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Students Protest Proposed Diversity Course Requirements

Attack of the snowmen

Petition gathers over 100 signatures

By JINJOO LEE Sun Senior Writer

“In the last semester, we’ve really had a dialogue on campus about sexual assault and it seemed like the right time to offer [the support group] again,” said Randy Patterson, assistant director for Training, Groups and After-Hours On-Call at Gannett.

Each group will consist of six to eight women and will focus on self-care and the emotional con-

The Campus Liberty Project — a student group that believes “every undergraduate should have as much freedom as realistically feasible to craft an individual academic curriculum” — created an online petition Sunday decrying the proposed creation of University-wide curriculum requirements promoting diversity. The petition had garnered 145 signatures as of 12 a.m.

Tuesday morning.

The petition was developed “in response to calls from other student organizations and members of the Student Assembly to increase the homogeneity of the Cornell curriculum in certain areas,” according to the petition website.

Alfonse Muglia ’14, editor-in-chief of The Cornell Review and one of the creators of the petition, said he considers himself a “part of a growing number of students that believe that [implementing a social justice requirement] is an ineffective way to promote social justice and diversity on campus.”

Instead of requiring certain academic coursework, Muglia said the University can promote diversity by “encouraging students to explore their individual interests.”

However, S.A. members said no steps have been taken thus far to implement University-wide diversity requirements. “[The petition’s] language assumes that the S.A. has taken steps, and that’s actually not what is taking place at this time. We are only investigating the possibility,” said Ulysses Smith ’13, S.A. vice president for diversity and inclusion.

Though the S.A. has spoken to different college representatives about the

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Students were greeted by snowmen as they crossed the Arts Quad Monday, after winter storm Nemo struck Ithaca over the weekend.

Univ.Forms Sexual Assault Support Group

By KRITIKA OBEROI Sun Staff Writer

In the wake of reports of sexual assault on and near campus last semester, Gannett Health Services will provide a 10-week sexual assault support program for women this semester. The support group, which was also offered several years ago, will be open to undergraduate, graduate and professional students at Cornell starting Feb. 12.

News Toward an Equal World

Deeya Bajaj ’16 skied across Greenland to raise funds for a girls’ orphanage in India.

Plan Proposes Reallocation of City’s Parking Meter Revenue

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer

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Opinion Together We Stand

Jacob Glick ’15 discusses how fraternities stand to lose their social niche in wake of University reforms. | Page 7

Arts Grammys Play a Bland Tune

Peter Jacobs ’13 criticizes the 55th Grammy Awards’ decision to award the “blandest sounds in rock and pop.” | Page 9

Sports Final Farewell

Cornell’s wrestling team, which bid adieu to its seniors Sunday, defeated Bucknell, 37-3. | Page 16

Weather Snow HIGH: 32 LOW: 23

At a meeting Monday, the city’s Board of Public Works discussed the possible creation of “Parking Benefit Districts” — a step city officials said will give communities a say in how revenue from parking meters in their neighborhoods is used.

Under the proposed resolution — which recommends that the Common Council consider using Parking Benefit Districts in neighborhoods with “high parking demand” — designated neighborhoods will be able to provide input for the use of money raised from parking meters within their set boundaries, according to board member Robert Morache.

Although many of the details — including which neighborhoods will be affected by the plan and which community members will decide how parking revenue is used — have not been determined, the board proposed that money raised by parking meters in these neighborhoods will be allocated to a separate account, rather than serve as revenue the city can use for any project.

Morache said he believes these funds can be used for “streetscape enhancements,” which include repairing neighborhood sidewalks and roads.

Board member Govind Acharya said he hopes that allowing each Parking Benefit District to provide feedback for potential improvements will allow the city to conduct

projects that are not currently on “City Hall’s radar.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 — who has been a supporter of other parking reforms, such as the elimination of the minimum parking requirement — said the plan is “an idea with a lot of promise.”

Additionally, Morache said he believes the proposed system will give the city more control over parking, which will allow it to increase revenue without raising taxes.

Some city officials, however, expressed skepticism about the implications of the proposed plan.

George McGonigal, a former Common Council member, said he was “apprehensive” about creating a system of Parking Benefit Districts because the plan does not have sufficient details — such as how neighborhoods See PARKING page 4

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Parking and the community | Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 discusses parking regulations and metering with the city’s Board of Public Works on Monday.

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Cornell Library Partnership Promises‘Greater Efficiency’

By NIKKI LEE Sun Staff Writer

The 2CUL partnership — which was formed between Cornell and Columbia University Libraries to merge their resources — will advance their partnership by integrating their library technical services, according to library officials.

The partnership represents an attempt to divert resources and expertise to support new areas, such as obtaining more digital collections and web archiving, according to Robert Wolven ’71, co-director of 2CUL at Columbia University.

One of the efforts to merge the two libraries’ technical services involves developing an improved system to search for and access information, according to Dean Krafft, Cornell Library’s director of information technology.

“We are using an open-source software system called Blacklight as part of our solution,” he said. “Columbia has already created a Blacklight-based catalog and we are sharing code and advice with them as we move forward on our own development.”

The library’s IT department is also in the process of capturing and archiving Cornell websites relevant to the needs of the Cornell community, Krafft said.

“2CUL has led the Cornell and Columbia Library IT groups to work

more closely together in a number of areas, and to seek out new ways that we can be more efficient and effective by pooling our efforts to create common solutions to challenges that both libraries are facing in a rapidly evolving information and technology environment,” Krafft said.

According to Wolven, the technical services of the library include “units that organize, receive and catalog books and their materials for the collections.” The advancement in the two universities’ partnership will attempt to coordinate the work involved in these operations, allowing for greater efficiency and a larger pool of expertise.

About 20 percent of the total library staff at each university is involved in technical services, according to Jim LeBlanc, co-manager of Technical Services Integration.

“This work is vital, but also laborintensive, repetitive and requires a wide range of language expertise,” he said.

The library technical services staff at Cornell speaks over 50 different languages, including older tongues such as Khmer, Tibetan and Flemish. With the integration of the two libraries’ technical services, this expertise will grow and many of the staff currently devoted to technical services will be able to turn to other tasks, according to LeBlanc.

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Merging minds and resources | Cornell and Columbia University have advanced their partnership by integrating their technical services this semester.

The 2CUL partnership began in 2009, following a three-year, $350,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish the program. Since then, Cornell and Columbia libraries have pooled their resources to expand collections in Latin American, Slavic and East European and South Asian studies, building “complementary rather than redundant collections,” according to Wolven.

Instead of each university obtaining a copy of a particular text, they both share a single version, resulting in the ability to attain a more diverse collection than if there were no sharing involved.

