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Prof: Grants cover smaller tuition portion, so they are less able to‘mitigate inequality’

By EMMA JESCH Sun Staff Writer

As Feb. 15 –– the date by which incoming freshmen must submit their financial aid applications –– approaches, professors and campus politicos criticized the state of Pell Grants, a need-based grant for lowi n c o m e undergraduates, in the University’s financial aid packages.

According KEANE to the Office of Federal Student Aid, the maximum Federal Pell Grant award for the 2012-13 year was $5,550.

Jessica Reif ’14, chair of the Cornell Republicans and member of the University’s Financial Aid Review Committee, said that though Pell Grants are an important part of a student’s financial aid package, they no longer form the foundation of financial aid packages at most four-year institutions.

“Pell Grants can make a huge difference for students, particularly at

Man Rescued After Falling At Six Mile Creek Dam A man was rescued from a Six Mile Creek dam Sunday afternoon after falling while walking along the trail near the dam, according to the Ithaca Fire Department.

Due to recent snowfall, the trail was “extremely slick,” according to an IFD press release.

The man, who fell near Third Dam, was uninjured. He was pulled from the dam using safety rope.

IFD said the man was walking in a “no tresspassing” area. The press release urged others to stay on marked trails.

The two-hour rescue was completed by the IFD and assisted by the Newfield Fire Department, the Tompkins County Sherriff ’s Office and Bangs Ambulance.

IFD also urged those who use the trails to remain aware of trail markers and to not walk alone.

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community colleges and less expensive four-year institutions,” she said.

“At institutions like Cornell, the maximum award for a Pell Grant only comprises a small fraction of the total cost of attendance.”

For the 2011-12 year, 18 percent of enrolled Cornell undergraduate students received a Pell Grant, according to Thomas Keane, director of financial aid. The number of Pell Grant recipients at Cornell has increased by two percent between the 2009-10 and 2011-12 academic years.

“Generally, students qualify if their family income is less than $45,000 with one child in college,” Keane said. “If there are more children in college, the income figure goes up.”

According to Dan Kuhr ’13, chair of the Financial Aid Review Committee and Human Ecology representative on the Student Assembly, although the grant’s value has not kept up with the cost of tuition, its overall value has been increasing.

“Without a program like Pell, it would make it a lot harder for some See PELL GRANTS page 5

Cornell felt the force of winter storm Nemo, as strong winds and snowfall took a torrential turn on Friday afternoon.

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Univ.Launches Assault Resource Site

By KRITIKA OBEROI Sun Staff Writer

In the wake of student criticism of a lack of centralized resources for victims of sexual assault at Cornell, the University recently launched a website to provide access to information about sexual assault and support to people who might need it.

“There are already many resources at Cornell,” said Tommy Bruce, vice president

for University communications. “This website will make it easy to find them in a pinch.”

The website, which launched Jan. 25, represents an effort to accumulate all of the University’s sexual harassment and assault resources in one place. It can be accessed at share.cornell.edu and includes a news section that features links to pertinent local news stories.

“It is a one-stop virtual

C.U. Ranked Top Employer for Women

By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer

After the University was recognized as one of the top 10 nonprofit employers for female executives and working mothers, female professors and

admistrators lauded the University’s emphasis on a work and life balance for women.

The University was included in the 2013 rankings of the National Association for Female Executives, a women’s

professional organization.

Cornell has not appeared on the list since 2008.

In addition to recognizing the University for supporting women executives, Cornell was See WOMEN page 4

Winter in the gorges

resource center for issues concerning sexual assault and sexual harassment,” said Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Department. “[You can] see the myriad resources on campus in one area.”

According to Bruce, the website is a response to student suggestions and reflects a growing awareness of a need among members of the See WEBSITE page 4

News Two Steps Forward

On Saturday, a preliminary meeting was held for a new Student Assembly committee on diversity initiatives. | Page 3

Opinion Freedom of Speech

Rudy Gerson ’15 discusses censorship at a hockey game against Yale three weeks ago. | Page 7

Arts Next to Normal

Adam Lerner ‘13 takes a second look at the love stories of “normal people” and argues that maybe normalcy is overrated. | Page 9

Sports A Mile a Minute

Distance runner Nick Wade ‘13 runs straight into Cornell history with a sub-four minute mile. | Page 16

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While pedestrians, cars and snowplows above contended with Nemo’s passage through Ithaca, the scene in the gorges below remained peaceful.

Weather Showers HIGH: 39 LOW: 28

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Today Biophysics Colloquium 1:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall Coffee House: Teaching in K-12: Could It Be Your Calling?

4:45 - 5:45 p.m., Carol Tatkon Center

Hi: 40° F Lo: 28° F Rain showers

This week will start out with unseasonably warm temperatures. A welcome change after a weekend spent digging out of snowdrifts, but prepare for more precipitation in true Ithaca fashion. Trade in your parka for a raincoat this week and savor the brief hiatus from the bitter cold.

Darwin Days Keynote Address With Dr. Alycia Stigall 5 - 6:30 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Not as warm as yesterday, but still milder the the Nemo blizzarding from this past weekend.

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture Featuring Wes Moore 5 - 7 p.m., Sage Chapel

Hi: 31° Lo: 23° Snow Showers Prepare to celebrate the sun finally peeking through the clouds today.

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Hi: 36° Lo: 19° Partly Cloudy

CALS Study Abroad 101 1 - 1:30 p.m., 170 Roberts Hall

Expect both sun and balmy temperatures almost breaking into the 40s!

Crawling from Biology to Physics: Orchestration of Biochemistry and Mechanics Driving Cell Motility 4 - 5 p.m., 700, Clark Hall

Hi: 39° Lo: 29° Partly Cloudy Sun and and more relatively mild temperatures continue into the weekend. Enjoy!

Sustainability of What for Whom?

4:30 p.m., Guerlac Room, A. D. White House

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New Diversity Committee Promises‘Tangible Impact’

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer

mittee members suggested preliminary ideas to increase inclusion on campus, including making a set of fitness center passes available to students who cannot afford one; follow-up programming to Tapestry of Possibilities, the diversity performance for students during Orientation Week; and including more books that are more pertinent to diversity issues as part of the New Student Reading Project.

Ulysses Smith ’13, vice president of diversity and inclusion for the S.A., said he believes the timing of these initiatives is vital to the success of the committee.

Although SACIDI was officially planned to meet monthly, members will attempt to meet weekly this semester in order to promote the initiatives as soon as possible, according to Smith.

“I think this committee has a lot to prove,” Smith said. To garner support

On Saturday, Student Assembly members and student leaders gathered in Willard Straight Hall for a preliminary meeting of the Student Assembly Committee for Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives, a committee that will focus on diversity initiatives and will include a broader spectrum of students.

SACIDI replaces the Joint Assembly of Multicultural Issues Committee, which made recommendations to the University regarding ways to promote cooperation among different religious groups.

In the introduction to Saturday’s meeting, Cameron Pritchett ’15, minority liaison at-large, discussed the improvements SACIDI has included in its mission in order to achieve more tangible change than JAMIC. “A lot of S.A. members and “We’re not going to be able to change people of the general community everything right away. It’s about making felt like JAMIC wasn’t serving the purpose we intended,” Pritchett those small impacts.” said.

Juliana Batista ’16 He said SACIDI would focus more on implementing new initiatives, rather than only facilitating discu- from the student body, “[SACIDI is] going to have to push out some pretty sion.

“Rather than being just being a forum significant initiatives within a timely to talk about what’s going on in your var- fashion,” he said.

According to Ross Gitlin ’15, vice ious organizations, [SACIDI] will be action-oriented,” Pritchett said. “We’ll president of outreach for the S.A., SACIbe working on initiatives and legislation DI will continually work on diversity inithat will make a tangible impact on stu- tiatives, rather than suggesting projects dents across campus. We’ll also be doing after an incident occurs.

“Cornell’s often very reactionary with a semesterly report detailing what the committee is working on and initiatives problems that we face,” said Gitlin, citthat we’ll be tackling in the coming ing examples such as the Leadership Roundtable and working groups that semester.”

In the discussion that followed, com- were formed in response to reports of

Flower power

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The Cornell University Undergraduate Horticulture Club held a plant sale Friday in the Physical Sciences building, selling plants suitable for dorm rooms and office environments.

sexual assault last semester. “This work that we’re going to be doing is going to be done at all times, not just when facing adversity.”

The other main focus of SACIDI is to foster cooperation between a wider range of student groups. The preliminary meeting contained representatives from the LGBTQ group Haven, Native American Students at Cornell, La Asociación Latina, and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council, among other organizations. To represent the cooperating communities, SACIDI is being led by two co-chairs, one an S.A. representative and the other a student leader from a participating group. This semester, Juliana Batista ’16, S.A. freshman representative, will serve as the S.A. co-chair and Oscar Correia ’14, president of La Asociación Latina, as the community leader co-chair.

Correia said he is eager to move forward in a committee that he believes has “more legitimacy” than its predecessor, due to its increased representation and more direct calls for action. In addition

to the public committee meetings, SACIDI will be publishing an online “initiative tracker” that anyone can access and use to provide input, according to Correia.

