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“It’s the dedication of the employees; [they] make TCAT safe, reliable and clean. It’s all in the service delivery that makes people use the service over and over,” Turcotte said.

However, the new record will not affect TCAT financially, as the federal government, New York State, Tompkins County and the fares the bus collects from users fund the service, according to Turcotte. “[The record] definitely brings

In response to several recent massacres in the U.S. involving violent shooters, the Ithaca Police Department has trained its officers to respond to “active shooters” — changing the way it will face situations with gunmen in the future.

From November to December, police officers learned about effective shooting formations in hallways, breaching techniques, room and building entry methods and mental preparation for stopping an active shooter, according to IPD. While previously, police officers were trained to “set up a perimeter and wait for the SWAT team to handle things,” the IPD’s training program taught officers how to respond to a threat before SWAT teams arrive on the scene, according to IPD Officer Jamie Williamson.

“There is a better approach “The old school to responding to an active of thought for police response to shooter scenario than what an active shooter was currently in place.” scenario was to set up a perimeter and IPD Officer Jamie Williamson wait for the SWAT team to handle things,” Williamson said. “The SWAT team often takes valuable time to respond, formulate a plan and then act on that plan; all the while, people inside are possibly being killed or harmed,” he said.

The new IPD protocol prepares each officer to respond to the scene, enter the building and locate and stop the threat as soon as possible, according to Williamson. Coincidentally, the last day of the Active Shooter training took place on the same day as the Sandy Hook massacre.

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Welcome aboard | The TCAT bus service has broken its ridership record yet again.

TCAT Sees Record Ridership For Sixth Consecutive Year

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

For the sixth consecutive year, the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit bus service has broken records in ridership, seeing more than 4 million trips in 2012.

According to TCAT General Manager Joe Turcotte, this is a 4.7 percent increase from the 3.95 million trips of 2011. A trip is defined by a student ID swipe or when a bus fare is paid.

The record moves TCAT into the “medium sized category” of

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transportation services, by the American Public Transportation Association, an accomplishment for a county whose population is slightly over 100,00 individuals, said Turcotte. APTA uses these groupings to designate awards to successful transit systems.

“Increase of gas prices were a factor in the spike in trips over the year,” Matt Yarrow, service analyst for TCAT, stated in a press release.

In an interview with The Sun, Turcotte credited TCAT employees for making the increase in trips possible.

Alumni Discuss News Literacy, Internet Media

By SARAH SASSOON Sun Staff Writer

A panel of three Cornell alumni considered how well the news industry served consumers during the 2012 presidential campaign Tuesday evening.

Dean Miller ’83, a former editor for The Sun, said he was discouraged by the “amount of junk information that gets into the political discourse” throughout the 2012 elections.

He used the example of a recent video clip in which First Lady Michelle Obama appears to be rolling her eyes at House Speaker John Boehner (ROhio).

“Much has been made of this thing with absolutely no verification that she was somehow ‘dissing’ John Boehner,” Miller said.

Beyond politics, Miller highlighted how even a national disaster like Hurricane Sandy, can be misrepresented in the news through false images, tweets,

and Facebook posts. “[Consumers must] hold the press accountable and watchdog the press in the same way that you watchdog politicians,” he said, emphasizing that consumers of news in any form must be wary of the information they are receiving.

Miller said that websites like factcheck.org are helpful tools to discern what is accurate on the Internet and what is not.

Fellow panelist Stuart H. Loory ’53, professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism and former Sun editor-in-chief, also stressed that consumers must take responsibility for fact-checking the news. Readers play active roles in shaping the news, he said.

“The consumers of news have a responsibility to keep the organizations that are supplying them with the news honest,” he said. “Every good writer needs a good editor.”

However, Vivian Schiller ’83, senior vice president and chief

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Journalism in the time of Twitter | A panel discussion on mediacoverage of the 2012 Presidential Elections is held Tuesday evening.

digital officer at NBC, expressed a different perspective on Internet media.

Schiller highlighted the importance of the Internet as a vehicle for news to travel instantaneously.

“As news consumers…we have never been so empowered,” Schiller said.

She went on to add that social media sites such as Twitter See PANEL page 4

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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Umpteen speedy televisions perused two sheep, then umpteen tickets towed Jupiter, and Dan untangles five progressive orifices. Umpteen quixotic aardvarks annoyingly bought two Macintoshes. Umpteen bureaux tickled two extremely putrid botulisms. Paul sacrificed one lampstand, then Jupiter marries the very quixotic pawnbroker. Five purple poisons laughed, yet umpteen chrysanthemums kisses five aardvarks. Batman noisily untangles one Jabberwocky. Two Macintoshes laughed, then one extremely schizophrenic Jabberwocky drunkenly untangles two sheep, however Quark telephoned umpteen obese Jabberwockies. Five irascible botulisms slightly lamely auctioned off the subway, and five chrysanthemums easily untangles one mostly speedy Klingon. Five dogs drunkenly perused Minnesota, however the mats ran away cleverly, although one partly progressive subway quite comfortably sacrificed

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — Long before Hostess Brands’ plan to shut down made Twinkies the rage, Nancy Peppin found something special about the cream-filled snack cakes.

No, she doesn’t have a sweet tooth for them.

But she has featured Twinkies in hundreds of pieces of quirky, satirical artwork because of an obsession with what she calls the “ultimate American food icon.”

Her works include her “Twinkies in history series,” which portrays how scientists such as John James Audubon, Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci would have sketched and written about Twinkies in journals or books.

Her Audubon series on the “North American Twinkie (twinkopus hostus)” includes illustrations of three “important subspecies — Cream-bellied Twinkie, Strawberrythroated Twinkie, Golden-backed Twinkie” — as well as writings describing the “birds” and explaining their migration patterns.

Her painting titled “The Last Snack” is a takeoff of da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” featuring Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and other Hostess products at a table with the same arrangement and background as da Vinci’s classic.

Steven High, executive director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., said he finds Peppin’s artwork — and use of Twinkies as a metaphor to explore various subjects — clever, humorous and imaginative.

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World’s Oldest Woman Dies TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo who became world’s oldest living female just last month has died at 115.

Koto Okubo died Saturday at a nursing home in Kawasaki City, according to city official Mitsuhiro Kozuka. He said her relatives declined to release the cause of her death and family details.

Born Dec. 24, 1897, Okubo held her title for less than a month following the death of Dina Manfredini of the United States.

Manfredini died within two weeks after becoming the world's oldest person.

Jiroemon Kimura, a 115-year-old man in Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, inherited that title. He was born on April 19, 1897.

The city official said Okubo had lived with one of her sons at the same nursing home.

Frozen Soda Closes Road READING, Pa. (AP) — Everyone knows soda can be bad for your teeth. Sometimes, it can apparently threaten the morning commute, too.

Police say two tractor-trailers collided on U.S. Route 422 outside Reading, Pa., around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday. The Reading Eagle reports one of the trucks was carrying 2-liter bottles of soda.

Hundreds of gallons of sugary drink spilled onto the highway and froze in the frigid early morning temperatures.

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Cornellians Help Prepare Presidential Inauguration

By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Writer

As President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term Monday the slew of inaugural festivities had a Big Red flavor, thanks to Cornell students serving on the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Members of the Presidential Inaugural Committee were responsible for organizing multiple events as part of Inauguration Day, including the inaugural ceremony itself; the inaugural ball, a concert for military children and families; the inaugural parade; the Commander-in-Chief's ball; and a national prayer service, according to Roneal Desai ’13, an Inaugural Committee fellow.

“Everyone on the committee worked so hard to reach the [inauguration],” said Adam Gitlin ’13, Inaugural Committee Fellow and Student Assembly President. “It was an amazing day and exciting to see the end product.”

Since the final week of December, Desai has been working on the compliance committee to ensure that every action taken during the inauguration adhered with the missions, goals and policies of the Obama administration.

“For instance, I would help make sure that anyone involved in the inauguration had personal views that

aligned with the Obama administration, from speakers to performers,” Desai said. “We ensure that everything that takes place would be personally approved by Obama himself.”

One of the most rewarding parts of Inauguration Day was observing the tangible impact he was able to make on the inaugural ceremony, Desai said. “[During the ceremony], I noticed a part of the inauguration that I had personally changed as part of my responsibilities,” he said. “It was really exciting. It’s a huge honor to say that you worked in the inauguration of a president that you strongly support and to be present during that inauguration.”

Gitlin worked on content for the inaugural committee’s website and in the Inaugural Committee’s Office of Public Engagement in the weeks leading up the inauguration.

Gitlin, who interned with the Obama presidential campaign in 2008, said that he was able to get a behind-the-scenes perspective of the presidential inauguration and understand the intentions of the event’s organizers.

“The inauguration committee at its core seeks to bring in as many different communities together at once to celebrate democracy and other American values,” he said.

Gitlin said he saw many similarities between his work as an Inaugural

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Smile and wave | President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wave to the crowd along the inaugural parade route in Washington D.C.

Committee fellow and his position as Cornell’s S.A. president. “[While working for the Office of Public Engagement,] I’ve been exposed to a lot of different communities across America, and heard about a lot of important work and issues,” Gitlin said. “This is similar to some of the work the S.A. does, which constantly works to reach out to and engage students across the student body and academic community [at Cornell].”

Echoing Gitlin’s sentiments, George Hornedo ’13 said he felt “really blessed” to be a fellow of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Hornedo previously interned at the White House in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and at the Obama for America National Headquarters in Chicago.

As an Inaugural Committee Fellow,

Hornedo worked with the Office of Public Engagement and the Vice Presidential Planning team.

“I collaborated with various folks at PIC and the White House to coordinate a successful inauguration weekend for over 300 business CEOs and as well as for Vice President Biden’s family and friends,” Hornedo said in an email.

Hornedo expressed his gratitude for being involved in the inauguration.

“It’s just an honor to be here and have a small part in something bigger than myself,” he said. “From the swearing-in to the parade to the Latino ball, inaugural ball, and staff ball, it’s been an incredible experience.”

Emma Jesch can be reached at ejesch@cornellsun.com.

Profs Consider Changing Perceptions Of Weight Through Former C.U.Student

By SARAH CUTLER

written just six years before the influenza outbreak, which in Ithaca killed 26 people per day,” he said.

“Being larger and more robust at that time could Cornell student Elsie Scheel, at 5’7 and 171 serve as a form of protection.” pounds, was described by The New York Times in But now, Rasmussen said, “we have infectious 1912 as “a near perfect specimen of womanhood,” diseases under control.” That leaves non-communiwhose “very presence bespeaks perfect health.” cable diseases — like heart disease and diabetes — “According to Doctor Esther Parker, medical the main health concern for overweight people. examiner of 400 ‘co-eds’ in the university, Miss The study’s observations could perhaps be Scheel is not only a woman of great strength, but in explained by the health benefits of stored fat, as well her physical make-up there is not a single defect,” as overweight patients’ increased likelihood of seethe 1912 New York Times article stated. ing a doctor and receiving optimal health treatment.