According to Xin Li, co-director of 2CUL at Cornell, students and faculty now enjoy the privilege of expedited delivery and on-site borrowing privileges to Columbia’s collections, and Columbia

students and faculty to Cornell.

The two universities are also beginning to co-license electronic books, which will lead to savings that will allow them to expand their collections further.

Additionally, they have developed programs to address the needs of humanities Ph.D. students, who have high dropout rates, according to Li. According to Li, the advancement in the 2CUL partnership is not solely focused on expansion but also on preserving existing collections.

“We also have been working on making sure that our digital collections are preserved and protected for the future,” Li said.

Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun.com.

Students’ Stories Deeya Bajaj ’16 skied to fund a girls’ orphanage, hopes to promote gender equality in India

By LUCY MEHRABYAN Sun Staff Writer

Deeya Bajaj ’16 is no ordinary Cornellian. She has taken mountaineering courses in the Himalayas, is a certified scuba diver and has a black belt in Taekwondo. However, her interests extend far beyond her passion for adventure sports.

This past summer, Bajaj cross-country

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Of adventure and charity | Deeya Bajaj ’16 works at the orphanage she helped to establish.

housed boys whose parents suffered from leprosy — near her father’s adventure tourism camps.

“The thing is, in India, because [some people] are not educated, [they think that] if you are a child of a parent with leprosy, it is worse than being an orphan,” she said.

“You are literally an untouchable. No one will touch you, eat the same food as you ...

It is a very sorry state.”

Bajaj said she also noticed that the orphanage was only for boys, which pointed at another problem in her country: unequal treatment of men and women.

“People are not educated [in India] and there is a social stigma [against] being a girl child, especially having your name associated with running an orphanage for girls. You “As much as I would like to make a billion need a lot more safety prechanges, this is a small step that leads to cautions,” Bajaj said.

As her parents had been bigger ones.” supporting the boys’ orphanage for a long time, Deeya Bajaj ’16 Bajaj said she wondered why they did not create an tion, her father was invited to take part in orphanage for girls.

When Bajaj initially spoke with the a cross country skiing expedition in Greenland, which was part of Polar manager of the orphanage, he rejected the Trilogy, which includes skiing in the North idea, claiming there was too much social Pole, South Pole and across Greenland, all stigma and responsibility involved.

“But for me, it was like, ‘If you don’t in the same year.

“On a whim, I asked my father if I take the responsibility, then who will?’” she could join and my mother freaked out said.

The manager eventually agreed to start because these expeditions are very serious and scary-sounding,” Bajaj said. “But a girls’ orphanage if Bajaj raised the funds to build the orphanage wing and maintain eventually they decided to let me go.”

At the same time that Bajaj was training the facility.

“So I decided to ask people, friends, for the expedition in Greenland, she was exposed to a boys’ orphanage — which family, sponsors if they could pledge a certain amount of money for every kilometer skied 550 kilometers — about 340 miles — across Greenland to raise money for a girls’ orphanage in Haridwar, India.

Bajaj is in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, studying natural resources. Her coursework at Cornell represents a passion that began at an early age due to rafting and hiking trips she has taken — activities that her father organized as a part of adventure tourism camps that he runs in the foothills of the Himalayas.

When she was 14 years old, Bajaj took part in a 14-day kayaking expedition in Greenland. She was the youngest member of the expedition.

Three years after her kayaking expedi-

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that I skied. So, in total, at the end of it, I did 550 kilometers and even if you were pledging 10 rupees, which is a small amount, it would become like $100 [in the end], and it added up to a large sum,” Bajaj said.

With support from friends, family, her school and a few corporate sponsors, Bajaj embarked on a 19-day cross-country skiing expedition in Greenland — with temperatures under 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit and winds up to 35 miles per hour — to raise money to start the orphanage in the summer of 2012.

The Ganga Vatica orphanage in Haridwar now houses, feeds and educates 12 young girls between the ages of seven and eight whose parents have leprosy, according to Bajaj.

“It is so nice meeting them and seeing how grateful they are [for] however little they have,” she said. “Things like having friends, food and education ... It really makes you look at things from a different perspective.”

Bajaj hopes to eventually expand the orphanage to house 100 young girls. As she is now busy with studies at Cornell, Bajaj’s parents are helping with the orphanage and planning ways to expand it.

Bajaj also hopes to combine her passion for adventure sports to help her father run his adventure tourism business in India, while still working for the orphanage for girls.

“As much as I would like to make a billion changes, this is a small step that leads to bigger ones,” she said.

Lucy Mehrabyan can be reached at lmehrabyan@cornellsun.com.

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Petition Decries C.U.-Wide Diversity Req.

City Official: Plan Should Consider ‘Practical’ Concerns PARKING

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will be seleccted to be part of the system — in the current proposal.

Common Council member Donna Fleming (D-3rd Ward) also expressed reservations about the proposed resolution.

“I think there are practical implications that need to be taken into account,” she said.

In order to demonstrate to the board that other cities have successfully used a similar system, Morache cited the example of Pasadena, Calif., where the city charged its residents the appropriate price

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“A lot of people here come from lots of different backgrounds … So it’s kind of one of those things where they introduce you to different things you might types of diversity requirements they would create if they encounter, pointers on how to handle those situations,” were compelled to have such a requirement, no such Smith said. requirements have yet been established, according to Smith added that he felt it is unlikely the University Smith. will immediately adopt a universal diversity requireBut Muglia said such discussions by members of the ment.

S.A. were indicative of their desire to work toward creating “It took 10 years for [the College of Agriculture and University-wide diversity requirements.

Life Sciences] to implement [their diversity require“I would say that S.A. members speaking with differ- ment],” he said. ent colleges regarding their Still, sponsors of the opinions about diversity petition said such requirerequirements and publish- “I think it is antithetical to Cornell’s ments limit students’ freeing a seven-page report autonomy of colleges to implement dom to create their own acadetailing those options are demic experiences.

University-wide requirements.” considered steps taken “I think that by adding toward implementing more requirements, Cornell Gustav Fellows ’15 University-wide diversity is limiting students’ ability requirements,” Muglia said. to take classes they are genThe seven-page report — which was released in uinely interested in,” said Ashleigh Bowie ’14, who January and presented by Smith and S.A clerk Chelsea signed the petition. “We can only take so many courses Cheng ’15 — detailed three options for the implemen- each semester and we should have the flexibility in our tation of the proposed diversity requirements. schedules to pursue courses that aren’t required by our The first option involved the creation of courses that majors.” will fulfill the potential requirement — including a cenEchoing Bowie’s sentiments, Gustav Fellows ’15, tral course that would be mandatory for all freshmen, as who also signed the petition, said that “added requirewell as courses across the University that would function ments will increase student stress as they struggle to the same way as distribution requirements. The second complete an increasingly complex web of University, option was to use existing courses to fulfill the proposed major and pre-professional requirements and decrease requirement. The third focused on the integration of the possibility for self-directed intellectual exploration.” diversity into core curricular classes through “explicit “I think it is antithetical to Cornell’s autonomy of course goals and objectives.” colleges to implement University-wide requirements,” Among other points, the petition stated that “the Fellows added.