“Just having that [support] will allow us to be much more successful with the initiatives that we have,” Correia said.

According to Batista, the cross-cooperation and sharing of resources among different communities will be a fundamental part of SACIDI’s potential success.

“We have people that are really strong leaders from all these different communities on campus,” Batista said. “Our job [as co-chairs] is to rechannel and refocus their energies and make sure that what they’re doing is getting cross-channelled across the different groups ... It’s all about the small steps. We’re not going to be able to change everything right away.

It’s about making those small impacts.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

Ithaca Named Top City for Patent Issuance, Invention

By REBEKAH FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

In a Feb. 1 Brookings Insitution report that presents patenting trends on a regional level, Ithaca was ranked 19th nationally for most patents granted per capita, with 97 patents granted per year from 2007 to 2011.

Additionally, Cornell was ranked the top patenting company in Ithaca, with 73 patents issued in 2011, according to the report.

According to Alan Paau, the University’s executive director and vice provost for technology transfer and economic development, Cornell recieves funds specifically to conduct research,

which adds to the number of patents that are granted in Ithaca.

“Indeed, Cornell contributes [to] and influences the inventiveness of Ithaca very much,” Paau said. “[Cornell spends] more than $700 million from various sources a year to do research, and some of [its] research results become patentable inventions.”

Prof. Aija Leiponen, applied

Fashion forward

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The Cornell Fashion Collective held a model call on Saturday for students to model in their 29th Annual Fashion show, which will take place this spring.

economics and management, Ithaca-based Advion Inc. –– a echoed Paau’s sentiments. company that performs mass “Most of the patents that spectrometry, the use of a make Ithaca so highly ‘inventive’ machine to identify subtances are actually applied for by based on molecular weight –– Cornell University itself,” was co-founded by Prof.

Leiponen said. “Cornell, along Emeritus Jack Henion, toxicolowith other major research univer- gy, and currently holds 48 sities, applies for many patents patents. According to Amy on inventions deriving from the Boardman Lummus, Advion’s scientific discoveries of its facul- marketing manager, the compaty.” ny has purposefully stayed in the According to Prof. William Ithaca area.

Lesser, applied economics and man“Most of the reasons Advion is agement, Cornell located ... in Ithaca is due to the also contributes to the number of strong talent pool in the area.” patents issued in Amy Boardman Lummus Ithaca through new companies that form as a result of new technolo“The work [Henion’s] Cornell gies discovered at Cornell. laboratory performed led to sev“Much patenting here [in eral industry-changing technoloIthaca] is attributable to the gies as well as contributed signifCornell Center for Technology icantly to Advion’s founding,” Enterprise and Boardman Lummus said.

Commercialization, which “One of the main reasons licenses inventions made by Advion is located and has Cornell employees,” Lesser said. remained located in Ithaca is due “Another explanation is the num- to the strong talent pool in the ber of startups by Cornell faculty area … Cornell’s strong science, and students. They are heavily technology and engineering proinvolved in the fields of software grams contributes heavily to the and biotech, both major foci of talent. Nearly all of the inventors patenting.” listed on Advion’s patents have Leiponen said some of ties to Cornell.”

Cornell’s patents have also been licensed to startup companies and have become “very successful Rebekah Foster can be reached at rfoster@cornellsun.com. products and services.”

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Univ.: Website Will Tackle C.U.‘Supportive’ of Female Employees ‘Under-Reported Crime’ WOMEN

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Cornell community. It is also the result of a report by the University’s Incident Management Team, which recommended the creation of a virtual information and resource center.

“This is the first big step in that direction,” Bruce said.

Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88, said that the website aims to ensure clear communication between the University and students.

“We want to make sure that people understand the resources, because it’s a very under-reported crime,” she said.

Bruce said he hopes the website will become an asset to the Cornell community. “[It] is our sincere hope that this website will grow into a valuable resource center available to anyone in the community needing assistance or seeking to provide help to a friend or colleague,” he said.

Three University divisions are collaborating to develop and maintain the site: University Communications, Student and Academic Services and Human Resources and Safety Services, Bruce said.

Each division will create content related to its individual department, according to Bruce. For instance, the HR department, specifically CUPD, will be responsible for public safety, while SAS, epecially Gannett Health Services, will be responsible for medical information, counseling and treatment.

As the website recieves feedback from the Cornell community, there will be opportunity for further growth, Grant said.

“It's not intended to be stagnant,” she said.

Zoner echoed Grant’s statement, saying that the website will grow with its exposure to the community.

“It’s the University’s initial launch, so we don’t expect that we have everything exactly in place. … It will be growing as we increase connections to our community,” she said.

Carol Wu ’16 said the website is a valuable opportunity for people to educate themselves about sexual assault.

“I feel like this is a very good resource for people, whether they’re looking to get educated about this or if they need to find a place to get help. It’s a great centralized resource,” Wu said.

Kritika Oberoi can be reached at koberoi@cornellsun.com.

commended for its organizational culture; its work, life and educational programs; and the University’s initative to hire, retain and advance women in the academic fields of science, engineering, math and technology, according to a University press release.

Mary Opperman, vice president of human resources, said she is proud of Cornell’s recognition.

“We apply [to be ranked] so that we can benchmark our practices against companies and organizations across the country and learn about best practices,” Opperman said. “We are always pleased when our own practices are recognized.”

Cornell will receive the NAFE recognition on March 20 in New York City and will be featured in the February/March issue of Working Mother magazine, according to a press release.

Top women executives at the University — including Opperman and Vice Provost Barbara Knuth — said Cornell is actively promoting the advancement of women into leadership positions and providing a supportive environment for women with families.

“I have been promoted, received many opportunities to learn and grow and have [had] the opportunity to work with other dedicated professionals who are committed to the mission of Cornell,” Opperman said.

Many of the University’s top women executives said they have had excellent experiences.

Barbara Knuth, dean of the graduate school, who started working at Cornell in 1986 as an assistant professor in the natural resources department, said she felt supported as she rose through the ranks to become vice provost and dean of the graduate school in 2010.

“Through my entire career at Cornell, I have felt quite supported as a woman in my various positions,” she said.

Women executives and tenured faculty said the University has provided them and their families with a variety of accomodations throughout their careers.

Prof. Susan Fleming, management and organizational behavior, is a single parent with a five-yearold son. She said the School of Hotel Administration has been extremely flexible and supportive.

“It’s okay to have kids. It’s okay to miss a meeting because you have a family commitment. That is one of the reasons I was excited to get the opportunity to be here and love working here,” Fleming said.

The resources available at Cornell range from on-campus child care to flexible work arrangements and parental leave, among others, according to Eileen McCoy Whang, the University’s dependent care consultant.

However, the working environment for women at Cornell has changed significantly over the past two decades, according to Joanne DeStefano, vice president for finance and chief financial officer.

“President [Hunter] Rawlings [III] was the first president to promote women to leadership roles.

Since President Rawlings, both President [Jeffery] Lehman and President [David] Skorton have been supportive of women leaders,” DeStefano said.

Women currently represent 50 percent of Cornell’s senior man-

agers and 33 percent of corporate executives, according to NAFE. Additionally, 28 percent of tenured and tenure-track faculty members are women.

“Early in my career there were very few role models,” DeStefano said. “Today I feel there are sufficient women leaders to be role models or mentors.”

On NAFE’s Top Ten Nonprofit Companies for Women Executives, all but Cornell are in the healthcare industry. This may be attributed to the fact that, according to Fleming, there is still “work to be done” in terms of the challenges faced by women in academia.

However, Cornell is taking strides in the right direction and has demonstrated a number of initiatives pushing for diversity, Fleming said.

“As a broader institution, my impression of Cornell is that they care about these issues and they want to be supportive of women and especially increase the number of women in science, technology, engineering and math,” Fleming said.

Fleming added that progress for women in the workplace in general has not reached its peak.

“This award is based on comparisons with other nonprofit organizations, and most organizations, frankly, aren’t great for women,” Fleming said. “Across the corporate world and academia, the bar is not high enough yet.”

The University will continue to pursue improvements for its executives, faculty and employees, according to Opperman.

“Men and women will benefit from a continued emphasis on work [and] family balance,” Opperman said. “Really excellent work comes from really healthy, well balanced workplaces.”

Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochaczevski@cornellsun.com.

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Prof:Grants‘Create Equal Opportunity’ PELL GRANTS

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students to access higher education,” Kuhr said. “At Cornell, a Pell Grant is a good first step. It can help ambitious students afford Cornell’s tuition and break even.”

Jessie Palmer ’13, president of the Cornell Democrats, said that although Pell Grants do not fund a large part of tuition, they can start a discussion about the cost of college education.

“Pell Grants help to fund the American value of education,” Palmer said. “Financial aid and the cost of tuition should be concerns of all Cornell students, whether or not they receive aid.”

When the Pell Grant was first created in 1972, it was a “terrific program, in terms of the percent of tuition covered,” according to Prof. Suzanne Mettler, American politics and public policy. However, she said that because the cost of tuition has “skyrocketed” over time, there is a large divide between the price of tuition and the value of the grant.