Scheel, however, would be considered overBut Prof. David Levitsky, nutritional sciences, weight by today’s body mass index standards, advised caution in interpreting the JAMA study, according to Prof. Kathleen Rasmussen, nutritional which focused on mortality — the likelihood of sciences. dying — rather than on morbidity, the likelihood of “By today’s fashion standards, she would be too getting a disease. heavy,” Rasmussen said. “In BMI, she would be “We’ve got tons of data showing that if you’re heavier than normal large, you’re more likeweight.” ly to get diseases,” he “By today’s fashion standards, [Elsie Scheel has become said. “And if you’re the unlikely personifi- Scheel] would be too heavy. In BMI, she hypertensive or diabetcation of an ongoing would be heavier than normal weight.” ic, for example, you’re debate on the relationmore likely to die.” ship between weight Prof. Kathleen Rasmussen Usually, BMI and mortality, with a reflects fat in the body Journal of American Medical Association report and is related to long-term health effects, but it can published in January suggesting that the relation- be affected by several factors, Prof. Martha ship between the two is not as clear cut as previous- Stipanuk, nutritional sciences, said. ly assumed.

“It’s difficult for me to say if Elsie would be conThe JAMA report focuses on a study conducted sidered healthy today, since I can’t see her; I would

by Katherine Flegal Ph.D. ’82 and her colleagues. need to see the distribution of her weight, and how The study considers whether women like Scheel are much muscle she had, and her bone structure,” at higher risk of death because of their weight. The Stipanuk said. “In general, having a BMI in the article looks at the relative mortality risks associated healthy range is considered good, but aiming at a with “normal weight, overweight and obesity.”

BMI that one can maintain is also a desirable objec“The researchers found a six-percent lower risk tive.” of death for overweight people,” Prof. Jeff Sobal, She cautioned that the JAMA study should not nutritional sciences, said. “The relationship be seen as an invitation to accept the rise in obesity between body mass and death rates remains an in the country. unsettled issue. Various studies have shown a strong “In our culture, people are gaining weight, and non-strong relationship between the two.” becoming overweight and then obese. There are also Since Scheel’s days at Cornell, there has also been children becoming obese,” Stipanuk said. “This a cultural shift in the perception of weight, accord- study shouldn’t cause us to be less concerned about ing to Sobal. that.”

“One hundred years ago, we had very different ideas about beauty and health. At that point, more Sarah Cutler can be reached at people were dying of acute disease — the article was scutler@cornellsun.com.

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Not-so-Goldilocks | An exhibit at Kroch Library details the dark side of children’s literature.

Missing Ithaca Resident Found Dead in Woods

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

A 20-year-old man who was reported missing by his parents was found dead at 1:51 p.m. Monday.

Police found Joshua Endo, a City of Ithaca resident, dead in the woods about one mile away from his residence, according to the Ithaca Police Department. Endo’s death was ruled a suicide. No foul play is suspected, according to police.

On Sunday, Endo was reported missing by his parents, who last saw him at about 4 p.m. Police launched a missing person investigation for Endo because “it was abnormal for him to be missing for an extended period of time.”

Members of the Ithaca Police Department, Tompkins County Sheriff’s Department, the New York State Police and the New York State Forest Rangers worked together to search for Endo, according to the IPD. Akane Otani an be reached at news-editor@cornellsun.com.

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TCAT Ridership Increases by 4.7%

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financial gain without funding,” he said. “Our budget is already set for 2013. It has been the same amount for the past five years, and we will only know of an increase [in the budget] in December.”

Though New York State has supported TCAT financially to keep its rates and wages the same without numerous budget cuts, the bus service still faces many problems, according to Turcotte. “[Right now], we are actually leaving people at stops, and hopefully we can overcome that with more funding. Aging buses need to be replaced, we are outgrowing our TCAT facility, and our passengers are continually asking for better technologies to help them navigate the system,” Turcotte said in a press release.

Moreover, there are no plans to increase the bus fares as APTA statistics show a decrease in overall ridership when fares increase, according to Turcotte.

Turcotte suggested more buses as a solution to increase efficiency.

“Hopefully we can overcome leaving people at stops with more funding. The simple solution is to increase the fleet size. Creative scheduling for rush hours comes down to more buses,” Turcotte said.

But despite the difficulties TCAT faces with an increasing ridership, Cornell students have expressed their appreciation for the bus service. Mike Fox ’15 said that TCAT has served him well this year.

“It has saved my life since I’m taking Swahili in the Africana Center. I have no idea how I could make that trip on foot every day, especially in the snow. I’m a big fan,” Fox said.

Connie Potter ’16 emphasized the importance of a reliable bus service.

“Students need easy access to a consistently updated bus schedule, which lets us know if our route is taking longer than usual to complete,” Potter said. “We need to know if we can rely on TCAT to be timely, and if they’re having a bad day we need to know soon enough that we can arrange alternative travel plans.”

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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Never too early to start | Freshmen gather for a career fair at Robert Purcell Community Center.

Panel Discusses Internet Media, Journalism PANEL

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have “revolutionized the way people communicate ... and given everyone a voice.”

While the need to be wary of news obtained from Internet media sources was a theme during the evening, Schiller and Miller both spoke about freedom of speech.

“Freedom of the press is going to be abused … but the idea is that, in the end, information will filter out, fall out ... and we will learn things we should,” Miller said.

Above all, the panelists stressed the power of the news consumer.

“It wasn’t the press that documented a lot of the police abuses during the Occupy movement; it was people like you with cellphone cameras,” Miller said.

Schiller also emphasized the participatory and collaborative nature of new media.

“None of us are in the ‘audience’ anymore; we’re all in it together,” Schiller said.

She went on to further stress that, with easily accessible blog sites and networks, even the quintessential blogger sitting on his couch in his pajamas blogging can be a journalist “if [he is] producing journalism.”

Sarah Sassoon can be reached at ssassoon@cornellsun.com.

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“Events such as Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook helped [the IPD] realize that there is a better approach to responding to an active shooter scenario than what was currently in place,” Williamson said.

While Active Shooter training pertained mostly to violent shooter scenarios, the second training session, called Reality Based Training, focused on everyday calls encountered by officers, Williamson said. Specific examples presented to officers in the training included aggressive behavior of a bystander at a traffic stop and a barricaded violent subject, which could also possibly occur in an violent shooter scenario.

Reality Based Training was held from January 15th to January 18th and almost every officer from the IPD, Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department and Cornell University Police Department attended, according to Williamson.

The program ran for 24 hours a day for three consecutive days and required each participating officer to attend three hours of training.

Both Active Shooter training and Reality Based Training required officers to respond to roleplayed

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scenarios, with other officers acting as victims and suspects. After each scenario, the participating officer was given feedback on his or her performance in stopping the threat, according to a press release.

The IPD utilized a vacant building in Ithaca to hold its role play training, which involved “minimal” cost, Williamson said. Over six weeks, every IPD officer reported to the building for evaluation, required by the Active Shooter training program.

Though no gun-related massacres have plagued Ithaca, the IPD takes gun violence “very seriously” and is aware that the city is not immune to serious threats, according to Williamson.

“It is our opinion that even one crime involving a gun is a problem; to that end, we will exhaust all of our resources to keep our streets safe,” he said.

All IPD officers and several from the Ithaca College Police Department and Dryden Police Department attended the first training session called Law Enforcement Emergency Response to an Active Shooter, according to Williamson.

Olivia Dang can be reached at odang@cornellsun.com.

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U.S. Stocks Rise As Tech, Industrial Earns Roll In

Strong earnings reports from big U.S. companies helped push the Dow Jones industrial average to its eighth gain in nine sessions Tuesday.

DuPont, Verizon and Travelers Cos., three of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow, closed higher after reporting their financial results for the final quarter of 2012.

The Dow closed up 62.51 points, or 0.5 percent, at 13,712.21. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 6.53, or 0.4 percent, to 1,492.51. The Nasdaq composite average rose 8.47, or 0.3 percent, to 3,143.18.

The indexes spent the morning edging between small gains and losses. Around noon, the Dow rose decisively and stayed higher for the rest of the day.

Earnings have been strong enough this season to drive a five-day winning streak for the S&P 500 and put the Dow on track for its biggest monthly percentage gain since October 2011.

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On the scene | Police officers block off a street near the Lone Star College campus in Houston, Texas, where a fight between two people led to a shooting Tuesday.

Sheriff: N.M. Teen Planned To Randomly Shoot People ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico teenager accused of gunning down five family members over the weekend ambushed his father as he returned home from an overnight shift at a rescue mission, then reloaded his rifles and planned to go to a Wal-Mart and randomly shoot people, authorities said Tuesday.

Instead, 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego texted a picture of his dead mother to his 12-year-old girlfriend, then spent much of Saturday with the girl and her family, authorities said. That evening, the teen went to the church where his father had been a pastor, and Griego eventually confessed to killing his parents and three younger siblings.

“The motive, as articulated by the suspect, was purely that he was frustrated with his mother,” Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston said. “He did not give any further explanation.”

Houston said Griego had planned the shootings for at least a week, but it’s unclear if he ever actually went to a WalMart or why he changed his mind about continuing the attack, which occurred the same day thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully at state capitals around the country to rally against stricter limits on firearms. The “Guns Across America” events were being held just after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.

Griego told detectives he also contemplated killing his

girlfriend’s parents, Houston said.

The sheriff said he didn’t know if Griego’s contact with his girlfriend avoided further bloodshed. But he said she apparently knew what had happened, and officials are investigating whether she should be charged with failing to report the crime.

“We know Nehemiah had been contemplating this for some time,” Houston told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. Griego apparently had told others of his plans, but whom and when was still under investigation, Houston said.

The teen waived his right to arraignment in adult court Tuesday on charges of murder and child abuse resulting in death, and a judge ordered him held without bond. The case was assigned to public defender Jeff Buckels, who didn't immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment.

The sheriff's office identified the victims as Greg Griego, 51, his wife, Sarah Griego, 40, and three of their children: a 9-year-old boy, Zephania Griego, and daughters Jael Griego, 5, and Angelina Griego, 2. All appeared to have gunshot wounds to the head.

According to Houston and charging documents, it all began early Saturday at the family’s home in a rural area of southwest Albuquerque, when Nehemiah Griego — angry and annoyed with his mother — acted on what he described to investigators as homicidal and suicidal thoughts.

Authorities: Fight Led To Texas College Shooting HOUSTON (AP) — A fight between two people erupted in gunfire Tuesday at a Houston-area community college, catching a maintenance man in the crossfire and leaving students and others cowering in classrooms.

