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C.U.Involuntary Leave Policy to Stay

By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer

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Reach out | Brochures posted at Gannett Health Center remind students to reach out for help in times of need.

In light of recent debates over the interpretation of federal legislation which dictates whether universities have the power to send home — against their will if necessary — students who pose a direct threat to themselves or others, Cornell will maintain its current policies.

Currently, the University has the authority to send students home who act as a disruption to the campus community under University Policy 7.2, which first invites affected students to take a “voluntary leave,” and only after “careful consideration by staff ... is an involuntary leave invoked,” according to Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’67.

In March 2011, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights changed their interpretation of Title II, interpreting the new regulation as restricting the

options of universities due to a change of the definition of a direct threat to be “a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by a modification of policies,” according to the Department of Justice.

However, discussion about the interpretation of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act resurfaced after Western Michigan University revised their policies in December, according to Inside Higher Ed. Beginning in 2014, the school may no longer be able to remove students who show suicidal tendencies.

In March 2012, Cornell responded to the Title II change by focusing its involuntary leave policy on general community disruption rather than threat-to-self behavior, according to Gregory Eells, associate director of Gannett Health Services and director of Counseling and Psychological Services.

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University Launches First MOOC National Public Radio Host

Prof: online platform offers‘more innovative ways’to present material

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell launched its first massive open online course Monday, the University’s first of four MOOCs to launch this semester.

The university’s first MOOC, Astronomy 2290x: Relativity and Astrophysics, is one of

four that Cornell professors have begun to teach this semester. Prof. David Chernoff, astronomy, teaches the online astronomy class in addition to an on-campus class that goes by the same course title.

Astronomy 2290x will “explore the powerful and See MOOC page 5

Hashmi ’14 Remembered as‘Dedicated,’ ‘Bright’

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

Sanya Hashmi ’14 died Monday night after spending seven days in intensive care at Cayuga Medical Center, a University statement said. She was 21.

Hashmi, who was a biological sciences major in the College of Arts and Sciences, planned to attend medical school after graduation, according to a statement issued Tuesday by Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D ’94, vice president for Student and Academic Services.

In addition, Hashmi was “very active and beloved within the Cornell Muslim community,” Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said in an email to the Arts and Sciences community.

According to Murphy’s statement, Hashmi was also a member of the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association and a counselor for the Empathy, Assistance and Referral Service

program.

Director of EARS, Janet Shortall, said Hashmi took much of her EARS training to her leadership roles within the Cornell Muslim community.

“She was an extraordinarily dedicated EARS counselor and

“[Hashmi was] very active and beloved within the Cornell Muslim community.”

Gretchen Ritter ’83 provided a link for EARS outreach to the Muslim community,” Shortall said.

Ritter said those who knew Hashmi “described her as warm and bright with a radiant smile and a cheerful demeanor.”

Hashmi’s janazah — or funeral prayers service — will take place in her hometown, Holmdel, New Jersey, this week, according to the University statement. The University

added that plans for a commemoration on campus will be made in the next few days.

Murphy expressed her condolences to the friends and family of Hashmi in her statement.

“On behalf of the entire university community, I want to extend my deepest condolences to Sanya's family and friends,” Murphy said.

“Please join me in taking a moment to remember Sanya and acknowledge this unfortunate loss to our community.”

University resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can call Gannett Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-255-5155), EARS’ peer counselors (607-255-3277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607-255-2673) or find additional resources at http://caringcommunity.cornell.edu.

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com.

Michele Norris Reflects on Modern Race Relations

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Senior Writer

Award-winning journalist and former National Public Radio host Michele L. Norris examined contemporary race relations during a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commemorative lecture Tuesday.

Norris — the first AfricanAmerican female to host NPR — said the concept of race is a “thing that divides us but also unites us.”

A major theme of Norris’ lecture was for indivudals to have “honest” dialogues regarding race and racism.

“People will stay away from a conversation about race rather than risk being called a racist or

A different lens | NPR host Michele Norris lectures on the importance of understanding different points of view in a Sage Chapel lecture Tuesday.

someone who is insensitive,” she said.

Norris also encouraged audience members to always “exercise curiosity” to understand different points of views.

“We live in a country now where you exist on a media diet that basically confirms or affirms everything you already believe,” she said.

Norris added that she is on a mission to encourage Americans to think “differently” about history by challenging previously accepted ideas.

“The civil rights movement was fractured,” she said. “They See NORRIS page 4

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Random Act of Kindness Sends Waitress Into Shock ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Three waitresses at an Illinois restaurant say they could only stare in disbelief when a woman over the weekend handed them each a $5,000 check.

The owner of the Boone County Family Restaurant in Caledonia, Matt Nebiu, said business was slow Saturday when the customer handed checks to 25year-old Amy Sabani, 23-year-old Sarah Seckinger and 28-year-old Amber Kariolich.

Sabani told the Rockford Register Star she first thought her check was for $500. But on closer inspection she saw its actual value and refused to take it.

Sabani said the woman told the waitresses to use the money for school and “everything else in life.”

Seckinger says a last semester to earn her associate degree in criminal justice was too expensive, but she will now return to school.

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KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) — The “stop, drop and roll” mantra came in handy for a Maine eighthgrader when her cellphone caught fire in her pocket at school.

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popping sound Friday morning and smoke started billowing around her.

Boys were herded from the room so the 14-year-old girl could shed her flaming pants. She also did the “stop, drop and roll” move to help put out the fire. She was treated at a hospital.

Her mother had given her the Apple iPhone 5C two months earlier.

Romance Sizzles At Bacon Festival DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two Iowa couples decided to tie the knot at this weekend’s bacon festival at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines.

Tricia Snider and Tom Watson were the first to wed Saturday at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, the Des Moines Register reported.

Craig and April Rouch got married a short while later.

Watson and Snider say they figured the bacon festival was the perfect location to exchange vows because they enjoy bacon together every weekend.

The 47-year-old Watson said his 41-year-old bride is nearly the No. 1 love in his life.

“She’s second only to bacon,” Watson said.

The chapel where the couple married had a wall full of windows that looked out over an arena full of vendors selling bacon-filled foods.

They exchanged vows about staying together “in good times and bacon,” but for the most part they kept their ceremony traditional.

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Experts Continue Fracking Debate

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

A panel of professors, energy industry members and activists disputed the issue of repealing a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” at a Forensics Society debate sponsored by Cornell Tuesday.

The six speakers who participated in the panel – Prof.

Anthony Ingraffea, civil and environmental engineering, Prof. Sandra Steingraber, environmental studies and science, Ithaca College, and John Conrad, owner of Conrad Geoscience and a member of the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York, among other industry experts — weighed the positive and negative consequences of fracking on public health, the local economy and global climate change.

Panelists first addressed the effects of fracking on the environment and human health. Tom Shepstone, who owns a consulting firm representing developers and writes a blog called Natural Gas Now, argued that fracking provides an alternative to harmful fossil fuels, noting that sulfur dioxide and other emissions are significantly down in areas using energy from fracking.

“Nothing delivers so much energy for so little impact on the land as fracking,” he said.

Steingraber countered, however, that fracking does not decrease air pollution, but rather transfers it from urban areas to rural areas. She said she believes fracking to be “inherently unsafe” and that it should be banned rather than regulated.

“Some things are too dangerous to be regulated, and I think fracking falls into that category,” Steingraber said.

“The gold-fever rhetoric surrounding fracking has oversold the benefits and undersold the costs. But now, science is finally catching up to drilling and making one thing clear: the problems with fracking — including fires, explosions and death — make further fracking dangerous and unethical.”

Fracking can decrease Americans’ energy costs, according

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Talk it out | Scientists, activists and industry insiders during a public debate hosted by the Cornell Forensic Society Tuesday, address the effects of fracking on human health and the environment.

to panelist and attorney Scott Kurkoski. The average American household saw a $1,200 increase in income in 2012 because energy costs were decreasing using local energy, Kurkoski said.

“This isn’t just theory — this is what’s actually happening,” Kurkoski said. “People who have never had wealth before can have it now. Cheap, inexpensive, clean energy wins the day.”

Though the Environmental Protection Agency estimates predicted low methane emissions — and thus, low global warming potential — from fracking, more recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration studies found those predictions to be too low, Ingraffea said. He argued instead for using renewable sun, wind and water energy to cut energy costs while minimizing climate change.

[The two sides of the debate will likely never agree,] Kurkoski added that while now is the time to move forward the fracking projects and reduce the country’s dependence on oil.

“I’ve seen people with signs on their lawns saying ‘No Blood for Oil,’ and those same people have traded those

signs for ones that say ‘No Fracking,’” he said. “You can’t have it both ways. This is something that can benefit all of us.”

Prof. Samuel Nelson, industrial and labor relations, director of forensics and the debate’s moderator, said at the outset of the debate that he hoped the speakers would be able to “discuss these issues with decorum and civility.” He said later in the debate, to laughs from the audience, that the speakers had been mostly successful at doing so.

The Cornell Forensics Society sponsored the debate this year for the second time — including the same questions and some of the same panelists — because of the popularity of the first debate last year, according to Kirat Singh ’14, president of the Society.

“The reason we do this debate is because we think it matters a lot to this community — a lot of the turnout was Ithaca residents,” Singh said. “This debate matters to them, because their houses and property are in question. Those are the debates Forensics wants to do, where people have personal stake in the issue.”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.

University Unplugs,Saves $140K in Energy

By ERIC OBERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Over winter break, Cornell Facilities Services saved the University $140,000 in energy costs and released 1,200 fewer metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere by lowering temperatures in some classrooms and laboratory buildings by four degrees.