“Pell Grants create equal opportunity; it’s a way to mitigate inequality,” Mettler said. “Now, the grant has much less of a role in influencing this income inequality because it hasn’t increased at the same rate as the cost of tuition.”

Mettler said that this gap may cause students from low-income families to drop out of college or not enroll because the gap between the Pell Grant and the tuition is too great.

“Today, people with low incomes are only about as likely to graduate with four-year college degrees as they were in the 1970s,” Mettler said. “This is a disaster in modern economy because our country and our economy needs more people have to have college degrees. It’s critical for who we are as a nation.”

Prof. Richard Vedder, economics, Ohio University, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington, D.C., said the Pell Grant’s biggest problem is that it does not serve its intended function.

“Many students who are receiving aid through the grant don’t fall into the original targeted demographic,”

Vedder said. “I think that we should restrict eligibility to those who are truly poor and show academic promise.”

According to Vedder, the Pell Grant program would be more effective if it was not only need-based but also performance-based.

“The Pell Grant isn’t just supposed to help lowincome kids get to college,” Vedder said. “It’s supposed to help low-income kids succeed.”

The grant program also requires downsizing, Vedder said.

“We need a reduction in this program,” he said.

“We’re way in over our heads: U.S. debt is huge. We have to either cut back the public expenditures or vastly increase our tax revenue. Part of this reduction has to come out of the federal higher education aid program.”

Reif said that though she supports federal financial aid, there are areas in the Pell Grant system that should be changed, such as federal funds being allocated to forprofit universities.

Mettler echoed Reif’s sentiments, saying that providing grants to students at “for-profit” universities is not an ideal use of government funds.

“For-profit institutions — such as the University of Phoenix — use 25 percent of [federal] student aid,” Mettler said. “However, too often these are almost worthless degrees, that leave their students hardly better off than before they attained their degree, and unable to pay back their loans. Student borrowers who attend forprofits account for nearly half of all student loan defaults.”

But Kuhr said the University has worked to ensure its Pell Grant loan levels will have a significant effect on student financial aid.

“Cornell has adjusted its loan levels for financial aid, to make the program more sustainable,” he said.

Pell Grant recipient Hee Jin Cheon ’16 agreed that the grant helped her afford Cornell’s tuition.

“Although Cornell grants made up a large part of my financial aid, the Pell Grant was important,” she said.

“That additional $3,000 to $5,000 made me be able to come to Cornell. I really appreciate this money.”

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

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Airports Returning to Normal After Northeast Snowstorm

NEW YORK (AP) — Airports in New York, Boston and Connecticut were ramping up service Sunday, as they worked to return to normal operations following a massive snowstorm that crippled parts of the East Coast and led to thousands of flight delays and cancelations.

Airlines said they were operating close-to-normal schedules on Sunday, a busy day for air travel.

Meanwhile, trains and public transportation networks were also struggling to get back to full operation in time for Monday morning’s commute.

Boston’s Logan Airport opened at 11 p.m. ET on Saturday, after closing in anticipation of the storm along with airports in New York City and Connecticut.

As of Sunday afternoon, Boston was still experiencing delayed and canceled flights and officials urged passengers to check with their airline before heading to the airport.

Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport opened early Sunday morning, also advising passengers to contact individual airlines about possible cancellations.

Flight-tracking website FlightAware.com said about 450 flights were canceled on Sunday, a busy travel day for airlines.

Only 20 are expected for Monday.

In all roughly 5,700 flights have been canceled since Friday, when the airports shut down in anticipation of the storm. Friday saw the most cancelations, according to FlightAware, with Saturday a close second. Airlines waived ticket-change fees for passengers in the affected areas.

Airlines try to get ahead of big storms by canceling flights in advance.

They want to avoid having crews and planes stuck in one area of the country. They also face fines for leaving passengers stuck on a plane for more than three hours, under a rule that went into effect in 2010.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said that as of Sunday morning, its flights were back to normal. In all, it canceled about 1,200 flights due to the storm.

United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said the airline was operating at all airports Sunday, though it was experiencing some delays because of the weather. United is part of United Continental Holdings Inc. American Airlines spokesman Kent Powell said that by Sunday afternoon the storm-related cancellations had become “almost a non-issue.”

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Timing Change With Students in Mind DURING THE FALL EXAM PERIOD AND OVER winter break, the University held a series of forums about its new budget model, which will radically change how Cornell distributes its money among the colleges. While the University has maintained that the process is transparent, its timing of the panels suggests otherwise. Indeed, over the last few years Cornell has repeatedly made major announcements only when students are away from campus or otherwise unable to voice their concerns. These repeated incidents indicate that the University does not trust its students to participate in reasoned discussion on issues that directly impact them.

The budget forums are only the latest example of the University’s penchant for making important announcements during or just before academic breaks. Over winter break, Cornell also announced it would disband the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, and last summer it eliminated financial aid guarantees to students whose parents make between $60,000 and $75,000 a year. The announcements of the restructuring of the Africana Studies and Research Center, the five-year suspension of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and the construction of temporary bridge barriers were all made during or just before breaks over the last four years. Not only does the timing of these announcements prevent students from physically being able to demonstrate their feedback, it leaves them with the impression that the University is purposefully trying to exclude them.

The University has defended the timing of the budget forums, saying that the changes are not intended to have a major effect on departments, classes and student life. Additionally, administrators stated that those who were not present at the events were given the ability to call in to ask questions. Still, such radical changes to the way the University funds its colleges are inherently important to Cornell students.

Administrators should not have presumed that students and faculty would not want to have their voices heard as they considered such major changes.

Even if its intentions were not malicious, the University should be aware of the perception the timing of these announcements has created. Nearly two years ago, we expressed our concern that University officials were purposely seeking to keep students from participating in Day Hall’s decision-making process. And two years later, nothing has changed. With these decisions impacting much of the campus community, student input should be both desired and valued. In order to live up to its claims of transparency, Cornell must give its students an opportunity to respond to these changes — not just notify them after the fact.

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From David

On Immigration Reform

he time has come for comprehensive immigration reform. My father and his family immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union — what is now Belarus — in order to find better opportunities and a more secure life. Like countless other immigrants over the course of American history, he worked hard, paid taxes and, eventually, became a US citizen. He passed on to me an appreciation of the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship. But under current U.S. immigration policy, people like my father have fewer chances of creating a better life for themselves and their families here.

The so-called “brain drain” has been a significant problem for many years, and some argue that making it easier for highly trained immigrants to come to the U.S. to work or to stay here after earning an advanced degree would put developing nations even farther behind. According to the International Organization for Migration, the African continent, with a population of nearly 850 million people, has only 20,000 scientists and engineers.

According to an April 2012 article in The New Times-Kigali, at least a third of science and technology professionals from developing countries are currently working in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and the U.S., where they are more likely to gain professional recognition, enjoy more career opportunities and better pay. International graduates from China, countries that were part of the former Soviet Union and India, according to a report released by the National Science Foundation last fall, are returning to their home countries at very low rates (3.7 percent, 4.1 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively.)

Nonetheless, national origin should not determine economic destiny, and there is some evidence that a new model of “brain circulation” rather than “brain drain” is starting to emerge. In this model, skilled workers, regardless of national origin, move around the world more freely than before, to the benefit of all nations.

Although far from universal, there is evidence that some Western-educated tech entrepreneurs are returning home to set up enterprises in their home country or to work there. In the U.S., the highly educated children of immigrants — whose parents often worked so hard to be allowed to live and work in the U.S. — are moving back to the family homeland, particularly in countries undergoing rapid development like India, China, Russia, Brazil and, to some extent, South Africa. Until the brain circulation model becomes substantially more widespread, however, any comprehensive immigration reform must provide incentives for some of the talented individuals educated in the U.S. to return to their homelands to drive progress there.

The second major issue I see as critical to immigration reform is how to harness the advanced scientific and technical skills of some of the talented immigrants who are graduates of U.S. master’s and Ph.D. programs. At Cornell, nearly a fifth of our students — and more than 44 percent of our graduate students — are from other countries. Many would gladly stay in the U.S. after earning their degrees, contributing to the innovation and entrepreneurship that increasingly drive our economy — and their skills could be utilized without depriving American citizens of available jobs.

The Partnership for a New American Economy, a coalition of big-city mayors and business people co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has calculated that by 2018 there will be more than 230,000 advanced degree jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields that will not be filled even if every single new American STEM graduate finds a job. Far from taking jobs away from American citizens, allowing more talented international degree-holders to

find work in the U.S. would help meet a significant national need.

The Department of Homeland Security has authorized Cornell’s applied sciences campus in New York City, including the TechnionCornell Innovation Institute, to accept international students. As Cornell Tech develops, I expect that many graduate students will come from other nations, and because close relationships with high-tech companies and entrepreneurs are built into Cornell Tech’s curricula, they will be eager to continue the high-tech entrepreneurial ventures they began as graduate students by remaining in the U.S. Highly trained foreign nationals who have earned advanced degrees in U.S. graduate programs promise to contribute to our economy in significant ways. An analysis released by the White House in May 2011 noted that immigrants had a major role in starting a quarter of the highest-growth companies — including Intel, Google, Yahoo and eBay — between 1990 and 2005, and these companies directly employ an estimated 220,000 Americans within the U.S. Other research indicates that 76 percent of patents from the top 10 patent-producing U.S. universities in 2011 had at least one foreign-born inventor.