No one was killed, but the volley of gunshots heard just before 1 p.m. sparked fear of another campus massacre less than a month after 26 people were killed at elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

The shooting happened outside between an academic building and the library where Luis Resendiz, 22, was studying on the second floor. An employee called police and then herded the 30 to 40 people in the library into a small room and told them to crouch down, he said.

Keisha Cohn, 27, was in a building about 50 feet away and began running as soon as she heard the shots.

“To stay where I was wasn’t an option,” said Cohn, who fled to a building that houses computers and study areas. All the students were eventually evacuated, running out of buildings as police officers led them to safety.

Authorities offered no details on what led to the fight. One of the people involved had a student ID, and both people were wounded and hospitalized, Harris County Sheriff ’s Maj. Armando Tello said.

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Money matters | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his 2013-14 state budget address in Albany, N.Y., Tuesday. Cuomo is expected to limit increases in state spending to less than 2 percent as part of his budget plans.

Cuomo Proposes $143B State Budget; Spends 2% More ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday backed up the progressive agenda he cheered about in his State of the State speech a week ago with an apparently balanced financial plan that he detailed in the measured tones of a CEO. Cuomo presented a $137 billion budget that balloons to over $143 billion and a 5 percent spending increase when federal aid for recovery from Superstorm Sandy is included.

Traditional spending without Sandy relief is held to about a 2 percent increase, without tax increases or layoffs. But New Yorkers will face several new and increased fees.

The current state budget is $134 billion, although state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warns tax revenues are failing to meet expectations in a slow economic recovery with high unemployment.

Cuomo proposed increasing school aid 4.4 percent and funding for longer school days, while closing a projected $1.3 billion budget deficit.

Richard Brodsky of the Wagner School at New York University said Cuomo’s proposal appears to include a lot of borrowing as the state nears its debt limit. Cuomo Budget Director Robert Megna said he sees no significant increase in borrowing and it will remain under the limit.

Cuomo also wants to fund marketing programs, “duty free” shops for New York products, as well as jobs programs aimed at economically struggling upstate communities.

Cuomo included ways to use a total of $30 billion in anticipated federal funding — spread over several years — to restore communities in New York City and on Long Island following the devastation from Superstorm Sandy.

In a plea to salve a traditional upstate-downstate rift, he plans to use some aid for upstate communities still recovering from tropical storms Irene and Lee in 2011.

Cuomo’s speech described the state far differently than in his rousing State of the State pep talk. On Tuesday, he said the state has dug itself out of fiscal and political crisis, only to face another one after Sandy hit amid a slow economic recovery.

“The bad news is we have a lot of work to do,” Cuomo said Tuesday in Albany. “The good news is we have shown in the past two years an amazing ability to do what they said we couldn’t do.”

Cuomo's numbers add up, said Elizabeth Lynam of the independent Citizens Budget Commission.

“He’s funded a number of initiatives in a pretty responsible framework and spending isn’t going up by too much,” Lynam said.

Cuomo’s proposal now goes the Legislature for hearings. Cuomo and legislative leaders will soon meet behind closed doors to negotiate a final plan by the April 1 start of the fiscal year. In most years, the Legislature alters a governor’s budget by less than 1 percent, although it often involves critical areas including education, taxes and health care.

“I think the fact of no new taxes is great,” said Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos of Long Island. He hopes to add tax breaks for employers into the final budget. “I don’t see anything that's a huge stumbling block right now.”

Skelos shares majority control of the Senate with the Independent Democratic Conference for the first time.

Any budget deal with the Senate will require agreement

by Republican and IDC leaders.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge let the New York Police Department on Tuesday temporarily resume stop-and-frisk stops she believes are unconstitutional while she decides what permanent remedies are necessary to prevent illegal stops in thousands of privately owned buildings.

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan lifted immediate implementation of the order she issued earlier this month concerning a program aimed at decreasing city crime.

The judge earlier this month found that the city acted unconstitutionally in making trespass stops without reasonable suspicion at more than 3,000 Bronx buildings participating in the program, a finding that the city is challenging in a federal appeals court. Scheindlin said the need for the appeal will be mooted by her order lifting the ban.

Scheindlin said she believes her original ruling was correct when she found police sometimes stopped people who were merely entering or exiting buildings and not acting suspicious, but the city had shown it would be expensive to immediately implement an order that could be reversed in a complicated area of law.

Brooklyn Man Files Lawsuit Over Police Beating NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn man whose beating by two police officers was caught on videotape filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the officers and the city.

Ehud Halevy’s complaint alleges that the 21year-old was punched about two dozen times in an Oct. 8 beating that lasted more than two minutes.

He also was pepper-sprayed in the face, according to the complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court.

A spokeswoman said the city Law Department would review the papers.

The two officers, Luis Vegan and Yelena Bruzzese, had responded to a call of a dispute inside the outreach center at the Aliya Institute in Crown Heights. The synagogue has since said that Halevy was sleeping in a back room and had permission to be there.

Video from a security camera shows the officers confronting Halevy. At one point Vega lands a hard right that knocks Halevy onto one of the couches.

Halevy puts up a struggle, Vega pummels him and Bruzzese appears to hit him with a baton before he's finally subdued.

Halevy was arrested on charges that included assault, resisting arrest and trespassing. He spent four days in jail, but the charges were eventually dropped.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has called the video “disturbing.”

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s soon as it dawned on me that I was actually entering my final semester at Cornell, I was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of urgency usually reserved for post-Chipotle bathroom trips. My winter break had flown by and I had already broken my New Year’s resolution of not Q-tipping stranger’s ears on the subway. Suddenly I was back at school, unregistering from all the classes I

since I uncovered her secret past as a Colombian drug kingpin. Kiss on the suspension bridge at midnight. At prime vampire hour?!?! Eat breakfast at 2 a.m. at the State Diner. It burned down!

This was futile; I would never be able to accomplish even half of the items on the list. Thinking about it was just making me even more depressed. I would just have to accept that my Cornell experience

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Maintaining Momentum On Addressing Sexual Assault

IN SEPTEMBER ALONE, AT LEAST FOUR SEXUAL attacks were reported on or near Cornell’s campus. While the issue of sexual assaults dominated social discourse on campus this fall, the incidents that sparked the dialogue are becoming an increasingly distant memory. In addition, the revelation that one of the reported assaults was false makes it easier for some to forget that sexual assault remains an issue. Upon our return from a long academic break, it is crucial that the Cornell community not lose momentum in its efforts to address sexual assaults on our campus.

A single false report should be considered an anomaly. While exact figures are elusive, most national studies place the percentage of “unfounded” sexual assault allegations in the single digits. The revelation of a false allegation, although a rarity, is nevertheless a serious detriment to a community that has fought so avidly to combat the problem of sexual assaults. But we cannot let it paralyze us. Neither a dearth of new reports over the last four months nor the stain of a false report mitigate the gravity of this issue. The Cornell Police University Department, the administration and the student body must not allow the incident of a false allegation to overshadow the need to take action against sexual violence against women on our and other college campuses.

In response to concerns from student activists, the University has initiated several reforms this year, including bolstering late-night safety by upping patrols, sending Cornellians weekly emails with tips for self-defense and re-assigning three Cornell police officers to exclusively investigate reports of sexual assault. Additionally, Cornell will begin incorporating sexual assault prevention training into Orientation Week programming for incoming freshmen.

While these actions by the University are welcome steps, we feel that the administration has not yet adequately considered student protesters’ September demands to extend similar educational initiatives to administrators, faculty, staff and older students.

While targeting new students for this training is an significant effort, it will not be sufficient if we are to accomplish a more complete cultural transformation.

We can do more.

As a result of the high volume and concentration of the reports, we became witness to some of the most passionate displays of student activism to occur in recent years.

Students have successfully spread sexual assault awareness, but concrete reform must follow. As we embark on a new semester this week, we ought not begin with a clean slate. The efforts of student groups and leaders this past fall showed tremendous dedication to the cause: The sit-ins they staged in front of Day Hall drew impressive crowds and myriad focus groups were formed to discuss the underlying institutional weaknesses that enable rape to occur.

Although sexual violence may never be completely eradicated in our community, the administration, the police and the student body can diminish its persistence by transforming dialogue into reality. We exhort the University to improve the safety and wellbeing of its constituents through visible and measurable action, and we encourage the students of Cornell to continue to demand the same.

had signed up for and having an anxiety attack over what my final courses at this esteemed institution would be. Not only will I be entering the job market in a few months, but I will also be leaving the period every middle-age person seems to tell me was the best part of his or her life.

Great. This was my last chance. I thought, I simply have to take advantage of all that Cornell has to offer before the end of my senior year. You only go to college once (Van Wilder, I am not) and I was determined to graduate without any regrets.

For further guidance, I turned to the “Big Red Ambition,” the list The Sun puts out of the 161 things to do before graduating Cornell. To my dismay, the only things I had done on the list seemed to be boring and unadventurous, like going to Wegmans on a Friday night or eating corn nuggets at The Nines (Honestly, they aren’t that good; the waffle fries are way better, but really, you shouldn’t be filling up on appetizers. Get the deep dish and go home satisfied and uncomfortably full). So while I was able to check off a few things, I found, to my horror, that this list was mostly a myriad of things I had not done. Hook up with a freshman. I’m a senior now; it’d be bordering on creepy. Have sex in the stacks. I can’t get an erection around books ever since my mother left my father for a particularly erotic airport novel. Meet Denice Cassaro. She has had it in for me ever

was bound to be incomplete. I was never going to take Wines, or go skinny-dipping in the gorges, or make it to the Sweet 16 as a starting shooting guard for the Big Red. There were going to be classes I wouldn’t be able to take and experiences I will have to miss out on. But maybe that’s fine. I can’t do everything there is to be done, and stressing out about it will only ruin the few months I have left. Instead, I should be finishing my tenure at Cornell remembering all of the amazing things that I have done here and can still do. I should be focusing on how fortunate I am to have been afforded the opportunity to go to such a great school, take classes with incredible professors and befriend some of the most intelligent and inspired people I have ever met. Obviously, I have regrets (you know who you are, Samantha) and wish I had gone about certain things differently, but I have learned so much, and taken out far too many loans to be mired by petty remorse. There is no secret to a good “Cornell Experience” besides buying a good winter coat and doing your best to take advantage of the countless opportunities afforded to us. Although, you should definitely spend a summer in Ithaca. Seriously.

Dan Rosen is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning. He may be reached at drosen@cornellsun.com. Smell the Rosen appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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It Takes a Community O

ver winter break, I had the privilege to travel alone for the first time. I spent three weeks running around Belize experiencing a number of different cultures. During that time, memories of the three days I spent in the Mayan village of San Miguel remain most vivid. By our economic standards, their community was in desperate need. Yet, I was surprised to meet some of the happiest people I

with life.

Soon we passed the village river, used for bathing and cleaning. Hearing this knowledge ahead of time, I had pictured National Geographic images of depressed mothers bathing their children in murky waters. But as I walked down the treacherous path to the riverside in San Miguel, I was greeted by the laughter of children playing games as they took their morning bath.

