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Remembers Slain Ithaca Man Muslim Prayer 75Vigil people gather for third anniversary of shooting death Service‘Ruined’

By Racist Sermon

By EMMA COURT

Sun Senior Writer

By JINJOO LEE Sun Senior Writer

When Muslim students and community members sat down for Friday prayer on Feb. 15 in Anabel Taylor Hall, they sought spiritual peace and a sense of solidarity with fellow Muslims.

What they encountered, however, was a sermon laden with racial and homophobic slurs, according to attendees.

“Not all homosexuals are pedophiles, but all pedophiles are homosexuals,” the individual said, according to Ihsan Kabir ’14, president of the Committee for the Advancement of Muslim Culture.

“The anger caused by this individual’s T h e individual words ruined my prayer that day.”

— who was Sanya Hashmi ’14 previously a University employee — then shouted remarks targeting the LGBTQ community, criticizing President Barack Obama for “being too liberal” in his acceptance of homosexuality.

“Homosexuals are freaks and queers who want a pink earth,” the individual said, according to Kabir.

Not only did the individual target the LGBTQ community, but he also criticized how some Muslim women take off their hijab, or head scarf, after praying, according to Kabir.

“Women are dressing like men, but are naked at the same time,” the speaker said.

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Carrying candles and signs with messages such as “Who investigates the police?” or “No more police killing,” about 75 people gathered near the site of a 2010 shooting on West Buffalo Street Saturday for a vigil commemorating the third anniversary of the death of Shawn Greenwood, a black Ithaca resident who was shot and killed by a white officer of the Ithaca Police Department.

According to Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson, IPD officers attempted to arrest Greenwood as part of a narcotics investigation, approaching him outside of Pete’s Grocery on West Buffalo Street, The Sun reported in May 2010.

Greenwood resisted officers who tried to remove him from his vehicle, prompting officers to taser him.

Greenwood then drove onto a curb, hitting a Dryden police officer. Ignoring orders from the other officers to stop, Greenwood continued to drive, and IPD Sgt. Brian Bangs fired several shots that killed the 29-year-old man.

“This happened three years ago, and we still have questions unanswered that we ask[ed] shortly after this tragedy,” said James Ricks, one of the organizers of the event.

Ricks decried what he called the police’s “long history of justifying the abuse and killing of the marginalized in our society.”

“The problem is that when police forgive each other, or pardon each other, it’s usually at the expense of somebody seriously injured or dead,” he said. “Usually, and disproportionally, the ‘justifiably’ killed are black, brown or poor, or some combination of these three.”

Ricks also noted the discrepencies in the police’s investigation of Greeenwood’s death.

“Why, if the police are being truthful, haven’t

Students Mourn Death of AAP Prof

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Kevin Pratt, architecture, who was called a “visionary” by students, died Tuesday of natural causes, according to a University press release. He was 43.

Pratt was a registered architect in New York State and an expert in sustainable design who –– follow-

ing his semester as a visiting lecturer in 2006 –– became an assistant professor in the College of Architecure, Art and Planning in July 2007, according to a University press release.

“We are stricken to the heart by this loss,” said Kent Kleinman, dean of AAP, in the press release.

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PROF. PRATT

Walking the walk

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Students walk around the track in Barton Hall for Relay for Life on Saturday to raise money for the American Cancer Society.

they released the videos they confiscated of the incident?” Ricks said. “There was conflicting police and witness testimony about key points in this tragedy.”

Greenwood’s death was reenacted twice at the event by members of the Shawn Greenwood Working Group, an organization dedicated to honoring Greenwood’s memory by “continuing to challenge police racism and to support the community to take action for justice,” according to materials distributed at the event.

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EMMA COURT / SUN SENIOR WRITER

Community remembers | Ithacans gather Sunday for the vigil of an Ithaca man who was shot in 2010.

Fire at Cayuga Medical Center Results in Only Minor Damage A small fire broke out at Cayuga Medical Center early Saturday morning, according to an Ithaca Fire Department press release. At about 2 a.m., IFD was called to the hospital when CMC staff noticed smoke coming from a storage room.

According to the press release, when IFD arrived, CMC security staff had already used fire extinguishers to contain the fire. The fire seemed to have started when a “burned-out” motor caught some cardboard in the room on fire, according to IFD. The smoke was cleared after an hour, with few damages to the hospital. IFD estimated the damages at less than $1,000.

IFD lauded CMC staff for controlling the fire.

“The Fire Department credits the security and staff of CMC for controlling the fire and protecting their patients, by having an emergency plan in place and following it,” the press release said.

— Compiled by Caroline Flax

News Circle Time

A dialogue circle on Saturday was organized to address and dicuss the issues and struggles of women of color. | Page 3

Opinion Not Just Sticks and Stones

Ariel Smilowitz ’15 discusses the significance of lanuage in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and in the world at large. | Page 6

Arts Compromising Situation

Student artist Jung-ho Song ’14 presents his first solo art show, Compromise, featuring art aimed at disrupting a system. | Page 8

Sports Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Women’s hockey won their fourth ECAC hockey regular season title in a row, winning matches against Rensselaer and Union, respectively. | Page 16

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C.U.Responders: Job Is ‘One of the Best Things in the World’

By SHANE DUNAU Sun Staff Writer

With slippery slopes and gaping gorges — in addition to piles of snow, rain and sleet — a walk through Cornell’s campus can prove treacherous. Cornellians can rest easy, however, thanks to a well-prepared group of emergency responders.

One responder, Jodi Bizari, has worked as an officer for the Cornell University Police Department for more than five and a half years, after she left an office job at a payroll company.

“Have you ever seen the movie Office Space? That was my life. It was horrible. I thought to myself, ‘I have to do something: I can’t do this nine-to-five cubicle life anymore. It makes me crazy,’” Bizari said.

It was then, Bizari said, that she saw a job posting for CUPD. Drawing on her education in criminal justice at the State University of New York at Brockport, she applied for the job. Competing against hundreds of people, Bizari said she earned the position, and within two weeks, had moved to outside of Ithaca, where she began her six-month training at the police academy. “[At the academy], you didn’t just have to be academically smart. You had to work out every day: you had to be in good physical shape,” Bizari said. “They kind of take you to your breaking point.”

“There was a lot of yelling,” she added.

After successfully completing her training and spending more than five years on the job, Bizari said her favorite part about working on campus is the collaboration between CUPD and the campus judicial system.

“At Cornell, I like that we have that intermediate entity where people can be educated, maybe get in a little bit of trouble, but not have a permanent record, not

be scarred for life,” she said.

While Bizari has more recently started working for CUPD, Emergency Manager and volunteer firefighter Dan Maas ’87 has been a part of emergency services since he graduated from Cornell.

Maas now works under the umbrella of the Cornell’s environmental health and safety department, but he started as a volunteer for CUPD in his freshman year and was subsequently hired as a student police auxiliary.

“I worked for [CUEHS] as an undergrad, doing everything from dispatching blue light to wandering around doing night patrol, checking doors — things like that.”

Maas said.

Maas said he realized when he graduated how much he loved the Ithaca area — and tried to find a way to stay. He said he applied to the job as a life safety specialist and began working for what would become the Environmental Health and Safety Department, where he still works more than 20 years later.

Maas said he was motivated by his love of exploring the University to take his first job after school.

“Part of the job of being an emergency responder is knowing the campus inside and out. There are folks here whose job is in one building and that’s all they know about the campus,” Maas said. “My job is to know the entire campus, so I really love that.”

Maas works full-time as Emergency Manager, and also volunteers at the Ithaca Fire Department, running the hazmat team. Additionally, he is a part of the campus confined space rescue team, and serves as the advisor to Cornell EMS. Maas said mentoring CUEMS is one of his favorite jobs on campus because he gets to work with student leaders. One of them, Dan Du Pont ’13, is a crew chief for

CUEMS. Du Pont transferred to Cornell from the University of Pennsylvania his sophomore year after he came to Cornell to visit friends.

