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Whyte charged with 2010 killing; case postponed

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the West Village apartments, later in the day.

Whyte was remanded at Tompkins Wavering witnesses. A mysterious County Jail and charged with two knife. Conflicting testimony. A missing counts of second-degree murder, one gun. count of first-degree robbery and one Little seems clear in the murder trial count of tampering with physical eviof Corbin D. Whyte, which was post- dence. He has pleaded not guilty to all poned by the case’s presiding judge on three counts.

Thursday. Whyte is charged with the Through 13 months of legal jostling, murder of Paul Garcia, yet uncertainty the defense has petitioned the court to has cast a cloud of confusion over the dismiss Whyte’s indictment, arguing proceedings. that the prosecution possesses no On Dec. 7, 2010, police found “prima facie” evidence — information Garcia’s body in the parking lot outside that could be used to prove a particular of his residence at Maplewood fact — pointing to Whyte’s involveApartments, ment in the about three “It was only a couple minutes later murder. The quarters of a defense also mile north of ... probably less than a minute, I maintains that c e n t r a l heard two or three pops, which I the prosecuCollegetown, tion lacks a with a bullet believe was gunfire.” coherent theohole through ry of criminal Giselle Mojica the side of his l i a b i l i t y, body, accordaccording to ing to court documents. motions filed by the defense.

Interviews with Giselle Mojica, Central to the trial is the testimony Garcia’s girlfriend, and police investiga- of Zsatia Perkins — Whyte’s girlfriend tions indicated that an argument who reportedly spent much of the early between Whyte and Garcia occured in morning of Dec. 7 with him — which the hours before the killing, which conflicted the results of police investigareportedly occurred at 1:53 a.m., tions, court documents show. motions filed in the case state. Police According to motions filed in the arrested Whyte, who spent that night at the home of his girlfriend’s mother in See WHYTE page 6

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News Green Makes Green

A hotel school study finds that environmentally sustainable hotels bring in more revenue than competitors. | Page 3

Opinion Party for a Cause?

Sean Donegan ’12 argues that Filthy/Gorges is really a party — not a charity event. | Page 8

Arts Size Matters

The Sun reviews a recentlyreleased Israeli comedy film about sumo wrestling, A Matter of Size. | Page 11

Sports Homeward Bound

Men’s hockey returns to Lynah Rink after a week off to face Dartmouth in the ECAC quarterfinals. | Page 20

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In preparation for Dragon Day next week, the Phoenix Society hangs paper phoenixes in Rand Hall on Thursday. Dragon Day is held the day before spring break starts.

S.A.Revises Funding Process For Minority Student Groups

By EMMA COURT Sun Staff Writer

Black, Asian, Native American and Latino student groups will now receive Student Assembly funding under a new system in an effort to increase inter- and intra-cultural programming, the S.A. decided on Thursday.

The S.A. unanimously approved the establishment of the Umbrella Programming Fund — a subgroup of the African Latino Asian Native American Students Programming Board — to streamline the allocation of funds to the

organizations that fall under ALANA. Under the current system, ALANA, which receives byline funding, divides and distributes its funds directly to four major umbrella organizations — Black Students United, the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union, Native American Students at Cornell and La Asociación Latina — the same way it does for the other, smaller groups it funds. ALANA also reserves some of its funding for its own intercultural programming, according to Adam See ALANA page 4

Students: Do Not Reduce Length Of Senior Week

Following Fire, C-Town’s Miyake Will Be Closed for Several Months

By ERIN ELLIS Sun Staff Writer

By DAN TEMEL Sun Staff Writer

Popular Collegetown restaurant Miyake will be closed indefinitely after a fire at the restaurant early Wednesday morning caused significant damage to the restaurant’s kitchen, according to the Ithaca Fire Department.

The owners of Miyake, a Japanese eatery on Eddy Street known for its rowdy sake bombing specials and friendly accommodations for large groups, said they hoped to reopen the restaurant’s doors by the end of the semester.

“We have to go through the insurance company and it will not be quick to rebuild. It takes a process and we can’t start construction right away so it will be two or three months maximum,” said Dennis Lee, speaking on behalf of his parents who own the restaurant.

See MIYAKE page 7

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Apartments ablaze | Firefighters responded to a call at Miyake at 1:11 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

Students slammed a proposal to shorten Senior Week that was included in a set of recommended changes to the University’s academic calendar.

According to Matt Koren ’12, cochair of the Senior Week Committee, many said they feel short-changed by what he called the “blatantly obvious flaws” in the committee’s suggested alteration of Senior Week.

The University’s Calendar Committee, established in 2010 as a coalition of faculty, students and staff to revise the academic calendar and address student mental health, has proposed reducing Senior Week — the period between the end of spring semester exams and commencement devoted to celebrating graduating seniors — from one week to four days.

The proposal to condense Senior See CALENDAR page 5

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Today Detention for ‘Gentlemanly’ Terrorists: Political Prisoners in Interwar India 12:15 - 1:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall A Conversation About Fracking 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Saperston Student Lounge, Myron Taylor Hall Chemistry Department: Bagel Minute Reception 4:10 - 4:40 p.m., 120 Physical Sciences Building Focus on Indigenous Peoples: Paul Chaat Smith 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall Beauty to Understanding: A Photo Show to Support Student Expeditions in Ornithology 5 - 8 p.m., Second Floor Gallery, Mann Library

Tomorrow Womens Lacrosse Match 1 p.m., Schoellkopf Field Dinosaur Train Nature Trackers 1 p.m., Cornell Plantations, Nevin Welcome Center In Conversation With Timothy Murray and William Forsythe 3 - 4 p.m., Millstein Hall Rhythm of Life Annual Charity Concert 8 - 10 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium

News, “After Skorton’s Vow, Cornell Rethinks Pledging,” Wednesday Speaking about the University task force, RARE, and its efforts to transform the pledge process “You won’t find a single chapter president who doesn’t agree that, above all else, people need to be kept safe. Ultimately, our chapters will understand how necessary it is to adapt. We have a very valuable and strong Greek system, and I think our members will not let that falter.”

Mickey Katz ’13 Science, “Prof. Fred Schneider ’75 Protects the Web from Hack Attacks,” Wednesday Speaking about the necessity to protect computer systems “If an attack takes out the computer system in Wall Street during a trading day, then not only might trades stop being registered, but people are likely to panic and start selling; now the attack causes a small economic collapse.”

Prof. Fred Schneider, computer sciences

Opinion, “It’s Complicated: Facebook and Our Sex Lives,” Thursday Speaking about unpaid summer internships Think about when you have a crush on someone you’ve actually met. You Facebook friend them, then inevitably you work your way through at least the profile pictures. Maybe scroll down their wall a little bit. Might as well check out their music taste. How about their TV shows? Wow they like Arrested Development too? Soul mates!

Morgan T. ’13

News, “Cornell Law School Responds to Grad’s Fears of Debt,” Tuesday Speaking about the hiring prospects of law school graduates “If you can’t secure a high enough paying position to service your loans, it will be extremely problematic.

Law hiring is a bit of a weird beast. It’s based almost entirely on grades.”

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Prof Argues Eco-Friendly Hotels Reduce Waste, Are More Profitable

By LAUREN AVERY

mental certification, your performance is so far better than everybody else,” Verma said.

Students in the hotel school said that the study also showed another benefit of going green; certified hotels experienced improvement not just in profit, but in net sales as well, they said.

“What was really exciting to me about this study was that the study actually showed improvement in net sales, which has nothing to do with how much you’re saving, but rather how

pushing itself forward,” said Timothy Chen ’13, a member of the Cornell Hotel Research Hotels that are certified as Analytics club. “I think that one environmentally sustainable of the many reasons why it is appear to be more profitable starting to head in that direction than hotels that are not, sugis because of consumer demand. gests a new study released by the It’s a for-profit industry and so Center of Hospitality Research it responds to consumers and in the School of Hotel their needs and wants.”

Administration.

Verma agreed, saying that Prof. Rohit Verma, service popular travel websites have also operations management, along reported a push for lodging that with co-authors Marival is environmentally friendly.

Segarra-Oña and Angel Peiró“If you go to Signes of the Polytechnic Travelocity.com, they actually University of Valencia in have a green leaf next Spain, studied 2,082 “The cost of infrastructure is going up, to the hotel if it is Spanish hotels given at sustainable,” Verma least a three-star rating. so actually there is a lot of evidence said. “If everything is The hotels that had that says if you are sustainable, you are equal, like the level received high scores from reducing waste.” of hotel, the location International the and the price, people Organization of Prof. Rohit Verma are about 50 to 60 were Standardization percent more likely found to have greater net sales much people are paying for the to book a hotel that has a green and profit than hotels without room,” said Lucy Zheng ’13, leaf.” it.

The growing importance of president of the Cornell Hotel Verma, who is also the execu- Research Analytics club. “A lot environmental management in tive director of the Center of of customers have said that they the hospitality industry is eviHospitality Research, said that are willing to pay more money dent at the hotel school, where this result overturns the percep- for rooms that are better for the new faculty members were hired tion that making hotels eco- environment. ... You’re not just last year to teach classes about friendly is cost-inefficient. going green to be a good person, the connections between sus“The cost of energy is going but it is also helping you make tainability, design and economup, the cost of infrastructure is money, so it’s a win-win.” ics, Verma said. going up, so actually there is a According to Zheng, the Some students said the recent lot of evidence that says that if demand for sustainable hotels Statler Hotel has taken measures you are sustainable, you are appears to be caused by growing to reduce its own water and reducing waste,” he said. “You awareness about humans’ effect energy consumption, including actually make more money by on the environment. This reusing linens, installing autobeing more sustainable.” impact is especially strong in the matic hand faucets and toilets, According to the study, this tourism industry, which using compostable paper towers result held true regardless of the requires a huge amount of and composting food. The location or size of the hotel.

Statler has also become a place resources to maintain.

“Whether you are in a city “The hospitality industry has to research the effects of sustainlocation or a rural or beach loca- lagged behind most all other ability on business. tion, whether you are a large industries when we look at envi“We did a study last year at hotel or a small hotel, in all of ronmental performance, so in a these cases, if you have environ- way i’ts good that it’s finally See HOTEL page 4 Sun Contributor

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Police Arrest Two Males Suspected of Larceny At 3:19 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, Cornell University police officers detained two male subjects outside of Baker Lab during the course of a larceny investigation, according to Deputy Chief of CUPD Dave Honan.

One subject was a minor and the other was 17 years old, according to the police report.