These people needed so little to be happy.

To our right, we saw a house under construction.

Like all the Guest Room other houses, the materials were humble but the structure seemed sturdy. They had been building houses like this for generations. Thatched roofs were built with palm reeds and the floor was cool, packed dirt.

A group of men were lashing the roof and house frames together. I asked where the labor comes from to build these houses. Dolores let out a laugh. “The labor comes from right here. Everyone who builds a house in San Miguel grew up here. They just ask for help from their friends, family and neighbors. The whole village helps out.”

On our return trip back, we passed the river and I saw the children still playing with their dog, laughing as they played fetch with the dog and wrestled with each other. The village mothers stood along the edge of the water washing their family’s clothes. Again, I found myself wondering why these people are so happy. For a moment I doubted myself. Maybe I’m just on vacation. Maybe I’m just fabricating their

Tyler Lurie-Spicer ’15

have ever seen. They lived with so much less than we do. All of us have such great opportunities ahead of us, yet why do smiles seem so much less common here at Cornell? In San Miguel, the villagers are supported by a strong community. They give each other strength. Yet back on the Hill, we become too enraptured in our own studies to reach out and support our peers.

One of the women, Dolores, took me around the village to show me the various schools and churches.

By our standards, these buildings were in poor condition. Even the new school, built five years ago, was having trouble standing up to the humidity. But the buildings provided shelter from the rain and sun and were still used widely. Art hung on the school doors to welcome the students. Churches had instruments inside that kept the attendees on their feet at night.

Every place she showed me was rundown but ripe

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happiness as a reflection of my own. But then I remembered how the neighbors came together to build the house. The elders taught about the medicinal plants and farming practices. The children make art for their schools and fill the village with laughter.

These people are genuinely happy because they have all that they need — a community.

Back on the Hill, I am reminded that we too have a community. We too learn from one another and build bonds that will last a lifetime. We too fill this school with art and fill the gorges with laughter. Yet our culture is incredibly individualistic. Some of us think we can make it on our own. Too often I have heard “it’s not my problem” when others express need. We become so engrossed in our own idea of success that we only value those who will help us achieve it. We riddle them with vacuous laughs and ephemeral smiles, sacrificing genuine connection for hope that we make the right friends in the right places.

It is painful to see my peers selling themselves for such an elusive happiness that seems to recede the harder they try to grasp it. Yet in San Miguel, happiness was as omnipresent and easy to attain as the scent of the jungle. All of us at Cornell have great futures ahead of us and yet this does not seem to be a sustainable sources of happiness. Despite their poverty, the villagers I met gained their strength because of the sturdy community beneath them. The Cornell organizations set up for our mental health play important roles on our campus, but we as individuals make up this community. It is up to us to make sure our peers have the support they need.

Without this community, where else can we find a strength that will sustain us?

Tyler Lurie-Spicer is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Feedback can be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semster.

‘The Flyer Rises’: The Ironies of Media Sensationalism

xcusing the immediate reference to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, it would be a great kindness to humor my stabs at journalism for the next few months. Hi. I’m Matt, another Wednesday voice from Cornell’s grand miasma of apathy, confusion and combustion-inducing stress that seems more conducive to a German physics lab

orchestrated necromancy. Despite recent infamy for the evident fraudulence of his cycling titles, Armstrong has been enshrined as the catalyst and figurehead for the Livestrong movement — the largest cancer awareness effort since the emergence of the pink ribbon. In an ironic twist of fate, however, the Livestrong foundation’s honest motives suddenly risk

Matt Hudson Red in the Face than an American university. Somehow, amid the ether of Ithaca’s scholastic chaos I’ve managed to pluck out an interest in Asian religions and philosophy, so please excuse the occasional obscure reference to the Prajnaparamita and other things that look like I just slammed my keyboard in distress. (Disclaimer: Actual keyboard slams may be published.)

Yes, “the flyer rises.” Bane, Gotham’s seemingly French Revolution-obsessed villain with a voice unsettlingly similar to that of my high school English teacher, may have inadvertently been correct. The “flyer,” or rather athleticism’s man of the hour, Lance Armstrong, has been resurrected into the public eye quite against his will by our generation’s brand of media-

being sullied by a sensationalist media, obsessively boasting the potential to make any newsworthy molehill a mountain of Kilimanjaro proportions. Splattering mud on Armstrong’s name means, by simple association, slandering Livestrong’s roots and somewhat invalidating the mission represented by the meaningful act of living strong. The question thus becomes: would it be better to leave the man be and preserve his moniker as cancer survival’s mightiest voice, or is the proper path to hang him as cycling’s great deceiver and mold him into the object of intense societal ridicule?

We seem to have developed a fixation with the classic Machiavellian concept of evil, lauding famous lawbreakers as the

embodiments of the vices of our time. In doing so, however, a sort of unbalanced, unfocused mistreatment of characters has become a trend, one that blithely ignores victims’ plights and shamelessly creates and encourages controversies. Is it the media’s duty to create and crucify scapegoats, or is it rather to inform a public desperately hungry for a truth neither watered down nor swathed in false grandiosity? Is the world an authored fiction starved for villains? The slaughters and lies of recent years have indeed been worthy of coverage and concern.

However, the focus of these events has been contorted terribly such that, to use a perhaps inept tree analogy, it more closely resembles the walloping aggressiveness of Harry Potter’s “Whomping Willow” than the fairness and honesty of Pocahontas’ “Grandmother Willow.”

A rather inappropriate relationship seems to have developed between legal justice and media coverage in decades past, one more awkward than fist-bumping a handshake and less reasonable than the painful act of using a spife (spoonknife combination). Within a culture that rewards bloody criminal acts with attention reminiscent of an overweight, fenceclimbing paparazzo fighting both common sense and gravity for shots of a nude Miley Cyrus, fallen heroes rank among the greatest of villains who become targeted as the objects of total reputation annihilation. Added to the astronomical fines and legal ramifications of serious law breaking, media-facilitated condemnation serves less to inform the public than further the punishment of the individuals in question. Obsessively craving attention

has become somewhat of a social disease, one ironically encouraged by ill-focused news sensationalism and enforced by a recent and observable series of escalating acts of violence. Any connection between Lance Armstrong’s dishonesty and the psychotic massacres of 2012 may seem tenuous at best, but the coverage aspect has wed the two in terms of rewarding criminals with undue publicity.

“Know what is enough — Abuse nothing. Know when to stop — Harm nothing.” Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching commends an understanding of both focus and restraint, two qualities of which there is a painfully evident lack in modern news coverage of prominent events. Lance Armstrong will walk away from his current struggle not only with a lighter wallet and a shattered family, but a distorted future relegated to public shame and venom. The last of these is hardly a necessity; rather, it is a sad product of not knowing what is enough. News media is a business of information provision, not a business of actively antagonizing and ruining lives — that is an issue to be dealt with between the perpetrators and our established judicial system.

In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mr. Armstrong was asked, “Will you rise again?” The champion cyclist’s nebulous and noncommittal answer bears a certain sad irony because, stained with ill repute, the flyer has indeed already risen.

Matt Hudson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mhudson@cornellsun.com. Red in the Face runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

10 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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Shrub Willow: Building a Better Biofuel

Prof. Larry Smart ’87 converts woody biomass into renewable fuel

By YVONNE HUANG Sun Contributor

The shrub willow, a plant normally planted as ornamental hedges or used in weaving baskets, could now be one of the next mainstream biofuel crops used as a low-impact energy source to replace corn. Since 1998, Prof. Larry Smart ’87, plant genetics and physiology, has helped develop shrub willow as a viable biofuel through breeding programs.

“We’re trying to develop fast-growing willow as a new bioenergy crop that’s highly sustainable, grows well on marginal land and potentially could support job growth and economic development in the rural Northeast,” he said.

Smart currently works at Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva.

Better Than Corn?

Like all plants, willow is carbon-neutral. When processed, it leaves behind no carbon footprint. Unlike natural gas, which can leave a substantial carbon impact on the environment, biofuels either cause no effects on the environment or in most cases, have a positive effect. Any carbon the biofuel releases was previously absorbed from the air by the plant during photosynthesis.

The shrub willow has often been compared to corn, the current leader in producing biofuel. Willow’s net energy ratio –– a measure of how much fossil fuel energy is put in compared to how much energy is produced –– can be up to ten times that of corn and five times that of gasoline. While willow is a more efficient and viable bioenergy crop, it has so far only been harnessed to produce electricity. According to Smart, researchers are currently working with the New York company Mascoma to make ethanol from willow. Scientists like him are conducting research to convert woody biomass, like the willow, into liquid transportation fuels efficiently and affordably.

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Burgeoning biofuels | Fred Gouker grad, who studies plant breeding stands in front of a three-year-old stand of hybrid willow being tested in Prof. Smart’s breeding program in Geneva, N.Y. Shrub willow can reach heights of 15 to 25 feet.

An Undemanding Fuel Source Shrub willow can thrive in areas where other crops cannot such as poorlydrained lands and nutrient depleted soil.

These areas are labeled as marginal lands because they have been deemed unfit for producing profitable crops. In the Northeast alone, there are millions of acres of farmland that go unused because they are considered marginal. With the commercialization of the shrub willow, these acres could be used to power local buildings, schools and homes.

Unlike most other biofuel crops such as corn or sugar cane, shrub willow plots are not plowed and replanted after every

harvest. Shrub willow only needs to be planted once every 25 to 30 years as it resprouts after every harvest. Root systems develop in the planted soil, preventing erosion and trapping carbon within the soil, which is typically released when plots are plowed. This can improve soil quality substantially by the time the willow goes through its full life cycle.

The willow does not require application of herbicides and pesticides throughout the shrubs’ growing years.

Harvesting can be accomplished with ease by adding a willow cutter to the front of a corn harvester every three to

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Industry intentions | Scientists use a forage harvester to collect the shrub willow every 3-4 years in Tully, N.Y. for use as a biofuel.

four years. Additionally, shrub willow doesn’t need much fertilizer as does corn.

According to Smart, this helps prevent fertilizer run-off, which could potentially contaminate nearby lakes and streams.

Willows in the Works But as is the case with most breeding programs, the shrub willow has potential problems. The shrub willow is a monoculture crop, a cloned plant cut from the same selected parent. Because every crop is genetically similar, the crops are susceptible to diseases and pests. Smart and his team have circumvented this problem by incorporating near relatives of the willow and expanding what they have identified to be the most viable genotype of the willow. By the end of the year, Smart and other collaborating scientists will have completed the genomic map of the shrub willow. This will allow scientists to better understand the plant and help identify other species that can be used to create hardier and more effective shrub willow biofuel.

Smart trusts that his work in new bioenergy sources will favorably affect rural and local areas.

