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Quinn’12 remembered as‘loyal friend,’ ‘mentor’

By ELIZABETH KUSSMAN Sun Staff Writer

Andrew Quinn ’12 died Saturday in a hit-and-run accident while crossing the West Side Highway in New York City. Quinn, a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration, was remembered as a model Cornellian and an exceptional brother of the Delta Upsilon fraternity by friends.

“Quinn was one of the most dedicated and fun-loving people I knew,” Steve Gravani ’12 said. “He was always the guy to put a smile on your face, regardless of the situation.”

Within hours of hearing about Quinn’s death, brothers of the Delta Upsilon fraternity were booking flights to New York City to share memories of Quinn and to support his friends and family, according to a statement released by Quinn’s pledge class. Current brothers gathered at The Chapter House to share stories about Quinn, according to the statement.

“Andrew was a loyal friend to us all; he was funloving, talented and ambitious,” the brothers wrote.

QUINN ’12 “We are stunned by his loss and simply can’t believe that we won’t be able to live out the rest of our lives with him. However, we are grateful for the time we spent with him and will cherish his memory forever.”

Gravani said that Quinn was extremely hardworking, serving as a mentor to fellow hotelies in addition to being an exemplary brother of Delta Upsilon.

“He was truly a model Cornellian and D.U. [brother], and I hope that he will be remembered for the positive impact he had on his friends, classmates See QUINN page 5

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Bearing injustice | A bouncer at Morrie’s, a former Collegetown bar, attempts to force out Gay Liberation supporters with a baseball bat in October 1970.

University Reflects on Shift in LGBT Presence on Campus

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s LGBT Resource Center promotes an understanding of issues pertinent to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning community on campus, according to students and administrators. But some community members said that it would have been hard to imagine such a center decades ago, when Cornell’s LGBT presence was largely kept hidden.

Formed in 1994, the LGBT Resource Center was originally run by three full-time staff members until the economic downturn in 2009, according to its current director, Matt Carcella.

“All three of the people who were in those positions happened to leave those positions around the same time,” Carcella said.

“Because of the situation that Cornell was in financially, the department was able to rehire one See LGBT page 4

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Marissa Tranquilli ’15 and Yolanda Li ’15 present children with arts and crafts at the Hilltop Jamboree Community Carnival in Barton Hall Saturday.

Logevall Named Vice Provost for Int’l Relations Goals include strengthening C.U. Abroad

By SARAH MEYERS

encouraging that many students come to Cornell hoping to study abroad and said Frederik Logevall, direc- that he sees part of his job as tor of the Mario Einaudi “facilitating” just that.

Center for International “Students are coming in Studies, was appointed vice with a desire to have a crossprovost for international cultural awareness and edurelations. cation,” Logevall said. “One Logevall said his experi- of the things the task force ences working with Alice discussed [was] how to Pell, the current vice provost include a strong internationof international relations, al component in each of and his background as a his- Cornell’s colleges.” torian of the United States Logevall said that he and foreign relations has hopes to secure funding for a helped prepare him for the variety of programs that position. expand students’ Logevall, cross-cultural whose five-year knowledge in term begins July order to “offer a 1, emphasized robust array of that it is imporforeign languages tant for Cornell and strengthen to maintain a Cornell Abroad.” global focus in an Still, Logevall “increasingly sees challenges PROF. LOGEVALL interconnected ahead. world,” and said he hopes to “I think we’ve lost some focus on improving Cornell’s of the stature that we have, in international studies and terms of international programs. engagement,” Logevall said.

Logevall said he sees his “We have a very eminent role as vice provost as “advis- position in international ing President [David studies, that has eroded, to Skorton] and Provost [Kent some extent, over the last Fuchs] as we begin to think three or four decades.” about how to strengthen Logevall attributes this Cornell’s international “relative slip” to the fact that, dimension, helping realize post-World War II, Cornell the president’s vision pre- was “a pioneering institution sented in his white paper, with regard to international and supervising some of the studies … but since then, stuff we’re already doing at other universities have the University, in terms of caught on and other instituprograms, teaching, faculty tions have been emulating and outreach.”

Logevall said he finds it See VICE PROVOST page 5

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News The Best College Town

Ithaca was ranked as the best college town in the U.S. for the second year in a row. | Page 3

Opinion Preserving Knowledge

In light of ongoing conflicts and wars around the world, Ariel Smilowitz ’15 stresses the importance of preserving historical and cultural narratives through library archives. | Page 8

Opinion Mean Green

Reflecting on the decision of the New York Times to eliminate the environment desk, Jing Jin ’13 hopes that good environmental coverage will continue despite general cuts to news publications. | Page 9

Arts The Beloved Morrison

As Arielle Cruz ’15 reflects upon Toni Morrison’s visit to Cornell, she admits that she was bothered by Morrison’s assertion that there is no writer who truly writes about goodness. | Page 10

Sports Icing It

After two consecutive wins against St. Lawrence and Harvard, the women’s hockey team was crowned the 20122013 ECAC hockey champion. | Page 20

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Ithaca Ranked No.1College Town for Second Time

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca was ranked as the best college town for towns under 250,000 residents in the United States, a ranking that some Ithaca residents said reflects their perception of the city.

This is the second time Ithaca has been rated ranked number one –– the first time it was ranked best was in 2010-2011. The ranking was based on a variety of factors including its academic environment, quality of life and professional opportunities. The report with the ranking was published by the American Institute for Economic Research in October.

According to the report, Ithaca has the highest number of college students per 1,000 population, the highest percentage of population ages 25 to 34 with a bachelor’s degree or higher and the highest percentage of workers who commute on foot, bicycle or public transportation.

“Ithaca [is] a great place to live and everything. ... I know a fair amount of people that are happy, even people who work in service sector jobs,” said Pete Meyers, coordinator at the Tompkins County Workers Center.

Zach Shulman, senior lecturer of management, said that professional opportunities have been expanding in Ithaca.