“When I was doing my initial college search, I never really had that moment where I came to a campus and fell in love with it, but it definitely happened when I came to Cornell,” Du Pont said.

After seeing a poster for a CUEMS recruiting drive, Du Pont applied and eventually became a member of the highly selective squad.

Through CUEMS, Du Pont said he not only found his passion for emergency medical work, but also his future career.

“Through the introduction that CUEMS gave me I have found a field, pre-

hospital care and emergency care which is what I want to do with the rest of my life,” said Du Pont, who switched to a pre-med track after entering Cornell as a mathematics and physics double major.

Du Pont, who works more than 40 hours a week as a volunteer for CUEMS, said he never regrets the sometimes long hours.

“It’s just incredibly fun. If you like it, it’s one of the best things in the world to do — the excitement of driving to a call, getting onto an extreme scene and being able to help people,” Du Pont said. “If you don’t find it fun, you really can’t stay in it long.”

Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun.com.

Alive with the sound of music

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Students and faculty gather Sunday to listen to Ellen Fullman’s demonstration of long string instruments set up in Milstein Hall.

C.U. Starts Dialogues to Empower ‘Women of Purpose’

By ANNIE BUI Sun Contributor

In an effort to bring together women of color from Cornell and the Ithaca community, the Women of Purpose Alliance — a new organization developed under the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives — held its first dialogue circle Saturday, the first in a series of what will become monthly dialogue circles.

OADI Community Advocate Melanie Netter ’14 said the purpose of the Dialogue Circle was to “create a relaxed, non-academic setting where women from

underrepresented backgrounds, of all ages, can come together to discuss their common experiences.”

“There are a variety of events for different issues on campus, but most are set in a very academic and intellectual environment,” said Pheobe Sam ’14, another OADI Community Advocate. “With the dialogue circles, we want people to be able to express themselves without having to worry about choosing their words carefully.”

The advocates said they hope these discussions will “give rise to a sisterhood, in which members empower and encourage

each other to be the best they can be, or women of purpose,” according to Netter.

Sam and Netter said they hope the dialogue circles will foster a support system in which women of color can share their experiences confidentially with one another.

“We want to make it seem as if you were just talking to your family or best friend,” Sam said.

The first dialogue circle discussed the media and its role in shaping societal perceptions.

Participants considered how reality television shows, such as The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Basketball Wives, can shed

Breaking down barriers

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Members of the Tompkins County Workers’ Center protest the new hotel tax abatement approved at a meeting of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency at the Old Jail House in Ithaca Thursday.

negative light on and engender society’s view of women of certain races.

“Mainstream media is where stereotypes are usually projected,” said Kimberly Kerr ’13, one of the participants.

Veronica Wallace ’16 said many television shows use racial stereotypes as a selling point.

“People enjoy watching the drama, aggression and fighting,” she said.

Attendants also commented on their personal experiences with stereotypes — both positive and negative — and discuss certain positive stereotypes that helped them embrace their own culture or race.

However, the women also shared negative stereotypes that they have encountered in their community, and even among their own peers and friends.

“It’s difficult to get rid of stereotypes, but one way to alleviate them is to simply get to know one another better through conversation,” said Kristi McKenzie ’13.

Kerr added that many who live under the burden of stereotypes may have to act a certain way that is untrue to themselves in order to prevent amplification of that particular stereotype.

“There are extra steps that you have to take in order to prevent a stereotype from applying,” Kerr said. “We should connect and identify with people based on more common things, and not so much on preconceived stereotypes.”

At the end of the event, each participant was asked to write a short message or note of encouragement on an index card. Each of these cards were then distributed around the discussion circle.

Wallace said she thought the dialogue circle created a “positive” environment.

“I thought it would be more formal, but I felt comfortable expressing my ideas,” Wallace said. “I will definitely keep on attending these dialogue circles, given that I have the time.”

McKenzie echoed Wallace’s sentiments, saying, “it was relaxing — I felt as if I were conversing with my friends.”

Both Sam and Netter said they were encouraged by the turnout of the first dialogue circle, which was comprised of about 10 attendees, most of whom were from the Cornell community.

“Though we didn’t have as many attendees from the Ithaca community as we would have hoped, we have community outreach members who are spreading the word beyond Cornell about our dialogue circles,” Netter said.

Still, Sam said she hopes more women will attend future events.

“We hope that more women will bring their friends, spread the word and help make this event grow,” Sam said.

Annie Bui can be reached at ntb39@cornell.edu.

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C.U.Muslims‘Disgusted’ by Sermon Students Laud Enthusiasm Of Deceased AAP Professor

have loved to have talked about this a week ago, but we wanted to make sure we understood exactly what happened.”

The sermon, or khutba — which is delivered Student leaders, graduate students and senior every week by a different community member community members also met on Feb. 18 to dis— was given that week by an individual some cuss ways to move forward after the incident. students say has delivered inflammatory speech- They decided the individual would be banned es in the past. from giving sermons and an apology would be Although Sana Siddiqui ’13, president of issued during the next Friday prayer session on MECA, was not present at the sermon, she said behalf of community members who had allowed the events of the prayer service left her and fel- him to speak, according to Ihsan. low students shocked and upset.

Although the meeting addressed some issues “My reaction upon hearing about the speech the sermon discussed, some students expressed was the same as the reaction of the students who concern that the incident would perpetuate negtold me about it — just absolute horror,” she ative stereotypes of Islam. said. “I didn’t see this coming and was shocked “I hope that this isolated incident, grave and disgusted to hear that something to hateful though it is, does not reflect poorly on the had happened.”

Muslim community here at Cornell,” Hashmi Hashmi said the sersaid. “Muslims have mon left people uneasy, “I must stress that it was the overall enough bad publicity and “no one quite knew message of the speech that greatly without the airing of what to do.” such incidents and the offended me.”

“I ended up staying actions of [a] few indiin order to hear all that viduals.”

Sanya Hashmi ’14 he had to say, but the Echoing Hashmi’s anger caused by this sentiments, Abboud individual’s words ruined my prayer that day,” asked in his letter for “people who read this narHashmi said. “I must stress that it was the over- rative to not allow this hateful incident to skew all message of the speech that greatly offended their understanding of Islam and further perpetme, as those ideas of hatred had no place at uate negative views of Islam as a hateful, misogFriday prayer.” ynistic [or] homophobic faith.”

In an open letter distributed on Feb. 20 that “I will be the first to admit that this individwas signed by 46 students and community ual’s sermon is not an isolated incident of prejumembers as of Sunday, Adam Abboud ’14 also dice and misogyny; however, his views should expressed distress at the incident. not be simplified as views inherent to Muslims,” “As a Muslim and a firm believer in the teach- Abboud said. ings of Islam and its premise of justice and social Clarke emphasized that the incident should equity, I am absolutely disgusted by such behav- be seen as a bias case. ior,” Abboud said.

“Specific communities — gays, lesbians and In response to the incident, Cornell adminis- women — were targeted in this sermon with trators will release a “Cornell Responds” state- language that reflected homophobia and sexment shortly, according to Kent Hubbell ’69, ism,” Clarke said. “This was an abuse of power dean of students.

— granted to an individual entrusted to deliver Hubbell said the statement was not issued a sermon to a congregation for Friday prayers — immediately after the incident because adminis- that is inseparable from bias. No community trators “had to consider the incident in light of should be targeted in such a way.” principles of freedom of expression especially in a religious context.”

“We wanted to be very thoughtful about how Jinjoo Lee can be reached at we responded to it,” Hubbell said. “We would jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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Student: Pratt was ‘always so energetic’ OBIT

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Sonny Xu ’13, who was a thesis advisee of Pratt’s, said Pratt was involved in numerous oncampus projects and organizations.