Temperatures were lowered to 64 degrees from the usual 68 degrees, according to a University press release.

The office’s 2013 “Holiday Setback” program, which is an annual attempt to scale back energy use, occurred from Dec. 25 to Jan. 2 and saw a 7 percent improvement in energy efficiency from the 2012 program, according to Erin Moore, energy outreach coordinator for Facilities Services,.

In total, the program resulted in a 28percent reduction in energy usage for the nine-day period, according to a University

press release.

While the Holiday Setback Program was a campus-wide effort, facilities services did not lower the temperatures of all buildings, Moore said.

Only 58 of 100 buildings belonging to endowed colleges — the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, School of Hotel Administration and College of Architecture, Art and Planning — participated in Holiday Setback, according to the final report released by Facilities Services.

15 out of 32 buildings under control of the undergraduate contract colleges — College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and College of Human Ecology — participated as well.

The Holiday Setback Program can only run during Winter Break because it is the only time the University closes, according to Moore. In addition, the program requires

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Cold in here | Facilities Services saved the University approximately $140,000 in energy costs by lowering the temperature in certain buildings by four degrees over Winter Break.

the cooperation of multiple organizations and offices on campus, which makes it difficult to conduct during the rest of the year, Moore added.

“This program takes the combined efforts of multiple campus partners,” she said. “In order for the program to be effective, it is important that the program is done when the campus is closed.”

Cornell Facilities Services worked with the Division of University Communications to “send out university-wide messages to remind the campus community to turn off and/or unplug equipment before leaving for the winter break,” Moore said.

According to Moore, obtaining the awareness of various faculty, staff and other community members was “hugely important” for the program’s success.

“Individual conservation efforts are also what makes this program a success on campus,” she said.

Facilities Services intends to expand the holiday setback program to include all buildings on campus for the 2014 Holiday Setback program, according to the office’s final report.

In addition to the holiday setback program, Facilities Services conducts other programs throughout the year to increase energy conservation, Moore said.

One of these programs are the Energy Conservation Initiative, which works to upgrade lighting fixtures to be more efficient and perform efficiency surveys of campus buildings, according to Moore.

According to the Energy Consrevation Initiative’s website, these efforts achieve, “dramatic and lasting conservation results.”

Other ongoing efforts includes “Think Big, Live Green” which focuses “on promoting sustainable actions in lab and office areas, including energy competitions in academic and residential halls,” Moore said.

Eric Oberman can be reached at eoberman@cornellsun.com.

Police R eport Petit Larceny On Central Avenue An officer responded to a report from a staff member regarding the theft of a Cornell parking permit from a parked vehicle, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

Unlawful Possession Of Alcohol Two individuals were referred to the judicial administrator during separate occurrences of unlawful possession of alcohol, according to the CUPD. Unlawful Possession Of Marijuana A student was referred to the judicial administrator Sunday for unlawful possession of marijuana in Mary Donlon Hall, according to the CUPD. Criminal Mischief At Fish Hatchery An officer responded to a report from a staff member after an unknown individual broke a safety window on the west side of the building, CUPD said.

Suspicious Person Officers assisted the Ithaca Police Department with a reported suspicious person complaint on Stewart Avenue, CUPD said.

— Compiled by Annie Bui

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were often making it up as they went along.”

For example, many individuals do not realize that Dr. King was highly “misunderstood” in his time, according to Norris.

“It is important to realize [civil rights activists] were working for something they thought they would never see in their lifetime,” she said.

Additionally, Norris said it is important to examine the aspects of history that are perceived as “difficult.”

“It’s not just black history. It’s American history,” she said.

Kenneth I. Clark, Sr., director of CURW and chairman of the University’s MLK Commemoration Committee, said the King Commemoration seeks to apply lessons from the life and lessons of Dr. King to contemporary times.

Norris’ “presence” is “ensuring, empathic and conversational,” Clark said.

Norris added that President Obama’s election also had a profound effect in inspiring her to write her book.

“When [my family] saw a picture of a man of color sitting in the oval office, someone that looked like he could be part of their own family, something in them shifted,” she said.

During the lecture, Norris also “Norris has a voice discussed her book, The Grace of Silence, a memoir that discusses the that is undeniably impact of race on her family. recognizable.”

Norris said she attributed the title to her personal experibook’s Elmira Mangum ences, which she said captures the stories of those involved with the civil rights movement.

“I used the word ‘grace’ very carefully because I thought is was an incredibly graceful act [for them] to not pass on animosity and instead give the next generation admission,” she said.

The lecture also included a student reflection from CedrickMichael Simmons, a MLK Scholar and Ithaca College senior.

“There is a blatant contradiction when youngsters of color are praised for being part of a shift towards increasing diversity in schools and are … subject to the continuing significance of racism in places that pride themselves in intellectual excellence,” Simmons said.

During the lecture’s introduction, Elmira Mangum, vice president for Budget and Planning, commended Norris for her achievements.

“Norris has a voice that is undeniably recognizable and embodies both authority and calm,” she said.

Mangum added that Norris has recently created The Race Card Project, a blog that archives six-word essays about race.

According to Norris, the project’s website includes over 38,000 candid essays.

“It will eventually be an archive to help us understand this moment that we live in,” Norris said. “We often think about [race] in big moments, but so often it is the small moments that define us.”

The lecture was co-sponsored by various University groups, including the Office for Diversity Initiatives and Cornell United Religious Work.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

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Classes Go High Tech With MOOC Launch C.U. Keeps Power to Send MOOC

a perspective on the differences between the two teaching methods.

Some students, such as Sam Newmanintriguing connections between astronomy and Stonebraker ’17, in the lecture say that MOOC’s Einstein’s theory of relativity,” according to the course information to be helpful, however, they class’s edX website. would still prefer to have personal interactions with According to Chernoff, the edX platform offers Chernoff. more innovative ways to present class material than “I personally like to be in a class. Our class is a traditional lecture, however, it has a few disad- pretty small. We all get to sit around the table and vantages. interact with the professor which is nice. In the “[In the MOOC], there are more varied oppor- MOOC, it’s not as interactive,” Newmantunities for conveying information compared to my Stonebraker said. “It’s helpful for supplemental usual lecture [including] video, audio, animations, information, and they do some cool visuals, but I web content, but there are inherent limitations, wouldn’t want to take a full course on a MOOC.” such as a lack of personal contact [and] lack of feedHowever, according to Chernoff, the lecture back,” Chernoff said in an email. class and the MOOC are not meant to be equivaThese limitations can create unique problems lent. that are not common in traditional lectures, so it is Chris Hill ’16 said he recognizes this difference unclear whether the online class will be a success, and felt the MOOC is not as rigorous as the actual Chernoff said. class because it is offered to the general public for a “This is great for shorter period of time one-way communicathan a semester. tion, but the give-and“The [introduction take of a normal “[In the MOOC], there are more varied of the] MOOC seemed Cornell class is a lot opportunities for conveying information dumbed down. It makes harder to plan for. I’m jumps [between concompared to my usual lecture [including] not sure how this will cepts], which in a class turn out. I regard this video, audio, animations, web content, but like this, you aren’t as an experiment,” he there are inherent limitations.” going to make, because said. you want to rigorously The launch of David Chernoff prove and explain,” Hill MOOCs Cornell’s said. comes on the heels of a to According number of less-thanNewman-Stonebraker, optimistic estimates made by online education at least several hundred people have registered experts, who say that less than 10 percent of stu- online for the MOOC. People from all over the dents in a MOOC will finish the course, The Sun world, including Sweden, Pakistan and West reported in October.

Virginia, are taking the class and are introducing Like a traditional class, the MOOC separates themselves on the course discussion board. class material into different units, Chernoff said.

According to the edX website, the other three Each section begins with animations and several Cornell MOOCs are set to launch in March, spanvideos of Chernoff speaking and ends with diag- ning subjects such as American capitalism to netnostic and homework questions, as seen on the works. course website.

The university plans to continue developing The online format allows Chernoff to include online courses on the edX platform for the 2014more visuals, which he says aid the teaching 2015 academic year, according to a University press process. release from October.

“I especially liked crafting visual demos or expla“I think that every teacher is going to try new nations that were clearer than what I can typically things with the edX platform that they've never achieve at the board or in a lecture. I did a lot of tried in class. I think it requires imagination and animations for illustrating how relativity works. It's experimentation to see ‘what works,’” Chernoff like the old adage: a picture is worth a 1000 words, said. “We’re just at the start of this.” but here we have at least a few dozen pictures,” Chernoff said.

Chernoff said he has begun to incorporate the MOOC reading materials into his traditional lec- Sofia Hu can be reached ture assignments, which he says gives his students at shu@cornellsun.com.

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Eells said a previous disagreement between OCR and Spring Arbor University, concerning the definition of a “direct threat,” led Cornell to revise its University Policy 7.2 — also known as Cornell’s involuntary leave policy.

“We [focused] more on disruption to the community, which is more of a broader threat to others category, because OCR is not that specific about what threat to others can mean. We basically made it less about specific threat to self behavior,” Eells said.

University Policy 7.2 is rarely used, Hubbell said.

“The policy is invoked in very rare circumstances for the explicit reasons outlined in the policy,” he said. “In such cases, students are first invited to take a voluntary leave, and only after careful consideration by the faculty and staff charged with the responsibility to handle such cases, is an involuntary leave invoked.”

Eells echoed Hubbell’s sentiments, saying the involuntary leave policy is one that is only used in extreme circumstances.