“There really has been a blossoming of entrepreneurial activity in terms of companies that are starting here [and] students who are interested in entrepreneurship and starting companies while they’re students or faculty and staff starting companies as well,” Shulman said.

Shulman added that Ithaca is attractive for both families and businesses because it has a rich natural setting and has “great” educational opportuni-

ties.

“I asked a guy why he chose to settle here, and he said that it’s the best city between New York and Toronto,” Shulman said.

Shulman added that the supportive nature of the Ithaca government — in addition to its thriving population — is another factor that contributes to Ithaca’s status as best college town, even though the city may not have a lot of money.

“The city is very supportive, but it doesn’t have a lot of money to throw around,” Shulman said.

“We have a growing base of people, we have lots of people wanting to start companies, we have a lot of research coming out of Cornell which produces good technology and it’s a right mixture,” he said.

In order to have a better entrepreneurial environment, however, the city needs to provide space for business startups, according to Shulman.

Cornell provides assistance to students wanting to start a business through eLab. However there is no requisite space for companies to set up shops in Ithaca, according to Shulman.

Another component of the study analyzed the “brain gain or drain,” which is the year over year ratio of population living with a B.A. degree.

Ithaca was the fifth highest in the brain gain category.

Speaking about brain drain and gain, Michael Stramm, president of Tompkins County Area Development, said that Ithaca’s success depends on keeping jobs and expanding the workforce.

“If we can create a broad range of employment opportunities working with these entrepreneurs, we’ll be able to keep our own population and attract new people who want to work,” he said.

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Adam Schorer speaks after a screening of his film, The Highest Pass, Saturday in the Willard Straight Hall Cinema.

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Activist Group Condemns Harvard’s Link to Gunmakers THE HARVARD CRIMSON

A student and alumni activist group criticized Harvard this week for its investment in an index fund that is a major shareholder of firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson.

The Responsible Investment at Harvard Coalition pointed out the connection in an emailed press release on Tuesday. Although not included in the press release, a second major firearm manufacturer –– Sturm, Ruger, & Co., Inc. –– is also linked to Harvard through the same index fund.

Harvard’s connection to these gunmakers is distant.

The Harvard Management Company’s most recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate no direct holdings in arms man-

ufacturers, but rather an investment in a massive portfolio of companies that represent countless industries in the American economy, including gun manufacturing. HMC manages the University’s $30 billion endowment.

In these filings, HMC reported that it has nearly $3 million invested in the iShares Russell 2000 Index Fund –– a portfolio of 2,000 American companies. According to financial magazine Barron’s, the Russell 2000 Index Fund is considered to be representative of changes in the broader American economy.

Harvard’s investment in the index fund drew attention from Responsible Investment at Harvard because the Russell 2000 is a major shareholder in Smith & Wesson and Sturm,

Ruger, & Co., Inc., which are two of the country’s top gun manufacturers.

“I think the key takeaway

here is that Harvard’s money … is going to support the manufacture and production of assault weapons,” said Nicole E. Granath ’15, co-director of Responsible Investment at Harvard. She added that even though the investment is indirect, any amount of money going to gunmakers is symbolic of support for the industry.

Harvard spokesperson Kevin Galvin said that while the University does not comment on specific holdings, HMC’s strategy includes both internally and externally managed investments including exchange funds that “track broad swaths of the markets.”

The press release alluded to a national debate over gun control policies that has been galvanized in recent months by mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn.

“Given the tragedy in Newton and the fatal shooting on campus four years ago, Harvard’s failure to address these holdings is shocking,” said Kevin S. Wang ’16 in the press release.

Wang is Responsible Investment at Harvard’s investments coordinator. “Stopping

gun violence should be a critical concern for the University, and severing financial ties with these companies is a good first step,” he said.

Responsible Investment at Harvard’s press release added that the $244 billion pension fund for California government employees divested from index funds connected to Smith & Wesson after the Newtown shooting. Several other major public pension funds across the country have done the same.

Granath said her group’s discovery points to what she believes is a larger problem at Harvard –– the lack of a clear, consistent policy toward weighing social concerns when making investment decisions.

This story was originally published in The Harvard Crimson Friday.

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Three Cornell Fraternities Suspended Due To Hazing Allegations

As a result of hazing allegations made about two weeks ago through Cornell’s online anonymous hazing-prevention website, three fraternities — Sigma Nu, Chi Psi and Delta Phi — were suspended, the University announced March 3.

Google Will Fund Cornell MOOC

COURTESY OF WILLIAM DIBERNARDO ’11

Architecture students begin putting up a new mural Saturday to mark the beginning of Dragon Week, which culminates in the annual Cornell tradition, Dragon Day.

With a $50,000 grant from Google, four Cornell professors will transform their class –– ‘Six Pretty Good Books: Explorations in Social Science’ –– into a massive open online course, or MOOC, enabling them to offer the course to countless students worldwide for free, according to the University.

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Students: LGBT Resource Center Is‘ Home Away From Home’

Org.has developed multifaceted presence on campus since 90’s,Carcella says LGBT

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of the positions. They chose to rehire the director position.”

When Carcella became director in the summer of 2009, the resource center was very “fragmented,” according to Carcella.

Still, even though the center faced financial struggles, it has come a long way from the past, when LGBT students’ presence on campus was mostly concealed, according to Genny Beemyn ’89, current director of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s LGBT resource center.

The first signs of LGBT presence on campus came in the form of the Student Homophile League, Cornell’s first LGBT student organization and the second gay rights group on a college campus, according to Breemyn.

Cornell’s Student Homophile League was officially founded in 1968, and at first received primarily skeptical and negative publicity. According to Beemyn, the league was mostly underground, with members operating under pseudonyms and including straight members to reduce stigma for its gay members.

