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Univ.: Non-Tenured Faculty Bring ‘Different’ Skills Set

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Despite a recent study finding, which found that students in introductory classes learned more from non-tenure-track faculty than tenure-track faculty, Cornell administrators and faculty said they believe both types of professors bring benefits to education at Cornell.

The study, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, concluded that students taught by untenured faculty were more likely to

earn better grades in future courses.

The study is based on data collected from over 15,000 students at Northwestern University between 2001 and 2008, according to The New York Times.

According to Laura Brown, senior vice provost for Undergraduate Educationz, faculty who have just completed their doctorates and are arriving to Cornell without tenure are exposed to different perspectives, approaches and experiences than See TENURE page 5

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University to Offer New Myrick Has Packed Agenda for 2014 Demography Minor

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By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

Starting this semester, all undergraduate students will have the option minor to in demography.

The cross-college, undergraduate minor, offered by the Cornell Population Center, will be “a rigorous undergraduate course of study on population-related topics,” according to the website of the Center, which performs demographic research and spans 24 departments and programs.

Demography is a broad field that concentrates on “the study

of populations, how they grow, move [and] change,” according to Prof. Sharon Sassler, policy analysis and management, and director of undergraduate studies for the minor.

According to Erin Oates, the CPC program administrator, the Center — which has offered a graduate minor since its opening in 2007 — has expanded its target audience to include undergraduate students after much planning. “[Our goal has always been] to reach the undergraduate See MINOR page 4

As he begins the third year of his fouryear term, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 says enhancing infrastructure on the Ithaca Commons, developing affordable housing projects and combating homelessness are among his chief concerns.

Myrick said he is optimistic about the progress of the Ithaca Commons reconstruction, a $10 million redesign project that began last year and is

slated for completion this September.

“One issue that is particularly important for Cornell students is improving infrastructure in the Ithaca Commons,” Myrick said. “Last year, we got through the trickiest part, which was the underground utilities, but now that’s over and we’re working on completing surface amenities, adding lights, parks, trees, fountains and gateways.”

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“We’ve been working to improve affordable housing in Ithaca, which is our highest priority at this moment,” he said.

“The [Common] Council is considering opting for s o m e Collegetown legislation that has been in discussion for years.”

Myrick said using treated sewage as a See MYRICK page 4

Man Threatened With Knife In Collegetown Sunday Morning

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Shimtah, the only Korean traditional percussion group on campus, performed its 13th annual show in Willard Straight Hall Saturday.

A man in his late teens lunged at a male victim with a knife near the 300 block of College Ave. around 3:15 a.m. Sunday, according to a University crime alert.

The Cornell University Police Department received a report around 7:30 a.m.

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The victim was not injured during the incident, the crime alert added.

The perpetrator was last seen heading towards campus and was described by the victim as a “thin white male in his late teens, approximately 5’8” to 5’10” tall with black hair, wearing a denim-col-

ored jacket and dark pants,” the crime alert said.

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by CUPD, the incident is being handled by the Ithaca Police Department because of where the crime oc curred, according to the alert. Police are continuing the investigation.

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MBA Classes Add ‘Value’to Undergraduate Programs Students say Johnson School courses teach skills that are more applicable to the professional world

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you do the better. You will understand more,” she said.

Jonathan Kim ’15, who is a computer Though a wide variety of business- science major, said graduate-level business related courses are offered at the under- courses can be beneficial to students of all graduate level, some students say that the majors, not just business majors.

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School “Across schools, people looking for outof Management’s graduate seminars can side electives often go to [the College of provide a unique Arts and Sciences],” Kim said. for perspective “I encourage people outside of “Across schools, people undergraduates. the Johnson School of Business While graduate- looking for outside electo really look into it more.” level courses can be tives often go to Arts ... I Kim said he took NBA challenging, these 6010: Electronic Commerce, a classes are valuable encourage people outside class which analyzes the funcin terms of relevant of the business school to tion of online businesses, last material, engaging year. discussions and really look into it more.”

“It was great to see the busibusiness acumen, Jonathan Kim ’15 ness aspects which [computer professors and science majors] don’t really get graduate students exposed to,” Kim said. said.

Jamie Moy ’14 said she Compared to undergraduate classes, believes graduate level courses are more graduate-level courses involve more writ- applicable to real-life situations. ten case assignments and class participa“In [NBA 5000: Intermediate tion, according to Prof. Margaret Shackell- Accounting], I actually analyzed a financial Dowell, management. statement and really looked through the “In any discipline, the more writing nitty-gritty details,” she said. “[On the Sun Staff Writer

Sun Market Watch DOW and S&P Take a Hit The Dow Jones Industrial Average noted a five percent decline January, its worst since 2009, signalling that recent fourth-quarter corporate earnings reports disappointed the shareholders in the U.S. stock market, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index also fell registering a 3.6 perecent monthly decline, The Journal reported.

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Emerging Market Stress Causes Equity Fund Contraction As emerging markets came under serious stress in the past week, emerging market equity funds got hit with $6.3 billion of redemptions and debt funds suffered $2.7 billion of withdrawals, Business Insider reported Sunday.

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Getting down to business | Grad students congregate in Sage Hall atrium, a popular destination for Johnson School students looking to study with friends and discuss business trends.

other hand], other [undergraduate courses] involve memorizing specific situations and regurgitating what it is.”

Another benefit students receive from graduate-level classes is interaction with graduate students, according to Prof. Mark Nelson, accounting.

“One of the things that [undergraduates] get from taking courses in Johnson is interaction with MBA students who have an average of five years experience,” he said. “They’ve often worked in the area I’m teaching so the courses have to reflect current business practice.”

Moy added that some undergradutes are intimidated by the graduate students in these higher-level classes. “[The graduate students] are very knowledgeable and outspoken and [as

undergraduate students] we are trained to mostly listen,” she said.

However, Shackell-Dowell said she believes undergraduate students can still hold their own in comparison to the older, more experienced graduate students.

“Interestingly, today was the first day that homework had to be done [in NBA 5020: Managerial Cost Accounting and it was all the undergrads who were raising their hands. They were the ones that were prepared ... the grad students were just sitting back,” she said. “They really showed them up. We’ll see if that persists for the whole semester.”

Samantha Wilhelm can be reached at swilhelm@cornellsun.com.

Univ.Official: Work Experience Not Mandatory for Business School Hopefuls

By SCOTT GARTENBERG Sun Staff Writer

Though many business schools require applicants to have previous work experience, undergraduates who do not fit this description can still apply to MBA programs, according to Rebecca Sparrow, executive director of Cornell Career Services.