“To get to the point where we’re even talking about an involuntary leave would be someone who has multiple alcohol cases, who’s been transferred to the hospital [a couple of times] ... that’s a cost to the community,” he said. “At that point we would start saying that it doesn’t seem that it’s safe for them to stay in this environment due to alcohol abuse.

When it gets to that level we’ll start having a conversation about involuntary leave.”

Eells added that the University is typically able to manage depression and suicide

cases without the use of involuntary leave.

“Usually if someone’s been to the hospital once or twice [for suicide or depression] they usually start getting better.

They’ll follow up with treatment here. We really rarely go that route around suicide,” Eells said.

Although Eells said the current policy will and should remain the same, he added that the 2011 changes to Title II have made things less clear by making the definition of “direct threat” less specific.

“I think OCR and this Western Michigan case has only further clouded what to do,” Eells said. “[However], making sure that [Cornell] does a case-by-case analysis has been pretty stable and is one of the most protective things you can do. I don’t think there’s anything I see where Cornell needs to change it’s policy ... I think the policy is working.”

Richard Thompson ’16, a residential advisor on North Campus, said he believes the involuntary leave policy “makes sense,” although he said he hopes that it will rarely be needed.

“It’s unfortunate that schools might have to [invoke the involuntary leave policy] in order to send a student home, but at the same time, it’s not completely the school’s responsibility to take care of that student,” Thompson said. “If it’s something that the student can’t deal with either on their own or with professionals here, then I think the school should have the right to send them home for more help.”

Anika Sethy can be reached at asethy@cornellsun.com.

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In Support of Equal Preparation for Students AFTER A WORKING PAPER PUBLISHED by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month noted that the quality of a student’s high school has ongoing effects on his or her academic success in college, a Cornell administrator said Tuesday that this does not necessarily hold true for students admitted to Cornell.

Though A.T. Miller, associate vice provost for academic diversity, says Cornell does not admit students who are not ready to perform here, there are programs offered by the University that suggest otherwise. We praise the University for making a conscious effort to help promising students from under-resourced high schools succeed in Cornell’s rigorous academic environment. We realize it may be difficult for Cornell, or any university, to acknowledge that some students who matriculate are less than adequately prepared. However, we believe colleges across the country must engage in honest discussion about these issues in order to have a chance at solving them.

In the NBER paper, the authors looked at the performance of students admitted to the University of Texas at Austin under the Top Ten admissions law — where any student who finishes in the top 10 percent of his or her high school class can attend any public university in Texas. Students who graduated from low-performing high schools — despite being in the top 10 percent — did not perform as well as their peers. Miller noted that Cornell might not be able to complete a similar study because of its different admissions processes. But he went further, saying that “because [Cornell is] so selective, we pretty much know that every student we admit can graduate from here.” But is this statement completely true?

The existence of certain programs, coupled with the discrepancies in graduation rates across different demographic groups, demonstrates that Cornell does admit students who require supplemental help before graduation. At Cornell, there are academic support programs in place — required for some students, such as those in the Educational Opportunity Program and Higher Education Opportunity Program — to help underprepared students reach a point where they are able to succeed at the University. One such program is the Prefreshman Summer Program, which brings accepted students to campus during the summer before their freshman year to take enrichment courses and college-achievement seminars before enrolling in the fall. We laud Cornell for taking the appropriate steps to ensure the success of students who were not able to attend high-performing schools.

Universities regularly admit students from different backgrounds to promote a diverse student body. Instead of hiding the fact that students who come to Cornell from low-performing high schools may face an uphill climb to academic success, we think the University should help bring the discussion of these problems and their potential solutions to the forefront. Drawing national attention to these issues may contribute to the conversation on how to ensure that qualified students from underresourced high schools can succeed at any university.

A Weisman Once Said

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ast semester, my good friend Jordana Gilman posted an Instagram photo of a wall of portraits at Cornell. The portraits were all of men; noticing this imbalance, Jordana captioned the photo, “#showmethewomen.”

Ever since, I have seen people spreading feminist and equality-oriented articles on my Facebook newsfeed, featuring the “show me the women” hashtag. It is empowering to know that other people feel the same way we do about making a change and working towards equality.

Before we can start to change the world, we should start to change our own environment here at Cornell.

About half of Cornell undergraduates are women. However, Cornell University has never had a female president. On a list of 50 notable alumni published by the University in 2011, called Selected Graduates of Note, only 11 of them are women. Where are the women?

I set out to find a statistic about how many women are Cornell faculty members. After much searching, one of the only statistics I found was that in 2001, only 23 percent of Cornell’s faculty were women. If that is the only recent number available to the general public — especially after much Google searching — Cornell must not be very proud of it.

I also found information about a program called ADVANCE, a $3.3 million effort that brought 70 new female professors to Cornell in the past six years.

They aimed to recruit women in STEM fields — which include science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Finally, I found something positive!

However, the program’s goal was to increase the number of women faculty in science and engineering departments to 20 percent by 2011. This is so upsetting to me — not only because these departments had a female percentage of less than 20 percent, but also because 20 percent is considered an achievement. No wonder there is an imbalance of portraits hanging around Cornell!

Over winter break, I attended a brunch in Rye, New York sponsored by Cornell Women’s Network. It was a great opportunity for a few undergraduate women to network with alumni women in the area. I met some amazing and successful women who taught me a lot about what it means to be a woman navigating and succeeding in both a man’s workplace and a man’s world.

Unfortunately, change and total equality is not going to happen overnight. However, there are several ways in which we as Cornell women can move towards this change. Posting infor-

mative and inspiring articles on Facebook is a great way to spread information, but the action we take after spreading articles (like this one!) is the most important part.

Since we all know millennials love lists, here are the three vital things I believe Cornell women — including myself — can try to do in order to close the very present gender gap: First, never undervalue yourself or feel badly for knowing your self-worth. The alumni at the networking brunch stressed this point above most others. As we grow up, we women are taught to apologize or justify our actions in situations that we should not have to. Often, women expect a lower salary than men, just because we are taught that our worth is lower. Even with friends, many women apologize for decisions they make for themselves, such as their weight or what doing what they enjoy. Women should not have to!

Whether it is in a job interview or with a group of friends, never they should never undervalue what they have to offer — because it is a lot!

Second, support other women. It upsets me so much when I hear girls say that they “hate other girls,” or that they would “rather be friends with boys.”

Speaking this way reinforces negative ideas about women. It is just like Tina Fey’s character says in Mean Girls, — which turns 10 this year, by the way — “You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores.” When we support each other — whether that is in our job searches or just in everyday life — we can empower each other to be even better and more positive about women. Because if we don’t, who will?

Finally, I encourage everyone to attend events like the brunch I went to.

Cornell Women’s Network hosts several networking events over breaks in many different cities. Additionally, the Women’s Resource Center holds various events pertaining to women in career fields and general female empowerment.

There are also several campus organizations that focus on career-minded women. I encourage you all to get involved or attend events. Networking with successful Cornell women is extremely inspiring, and I really believe that we can make a change together. #showmethewomen

As we grow up, we women are taught to apologize or justify our actions in situations that we should not have to.

Samantha Weisman is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She may be reached at sweisman@cornellsun.com. A Weisman Once Said appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

CORRECTION A Feb. 4 photo caption incorrectly said Phil Shapiro M.A. ’69 earned an MBA. In fact, he earned a Masters of Arts degree during his time at Cornell.

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OPINION

Christo Eliot | The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

A Future Perspective Into Your Now

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Comment of the day “I’m glad Miller doesn’t think this is the case, but when this correlation has existed at other schools, it may be prudent to do some minimal level of investigation into whether or not this is true at Cornell. This is not news. It is a profile of one man’s personal opinion.” ezracornell Re: “Official: High School Quality Not Factor in Cornell Students’ Success,” News, published February 4, 2014

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espite the University’s best efforts to make everything under the sun available to its students (barring the obvious like firearms and crystal meth), there are some things that are mysteriously absent at Cornell. Some things' absence can be painful like good, cheap and greasy Mexican food, puppies or sunshine. Others’ absences are not quite as bad: annoying high schoolers, annoying middle schoolers, annoying elementary schoolers, etc. That is not to say that everyone in those age groups is necessarily annoying or intolerable; there are certainly members of the younger generation who are now and/or soon will be real people tainted with cynicism, but most of the time they are generally annoying.

Disregarding their acne, fart jokes and affinity for graphic T-shirts (or analogous girl stereotypes), sometimes their inherently weaker minds can offer fresh perspectives with genuine insight. Think of how a first grade classroom sees a lot more sharing than the corresponding lecture halls, cubicles or prison cells, (I think). It is true that we become more jaded as we grow up. We also become less prone to wetting the bed ... Is the tradeoff worth it? I don’t know, but it is nice not having to change my sheets all the time.

These thoughts of younger people not having much of a presence was brought about by seeing a wild kid loose on Cornell’s campus; one caught my eye a couple tables away as I was eating lunch in Trillium. I had to do a double take because children don’t belong in Trillium. I guessed it to be about six years old.

Kids under the age of 13 (and a surprisingly large number of Cornell students) do not really understand most social constructs, so I would

A slightly older, adolescent me would wonder what went wrong and ask why I never became cool like we had planned. occasionally catch it staring at me and holding eye contact for just enough time to be uncomfortable. However unnerving and/or flattering this attention was, it eventually posed an interesting question at the lunch table: “What would a younger version of yourself think of the present you?” Scintillating conversation between several college-aged males ensued.

