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Three Fraternities Suspended Due to Hazing Allegations

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As a result of hazing allegations made this past week through Cornell’s online anonymous hazing-prevention website, three fraternities — Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Delta Phi — were suspended, the University announced Sunday.

Sigma Nu fraternity was placed on interim suspension by both Cornell and the national headquarters of the fraternity, Chi Psi fraternity was placed on suspension by the national headquarters of the fraternity and Delta Phi fraternity was placed on interim suspension by Cornell.

Both Sigma Nu and Delta Phi had their statuses changed as a result of “credible allegations of serious physical hazing,” while Chi Psi’s status was changed as a result of “credible allegations of serious hazing,” according to a University press release.

According to Travis Apgar, associate dean of students for fraternity and sorority affairs, the hazing reported at Chi Psi was a “more psychological kind of hazing” as opposed to the “physical hazing” reported at Sigma Nu and Delta Phi. The presidents of Delta Phi, Sigma Nu and Chi Psi were either unavailable for comment or declined to comment Sunday night.

Apgar noted that the timing of the allegations — which occured during the last week of a six week-long new member period — could be important.

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Cornell Raas, a competitive Indian dance team, performs at Asia Night, brightening up the Duffield Atrium Saturday evening.

Federal Sequester Goes Into Effect

University research funds could be affected by govt.budget cuts

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

The “sequester” — a series of across-the-board federal budget cuts that University administrators say could lead to cuts in Cornell’s research funding, jobs and financial aid supported by federal funds — was formally approved Friday, and will begin taking effect as early as this year.

The sequester — which will cut $1.2 trillion dol-

lars from the budget in the next 10 years, including $85 billion this fiscal year — was put into place after a battle in Congress to balance the federal budget. As a part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, congressional leaders were asked to either come to an agreement on how to decrease national spending or else make the across-the-board cuts.

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Quandt’15 Remembered as‘Gentle Soul’

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

Students and professors who knew Joseph Quandt ’15 — who was found dead at the Watermargin Cooperative Wednesday — remembered him as being

intelligent, extremely personable and a stand-out student in the Department of City and Regional Planning.

Quandt, who was 20 years old, died of natural causes.

Friend and classmate Levi Schoenfeld ’15 remembered Quandt as a genuine per-

son.

“You know, some people have a kind of two-facedness. He was very even keel[ed],” Schoenfeld said. “He was the same way to everyone: funny and cynical, but progres-

Aditi Bhowmick ’16 says Libe Cafe epitomizes her college experience.

Cornell Daily Sun Elects 131st Board

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Arts Web Weaving

Kai Sam Ng ’15 discusses a C.U. Winds performance that was inspired by spiders.

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Sports On Thin Ice

Men’s hockey dropped to ninth position following games against Brown and Yale this weekend. | Page 23

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Here comes The Sun | Elected Saturday afternoon, the 131st Editorial Board of The Cornell Daily Sun poses for its first group picture.

Following six weeks of blood, sweat and tears — otherwise known as editorial compet — The Sun elected its 131st Editorial Board in arguably the shortest and most amicable election in Sun history. Seriously, this year it took eight hours, instead of nine. As the first female-dominated board in recent memory, the 131st will undoubtedly face unique challenges including, but not limited to coinciding menSee BOARD page 5

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Cornell Celebrates Black History in Ceremony

Month-long celebration culminates with student performances, speeches and celebration of black history

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Contributor

Members of the Cornell community concluded the celebration of Black History Month with a ceremony called “Black is … Political, Beautiful, Innovative, Artistic” Saturday.

The ceremony — which took place in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art — featured student performances, as well as a keynote speech by Prof. Lance Collins, mechanical and aerospace engineering, dean of the College of Engineering.

In his speech, Collins said African Americans have seen

great progress toward increased representation in higher education.

“I really could not imagine the things that are happening today when I was in college. … The notion of having a black president did not even exist,” Collins said. “You might feel isolated and alone as the only black student in your class, but history tells us you are not as alone as you think you are.”

In another part of the ceremony, members of the audience were asked what Black History Month meant to them.

Many students present at the ceremony said that Black History Month is a time to both celebrate African American culture and pay remembrance to earlier struggles faced by African Americans in history.

“Black History Month is about the ability to inspire the youth and let them know that ‘the system’ is not out to get them,” said Selam Gebre ’14, co-chair of Black Students United.

Tau’ian Bly ’15, BSU’s Black History Month chair, agreed, describing the month as “a time when we can all come together and pay it forward.”

Gebre added that black history is often underrepresented in traditional accounts of American history, something Black History Month can help change. “[Black History Month] is about the recognition of African American achievements and helps set the precedent for a lot of cultural changes,” she said. “It represents what is traditionally not represented before.”

Bly said the large amount of work contributed by BSU members made Black History Month a success this year. In addition to hosting Saturday’s ceremony, BSU also organized a series of dinners in Cornell’s dining halls featuring food celebrating African American culture, displays in Cornell libraries and a discussion in Ujamaa Residential College about the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, a black teen.

“The ceremony is a product of all our hard work,” Bly said.

In addition to the speech and discussion, the closing ceremony also included musical and dance performances by various students, including a violin performance by Briana Fullwood ’15.

Shannon Cohall ’14, co-chair of BSU, said the events held throughout Black History Month were a great way “to show people diversity in the African American community.”

Still, some students said there is room for improvement.

Carlton Burrell ’16, a BSU member who was present at the ceremony, said he would have liked to have seen more ethnic diversity at the Black History Month events. Though the audience of the closing ceremony included students from various ethnicities, the majority of those in attendance were African American, he said.

“It is hard to attract people outside the African American community to our events. In the future, I would like to see more non African American faces in the audience,” Burrell added.

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Celebrating history | Master of Ceremonies, Antoine Saint Victor ’16, speaks at the closing ceremony for Black History Month at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum Friday evening.

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

Using MRI, C.U. Study Examines Way Adolescents Evaluate Risk

By CHRISTOPHER YATES Sun Contributor

The National Institute of Health has awarded $1.7 million to a team of Cornell researchers to study the links between the adolescent brain and risk-taking.

The study will utilize a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine at Cornell to observe the brain activity of adolescents and adults during the decisionmaking process.

According to the Prof. Valerie Reyna, human development, the team of researchers will be examining the ways in which adolescents and adults analyze risky or dangerous situations.

people think that they’re invincible based on their risky behavior,” Reyna said. “In fact, adolescents overestimate risk, and the math [in terms of economic rationalism] usually works out.

But correct mathematics does not mean correct decision making when teens miss the gist of the decision.”

This study will mark the first use of the new Cornell MRI Facility, in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, which will greatly expand the research opportunities available to Cornell scientists, according to Reyna, who is also the co-director of the facility.

“It will really open up enor-

David Dunning, psychology, who is also working on the grant.

“The new facility is a great companion piece of technology [that will] add to more traditional behavioral techniques,” Dunn said.

Reyna said the study has brought together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from a

wide array of academic fields, including economics, psychology, neuroscience, human development and physics.

“We’re able to integrate and contrast economic models of rationality with psychological models of risk taking,” Reyna said.

Other investigators on the grant include Prof. William

Schulze, agricultural economics and public policy; Prof. Brian Wansink, consumer behavior; Prof. Barbara Ganzel, human development; Prof.

Ted O’Donoghue, economics and Prof. Henning Voss, physics and radiology.

Christopher Yates can be reached at cyates@cornellsun.com.

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“People assume that young people think that they’re invincible based on their risky behavior.”

Prof. Valerie Reyna “The grant is about understanding how perception of risk and reward influence adolescents differently than adults, often in ways that are counter intuitive” Reyna said.

The hypothesis of the study –– that adolescents make finer distinctions between levels of risk and reward than adults do –– contradicts much conventional knowledge about young people and risk taking, according to Reyna.

“People assume that young

mous new vistas of research. We can ask questions that we couldn’t ask before,” Reyna said.

Equipped with a state-of-theart, NIH-funded Discovery MR750 3.0T –– an MRI machine that scans brain activity with greater precision than the typical hospital MRI –– the new facility will allow researchers to closely examine the ways in which the adolescent brain reacts when making decisions about risks in comparison to the adult brain, according to Prof.

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Yamatai, a taiko performing group, plays at the Japan United States Conference’s Japanese Culture Show in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Saturday.

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as a deadline for that agreement.

Among the government agencies that could be affected are the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health, both of which provide research funding to Cornell, according to Robert Buhrman Ph.D. ’73, senior vice provost for research.

In 2012, Buhrman said, Cornell received $466 million for research from the federal government, almost 80 percent of all University research funds. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, federal research spending will be trimmed by more than $12 billion this year, and by $95 billion over the next nine years as a result of the sequester. “[The reduction] is not cataclysmic, but if you are the individual whose project is stopped, it is cataclysmic,”

Buhrman told The Sun on Feb. 20.

Financial aid could also be affected by the sequester.

Although Pell Grants are exempt from budget cuts, the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant — a federal program that provides additional aid to undergraduate students who demonstrate “exceptional need” for aid — and Federal Work-Study programs will receive cuts. More than 100,000 students will no longer qualify for aid, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Federal Work Study provides part-time employment to students to help pay for their educational expenses, according to the Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment’s website. In the 2009-10 academic year, FWS-eligible students earned nearly $3 million working on campus, the website states.

Diane Miller, director of federal government relations, previously told The Sun that

agencies affected by the sequester have not decided how these cuts will be distributed, which could lead to either a decrease in the number of programs they fund, affect the size of their grants or redirect funds entirely.

“Would you have to lay somebody off if you lost five percent of your grant? It depends how big your grant is. If it $100,000, then probably not. But if it is a $10 million grant, then probably,” Miller said to The Sun in February.

Miller also said that because the University will be recieving fewer grants, federal funding will be difficult to distribute.

“Our scientists are very good at obtaining funding, but [if the sequester is implemented], there would be fewer opportunities and less money to compete for,” Miller said.

Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com.

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period — could be important.

“Some organizations may have found it difficult in the final week in particular because some groups have had a tradition of a difficult final week, sometimes referred to as ‘hell week’ or ‘initiation week,’” Apgar said. “That may have played a role [in the timing of the hazing allegations]; it’s hard to know at this time.”

Jake Benedict ’14, vice president for judicial affairs for the Interfraternity Council, said that the timing of the allegations was significant.

“Obviously the week [the hazing allegations] happened, it’s no coincidence that [they occured] the week before initiation,” Benedict said. He said that the allegations also could have been uncovered due to increased judicial enforcement of the Greek system, saying “we may be uncovering things we weren’t uncovering before.”

Apgar said the three fraternities could face separate judicial processes through their national organizations, the Greek system and the University, “depending on how much information we have and how egregious the information is.”

“It depends on what is determined during the fact finding process,” Apgar said. “That process will be discussed between our office, the Greek Judicial Board chairs and the national organizations to determine what the proper judicial path willl be. It is unlikely chapters will be adjudicated by all three possible processes. It is more likely it will be either Greek Judicial Board or Review Board, and the nationals will

likely conduct their own process.”

While the Greek judicial process is a judicial process carried out by a body of peers, the University adjudication process includes not only students but also staff and faculty, and determines whether a fraternity will keep its recognition, according to Apgar.

Apgar said there is definitively “no way to know” when the three fraternity chapters will be off suspension, although he said the University would be responsive to the allegations.

“We will act swiftly and will have a final outcome for these organizations in the very near future,” Apgar said.

Benedict said the interim suspensions are “not any indication of guilt.”

“At the same time, [the allegations are] concerning enough that we don't want to allow anything further to continue until we have a better understanding of the situation,” Benedict said. He said that the Judicial Board will not be hearing any of the three cases this week.