Student Assembly’s attempt to impart prefabricated, Though the petition called for the discontinuation of narrowly-focused concepts of morality through required S.A.’s efforts to promote diversity requirements, Smith classes on social justice and diversity disregards true said he felt optimistic about the fact that students want diversity.” to be involved in the decision-making process.

Smith said requirements such as Tapestry of “Whoever it is, I’m happy students are getting Possibilities –– a required presentation on diversity involved in this because we’re getting feedback,” he issues for freshmen during Orientation Week –– do not said. intend to impose moral values on students, but rather “to introduce you as a first-year student to some situa- Jinjoo Lee can be reached tions that you are likely to encounter at Cornell.” at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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for parking and then took money from the meters and “put it back into the sidewalks and streets.”

A decade after putting the new districts into place, some of the neighborhoods experienced drastic infrastructure improvement, according to Morache.

The Board of Public Works will continue their discussion about parking reform in future meetings, according to board members.

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

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Support Group Will Help Victims Find ‘Safe Outlet’ SUPPORT

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sequences of sexual assault. The group will also address issues such as coping strategies for victims of sexual assault and the surrounding rape, according to Patterson.

“It will be a place certainly where women can talk about their experiences, but there will also be elements of education,” she said.

Recognizing that people cope with sexual assault in different ways, Patterson called the support group a space where there will be flexibility, support and acceptance of each individual’s situation.

“Everybody’s dealing with a different story, so I think that the space they want to create for this group is one where there’s room to have a different experience than the other person,” she said.

Patterson said the group will provide peer-to-peer support, a potential advantage not offered in individual counseling. However, for women who are uncomfortable with the idea of a support group, Gannett also offers individual counseling, she said.

Narda Terrones ’14, women’s issues liaison at-large for the Student Assembly, echoed Patterson’s sentiments.

“Many women might not find talking to a group appealing, which is why Gannett has other individual counseling services,” she said.

“However, others might find great power in it, which is why it is important to have a wide variety of services.”

There is not only a need for such resources on campus, but for generating awareness about them, according to Sharon Dittman, associate director for community relations at Gannett.

“I think that’s one of the things that all of us learned coming out of last semester ... We need to make sure that people can find the wonderful resources that exist so that they can get to them when they’re ready for them,” she said.

Such support groups on campus are also important in recognizing a problem of abuse toward women, according to Terrones.

Additionally, she stressed the need to help victims of sexual assault at Cornell with the healing process.

“Since sexual assault is often coated with shame and secrecy, a support group can offer a powerful experience for growth,” she said. “For many of these victims, pain doesn’t simply go away; it has to find a safe outlet.”

Both Dittman and Patterson said the group’s formation was prompted by a need they observed for such a group for women on campus. They said they may decide to extend support services to more groups, such as men and transgender individuals, in the future.

“Although at this point, the clinical need that we’ve identified is really related to women, we may find that, with this open door, we hear from other individuals and we may decide in the future to offer a different group,” Dittman said.

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

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It was with great interest that we read the recent editorial concerning the upstate N.Y. economy and the role of Cornell in keeping graduates in the region. In November, The Sun published an article titled “CALS Internship Will Strengthen Ties Between Cornell Students, New York State“ which profiled the CALS New York State Internship Program. The internship program highlighted in that piece is a collaborative effort between the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Community and Regional Development Institute, and is one that addresses the majority of points raised in the recent editorial.

A guiding priority of the CALS NYS Internship Program is to provide CALS students with career-relevant job experience with companies and organizations located in upstate New York, and at the same time, help forge meaningful connections to the communities and regions in which they are working. A major impetus for this program was feedback from New York State-based companies who continue to report challenges with attraction and retention of well-educated young workers. As a college, CALS sees this program as a unique opportunity to expand and strengthen the partnerships between the broader university and the multitude of businesses, government agencies and notfor-profit organizations around the region.

Indeed, the issue popularly referred to as “brain drain” is more accurately a challenge of “brain gain” in this region. Upstate New York does not experience higher out-migration rates of young people than any other state in the country. As the Feb. 5th editorial correctly points out, the problem lies more in the attraction of young, well-educated migrants to the upstate region. To complement their career-relevant work for their host organizations, the students in the CALS NYS Internship Program will undertake a community engagement project, one that is focused on assessing and improving local and regional efforts to attract and retain young, educated workers. While we hope that the internship program develops direct relationships between interns and their host organizations — perhaps resulting in students remaining in the area post-graduation — an important goal of the program is to build capacity for organizations and their communities to attract and retain additional young, educated workers. We also hope that the CALS NYS Internship Program can help contribute to other internship and recruiting efforts around campus which seek to build and strengthen successful education-tocareer pipelines, involving partnerships with upstate communities, businesses and agencies.

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Living up to the Campus Code of Conduct To the Editor: Re: “SEPPINNI: Free to Be Oucking Fffenssive,” Opinion, Feb. 11 In response to Shane Seppinni’s opinion in Monday’s paper, I hereby call upon the University to more thoroughly and consistently enforce Title III Article II Section A Part 3a of the Campus Code of Conduct at Lynah Rink.

As a four-year season ticket holder and two-year member of the press box, I know exactly what it means to be part of the Lynah Faithful, one of the few closeknit communities I have experienced in this ever-expanding University. It is also relevant to reveal that I am a huge proponent of my favorite Amendment, the First.

However, contrary to Seppini’s words, Lynah is private property, which means the First Amendment does not apply in full as it does in public spaces. Degrading chants involving personal details aimed at the opposing team’s goalie embarrass the University, its athletics program and me, but more importantly, they are unquestionably abusive toward Cornell visitors. Our community is above using the powerful idea of free speech as a prop for just being plain mean. Seppinni’s column described the behavior of some fans as “belligerent,” the exact word used to describe unwelcome disorderly conduct in the above section of the Code we have all agreed to follow. As Cornell fans, we should eschew such malevolent behavior not because we are forced to, but because we all know exactly what it is like to be the person between the pipes.