“Cornell is going to suffer because of this loss. I don’t think [Pratt] is replaceable,” Xu said.

“I could not ask for a better mentor, boss or professor. He is also a good friend.”

Max Vanatta ’16 echoed Xu’s sentiments, adding Pratt was a formative influence in his life.

“He has shaped my experience at Cornell, just being able to talk to someone like him,” Vanatta said. “He was such a visionary, and even though he was a visionary, he was down-toearth.”

Students said Pratt’s personality was distinctively energetic in a way that enhanced the classes

fast and he talked so much you had to run to keep up with him … It really jumpstarted [the architecture Class of 2016’s] friendship,” Wills said. “He got us excited for college.”

Students said Pratt shaped their academic experiences, including their professional goals.

“He reshaped the way I think about architecture and design, just the way I see everything,” Xu said. “I am dedicating my thesis to him, because he made my education here at Cornell a full and meaningful one.”

According to Vanatta, Pratt transformed his perception of architecture.

“He was able to frame our view on architecture,” Vanatta said. “He would make it be about the world and about the impact of everything we do.”

Lucia Lee ’16 said Pratt helped put their coursework

“His class was one of the only lectures I always looked forward to.”

Allie Wills ’16 he taught and built long-lasting memories.

“He [was] always so energetic, friendly and down-toearth. He [was] also very intelligent and full of crazy ideas,” Xu said. “He really inspire[d] me and [got] me excited about my project.”

Lucia Lee ’16 added that Pratt had “the energy of three people.”

Vanatta, Xu and Wills said Pratt’s class, first-year design studio, was one of the most influential experiences at Cornell.

“His class was the first that I had ever taken at Cornell,” said Allie Wills ’16. “His class was one of the only lectures I always looked forward to.”

Wills and Lee said Pratt took the class on a hike for the first class.

“He had so much to say about everything. He walked so

into perspective.

“He is the person who contributed so much to what we are actually learning, how architecture is really applicable to our everyday lives,” Lee said.

Vanatta also described Pratt as an exceptional teacher.

“Some people know everything, and some people can explain everything. He was one of those people that was both,” Vanatta said. “You could just talk to him for two hours and he would be perfectly fine with it.”

Xu said he felt a deep personal loss upon hearing the news of Pratt’s death.

“The morning when I heard about it, I could not just take it.

It was too much,” he said.

Erica Augenstein can be reached at eaugenstein@cornellsun.com.

Vigil Attendees Criticize IPD Investigation of Shooting VIGIL

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The first reenactment of the death read in the police report, and the second, conflicting version was a witness account that the SGWG said was left out of the police report. According to the SGWC, witness testimony stated that “there was never anyone in front of, or in any immediate danger of being run over by, Shawn Greenwood’s van.” The two reenactments culminated in several minutes of silence.

SGWC member Clare Grady tied Greenwood’s death to a tendency toward racism in soci-

ety, underscoring a theme of police accountability.

“When we allow police to get away with murder, it makes us all unsafe. When we allow police to kill black men with impunity, it reinforces the racism in our society,” Grady said. “We say that the police should never be the only ones to investigate themselves when they kill people. We say that the work of seeking the truth and justice is not just the work of police agents but it is the work of we, the people.”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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Police Seek Prime Suspect in Las Vegas Shooting,Car Crash

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Variously known as an adult playground and Disneyland for grown-ups, Las Vegas brands itself as a place where tourists can enjoy a sense of edginess with no real danger.

But a series of high-profile episodes of random violence amid the throngs of tourists is threatening Sin City’s reputation as a padded room of a town where people can cut loose with no fear of consequences.

A car-to-car shooting and fiery crash that killed two bystanders and an aspiring rapper Thursday followed a bizarre elevator stabbing and a movie theater parking lot shooting.

Though crime has been falling on the glitzy stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard that houses most of the city’s major casinos, tourism officials worry that vacationers and convention planners could begin to steer clear of the town because of a perception of mayhem.

“We are concerned because it can create misperceptions about the safety of the city, the safety of the Strip,” said Gary Thompson, spokesman for Caesars Entertainment, which owns 10 resorts in the tourist zone, including Caesars Palace and Paris Las Vegas.

Casinos are particularly worried about convention business, which helps fill rooms and gambling tables between weekends.

Corporate planners can swing the market with a few decisions, said Gordon Absher, spokesman for MGM Resorts International.

“And that decision will bring thousands of people,” he said. MGM operates several major casino-hotels, including CityCenter, where Thursday’s convulsion of violence originated.

Violent crime, which includes murder, rape, robbery and assault, in the city’s main

tourist hub fell 13 percent in 2012, from 256 to 223 incidents, and is down 11 percent for the first part of 2013, with 50 incidents reported. The number of rapes has fallen by more than a third.

There have been two homicides just off the Strip this year, in addition to the three deaths Thursday, compared to none in the area during the first month and a half of 2012.

Had they taken place elsewhere, the incidents that made headlines in recent weeks would never have become national stories, Thompson said. But when the crime happens in a city that welcomes 40 million visitors a year, people tend to care even if they haven’t seen the neon lights in years.

“It’s like, ‘I was there! I stayed in there in Las Vegas! I walked that part of the Strip!’“ he said.

The spate of violence started just before the new year, when a man shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, an Excalibur hotel-casino concierge clerk, before fatally shooting himself.

The following week, a blackjack dealer was wrestled to the ground at the Bellagio with razor blades in both hands. She is charged with killing a 10 year-old girl and then slashing her co-worker’s face.

On New Year’s Eve, a man allegedly fired a gunshot into the floor of the crowded Circus Circus casino during an argument. A Saudi air force sergeant is accused of raping a 13-year-old boy in the rooms above the same night.

A nighttime shooting outside a Strip movie theater left two people critically wounded earlier this month. Last week, two random men allegedly assaulted a visitor in the elevator at the Mandalay Bay property, tackling him and stabbing him in such a

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Sunset strip | Recent incidents of violence in Las Vegas, Nev. have generated concerns among officials about the safety of tourists visiting the city.

frenzy that they also stabbed each other.

During the same period, Las Vegas courts sentenced a Florida teacher for killing a stranger with a single punch after trading words in a casino bathroom, and heard the case of two law students charged with beheading an exotic bird at the Flamingo casino-hotel.

The shoot-’em-up car chase that closed the Strip for 12 hours Thursday was the most public and deadly incident yet.

A person in a luxury SUV opened fire on an aspiring rapper in a Maserati near one of the busiest intersections on the iconic corridor. As the bullets flew, the Maserati ran a red light and crashed into a taxi, which burst into flames. The taxi driver, a passenger and the rapper were killed, and six people were injured.

Casino executives say they do all they can to keep visitors safe, with armies of guards, networks of high-definition surveillance cameras and undercover security workers

scattered throughout nearly every major attraction.

“Unless you are a complete idiot, you’re not going to want to commit many crimes in or around a casino because you’re going to get caught,” Thompson said.

But catching a criminal isn’t the same as stopping the crime.

Commissioners in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, are weighing steps to increase safety, including installing additional cameras in public spaces and broadening the sidewalks. In October, they banned potentially dangerous objects including fireworks, knives and toy guns from the Strip.

But real guns remain permissible.

Nevada’s relaxed gun laws, including the ability to carry them openly, have made Las Vegas an attractive spot for shooting ranges and gun shows.

Some observers think police should step up their presence on the Strip, just as they did after three slayings in 2011.

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anguage is a tremendously powerful tool. It is what distinguishes us from all other animals. In Thomas Hobbes’ classic work Leviathan, language is defined as a tool that men use to “register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutual utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Common-wealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace …”

Thus, language is the foundation that glues civilization together; it is used in order to transfer our thoughts and knowledge into words, so that we can maintain peace, happiness and humanity itself.

