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Univ.Plans to Offer Business Minor Program will be capped at 400 students per class By JUSTIN ROUILLIER
management, accounting, finance and marketing. The classes will be offered by the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Business-minded Cornellians can look for- Management, the School of Industrial and Labor ward to a new campus-wide business minor next Relations, the School of Hotel Administration fall if a proposal by University administrators and the Johnson school. proposal goes through as planned. Only 400 undergraduates per class will be In its current form, the University’s allowed to enroll in the program for the first year “Business@Cornell” proposal will create a busi- the minor is offered. ness minor available to all undergraduates with a “We do anticipate expanding,” Thomas said. GPA of 3.3 or higher who have taken both an “But we will start with a cap so we can see how introductory economics and an introductory sta- big this thing is, and then we can expand in a tistics course by the end of their sophomore year, planned way by adding some capacity. according to Ronald Eventually, if Seeber, vice provost for “Students are interested in getting a there is lots more land grant affairs. The demand, it does minor will first be avail- return on their education.” imply that we able to students in the Joseph Thomas need to re-purClass of 2015. pose or hire new Joseph Thomas, dean professors — that of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, is yet another reason to start with something we attributed the demand for a business minor to know we can manage.” changing societal expectations about education. Seeber said he has been working on the pro“It’s a tough time economically, and students posal since last year and that he expects the want to show that they have gone to a great lib- Faculty Senate to approve it at its March meeting. eral arts university but that they have also learned If the proposal is approved by the Senate, Seeber applied skills,” he said. “I think there is more will announce the University’s intention to create interest in having a college education that allows the minor to the Board of Trustees. The board you to go out and do something immediately does not, however, have the power to overturn after graduation — students are interested in get- the Senate’s ruling. ting a return on their education.” Last month, Seeber presented the To complete the minor, students will have to See BUSINESS page 6 take at least one class each in the fields of business Sun Staff Writer
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Talking point | Dan Goldberg ’14, a candidate for the Student Assembly’s undesignated at-large position, presents his views at a forum on Tuesday.
Student Assembly Hopefuls Pitch Platforms at Forums By SYLVIA RUSNAK Sun Staff Writer
At a forum on Tuesday, candidates running for the Student Assembly positions of president, executive vice president, undesignated, international, LGBTQ, minority and women’s issues at-large representatives told their peers what they would do to work on student health, safety and diversity
Planning Board Advances Holiday Inn Expansion By KAITLYN KWAN Sun Staff Writer
Hart Hotels’ proposal to dramatically expand its Holiday Inn hotel near the Commons has received substantial support from the community and is well underway to gaining approval for construction, board members said at a meeting of the Planning and Development Board Tuesday. In an effort to increase its guest occupancy on weekdays, Hart Hotels proposes to expand the hotel on South Cayuga Street through two new additions. More than 110 rooms in the hotel’s north, south and west guest room wings will be demolished and replaced by a banquet and meeting space, a 10-story tower with 115 new rooms and a rooftop entertainment complex. Govind Acharya, chair of the board, called the proposal “the most ideal sort of project that we get.” “[The improvements will help in] building our density, bringing more people into the city, improving our tax pays and it’s going to make [the hotel] more aesthetically pleasing … I don’t think there was anyone who was opposed to it,” Acharya said. During the board’s meeting on Tuesday, however, some board members expressed their concerns about the renovation’s effects on the neighborhood. In a letter to the board, City Transportation Engineer Tim Logue questioned the safety of two new curbcuts, or cuts See HOTEL page 5
issues. Only candidates running for positions voted on by the entire student body participated. “I want to continue working on alcohol safety for the student body,” said current executive vice president Adam Gitlin ’13, who is running uncontested for president of the S.A. “That involves the Cayuga’s Watchers See S.A. page 5
News Meme Madness
One does not simply ignore memes, an Internet phenomenon spreading around Cornell. | Page 3
Opinion Price of Fairness
Jon Weinberg ’13 pushes University students and administrators to put their foot down on exploitative, unpaid internships. | Page 9
Science Tonight We Dine on Mars
Cornell researchers are studying how to prevent astronauts from tiring of their food by simulating conditions on Mars. | Page 12
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Far above South Cayuga St. | Hart Hotels presented a proposal to the Planning and Development Board on Tuesday to build two new additions, including a 10-story tower (above left), to the existing Holiday Inn (right).
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The equestrian team finished its most successful team to date this Saturday, placing second in its final show. | Page 20
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A phalanx of students and advocates rallied behind a proposal to construct a GreenStar grocery store at 307 College Ave. Tuesday, decrying arcane and obstructionist city parking requirements that they said were preventing the natural foods market from flourishing in the
heart of Collegetown. The reality, however, may be more complex. City officials said at a meeting of the Planning and Development Board Tuesday that developer Josh Lower’s ’05 proposed GreenStar is not being held up by city regulations, as there is no parking requirement for new retail spaces located in apartment buildings in Collegetown.
Instead, they said, the GreenStar is being stalled because it is slated for the bottom floor of a bigger project — a proposed six-story building, called “Collegetown Crossing,” on College Avenue. This building will contain 103 bedrooms that do require parking spaces under See GREENSTAR page 4
Annie Ziesing ’13, studying abroad in Rome, provides a tourist’s guide to the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica. | Cornellsun.com, March 1
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‘Memes,’ Latest Internet Trend, Catches Fire at Cornell By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer
For the past three weeks, Cornell students’ Facebook pages have been seemingly suddenly bombarded by memes, an Internet phenomenon in which humorous text is overlayed on an image. Memes, long known as a nationwide phenomenon, have taken a twist of their own at Cornell, where they are known as “Cornell Memes.” As of Tuesday night, 4,845 Facebook users “liked” a Facebook page created Feb. 7 devoted to memes about life at Cornell, which includes jabs at campus leaders, jokes about prelims and rants about Ithaca’s isolated location. One meme enthusiast, Daniel Ortega ’15, called the new trend an “Internet inside joke,” while Eric May ’15 described them as “not just one image ... [but] a bunch of different images that mean different things.” Memes, May said, are just the latest Internet phenomenon to skyrocket in popularity overnight. “It’s like a new viral video,” May said. “Certain images become very popular.” In fact, May, who created a meme of his own, experienced firsthand how fast the images spread online. “Six-panel memes got popular a couple of weeks ago; I hadn’t seen any on [Cornell’s page], so I decided to post one,” he said. “An hour into it, there were already a few hundred likes. Facebook stopped counting likes and only counted shares.” May’s meme spread far beyond the Cornell sphere, even reaching a “good friend” whose boss sent him the picture. “It is cool to see that they [reach] people so outside my circle of friends,” May said. “I’d love for it to get as popular as it can be.” The Cornell Memes Facebook page is meant to host memes that all students can relate to, May said. “General memes are more based on society — those are intended to become super-popularized and just blown up. The Cornell memes are intended for Cornell students,” May said. “It’s a great way to
make social comments on a subject that you are comfortable with.” Echoing May, several students said they enjoy the Cornell-specific jokes on Cornell Memes. “I had no idea until like two weeks ago when I saw them on my news feed. They say things that apply to everyone here,” Rachel Nedsker ’15 said. Nedsker explained that as memes became popular on Facebook, more and more people began to visit the Cornell Memes page. Shelby Raquito ’15 said she browses the page “too often now.” Another Cornell Memes visitor, Katherine Satterfield ’13 — who said she has been hooked on memes for more than a year — was inspired to begin creating memes of her own after seeing Cornell’s page. “It takes some wit,” she said. While the trend has proliferated around campus, where students browsing computers in libraries have been sharing their favorite images with friends, Ortega said that memes have not always been so popular or well-known among Cornell students. “If I showed you a meme picture five years ago, you wouldn’t think it was funny, but as that meme develops, everyone learns what it means,” Ortega said. In fact, May said, as memes gained popularity nationwide, students who had been making memes and posting them on sites such as 4chan.com and lolcats.com began to create Cornell-specific memes. “I’ve been following them online since the start of the year … Now that it has been more popular, I started posting more about Cornell,” May said. Although students are still chuckling over the best of Cornell Memes, the images, like any other overnight Internet phenomena, may already be on the decline. “I think people that are posting the really good memes are getting tired of it,” Satterfield said.
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Cyber craze | Ilan Rasooly’s ’15 meme (top), an Internet phenomenon spreading around Cornell, features Slowpoke, a Pokémon character, arriving late to the meme party.