Rob Moore grad

CORRECTION Due to an editing error, two paragraphs were omitted from the print version of President David J. Skorton’s Monday opinion column, “On Immigration Reform.” Read Skorton’s full column at cornellsun.com.

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ver winter break, I paid a visit to the family I used to babysit for in high school. Their little girl, Richela, is nine years old now, and she eagerly filled me in on her fun-filled fourth grade life. At first, it sounded like things hadn’t changed much since the days when my parents would shuttle me from piano lessons to karate class and I would spend the weekends at sleepover birthday parties. But, as the afternoon progressed, I couldn’t help but feel that I had grown up in a much simpler time. I was mid-conversation with Richela’s mom, suggesting Mystic Country in Connecticut as a possible family-friendly vacation option, when Richela piped up and said, to my surprise, “I don’t ever want to go to Connecticut. I’m afraid that I might get shot.”

I was about Richela’s age when 9/11 happened, and a lot has changed in the 11 years between the World Trade Center attack and the Newtown shooting. I remember that my teachers at the time refused to tell us anything about the events of that September morning. The chaos of cable news and iPhones never penetrated our elementary school walls. At the end of the day, each clueless child went home to a parent who had spent the day carefully choosing the right words to express a tragedy in the most gentle and respectful way.

In today’s media saturated environment, however, the free flow of information is both a blessing and a curse. In the era of 24-hour news, the latest facts hit the airwaves as soon as they are properly vetted. Journalists barely have the time to check for political correctness, much less make sure that their words will be delicate enough for a young audience. As adults, we welcome the inundation of media in times of crisis. The more confusing and inexplicable an event is, the more we rely on reporters to make sense of the mess for us. In the aftermath of Aurora and Newtown, most of us were on a steady diet of CNN and breaking news updates in order to satiate our information appetites. But, according to child psychologists, the same media consumption habits can traumatize children. Seeing images replayed over and over on television suggests a recurring event to them, and it’s easy for kids to draw the conclusion that next

Kids are growing up in a culture where they turn on screens before they run to Mom and Dad. time, a shooter could be targeting their own school.

Today, kids are growing up in a culture where they turn on their screens before they turn to Mom and Dad. It’s especially difficult for parents like Richela’s mom who attempted, with little success, to delay and then to monitor her daughter’s media exposure. Television and movie screens are usurping the roles that parents used to play and doing an absolutely abysmal job of it. As a consequence, kids are learning things from the media before they even have the ability to fully comprehend their meaning.

The news media isn’t the only guilty party: To the chagrin of their concerned parents, kids are seeing stick-thin celebrities in reality TV shows and violence glorified on the big screen. My eight year old cousin once complained that she needed to diet because she was too fat, and I must have looked stunned when Richela told me, “When I grow up a little more, I’m going to kill my brother.” Her mom gave me an apologetic look and explained that Richela had watched The Hunger Games at a friend’s house without her permission. As much as they try to protect their child’s innocence in the face of pervasive media messages, parents are often tasked with the challenge of undoing the damage caused by poorly filtered media.

It’s certainly impressive to see YouTube videos of toddlers who can expertly operate iPads, and the kindergarteners toting their cell phones seem more independent than ever before. But, this generation of kids, born with the world at their fingertips, still needs many of the things that media and technology can’t provide. Generation Z will grow up to be the most savvy information navigators yet, but for now, they’re just kids. Moms and dads will do a better job of explaining the birds and the bees than any MTV show can, and despite Google’s ability to read minds and answer burning questions, it will never be able to scare away monsters or read a bedtime story.

Joyce Wu is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jw637@cornell.edu. Catchy Sound Bite appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Greek Solutions: Houses Divided Cannot Stand

n my previous column, I fraternity members that can analyzed the tenuous convene without University state of Cornell’s frater- oversight.

This idea of a Fraternal nity culture through the contextual lens of Greece’s Congress (and I won’t be seemingly never-ending fis- upset if someone thinks of a cal tumult. The ending better name) is simple, yet prognosis was not opti- amazingly consequential if mistic. And while I want to realized. The current Greek use my biweekly column arrangement creates a perpost to address a wide range versely Darwinian ecosysof issues without being tem in which fraternities pigeonholed as the “Greek are expected to break the columnist,” I felt that it rules. Those that survive are would be irresponsible to not the ones who listen best leave the issue as is. Pundits to the IFC’s rules, but those can easily decry society’s ills who have best adapted to and invoke powerful evading punishment. The metaphors to presage doom University, with its intensi— it’s much harder to offer fying sanctions, has helped zXcreate an atmosphere solutions.

So, before I leave behind where fraternities’ best bet the University’s besieged is simply to hope that their and self-immolating Greek System, I will try to offer a way out of these A single, courageous fraternity dire straits. Reform cannot fully embrace University will not come in a series of top-down reforms without abdicating its changes foisted social niche. upon decades-old institutions. What fraternities needs is a new annex is not the one raided on any given weekend. leadership framework.

It’s a dangerous game of I’m not talking about another administrative Russian roulette that panel to address the scourge encourages a certain of fraternity life. As I wrote amount of hostility among in my last column, such fraternities (someone has to attempts at reform will only get caught, after all). It can push the Greek system dan- only be stopped if fraternigerously underground. ties present a well-reasoned, Fraternities need a forum unified position, indepenthat is honest and construc- dent of the University’s tive, far from the conflicts- vision.

This Fraternal Congress of-interest and agenda-driven antagonism that is the would be akin to the meetInterfraternity Council’s ing of pirate lords in the relationship with the Office third Pirates of the of Fraternity and Sorority Caribbean blockbuster, or Affairs. If the Greek System even — if you forgive me a requires an overhaul, it moment of nerdiness — must come from a Fraternal the fantastical summit Congress: an assembly of somewhere in the first two

hours of The Fellowship of the Ring. Leaders of proud, distinct, often quarreling entities gather together in spite of rivalries to stave off existential threats. The student leaders of all fraternities must congregate and acknowledge that with every banned chapter, the University inches closer to a critical mass where the Greek system is no longer deemed a valuable part of Cornell. That reality demands action, not selfvictimization — and there’s no magic spell to fix that.

Without constant charges of oppression and unfairness, this Fraternal Congress could do what the IFC cannot:

reset the standards of Greek life from within to meet University goals. Unlike the IFC, this Congress would not be tasked with policing the fraternity system, therefore enabling it to address the Catch-22 that haunts the core of this crisis: fraternities will be marginalized if they continue to violate University policies; if they follow those policies, however, they will be unable to provide the fraternity experience students have come to expect. For example, Rush Week is nearly impossible if you are the only house playing by the rules.

If a fraternity curbs its excesses, the IFC will be

placated, but freshmen (and, frankly, female friends) will be alienated.