The minor was turned over to his mother and the 17-year-old was charged with criminal possession of stolen property in the 4th degree. He was being held at the Tompkins County Jail in lieu of cash bail, as of Thursday night, Honan said.

The subjects reportedly stole “a wallet and its contents,” earlier Thursday from Helen Newman Hall, according to CUPD Chief Kathy Zoner.

Due to the ages of the subjects, their names can not be released.

Zoner said that she believed “this arrest will greatly reduce our latest string of larcenies on campus.

“We recently put out an alert that we had seen a string of larcenies throughout the campus and we feel pretty good that this will interrupt that string,” Zoner said.

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CUPD Officers arrested two male subjects outside of Baker Lab on Wednesday. The men were accused of stealing a wallet.

Kraft Foods CEO Gives Business Advice Where will 99 percent of students go now that a fire has caused Miyake to close indefinitely? Oh the agony ...

“Plum Tree — it’s literally a block away.”

— Snarky Sake Bomber ’13 “Maybe the Occupy protests can finally get going again?”

— Overzelous Protestor ’13 “They’ll have to get take-out and drink at home. Oh wait, I already do that ... #awkward.”

— Harujuku Hermit ’13 “We’re going to Pixel!”

— Sake Bombing Super Bowl MVP ’14 “Japan. It will probably take less time to go there, get sushi and come back then it will to go to Plum Tree.”

— Bitter Bon Voyage ’13 “Ask Zach Zahos ’15.”

— Japanese Profanities ’14 — Compiled by Harrison Okin

immediately commanded the attention of the auditorium with her sense of humor.

“I understand that the Hatfield Fellowship is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas between the corporate world and academia, and we certainly have the opportunity to do that today,” Rosenfeld said. “I was especially delighted to have the opportunity to meet with a lot of the student leaders who have made it clear to me that I could not get into Cornell today. They are so impres-

and volatility to be successful.”

Rosenfeld said that despite external and internal pressures that Kraft has struggled against, including stagnant Irene Rosenfeld ’75, Ph.D. ’80, CEO stocks and decreased product quality, the and chairperson of Kraft Foods, delivered company has been able to overcome its the 30th annual Hatfield Address on obstacles. She described four areas the Wednesday to a packed Call Auditorium. organization focused on improving upon Rosenfeld, a Hatfield fellow — the highin order to fight the difficulties the comest honor Cornell bestows on corporate pany faced: people, portfolio, productivileaders — shared her triumphs and failty, and purpose. ures in the business world with an audiRosenfeld said that Kraft made some ence of students and community memdrastic changes to improve efficiency and bers boost performance, including President David Skorton began the lecture, speaking highly of “Our challenge is to figure out what we changing the leadership in highmanagement positions, decenRosenfeld. He also praised the want to do differently in the face of this level tralizing the organization’s bureauRobert S. Hatfield Fund for cracy and emphasizing product Economic Education for its role in kind of ... volatility to be successful.” quality and diversity. the establishment of the Charles S. According to Rosenfeld, these Dyson School of Economics and Irene Rosenfeld B.A. ’75, Ph.D. ’80 changes coupled with increased tarManagement and the consolidation geting of foreign markets to led to broadof the study of economics across the dif- sive.”

After the introduction, Rosenfeld er sources of revenue for Kraft. Most sigferent colleges on campus.

“The Hatfield Address is intended to delved into a discussion of the great deal nificantly, she said, was decreased costs of serve as a major platform for the of volatility in the business world today. production and increased savings — exchange of ideas between academic and She explained that Kraft has been forced expanding capital and resources that corporate communities,” Skorton said. to confront many difficulties over the could be further invested.

Rosenfeld said her goal in enacting “In addition to the fellowship and years associated with social, economic these changes to her company was to address, the Hatfield Fund has another and climate change.

“In the face of all of this instability, it make a “delicious difference.” She said purpose: to enhance the teaching of economics. Several recent developments at is tempting for people to ask, ‘When will Kraft has worked to combat obesity and Cornell are contributing to that goal, as things go back to normal?’” Rosenfeld to develop environmentally-friendly agriwell as to advancing related fields, such as said. “And the facts are, I’m afraid, that cultural methods. this is the new normal. Our challenge is management.”

After the brief introduction, Skorton to figure out what we want to do differBahareh Saadatmand can be reached at yielded the stage to Rosenfeld, who ently in the face of this kind of turmoil bys5@cornell.edu

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Several Minority Orgs Will Receive Funding Through Intermediary

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Nicoletti ’12, former vice president of finance for the S.A. Sharon Lau ’12, president of CAPSU, said that the UPF will give the umbrella organizations, BSU, CAPSU, NASC and LAL, the ability to focus on intra-cultural programming, which she said will enable them to build up their individual communities and contribute to a stronger multicultural presence on campus.

“Umbrella organizations do a lot of things; they hold events to bring the community together and help community members, but at the same time our community organizations are programming on their own as well,” Lau said. “Those are very separate things. Giving umbrella organizations the UPF recognizes that we need to support the students that are supporting these membership organizations.”

The UPF, which will go into effect in time for the fall 2012 byline funding cycle, will serve

as an intermediary between tions that will be more consis- CAPSU, BSU, NASC and LAL ALANA and the umbrella orga- tent than the previous system. are able to provide intracultural nizations. ALANA will still keep “It was really time consuming programming for minority stusome of its funds for its own for these groups to get funding dents to complement the interprogramming and allocate some … They were spending all their cultural opportunities offered by to smaller multicultural clubs, time applying for funding, they smaller multicultural groups. but the rest will now go to the never had certainty about it and “The popular sentiment was UPF, which will in turn distrib- it hampered their ability to plan that ALANA was overextending ute their portion among the four for events in advance,” Nicoletti itself, in terms of the amount of umbrella groups. said. “This gives them a starting programming it was trying to While the UPF do,” Nicoletti said. will operate under “Each community is different. That’s “The UPF should ensure that the umbrella ALANA, the funds something I’m thankful the S.A. knows — groups have enough it allocates to the umbrella organiza- that each community has its own needs.” resources to carry out their missions and protions will be distinct vide more intracultural from the funding Adrian Palma ’13 programming for the ALANA will give directly to smaller groups. point. They know at the begin- community of color, in contrast According to Lau, the system ning of the year that they have to the intercultural community currently in place forces umbrel- all these funds available to building that ALANA will provide.” la organizations, like CAPSU, to them.”

Adrian Palma ’13, co-presiThe restructuring follows the compete with the member organizations under them for fund- S.A.’s rejection of CAPSU’s dent of LAL, said the UPF will ing from ALANA and the S.A. application for byline funding in give the umbrella organizations more freedom to distribute their “When we got funding we November 2011. were taking away from our “The S.A. felt that it wouldn’t resources.

“Essentially, each community membership organizations,” Lau be most efficient for umbrella said. “That’s something we groups to individually be funded will have a specific amount of by the Student Activities Fee,” money, and if they think it needs wanted changed.” to be diverted to cultural Nicoletti said that the UPF Nicoletti said.

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[minority’s] community needs, and that’s what the money is coming for,” Palma said. “Each community is different. That’s something I’m thankful the S.A. knows — that each community has its own needs.”

At the S.A. meeting Thursday, Natalie Raps ’12, former president of the S.A., urged members to pass the charter.

“We aren’t an organization that tells others how to run their own organization … We’re here to pass what this organization feels is best for them,” Raps said.

Lau said she believes that the collaboration between multicultural umbrella organizations under the UPF will foster diversity in the Cornell community.

“I’m really glad so many people are sitting around the table really figuring out how to prioritize these issues and support them … It’s not usual that we all sit down together and talk about how to solve issues together,” Lau said. “This new collaborative spirit is really positive.”

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

Prof Stresses Importance Of Sustainability Studies HOTEL

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at the Statler Hotel where we changed the light conditions and the … TVs in the room to a different energy-saving setting. Then we had actual guests stay there, and we looked at whether they were more satisfied or less satisfied in each of those conditions,” Verma said. “What we found was that even with much lower energy consumption levels, basically, guests were equally satisfied, which means that we have a way to be more sustainable and not affect satisfaction.”

Verma, Segarra-Oña and Peiró-Signes say that environmen-

tally sustainability will be one of the principal problems this generation will face. Fully understanding it, they say, will be crucial.

“Cornell students are increasingly working all over the world, so studies like this one show that the U.S. is not the world,” Verma said. “You have other parts of the world where many issues are being taught and studied in quite a bit of detail, so if you want to be a manager anywhere in the world, you’ve got to understand these things … This is just one small example of how the industry is changing.”

Lauren Avery can be reached at lea39@cornellsun.com.

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Students Lament Proposed Shortening of Senior Week CALENDAR

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Week is one of several decisions the calendar committee made to reduce student stress, including shortened exam periods and the addition of four vacation days to the spring semester.

If these changes go into effect, the spring exam period will begin later and end later, thereby shortening Senior Week, according to Prof. Jeff Doyle, plant biology, chair of the Calendar Committee.

Natalie Raps ’12, former president of the Student Assembly and one of the Calendar Committee’s two student representatives, was a “strong advocate” for maintaining Senior Week, according to Doyle.

However, Raps said that “compromises had to be made” in the interest of student mental health.

At the S.A. meeting Thursday, where the calendar committee explained the potential changes, Raps said she believed the changes were “very beneficial.”

“I believe that the committee recognized the importance and significance of Senior Week, but had to weigh the overall objective of providing balance to help support positive mental health,” added Jennifer Davis, assistant dean of students for student activities and faculty advisor to the Senior Week committee.

However, many students disagreed with the committee’s recommendations, saying they were skeptical of the effects of condensed exam periods and a shortened Senior Week on student mental health.

“I’m not entirely sure how cramming finals into five [fewer] days helps ensure mental health, since it will surely result in more stress and scheduling issues,” Koren said.

If passed, seniors would not have exams on the final Monday and Tuesday of spring exam week, thereby creating a “de facto” Senior Week, according to University Registrar Cassie Dembosky.

One of the “positives” of

Senior Week overlapping with discourage “high-risk student mittee members. For example, non-seniors’ exam period is that drinking” during that period. the calendar committee relied “more undergraduates will stay “Seniors see Senior Week as solely on Raps and Geoffrey around,” Raps said. “Normally way to responsibly blackout one Block ’14, who is also a member ,senior week is so isolated. last time,” Koren said. of the S.A., to “canvass [their] Seniors will be able to share those Shortening Senior Week “will constituencies and bring feedmemories will all of their push day drinking into the bars,” back to the committee,” Doyle friends.” he said. said.