Furthermore, according to Hobbes, truth and falsehood are “attributes of Speech, not of Things,” meaning truth lies in our words, not our actions. As a result, whatever we write or say to one another (and ultimately teach one another) has a profound and potentially dangerous effect on our society. One wrong word can change the course of anything and everything; one wrong word can literally rewrite and recreate the truth.

With this in mind, two weeks ago The Economist published an article about how Israeli and Palestinian textbooks delegitimize each other and plant negative stereotypes into schoolchildren’s minds. According to the report, one Israeli textbook “depicts Arabs as ‘bloodthirsty’ and ‘a nest of murderers,’” while “84 percent of the references to Israelis are negative” in Palestinian textbooks. In addition, in both Palestinian and Israeli state schools the textbooks that are being used “promote ‘martyrdom-sacrifice through death.’” Thus, both Palestinian and Israeli schools seem to be teaching their students to “hate each other,” a tactic that ultimately adds more fuel to the fire of a contentious and immediate conflict. This instance of delegitimatization perfectly shows us of how important words and language are in governing the “truth.” These textbooks are used as a means of teaching the youth about the world they live in; they are a mechanism in which we impart and share our words, effectively sowing them into these children’s impressionable minds. When textbooks have negative references towards Israelis or portray Arabs as “bloodthirsty,” these words ultimately instill some sort of truth, regardless of whether or not these words are reflected in the Israelis’ or Arabs’ actions. Because it is written in books, those children that read these words will eventually come to believe what they are reading. This is the power

that language and words have; it is the driving force that governs our thoughts and beliefs, constantly recreating and reconstructing the universe we live in.

However, remember to put all of this in perspective; it’s easy to place this particular instance into a box and categorize it as a phenomenon that occurs specifically within this region or as a result of this particular conflict. Rather, this type of delegitimization or manipulation of words as a means to an end has occurred throughout history and continues to occur all over the world, even within the United States — even within our University. Think about it: in class, oftentimes professors, textbooks, and students refer to the region that encompasses Western Asia as “The Middle East.” This term is actually a Western construct and is extremely Eurocentric. It was created to define the effects of decolonization after World War I and the subsequent emergence of new states, most of which were created and shaped largely by Western and European influences. Thus, when we use this term in class and read it in our textbooks, we continue to propagate this Eurocentric idea and continue to learn, view and teach through a narrower lens.

Ultimately, these words “Middle East” are truthful in our minds — at least for those that use the term. It is imbued into our minds and is a part of the world that we create for ourselves. Regardless of whether or not one believes that the issue of the Israeli and Palestinian textbooks is more alarming than the question of how we define “The Middle East,” they both ultimately have the same effect on our society: they create words that are imbedded into our minds, redefining and recreating the truth.

So, how do we approach this issue of delegitimization of countries or entire regions through our language? Do we try and change the textbooks, or should we change the curriculum all together? Will this ultimately solve anything? Probably not. Rather, we should learn to understand the power language and words have on our society, and take everything we hear, read and learn with a grain of salt.

Going forward, we should learn how to think critically of our surroundings, analyze the world we live in and realize that truth lies in our words, so they should be used wisely.

Ariel Smilowitz is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at asmilowitz@cornell.edu. Why You Should Care appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ast semester I did not enroll in Cornell’s fullyear gym membership and saved $145 — a sizable sum for an underemployed college student such as myself. I’ve had multiple friends visit during my four years on The Hill, and when the topic of workout facilities arises, my guests are shocked to learn that Cornell does not provide gym access to every student. By implementing an idea called libertarian paternalism, I believe Cornell can provide every student with gym access without costing the University anything.

The basic principle behind libertarian paternalism is that institutions should develop policies that encourage participants to make themselves and society better off. However, the participants’ freedom of choice must not be infringed. Promoting opt-out instead of opt-in policies often accomplishes these goals. One example of a choice that promotes what many governments and citizens believe to be the greater good is organ donation. In Australia, where an opt-out policy exists, 99.98 percent of citizens are organ donors; in Germany, where one must opt-in to be an organ donor, the rate is a mere 12 percent, according to Richard Thaler, the man who coined the term “libertarian paternalism.”

With this in mind, imagine if Cornell included an opt-out gym fee as part of each student’s tuition.

Ostensibly, gym membership profits would increase, individual students would pay much less because the cost would be spread among thousands more individuals, and students who do not want memberships could simply opt-out of the decreased fee, although it seems unlikely that many

I believe Cornell can provide every student with gym access without costing the University anything. would.

We live in a city — albeit a small one — where the weather often makes it very difficult to exercise outside. Any policy that increases student access to exercise facilities, and possibly increases student participation rates, will benefit the University.

Regular physical activity is one of the strongest preventative measures one can take to avoid depression and anxiety, especially during inclement weather.

Cornell has made a strong push recently to show its commitment to improve its students’ mental health resources. Gannett, despite its staff ’s best effort, is still unable to launch and administer all the necessary mental health programs that a university as large as Cornell demands. A simple way to help temper student demand for Gannett’s services is to provide students with an accessible outlet to release endorphins and relieve stress. Lowering the prohibitive current cost of a gym membership via a form of libertarian paternalism, which I believe should be called libertarian socialism, will do just this. I say libertarian socialism instead of libertarian paternalism because this policy would socialize gym membership fees in addition to promoting the general welfare at Cornell without impeding students’ right to choose. Doing so would preserve choice while both lowering membership costs to students and increasing gym access.

Providing us with a steep slope to trudge up every morning is not enough, Ezra. Cornell should join its peer institutions — among them Harvard and Brown —and provide all of its students with the option to exercise on campus affordably.

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.

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abies have always Even when environmental been a touchy subject initiatives have had the for environmental- backing of scientific and ists. Thomas Malthus’ policy experts, they have warning in 1798, when repeatedly been thwarted global population was at by lack of political will. one billion people, still However, when considerapplies today, as our popu- ing the political reality of lation begins to exceed domestic policy changes, seven billion people: popu- there is no skirting around lation growth will be district, state and national checked by famine, epi- demographics. demics and war. These Leveraging minority“checks” are signs of social majority demographic problems as much as envi- shifts, for example, can ronmental ones, as it is turn the tide on sorely indisputable that an needed environmental increasing population puts action at the state and excess strains on water, national levels. Latinos, food and energy supplies. along with AfricanCrudely put, babies are Americans and Asianan environmental ill. For Americans, “demonstrate my birthday one year, I got the highest levels of supa checklist pad of “eco-cita- port for action against clitions” to dole out to my mate change and air pollufriends, which ranged in seriousness from “taking a hot shower alone” Environmental groups can be to “procreating.” accused of dancing around Everyone can appreciate such a population issues or being gag, but no one ignorant of social issues. actually wants to take an anti-babies stance. This is especially true for environ- tion,” Mark Hertsgaard, mentalists, who fear wrote in The Nation. charges of being misanIf environmental viewthropic, and doubly true points in California are any for American environmen- indication of the direction talists, who fear charges of other states are headed in, advocating birth control. there is hope — even for Environmental groups Texas. According to a 2010 can be guilty of dancing poll conducted by the Los around population issues Angelse Times and the or being ignorant of social University of Southern issues arising from chang- California, 46 percent of ing demographics. Latinos worry a great deal Environ mentalists have about global warming, usually steered clear of compared to 27 percent of commenting on demo- whites. Someone will have graphic trends and concen- to pinch me when Texas, trated their efforts on which became a minorityreducing per capita con- majority state in August sumption rather than slow- 2010, becomes a green ing population growth. state, but the possibility no

longer seems as fantastical as the Emerald City of Oz. As promising as these statistics are, the good fight will not be won if climate change fears and environmental values do not translate into action. Minorities must have a greater voice in decision-making and the ability to call out representatives for not enacting or enforcing policies or for touting “green” policies that do not actually reduce emissions.