They will instead gravitate towards more reckless fraternities that can fulfill the social expectations of Greek life. Those fraternities, in turn, continue the Greek community’s downward spiral.

Chaos reigns.

Fraternities are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. It is the University’s prerogative to punish them if they don’t, but the fraternities’ responsibility to ensure they it is socially acceptable if they do. If fraternities resolve to plan a more mellow Rush Week, a gentler pledge process and a more courteous party atmosphere, then there will be less social risk in obeying University demands.

A single, courageous fraternity cannot fully embrace University reforms without abdicating its social niche.

Reform, therefore, can only work if the vast majority of fraternities together take the plunge and renegotiate the social perception of Greek life at Cornell. When this happens, IFC compliance will become less of a stigma.

Pressure to break rules is just as acute as pressure to follow them. Both pressures must be diffused. The playing field must be leveled.

Only the fraternities themselves — and not the University — can do that.

With that, I swear my next column will not mention the word “Greek!”

Jacob Glick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com.

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For Leo Kang grad, the medium is everything. He is most comfortable where art and science come together, and he is fascinated by the places where individuals and technology meet. He is currently conducting human-computer interaction research at Cornell, but he graduated from Korea’s Advanced Institute of Technology in 2009, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2011 and holds advanced degrees in interactive telecommunications, information science and culture technology. His exhibit, “I Want To,” on display last week in Olive Tjaden Hall, is the culmination of several years of efforts to understand the ways in which an individual negotiates his or her desires and identity in the digital age. In the installation, custom-designed wooden robots are wired to a screen and set of speakers, and every 20 seconds, a system pulls Twitter messages starting with the phrase “I want to,” altering the message to read “I have to.” The robots march in unison as the speakers announce the doctored phrase.

Kang chose Twitter to fuel the project because he says it is an ideal space “where we can observe our ‘own desires’ and ‘presented desires’ easily.” It also has an edge over other social media sites, Kang said, because on Twitter, “self-presentation is easily watched by the public, which might lead people to standardize their behaviors to satisfy social expectations.” Twitter is the more universal of social media sites and therefore it is most susceptible to those societal norms that exist on a larger scale. Kang said he expected to see overwhelming evidence that people are compelled to conform to societal ideals when making choices about their education, careers, relationships and financial prosperity.

These pressures, he believes, are global ones, differing from culture to culture only in their specifics.

Though the project started as a blanket statement on the insidiousness of social conformity, Kang spent more and more time with the constant Twitter stream and started to recognize a previously unconsidered trend. A lot of the modified Tweets were as he expected: People’s wants were recast as them talking about having to go to law school or find a job, buy a house or clean up the garage, reflecting the constraints that public expression of our desires can put on us. What surprised Kang, he says, was that “people are very romantic.” A lot of people expressed a desire, and after his alterations — a need, to find love, to see someone that they missed, to “be liked or disliked for exactly who I am and right from the COURTESY OF LEO KANG beginning.” So, in a paradigmatic shift, Kang took a detour to create the “100 Desires to See the Sky” installation in the Fine Arts Library of Rand Hall last fall. Cut-outs of some of the more human and beautiful “I Have To” phrases covered the windows and encouraged the audience to “look up to the sky

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through the carved ceptual authority called ‘Big Brother’ from George holes,” a goal somewhat inspired by Yoko Ono’s famous Orwell’s revolutionary novel 1984 and by the idea of “Painting to See the Sky.” negotiated identity in Erving Goffman’s The Presentation This readiness for change and improvisation has had to of Self in Everyday Life. Almost all of Kang’s recent work become a part of Kang’s artistic story, as it has been a part has involved the idea of living in the everyday world of of his personal story from the beginning. He says his work face-to-face social-construction and, concurrently, in the cannot be examined without considering his cultural secondary but increasingly powerful world of technologibackground. Kang grew up in South Korea which is, in his cal representation. “The Mirror in the Backstage,” an words, “a conservative country where many controlled exhibit from last spring encouraged people to look in a desires exist,” and a country in which people who follow mirror that shows their physical reflection as well as selfartistic aspirations can be seen as “surpluses of the society.” presenting information extracted from various social In this environment of immense pressure, he struggled to media sources to examine the ways in which they have realize what it was that he really wanted to do with his striven to construct their identity. His 2010 project called career. The turning point for him?

Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, the ISBN number of which is featured on the faces of all of the wooden figures in his display. On the surface, it is a book about the massive overhaul of Western penal systems, focusing on France and on the evolution of the modern prison system. But underneath, Kang found examination of “the social and theoretical mechanisms that control our bodies and perceptions,” and the idea of internalizing self-discipline in order to conform to the needs of society. It begged him to ask the question, “What is my real desire in society?” and subsequently, to try to share and address the question through his art.

Kang hopes his work will have an effect on his audience that is similar DARWIN CHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER to the effect it has had on his life.

While creating the installation, he had to watch the Twitter “New York Story” enabled participants to record their feeds for hours at a time, and eventually, he says, “I got favorite memories of New York City which were shared on really confused between ‘I Want To’ and ‘I Have To.’ Every mobile devices and a 2009 project “Let it Out” asked partime I said ‘I want to’ do something in daily conversation, ticipants to contribute text via mobile device to a collaboI started asking rative music performance. Both of these projects were myself, ‘Is it really designed to celebrate the potential of technology. Another what I want to 2010 project, “Jump Jam,” aimed to pair the metaphor of do?” This is the jump-roping which “physically discourages others from sort of daily con- entering your personal space,” to the omnipresence of cell sideration that he phones. The project operated on the principle that kinethopes to instill in ic energy created from a person jump-roping could jam a his viewers. To cell phone network in the immediate vicinity, thus estabmaximize this lishing what Kang called “a spherical electronic personal impact, Kang is space.” continuing to conProjects like these both embrace and critically evaluate struct more of the the presence of technology, while at the same time insisting hand-made wood- that we must “look for a better way for our society to comen figures in his municate.” As Kang states, “independent action is empowstudio, hoping to ering, but group action is powerful.” This dichotomy is at eventually accu- its most obvious in Kang’s most recent project. “I Want To” mulate thousands explores the way technology binds us tighter to social of them. expectations, but the necessity of its sister-project, “100 Kang’s work Desires to See the Sky,” shows that there is a cry for origiconsistently focuses on the idea of being human in an nality and heart that is begging to be heard, no matter the increasingly technological age, as well as the notion that medium. an individual must fight to remain their own person inside a highly-pressurized social system. In addition to Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Foucault’s work, he says, he is inspired by the “the con- Life Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

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Black Francis at the Haunt: All About the Scream PETER JACOBS Sun Staff Writer

There’s an oft-repeated origin story about Black Francis’ trademark scream that has now become as much a part of the man’s mythology as anything else.