However, programming Koren said that the Calendar “It’s absurd that [neither] of would still be cut, since on-cam- Committee proposals are the the Senior Week co-chairs were pus events for seniors cannot result of inadequate communica- consulted about the recommencoincide with other dation,” Koren ’12 said.

In response, Doyle u n d e r g r a d u a t e s ’ “Seniors see Senior Week as a way to said that that the exams, according to blackout one more time ... responsibly Calendar Committee Koren. “was never approached Koren said that [Shortening senior week] will push day by any student committhis year’s Senior drinking to the bars.” tee on Senior Week, nor Week committee has was I personally aware plans to host eight Matt Koren ’12 of its existence and our on-campus events — Duff Ball, the Carnival, the tion between the committee, the undergraduate representatives Rave, Wine Tasting, Beer greater undergraduate popula- did not alert us to their desire to Tasting, Comedy Night, Casino tion and the Senior Week talk with us or suggest contacting them.”

Night and a barbeque. If Senior Committee.

Still, Doyle said the calendar Doyle, chair of the Calendar Week is shortened, Koren said, some of these events will be at Committee, noted that his com- committee hopes to build better mittee only makes “informal” lines of communication with sturisk of being cut in the future.

“If the Calendar Committee efforts to consult with non-com- dents before the proposal reaches can come up with a way to hold these eight events on campus on Wednesday and Thursday morning, we would love to hear their proposal,” Koren said.

In addition, Anisha Chopra ’13, a member of the Senior Week committee and a Student Assembly representative, said that there may be a shortage of student volunteers for activities if the first two days of Senior Week coincide with exams.

Many students added that they believe they deserve a full week of programming.

“I think Senior Week is so special, and to shorten it is really unfair to seniors,” Sarah Kurland ’14 said.

Colleen Burke ’14 compared cutting Senior Week to “taking away Christmas.” Likewise, Mikella Zgliczynska ’14 expressed a fear of being robbed of her senior week experience.

“Seniors have worked so hard and have been here so long that would only be fair to have the full week [for programming], instead of just a couple of days,” Lena Mitkey ’12 said.

According to Dembosky, the recommendation to shorten Senior Week was also an effort to

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According to Raps, the S.A. will email the undergraduate population this week to solicit feedback and relay it to the calendar committee before the proposal is submitted to the Faculty Senate for final approval. She said she believes a “very strong reaction from students with good reasoning could change the trajectory of the decision” before it reaches the Faculty Senate for a vote.

However, it is unlikely that such feedback will come from the Senior Week committee, which does not see “the need to point out very obvious issues to a committee that really didn’t want [their] input in the first place,” according to Koren.

“If need be, we'll address our concerns with the Faculty Senate,” he said.

Erin Ellis can be reached at eellis@cornellsun.com.

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Defense Questions Witness Testimony, Citing Conflicts With Investigation WHYTE

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case, Perkins originally told police that Whyte threw a bag containing a shirt and a pair of boots from the window of their car as they drove to her sister’s house in Enfield. But police later found the bag in a field 100 feet off the road, according to an IPD report, suggesting that the bag had been deliberately hidden there.

Potentially adding to the case against Whyte, Perkins also admitted to hiding guns in her younger sister’s closet early in the early morning of Dec. 7, according to court documents.

Thomas Kheel, Whyte’s previous defense attorney, admitted that these findings cast a suspicious light on Whyte, but denied that they constitute significant evidence.

In a series of motions filed in court, the defense reported that police did not find gunshot residue on either the items found in the bag or on a parka belonging to Whyte, that the prosecution possessed no proof that Whyte wore the clothing on the night of the murder and that there was no proof that the guns found in Perkins’ sisters room were not used to kill Garcia.

Yet Perkins’ testimony is not the only

account that could support the charges nication in the hours preceding the muragainst Whyte. der.

According to court documents, Mojica, “During the evening Paul [Garcia] had Garcia’s girlfriend, told police that Whyte several conversations with C.C. [Whyte]. and Garcia had argued earlier in the day. Prior to his last phone call, Paul was upset, She also told investigators that she was not saying, ‘C.C. threatened my family, who sure whether a dispute over drugs or a con- does he think he is?’” Mojica said, accordflict regarding sexual advances Whyte had ing to the documents. “The last conversarecently made toward her caused the argu- tion I heard was Paul telling C.C. ‘give me ment, the documents show.

20 minutes.’ It was only a couple minutes Garcia arrived in Ithaca on the after- later and Paul went outside. Shortly after, noon of probably less than a minute, Dec. 6 after staying with “The prosecution ... can’t pinpoint Corbin I heard two or pops, a friend in to the scene of the crime at the time of the three which I believe Q u e e n s , murder.”

N.Y. for one was gunfire.”

But subsemonth, and Thomas Kheel quent searches Whyte — who Mojica failed to locate identified in a photo array — had made a gun matching the one used to kill advances to her one week before the mur- Garcia, according to the documents. They der, she said, according to the documents. show that IPD investigators could not Mojica added that Whyte may have sold locate a shell casing on the scene of the drugs to Garcia and feared that Garcia was crime that corresponded to the semi-autotransporting drugs to the city for Whyte. matic firearm that they found hidden in a Garcia’s brother, Elliot, told investiga- closet in Perkins’ mother’s house. tors that Garcia had robbed Whyte earlier Police also said that they believe Garcia in the day. Then, according to the testi- was killed with a revolver type weapon, mony Mojica provided investigators, which they did not find on Whyte, the Whyte and Garcia were in close commu- documents state. The defense argues that

the “tampered with” evidence — the gun found in Perkins’ house and the clothing found in the field — could not link Whyte to the scene of the crime.

Kheel said that another piece of evidence, a large kitchen knife found in the body bag of Garcia after his body arrived at the hospital, could confound the prosecution’s case. He told The Sun that Dr. James Terzian, a forensic pathologist based out of Binghamton who performed Garcia’s autopsy, found the knife in Garcia’s body bag after it was moved to the hospital early on the morning of Dec. 7.

Kheel subpoenaed the two ambulence technicians to explain how the knife ended up in the bag with Garcia.

“The prosecution has two Achilles’ heels,” Kheel told The Sun. “One is that they can’t pinpoint Corbin to the scene of the crime at the time of the murder.

Second is that they can’t explain this knife,” he said.

The trial will determine what role the knife — like many of the other unclear details surrounding the homicide — played in the occult theatrics that preceded Garcia’s killing.

Joey Anderson can be reached at janderson@cornellsun.com.

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Statler Postpones Sushi Contract With Miyake After Fire MIYAKE

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The Ithaca Fire Department responded to an alarm at Miyake at 1:11 a.m. on Wednesday and “discovered and extinguished a kitchen fire involving the stove and vent system” upon their arrival, according to a press release from the IFD. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

The residents of 414-416 Eddy St. were evacuated in the middle of the night on Wednesday due to the fire.

Ludwig Holmstrom ’12, who lives above the restaurant on Eddy Street, said he was woken by the smell of smoke around 1 a.m, The Sun reported on Tuesday.

“We got our stuff and went down on the street,” Holmstrom said, adding that he saw “flames at the back” of the building.

Jimmy Wu ’14, who lives one building down from Miyake at 404 Eddy Street described seeing the fire in the distance after being woken up by a roommate who smelled the smoke and alerted his friends.

“I’ve never seen that many fire trucks and ladders extending to a building.” Wu said.

Wu said the fire raised other concerns as well.

“I didn’t feel unsafe when I knew it wasn’t our building, but I was afraid because all of the buildings are relatively old and if it were a wooden structure it

could have been easily damaged,” Wu said.

However, city officials said the incident was not necessarily reflective of quality of the building quality in Collegetown. Instead they praised the Ithaca Fire Department for its swift response time and handling of the situation.

“I don’t think that this really speaks to or has an impact on building quality or fire safety issues at Miyak,.” said Common Council member, Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward).

“This is unrelated to other fires; as the building was well maintained. I don’t get the sense that this particular incident has anything to do with general building quality.”

Still, Common Council member Eddie Rooker (D-4th Ward) maintained that fire safety has long been a concern for the city.

“Because of the age of the buildings, fire safety is always a question,” Rooker said. “This was an accident and not necessarily a reflection of the quality of the building, but with especially with the events of last year fire safety is a huge issue.”

Brian Lo ’11 was killed in a fired at 107 Cook St. last year.

Many undergraduate students and Collegetown residents lamented the closing of Miyake.

“I used to go to Miyake every Tuesday night for double sake bombs and a California

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The Building Commissioner of the City of Ithaca indicated Miyake was unsafe to enter by posting a sign on its doors Wednesday afternoon. The owner of the restaurant predicted the building will reopen by the end of the semester.

roll with my brother and now its closed,” Jesse Rosenberg ’13 said. “Now where am I going to get my sushi and sake bombs?”

“It’s very unfortunate that Miyake will be closed, as I actually had an event planned there for this weekend,” Wu said.

The School of Hotel Administration postponed a contract with Miyake to provide grab-and-go sushi to Mac’s Cafe and other dining establishments within the Statler.

Signs posted in the Mac’s Cafe on Thursday informed students that “due to a fire,

Miyake Sushi will not be available for the semester.”

“Miyake supplies prepackaged sushi for us twice a day.

We’ve had a great relationship with them and we definitely want to continue a sushi program,” said Gregory Mezey ’09, director of Statler Dining. “I definitely think we want to support those folks who supported us through our strategic partnerships.”

Rosenberg lamented the loss of the sushi at the Statler as a quick and easy lunch option between classes.

“I will starve without Miyake,” she said. “I refuse to wait in line at Mac’s and Terrace because it takes so long and picking up sushi at Mac’s was very convenient for me.”

In lieu of selling Miyake Sushi, Mezey said the Statler will look to partner with Cornell Dining to continue providing sushi in Mac’s Cafe and other Statler locations.

Dan Temel can be reached at dtemel@cornellsun.com.

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Filthy/Gorgeous: Party, But for Party’s Sake E

very year there is invariably an OpEd piece written in The Sun suggesting that Filthy/Gorgeous is a morally inappropriate event. This is not that OpEd piece. Whatever the merits for or against Filthy/Gorgeous, I believe the real issue for discussion is its implications for the charity it benefits. Filthy/Gorgeous is extremely inefficient as a charitable fundraiser. According to the Haven budget released by the S.A., it raises approximately $2,000 for charity, on a budget of $27,000 — nearly all of which comes from the Student Activity Fund. Using that ratio,

sometimes the most valuable currency in over scheduled student communities. And to that end, Filthy/Gorgeous paints an unfair picture of what a charity event looks like. The reality is that real (i.e. effective) philanthropy is not nearly as self-indulgent.