As it became more active in fighting for civil rights, the

Student Homophile League was address LGBT issues,” Carcella policies in place for LGBT sturenamed the Gay Liberation said. “At an institution like dents, are colleges that have Front in 1970, and was gradual- Cornell, which is so large and LGBT centers,” Beemyn said. ly joined by other student so wide-reaching in its pro- “If you have an LGBT center, it groups across the country, grams, and a very diverse cam- means you have somebody mostly without the support of pus, [there] definitely needs to whose job it is to get these kinds University-sponsored LGBT have an LGBT center on cam- of policies in place, to try to centers, according to Breemyn. pus in order to serve its stu- create a supportive atmosphere In response to larger num- dents, its staff, and its faculty.” on campus for LGBT people.”

Though Beemyn found that bers of students coming out, According to Breemyn, fewer more student initiatives, some than 200 colleges or universities student-run groups are not as bias incidents and protests, in the country have a staff able to address issues as an offiLGBT centers began popping member who is paid to do cial center, Breemyn’s research up around the country in the LGBT work on campus, evi- shows that LGBT student 1990s, according to Beemyn. denced by their presence in the groups have often influenced the inception of LGBT “When I was at centers, as well as their Cornell back in the “The resource center has grown to be 80s, we were trying to this community space that LGBT student levels of inclusion.

Looking to the advocate for there to future, Carcella said he be an LGBT center and straight allies can find comfort in. I would like there to be and really had no hope students ... feel empowered by more focus on educaluck,” Beemyn said. tion about gender and “It took a while to how far we’ve come.” sexuality, as well as build up the momen- Olivia Tai ’11 increased awareness for tum to make that social justice at happen. …

Cornell.

Institutions look at “Everyone on campus has a what other institutions are LGBT Consortium of Higher doing. Students saw that other Education. This number is very sexual orientation,” Carcella schools were doing it, and gave low compared to all institutions said. “Everyone has a gender them the ability to tell their in the U.S., according to identity, everyone has a way they express that gender … institutions.”

Carcella.

Beemyn, who has published Moving forward, the work that Carcella said that it is important for Cornell to have a staff- several articles regarding LGBT we should be doing is about run LGBT center, even though youth, recently performed a supporting everyone in their there are active LGBT student study that affirmed the helpful- ability to be their ideal person, ness of an official university to explore these notions of sexorganizations on campus. uality and gender, and to help “To me, it is really important center for LGBT students.

“The colleges that are the them understand where and to have an administrative voice and a seat at the table within most LGBT-friendly, colleges how they can form communithe university structure to that have the most supportive ties around their identity.”

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Tai said she finds the resource center to be invaluable not only to the University, but to her personal growth.

“The LGBT resource center is essential to maintaining a strong and supportive LGBT community at Cornell,” Tai said. “The resource center has grown to be this community space that LGBT student and straight allies can find comfort in. I hope that students can look back at our history and feel empowered by how far we’ve come.”

Current students echoed Tai’s sentiments, saying that the LGBT Resource Center is a site for support.

“It helped me become a leader,” said Nick Chartrain ‘13, a co-facilitator of the malefocused sub-group of Haven, OUTReach. “It gives me purpose.”

Both the outgoing and incoming presidents of Haven, Emily Bick ’13 and Jadey Huray ’14 say they have found the resource center’s support — especially through director Matt Carcella, who also advises Haven — invaluable in fostering a sense of community.

“It’s a home away from home,” Huray said.

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Quinn Was‘Dedicated’ Logevall: C.U.Can Excel in Int’l Studies And ‘Warm,’ Friends Say C.U. must ‘reclaim an eminent position’ to make grads competitive VICE PROVOST

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and colleagues,” Gravani said.

Lizzie Brooks ’14 remembered Quinn as a warm and genuine person who was never without a smile.

“He took time to be a friend, listened to what you had to say and loved to share with others what he enjoyed,” Brooks said. “He made such an impression.”

As a Cornell undergraduate student, Quinn impressed professors of the hotel school as part of a team of six undergraduate students from Cornell’s minor in real estate to earn first place against ten other universities in the Cornell International Real Estate Case Competition, a competition in which teams analyzed and presented investment recommendations to a board of judges.

Siheng Han ’12, who worked closely with Quinn during the competition, described Quinn as a great teammate and friend. “[He was] so dedicated that he could tell the difference between an Arial-styled question mark and a Verdana question mark,” Han said.

“I really want to thank him for being a good friend,” Han added.

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what Cornell has done. It’s a compliment, in a way, and also to be expected. Pioneers don’t remain pioneers forever.”

However, he said he has also seen “a disconnect between words and action.”

“We have many faculty and many departments that are world leaders, and there is a lot of great international work being done at the University,” Logevall said. “But in previous decades, we haven’t always made the kind of commitment as a University that we needed to make, in this area.”

Logevall said he believes that the appropriate allocation of resources is crucial to accomplishing his goals as vice provost and securing Cornell’s future as a leader in international studies.

“The challenge will be to maintain the strengths that we have and build on them, to identify new areas where we could make strategic investments and really try to build up what we’re doing, and to make sure that we involve all parts of the campus. A key part of this is going to be to secure the necessary resources — fundraising, seeking outside support as well as support from within,” Logevall said.

Looking ahead, Logevall said that Cornell has the potential to return to its former status as a forerunner in international programs.

“We can really do a lot to reclaim an eminent position in international studies, international programs, international engagement, in order to prepare our graduates to compete and thrive in a world that is growing more and more interconnected,” he said. “It is imperative for universities to be actively involved with the rest of the world.”

Sarah Meyers can be reached at smeyers@cornellsun.com.

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Penn.Residents:Gas Drilling ContaminatesWater

PITTSBURGH (AP) — What causes clear, fresh country well water to turn orange or black, or smell so bad that it’s undrinkable?

Residents of a western Pennsylvania community have been trying for more than a year to get that question answered in their quest to get clean water back.

Some of them say the water was spoiled by drilling deep underground for natural gas.

Others point to pollution from old coal mines. They’ve also been told it could even be a baffling mix of natural and manmade rea-

sons that change the water over time, like the leaves change on trees. But no one knows for sure, and they say the uncertainty is maddening.

In late 2011, the drinking water for about a dozen residents in the Woodlands, a rural community about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, began to change. At first, the families blamed gas drilling, or fracking, being done 2000 feet away. But state tests showed the water wasn’t contaminated by drilling, and even more confusingly, many of their neighbors reported no problems.