Before the Pixies started up, when he was still Charles Thompson from Massachusetts, Francis worked for a Thai florist who loved the Beatles. One day, Francis was singing along to “Oh! Darling” and the florist said these fateful words: “No, no, scream it like you hate the bitch!” That developed into a signature loud-quiet-loud songwriting style — soft verses, shouted choruses — and the rest, to be blunt, is literally the story of modern alternative music.

It was no surprise that one of the many highpoints of Black Francis’ intimate show at the Haunt Saturday night, along with his friend and sometime collaborator Reid Paley, was a scream (or rather, several). Wrapping up their respective sets with a few songs as a duo, Francis and Paley descended into a screaming match onstage, trading off full-throated throttles. Paley has a strong voice and a glaringly loud sound, but there was no contest: Nobody can scream like Black Francis. His soul shattering bellows are at once life affirming and terrifying, adding power to some of the most innovative and brilliant music produced in the last 50 years.

Although best known as the frontman

for the Pixies, the college rock band that literally wrote the songbook for the past two decades of alternative music, Francis has built an extensive solo career.

Rechristening himself Frank Black after the Pixies broke up in 1993, he released albums both as a solo artist and as the bandleader for the Catholics. While the Pixies got back together in 2004, 2007 ANDY JOHNSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

saw a return to the Black Francis moniker for his solo work. Over the past few years, Francis has also released a number of collaborations with his wife Violet Clark as Grand Duchy and most recently with Paley as Paley & Francis.

Saturday night’s show demonstrated the diversity of music that Francis has produced over the past 20-plus years.

Songs recorded decades apart by various groups of musicians were reborn on stage, side-byside, as Francis brought everything to life as one man with a guitar and a microphone. At times, the nakedness of the songs was evident — particularly on Frank Black and the Catholics’ standout “Robert Onion,” which was missing backing keyboards in a bad way.

However, this was a small price to pay to hear overall exceptional renditions of songs from every stage of Francis’ storied career. From the straightforward rock of the Catholics’ “Bullet,” which opened the show, to early Frank Black tracks like the alternative rock template “(I Want To Live On An) Abstract Plain” and later countrified tunes like “I Burn Today,” off of Nashville-recorded Honeycomb, Francis repeated-

ly demonstrated his comfort in shifting styles. His voice, often underrated, soars into higher registers and sometimes falsetto and stayed sturdy throughout his set. His voice was clearly the focal point of his sound and was complimented perfectly by his simple and consistent guitar playing.

Those expecting a Pixies show would have been sorely disappointed (although judging from audience-shouted requests they were few and far between). Francis played a handful of songs from the band that launched him to fame, all notably from their early phase (one of the standouts, “Subbacultcha,” was released on the Pixies’ final album, Trompe Le Monde, but written years before). The two songs not from the early years of the band were some of the biggest crowd pleasers of the night: “Where is My Mind?” from Surfer Rosa and “Wave of Mutilation” off of Doolittle.

For longtime fans, which many in the sold-out crowd seemed to be, a Black Francis show at a small venue like the Haunt is a must-see experience. The night was an amazing opportunity to reflect on Francis’ unbelievable output.

Get excited for whatever comes next.

Read the full interview with Black Francis in the Arts section on Wednesday.

Peter Jacobs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pjacobs@cornellsun.com.

55th Grammy Awards Honors the Bland T

here was good news and bad news at the 55th Album for Take Care, which feels like it came Grammy awards Sunday night. The good news is that, out several years ago at this point for the perhaps somewhat improbably, the National Academy amount of songs it has managed to systematiof Recording Arts and Sciences knows its rap and R&B. The cally shove into the public consciousness. If bad news? The organization continues to award the least you look past #yolo, you’ll be reminded of one interesting and blandest sounds in rock and pop music. of the strongest and most sensitive rap efforts Let’s deal with the positives first — because when the in recent memory.

Grammys were right, they were so right. I don’t think it can Where the academy went wrong was the be overstated that a member of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill rock and pop categories. Two bands that got Them All won two Grammy awards. Frank Ocean emerged the most attention leading up to Grammys this year as the standard bearer of popular and interesting were Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers, music, winning over fans with his own brand of self-confes- which are both really just shtick masquerading sional and pop-inflected R&B.While many thought he as original music. This should have been a deserved more statues, and we’ll get to that, let’s just consid- night for Jack White (nominated in several big er for a moment that an R&B singer who this summer open- awards, winning none), not these ren-faire ly documented his love for another man is one of the faces of wannabes. Mumford took home a Grammy, “Urban Contemporary” music — whatever that means. but not nearly as many as the Black Keys, who One of the people he beat out for this oddly named award dominated the night. While the boys from was another exceptionally deserving winner Sunday night: Akron used to produce great music, at the Miguel. The single named singer took home Best R&B Song core of their current sound is an amalgamafor his “Adorn,” which if you haven’t listened to, do it now. tion of every interesting riff ever produced by And, if only to display the deep power of the genre right now, a better rock band. “Lonely Boy” is just Miguel lost Best R&B Performance for his song to Usher, “Magic Carpet Ride” + T.Rex + hints of angst. showing that Although, the video it’s not just a is kind of awesome. young man’s Oh, and by the way, Gotye, game. Usher which won record of the year for came back last “Somebody That I Used to Know,” year with also won Best Alternative Music “Climax,” an Album (over the much more emotionally deserving Fiona Apple or Tom trying and Waits). Let’s all think and reflect for Big Talk effective tune a second on why this might feel a that was one of little different than Arcade Fire winhis best in years. ning Album of the Year or Bon Iver And then there was rap. Down the line, the rap awards winning Best New Artist. I don’t think anyone made a tumwent to the right people, with “Ni**as In Paris” picking up blr asking who Gotye is.

Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for Jay-Z and The unfortunate reality though, is that the Grammys, Kanye West. The duo earned another statue for “No Church especially this year, chose not only to honor boring pop, but In The Wild,” their song with Frank Ocean and The-Dream, did it at the expense of considerably more deserving and often in Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Drake took home Best Rap groundbreaking music. Best New Artist was basically des-

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tined to go home with Frank Ocean, because, to be blunt, he put out what was definitely the best debut album of the year, and arguably the best overall. Instead, we got fun., which was a new artist in 2009 and is one of the lamer bands currently putting out music. Ocean was also up for Album of the Year, which was more of a stretch to imagine him winning, but definitely not enough to eliminate hope for it. Who won on Sunday? Mumford & Sons.

