOT TRUCKS Continued from page 1

against the permit fee citing the length of time that they have operated on the sites without paying

Bill Gray, superintendent of public works for Ithaca, said that the city is revamping its system for charging those who use city land for private purposes, such as vendors on the Commons and the hot tr uck owners, who will need to pay permit fees

“Now they’ll be caught up as par t of the use of city proper ty program, ” Gray said “So we ’ ve sent them bills and, not surprisingly, their bills are noticeably different than anything they’ve paid before because, in most cases, apparently, they’ve

n e v e r p a i d a n y t h i n g for sitting at the curbside and selling their wares ”

In the early 2000s, Smith bought the Hot Tr uck from longtime o w n

“Grandfathering usually means that you can continue for ward with whatever it is that you were doing, but it doesn’t mean that you are exempt from paying for the right to do that,” Gray said Smith, who owns the Shor tstop Deli in downtown Ithaca, began attempting to acquire a hot food tr uck in the ’80s in an effor t to expand his business He said he was told that the city was not giving any more permits for food tr ucks at the time

“ Then in the [mid-1990s] I ser ved on the Board o f Pu b l i c Wo rk s w i t h t h e n - Ma yo r [ Be n j a m i n ] Nichols and basically asked him the same question He said, ‘If you want a tr uck on-campus, you ’ re going to have to buy one of the existing tr ucks,’” Smith said “I ser ved a

“Apparently, they’ve never paid anything for sitting at the curbside and selling their wares ”

B ill G ray

b e r t “ Ho t Tr uck Bob” Petrillose, Sr for $125,000 Smith said that the value of the tr uck and its equipment was about $15,000 “ so basically we paid over $100,000 for the right to be next to campus ”

Smith said that in purchasing the Hot Tr uck, he also bought a “grandfathered” right to sell goods on Ste war t Avenue Doing so he said gives him the right to occupy the land without paying a fee, just as Petrillose did for many years

“I m just talking about being fair and the city wants to collect a couple thousand dollars or a little more per year for me to be in that location, Smith said “I already paid for that ” Gray, however, did not agree that the longevity of the Hot Tr uck and its status as a “grandfathered” vendor excuses it from the fee

Board of Public Works

Cohen and I asked the

answer was the

uck on campus you have to buy one of these tr ucks ’” Smith reiterated that he believed he was doing the right thing in purchasing an existing food tr uck

“Did I pay the wrong people? I don’t know,” Smith said “ When you have two mayors tell you that’s what you need to do to get one of these spots I did so ” Beck, the owner of Louie’s Lunch, did not return a request for comment He also filed an appeal of the fee

David Fischer can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun com

Some Pre-Law Students Undeterred by Poor Job Prospects

Bu t I a l w a y s k n e w I w a s g o i n g t o g o t o o n e o f t h e t o p 1 4 l a w s c h o o l s , w h e re e m p l oy m e n t s t at i s t i c s h a v e r e m a i n e d p re t t y s t ro n g Mo s t o f t h e b a d n u m b e r s a r e c o m i n g f ro m t h e w o r s er a n k e d s c h o o l s ” H a l l i e M i t n i c k ’ 1 2 , w h o p l a n s t o a t t e n d l a w s c h o o l i n t h e f a l l , s a i d s h e d o e s n o t k n ow a n yo n e w h o h a s b e e n d e t e r r e d f r o m p u r s u i n g l a w b e c a u s e o f h i r i n g f re e ze s “ In f a c t , I t h i n k m o re p e o p l e a re l o o k i n g a t g r a d u a t e a n d p rof e s s i o n a l s c h o o l b e c a u s e t h e e c o n o m y i s s o b a d , s h e s a i d “ No b o d y i s h i r i n g , s o s o m e p e op l e m i g h t w a n t t o g e t a n o t h e r d e g re e a n

C.U. Students Ser ve, Eat Chili

enjoyed the event

“I think the turnout was great There [were] a lot of great contenders today, a lot of great chili,” McCall said I heard a lot of great things about ever ything The weather didn’t seem to deter anyone ”

’12 “Our chili was really well received We had many people who came back two, three, or four times just to have a taste of our chili ” Chili Fest is one of several d o w n t o w n It h a c a f e s t i v a l s , including Apple Fest and Bre w Fest, that draw Cornell students and locals alike to the Ithaca Commons

“It was my first time going to Chili Fest,” said Sharon Guzman ’13 “I really like how festivals and these type of gathering give a greater sense of community It’s especially great for Cornell students who don’t really associate much with Ithacans and Ithaca College ”

t

“People loved it there were a lot of Cornell alumni who stopped by the booth, said Lindsey Brous

Tajwar Mazhar can be reached at tmazhar@cornellsun com

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P rocrastinating

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Editorial

Committing to Collegetown Grow th

Fe w storefronts are left in Collegetown In the hear t of the neighborhood retail has begun to disappear, leaving only restaurants, bars and apar tments City officials and University administrators have bemoaned the str uggling economy and “shabby” nature of ne w constr uction and called on students to help shape the future of Collegetown However, it is the responsibility of the city, not the students, to incentivize growth in Collegetown In order to make Collegetown an attractive area for local businesses, the city government needs to explore ne w ways to encourage economic growth

Even this semester, housing is replacing closing storefronts The former location of Kraftees, a retail store specializing in textbooks, will soon be a model apar tment for the Collegetown Terrace project Additionally, the former Green Cafe storefront, centrally located on the corner of College Avenue and Dr yden Road, has remained empty for over a year

Collegetown needs a diversity of stores for student consumers and local businesspeople Diverse storefronts would improve accessibility to products and create a sense of neighborhood This would motivate students to stay in Collegetown and spend money there rather than leaving the area for goods Students should vie w Collegetown not just as a place to eat and sleep, but some where they can spend time socially during the day Something must be changed in order to make Collegetown attractive for retail storefronts again

Change in Collegetown is not likely to come from students While many students choose to live in Collegetown, they leave year after year, and not only have little investment in the area but also little perspective with which to make decisions However, students comprise a significant por tion of the Ithaca population, and financially keep Collegetown alive as a neighborhood It is the responsibility of the city government to make sure Collegetown is home to storefronts, rather than just restaurants and apar tments

Businesses such as grocer y stores and retail would be guaranteed a solid customer base, and with help from the city, would prosper in the neighborhood More local businesses would give students the oppor tunity to contribute to Ithaca s economy in a way that they are not currently

have no Facebook! Why the **** am I still procrastinating?” I had just spent my evening reading an endless stream of articles about Jeremy Lin, marveling at how somebody could go from the NBA’s version of a garbage dump the D league to an international superstar in little over a week Meanwhile my Java and Ancient Philosophy sat waiting