Finally, DREAMers. Among the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants are many young people who were brought to this country as children through the decisions of others. They grew up as Americans, sometimes not even knowing their illegal status until they were young adults.

After Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act, designed to open a pathway to citizenship for undocumented young adults who seek to attend college or serve in the military, President Obama, in June 2012, issued a memorandum that gave young undocumented immigrants the opportunity to avoid deportation and obtain work permits. Reports are that, since the application process opened last August, as many as 5,000 young people a day have applied, and reportedly no eligible applicant has been turned down. But the pathway to citizenship is still closed to these young people, as, in many instances, is the opportunity to benefit from in-state tuition and federal and state financial aid programs that would make college attendance more affordable. We may need to rethink our approaches to financial aid in ways that are sensitive to undocumented students’ new legal status.

Making the provisions of the DREAM Act part of comprehensive immigration reform will give the undocumented children of illegal immigrants, some of whom are among America’s most talented and promising students, a chance to become productive, tax-paying citizens. And that will be good, not just for the young people who stand to benefit, but for the nation as a whole. In 2010 the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the DREAM Act would reduce the budget deficit by $1.4 billion over 10 years because of increased tax revenues. More recent estimates by the Partnership for a New American Economy suggest that “giving DREAMers an incentive to pursue college and allowing them to work here legally will add 1.4 million jobs and generate $329 billion in economic activity over the next 20 years.”

As Congress and the White House move forward with immigration reform this year, I hope they will keep in mind the needs of our DREAMers, the potential of the highly trained scientists and engineers from other lands to contribute to America’s competitiveness and our broader responsibilities to build capacity elsewhere in the world until a true “brain circulation” model becomes a reality.

David J. Skorton is president of Cornell University. He may be reached at david.skorton@cornell.edu. From David appears bi-monthly this semester.

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OPINION

Carl Ferkinhoff

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Shane Seppini

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Promoting STEM

he name Cornell is synonymous with excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the STEM fields. Throughout Mallott, Bradfield, Clark, Olin, Uris and many other buildings across campus, students, postdocs and professors seek to unravel the mysteries of the large and small, the mind and body. They apply these discoveries to useful technologies to better the human condition. But will this always be so? Will Cornell always be the recipient of three-quarters of a billion dollars in research funding? In 50 years, will Cornell, and the United States as whole, still be at the forefront of scientific discovery? If we don’t have a scientifically literate citizenry, can we ensure that our country will adequately fund science? While-oft discussed by pundits and touted as political talking points, the STEM education crisis — and it is a crisis — in the United States represents a real threat to the successful economic future of United States and to the future of institutions like Cornell.

As a Teach For America corps member, I experienced first-hand the biggest challenges in STEM education. Until stepping into my high school chemistry or physics classes, many of my students in Baltimore had never performed a lab experiment. Science, to my students, meant finding definitions in a textbook. They had gone through 11 years of education and had never written a lab report, never measured the pH of acids or bases, never plotted the distance versus time traveled by a toy car. All are simple things that are vital to teaching students a scientific worldview.

This is the opportunity gap in all its sobering glory.

Across the country, we are far from receiving a passing grade in STEM education, but it is low-income and minority communities that are especially hard-hit. For instance, the National Science Foundation reports that only 17 percent of science undergraduate degrees are awarded to African

“How can we stand by and do nothing in the face of educational inequalities in our country?”

Americans. Worse yet, only three percent of the U.S. science and engineering workforce is black. How can we let this stand? As members of a community who have been so clearly shaped by our education, how can stand by and do nothing in the face of the educational inequalities in our country? I don’t believe we can.

Ending the educational injustices and the crisis in STEM education in the U.S. will take an all-hands-on-deck approach, and the Cornell community has an important role to play. We must do everything in our power to ensure that students at all levels think with scientific minds and have the basic scientific knowledge to be active 21st century citizens.

In the coming years, the Tech Campus in New York City will provide a unique opportunity for improving STEM education, especially for low-income communities. But, right now, there are already many outreach programs across campus that share science with students and other community members.

These programs include the Cornell Prison Education Program, Expanding Your Horizons and REACH, just to name a few. I encourage all to take advantage of these programs, including those run by your own departments or by the Public Service Center.

Faculty members have an important role in setting the norms for outreach in their research groups. Actively encouraging outreach, and participating in it themselves, can go a long way in instilling the importance of outreach in those they mentor. Engaging with younger students helps undergraduate and graduate students learn to communicate their work and think about it from different perspectives — important skills for any successful scientist. As university scientists, we enjoy the wide range of support for our research. We have an incredible opportunity to pay that forward.

Students, take what you’ve learned and help someone else get to where you are now. Mentor a high school student. Tutor.

Visit public school classrooms and share science demonstrations. Seniors, as you prepare to leave college behind, consider entering the classroom as a teacher. By teaching, you can use your Cornell experiences to help ensure that all children get an excellent STEM education. Many of your classmates have already chosen to do just this by joining Teach For America.

Applying to Teach For America by Feb. 15 can help fill the need for teachers like you: Teachers who are passionate and knowledgeable about science.

The university is often described as an ivory tower. It is easy to fall into this thinking, but the truth is we are far from the idealized intuition that is separate from society. The future of Cornell, and the country as a whole, depends on the education of all children, regardless of race or income — a pursuit in which we are currently falling short. We have the power to change this, if we choose to. What will you choose?

Carl Ferkinhoff is a Ph.D. candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Feedback may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

Letters From a Young Curmudgeon

Free to Be Oucking Fffenssive

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oughly three weeks ago at the Cornell versus Yale men’s hockey game, something went awry. Students’ freedom of speech and expression was abridged for no demonstrable reason.

A student was kicked out of the hockey game for questioning why he and his friends were told to cover their shirts, which read “Yuck Fale.” It is disconcerting that Cornell University would willingly limit the freedom of speech and expression of its students, simply because someone else might be offended. What’s equally problematic is the University’s decision to enforce this limitation using the Cornell Police force. I find this offensive, much more so than shirts with gibberish written on them, and you should, too. Apparently, Cornell University ushers, administrators and police do not think you and I are capable of looking away when we see something that displeases us. Novelist Brad Thor wrote, “I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it’s equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.” The same goes for words printed on shirts.

I attended my first Cornell hockey game last night and watched the men lose to Princeton. The best

part of the match was the boisterous and belligerent environment it fostered.

Obscene chants were screamed by hundreds of college students enjoying themselves. Students mercilessly taunted one of the opposing players; they were having fun being collegeaged fans. The students acted the way one would expect them to at a sporting event in which players hurtle into plexiglas with less than a foot separating the rink from the front row.

Nobody (except maybe Princeton’s number six) was negatively affected by any of the banter being spewed from the student section.

Children weren’t running amuck because they had been scarred by obscene language, adults weren’t flabbergasted when we urged the Cornell players to “kill him.”

But, even if they had been, they have the right to choose another form of Saturday night entertainment. This is particularly true in the case of “Yuck Fale,” a nonsensical phrase that means nothing unless one rearranges the letters.

Easily offended adults should seriously consider alternative forms of entertainment, if not cognitive behavioral therapy, if their experience is so tainted by a shirt that they cannot enjoy the game.

The University cannot claim to support free speech

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in principle and also disallow its potentially offensive free expression. Defending free speech is not a balancing act; one unit of free speech outweighs infinite units of offense felt by those with slight spines and overflowing saline pouches for tear ducts.

We must be free to wear shirts anywhere on campus that read “Yuck Fale,” and we need not provide justification. Because who among us is qualified to determine what is truly obscene and to set the limit on what you’re allowed to see, say and wear?

The students at the Cornell vs. Yale game committed a victimless crime and yet were punished by being dragged from the game by the police as well as being JA’d for, according to the victim, “unreasonably loud and belligerent behavior.” One would be foolish to attend a Cornell men’s hockey game with the expectation that attendees won’t be “unreasonably loud and belligerent.” It is childish to coerce someone into covering his or her shirt by threatening to involve the police.

The Cornell University Police should not be perched on all fours waiting for the University to open its kennel door so they can bark at students who exercise their freedom of expression.

The students who bravely defied the order to cover up their shirts have worn them on campus without

incident since last homecoming. No riots were incited, students who saw the shirts did not overrun Gannett’s psychological services and nothing resulted from the shirts, except for the occasional smirk or high five. Why then is Lynah Rink different from Ho Plaza?

The University should not establish free speech zones by limiting students’ rights in certain venues. The United States of America is the smallest free speech zone in which I am content The Cornell vs. Yale game was televised on NBC, which some might argue necessitated removing the shirts. I already exposed the idiocy of the FCC’s piddling censorship laws. The fact remains that the shirts do not have words printed on them that violate the FCC’s unjust obscenity rules. Thus, this is an excuse not a valid justification.

I came to Cornell with the belief that freedom of speech is a necessary condition of institutional legitimacy. As my last semester ends, Cornell University’s actions have shown that this is indeed the case.