“For many years business schools started, essentially, requiring two years of work between [undergraduate school] and applying to business school,” she said.

“We’ve seen a little bit of a return to taking students straight from [undergraduate school] to business school.”

According to Sparrow, it can be more difficult for undergraduates — who do not have previous work experience — to gain entry to and thrive in a top-tier business school. Schools include Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

“Part of the reason is that you’re going to be competing against people who have been out in the workforce for a while,” Sparrow said. “Let’s say you’re learning accounting. You’re going to be in class with people who have worked in that field before. Your classmates have that context.”

Either way, proponents of business school believe that it provides high value to students, according to Christine Sneva, executive director of Admissions and Financial Aid at the

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

“We’re in such a unique position to change and respond very rapidly and I think that says a lot about the nature of business schools and why people see that [they’re] so dynamic.

For most people they are willing to make the long-term investment,” Sneva said.

However, there are still qualified candidates who apply to business

edge,” she said. “With that being said, we are seeing more employers who are creating alternate career paths, so a student can come out of [their undergraduate education] and still have some of the same options without going back to get a MBA,” she added.

Juan Diego Alonso grad, who is enrolled in a joint business and law degree program, said it has been a worthwhile experience because it helped him build a startup that aims to replace chemical tech“For most people nologies that are used to remethey are willing to diate waste water.

“While I was here, through make the long-term the Entrepreneurship [and Ininvestment [with novation] Institute, I got conbusiness school].” nected to a researcher on campus,” he said. “One of the Christine Sneva defining experiences I’ve had while at Cornell has been school immediately upon obtaining working with this researcher; last year their bachelor’s degree, according to we actually formed a startup, received Sneva. government grants, and have taken Top business schools are looking off from there.” for applicants who can demonstrate Business schools provide one with their ability to “contribute to a specif- the tools and acumen to strategize ic outcome,” which means that appli- better, according to Alonso. cants without work experience are “[My aim was] to become better at expected to have a solid undergradu- strategy,” he said. “One of the amazate record, Sneva said. ing things about business school is While many students will pursue that it teaches you advanced framean MBA degree, employers do not works for gathering and analyzing require all employees to have one, data. If used correctly, you can make Sparrow said. a better case for what it is you are try“There are some employers, for ing to push for.” certain career paths, [who] really do want to see that additional education Scott Gartenberg can be reached at just to have a higher level of knowl- sgartenberg@cornellsun.com.

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population and try to spark an interest in demography studies,” Oates said. “Now,“we’re seeing this growing interest — growing need — in globalization,” she said.

The difference between this minor and other humanistic minors, such as the inequality studies minor, is that students will acquire applied skills to better work with data, according to Sassler.

Sassler said she believes these applied skills are especially important for students to have in the modern world.

“Being able to describe data is a crucial skill to have in the current job market,” she said. “I think being able to write up demographic data and understand population trends is useful in a lot of fields.”

The requirements for the minor include an introductory demographic course, a statistics course, one demographic overview course from a select list and two general population-related courses, according to the CPC’s website.

Sassler said students from all colleges are welcome to join the minor, though she recommends it for students who are specifically interested in working in government, public policy or business fields.

She said the demography minor is attracting a cross-section of undergraduates from across the university, noting high student interest and a diverse affiliate list, which consists of about 100 faculty members.

According to Oates, many students are already taking the minor’s required courses, which she said she believes reflects a growing interest in demography and the need to be aware of trends in globalization.

As the Center and the undergraduate minor move forward, they hope to open it up for seminars, symposiums, and outreach, she added.

“Part of our seminar series, people have an opportunity to meet with the speaker, so our graduate students have found that invaluable, just with research collaboration or just networking opportunities,” Oates said.

She added that the Center hopes to organize international exchange programs and internships through their already well-established connections to international organizations. “We’re learning as we’re going," she said.

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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solution to the recent flooding issues in Ithaca, which occurred because of the polar vortex, was innovative.

“The polar vortex or the ‘ice jam’ resulted in slabs of ice being damned in creeks in Ithaca … [which] threatened to flood areas of the town,” Myrick said.

“Eventually, an interesting solution was reached — treated sewage was pumped back through the cracks, cutting through the dam of ice and creating pathways through which water could flow.”

According to Myrick, the Common Council, as well as numerous individuals and businesses have been working hard toward positive developments, particularly concerning housing and clearing out The Jungle, a largely unregulated homeless encampment in Ithaca.

“Last year, Richard Sherman, a resident of the Jungle, passed away due to a fire and there have been numerous reports of injuries, assaults and thefts,” Myrick said. “We are working with partners to provide housing for the homeless and hopefully keep the Jungle clear forever.”

Myrick said some projects have gone beyond providing temporary shelter and will provide permanent housing and employment opportunities to

the homeless.

“One particularly exciting development is the Court Street House, which will provide permanent housing for men,” he said. “It’s not a temporary shelter, but will provide space, bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, employment services and training and treatment for substance abuse.”

Though the Court Street House will only admit men, there is also an equivalent project underway for housing homeless women, according to Myrick.

“There will also be a fifteenbedroom house for women, and yesterday the Council committed for four more bedrooms,” Myrick said.

He added that some individuals have gone above and beyond in doing whatever they can to put an end to homelessness in Ithaca.

“Carmen Guidi, a mechanic who lives five minutes outside of Ithaca has been doing everything he can to improve the lives of the homeless [here],” Myrick said.

“He has gone into the Jungle, befriended its residents … built six separate housing units on his property, and he wants to build 12 more to help move people out of the Jungle and out of homelessness. It is truly a wonderful and inspiring story.”

Chris Yates can be reached at cyates@cornellsun.com.

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professors who have been teaching for many years.

“Newer faculty who have recently been trained as graduate students have been exposed to different kinds of experiences in relation to how we understand teaching and learning,” Brown said. “[These faculty] might have different perspectives to bring to their teaching that are less available to people who have been teaching for awhile.”

Similarly, new faculty members are exposed to the newest and most cutting-edge research, according to Brown. These non-tenured teachers might be doing certain kinds of work that are entirely new, she added.

While professors who have tenure can also learn new research and teaching methods, “incoming [non-tenured faculty] who are starting out have all kinds of opportunities for innovation,” Brown said.

Despite a common fear that tenure-track faculty research can come at the expense of their undergraduate teaching roles, Brown said she believes that such a phenomenon does not exist at Cornell.

“[Non-tenured faculty] might have different perspectives to bring to their teaching that are less available to people who have been teaching for awhile.”