Personally, a much younger me — circa 1999-2000 — would be quite proud that I go to college, have kissed a girl and still remember most of what I learned about dinosaurs. A slightly older, adolescent me would wonder what went wrong and ask why I never became cool like we had planned.

The exercise of reflecting on what a past you would think of yourself now is about a lot more than wondering whether younger you would think you are cool or not. The approval or disapproval from past you is secondary to the reflection itself. It would be absurd to think that your values and personal goals will remain static as you grow older. The passage of time has made me older than too many Olympians to keep the dream of becoming a professional skier alive, (though I do still plan to declare myself eligible for the NBA draft this spring). Sure, the 12-yearold Christo might think I’m a square for readjusting my expectations about my financial future. But 12-year-old Christo is an undeservedly angsty Simple Plan fan, with a bunch of drawings of the same imagined future mansion and drum kit in his notebooks, so I don’t really respect his opinion.

Your younger self looks at you without any context. That is to say, your younger self is still you, and still knows you, but without the bias that comes from living your life right now. Looking at yourself through the eyes of the past may provide you with a more honest vantage point — one that doesn’t justify embarrassing behavior or make excuses for laziness.

A similar, and perhaps similarly beneficial, exercise would be to imagine yourself doing this same reflection, but years in the future. Rather than pondering what a younger you would think of current you, what would an older version of yourself think? The goal in college, of course, is to strike a fine balance between focusing on learning, which is allegedly why you are here, and creating memories that you will look back fondly on. For instance, finding meaningful involvement in a group or team on campus and drinking (maybe with that same group).

Besides the genesis of who I am as an individual, my younger self is not good for much. There was a brief stage in my life where I looked adorable in pictures, but that was short-lived and I never “went Gerber” as they say in the baby modeling business. Thanks to the insight of imagined past Christo, however, hopefully future Christo will reflect on present Christo and cringe a little less. And then all three of us will hang out.

Christo Eliot is a junior in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Sarah Byrne |

Let It Byrne

Five Movie Clichés We Could All Use a Little Less Of A

s I mentioned because they were upset; recall that most of the (ahem, wrote a that’s not what I’m argu- characters attended the column about) ing about. The issue likes of Yale, Stanford, two weeks ago, I’m in here is the sudden rage- etc., even those who Paris. While this does fueled ability to chug weren’t considered the translate into what one large quantities of liq- “brainiacs” of the franmight expect about uid; it just doesn’t hap- chise. This might be the lingering jealousy of my studying abroad — see- pen.

2. Boy lies to attract high school senior self, ing the Eiffel Tower, going out, eating lots of girl, girl loves boy any- but not everyone gets to crêpes — it also means way: This is actually one go to a good college. that I have an inordi- of my absolute least Just because you didn’t nate amount of free favorite conventions of fail out of shop class time. I never realized the genre, and countless doesn’t mean you get a how crazily busy I was movies abuse it. From full ride to Princeton. at Cornell. I mean, I You’ve Got Mail to How This myth perpetuated did, but I just thought it to Lose a Guy in Ten by television and movies was normal. Without 25 Days to 10 Things I Hate really only serves to get meetings every night About You, romcoms are everyone’s hopes up and hundreds of emails all about the stealth rela- about college admisper day, I’ve found time tionship. The boy cre- sions, which in reality to read books, which I ates an elaborate per- are pretty much a mathaven’t really done since high school, and watch m o v i e s ! Shockingly, not all of the Shockingly, not all of the movies I watch are artsy and movies I French; in fact, more than I’d watch are artsy and like to admit are romantic French; in comedies. fact, more than I’d like to admit are romantic comedies. And sona and web of lies to ter of luck.

4. Husband/wife as I watch these and entice the girl into other movies, I’ve been falling in love with him. accidentally finds out thinking about the stu- Subsequently, either he sex of the baby: This pid scenes or moments reveals or she finds out one comes with a we see in them and that he’s been lying. lengthier story. First, blindly accept as accu- And although you one spouse discovers the rate interpretations of might think at this sex. Then, she agonizes reality. Let me give you point she would be long over telling the husgone, she decides she band. She doesn’t know some examples: 1. Character is loves him despite the whether her loved one upset, therefore swal- trickery! How?! Your will rejoice or be secretlows a whole drink: If whole relationship is ly let down by the you haven’t noticed this based on literal lies! reveal. She herself feels already, you will now. Sometimes/often, he has overjoyed that their Whenever someone is been paid to date you! future child is a upset, for some reason These girls need to pull b o y / g i r l / w h a t e v e r he doesn’t want to talk themselves together, and they’ve-always-wanted. about with his friends, these writers need to Finally, the one who but instead he goes to think of something a lit- knows tells the other, and the other is approthe bar, orders a drink tle more original.

3. All good people priately ecstatic. Haven’t and then gulps it down in one swallow. go to Harvard: First, I you guys seen the other Afterwards, he walks must shamelessly admit movies like this? Calm away with determina- that I rewatched High down and tell them; in tion, presumably to School Musical over win- nine months or less conquer whatever is on ter break. While I did everyone’s going to find his mind. I’ve definitely not watch the dimin- out anyway.

5. Someone says, “I seen people drink a lot ished-quality sequels, I

love you,” the other says, “thank you:” Come on, by the end of the episode/movie we all know you’re going to say “I love you” back. It’s only a matter of time, spent thinking about all of your failed relationships and how you always jumped in too soon and you don’t want to ruin this one and you really do love him/her, before you come around. Let’s save everyone some agony and viewing time and just pack all of that internal reflection into one meaningful moment. If you try really hard, you can probably even eliminate the long, awkward silence before you say it back.

As I’m writing this list, I’m thinking through all of the movies I’ve seen recently, and honestly I find it hard to come up with plot points/camera angles/lines of dialogue that aren’t tropes in one way or another. And as a self-professed romantic comedy addict, I must say that I secretly love a lot of clichés. What would Love Actually be without everyone finding love, actually, at the end? I would appreciate fewer recurrences of identical plot lines, but a bit of that movie magic romance has to be preserved. I get it. As long as I don’t have to watch another movie about the inevitable true love that blossoms between friends with benefits.

Sarah Byrne is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She may be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

Chemistry

Engineering

Evolution

History of Science: Former Cornell President Discovered Chemical Element

By NABILA REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Staff Writer

While best known in Ithaca for being Cornell’s eighth president, Dale Corson is also a noted figure in science history for his co-discovery of one of the least well-understood elements on the periodic table: astatine.

First discovered in 1940 by Corson in a team with Kenneth Ross MacKenzie and Emilio Segre, astatine is a highly radioactive element occupying number 85 on the periodic table.

According to an article in Chemical and Engineering News written by Corson in 2003, there are “no more than a few grams [of astatine] total in the entire Earth’s crust.”

Now, more than 70 years after its discovery, Nobel laureate Prof. Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, emeritus, Prof. Neil Ashcroft, physics, and former postdoctoral fellow Andreas Hermann have pinpointed previously unknown properties of astatine.

Corson’s team discovered astatine by bombarding a bismuth atom with tiny clumps of two protons and two neutrons each, known as alpha particles, in one of the world’s first particle accelerators at the University of California Berkeley, according to Hoffmann.

Corson, MacKenzie and Segre named the highly radioactive element “Astatine,” after the Greek “astatos” for “unstable.” It is the last named element of the halogens, sitting just under iodine on the periodic table.

According to Hoffmann, Corson’s work was related to other atomic energy research going on before World War II. Corson later moved to Cornell’s physics department as an associate professor, according to Ashcroft. Corson helped build Cornell’s first particle collider and in 1969 became the eighth president of Cornell.

After years of little research on the astatine, Hoffmann, Ashcroft and Hermann have picked up where Corson left off.

“I had been following [Corson’s] work over the years in the department, and his early work on discovering astatine was always on my mind. The periodic table doesn’t have much to say about it,” Ashcroft said.

The halogens above astatine have well known properties, according to Hoffmann. One important trait of the halogens is that going down the column of group 17 elements, from fluorine (yellow) to iodine (dark purple), the elements become more darkly colored.

This property has to do with the electrons of that particular element absorbing light. When there is a smaller gap in energy between the top layer of electrons and the bottom layer, the element will have a darker color, according to Hoffmann.

“That color is a measure of the distance in energy between the highest lying energy electrons and the lowest lying. If that gap between filled and unfilled levels goes to zero, then it will be no longer transparent. It might be a metal,” Hoffmann said.

Another important property is that the other halogens

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Corson the chemist | Before he became the eighth president of Cornell, Dale Corson worked on a team at Berkeley which co-discovered astatine, number 85 on the periodic table.

are diatomic both in the solid and gas states, meaning they tend to exist as pairs of atoms. Astatine’s properties in the solid state had until this most recent research been unknown.

Ashcroft said it was unlikely this research could have been done in Corson’s time without the advanced technology of today.

According to Hoffmann, the researchers used highpowered computers to perform calculations using density function theory, which involves quantum mechanics.

“Astatine is a very heavy element, and when you get up to this range of mass number in the periodic table, the electrons around the centers of the nuclei are moving so fast that you have to worry about relativistic effects,” Ashcroft said.

As they discovered, astatine is not like other halogens.

While other halogens are diatomic when condensed, astatine atoms split their weaker diatomic bonds to become monatomic and metallic in the solid state, according to Hoffmann.

“Our picture for astatine is different. We think that in a gas phase there are still diatomic molecules flying around, but in a solid phase there is an ordered arrange-

ment of astatine atoms, all lined up, not forming molecules, and metallic,” Hoffmann said.