IFC President Colin Foley ’14 said that the University’s recent judicial actions against the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity reflect the University’s increased regulation of interactions between freshmen and the Greek system.

“The University has continued to step up in seriousness as this plan has gone along. We had to anticipate some stricter penalties coming down,” Foley who is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity, said. “Yes, it is getting increasingly strict here.”

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

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sive.”

Schoenfeld recalled memories with Quandt on the Watermargin Cooperative porch, following the Dragon Day celebration in March 2012. “[Quandt] was eating a Pixy Stix, … and he accidentally threw it up in the air. I have a picture of it –– with the Pixy Stix in the air and him making a ridiculous face. He was just silly,” Schoenfeld said.

Prof. Hans Pike Oliver, city and regional planning, said that as a student, Quandt was “outstanding amongst an outstanding group,” adding that “he had a great enthusiasm and regard for what he was doing.”

Prof. Forester, city and regional planning, said Quandt showed academic promise.

“He was a gentle soul — bright and considerate, observant and gifted, an insightful friend of many in our program. A life of unlimited possibilities lay ahead of him,” Forester said.

Oliver agreeed that Quandt had a bright future ahead of him.

“He was from the Cleveland area; he was very concerned about doing something for Cleveland in the future. Cleveland lost a part of its future,” Oliver said. “I am just disappointed that I’m not going to get to read about him in 10 years in the newspaper when he is governor of Ohio.”

Zoloo Brown ’15, a close friend and rooommate of Quandt, spoke about his willingness to learn and his pleasant demeanor.

“He was one of those people that [was] always ready for everything that [was] happening –– always ready to help you, always ready to learn something new,” Brown said.

Andrew Pike ’15, who said he was one of Quandt’s closest friends, also noted Quandt’s

dry sense of humor, adding that he was “a real expert” at sarcasm.

Pike, remarked upon Quandt’s ability to form deep, enduring friendships.

“It was surprising how many people came out; everyone came out with a deep personal relation with Joe,” Pike said. “As soon as you met him, you were very comfortable around him. He was a very open and giving person.”

The tight-knit CRP community has been deeply affected by the loss of one of their own, according to Oliver. CRP students who are currently on campus have also been profoundly affected by his death, students in the department said.

“It forces the rest of my major to work harder to work toward what he wanted, which was to work for equality and give a voice to a marginalized population,” Schoenfeld said.

Schoenfeld said he called city and regional planning students studying in Rome to notify them of the news, and that the students subsequently went to a Catholic church in Italy to grieve.

The cooperative community has also reached out to Watermargin by bringing food and gifts, according to Pike.

“All the co-ops made origami cranes –– they made a really nice chain of those,” Pike said.

Schoenfeld said that Quandt’s death is a loss for more than just the Cornell community.

“It’s a shame for the world and us,” he said. “It’s a shame not just for the Cornellcentric world. We are really losing someone who was going to stand up for the people.”

Sarah Sassoon contributed reporting to this article.

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

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strual cycles. Nonetheless, the board hopes to uphold the traditions of its predecessors: sending bleary-eyed editors to campus to (occasionally) attend class between breaking news.

With that said, we could not be more proud to present to you the editors of The Sun’s 131st Editorial Board: The staff elected Rebecca Harris ’14 as our Editor-in-Chief. Though now our fearless leader, Rebecca almost did not run for Editor-in-Chief in order to pursue a career in psychiatry. But after trying to console a crying staff member by waving her hands in the air and exclaiming “Ah! Feelings!”, we all decided she was more suited for running a daily paper.

Our new business manager, Hank Bao ’14, has the best job at the paper: shelling out money to many beautiful women. Though he has already rejected all of our pleas to spend Sun funds on shoes and appletinis, we’re confident that Hank will eventually come around ... or at least let us buy functioning computers for the office.

Arguably the furriest, cutest and shortest member of the 131st, Managing Editor Akane Otani ’14 uses her wet, rubbery tongue to put the final seal on The Sun’s news pages. Wait, sorry, that’s just her dog, Mowgli. We still think she’s the best at sniffing out stories.

Our new Associate Editor, Liz

Camuti ’14, is two parts editor, one part farmer. Some problems have arisen when she edits with columnists, who typically have to sit at least two feet away from her to avoid getting dusted with dirt. We advise all columnists to bring a change of clothes to meetings.

Advertising Manager Austin Kang ’15 is a gentle giant from southern California. His laid-back personality is best exemplified by his sandals. Don't be fooled though, his inner businessman comes out when negotiating the two most important things in his life: advertisements and hummus.

For his first action as Web Editor, Andy Levine ’15 took it upon himself to design new uniforms for the Web Department. We are happy to formally announce that from now on, all webbies will be required to wear t-shirts and pajama pants to all meetings requiring “business casual” attire.

Our new Multimedia Editor, Alex Rehberg ’15, gained his video experience filming beach scenes and beautiful women in his hometown in Fla. Associate Multimedia Editor Bryan Chan ’15 never smiles. Never.

Were it up to Design Editor Rebecca Coombes ’14, The Sun would look more like piece in the Johnson than a newspaper. We’re not complaining.

With Assistant Design Editors Hannah Kim ’14 and Megan Zhou ’15 putting their pica skills to use each night, the paper will look better than ever.

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The vivacious Rachel Ellicott ’15 will serve as The Sun’s second-ever blogs editor. We are especially excited for the blogs idea devoted solely to analyzing font options and the one that will inform you of every food option not available at Okenshields.

When Sports Editor Haley Velasco ’15 is not fighting with Assistant Sports Editor Scott Chiusano ’15, she’s bringing a bit of sass to every team in Cornell Athletics. Scott, on the other hand, only responds to the name “Scooter.” We do not know why. Assistant Sports Editor Ariel Cooper ’15 is The Sun’s resident Shakespeare expert, while Assistant Sports Editor Emily Berman’s ’16 first words weren’t “Mommy” or “Daddy,” but some sports terminology.

Our new Tech Editor, David Marten ’14, was an ideal candidate for the position. In fact, we are almost certain he conceived of and pitched the idea for the tech campus to President David Skorton all by himself.

Though he will always be an Arts Editor in our minds, Zach Zahos ’15 seems to be accomplishing a lot in his new position as Associate Managing Editor, though we are still not sure what his job actually is.

The 131st News Editor team is all estrogen and all business. The stern Lianne Bornfeld ’15 cracks the whip in the newsroom. When she is not making our news writers cry, she’s making our Arts Editors feel bad about their taste in music. Emma Court ’15 has been a news editor since birth.

When we told her she was elected News Editor, she responded with “duh.” Caroline Flax ’15 is the chattiest of the bunch. We’re convinced our neighbors at the Ithaca Journal have started putting the paper to bed at 9 p.m. to get some peace and quiet. Jinjoo Lee ’14 is the oldest and most laid-back of our high-energy news team. When editing stories, the other editors often must check her pulse to make sure she is still kicking.

In their spare time, Arts and Entertainment Editors Sam Bromer ’15 and Arielle Cruz ’16 moonlight as a two-person interpretative dance ensemble. If you’ve never see Sam recite haikus while Arielle sways to the beat, you’re missing a transformative artistic experience for the ages.

Our incoming Science Editor, Sarah Cohen ’15, has kept up the tradition of trying to educate our literary-minded staff on scientific matters.

This week her section will feature something about brains ... or space ... or something.

Our Photography Editor, Shailee Shah ’14 is an experienced nature photographer. We’re still working on trying to convince her that pictures of birds and insects do not belong in our news section.

After succesfully not gaining a pound during her previous tenure as Dining Editor, Sydney Ramsden ’14 decided to milk The Sun for one more year of free food for the sake of “journalism.”

We still don't know how our new Online Advertising Manager, Sid Shekhar ’15, ended up here. He always talks about surfing in Israel and skydiving in Jordan. Maybe he just wanted a less exciting life.

Human Resources Manager Leo Ding ’14 will use his Canadian charm to recruit innocent freshmen to The Sun. Hint: If you bribe him with food, you could be rewarded with a second round interview.

Anna Tsenter ’14, our newest Marketing Manager, is the sweetest girl in the Business Department. She’ll also be the most cultured of all the investment bankers she will join this summer on Wall Street.

Our Social Media Manager, Erika Whitestone ’15, asked us to keep her bio to under 140 characters. We think this sums it up.

Our innovative Outreach Coordinator, Lizzie Potolsky ’14, does the job the rest of us can’t: have normal conversations with people outside The Sun. Liz Camuti can be reached at associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Independent Since 1880 130TH EDITORIAL BOARD

REBECCA HARRIS ’14 Demarest, N.J. Editor in Chief

HANK BAO ’14

AKANE OTANI ’14

Business Manager

Managing Editor

LIZ CAMUTI ’14

AUSTIN KANG ’15

Associate Editor

Advertising Manager

ANDY LEVINE ’15

ALEX REHBERG ’15

Web Editor

Multimedia Editor

Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Singapore

Mooresville, N.C.

Los Angeles, Calif.

Scarsdale, N.Y.

Boca Raton, Fla.

RACHEL ELLICOTT ’15

DAVID MARTEN ’14

Blogs Editor

Tech Editor

Seattle, Wash.

LaGrangeville, N.Y.

ZACHARY ZAHOS ’15

EMMA COURT ’15

Associate Managing Editor

City Editor

LIANNE BORNFELD ’15

CAROLINE FLAX ’15

Queens, N.Y.

Harrington Park, N.J.

Pembroke Pines, Fla.

Chevy Chase, Md.

News Editor

News Editor

JINJOO LEE ’14

HALEY VELASCO ’15

Johannesburg, South Africa

Basking Ridge, N.J.

News Editor

Sports Editor

SAM BROMER ’16

ARIELLE CRUZ ’15

Arts & Entertainment Editor

Arts & Entertainment Editor

SARAH COHEN ’15

SHAILEE SHAH ’14

Science Editor

Photography Editor

SYDNEY RAMSDEN ’14

REBECCA COOMBES ’14

Dining Editor

Design Editor

Ardsley, N.Y.

Scarsdale, N.Y.

Ahmedabad, India

Columbus, Ohio

Muncie, Ind.

New York, N.Y.

SCOTT CHIUSANO ’15

EMILY BERMAN ’16

Assistant Sports Editor

Assistant Sports Editor

ARIEL COOPER ’15

MEGAN ZHOU ’14

Assistant Sports Editor

Assistant Design Editor

HANNAH KIM ’14

BRANDON ARAGON ’14

Assistant Design Editor

Assistant Web Editor

BRYAN CHAN ’15

ANNA TSTENER ’14

Assistant Multimedia Editor

Marketing Manager

Bethesda, Md.

New York, N.Y.

Trumbull, Conn.

Roslyn, N.Y.

Miami, Fla.

Rowland Heights, Calif.

New York, N.Y.

Fishkill, N.Y.

LEO DING ’14

SID SHEKHAR ’15

Shanghai, China

Chennai, India

Online Advertising Manager

Human Resources Manager

ERIKA WHITESTONE ’15

LIZZIE POTOLSKY ’14

Social Media Manager

Outreach Coordinator

New York, N.Y.

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ollege life is demanding. Listing all the responsibilities is so trivializing, it is beyond a cliché. To fulfill all of our obligations, we often sacrifice a seemingly unnecessary part of our daily rituals: sleep.

Most of us have the willpower to cut back on our sleep, but there’s this one tiny problem; our stupid brain keeps telling us that our bodies are worn out and need to be recuperated through sleeping.