When I relegated my Facebook to the cyber netherworld a few months ago, I thought I had finally defeated the scourge of a student’s life: Procrastination Facebook was a huge time sink By quitting it I was done spending hours semi-unconsciously trolling through

friends’ profiles making sure they weren ’ t doing anything cooler than I was, done checking photos of ex-girlfriends and cool girls I had just met to see if they were with some better looking and generally more awesome guy, done with posting “Happy Birthday!” on people’s walls as if I genuinely cared about their lives Eliminating such vapid and contrived social interactions should save a lot of time to be productive, right? Wrong

Instead I found myself on the New York Times, YouTube and – unsurprisingly, given my incurable addiction to Sportscenter highlight reels ESPN Or else I would catch myself staring off into space, thinking about how I’m in my last few months at college, how I’ll soon be an “officially educated,” supposedly fully functioning member of society who also happens to be a genius in the cheap art of finding ways to avoid working I will also, incidentally, be quite practiced at beating myself up over how much work I don’t get done it is, in fact, one of the ways I don’t get much work done

Which brings me to the question: Is procrastination the problem or is it how I view procrastination that should change? A constant desire to be more productive, more efficient, more focused, more grounded colors my life And I’m pretty sure it colors many people’s lives especially here at Cornell where the A-types rule supreme The feeling serves as a background for each semester: “Why can ’ t I be more efficient? Why does it take me all night to write a fivepage paper? Surely everyone else is way more productive and on top of their work than I am ” Translation: “I need to be more like a robot who can churn out assignment after assignment with no breaks, no time wasted on random sites, no other desires except that of finishing its work

An exaggeration perhaps and I will certainly admit that always having a sense that more work should be done conceivably makes us more focused But such an attitude also comes with an inherent and pernicious sense of inadequacy, which is not only unhelpful but unhealthy It is as if we ’ re never quite good enough Even after an objectively productive day, when I actually do my Java assignment and Ancient Philosophy reading instead of losing myself in Linsanity, I feel like I should have done more Or, at least, I wish that I was always so

productive

Our love affair with productivity needs to end Not only do we never fulfill its expectations but we berate ourselves because we can ’ t and everybody else obviously can We need, instead, to reacquaint ourselves with some of the joys of procrastination And I don’t mean that we need to procrastinate more Rather, we need to look at it differently

There are, I believe, two important steps we can take The first is to stop assuming that others are being more productive than we are Even if ever yone seems more focused, busier, more productive than you,

you cannot conclude they actually are It’s rare you get people to admit what they’re like outside of the library or class but chances are they love 30 Rock, Modern Family and Portlandia or some slightly trashier equivalents just as much as you do

Perhaps that doesn t convince you

Perhaps you just know that most of your friends are busy with problem sets while you decide to bake yet another batch of midnight brownies or watch another batch of Family Guy episodes?

I hate to repeat the tired old phrase that you should “ never compare yourself to others but only to yourself yesterday ” Such an attitude is difficult when your grades and future job opportunities have a lot to do with how well you compare to those doing the problem set

Rather, the second step I propose is to embrace some of the benefits of procrastination After all, time spent procrastinating up late baking cookies with your friends or your GF or your BF, sharing a few beers with your roommates at 2 a m on a Wednesday, reading random articles recommended to you by StumbleUpon, watching NOVA shows about the universe during exam week instead of studying for actual astronomy ultimately gives us interesting material to think and talk about They are speaking for myself, a source of wacky and cool conversations Some, hopefully, will provide me with fun memories Someday such memories will conceivably prove to be more valuable than a potential A in computer science They will certainly be more valuable than another night in the library

Regardless of its potential future benefits, I know that such procrastination has been essential to making close friends here at Cornell There is something wonderfully humble and unpretentious about deviating from the expected path of endless work So go ahead, embrace your humanity, resist your march to machinehood, make some friends, make some memories and realize that procrastinating is what makes you worth being around Frankly I now wish I had done it more often

CORRECTION

Due to an editing error, an ar ticle printed Friday, “Professors Teach Climate Change for Dar win’s 203rd Bir thday, incorrectly repor ted the dates of the Dar win Days events In fact, the lecture on hops was held Thursday and the costume par ty was held Friday

Big Red Friend Zone: How to Keep Things Friendly at Cornell

Ido not exclude myself when I say that we as Cornellians have developed the ridiculous belief that it is humanly impossible for two people of the opposite sex to be just friends After all, I m pretty sure I’ve accused ever y single one of my girlfriends of being romantically involved with ever y guy they ve ever spoken to They, in turn, almost always return the favor Usually, these types of conversations end with an

uncomfor table chuckle and my flimsy reassurance that t h e

friend-here” and I But ever y once in a while, my friends will be unconvinced And that is disastrous Take my freshman year I had the great for tune of living in that carpet-rich palace known as Balch Hall If those stone walls don’t scream sexual repression, I don’t know what does

In Balch, it was generally understood that if you had a boy with you past 8 p m , y ’all would be bumping uglies on your lofted bed in no time It didn t matter if that guy you were toting down the halls was your gay best friend, your younger brother or your married professor Hell, if you were seen even talking to the main-

tenance man your sexual desperateness (or prowess, depending on how well-defined his abs were) became the r umor of the week

This nonsense was clearly the result of living with 5

Notebook was more or less based on a tr ue stor y

When prelim week rolled around, I invited one of my good guy friends over to my room for a late-night study sesh, unspoken r ule be damned To be fair, he was

that my Balch Hall

was of the platonic sor t There would be

unchies on the door or Lionel Richie

night

Or so I thought Because according to my floormates ’ overactive imaginations those three hours we spent studying statistics were really the most passionate three hours of my young life

My roommate told me she was afraid to come in the door, so she ended up sleeping in the common room

My next-door-neighbor swore she heard sounds she thought could only be found in a zoo They all r ushed in, searching for the six million spent condoms I obviously went through

Amid the witch-hunt, I tried to deny the r umors

But denying them only fueled the fire There was no hope My friend and I had sex, at least as far as they were concerned, and that was that Admittedly, I let it

Lgo If anything, I looked like I was getting more action than I actually was, which was not necessarily a bad thing

Not a bad thing, that was, until my statistics buddy caught me in the hallway after class What had star ted as a funny stor y among my floor mates in Balch had turned into a full-fledged r umor that I genuinely found this person attractive And now he believed it to be tr ue