I.C. Prof. Awarded for Renovating Historic Property By NIKKI LEE Sun Contributor
Petit Larceny and Burglary An officer was dispatched to Flora Rose House on Monday to take a report from a staff member regarding the theft of a handcarved whaling vessel. The model was valued at $200. Aggravated Harassment An officer was dispatched to Barton Hall on Monday to take a report from a student that had been receiving unwanted harassing messages from a known individual. Criminal Mischief An officer was dispatched to the Biotechnology Building on Thursday to take a report from a staff member regarding “bias graffiti” carved into various walls. Petit Larceny An officer was dispatched to 1 Forest Park Lane on Monday to take a report regarding the theft and recovery of a Papa Johns vehicle delivery sign. Petit Larceny An officer was dispatched to Balch Hall on Wednesday to take a report from a student regarding the theft of their unsecured Ugg boots. The boots were valued at $250. — Compiled by David Marten
Up East State Street, past rows of sagging gray houses, sits a bright yellow house with green trim, lined with roses and butterfly bushes, perennials and annuals. Soon, it will be paired by sister houses freshly painted and fringed with flowers. This will complete the vision of Prof. David Kramer, English, Ithaca College, who sees his project as a model for future Ithaca housing communities. “[It’s] a sort of gateway sight as you come into Ithaca,” Kramer said. “[The yellow house] will harmonize with its next door neighbors. There’ll be a lot of roses this coming spring.” Kramer, who, with his family, owns 16 houses, first began renovating historic houses in Ithaca, such as the East State Street property, more than a decade ago. In December, the Rotary Club of Ithaca and the City of Ithaca awarded Kramer the Pride of Ownership award for his work at 522 East State Street. The award is given annually to property owners who have improved the aesthetics of the city. The Rotary Club recognized seven properties in 2011, including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art for its new wing, the restaurant Mia and the First Unitarian Church. “I was really incredibly honored to receive that award,” Kramer said. “That my work should be considered in the same class as [the new wing of the
Johnson Museum] — that was really humbling. There were many million dollar jobs, and my modest house job was in there with them. I was touched to be put in that category.” But Kramer insisted that his pride in winning the award is merely a “secondary pride, a minor pride.” He said his primary motivation was to preserve historic structures. The house was designed by architect William H. Miller 1872. Miller
“People who were with me as I was doing this were saying, ‘You’re insane. This is a rental building. Why are you doing this?’” David Kramer designed the house sometime around 1872, according to Mary Tomlan M.A. ’71, an architectural historian who has lectured and published on Miller’s work. Miller went on to design dozens of other buildings in Ithaca from about 1871 until his death in 1922, according to Tomlan. “It’s hard to generalize about Miller’s work because he’s so protean,” Kramer said. “He’s interested in the neo-gothic, but really he can work in any style.” More than a century later, however, the house needed major cosmetic work. Kramer, seeing its potential beauty,
began tackling renovations when he bought the property in 2008. “I thought, ‘What beautiful bones in that fine old building,’” Kramer said. “I just loved it as a building, and I think I completed my work on it, except for painting, before I found out it was a Miller.” Kramer spent three years restoring the house, working mostly in the summer. He hired about 50 artisans, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, roofers and other craftsmen to work on the site while maintaining his other historic properties. “I love the process,” Kramer said. “The thing is that I’m an amateur. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing when I start, but I learn as I go along, often from the expertise of the people who are actually doing the work.” Over those summers, Kramer worked 40 to 60 hours a week and spent a “tremendous” amount of money, as well as effort, on the project. “People who were with me as I was doing this were saying, ‘You’re insane. This is a rental building. Why are you doing this?’” he said. But Kramer said he could not resist renovating the building. He tore out its drop ceiling — a lower ceiling built to hide the decaying original — to reveal the building’s openness and ornate plaster molding. He also uncovered and restored its antique hardwood floors, the alternating chestnut and walnut patSee AWARD page 5
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afford to have a car … this project factors out the parking from unfairly putting it in the rent prices,” Daniel Keyo said in support of the project. “There’s oversupply of paid off-street parking … The parking lots are urban dead spaces; it’s unfair to put the burden on the developer.” Keyo added that this project was “very forward thinking.” “City zoning mandates parking requirements … I really hope you can grant the variance for these spaces,” Keyo said. He then asked the meeting’s attendees to express their support for the project through applause. McCollister, however, emphasized that Lower’s personality should not be enough of a reason for the city to approve the project. “Everyone was singing Josh Lower’s proposal — ‘Here’s a great guy; he’s got the right values’ — I said, ‘You have to think longerterm about what happens with that property,” McCollister said. She added that, despite the fanfare of Tuesday’s meeting, the city should first ensure that the developer guarantees that “the business will stay there.” “It was quite the theater tonight in City Hall,” she said. Jeff Stein can be reached at jstein@cornellsun.com.
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the city’s zoning ordinance. Per that ordinance, every three housing units built in central Collegetown must be matched by the creation of one parking spot. Lower needs a variance — or an exemption to the law, which would require him to provide 57 new parking spaces — for the city to approve the development. Anchored by GreenStar, Lower’s development fulfills a long-standing Collegetown wish list of sorts: More quality housing, a resurgence of retail, and ready access to organic produce. His supporters, moreover, say that giving students and Collegetown residents a grocery shop within walking distance may eliminate the need for more parking spaces. “I basically need something to drive to Wegmans with, and that’s kind of a terrible thing. I’m a young, impressionable mind you have for four years — there are thousands of us — and the city has started sending us a message that everyone goes everywhere in a car,” said Tom Moore ’14, a Sun columnist, said at the meeting, noting that such a message is “suicidal on a planetary level.” Echoing the sentiments of many other speakers, Moore added that the city should
encourage developments that reduce car use sion that the 57 parking spaces needed were and encourage pedestrians to walk. directly related to GreenStar store, as “The city’s highest priority should be an opposed to the housing for the building,” infrastructure that promotes alternative Schroeder said. “The 57 spaces are not transportation,” Moore said. “If there was a required for GreenStar.” GreenStar in Collegetown, I wouldn’t have a McCollister and Schroeder both said that car.” for the city to grant the variance, Lower But city officials said the debate over the should provide more specific guarantees of GreenStar proposal may have been conflat- how he will discourage his tenants from ed with the parking requirement. bringing cars to Ithaca. Lower has suggest“My concern about the project is that the ed providing residents TCAT bus passes and applicant is holding out the carrots of the access to Ithaca Carshare in exchange for GreenStar to tout as a public amenity,” waiving the parking requirement. Common Council member Ellen McColAdditionally, like McCollister and lister ’78 (D-3rd Schroeder, Common Council Ward) said. “The “We need a comprehensive member Graham Kerslick (Dproblem with 4th Ward) said the debate over this application is parking plan, not just for granting the variance should be that everybody Collegetown but for the part of a broader discussion of has [gotten] so entire city.” parking requirements. enthusiastic over “We need a comprehensive GreenStar, but Graham Kerslick parking management plan, not we’re still not just for Collegetown but for thinking of landthe entire city,” Kerslick said. use ramifications of the proposal.” Still, many of the supporters of the proAdditionally, John Schroeder ’74, a posal at Tuesday’s meeting — including member of the planning board and The local residents, a representative from TCAT Sun’s Production Manager, said that some of and city business owners — also assailed the the speakers supporting Lower’s proposal parking requirements’ hold on the may not have fully understood the issues at GreenStar. “This project will be advertised to people hand. “I think a lot of speakers had the impres- who don’t want a car or need a car or cannot
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student safety. Anisha Chopra ’13, who is running for re-election for the position, said her top priority would be student safety. April Manhertz ’14, also running for undesignated atlarge representative, said she would work to expand the late night shuttle system that currently runs only during finals week to run during the entire school year. The candidates for international, LGBTQ and minority at-large representatives also emphasized the need to expand on diversity initiatives, with many students
program, which we’re trying to launch right now, it involves medical amnesty protocol on and off campus and it also involves mental health on campus.” Gitlin said he intends to expand upon current student safety initiatives, including the BLUE Late Night Shuttle Van system, which provided late-night transportation around campus during the fall semester study week, and gorge safety. He also stressed the need for different organizations to come “I want to continue the task force together in forums to discuss ways to system ... which groups assembly improve student health members around certain topics.” and safety. Gitlin said he plans Adam Gitlin ’13 to let S.A. members declaring their intention to unify take ownership of the projects. “I want to continue the task the student body. Enrico Bonatti ’14, who is runforce system ... which groups assembly members around certain ning for international at-large representative, said that he hopes to topics,” he said. To hold members accountable bring together different groups of for the work they do to further international students. Speaking about the difficulties their initiatives, Geoffrey Block ’14, candidate for executive vice international students face in intepresident, said he would create a grating with the student populatracker, in the form of a Google tion on campus, international atApps document, to show the large candidate Wei Yang ’14 said progress representatives are mak- that she hopes to create a peer ing, as well as post representatives’ mentorship program that matches attendance records on the S.A. seniors with freshmen from different communities. website. Echoing Yang, Cameron Other candidates, running for undesignated at-large representa- Pritchett ’15, a candidate for tive positions, said that, if elected, minority at-large representative, they would focus on improving said that “inclusion is one of the
most important things we can stress at Cornell.” Another candidate for minority at-large representative, Jacob Zapata ’15, said he would try to create orientation events that would support minority groups on campus to help the minority community integrate into the Cornell community. Pablo Diaz ’13, who is running for LGBTQ representative, said that Cornell’s diversity encompasses more than just sexual orientation or race. “People aren’t just queer; they’re queer and Jewish, Muslim, Christian, black, white,” Diaz said. “All of those cross-sections are things that can be used and drawn on to really bridge the gaps between the different communities on campus that can work together to unify Cornell and make it a safer place not just for gay people but for everybody.” Narda Terrones ’14 is running uncontested for a newly created position on the S.A., the women’s issues at-large representative. Terrones said she wants to address sexual harassment issues on campus, in addition to conducting research that will lead to creating “more programs for women who choose to have kids during college.” Voting online will begin on March 5 and end March 7. Sylvia Rusnak can be reached at srusnak@cornellsun.com.
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in sidewalks that give cars access to properties. Meghan Thoreau Jacquet, a member of the board, added that she is concerned about the loss of 21 parking spaces and the partial removal of the landscape at the corner of Clinton and Cayuga Streets. Despite these worries, John Schroeder ’74, a member of the planning board and The Sun’s Production Manager, said he believes the project will be easily approved. “The concerns are just details of how the site is arranged,” Schroeder said. “[The construction] is meeting a long articulated need for conference space downtown … The concerns are minuscule [in comparison], and virtually every member still strongly supports it.” After hammering out the requested changes, Hart Hotels will seek preliminary approval from the board, followed by final approval for consruction, Archarya said. “The developers have met with a lot of the surrounding neighbors and are willing to work through all their concerns,” Jacquet said. “There are still things to work out, but all that seems to be on the way.” Kaitlyn Kwan can be reached at kkwan@cornellsun.com.
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Business@Cornell proposal to the Academic Programs and Policies Committee, which evaluates academic programs that span more than one college. Prof. Thomas Cleland, psychology, who is the chair of the committee, said that the proposal left some questions unanswered. “We had some questions about the proposal,” he said. “Who was going to run the program and what will its relationship be with the four business school entities that are collaborating to form the minor? They all have their own curriculum committees. How are these committees going to work together to create a curriculum?” The Business@Cornell proposal will only be put to the Faculty Senate for a vote with the committee’s approval. Deans from the four colleges involved in creating the minor are responding to the committee’s questions. Thomas, dean of the Johnson School, was tasked with responding to the committee’s concerns over how the minor will be administered. “The deans of the four major schools involved will act as a governing committee,” he said. “The intention at the moment is that this oversight group will not cause new courses to exist — the individual colleges will do that. The committee may, however, spot a gap in the curriculum and will recommend that a new course be created.” The new minor, if passed, will most likely be headquartered in the Dyson school, according to Prof. Loren Tauer, director of the Dyson school. “There will be have to be an office where [the
minor] is administered, and a faculty member must oversee it,” he said. “The office will probably be in the Dyson school and the faculty member that will be the director and be responsible for the coordination of courses will most likely also be in Dyson.” The Dyson school will not, however, offer the majority of the classes that fulfill the minor’s requirements. “Some of the classes, but not the majority of the classes, will be taught by Dyson school faculties,” Tauer said. “The Hotel School, the ILR school, the Dyson School and the Johnson School will offer classes.” He added that the College of Human Ecology will probably not offer a course for this minor and, in the College of Arts and Sciences, the economics department will teach the statistics classes and economics classes that are required for the minor. Seeber said he expects the minor to grow. “I think in the longer run this will be a very popular minor, so we will need more course offerings in this area,” he said. “We would need faculty designated to teach in the minor.” Tauer said that the administration hopes the minor will provide students with a general introduction to business. “The thing here is not to provide students with complete knowledge of business and business related matters,” Tauer said. “Rather, it is to introduce these students to the basic fundamentals.” Justin Rouillier can be reached at jrouillier@cornellsun.com.