Families with bad water then

turned to federal officials. But last summer the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency quietly sent a letter to one resident, Janet McIntyre, saying the agency agreed with the state finding, since most of the chemicals found in the water could have occurred naturally.

McIntyre wasn’t satisfied, noting that the EPA “never set foot on my property to test the water themselves.” The EPA didn’t respond to a request for comment on why the agency didn’t retest the water.

Still, the residents with water problems were hopeful that the

Atlanta-based U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry was looking at the issue.

But last month the agency said it “is not actively investigating complaints from this area.”

“I’m just very, very frustrated,” McIntyre said.

So was John Stolz.

He’s the director of the Duquesne University Center for Environmental Research in Pittsburgh. Stolz said state and federal agencies failed to do detailed reviews, so a Duquesne team has been monitoring water quality and surveying households in the Woodlands, in what is one

of the most in-depth surveys of alleged impacts of gas drilling in the nation. With funding from two foundations, a team has regularly tested area water for more than a year.

“We’ll see black water, we’ll see orange water, there’s often times an odor,” Stolz said.

Overall, about 50 out of the 150 households in the community have complaints. “There are certain areas that clearly don’t have any problems,” Stoltz said.

And, he added, a well that has bad water one month may be clear the next, and a few homeowners even say that their well water improved after gas drilling began.

Even in areas with no nearby oil and gas drilling, the water quality in some aquifers changes naturally, groundwater experts say.

“It varies even within the same aquifer. It can vary from the top of the aquifer to the bottom, and from one side to the next,” said Mike Paque, executive director of the Oklahoma-based Ground Water Protection Council.

The wells themselves may be causing the problem, too. Stoltz said the depths vary from 90 feet to 900 feet deep, with an average of about 130 feet. Pennsylvania is one of the only states with no standards for rural water well construction, meaning multiple other factors could be contributing to the problems.

Others say the cause could be old coal mines or old oil and gas wells that date back to the 1800s.

Shafts from old mines lie under the region, said Butler County commissioner William L. McCarrier, who worked as a water well driller in the area during the 1970s. Those can fill with water, and that water then gets contaminated. He said pollution from old mines and wells was a common problem long before the recent gas drilling boom, which began about five years ago, adding that the situation is more complicated than many outsiders realize.

“It’s very unclear where the problem came from,” McCarrier said. He said he accepts the state finding that drilling didn’t cause the problem, but that authorities are still trying to find solution for the people who say their water is undrinkable.

That has put local officials in the middle of a fight.

The Woodlands is an unincorporated area that was laid out with no rights of way for public water or sewer lines, and even the idea of extending a public water line to the area has created divisions. Some people who live within a quarter mile of McIntyre say they have no water problems whatsoever, and they don’t want to pay for improvements they don’t see a need for.

McIntyre said a water company is willing to bring a feed line to the edge of the community and put a pump house in. But the Woodlands residents would still need to form an association to manage and pay for water lines and hookups.

Residents met in January with lawyers to discuss filing lawsuits.

But one expert said any claim would be complicated by the variations in water quality and the lack of a contamination finding from state or federal agencies.

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New York Budget Slated for Early Approval ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s budget battles have a colorful history of power plays, finger-pointing and deadlines missed by months. By comparison, this year’s may be one of the dullest as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature head toward adopting a widely supported spending plan early and without drama.

“And that’s good,” said Elizabeth Lynam of the independent Citizens Budget Commission. “The track seems to be pretty greased for an early budget this year. It’s another year where we don’t have to look like the poster child for late budgeting.”

The Senate and Assembly are expected to announce their proposed changes to Cuomo’s $143 billion budget Monday or Tuesday, though closed-door negotiations among legislative leaders and the governor have been under way for weeks.

The budget is scheduled to be adopted by March 21, 10 days before it is due. Part of the pressure comes from the Legislature’s Passover and Easter break, which begins March 22 and continues to April 14.

Cuomo has proposed a budget with about a 2 percent increase in state spending. It has no new taxes although he proposes to extend some business taxes that were supposed to expire and continue five years of annual increases in public college tuition. The current deficit

is about $1 billion, compared with a $10 billion gap in Cuomo’s first budget, in 2011.

“Our budget gaps are fairly reasonable by historic standards,” said Lynam. “We think there is a lot to like in the budget proposal that the Legislature has in front of them and they should keep to it and pretty much keep spending growth restrained.

“It’s not the time to say, ‘We are done with all this and it’s time to spend,’” she said.

The Legislature traditionally adds less than 1 percent the budget, usually in the areas that hit New Yorkers most such as school aid, taxes, fees and health care.

Senate Republicans want $2 billion in tax cuts and credits for businesses, farmers and the middle class along with incentives to create jobs. The measure may be tied to raising the minimum to wage to as high as $9 an hour, as proposed by the Democrat-led Assembly, but it appears any debate on wages may wait until after the budget is passed.

Other proposals to increase the budget include finding more than $250 million for New York City schools. They lost their 4 percent increase in aid because Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to agree with a teachers union on evaluations.

The Alliance for Quality Education is also pushing for $350 million more aid for all schools, with larger shares to

poorer schools.

Cuomo notes his 4 percent increase in school aid is larger than most areas of the budget.

The AQE, however, argues that flat budgets and previous cuts have hurt schools and cut teachers and programs. A 2 percent cap on local school property taxes enacted by Cuomo and the Legislature is another choke point, according to AQE. Resolving the issues and delivering a March 21 budget would make it the earliest since at least 1975. Three since 1997 have dragged into August.

The cause for on-time budgets is more than Albany getting religion on fiscal matters.

Former Gov. David Paterson successfully tested a law that gives governors more power in budgeting. If the April 1 deadline is missed, a governor can impose his budget as part of emergency spending measures.

The Legislature can either approve it all or risk shutting down government and getting the blame.

And Cuomo continues to make the process more orderly.