If our real concern is to create a sustainable source of donations for charities, we should focus on creating sustainable programs at Cornell. Sustainable meaning that their existence in any year is not dependent on external funding grants. These programs have the benefit that any funding

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Heroes & Villains

The New Heroes WE, THE HEROES OF THE 130TH editorial board have just taken over, and that means that we are ready to call out all the HEROES and VILLAINS that grace this campus. We have HEROICALLY conquered the 129th board in an epic six-week battle. We have been freed from the VILLAINOUS rule of our former captors. Now we just have to keep the VILLAINOUS administration in check.

VILLAINOUS prelim season is here, but the HEROIC girl scouts are here to rescue us from misery. The HEROIC Samoa, which blends the perfect amount of coconut and caramel, has helped to rescue us from the VILLAINOUS doldrums of the library. VILLAINOUS parents! Why didn’t you send us more money to spend on these HEROIC confections! And VILLAINOUS calories! Why do you exist! Hopefully VILLAINOUS Michelle Obama doesn’t replace this HEROIC American tradition with Girl Scout Carrot Sticks.

Thanks to VILLANOUS fire, we can no longer drown our sorrows with HEROIC Sake bombs at Miyake. We can’t say we weren’t expecting this, though.

They needed to stop lighting their HEROICALLY delicious food on fire. There should never be a fire at a restaurant that mostly serves raw food. Now we will have to wait even longer at Plum Tree, with their VILLAINOUSLY long wait times.

At least we had the HEROIC puppies on Ho Plaza to save the day. We hate them for romping around the Arts Quad, having a HEROICALLY great time while we must trudge to our VILLAINOUS classes. We wish that our VILLAINOUS professors would stop and pet us, too, and actually cared about our feelings.

“Awwwwww puppy! You’re so cute! Of COURSE you can have an extension on your paper!” Why are these HEROIC words never spoken?

VILLAINOUS Chipotle! Why do we come back to your HEROIC burritos even though they sometimes give us the VILLAINOUS runs. Now, thankfully, we no longer have to deal with the VILLAINOUS hipsters at Mexeo. Seriously Mexeo, your burritos are HEROICALLY delicious, but what’s with those VILLAINOUS playlists?

While other establishments opened recently, students said goodbye to the HEROIC Royal Palm Tavern. While we are pretty sure whatever goes up in it’s place will be cleaned more often than the Palms, it will never have such a HEROIC following of Cornellians. The building was bought for a VILLAINOUS $3.75 million, and no amount of money can buy the real estate that the Palms has built in our hearts.

Filthy/Gorgeous would be the worst charity in the US, as ranked by Charity Navigator.

The expenditure on Filthy/Gorgeous is extravagant — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes, an expensive party can be easily justified for student life, like Slope Day. But if Filthy/Gorgeous can be justified like Slope Day, it should stand on its merits as a party and not by co-opting the mantle of philanthropy. Do we really need to allocate $4,000 of the student’s money to fly in performers that cost $10,000, when Cornell’s campus to campus bus service costs only a few hundred dollars? Real (i.e. efficient) philanthropy happens at Cornell, and although not as glamorous, it accomplishes much more for charitable organizations. Some hard numbers can help. For example, a recent charity dinner between seven Greek houses brought in over $5,400 in revenue on $1,000 of costs — netting $4,400 for charity. That’s 220 percent of the Filthy/Gorgeous donation on 20 percent of the total budget and at four percent of the cost. And on an annual basis, the event could prepay all its expenses for the coming year, set aside a reserve for emergencies and still make sizable donations.

To make matters worse, charity events like that dinner which are not reliant on outside funds, and events that have much better revenue-to-donation ratios must compete with Filthy/Gorgeous for student mindshare as “philanthropic activities.” We all know that attention and mindshare are

enhancement provided by the University will almost always translate into a dollarfor-dollar increase — but that in any given year, if their external funding vanishes, the charitable group still gets a donation. What happens if Filthy/Gorgeous is the target of cost-cutting measures? A charity goes without. That is my main concern.

To the extent that it is desirable to earmark a portion of the Student Activity Fund for charitable works, we should hold those efforts accountable to the same metrics and best practices of charities in the real world. If we want to act like adults, to be treated like adults, claim (like adults) that we’re doing charity, we should be ready to be held accountable just like real-world charities are. Charitable work is not some panacea to assuage whatever guilt comes with going to a nice party shrouded within the cocoon of a protective ivory tower.

Filthy/Gorgeous is a controversial event — and much like Sex.Power.God at Brown, it may someday draw enough attention to itself that it will have to fundamentally change. But it is disingenuous to think that coating an otherwise extravagant party in a patina of charity and selflessness will stop that day from coming or justify an otherwise unjustifiable party — meanwhile, much more effective philanthropic endeavors go unnoticed and unfunded.

Sean Donegan is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at swd33@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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My Tulmutuous Relationship With Vegetariansim

y dietary status and my relationship with veterinary medicine have been very closely intertwined throughout my life. I grew up in a vegetarian (I use “vegetarian” as not eating meat but eating eggs and dairy) house but meat wasn’t forbidden to me so I never saw being vegetarian as a dietary restriction — it was just my way of life when I was a child. I was too young to know anything about veterinary medicine other than the fact that I liked animals. It made sense to me that I would want to take care of them and not eat them.

When I started to have a little more autonomy over what I ate (at picnics, birthday parties, etc.), I started to eat meat.

Admittedly, I was curious about how it tasted and I wanted to eat hot dogs and hamburgers with all of my friends. However, that’s also around the time I started reading James Herriot (a vet who wrote a series of books about his life practicing in the Yorkshire Dales in the mid 1900s) and I envisioned all animals living idyllic lives in rolling countrysides, so I wasn’t too concerned with the idea of eating them.

My happy omnivore existence lasted until I came to Cornell for a summer college program in the animal science department between my sophomore and junior years of high school. I had been spending some time shadowing both large and small animal vets by then, and none of them were vegetarian so it hadn’t occurred to me that eating meat could be a moral dilemma until I came to the summer college program.

We went on field trips to typical working beef and dairy farms.

Unfortunately, the only thing I took away from those visits was that the dairy cows were happy and friendly while the beef cattle ran to the other end of the pen “in fear” when we approached them. My fantasies of happy cows in rolling countrysides were shattered; I decided to stop eating red meat. I still ate chicken and fish mostly because I hadn’t seen any chicken or fish facilities so I could pretend to ignore the implications of factory farming in these areas.

The undergraduate animal science curriculum only intensified my cynicism against commercial farming. We learned that “organic” means that the animals are sometimes denied medical treatment and that labels like “free-range” don’t have any strict regulations. It got to the point that I realized I had

to stop being naïve about eating chicken and sadly cut that out too (it made Panera and Chipotle a lot less exciting). I continued to eat was fish because I don’t think that fish are as sentient as other food animals … I don’t feel a connection when I look into the eyes of a fish, although I’m sure there are fish people out there who would disagree. I did start travelling more and would eat meat in other countries — especially because those countries were Argentina (where they take pride in their meat from the farm to the table) and around Southeast Asia (where it can be hard to find anything vegetarian).

Which brings me to vet school. After only the first month, my reason for being a pescaterian changed from “I don’t support factory farming” to “I don’t know enough about factory farming.” I learned that you move cows by entering their “flight zones” — the area around a cow that it feels safe in. So the cattle in the beef farm I had seen all those years ago were simply exhibiting their natural behavior. I also learned to think of veterinarians as having a responsibility to ensure that the food animal industry handled the welfare of the animals well both for the animals and for the people, and it seemed counterintuitive not to support an industry you work for — it would be like being a human doctor who wouldn’t take the medicine he or she prescribed. Also, several of my classmates come from food animal backgrounds and are in complete support of it; they clearly know more about the issue than I ever have. So I started to find my staunch pescatarianism slipping from “oops there was chicken in that dish,” to “hmm maybe Superbowl Sunday can be the one day a year I eat chicken,” to “hey that meaty stew looks delicious I’m going to have some.”

I’ve very recently come to a handful of conclusions about the whole issue. The first is that, like almost everything else in life, there’s no clear-cut answer. The commercialization of the meat industry in the United States still makes me a little

uncomfortable, especially when I compare it to places like Argentina. That being said, it seems to be a field that is trying to move in a more sustainable direction and I admit to being significantly more ignorant about it than I should be. Which brings me to my second conclusion, one that I’m coming to realize more and more often about a host of topics — education makes a world of difference. My views have changed over time because of new things (whether right or wrong) that I’ve learned, and perhaps if it was mandatory for us to learn about where our food comes from in grade school, a lot of the misconceptions people have would be cleared up.

So where do I stand now? The popular term is “flexitarian” — someone who eats a plant-based diet with meat, poultry and fish in moderation, according to the Mayo Clinic’s web-

Nikhita Parandekar Hoof in Mouth site. I’m going to try to only eat it from sources I trust, which is still a little arbitrary at this point — so probably not McDonald’s or other big chains unless they have a convincing message, but local restaurants and smaller operations are fine.

I’ll be interested to see if the rest of vet school makes me change my mind, and my guess is that if anything it’ll make me even more convinced that there is nothing wrong with eating meat.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

The Art of Bridge Building in Medicine F

rom the front porch of a cozy guest house in Oxford’s outskirts, the sunlit banks of the Thames River appear so close together that without further scrutiny, the river between them seems not to be there.

Yet to get from one bank to the other, the foot-traveler depends on a bridge, such as the one that I crossed from the railstation to enter town. As I begin my seventh month of living in Europe, bridge-crossing has become symbolic of my work here: I am reconnecting with university life, which is dramatically different from that of the wards at New York Presbyterian Hospital where I spent most of my working hours nine months ago as a third year medical student at Cornell. Now, I have come to Oxford to connect with a former

the same subject with different questions, methods and motives while not collaborating.

Take, for instance, the question of resource allocation in healthcare. In graduate school, we discussed the trade-offs between justice, efficiency and care by juxtaposing theoretical models of philosophers like Rawls, Nussbaum and Dworkin, yet we never mentioned what such models mean for basic clinical questions like triaging patients in the Emergency Department. In medical school, however, even in bioethics, we did not even discuss a theory of justice, yet every day we made philosophical decisions based on scarcity of resources when we determined whether or not to send a patient for more invasive, costly tests. Moreover, in medical school our

Landon Roussel What’s Up, Doc? professor after finishing my first semester exams for master’s studies in bioethics, as part of a pan-European program in Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy.