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tern of its stairs and the scrollwork on its staircase. “The building was so wonderful,” Kramer said. “I thought, ‘Well, if it doesn’t pay me back in some obvious dollars and cents way, it’d still be worth it.” Kramer said he sees in every house he passes something he can make beautiful. In addition to receiving the Pride of Ownership award, Kramer was recognized for his work five years ago by Historic Ithaca, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the preservation of historically significant buildings. Residents of the home said they agreed that Kramer’s work was worthy of the award. “I think it’s great, especially in a place like Ithaca, where it’s difficult to find reasonable housing,” said Claire Holton-Basaldua grad, one of eight residents living in the property. “Some of these houses are pretty dilapidated, and it’s nice to find a landlord who really cares about the buildings and maintaining their historical sig-
“The building was so wonderful. I thought, well, if it doesn’t pay me back in some obvious dollars and cents way, it’d still be worth it.” David Kramer nificance.” Kristen Olson, preservation services coordinator for Historic Ithaca, described David Kramer’s efforts as “an investment in the community.” Kramer himself described his efforts as similar to those of his work as an English professor — passing down cultural artifacts to the next generation. “I just love the process of taking things that need love — that are intrinsically beautiful but need refreshing, and bringing them into beauty and use and handing them on to the next generation,” Kramer said. “I see that as really akin to what I do in the classroom.” Nikki Lee can be reached at nsl37@cornell.edu.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The two former ball boys who accuse a fired Syracuse University assistant basketball coach of molesting them decades ago lobbied Tuesday for a New York state law that would give victims more time to report sex abuse. Bobby Davis and his stepbrother, Michael Lang, appeared with their lawyer Gloria Allred at a news conference near the state Capitol to support a measure creating a one-year grace period for filing civil sex abuse charges in cases where the statute of limitations has expired. The bill has languished in the Legislature, but advocates hope the recent sex abuse scandals at Penn State University and Syracuse will break down resistance. Davis, 40, and Lang, 45, accuse ex-coach Bernie Fine of molesting them when they were ball boys, a charge Fine has denied. Davis told fellow advocates and reporters Tuesday that even though the memories are painful, he wants to fight for the bill so children “know we have their back.” “For a long time I couldn’t say anything,” he said. “I was just humiliated and devastated ... When you have kids of your own it really hits you a lot. I want to be able to stand up some day to my children and say, ‘I stood up for what’s right.’” The district attorney in Syracuse has said Davis was credible, but he couldn’t investigate under state law because the statute of limitations had expired. The current statute of limitations in New York for bringing civil claims for child sex abuse is five years after the incident has been reported to police or five years after the victim turns 18. That was also the old standard for felony prosecutions, until state lawmakers in 2008 lifted it altogether for first-degree rape, aggravated sexual abuse and course of sexual conduct against a child. Markey’s bill would extend civil and criminal statutes to 10 years after the incident is reported or 10 years after the victim turns 18. The bill has passed the Assembly three times but failed to pass in the Senate. Among the bill’s opponents is the New York State Catholic Conference, which represents the state’s Roman Catholic bishops on public policy. The conference on Tuesday called the bill “fatally flawed,” arguing in part that retroactively rescinding the civil statute of limitations “changes the rules after the fact and eliminates an essential protection against fraudulent claims.” Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, a Queens Democrat who is chief sponsor of the current bill, said Tuesday the measure does not have a state Senate sponsor, but she was optimistic an agreement could be reached with a senator sponsoring a similar bill.
Ex-Staffer Gets Prison For N.Y. Girl Scouts Theft NEW YORK (AP) — A former finance director for the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York is headed to prison for three to nine years for embezzling more than $311,000. Yaasmin Hooey could have gotten a lighter sentence if she’d paid back $14,000 or more. But defense lawyer Jonathan Marks said Tuesday she was unable to repay more than $3,600, despite selling items and tapping friends and relatives. The 35-year-old Hooey apologized in court. The Manhattan district attorney’s office says she wrote checks and made wire transfers to herself. Prosecutors say she spent the stolen money on items ranging from groceries to a $13,000 diamond ring. Marks says Hooey gave most of the money to her girlfriend.
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NYC Comptroller’s Treasurer Charged NEW YORK (AP) — The campaign treasurer for New York City Comptroller John Liu was arrested on fraud charges Tuesday in a continuing probe of fundraising efforts by the Democrat, who had been widely viewed as a potential successor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Jia Hou, 25, also known as Jenny Hou, was arrested on charges that she was part of a scheme that used straw donors to funnel large, illegal contributions to Liu’s campaign. The government said the investigation had turned up evidence of at least 40 fraudulent donations. Hou, of Queens, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, attempting to commit wire fraud and obstruction of justice. If convicted of all
charges, she faces up to 60 years in prison. Hou was scheduled to appear in federal court later Tuesday. Defense attorney Martin Adelman said Hou will assert her innocence. “She’s an idealistic young woman. I believe when all the proof comes out, that’s how she’ll be seen,” he said. Asked if the news affected his confidence in Liu’s ability to perform his job, Bloomberg said he hadn’t yet heard the details of the case and couldn’t comment. In a statement, Liu said he was “stunned” by the charges against Hou — the second arrest to stem from an ongoing federal investigation of his campaign.
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week from today, the Cornell trustees will make one of their three annual trips to Ithaca to discuss the future of Cornell, but no one will be surprised if you have not noticed their past trips. The Board’s presence on campus can be rather inconspicuous to students — unless you spend all of your time in the Statler Hotel. Sadly, university boards generally do not involve the students they oversee. The Cornell Board has traditionally been more receptive than most universities. Yet lately, the Cornell trustees have been clamoring for even more input from the student body. Back in January, The
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Taking Action on Diversity PRESIDENT DAVID SKORTON’S FEB. 15 EMAIL to the Cornell community on increasing diversity provided critical insight into the need for the University to build a more inclusive environment, but offered few specifics on how the administration will achieve the important goals it set forth. Significantly increasing the diversity of faculty was an initiative first outlined in the 2010-15 Strategic Plan, and it is reassuring to see the University reaffirm its commitment to this cause in Skorton’s email. Following the release of the diversity statement, the University has made a concerted effort to see this initiative through, specifically for military veterans and women. These early efforts indicate that the University is committed to meeting its diversity goals, and that, despite the vagueness of Skorton’s initial email, there is a clear plan for approaching this important initiative moving forward. In the two weeks following Skorton’s email, the University has upped its commitment to augmenting diversity of faculty and staff. On Tuesday, The Sun reported that nearly 350 self-identified military veterans are currently employed by Cornell and that the University intends to increase its hiring of veterans in the future. With the number of troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan decreasing, there will likely be an abundance of military personnel seeking employment in the next few years. Consequently, the diversity initiative calls for Cornell to increase the number of returning veterans in its workforce. Employing the men and women who served the United States is an admirable goal, and the administration should be commended for making this commitment. The claims of increasing veteran recruitment articulated by members of Cornell’s Recruitment and Employment Center are encouraging. Moving forward, the University must act on these claims to ensure the hiring initiative is realized. Additionally, on the same day that Skorton’s email reached the Cornell community, The Sun reported on the University’s continued effort to increase the number of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through its faculty renewal initiative. The success of the ADVANCE program, which began in 2006 and aims to increase the hiring of women in STEM fields, suggests that the University has the infrastructure necessary to facilitate the diverse environment espoused in the email. Moreover, the increase of women in STEM fields over the last five years indicates that the goals expressed in the University’s diversity statement are already taking shape. When Skorton’s email arrived in the inboxes of the Cornell community, it may have appeared to some as though the initiative to increase diversity at the University had yet to begin. However, the recent advances in diversity hiring suggest that the goals of the Strategic Plan are underway, and provide reassurance that the objectives outlined by the administration will be reached by 2015.