The findings predict that astatine is the only halogen that is metallic at normal pressures on earth. According to Ashcroft, at extremely high pressures, iodine has been previously found to unpair its diatomic bonds and superconduct.

“What we found is that astatine does not need any pressure to unpair. All you have to do is take it from the gas to the solid or liquid and it unpairs by itself,” Ashcroft said.

While direct applications of astatine are still unclear, with a maximum half-life of about eight hours it can been used as a medical tracer similar to radioactive iodine.

Astatine’s newfound metallic properties may also prove useful as a superconducting element, according to Ashcroft.

“The more we began to look into astatine and found out the role of relativity and other things, it opened our eyes to what could be done in other systems. In a way, I think that’s the whole purpose of research.” Ashcroft said.

Nabila Reem Khondakar can be reached at nkhondakar@cornell.edu.

Chemical cousins | In a solid state, iodine atoms (left) will pair together while its astatine atoms (right) tend to stay separate from each other, or monoatomic. During Corson’s time technology was not yet advanced enough to determine this, but recent research by Prof. Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, emeritus, Prof. Neil Ashcroft, physics, and former postdoctoral fellow Andreas Hermann using high-powered computers was able to make the complex calculations to determine how astatine behaves in a solid state.

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SCIENCE

Event Lets Kids Tackle Disasters

By RYAN LARKIN Sun Science Videographer

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On Jan. 25 the atrium of Duffield Hall was packed with a group of young engineers who were seeking to help mankind overcome the threat of natural disasters.

These engineers, a small sample of over 22,000 participants across 12 countries, had been tasked with investigating phenomena such as earthquakes, storms, tsunamis and volcanic activity, according to Daniel Woodie, the event organizer and a Cornell staff member.

After conducting some preliminary research, the student engineers worked in teams to design prototype systems that might be used to combat natural disasters in reality.

One team designed a shelter that would keep both humans and pets safe during a hurricane. Another designed a mechanism that would help predict when an active volcano was about to erupt.

All of these innovations were then brought to Cornell to be presented for a large-scale expo that would allow others to evaluate the engineers’ work. This expo was the 8th annual Junior FIRST LEGO League, and not one of the engineers was over the age of nine.

The original FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League was founded in 1998 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen and former president and CEO of LEGO Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. Their goal was to create a robotics program that would foster interest in science and technology amongst children aged nine to sixteen.

Participants in the LEGO League used special LEGO kits complete with hardware and software to design custom robots that would respond to certain physical challenges, according to Woodie.

Most of these robots competed for points in national competitions that rewarded such things as innovation, team spirit, and adaptability.

The League’s success ultimately led to the

development of a junior program in 2004, according to Woodie. While not competitionbased, the Junior FIRST LEGO League encourages groups of children aged six to nine to respond to design challenges in a similar way.

The 8th annual Junior FIRST LEGO League offered participants a chance to respond to a major real-world problem with research, critical thinking and imagination.

Faced with the theme of “Disaster Blaster,” the children at the event worked closely with their adult group leaders and each other to produce LEGO models that illustrated various natural disasters as well as the proposed responses to them.

These models all contained at least one moving element powered by a small motor, a

competition requirement which highlighted the designers’ knowledge of simple machines.

After the models were completed, they were presented alongside detailed poster boards that outlined the research behind each team’s decisions. The Expo gave the children a chance to explore each other’s work and analyze differences in the other teams’ approaches.

“They invent something, they represent it in LEGOs, and then they come to our event here to show it off and to have a lot of fun celebrating how inventing can be really awesome,” Woodie said.

The parents of the young engineers agreed.

“My son is in a LEGO group. I think this event is pretty awesome ... it gives kids a chance to work together to work as a team and it’s a really good experience for them,” Rick

Spearman said.

“It’s a great event for kids to learn about science, technology and math at a young age and just get them interested in and engaged in the sciences,” adult team leader Erik Eshelman said.

For their part, the children enjoyed the opportunity to share the projects they’d spent several weeks putting together, according to Woodie.

When not examining each other’s work, the young engineers designed custom paper rockets to launch into the air using a length of tube and a soda bottle.

Ryan Larkin can be reached at rlarkin@cornellsun.com.

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Disaster designs | Elementary school students gathered in Duffield Hall on Jan. 25 to present their ideas for how to deal with natural disasters. They built models of their designs using LEGO blocks as part of the Junior FIRST LEGO League Expo.

Genome Study Reveals New Insights on Dogs

By YIDAN XU Sun Staff Writer

New research by an international team of scientists provides the most precise answer yet on the evolutionary origins of our favorite canine companions.

According to an analysis of modern dog and wolf DNA from areas of the world thought to be the geographic origins of canine domestication, Prof. Adam Siepel

’94, biological statistics and computational biology, and Ilan Gronau grad have concluded that dogs and wolves diverged from a common ancestor between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago, before the development of agriculture.

“This reflects a more complicated history of dog domestication than we originally thought.”

Siepel said.

This revised history comes from separate analyses of wolf and dog DNA. A team of researchers

generated high-quality genome sequences of three gray wolves from China, Croatia and Israel, which represent three regions where domestic dogs are believed to have originated, according to Siepel. The researchers also looked at the DNA of two dog breeds from areas of the world with no wolves: an African basenji and an Australian dingo.

The genome sequences were analyzed using Generalized Phylogenetic Coalescent Sampler

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Diverging doggies | Prof. Adam Siepel, biological statistics and computational biology, and Ilan Gronau grad co-authored a study as part of an international team of scientists working to determine the evolutionary origins of wolves and domesticated dogs.

(G-PhoCS), a computer program developed by Gronau. G-PhoCS was used to predict population sizes of each species through history and infer when dogs and wolves diverged genetically, taking into account potential scenarios of gene movement between populations.

According to Gronau, tracing back the populations with GPhoCS allowed the scientists to determine timelines of domestication, which coincided with significant decreases in population of both dogs and wolves.

The sequence data analysis took estimated population sizes of dogs and wolves and showed that domestic dog populations decreased by sixteen-fold as they diverged from wolves, according to Gronau.

Gray wolves also experienced sharp drops in population after their ancestors diverged from the ancestors of dogs, which implies that the genetic diversity among both species’ common ancestors was larger than what is currently found in dogs and modern wolves, according to Siepel.

According to Gronau, accounting for cross-breeding between dogs and wolves after domestication was a crucial step in the study and makes G-PhoCS valuable for obtaining an accurate model of canine demography and leading scientists to the final conclusion.

The result contradicts the pre-

vious hypothesis which says that domestic dogs evolved from a group of wolves adopted by early farmers. It revealed that dogs are more closely related to each other than they are to wolves, regardless of their geographic origins.

To further support this conclusion, the three wolves were more closely related to each other than to any of the dogs.

The analysis shows that instead of all three dogs being closely related to one of the wolf lineages, or each dog being related to their closest geographical counterparts, both dogs and wolves are descended from an older, wolf-like ancestor common to both species, according to Gronau.

The study allows researchers to better understand the genetic differences between dogs and wolves and opens doors for future research, according to Gronau.

“The analysis shows no sign of a multi-regional model or a single origin from one of the living wolves that we sampled. It provides many new insights and makes the field of dog domestication very intriguing going forward,” Gronau said. “This paper sets the stage for the next step in the study of dog domestication that tries to determine the genetic changes that enabled this amazing transformation.”

Yidan Xu can be reached at yxu@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Most Anticipated Films of 2014 MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Now that the annual January dumping ground for movies is over, it is time to get excited about the months ahead, when Hollywood starts releasing some quality films. This year, movie lovers have a lot of treats to look forward to. Here are a few of them.

8. Noah: A biblical epic may seem widely out of place for Darren Aronofsky, director of small-budget, gritty films like Pi, The Wrestler, and Black Swan. But his take on the immense tale of Noah seems to contain a sweeping and alluring grandeur. It takes a great actor to shoulder a role of this magnitude, but Russell Crowe is up to the challenge with his proven ability to carry huge films (Master and Commander, Gladiator) and Ray Winstone is a similarly strong choice for his foil. I’ll also be happy to see the enchanting Emma Watson as his daughter.

7. The Grand Budapest Hotel: Anderson’s follow up to the universally-acclaimed Moonrise Kingdom contains an expansive, sprawling cast of stars who, we can assume, will each be given a colorful, quirky role. Anderson’s specialty — bright, saturated palette, exquisitely decorated frames and a half-comedic, halfmelancholic tone — abounds in this fable about lobby boys and bellhops. Ralph Fiennes is an exceptional actor to build an COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES

ensemble around and, judging by the trailer, Grand Budapest Hotel looks like the director’s most idiosyncratic Andersonian work yet.

6. X-Men: Days of Future Past: Excluding the Wolverine film released this summer, the X-Men franchise gained new legs with 2011’s First Class, a reboot which did for the mutants what Casino Royale did for Bond or J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek did for Kirk and Spock. Now, Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2) is back in the director’s chair for a X-Men fiesta that combines all the characters from First Class with the best ones from the original films. That means we can expect to see Patrick Stewart/James McAvoy and Ian McKellen/Michael Fassbender playing Professor X and Magneto, as well as Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Ellen Page as Shadowcat, and Hugh Jackman playing both iterations of Wolverine. Despite Singer’s lackluster recent work, this is far and away the summer blockbuster I am looking forward to most.