Let’s face it kids there is no real nice way of telling someone, “I’d rather contract tuberculosis and then set myself on fire than touch your penis ”

I cannot help but think that this fiasco could have been entirely avoided if we at Cornell didn’t have some total preoccupation with dating and relationships on campus

I’m sure you ’ ve all heard that statistic that one in whatever Cornell graduates met their spouse at Cornell And sure, maybe the whole Big Red wedding bliss r umor is tr ue After all, my parents met here their senior year But I’m confident that my dating life does not have to begin and end in Ithaca, N Y

Eventually my friend and I cleared the air and we remain (platonically) chummy ever since But ever y once in a while, we’ll get par ticularly dr unk And when we do, he ll glance over at me with a look that says, “Are you going to pounce on me tonight? Because I’d really rather you not

“No,” I’ll say “But I’m always down for a round of tonsil hockey after the prelim tomorrow night ”

Cristina Stiller is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She may be reached at cstiller@cor nellsun com Believe You Me appears alter nate Mondays this semester

Stand Up for Israel , P resident Skorton

ast week I attended a Shabbat dinner where President Skor ton was the featured guest Addressing a crowd of over 300 Cornellians, he congratulated t h e Je w i s h c o m m u n i t y f o r i t s m a n y accomplishments and then moved on to a timelier subject: the University’s groundbreaking par tnership with the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology on the “tech campus ”

He began by expressing enthusiasm for the project: Good He then noted his opposition to the boycott divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to delegitimize Israel in the cultural and academic spheres: Even better However, he then stated that the University’s decision to work with the Technion was in no way a political statement: Not so good Skor ton strained to persuade us that there was no symbolic meaning behind the par tnership, telling us that instead “natural forces,” such as similar agendas and good relationships, brought the two i n s t i t u t i o n s t o g e t h e r We w e re n o t t o think that Cornell was expressing its solidarity with the State of Israel or even its opposition to BDS We were to conceive of Cornell s decision as morally neutral

This is wrong-headed for two reasons One is that par tnering with an Israeli university constitutes explicit rejection of the BDS movement, no matter how vigorously the University tries to convince us other wise The second is that we have an obligation not only to reject BDS but also to make the reasons why we do so explicit Since neither Skor ton nor anyone else in the University administration is willing to do this, we must pick up the slack

As far as I can tell there are only two formal statements of opposition to the

par tnership with the Technion The first is an “ open letter” from the U S Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel; the second is an online petition entitled “ We oppose Cornell University’s c

Institute of Technology ” They’re vir tually identical Simply put, both asser t that

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n Israel’s “ war crimes” or, if you prefer, its campaign of “ethnic cleansing” by both designing weapons for the Israel Defense Forces and par tnering with private companies who do the same

On its face, this might strike readers as a complex problem But you can ’ t possibly still think that after looking at their objec-

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weapons ” for the IDF, sure However, they also lambast the Technion for its role in developing the “Apar theid Wall” and an “advanced hybrid armor protection system ” for militar y tanks

Let s pause If the case for opposing the

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anti-terror arsenal is only weak, the case a g a i n s t

Indeed, we should ask how they justify opposition to something as basic as tank armor Do they want to increase Israeli soldiers’ susceptibility to attack?

Though it’s cer tainly possible, I’m not sure we need to go that far The real answer, I believe, is connected to the reas o n

Cornell even as it makes itself “complicit” in Israel’s supposed crimes These protests are not about Cornell; they re not about the Technion; they’re not even about the IDF It is about the legitimacy of Israel

itself A countr y whose ar mor is criminalized is a countr y that has no right to defend itself, and by extension, no right to continue existing as a sovereign nation

This is the unmistakable subtext of BDS, a movement whose members have not and will never call for similar measures vis-a-vis either the United States whose militar y aid should according to their logic, render it complicit in Israeli “ aggression” or Syria, whose hideous regime murders civilians daily Again, this isn t really about pacifism This isn’t about human rights This is about delegitimizing

the Je wish state

Another dimension of the movement s backwardness reveals the same point As Tom Friedman has noted, Israel’s universities create tremendous oppor tunities for its Israeli Arab population, far more than the left-wing professors who wish to boycott them That the BDS movement is undermining the ver y institutions that achieve its stated goal should come as no surprise The stated goal was never the real objective: I don’t think I need to tell you what was

Skor ton must therefore stand up to the Technion s opponents because they seek to

undermine Israel s legitimacy, something he has justly never questioned He must do so because they advocate a course of action that no person serious about resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could suppor t, and he is one such person And finally, he must do this because prominent faculty from our English and Government depar tments have already aligned thems

might let its pernicious message wander into the classroom

Some might argue Skor ton has done enough by facilitating the par tnership;

however, this is a case where doing a good

that

here It’s profoundly sad, though, that only the wrong side of the argument seems to recognize this

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Up Is Down and Down Is Up

BY ALICE WANG Sun Staff Writer

“I am an art critic,” Faye Hirsch says to open her lecture at the Johnson What does that mean today? It seems to mean less and less as time goes on ”

Last Thursday, Hirsch, writer, art critic and senior editor of Art in America, discussed the current gallery scene in New York City

Charming and candid at one point she adorably said, “I’m really mostly just grumpy all the time she offered insight into the art world’s constant flux

Everything is shifting The strength, the voice and even the role of the art critic is evolving, and maybe not for the better

There’s nothing lucrative in art criticism and there never has been Perhaps that is the one thing that has remained the same

Though the stock market crash of 2008 has exacerbated this tension, Hirsch remains hopeful: “I do still believe the art critic, however beleaguered, sees more than anyone else except for the artist

At the peak of the market, before the crash, New York had over 400 galleries Now?