He sticks to spending increases of no more than 2 percent and the most contentious negotiations over school aid are tamed by tying increases to a formula for growth that considers inflation.

As past governors and legislators have done, issues not easily resolved in the budget are put off until later in the half-year

session. Among those issues this year appear to be raising the minimum wage and Cuomo’s proposed approval of three or more casinos.

“We still believe we can get (minimum wage) in the budget,” said Sen. Diane Savino, a Democrat from Staten Island.

“But we are in the budget season, and everyone is posturing.”

Cuomo and legislative lead-

ers were mum after one of the closed-door sessions last week, even downplaying any agreements or progress. Traditionally, that kind of reaction is meant to keep lobbyists and frustrated rank-and-file members from prying apart individual deals as a budget agreement draws near.

“There’s nothing out (of the budget) until you have a budget,” Cuomo said afterward.

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or as long as civilization has existed so has war, along with all of the destruction and devastation that it entails. The 20th century, however, was arguably the bloodiest chapter in our historical narrative. In light of the war on terrorism, the U.S. invasion in Iraq and the Arab Spring, among other global conflicts and disasters, the 21st century seems to be following a similar path.

With this in mind, what exactly defines a war, conflict or period of time as “bloody?” Is it the loss of human life, stagnation of development and progress or simply a lack of peace between different peoples, ethnic groups and nations?

When one thinks of war and conflict and all of the destruction that comes along with it, it is easy to forget a very significant and devastating casualty: the loss of our collective memory of the past.

From the Ancient Library of Alexandria to the National Libraries and State Archives of Iraq, oftentimes libraries, books and human knowledge are the victims of invading forces, gunshots and bombs. In the second issue of the magazine, Document Journal, art historian Zainab Bahrani recounts witnessing the destruction of Baghdad’s National Library in 2003 after U.S. forces invaded Iraq: “A centuries old archive of not only state events and political concerns, but also the Ottoman era documents of people’s lives ... of inheritance and kinship ties [that] had been both burned in fire and damaged by water … These are what form the stuff of documents in a literate culture… In Iraq of 2003, the loss of the archives was the first step to the loss of a national collective memory.”

According to Bahrani, soon after the invasion of Iraq, looters stole manuscripts, documents and cuneiform tablets that were up to hundreds, even thousands, of years old, while U.S. forces confiscated Baathist secret police archives of historical and political importance, which are now housed in the Hoover Institute at Stanford. Ultimately, the destruction of this library effectively helped eradicate thousands of years of human history — modern-day Iraq is located where ancient Mesopotamia, or the world’s first literate culture, used to exist. The confiscation of the remaining documents and manuscripts by foreign powers facilitates the ongoing conflicts within the region, those who wish to incite violence, genocide, and intolerance can easily rewrite and recreate history — especially since there isn’t a collective narrative to fall back on.

Furthermore, those foreign powers that do have the remnants of another group’s

historical and cultural narrative can manipulate and distort that narrative as well, making it even harder to ensure peace and progress.

Although you may not realize it, the effects of the destruction and confiscation of a nation’s collective memory can be seen within the stacks of our own University’s libraries and collections.

Cornell University’s Asia Collections and Rare and Manuscript Collections are housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library.

Between both divisions, millions of print volumes including manuscripts, books, maps, photographs, prints and documents are stored, including microfilms and other types of visual media.

According to materials available at Kroch, the library’s Indonesian collection holds archives that aren’t available within Indonesia itself as a result of political restrictions and other conditions.

Furthermore, very few manuscripts and books survived the Khmer Rouge of the 1970’s in Cambodia, and as a result, Cornell’s Division of Asian Collections has received grants of support to microfilm these remaining archives, so that these libraries in the region can receive copies to help rebuild their historical and cultural collections.

When it comes down to it, the chaos that arises from war lies not only in the destruction of human lives, but also in the destruction of human knowledge, culture, history and memory. As Bahrani laments, this “collective amnesia” only fosters more destruction and propagates more war, as it allows those who wish to incite conflict to control, manipulate and rewrite our historical record. Thus, as long as those people continue to erase and control mankind’s cultural and historical narratives, and as long as foreign invaders confiscate and manipulate important political and historical archives, countries like Iraq, Indonesia and other nations around the world will never truly be peaceful. However, there still is hope, and it lies in the collections and libraries around the world like Kroch. These libraries exist for the sake of research, education of the public, and preservation of cultural and historical narratives — our cultural and historical narratives. So, the next time you check out a book or manuscript from Kroch, remember that you are contributing to the conservation of the world’s collective memory.

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

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Long Live The Lefty

efties, read this to equip yourself with the necessary knowledge to combat right-handed misers and, dare I say, left-handed apologists who will stop at nothing to diminish your gift. If you are not one of the fortunate few lefties, still read on to learn how you might easily help lessen the disparity between the life expectancies of lefties and righties.

Left-handers have been shunned for more than 6,000 years, often by people who would respond to this charge with an indignant, “Impossible!” Less than 70 years ago, my grandmother had her left hand tied behind her back by scurrilous nuns who called left-handedness “Satan’s curse.” Understandably, this caused psychological damage.

It is one thing to be told you are the devil’s spawn; it is another altogether to know the appendage that wrote ideas and works such as the Special Theory of Relativity and The Metamorphosis is deteriorating.

I spent two months this winter in India. It saddened me to see that lefties are ostracized and virtually non-existent. During one meal, I picked up my puri with my left hand and before I could reach my mouth the stranger across the table said in a stern tone, “Stop that. What are you doing? Your left hand is dirty and your right one is blessed.” What a coincidence, I thought, that the hand with which the gentleman was more coordinated happened to be the sacred one. After being interrupted, I heard the man and his friends discussing Gandhi. I asked him if he knew that Gandhi had been left-handed.

“Impossible,” he said. “Gandhi was a great man, he couldn’t have been.” While I shrugged off the man’s unintentional insult, knowing that young left-handed children in the 21st century are still being forced into right-handedness troubled me. Where I lived in southern India, the left hand was for wiping one’s rear and the right was for the important stuff, regardless of one’s natural proclivity (I was, however, delighted to visit a Montessori preschool outside of Mysore, India, that encouraged its students to use either hand).