As smart Cornell students, we are certainly better experts on our bodies than our brains. Hence, we tell our brains to shut the hell up by stuffing ourselves with endless amount of caffeine. The most common form of caffeine consumption is through this dark, opaque liquid, distributed throughout the campus. There have been exhaustingly extensive studies on the potential benefits and drawbacks of coffee. As a non-expert and non-coffee drinker, I can care less about the coffee itself. My main concern, however, is the amount of caffeine intake, or to be more precise, the speed of that intake.

Although caffeine is about the most commonly found substance around, it still is a stimulant, and can be classified as a psychoactive drug. Now, there’s nothing shocking about the “psychoactive” label, since we are exposed to all forms of psychotropic substances on a daily basis. Alcohol, for example, exhibits multiple pharmacological effects as anxiolytics, euphoriants, sedatives and depressants. Most of your “recreational” or not so recreational drugs fall under stimulants and hallucinogens categories.

You might ask what’s the big deal when caffeine is virtually in everything from soda (or pop as we Midwesterners like to call) to tea, coffee and even benign chocolates. The important distinction to make, once again, is the amount of caffeine intake.

A little bit of caffeine can boost productivity by increasing our memory, alertness, and speed of thoughts. Still, the golden rule of moderation applies. Most people have narrow windows of blood caffeine levels which are optimal for enhanced performance. Once you surpass this green zone, however, you begin to experience the downsides of caffeine. Remember the last time you couldn’t do work even when you were wide awake, because you were jittery and shaky from too much caffeine? That’s exactly what caffeine overdose can do to you along with symptoms like nausea, sweating, heart palpitations and

even vomiting and diarrhea at times.

Now, I have no personal vendetta against caffeine nor am I trying to parent independent college students. But, once we established the fact that excessive caffeine is harmful, we should be careful with the amount and speed of intake. I am not too concerned with mildly caffeinated drinks as tea, soda and coffee. Not only are these drinks consumed in moderation at a slow pace, but you can monitor your body reaction and stop when needed. Energy drinks, on the other hand, contain lot more caffeine to begin with and many people gulp down half a can at once without giving your body time to adjust. The worst of them all is this little, puny red shots called “5-hour Energy.”

These tiny 2-oz plastic bottles contain close to 250 mg of caffeine equivalent of 12-16 oz coffee. OK, maybe one large coffee isn’t too bad; but you don’t drink it all at once.

Liquid intake is the fastest absorption method other than IV into your vein. When you gulp down that bottle, your blood caffeine level spikes and your body may experience adverse reaction, but there is no going back. When I mention FDA is investigating 5-hour energy over 13 reported deaths, people laugh it off saying people die from drinking too much water. This is exactly my point: even a benign substance like water can kill someone by destroying the normal balance of his or her electrolytes when absorbed too rapidly.

In essence, I think it all comes down to your lifestyle choices. Do you maintain a healthy living by having a plenty of vegetables, fruits and exercises or just take a caffeine shot and work through the night with cloggy, dizzy head? Caffeine is known to enhance performance in simple, repetitive tasks, whereas our assignments often involve creative, complex problem solving.

My best argument, however, is the 5hour energy’s ad itself. I mean, how desperate and neurotic does one have to be from caffeine overdose that he decides to knit and run at the same time? Next time, when you see that ugly version of Ryan Gosling rambling some nonsense again, tell him to go screw himself and just take his vitamins.

Don Oh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. He may be reached at doh@cornellsun.com. Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Lukasiewicz for Vice President OF THE FOUR QUALIFIED CANDIDATES IN THE race for Student Assembly Executive Vice President, we believe Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14 most exhibits the requisite skills, experience and ambition for the job. The Executive Vice President is primarily an internal officer, tasked with carrying out managerial responsibilities within the organization and working to ensure that S.A. initiatives move forward with efficiency. Lukasiewicz, who served as Vice President of Internal Operations over the past year and as Chair of the University Assembly before that, has demonstrated that she has the experience necessary to fulfill that role.

Lukasiewicz spent the past year helping to manage the S.A.’s executive board and overseeing members of the assembly in their work on various initiatives. The legislation she has spearheaded aligns well with the mission of her desired position. She revitalized the S.A. Staffing Committee, whose function is to ensure that committees within the assembly are fully and diversely staffed. Even more compellingly, Lukasiewicz co-sponsored a resolution with current Executive Vice President John Mueller ’13 last month that aims to “increas[e] member accountability through a revised initiative tracker.” Finding new and effective ways to ensure our student representatives do not shirk their responsibilities is precisely the role of the Executive Vice President.

However, we feel that we must also acknowledge reservations we have had about Lukasiewicz’s judgment in the past. Her decision-making during the S.A. elections last year was undoubtedly questionable. But we believe she exhibited grace in the aftermath, making amends through her persistent and valuable work for the S.A. We do not believe one mistake made a year ago should outweigh Lukasiewicz’s ability and willingness to fight for her constituents.

Fellow S.A. representatives have lauded Lukasiewicz’s tenacity in advocating on behalf of students. Although the Executive Vice President is less involved than other S.A. members in pushing campus-wide initiatives, they must still be passionate about and dedicated to making a difference in the Cornell community. While other candidates have shown these qualities — perhaps even more so than Lukasiewicz — we believe she can offer the best balance between advocacy and internal management of the S.A. Her experience, accomplishments and dedication to student governance over the past two years make us confident that she will live up to the expectations of Executive Vice President.

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OPINION

Aditi Bhowmick | Abtruse Musings

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Life And Libe

very column I write is the brainchild of procrastination — this one is no different. In my procrastination, I’ve started to believe that If we were to remove all elements of emotion from life and measured it in terms of places, things, objects and other tangible forms, my life at Cornell would literally be Libe Café and I say so without a single hint of hyperbole.

I can actually measure my freshman year “in coffee spoons” (T.S. Eliot would be pleased). But at any point in time, if you sit in anywhere in Libe and look around from your vantage point, you will notice that the café is not only a freshman weakness — there are seniors watching the prime years of their life wrap up, there are graduate students who look like they’re discussing grave issues or recounting some bizarre Thursday night escapade. There will often be a table of coaches who have ventured all the way from Teagle asking wieldy questions like, “What makes a good basketball coach?” (yes, I eavesdrop, beware!) There are a few of us who are still convinced that we are “getting some work out of the way” but are only minutes away from giving up and returning to pointless banter with friends.

Another empirical fact about Libe is that everyone here is a watcher. I am ready to wager with you that you won’t be able to unearth a person who sits in Libe and does not look up

If we’re not constantly meeting people, what is the point of college? from their laptop every fifteen minutes. There is, of course, those ever expanding Sun tables where the “Sun people” spend the time they are technically supposed to invest in classes, as if going to classes regularly is something people who work for The Sun do. There is a sorority table, an a capella table and a lonesome, retrospective odd bird hogging an entire table somewhere.

It is the place where life slows down for a bit and people and relationships matter more than grades and GPAs. It is the brighter side of life, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is the memories fostered here which will remain with us long after we forget that one terrible prelim we bombed. I come and sit in Libe once every single day of the semester just to breathe in the vivid senses of living rather than merely exist in some prolonged, regimented limbo. I would say that the worst days of my week are the ones when I walk into Libe and am not able to find a single familiar face waving belligerently at me or cannot find a single vacant table.

I am then forced to walk out of the doors into the terribly morose first floor with those mundane desks where real work takes place.

I tried abandoning Libe for a week once. The resolve lasted for four days and then I gave in. It is this failure of my little experiment with my social routine at Cornell that really makes me question the principle of self-sufficiency — I’m beginning to doubt whether it is even a real concept. We are the people we meet every day in one way or the other. If we’re not constantly meeting people, what is the point of college? Here’s a disclaimer though ( you shall interpret it as advice to not care about your credits and grades only at your own risk): I am trying to make a point that maybe procrastination with friends or even by yourself in a place as alive as Libe Café is not an absolutely futile thing after all. The hours spent here are, the way I see it, a life lesson. I know it is unnerving to acknowledge that we are all actually very dependent on the people in our lives, but this vulnerability is not an entirely terrifying thing at all; it is something none of us would like to lose. The next time you ask yourself whether your college years are going anywhere at all, visit Libe and you will undoubtedly find a part of that magnanimous answer there. And enjoy your latte!

Aditi Bhowmick is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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“I don't see why a university that has some of the best engineering/science programs in the country and the propensity to train the very people who could come up with ‘the next big thing’ to replace fossil fuels should take a large financial hit [from divesting] that is unlikely to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at all.

The ‘right’ thing, in my opinion, is to make it so that fossil fuels are no longer a desirable thing to invest in. This can only be done through research, education, innovation, and policy advocacy ... all of which need solid sources of funding to make happen.

Hence, instead of demanding divestment and investment, more focus should be placed on actually making it so that, by 2030, sustainable funds are simply a better investment to make. Period.”

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Noah Karr-Kaitin |

Plain Hokum

My Top Five Political Bands of All Time I

have made a cunning observation on the other hand, am not the biggest that I believe will propel my fledg- Bruce fan. I really want his music to ling journalism career to new speak to me in the way it does to so heights: Nobody cares about articles or many other people. Sadly, it doesn't. opinion pieces anymore. The wheels of However, if I did not include him on time are turning, and I’ve realized that this list I’m sure that Jon would hunt all anyone wants to read anymore is lists me down and force me to print a corof things. days. rection (or tie me up and force me to My eureka moment came when I listen to nonstop Bruce until I learned was scrolling down my news feed on to love him). That being said, I can say Facebook and noticed that every single that “Born in the U.S.A.” is one of my “friend” of mine seems to spend 20 favorite political songs of all time. If hours a day posting various “articles” you listen to the lyrics, you’ll hear the from sites like BuzzFeed and The tale of working class America’s Huffington Post with titles like “14 Annoying Things About Being [Neil Young’s] music Kosher,” “20 Reasons Koalas Are Utterly forces us to confront the Ridiculous” or “15 Kids totality of the political Who Tried To Negotiate With The Tooth Fairy.” problems we face.

So folks, here we go. I am giving up my longwinded column writing this week and exploitation during the Vietnam War instead present you with a list of … my and the economic misery brought upon top five political bands of all time. by deindustrialization, all the while 5. Rage Against The Machine being drowned out by the jingoistic Notable Songs: “Bulls on Parade,” patriotism of the chorus. It’s a tremen“Wake Up,” “Testify,” “Maggie’s Farm” dously powerful song that, on its own, (Yes, I know it’s a Bob Dylan cover) deserves a spot on my list.

Okay, stick with me here. I loved 3. The Who Rage Against The Machine for many Notable Songs: “Won’t Get Fooled years, and still occasionally listen to Again,” “Baba O’Riley,” “Let’s See them today. I do not do so because I Action” love, as the kids say, “moshing” or Now, if you were making this list, I “head banging,” nor do I ascribe myself don’t know that you would put The to the brand of socialist anarchism that Who this high up. I’m aware that their Rage’s members pronounce. However, I protest songs were few and far between, feel that it is important to highlight that especially after “Who’s Next” was they, as a group, were able to gain extra- released in 1971. Allow me to explain ordinary prominence making music myself. I was raised on The Who. I conexclusively devoted to their political sider the day my dad handed me his views during an era in which almost copy of “Who’s Next” as the day I first every other mainstream musician was appreciated music, and for that reason focused entirely on matters of far less alone, I’m always going to be partial to substance. Plus, if I’m being totally them. That said “Won’t Get Fooled honest, their music is pretty fun to Again” is as powerful a political song as jump around to, in the privacy of ones any ever performed. Furthermore, own house.

“Baba O’Riley” always spoke to me as 4. Bruce Springsteen.

The Who’s best protest song, largely Notable Songs: “Born in the U.S.A.,” because of its awareness of the “teenage “Roulette,” “The Ghost of Tom Joad” wasteland” the counter-culture was My fellow columnist and friend Jon turning into, and the inherent unpreWeinberg ’13 wrote a testament to dictability of popular movements.