Sun ran a guest piece by Trustee Andrew Tisch, describing a new commitment to reaching out to students. This commitment is being fulfilled this weekend, by putting students front and center in a way that no recent trustee weekend has. Students will be involved in meetings every day, be recognized for their work and give insight into student life on campus. The first event is on Wednesday night, where 13 student leaders — both grads and undergrads — will be sharing desserts with the Trustees. The event is supposed to be an informal session where students can meet the trustees of the school and share ideas on how to improve it. Other than being told about the event, the students have not been prompted in any way by the administration. They will be free to discuss whatever concerns are on their mind, ranging from financial aid to the DREAM Act to the lack of Cornell Dairy Barn ice cream at a dessert session. On Thursday, there will be a 40-minute panel in front of the Student Life and Academic Affairs Committees featuring four students — Dan Rubin ’15, Niajee Washington ’13, Keir Ross ’12 and Sara Rahman ’12. The panelists will be discussing the academic life of students both inside and outside the classroom. In other words, they will be talking about anything and everything that concerns students. The panel will serve as a venue for putting student concerns on the agenda, and I’ll be taking suggestions for discussion topics. Thursday night will feature two events for students. First, Provost Kent Fuchs will
depending on your tolerance for 9 a.m. meetings. The full Board will be hosting an open session for about 20 minutes, featuring reports from President Skorton, Student Assembly President Natalie Raps ’12 and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Evan Cortens grad. This growing student presence is not an accident. The trustees want to hear from students, because we can tell them what is happening at Cornell in a way that spreadsheets and graphs cannot. But with this much opportunity to talk with trustees comes the responsibility to use the time wisely. If you are one of the many students who are involved next week, make sure you tell the trustees exactly how you feel. Do not sugarcoat your answers, even if you are speaking over dessert. Of course, tell them the things you love about Cornell too, but do not be afraid to criticize. Cornellians love a healthy debate, whether they are students or trustees. If you are a student who is not coming to any of the meetings, you still can and should make your voice heard. Reach out to any student who is attending (including me), and let them know what you would want improved. Ultimately, the Board’s job is to make Cornell as good as it can be for everyone on campus. It is up to you to make sure that when they leave Ithaca next Friday, they know exactly how to do that. Alex Bores is the undergraduate student-elected trustee and a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at awb78@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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Money for Nothing and Interns for Free F
or many Cornellians, the coming of March means the search for summer internships is in full swing. Many of these internships provide valuable experience and are well-compensated. Often, however, students find themselves unpaid for their work. Despite their questionable legality and varying educational value, unpaid internships have become the norm in many industries. Currently, Cornell lacks a central policy or standard for monitoring and evaluating the unpaid summer internships students complete. It is imperative that Cornell Career Services protects the student interest and ensures employers comply with Department of Labor standards. As it stands, the active encouragement of gaining experience at any cost is a tacit endorsement of the exploitation of student labor. The importance of finding summer internships is reiterated many times on various Career Services websites. Students are left assuming summer internships are essential. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the 2007 Vault Internship Survey noted that 74 percent of college graduates completed at least one internship. The pressure to land an internship is immense, and compensation becomes an afterthought or side benefit, rather than a right. Indeed, the 2011 Intern Bridge National Internship Salary Survey revealed that “nearly half of all reported internships are unpaid.” There is no doubt that gaining workplace experience is important, and summer internships can be vital in securing permanent employment. While, according to the University’s Preliminary Postgraduate Report, 26.9 percent of the Class of 2011 reported finding employment through previous internships or jobs, many of these were paid or legitimate educational experiences. The benefits of unpaid internships are questionable at best. According to Economic Policy Institute Vice President Ross Eisenbrey, a 2011 study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers found unpaid internships yield no measurable benefits in terms of starting salary and full-time offer rates. The benefits for students completing paid internships, by contrast, were significant. It’s no secret that, at for-profit private sector businesses, paid internships are largely far more prestigious than their unpaid counterparts. But the differences in the quality and outcome of internships based on compensation aren’t readily advertised by employers or Career Services offices. Rather, the College of Arts and Sciences Career Services Office actively encourages students to pursue unpaid internships, and suggests how they might fund summer experiences, including University grants. This raises the issue of whether unpaid internships preclude lower-income students from pursuing opportunities. Funds from the University are limited to a few
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grants and to students with work-study funding. Recognizing many employers were taking advantage of student’s eagerness to work without pay, the Department of Labor adapted a Test for Unpaid Interns in 2010. Unpaid internships at for-profit, private sector employers must provide training similar to that given in an educational setting, be for the benefit of the intern, not displace regular employees, not immediately advantage the employer, not necessarily lead to permanent employment and clearly be unpaid. In this context, unpaid internships make sense. They should be more of an educational experience, whereas paid interns rightly perform actual work for companies. How many unpaid summer internships actually meet the legal standard? Based on the experiences of my friends, I’d guess relatively few. Enforcement of the regulations is lax, because students willingly work for free and have little desire to report violating employers. That doesn’t make it right, especially if the actual benefits are much less than advertised. The fact remains that many unpaid internships are bereft of any educational value or training. Instead, they serve to provide companies with free labor to perform mundane tasks. Differentiating legal, useful unpaid summer internships from their illegal, abusive counterparts should be a priority of our top-notch Career Services offices. The awarding of academic credit would be an appropriate way to encourage the pursuit of more educational unpaid summer internships. At the moment, though, each undergraduate college has different policies regarding awarding credit. There is no uniform standard for determining which, if any, internships should qualify. The awarding of credit is especially important now, as many employers require interns to receive credit in lieu of pay to avoid legal scrutiny. A recent policy adapted by the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management could serve as a model for the rest of the University, if implemented properly. The policy allows AEM majors to receive one pass/fail credit for unpaid internships, provided the internship is approved by the internship coordinator beforehand. It remains to be seen if this option is designed to encourage the pursuit of educational unpaid internships, or merely meet the needs of interns whose employers require the awarding of academic credit. AEM is also noteworthy for providing Internship Support Grants to “defray the costs of unpaid internships.”
Cornellians would certainly be more inclined to pursue legal unpaid internships if they received academic credit. In order for students to receive credit, University coordinators should evaluate each program to ensure it meets an educational standard, such as the Department of Labor test. Regardless of academic credit, Career Services should actively publicize the legal requirements for unpaid internships. Further, internship opportunities should only be listed on Cornell CareerNet if they are paid or comply with legal requirements. That way the University could ensure it is only facilitating internships that are compensated or educational in nature. Perhaps more importantly, Cornellians should join with other students in more actively protecting our interests. There needs to be a cultural shift in how we view internships and
Jon Weinberg In Focus work experience. We need not accept the status quo in the name of presumed future benefits. If we provide a valuable work product for a company, we have a right to be compensated. Internship experiences that are not compensated should be for our benefit, not that of a company. And doing menial tasks isn’t for our benefit or education. As long as students willingly do a company’s bidding for free, we will continue to be taken advantage of. Unpaid summer internships that fail to meet the legal educational standard are not justified, no matter what the expectation of future gain may be. Simply put, taking advantage of free student labor is unacceptable. The status quo will not change until students and universities recognize and promote the difference between legitimate and exploitative unpaid summer internships. Far above Cayuga’s waters, students and Career Services officers should take the lead in re-defining a proper summer experience in the spirit of the University’s educational mission.
Jon Weinberg is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jweinberg@cornellsun.com. In Focus appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
Looking Back to Move Forward
write from Africa on the last day of Black History Month. Being a blonde, Caucasian, Californian in the “Rainbow Nation,” I have spent recent weeks grappling with issues of race, class, religion and what equality actually looks like. Like Cornell, the University of Cape Town is an international university, instructing students of every shade, from every walk of life, in just about every
ences. I got worked up into a frenzy about how apartheid still existed and how politically inferior South Africa was. In my rage, I started to miss home, and especially Cornell — the school where diversity is actually valued, albeit yet to be perfected. However, I also remembered RPCC dinners during which students of color flocked together, ate with one another, kept conversation
Hannah Deixler Shades of Grey subject. Diplomats’ sons learn next to women raised in townships. However, as the minority (read: White American), I have noticed shocking segregation within the incredibly diverse institution. Classes themselves are made up of every type of student, however, as soon as class is dismissed, students of the same shade immediately cling to one another and make a b-line for the door. I wondered at first why the university even bothered creating a diverse student population if the diversity didn’t mean anything within the community — that is, if we didn’t more fully absorb one anothers’ differ-
within their table, cleared their dishes and went home. Now I find myself sitting at a table with white students in a cafeteria of “other colors.” Recognizing the lack of integration — dare I say the segregation — both at Cornell and at University of Cape Town was unsettling, however, I am reminded by Black History Month that our country has come a long way. Brown vs. Board of Education, undeniably one of our nation’s greatest victories, showed that integrated educational facilities improve self-esteem of children and lead to higher achievement in African American stu-
dents. In a series of similar desegregation cases, our country slowly emerged as one that actually grants a person the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So why can’t we all eat Mongo together? I think the answer is that the best is yet to come — if we let it. The positive effects of diversity — of desegregation — both within schools and outside of them, will take time. With time (and institutionalized help), integrated schools will allow for every color of student to understand how the world is changing and yet what we have in common. Isolation by race inhibits both sides of the equation from building a community, learning from each other and eliminating fears derived from ignorance (we’re all guilty). Further, isolation engenders resentment. If we move past the crutch of “such diversity in one university” and towards such integration in one university, with time, tables at RPCC will eventually run together, making a muddled (but engaged and socially aware) beige. It is hard to know where our country would be had we not, as a nation, worked to bulldoze “separate but equal” over the last 50 years. It is, however, much easier to imagine where our country can go if we continue on a similar trajectory that allows for equal opportunities for everyone. Therefore, it is frightening to think that soon a case will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court that
may reverse some of our progress. Uncle Ezra’s ideal “any person, any study” institution embraces diversity and understands that, even if groups remain separate, simply being in the classroom together benefits all involved. If affirmative action is overturned, not only will African American and Latino students be put at a disadvantage, but all will suffer. We are making great progress, but also now face the risk of falling backwards — a risk I’d argue most of us don’t want to take. Every student — regardless of color or socioeconomic class — benefits from learning alongside someone with a different set of experiences. Black History Month is a time to commemorate and celebrate those who have done good for our country (and for our University) in helping to blur racial lines and open conversations about what it means to be disadvantaged and in a minority group, and also what it means to be human. When the Supreme Court hears Fisher v. University of Texas, I hope all nine justices remember that this country has done much hard work together — we are all in RPCC together, and that’s worth something. Eventually, we’ll all be at the same table.
Hannah Deixler is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun.com. Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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Martian Menus in the Making: C.U. Profs Fight Food Fatigue in Astronauts By NICK RAMOS
major drawback of this process is that these foods are often not very appetizing. To help make freezeCornell researchers are cooking up new ways to com- dried foods more palatable, bat menu fatigue in astronauts. And no, they are not Hunter is working with Prof. Rupert Spies, hotel administraseeking the help of Ithaca’s new Chipotle restaurant. Prof. Jean Hunter, biological and environmental engi- tion. “[Spies] is going to work with neering, defines menu fatigue as a loss of interest in eatthese instant foods and develop ing that occurs when people are on a restricted diet. “If astronauts get tired of the food on their menu, they some menu items,” Hunter said. “We are going to judge these will not find eating as appealing as it ought to be,” Hunter said. “This is dangerous because their physical recipes based on hedonic evaluacondition will degrade more quickly if they are not eating tion, meaning we will have the volunteers try the recipes and rate enough.” Hunter is investigating if menu fatigue can be delayed them on a nine-point scale,” Spies said. “They are going to prepare if the crew cooks for itself. “You might call this a 19th-century approach to feed- and eat the food, and then give us ing because that is what the old sailing ships and polar feedback.” Some of the ingredients expeditions did,” Hunter said. “They bought staple foods Hunter is testing include flour, and cooked for themselves.” Hunter said that although cooking requires more labor sugar, oil, shortening, rice, eggs, NICK RAMOS / SUN STAFF WRITER than simply opening prepackaged foods, it gives the crew milk and beans. Freeze-dried a chance to introduce creativity into the menu. meats such as turkey, chicken and Bon appétit | Jean Hunter is working to make space food more appetizing in an beef are also being effort to combat menu fatigue Ad d i t i o n a l l y, considered. “We are preparing spe- “If astronauts get tired of the food on looking at plain home cooking. The ingredi- International Space Station in 2003. cial foods for their menu, they will not find eating as “Menu fatigue is like eating in the same restaurant ents would be the sort of things you would certain occathree meals a day, seven days a week. Even if you like the find in a kitchen cupboard,” Hunter said. sions, such as appealing as it ought to be. This is Hunter said she plans to assess the effects of restaurant, after a few weeks you just want to eat somebirthdays, adds dangerous because their physical meal preparation and menu variety during a where else,” Lu said. variety to the condition will degrade more quickly if On his mission, Lu and his colleague had a two-week four-month long study conducted in Hawaii. astronauts’ Six volunteers will live in an environment rotation of meals, but they did not follow it strictly, diets. Hunter they are not eating enough.” designed to simulate what astronauts on Mars instead eating what they wanted. said this diverProf. Jean Hunter Despite the effects of menu fatigue, Lu did have a few would experience. These volunteers will presity will help pare their own food using Spies’ recipes. At the favorite foods while he was in space. “I did enjoy the delay menu conclusion of the study, the researchers will examine crawfish etouffe and the Russian lamb with vegetables,” fatigue. Hunter also said that transporting canned food is very whether or not meal preparation and variety helped delay he said. costly because it contains a lot of water, which adds more menu fatigue that affected astronauts in the past. Edward Tsang Lu ’84 is a former NASA astronaut who Nick Ramos can be reached weight to the space shuttle. As a result, foods are often freeze-dried to lessen the costs of transportation. One spent six months in space as part of an expedition to the at nramos@cornellsun.com.