Ronald Ehrenberg “All of [our faculty] still have significant teaching responsibilities and consider teaching to be an important part of their job,” she said.

“We really do involve our most advanced researchers in teaching.”

Prof. Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations, said the degree to which a tenure-track faculty member is committed to undergraduate teaching can vary greatly across departments.

Ehrenberg said while he believes that professors in his department care passionately about undergraduate teaching, it was a different case in the 1990’s, when he knew of departments where virtually no one cared about undergraduate teaching.

Despite these concerns, Ehrenberg said there are many benefits tenure-track faculty, who are involved in advanced research, can provide for their students.

“Professors who are involved in research can excite students in a way that faculty members who are not doing research cannot,” he said. “I would not want to see that lost in the freshman curriculum.”

As an example, Ehrenberg said that Ronald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, gave engaging undergraduate lectures while also working on ground-breaking research.

Although the National Bureau of Economic Research’s 2013 study found that non-tenure track faculty appear to be better teachers, Ehrenberg said it is nevertheless crucial to expose undergraduates to tenure-track faculty who are engaged in advanced research.

“Undergraduate students deserve to be exposed during their time at Cornell to the best and brightest researchers,” he said. “We should hire faculty who care passionately about teaching as well as about research.”

Jonathan Lobel be reached at jlobel@cornellsun.com.

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Top Republicans Stand With N.J. Govenor TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — High-profile Republicans were adamant Sunday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie should not resign from his post as chairman of the Republican Governors Association following a former ally’s claim that there is evidence Christie knew about an apparently politically motivated traffic jam earlier than he has said.

The support from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan put Republicans on the offensive and the Democratic chairman of a state legislative committee investigating the September lane closures near the George Washington Bridge on the defensive the day Christie’s state hosts the Super Bowl.

Also Sunday, a member of Christie’s administration who was subpoenaed by lawmakers investigating the lane closings confirmed she had resigned.

Christina Genovese Renna left the governor’s office Friday,

according to her lawyer. Renna had reported to ousted Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly, who apparently set the lane closings in motion with an email saying “time to cause some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” Christie, a potential 2016 presidential contender, has been going about Super Bowl ceremonial duties and has not taken questions about the scandal in recent days. He didn’t respond Saturday when some spectators booed him at an appearance in New York City’s Times Square.

He planned to watch Sunday’s game with his family from a luxury box at MetLife Stadium.

Giuliani, appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation” took aim at the credibility of two figures central to the scandal: John Wisniewski, who’s leading the investigative probe, and David Wildstein, the former Christie loyalist who as an executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey last year ordered the lane closures after receiving Kelly’s email, as some-

one with less than pure motives.

He said Wildstein “wants somebody else to pay his legal bills and he can’t get them paid unless the governor is responsible.”

The unannounced lane closures caused massive gridlock in Fort Lee in September, delaying emergency vehicles and school buses and tying up some commuters for hours over four mornings. New Jersey legislators are investigating whether Christie aides engineered the lane closures to send a message to the town’s Democratic mayor. The U.S. Attorney’s office is also investigating.

On Friday, Wildstein’s lawyer wrote a letter to the Port Authority saying evidence exists that Christie knew about the traffic jams in Fort Lee as they happened. He did not disclose any evidence in the letter.

Giuliani said Wisniewski, a Democratic assemblyman, is prejudiced and has ulterior motivations as a “guy who’d like to be governor.”

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felt a bit torn as I sat down to write would never end. But there is the ravishthis column –– it felt a bit like shame- ing Anchal Joseph who stole the show on less self-promotion. Nevertheless, in the seventh cycle of America’s Next Top the past year and a half of college, I Model. There is the incredible Rachel Roy couldn’t help but notice the formidable who is responsible for Michelle Obama’s role that South Asian women play on swanky wardrobe, and there’s the musical campus and the extent to which their goddess Norah Jones. Also, there are an presence has molded the way we think of overwhelmingly large number of brazen the college community: The brown girl is faces in the world of politics, diplomacy an almost indispensable character today, and, obviously, in Silicon Valley. The and this was not always the case. It is this brown woman has always been intelliobservation that motivates me to write a gent, but now, she has the confidence to column about the likes of me, the brown own her talents. girls. (Excuse the political incorrectness I have seen this transformation occur of the term.) at Cornell as well. At times, I still feel When I made the momentous decision intimidated by being an international to leave India and come as far as Ithaca student. But in the past few months, I for college, I was very nervous that I have met several South Asian women at would constitute a microscopic minority. Cornell who are venturing out of their To be quite honest, comfort zones. They are it’s trying enough to Our generation of South Asian joining Greek life, deal with the ramifidespite the notion that women, we brown girls, are brown girls are not cations of being from what was (until pretcrystallizing the kind of lives socially adventurous. At ty recently) a third- our mothers wished they could Cornell, she is everyworld country. Being where from an a capella have led. a woman from a group to the weightliftcountry like this ing team; she is repremakes you feel negligible, hidden in the sented in Panhellenic leadership and has shadows. The Indian woman is significant established an exceptional presence on in India, for sure, but she has hardly campus. crossed anyone’s mind as a fierce or So maybe the brown girl “revolution” resplendent force in the international isn’t the biggest new thing to watch out community. She is usually considered for, but it’s definitely one of the next big demure, conservative and largely inconse- things brewing both at Cornell and across quential. She’s known as an excellent the world. Our generation of South Asian coder and very insightful. However, in women, us brown girls, are crystallizing the past few years, the brown woman has the kind of lives our mothers wished they transformed into a sensational leader. could have lead. And from the perspective This is something I have noticed both at of someone who has seen firsthand the and beyond Cornell. best and worst prospects that exist for In India, women still face grotesque women of South Asian origin, I find this realities like dowry, a serious paucity of to be incredibly reassuring. I can safely opportunities and a society that still hesi- state that we have broken the South Asian tates to invest confidence in them. woman stereotype: Stereotypes, like rules, However, it is heartening to see that so are meant to be broken. The brown girl many of of us brown women are doing has arrived, and she is here to stay. exemplary things across the world.

Recently, it’s as if the South Asian woman Aditi Bhowmick is a sophomore in the College of has decided to embrace the spirit of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at Beyoncé. If I had to drop the names of abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings inspirational brown women, this column appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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I appreciate your concern about Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-O.K.) recently repealed amendment, which had restricted funding for select research in political science.

When politicians decide which scientific research to fund, it is indeed political science. Two years ago, I was a Congressional Fellow in a Senate subcommittee of which Coburn was the ranking member. Coburn, who practiced obstetrics and insists on being called “doctor” in the Senate, should recall from his medical training that science is not an ideology, but a body of knowledge and method. His amendment set a dangerous precedent for lawmakers to presuppose the scientific merit of federally funded research –– assessments that are best left to experts in their respective fields.