“The Boss” last semester that firmly 2. Bob Dylan occupied the space between “glowing Notable Songs: “Hurricane”, “Like a praise” and “frightening obsession.” I, Rolling Stone,” “The Times They Are

A-Changin’” Dylan’s most prolific period was also arguably his most political. The patriarch of the protest song, Dylan’s ability to weave narrative and metaphor into his songs while communicating the political angst of the baby boom generation is part of what makes him a living legend. His song “Hurricane” tells the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, an African American boxer whose imprisonment on dubious murder charges was eventually overturned. Equally powerful were songs like “The Times They Are A-Changin’” which served as a broad call to action, encapsulating the political upheaval of the late sixties and early seventies.

1. Neil Young

Notable Songs: “Ohio,” “Old Man,” “Rockin’ In The Free World,” “Southern Man” Like I said, this is my list, and I recognize many of you would not have Neil Young as number one, but let me make my case for you. Young’s protestations are timeless in a way that speaks to me to a greater extent than any of the other artists I have highlighted.

Something about Young’s screeching voice, especially prevalent in songs like “Old Man” and “Ohio,” force his listeners to hear his words and not just his melodies. His music forces us to confront the totality of the political problems we face. The fact that Young has never given up writing music that challenges the political and cultural establishment shows that he knew the problems of the 60s and 70s could not be so quickly vanquished. In that way, the political nature of his music has stuck with me longer than other artist.

Honorable Mentions: John Lennon, The Clash, N.W.A., Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Public Enemy, Eminem (if only for “Mosh” . . . just kidding).

Noah Karr-Kaitin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at nkarrkaitin@cornellsun.com. Plain Hokum appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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VOTE FOR YOUR CLASS OFFICERS TODAY! Class of 2014 ROBERT CALLAHAN

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE I would like to be reelected as the 2014 Class President because my passion is making sure everyone in our class enjoys their time at Cornell. For that reason, I have volunteered on our Class Council since the beginning of freshman year and done my best to represent our class well the whole time. Whether I am grilling hot dogs at a class barbecue, screaming my face off at Lynah Rink, or giving away 2014 shades in preparation for Slope Day, I like to have fun and make sure everyone around me is enjoying themselves. If you have enjoyed what your Class Council has done so far or have new ideas you can contribute to our Class, please tell me so your Class Council can continue to give you what you want. As we move into Senior year, the number and variety of the events our class holds increases and it is important to have someone with the experience necessary to manage those events. I hope to make your senior year the best it possibly can be and I hope you do as well. Thank you for your vote.

APRIL MANHERTZ

EXECUTIVE VP CANDIDATE It has been my distinct privilege and honor serving this past year as Executive Vice President of Programming. I’ve worked closely with the entire executive board to plan and execute successful events ranging from the first of what will be many monthly 2014 Bar Nights to our annual Homecoming tailgate, promoting 2014 unity and spirit.

From our enviable t-shirts to work with various campus organizations, I’ve worked tirelessly to bring you only the best and represent the vibrant spirit that is the class of 2014. That said, I will never rely on experience alone as the reason why I am the ideal candidate to continue in this position. Rather, it is my fun-loving attitude and drive to plan practical, well-executed events, with proven success and high turnout. At a school like Cornell, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that there’s more to college than prelims and due dates, which is why I so strongly believe in the importance of impactful programming for the Class of 2014. At the risk of sounding saccharine sweet and painfully sentimental, I will pull the senior year card. We’re here for a good time, not for a long time. Three years have come and gone and I will work to make this last year our best yet!

LE DO

VP OF PROMOTIONS CANDIDATE Greetings Class of 2014, My name is Le Do and I am running for Vice President of Promotions for the class of 2014.

As we’re closing up our junior year and suddenly noticing that our time is running out here at Cornell, we face a new challenge of class unity. With students scattered across campus, communication between class members gradually disintegrates. Don’t you remember your very first friends from the good old days of orientation? Or that good looking person you had a crush on at the BBQ gathering? This is why I wish to become your vice President of Promotions, to maintain a strong sense of cohesion between you and your fellow juniors. As a hotelie, I am always determined to serve people, not just as a professional path, but also as a personal mantra that I live by. With my outgoing personality, service mindset, diverse cultural background, and labor-intensive dedication, I will reach out, listen to you (may be smiling too), and try my best to deliver the best class-giveaways as well as making your last undergraduate year here at Cornell a memorable one.

MICHAEL PERRY

VP OF PUBLIC RELATIONS CANDIDATE Hello, I am Mike Perry. I am a history major in the College of Arts and Sciences. I have been an active member for Class Council for over two years now and would be honored to be re-elected to the position of Vice President of Public Relations for the Class of 2014. In the past two years for Class Council: I grilled at barbeques and gave away T-shirts on Homecoming. I welcomed people to Battle of the Late Night Foods and gave away apple cider and sunglasses in Willard Straight. I have also served as Co-Chair of Recyclemania and have helped 2014 sponsor the event this year and last year. In the past year as VP of Public Relations, I have publicized events and written the monthly newsletters you receive through email. I ensure that each month class council spotlights one member of our class and that you remain informed about the exciting, fun events we are planning. I frequently help out at events for our class and I am always ready to hear your suggestions for events, giveaways, or any ideas you may have to make sure our class has fun. I would be honored to serve another year as VP of Public Relations for the Class of 2014.

Vote Mike Perry!

Class of 2015 VERONICA DAGOSTINO

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Dear Class of 2015, Thank you for giving me to the opportunity to have served as the Sophomore Executive Vice President. As the current Executive Vice President of Class of 2015, I have helped put on events such as the Homecoming Shirt Giveaway, Pancakes on the Arts Quad, Class BBQ, Fall Fest, Class of 2015 Coffee Tab, and even a Hypnotist Show. As junior year grows near, I am fueled with passion and motivation to make our junior year an UNFORGETABLE one. Next year, as President of Class of 2015 I hope to help Class of 2015 make a bigger impact on Cornell University. I will PROMOTE more class INVOLVEMENT and AWARENESS. I will also WORK endlessly to SERVE the Class of 2015 through our junior year. Please give me the opportunity to make junior year an AMAZING one!

Be glad you voted Dags!

Vote Veronica Dagostino for President of Class of 2015!!!

Let’s talk! Share your ideas with me: ved7@cornell.edu or ADD me on Facebook!

RACHEL GERBER

VP OF ADMINISTRATION CANDIDATE Hi, my name is Rachel Gerber and I am running to be your Class Council Vice President for Administration. As a proud member of Cornell University’s sesquicentennial class, I would love to have the opportunity to help foster class pride and class unity within the Class of 2015. I have truly enjoyed serving on your Class Council this past year as your Vice President of Promotions. I have collaborated and worked with both the Executive Board members and council at large to plan events and encourage class unity. My experiences at Cornell, as a member of the Orientation Steering Committee, Greek Life and many student organizations here on campus, have provided me with the skills necessary to continue to plan, program and work with our council and our class. Class Council makes traditions happen, and I want the traditions of the Class of 2015 to be fun and full of spirit!

SYDNEY READ

EXECUTIVE VP CANDIDATE My name is Sydney Reade, and I am running for Executive Vice President of the 2015 Class Council. I’m a Communications major, minoring in Law and Society and Creative Writing (I want to be a judge). I have been active in Class Council since freshmen year, currently as the Director of Internal Affairs. I regularly attend meetings, and plan events like Pancakes on the Quad, the Hypnotist Show, Fall Fest, and the Valentines Day Dessert Soiree. I aim to organize exciting events that our class members will want to enjoy. I have tons of leadership and organizational experience from interning with lawyers and at Penguin Publishing Groups, and through my work with a Long Island soup kitchen and health system. Besides Class Council, I serve on the pub committee, and I write for the school magazine (movie and literary reviews…fun stuff!). I am an avid reader, golfer, black belt in Kempo and Ju Jitsu, music lover (especially stuff from the 60s), and movie aficionada (don’t ask me to pick a favorite, that’s not fair). Our class represents a composite of diverse passions and personalities who all have goals for their Cornell community. If you have ideas about what Class Council could be doing to get your charity/interest/event etc. going, then I want to help you achieve that. I am the best woman for the job of Executive Vice President to ensure that these differing perspectives and goals are represented and met, and I hope you’ll vote for me to make these various pursuits our common pursuit!

Vacant Seats Class of 2014: VP of Finance VP of Administration Class of 2015: VP of Finance

BRANDON PIEROTTI

VP OF PROMOTIONS CANDIDATE Hi, my name is Brandon Pierotti, and I am running for Class of 2015 Council Vice President for Promotions. I want to continue to be involved in Class Councils by serving my class through the office of Vice President for Promotions. I am offering my experience to help better our school and class. I have been involved with the Class of 2015 Class Council since our first meeting in August 2011, and I have helped out at all of the events. I have perfect attendance for all of the meetings. My experiences this past semester include serving as the Class of 2015 Council Residential Co-Chair of North Campus and working as one of the two student coordinators for Cornell Bus Services, a service of Cornell Class Councils. In addition to these qualifications, I am also an Eagle Scout.

These experiences provide me with the skills necessary to be the best candidate for Vice President for Promotions you can elect!

Please vote for me!

ALAN DORSINVILLE

VP OF PUBLIC RELATIONS CANDIDATE Hi, I'm Alan Dorsinville and I'm running for Vice President of Public Relations.

Class Council is a great programming organization and our job is to plan fun events for our fellow Cornellians. I am happy to be a part of that process and am eager to be of greater service to my class. As VP of Public Relation, it is my job to get word out of all our events, which is very important. After all, whats the point of throwing great events and free giveaways if no one knows about or no one comes! In addition to giving out information to the public, I'm also open to hearing what you have to say. Communication is a huge part of this position, and that works both ways.

As an enthusiastic and dedicated member of my class and its Council, I believe I can be very effective in this leadership position. So vote for me for Vice President of Public Relations.

Thanks

Cornell Class Council Elections March 2013

Class of 2016 BEN HEARNS

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE I am a very hard worker and never afraid to do it myself. I have a strong ability to lead. I was a dedicated member of Student Council in high school and an active member in my high school’s leadership program. Class Council is a programming organization responsible for hosting events for its class. Being a Hotelie, I am a great event planner and a natural leader. If elected, I will always do my best to accomplish what is most important to you, the students. I pledge to work my hardest to help The Class of 2016 be the greatest class Cornell has ever seen. I am the right candidate for this position and assure you I will strive for excellence. Elect me and you shall see.

SCOTT SEIDENBERGER

EXECUTIVE VP CANDIDATE I’m running to be your Class Council Executive Vice President because I want to improve the quality of life for all Class of 2016 students.

In my opinion, the council’s goal is to make sure that the students of Cornell are having as much fun as possible, and I know how to make this goal a reality. Since the fall I have had an active role in Class Council. I proudly represented our class while bearing our flag at the Homecoming football game, and I personally designed and programmed our Class’s mobile website which will be launched shortly. As your Vice President, I plan to implement more inclusive programs that draw on the interests of the entire class. Events should be better publicized and I firmly believe the question “Would our classmates really like to attend this event?” should be the basis of each financial decision. The Class Council so far has hosted great events and has represented our Class well, but there is always room for improvement. If elected as Vice President, I will lead by the core value that I practice each day in Air Force ROTC: “service before self.” Thank you for your vote.