Not nearly as many, but the nature of the game has changed, too In terms of power brokering, the power really lies with independent curators who are now given newfound reign They have come to prominence with galleries that now compete with institutions due to their museum-quality shows ”

Nowadays “museum-quality” really is the buzzword of the gallery scene

At the Andrea Rosen Gallery, a Blue-Chip in Chelsea, “The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project)” is an example of such a case This museum-quality show features an ornately carved Victorian birdcage center stage, surrounded on four sides by church pews and then on four walls by 83 Walker Evans polaroids Curated by Ydessa Hendeles, whose signature juxtaposition of contemporary works with quotidian items is on full display here, the show encapsulates the transformative role of the curator

But of course Hendeles is not the only curator with an artistic license these days She belongs to a trend: shows have become immense curatorial experiments The InFinitum” exhibition spanning four floors at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice is what Hirsch calls a “total mishmash ” There is no real principle behind these shows, which are given vague names to capture their vague concepts Here, the emphasis lies in the display of these 300 works of art Together, the layers of archaeological objects, old master paintings, contemporary works and installations create a new dimension of wonder a landscape invoking “the infinite ”

A practiced curatorial eye and thoughtfulness crafted through years of training is being thrown out the window ” For galleries with deep pockets, a lot is available and a lot has changed Blue-Chip galleries even “ compete to look disinterested,” Hirsch says They alone have the luxury of playing hard-to-get That’s the power of capitalism in art After all, galleries are nimble They can sell three pieces in a show and pay off rent and labor for a year

Meanwhile, museums struggle Perhaps the most notable outlier is MoMA “MoMA, I think, is really rockin’ these days,” Hirsch said The old department heads are gone the rigidity between departments has dissolved and the new blood has provided for a fresh experience Their current “Print/Out” exhibition is a blockbuster Not only does the show radically reposition the way we think about prints, but it also provides crucial commentary on the way art is disseminated and distributed Prints are the work of multiples seeing new meaning in new places It is about re-contextualizing an image In the exhibit, Damien Hirst contributes posters of enlarged prescription drug labels Hirsch is surprisingly impressed, and she sasses, “As far as I’m concerned, it’s the only great work Damien Hirst has ever done ” MoMA has even sparked new interest in performance art with its groundbreaking Marina Abramovic show, “The Artist Is Present ” For instance, the Performa 11 biennial featured many quality shows, including the humorous “I Feel Your Pain” mixedmedia performance by Liz Magic Laser The performance examines the use of emotion in political interviews to establish authenticity, and it adapts political dialogues into romantic dramas Eight actors perform a sequence of scenes staged in a movie theater with these dialogues in “living newspaper format The performance opens with an adapted interview between Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, which Hirsch believes shows “the fascinating devolution of the idea that the personal is the political ”

The perpetual transformation of the New York gallery scene has yielded an entirely new art world In this world, traditional roles have been revamped and reassigned In an economy where money is scarce and in galleries where everything is for sale (those Walker Evans polaroids run at $7000 a pop and even the drywall debris from a Joyce Pensato show broke bank), art has been turned on its head “The curator is an artist The dealer is a gallerist And the artist is I don t know the word but they no longer engage in the materials Up is down and down is up in a lot of ways, ” Hirsch said In a field where breaking new ground is expected, somehow no one expected this

Alice Wang is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at awang@cornellsun com

Comedy for One, Comedy for All

BY KYLE CHANG Sun Staff Writer

Courtney McGuire nervously stepped up to the microphone at the crowded Culture Shock in downtown Ithaca Wearing her pinstriped New York shirt, she let loose a string of cuss words that sent the audience into stitches

McGuire was among the many local comedians to do standup at ComedyFLOPs’ Comedy Festival, held in downtown Ithaca on Saturday Ithacans gathered around, not just to laugh, but to celebrate laughter along with the comedians The festival, held at three venues in the Commons, also included comedy workshops and improv sessions, one of them by Cornell’s very own Whistling Shrimp

“Once you get one person laughing, they get their friends to start laughing too and soon the whole room is laughing,” McGuire said “The goal of comedy is to find something that your audience can relate to so that when you tell your joke, it’s like they’re reliving the experience with you ”

On consideration, it seems McGuire is right In comedy, we always need something relatable that we can latch ourselves onto in order to laugh For comedy to function, members of the audience must be able to locate a piece of

the laugh that they can see in themselves But finding this piece proves difficult

“[Being funny] really depends what kind of crowd you ’ re with,” said A J Foster, another comedian “The same joke may not hit as well on different nights, or even in the same night but at different clubs But you just have to have confidence in your own jokes ”

In accordance with these outlines, the best comedians are the ones that find topics that speak to the entire audience, rather than just a few in the audience Most people say that they are pretty funny with the right people: their friends But the transition from regaling your friends to bringing down a whole house of ages, sensibilities and cultures is where the art of standup lies

“It takes about a year to figure out how badly you really suck [at standup],” said McGuire, who also noted the copious dedication it takes to excel in comedy

On the other side of the comic equation, you find that comedy always pokes fun at someone and doing so may end up alienating some of the audience, the exact opposite of a comedian’s intentions But therein lies the definition of comedy: making fun of anything will end up offending someone

So what’s the best subject to poke fun at?

Many of the best comedians immediately turned to their own lives for source material in order to take the offensive edge off the jests And many of the worst comedians did exactly the opposite: they made fun of the audience

One of the comedians, who got no laughter from the crowd, even began to single out individual audience members to insult in retaliation for what he perceived to be a weak reception, revealing his own homophobia in the process The more he made fun of the audience, the less we laughed (if it is possible to get less laughter than silence) and the less we laughed, the more he antagonized us for not laughing

The most important step then is to start off on a good note that makes the audience at ease and build a rapport, steps this comedian failed to follow Instead he dived headfirst into a failed comedy set that he claimed had worked for

every other audience besides us

Needless to say, he was not deemed the funniest person in Ithaca and was actually booed off the stage But the strange thing was that the belligerent comedian was so sure of his own crude humor, that he was offended by the audience ’ s silence

In this sense, it is the comedian’s job to unify himself with the audience and also to unify the audience members with each other A comedian made a jab at how Cornellians are obnoxious, leaving me an outcast amongst the townies (they really do hate us and that is no joke) But for the vocal majority, the joke pleased the crowd

Within each comedian’s set, he or she had a chance to create a comfortable atmosphere and temporarily befriend the audience If the strategy proved successful, euphoria rushed over the audience along with the strange feeling that they would be friends with the comedian in real life, despite the fact that they all have never met

But this feeling is not strange at all The general consensus sits that humor is an important part of relationships Before you laugh, you have to feel comfortable The comedians that put people on edge by commenting on their characteristics ( Jews, gays, African-Americans, etc ) were thus the worst at making people feel comfortable unless the comedians themselves were also of that subgroup

A J Foster was aware of this His set mainly consisted of plays on “ghetto” stereotypes and when he made a gay joke, he quickly clarified that he had gay friends and he was completely supportive of them Even this little concession kept the crowd at bay

All in all

ComedyFLOPs’ festival drew in a wide variety of comedians as well as a complementarily diverse crowd

This brought to light the comedian’s talents, or lack thereof, and proved one thing: comedy is a double-edged sword

It has the power to unite in hilarity or segregate in silence

The line is drawn between those who laugh and those who do not

Kyle Chang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can

Arts Around Town

Red Light Winter

Previews 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday At The Kitchen Theatre

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Pulitzer Prize-winning play Red Light Winter promises an evening of fier y dialogue, unabashed sexual rivalr y and exquisite intimacy

Matt and Davis have been “frenemies since college It doesn t help that their fortunes have since dramatically diverged: Matt is a struggling playwright, while Davis is a rapidly rising star editor Matt is love-star ved, while Davis has married Matt’s former girlfriend Things get even more compli-

decides to end Matt’s loveless spell

When a girl mysteriously appears at Matt s door late one night, Matt is terrified Rapp’s stirring unwinding of the hypersensitive, awkward Matt is just one reason why this play is a must-see

Tickets run $27 each and can be purchased through IthacaEvents com or by calling 607-273-4497 Due to its content, this play is intended for an 18-plus audience

Daveen Koh

Oliver!