Of the six million people living near coal-fired power plants in the U.S., 39 percent are minorities, according to the NAACP report “Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People.” This is one example out of

too many around the nation — documented and still undocumented — of the disproportionate consequences that minority populations suffer.

For decades, U.S. environmental groups have been roundly criticized for their white, middle-class bent. In addition to the more important environmental justice argument, there is now a politically strategic argument for the push to fully include racially or otherwise marginalized groups in environmental campaigns.

The alliance between environmental groups and

minority populations is also critical to singling out conversations on effective and progressive policies from the political noise of constituency grabbing.

Winning elections should not be the only motivation for Republicans to stake a claim in reducing U.S. emissions and protecting all demographics from the negative effects of climate change and pollution.

Polling data also consistently show that young people and women both helped to elect President Barack Obama and show greater support for climate action.

I disparage the political posturing exemplified by any strategy that begins with, “lawmakers are wellaware that older voters turn out more frequently and broad action to address global warming isn’t on the immediate agenda.

Republicans have woken up to the need to reevaluate their party’s relevance to the American populace.

Their efforts to revamp the party platform can provide meaningful opportunities to address needs differently, and perhaps better, than other parties. Immediate action to safeguard longterm environmental health and to promote non-polluting economic development is one such need.

Tailoring campaigns to specific demographics is a smart political move, but more importantly, it will focus attention on the needs of a growing and changing America.

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 STUDENT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT : Jung-ho Sohn ’14

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BY EMILY GREENBERG Sun Staff Writer

Every day, Cornell students are innovating in the fields of art, fashion, music and design. In Student Artist Spotlight, The Sun takes a closer look at one of these campus innovators, examining the artist’s process, concepts and, most importantly, the way his or her work improves, subverts or reimagines a given medium.

Wood chips and flakes of white paint litter the hardwood floor. Black wooden beams, each about two-thirds the length of the gallery, are piled like charred firewood at one end of the room. Tools are scattered at random — hammers and hand saws in one corner, drill bits and measuring tape in another. Red yarn zig-zags from floor to opposite ceiling.

The gallery is a mess, but Jung-ho Sohn ’14 doesn’t care. He’s high on a ladder drilling one end of a wooden beam at the juncture where wall meets ceiling. Below, two students help support the beam, which wobbles slightly.

Angled approximately 45 degrees from the wall, the beam runs from floor to ceiling, where it forms a neat triangle with another beam angled in the opposite direction.

Done drilling, Sohn climbs down the ladder, hops over the red string and sinks back against wall to the floor.

That second beam, he tells me, took four hours to install — an improvement over the first, which took six hours.

On Saturday, he still had two more to install, two more before his show could open.

Sohn’s first solo art show, Compromise, opened today at Olive Tjaden Gallery and will have a reception at 5 pm.

A site-specific sculptural installation, the show features four black wooden beams traversing the white cube gallery. As Sohn noted, this show is a huge departure from Tjaden Gallery’s usual shows, which often feature hung work.

“It’s almost as if there’s a set tradition of work having to be on the walls only,” he said. “Only a few of the shows that I’ve seen seem to interact with the open space or just the center of the room, the ceiling, anything like that, so I wanted to do something that would allow the viewer to engage with the space in a different manner.”

If the show is a huge departure for Tjaden Gallery, it’s also a huge departure for the artist. Sohn, who grew up in South Korea but attended high school in the United States, began making traditional drawings and paintings of still lives. Until recently, art was always more of a

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hobby for him, one of his many interests along with engineering. He chose Cornell because he wanted to study multiple fields.

“I wanted to have a different background so I could support what I was doing [artistically], and that was why I chose Cornell,” said Sohn, who is pursuing a second degree in computing and information science. “It made me realize the possibilities, the options, of what art can be … the potential of art.”

Once at Cornell, Sohn began branching out into different media, including print-making and performance art. He began making what he now calls “aggressive” work, work aimed at disrupting a system. During his freshman year, he wound yarn around the entirety of Tjaden Hall, partly to see how long it would take the administration to respond (The next morning, they asked him to promptly disassemble the piece, claiming it was a fire hazard.) In another piece, he placed prints in the middle of the gallery floor, forcing viewers to step over them to see the rest of the exhibit. Eventually, he began branching into performance. In one performance piece for a digital media critique, he told his classmates he was “superior” to them and would not be submitting a project. In another, he asked viewers to hold a piece of wood between a balcony and the wall and then let go.

“I like the idea of disrupting an existing system, but at

some point I realized that that was only one specific way of creating work,” he said, noting its limitations.

During his semester in New York City last spring, Sohn was heavily influenced by Cornell Professor John Juray and by the work of Teaching Associate Daren Kendall MFA ‘12. He began making work that was disruptive but less aggressive, edging away from performance art in favor of sculptural installations.

Nonetheless, he considers his installations derivative of his earlier performance pieces.

“In a performance, due to my physical presence being within the work, I have a direct engagement with the viewer,” he said. “[In my recent work] the sculptures replace my role. They are the ones that exert presence.”

The sculptures in Compromise certainly exert a presence. Regarding the dimensions and placements of the beams, Sohn said he considered them “in relation to the body that would be engaging with the piece.”

Likewise, Sohn considered this body when painting the beams, allowing the wood grain to show through so that people could be “fully aware of what material they are interacting or engaging with and also fully aware of how devastating this could be.” Although Sohn did not intend the wobbliness of the beams, he said he liked the sense of precariousness they instill, the effect they have on the body as it moves through the space of the gallery.

“It makes you more conscious of your own body ...

When you’re working with a saw, you’re more aware of where your hands are placed,” he said.

The relationship between body and work was certainly apparent to the students helping Sohn install his work this weekend — one student who helped Sohn carry in the beams walked away with four splinters. Even after the first two beams were installed, students milled about cautiously. Some hopped over the lower end of the sculpture rather than duck under the higher end for fear it would fall down. An MFA student carried out a ladder, carefully avoiding the red string marking the next two beams.

Although he would not mention specifics, he hinted that he wanted to “get out of the gallery” and create public installations in the future. Gallery or not, some things will remain the same: “I like work that creates an experience,” Sohn said.

“You just look at it, and you get a feeling from it.”

Emily Greenberg is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at egreenberg@cornellsun.com.

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9 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Sunday at Risley Theater The life of St. Peter rendered through hip-hop?

Thats right. Risley Theater is staging a “gospel hiphopera” about the life of St. Peter in affiliation with the 36th Annual Festival of Black Gospel in Ithaca this weekend. In addition to this unique concept, the performance will feature live gospel singing, slam poetry, gospel, steep pan and West African drum. In addition Prof. Patrick Gray, Ithaca College, English, will present the music he co-wrote while at the Yale School of Music.

— Meredith Joyce ’14

Thursday at 9 p.m. at the Haunt The Ambassadors are bringing their R&B and gospel-tinged rock sound to the Haunt this week. Ithaca natives Noah Feldshuh and brothers Sam and Casey Harris, along with Adam Levin, released their debut album Litost in January 2012 and were featured at Lollapalooza this past summer. Drawing on music that ranges from anthemic to groovy, Ambassadors are influenced by everyone from The Stooges to George Harrison.

Be sure to check out this up-and-coming act.

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If you think you’ve heard Gangam Style enough for a lifetime, then you are clearly mistaken. Tonight, a capella phenomenon Pentatonix will take on Psy’s hottest pop song and many other hits, all without instruments, in a stunning presentation of the power of the human voice.

The winners of Season 3 of The Sing-Off, the Pentatonix have become a quintet-force in music, re-developing pop songs into incredibly catchy a capella routines. We challenge you not to stand up in the theater and sing along as they dazzle their way through your favorite songs.