“It really means a lot to me to have my research have a positive impact on society, especially in New York state,” he said. Several local school districts have already benefitted from his research by replacing their natural gas burners with biofuel burners that use willow wood chips.

According to Smart, the shrub willow project could be fully commercialized and ready for a larger-scale expansion within a few years. And as society becomes more aware of the growing need for more alternative fuel options, research into biofuels, like the shrub willow, is becoming increasingly more important.

Yvonne Huang can be reached at yyh4@cornell.edu.

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Reed ’14 Investigates Indigenous Remedies For Type 1 Diabetes

By JACQUELINE CAROZZA Sun Contributor

Scientists have discovered the natural drug precursors for a number of medicines by observing how indigenous cultures use plants to treat diseases. Many pharmaceuticals sold today, such as the anticancer drug Taxol and the analgesic Aspirin, had their chemistry derived from plant sources.

Spenser Reed ’14, a double major in food science and nutritional sciences, joined the search for natural pharmaceuticals this summer at the Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory in the Dominican Republic. In his research, Reed focused on evaluating the bioactive properties, or those that affect human cells, of plants used by indigenous groups to treat type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease caused by the body’s destruction of

its own pancreatic beta cells, which are responsible for producing insulin. A type 1 diabetic’s impaired production of insulin, a hormone that is critical in regulating blood glucose levels, results in a reduced ability to maintain a normal blood glucose range of approximately 80-130 milligrams per deciliter.

Reed traveled to Punta Cana as a part of the Minority Health International Research and Training program, which aims to reduce health burdens on underserved populations, under the tutelage of Prof. Manuel Aregullin, plant biology, molecular biology and genetics. There he spent the summer doing fieldwork and learning about natural product synthesis in the classroom.

Reed described his work as “prospecting” for plants that could be used in drugs, and taking a closer look at the chemistry behind what makes these plant remedies effective.

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Avocado antidotes | Spenser Reed ’14 studies the Avocado plant in the Dominican Republic as a possible alternative to insulin injections for those who have type 1 diabetes.

“It never ceases to amaze me to read papers where the authors are able to find cytotoxic and antimutagenic properties in plants that the native people have been using for thousands of years,” he said.

“We’re just validating it. These people have discovered it.”

After conducting a literature search regarding Dominican medicinal plant use and speaking with indigenous healers in Punta Cana, Reed selected five plants to survey for anti-diabetic properties. One of his choices –– the avocado leaf –– particularly stood out because it was rumored to be helpful in treating diabetes when brewed in a tea.

“As a type 1 diabetic myself for 15 years, my eyes just opened when I heard this,” Reed said. “After I searched the literature and found that nothing about [the] avocado leaf had been thoroughly investigated, I thought how interesting it could be to study [the] avocado. Perhaps we’re missing the chemistry behind it.”

To determine the bioactivity of his plant selections, Reed conducted a variety of in vitro tests after extracting compounds from the leaves. His trials included an antibiotic test; an allelopathy test that measures the ability of extracted compounds to influence growth and metabolism; and a toxicity test.

The avocado leaf performed the best of any of the plants on these preliminary procedures, Reed said.

Reed even performed an oral glucose tolerance test on himself. His experiment involved drinking a sugar water solution and then a tea made from one of the plants of interest, prepared as the Dominican natives would. He monitored his postprandial, or after-eating, blood glucose levels every 30 minutes to determine the effects of the five plants.

The results for avocado leaf came in positive.

“None of the other plants had any effect

except for the avocado leaf, which was able to keep my postprandial glucose range very tight, not above 150 milligrams per deciliter. I struggle with my blood glucose level going up to 300 milligrams per deciliter after eating, which can be disastrous for one’s health,” Reed said.

Currently, the only long-term treatment for type 1 diabetes is injection of insulin into the body to compensate for the body’s inability to produce the hormone on its own. The efficacy of the avocado leaf and other medicinal plants with anti-diabetic effects have only been hypothesized.

“They are potent antioxidants, and may be able, through a series of biochemical pathways, to influence blood sugar regulation,” Reed said.

Another possible explanation for their effectiveness, according to Reed, is that they act as insulin secretagogues, which are products that are able to stimulate the body’s damaged insulin-producing machinery.

Reed will continue studying the antidiabetic properties of plants in Aregullin’s lab this semester, but this time he will be looking for bioactive properties of a Peruvian fern.

“Once we find out that a plant has some biological properties and we elucidate the chemistry, we can isolate individual chemicals and tie them to certain biological effects,” he said.

Reed hopes his work will eventually lead to an animal model or a cell-based assay.

Reed’s next step is to move from isolating and characterizing the bioactive chemicals in traditional plant remedies to testing their effects in live organisms.

“That would really be the pinnacle for me, both as a student and as a diabetic,” he said.

Jacqueline Carozza can be reached at jac553@cornell.edu.

Prof. Steven Strogatz Studies Synchronization

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Contributor

Many of us have gone shopping with a coupon where a genuinely nice cashier, in an attempt to save us money, decided to apply sales tax after the coupon. We typically nod, smile and thank her for her kindness, but in reality, did she save us money? Multiplication’s commutative property says no.

According to Prof. Steven Strogatz, mathematics, it doesn’t matter which the cashier applies first: the sales tax or the coupon.

Either order will produce the same final price.

That’s the type of everyday application of math which Strogatz uses in his new book, The Joy of X, to demonstrate how math can be fun. He aims to interest a wide audience, even those who have previously considered equations as public enemy number one.

In addition to making math more appealing to the general public, Strogatz has devoted much of his career to studying epiphenomenon synchronization, or the coordination of events which appear to be happening for no particular reason.

His initial goal is to discover which systems tend to synchronize, but

the main purpose of his research is to discover why synchronization happens.

Biological synchronization is when biological systems, which could be as small as cells in a heart or as big as the entire universe, fall into a sync, or rhythm. This includes examples such as when fish swim in schools to increase chances of survival against predators, or when birds fly in flocks to decrease air resistance.

One of Strogatz’s focuses includes the biological synchronization of fireflies in Southeast Asia. A single firefly produces only a small amount of light that’s barely visible from far away, but along the river banks of Southeast Asia, hundreds and even thousands of fireflies have synchronized to create what appears to be a massive flashing light that can be seen from a distance.

Strogatz theorizes that, due to the dense mangrove tree population in the area, the synchronization of flashing aids female fireflies in finding mates.

Strogatz also studies synchronization within physics. In one of the United States’ military bases, there are several atomic clocks, all of which are averaged out to produce what is known as atomic time.

Every clock in existence has at least a slight deviation from perfect timekeeping. Atomic clocks are devices that use the electromagnetic spectrum of atoms to maintain the most accurate time known.

Researchers have previously found that atomic clocks, when located in the same facility, begin synchronizing with one another.

Synchronization is undesirable because it decreases the accuracy of atomic time. Strogatz realized that synchronization is an often–overlooked phenomenon, but understanding why it happens could lead to solutions to potentially stopping undesirable synchronization.

Strogatz theorizes that synchronization happens all around us.

Whether it’s tiny fireflies producing lights together, or the most accurate clocks available synchronizing to one another –– thereby reducing their accuracy –– synchronization is unavoidable.

One way that Strogatz demonstrates synchronization is by using two small metronomes moving at different frequencies. The two metronomes will not synchronize when sitting on a stationary surface, such as a table, but when placed on a moving platform created by a piece of cardboard on top of two

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Metronome matching | Prof. Steven Strogatz gives a demonstration of synchronization of metronomes while on a moving platform.

rolling tubes, the metronomes will synchronize.

In addition to research and public outreach, Strogatz also values teaching, whether in the classroom or on Twitter where his tweets earned him a spot as one of Scientific American’s top scientists to follow.

Over many years of experience as a

renowned professor, he has developed many ideologies and methodologies to his teaching.The advice he offers to others is: “You shouldn’t give an answer until the student is ready to ask the question.”

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ab725@cornell.edu.

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woman). The magnificent, angular bird itself is composed almost entirely of diamonds, and the diamond patterns, in blue, white and yellow, define the lau pahudu, lending the cloth an air of solidity and harmony. The cloth’s Yeats, mesmerized by the cloths of heaven, could have intense orange hue recalls Rothko’s 1952 painting No. 8, been speaking of the Johnson Museum’s latest exhibition in which a yellow haze when he famously wrote, “I have spread my dreams under rises from a glassy band your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” resting on a gauzy vermilThe dreams of several remarkable women, articulately lion block.

The textiles are otherwoven into richly colored threads, have been materialized in Weavers’ Stories from Island Southeast Asia. Curated by worldly; some are the Roy Hamilton, the Asian and Pacific Collections Curator product of dreams. Flores at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, the exhibition was originally weaver Sisilia Sii, whose displayed at the Fowler in late 2010. Ellen Avril, the designs stand out for Johnson Museum’s Chief Curator and Curator of Asian their widely spaced Art, organized the current edition, which continues the motifs, recounts how her Johnson’s celebration of the aesthetic and technical virtu- late mother appeared in a osity of textiles. In 2011, the Johnson presented Indian dream to teach her sacred textiles from the Parpia collection that spanned the last ikat designs. Other textiles, steeped in mythosix centuries.

Weavers’ Stories from Island Southeast Asia revisits the logical significance, are notion of the biographical art object with even greater believed to have superintensity and intimacy. Viewers are spared some mystifi- natural powers. Woven in cation about the narratives embodied by the cloths, cour- the ikat pattern on a body tesy of a documentary projected near the gallery entrance. tension loop, the Tutuala textiles bear motifs derived from Abrupt pauses aside, the documentary succinctly captures cave drawings that the first Tutuala people encountered in the vitality of textiles that both reflect and participate in the rock shelter of Ilikerekere at the eastern tip of Timor in Southeast Asia. the social life of their communities.

As the granddaughter of Lai Rusu, the first ruler of the The drama of the textiles is undeniable, even at first glance. Expansive and intricate, the cloths are forceful yet Tutuala, Luisa de Jesus has the privilege of wearing the sensitive in the way that Barnett Newman’s “zip” paint- special ceremonial cloth ifilau or retilau (small snake cloth). The cloth’s design ings and Mark reflects its ritual signifiRothko’s color field cance: Red represents the works can be against snake’s head, while the the white walls of a swirl patterns come from quiet gallery. the snake’s body. It is Newman, the abstract alleged that the coconut expressionist painter trees of Bacau were notorious for using destroyed by the ifilau bands of color to when a Bacau native stole bisect color fields, has the cloth from de Jesus’ explained that the varclan and sold it to ious zones of color Australia. “bring life” to each A pair of loom-length other. Much like cloths takes center stage in Newman’s “zips,” the the main gallery. Woven by rows of regally woven Lang Dulay, an ikat patanimals grazing the MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER tern master from textiles enliven the adjacent bands of color. A large bird gracing a vermillion Mindanao, Philippines, the cloths cascade from ceiling to woman’s ceremonial skirt (lau pahudu) is the most com- floor. Red, gold and black threads tangle and unfurl, plex and striking motif among the featured works of the approaching the form of diamonds and spiders’ webs in Sumbanese cousins, Rambu Pakki and Rambu Tokung neat columns. While woven cloths are often unsigned, (Rambu is a title for an aristocratic East Sumbanese Lang Dulay has worked her name in a willowy fashion

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into her textile patterns at the request of the Philippine government, which in 1998 awarded Dulay the national prize — called “Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan” — for traditional artists.