That year, I was the first sociologist to join a cohort of fellows from the American Association for the Advancement of Science sent to Washington to help science inform policy. None of my scientific colleagues working for lawmakers of either party, including Cornellians with STEM backgrounds, ever suggested that social science was somehow subordinate or inferior to hard science. Social scientists work within and across disciplines to try to understand the most pressing problems this country faces.

Promoting a collaborative environment between the sciences at Cornell would set a dignified example for Congress. Therefore, I welcome your suggestion that the University commit to physical space and resources that would help put the social sciences on a materially equal footing with their natural science peers. May I selfishly recommend starting with a refurbishment of Uris Hall?

Prof. Dennis Bogusz, sociology Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality

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OPINION

Don Oh |

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t may have been a meager 10 days since classes began, but living up to its reputation as a pressure cooker, the University has been blatantly bestowing piles and piles of work upon us. To avoid the work overload that comes from switching in and out of classes, I finalized my schedule before last week. I still attended about a dozen classes in the process and realized how oddly similar all the classes were, despite their divergent subject matters and different instructors.

A typical Cornell classroom consists of a professor talking in front of his or her PowerPoint slides and seated students pretending to listen while their laptop screens indicate otherwise.

The fact that we’re in the early phase of the semester can certainly contribute to students’ dispersed attention, but the presence of technology in the classroom is not a new syndrome –– nor is it confined to the early phase of the semester.

About seven years ago, the iPhone and Facebook began to gain momentum. Laptops, on the other hand, have been widely distributed for much longer. As educators have adapted to new technology by incorporating projectors and PowerPoint slides into their teaching, it somehow has become natural, normal and sometimes even expected for students to bring their personal electronic devices to class with the alleged purpose of taking notes. And some students do take avid notes, living up to their declared purpose. But too many of us deviate from that intended goal, and the consequences affect the entire classroom.

When you lift your head and look around your classroom at any given time, you are bound to spot at least a few people with their computers on. If you are “lucky” enough to sit in the rear end of a large classroom, you are greeted with a wide array of colors beaming from laptop screens.

Compared to around 2009, when Facebook was at the height of its expansion, the number of blue screens in classrooms indicating Facebook usage has noticeably decreased. I am told this is mainly due to a shift in social media focus, with

If [a faculty’s] class format requires such heavy note-taking that an electronic device is preferred to writing by hand, I think they should reconsider what they are teaching. users increasingly opting for more “hip” outlets like Reddit and Vine. The specific websites that distract us may have changed, but our fickle nature with electronics hasn’t changed much.

Since so many of us still struggle to keep our attention focused on class material, why not ban electronics as a whole, preventing us from falling into that temptation?

When it comes to taking notes, the laptop’s greatest advantage over writing by hand is its speed and clarity. This is not a matter of opinion: It’s a pure fact. Very few human beings, if any, can manage to write legible letters at the speed of typewriting. This is precisely why stenographers in courtrooms use machines with special keyboards, instead of trying to dictate all dialogue by hand. Therefore, the use of the keyboard in fastpaced environments calling for extensive writing is justified and validated. But since when did our classrooms turn into courtrooms and our students become relegated to stenographers?

Now, don’t get me wrong. Stenography is an admirable profession; few people are capable of it, and thus, they are well paid. The fundamental difference between students and stenographers is that the latter are individuals who are trained to merely listen to court dialogue and type it down. It’s a pure communicative transition from the auditory to the visual.

Absolutely no input by the intermediary is encouraged –– nor is it permitted.

A college student’s role, or at least the ideal version of it, should be anything but that of the stenographer. It should be about learning how to examine information with a critical lens, to interpret in our own way and to muster the courage to raise our hands and say “no” when the proverbial ship is headed in the wrong direction. When our classroom experience doesn’t reflect this academic ideal, but rather that of the one-way speaker and 100 typists, there isn’t the forum in which to raise the next leader, whistleblower or pioneer.

So I urge faculty that are in the position to ban laptops in their classrooms to do so. And if their class format requires such heavy note-taking that an electronic device is preferred to writing by hand, I think they should reconsider what they are teaching.

Don Oh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He may be reached at doh@cornellsun.com. Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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n mid-December the American Studies Association (ASA) voted to join the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement against Israel by cutting ties with Israeli academic institutions. As my fellow columnist, Rebecca John, pointed out in her Jan. 29 column, this follows the academic boycotts by the Association for Asian American Studies and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. In response, the Association of American Universities (AAU) issued a statement signed by its executive board, including our own President Skorton, opposing the academic boycott on the grounds that it violates the principles of academic freedom. I respectfully disagree. Last week, the New York State Senate passed a bill that would defund state colleges and universities participating in academic boycotts. This anti-boycott law, of course, is an absurd attempt to suppress free speech and is likely to incur legal action challenging its constitutionality.

First, it’s important to understand that the move to end consumer and academic relations with Israel is not the spontaneous work of radicals. It isn’t rooted in anti-Semitism, and it isn’t unprecedented.

This is the tactic that Palestinian rights activists have asked the international community to take up in solidarity. The movement is largely inspired by the successful BDS efforts that ended South African apartheid, which is widely seen as a parallel struggle against oppression, segregation and colonization. Though many have mischaracterized the movement, the intention of BDS is not to blindly attack Israel or put an end to the Jewish state.

The goal is to create nonviolent global grassroots pressure on Israel to abide by international human rights law and the United Nations resolutions that it has thus far ignored. The demands are stated clearly in Palestinians’ call to boycott: ending Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, respecting the personhood of Palestinians and allowing refugees to return to their homes.

The academic component of the boycott is similarly misunderstood. The ASA resolution does not target Israeli academics, rather it targets colleges and universities. This means that the ASA as an organization will not formally engage in partnerships with Israeli institutions, which as some have pointed out, doesn’t hap-

freely. As John noted, serious violations of Palestinians’ freedom are systematically enacted by the state of Israel, with huge support from the United States. And what about academic freedom for Palestinians? Students in Gaza and the West Bank have been silenced, Fulbright recipients prohibited from traveling and academics barred from leaving the country. The ASA boycott doesn’t even come close to that level of censorship. (Plus, it’s probably pretty hard to contribute to the academic discussion or organize a conference when your neighborhood is being bulldozed.) I understand that it is dangerous territory to take what some would call a dismissive attitude toward academic

The academic boycott should not be considered a threat to academic freedom, though perhaps it undermines the academy as we know it. pen often anyway. The ASA has since emphasized its commitment to academic freedom, explaining that the largely symbolic boycott does not and will not penalize individual academics or their scholarship. Understanding the goals and terms of the boycott makes it clear that the academic freedom argument that opponents have levied simply doesn’t stand.