— Gabrielle Velkes ’16

Ordinary Lives — Extraordinary Content

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n the recommendation of last year’s National Book Award winner Katherine Boo, this past week I picked up a copy of Barbara Demick’s remarkable work of narrative non-fiction — Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. I have always been somewhat fascinated by North Korea — how has a country of more than 20 million people remained so entirely cut off from the rest of the world for so long? In our digital age, where it’s not uncommon to see a Cornell student’s library desk covered with books, magazines, an iPhone, iPad, and Macbook all at the same time, North Korea has remained a country almost entirely isolated, with little unscreened information moving in or out.

Demick’s work follows the lives of six North Korean defectors living in South Korea and peppers in her own background knowledge garnered during years covering the peninsula for The Los Angeles Times. She writes the book largely like a novel, allowing the reader to follow her characters, understand their passions, live through the ups and downs of their romances and friendships and struggle maintaining a life during the country’s horrible famine in the ’90s. We follow Mi-San and Jun-sang through their secret romance that endures for almost a decade without so much as a kiss on the lips. Oak-hee leaves an abusive husband, venturing to China where she is caught and sent to a prison camp. She eventually leaves, finds work in China and then South Korea and even helps her mother escape. The characters’ rich plights in part come from the way they form in spite of the censors and government mandates that try so hard to write their citizens life stories.

The book briefly mentions, though, an interesting factoid that particularly sparked my interest. As it turns out, the late Kim Jong-il, despite his seeming penchant for oppression and distaste for modern culture, fancied himself quite the film buff. In 1973, the young dictator-in-waiting Kim Jong-il authored On the Art of Cinema, a book on his vision for a socialist film industry, oxymoronic though it may seem. The book is complete nonsense — pages about how to use film to spread juche, the North Korean state-religion that venerates

Kim il-Sung, Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-un as divine, communism as the key to prosperity and individualism as a scourge on the Workers’ Party.

Much like economics and human rights, though, the art of film was entirely foreign to Kim Jong-il. The North Korean film industry never really took off, the biennial Pyongyang Film Festival that began in 1987 never showed anything more than innocuous domestic propaganda and censored foreign fluff, though one of the nation’s films, The Schoolgirl’s Diary was released in France.

In an attempt to create what he saw as an inchoate North Korean film industry, Kim Jong-il kidnapped legendary South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and his former wife, actress Choi Eun-hee in 1978. Shin Sang-ok had been shut down by then South Korean dictator Park Chung Hee and was working in Hong Kong at the time of his kidnapping. In North Korea, Kim Jong-il, the son of the country’s then leader, and presumed successor, forced the two to make dozens of North Korean propaganda films, most notably Pulgasari, a Korean version of Godzilla that served as a metaphor for capitalism destroying the country. For eight years the two lived in relative luxury (the rest of the country was increasingly becoming incredibly poor during the ’80s) until they finally escaped at a film festival in Vienna.

What’s remarkable about this juxtaposition is not only how horrifically repressive the idiosyncratic North Korean regime is — it’s absolutely terrifying that this family possesses nuclear launch codes — but what this story says about art.

Slow No matter what lengths propagandists and dictators go to to Lerner manufacture stories to their liking, ones that glorify the regime and hide the awful situation their country is in, the work they produce always ends up ridiculous. You can kidnap an esteemed filmmaker like Shin Sang-ok, but unless you give him the liberty to tell stories and produce art organically, everything he produces will end up being mindless dribble. On the other hand, despite the unthinkable oppression and suffering of Demick’s real life characters, there’s a certain beauty in their narratives.

When they see a glimmer of hope during the most trying of times, our hearts race with theirs. When a family member passes

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away from starvation or is sent to a labor camp for a brief critical aside of the government, we mourn with them.

Demick is a talented writer, but her brilliance lies in unlocking the compassion of her characters through language, not in creating it. This type of work, a pure journalistic endeavor, begs the question: are all artists simply journalists with different stylistic approaches? Sure, some may change characters names, alter situations, and often times throw in fantastical elements, but the reason a work of art, well, works, comes from its humanity, the way it offers its audience a separate point of view and facilitates empathy. The book’s subtitle, Ordinary Lives, encapsulates this truth beautifully.

Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at alerner@cornellsun.com or on Twitter @AdamBLerner.

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Curtis Granderson Sidelined for Ten Weeks With Broken Wrist TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Curtis Granderson jogged to first base after being hit on his right forearm as if it was a minor annoyance. Back at the ballpark in a brace a couple of hours later, it was clear the New York Yankees had a pretty big power problem on their hands.

In his first at-bat of spring training, the slugger broke his arm when he hit by a pitch from Toronto's J.A. Happ in the bottom of the first inning Sunday, and is expected to be out until the first week of May. “Grandy is not a bat you say is easy to replace, but we’re going to have to find a way,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “No one is going to feel sorry for you.”

The Yankees, who were beat 2-0 by a Blue Jays’ split squad, first called it a bruise but X-rays revealed the break.

“Five pitches in we got a little setback,” Granderson said. “Now we rest, recovery, get it back, and get ready to play whenever that day comes.”

The team said Granderson could be out 10 weeks, which means he'll miss about a month of the regular season.

“Mentally, you understand this is part of it, but at the same time now there’s not much I can do about it except do the best things I can to not make it worse,” Granderson said. “Keep myself ready to go.”

It’s a major blow for the Yankees, who are already without Alex Rodriguez until at least the All-Star

break. The Yankees also lost Nick Swisher to free agency.

Granderson led New York with 43 homers last season. The Yankees hit 245 homers last year and had five players with at least 20. This year they could open the season with just two players, Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano, who topped 20.

Granderson was examined near first base before leaving the game.

“It didn’t sound good,” said Yankees third baseman Kevin Youkilis, who was in the on-deck circle when Granderson got hit.

The Yankees were planning to experiment during exhibition games to see if they would move Granderson from center to left, with Brett Gardner going from left to center. That potential alignment is on hold.

Girardi said that Gardner will likely start the season in center.

Matt Diaz and Juan Rivera, in the competition for the fourth outfielder spot, could see increased playing time.

“We’ll be forced to take a look at a short-term option,” Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. “Obviously, we’ll being get Curtis back. It’s very early. We’re still evaluating what we actually have in camp. The first month there will be a vacancy that we need to fill. Is that internal, external, I couldn’t even tell you.”

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Without Gray, Red’s Offense Struggles in Half Court M. B-BALL

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“We could have done a better job chasing him around screens and helping to make sure he didn’t get open looks.”

Though the Red was never completely out of striking distance, the squad failed to make a significant run and was unable to get the lead under five in the final ten minutes. Both Hicks and guard Miles Cartwright — who had 15 points and nine assists in the game — hit clutch free throws down the stretch to eventually put the Red away, 79-71.

In a game that could have given the Red one more chance at staying alive in the race to the top of the Ancient Eight, Cornell looked lethargic in the first half

Saturday night against Princeton (14-9, 7-2). The squad shot just over 15 percent from the field and only scored 14 points in the half. Going into the locker room down 33-14, it looked like the Tigers were ready to run away with a decisive win.

“In the first half, we had some good looks, and a lot of shots weren’t falling,” Chemerinski said. “Princeton did a good job defensively, but the most important thing was we didn’t do a good enough job moving the ball around.”

However, the Red started to interrupt Princeton’s rhythmic offense in the second half. The full court press that Cornell kept on for most of the game became more effective, and the Tigers started to turn the ball over.

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Shouldering the burden | In the absence of senior guard Johnathan Gray, junior guard Dominick Scelfo saw more minutes, scoring 21 total points in the weekend.

“We did a better job in the second half of speeding them up,” Chemerinski said.

The quickness of senior guard Miles Asafo-Adjei helped to start the Red’s run.