The biggest injustice of the night unfortunately fell upon one of my favorite songs of the year. Song of the Year is designed to recognize a song’s composers, sound or final product be damned. The fact that this did not go to “Call Me Maybe,” one of the most fine tuned and perfect bundles of pop goodness ever put together, is beyond me.

Peter Jacobs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pjacobs@cornellsun.com. Big Talk appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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“I really knew we needed to score, and second chances to score were key, so when every shot went up, I just crashed the boards hard,” Fitzpatrick said.

In spite of its effort, the Red’s success ended during overtime.

Harvard scored the first five points of the extra period and effectively ended the contest.

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Although the team left Cambridge with a disappointing loss, the Red had a few important lessons to take from the game.

“I think [that] understanding the hard work we put in during the week on defense and rebounding [and seeing] how it just paid dividends [is important],” Smith said.

Cornell will take on Harvard again on senior night in Newman Arena. The Red’s game against Dartmouth, which was postponed this weekend, will likely take place at the end of the season.

The team will have a shortened week to prepare for Yale and Brown, but Smith isn’t worried.

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SPORTS

SQUASH

Men’s Squash Ends Season With Victories

By KATIE SCHUBAUER

Cornell continued its winning streak with a 5-4 victory over No. 7 Franklin and Marshall and a 7-2 victory over No. 12 Penn.

After ending its season with a four-match winning streak, “Going into the F&M match, we were a bit drained after the Cornell men’s squash team will be a force to be reckoned such a big win the night before,” senior co-captain Nick with this year at Team Championships.

Sachvie said. “Penn was tough, too, after playing two hard On Friday, the Red hosted Princeton in its last home matches, but we proved that our team is too strong for theirs match of the season. Not only is Princeton ranked No. 1, but and took the match comfortably.” the Tigers are also the defending National Champions — The Red finished the regular season with an impressive Cornell has not beaten them in eight years. In the nail-biting 16-3, 5-2 Ivy record — its only losses coming from Yale, match Friday, however, the Red successfully eradicated that Trinity and Harvard. record and defeated Princeton, 5-4. It was only the second “This season went better than many expected,” Sachvie time in Cornell’s 56 years of squash history that the Red said. “We have a very young team and a different lineup from defeated the Tigers. last year but everyone stepped up their game this season and “It was incredible,” senior co-captain Owen Butler said. the team is playing really well together. I am glad to finish “The entire team, right from the season off as strong as we the get-go, was fired up, and in “After this past weekend, we know that we did.” the end, I think we just wanted The women’s team also finhave a shot at any team we go up against.” ished up its season on Sunday it more than they did.”

After the first rotation, the with a 7-2 loss to No. 3 Penn.

Owen Butler Red was off to a good start, The team was defeated 8-1 by with victories from sophomore No. 1 Princeton Friday, but Ryan Todd and freshmen came back to beat Franklin and Abhijit Malik at the No. 6 and No. 9 spots, respectively. Marshall, 9-0. Overall, the women are 12-5 overall and 3-4 Princeton then tied it up, 2-2, but the Red came back with a in Ivy League. vengeance. Senior co-captain Owen Butler won a three-game Both teams will travel to Yale next weekend to play in the victory at the No. 5 spot and sophomore Aditya Jagtap won College Squash Association National Championships. The in five at the No. 2 spot. women will play in the eight-team Howe Cup, while the The fate of the match rested in junior Bryan Keating’s men are set to compete in the Potter Cup. Last year, the hands as he played Princeton’s David Hoffman in the final men’s fourth place finish was the highest in Cornell history. match of the evening. Keating won the first game and lost Butler said they are looking for an even better result this year. the second two, entering the fourth with a 1-2 deficit. He “Our goal is obviously to win it all,” he said. “After this then proceeded to win the next two games 11-5 and 11-9 to past weekend, we know that we have a shot at any team we give the Red the win. go up against. We will need to focus on one match at a time “It was so cool,” Butler said. “The entire team was watch- and get through the quarters first. This team has a lot of ing, and when he finally won, everyone was yelling and fist- heart, and in the end, I think that will take us far at the team pumping to celebrate.” championships.”

Sun Staff Writer

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Never back down | The men and women squash teams won a combined four matches this past weekend.

Prior to the weekend, the Red was ranked fifth, but having earned three key victories, it is in position to receive a higher seed in the tournament. Rankings will be released this week and play is scheduled to begin on Friday.

Katie Schubauercan be reached at kschubauer@cornellsun.com.

Red Sets Sights on Cornell Heads to Alfred for Double-Header National Championship EQUESTRIAN

Continued from page 16

WRESTLING

weight. Stolfi brought an eight match winning streak going into the weekend. With 15 -ing to secure a cradle. Dake seconds left in the bout, won by fall with :53 left. Dake Aiken-Phillips escaped to deny has won his last eight matches Stolfi a major decision, ending by bonus points including the bout with a score of 9-2. seven falls and one technical Cornell will finish its competition on the Hill this upcom“The only thing that is going to ing weekend as it hosts the make my time here better is a National Duals in fourth national championship.”

Newman Arena Sunday.

Kyle Dake “The only thing that is fall. going to make my time here Bosak faced Robert better is a fourth national Marchese and immediately championship and our first took him down, pinning him team national championship,” at 2:24.

Dake said.

To end the day, sophomore Jacob Aiken-Phillips took on Haley Velasco can be reached at Bucknell’s Joe Stolfi at heavy- hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

Continued from page 16

ENOCH NEWKIRK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Staring down the competition | After a sucessful season, the wrestling team prepars for National Duals and the NCAA Wrestling Championships.

“It’s really fun, and all the girls are really nice so far,” she said.

Yu also came to the team with some previous experience. She took some riding lessons in high school, but her parents were wary of the dangers of horseback riding and she was unable to continue.

Yu rode with the western team her freshman year, but ultimately decided to switch back to English riding.

“I want[ed] to get back to riding,” she said. “It’s hard to stay away.”

Being on a varsity team means early morning practices and plenty of barn chores, as the squad is fully responsible for the care of its six horses.

“I like it, I like waking up early,” Yu said. “I didn’t think I would but … I feel like the day feels so much longer and it’s nice.”

Cochran is also enjoying the adjustment period.

“I like learning everything …

It’s cool learning all the basics of equestrian,” she said.

The team is pleased with its new additions.

“I think they’re a really great group of girls,” Hilton said.

“They are so excited to be on the team and I think they’re going to be a great asset. … They’re going to play a good role on our team ,and they’re really going to bring us together.”

Next on the agenda for the Red is a doubleheader at Alfred on Feb. 23 and 24. Normally Cornell would be hosting one of the spring semester shows, but the show was canceled due to an illness that has been spreading around Oxley Equestrian Center.