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Chemical Communication: Cornell Researchers Discover ‘Language’ of Worms By SARAH COHEN Sun Staff Writer
Of all the molecules in organisms, only a fraction have structures and functions that are known. New research led by Prof. Frank Schroeder, chemistry and chemical biology, has determined a series of molecules used in a chemical “language” between worms that could have repercussions for our understanding of human biology. “In the past 30 years, biology has advanced tremendously because of genetic sequencing; on the other hand, characterization of small molecules has lagged behind,” Schroeder said. He published the report in last month’s issue of PLoS Biology. He found that there is a significant knowledge gap since many of the smaller molecules synthesized in the bodies of animals are of unknown structure and function. Schroeder’s lab has discovered the structure and function of more than 200 small molecules in C. elegans, the species of worm used in his experiments. The worm “language” that Schroeder studies is derived from chemical signals that are made from the same basic biological building blocks, such as sugars, lipids or amino acids, that make up all life forms. Schroeder said these building blocks are placed into different combina-
tions by the worm in order to send specific messages. This technique mirrors how people make words out of different combinations of letters in specific orders, he said. “Worms take an amino acid, a sugar, a lipid and sometimes a nucleotide and combine these things in a selective way in order to send a chemical message,” Schroeder said. “These messages can tell other worms to go into hibernation, to run away or to come together, or to indicate nearby food quality.” While this chemical language can signal messages to other worms, it can also be used to communicate messages between different parts of the same worm. Although the chemicals the worms use to communicate to one another are not found in higher organisms, chemicals that a worm uses to communicate between its different tissues are likely replicated in mammals and humans, according to Schroeder. Understanding this type of communication in worms will aid in understanding the biology and physiology of humans, he said. “We are only just learning to break into their code,” Schroeder said. “And we are interested in seeing if similar compounds exist in higher organisms because the worm’s chemical signals are made up of building blocks available to any organism.”
He said that variants of the enzymes than mammals. “It is difficult for a chemthat make these compounds are present in istry lab to keep hundreds of thousands of higher organisms including humans, and mice, but we can have millions of worms,” that these enzymes are most likely used for Schroeder said. This allows his lab to communication between different tissues examine the pathways of many different worms over a short period of time. in the body. Roundworms such as “The moment when the organism “It is difficult for a chemistry C. elegans are not only important to study decides to attach because they represent different building lab to keep hundreds of simple organisms that blocks to each thousands of mice, but we share biological funcother in specific can have millions of tions with higher aniways allows it to mals, but they also affect produce coherent worms.” world health. “More signals for commuthan half of the world’s nication,” said Prof. Frank Schroeder population is infected Stephan von Reuss, with parasitic nematodes a postdoc in Schroeder’s lab. Finding out how the [roundworms], especially in third world worms create these chemical signals and countries,” Schroeder said. These parawhere they originate from in the body will sites, although normally not lethal, can help determine if the signals can be found cause discomfort in their hosts. The next step in the research is to disin higher organisms, von Reuss said. The roundworm C. elegans is used in cover to what level these biochemical these experiments because it is considered pathways are conserved in higher organisms. Schroeder also hopes that his a model organism. “The worms are perfect to study research “will eventually lead to developbecause their genome is fully sequenced, ments in medicine relating to nematodal they have a set life cycle of about two to infections.” three weeks and many of their metabolic pathways are conserved in higher organisms,” Yivgeniy Izrayelit grad said. Schroeder also said that C. elegans, as Sarah Cohen can be reached tiny worms, are much easier to take care of at scohen@cornellsun.com.
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Two Cents: To Frack or Not to Frack By BOB HACKETT Sun Senior Writer
The debate over hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, has recently exploded as a local and national issue. The first studies investigating the environmental effects of fracking have just been published and two Cornell studies have drawn contradictory conclusions about the practice. The Sun invited the authors of these studies, as well as other professors studying these issues, to discuss their opinions and findings.
What is hydraulic fracturing? “Hydraulic fracturing is the use of water and chemical additives under high pressure to increase the production of a gas or oil well. The technology has been used for over 50 years to increase production of conventional natural gas wells, but in the last 10 years or so fracturing has been applied — with far larger volumes of water — to get at tightly held gas in shales and tight sands, gas that was not producible by traditional technologies.” — Prof. Robert Howarth, ecology and environmental biology
How does fracking for natural gas compare economically to acquiring and using other sorts of fuel sources?
Is fracking for natural gas better for the environment than mining coal or drilling for oil? Why? “With regard to global warming, the evidence clearly shows that yes, shale gas is worse, when considered over the critical next two to three decades. Recent studies by the United Nations and by NASA Goddard Space Institute show that it is critical to reduce methane pollution globally, beginning immediately, if we are to avoid warming the Earth to 1.5 degrees by 2030 and to two degrees by 2050 or so. At these temperatures, we have a high probability of tipping points in the global climate system (such as melting of permafrost, and release of trapped methane from the arctic) which could lead to runaway global warming. Natural gas is mostly methane, and even small amounts leaked to the atmosphere matter, because methane is such a powerful greenhouse gas … We estimated that over the lifetime of a well, between 3.6 percent and 7.9 percent of the gas leaks to the atmosphere as methane. This is substantially more than for conventional natural gas, and so when society continues to replace conventional gas with shale gas, methane emissions increase. The natural gas industry already contributes almost 40 percent of the methane pollution in the atmosphere in the U.S., according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We simply cannot afford to let this increase, if we care about global warming.” — Prof. Robert Howarth, ecology and environmental biology
“Many energy economists view shale gas as an economic bubble. Industry invested heavily in this technology when the gas prices spiked, and they hope that the price will again rise. In the meanwhile, major shale-gas companies such as Chesapeake Gas have lost substantial amounts of money on shale gas development over the past two years. They have stayed solvent only by selling land leased for gas, and by borrowing substantial amounts of capital from banks and foreign governments.” — Prof. Robert Howarth, ecology and environmental biology “Because of the large amounts of natural gas tied up in shales that we now know we can recover, the price of natural gas has fallen by a factor of two and is presently very low compared to oil and coal, and it is likely to remain so. Because of this there will be a natural tendency to substitute natural gas for these fuels, which will be a very good thing environmentally and economically for the U.S.” — Prof. Lawrence Cathles, earth and atmospheric sciences
Who benefits from fracking for natural gas? Is anyone hurt? “Some businesses (gas operators, gas field service industries, motels, restaurants, etc.) will benefit, some (tourism, wineries, organic food production, bed and breakfasts, etc.) will lose. Some individuals/families will economically benefit (sign on bonuses, royalties), some will lose (property values, increased rents). There will be injuries, illnesses and deaths associated with shale gas development: It is a spatially and temporally intense industrial activity performed amid daily life of an entire regional population. But there are deaths, illnesses and accidents associated with all forms of energy.” — Prof. Anthony Ingraffea, civil and environmental engineering “Local land owners benefit from royalties, citizens in the U.S. benefit from lower energy prices and good jobs, local, state and federal governments benefit from more tax revenues. An area like ours will benefit because farmers with added income will be less likely to sell their farms, and our rural way of life will be sustained. There will be impacts of gas development such as about four percent greater road use and a good deal more road degradation. There is added risk of spills of produced brines containing fracking additives and this means that those who allow drilling on their property could be hurt. The risk can be restricted to the immediate site and can be managed and remedied. The risks to the general community are much less than trucking gasoline into our area and many other activities we already accept and manage.” — Prof. Lawrence Cathles, earth and atmospheric sciences
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“Natural gas is a cleaner fuel than coal or oil. It is composed of methane, which is simply one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. Burning methane produces just carbon dioxide and water — the carbon dioxide from the carbon atom and the water from the hydrogen atoms. So natural gas really is already part of the ‘hydrogen economy’ that we seek. I think that natural gas is a much better fuel in terms of the climate, provided it is burned efficiently to make some form of useable energy.” — Prof. Andrew Hunter, chemical and biomolecular engineering “Natural gas, including that recovered by fracking, is much better for the environment that coal or oil because it produces 25 percent less carbon dioxiede than oil and 55 percent less carbon dioxide than coal when it is burned; it releases none to the other harmful products these other fuels can emit (such as mercury and lead from coal); it can generate electricity with almost twice the efficiency as coal, and it burns a great deal cleaner than oil when used in transportation. If you calculate how much gas could reduce global warming in the spectrum of going from a business as usual increase in oil, gas and coal to substituting zero carbon energy sources, the answer is about 40 percent of the way, provided the methane leakage is about two percent or production as it appears to be for both conventional and unconventional gas production.” — Prof. Lawrence Cathles, earth and atmospheric sciences “One can argue about which of these three fuel sources are the worst for the environment, but the bottom line is that they are all polluting and nonrenewable. If only a fraction of the money wasted on military action and tax incentives in support of fossil fuel companies could have been spent on energy conservation and the development of renewable energy, the conversation could be much different. Countries, such as Germany, are far ahead of us now both in terms of public policy and technology. We need to catch up.” — Prof. Robert Oswald, molecular medicine
“The public health impacts are likely to be significant and have not yet been fully quantified. Public health can be affected directly through environmental contamination or indirectly through effects on food safety.” — Prof. Robert Oswald, molecular medicine
Given that fracking involves competing interests, where do you believe the public can turn for an impartial evaluation? Is such an evaluation even possible? “Complete objectivity is philosophically impossible, but useful approximations can be made in part through communications relying upon available evidence ... By reading multiple sources, a reader may be able to factor out biases or errors that could be present in individual pieces.” — Prof. Robert Ross, earth and atmospheric sciences
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Boy Meets Chaos
GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer
Frequently, “boy meets girl” is a tired rather than innovative premise. From Romeo and Juliet to Twilight, it’s a theme viewers have seen a million times. However, when the boy is a struggling playwright battling depression, the girl is a mysterious European prostitute and they meet in Amsterdam through an arrogant friend (or perhaps frenemy) of the boy’s, the setup rapidly escalates from stale to scintillating. Currently playing at the Kitchen Theatre, Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter is a staggering study of youthful desperation and the pain of unreciprocated attraction. Despite a few technical shortcomings and occasional overacting, the Kitchen’s interpretation is ultimately an extraordinary display of firstclass theatre. Last seen at the Kitchen in June, Eric Gilde triumphantly returns as Matt, a 30-yearold writer still trying to shake awkward adolescent anxiety. Painfully intelligent and seemingly incapable of standing still, Gilde plays Matt as an earnest but timid nerd desperate to impress the beautiful French girl his friend
Davis brings him. Ranting about prominent figures from Henry Miller to Jean-Luc Godard to Tom Waits, Gilde’s Matt is a post-college intellectual on the brink — though whether that brink will bring success or devastation is up for debate for the majority of the play. Gilde’s performance culminates in Matt’s stunning Act Two monologue, a frank and anguished confession that leaves him — and the audience — breathless. Davis, played by a blustering Charles Ludlam, is Matt’s polar opposite. Swaggering, overconfident and hyper-criti-
the point of being intolerable. Repeatedly dismissing Matt’s work and ridiculing his
personality, Davis is devoid of charm and often unbearable. As he pans his friend’s career and inflates his ego, the audience can hardly endure him.Why then, we are forced to ask, are Matt and Christina so taken with him? The final and most surprising of the characters is the Christina, the French prostitute played by Ellen Adair. From her COURTESY OF THE KITCHEN THEATRE start as an overtly sexcal of Matt, Ludlam’s Davis embodies the ual and exotic woman to her heartbreaking, archetypal obnoxious American tourist. vulnerable end, Adair absolutely shines. Though convincing in his arrogance, Captivating from start to finish, Adair’s Ludlam’s Davis is sometimes annoying to Christina defies all expectations.