Left-handers have been shunned for more than 6,000 years, often by people who respond to this charge with an indignant, “Impossible!”

While most American lefties no longer undergo such blatant discrimination, there is another insidious force at play today. Left-handed people must submit to a world set up for right-handers. We use right handed mouses, paper, binders, knives, scissors, handshakes, belts, watches, microscopes, workstations, can-openers, buzzsaws, school desks, twist-off lids, mugs with illustrations, microwaves and subway ticket taker machines among countless others.

In three out of my four classes this semester there is not a single left-handed desk in the room. When I point this out people say, “So what? Just reach across to the right.”

Imagine having an armrest instead of a writing surface on which to take timed tests.

To some righties I’m sure these inconveniences seem unimportant at best and simply annoying at worst. There is, however, a legitimate concern for lefties in America.

According to a study in Neuropsychologia, within the population of 10 year-olds, 15 percent are left-handed.

Within the population of 90 year-olds, though, there are almost no lefties — for lack of a better word — left. Lefthanded men have an average life expectancy of 62 years, a full 16 years less than the 2010 overall average life expectancy 78. And lefties are between 1.2 to 1.8 times more likely to suffer fatal accidents. In other words, being left handed in a right-handed world is dangerous. Lefties are also much more likely to suffer from heart problems according to a study in the Clinical EEG & Neuroscience Journal. Could this be the result of the added stresses that come with being a lefty in righty’s world?

The next time one of you righties thinks about taking that lefty aisle seat in class, please don’t, and for those of you doing Teach for America next year, buy a few pairs of left-handed scissors for your students. Because who knows, you might help save a lefty’s life.

S.D. Seppinni is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at s.d.seppinni@cornellsun.com. Letters from a Young Curmudgeon appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Ringing True

The Green Beat Takes a Beating T

he recent cuts to published what the print humans’ role in creating environment and edition missed. While the the environment. There is climate reporting at decision to eliminate the evidence that multifaceted the nation’s largest dailies environment desk was sup- stories make for news have been roundly criti- posedly made to increase worth reading. University cized as a fateful blunder the relevance and audience of Colorado professor Max by journalists and readers. of environmental news, it’s Boykoff has identified four In January, The New York important for the public to main themes in climate Times announced that it hold the editors account- reporting — political, sciwas dismantling the envi- able for better integrating entific, meteorological and ronment desk, reassigning, environmental stories into cultural. When one or but not firing, the two edi- political, business and more of these themes are tors and seven reporters in societal news. Zivkovic addressed in a story, “covthe section. Similarly, The said he sees potential for erage intensifies and is susWashington Post is reas- the restructuring to push tained.” signing its lead climate environmental But couldn’t the human angles reporter, Juliet Eilperin, to “everywhere, in all sections angle have been brought cover the White House. of the paper.” He seems to into environmental stories Most recently, The Times, think “the greens” can sub- as effectively as bringing at the strategic hour of 5 versively gain a monopoly the environp.m. on Friday March 1, gave the pink slip to the Green blog, a platform which many had If The Times can’t support hoped would compen- environmental coverage, I’m sate for the move away hardpressed to think of any from focused environmedia outlet that can or will. mental coverage.

Slate noted that blogs such as Carpetbagger, which discusses awards shows, on reporting, and he fit- mental angle into human were kept on the payroll, tingly uses economic ter- interest stories? I have perhaps indirectly leading minology to describe the indeed noticed more freSeth MacFarlane to quip ideal shift: “Instead of the quent and broad mentions on Twitter: “Hey press — environmental vertical, of environment and cliy’know that frenzy you The New York Times will mate concerns in the whipped up over the now have an environmen- Times, but a paragraph Oscars? Try using the same tal horizontal.” toward the end of a story zeal over climate change.

Andrew Revkin, author hardly does justice to the Just once. Make yourself of The Times’ Dot Earth hugeness and complexity useful.” blog, somewhat dramati- of these concerns. These While I disapprove of cally made the same point angles best serve as a comthe cut that The Times on his Facebook page after plement, not a replacechose to make under bud- the environment desk’s ment, for full environmengetary pressures that are dissolution, saying that the tal coverage. choking the entire indus- desk had been a ghetto for Financial pressures try, I have silly hope that the topic and for the forced the Times to priorithe environment desk and reporters. I agree with him tize, and the same is true the Green blog are only when he says, for individual reporters. getting left out in the rain “Environment is not a When their job is to cover temporarily — not being beat.

Environmental the White House or techbooted out forever. impacts are a result of nology, they simply cannot Bora Zivkovic, blogs human decisions and devote as much time to editor at Scientific actions.” researching and reporting American, saw the Green Any writing — in jour- environmental issues. And blog as a way to pull those nalism, nonfiction, prose really, if the Times can’t already interested in envi- or poetry — that focuses support environmental ronmental issues to a com- solely on the environment coverage, I’m hard-pressed prehensive site, which can potentially obscure to think of a media outlet

that can or will.

Last year, even as worldwide climate coverage continued its threeyear decline, the Times published the most stories of any news outlet on climate change. Glenn Kramon, an editor who has been reassigned to technology from the environment desk, said then that “climate change is one of the few subjects so important that we need to be oblivious to cycles and just cover it as hard as we can all the time.” He even specifically attributed the paper’s success to the growth of the environment desk over the past four years.

As expected, there have been no public complaints from politicians or companies about the restructuring, which may lead to a decline in the volume and quality of environmental coverage — as I suspect it will.

News of corporate action and government inaction that goes unreported doesn’t enter into the public conversation on environmental protection and climate change solutions. Further, environmental coverage becomes curated by special interest sites and individuals, like Andrew Revkin. Those uninterested in the environment will never seek out these sources, and those interested in the environment will not receive balanced and in-depth reporting. In the end, we all take a beating.