JUNG-JU LEE

VP OF PUBLIC RELATIONS CANDIDATE I’m J.J., and I’m a Government major minoring in international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences. As a member of the Student Advisory Committee, the Peer Review Board, and the Student Union Board, I’ve had the opportunity to network with students, leaders, and faculty and play a role in reaching out to various members of our class. Whether it’s listening to my peers debate the issues of diversity, voice their opinions on housing regulations, or pitch various programs for funding, I’ve recognized the great potential in the Class of 2016 and the role it will play in shaping Cornell University. And so, I believe unity through communication and active involvement on part of the student body is crucial to accomplishing our class’s agenda. As the Vice President of Public Relations, I hope to improve the visibility of Class Council events and help plan greater events that will bring ideas, opportunities, and our class together. I’ve been part of the 2016 Class Council since the very first meeting and whether as a VP or not, I look forward to seeing how far we progress as a class in the next three years.

JIM HAN KIM

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE “Remember Him; Vote for Him; 2016 Class Council President Jin Han Kim!” My name is Jin Han Kim, and I am running for president of 2016 Class Council.

Some of you may recognize my name and recall my Gangnam Style campaign in the early September. Despite the loss, I tried to keep participating in a student leadership organization and gained valuable experiences working with other council members.

Now, I would like to be more actively engaged in the group.

2016 Class Council’s primary objective is to foster a sense of unity among the diverse groups of our class. This year, many of you enjoyed hot cocoa, free bowling night, and chocolate-dipped strawberries. But I believe that there are many others who unknowingly missed the events. My primary objective is to lead the council to promote visibility of the council’s agenda and awareness of the council’s programs to all of you. I truly believe that there is potential for high turnout – and at the same time the creation of a space where we would be able to interact with each other.

“Remember Him; Vote for Him; 2016 Class Council President Jin Han Kim!”

JUSTINE BRENNAN

EXECUTIVE VP CANDIDATE Hey freshmen! My name is Justine Brennan, and I am running for Executive Vice President for 2016 Class Council. I have been involved with Class Council since the beginning of first semester, and I would love to increase my involvement by stepping up to a leadership position. I have really enjoyed being able to be a part of the event planning process for numerous class events this year, and I would greatly appreciate the chance to plan more incredible events for this semester and the following year. Increasing class spirit is a huge priority of mine, and as Executive Vice President I plan on aiding in the creation of several events to help promote 2016 pride. Let’s help increase 2016 spirit and build another awesome year here at Cornell! Vote Justine for Executive V.P.!

LISELLE PIRES

VP OF FINANCE CANDIDATE Hi! I’m Liselle Pires and I’m running for VP for Finance for the 2016 Class Council. I have been a seriously involved member of the council since the first meeting, and have loved it since, which is why I am looking to become an officer and spend more time making your time at Cornell an awesome experience. I’m all about class spirit, and want to play a more active role in coordinating fun class-wide activities, including ones related to our class charity. I’ve been in treasury positions before and can thus handle the council budget; I’m excited about the opportunity to manage the budget in order to help our class council have the maximum number of events and the best ones yet (but still the free food and giveaway events) in the upcoming year!

VARUN HEGDE

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Dear Class of 2016: I am running to be the President of our Class Council because I can give our class the tools necessary to leave a lasting impact on Cornell University through events for the entire student body and the greater Ithaca community. I can serve our class by using my organizational skills, communication skills, and passion.

As the emcee for the 2012 Freshman Follies Talent Show, I showed all three by writing and editing a script, planning the event, set-up, and clean. I keep excellent records, and I have been running a free ticket giveaway through 2016 Class Council since the hockey season began.

I am a confident speaker, and if elected, I know that I can successfully represent our class at various university functions. For example, as the only first-year representative to the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference, I made sure that the viewpoints of freshmen were not ignored in information sessions on life at Cornell.

Thank you for your consideration, Varun Hegde

CHLOE CHUNG

VP OF PROMOTIONS CANDIDATE As the Vice President for Promotions, I will be dedicated and organized to ensure a smooth and successful term. I believe Class Council is crucial to unifying each class as a community. In order to be the best that it can be, Class Council must strive to have enthusiastic, involved and active members. To help with this, if I am elected, I will prioritize recruiting these new members. My organization and time-management skills will ensure that I keep accurate records, provide well-written summaries, coordinate whatever is necessary with efficiency, and do whatever else is needed to benefit the council. I will stay active in my position and I will make class council a priority throughout my term. I feel that I could do an outstanding job as the Vice President for Promotions for the Class of 2016 and I would love the opportunity.

MONICA CAI

VP OF ADMINISTRATION CANDIDATE Hi! My name is Monica Cai and I'm running for VP of Administration. I'm from Palo Alto, CA and in the College of Arts & Sciences. I've been involved with 2016 Class Council since the very first meeting, and over the past semester, have really enjoyed working with the council to plan events like Homecoming and most recently, Eat Your Heart Out. I would like to not only continue my commitment to Class Council, but also take on more responsibility, contribute as a leader and help the council work efficiently and cohesively. I believe that my experience from working on the council this past semester, as well as leadership and organizational skills gained from running my high school newspaper and from my current clubs such as MICC and AIESEC, will make my term as VP of Administration, if elected, a successful one.

JON LOWRY

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Let's set a precedent--- a class that is hardworking but knows how to party; a class bound by more than just grueling coursework and frat parties on the weekend. That's my vision, and the reasoning behind my campaign run for your Class President. Granted, campus politics may be of little concern to you. I respect your choice, but sincerely hope to change your outlook. Our Class of 2016 has seen a semester of the same-old, and increased division. So here is my vision to restore the community we caught a glimpse of during orientation-- when meeting your fellow classmates was encouraged and we were not grouped into categories: • The 1st Annual Class Olympics-- an opportunity to showcase Class talent (and hysterical lack thereof) through a variety of traditional and nontraditional events.

• Class Formal-- time to look sharp & beautiful Now I urge you: “Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.”- Rick Mercer Thank-you!

STEFANIE ALLMAN

VP OF PROMOTIONS CANDIDATE Hi, My name is Stefanie Allman and I am a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and I am running for VP of Promotions! I have served on Class Council this past semester, in fact since the very first meeting.

I really love being active in the school community and all that Cornell University has to offer. This past semester as part of Class Council I have helped to plan some awesome events to get everyone involved in our school community and to get some FREE food and giveaways! Some of these past events have included Homecoming with freshmen on the field to start the year off right, Talent Show for Parent’s Weekend, Karaoke night and our most recent event “Eat Your Heart Out” Valentine’s dessert soiree. I really hope to continue increasing student involvement and raising school spirit with more student run/planned and organized events. More importantly, I hope to promote these events to you and enhance our communication so more students will come to more events! So show some devotion and vote Stefanie Allman as Vice President for Promotions!

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C.U. Winds’ performance last Friday was billed as “Music of Transcendence”— but it was also about spiders. This arachnid event was called Cosmosis: Spider Music in Space.

Conceived by the Manhattan School of Music’s Susan Botti, Cosmosis was an operatic epic that chronicled the struggles of a spider weaving a web in space. C.U. Winds was the main group behind the piece, but hardly the only one — it was joined by the Cornell Chorus, Cornell Chorale, Prof. Linda Rayor, Entomology, and Botti herself. It was a truly tremendous moment that exposed music’s potential to transcend a simple arrangement of notes and become something more.

“Cosmosis,” of course, wasn’t the only work performed on Friday night, or else the concert would also have been tremendously short. Wind symphony piece “Danza de los Duendes”

by Nancy Galbraith started off as a sprightly beginning to the program, with woodwinds that pulsed and jumped as the brass blastsed and boomed in the background. The title refers to malicious goblin-like “los Duendes” in South American folklore that terrorize children, and was actually an afterthought suggested by Galbraith’s student, but it fits the piece: Piccolos and flutes frantically run off like children, as trumpets horns and saxophones menacingly chase after them, ending in a dramatic crash.

“Amazing Grace” was a perplexing and jarring piece to follow the modern “Danza de los Duendes,” but perhaps it was a necessary transition to Howard Hanson’s “Chorale and Alleluia,” which, as suggested, involved Cornell Chorale, a 100 person group that performs mostly Western sacred music.

The chorale started timidly, but as bits and pieces of the alleluia theme appeared, the symphony played its heart out in the climax.

The last song that the symphony played before the ensemble took the stage was Ola Gjeilo’s “Meridian.” During this piece the group was joined by the chorus and its director, John Rowehl, on the piano. Although the song was mainly driven by the piano’s dance-like yet anthemic chords, it never overwhelmed the other instruments — the piano always sounded like it was on the verge of something monumental. As the piano softened to silence and the clarinets and oboes picked up the pace, the whole symphony exploded into a heavenly chorus. “Unflinching line,” the

BY SALLY GAO Sun Staff Writer

Ithacans are famous for their powerful enthusiasm about protecting the world we inhabit.

Sunday kicked off the screenings of the 16th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, a festival that was originally launched

by Cornell University’s Center for the Environment in 1997 and was permanently taken over by Ithaca College in 2005. FLEFF is an environmental extravaganza that aims to explore international affairs and sustainability through a fantastic showcase of selected films.

This year’s FLEFF edition, “Mobilities,” carries over 20 films from 12 countries of vastly different social and political backgrounds, such as Palestine, France, Korea, People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, the former USSR, and Zimbabwe.

The FLEFF lineup includes documentaries created last year alongside silent movies from nearly 90 years-ago such as Sergei Einstein’s 1928 film “October.” Co-director Patricia Zimmermann said “there is absolutely no way to top what we programmed, with more films from more countries with more directors and more distributors.

And, we can promise more post-screening conversations of significance, a FLEFF trade-

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chorale crooned as a soft snare drum plinked in the background. “You grow me wings, you take the burden off my shoulders.” The song wouldn’t feel out of place in one of the motivational montages you see at Olympic closing ceremonies.

After a short intermission, the wind ensemble and chorus began with David Maslanka’s “Traveler.” It started off breathtakingly tragic, as if mourning, anxious and desperate thoughts made real with piccolos and contemplative, yet hurrying, piano chords. Then, suddenly, they crashed into silence. The piano, still tragic and fluttery, entered with a clarinet to mimic a delayed reverb that struggled to perpetuate itself. But then the rest of the ensemble joined, and “Traveler” slowly ended as lullaby, content and pensive.

There was one disappointing moment in the piece though: A screen situated above the symphony providing musical commentary gave away the crash a full minute before it actually happened, ruining the surprise.

The clear highlight was “Cosmosis,” which began with Raynor’s mini lecture on how spiders rely on gravity to weave webs. Never before have I been as fascinated with something I thought was a serious household problem. The audience’s newfound appreciation made “Cosmosis” all the more menacing and jarring. If the web is an extension of the spider’s sensory range and its state of mind, then a spider floating in space literally loses its grounding, rivalling the best disorientation in Kafka’s works.

The first section of “Cosmosis” was actually a rendition of May Swenson’s shape poem, “Overboard,” which was performed by the chorus without Botti. Instead, Botti emerged from the stage during the piece, sat down, eyes closed, serenely absorbing the demented chorus hissing lines that gradually unraveled against a wall of

mark.”

Of the films mentioned on FLEFF’s screening list, two in particular caught my eye.

One, Dear Governor Cuomo, is a persuasive and moving documentary arguing for banning Hydraulic Fracturing, or “fracking,” in upstate New York. Hydraulic fracturing is a mechanical extraction process of natural “clean” gas that has the potential of contaminating the underground drinking water surrounding the extraction site. I was shocked when, at one point in the documentary, a letter from an Ohio woman described her ordeal of having to get multiple organs removed after she drank contaminated water from her house tap, all because her neighbors signed an agreement that let a gas company drill in their backyard. The underlying moral of the documentary, perhaps, is that environmental nightmares are never all that far away. The anti-fracking movement of New York and FLEFF employ similar techniques to promote sustainability, using the collective force of local artisans, musicians and celebrities to work towards a goal of a safer and cleaner future.