4. The Fault in Our Stars: With its trailer grabbing over eight million views since its release last week, it’s safe to say this is one of the most awaited movies of the year for die-hard fans of the book and cinephiles alike. Shailene Woodley rejoins her Divergent co-star Ansel Elgort for a teen movie about terminal illness written by the duo who gave us (500) Days of Summer and The Spectacular Now. The film’s two marvelous leads, startlingly powerful trailer and basis in John Green’s beloved novel promise that this offbeat love story will be something special.

3. Whiplash: The unequivocal smash of this year’s Sundance Film Festival captured both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. The Sun’s own Lucy Goss reports, “Whiplash is a kind of sports movie for musicians. Its excellence lies in Miles Teller’s performance as both an actor and a drummer.” After seeing his performance in last year’s Spectacular Now, no one can challenge that claim. This festival favorite is poised to follow in the glory of such indie landmarks as Fruitvale Station, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Winter’s Bone.

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appreciates the genius of The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception or Memento is probably dying to see this movie, despite the fact that nearly nothing is known about its plot. Nolan has allowed one or two details to escape and permeate the media, and the teaser for the film has revealed next to nothing. The cast also includes Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, Matt Damon and John Lithgow, and the premise makes for an almost guaranteed mindblower. Nolan collaborated on the script with his brother Jonathan, as he has many times in his career. It has something to do with outer space, time travel, wormholes and scientists, but that’s all the mastermind behind it wants to divulge.

1. Inherent Vice: No film this year excites me as much as this first-time adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, directed by cinematic virtuoso Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood). Only two years after The Master, Anderson reunites with Joaquin Phoenix for a Cheech & Chongesque detective story, set in the noir world of LA and the drug haze of the early 1970s. I’m immediately in line for anything with Anderson’s name on it, but this type of story harkens back to Anderson’s exuberant Boogie Nights in style and tone. And assuming he freely adapts it, as he did with Upton Sinclair’s Oil!, the screenplay should be a spectacular blend of his voice and that of a literary great. The last time Anderson freely adapted a novel, the result was perhaps the best film of the decade.

Mark DiStefano is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

Cloud Nothings

Tegan and Sara

“I’m Not Part of Me”

“Don’t Find Another Love”

By Kai Sam Ng

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Cloud Nothings’ second album Attack on Memory was a triumph for the band, who by all accounts had been searching for a new direction from the vapid beach pop their debut album rode on. The bands that highlighted that vapid beach pop, like Best Coast, have been languishing ever since, while Cloud Nothings has soared to critical-acclaim, evoking 90s post-hardcore bands like Fugazi.

“I’m Not Part Of Me” shows the band going all-in with Attack on Memory’s abrasive direction. But, the artwork’s pointed tribute to that of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” shows that there are more influences than meets the eye. For one, there is noticeable improvement in songwriter Dylan Baldi’s lyrics and song structure. Indeed, the bass and drums are regimented, but propel the song to anthemic heights — similar to AoM supercut “Stay Useless,” but more postpunk than pop-rock. It’s a really good look for them.

After their 2013 album Heartthrob moved the indie-folk-darling-duo soundly into the pop realm and their Jack-Antonoff-nepotismconnection got them featured prominently in Girls’ second season, Tegan and Sara have been seeing more than their customary share of commercial success. Not only do they provide the musical backdrop for Oreo’s latest nostalgia-tease, but “Don’t Find Another Love,” recorded for the upcoming film Endless Love is their second soundtrack feature already this year (along with “Everything is Awesome,” recorded with Andy Samberg for The Lego Movie), and represents a continuation of their steady foray into mainstream pop. It’s a simple and sweet hybrid of ballad and synth which repeatedly entreats “please don’t find another love while I’m away.” It’s not the best representation of a pair that usually flaunts lyrical clout, nor is it the best demonstration of how they have used stripped-down vocals and acoustic grace notes in the past, but it is still a Tegan and Sara project at heart — hand claps, an inexplicablypleasant type of whining, catchy hooks and all the sincerity a pop song can muster.

Aer, established by duo David von Mering and Carter Schultz, dropped their self-titled album, Aer, on January 21. They hit number five on the iTunes charts within a few hours.

Their single, “She Says She Loves Me”, is a mix between an early alternative minimalist song and an overplayed, catchy radio tune that just will not get out of your head.

The repetitive clapping establishes the baseline in a way reminiscent of a 1950s jazz record, matched with a contemporary popy rapping. The bridge is a bit overemphasized but captures the nature of a radio hit, which hammers home the line you won’t forget, "She says she loves me when she's drinking.” The fun lyrics give the entire single a much more upbeat and light attitude than some of the group’s previous work.

Eventually, the duo caps the song in an interesting way, toning down the song toward a mellow finish that allows for full appreciation of the vocals and successfully brings back interest to the single. This song will likely dominate the airwaves when Aer drops later this month.

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

Eliza Kuzmenki is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekuzmenko@cornellsun.com.

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kn298@cornell.edu.

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BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Arts Editor

Over a year since his visit to Cornell during his hitREcord tour, Joseph Gordon Levitt has finally gotten his show, hitREcord on TV, well, on TV. The show premiered on newly-created station Pivot on Jan. 18, starting with the theme “The Number One,” in honor of its first episode and first times in general. The first three episodes of the variety style show premiered at Sundance last month — “The Number One,” “Fantasy” and “Trash” — where JGL discussed his high hopes for the show and its humble beginnings at hitrecord.com, a creative, collaborative web platform for aspiring artists.

At the start of every episode, Levitt graces the stage, patented sexiest-man-alive-hopeful smile blazing, to introduce the episodes theme, usually with some kind of maxim or playground saying, like “all for one and one for all” or “first is the best.” The theme is explored further by Joe himself, through video collaborations from hitREcord and during interviews and performances with some of Joe’s celebrity contacts like Tony Danza in “Fantasy” and Elle Fanning in “The Number One.” The featured collaborations from hitREcord can be pretty impressive, especially considering that the videos (think stories, music, art, animation and editing) came together from bedrooms across the world of people who have never met or interacted with one another. In particular, “Beastly Beauty,” a story about how a vain beauty is much more beastly than her ever-lonely, doting “beast,” features some skillful animation and beautiful presentation. “Front Lawn Freak,” about freaking, whatever that means exactly, on random front lawns, is so fun and strange that it’s an immediate stand-out in its episode.

However, the biggest standout in each of the episodes is Levitt himself. He is in almost every performance as either a singer, drummer, actor, pianist, you name it, he’s a jack of all (artistic) trades. The whole extravaganza feels ultimately like the Joseph Gordon Levitt show. Which is fine,

in its own right, but seems to go against the more inspirational idea of highlighting the skill and performance of contributors.

He dominates whatever skit he is in, as do his celebrity friends, and the usernames of the song creators and animators who are mentioned and highlighted at the start of a sketch are quickly lost as Levitt moves to the next scene.

The live audience doesn’t seem to notice the loss — most are there to see JGL, the legend himself. Whether they would like to admit it or not, most people at Cornell’s show didn’t know or care what Levitt was going to do up on that stage when they bought a ticket, they were just happy to be one of the lucky few who got one. His charisma transfers nicely to the audience when he’s on that stage if I remember correctly, but through a computer screen, COURTESY OF PIVOT much love is lost. Maybe this is because with an episode cut time of 22 minutes versus the hour and a half dedicated to the live show, there is less time to view the collaborations, and more air time devoted to Levitt talking about how he came up with a prompt, Levitt walking down a street pondering life’s many questions, 20second animations reiterating the day’s theme or Levitt happily blowing kisses to his adoring fans.

Even when Levitt does delve into the days theme, and we aren’t focusing on one of his many talents, but discussing the concept of, say, fantasy, it is hard for the topic not to feel contrived. After all he is attempting to spend 22 minutes discussing the entirety of the meaning and symbolism of the word “fantasy,” and hoping to come away with a higher understanding. It is hard to scratch the surface of such a concept in 22 minutes, and as a result, we mostly are fed the cliches, or stories with the highest shock value. More bang for your buck or, in this case, minute.

In an interview with Rolling Stone during Sundance, Levitt said, “In our wildest dreams we hope that decades

from now we’ll be nurturing artists like Sundance has nurtured us.”

That is the dream. And it is an admirable one. Using hitREcord.com, Levitt has found a number of promising, interesting and compelling young artists who are yearning to be seen and heard, as they should be. However, as his show exists now, in some plane between the hitREcord on TV and The Joseph Gordon Levitt Show, it doesn’t quite feel satisfying as either. It would be nicer if Levitt could, even with all of his sex appeal and connections, take a step back and let the art do the talking. We’re only four episodes into season one, so maybe there is time yet.

You can watch hitREcord on TV at Pivot.com if you have satellite TV, or on Amazon Instant if you don’t. The Cornell episode, “The Road,” hasn’t premiered yet, but will *fingers crossed* be up some time this season.

Arielle Cruz is a junior in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. She can be reached at acruz@cornellsun.com.

Lawrence Welk: The King of the Middlebrow T oward the end of winter break, I found myself engrossed in PBS reruns of The Lawrence Welk Show.

Curled up in a plush recliner and wearing limited clothing, I figured I’d be able to laugh mindlessly at the absurd stiffness of the performers. Unfortunately for my mental relaxation (but fortunately for this column), the show’s strangeness didn’t begin and end at humor. Instead, the program’s Twilight Zone-esque disconnect with anything and everything cool in America still continues to haunt me.

I’d imagine that Saturday Night Live is what comes to most of this generation’s mind when they hear about The Lawrence Welk Show. To be honest, that sketch annoys me to no end; I don’t find Kristen Wiig’s tiny hands enjoyable, nor do I find any of her work funny.