“We’re just erring on the side

COURTESY OF ERIKA HOOKER

Moving from behind | The Red hopes to close the three-point gap between Cornell and Alfred in the upcoming double-header.

of caution, basically,” senior tricaptain Emily Kowalchik said.

“We can’t run our show without bringing in other horses … so we just don’t exactly know how [the illness] will affect bringing in other horses.”

With such little time to prepare, it is unlikely that the new members of the team will be able to participate in the show at Alfred. Still, this will provide the rookies with more time to adjust to being part of the squad.

“The greater part of the semester is about getting them acclimated,” Kowalchik said. “They’re coming in divisions where people are pointing out so they’re going to be able to fill in as needed.”

Although the Red is usually very successful on its own turf, the team is not overly concerned about the loss of its home show.

This year regionals will be held at Alfred, so the doubleheader there will give the squad more time to

prepare and practice on the horses they will be riding for the competition, according to Webster.

As seniors, the tri-captains are disappointed to have lost what would have been their last home show, but the fall home show provided them with a strong ending to their careers with the Red. Cornell took the lead by 15 points, just two points shy of a perfect score for the day.

“It’s really upsetting, yes, but it’s nice to know that if our last home show was the show we had in November that was a great way to go out,” Kowalchik said. “I mean that was a pretty spectacular last home show for us. Even though we didn’t know it at the time, we all have positive memories from our last home show.”

“Sometimes, it’s easier not to say goodbye,” Webster said.

Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.

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WRESTLING

Red Victorious in Eight Seniors’Final Match at Friedman

By HALEY VELASCO Assistant Sports Editor

The wrestling team said goodbye Sunday when its seniors, including national champions Kyle Dake and Steve Bosak, wrestled for the last time at Friedman Wrestling Center.

“It was a strange feeling, I was happy, sad and shocked all at once. It went by so fast. I feel like September was the start of my career even though it has been four years,” Dake said.

“It was also an awesome way to end my career in Friedman — to go out with a first period pin against a guy ranked in the top 10.”

In addition to Dake’s excellent performance, the Red defeated Bucknell, 37-3.

“Looking back over my time here, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I’ve had a great time and I plan on making the best of my last couple months here,” Dake said.

Before the start of the match against the Bison, the Red honored its eight seniors, including Dake, Bosak, Cody Hutcheson, Pete Mesko, Oney Snyder, Lukasz Stala, Joe Stanzione and Patrick Sullivan.

Additionally, Cornell initiated three new members into

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Ending up on top | National Champion senior Kyle Dake completed his final match on the Hill, Sunday, with a first period pin against No.10 Corey Lear. The Red defeated Bucknell, 37-3.

its Hall of Distinguished Wrestling Alumni, including Joe DeMeo ’66, Dan Kathan ’71 and Cornell athletic director Andy Noel.

125-pound freshman Nahshon Garrett won by Bison forfeit, and 133-pound sophomore Bricker Dixon won against Bucknell’s Paul Petrov in a 6-4 decision. 141-pound No. 12 junior Mike Nevinger won a 3-0 decision, and 149-

pound No. 13 ranked junior Chris Villalonga won a 9-1 major decision.

After the halftime break, No. 1 ranked Dake took on No. 10 Corey Lear. Dake went on the attack right off the whistle, taking down Lear with a throw and immediately workSee WRESTLING page 15

W. BASKETBALL

EQUESTRIAN

C.U.Welcomes New Riders, Red Forces Prepares for Spring Shows Overtime

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

Coming off of a win at Alfred University before winter break, the equestrian team is back and ready to take on the remainder of the season.

With two shows left before regionals, Cornell is just three points behind Alfred, and the team has plenty of time to close the gap.

The Red has seen some slight changes to its roster this semester.

With riders earning enough points to compete in higher divisions, the team decided to hold open rides on

COURTESY OF ERIKA HOOKER

Saddling up | Zofia Hilton said she is excited about what the new members will bring to the team in the second half of the season.

Feb. 1 in order to fill in the gaps. In addition, a number of girls sent emails to the squad over the break indicating that they were interested in being part of the team, according to senior tri-captain Zofia Hilton.

“We were looking for girls … that really showed that they wanted to be a part of our team,” she said. “And we just wanted to give them a chance.”

After open rides, sophomores Sarah Cochran, Hilary Yu and Laura Mastrosimone became the equestrian team’s newest members. Cochran and Yu will ride in the walk-trot division, while Mastrosimone — who rode on Hofstra’s equestrian team before transferring to Cornell this spring — will be showing in novice.

“I kind of wanted to be involved in something new this semester,” Cochran said when asked why she decided to join the team. “I really like riding horses, I love meeting new people … and it’s nice to [be] a part of something, especially on a big campus.”

Although Cochran will be starting off in the lowest division, she has previous riding experience. When she was young, Cochran learned to ride western on her family’s trail horses. She also took English riding lessons after school when she lived in England. Unfortunately, Cochran’s family moved around frequently, making it difficult for her to keep up with the sport. Still, she said she is enjoying her time on the Red. See EQUESTRIAN page 15

But Comes Up Short

By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer

After having its matchup postponed three times due to blizzard Nemo, the women’s basketball team got a little extra time in Cambridge — forcing Harvard (13-6, 4-1 Ivy) into overtime but ultimately falling to the Crimson 60-69.

The Red (10-9, 2-3) arrived in Massachusetts on Thursday evening but spent the majority of the next three days in a hotel room.

“Every day, we would wake up like we were playing the game and prepare like we were until we found out that we weren’t playing,” senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick said. “By the time Sunday came, we were just ready to get out there and play.”

When the Red finally hit the gym on Sunday at 2 p.m, they held Harvard to just 17 percent shooting from threepoint range.

“That was one of our best defensive performances of the season,” head coach Dayna Smith said. “Our team did a tremendous job

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Stopped at the hoop | Junior guard Allyson DiMagno scored 20 points on Sunday, but the women’s basketball team was unable to defeat Harvard in overtime.

playing both man and zone.”

For the Red, it was all about comebacks.

After Harvard’s Ali Curtis gave the Crimson its largest lead, 29-16, the Red closed the first period on a sevenpoint run to make it a twopossession game at the half.

The Crimson took another double-digit lead, 47-37, midway through the second half, but the Red went on a 9-2 run to close to within three.

Cornell was led by junior guard Allyson Dimagno, who scored 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, and senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick, who registered 17 points and took down seven boards.

It was Fitzpatrick who grabbed an offensive rebound and converted a put-back to tie the game at 53-53 and force overtime.

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