The festival also features a Zimbabwean fictional movie called Everybody’s Child.

Directed by talented filmmaker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga, the film explores the harsh conditions of children and orphans living in in Zimbabwe. The focus is on orphans

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tribal beats, claps, and screams: “what throws drags, what drags you throws, what throws is what drags you.”

Then Botti rose and narrated “The First Night” of the spider’s futile efforts to weave the web and understand its new environment. Using a very impressive vocal range, she flipped her voice in a bipolarity between joy at small successes (catching a fly) and utter despair at its failures (turns out the catch was actually a “Fly of Thought”). The chorus used its claps and descending vocals to cut down every hope Botti expressed to great effect, while the Ensemble provided heavy emphasis — a pointed comical two-note brass interruption, for example, when it turned out the spider failed to capture prey. And while it is Botti and the Chorus who created the discord, it is the Ensemble’s industrial ambience that contextualized it as groundless — I was surprised that classical instruments could make those sounds, and even more so to hear a classically trained chorus scream.

At the end of “The Second Night,” the spider crumples and dies, but that didn’t stop the end from being as jarring and cringing as possible: the ensemble stopped playing, Botti sat down in her serene posture, but the chorus continued clicking, whistling, hushing, screaming and buzzing like a fly that loiters over the spider’s corpse. And just as abruptly as it started, the noise stopped, the lights died and we were plunged yet again into the abyssal void we started with.

Kai Sam Ng is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com.

Itayi and Tamari, who are devastated by the death of both of their parents and rejected by their extended family and the greater community. The two are left to fend for themselves in a brutal and unforgiving land.

Everybody’s Child effectively dep-icts a morally confused and poverty-stricken society in Southeastern Africa.

The orphaned children and widespread poverty portrayed in the film also exist in some other third-world countries, of course, so it’s no surprise that FLEFF introduces many similar films and documentaries. In one powerful example, Silenced Voices: Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile, issues of international poverty and of media openness are examined in fascinating detail.

What distinguishes FLEFF from other sustainability-focused film festivals is that it does not solely promote environmental documentaries: Its all-embracing range of art films, commercial narratives, shorts and experimen-

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tal movies can meet anybody’s cinematic preference. So whether you are an environmental enthusiast, someone who has attended the festival in the past or someone who simply enjoys international movies, the Finger Lakes Environ-mental Film Festival will fill your appetite for the week.

Sally Gao is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sgao@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Town CUPB Presents: The W. Kamau Bell Curve — Ending Racism in About an Hour

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction: A Flicstart Special Event

W. Kamau Bell, the star of FX’s newest (and only) socially conscious late night show, Totally Biased, will bring his unique blend of cultural commentary and socio-political comedy to Cornell Wednesday. Bell, who dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania to pursue a comedy career in San Francisco, is renowned for his ability to dissect issues of race, gender, class and politics comedically without missing a beat.

If that doesn’t tempt you, tickets are free!

— Sam Bromer ’16

The two hits that made a star out of writer-director Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) will play back-to-back this week at Cinemapolis, thanks to Flicstart. Launched by Cornell alumni, Flicstart allows any movie lover with an Internet connection to “demand” their favorite movies to play at their local theater, provided they drum up enough support. This worked for cult sleazefest The Room last September, and it’s no surprise the violent Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have followed suit. Bloody as they may be, Tarantino’s films are bona fide classics, with characters debating the true meaning of “Like a Virgin” and translating McDonald’s quarter-pounder with cheese into the metric system.

7:30 p.m. on Thursday at Cinemapolis

7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Statler Auditorium

My Architect: A Son’s Journey 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Cornell Cinema

When renowned architect Louis Kahn died in 1974, his obituaries only indicated that he was survived by a wife and daughter. Later it was revealed that Kahn had three families, one of which resulted in a son, Nathaniel Kahn. Nathaniel was only 11 when Louis died, and in an attempt to know his father, he embarked on a trip to see his father’s buildings. This journey resulted in an Oscar-nominated documentary that is a graceful and intimate portrait of the professional achievements and personal life of one of the 20th century’s most influential architects.

— Laura Boland ’15

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Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday at Cornell Cinema

— Zachary Zahos ’15 COURTESY OF MIRAMAX FILMS

Brief Encounters is an inspiring documentary film by Ben Shapiro on the life and work of acclaimed contemporary American photographer and Yale faculty member, Gregory Crewdson. The film is part of a great Cornell Cinema film series called “Art Docs Downtown,” which brings documentary films about contemporary art to Ithaca. If you are looking to be creatively inspired, don’t miss Brief Encounters and other films in this series.

— Rehan Dadi ’15

The Art of Offense

ast Friday, my computer died. For five whole days, I was without laptop. Luckily, with Jug-gate, New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind showing up in blackface to a Purim party, Seth MacFarlane being Seth MacFarlane and The Onion’s tweet about 9-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis, I hardly even needed the distractions of Tumblr, Youtube, Twitter and Facebook to keep me from, God forbid, actually taking notes.

It was quite a week for offending people.

First of all, I would like to state that I personally was not offended by the original name of Pi Kappa Phi’s event, “Which Sorority Has the Best Water Jugs” (a little shocked maybe, but not deeply upset.) I was, however, horrified at some of the backlash in response to the change, like anonymous strangers commenting on The Sun’s story essentially telling crazy feminists to learn how to take a joke.

I am a feminist and tend to fall on the side of the offended, but I also have a fabulous sense of humor and do think there is a place for controversial material in comedy. So what I would like to do today is explore the mechanics of not how to take an offensive joke, like those jerks on the Internet propose, but how to make one. After having thought at great lengths about that line between comedy and sexism, racism and general douchebaggery, I’ve come up with three criteria that need to be met if you plan on making a joke pertaining to marginalized group of society.

CRITERION I: Everybody has to be aware that the person making the joke isn’t actually a sexist pig or a homophobe or whatever the anti-group of the subject of the joke is. Take this example of a quote from the episode “TGS Hates Women” of 30 Rock. Jenna is in a sketch dressed up as Amelia Earhart and says, “This is Amelia Earhart. I’m almost across the Pacific. Oh no. My period!” as the plane crashes. This joke is clearly not offensive coming from my feminist idol Tina. However, if one of those aforementioned internet commenters had made it, offense would definitely be warranted.

One of the reasons Dov Hikind’s blackface disaster was so

offensive was because, although his family may know he isn’t racist, the world does not. Similarly, I know and love several members of Pi Kapp, and I know they are not misogynists, but I understand how those who aren’t familiar with those kindhearted and well-meaning men were offended by a fraternity hosting an event with a pun about boobs in the title.

Fraternities in general don’t exactly hold the moral high ground on gender-related issues so I empathize with those offended and ultimately agree the name should have been changed. But if it had been the Women’s Resource Center making the pun, I’d imagine the reaction would have been somewhat different.

CRITERION II: The butt of the joke must be society and not victims of oppression. The audience has to laugh at how terrible the racists or sexists are, and not actually at those people affected. A recent successful example of this was John Hodgman on Wednesday’s episode of The Daily Show, in which he talks about “a lazy moocher normal [who] doesn’t get a job because they know they’re going to get welfare or goes on a reckless leukemia spree because ‘Hey, Obamacare’s got it covered.’” Here, the object of derision is not people who are on welfare or have leukemia, but rather those that have similar views as Hodgman’s character. After the Daniel Tosh rape joke scandal this summer, Jezebel published a wonderful article you should all read that outlines this point as it pertains to rape jokes: They are acceptable only if the joke mocks rape culture and not its victims. In other terms, it’s not okay to make a racist joke; it’s okay to make a joke that makes fun of racists.

I think Seth MacFarlane’s “We Saw Your Boobs” song at the Oscars tried, but did a poor job, striking this Carrot Top tone.

If it had been blaConfessions tantly obvious that it was an attempt to make MacFarlane himself seem like a tasteless immature idiot and commentate on society’s objectification of women, it would have been a lot less problematic. Instead, William Shatner’s disapproval felt more like an afterthought included to placate those who might be offended.

Julia Moser

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CRITERION III: The joke must be funny. People who say that rape jokes are never funny are wrong. Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K., John Mulaney and other comedians have hilarious rape jokes and I argue that they are not offensive because they meet the first two criteria in addition to being clever and funny: i.e.

Louis C.K.’s “I’m not condoning rape, obviously — you should never rape anyone. Unless you have a reason, like if you want to fuck somebody and they won’t let you.” I think Daniel Tosh received so much flak partially was because his rape joke was lazy and just not very good (besides failing to meet Criterion II.) The same can be said for The Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet, calling her a cunt. Everyone knows The Onion is not serious, so it meets Criterion I, but it was not clear the victim of the joke wasn’t adorable Quvenzhané herself and the joke wasn’t very funny to begin with.

I love a good joke as much as the next fellow, but there is a line between joke and insult. One purpose of comedy is to show us unpleasant truths about the world, especially by talking about issues like race and gender. There are successful examples of comedians who do this all over the place (one is W. Kamau Bell who will be talking about race in society in a comical way for free on Wednesday night). But jokes are unsuccessful when there’s doubt about the perpetrator of the joke’s position, when they make fun of helpless victims of marginalization and when they’re just not good.

I will conclude with a joke that nobody should find offensive because it meets all of my criteria: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? Hey, that’s not funny!

Julia Moser is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Immormino, Sims Shatter School Records

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record with a time of 49.77 seconds, which shattered the previous time of just over 51 seconds, set in 2008. Immormino finished third overall, earning herself a Bronze medal. Additionally, senior Ali Guba also broke the previously held school record with a time of 51.22 in the finals and 51.15 in the preliminaries, which gave her the second fastest time in school history.

“We set a lot of school records and we swam really fast,” said sophomore Katie Morin. “We kept fighting, even though we weren’t at the top of the pack.”

Freshman Dani Sims also set the new school record in the 200-meter back stroke preliminaries with a time of 2:01.02. Overall, she finished in 16th place. The next impressive finish for the Red came during the 400-meter free relay. Made up of senior Ali Guba, freshman Jenna Immormino, Junior Kelsey Rossi and freshman Jennifer Zhang, this relay team set yet another school record, bringing the overall record time down over half a second.

Although the Red shattered numerous school records, the other swimmers in the Ivy League were equally impressive, giving the Red some tough match-ups.

“The league seemed to step it up this year as a whole and the times that were being posted by girls were shattering league records,” Morin said.

However, according to Morin, the increased level of competition in the Ancient Eight this year pushed the Red swimmers to perform at a higher level.

“It’s a great thing because it challenges each school to bring the best that they had and keep pushing,” she said. “I think that’s what we did; we fought through each session.”

The particularly fast times at this year’s Ivy Championships were unexpected according to Morin, but they were also indicative of the fact that competition in Ancient Eight swimming is on the rise.

“You don’t expect girls to be going as fast as they did in the Ivy League,” she said. “Girls were going and beating some of the top times in the nation this year. You don’t expect that. People are starting to realize that the end result of a diploma from a wellrecognized school is what employers are after, and that just brought more talent to our league this year.”

Though Cornell finished in the last spot, the Red’s solid individual performances from some of its younger swimmers shows promise for the future.

Next up for the Red will be the NCAA Regional Diving Qualifiers in Piscataway, N.J. beginning on Mar. 11.

John Mcgrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

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Senior infielder Brenton Peters hit an RBI double that was part of the Red’s rally inning in a 6-2 win on Sunday in Maryland.

Burke’s Steal Lifts Michigan Over Rival ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A 10-point lead had slipped away in the final minutes, and it looked like the best Trey Burke and Michigan could hope for was another chance in overtime.