S.D. Seppinni is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at s.d.seppinni@cornellsun.com.

Letters from a Young Curmudgeon appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Ringing True

Calamari by Any Other Name F or the past month, U.K. grocery stores have been pulling beef products containing up to 100 percent horsemeat off shelves. Criminal investigations have determined that highly profitable Polish and Italian mob operations substituted cheaper alternatives for beef.

According to BBC, hippophagy (literally, horse-eating) initially emerged in response to economic pressures. The practice “spread in Europe in the 19th Century, after famines caused several governments to license horse butcheries.” The connotation has held — hence the expression “so hungry I could eat a horse.”

Horsemeat that contains traces of the drug phenylbutazone is banned for human consumption, but government officials have yet to declare that the recalled products are a health risk. The outrage has more to do with deceptive practices that cheat consumers out of money and violate their rights to make religious and ethical food choices.

Mislabeling of food products is rampant, but most are cases of dishonest marketing of a product’s attributes (such as labeling California olive oil as imported from Italy), rather than gross misrepresentation of a product. In the case of U.K. beef, consumers thought they were eating cow meat when they were actually eating a mixture of meats or a different meat altogether. Similarly, a 2011 Boston Globe investigation found that 48 percent of fish sold in

Massachusetts were a cheaper species being passed off as a more lucrative one.

Numerous economic and ecological costs stem from mislabeling. Those who order Atlantic cod because it is fresher and supports local and sustainable business practices would balk at the news that they’re likely eating Pacific cod.

When tilapia is consistently listed on menus as red snapper, market exposure conveys to consumers that red snapper is abundant when it is actually overfished. Conversely, when endangered species are used as substitutes and not listed on menus, even educated consumers cannot avoid contributing to their overfishing. In exploiting people’s willingness to shell out for locally or sustainably harvested options, fishmongers and restaurateurs thwart efforts to protect fish stocks through public education.

The other troubling ethical concern is religiously forbidden meats being used as substitutes. The U.K. investigations uncovered that halal meat from the distributor, 3663, contained traces of pig DNA. A spokesperson said that the products had been distributed only to prisons, which is far from reassuring since prisoners have none of the choices available to the public.

Religion also came up in the “Doppelgängers” episode of This American Life, which vetted the possibility of bung, or pig rectum, being a stand in for calamari. A taste test proved that the switch is all too plausible. Aside

from the ick factor, the segment touches on the difficulty of regulating food that doesn’t pose an immediate safety or sanitation risk. If you’re like me though, you instinctually feel that pork rectum should be a sanitation concern.

Alas, even if the Food and Drug Administration wanted to go hunting for bung that’s served up as squid, its regulatory capability has been hampered by budget cuts. The U.K. Food Standards Agency is in a similar bind, and the environment secretary has indicated that grocers should pick up the tab for food testing. A crackdown on mislabeling is needed, but consumers, especially the ones buying cheap beef products, will only be further punished should grocers pass on those costs to them.

The problem with horsemeat, escolar and bung isn’t that they’re unfit for human consumption. It’s that some individuals can afford truly local and ethical options and should be able to trust that they’re getting the goods they paid for. Other individuals — for religious, ethical or otherwise personal reasons — cannot afford to eat false substitutes but are forced to unwittingly. In either case, that decision should not be plucked away by swindlers looking to profit from bait-and-switch schemes.

Jing Jin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jingjin@cornellsun.com. Ringing True appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT We Are What We Wear: Storm Tharp ’92

BY DAVEEN KOH Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Storm Tharp ’92 is in illustrious company — Gordon Matta-Clark and James Siena, among others — as the youngest Cornell alumnus to hold a monographic show at the Johnson Museum of Art. Tharp returned to Cornell last week to paint a mural with fine art students and talk about his solo exhibition, Third Person, which features his stirring ink and gouache portraits (until April 7 at the Johnson) and his serendipitously assembled fabric sculptures which grapple with “gratitude and forgiveness” (until Feb. 22 at Milstein Gallery). The Sun spoke to Tharp about “good” art, his myriad influences (which span Cornell professors to Japanese printmakers) and why people are obsessed with fashion.

THE SUN: How did it feel to be back at Cornell? You’ve said that preparing for the show has been an intense and hectic experience.

STORM THARP: … What I meant to say about the “intense and hectic” had more to do specifically with the conception and production of the wall mural in Milstein Hall.

I am not a muralist. However, I am a selfprescribed perfectionist, and I came to understand quite immediately that I had been too ambitious in my vision for that wall. I found myself in a hectic worry to get that wall accomplished to my liking. It was very challenging, but also very rewarding. … Returning to Cornell after 21 years was psychically intense. My life is busy and I was not exactly prepared for the emotional impact of seeing this beautiful campus covered in snow. It’s truly a majestic location.

SUN: How did the Milstein collaboration come about, and how was it like working with students?

S.T.: Well, first of all, Milstein Hall is just incredible. The architecture students that get to work in that facility really have it made, and I think it’s very appropriate ... to provide a context for design students to share in what is possible and is a reflection of their study ...

The Milstein gallery was offered to me as a twin location for my show at the museum. I loved this idea. It really grew out of programming between Dean [Kent] Kleinman, professors in the art department and curatorial and educational programming at the Johnson … I felt very lucky to have been invited to share my work in that context.

Working with students was wonderful.

They were helpful, kept me company and had good heads on their shoulders. I worked most with senior thesis students and a super talented grad student. It was great.

It’s difficult for me to delegate duties to get my work done. That will never be easy. But thank God I had help at my disposal — the project would have never been accomplished otherwise.

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SUN: What were some crucial lessons that you learned at Cornell?

S.T.: The crucial lessons were always the same. Whether it was drawing with Zevi Blum, or painting with Elanore Mikus, or photography with Jean Locey or intaglio printing with Elisabeth Meyer — they all encouraged me to let go. Elanore was specifically diligent in breaking my habits of “good” painting. I realize now, I had no idea what “good” was. In fact, “good” is no longer a word that I associate with art making in any regard.

The same occurred in many years of working with Jean Locey. I would hand in my contact sheets; pictures I really connected with — and Jean consistently encouraged me to print the frames that made no sense to me. I have always suffered from a pre-existing notion of what I wanted. My Cornell education helped break me of that tendency and taught me to accept the proposition of unknowing. There is more potential for surprise and enlightenment in this regard.

That said, my work is still tightly buttoned. I have to work hard to let go. It’s like athleticism: rigid perfection is nothing without grace and buoyancy.

SUN: Your exhibit at the Johnson is entitled “Third Person,” and your works have very compelling, literary titles. Love Nothing More, for example, reads like poetry. To borrow a quote from the Whitney Museum, you paint “strange and beautiful” people.

What inspires these narratives? I’m tempted to say that you paint like Vladimir Nabokov writes.

S.T.: Oh God. If only I could paint like Nabokov writes. If that were the case, I would be the greatest painter on the planet.

It’s a good question though. Who does paint like Nabokov writes? That might be impossible. Perhaps, the entire career of Gerhard Richter can find itself in three of my favorite novels by Nabokov. It’s easier to think about who paints like John Cheever writes. Or who paints like Wallace Stevens writes poetry. I don’t think about these things in this shape exactly but I have made works inspired by all of those writers. If you’re familiar with Lolita, you will recall that great moment when The Enchanted Hunters is later re-framed as The Hunted Enchanters within the narrative. God, I love that.

But let me be clear: I should read a lot more! I am currently catching up on a whole syllabus of required reading that I never got around to. Most of it is theorybased, which I reject like cough syrup, but it nonetheless is quite helpful.

SUN: You have a wide range of influences, from 1970s American cinema to the work of Flemish painter Helene Schjerfbeck. Why do you continually return to Japanese portrait prints?

S.T.: I was going to suggest that perhaps Hiroshige or Utamaro are equivalent to

Nabokov. But I’m afraid they are not …

However, I can say that the flatness of what is depicted is fundamentally influential.

Take the fabrics and the prints and the folds in an Utamaro portrait — and you will find one of the greatest sources of inspiration in my work. I continuously look to him for help. I steal from the masters of Japanese printmaking all the time. The bokashi fade of a Hiroshige background is as important to me. The demarcation of heaven and earth in a colorful fade is both realistic and metaphoric. There is not a single landscape painter on this planet who has influenced me more. And I won’t even get started on Japanese erotica — Shunga. Sociologically, it is phenomenal. I have never seen anything like it. If only the U.S. had a sexual awakening in this regard. But alas, no.

SUN: In your portraits there’s an emphasis on the subjects’ clothes, which tend to be very finely rendered and tactile, notably in Sweater (Rabbit) (2010) and Blue Bird (2010). In contrast, the subjects’ faces are often very airily rendered. What motivates this contrast? Are we what we wear? You’ve mentioned that you once wanted to be a fashion designer — why is fashion so important to you?

S.T.: Why is it important to anyone? I am fascinated by the idea that we wake up and select items that represent (an idea) of ourselves to everyone that we come into contact with. So yeah, a grand peacock of a person is fun to dissect and learn about, but equally I am interested a character who goes out of his or her way to fight fashion and norms of dress. That person is as much of a peacock. Wearing your clothing follows much of the same politics as making your art.