7 p.m. on Friday at The Hangar Theater

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Twist got the musical treatment back in 1960 with Oliver! and, 52 years later, The Hanger Theater will put on a three-day r un of the production, star ting on Friday

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Why

While going to an all-girl school or being a dork does not necessarily equate to being a social invalid, the two of those things together mean that, between the ages of 12 and 18, I did not talk to boys That’s not entirely true I did debate, so there were the weird annoying arrogant debate boys not to mention my two guy friends from elementary school and my cat, Theo And so because I spent my Saturday nights since 2005 watching TV and eating cookie dough, everything I know about the opposite sex comes from a weird amalgamation of John Hughes movies, British teenage sitcoms and She s the Man Now, however, I have realized that watching Clueless a million times may not be an adequate substitute for having a social life The following are my top five misconceptions about the world that have been shattered since coming to college

1 There are no 18-year-olds who look like Channing Tatum Okay so this one was kind of a no-brainer I always had an inkling that it was too good to be true When Channing Tatum shot She s the Man, he was 26 years old Similarly, Penn Badgley was 24 in Easy A, even Paul Rudd was 27 when he played Josh in Clueless Not to mention a 28year-old Cory Monteith who somehow passes for 17 every week on Glee This is a phenomenon that is strangely limited to the guys While yes, most of the actresses who

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Zachar y Zahos

The Magic Flute Previews 8 p m on Wednesday At Hoerner Theater at Ithaca College

The timeless opera composed by Mozar t and written by Emanuel Schikaneder hits Ithaca on Wednesday Follow the enchanting, luscious journey of handsome prince Tamino and his kidnapped maiden Pamina as love and music defeat evil The humorous Singspiel features dialogue both spoken and sung, and in English, no less Widely considered Mozart’s greatest opera, The Magic Flute will preview on Wednesday and premiere Friday Tickets run from $5 50 to $11 and can be pur-

Other Events/Features

On and Around Campus Throughout the Week

Haines-Eitz en at Bar

Hall, 8 pm,

where he welcomes guest appearances f

Philharmonic and musicians from Ithaca College

Marc Berger at Castaways, 5:30 pm, Feb 24, Friday Berger, known for his American roots and Western sound, will play at the Castaways on Friday He has previously opened for such acts as Bob

Dylan and his song, “ The Last One,” which speaks against nuclear proliferation, has become a prominent protest song of our age

Mia Hynes at Hockett Family Recital Hall, 7 p m , Feb 23, Thursday Dr Hy

bring her acclaimed, vir tuoso touch to Ithaca College on Thursday

play high school sophomores are not actually 15, they are much closer to that age than their male counterparts Amanda Bynes was 20 in She s the Man, Emma Stone was 22 in Easy A, and Alicia Silverstone was also only 20 in Clueless In any case, it has always been fairly obvious that the actors who play teenagers could actually legally buy alcohol for the characters they play My vague hope that there are teenagers who look like Aaron Samuels

went to “normal” high schools, the more I’ve realized that the importance of being the quarterback or captain of whatever team has been greatly exaggerated

3 Prom is not the most important night

(Mean Girls) was one of the first to go

2 Sports are not the most important thing anyone can do, ever Whether it’s Emilio Estevez in The Breakfast Club, any character in Friday Night Lights or Troy from High School Musical, sports have always seemed integral to any high school experience But as comedian Eugene Mirman puts it in his Youtube video, Eugene Mirman’s The Will to Whatevs Tip #44: Surviving High School, “Several years after you leave high school about eight everyone becomes fat and sports are no longer important There aren ’ t a lot of lacrosse jobs after high school ” And the more I’ve talked to people who

of your life I missed my prom because of a family thing I’m fine Thank you Never Been Kissed and 10 Things I Hate About You, for misleading me on that one

4 Girls do not wear heels to school

When I first saw Easy A, I was so happy that it was about a seemingly normal teenage girl with a sound mind and a smart mouth And then I saw her wearing high heels in every single scene of the movie (even before she dresses like a skank) I freaked out a bit I know that most girls did not wear ripped sweatpants under their uniform skirts with stained, oversized polo shirts like I did, but was I really that out of touch? It turns out

that the answer was no While I dressed decidedly more hobo-esque than many, apparently the most dressed up normal people get during school is wearing dark-wash jeans, or maybe black pants So costumers for Mean Girls and Easy A, this one is on you

5 Rory Gilmore does not exist Do not get me wrong, I love Gilmore Girls Seasons one through four (or five depending on how you feel about Dean) charm and delight audiences But, Rory is not real In case you ’ re unfamiliar with the show, here’s a brief description of the character: beautiful, smart, witty, editor of the newspaper in high school and at Yale, valedictorian, class vicepresident; all of this while also staying lowkey and down to earth Plus, every boy she meets ever on the show falls in love with her Everyone from Chad Michael Murray to Milo Ventimiglia ditches his douche ways just to spend time with Rory, innocently watching a movie Rory Gilmore is perfect; there is no getting around it She has no flaws So it was actually kind of a relief to see that, she does not really exist It lowers the standards for us all This plus knowing that 18-year-old Channing Tatum also is not real, means that I actually feel pretty good about my life

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

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in high spirits

The Saints dominated play for much of the first, yet headed into the second down 2-0 Shots from Saints freshman forward Chris Martin and senior forward Jacob Drewiske flew past Iles in the middle frame but a quick play put Cornell on top heading into the third Senior forward Locke Jillson accepted a pass from freshman defenseman Joakim Ryan in the neutral zone and charged up the left side Jillson beat his defender through the circle and went glove side on Weninger for his sixth goal of the season Weninger made 26 saves on the night after securing last week’s ECAC Goalie of the Week honors