Like many of the weavers featured in the Johnson exhibition, Dulay gained fame and fortune through her talents and wit and used her newfound resources for good.

As a participating artist at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and a veteran of similar events in Manila, Dulay marvels at how travelling has changed her life.

Her trip to the United States, for instance, taught her the immense value of MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER education. In the documentary that is shown in the gallery, a visibly moved Dulay says that she would pay any number of water buffaloes to purchase knowledge. At over 80 years of age, the intrepid Dulay has brought her dreams to fruition; her earnings have enabled her to send her grandchildren to school.

It is hard not to feel inspired by Dulay’s almost zealous fearlessness and devotion to tradition, attributes that her counterparts like Luisa de Jesus demonstrate as well. “We are not afraid of anything anymore,” de Jesus declares in the documentary, following the tumultuous years of the 1970s during which her family had to give up their resources to the Revulotionary Front for an Independent Eastern Timor (FRETILIN) rebel forces.

Surveying the incandescent tapestries can, and perhaps should, be a stupefying experience, particularly for viewers only vaguely familiar with the textiles’ histories.

Change duels with continuity as mothers pass down the ancient secrets of textile craftsmanship to their daughters amidst rapid modernization; this familiar narrative is made new with each telling, through the words and worlds of each weaver.

The exhibition will be on display at the Johnson Museum until May 5.

Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun.com.

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If you are one to judge a movie by the duration of time spent thinking about it afterwards, I promise that the contemplation period after Holy Motors will outrun that of any other movie you’ve seen recently. You will find yourself agonizing over it, in the best way possible. Much of the film’s mystery arises from wondering what drives the protagonist, Monsieur Oscar, to don 11 different roles in a day-long limousine ride through Paris.

His first appearance as a well-off bourgeois statesman who dresses up as a gypsy to panhandle on the Pont Neuf resembles an act of empathetic voyeurism; his subsequent transformations into a performance capture artist for a video game then an accordionist reveal a more fetishistic PHOTOS COURTESY OF INDOMINA RELEASING

intent. Beyond that, Oscar plays an overbearing father who interrogates his daughter on her social life, an assassin who kills his doppelganger and a leprechaun-looking bum who kidnaps a model (Eva Mendes) to dress her in a burka. Each new episode emphasizes director Leo Carax’s immense artistic variety, who is capable of generating horror, sympathy and social commentary all at once, but does not cross from stimulating the audience to exhausting them.

Through Monsieur Oscar’s multiple roles, Carax shows himself to be an expert in multiple genres and a spokesman for the vast potential of film. Holy Motors seems to be

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Carax’s attempt to defend film in an era of increasing technology and virtual outlets. He likens the art form to NE EAVENLY IDE Oscar’s limousine ride: Through film, an audience can live the lives of foreign, exciting characters and thereby “act” on desires repressed by our tame, everyday lives.

Holy Motors suggests in its rare but powerful spoken lines that film’s ability to excite us and let us lead double kidnapped by her erect (literally) beast Oscar, Kylie lives is being threatened. In a scene when Oscar runs Minogue as an old flame of Oscar’s singing “Can’t Get You through Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, a tombstone reads Out of My Head” in a portion of the film told through “Visit my website” — the Internet and social media outlets music. create a virtual lifespan that may outlive us and threaten our The critics, too, see Holy Motors as a harbinger of a new appreciation of art. At one point, a sinister movie producer- era in cinema. The Los Angeles Film Critics awarded it the type randomly appears in Oscar’s limBest Foreign Language film award and ousine and tells Oscar, “You’ve looked the movie has broken into the a bit tired recently. Some don’t believe esteemed 90th percentile on Rotten Holy Motors in what they’re watching anymore.”

Tomatoes. I only regret that Oscar votDirected by Leos Oscar says he “misses the cameras. ers disagreed when they chose to omit Now they are smaller than our heads,” the film from their Best Foreign Carax to which the old man asks, “Isn’t this Language Film category. They have Featuring Denis Lavant nostalgia a bit sentimental?” Through left the film behind, but I can’t say that the dialogue, Carax comments on the I have. supposed degeneration of film. But when Oscar is asked Holy Motors is the best film I saw this year and has re“What makes you carry on, Oscar?” Carax poses his solu- energized my passion for contemporary cinema. I predict tion: Oscar replies, “The beauty of the act.” that you will hear a lot about Leo Carax in coming years.

If film will survive incoming technologies because of its Emanuel Levy has named him the new “enfant terrible” of beauty, Holy Motors is proof. Caroline Champetier’s cinema and clearly Carax is driving film forward. If Carax widescreen cinematography beautifully saturates the Paris has a new future for cinema in mind, I cannot wait for it. landscape and provides visual excitement throughout the slower portions of the story. The cast is studded with attrac- Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Architecture, Art and tive performances as well: Eva Mendes as a model passively Planning. He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun.com.

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fter watching Zero Dark Thirty for a second time and binging on both 12episode, 12-hour seasons of Homeland in just three days, I was struck by a pang of melancholy. For reasons that don’t trouble me nearly as much as they should, this realization had little to do with my supine disregard of exercise or summer internship applications. Instead, I felt insignificant and small, humbled by the extraordinary acts that both Zero Dark Thirty’s Maya (Jessica Chastain) and Carrie (Claire Danes) of Homeland achieve, the latter on a serialized basis.

Granted, these two heroines are among the most flawed protagonists in film and television history; Carrie spends significant screen time crying, screaming, panicking, bugging her eyes out or — and this is how Claire Danes wins all the Emmys — colliding her many bipolar symptoms at once, while Maya sits on the opposite end of the clinical spectrum, possessing more of a psychopathic coldness that I consider to be the film’s apparently-too-subtle critique of America’s callous, post-9/11 foreign policy.

Regardless, as I emerged, blearyeyed, from the couch and the cinema, I could not resist the superficial allure of such “heroic” work. I want to join the CIA! Even after admiring the gray tones of counter-terrorism in Homeland and defending Zero Dark Thirty’s anti-war message to anyone who will listen, I find myself at the most base and opportunistic of temptations.

As damaged as Carrie and borderline sadistic as Maya may be, they pull off peerless feats of deduction and investigation that are based on hunches only they believe. And that’s pretty cool. In the vacuum of fiction, a writer (or, in the case of Homeland, a room

of them) can prescribe witty retorts and enviable bravery to a character and, with a mental breakdown here and a sobbing fit there, still pass off the creation as human. It is when we believe that these superhumans could even possibly be real that the aforementioned sadness, the most unwarranted of phenomena, creeps in.

Let us take a more agreeable example, especially as I remember the more unsavory details of Maya’s character. For me, Harry Potter embodied this saintly, yet still powerfully empathetic, protagonist. Here is a teenager, just slightly older than me when I first read The Deathly Hallows in 2007, vanquishing the greatest evil his world has ever seen. How does he do it? (*Spoilers, I guess*) He walks into a dark forest, guided by the souls of all the family and friends who have perished in the decades-long war he is about to end and accepts that, to fulfill his destiny, he must die. Harry follows through every step without curling into the fetal position

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World or crapping his pants — he approaches his certain demise with maturity and grace.

And, after flatlining right there in the Forbidden Forest, he returns to life to kill Voldemort in front of all his peers. Rowling likely intended Harry’s defiant victory to strike the reader as inspirational and comforting, yet I found myself plummeting into an existential crisis as I examined my own life and found my worst struggles woefully pathetic compared to Harry’s. Gee, I haven’t levitated a feather, no less slayed anything close in size or strength to a basilisk or He-Who-

Must-Not-Be-Named!

Am I alone in finding some of our culture’s most popular and satiating movies, TV shows and books inherently depressing?

That I expect an answer from a rhetorical question may hold an answer. Moving away from the morally questionable heroines of Homeland and Zero Dark Thirty, the hagiographic elevation of protagonists in more crowd-pleasing works like Harry Potter, Star Wars or Les Misérables may very well provoke an unintended moment of self-reflection.

The Sopranos knows this well: In a very meta scene, gangster Christopher Moltisanti freaks out after reading in screenwriting books about how every character has an arc.

“Where’s my arc?” he asks.

Of course, the only way to cast off this pall of self-deprecation is to build your own character — in a video game, that is. Super Mario Bros. or Call of Duty don’t cut it, as they focus only on objectives within a predetermined playing style, leaving no other options for the player but to master the mechanics. Bioware’s sci-fi trilogy Mass Effect, rightly considered a masterpiece of the medium, still falls short in granting the player complete control of his or her destiny.

Although the player must make a plethora of in-game choices, the core narrative still follows one of three — good, bad or neutral — pre-determined paths that all funnel into basically the same ending. The storywriter has more authority over the narrative than the player, which is no different than noninteractive media like film and literature.

This brings me to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the black hole that annihilated the rest of my free time over winter break, and then some. This game makes no attempt to emulate cinema through shot reverse shot dialogue exchanges, “cutscenes” or “quick time events,” a la Mass Effect. Rather, Skyrim throws the player into a massive world of high fantasy, borrowing names and creatures from Norse and Camelot folklore and severing all other ties from the world of our own.

Sure, there is an epic story involving a

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prophecy and a mythical villain, but like Fallout 3, the other popular game by Bethesda Studios, the plot serves as a vehicle for gameplay and not the other way around.

A game like Skyrim offers an oddly empowering experience. Why stick to a sword, bow or fire spell when you can wield them all simultaneously? The citizens of nine cities and countless villages, forts and dungeons depend on your agency to decide a Civil War, reconcile warring factions and kill a plague of dragons, in whatever order you choose. Or you can forget about all that and buy a house, collect potions and assist the local business owner in finding his lost family relic. But be wary about investing too much into your character: The humbling heroics of Harry Potter and Homeland have nothing on realizing that your video game character is living a more listless life than your own.

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-andentertainment-editor@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays.

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But Wake Forest is 3-0 at home in league games this season and managed to deny N.C. State its first 5-1 ACC start since 1988-89.

Rookie Codi Miller-McIntyre scored 15 points for the Demon Deacons, who led 82-72 with about 4 minutes left before the Wolfpack's final push made things interesting. N.C. State used a 101 run to close the gap and pull within 83-82 on C.J. Leslie's free throw with 1:01 to go.