My extended course of study in the university setting after having run through the gauntlet of medical education has alerted me to a divide that is in major need of bridging: the academic rift between medicine and the university. In bioethics, exchange between clinical bioethicists and academic bioethicists is limited. Clinicians often mistrust the work of academics while academicians often despise clinicians’ seemingly dogmatic bent towards pragmatism over theory. Not just in bioethics but in many areas of scholarly inquiry today, doctors and traditional professors (i.e. those not oriented with a clinical care institution) often find themselves addressing

professors presented pragmatism as the only method to resolve clinical ethics dilemmas.

However, as I later learned in graduate school, this method does not even comprise one of three main ethical theories that have developed over the centuries — Kantian deontology, virtue ethics and utilitarianism. These examples attest to a deep, pervasive gap in the way that medicine and the university approach knowledge itself.

Why does the divide persist?

Certainly the economic question looms large, at least in American medicine — a point my friends in socialist Europe never cease to ask me about. Regardless of the changes that President Obama’s 2010 healthcare bill will institute, healthcare providers are still compensated by insurance companies, which are private and pay for performance.

Moreover, as the population ages and government budgets for healthcare face pressure, providers will surely feel the squeeze. This translates to more practical responsibilities in medicine and less time for theoretical questions that occupy the time of university academicians.

Even in Western Europe, however, where healthcare systems are more insulated from market demands, a strong divide exists between medicine and the university — a fact which attests to internal tensions within each profession’s aims. Medicine is practical. It uses technology to alleviate the pains of illness and disease. The University is theoretical. It betters the world through knowledge and understanding. Thus the aims of one profession may not necessarily line up with those of another. The tenure track professor’s imperative to “publish or perish” provides differing scholarly incentives than the doctor’s demand to prove clinical efficacy.

But are the aims of medicine and the University really that different?

Clinical care demands daily answering theoretical questions. As I observed during my rotation in the intensive care unit, the clinical definition of death is often approached as a mere matter of signs and symptoms when such a question involves many rigorous philosophical questions (often poorly attended to, even by ethics consults).

Likewise, academia provides insight into practical questions. The notion of patient autonomy, for example, often used in clinical practice to justify a patient’s freedom in decision making on matters ranging from reproductive choices to end-of-life care, originated only several decades ago from academic discussions within the University which challenged healthcare’s traditional authoritarian paradigm. When it comes to medicine and academia, then, theory and pragma are much closer than they seem.

The need is now greater than ever for bridge-building between medicine and the University. It will involve the use of skills spe-

cific to each profession to find points of contact between their aims. What does this translate to? Interdisciplinary courses exploring the relationship between medicine and theoretical subjects are a start. Medical schools are now supplementing their traditional curricula with courses like “Medicine, Patients and Society” that focus on “humanistic” aspects of patient care, and universities are now offering courses like medical sociology and medical anthropology that explore the relationship between clinical care and traditionally “academic” subjects.

Yet more is needed. As any medical student can verify, medical school courses like “Medicine, Patients and Society” often focus on trite notions like “empathy” and “cultural sensitivity” which fail to impact students’ clinical practices later on. In the same manner, medical sociology and medical anthropology courses can end up decrying medical paternalism and the scientific imprecision of clinical decisions but fail to take into account the realities of clinical practice that obligate doctors to make judgments based on incomplete knowledge or without having discussed every option with a patient.

Rather, I propose a more personal change, where doctors take more time to discuss theoretical questions that affect their practice and University professors take care to orient their research aims — however abstract — towards “every day” problems in clinical care.

For my part, I must now leave for dinner with my former bioethics professor at the Eagle and Child, an Oxford pub noted as a hub for academic discussions. Having not met with him since my pre-clinical courses, he’s eager to hear about my clinical training and I am equally eager to hear about his book in press.

But first, the bridge to get into town awaits my crossing.

Landon Roussel is a fourth-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. He may be reached at lsr2002@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Punching Above Your Weight The Israeli comedy A Matter of Size

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t’s so hard nowadays to come across films with inventive content, not just a triedand-true story with a twist but a truly original idea. The Israeli comedy A Matter of Size is one of those hidden gems combining a unique narrative with superb execution.

Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor direct this hilariously heartwarming story of four, morbidly obese men trying desperately to feel comfortable in their own skin.

The film’s opening scene takes us to a school in Israel, where an overweight boy is standing in line to get measured and weighed. His face is a mixture of trepidation and apprehension. Fast-forward to present day Israel and that little boy, now a grown man, is going through the same ordeal.

The mature face on the screen perfectly mirrors the reluctance his younger self seen moments earlier. The uncomfortable man is Herzl (Itzik Cohen) and he is about to get kicked out of his weight-loss group due to his ever-increasing weight. His demotion at work immediately after — because “customers have been complaining … about (his) appearance” — shames him into quitting. After finding work at a Japanese restaurant, he makes a discovery that lights up his insecure world — sumo wrestling. Here is a sport where overweight people are not only valued but most importantly, honored. This is a notion that,

well, completely shatters Herzl’s mind and self-image. Inspired, Herzl convinces his three best friends Aharon (Dvir Benedek), Gidi (Alon Dahan) and Sami (Shmulik Cohen) to quit the group and join him in sumo training with his Japanese boss. Add an overbearing mother and a beautiful girlfriend (who has been emotionally scarred by men in the past) to the mix and you have the perfect ingredients for your one-of-kind movie.

A Matter of Size Cornell is one of those rare combinations of Cinema “feel-good” movies with substance.

The director duo has crafted a finely-tuned story of self-identity and the obstacles littered along the path to self-knowledge. These hurdles come from their surroundings and most importantly, themselves. The harshest critics these characters face are found in their own reflections when they take a peek at themselves in the mirror.

The four men are psychologically stunted.

They cling to the same self-destructive mentality, assuming that the world views them as nothing more than obese. Sumo serves as the vehicle toward their enlightenment and transforms each of them into mature adults comfortable in their own bodies. One wrestler realizes his identity as a gay man while another discovers that his marital problems arisesnot from his weight but are simply because he has turned into a terrible husband. Each per-

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son finally grows up.

Herzl’s large, liquid eyes are a window into his soul. With one look he can convey all his emotions at once. Sorrowful glances, angry stares, happy tears all come together in his face.

The acting is fluid and effortless. All the movie ctors are overweight in reality, making the show even more believable. This is evident throughout the entire 90 minutes of the film.

The soundtrack, albeit nothing extraordinary, successfully highlights certain scenes.

The directors choose to use it sparingly; the main focus in this film is body, not sound.

Emotions are conveyed through facial expressions.

An American remake of the film is scheduled to be directed sometime in the near future by Jon Turteltaub. Yes, that Turteltaub, the same director behind the National Treasure film franchise and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. What he is doing in charge of the remake of A Matter of Size is baffling to say the least. No matter, everyone knows the sad

fate that so often befalls remakes of foreign films (Death at a Funeral anyone?) It would be wise to see this film before the American version of it comes out, tempting to forgo the original. That would be a tragic mistake.

This film leaves everyone with questions to mull over long after the lights come on.

Complete satisfaction with the way one looks eludes most people.

In a way, one might view this story as a different kind of “coming-of-age” film, but a more subtle chronicle of growing up. The changes dictating this film aren’t as blatant as the physical changes of a teenager’s body or the first love he experiences; they are of the sweeter, softer kind. These transformations allow the characters to be at peace with themselves and those around them. Who knew sumo could do all that?

Eleni Konstantopoulos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at edk44@cornell.edu.

A Legendary Rager night to remember while also living up to the hype that he builds about himself throughout the show.

At the movie’s end, Costa is awaiting results from multiple paternity tests from that night. Oliver Three losers looking to get some tail? Check.

Cooper does an incredible job embodying the Crazy drug dealer? Check. Drugs and alcohol to creepy, oversexed teen. He is definitely a stand-out incite chaos in hormone-overloaded teens? Check. performer. And there is the security team, who tries The most epic party ever? Check. Using the same its best to keep the party under control. Everett formula teenage audiences have come to love (and (Brady Hender) stands out as the taser-wielding hopefully not grown tired of), writers Matt Drake mini bodyguard. He may not be able to do a lot of and Michael Bacall simply take it to absolute damage, but he still is a criminal mastermind in the extremes. The mock-doc, found-footage-film Project works. Let’s hope he returns in the sequel.

X revives the tried and true teen party genre by folOn the other hand, there is Thomas Kub, who lowing a group of friends that are hosting the biggest just remains a one-note character. You do wish that birthday bash ever to gain the ever-elusive cool facthis night ends well for him; even even his parents tor in high school. The movie does not pretend to think of him as a loser. Still, Kub does not really have any morals. All it aims to be is a high schoolbreak this stereotype as the party is ultimately out of er’s fantasy of raging harder than any movie has COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHERS his hands, and he never fully takes advantage of the done before. But despite these efforts, the film scene. He simply walks through it trying to mainthe film. If he had used a professional steady-cam, the party tain control until eventually he grows resigned. Sadly, Kub leaves you craving for more.

For his 17th birthday, Thomas Kub (Thomas Mann) lets his would become less believable and more cheesy. does not even accomplish his main goal of getting together Although Project X does not purport to be anything more with a girl whether it’s a girl who has always been by his side friends Costa (Oliver Cooper), JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown) and creepy documentarian Dax (Dax Flame) take the reins. The party than a rager to end all ragers, it still lacks substance. Movies (Kirby played by … Kirby Bliss Blanton) or the girl of his invite does not only reach the entire North Pasadena High like Superbad and House Party have more of a plot even dreams (Alexis Knapp). Sure, Kub realizes that Kirby is the girl though they are still mindless movies. Project X he wants by the end of the film, but the audience is left hangSchool, but eventually throws that aspect away. Sure, there are some ing. also goes viral with Project X really funny gag moments. The drug dealer, Tposts on Craigslist. The The writers miss another brilliant opportunity by failing to Rick (Rick Shapiro), is completely crazy and unveil the mystery behind Dax. The dark teen with an party goes from being a Directed by Nima Nourizadeh eventually sets fire to the whole neighborhood potentially small getunknown past remains behind the camera or disappears when Featuring with a makeshift flame-thrower in search of his someone else takes the camera. He never misses an intimate or together to a big Thomas Mann, garden gnome full of ecstasy. Then there is the crude moment. blowout hosting 1500 stock character of the angry little person (Martin people. That does not Jonathan Daniel Brown Nevertheless, the party must go on. Despite the oneKlebba) who goes around punching people of all dimensional characters and outbursts of insanity, Nourizadeh include the countless genders in retaliation for being stuffed in an refreshes the genre that makes the movie flow in real-time. movie-goers who feel like they are experiencing the party in real time. Director Nima oven. However, this shtick can get old (and rather tasteless) There’s a lot of work to be done on the sequel. But in the Nourizadeh’s debut film should not be written off; he does man- fairly quickly in an 88 minute movie. meantime, let the parties commence.