[The game against St Lawrence] was a night of swings, Syer said “There was some real highs and some real lows here The played ebbed and flowed ”

A third period unassisted goal by sophomore defender Justin Baker at the 4:51 mark was not enough to extend the Saints five-game winning streak

“It was huge for us, ” Collins said “They are two tough rinks to play at, and picking up three points gives us an opportunity to get a share of the title next weekend

Only two home games remain before the ECAC playoffs against teams Cornell tied on the road previously this season

“We’ve seen them we know it’s going to be two tough battles,” Collins said

The Red hosts Union for its Senior Night Friday at 7 p m , before facing Rensselear at the same time on Saturday at Lynah Rink As of Sunday night, an ECACHockey com poll pegged Cornell as the team most capable of defeating the league-leader

Rob Moore can be reached at rmoore@cornellsun com

S celfo, Cancer Earn Major Play Time Against Tigers

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scoring or assisting on 23 straight points, including three from downtown He finished the game with 25 points six assists five rebounds and just one turnover

“[Rosen] had a great game; he made some really tough shots, said junior for ward Eitan Chemerinski “We were just trying to do the best we could to keep the ball out of his hands and just try to keep him from making plays, but he just made some big plays down the stretch ”

Both captains, Ferry and senior guard Chris Wroblewski, had stronger games compared to the first time the two teams competed; however, neither could upstage the show Rosen gave at the end Ferry scored 17 points, including four 3pointers, and grabbed six rebounds, while Wroblewksi finished with 14 points, three assists and three rebounds

The Red was in the game until the very end against Penn; however, against Princeton, Cornell started with very low energy and was unable to mount a comeback trailing by as many as 23 points before falling, 75-57 Head coach Bill Courtney said he was displeased by the effort his team put forward He subbed out all five starters at four minutes into the game

“We definitely didn’t come out effectively or with the intensity that we needed to, Ferry said “We gave them a lot of open shots and to their credit, they made their shots ”

After tying the game 14-14 on a layup by freshman guard Devin Cherry, the Tigers went on a 24-8 run in the next six minutes The Tigers did most of their damage from behind the arc, as they hit five 3-pointers during the run Wroblewski ended the half by going coast-to-coast to score on a

buzzer-beating layup, cutting the lead to 44-32 heading into the break where Princeton shot 69 percent from the field

“For us, our defensive intensity and execution was not where it was the first time we played them,” Ferry said “We let them run their offense and get comfortable at the beginning of the game and once they got into a rhythm and started making shots, there really wasn ’ t a whole lot we could do to stop that

The second half was more of the same, as the Tigers never led by fewer than 13 points Turnovers played a factor in the Red’s demise, as Cornell turned the ball over 13 times in the second half alone The silver lining in this game was the appearance of sophomore guard Dominick Scelfo and freshman guard Galal Cancer on the court This was Scelfo s first game playing major minutes and he made the most of this opportunity, scoring nine points in the first half Cancer, who was shooting just 21 percent from the field in his last five games, provided a solid performance, scoring 10 points on 3-of4 shooting from the field

“I think [Scelfo and Cancer] are really good players and when given opportunities, they play really well,” Chemerinski said “We’re just hoping that they’ll continue playing well [when given the chance] ”

After this disappointing weekend, the Red knows what it needs to focus on in practice according to Chemerinski

“We have to continue to practice hard and continue to put an emphasis on our defense,” he said “We have to keep working hard, keep practicing hard and hopefully we ll get better results for the upcoming weekends ”

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun com

strong individual effor t from s e n i o r f o r w a r d a n d c a p t a i n Rebecca Johnston According to Johnston, the goal developed when she hit the puck into Clarkson s end after a faceoff

“ There was a face-off at the blue line and they won it back, but I hit it into the corner, chased it down, went around the net, and shot it above the goalies’ shoulder,” she said

The Red also grabbed the e a r l y a d v a n t a g e a g a i n s t t h e Saints the following night, and C o r n e l l h a s f re q u e n t l y b e e n effective in grabbing the early l e a d t h r o u g h o u t t h e s e a s o n Ac c o rd i n g t o s e n i o r f o r w a rd and captain Chelsea Karpenko, the Red recognizes the importance of star ting strong and has focused on that throughout the season “ It’s i m p o r t a n t b e c a u s e i t h e l p s y o u b u i l d m o m e n t u m and really sets the opposing team back on their heals to s t a r t t h e g a m e , ” s h e s a i d

Coming out strong and getting that lead early is definitely something we ’ ve been tr ying to focus on lately, and we ’ ve been doing a good job with it

T h e Go l d e n K n i g h t s t i e d the game in the second period, and after a scoreless third, the game went to over time The Red dominated control of the puck from the ver y beginning, and netted the winner when f r e s h m a n f o r w a r d Ji l l i a n Saulnier banked a shot off the post and into the goal The play went to video revie w, but it was ultimately upheld as a goal

According to Johnston, the Red was determined to get the winner in over time after it let Clarkson come back earlier in the game

“It was a great over time for us, ” she said “ We came out strong and they didn’t get any oppor tunities so that showed u s b e a r i n g d ow n a n d re a l l y

wanting to win it We came out a little flat in the second period, so to see us bounce back and adapt was a really good step for us ”

On Senior Night against the Saints, the Red earned a 3-0 lead by the midway point of the second period After it let

St L a w re n c e c l i m b b a c k t o make it 3-2, the Red played solid defense to hold on to the lead and get the win

A c c o r d i n g t o K a r p e n k o , being able to play strong defensively and hold leads will be ver y impor tant in upcoming playoff games “ With the playoffs star ting up, ever y game will be close and ever y team will be fighting right to the end, so to be able to hang on to a lead, that’s what it will come down to in t h e p l a y o f f s , s h e s a i d “ G e t

before playoffs star t was really impor tant for us ” Senior goaltender Amanda M a z z o t a w h o h a s b e e n injured since Jan 27 was back in net for these two contests

Its great to have her back, she said “It was nice to see her back, playing well and confident like she normally is ” A c c o r d i n g t o Jo h n s t o n , S e n i o r Ni g

moment for the Red’s six graduating seniors

It

, h a p p y and exciting day,” she said “It w a s

seniors, and winning made it that much better

, Cornell is now eager to star t the playoffs “ This is what you play all year for,” she said “It all comes down to the playoffs, so there’s a ne w element of excitement, and ever yone knows there’s no second chances, so we have to give it all we ’ ve got ”