Jing Jin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jingjin@cornellsun.com. Ringing True appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Translating Goodness:

An Evening With Toni Morrison MFA’55

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Last Thursday, Cornell welcomed back author and professor Toni Morrison MFA ’55 for a public conversation about her novels and other works. Prof. Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor of English, Princeton University has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved. She is the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Africana Center Director Prof. Gerard Aching M.A. ’90 Ph. D. ’91, German studies, set the stage for what would be an intimate conversation-style interview between Morrison and long-time colleague Prof. Claudia Brodsky, Princeton University, Comparative Literature, saying, “personal empathies are rare, valuable and worthy of celebration.”

MICHELLE FRALING / Opening the discussion, Brodsky declared an appreciation SUN STAFF of Cornell’s special awareness of the fact that “the literary imagPHOTOGRAPHER ination has to do with the lives we lead, and not just in an abstract way.” This served as an apt segue into Morrison’s blame for evil, and much of the current literature falls somememories of her time as a student. Of her decision to come to where between helplessly angry and completely irrelevant — it Cornell, she stated that there were three main reasons: the fac- is a little insulting to insist that there is no one else out there ulty — she “remember[s] at least three of them” — the beau- writing about goodness. What about Dave Eggers, who is ty of the seasons in Ithaca and Cornell’s “pink” and liberal” rep- often cited as someone who picks up where Hemingway leaves utation, largely spurred by its notoriously non-denomination- off and puts in what he left out? Who wrote, in his novel What al Sage Chapel. She reflected fondly, paused for a moment and is the What, “How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive and so we must fill the air with our words. I then asked, “The agricultural school … is that still here?”

As Morrison began to discuss her recent lecture series at the will fill today, tomorrow, everyday until I am taken back to Harvard Divinity School, entitled “Goodness, Altruism and God.” What about Miranda July and Jennifer Egan and the Literary Imagination,” she sought to dispel the notion that Cornell’s own MFA candidate Stevie Edwards who writes, in evil is more interesting than goodness in literature. Morrison her poem “Goodbye to the Poetics of Recklessness”: “Keep stated that goodness in literature is “personified very often as every death you’ve hoarded in me. I don’t need your gaudy mute,” while the theatricality of evil grants it a “blockbuster chandeliers of ‘just one more time.’ I can close my eyes and be audience.” “Evil has vivid speech; goodness bites its tongue,” filled with light.” Morrison complains of the glamour of evil in she said, citing the many ways in which the glamorous por- our writings, but there are writers today whose work says and trayal of evil throughout literary history has overshadowed that sometimes nearly shouts that peace can be glamorous, too.

Beloved, the novel that earned Morrison her Pulitzer, tells of goodness. “I was always a little bit bored by demonstrations of evil,” Morrison said. “It always relies on the same things — the story of a slave who, upon impending capture, kills her a top hat and a cane, maybe a little theme music. But goodness infant daughter to spare her the pain of slavery. Brodsky referenced a conversation that she and Morrison had previously, doesn’t have anything because it can’t use anything.”

“Good” characters, she remarked, are “never clever or saying “you had trouble finding a couple of sentences in your sophisticated or educated.” It’s a trend related directly, she own text in which the act of infanticide is committed.” thinks, to World War One and “certainly World War Two”— Morrison says she didn’t realize this while she was writing, but events which construed goodness as trivial. What Morrison that afterwards, it made sense because structure is message: “the act that those kinds of gets at here is the very predication of sentences represent was postmodern literature, which asserts “Goodness is really and truly hard ... already done and had that violent, catastrophic events such trying to find words for it is all I already happened. What’s as World War Two, the Holocaust, more interesting is how have ever known.” the dropping of the atomic bomb could it happen and what and more recently, the attacks on the Toni Morrison MFA ’55 is next?” The same applies World Trade Center have shattered to Paradise, in which the perceptions of human beings as basically good and undermined the ability of art to express what is first sentence is “They shot the white girl first.” We never find truly noble. Theodore Adorno once said, “To write a poem out which girl is the white girl and, therefore, the predominant after Auschwitz is barbaric,” and Walter Benjamin once wrote, act of violence is buried in the text. “I don’t want you to think “The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side about the thing,” Morrison says, stumbling over these words of of truth, wisdom, is dying out.” Morrison’s narratives have all emphasis. “I always thought that evil needed the drumroll and striven to find a way to push against this perceived absence of that is because it is not interesting — it is only devastating.”

Brodsky then asked Morrison about her play Desdemona, goodness, be it through the bildungsroman of A Mercy, the story of a sacrificial scapegoat in Sula, or the homecoming epic written as a post-script to Shakespeare’s Othello and occurring of her most recent novel, Home. “Goodness is really and truly in the after-life of its main characters. The biggest twist to this hard,” Morrison said, explaining that “trying to find words for addendum is the removal of the character of Iago. Morrison says he weighs the original play down — he is constantly talkit is all [she has] ever really known.”

But when Brodsky asked her friend if she found there to be ing, and he represents the “white gaze.” Challenging her on anything different about very recent literature, she said she did- this point, Brodsky asked “whose eye, whose language,” is n’t think so. In fact, she said she has not really read a lot of con- viewing and telling the story. Here she brought the discussion temporary literature. This admission was more than a little back to the “African-American novel”— what it is, what it worrisome. In a Paris Review interview, Morrison responded should be, what is usually isn’t. What it is usually, she says, is to a question about whether or not, as a child, she had known either a defense or an aggressive attack of an oppressor. But if that she wanted to be a writer. She responded, “No. I wanted you take out the oppressor completely, “an open world to be a reader. I thought everything that needed to be written appears.”

Morrison then spoke about a moment in her novel Home already been written or would be. I only wrote the first book because I thought it wasn’t there, and I wanted to read it when when goodness finally speaks, with a character breaking down I got through.” What has happened to that “or would be?” Has and near-shouting, “Inside you is that free person. Locate her and let her do some good in the world. ” The force of the revshe given up thinking that that hope can be realized?