Though this has not been the principal argument of supporters, I would add that I find it preposterous to place a simplistic, decontextualized idea of academic freedom before the right to live, to live without fear of displacement and bodily harm, to grow and eat food, to drink clean water and to move and speak

freedom or to organize “types” of freedom in a hierarchy. But that’s exactly what the AAU and other opponents are doing when they argue that preserving official institutional ties is more important than Palestinians’ freedom that the ASA is standing up for or more important than the free exchange of ideas outside of compromised institutions, which the boycott permits.

This brings me to my other concern: If opposition to the academic boycott is not about academics or actual scholarship, what are we talking about when we say “academic freedom?” The argument hinges on the idea that the institution itself is necessary for the continuation of academic, or rather, intellectual discourse. Of course, this is an obvious

position to take for the AAU, whose board is comprised of university presidents. However, things are changing. Try as they might, universities are not the gatekeepers of wisdom they once were. We have the Internet.

Additionally, an increasingly corporate structure of academic institutions and an increasingly corporate cast of bedfellows have their own interests at stake. For example, if I’m top brass at Technion, I’d sure as hell expect President Skorton to condemn the ASA. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Cornell’s partner on the new ech Campus and would fall under the terms of the academic boycott. I’m not saying, “down with the academy,” but I think it’s important to recognize that the academic boycott raises issues of institutional autonomy at a time when the institution is losing relevance –– or is at least in a process of serious transformation.

In the digital age, universities have no monopoly on knowledge; the academic boycott should not be considered a threat to academic freedom, though perhaps it undermines the academy as we know it. A recent and predictable Letter to the Editor that appeared in The Sun, arguing against BDS, was titled “Boycotts Won’t Work.” To an extent, the author is right. Even if every civilian organization in the world boycotted Israel, it could survive on the many, many billions it gets in aid from the U.S. But it’s not about strangling the state into taking action, it’s about building a movement so big that dignity for Palestinians is the obvious conclusion and change is inevitable.

Anna-Lisa Castle is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She may be reached at amc394@cornell.edu. Nonstop Biweekly Real Talk appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Dismembered Paws and Circular Saws Titus Andronicus at the Schwartz Center PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY SUN STAFF WRITER

Titus Andronicus, one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, has long been overlooked due to the spectacular nature of its violence, its dismissal by T.S. Eliot as “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written” and its reinterpretation of the tragedy structure which presents massacre without redemption.

However, Spencer Whale ’14 and the Department of the Performing and Media Arts have constructed a nearly flawless reimagining of the classically maligned play.

The production of Titus begins with actors reading from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and calling out the roles they will be performing. The original play does not use this framing device (although it does reference the work), but it is hardly anachronistic within the body of Shakespeare’s work, in which the playwithin-a-play is a trademark. The choice is interesting, and while it makes the plot a little bit difficult to untangle by the end it certainly serves Whale’s intention of putting Titus Andronicus into context — both historical and modern. Whale explained that the creative choices were made because, “the play itself is wildly anachronistic, and self-consciously refer-

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ences periods from Ancient Rome to Elizabethan England, so we wanted to create a world that could support that whole range of cultural history, as well as adding our modern vocabulary.” This thesis is obvious, as the costuming is a hybrid of period garb and duct tape, the violence is orchestrated by both swords and circular saws and the execution of Shakespeare’s humor is as much about physical comedy as it is about wordplay.

While all Shakespeare plays contain comedy, Titus in particular has a special amount of humor in it for being a tragedy — frequent jokes are made about the “stumps” of characters whose hands have been chopped off — using Shakespeare’s signature turns of phrase and the actors’ talents for physical comedy to add a sardonic spin on much of the third act. Whale’s skills as director are on full display here as the actors transition fluidly from what seems initially to be a tragic tale in classic style and quickly becomes a ludicrous massacre. It was hard to know if it was okay to laugh at many points, a fact that Whale said he was explicitly aware of. He explained that, “Titus realizes he has no tears left to shed, and the play makes an unexpected turn into nihilistic, absurdist humor.

Audience members react differently to the humor, at first — some find it horrific, some find it hilarious — but by the end of the play we all join Titus in his laughter.”

The revenge plot branches out from a first act conflict between the Roman war hero Titus Andronicus (Adam Gianforte ’15) and Queen of the Goths, Tamora (Sarah Coffey ’16), and it slowly engulfs every member of the two families. It becomes increasingly difficult to take sides as each family racks up a rap sheet of dismemberment, rape and murder, starting out as overreactions and soon becoming senseless. Gianforte’s role is underplayed in the first act, but he shines in the absurdity of the second and third, commanding attention with his expertly dry Sam Rockwell-style humor — at one point he gives a monologue

from atop a unicycle. Coffey is the emotional force of the play, delivering moments of heart-wrenching emotional appeal as a bereaved mother as well as gut-wrenching moments of revolting cruelty as a woman bent on excessive revenge. As Aaron the Moor, Alexander Quilty ’15 is positively chilling and impossible to look away from — every scene he appears in inspires genuine terror.

“Sometimes excess is the best way to make a point...”

Spencer Whale ’14 His character is meant to be the embodiment of evil, an entropic force that amplifies the tragedy of the plot with almost unwatchable ambivalence.

Many significant plot points revolve around Aaron’s establishment as darkskinned, and therefore cursed — a fact that presents obvious challenges in a contemporary portrayal. Whale states a belief in Shakespeare’s intention to “[lay] the blame on society more than the color of Aaron’s skin,” and notes that Shakespeare takes care to humanize him throughout the play. The way that the character was handled in this production was problematic — while it was done more tastefully than it could have been, it was hardly necessary to mark Aaron with streaks of black face paint in order to illustrate that his character was black, and removal of a choice line or two would hardly have been unwonted censorship.

The production incorporated every square inch of the limited space in the Black Box Theatre, with action occurring within inches of the audience, in suspended harnesses and on an arrangement of metal scaffoldings. While the plot of Titus runs a million miles a minute — managing to present at least a dozen deaths and other atrocities in

rapid succession — this production managed even more dynamism: every actor was acting 100 percent of the time and there were always at least four different places to look to be entertained. This excess was overwhelming but fully in step with the nature of the play. Whale told The Sun, “Sometimes excess is the best way to make a point, and the excesses in Titus make for both wild entertainment and difficult viewing, depending on the production and the audience.”