Men, Women Defeat Skidmore Squads at Ox ley

By ANDREA SIELICKI Sun Staff Wr ter

Head coach david Eldredge ’81 gave some of the Cornell starters on the men ’ s and women ’ s polo teams a rest over the weekend against Skidmore, allowing other varsity members a chance to get on the field The men defeated the Thoroughbreds, 18-5, and the women won 21-6 at the Oxley Equestrian Center Next weekend both squads will leave Ithaca to face No 1-ranked Virginia

The men (7-4) sat usual starters, junior captain Branden Van Loon and sophomore Nick Feldman, instead playing varsity members junior Justin Schick and sophomore Emerson Bilodeau along with freshman and regular starter Nik Stieg In the second chukker, junior Connor Pardell, sophomore Tate Lavitt and freshman Alex Langlois finished out the game Stieg led the Red with six goals, followed by Pardell, who registered three

“The game gave some really good experience to people who don’t get to play as many games, ” Van Loon said David Eldredge said that he did not think he would gain a lot by playing the starters since he already saw what they can do against Skidmore from the fall matchup Cornell and Skidmore (2-6) last met in October and the team of Pardell, Feldman, Stieg and Van Loon overpowered the Thoroughbreds in a 44-0 shutout

The women (8-4) have a similar season record against Skidmore (3-8), a team the Red beat twice in November once during regular play and again in the Bill Field Invitational During Friday’s game, senior captain Ali Hoffman, senior Amanda Stern and sophomore Kailey Eldredge started for the Red earning Cornell a 14-point lead by the end of the first half, with junior Kristen Russomanno subbing in for Hoffman in the second chukker

“We started off really well That was good for Amanda, Ali and I Starting strong is important for next week,” Kailey Eldredge said, alluding to next week’s match against UVA

The second half of the game was played by senior Brittany Cox and sophomore Beth LeBow, with Hoffman and Russomanno again switching off between the third and fourth chukker Kailey Eldredge led the team with 12 goals all scored in the first half followed by four goals from Stern

Both teams will head down to Charlottesville, Va this weekend to compete against the Cavaliers, a squad currently ranked first nationally for the men and women The UVA men are the defending national champions, while the women lost to Cornell last year in the final round The match against Skidmore provided the Red a chance to work on game technique before facing tougher competition, according to Van Loon The junior captain said against

Resting up | Cornell’s starters on the polo team had the weekend off against Skidmore, allowing other varsity members the opportunity to start against the visiting Thoroughbreds

tough teams like Virginia, there is no time to contemplate plays

“Skidmore gave Connor and Stieg an opportunity to work on perfecting simple things and establishing muscle memory, ” he said

Since the men had off last week, and this week Van Loon and Feldman sat out, the junior captain expressed some concern about being rusty against Virginia

“I would honestly prefer the option to get another game in before UVA, but at the same time we ’ re playing at the national level and [David Eldredge] set up this game schedule to test us, ” Van Loon said “I think it’s going to be a very big challenge but I think there’s going to be a lot of improve on ”

The men played against the Cavaliers in the fall, losing, 17-10 This week in practice, Cornell will focus on fixing some issues to prepare for heavy competition

“The men still have plays where we basically suck and allow the other team back into the game, ” David Eldredge said “That’s the sign of a young team ”

He adds, however, that the men are a different team

“Now we have an identity so we ’ re hoping that we can play with that identity,” he said

The women face Virginia for the second time this season since losing to the team earlier in the fall, 19-9 Kailey Eldredge said since that time, the Red has become a different team and has had time to improve

“We’re looking to keep up our speed and aggression,” she said “We want to keep up with these girls and not feel like we ’ re catching up all the time ”

According to Kailey Eldredge, the women want to further team unity and improve on consistency

“We’re working to continue to improve in knowledge in one another,” she said “The women are not the same team at the point in the fall that we are now ”

The Cornell men and women face UVA this weekend, playing on Saturday and Sunday, respectively

Andrea Sielicki can be reached at asielicki@cornellsun com

A Year of Rebuilding May Finally Be Pay ing O f f

Being one of only three away teams to earn three points o r m o re i n t h e No r t h

Countr y this year, the Cornell m e n ’ s h o c k e y t e a m p rove d i t could win the Whitelaw Trophy at Atlantic City in 2012 Before this weekend, the Red earned three points or more on the trip only five times in the last 20 years Driving up to Canton and Potsdam for hockey is akin to a t r i p t o f ro ze n h e l l A l t h o u g h

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Many of the Red’s greatest chances were rebounds in front of the goal crease, but players often missed the rebounds or drove them back into Karpowich’s pads

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e c t i ve when paired with a quality goaltender like Paul Karpowich, who is tied for third in the nation with Cornell’s Andy Iles and Union’s Troy Gro s e n i c k w i t h f i ve shutouts this season Thus, watching the Golden Knights play was ver y much a déjà vu experience, and it illustrated what the Red could do better next time For one, there needs to be better puck awareness in front of the net because a lot of g

s s e d throughout the game that could h a ve e a r n e d C o r n e l l a w i n Clarkson’s defense is arguably one of the best in the league so it was

Cornell came incredibly close to l o s i n g b o t h g a m e s a g a i n s t Clarkson and St Lawrence the players rebounded after opponent goals and fought off changes in momentum a key skill that is necessar y during the postseason On Friday, the team held off Clarkson by controlling the puck for most of the game Although shots on goal were relatively even, the Red had more quality chances and executed “ The System” better than the Golden Knights It was not surprising that Clarkson head coach Casey Jones, a former a s s i s t a n t c o a c h a n d p l a ye r a t Cornell, employed a similar system to the one Cornell fans are

While it is good that the team is creating these chances and eventually one of these chances will turn into a goal, it is also necessar y to increase the rate at which the Red is capitalizing on these opportunities Although Cornell played better and should have won the game, luck is not always on the team ’ s side, and a tie is nothing to be ashamed of Saturday night’s game against St Lawrence was a different stor y as the Saints played an aggressive 1-2-2 defense, often sending two or three men deep to disrupt Cornell’s breakout Compared to recent years when the Red could barely dump a puck in the opposing end, the team was relatively successful at bringing the puck out and recovering possession when it was lost in its own end

However, St Lawrence was able to score on defensive breakdowns by individual Cornell players, which is something the team

n e e d s t o a d d re s s b e f o re n e x t weekend A few Red skaters were

On the flip side, Cornell’s goals on the night were mostly results of great team efforts by players like sophomore for ward Du s t i n Mow re y, w h o s l i p p

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y chance and a score Birch also assisted an earlier goal in the first period with a pass through the n

u t r a l zo n e t o s o p h o m o re defenseman Krill Gotovets who dropped the puck to junior Greg Miller allowing Miller to throw the puck over the Saints