Then the star point guard decided to gamble, reaching in and knocking the ball away from Michigan State’s Keith Appling with the game on the line.

“I take my eyes off it for a second to see their formation, and there’s Trey going down the other end,” Wolverines coach John Beilein said.

Burke’s steal and dunk put Michigan ahead by two with 22 seconds remaining, and the fourth-ranked Wolverines held on for a pulsating 5857 win over No. 9 Michigan State on Sunday. Burke had 21 points and eight assists, and he had enough energy left down the stretch to help Michigan to a much-needed victory.

The Wolverines avenged a 75-52 loss at Michigan State last month — and they rebounded from Wednesday night’s stunning defeat at Penn State with an inspired performance at home.

The Spartans (22-7, 11-5 Big Ten) had the ball with the shot clock off and the score 56-all, but Burke stole the ball from Appling near midcourt and went in alone for the game’s last field

goal.

“I really wasn’t pressuring him as hard as I felt like I could, the whole game,” Burke said. "I tried to turn him as many times as possible. The one time I did turn him, he kept the ball out, so I just went after it. If I was going to miss it, then I was going to be out of the play.”

Instead, he ended up with a dunk, giving Michigan (24-5, 11-5) the lead.

Michigan State's Derrick Nix was fouled with 8.8 seconds left, but he missed the first free throw. After he made the second, the Spartans fouled Michigan freshman Mitch McGary, who missed the front end of a 1-and-1.

Michigan State called a timeout with 4.9 seconds left but never got a shot off. Burke stole a pass by Gary Harris to end the game.

The Michigan State loss clinched at least a share of the Big Ten title for Indiana.

It was exactly the type of game it didn’t seem like Michigan could win.

The Wolverines shot 0-for-12 from 3point range and were left to slug it out inside with the physical Spartans.

Michigan State had 19 offensive rebounds, but the Spartans also turned the ball over 18 times.

“They’ve got a good team,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said.

“We did some real good things, but unfortunately, 'good' isn’t good enough in this league.”

Maligned for weeks because of shaky defense, Michigan was more disruptive Sunday.

“Today it was all about grit,” Beilein said. “We just had to get a win, especially after our Wednesday night disappointment.”

Michigan trailed 31-28 at halftime but shut down Michigan State for extended stretches and eventually took a 52-42 lead when Burke made two free throws with 4:36 to play.

The Spartans rallied, tying it at 56 when Appling made two free throws with 54.8 seconds remaining. After McGary stepped on the baseline, the Spartans had a chance to hold for the last shot — but Appling lost the ball to Burke before Michigan State could even get a play going. “‘I’m going to be kicking myself over that for as long as I’m playing basketball that I let that happen,” Appling said. “I should’ve been more aware. I kind of looked to Coach Izzo to see if he wanted me to call time out, I turned my head and took my eye off things.”

The Spartans have lost three straight — to Indiana, Ohio State and Michigan — and their tough stretch isn’t over. They face Wisconsin next.

MEN’S SQUASH

Todd Advances to Finals of Consolation Bracket at Individual Championships

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Smack that | Sophomore Ryan Todd was the last Red compeitor standing in the National Individual Championships this weekend. He was defeated in the finals of the consolation bracket.

Sophomore men’s squash player Ryan Todd was the only Red competitor to remain in the race for an Individual Championship after the second day of play this Saturday. He advanced to the consolation semifinals of the men’s B draw bracket in the National Individual Championships held at Trinity College.

Todd reached the consolation semifinals after defeating Middlebury’s Parker Hurst in three sets in the first round on Saturday. He then came away with a victory over Navy’s Jim Kacergis, boosting him

into the semifinal round.

There, he went on to defeat St. Lawrence’s Kyle Ogilvy to advance to the finals of the consolation bracket, pitting him against Trinity’s Zeyad Elshorfy — the No. 4 seed. After Todd took the first set 11-7, the host team’s competitor fought back to win the next three and complete Todd’s run for an individual title.

To read more about the complete results of the other eight Red men and women who competed, check out tomorrow’s paper.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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James’29 Carries Heat Over Knicks NEW YORK (AP) — LeBron James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and the Miami Heat tied a franchise record with their 14th straight victory, rallying to beat the New York Knicks 9993 on Sunday.

Dwyane Wade added 20 points for the Heat, who had to overcome a 16-point deficit to beat the Knicks for the first time in three tries this season. Chris Bosh bounced back from a dismal first half to finish with 16 points.

The defending NBA champions won their sixth straight on the road by controlling the final minutes against a team that had a pair of 20-point victories over them this season and looked ready to run them out of the building again.

But James shook off a third-quarter leg injury and was back in top form by the finish, putting it away by coming up with a steal and throwing down a dunk with 23 seconds left.

Carmelo Anthony scored 32 points for the Knicks, who had their three-game winning streak snapped.

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First Female Tryout Makes NFL History

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Lauren Silberman lined up for a kick at NFL history, took a deep breath and booted the football.

It barely went anywhere, traveling 19 yards, and she grabbed at her right leg.

Still, it was good enough to make her the first woman to try out at a regional combine, even if her day lasted all of two kicks.

With the 36 other kickers — all male — a handful of scouts and more than two dozen media watching in complete silence at the New York Jets’ practice facility, Silberman struggled for about 20 seconds to place the football on the tee before measuring her steps and then trying that second kick.

This one went only about 13 yards.

She then asked to see a trainer and left the practice field after injuring her quadriceps, and appeared to be slightly favoring her right leg.

“They certainly didn’t go as far as they were in practices,” Silberman said, “But I tried to work through the pain.”

The 28-year-old Silberman said she hurt her quadriceps while preparing for the tryout earlier in the week, and attributed her struggles to that.

“I tried staying off it and waited for today,” she said. “I didn't even take kicks in warm-ups, and, it’s pretty hard to know that you’ll be in pain, and I wanted to work through it and I certainly tried to, but I just couldn’t do it today.”

Silberman, a former club soccer player at Wisconsin and exgraduate student at MIT, appeared frustrated she couldn’t complete her tryout.

“I’ve always been an athlete, and I’ve always been a gamer,” she said while fighting back tears. “When I had the opportunity to be in the NFL, one of the world’s most competitive leagues, I absolutely had to take the chance.”

While some fans on Twitter have praised her for breaking through in a male-dominated sport, others wondered if this was just a mere publicity stunt. Regardless, the NFL got plenty of publicity on a Sunday in March for one of its regional combines — something that normally is ignored by most media.

“I’m just really happy I had this amazing experience,” Silberman said. “I might be the first woman trying out for the NFL, but I certainly hope I’m not the last.”

While she never kicked a football in a competitive game, the NFL said Silberman qualified for the regional combine because of her athletic background.

“Our job is to evaluate talent and not leave any stone unturned,” said Stephen Austin, the NFL’s director of regional combines. “We want young, athletic people who have played a sport, typically in college or military or small schools.”

The regional combines debuted in 2011, and include players who weren’t among the 333 invited to the main combine in Indianapolis. The NFL is holding these sessions in 10 cities this offseason, with the most impressive players advancing to a superregional in April in Dallas.

Silberman paid a registration fee — about $275 — and just needed to show up Sunday and take her best shot at impressing scouts.

“Until they get here, we don’t have any idea of what they’re really going to turn out to do and how they’re going to perform," Austin said.

When asked if he could evaluate Silberman’s performance, Austin said: “That evaluation is completely incomplete.”

Silberman waited outside the facility around noon with all the other kickers, whose names were read off alphabetically as they entered the indoor practice field. Each participant was then given time to warm up before being broken into groups to attempt three kickoffs and then a set of five field goals, the first starting from 35 yards all the way up to 55 yards.

The 5-foot-6 Silberman, with her long brown hair pulled into a ponytail, jogged up and down the sideline during warm-ups, trying to get loose as photographers and camera crews from the likes of E! Entertainment network followed her every move.

By the time her group was called, nearly 3 hours after she arrived, Silberman — wearing a black T-shirt with her player tag No. 68 on the back and white socks pulled up to her knees — stretched her legs, did some push-ups and a few sit-ups. She then chatted a bit with Sonny Powell, another former soccer player from Charlotte, as she waited for her turn to kick.

“In talking to some of the other guys out here, I don’t think her being a girl had anything to do with it,” Powell said. “We’re all playing for a job here and everybody’s nerves were going crazy.”

Silberman’s goal was to try a 60-yard field goal. That thought was squashed just minutes into her tryout.

“You know, the distance wasn’t there, but hopefully the scouts will notice my technique,” she said. “It’s not always length.”

Silberman, who spoke for just 3 minutes after the tryout, insisted she can “do more” and “it’s too bad that this happened.”

She called the scene “surreal,” adding that she “did the right thing for my body” by not continuing and anticipates trying to kick again in the future — possibly at another regional combine next year.

Silberman left the complex soon after that.

“I would certainly be very, very excited and happy if I had the opportunity to try again,” she said, “But it’s not up to me. It’s up to the scouts.”

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we had to do a better job to keep those big guys off the glass.”

The absence of 6’7” sophomore forward Shonn Miller certainly contributed to the Red’s struggles in the paint. Miller leads the team in rebounding and has been the main force inside the key this season.

“It’s always tough when you’re missing guys, but I think we know that as a team, regardless of who can play, we have to do our best collectively to pick

up for those guys,” Chemerinski said. “We have to play as much as a team as possible and still compete as hard as we can.”

The Red also played without sophomore Devin Cherry, and senior Johnny Gray was sidelined for the second weekend in a row. Both guards, the loss of Cherry and Gray was a significant hit to the backcourt, and Brown’s shooters were able to get more open looks from beyond the arc as a result.

“They did a good job executing their offense and they are at their best when they can pass the ball around and get open

looks for three,” Chemerinski said. “We played best when we were speeding them up and disrupting the flow of their offense, not letting them sit back.”

The Bears connected on 13 three-pointers, six of them coming from the hands of Tucker Halpern — who scored 22 points in the game. Senior Matt Sullivan contributed three more triples.

The following night, Cornell honored its six seniors — Chemerinski, forward Errick Peck, forward Peter McMillan, guard Miles Asafo-Adjei, Gray, and forward Josh Figini —

before the game. However, the ceremony could not light a fire under the Red, and the squad came out slow once again. With

Chemerinski said. “Later in the game, we were able to pick up our defensive intensity and that got us back in the game.”

“It’s always tough when you’re missing guys, but...we have to do our best to pick up for those guys.”

Eitan Chemerinski six minutes left in the first half, the squad trailed 31-14.

“They were hitting their shots and doing a good job attacking the basket and kicking the ball out for some threes,”

Matt Townsend led the way for the Bulldogs with 19 points and Austin Morgan chipped in 15. The Red headed into the locker room down by 14, but was able to pick up the tempo in the second half. Eight minutes into the half, a three-pointer by freshman guard Nolan Cressler cut the lead to five. Yale’s Brandon Sharrod nailed a jumper on the other end, but Peck answered with another three. However, that was as close as the Red would get as the Bulldogs took control of the game and pulled away for a 7970 win.

One highlight for the Red was the play of sophomore Deion Giddens, who played a season-high 24 minutes, scoring three points and grabbing a career-high nine boards — six of them offensive. Without Miller to look to, Giddens gave the Red another presence in the paint, also blocking three shots. “[Deion] is a really good shot blocker and I think he’s really disruptive defensively; those are his strengths,” Chemerinski said. “I think it goes to show [that] everyone on our team is talented and everyone is ready to contribute when they go in the game.”

For the Red’s seniors, the weekend ended on a bittersweet note with two losses. However, the five seniors who were able to play all scored in their final game in front of Newman nation. Peck led the way with 19 points and Asafo-Adjei put up nine. McMillan drilled a three from the top of the key and Figini and Chemerinski both chipped in two points, while Chemerinski also grabbed nine boards.