The viewing of this production of Titus is definitely difficult — the rape of Lavinia occurred maybe three feet from my chair — but it’s also riveting, and a compelling choice in the time of the violent spectacle film.

Some of the same questions that surround Quentin Tarantino’s handling of the cyclical nature of revenge (Kill Bill, Django Unchained) or Harmony Korine’s tendency to thrust brutality at his audience (Spring Breakers, Kids) also surround this play. As the bodies pile up, it is difficult to come up with a firm thesis as to what the takeaway is. Lavinia Andronicus (Adrienne Jackson ’14) is the most obviously-wronged of the play’s victims and she is effectively silenced until she manages to gesture to the pages of Metamorphoses which detail “The Rape of Philomela.” Whale commented, “Everyone gets caught in the bloodshed, and hopefully we all question the wisdom of our bloodlust.

Tarantino, too, magnifies the violence in his stories to an absurd scale, toeing the same line of ‘hard-to-watch’ and cathartic release to bring us to a new understanding of the horrors of slavery or the Nazis.” It is not so much a punishment for a gore-craving audience, as it is a confrontation of the way that violent functions in society — as something we bemoan but will not actually turn away from, be it for problem-solving or for entertainment.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Ithaca Good People

Raiders of the Lost Ark

7:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday at Kitchen Theatre

7:00 p.m. on Saturday at State Theatre

The Homecoming Players, an Ithaca-based theater group, will be taking over the Kitchen tonight and tomorrow night to showcase its latest production, Good People. A play about shame, money and growing up, the play’s title is possibly ironic and will surely up for debate during the readings. Good People is the Homecoming Players’ first performance of 2014, and will appear as part of the Kitchen Theatre Company’s Kitchen Sink Series.

Tickets are $15.

— Arielle Cruz

The State Theatre kicks off its series this Saturday with Steven Spielberg’s quintessential adventure flick. Embodying the same panache of globe-trotting B-movies of the 1930s, this first film in the Indiana Jones series is sure to thrill even modern audiences.

— Sean Doolittle

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Psychedelic Cinema Winter Exhibition Opening

9:30 p.m. on Friday at Cornell Cinema

5:00 p.m. on Thursday at Johnson Museum of Art

Since Jan. 25, the Johnson Museum has been hosting a new selection of modern works by Ansel Adams, Matthew Brandt, Elizabeth Taylor and more as a part of its exhibition, beyond earth art - contemporary artists and the environment. To celebrate the museum’s new additions, the Johnson is holding an Opening Reception on Thursday night with refreshments, music by D.J. Tak3 and colorful conversation. As part of the exhibition, there will also be pieces on view by husband and wife duo Lucy+Jorge Orta, a collection entitled FoodWater-Life. Beyond earth will be at the Johnson through the end of the semester and will include a special event in April featuring Maya Lin. — Arielle Cruz

Cornell Cinema presents Ken Brown’s amalgamation of psychedelia super 8 films, originally intended to be part of a light show at the Boston rock venue, The Boston Tea Party, this Friday. In an evening designed for transportation back to the 1960s, Ken Winokur of the Alloy Orchestra and Beth Custer of the Clubfoot Orchestra and Jonathan LaMaster of Cul de Sac will accompany the screening with music.

Tickets are $10 for students and $12 for the general public.

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— Kaitlyn Tiffany

Mourning a Master: Philip Seymour Hoffman

BY ZACH ZAHOS AND SAM BROMER Sun Associate Managing Editor and Arts and Entertainment Editor

Philip Seymour Hoffman, a prolific and widely revered character actor whose Oscarwinning role in Capote made him into an unlikely household name, died Sunday in his West Village apartment. The New York Times reports the cause of death was an apparent heroin overdose, the culmination of a tragic relapse of drug abuse that started last year after 23 years of sobriety. He was 46.

A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Hoffman hit the ground running with loud, schlubby, scenestealing supporting characters. After playing a squirrely classmate alongside Al Pacino in 1992’s Scent of a Woman, Hoffman befriended Paul Thomas Anderson and nailed a fourmovie streak in his early films Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. As a gay boom mic operator hopelessly infatuated with Mark Wahlberg’s pornstar in Boogie Nights, Hoffman undercut the freewheeling, sunny vibe of that film to capture its downbeat core. He aimed for a much different effect in Punch-Drunk Love, where, in his most memorable scene, he shouts, “Shut!

Shut! Shut! Shut! Shut Up!” with such syncopated zeal that the clip’s popularity on Internet forums is not hard to fathom. Other early roles include Jeffrey Lebowski’s boastful assistant (“They’re the Little Lebowski Urban Achievers…”) in The Big Lebowski; a spot-on Lester Bangs in Almost Famous; the cultured object of Matt Damon’s lethal envy in The Talented Mr. Ripley; and, of course, the slimeball who “sharted” his pants and single-handedly made Along Came Polly something worth watching.

Hoffman began to nudge his way into the

mainstream through his riveting portrayal of author Truman Capote. Capote follows the author as he researches a shocking quadruple homicide in Kansas. Hoffman’s effeminate, soft-spoken performance contrasted with his earlier work and earned him several accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. A year later, in 2005, he paved the way for Heath Ledger and other legitimate thespians working in action blockbusters by pulling all the stops as Mission: Impossible III’s terrifying villain. Hoffman received an Supporting Actor nomination at the Academy Awards the following year as a foul-mouthed Greek in Charlie Wilson’s War, a mostly forgettable film buoyed by his in turns hilarious and prescient performance.

After playing an emotionally-crippled history teacher in The Savages, Hoffman took his vows, taking on the role of Father Brendan Flynn, a Bronx priest accused by his parish’s nuns of abusing a young alter boy, in Doubt. Hoffman was a commanding presence in every scene, eliciting sympathy while at the same time drawing the viewer’s disgust; for this role, he received his second consecutive Academy Awards nod.

Overlooked by the Academy but not by some influential critics (Roger Ebert named it the best film of the the decade), Synecdoche, New York is a difficult beast, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman at his most reflexive and cryptic. No matter how one makes sense of the plot, at least on first viewing, few fictional characters in this millennium confront our deep-seated fears of death, deterioration and failure like Hoffman’s Caden Cotard. Usually a surreal, highbrow experiment like Synecdoche answers only to the vision of its auteur, but Hoffman pushed through all the obfuscation to unleash something raw and absolutely devastating.

More recently, Hoffman channeled his inner cult-leader in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master.