Red Light Winter takes place in two cramped apartments — the first a temporary arrangement in Amsterdam, the other Matt’s tiny East Village studio. This claustrophobic setting is marvelously reflective of Matt’s post-college life. While these grand cultural centers bustle outside, he cloisters himself indoors, wallowing in the savage reality of solitude. The two apartments feature superb set design by Kent Goetz that perfectly caters to the Kitchen’s black box theatre. Unfortunately, not every technical aspect was this on point. The Kitchen again proved unable to properly incorporate sound effects. While the jumble of honks and revving engines that open the play effectively establish the setting, their inexplicable return during quiet moments in the middle of the play served as distractions rather than enhancements. These technical shortcomings, however, barely impede the show. In two beautifully structured acts, Rapp provides a portrait of young intellectual America in a moment of crisis — and the Kitchen’s production absolutely lives up to the writing. From the very start, Red Light Winter captures the audience, and doesn’t let us go until its final dramatic conclusion. Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gcc48@cornell.edu.
The Civil War, Cowboys and Kodak REHAN DADI Sun Staff Writer
Dawn’s Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography, an exhibition at Hirshland Exhibition Gallery in the Carl A. Kroch Library, showcases numerous photographs, cameras, optical devices, frames and albums to give a sense of how diverse and exciting photography was during its early years. The works and objects are all drawn from the Stephan and Beth Loewentheil Family Photographic Collection and contains strong representative works from various technologies including the daguerreotype, historical events such as the Civil War and optical devices that transformed photos into moving or three-demensional images. Due to the diverse nature of the objects, the works are organized in glass cases, mounted on the walls of the gallery with the larger optical devices are placed on the floor. The large number of photos and objects shown makes for a packed exhibition, which probably required a bigger space than is provided here, but the show is conveniently divided into sections organized by media, theme, and chronology. Photography was invented in France in1839 by Louis Daguerre. Daguerre created the daguerreotype, which is a beautiful silvered surface on which the image was overlaid. Even today, the daguerreotype portraits from that era, framed in elegant borders are beautiful objects. One can understand how their demand would have spread the demand for photography very widely. But there were also other processes that emerged, which are also shown in the exhibit in their own section. All these early processes were limited by long exposure times, which meant that moving objects and sports could not be photographed. As they lacked color, some photographs, especially portraits, were painted over to restore their color. In some cases this meant even creating entirely new background and fabric patterns. In the “Celebrity Culture” section, one sees how, by the
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1860s, small portraits made with a camera capable of exposing eight photographs on one 8 x 10 inch negative, allowed photographers to produce hundreds of images quickly and easily, each about the size of a baseball card, called a “carte de visite.” This made possible a revolution in images of actresses, politicians, and other public figures, that circulated widely and shows how our celebrity-obsessed culture of today descends from this moment. On display is also a weird 1865 instrument called the Photographicon, which is a box with two dials and a glass top that allows one to see a collection of cartes de visite simply by rotating the dials. President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War were highly photographed subjects. Lincoln is said to be the most photographed American of the entire 19th century. He was aware of the power of the new medium, and exploited it fully by sitting for portraits and signing giveaway photos. His assassination further enhanced his celebrity status. The Civil War (1861-65) was also a popular subject of photography, and examples here include famous scenes of battle formations by Matthew Brady and others, but also gruesome photographs of injuries. After the Civil War, exploration of the western landscape was accomplished with photography, and included portraits of indigenous people, geological formations and railways, and which forms its own section in the exhibition. The late 1870s and 1880s brought about several new innovations. Until the 1880s, photographs could not be printed by printing presses, and therefore could not be easily included in books and newspapers. Cornell’s very own Frederic E. Ives created a crucial new way to overcome this, by patenting the “halftone” process in 1881, still used till today as can be seen by examining any magazine or newspaper photo under a magnifying glass. Another breakthrough was the rise of small cameras like the Pocket Kodak, a very small and portable box from the mid 1880s, which came preloaded with a roll of film with 100 exposures. It allowed amateurs and tourists to snap pictures and made photography much less expensive and much
more widely available. (It is unfortunate to note that Kodak, a company that was one of the most inventive developers of new photo technology, declare bankruptcy recently.) Finally, Eadweard J. Muybridge utilized faster chemistry and other innovations to finally capture the movCOURTESY OF CORNELL ing legs of a horse in motion, not only settling the debate of “whether all four of a horse’s hooves are ever off the ground at once during a gallop,” but by creating multiple frames of the body in motion, created the basis for cinema to develop later. If you are wandering around Kroch Library, take the time to see Dawn’s Early Light. And do not forget to peek into the 1870 huge bronze viewer called the Megalethoscope on your left as you enter the main gallery, which shows a dim but jewel like three-dimenstional view of a castle illuminated with lights. Dawn’s Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography is on display in the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery in Carl A. Kroch Library through May 4th. Rehan Dadi is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at rd326@cornell.edu.
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his past week the entire fashion world has been atwitter over some big-name firings and hirings. It was announced just before the fall 2012 Jil Sander runway show in Milan last weekend that Raf Simons, designer for the storied German label, would be leaving after a successful seven-year run. On the tails of this news came the announcement that Stefano Pilati would be leaving his post as head designer of Yves Saint Laurent, an important French fashion house, after an eight-year tenure. Speculations have swirled across the blogoshpere as to who will be taking over next. It was confirmed that Simons will be replaced by Jil Sander herself, who left her eponymous label years ago while the replacement for Pilati is not yet known. However, it has been speculated that Pilati will be replaced by Hedi Slimane; a renowned menswear designer credited with popularizing Dior Homme menswear and making slim-cut suits fashionable again. As Heidi Klum likes to say in her endearing German accent on Project Runway, “In fashion, one day you’re in, the next day you’re out.” These high-end games of musical chairs are not uncommon in fashion, an industry so fickle that it shuns it’s own best talent in certain moments. Simons and Pilati, two designers on their way out, have each had remarkable careers and, in their own ways, changed the image of their brands in innovative ways. But that still doesn’t buy them
immunity from the winds of corporate change that dictated their departures. But these shifts and shuffles got me thinking about the ways that the idea of a “career path” in fashion is unique and strange Firstly, sometimes it is hard to see how one designer rises to succeed over another. But it becomes selfevident when one notices that the industry is a web of enmeshing personal and professional connections. For example, Alexander Wang seemed to emerge from the woodwork as a young designer whose talent and charisma catapulted him to immediate fame and success. Turns out, Wang’s family has a clothing production empire in China. Family connections, money and productive capabilities will do a lot for you. A Vogue Fashion Fund award also can’t hurt to get you On and Off noticed. Of course Wang is talented, but there were also The Bias many factors in his favor. Aside from the obvious example of money and connections helping one begin a career, there is also the question of career path: the twists and turns that make up a life in the industry. While many people go into the industry with the intention of realizing their own creative vision, very few achieve that goal. There are many more people doing technical drawings of t-shirts for the Gap and similar jobs than designers who have made a name for themselves. At the end of the day, most designers will be working under someone else’s vision. Even the big guys like Simons and Pilati were under contract and under someone else’s
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name. The reality is that there is a dearth of funding opportunities for entrepreneurs who want to strike out on their own, no matter their bona fides. So what this results in is the aforementioned lack of job security at very high levels of design, which seems counterintuitive and illogical. But that is where we find ourselves today, thinking about two inspiring designers who are being forced on to the next chapter of their careers whether they like it or not. Simons’ presentation last weekend marked a very graceful exit from Jil Sander. The brand was founded by Sander herself on the principles of modernist tailoring and fine fabrics. Simons took those signatures and developed the brand into an international beacon of directional modernist fashion, using high-tech fabrics in simple, elegant cuts. Not often does one get to meticulously plan one’s own going-away party, as was the case with Simons’ final show last weekend. He sent out a quietly beautiful collection of hushed tones of pink and beige, inspired by mid-century women’s tailoring but rendered in decidedly modern silhouettes. Think Betty Draper redux, hourglass dresses cut with asymmetrical skirts, dainty clutch coats but in oversized proportions. Stantions loaded with fresh flowers graced the runway, as though Simons were elegantly congratulating himself on his seven excellent years. The show elicited a standing ovation from the fashion crowd, who appreciated his work while gossiping about the future of the brand and the future of the designer on his way out. Amelia Brown is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at abrown@cornellsun.com. On and Off The Bias appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
Iggy and the Idiot Music has the ability to move, inspire, enthrall and sometimes even surprise us. This Album Will Change Your Life is dedicated to just that potential that music possesses. Each week a different Sun Staff Writer will reveal his or her favorite album of all time. And just what is so special about that album? What sets it apart from all the other music in the world? In this column, appearing in The Sun every Wednesday, our writers will tell us what it was about that album that changed their lives. And who knows? Maybe that album will change yours, too.