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e l y depended on shots from the blue line and lucky rebounds to put points on the scoreboard

Looking ahead, the Red has a chance next weekend to lock in the Clear y Cup awarded to regular season ECAC champions if it is able to sweep Union and RPI at Lynah Rink Beating the Dutchmen and the Engineers will also catapult Cornell in the PairWise rankings and create a larger cushion for an at-large NCAA bid For a rebuilding year when expectations were somewhat limited in October, this team has surprised us all with its

n d recover y after losses to Colgate Although winning in Atlantic City is the only sure way of reaching the NCAA tournament, making a final-stretch sprint next weekend will do wonders for the Red’s aspirations in March

Senior for ward Locke Jillson helped the Red regain its lead in the second period by avoiding t w o Sa i n t s d e f e n s e m e n a n d bringing up the puck from the corner and back up to the slot for a quick shot past the blocked goalie Weninger The game-winning goal by senior alternate captain Sean Collins was also well c o o rd i n a t e d , a s t h e f o r w a rd poked in a rebound from a shot by f re s h m a n Jo h n Mc C a r ro n from the point, where the forward skated back to gain a better angle during a 3-on-2 This level of offensive awareness on the ice shows that this is not the Cornell

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Cornell Earns First-Round Bye in ECAC Playoffs

By ROB MOORE Sun Senior Writer

Saints sophomore goalie Matt Weniger looked surprised 36 seconds into the overtime period of Saturday’s game after Red senior forward Sean Collins scored the game-winner with a backhand that traveled through his own skates and across the crease The sudden death goal was the last of a three-point weekend for the Red in which it secured a coveted bye for the first round of the ECAC playoffs

“It’s great to have a little bit of time off to regroup on a few things that we want to execute in the playoffs, said assistant coach Ben Syer “It gives our guys some time to heal their bumps and bruises ”

Princeton (8-13-6 6-11-3) increased Union’s first place lead to two points over the Red The Dutchmen (19-6-7, 13-3-4) have won 10 of their past 12 contests and are poised to take the regular season championship, the Clear y Cup, home to Schenectady, N Y next weekend if Cornell cannot win the head-to-head matchup

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Syer took the reins of the Red on Saturday as a first-year assistant coach for the program

The No 12 Cornell squad (14-6-7,113-6 ECAC Hockey) played the Clarkson Golden Knights (9-7-4, 15-13-6) to a 1-1 tie on Friday night at Cheel Arena before finishing off the weekend with a 4-3 overtime win over the St Lawrence Saints (1316-3, 9-10-1) Meanwhile, two victories over Dartmouth (10-13-4, 7-10-3) and

Junior center Greg Miller scored the first goal in both contests, getting his pass from sophomore for ward Dustin Mowrey and senior defenseman and captain Keir Ross on Friday at the beginning of the second period At the end of a scoreless first, Miller sent a puck off Clarkson senior goalie Paul Karpowich’s back which forced a review of the play The call was a no-goal, but Miller would come back to put the rubber away for sure with a deflection at 5:19 into the middle frame

Both teams battled to produce similar amounts of quality scoring chances, but neither could foil the other s goaltender until Clarkson graduate for ward Nick Tremblay snapped a rebound past sophomore goaltender Andy Iles with less than seven minutes left in regulation Iles regis-

Paying respects | Senior captain forward Chelsea Karpenko, who notched two assists, was one of six seniors honored at Senior Night on Saturday

Putting up a wall | Sophomore goaltender Andy Iles registered 24 saves against Clarkson on Friday and another 24 saves the next night against St Lawrence

tered 24 saves on the evening and Karpowich played a similar game, with 27 saves on the Red Both net minders received significant help from their posts; Cornell almost lost the game when sophomore forward Ben Sexton rattled a post with under a minute left in overtime

The Red unsatisfied with a tie earned its first win at Appleton Arena since

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

Februar y 2005 the following evening Cornell pulled out in front in the first and again in the second, but the Saints were not phased and tied it up twice to force the extra period Improving upon its face-off percentage of the previous night, the men ’ s hockey team returned from Canton, N Y

Princeton Defeat Courtney ’ s Squad

The Cornell men ’ s basketball team continued its less than stellar play on the road, losing both games this weekend to rivals Penn (15-11, 7-2 Ivy League) and Princeton (15-10, 6-3) Cornell (10-14 5-5) had a chance to move to as high as second in the Ivy League this weekend, but the two losses moved the team to fifth, out of contention for the Ivy League cham-

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff

With two victories over the weekend, the No 3 women ’ s hockey team enjoyed a fitting end to its impressive regular season In two exciting contests at Lynah Rink, the Red (26-3-0, 20-2-0 ECAC Hockey) defeated Clarkson (21-8-5, 15-5-2), 2-1, on Friday night, and ousted St Lawrence (20-9-4 14-6-2) 3-2 on Senior Night the following day Cornell already clinched the ECAC title last weekend, but these wins put the team on a seven-game win-

ning streak heading into the playoffs, which start next weekend When Cornell last faced Clarkson on Jan 28, the Knights came away with a 5-3 victor y Therefore, according to senior forward and captain Chelsea Karpenko, the Red had revenge on its mind entering Friday’s contest “ The loss was definitely still fresh on our minds, so there was an element of revenge there, she said “We wanted to pay them back ” In the rematch, Cornell jumped out to an early lead thanks to a

pionship The Red lost a close game in the final minutes to Penn, 73-66, before getting blown out by Princeton, 75-57 Against Penn, Cornell was hampered by turnovers in the first half turning it over 10 times in the half but kept pace with the Quakers No team led by more than seven in the half and Penn led by six, 35-29, entering halftime

“ We were a little ner vous controlling the ball and we weren ’ t making smart plays or smart passes at the beginning of the game, ” said senior guard and co-captain Drew Ferry “It hurt us a little bit at the beginning, but we got it more under control as the game progressed and we did a better job of taking care of it ” Cornell came out of the

intermission with much more energy, going on a 20-8 run in the first eight minutes to take a six-point lead, 49-43 All five Cornell starters scored during this stretch

“I think we executed a lot better offensively [during that stretch],” Ferr y said “ We made some shots and we were able to guard the ball when you execute offensively and defensively, that’s how you get on a r un ” After this run, Penn guard Zack Rosen took over the game

Falling short of expectations | The Red was unable to come away with a victor y on Friday in Philadelphia, Pa , but junior guard Johnathan Gray contributed 15 points, five rebounds and four assists