He picked the pocket of Princeton’s point guard at midcourt and was able to turn it

game for Cornell, scoring 23 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. However, the Red was still outrebounded by the rest of the Tigers’ significantly taller lineup.

“Princeton is one of the biggest teams [in the Ivy League]; their strength is their

“Coach always tells us the next guy has to step up and we all have to do a good job collectively to pick up the slack.”

Eitan Chemerinski into a fast-break layup on the other end.

Senior forward Errick Peck followed suit with a steal of his own, handing the ball off to sophomore guard Galal Cancer.

Cancer missed his first shot but got the rebound back and scored in the paint, making the score 42-31.

The two teams traded baskets for the next five minutes. Then, after a steal by sophomore guard Devin Cherry, Scelfo wove his way into the paint and scored on a finger roll under the basket, bringing the Newman Arena crowd to its feet for the first time. Princeton missed on the other end and sophomore forward Shonn Miller corralled the rebound, getting the Red out in transition. Cherry made a pretty move in the paint, and though the layup rimmed out, Chemerinski was there above the rim to tip it back in and put the Red within seven points of the Tigers with eight minutes to go.

In keeping with the woes of the weekend, however, Princeton’s guard TJ Bray hit a three on the next possession, silencing the crowd and spurring a 9-0 run by the Tigers from which the Red could not recover.

Though he was forced to battle in the post all night with Princeton’s star forward Ian Hummer, Miller had the biggest

size,” Chemerinski said. “They are a good rebounding team, and that is always a point of emphasis for us. It’s going to continue to be a big priority in the rest of our games.”

The loss of senior guard Johnathan Gray to an injury only added to the Red’s struggles to generate offense this weekend. Gray is one of only two Cornell players averaging double digits this season. He was coming off two 18-point games in a row before being sidelined.

“It was definitely a big loss for us not to have Johnny,” Chemerinski said. “But coach always tells us, the next guy has to step up, and we all have to do a good job collectively to pick up the slack and just keep up the intensity, even if Johnny can’t play.”

With Harvard and Princeton both sweeping their Ivy matchups this weekend, the Red finds itself tied for third place and four games back in the win column with as many games to go in the season. The squad will be back at home next weekend for rematches with Brown and Yale.

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

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Fortino’s Two Goals Give Red Confidence W. HOCKEY

Continued from page 16

defenseman Laura Fortino added two consecutive goals to open up the Red’s lead.

According to Jenner, getting significant offensive contributions from

the defensemen was a good omen for the success of the Red’s offense in the ECAC tournament.

“Having a balanced offense is going to be huge in the playoffs, because we will need everyone to contribute in order to succeed in playoffs,” she said. “All three of our lines

and all of our defense are contributing, so it’s nice to see that we have a good team offense going for us.”

Saulnier added that Fortino’s goals also gave the Red a boost of confidence.

“For Fortino to be able to put those two goals in was huge for her

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Putting up zeroes | The squad’s 4-0 victory over Union marked junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick’s fifth shutout of the season. She made 18 saves in the game.

and for the team,” she said. “Plays like that get the team going and keep us motivated.”

The Red finished off the season winning five of its final six games and is set to play at home during the first round of the ECAC playoffs next weekend. Jenner said that having momentum heading into the playoffs is usually a good indicator of how the team will play.

“Going in on a roll is huge,” she said. “Oftentimes, whoever comes out on top in the playoffs is the team that’s on a roll and the team that’s cohesive and playing well, so hopefully we can continue the roll that we’re on,” she said.

Jenner and her teammates also understand that playoff hockey is a much different atmosphere.

“We need to bring it up another gear because the playoffs is a whole new level of hockey. But we’re excited that we’re going to be hosting it, so hopefully our fans will be able to give us a good boost.”

With its fourth consecutive ECAC title under its belt, the Red understands what it means to play in the intense atmosphere of the tournament.

“Our experience could really help us,” she said. “We have players with international experience and even our freshmen have been in a lot of big games, so it’s not going to be too new for anyone. We have a lot of experience in big games and we enjoy those big games [and] look forward to that pressure.”

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

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Cornell Routed Twice on Road

By SKYLER DALE

Red also allowed just one of Princeton’s players, senior Niveen Rasheed, to score in douAfter splitting its last two ble figures. games at home against Yale and “We played excellent Brown, the women’s basketball defense,” Fitzpatrick said. “We team struggled on the road this limited them to under 60 points, weekend — falling 67-40 at which is a feat in itself.”

Penn and 59-34 at Princeton.

According to Smith, the Penn (14-9, 7-2 Ivy League), team’s performance on the which has won five out of its defensive end was influCORNELL 40 enced by its poise on last six games entering the conPENN test on Friday, continued its 67 offense. hot shooting against the Red Game: “I thought we did a really 1ST Tot 2nd (11-12, 3-6), going 46 percent Cornell good job of slowing the 17 40 23 from the field and 38 percent Penn 30 67 tempo down [on offense],” 37 from three-point range.

Smith said.

34 Cornell did not live up to Although the Red scored those standards.

59 20 points in the second half While senior forward Clare Game: — compared to just 14 in 1ST Tot 2nd Fitzpatrick scored 15 points Princeton the first — the team needs 14 34 20 and junior guard Allyson Cornell to improve on its offensive 34 59 25 DiMagno scored 12, the team game after its difficulty scoras a whole connected on just 27 The Red returned to the ing this weekend, according to percent of its shots and went court Saturday night at Smith. zero-for-10 from three.

“Our goal right now is to Princeton (18-5, 9-0) with “Their defense was exactly another drought of offensive win, but right now we just have what we prepared for. We just production. At the end of the to get better as a basketball couldn’t hit easy shots [and] first half, Cornell had only put team,” Smith said. “We need to couldn’t hit any threes,” up 14 points to Princeton’s 34. clean up our offense.”

Fitzpatrick said.

The Red will take on Yale and After allowing Princeton to After nearly 15 minutes of shoot more than 50 percent Brown on the road this weekend strong defense from both teams from the field in the first half, — concluding its four game in the beginning of the first half, Cornell came out of the locker road-trip — before finishing the the Quakers led the Red by just room with more energy, holding season at home against Harvard five points. However, a pair of the Tigers to just 25 and ulti- and Dartmouth. free throws by Brianna Bradford mately their lowest scoring game propelled Penn on a 9-0 run, in the Ivy League since Feb. 3rd Skyler Dale can be reached at and Cornell scored just six more of the 2011-12 campaign. The sdale@cornellsun.com.

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points in the rest of the half.

According to head coach Dayna Smith, the Red had scoring opportunities all game long, but was unable to capitalize.

“Penn was playing an aggressive defense but we had open shots,” Smith said. “We couldn’t knock them down, quite honestly.”

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Coming up short | Senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick scored 15 points on Friday but it was not enough, and the Red fell to Penn and Princeton this weekend.

Two Wins on Senior Weekend Keep Hopes of Playoff Home Ice Alive M. ICE

Continued from page 16

defenseman Nick D’Agostino when asked about his lap on the Lynah ice during the team’s postgame senior recognition ceremony. “It hits you pretty hard ... [The] moment is here, and obviously that lap around the ice is something I’m never going to forget.

That’s an awesome feeling.”

The Red got off to an early lead against RPI Friday when Miller scored after being fed by sophomore forward Brian Ferlin eight minutes into the first period. Sophomore forward Joel Lowry struck just a minute later to extend the Cornell lead to 2-0.

RPI dominated the stat line in the second period, due in part to four Red penalties. Still, Miller outraced the RPI defense — giving the shorthanded Red a 3-0 advantage — and Iles remained steady in goal as the Red entered the third period up 3-1 despite being outshot 17-4 in the second.

Senior forward John Esposito put the game on ice with an empty-net goal in the closing seconds, cementing the final score at 4-1.

The Red continued its momentum against Union, scoring three times in the first 10 minutes of the game.