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his is a little embarrassing to admit, but some years ago I went on a postpunk binge. At its most serious phase, I didn't listen to anything but The Fall for weeks. This very critical condition only ended when I contracted an even worse obsession: New Wave. Through all these binges my friends, who were listening to Modest Mouse and the Strokes, thought I was weird. They were right, because for all intents and purposes I had the music tastes of a 40 year old British man. Despite this, there were a couple of albums at the end of this strange phase in my life that stuck with me (okay, maybe more like 20). Some were classic favorites, like Wire’s Chairs Missing. Others were not as widespread, like The Chameleons’ Script of the Bridge. But among this snobbish list of mine, there was one record that I remembered the most: Iggy Pop’s The Idiot. After the Stooges broke up, then came back together for Raw Power and broke up for real in the 70s, Pop was on a path to selfdestruction. Once, he was arrested for vandalizing parking meters in a drugged state while wearing a dress. It got so bad that, after an intervention, Pop checked himself into UCLA’s neuropsychiatric institute to fight his heroin addiction. David Bowie, who had helped produce Raw Power, was one of Pop’s few visitors when he was institutionalized. After Pop was released, both escaped to West Berlin under the premise of weaning off their drug addictions. It was there that Bowie helped Pop get a record deal with RCA, and started work on Pop’s debut solo album.
The Idiot is often overshadowed by two albums that are polar opposites of each other. One of them is Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, complete in its despair and isolation. The other is Pop’s more popular second album, Lust for Life, characterized by buoyant tracks like “The Passenger.” Nevertheless, both albums owe their existence to The Idiot. Unknown Pleasures would not be as dark if it was not inspired by The Idiot’s dysthymia, and Lust for Life would never be as dynamic if The Idiot did not provide Pop with a chance to recover his artistic career. Unlike my fellow writers’ favorite albums that range from sentimental (Transatlanticism) to downright fun (Spice World), The Idiot is none of those things. It’s bleak, mechanistic, and sinister. It’s the regret that comes from the aftermath of a wild party. It’s realization that even when you’re surrounded by party people that you’re ultimately alone. “It must be really
nice to be dumb enough” to enjoy drugs, Pop said when remembering his first cocaine party. “I’m not really very good at this, getting
stoned, partying … I’m just not the type.” The know how he feels about the way he recovIdiot is not something people listen to for fun; ered. Was it worth being committed to Ward there really never is an appropriate situation or 9C? Was it worth being treated as a sick body instead of a human being? Was it worth being incentive to play the album. Even worse, Pop purists hate it, accusing labeled as a number from the Diagnostic and the album of being a Bowie creation because Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders just to feel a shred of norit does not malcy again? reflect the “Though I try to w i l d , die / You put me hypersexuback on the line / al and selfOh damn it to destructive hell,” he sings as he personality This Album Will is pushed back to that charChange Your Life the societal assemacterizes bly line in “Mass the rest of Production.” The Pop’s catalogue. Instead, it shows a broken Pop, reflect- disciplinary nature of normalization in psying from the window of the psychiatric ward chiatry has saved him from total destruction, he stayed in. “What happened to Zeke?” Pop yes, but it came at the cost of his identity asks of his fellow Stooges on “Dum Dum when he was forced into the mold of a model Boys.” “He’s dead on Jones, man. How about citizen. This is not anti-psychiatry babble. Dave? O.D.’d on alcohol. Oh, what’s Rock This is a serious question addressing the doing? Oh he’s living with his mother. What inevitable identity crises that everybody will experience in their lives. It is a message that I, about James? He’s gone straight.” My personal connection to this record is at least, can empathize with. The Idiot is a surprisingly honest expose of not because the album was musically ahead of its time or that it was influential to the post- a celebrity’s doubts and insecurities for a perpunk genre. Growing up 20 years later makes son whose image rests significantly on masit difficult to appreciate that. And it’s defi- culinity. Yet when he confesses he does not nitely not because it was found still spinning become Jim Osterberg Jr., he remains as Iggy on the record player of Joy Division’s Ian friggin’ Pop. His solo debut, thus, is honesty Curtis the morning after he hanged himself. at its purest: Pop does not need a prop or It’s because I have still not encountered an something to hide behind to talk about himalbum which matches The Idiot’s depression, self, he just does it. By putting his own crisis ominousness and apathy. The record straddles into song, he laid his frustrations to rest and the middle of all three things, catching Pop figured out who he was. How else could he smack in the middle of his recovery, when he later lust for life? did not feel utterly hopeless but he didn’t feel like his former self either. Kai Sam Ng is a sophomore in the College of Arts It is here that Pop shows his indifference: and Sciences. He can be reached at kn298@corHe’s glad that the worst is over, but does not nell.edu.
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ACROSS 1 Defense lawyers’ adversaries, for short 5 Otherwise 10 Smidgen 14 Certain 15 Motored 16 Agitate 17 Member of Hook’s band 18 Ear-related 19 Time-half link 20 Shooter of soft confections 23 Gp. that issues canine pedigrees 24 Blue wearer, usually 25 In reserve 26 Satchel __, aptly named dog in the comic “Get Fuzzy” 28 Make fun of 31 Beatty of “Deliverance” 32 Formal coif, perhaps 33 More sleazy 36 Minor motoring mishaps 40 Exercise popularized by Jim Fixx 41 Tennis do-overs 43 JFK alternative in NYC 46 Certain stove filler 47 In a convincing way 48 Palmer with an army 50 Show about Capote 52 Avenues of access 53 Strains credulity 58 Rock’s partner 59 “... never see __ lovely as ...”: Kilmer 60 Build a tree house 62 Chevy subcompact 63 __ firma 64 Mötley __ 65 Greenhorn 66 Overwhelm, or a relative of the first syllable of 20-, 36-, or 53-Across
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33 Bell-shaped lily 34 Therefore 35 Depend (on) 37 Fastening pin 38 Oil plant 39 Gets to one’s feet 42 Jun. grads 43 Maze runner 44 Old-style “Cool!” 45 Rod-and-reel wielder
47 Mooch, as a smoke 49 Domed home 50 Heat unit 51 Plot anew 54 Welcome sign for a hungry traveler 55 Eject, as lava 56 When tripled, a 1970 war film 57 Waistline unit 61 Golf bag item
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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)
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SPORTS
Men’s Team Eager for Redemption After Loss to UVA
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Horsing around | Cornell found itself in a points deficit when one of the Red’s ponies had difficulty lining up at the start, which gave UVA a scoring opporunity.
you’re capable of playing a team like this,” she said. “At the same time it’s reassuring knowing you are capable of playing a team like this.” The women have next weekend off from game play; however, the men return to action against Kentucky at the Oxley Equestrian Center on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The men said they are eager to redeem themselves after the rough loss to Virginia. “I’m really actually looking forward to this
game because they’re a really competitive team and they’re a team that will challenge us,” Eldredge said. “With the guys coming off this game against Virginia, they’re out prove themselves and prove to themselves that they can bounce back from something like that, learn from it, take it forward and have success.” Andrea Sielicki can be reached at asielicki@cornellsun.com.
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pointed with the outcome of our effort,” she said. “The score did not reflect how we thought we played. It was actually kind of a surprise when we looked up and saw that we had lost so significantly to a team we thought we would go in and give a pretty good match to.” The Cornell women were out fast, scoring the first goal of the game; however, the first chukker ended, 8-2, with Virginia in the lead. In the second chukker the women were unable to score, while the Cavaliers added four more tallies. According to Eldredge, the team had many opportunities to score, but could not find the goal to complete the play. “The second half of the first chukker, all of the sudden we couldn’t find the goal,” he said. “We had a number of plays where we were there, but we just couldn’t find the goal.” The third chukker was the most successful for the Red, as the team managed to add three more goals and hold Virginia to just three as well. In the fourth chukker, there was a slight problem with the ponies, which led to Virginia galloping off with five goals. Senior Amanda Stern’s horse had difficulty lining up properly on the line, and the Virginia player opposite her took advantage of that, using the opportunity to score. However, Eldredge said that Cornell stopped the scoring spree once the horse was adjusted. “When we finally got that sorted out, we
shut [Virginia] out for the rest of the chukker,” he said. Stern noticed that the playing style that Virginia used was different than what she and the team had seen before. The foreign game play threw off the Red’s mental game, according to the senior. “We play a little more strategically,” she said. “Fouling isn’t an issue with them. We play a lot more clean. Certain plays should have been fouls that weren’t called, and we’re not used to that. When we see a foul, we’re kind of ready to hear the foul be called and move on from there, and when the foul isn’t called we’re kind of like, what? It throws you off for that split second mentally.” Hoffman and Eldredge agreed that Cornell’s greatest struggle in this game was the team’s inability to turn opportunities into points. “I think the loss mostly had to do with the fact that offensively we just weren’t on our game,” Hoffman said. “We weren’t finding the opportunities to actually get in there and score some points. Usually we’re a lot better about that.” Creating scoring opportunities was not the only issue Cornell has to contend with. “We struggled horribly on our foul shooting and couldn’t find the goal, and those games happen,” Eldredge said. Stern summed up the game’s results, putting the final score in both a negative and positive light. “It’s frustrating in the sense that you know
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SPORTS
GYMNASTICS
C.U. Tumbles Into Second Place Finish at Ivy Classic
By ALEX GATTO Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell women’s gymnastics team shined over the weekend at Sunday’s Ivy Classic, finishing second amongst a field of contenders that included Penn, Brown and Yale. After having to deal with illness and injury during the regular season, the Red posted a season-high team score, 191.875. Since the beginning of the season, Cornell has been trying to break the 190.000 barrier, according to head coach Paul Beckwith, so surpassing the mark made the team’s success at its most important match of the year all the more apparent. “[Sunday was] the way we should have been competing all along,” Beckwith said. “We probably had our season high score on every event.” Adding to the Red’s success, senior Tiffany Chan tied for first place on vault. The performance earned her the title of 2012 Ivy League Vault Champion. This weekend marked Chan’s last chance to compete for an Ivy title, so winning was all the more special for the senior. Scoring a 9.775 on vault, Chan tied for first with Brown’s Michelle Shnayder. Chan’s routine followed a strong vault performance for the Red, junior McKenna Archer and freshman Samantha VanderPutten tying for sixth with matching 9.650 and junior Sarah Hein scoring a 9.625 to place seventh overall. Cornell had an equally strong performance on bars. Sophomore Melanie Jorgensen was the Red’s top scorer with a 9.825, placing third in the event. Not very far behind, sophomore Alexis Schuup and junior Ashely Mayer, scored 9.725 and 9.675, respectively, to place fifth and seventh. Usually one of the hardest events for the
Red, beam turned into one of the team’s best performances for the Ivy Classic. Archer tied for second with five other competitors, recording a 9.725. Freshman Maia Vernacchia tied for fourth on beam with fellow teammate sophomore Nikki Shofner, after the pair earned identical scores of 9.650. Ultimately, it was the floor event that kept the Red from reclaiming the Ivy League title from the Penn Quakers. Chan had the highest score on floor, 9.700, which was only good enough for a sixth place. VanderPutten and sophomore Mackenzie Sato followed her with scores of 9.650 and 9.625, placing seventh and eighth, respectively. The Red — less than a point behind the Quakers going into the floor event — could not make up the difference and finished second behind Penn, though in front of both Brown and Yale. According to Beckwith, the team has not had a significant performance before this one, and has been struggling to remain confident in the individual gymnasts’ abilities to compete. Injuries and illness have contributed to this, with almost half of the team unable to perform at any given time during most of the regular season. “We’ve got a lot of freshmen on the team, and now they know what it’s like to win and to stay pumped,” Beckwith said. “I think we just held our confidence all the way through.” Beckwith’s only criticism came on the team’s floor performance, which he said will have to improve if the Red hopes to stand a chance this Saturday against Rutgers, Eastern Michigan and Temple. “The meet this weekend is really big,” Beckwith said. “Eastern Michigan has been regularly scoring over 192.00, and Temple has hit 192.00 in change this year, so we have our work cut out for us. We have to
OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Starburst | Cornell’s performance on the beam during Sunday’s Ivy Classic was the Red’s strongest event of the day, with three gymnasts placing in the top four.