The film, a disorienting look at delusion and psychological torment, finds Hoffman as the founder and leader of a philosophical group named “The Cause.” In one scene, Hoffman, portraying Lancaster Dodd, battles with a doubter of his movement, played by the also recentlydeceased Kevin Welch. Hoffman’s fury approaches madness as he protects his life’s work — at one point, he calls his opponent a “pig fuck.” Ravenous, unscrupulous and headstrong, Lancaster Dodd presents the actor at his absolute best. Even in his more “commercial” roles, such as his turn as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Hoffman managed to bring his subtle sense of drama and humor to the forefront. In that film, he manages to keep the viewer fully in the dark about the intentions of Heavensbee, a member of the establishment. Though he is not on the screen for many scenes, his confidence as an actor is clear throughout, whether he is ballroomdancing with Katniss or orchestrating violence from the Capital.

So, look: We know Philip Seymour Hoffman was only an actor, belonging to a different class of celebrity than, say, Nelson Mandela. Our culture tends to holds its famous faces in too-high regard, equally eager to rip them apart at the scent of the slightest wrong. Hoffman earned his reputation through his work alone. He kept his private life private, and it seemed like he could not care less about the awards his peers

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showered over him. His premature passing only affects those who know him, but the incredible thing is that we number in the millions. He realized some of the most complicated characters in recent cinema beyond their originator’s wildest dreams, guaranteeing we will return to formidable epics like Synecdoche and The Master for years to come.

He smuggled real quality into the mainstream. There, here, we mourn the passing of a name, a voice, a face that, together, formed an icon of quality and promised something greater than mere entertainment.

Zach Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ing 13 points on nine shot attempts. Junior guard Devin Cherry also had a productive first twenty minutes with seven points and three rebounds.

The Bears kept competitive due to the impressive play of freshman guard Steven Spieth, who scored 11 points and shot a perfect three-for-three from the field without missing a free throw in the half.

The Bears came out of the locker room with a scoring run that crippled the Red’s chances. Cornell was outscored by 15 points in the half, leading to a final score of 78-66. Cressler was just one-for-six from the field, but it was the dominant play of McGonagill, who was relatively absent in the first half, that helped the Bears come out on top. McGonagill put together a line of 13 points, six rebounds and four assists in the half.

Despite Friday’s downfall, the Red had some strong performances of its own. Cherry recorded the first double-double of his career with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Senior guard Jake Matthews also had a game to remember, putting up a career-high 17 points off the bench.

After the loss, the Red headed to New Haven to take on the Bulldogs on Saturday night.

The game against the Bulldogs proved the Red’s ability to compete in the conference.

CORNELL @ BROWN Though the Red trailed by seven 66 78 after the first half, the squad fought back after the break.

Game: 2ND FINAL 1ST However, Cressler and Cherry Cornell 33 66 33 helped bring the Red back into Brown 48 78 30 the game in the second half. The two guards combined for 33 CORNELL @ YALE points in the final 20 minutes of the game.

57 61 Yale, however, won the battle Game: 2ND FINAL 1ST on the boards. The Bulldogs’ star Cornell 38 57 19 sophomore forward Justin Sears Yale 35 61 26 grabbed 11 boards and scored 11 points and junior guard Javier Duren pulled down five rebounds.

Though the Red outscored the Bulldogs in the second half, its struggles in the first period came back to haunt the team, as Yale would eventually come out on top, 61-57.

Cressler had another impressive overall outing against the Bulldogs. The Red’s leading scorer put up a career-best line of 29 points, five rebounds and two assists. Cherry supported Cressler’s effort with 19 points of his own. As a team, the Red limited the Bulldogs to 38 percent shooting from the field.

Although the Red came out on the losing end, the play of Cressler, Cherry and Matthews throughout the weekend was promising.

Cornell looks to put all its efforts together in its next matchup against Penn on Friday in Philadelphia.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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Protect this net | Senior goaltender Andy Iles had 33 saves in a 2-1 win over Brown on Saturday.

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in different situations.”

Iles remained steady with 33 saves, and special teams held Brown scoreless on all six power play opportunities, but the Red did not escape Providence without a final scare. The Bears fired 14 shots compared to Cornell’s two in the third period, cutting the deficit to 2-1 with under two minutes remaining. Iles continued to make saves, though, preserving a 2-1 final score and weekend sweep. “[T]here was a big, emotional win last night and I kind of thought tonight we did just barely enough to get the victory,” Schafer said. “But we figured that out. So to come out of here and get four points in such a crucial [game] down the stretch was huge for us. And now we’re sitting three, four weeks left in the season with a huge game going up to Colgate next weekend.”

side was stymied until the freshman line of forwards Kubiak, Buckles and Weidner created an opening in front of the net with Buckles getting the final say to put Cornell on the board, 1-0, 11:04 into the second period.

Schafer described the freshmen line as “really, really solid.”

“I can’t think of any bad shifts those guys had throughout the course of the weekend,” he said Schafer also said he was pleased to get balanced scoring Friday and Saturday, pointing out how junior forward Cole Bardreau got in on the action via a pass from junior forward and linemate Joel Lowry. The pass left Bardreau one-on-one with the goalie, leading to another score and a 2-0 lead with 6:09 left in the third. “[L]ast night Ferlin’s line had one,” Schafer said. Chris Millls can be reached at “So we [continue] to get help from different people cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Fight to the top | Three women’s basketball teams are currently tied for the tops spot in the conference.

riady and Saturday were exciting days in Ivy League women’s basketball, with the former top-two teams in the league, Princeton and Harvard, facing off. The Crimson knocked off the reigning Ancient Eight champion Tigers, 78-68, led by a double-double from forward Temi Fagbenie and 25 points from guard Christine Clark.

However, the Crimson faltered the following day, falling to Penn, 67-38. The Crimson shot 18 percent from the floor while five different Penn players scored in double figures, bumping the Quakers up into a tie for fourth place with Princeton. Cornell also came away with two big wins, defeating Brown and then Yale, which was formerly undefeated in the conference. The Red catapulted itself into a three-way tie for first place with Harvard and Yale. As the top five teams in the conference are currently neck-and-neck, next weekend’s matchups will prove important in providing some separation. Cornell will take on Penn Friday and Harvard will be challenged by Yale Saturday.

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his was an action-packed weekend in the Ivy League for men’s basketball with Brown, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth completing clean sweeps against their respective opponents. Harvard is now 17-3, 4-0 Ivy after just edging out Princeton, 82-76

and annihilating Penn, 80-50.