I am aware of this quote by the art historian, Jack Hay — that has resonated with me for some time: “Nakedness, it could be said, obscures rather than reveals, and garments define rather than hide.”

SUN: In High House (2010) and Fireplace Road (2009), you apparently use blocks of color to depict places. There’s such a rich tradition of color field painting in art history — Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko — the list could go on. Were you drawing on any of that?

S.T.: Not really. The (usually) monochromatic painting was a way to battle against the portrait works. The process and action are very different — and I revel in the differences. But I would not be pursuing the works if they were not related. Unlike some color field painters, who reject the metaphorical and relational attributes of the landscape and the figure, I am trying to bridge those two seemingly divergent modes of painting. When I paint in pure color or pure abstraction, I am interested in the representation of that color emotionally.

So I often illuminate that idea with titles that refer to place or body or person, versus Untitled or Yellow Square. Agnes Martin, for example, employed Untitled for many of her abstract works, but she also applied

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titles like Happy Holdiay and Love Loving. I think it’s a very important distinction.

SUN: I found your selection of studio paraphernalia at the Johnson Museum very intriguing. Do you see these displays as a kind of self-portrait? I’m reminded of Arman’s Premier Portrait-robot d’Yves Klein or Tracey Emin’s My Bed. S.T.: Great question and I’m happy that you enjoyed the vitrines of ephemera … the Tracey Emin reference is not a favorite, but I appreciate the association. There is a confessional quality I suppose that binds us, and a frankness about sexuality that I find important and interesting as much as it showy and eye-rolling to some.

In a way, all that stuff just means more to me than what ends up on the gallery wall.

I have to thank Andrea Inselmann for including the works.

Those notes, thoughts, perversions and loves — my work is not possible without them. So to see it for what it is, and how I use it daily is significant to me. I will look at a notation on a piece of paper, that I wrote subconsciously while on the phone, and think to myself: “that is so much better than anything you are making now.”

SUN: Tell me more about your fabric sculptures.

S.T.: The sculptures represent my belief in change, and the artist’s necessity to move on, regardless of whether the impulse is wise or certain. In some regard, the formal attributes in the work, the clinical and static elements, are deliberate. It’s like looking under a microscope to examine the question at hand. For me, the question had to do with a desire to transform, and the trap of holding on to what you know. Of course, the work is infused with other emotional facets. The carnality in the drawings, I think, saddle up with these questions precisely. The door is open. Walk through it.

SUN: You’ve said that you’re not interested in repeating yourself. What are you working on right now, and what’s next for you?

S.T.: Right now I am earning some money — and it doesn’t involve art making.

That is just a reality I face as a working artist. But soon, I will be back where I left off. I am enjoying this exercise in reduction whilst not abandoning the visually opulent.

SUN: Any final words for college students, aspiring artists or otherwise?

S.T.: I don’t think it takes a lifetime to find your voice, and I don’t think it takes an eternity to gain some kind of momentum in your work. It’s possible that it can come effortlessly and quickly. But it is important to understand that you, too, will change.

You will have to find your voice again, and again and again.

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

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Arts Around Town Banff Mountain Film Festival

Oscar Nominated Shorts

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Screening this week at Cornell Cinema

Friday at 7 p.m. in Bailey Hall

The Oscars are fast approaching, and to celebrate, Cornell Cinema is showing all of the nominated short films. There are awards given in three categories — documentary, animation and live action — and all run from between five and 25 minutes. Among the most anticipated animation nominees is “The Longest Daycare,” which follows The Simpson’s Maggie Simpson at the provokingly named Ayn Rand Daycare Center.

In the live action category, “Curfew,” a story about a young man who is about to commit suicide when his sister calls asking to babysit his niece, sticks out as a favorite. Without a doubt, this series is a convenient way to see the selection — and pick some winners — before the Feb. 24 ceremony even begins.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival is the product of an annual international film competition that focuses on “the spirit of the mountain.” The competition results in an amalgamation of films and documentaries about mountain culture, remote landscapes, action sports and the environment which then travels internationally to 32 countries, reaching 245,000 people at over 635 screenings every year. The 2013 screening for Cornell University will be held on Friday at 7 p.m. in Bailey Hall. General admission tickets are on sale now, running 12 dollars for students.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany

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7 p.m. on Thursday at Cornell Cinema This Valentine’s Day, whether you watch a movie with a crush, with your friends, or with a bar of toblerone, that age old dilemma remains: what to watch? You could go see Die Hard on the big screen, but if you’re looking for something a bit more indie, check out Price Check at Cornell Cinema, a film about jobs, love, getting what you want and figuring out what you want to begin with. It doesn’t sound too romantic — it is literally about a company that prices groceries for supermarkets — and this rom-com has none of the usual big budget stars, unless Edward Herrmann counts, but it manages to counter these deficincies through its wit and depth.

— Arielle Cruz

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— Meredith Joyce

8 p.m. on Wednesday at the State Theatre Despite the fact that Neutral Milk Hotel disbanded over a decade ago, singersongwriter and former frontman Jeff Mangum continues to perform the band’s timeless indie rock hits on his acoustic solo tour. It’s no Neutral Milk Hotel reunion, but knowing Mangum’s history (he broke up the group due to touring frustration and a subsequent nervous breakdown), a visit to Ithaca is certainly exciting.

Supporting acts include the Music Tapes and Tall Firs.

— Yana Lysenko

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Ending the Tyranny of Normal T

he nine films nominated for Best Picture this year are all pretty spectacular. Quentin Tarantino finally seems to have garnered the recognition his fans all know he deserves with Django Unchained. Daniel DayLewis, as most critics have noted, embodies the title character of Lincoln so fully that for the length of the film, most of us forget we have little to no working knowledge of what the President was actually like. And Ang Lee’s poetic mastery of the moving image shines in Life of Pi, a book-to-film translation that, against all odds, does justice to Yann Martel’s brilliant prose. But the one film that I am really pulling for, despite an admittedly uphill battle against its competitors, is David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook.

Silver Linings tells the story of Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) as he leaves his mental health facility and attempts to win back his wife, English teacher Nikki (Brea Bee), by studying her curriculum and crudely navigating around her restraining order. Despite being released from the facility, Pat is still mentally unstable, aggressive, prone to outbursts and intimidation and uncompromisingly loyal to his friends, family, and girlfriends. It seems clear early on that Nikki and Pat are not meant to be, especially when he befriends Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), another mentally unstable character who is herself climbing out of a manic episode following the death of her former husband. After a tumultuous start, the two become friends, forming an unlikely and bizarre bond over their mutual distaste for the reality that surrounds them.

In a symbolic scene early in the film, Pat is up late at night, reading Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, the book currently assigned to his wife’s class. When he finishes, he slams the book shut and tosses it out the window, shattering the glass and waking up his parents as he proceeds to scream about how unsatisfying he found the classic tale. Because of

his own romantic difficulties, Pat spits in the face of this tragic love story and, unwittingly, proceeds to form his own, falling into an unlikely relationship — especially so given the norms governing Blockbuster dramas like Silver Linings.

Jeffrey Eugenides also problematized the classic love story in his ironically titled 2011 bestseller, The Marriage Plot.

The novel tells the story of self-indulgent romantic Brown University English-major, Madeleine, a who constantly flips through the pages of her dog-eared copy of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. No matter how hard she tries to choreograph her perfect love story, she finds herself constantly coming up short, falling for a troubled genius with manic depression, making drunken mistakes with her most pretentious classmate and rejecting her secret-admirer outright despite his undying affection. As if to symbolize Eugenides own rebellion, Madeleine finishes The Marriage Plot a single woman, having rejected nearly every other man in the book.

Both of these works represent a huge shift away from the typical love story. 30 or 40 years ago, imagining a romance about two people with bipolar disorder, depression, or schizophrenia might have Slow seemed cruel satire. But Lerner both The Marriage Plot and Silver Linings Playbook are deeply romantic — both stories emphasize their own seriousness, as if to suggest that the only way to be “crazy in love” is to actually be crazy. Maybe our hyper-entertained culture has simply grown tired of love stories between, ugh, normal people (insert sarcastic voice here), or maybe we’ve begun to deconstruct what normal really is. In the age of online dating, where people seem more likely to end up married to someone they met on eHarmony than in high school, Russell and Eugenides suggest that love doesn’t need some pristine vessel to be romantic. There’s something pretty fantastic about the love story wherever you manage to find it.

In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook and at the the-

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ater in Aurora, Colorado, our country’s dialogue about mental health seems to have taken a sour turn. Of course, a small minority of mentally ill people is indeed violent and these people need help wherever they can get it. But we must remember, no matter how boorishly Congressional committees frame the debate, that we are not a society of normal people and outcasts. Upon further examination, normalcy becomes a façade, perhaps suitable for the Oscars of yesteryear, but unfit for us twenty-first century critics. Though Pat or Tiffany might have indeed been troubled in a negative sense, their romantic success reminds us of the need to instigate a coup against the tyranny of normal. Both characters triumph against the antagonists within themselves and win the audience’s admiration in the process. Though we may be more mentally sound than these characters, we are by no means morally superior.