Then you’ve got the best friend and the bodyguards who age to make the audience believe they are part of the debauchery.

Using the ever popular amateur recording technique also seen in never cease to deliver a gem while onscreen. First there is Natalia Fallas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She Chronicle this year, Nima capitalizes on the unrefined quality of Costa, the quintessential best friend trying to give his buddy a can be reached at nmf28@cornell.edu.

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The Lorax Lacks Heart ness that for which Dr. Seuss is famed. The scriptwriters, Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul, made no attempt to rhyme any of the dialogue. And while the music is fun, it seems to be a somewhat lame way of avoiding a musical script.

The Lorax is one of the greatest children’s stories ever In addition, the adorable and endearing animals that the told. Like all of Dr. Seuss’ tales, it is elaborate and incred- Lorax looks after, including the Brown Bar-ba-loots and ibly imaginative. The tale’s morals also resonate with Swomee-swans, are merely presented as enchanted verSeuss’ adult readers long after they experienced those sions of bears and ducks. The best part about Dr. Seuss’s lessons as children. Indeed, Dr. Seuss is one of the few sto- stories are his wacky creatures, made up words, and totalrybook writers who will remain relevant forever. ly unique worlds. The movie would have been far more The animated film, directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle memorable had it maintained that enchanting vibe that Balda, premiered on Dr. Seuss’ would-be one hundred other Dr. Seuss movies, such as Horton Hears a Who and and eighth birthday. With a How the Grinch Stole Christmas, have star-studded cast — includapplied in the past.

The Lorax ing Ed Helms, Danny Nevertheless, the film does a great Devito, Zac Efron, Taylor job of conveying Dr. Seuss’ originally Directed by Chris Renaud, Kyle Swift and Betty White — intended message: to protect nature Balda voicing the production, a from the greed of modern capitalism.

Featuring powerfully relevant message The most effective scene to this point and charming music, The is the one in which Ed Helms’ charEd Helms, Danny Lorax is nothing short of acter, the Once-ler, transforms from Devito, Zac Efron delightful. an average struggling nobody into an In the light of the upcomobsessively rich business magnate in ing presidential elections and the disappointing lack of the song “How Bad Can I Be?” The animation in this noteworthy animated films in 2011, The Lorax is excep- scene is great. It is reminiscent of Aladdin’s “Friend Like tionally timely. Lacking all subtlety, the film scathingly Me.” We see through music how the Once-ler takes his criticizes greed, capitalism and environmental exploita- small invention of the thneed — a hilariously useless but tion. It serves as a warning to us all, just like it did in popular commodity — and is so consumed by it that he 1971, when the original children’s story was published. betrays everything else he believes in for success. The song The movie does justice to the original. Watching the lyrics make the scene memorable.

Once-ler chop down the very last Truffula tree is tremenFor example, the Once-ler sings, “the PR people are dously upsetting. It is hard not to be affected by the lying / the lawyers are denying.” He also ironically betrayal that the Lorax feels and the hopelessness of the exclaims with a cackling laugh, “a portion of proceeds go now homeless furry creatures of Seuss’s not-so-fictional to charity!” These are serious issues of 2012 that the world.

Once-ler introduces. They are poignant and specific and The major issue I had with the film, however, is its seem to take some arguments directly from the Occupy subtle lack of loyalty to Dr. Seuss’s style. Although the Wall Street movement. It’s not a song you can easily formessage is the same, and elements such as the Truffula get. trees and the Lorax character are exact, it lacks the weirdEd Helms is undoubtedly the show stealer. His vibrant

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and unique speaking voice makes the Once-ler the most dynamic character in the movie, and his singing voice is impressive but not overbearing. I only hope that Helms will appear in more animated films in the future.

Efron’s character, on the other hand, is a little flat, though it’s no fault of his. He is the formulaic pubescent boy on an adventure, but he lacks depth and uniqueness.

The same goes for Swift and White’s characters. Although likable, they are predictable and boring. It is obvious that these are not creations of Seuss’, but ingredients for a blockbuster cartoon for kids to enjoy.

Additionally, as soon as the first song began and I realized this was a musical, I was anticipating a duet — or at least an appearance — by Efron and Swift on the soundtrack. Neither of them sang — not even in the finale — and that was a major disappointment for the teenage girl in me.

Even so, the concluding number, “Let it Grow,” is adorable and catchy. I found myself singing it for days afterward.

Despite the movie’s Hollywood-esque copouts, The Lorax is too important and too much fun to miss out on this spring.

Lucy Goss is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ltg7@cornell.edu.

Movies Are Irrelevant T

he Academy Awards, which aired a couple weeks ago, were an explicit ode to old Hollywood.

The evening’s host was Billy Crystal, a veteran whose wrinkled face seemed to wear the battle scars of hosting duties past; the night’s big winner was The Artist, a silent black-and-white movie about the advent of talkies.

And apart from Angelina Jolie’s muchremarked leg slit (it even got its own Twitter account @Angie’s Right Leg), actresses’ dresses were mostly conservative and in the style of old Hollywood icons.

That the movie industry would try so desperately to cling to tradition is not surprising. As many critics, including New York Times writer A. O. Scott, have observed, “the relationship between cinema and its public … has hit a rough patch.”

A shockingly small number of people in the States even saw Best Picture winner The Artist (the movie grossed under $37.5 million domestically).

And as statistics from Nielson show, movie ticket sales are declining annually.

Though Americans consume media at an unprecedented rate, the majority of that consumption is done on laptops and television sets — not in movie theaters.

Film’s position at the top of the pop culture ladder, unchallenged until now, is growing precarious. The Oscar’s nostalgic vibes are indicative of a sense of uneasiness within the film community — a longing to return to better days.

It doesn’t look like this uneasiness will disappear anytime soon though. According

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to cultural critics, America’s “rough patch” with cinema is entirely merited.

You have only to glance over a culture magazine or blog to see that “movies are irrelevant” is fast becoming a contemporary truism.

There are two main reasons why.

First, movies are unpopular; they are increasingly eclipsed by TV. In classrooms, offices, waiting rooms, on street corners people are busy talking about TV shows. I overhear enthusiastic conversations every day about last night’s episode of fill-in-theblank, but I have yet to overhear anyone’talk about Jean Dujardin’s performance in The Artist with the same gusto.

To add insult to injury, critics add that TV is not only more popular than movies, but also better. Cable shows like those on HBO, Showtime or AMC have high-production values, big-name actors and all the raciness and edginess of movies (and often even more).

TV seems to run the gamut. There are shows with universal appeal that tap into

Hannah Stamler The Basement Tapes our collective culture; there are cable shows that take risks films won’t and garner a small, but incredibly loyal following.

So why bother shelling out $10.50 or more to go to the movies? Indie films have half the daring of niche TV series and we can build a greater cultural community through our television sets than the silver screen.

Should we even care about movies anymore?

This is a question film critics are asking and one I often think about. A movie lover since birth, I am terrified by the thought that movies are becoming culturally irrelevant and stale.

And the worst of it is that I feel somewhat responsible. In my column every couple of weeks, I suggest a movie students can take out on DVD at the library. It’s a good premise, I think. But it may also be contributing to the problem of cinema’s downward spiral.

If you’re anything like me and I would imagine most college students are, taking out a DVD means an hour or two alone, laptop whirring away, headphones in.

The experience is a very isolated and personal one.

That film can be personal is, of course, one of its best qualities. In fact, I’ve touted this very characteristic. But it would be wrong to forget that film is at heart a communal experience. As cinema’s origins in fairground tents attest to, movies are meant to be experienced collectively.

With films, amorphous “mass culture” starts with something much more tangible and physical — a dark movie theater with sticky floors and, most importantly, people sitting next to you.

This is, to unapologetically use a cliché, the “magic”of the movies. When we go to the movies we laugh, cry and eye roll in tandem with a group of strangers. It is an incredibly transfixing experience and one that we loose entirely when we watch DVDs. The saving grace of cinema may, ironically, be to refuse innovation. Lose the experience of the movie theaterand you lose the one aspect of cinema that cannot be reproduced.

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My intention in pointing out the centrality of the movie theater is certainly not to negate my own column’s small importance. But I feel it would be wrong to give the (false) impression that to watch a DVD is to understand movies’ cultural cache.

Compared to the community of a movie theater, the community TV produces falls flat. This is especially true as TV moves off our sets and onto our computer screens.

Indicative of TV’s isolating nature, Hulu now even gives its viewers the chance to personalize the advertisements during a half-hour or hour TV segment. Television is a target audience of one — ideal for advertisers, and concerining to anyone invested in mass culture’s future.

Hannah Stamler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hstamler@cornellsun.com. The Basement Tapes appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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team,” Gilbane said. “On the faceoff, it’s a three-man game, [so] the wings get involved and help out.

On defense, it’s six men strong.”

Improving Cornell’s record at the face-off ‘x’ has been a team effort, according to senior midfielder Mitch McMichael. “[Assistant coach Paul] Richards has put in more time to just face-offs in general in practice, with a lot more repetitions,” he said. “In games it’s not so much about what [sophomore midfielder Doug Tesoriero] and I have been doing, but our wings have played a huge part in our success. We win the face-offs, but our wings also bail us out and pick up the balls for us.”

Against Canisius, the Red won 20-of-26 face-offs between Tesoriero and McMichael. Junior defenders Thomas Keith and Jason Noble, as well as sophomore defender Tom Freshour, won six, three and five ground balls for the Red, respectively. Noble also caused three turnovers. Every player on the field contributed to Cornell’s success for the day.

Utilizing all of the available talent on the field has been paramount to the Red’s game plan this season.

“If you look on the box score you can see how many people we got involved offensively,” Gilbane said.