Freshman forward John Knisely scored first, unassisted off a steal from a Union defender.

Sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan followed up Knisely’s effort just two minutes later with a

shot that streaked past Union junior goaltender Troy Grosenick. Miller continued to give the Dutchmen headaches as he corralled a loose puck and scored on the power play to give the Red a 3-0 lead.

Although Cornell was outshot 32-16 in the final two periods, Iles made a series of diving stops to impede the Union offense.

Still, after two Dutchmen goals in the third, Cornell faced the challenge of staving off a charge from the visitors. Miller made sure his last regular season game on the Lynah ice would be a memorable one, beating Union on a shorthanded goal to extend the Red’s lead to the eventual 4-2 final, pumping up the Lynah Faithful and securing four goals — and four points in the standings for the Red — on the weekend.

“It’s gratifying for the seniors,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said. “It’s gratifying to get the four points, but it’s [also] gratifying for our seniors to make sure that they get the right send-off throughout the course of the night.”

The weekend sweep marks the first time the Red has won at home since its 31 victory over St. Lawrence on Dec. 1 For the Red, which has gone 3-0-1 in the past four games, the recent turnaround has been a refreshing change from the frustrating seven consecutive losses the team endured in January and February. The Red’s recent wins have also

given the team hope of making an impact in the ECAC Tournament. “[I don’t know] fully

Everyone was losing confidence in us but the 26 guys in [the locker room], and that’s all that matters. We

in the ECAC standings.

With two games left in the regular season against Brown (10-11-6, 6-8-6) and Yale (14-10-3, 10-9-1), the Red has an opportuRPI UNION 1 2 nity to gain home ice in CORNELL CORNELL 4 4 the ECAC tournament.

Perhaps the clearest sceGame: 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot Game: 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot RPI 0 Union 0 1 2 0 2 1 0 nario would involve the Cornell 2 Cornell 3 4 4 1 1 1 0 Red defeating the Bears in Providence next what has changed,” Miller came together as a team and weekend and gaining said. “Definitely our atti- we’re playing for each other ground on the Tigers (9-14tude. Obviously there’s more .... We’re one heartbeat out 4, 7-10-3), who currently confidence within the team there, and it’s working.” hold a tiebreaker in the .... That happens in life and The Red is now tied with standings via head-to-head hockey sometimes. Princeton for the ninth spot record. Regardless of what

happens as the regular season concludes, the team’s senior weekend sweep will not soon be forgotten by the players who have dedicated four years to Cornell hockey and the Lynah Faithful.

“It’s been a rough year, an up-and-down year,” D’Agostino said. “To come in here in two big games and get four points on Senior Weekend is pretty special.”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Twists and turns | Nick D’Agostino and his fellow seniors took a lap around the ice on Saturday to commemorate their last games at Lynah.

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Icers Capture Fourth Straight ECAC Title Women’s hockey crowned regular season champions after two road victories

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s hockey team completed its 201213 regular season with two impressive road victories: the Red first defeated Rensselaer on Friday, 4-1, and then knocked off Union, 4-0, the following night. With the two wins and Harvard tying and losing this weekend, the Red captured its fourth consecutive ECAC regular season

title and won the Ivy League championship outright.

According to junior forward Brianne Jenner, the Red is happy to have won the title with hard work and clutch victories, but the team understands it has loftier goals to achieve in the postseason.

“Winning the ECAC regular season title was one of our goals in the beginning of the year, and we knew that going into this weekend, some of it was in our control and some of it wasn’t. But we just focused on winning those last two

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Double the fun | Senior defenseman Laura Fortino scored two goals in a 4-0 win over Union Saturday.

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games and doing what we could,” she said. “It’s a long season and we had some tight games, and you realize how many big wins we had. There are a lot of things to be proud of and it’s a great accomplishment, but CORNELL 4 obviously our main goal RPI 1 is the ECAC playoff troGame: 1 ST 3 RD Tot 2nd phy.”

Cornell 1 4 1 2 Though the Red has RPI 0 1 1 0 started slow in a few of its road games this seaCORNELL 4 son, it was able to take a UNION 0 1-0 first period lead in Game: 1 ST 3 RD Tot 2nd Friday’s game against the Cornell 2 4 2 0 Engineers (10-20-4, 8- Union 0 0 0 0 12-2 ECAC). According to sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier, taking the early lead was especially significant.

“We got a good jump in the first period,” she said. “We were getting chances, and fortunately we were able to bury one, and that got the ball rolling for us. It was really important to get that first goal, because that was a big game.”

The Red widened its lead with two consecutive power play goals in the second period. Saulnier said that capitalizing on the limited number of power play chances the team received was a key to winning.

“That was really crucial, because you don’t know if you’re going to get one power play or five power plays in a game, so taking advantage of every one that you get is crucial towards a win,” she said. “So being able to take advantage of those is good for our confidence, and it will be good going forward knowing the little things that we need to do on the power play in order to have success.”

The Red took a one-goal first period lead against the Dutchmen (7-23-4, 0-18-4 ECAC) once again, and senior See W. HOCKEY page 14

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Title Hopes Shattered

By Penn, Princeton

C.U. Stays Hot at Lynah, Defeats RPI, No. 20 Union

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Sun Staff Writer

By CHRIS MILLS

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

A weekend that could have put the Red (13-14, 5-5 Ivy League) on the heels of the conference leaders ended in disappointment, as the Red’s hopes of an Ivy title and a bid to the NCAA tournament disintegrated. On Friday night, Penn’s efficient 3-point shooting and aggressive on-ball defense plagued Cornell, while Princeton’s methodic offense and length in the paint proved too much for the Red to handle in a 72-53 loss Saturday.

Against the PENN 79 Quakers (7-19, the Red CORNELL 71 4-5), played a solid Game: 1ST Tot 2nd first half, going Penn 39 79 40 into the locker Cornell 43 71 28 room with a four-point lead.

PRINCETON 72 Though guard CORNELL 53 Tony Hicks was three-for-three Game: 1ST Tot 2nd from beyond the Princeton 33 72 39 arc in the half, Cornell 14 53 39 the rest of the Quakers were only one-for-six. The Red dominated the final ten minutes of the half with back-to-back 3-pointers by freshman guard Nolan Cressler and junior Guard Dominick Scelfo. However, that hot shooting all but evaporated in the second half as Penn’s shooters caught fire instead.

“Penn did a good job executing their offense,” said senior forward Eitan Chemerinski. “At some

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Miller flight | Sophomore forward Shonn Miller provided most of the offense against Princeton, scoring 23 points.

critical moments in the game, we had some defensive lapses and miscommunications, which gave them open looks at the basket.”

Hicks continued his impressive performance, scoring nine unanswered points midway through the half to give Penn the lead. He finished the game with 29 points, leading all scorers.

“Hicks did a good job coming off his prior experience getting some open threes,” Chemerinski said.

See M. B-BALL page 13

As senior goaltender Omar Kanji came onto the ice with 30 seconds remaining, the Lynah crowd roared. The Red had just scored to take a 4-2 lead over the defending ECAC champion, Union, on Saturday’s senior night. Kanji’s stint was his first and perhaps final regular season appearance. “[Omar’s] been an unbelievable teammate,” said fellow senior and team forward Greg Miller, who scored four goals during the weekend.

“Both on and off the ice, he’s just a guy you can’t say enough about.”

It was a special

night for Kanji and all the Red seniors, as Cornell (11-133, 7-10-3 ECAC) wrapped up the final home regular season weekend with a 4-1 trouncing of RPI (15-12-

5, 10-7-3) Friday and a 4-2 win against No. 20 Union (15-12-5, 88-4) Saturday.

“It’s pretty surreal,” said senior See M. ICE page 15

OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Offensive outburst | Senior forward Greg Miller scored four goals this weekend.