But what went over my head at the time was how well the sketch mimics the rest of the show.

Fred Armisen’s aloof smile and counts of, “Ah-one, ah-two!” perfectly mimic Welk, while the choir is, if anything, not whitebread enough.

That being said, one should expect whitebread to be the program’s modus operandi given its host. There wasn’t much blues swinging in 1910s Strasburg, North Dakota. In fact, there wasn’t much of anything other than a couple hundred speakers of Low German, Lawrence himself included. Despite learning English in school, he never fully lost his Plattdeutsch accent, giving him his unintentional catchphrase of “Wunnerful! Wunnerful!”

Despite my gripes with his show, I actually

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have the utmost respect for Welk. He was a successful big band leader and released some top-notch accordion easy listening.

Plus, he must have been a damn good businessman to keep his show a ratings powerhouse in the rhythmless white American demographic for 27 years.

What continues to hold my perverse fascination with The Lawrence Welk Show is not the host, but the performances. It is hard to watch clips without feeling like my soul is being surveilled by androids. To start with, it seems like neither the performers nor the camera crew had any of the concept of the fourth wall. Having the foot-wide lapelled velvet-suit-clad musicians gleefully staring me in the face is made extra disturbing by their makeupcaked eyelids’ refusal to blink … ever. Call me a subversive rock n’ roll rebel, but ten blondehaired, blueeyed girls sitting in rows of New Cult school desks Every Day uniformly swaying as they chirp high-pitched bubblegum tunes is more ominous than cute. When the male crooners aren’t draped over conveniently placed wagon wheels in their poor attempt to be casual, they’re indistinguishable from minions recruiting for a cult. They bounce around with energy that only certain schedule 1 drugs should be able to provide, hyperarticulate their creepily jolly lyrics and never stop smiling painfully wide smiles that have to be products of repressed sexuality.

Particularly frustrating, though, is that much of the American public was listening to this schlock over everything else they

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were exposed to. The Lawrence Welk Show lenged by rock and roll at the top of the ran nationally from 1955 until 1971, a charts, America’s stodgy white folk needed heyday for American pop music. The pro- something to latch onto. They found gram’s first season saw Elvis’s “Heartbreak solace from a world of sex and drugs in a Hotel” at the top of the charts and Simon bubble-filled soundstage where the music, & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled the performers, the teeth and the peroxideWater” was most popular during the show’s bleached hair were each whiter than the last. For the period between 1964 and next.z 1969, when The Lawrence Welk Show was After a square dance performance by in the Nielsen ratings top 30, number Cissy King and Bobby Burgess on March one songs included “I Want 9, 1968, Lawrence offered some to Hold Your Hand” and stellar praise: “We can “Hey Jude.” So, while always depend on these the rest of the counyoungsters for sometry was introthing appropriduced to the ate.” In a nutgenius of John shell, the show’s Lennon, Welk goal was to be fans were as unchallenginstead snaping as possiping their ble, and it fingers to succeeded in The Lennon sheltering a Sisters. sizeable porGranted, tion of the young people American public were not Welk’s from groundtarget audience. I breaking understand that relimusical gious fanatics, segregatrends. tionists and senile nursFor a ing home residents needshow that SANTI SLADE / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR ed musical entertainment just like was less in everyone else, but it’s baffling to me that touch than the Michael Bublé Christmas The Lawrence Welk Show could become the Special, to become one of the most 12th most popular show in the nation the watched programs on television is more same year that Rubber Soul was released. than just astounding; The Lawrence Welk Welk viewers didn’t have to dig deep to Show is a dark mark on the otherwise find the 6x platinum record, but opted impressive pop music landscape of the era. instead to be serenaded by the likes of Mary Lou Metzger.

But, as frustrated as I am by the show’s Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of popularity, the first few seasons of its suc- Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msoscess do make some sense. At a time when nick@cornellsun.com. New Cult Every Day runs Broadway soundtracks were being chal- alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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opponents and ended the first half at 15-4 in Cornell’s favor. The third chukker started with freshman Emma Eldredge and sophomore Elena Wicker joining Kailey Eldredge on the field. The Capitol Polo Club came back with solid defense, but could not quite relinquish Cornell’s lead. Cornell took over during the fourth chukker, and the match ended with a final score of 198. Cox closed the match with a total of seven goals, while Winslow tallied six and Kailey Eldredge and Wicker added three each.

The women’s match against the University of Connecticut was not as successful as the previous one.

The match, played in Storrs, Conn., was the team’s first big battle of the spring season. The contest began with back-and-forth play, with neither team leading by more than one goal throughout the first chukker. This tough play continued during the second chukker, closing the first half at a score of 11-10 in UConn’s favor.

Determined to win, the Red took charge during the third chukker.

UConn, however, quickly conquered Cornell’s lead and the fourth chukker started with a 15-15 tie.

Though the Red preserved a strong front throughout the fourth chukker, UConn took the lead. The match ended in the Huskies’ favor, 21-18. Sophomore Anna Winslow tallied a team-high ten goals, with Kailey Eldredge tallying four and Cox with three.

The men’s team also played a tough match this past weekend. Originally, the match was supposed to be played against the polo team from County Farms.

However, after the team was hit with a serious case of the flu, the Toronto Polo team stepped in.

Senior captain Nik Feldman had to sit this match out as he is currently recovering from wrist tendonitis, allowing juniors Nick Stieg, Hakan Karabey and freshman Ignacio Masias to start for the Red. Toronto started out in the lead during the first chukker, but Cornell quickly tied the score, 3-3.

Cornell began the second chukker with four quick goals; the teams went into halftime with Cornell in the lead 8-5. The Toronto team proved to be a difficult matchup for the Red; they fought back throughout the third and fourth chukker, earning a lead of

14-13. As time ran out with just under thirty seconds left on the clock, Cornell was able to tie the score, 1414.

During the overtime shootout, Stieg followed Toronto’s first round goal with a score. The second round of the shootout began with a failed attempt by Toronto and Masias tallying a goal, putting Cornell in the lead, 2-1. The last Toronto player failed to put another goal in to tie up the score, and Cornell ended the game with an overtime win. The match ended with a final score of 15-14.

“It was a huge game with a shootout win during overtime. Hakan really impressed everyone with his quick return to high-level play. Ignacio really commanded the field. [He] made great plays when needed, especially a big goal putting us into overtime,” said Feldman.

This weekend, the men’s team will be playing against the University of Connecticut Huskies at home. The women’s team will be playing against the University of Virginia at the same place Friday.

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.

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According to Gowans, the upperclassmen have set a precedent that younger members of the team strive to follow.

“I have a ton of upperclassmen to look up to,” Gowans said. “I think the younger guys' biggest challenge, as a team, is to live up to the precedent that has already been set.”

Gowans, Tedder, Taylor and sophomore Ben Rainero went on to finish second in the 4X800, while the men’s 4X400 of Flood, Curtis, freshmen Cam Hebert and Jordan Sherwood went on to win their event.

Freshman Grant Sisserson continued his successful season with a first place, IC4A-qualifying pole vault. Freshmen triple jumpers Robert Plummer, John Enkler, Weston Northrop, Tobenna Attah and Udochukwuka Eze all scored well, with Plummer placing first overall with an IC4A qualification.

According to Eze, the ceiling is high for the Red, and the only direction to go is up.

“Next meet, I'd like to see us showcase all the hard work we've put in at practice,” Eze said. “Everybody is in the midseason grind, so it's time to start putting up bigger numbers.”

The Red will be back in action Feb. 7 at the New Balance Invitational at the Armory in NYC, and then on Feb. 8 at the Valentine Invitational at Boston University.

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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choose to pursue.

“We didn’t really go after him until the summer before, when I met [his father] in the city for a wrestling event, and we spoke, and it turned out that [Dean] was maybe just a little too short to play big time Division I [football],” Koll said. “Although, based on my experience with him, he’s such an athlete I’m sure he’d [have done] quite well.”

Dean said Cornell found him and his ultimate decision an easy one.

“They came to my house and visited me and the rest is kind of history,” he said.

The rest is certainly history, as Dean’s name is now commonplace in the wrestling community. He was recently profiled in the Jan. 20 issue of Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd.”

Though it was the win over Ruth that catapulted him onto the national scene, Dean said that he went into the match just like any other.

“I just kind of said … he might pin me, he might attack me, he might major me, he might beat me; but I’m going to give him everything I’ve got, I’m going to give him seven minutes of hell,” he said.

Dean went after Ruth right from the start of the match, pushing Ruth to the edge of the circle and putting him on the defensive. The senior took a quick step backwards as if he was startled by his opponent’s first move. Dean scored his first two points just over two minutes into the match, and although Ruth took a 3-2 lead towards the end of the first period, Dean clawed his way back.

“You know it’s a good feeling, definitely afterwards, just to see

that you’re improving … throughout the season,” he said of the match. “What really matters is the National tournament in March, so that’s kind of what I keep my focus on.”

While the upset win has put a target on Dean’s back, the freshman said he tries not to feel the additional pressure that inevitably comes with such a victory.

“You turn from nobody into a somebody and the people always want to take the top guy out,” he said. “But you know, the sun comes up the next morning, win or lose, you just go out there and compete as hard as you can, and that’s all you really control.”

To Koll, Dean is more than just the freshman who upset Ed Ruth. He is the type of wrestler whom, like Kyle Dake ’13, it is possible to build a program around.