In the last game alone, Cornell had 12 players register points for the Red. Junior attacker Connor

English recorded a career- and game-high five points, while seven of his teammates notched two goals in the victory.

“A lot of our offense works around the team,” McMichael said. “It’s like a little conversation at the end where the offense works together. It’s not predicated on one player. Our team is really deep right now with talent; we don’t rely on one player for all the goals or assists. Our offense doesn’t change that much — you can take one guy out and put one guy in and get the same results.”

It’s the team’s ability to pull deep from the roster that has allowed so many of the players to register playing time. While Cornell has obvious standouts on the roster, Gilbane stressed that every player has the ability to contribute to the team’s success.

“If we play an unselfish brand of lacrosse we can be successful,” he noted. “Not every guy has to do everything.”

Last Tuesday’s contest against Canisius also provided evidence of the squad’s talent base on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.

“Offensively it was great that we got everyone involved,” Austin said. “If you look at the stat sheet at the end of the game … it was balanced and you like to see that as a team. I thought that on defense we really limited [Canisius’] shot selection, which was another sign of improvement. With the face-off play we controlled the tempo of the game and kept [the ball] in our

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‘The Mock 5’ | Junior attacker Steve Mock has scored 10 goals for the Red this season, including five goals in the game against Army on March 3, placing him behind injured senior captain Rob Pannell for the most points on the team.

possession and out of their sticks.”

Cornell will have to play at its top level of competition on Saturday if it hopes to emerge victorious against the Cavaliers.

“Obviously, [Virginia is] an extremely talented team; they play really fast,” McMichael said.

“They have a ton of skill in every position. … I think we are going to keep our game plan the same as for the last couple of games, stick with what we do. If we bring the game plan we’ve been using in the

last week or two, we have a good opportunity to win.”

While for some schools playing against the No. 1-ranked program in the country may seem intimidating, according to Gilbane, the Red is not worried.

“It’s just another game against a good team,” he said. “They are another team that we want to give our best effort and beat … We need to play as hard as we can and as good as we can and if we can do that I believe we can be successful.”

While reasserting his earlier feelings that this weekend will offer Cornell a benchmark for the rest of the season, Austin said he feels excited heading into Saturday’s game.

“It doesn’t add any extra pressure, but it a measuring stick to where we are and what we need to improve on,” he said.

Lauren Ritter can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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C.U. Enters NCAA Tournament for Third Consecutive Year W. HOCKEY

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Hockey East Championship Game in Hyannis, Mass. last weekend.

“B.U. really struggled the first half of their season,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91. “They had a lot of injuries and a lot of people out … The second half was completely different for them — they’ve been one of the best teams in the country — more like the B.U. that we expected them to be this year. I think you’re looking at two of the hottest teams in the country.”

The Terriers started off the season on a good note, earning victories over Cornell’s ECAC rivals Union and St. Lawrence, before suffering a pair of losses to No. 1 Wisconsin. The team then split a series with Boston College and earned three more well-deserved Hockey East victories — before hitting a four-game slide that started at Lynah and marked the beginning of a 10-game period in which the Terriers would suffer eight losses. The team got back on track after a 6-2 win over Vermont on Jan. 21 at Walter Brown Arena, and was able to maintain that course right up until the end of the season. Its only loss since the Vermont victory was a 4-3 overtime defeat in the championship game of the Women’s Beanpot to the No. 9 Northeastern Huskies.

“They’re going to be a better team,” said senior forward Chelsea Karpenko. “They’re going to be hungry to win.

They’re coming off a big victory … and they’re going to want revenge. We beat them twice last time they were here.”

The Terriers were among the women’s hockey elite the last time they made the trek to Lynah, with the games surrounded by fan hype. However, B.U. proved no match for the Red, as Cornell skated away with a pair of clean victories, 3-1, 7-1, on Nov. 25 and 26, respectively. The Terriers are led by senior captain and forward Jenn Wakefield, who has made quite the splash on Commonwealth Avenue since transferring from the University of New Hampshire.

Wakefield has thus far nabbed 54 points on the season, including 28 goals. Between the pipes, BU boasts strong goaltending from sophomore netminder Kerrin Sperry, who was named Hockey East Goaltending Champion last year and who boasts a 2.39 goals against average this season.

While the Red enters the game against B.U. on a disappointing loss, the squad maintains that that defeat will in no way affect its play this weekend, according to Derraugh.

“We learn from every game, win or loss,” he said. “In

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No senioritis here | Senior netminder Amanda Mazzotta sports a .928 save percentage for the season, allowing only 25 goals in 17 games and recording 14 wins and five shut-outs this season.

general I thought we played a pretty good game and I give St. Lawrence credit, they came up with the win. I was pleased with the effort … It was just one of those games, [where] their goaltender got into a rhythm.”

“It was nothing to hang our heads about,” Karpenko said.

The puck drops Saturday afternoon, making the third consecutive time that Cornell has made the NCAA Tournament. The Red made an exit in the semifinals last year and lost the national championship game to Minnesota-Duluth in triple overtime the year before that.

Just as in the last two seasons, Cornell has a real shot at taking the title this year, with the team in full-stride and firing on all cylinders right now.

While the team as a whole is responsible for the squad’s success, big performances have come from senior forward

Icers Set Sights on ECAC Championship Crown

and ECAC Player of the Year Rebecca Johnson, freshman forward and ECAC Rookie of the Yeah Jillian Saulnier, junior defender and ECAC Best Defensive Defenseman Lauriane Rougeau and Karpenko, who was named ECAC Best Defensive Forward. Johnson and junior defender Laura Fortino were also named Top-10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, the most prestigious individual award in women’s college hockey.

Whoever wins the contest between Cornell and B.U. will have a chance to be the first team to snatch the national championship trophy from the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, who has claimed it every season since its inception.

Zach Waller can be reached at zwaller@cornellsun.com.

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ly win a round to move onto Atlantic City for our last weekend at home,” Collins said.

Cornell has been the second seed in the According to Ross, the team has taken ECAC tournament three times in the past this into account as it has begun to pre- four years. Two years ago, the Red won its pare its strategy for the upcoming week- twelfth ECAC championship in Albany, N.Y. The Red’s current veterans are carrying end.

“Knowing that we are going to play the that memory into the postseason with them same team two or three times in a row in this year. “[Last year’s ECAC championship win] our rink, it’s about coming up with a high tempo, high physicality,” he said. “Really was huge for us,” Collins said. “Just the hitting them, grinding them, just kind of feeling of being on a journey with 27 other guys and a coaching staff the whole making them want to quit.”

Schafer also emphasized the impor- year and to finish it off with a champitance of physicality for his team, not just onship is huge. The Ivy League title means a lot to us, but the ECAC championship this weekend, but for the whole season. in the end “I think “As a senior, it is always great to hopefully is what we play our best hockey win a round to move onto Atlantic City for e v e r y team in when we play our last weekend at home.” our league physical,” he shoots said.

“We Sean Collins for.” weren’t very That physical with them last time when we played here, and I being said, the team recognizes that it has don’t think we really turned that corner a long way to go before making it to New until later in the year where we actually Jersey, and that starts with Friday night’s picked up our physicality. So every hit has puck drop. its benefits in a two-game series. You are “Dartmouth just played last weekend,” the team that benefits from it; they don’t Ross said. “They’ve played playoff hockey leave here and go somewhere else the next already and we are going to have to be night. I really don’t think we played very ready for it. Everyone kind of ups their physically against them [last time] … We level during the playoffs — there is more need to be very physical in the first few at stake, your season is on the line. We minutes but be very disciplined, to kind of have to be ready for that. We got them set the tone in our rink for how we want here at Lynah and our plan is just to realto play these two games.” ly play physical and have a high tempo the If the Red wins the best-of-three series whole game and just kind of break their this weekend, it will advance to the ECAC will if we can.”

Hockey semifinals, which will be held on March 16 in Atlantic City, N.J. Dani Abada can be reached at “As a senior, it is always great to hopeful- dabada@cornellsun.com.

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Former men’s basketball center — Jeff Foote ’10 — was called up to the NBA by the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday. A member of the 2010 Sweet Sixteen team, Foote has spent the majority of his time playing overseas since graduating.

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BASEBALL

Red Looks to Continue Perfect Record This Weekend

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It has been 31 years since the baseball team has started its season with a perfect 4-0 record. However, after two doubleheader sweeps of Maryland-Eastern Shore last weekend, Cornell returned to its winning ways. This weekend, the Red travels to Washington, D.C. to face George Washington, where it will try to continue building a solid start to the season.

With four wins under its belt already, the Red (4-0) has a newfound confidence that usually does not come this early in the season. According to senior catcher and captain Brandon Lee, the uncharacteristically good weather during the past few weeks has contributed greatly to that feeling.

“It’s nice to go out and get wins early in the season,” he said.

“We’ve been fortunate Cornell with the good weather, which in the past has hindered us, because we got out on the field earlier this year and vs. had a lot more confidence going into the first game.”

The offense spearheaded the attack George Washington against the Hawks (011). Over the four Saturday, noon games, the Red scored 42 runs, while the Washington, D.C. pitching staff allowed just nine.

“It was good to see them do a few things well,” said head coach Bill Walkenbach. “We had a lot of good at-bats [and] pitchers executed pitches, but this is the first step in a long

journey.”

Sophomore outfielder Chris Cruz led the offense with eight hits, including two doubles and two home runs. Freshman infielder Kevin Tatum also had a solid first outing for the Red, tallying six hits and three RBI’s.

“One big thing [for the offense] was the ability to be out on the field seeing live pitching earlier this season,” Lee said.

“We’ve also returned a lot of key bats in the lineup and brought in an extremely talented freshman class.”

Senior centerfielder Brian Billigen also made a significant contribution to the Red’s offense. He exploded for a team high 10 RBI’s on two doubles, one triple and a homerun. Billigen was named Ivy League Player of the Week after his strong performance.

“Brian is one of the more talented players we’ve had come through here,” Walkenbach said. “He has very quick hands at the plate, so pitchers always have their hands full against him.”

Billigen’s importance to the team also comes with his quickness both on the base paths and in center field, according to Walkenbach.

“He is also one of our two or three fastest players on the base paths,” he said.

“He is the closest thing to a five-tool player we have.”

The Red also saw some solid pitching performances from its underclassmen.