But Leslie missed two free throws for the lead with 29.9 seconds left, then Scott Wood missed an open 3-pointer off an offensive rebound following Leslie's second miss. Then, after a free throw from C.J. Harris, the Wolfpack came up empty on three shots from inside the paint — two by Leslie and a runner off a loose rebound by Rodney Purvis — with the chance to tie.

The Wolfpack had a final chance to tie or win after Leslie scored on a layup with 1.2 seconds left to cut it to two.

Freshman T.J. Warren stole a long inbounds pass near midcourt, but his final desperate heave wasn't close as the horn sounded.

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Women’s basketball junior forward Allyson DiMagno posted her league-best seventh double-double of the season against Columbia on Saturday. The big game earned her the title of Ivy co-Player of the Week for the second time this year.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Freshman Devin Thomas had a seasonhigh 25 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks to help Wake Forest upset No. 18 North Carolina State 86-84 on Tuesday night.

Travis McKie added 16 points for the Demon Deacons (10-8, 3-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), including two free throws with 3.4 seconds left that helped Wake Forest hold on down the stretch in a wild final 4½ minutes.

N.C. State led by 16 points in the first half and 12 at halftime only to see the Demon Deacons rally and push ahead to their own 10-point lead.

Then N.C. State (15-4, 4-2) managed its own comeback, closing the gap to a point with about a minute left. But ultimately, Wake Forest — a team filled with freshmen — did just enough to earn a win that sent their fans storming the court to celebrate.

Wake Forest shot 59 percent after halftime.

This was a huge win for the Demon Deacons, who have done little other than struggle in three seasons under Jeff Bzdelik. That included losses to the Wolfpack here by 36 and 25 points in

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Martinez, Archer Post Big Numbers, Scoreboard Reads Lead Red to Strong Finish Over Pitt Triple Digits After GYMNASTICS

Even this last meet at Pitt, we got a great score of 191.800,” Archer said. “But we have a lot of improvement we can do for every event, including floor, even overall improvement in the event. though we had one of our best best floor scores. All of “[It is] a lot considering how high they are scoring us are really hoping to keep moving forward and we so far.” are setting our goals high because it’s not unrealistic Continuing the record-setting trend, senior this year.”

McKenna Archer scored a career-best 9.825. The finAccording to Beckwith, the team’s success iin the ish placed her at eighth-best in school history and postseason is not determined by how well it places in sixth overall at the meet. weekly competition, but rather how well the team “I tried to focus on one scores overall. skill at a time and show off my Averaging 191.050 in routine as much as I could,” “We have a lot of improvement we can the first two meets of Archer said. “Everything was do for every event, including floor, even the season, the team is very clean and I made a big though we had one of our best floor in a solid position as it effort to not lose tenths on heads into this weekscores.” landings.” end’s home meet Madeline Freshman against SUNY Martinez had another strong McKenna Archer Cortland. The Red meet, leading the team on Dragons will travel to vault with 9.775. Her finish Teagle Gymnasium earned her eighth overall for the day. Hein and Archer Saturday at 1 p.m., where they will attempt to domieach came in two tenths below Martinez with a 9.575 nate the Red for the first time in recent history. each.

Cornell currently holds the series lead, 40-7, dating On bars, junior Lexi Schupp scored the highest for back to the 1974-75 season when the two New York the Red, posting a 9.700, earning her sixth overall. rivals first competed. When the two teams met up last Hein and junior Melanie Jorgensen finished close year, Archer earned the top vault and overall score on behind, each with 9.675 a piece. Rounding out the any event with a 9.825. Cornell emerged with a events, Jorgensen led the way on beam with a 9.700, 188.675 victory, as well as top scores in three of the which placed her 12th overall. four events.

The highly competitive meet allowed newer memLooking to maintain control of the series, the Red bers of the team to experience what it takes to succeed will look to maximize its success by competing at at a high level of competition. Beckwith said it takes home in its familiar practice space. a few meets to get the competition nerves out, espe“I think against Cortland this week we are having cially for events such as beam. With two meets com- our first home week and we can be comfortable and pleted, the Red sits in a strong position as it heads go as hard as we can,” Archer said. “It’s nice to be at into consecutive weekends of competition — along home and have friends come support us.” with the Ivy and ECAC championship on the horizon.

Lauren Ritter can be reached at “I think the season is looking really promising. lritter@cornellsun.com.

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guard but he’s back on track and we expect him to be a big contributor as we go into Ivy League play.”

Returning to Newman for the final game of the break, the Red gave its fans a historic performance with a 103-84 rout of the Panthers. It was only the second time in the past 20 years that the squad has put triple digits on the scoreboard. Gray led the way with 24 points, followed by senior forward Errick Peck with 16 and Cressler with 15. The Red shot 72 percent from the floor in the second half, including 62 percent from beyond the arc.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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in the afternoon. Dake pinned freshman Devon Gobbo in 1:02 and put Cornell ahead, 15-9.

Marshall Peppelman suffered another tough loss for the Red, falling to Crimson junior Cameron Croy, 1512. Croy set the tone for the match-up from the start, notching a takedown with just 11 seconds left in the first.

After a scoreless second period, Peppelman escaped at the beginning of the third, but Croy managed another takedown and won in a 4-3 decision.

“Peppelman waited until the end of the match to attack the legs and it was a little too late,” Dake explained. “If he would realize how talented he is, he could surprise a lot of people in March.”

The next few weeks of competition will set the tone for the NCAA tournament, a competition of which No. 4-ranked senior Steve Bosak is no stranger. Last year, he earned a national title for the 184-pound division against Penn State’s Quintin Wright. Against Harvard, Bosak was all business, racking up a 5-0 lead over sophomore Josh Popple before eventually notching a win by fall in 2:25.

The win put Cornell ahead once more, 21-12; however, a loss at 197 pounds closed the gap in Harvard’s favor.

Sophomore Jace Bennett lost by an 8-5 decision to

Crimson sophomore James Fox. With just one more pairing to go in the heavyweight division, the competition was just heating up.

Senior Stryker Lane was the “ultimate win” for the Red, according to Dake. The Cornell heavyweight’s match started off with a couple of missed marks, as each wrestler was held scoreless.

“I didn't get to my attacks like I wanted in the first period, but I was able to get a reversal and ride him out in the second to take a 2-0 lead and gain riding time,” Lane said.

Choosing to enter the third in neutral position, Harvard sophomore David Ng was looking for an opening. Lane was powering through the final period, but was injured towards the end of the round — allowing Ng to score.

“I knew I couldn't default or it would tie the team score,” Lane said. “I just remember [head coach Rob Koll] and [assistant coach Damion Hahn] saying that if I get out in 9 seconds I would win. I just focused on what I needed to do to get out and put my knee out of my head. I knew the guy couldn't hold me down if I went as hard as I could, so I just went for it and was able to get out.”

Lane picked up a reversal and two back points for the 6-2 decision. With the win, Cornell finished the day with

a 24-15 victory over the Cambridge rival. Lane’s perseverance and dedication for his team have great significance for the program, according to Dake.

“Normally Lane would have taken the safe route and injury forfeited, but if he did it we would have lost the dual meet marking the first time we have lost the Ivy League in over 10 years.”

Looking to the future, Cornell will face off against another difficult Ivy rival this weekend, as the team hosts Penn Saturday at 2 p.m. and then Oregon State Sunday at the same time.

“We are really excited for this weekend. We have an opportunity to continue our winning streak in the Ivies and get to take on West Coast powerhouse Oregon State,” Dake said. “There are going to be a bunch of highly contested matches and we are hoping for a huge student section on Sunday afternoon.

“Oregon State will be an exciting test against a Top-10 team,” Lane added. “It will be a great weekend of wrestling.”

Lauren Ritter can be reached at lritter@cornellsun.com.

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period. Senior captain and defenseman Lauriane Rougeau scored the Red’s only goal.

“Against Clarkson we put pucks on net, possessed the puck in their zone and applied a lot of pressure,” Rougeau said. “But we still have some work to do and we need to continue to focus on the details.”

The Red’s toughest loss of the road trip was at Boston College as the Eagles scored the equalizer with 43.3 seconds left in the third period and won the game 1:31 into overtime. Sophomore forward Monika Leck scored what could have been the game-winning goal at 18:21 in the second period, but it was not to be.

“We came out flat and were a step behind them in the first ten minutes,” Rougeau said. “We learned from that game that we have to play for 60 minutes the same way...we cannot be up by a goal and play not to lose.”

Since the overtime loss, however, the Red has won three straight games and looks to make a run at the ECAC title.

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun.com.

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Red Captures FourWins on Tough Winter Break Schedule

Balanced, consistent scoring carries C.U. into new year

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

but afterward the Red never looked back. Miller started off the run with a 3-pointer, and a Two days before the New layup by Scelfo on the next posYear, the Red celebrated a tough session put the Red up by four. road win, 79-77, over in-state Cressler’s five-point streak midrival Binghamton in Vestal, NY. way through the half then gave The squad got off to a hot start, Cornell a comfortable 14-point outscoring the lead.

Bearcats 41-26 in the Cressler — who first half, but allowed “Cressler is a big guard who can really has been a key scorer Binghamton to crawl shoot the basketball.” for the Red as both a back into the game in starter and reserve — the final twenty min- Bill Courtney began to put up more utes. consistent numbers Sophomore forover the break. He ward Shonn Miller started off the Washington, D.C. to take on scored in double figures in three game with a 3-point play and American — the team with of the final four games of the after forcing a turnover, senior which Courtney began his break, including a 15-point perguard Johnathan Gray followed coaching career — and escaped formance against Old Westbury. suit by knocking down a triple with a 68-60 victory. Balanced “He is a big guard who can from beyond the arc. Three min- scoring was key for the Red really shoot the basketball and is utes later, senior forward Eitan against the Eagles, with four extremely intelligent on the Chemerinski got hot, scoring five players — Gray, Miller, Scelfo floor,” Courtney said of Cressler. straight points to give the Red an and Cressler — reaching double “He’s gone through some typical early 10-point lead. Consistent figures. American was able to ups and downs as a freshman shooting by Gray, senior guard take a short-lived one-point lead See M. B-BALL page 17 Dominick Scelfo and freshman two minutes into the second half, guard Nolan Cressler kept the Red in a comfortable lead in the first half.

However, the Bearcats came out of the locker room on a mission, continuing to chip away at the Red’s lead with their 3-point shooting. With 2:30 left in the game, Binghamton cut the deficit to seven points. After another layup by Chemerinski, Bearcats guard Jordan Reed scored five straight points to shrink the Red’s lead to just three with 50 seconds left. After a timeout, sophomore guard Galal Cancer knocked down a big free throw to narrowly put the game away.

The Red was unable to follow up this intense victory in its first game of the new year against Bucknell on Jan. 2.

“We’ve had ups and downs, been trying to figure ourselves out,” said head coach Bill Courtney. “We’ve struggled with turnovers and missed open shots, but as our guards get used to different roles, they’ve understood what we want out of them.”