have a perfect meet to beat them.” Saturday’s match is important for another reason, as it is Cornell’s Senior Meet. As one of the last events before the ECAC tournament, the Senior Meet is an important time for many seniors, since it is the last chance they will have to compete for Cornell.
“It’s always a special meet,” Beckwith said. “We hope to get a good crowd.” The meet will be held Saturday at noon in Teagle Hall. Alex Gatto can be reached at agatto@cornellsun.com.
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If you could have private lessons with any athlete, who would it be and why? Tina Ahmadi ’15: Roger Federer because he's the best tennis player ever! Dani Abada ’14: I want the moves like Jagr. Brian Bencomo ’12: Kobe Bryant because I want to find out what it means to be a different animal but the same beast #KobeSystem A.J. Ortiz ’13: Jeremy Lin. I would love to learn how to receive so much undeserved credit. Nick Rielly ’13: John Daly — just for the story. Olivia Wittels ’14: Mark Sanchez because I would love for him to tackle me. Lauren Ritter ’13: David Steckel. I want to see if his body check is as hard as Sidney Crosby made it seem. OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The women’s lacrosse team kicked off its season, beating Rutgers, 8-7, in a nailbiter with the final Red goal finding its mark with just 52 seconds remaining in play.
Andrea Sielicki ’13: I want private lessons from Dwyane Wade to teach me
how to break noses. Juan Carlos Toledo ’13: I would choose Kobe Bryant every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Beyond the flash and high flying ability Kobe still has, even with close to 16 NBA seasons on his resume, Kobe’s game stresses the importance of basketball fundamentals. No other athlete playing the game of basketball has taken the time to develop his game, a discipline many current NBA “superstars” lack, and a discipline I would love to embrace and embody. Peter Jacobs ’13: The women’s polo team. Sup? Joey Staehle ’13: Novak Djokavic — for advice on both tennis and picking up hot Serbian women. Michael Linhorst ’12: One of those soccer player. I wish my legs had more agility. — Compiled by Lauren Ritter
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EQUESTRIAN
Scrivens Wins Cacchione Cup
By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
The equestrian team’s successful season campaign came to a close on Saturday in Alfred, N.Y., with a second place finish at its final show. Although the Red was just one victory away from finishing undefeated, the season still proved to be the squad’s best to date. “This was still our most successful season in the history of the program,” said junior co-captain Emily Kowalchik, who won her intermediate flat class in Saturday’s show. “[Overall] I am not disappointed at all,” head coach Chris Mitchell said in an email. The show began with a shaky start. After the open, intermediate and novice fences classes finished, the Red found itself in fifth place, Mitchell said. As a result, the afternoon riders needed to rally in order for the team to finish in a higher position. The pressure to perform at a higher level put added stress on the afternoon riders, according to senior co-captain Katie Fink. However, the team pulled through and tied Binghamton for a second place finish, with a score of 35 points. “I think we were probably thinking [that] this is our last chance to qualify [for regionals] for a lot of us,” Fink said. “We have to do really well. There is a certain expectation we have set for ourselves, so I think that’s were it kind of all came from.” Another part of the show that left the Red chomping at the bit was the race for the Cacchione Cup. Senior Bronwyn Scrivens came into Saturday’s show neckand-neck in the Cacchione competition with Nazareth senior Kali Knickerbocker. This final show of the season would determine the winner. After a second place finish in the open flat class and a fifth place
finish in open fences, Scrivens managed to secure the Cacchione by one point. Scrivens is the regional high-point rider of the year with the win and will move on to compete at nationals against the Cacchione winners from other regions. This is the first time in the history of Cornell’s program that a rider from the Red has won the Cacchione cup, according to Kowalchik. “I think we were all really nervous for her,” Kowalchik said. “I didn’t realize how much we kind of all felt how important her rides were … She herself made history for Cornell’s team.” According to Scrivens, she had had her eye on the Cacchione since the beginning. “I came into the year [with the] goal to win Cacchione and be the top open rider,” she said. “I was definitely nervous, but luckily came through in the end and the result was what I wanted.” The senior’s dedication all season did not go unnoticed by her teammates. “She worked so hard for it all year,” said Mitchell. Scrivens is now focused on preparing for the Cacchione class at nationals. “I feel ready,” she said. “Hopefully I’ll go there prepared and I can represent Cornell and myself [and] the team.” In addition to Scrivens’ Cacchione victory, two more riders qualified for regionals. Freshman Georgi de Rham qualified for intermediate fences, while sophomore Grace Bradshaw qualified for advanced walk/trot/canter. The Red is sending a total of 10 riders to regionals, according to Mitchell. The top two riders at regionals will move on to compete individually at zones. This year, regionals will be hosted by Cornell, while zones will take place at Skidmore, the Red’s former regional rival. According to Fink, the squad needs to place in the top two at zones in order to
COURTESY OF KATIE FINK
Pressure cooker | The pressure to compete at a higher level of competition intensified for the Red and added to the already high stress level, as the afternoon riders needed to reclaim lost ground, according to senior Katie Fink (above).
take a team to nationals. Last year, the Red placed third. “I think we have a chance [to take a team to nationals, but] it’s gonna be tough,” Fink said. “We’re going to see our old rival Skidmore at zone finals, which is going to be really really tough [because] we haven’t ridden against them in a long time.” Despite the loss, the team was able to finish strong.
Men’s Lacrosse Clinches Season Opener With Five-Point Win Margin Over Binghamton After waiting three extra days after its first game of the season was postponed due to bad weather, the men’s lacrosse team hit Schoellkopf Field’s turf on Tuesday afternoon with just one goal in mind: to win. The Red was led by senior captain Rob Pannell, who exploded on the field, recording a career-high 10 points on six goals and four assists — lifting the No. 3/7 Cornell to a 17-12 victory over Binghamton. Pannell surpassed his previous career high of four goals in a game, a mark which he hit four times in his previous three seasons with the Red. The senior also extended his national-lading point scoring streak to 53 games. Pannell is now the sixth Cornell men’s lacrosse player to reach the 100 career goal mark. Pannell finished the night with 102 career goals to his name, as well as 246 points, which places him within 10 points of Eamon McEneaney ’77 who currently sits at second place on the school’s scoring list. Pannell’s precision was spot on Tuesday, as he netted a pair of goals within the short span of six minutes — the fastest any player has scored back-to-back goals in Cornell program history.
With the win, the Red increased its home-opener wins to 14; however, the accomplishment was not an easy feat, as Binghamton led the game as late as the final five minutes of the third quarter. A six goal scoring spree was the Red’s saving grace for the day. Other players to score for the Red were juniors Steve Mock,
Connor English and Max Van Bourgondien, freshman Matt Donovan and seniors Chris Langton, J.J. Gilbane and Scott Austin. Cornell returns to action, hosting Army at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field on Saturday. — Compiled by Lauren Ritter
RYAN LANDVATER / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Perfect 10 | Senior captain Rob Pannell recorded a career-high 10 points in Tuesday afternoon’s game at home against Binghamton.
“We finished the season on a good note,” Kowalchik said. “None of us lost any faith in what the team can do … If anything we bolstered our belief that we can always come back from anything.” “It [was] still a historic, wonderful, great season,” Mitchell said. Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.
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UVA Trots Past Red in Double-Digit Victories By ANDREA SIELICKI Sun Staff Writer
Playing away from Oxley arena for the first time this semester did not bode well for the men’s and women’s polo teams, as they traveled to play UVA over the weekend. The men were handed a 28-4 loss, while the women lost their match, 21-5. The Cavaliers are nationally ranked No. 1 for both the men and women. On Friday, the Cornell men had a very slow start, only scoring one goal in the first half — a stark comparison to Virginia’s 13. The third chukker was a no score for Cornell, while UVA added ten points to its tally. Finally, in the fourth chukker, the men were able to add three more goals to the total; however, Virginia did not let up the reins and proceeded to score five more goals. “[The first half ] wasn’t that close to be honest,” said head coach David Eldredge ’81. “They were out quicker than us.
They out-anticipated us. They just totally out-played us all around. The Virginia men are just an outstanding team and they’re on a mission to repeat [the national title].” Despite suffering a loss with such an obvious point deficit, the head coach pointed out some positives that the team took from the meeting. “This weekend showed them why I’ve been stressing what I’ve been stressing and it makes sense to them now,” he said. “Having had this experience, now they understand and are committed to paying more attention to the things I’ve been really talking and stressing about in practice. Without this game, that point wouldn’t have been hit home.” Though the women’s match resulted in a big loss as well, senior captain Ali Hoffman said she felt the game was more evenly matched skill-wise. “We weren’t disappointed with our effort; we were disapSee POLO page 18