Sophomore Connor Kaufmann started game one, allowing three runs on five hits through five innings. Then senior righthander Jeeter Ishida, in his Cornell debut, got the save. Freshmen Brent Jones and Connor Kaufmann also earned wins in their first starts on the hill for the Red. Jones gave up three hits and no runs in five innings, striking out six players. Two

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Explosive efforts | Senior centerfielder Brian Billigen contributed to the Red’s offense in the first four games of the season, earning accolades as Ivy League Player of the Week.

freshman relievers, Roberto Suppa and Jimmy Sikorski, threw scoreless innings of relief.

“The freshmen will be a big part of the pitching staff,” Lee said. “We have a group of extremely talented young arms, but it is nice to also have a mixture of young and old arms on the staff.”

According to Walkenbach, finding pitchers was a focus of this year’s recruiting class. Of the eleven freshmen on the roster this season, seven are pitchers.

“We brought in a lot of talented arms with the expectation that they would get time,” he said On Saturday, the Red heads to Washington D.C. for a four-game series with George Washington. The Colonials (2-8) are struggling so far this season, but

they have two quality wins over Army and Duke. George Washington also sports a talented pitching staff. In two starts, sophomore Aaron Weisberg has a 1.29 ERA, only allowing nine hits in 14 innings pitched.

“We expect to see a very competitive team with some good left-handed pitching,” Walkenbach said.

The Red, however, is not worrying too much about scouting the Colonials, according to Lee. “We are trying not to get caught up in who we’re playing or who they’ve beaten,” he said. “We are looking to take the series one game and one pitch at a time.”

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

POLO

Cornell Hosts Texas A&M in Final Match of Regular Season

By ANDREA SIELICKI Sun Staff Writer

It’s almost that time of year again that the polo teams work for all season, as the clock ticks down until the regional and national tournaments. This weekend the Red hosts its last regular season games, as both teams head into the regional tournament after spring break. On Friday night, the men go up against Texas A&M at 7:30 p.m., with the women competing at the same time the following evening at the Oxley Equestrian Center.

Coming off a week of rest, the women’s squad looks to use this game as a way to focus on the little things in the team’s game strategy before entering regional play,

according to sophomore Kailey Eldredge.

“Overall, play and communication is a lot better ... Our execution and minor details of hitting and aiming properly and hitting at every opportunity we can possible hit at,” she said. “I think really just our execution is really important. We need to fine tune that before we go into tournament play.”

The squad’s break from competition has given the players the mental breather they needed at this point in the long season, according to head coach David Eldredge ’81.

“There’s sometimes you get going in the year and you actually need a little break to kind of reset things and get your head right

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Fruit of Van Loon | Junior Brandon Van Loon notched four goals in last weekend’s tight 16-15 loss to Kentucky.

and come back out and go at it with a fresh attitude,” he said.

This weekend will be the first face-off this season for Cornell against Texas A&M; however, it will not be the last. The Aggies

State is the favorite. They’re definitely a competitive squad.”

The men are rearing to come back after suffering two consecutive losses, falling first to UVA, 28-4, and then last weekend com-

“The men really want to get things back together and get going. It’s heading into crunch time here.”

David Eldredge ’81 will travel to Ithaca this weekend, with the Red taking to the road and heading down south to compete at Texas’ home arena a week after the regional tournament.

“It will be nice to see them first on our horses in our arena before we go down and see them,” Kailey Eldredge said.

David Eldredge asserts that Texas will be a competitive match for both teams.

“We feel it’s going to be good competition; we feel they should be pretty close to what Kentucky was, a good competitive game, so that’s what we’re hoping for,” the coach said of the A&M men’s team. On the women’s side, David Eldredge predicts that Texas A&M will take second in the central region to Colorado State.

“We think that they are in the mix in the central region, they should come in second in that central region,” he said. “They could come in first, but Colorado

ing up short against Kentucky, 15-14. Junior Connor Pardell noted the importance of Friday night’s game on the chances for a national wild card position. “[Texas A&M is] definitely a good quality team and I think that this team will have great indications for the national tournament,” he said. “By winning this game we increase our chances for the wildcard spot if we don’t win the regional.”

Pardell also mentioned that the Red plans to use this game as a way to work on improving team trust, which he says he believes will enhance the squad’s overall play.

“That’s the biggest issue right now. ... We don’t trust each other to make the right shots and to make the right plays in the game, so we’re not playing as a cohesive unit, and we fall at the end of the game because we don’t play together,” he said. “We have to believe in ourselves and help each

other out, especially when playoffs come, because there’s going to be those close games where you really have to pull them out.”

According to Pardell, the men want to use Texas A&M’s playing style to Cornell’s advantage.

“We want them to play our polo, and make them be more physical because we practice being more physical and we are better at playTexas A&M ing more physically,” he said. “I think that vs. slowing things down a bit and making them work a bit harder, we C.U.’s Men’s Team will be able to have a better Saturday, 7:30 p.m. chance of Oxley Equestrian Center winning this game.”

After facing two tough losses and with this being the last game before the regional tournament, the men are excited to make this game a turnaround point, according to David Eldredge, who noted that time is running out for the season.

“The men really want to get things back together and get going,” he said. “It’s heading down to crunch time here.”

Andrea Sielicki can be reached at asielicki@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Hosts Dartmouth in ECAC Quarterfinals

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After taking advantage of a first round bye to rest and recover from a virus that infected many team members, the Red is back in action and prepared to start postseason hockey. No. 2-seeded Cornell hosts No. 9 Dartmouth for the ECAC Championship quarterfinal series this weekend. In this best-of-three series, the Ivy rivals will face off both Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. at Lynah Rink. If necessary, a third deciding game will be played on Sunday at 7 p.m.

The Red is beginning to make the transition to playoff hockey — as it prepares for a match-up against the Green.

Cornell defeated Dartmouth, 3-2, on the road on Nov. 12.

In January, the Red emerged on top again with a 4-3 overtime win against the Green at Lynah.

“They are a good team, but any team we would have drawn would have been,” said senior defenseman and captain Keir Ross. “You know how our league is — anyone can kind of beat anyone on any given night. Regardless Dartmouth of who we are paying, we are going to have to be at the top of our game this weekend.”

Having already faced Dartmouth twice this season, the team has a better vs. feel for what it can expect to see this weekend. Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 has been preparing his squad with that specific thought in mind.

“They’ve got a good group of forCornell wards up front, that given time and space [are] going to make plays on you Friday, 7 p.m. offensively,” he said. “They are just realLynah Rink ly skilled. They’ve got good sides up front too, so they can have that blend of being able to make some plays on the rush but also they are strong enough to cause you problems down low and bring some pucks to the net. You have to respect that size and strength and their ability, just like any other team. [We need to] create pressure on the backside to make sure they have to give up pucks, and being strong and patient defensively to control them.”

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Golden boy | Junior Greg Miller — the team leader in goals (14), points (26) and rating (plus-19) — was named one of three finalists for the ECAC Hockey Men’s Best Defensive Forward Award on Wednesday.

Some of the players Schafer referred to include Dartmouth senior center Doug Jones, Dartmouth’s leading scorer with 11 goals, who comes into the weekend on a sixgame scoring streak. Sophomore left wing Eric Robinson has also played a stronger game as of late, recording seven points in his last six games.

The Red has used the extra week off not only to recover from injuries and sickness, but also to shift its focus toward playoff hockey, according to senior forward and alternate captain Sean Collins.

“The biggest thing we’ve worked on is probably special teams,” he said. “Obviously, that’s a huge part of the game in

the playoffs, just trying to get pucks through to the net. We know their defense like to block a lot of shots, so just trying to find the right lane is probably going to be one of the biggest things on the rush. Neutral zone, we know they don’t like to step up and they are pretty passive so we can work around that … [our] coaches have done a good job preparing us we will be ready for the weekend.”

An important distinction about this ECAC quarterfinal round is that it is the only time this season that the Red could be seeing the same opponent three days in a row.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Red to Face No.1-Ranked Virginia Cornell Welcomes B.U.

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

With a perfect 3-0 season record, No. 3-ranked Cornell hits the road this weekend, trading a familiar Schoellkopf Field for M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. The Red (3-0) is set to face off against the No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers (6-0) on Saturday afternoon as part of the 2012 Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic.

“We’re very excited to travel down to Baltimore and have the opportunity to play and take on the No. 1 team in the country,” said senior midfielder J.J. Gilbane.

“Everyone is very excited to get down there and show the country what we’re Cornell made of.”

Saturday will mark the sixth meeting between the vs. two programs in the past four years, as the teams squared off twice last Virginia season — including at last Saturday, 1:30 p.m. year’s Face-Off Baltimore, Md. Classic, where the Cavaliers

pulled away with an 11-9 win over the Red. Virginia also shut Cornell down, 13-9, in last season’s NCAA quarterfinals. Despite the Cavaliers leading the series with the Red, 8-3, both schools enter Saturday’s contest with unbeaten records.

According to senior midfielder Scott Austin, the game will serve as a season benchmark.

“We’re very excited to have a game so early in the season against such a quality opponent to test where we’re at so far,” he said.

The past three games have given

the Red an opportunity to grow as a team and develop its brand of play.

While improving at the face-off ‘x’ has been a major focus for the squad this season, improving communication on the field and moving the ball around have also proven to be keys for success, which is evidenced by the 19-4 landslide victory over Canisius (0-1) on March 6.

“What I think we learned most from the game [against Canisius] is how important it is to play as a See M. LACROSSE page 17

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Freshman ferocity | Freshman attacker Matt Donovan notched seven goals and four assists for a combined 11 points in his first three games with the Red.

For First Round of NCAA Tournament

By ZACH WALLER

Saturday at 2 p.m. for this much-anticipated match-up, with a place in the Frozen A three goal deficit and Four on the line. final score of 4-1 brought the The No. 3 Red (29-4-0, Cornell women’s 20-2-0 ECAC hockey team’s season Hockey) is coming to an end last season, Boston University off a tough loss to forcing the squad to No. 7 St. make an early exit in Lawrence, where the national tournaCornell had its ment and sending hopes of winning none other than the ECAC vs.

Boston University to To u r n a m e n t the national champiChampionship onship game. Since dashed. The No. 5 that loss, the Red has Terriers (23-13-1, compiled 29 victories, 14-7-0 Hockey Cornell including two regular East) enter the season wins over the game having won Saturday, 2 p.m.

Terriers. However, all of their last Lynah Rink none of that may seven games, matter now, as the including a Terriers return to thrilling 2-1 douLynah for the third time this ble-overtime victory over season — this time for the Providence College in the first round of the NCAA See W. HOCKEY page 18 Tournament. The puck drops Sun Senior Writer