In the 72-56 loss to Bucknell, the Red struggled to connect from the field. The squad shot 36 BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER percent from the floor, compared to the Bisons’ 62 percent. Senior Onward and forward | The play of senior forward Eitan Chemerinski forward Josh Figini scored a team (above) and sophomore forward Shonn Miller has given the Red an high 15 points and Miller put up important boost on the offesnive end.

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Triple threat | Freshman guard Nolan Cressler has found consistency in his shots.

Basketball squad suffers losing record 0n two week, four-state road trip

By ALBERT LIAO

as the Red coughed the ball up a season-high 26 times and the Blue Devils converted those turnovers During winter break, the into 35 points.

Cornell men’s basketball team The Red then visited Boston embarked on a tough road trip that University (9-10) and lost its third covered four states in four road game in a row, 70-57. The starters games and included a game against struggled this game, scoring just then-No. 1 Duke (16-1). The trip nine of the Red’s 57 points. began with a 66-55 loss on Dec. 17 Sophomore guard Devin Cherry, against Vanderbilt (7-9) at junior forward Errick Peck and Nashville, Tenn. The Commodores junior forward Dwight Tarwater all stormed out to an early 12-point were in double digits off the bench, halftime lead, but Cornell respond- although Peck committed eightturnovers.

The had “We’ve had some ups and downs, been a greatRed start as trying to figure ourselves out.” it led the Terriers, 35Bill Courtney 30, at the h a l f .

Ho w e v e r, ed with a 14-4 run out of the lock- Boston pulled away in the second, er room to cut it to two. Vanderbilt outscoring the Red 40-22. then went on a 12-2 run to expand Turnovers were again a problem, as the lead to 12 and never looked the squad turned the ball over 19 back. Sophomore forward Shonn times.

Miller led the Red with 15 points The Red finished its trip on a and 13 points, and senior forward positive note, beating St. Francis Eitan Chemerinski went 4-4 from (Pa.) (1-16), 79-67. Senior guard the field for 10 points off the Johnathan Gray and Peck led the bench. way with 21 points each. Junior The Red next played Duke at guard Dominick Scelfo played a Cameron Indoor Stadium and real- then-season high 19 minutes in the ized why the Blue Devils were game and contributed five points, ranked No. 1 in the country, as two rebounds and one assist. St. they blew out the Red, 88-47. Francis was led by a balanced effort, Duke forward Mason Plumlee, a as five players all reached double candidate for Player of the Year, digits. scored 18 points on 8-8 from the field and grabbed nine rebounds. Albert Liao can be reached at Turnovers proved key in the game, aliao@cornellsun.com.

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14 but was held to just one rebound. Bucknell’s physical forward Mike Muscala scored 13 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for a double-double, and Cameron Ayers led all scorers with 16 points.

The squad then traveled to

Women’s Hockey Defeats Conference Foes

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

The final games of 2012 and the first of 2013 came in hostile territory for the women’s hockey team.

However, the Red was able to come away with a 2-2 record against tough ECAC rivals. No. 4 Cornell (14-4, 10-2 ECAC) played two opponents ranked within the Top-10 nationally: No. 7 Clarkson (18-6, 10-2) on Nov. 30 and No. 3 Boston College (17-4-2, 10-2-1) on Jan. 13. Both of those matchups ended in losses for the Red, but the team was able to bounce back and defeat conference rival

St. Lawrence (13-9-2, 7-4-1 ECAC) on Dec. 1 and Northeastern (12-9-2, 6-61) on Jan. 12.

The 4-2 victory against St. Lawrence was perhaps the team’s most impressive win on the road trip. The squad came up against a tough ECAC foe and was able to kill nine penalties and block 18 shots. Junior forward Jessica Campbell had the eventual game-winning goal in the third period and added an assist for three total points on the day. Junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick recorded 22 saves in the win.

Cornell’s subsequent 4-2 victory came against

Northeastern in its first game of 2013. Cornell was trailing 2-1 in the second period, but was able to score three unanswered goals for the win. Campbell was again the star of the show, scoring two goals.

Junior forward Brianne Jenner and freshman defenseman Cassandra Poudrier both recorded two assists in the contest.

Slebodnick made 25 saves in the matchup.

In Nov. 30’s contest against Clarkson, the Knights scored the tiebreaking goal on the power play at 12:03 in the third See W. HOCKEY page 18

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Game winner | Junior forward Jessica Campbell (right) recorded three points against St. Lawrence on Dec. 1. Her only goal proved to be the winning one.

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Building Momentum, No.6 Red Defeats Harvard Freshman Nashon Garrett led the Red on the mat with a 17-9 victory in a closely-contested match

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

After toppling Brown in a lopsided 356 victory on Saturday afternoon, the No. 6 Red traveled to Cambridge, Mass., where it picked up its second Ivy win of the day with a 24-15 defeat over the Crimson.

Freshman Nashon Garrett brought a high intensity to the mat in the first period against Harvard rookie Jeff Ott. The 125pound wrestler notched a takedown in the first 10 seconds, but Ott managed to

reverse him. Garrett earned an escape, but was taken down once more, allowing Ott to pick up three back points. Garrett picked up another escape and a takedown, but Ott led 8-6 into the second period.

“When we went to Harvard, there were some highs and lows,” said senior Kyle Dake. “Garrett, at 125, was a little sloppy in the first period, but showed his true ability and put a ton of points on the board to get the major.”

Making good on a nearfall, Garrett tied the score at eight and entered the third

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Highs and lows | Though senior Kyle Dake (pictured above) said there were some rocky moments in the meeting with Harvard, the Red emerged victorious.

GYMNASTICS

C.U. Continues Strong Start

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

After one of the strongest starts to the season in program history, Cornell scored even higher this past weekend at the Pittsburgh Quad Meet on Saturday night.

Posting a 190.300 at George Washington less than one week before, the Red improved 1.5 points to finish the Pitt meet in

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Career high |Senior McKenna

Archer scored a career best 9.825.

third place with 191.800.

“There was no disappointment there whatsoever [in placing third,]” said head coach Paul Beckwith. “In gymnastics we don’t concentrate as much on the winning or losing unless it’s other Ivy teams or rivals, so much as team score. Going up a point and a half in our team score is the most important.”

Nationally ranked No. 14 Maryland took home the top spot, earning a 195.975 and just edging out host Pitt, who scored a 195.650. Cornell finished in a comfortable third place ahead of Temple, which accrued 190.000 points.

“We beat Temple, which is always a good indicator for us of where we are,” Beckwith said.

After faltering on floor at George Washington, the Red came back and gave a strong performance — falling just short of a school record with a 48.700 (their record is 49.000). Senior captain Sarah Hein scored a 9.775 with her routine. She earned a career best debuting a new routine.

“We went up a full point on floor, which is two tenths per person,” Beckwith said of the team’s See GYMNASTICS page 17

period with a renewed fire. The rookie started down, then quickly escaped and picked up a takedown. Bringing Ott to his back once more, Garrett picked up his last takedown and some riding time to clinch the 17-9 major decision.

Entering the 133-pounds matchup, Cornell held the lead, 4-0. However, the Crimson was quick to close the gap.

Sophomore Bricker Dixon faced off against Harvard sophomore Ryan Osleeb, but after a scoreless first period, Dixon was the first to light up the scoreboard with an escape from the opening down position. Osleeb escaped to open the final period and took Dixon down with 38 seconds left to take a 3-1 lead. The Cornell sophomore escaped, but was unable to close, as Osleeb picked up a 3-2 decision.

The gap tightened to 4-3 in favor of Cornell, but according to Dake, Dixon’s loss is not indicative of the skill of the Red’s 133-pound division.

Moving to 141 pounds, Cornell had senior Joe Stanzione step in for junior Mike Nevinger. Stanzione faced a tough opponent with No. 10-ranked Steven Keith, who compiled an 8-0 lead with riding time in the first two periods. The Cornell senior chose to start from the top position in the final period, and he managed to pick up one point after Keith was penalized for his second stall warning. Harvard picked up the win, as Keith earned an 8-1 decision.

With Harvard edging the Red out by two points, 6-4, Cornell needed to make up ground. No. 15 Chris Villalonga squared off against a familiar face as Harvard freshman Todd Preston got in position. At 149 pounds, Villalonga domi-

nated the match-up. He accumulated an 11-0 lead after the first period, in which he notched a takedown and three three-point nearfalls. Preston was in a tough deficit, so he chose to start the second in neutral.

Finishing the match quickly, Villalonga grabbed a takedown and two additional back points.

Villalonga won a 15-0 technical fall at the 6:43 mark and moved Cornell into the lead, 9-6. Dake noted his teammate’s ferocity on the mat.

“Villalonga absolutely dominated his high school teammate,” he said.

With a three-point cushion, junior Jesse Shanaman was primed to contribute to the Red’s lead. Facing off against No. 8-ranked Walter Peppelman — brother of Cornell junior Marshall Peppelman — Shanaman had a tough break. The Harvard wrestler escaped from his chosen opening down position at the start of the second, earning a 1-0 lead, which he maintained throughout the match.

“Shanaman should have had a takedown against a returning All-American in Walter Peppelman at the end of the third,” Dake said of the referee’s call that time had run out. “[Shanaman] realizes that he needs to take matters into his own hands and not leave anything up for question. We are expecting [him] to get on the podium in March [at the NCAA tournament.]”

Tied at nine all, No. 1-ranked Dake proved once more that he only needs a short amount of time to get the job done.

He won by fall for the second time of the day — beating Brown’s Jack Roberts earlier See WRESTLING page 18

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Jenner, Slebodnick Earn ECAC Honors

Women’s ice hockey junior forward Brianne Jenner and junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick both earned awards this week after the team went on a three-game winning streak.

Jenner earned the title of ECAC Hockey Player of the Week, while Slebodnick was named Goaltender of the Week.

Both players turned in strong performances against ECAC foes. Jenner scored three goals against Syracuse and two assists, two goals and two assists

against St. Lawrence, and capped off the week with a goal and an assist against Clarkson.

Her goals sealed the victory for the Red in all three games. This is Jenner’s first Player of the Week award this season. Jenner also won the award twice last year, and was named Rookie of the Week three times during the 2010-2011 campaign.

Slebodnick blocked 13 shots against Syracuse, 16 against Clarkson, and 20 in a shutout over St. Lawrence. The shutout

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Scoring machine | Junior forward Brianne Jenner was named ECAC Player of the Week.

was Slebodnick’s second of the year. This is her first Goaltender of the Week award on the season and the fourth of her career.

She won the award twice last season and once during her freshman year. Slebodnick also won Rookie of the Week in 2011.

The Red continues its season this week with games at Yale and Brown on Friday and Saturday.

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Protect this house | Junior Lauren Slebdnick was named Goaltender of the Week.