Princeton senior guard T.J. Bray was the star performer on Friday with 26 points, which was still not enough to prevent Harvard from coming out on top. The Crimson was only ahead 36-35 at the end of the first half, but Princeton was unable to keep up

after the break. Yale is staging a season comeback with its record now 8-9 after the weekend, defeating Columbia 69-59 and Cornell 61-57. Freshman forward Justin Sears excelled for the Bulldogs, scoring 22 points against the Lions, despite playing only 24 minutes. Brown tri-

umphed over Columbia in another tight game, bringing their record to 11-7. The game was tight throughout until late in the second half when the Bears began to pull ahead.

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Core four | Brown, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth all won two games this weekend, putting them at the top of the Ivy standings.

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Icers Extend Unbeaten Streak to Nine

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

For the first time this season, the Red swept an ECAC road series, stunning No. 13 Yale (11-6-4, 6-5-3 ECAC), 3-2, in the closing seconds of Friday’s overtime marathon. Cornell then hung on to beat Brown (9-9-3, 6-7-1), 2-1, the following night.

“Going on the road, it’s always difficult to sweep,” said head coach Mike Schafer, whose squad now commands a nine-game unbeaten run. No. 11 Cornell (12-4-5, 8-34) also leapfrogged Colgate and Clarkson into sole possession of third place in the conference standings.

The Red kicked off the weekend with a quick goal from sophomore forward John Knisley. Taking the dump-off pass from

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Coming in clutch | Junior forward and leading scorer Brian Ferlin scored the game-winning goal for the Red on Friday, lifting his team to a 3-2 overtime victory over Yale.

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freshman forward Jeff Kubiak, Knisely game that, by the closing minute of overrounded the back of the net ahead of a pur- time, appeared destined for a tie. But with suing Yale defender, then made a quick turn 25 seconds to go, lightning struck. Junior in front to slide the puck past Bulldogs defenseman Joakim Ryan got in the way of a Yale pass, with junior forward and leadinggoalie Alex Lyon.

Yale struck back just two minutes later — scorer Brian Ferlin in perfect position to scoop up the loose puck.

4:47 into the first period “It was unbelievable,” — when Gus Young got CORNELL @ YALE Schafer said. “He looked past senior goaltender like he was shot out of a Andy Iles on the 3 2 cannon, the way he took rebound. Iles then pro1ST 2ND 3RD OT Fin off and exploded out of ceeded to rebuff a bar- Game: 1 0 1 3 Cornell 1 there.” rage of opposing shots, Yale 0 0 0 2 2 Ferlin raced past the with Yale finally breaking defender to his left, withthrough in the period’s stood a slash from the closing minute to take a CORNELL @ BROWN trailing Bulldog, and lift2-1 lead. ed the puck over Lyon’s The Bulldogs pep2 1 left mitt for the winning pered Iles with 28 shots Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL goal with seventeen secto Cornell’s 17 in the Cornell 1 1 2 0 onds remaining, before first two periods, but the Brown 0 1 1 0 being mobbed by the Ithaca native kept his Cornell bench. teammates in the game, “Not only did he score, but there was a shielding Kenny Agostino’s shot immediatesort of real big two-hand chop block to try ly following Yale’s second score.

“I thought we did some good things in to dislodge him,” Schafer said. “He took the first period,” Schafer said. “But [Yale] that slash and still was focused enough to capitalized on a couple of chances and Andy execute to bury it, so it was a great play.”

With one of the season’s defining victomade a big save to keep it 2-1.”

The Red staved off a Yale power play ries behind them, the icers had to bear down early in the second period before Kubiak in Providence to come away with a full four found the back of the net for his first colle- points in the standings. Scoring for either giate goal. From there, neither side could See M. HOCKEY page 13 convert on a series of scoring chances in a

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Struggles Persist Two Ivy Wins Lift After Consecutive Red to Tie for First Lyman leads squad with 24 points Conference Losses

By JOEL COOPER

Sun Staff Writer

By NIKITA DUBNOV Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s basketball team had a busy weekend, hoping to record its first Ivy win. After losing to Columbia twice last weekend, the Red took on two other conference rivals, Brown and Yale.

On Friday evening, the Red traveled to

Providence to take on the Bears, who were led by the Ivy League’s leading scorer Sean McGonagill. The Red got off to a slow start against the 9-7 Bears.

However, by the end of the half Cornell led by three points, 33-30.

Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler had a strong first half, scorSee M. B-BALL page 13

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Double trouble | Junior guard Devin Cherry recorded his first career double-double on Friday.

The Cornell women’s basketball team continued its hot streak, beating Brown 80-70 on Friday, following that up with a strong win over Yale, 65-56 the next day.

The Red, which was 9-7 overall coming into the weekend, was coming off a powerful win against Columbia and the team’s confidence showed against Brown.

Senior guard Shelby Lyman led the team with a career-high 24 points, while four other players reached double figures, including freshman forward Nia Marshall, senior forward Allyson DiMagno and freshman point guard Kerri Moran.

After a tense opening four minutes, Cornell went on the attack, scoring ten unanswered points to build a 20-9 lead. Despite maintaining a double-digit lead for the next three minutes, the Red allowed Brown back into the game after a 16-5 scoring run in the Bears’ favor, and the first

half ended with Cornell leading by two, 35-33.

However, the Red came out of the break energized and took control of what had been a tight contest.

Through some sharp shooting from Cornell, including a three-pointer from Lyman, the Red rebuilt its lead to 59-49 with 6:33 to play. Brown tried one last push, but the Red sunk 6-of-7 free throws down the stretch, securing the 80-70 victory.

The Red was back in action the next day, facing a much tougher Yale squad, which was 9-8 overall coming into the matchup. This encounter was another close affair, with the lead trading back and forth 12 times. However, a solid display in the final ten minutes for the second day in a row led to a 65-56 victory for the Red. With ten minutes to go in the game, the Bulldogs led 45-42. However, backto-back threes from Lyman and senior guard Stephanie Long sparked Cornell’s 102 run and gave the squad a 52-47 lead with 6:36 left to play.

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C-Lyman high | Senior guard Shelby Lyman had a night to remember against Brown on Friday, scoring a team high of 24 points and two steals.

Helped by the team’s bench, the Red continued to extend its lead, at one point reaching a 13-point advantage. In the final seven minutes, 11 of Cornell’s 15 points came off the bench, from junior guard Christine Kline, freshman forward Nicholle Aston and senior forward Joelle Davidson. This helped Cornell secure the

win, taking it to 11-7 overall and putting the squad in a three-way tie for the top spot in the conference.

The Red is back in action next weekend, where it will play host to Penn on Feb. 7 and Princeton the following day.

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.