“I feel very lucky to have been able to play here for four years,” Chemerinski said. “It’s been great to be part of this program. It’s definitely sad to have played my last game, but I look back and I’ve had a lot of great memories at Newman Arena.”

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

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MEN’S HOCKEY

After Weekend Split,Icers Just Shy of Playoff Home Ice

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

A season of near misses continued this weekend for the Cornell men’s icers, as the Red moved up in the ECAC standings, but came up just shy of claiming home ice for the opening round of the conference tournament.

The Red (12-14-3, 8-11-3 ECAC) finished out the regular season with a big 4-1 victory over Brown (11-126, 7-9-6) on Friday and a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat at No. 14/15 Yale (16-10-3, 12-9-1) on Saturday. Entering the weekend 10th in the ECAC standings, the Red jumped past Clarkson, but will still be on the road when the con-

ference playoffs begin this weekend. Princeton (10-14-5, 8-10-4) will host Cornell in a best-of-three series beginning Friday.

What had been a five-game unbeaten streak ended for the Red in Providence, R.I. on Friday. Led by senior forward Greg Miller — ECAC Player of the Week — and junior goaltender Andy Iles — ECAC Goaltender of the Week — the Red battled on both sides of the ice for a complete game effort. The squad took an early lead midway through the first, as Miller assisted freshman forward Christian Hilbrich for Hilbrich’s first collegiate goal. Not long after, sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan showcased his ability to generate pressure on the other end by

moving the puck in transition and passing to junior forward Dustin Mowrey, who scored to extend the lead to 20.

Brown outshot the Red in the second period by a 12-6 margin, but the scoreboard didn’t indicate it as senior forward and tri-captain Braden Birch added to the Cornell lead. After trading goals CORNELL in the final period, the 4 Red left the ice of BROWN 1 Meehan Auditorium Game: 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot with a 4-1 creaming of Cornell 2 4 1 1 the Bears — highlighted Brown 0 1 1 0

by Andy Iles’ 31 saves CORNELL while going head-to1 head against his former YALE 2 Salisbury School hockey Game: 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot teammate Anthony Cornell 1 1 0 1 Borelli.

Yale 1 2 1 0 Excitement turned to disappointment for the Red in New Haven. Having jumped into the top seven of the ECAC standings and poised to claim home ice after beating Brown, Cornell was subdued by the Bulldogs and more third-period misfortune in a frustrating 2-1 defeat on Saturday evening.

Junior forward Kenny Agostino gave Yale an early 1-0 lead to excite the crowd on the Bulldogs’ Senior Night.

The Red responded with a goal by sophomore forward Joel Lowry — giving Miller his third assist of the weekend — but Yale struck back in the third during a power play opportunity. The Red had several near misses from close range and outshot the Bulldogs 14-7 in the third period, but three pucks hit the post and Cornell eventually fell 21 in what became the exclamation mark for a season of close defeats.

With Brown and Princeton pulling out wins on Saturday, the Red dropped to ninth position and will be the top-seeded team playing on the road this weekend.

Boasting a 4-1-1 record over the final six games of the year, the Red will look to make a splash in the ECAC Tournament and avenge two earlier losses to the eighthseeded Tigers when traveling to Princeton this weekend.

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On to the next one | Freshman forward Christian Hilbrich scored his first collegiate goal off an assist by senior forward Greg Miller, giving the Red an early lead in the first period against Brown.

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Jenner Named Ivy Player of the Year On Thursday, women’s hockey junior forward Brianne Jenner was named the Ivy League’s Player of the Year.

The award comes after Jenner completed the regular season as a steadfast leader of the Red offense, which won the Ivy League and ECAC outright. Jenner leads her team and all of the ECAC with 55 points this season on 28 goals and 27 total assists. She has scored six points in a game twice so far this season, and also sported a 13-game point-scoring streak midway through the season.

She is the fourth consecutive Ivy League Player of the Year for the Red, following her former teammate Rebecca Johnston ’12 and current teammate Laura Fortino — who won the award in

2011.

Jenner followed up this announcement with two big games this weekend in the ECAC quarterfinals against Colgate. She totaled four goals, netting the game-winner in both of the one-goal victories for the Red. Senior defenseman Lauriane Rougeau was also recognized by the league, as she was named to the All-Ivy first team. Junior goalie Lauren Slebodnick and Fortino were added to the conference’s second-team, and senior forward Erin Barley-Maloney and junior defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi picked up honorable mentions.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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Jenn-tle giant | Junior forward Brianne Jenner was named Ivy League Player of the Year after leading the league with 55 points in the regular season.

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

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ful on special teams, both the power play and the penalty kill, is crucial for our success.”

The Red came back to tie the game at three midway through the third, but Colgate retook the lead on another power play goal.

With under a minute left to play, sophomore forward Monica Leck banged home a rebound to tie the game again. Just 39 seconds into sudden-death overtime, junior forward Brianne Jenner’s rebound through traffic found the back of the net — it was her third goal of the game as well as the gamewinner.

In Saturday’s contest, the Red was stuck in a 2-0 deficit heading into the third period.

“From the day before when we fell behind and came back, we knew that we’re a team that can score goals, and we were creating opportunities, so we thought that if we just kept putting pucks on net, they would start to go in,” Derraugh said.

“We got a big goal in the first minute of the third, which was huge for us from a confidence and energy standpoint, and that helped us gain momentum throughout the period.”

In a Deja-vu of Friday’s game, senior defenseman Lauriane Rougeau tied the

game on a slapshot from the point with just under a minute to go. This time, however, the game never reached overtime. With time ticking down, Jenner chased down a puck behind the net and quickly took a shot. The puck found the back of the net with just one second left on the clock.

“Emily Fulton was backchecking hard through the middle of the ice and she

NCAA.” Saulnier added that her teammate’s performance this weekend is indicative of what she can do for the rest of the season.

“Her actions say it all,” Saulnier said. “She’s just phenomenal and is doing wonders for this team. Her skill is just a step above, and I’m sure she’ll continue to bring it for the rest of the season. She always challenges herself to

“We thought that if we just kept putting pucks on net, they would start to go in.”

Doug Derraugh threw towards their net,” Derraugh said. “Brianne got in on the forecheck, picked the pocket of the defenseman and made a quick move, and I think she realized there wasn’t much time left and threw it to the net. The goaltender wasn’t quite expecting it, and Brianne put it right between her legs and won the game for us.”

With this buzzer beater, Jenner completed a remarkable weekend, with 4 goals and at least an assist on every Cornell goal in both games.

“It was an incredible weekend for her,” Derraugh said. “She can do it in so many ways, she has great hands, great shot. What more is there to say about her? She’s one of the best players in the

get better which makes the rest of us better, and she’s just a pure talent.”

According to Saulnier, these wins proved that the Red is never truly out of contention and can be successful if it doesn’t give up.

“It’s pretty crazy that in both of those games, we only led for one second, and it proves that it’s really important that if you do get down, you keep your head up,” she said. “We were very motivated and just continued to play our game, tried to keep our composure, and continued to bring it to them, and fortunately we came out with the wins.”

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

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Come From Behind Wins Send C.U. to Semis Jenner nets two game-winners to carry the Red over Colgate

By BENJAMIN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The No. 2 ranked Cornell Women’s hockey team (25-51, 18-3-1 ECAC) won the ECAC regular season title and began playoff competition with a best-of-three series against Colgate (11-21-3, 6-13-3) this weekend at Lynah Rink.

With two thrilling comeback wins, the Red swept the Raiders in consecutive games and now moves on to the semifinals, which will be held at Lynah Rink next weekend.

Cornell scored in overtime to win Friday’s game, 5-4, and won Saturday’s contest on a last- second regulation goal, 32. According to sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier, the wins were exciting for everyone involved and were products of the

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team’s persistent attitude.

“Whoever said miracles can’t happen is wrong after what we did the past two days,” she said. “That was amazing. My adrenaline was through the roof because that was an amazing thing to watch. It shows the character of the players on our team, and our never-give-up attitude.”

The passionate support of the Lynah faithful also helped lead the Red to victory, according to Saulnier.

“The fans were unbelievable and never let us down. It’s incredible to play in your own rink, and the atmosphere that they continue to bring for us is a huge part of our success and hopefully will continue to do so as long as we’re at home,” she said.

COLGATE The Red overcame 4 deficits to win both CORNELL 5 games. On Friday, Game: 1ST 2nd 3RD OT Tot Colgate held a 3-1 lead in Colgate 1 1 2 0 4 the third period after pro- Cornell 0 1 3 1 5 ducing two power play goals early in the game.

COLGATE 2 Head coach Doug CORNELL 3 Derraugh said this was Game: 1 ST Tot 3 RD 2nd because the Red wasn’t 2 0 0 careful in avoiding penal- Colgate 2 0 Cornell 3 3 0 ties, and the Raiders were able to capitalize on those mistakes.

“I watched some of it on tape and I didn’t like how many penalties we took,” he said. “We did a decent job on the penalty kill, but Colgate got us out of position and running around a little bit and converted on it. So we’re going to have to work on that this week.”

Saulnier added that avoiding penalties and executing in all special-teams play is essential for winning in the playoffs.

“Our discipline is something that we’ll need to work on this week and be spot-on with next week,” she said. “We need to make sure not to make stupid penalties because that can make or break a game. Making sure that we’re success-

Baby come back | Senior forward Erin Barley-Maloney’s goal in the third period put the Red within one score of Colgate, giving the squad an opportunity to complete the comeback in overtime.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Senior Weekend Ends in Defeat

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Take a lap | The Red’s total of 576 points was the fourth most overall team points ever scored by Cornell at the Ivy League Championships.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING

Red Breaks Six School Records, Finishes Eighth at Ivy Champs

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Ivy League Championship at Princeton University. The Red completed a recordbreaking performance at Denunzio Pool, shattering six Cornell school-wide records. As a team, the Red placed eighth overall with a team total of 576 points.

This is the fourth most overall team points scored at the Ivy League Championships by any of Cornell’s women’s swimming and diving teams in the past.

With freshman Jenna Immormino leading the way, the Red was able to substantially break previously lofty school records. Immormino set a new school See W. SWIMMING page 19

With a depleted roster plagued by injury, the men’s basketball team dropped two more home games on senior weekend. On Friday against Brown (6-6, 1214 Ivy League), the Red could not stifle the Bears’ hot shooting, falling 84-65.

The following night, after honoring its seniors at midcourt, the squad struggled in an uphill battle and was unable to fight all the way back from Yale’s (6-6, 12-17) 17-point lead in the first half.

With only two road games left, the Red leaves Newman Arena for good with a disappointing 4-10 record at home.

Perennially a solid team in Ithaca — Cornell was 10-3 at Newman last year — the Red has reversed its fortunes, recording twice as many wins on the road this season.

“I don’t think there’s anything particular we’ve done better on the road, sometimes it’s just how the matchups have turned out and the way the games have been played,” said senior forward Eitan Chemerinski.

Brown arrived in Ithaca coming off a narrow victory over Dartmouth — a team Cornell beat handily at home — but the Bears’ frontcourt stepped up against the Red on Friday. Forwards Rafael Maia and Cedric Kuakumensah combined for 20 rebounds. Seven of Maia’s 13 boards came on the offensive

end, which gave the Bears countless second-chance opportunities.

“It’s always a goal to really come up with loose balls around the basket,” Chemerinski said. “I think when all five of us on the floor are crashing, that usually is when we are at our best, but I think See M. B-BALL page 22

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The last stand | Senior forward Errick Peck scored 19 points in his final game playing at Newman Arena.