“Obviously as a coach, these kinds of kids are one in a million,” Koll said. “And he also attracts other talented wrestlers who are in high school still because they say … that guy is going to an Ivy League school, he’s hopefully going to win a national championship — if he can do it, I can do it. So it’s like a domino effect.”

With the remainder of his freshman year and three full years still ahead of him, there is still much left to be written in Dean’s story. And you never know; Ruth and Dean might meet again, on an even bigger stage in March.

“I see multiple national titles and I see amazing leadership,” Koll said of the young wrestler’s future. “And certainly if he decides that he wants to go on and pursue the Olympic dream, he certainly has the ability to do that at that level as well.”

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

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Men’s, Women’s Squash Take Down Dartmouth, Improve Ivy Standings This past weekend, Cornell’s men’s squash team defeated Navy, 8-1, after falling earlier in the day to No. 6 ranked Franklin & Marshall at Belkin International Squash Courts. The Red went on to lose to Harvard, 8-1, falling to 5-5 overall and 2-2 in the Ivy League.

The women's squash team started off the three-match weekend on a positive note with a 7-0 victory over Franklin & Marshall on Friday. The match gave the Red its ninth consecutive win in its all-time series with the Diplomats. Unfortunately, the women found less success the following day in its matchup against the Harvard Crimson, who currently stand nationally undefeated at No.1.

On Sunday, the men’s squash team took down No.11 Dartmouth, 7-2, earning its second victory of the weekend. Cornell, improving its record to 6-5 overall and 3-2 in the Ivy League, is ranked eighth nationally by the College Squash Association.

The women’s squash team also snatched a win against Dartmouth Sunday, tacking on a seventh consecutive victory by the Red in the all-time series against the Green.

For the men, senior Rishi Jalan came out strong at the start of the day to lead the squad with a three-game victory at the No. 6 spot. The squad rounded out the first rotation with a 2-1 lead after senior Bryan Keating defeated Kyle Martino in the No. 3 position in four games.

The Red came out on top in the middle rotation as well, earning victories in all three matches. Senior Nick Sachvie (No.1) and sophomore Graham Dietz (No. 7) tallied the final additional points for the Red and secured the squad’s spot in the eight-team tournament of the national championships, the Potter Cup. The women ultimately pulled through in a tight match. Dartmouth put up a strong fight in the opening rotation in hopes of upsetting the Red (7-3, 3-2). Cornell trailed 2-1 at the onset as the Green won matches at the No. 3 and No. 6 spots. Senior Laura Caty, competing at the No. 9 spot, redeemed the Red and put the squad back on the board with an impressive five-game victory. Following the win, the Red rode on positive momentum and secured the next two victories to give it the 4-2 lead.

In the final rotation, juniors Danielle Letourneau (No. 1), Lindsay Seginson (No. 4) and sophomore Reut Odinak (No.7) led the squad to clinch the competition.

— Compiled by Sydney Altschuler

Horsing around | Junior Nick Stieg scored the first overtime goal to aid the Red in its 1514 victory over Toronto.

POLO

Men, Women See Mixed Results In Last Weekend’s Competition

By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer

Due to last week’s victories against Skidmore College, the women’s and men’s polo teams went into this past weekend with confidence. The women came out strong on Saturday with a win against the Capitol Polo Club, but lost against the University of Connecticut on Sunday.

Like the women, the men’s squad also started its weekend on a positive note with

a win against the Toronto Polo Club.

The women’s team kicked off its weekend events with a match against the Capitol Polo Club, played at the Oxley Equestrian Center. The match began favorably for the Red, with senior Kailey Eldredge and sophomores Devin Cox and Anna Winslow giving the squad a 7-2 lead in the opening chukker.

The team continued to outscore its See POLO page 17

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Dean’s Dynamic Upset Proves The Uncanny Cycles of History

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Three years ago at the Southern Scuffle, a freshman from Penn State named Ed Ruth stepped out onto the mat in the 174 lbs. semi-final. A name that was just beginning to be discussed in the wrestling community, Ruth was competing in just his eighth meet as a Nittany Lion.

Enter Cornell senior Mack Lewnes ’11 to the mat, a two-time Ivy League Wrestler of the Year, two-time NCAA qualifier and All-American. To say Ruth was the underdog would be an understatement. It was a matchup of David and Goliath proportions.

Fast forward three years to yet another Southern Scuffle. Ruth is a senior now and has since carried Penn State to the top of the national rankings. After defeating Lewnes three years ago, Ruth’s wrestling career began to blossom. Now riding an 84-match winning streak with two national championships under his belt, Ruth steps into the center circle and locks glares with an unfamiliar face.

It is the face of Cornell freshman Gabe Dean, one that is no longer unfamiliar on the national wrestling scene.

The storyline behind Dean’s electrifying 7-4 win over Ruth in the 184-lb final of the Southern Scuffle last month is something that only a select few diehard wrestling fans know about. In fact, Dean himself admitted that he “had no idea” about Ruth’s upset over Lewnes three years prior. But history tends to work in interesting ways, and it is hard not to think about the implications of the fact

that these two wrestlers’ careers are now inextricably tied.

“We saw this young kid come in from Penn State, we said you know, he’s probably pretty good, but Mac will handle him. And he went out and beat us,” said head coach Rob Koll of the matchup three years ago. “Hopefully history will repeat itself, because [Ruth] then beat us again at the National Championship.”

More than a month stands between Dean and the NCAA Championships, but it is a month in which the freshman will have ample opportunity to prove that his “I probably started win over Ruth was not wrestling, I think, a mere fluke.

Wrestling success is around seven in Dean’s blood. His years old.” father wrestled for Minnesota and was an Gabe Dean assistant coach at Michigan State.

“I probably started wrestling, I think, around seven years old, and I got into it because my Dad wrestled in college … and [he] just kind of had me around the sport at a young age,” Dean said.

Though Dean was modest about his college recruitment process, saying that he “wasn’t that heavily recruited,” big-name schools such as Minnesota and Michigan did express interest in him.

“It was an uphill battle trying to get him away from those two schools,” Koll said.

Koll added that he got to know Dean’s father over the years, as they both wrestled at the same time in college. Dean was also being recruited to play football, and Koll was unsure which sport he would See DEAN page 18

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Jump start | Junior Will Weinlandt finished as the top collegiate competitor in the 800 meter race Saturday with a time of 1:54.63.

TRACK & FIELD

Cornell Thrives at Kane Invitational

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Contributor

Iles, Kubiak Take Home Men’s Hockey ECAC Awards After Strong Weekend Versus Yale, Brown After an important sweep of a pair of Ivy League foes on the road this past weekend, two men’s hockey players were recognized for their achievements. Freshman forward Jeff Kubiak was named ECAC Rookie of the Week and senior goaltender Andy Iles received ECAC Goaltender of the Week honors.

For Iles, it is the second time this season he has received the award. The Red’s netminder made a total of 71 saves in the two games, allowing just three pucks past him. He made 38 saves against No. 13 Yale, including four crucial ones in the overtime period, allowing his team to hang on for the 3-2 victory. One of those overtime saves came with 45 seconds left in the period, allowing junior forward Brian Ferlin to stage his

late game heroics.

Kubiak captured his first Rookie of the Week honor this season after his strong offensive performance this weekend. The freshman was a part of three of the Red’s five goals on the weekend, assisting on two and scoring one of his own. His goal in the second period of the game against Yale was the first of his collegiate year, and would eventually force the overtime period. He has four points over his last three games and eight on the season, seven of them coming off assists.

Kubiak, Iles and the Red will return to ECAC play this weekend with a road matchup against Colgate Saturday.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

The Cornell track and field team hosted 15 college and club teams this weekend at the Robert J. Kane Invitational in Barton Hall on Saturday. The women walked away with seven event wins and five ECAC qualifications, while the men finished with eight event wins and ten IC4A qualifiers.

The upperclassmen led the Red with strong performances.

For the senior men, Montez Blair and Tommy Butler took the top two spots in the high jump, outperforming a field of ten competitors. Junior Will Weinlandt finished as the top collegiate competitor in the 800 meter, finishing with a time of 1:54.63. All three qualified for IC4As. For the senior women, Anjelique Parnell dominated the competition, placing first in the 60 meter dash and long jump.

She was one of just six runners in the 37-person event to break the eight second mark in the 60 meter dash.

Classmate Dominique Corley landed just behind Parnell, earning second place for the Red. The junior men and women also played significant roles in the Red’s victories, all with top five finishes.

Juniors Sam Belcher and Zach

Flood placed second in the 1000 and 400 meters, respectively, while pole vaulter Steven Pawlak took third in his event.

Female juniors Corey Dowe, Bori Tozser and Syd Williams took second, fourth and fifth in the mile, respectively, with Dowe earning the top collegiate spot and an ECAC qualification.

Christine Driscoll placed third in the 5K, while Even Bishop pole vaulted to second and Renee McKee threw for third in the women’s weight throw. Abbie Clifford took first place in the 500 meter dash with a time of 1:17.83.

The freshmen also showed their strengths on the track.

Freshmen Adrian Jones, Taylor Spillane, Libby Nolan and Ailis Clyne all placed in the top five in their events, with Jones recording an ECAC qualifier.

The freshmen men also tallied up some impressive finishes to aid the Red this weekend. Wynn Curtis placed second in the 60 meter hurdles while Martin Murillo took third in the weight throw. Freshman James Gowans placed second overall as the top collegiate finisher in the mile with a time of 4:11.24. Meanwhile, fellow freshman David Taylor and Mark Tedder were close behind, all three qualifying for the IC4As. See TRACK & FIELD page 18