Though I know he faces stiff competition, I will be rooting for Mr. Russell on Oscar night. He navigated this story terrifically.

Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at alerner@cornellsun.com. Slow Lerner runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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19’5.25.” Seniors Claire Dishong andLindsey Patterson went 1-2 in the pole vault, clearing 12’1.5” and 11’9.75” respectively.

Up next for the Red is the Marc Deneault Memorial Invitational hosted in Barton Hall on Saturday, Feb. 16th. The meet is dedicated to the memory of Marc Deneault, who ran for the Red before passing away in a car accident 12 years ago. Taylor spoke about how this meet in particular is an emotional meet, due to both its origin and the fact that it is the last stepping stone before the Heps.

“The Denault meet is a memorial meet for Marc Denault,” he said.

“It’s an emotional meet, but a lot of the kids who know they’re going to be competing at the Heps will take that weekend off. But for the rest of them, it’s the biggest meet that they’ll be in to this point because it’s their chance to make the Heps team.”

Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

In Second Game Back,Paul Carries Clippers Over Knicks NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Paul preserved the big lead that Jamal Crawford helped build, then they both looked elsewhere for the key to this Clippers victory.

“I think the game ball goes to Grant Hill,” Paul said.

Hill led the defensive effort that limited Carmelo Anthony to one basket in the fourth quarter, and Los Angeles pulled away for a 10288 victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday.

Anthony scored 42 points in his fifth 40-point game of the season, but took only two shots in the final period while defended by the 40-year-old Hill, who didn’t even play in the first half but was on the floor for the final 15:21.

“Jamal, Chris, Blake, I mean everybody, it was a team effort.

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to waste. Especially with Miles being probably the fastest point guard in the league. It makes our jobs a little bit easier to deny.”

On the offensive end, the Red saw significant production from its three point specialists — junior guard Dominick Scelfo and freshman guard Nolan Cressler. Scelfo knocked down five threes for 15 points and Cressler shot five of six from the field for 14 points.

“They’re both great shooters. I think any time they get looks, we are confident they are going to knock them down,” Chemerinski said.

“We did a good job dribble penetrating and kicking it out for some easier threes.”

Scelfo has seen a boost in his playing time in the start of Ivy League play as he continues to produce consistently. Against Harvard, he recorded a career-high five assists, including a rim-shaking alley-oop to Miller.

“Dom plays with a lot of confidence [and] we see it in practice. ...

This was one of those games where every shot he got he was looking to shoot. We have to have that looking forward,” Gray said.

With an even record once again after splitting an Ivy weekend series, the Red understands that it is no longer enough to take one out of two games. With Harvard and Princeton both losing their first conference games this weekend, the Red is right back in the running, Gray said.

“It comes down to what kind of mentality we bring in, we have to focus on one game at a time,” Gray said. “We can’t focus on what Harvard or Princeton is doing, we’ve got to focus on winning the next game. What we have to do now is get good practices in Monday through Thursday so we’re well prepared for the weekend. That’s where it starts — in practice.”

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weren’t going our way,” Ferlin said.

“But I think, overall, we were happy with the way we played [Saturday] — offensively, blocking shots and boxing guys out in front of the netand stuff we haven’t been doing in the past few games. I think all-in-all, we’re starting to turn the corner.”

The Red will have two more opportunities to snap the losing streak next weekend, traveling to face Dartmouth on Friday and then heading to Cambridge on Saturday.

There, it hopes to avenge a 4-1 loss to Harvard from earlier in the season.

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A high-profile matchup against the nation’s No. 2 team and a dominating performance against an Ivy foe turned into another nightmare for the Red, whose losing streak now stands at seven straight games.

Cornell (8-13-2, 4-10-2 ECAC) was unable to upset conference-leading and No. 2 Quinnipiac (21-3-4, 14-0-2) in a 4-1 loss Friday at Lynah. The Red later fell in a 1-0, gut-wrenching thriller to Princeton (9-10-4, 7-6-3) on Saturday. Cornell is currently 11th in the ECAC, ahead of only Harvard (5-15-1, 3-12) in the conference standings.

“I’m proud of our guys,” said head coach

Mike Schafer ’86 following the Princeton game. “I don’t know when this [losing skid] is going to turn. It’s to the point where it’s almost comical — that you could generate that many scoring chances and get that many opportunities and [not score].

For Schafer, though, his team is still performing the way he expects. “[A]s a coach, all I can ask for is the things that we’ve been doing and to keep plugging away and not get frustrated. It’s tough to get that many scoring chances and [not come away with a win],” he said.

The Red outshot Princeton 39-12 on Saturday and had a 9-0 shot-on-goal advantage in the third period. Junior forward Andrew Ammon broke the scoreless tie early

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Take your aim | In a tightly contested matchup against Princeton on Saturday, the only shot that got past junior goaltender Andy Iles was a ricochet off the goalpost.

into the second, however, with a shot that make the final score 4-1 in favor of the ricocheted off the post to give the Tigers a Bobcats. decisive 1-0 lead. The Red maintained a “Quinnipiac doesn’t give up many scorhigh level of aggression, pumping up the ing chances,” Schafer said.

Lynah crowd while only accumulating a Although both weekend games ended total of three penalties.

Still, despite a flurry of near misses in the game’s “Look at the shot chart — it looks like a cluster final minute, Cornell bomb went off in front of [Princeton’s] net.” was unable to send the game into overtime in Mike Schafer ’86 what was Schafer’s 600th career game as coach of with the same result, the atmosphere in the Red. “Look at the shot chart — it looks like a Lynah became electric Saturday night as the cluster bomb went off in front of [the Red flipped the switch, generating constant pressure on the Princeton net. Despite not Princeton] net,” Schafer said.

The Red had ample opportunities on coming away with the win, Schafer said he appreciated the team’s effort and the highnet, but was unable to connect. “[I]t’s pretty frustrating ... We hit a cou- intensity environment.

“We need our fans,” Schafer said. “This ple posts, had so many chances -- obviously outshot them by a lot,” said sophomore is the first time we’ve gotten our fans defenseman Joakim Ryan, who, along with involved in the game [since] the Yale game. senior defenseman Nick D’Agostino, gener- We need our fans to help carry us. We need ated plenty of pressure by playing up from to play that kind of hockey in order to keep the defensive end. “It’s frustrating, but we them excited. The fans appreciate the kind played our hearts out tonight and we left of effort that was given [Saturday, including] everything out there. And every guy in the blocking shots. I heard the fans cheering for room can say that — can look themselves in Greg Miller to go down and block a shot. the mirror and say they played their hearts Those are the small victories that we’ve got out — so [you] can’t ask [for] much more to claim for ourselves and plug away and keep on going, and come out the other side than that.”

Against No. 2 Quinnipiac on Friday, the [as a] better team, better players, [and] betBobcats struck early on a wrister from senior ter coaches.”

Though the team’s frustration during this forward Mike Dalhuisen that rattled through the legs of junior goalie Andy Iles. losing streak is evident, sophomore forward Quinnipiac struck again during a second- Brian Ferlin said he feels that the promising period power play to take a 2-0 advantage effort against Princeton may be a page-turnand notched a third goal to open the final er for the Red. “It’s just one of things where pucks period. Senior forward Greg Miller put the Red on the board late, but Quinnipiac put See M. HOCKEY page 13 the game on ice with an empty-netter to

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brought the squad within two.

Continued from page 16 “We wanted to let him decide whether to take it to the one through five just played basket, or if his guy backed off harder, we pressured the bas- him to shoot it,” Gray said. ketball every single moment “We can’t go wrong with his and we kind of sped them up. decision. ... He played a pheThey were trying to work the nomenal game.” shot clock so that may have On Sunday, against gotten them out of their Dartmouth, the Red’s pesky rhythm.” defenders were bothering the Following the jumper by Green from the very first posPeck, head coach Bill Courtney session, where they forced called a 30-second timeout. point guard Alex Mitola to After the break, senior guard turn the ball over.

Miles Asafo-Adjei fouled “We did a good job carrying over the defen“We did a good job carrying over the sive intensity from the last defensive intensity from the last ten 10 minutes minutes against Harvard.” a g a i n s t Eitan Chemerinski Harvard and started off Chambers, but he missed the with great energy, and I think front end of the one-and-one, that got us going a little on giving the Red the ball back offense,” Chemerinski said. with 11 seconds to go. Peck Even though the game was corralled the rebound and postponed a day because of the brought it down court, putting snowstorm, the delay did not up a three-pointer that did not cause the Red to forget what fall. had carried it back into the “The call was to keep the game on Friday night. Asafocourt spread for Errick to go Adjei was especially effective on one-on-one low on his man. the defensive end, shadowing We wanted to let him have the Green’s point guards wheranother chance to put us ever they moved on the court. ahead,” Gray said.

“We’re at our best when we’re Peck — who had a team scrambling around, up in the ball high 17 points in the game — handler’s face,” Gray said. “We gave the Red an important have so much speed and athletiboost in the final minutes with cism, if we don’t use it it will go two free throws, two big rebounds and the jumper that See M. B-BALL page 13

own end, and give credit to them for breaking up our breakout, but we didn’t do a good job of executing.”

According to sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier, the Red has had a tendency to start slowly in away games and must make an effort to improve in the future.

“This seems to be a trend we’ve been having at the beginning of away games, and this is something we need to change immediately,” she said. “We can’t sit back on our heels like that because from now on it’s crunch time, so we need to make sure to come out with a fast start, and that will be crucial for us the rest of the season.”

The Red had chances to come back, outshooting Quinnipiac in the second and third periods.

However, it couldn’t score until late in the third period, when Quinnipiac already had a 3-0 lead and the game was almost over.

According to Saulnier, the Red could have had more offensive success if it had been able to get more pucks to the net.

“Getting the puck to the net more is crucial,” she said.

“Sometimes we try to be a little too pretty with it. We need to get back to the basics and doing the little things that we do rightwhich is get the puck, move it fast and get it to the net.”

According to Derraugh, playing on the road is no excuse for a lethargic start to the game.

“The main thing is that we need to be better at the start of the game,” he said. “We’ve got to

be able to be ready, regardless of where we’re playing, who we’re playing, and what time we’re playing. That’s the way it is in the playoffs. If you’re going to win in the playoffs, you need to play as well on the road as you do at home, and I don’t think we were as ready as we needed to be at the start of this game.”

The Red did just the opposite in the game against the Tigers, scoring the game’s first goal on a power play. According to Derraugh, the Red was aggressive and was on the attack early in the QUINNIPIAC CORNELL Game: 1ST Quinnipiac 1 Cornell 0

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“We did get off to a better start, getting the puck into their end, creating some turnovers and a lot of opportunities early in the game,” Derraugh said.

Cornell also outshot Princeton by a wide margin and controlled the puck for most of the game.

According to Saulnier, playing a solid team game and controlling the puck are important keys to the Red’s success.

“We’re having our best games when we have the puck and are moving around, playing with confidence and playing our style of game,” she said. “We got back to the basics and did the little

things right. We worked as a team and depended on each other, and thats how we came out with the win.”

Princeton tied the game at the beginning of the third period, but the Red answered with three straight goals to seal the win. One notable statistic was that the Red only took one penalty throughout the game. According to Derraugh, making sure the team does not take penalties is an important ingredient for winning.

“That’s something we’ve been stressing in the second half. If you’re going to be successful at the end of the year, you’ve got to be disciplined, stay out of the penalty box and keep your emotions in check, and we did that well against Princeton.”

The Red now looks forward to next weekend’s home games against Harvard and Dartmouth.

Harvard is one point behind the Red, but is two games ahead in the ECAC standings, so the game against Harvard may determine who will win the Ivy League.

According to Derraugh, the Red is excited to play for the ECAC and Ivy League titles at the season comes to a close.

“This is a veteran group of players that have been in these situations, so they know what needs to be done in order to be successful this time of year, so they feel good about the work they’ve put in all year to give themselves the opportunity to win the Ivy League championship and go further in the playoffs,” he said.

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

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TRACK & FIELD

Wade Runs Under-Four Minute Mile

Shatters Cornell event record

into two different groups this weekend. Part of the team competed at the SPIRE Invite while the rest stayed at home to compete at When senior distance runner Nick Wade the Kane Invitational hosted in Barton Hall.

Originally scheduled to compete at crossed the finish line of the mile race at the SPIRE Invite in Geneva, OH Saturday, the Boston University for the Valentine clock read 3:59.998. A mere .002 seconds Invitational, the meet was cancelled due to had boosted Wade into Cornell track and adverse weather, according to men’s head field history as he became the first Red ath- coach Nathan Taylor.

“We didn’t end up traveling to Boston,” lete to ever run a sub-four-minute mile — he said. “[But] the team perbreaking the school’s record in formed very well [in Geneva]. the event.

We had some great performances Wade’s performance is just this weekend.” one example of what the men’s Wade’s was just one of those track and field team has been impressive finishes, as senior working towards throughout the Brett Kelly moved up to No. 2 season — to reach each individall-time at Cornell in the 5k with ual athlete’s peak. a 14:09.17 finish. In shorter dis“I think every meet is an tances, sophomore Hong Cho opportunity to ramp it up and WADE became No. 10 all-time in the get really close to your maximum performance,” said head coach Nathan 800 with a time of 1:51.96.

The women’s team also had a successful Taylor. “That’s what we work on week in and week out, and I think we’re getting close weekend, qualifying a total of 15 runners for the ECAC championships next month. to that.”

With less than two weeks to go until the Women’s head coach Rich Bowman said he Heps Meet, hosted by Harvard, the men’s was pleased with how his team fared.

“It went very well,” he said. “It was fanand women’s track and field teams split up

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO

Sun Staff Writer

EMILY BURKE / SUN FILE PHOTO

One for the records | Senior distance runner Nick Wade became the first Cornell runner to break a four-minute mile on Saturday.

tastic [at the SPIRE]. Back home, there were [also] some fantastic performances.”

While the ultimate goal for the team is winning the Heps championship, Bowman added that it is important for each athlete to continue to grow and improve until the championship meet comes around.

“I think that each week, we’re trying to put people in position to do well when the

MEN’S BASKETBALL

After Disappointing Loss to Crimson, Red Defeats Dartmouth

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Dartmouth’s Connor Boehm went up for a layup under the hoop, finding himself beneath the 6-7 frame of sophomore Shonn Miller, who swatted his shot away. The black jersey-clad crowd of Newman nation rose to its feet as Boehm got the ball back and tried to go up with it again. Miller was still waiting, blocking the second attempt, this time into the hands of one of his teammates. These were just two of Miller’s six rejections on the day and part of a team defensive effort that stifled the Green all afterTINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO noon — forcing them to turn the ball over 18 times 1-2 step | Junior guard Dominick Scelfo hit five — and eventually giving the Red a 79-56 victory.

Though the Red ended the weekend with a win, three-pointers in a win over Dartmouth on Sunday. it was not so successful Friday night against Harvard (13-7, 5-1 Ivy League), when a late game comeback 13-0 run that ended with a jumper by senior Errick came up just short in a 67-65 loss.

Peck to put the squad within two with 42 seconds to The Crimson was dominant in the first half, go. heading into the locker room with a 16-point lead.

“We did a good job pressuring every pass, every Every time the Red tried to make a run, it was effec- dribble, making it as difficult as possible for them to tively silenced by the shooting of Crimson guards be comfortable in their offense,” said senior forward Siyani Chambers and Christian Webster. The rook- Eitan Chemerinski. “When we do that, we get easy ie Chambers led the Crimson opportunities off fast breaks, and charge with 18 points and 11 when we are at our best.”

HARVARD 67 thatInis that assists, while Webster connected stretch, the Red forced CORNELL 65 the Crimson to cough the ball up on five shots from beyond the Game: 1ST Tot 2nd arc en route to 17 points. twice, with one of the turnovers 38 67 29 The first 15 minutes of the Harvard leading to a transition dunk by 22 65 43 second half told a similar story, Cornell Miller. with the Crimson remaining “It wasn’t anything as far as x’s dominant on offense, trying to and o’s. ... We made a couple minor DARTMOUTH 56 adjustments work the shot clock to their to stop the ball from CORNELL 79 getting out of the paint,” said senior advantage. With 4:21 left in the 1ST Tot 2nd game, the Red trailed by 15. Game: guard Johnathan Gray. “Everybody 56 33 However, Cornell turned up its Dartmouth 23 45 79 34 defensive pressure and went on a Cornell See M. B-BALL page 15

championship part of the season comes in,” he said. “And I think we’ve been doing that.

Each week, we seem to be having good things happen.”

Freshman Hillary Holmes finished fourth in the 60 hurdles with a time of 8.88 and won the long jump event with a leap of See TRACK page 11

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Eight-GameWin Streak Snapped by Quinnipiac

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The No.4 Cornell women’s hockey team failed to extend its eight-game winning streak in its first game this past weekend, but the Red (20-5, 15-3 ECAC) bounced back with an encouraging win the following day.

Quinnipiac (16-9-3, 10-5-2 ECAC) defeated the Red on Friday, 4-1, but Cornell beat Princeton (9-14-2, 4-12-2 ECAC) the following day by the same score.

The Red’s sluggish start against the Bobcats put the squad into a hole from which it could not recover. Quinnipiac outshot the Red in the first peri-

od and took a 1-0 lead. Cornell was more aggressive in the second period but could not score, and the Bobcats extended their lead to 2-0. According to head coach Doug Derraugh, the Red failed to overcome the Bobcat’s aggressive forecheck and was back on its heels at the start of the game.

“They got pucks in deep on us, and they’re an aggressive forechecking team,” Derraugh said. “That caused us to have turnovers on our breakouts, which created chances for them right off the bat. For the first 10 to 12 minutes, we spent most of the time trying to get out of our See W. HOCKEY page 15

ESTHER HOFFMAN / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Breaking the tie | Junior forward Jessica Campbell’s goal gave the Red a 2-1 lead against Princeton on Saturday and the team never looked back.