Of what recent literature she has read, Morrison said there elation as it is foisted upon the main character is, “you’re a girl, was sometimes beautiful language, but the “thrust and effort is you’re black, you’re young, and that might be problematic to toward trying to describe something corrupt or lacking,” and you. But you’re a person.” It’s a point that we, tragically, are still that it was all just “too easy.” While it’s easy to see where she’s not done making. Oppression of any one member, any one coming from — contemporary neuroses do little but shift the subgroup, of mankind, diminishes us all. It’s not about sym-

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pathy, it’s about empathy — derived from a recognition of the absolute arbitrariness with which these oppressions have been assigned and administered; that is, based on randomly selected specifics of a lowercase “h,” lowercase “c,” human condition.

One of the most important relationships in Morrison’s play Desdemona is between the title character and her nurse and servant, Barbary. Morrison abandoned the name “Barbary” for a “new Mali name,” after realizing that it is a word that is used “when people really want to say Africa.” In truth, the history of the word “barbarian” is closely tied to the geographical term Barbary, to the “Berbers” of North Africa, and the Latin word “barbaricum,” meaning “land of the barbarians.” But the Greek “barbaroi” means simply “those who do not speak one’s own language,” and in recent literature it has been used predominantly to imply wordlessness, or silencing by exclusion.

Desdemona thinks that she and Barbary were always friends, to which Barbary replies, “You don’t even know my name.”“But,” she says, “I have thought long and hard about my sorrow. No more willow. Afterlife is time and with time there is change. My song is new.”

Morrison’s emphasis on names is not reserved only for the politically-renamed Barbary. Desdemona herself tells us that her name means “doomed,” or even “death. But she also notes, “I am not the meaning of a name I did not choose.” She loved Othello for his stories, the ones that Shakespeare never told and Morrison now tackles. Of her own life she says it was “shaped by my choices, and it was mine.” What is implied here is said explicitly in Prof. Aching’s introduction: Reading and writing have a literal capacity “to build historical complexities.”

Morrison conveyed with awe to the audience in Statler Auditorium that the native language of Rokia Traoré, the Malian composer and singer who wrote the music for Desdemona, is Bombara — a spoken-only language. In order to perform her music publicly, to have the lyrics passed around and projected, Traoré had to translate an unwritten language.

Morrison doesn’t know for sure, but she imagines Traroré must have developed a way to write it down so that she could create these translations. Just for herself. It is, she feels, the only explanation.

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives,” Morrison stated in her 1993 Nobel lecture. Her gift as an author comes from the way she doggedly researches the time periods and people that history has forgotten in order to give voice to those who are unable or as-of-yet unwilling to find and take it for themselves. It is also found in the way she encourages us all to “do language.” “Make up a story,” she said in her Nobel lecture.

She means it indiscriminately: “For our sake and yours, forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.”

To borrow a phrase from her work, she is “doing the good that God refuses,” giving something that is more interesting, more “hard-won,” more altruistic than silence, more glamorous than the evil of silence. In short, she is translating goodness.

Kaitlyn Tiffany s a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.. She can be reached at Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Town Golden Dragon Acrobats

Bat Boy

COURTESY GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS COMPANY

Saturday at 3 p.m. at the State Theatre Looking for something fun to get you through this final week before spring break? Look no further, because this Thursday the Golden Dragon Acrobats present “Cirque Ziva” which celebrates the traditional art of acrobatics. As if it wasn’t excited enough to simply watch dancers defy gravity, impressario Danny Chang and choreographer Angela Change add the elements of traditional dance, incredible costumes, and theatrical techniques to create a truly beautiful performance.

— Gabrielle Velkes ’16

March 28 at 8 p.m. in Risley Hall It’s a bat! It’s a boy! No, It’s BAT BOY! Based on the fictional article that appeared in Weekly World News, Bat Boy takes on the struggles of a half-boy, half-bat adapting into society.

Obviously, it is set to a a pulsating rock score. This musical explores the hypothetical of what would happen if a humanoid was introduced in a typical small town in America and explores what happens when human sympathy is tested.

— Gabrielle Velkes ’16 COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE

Shift Exhibition

COURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

March 11-15 at Tjaden Hall What does it mean to shift identities? To shift between public and private? To shift perspective? These are a few of the questions that inspired the works of five Architecture, Art and Planning students which will be on display this week in the Olive Tjaden Gallery. Artists Eliza Kuzmenko ’16, Thanh Nguyen ’16, Rachael Schimmoller ’16, Melody Stein ’16, and Jin Young Yoo ’16 contributed to this group exhibit, which seeks to define and reinterpret the idea of “shift.” While each artist uses different mediums to explore their unique ideas on the topic, all the pieces relate to the central theme of this showcase of compelling Cornell artists.

— Laura Boland ’15

A Few Good Films

BY TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Arts Writer

This is not a review of Stoker. The first foray into Englishlanguage films by Korean director Chan-wook Park looks creepy and ridiculous fun. Also, it is a good excuse to stare at the painfully attractive Matthew Goode. Unfortunately, going to the Best College Town in America has its downside — one of those being waiting for a later release date. Urgh, the worst.

There were some notable movies released last week, but I could justify avoiding every single one of them. Even a combination of Nicholas Hoult and Ewan McGregor in Jack the Giant Slayer is not attractive enough to tempt me to that CGI propelled fable regurgitation mess. (Given the picture’s mere 27 million box office take away in contrast with its 190 million dollar budget, I wasn’t the only one who felt this unenchanted.)

Then there was the option of 21 and Over, or The Hangover: College Edition. Readers, I’ve been 21 for quite some time — as have many of my friends. Been there, done that. I feel the movie would hit better with underage dreamers or older nostalgics. When you are the actual age portrayed, a Hollywood-ization of your milestones is just not as much fun. Also, apparently it has this whole graduation plotline and that’s one thing I will not touch with a ten-foot pole. Also I have a sneaking suspicion that Jeff Cheng doesn’t really want to be pre-med but is doing so to please his family. Jeff, if you’re reading this — such a bad call. Take it from a confused liberal arts major: Dreams are overrated.

It is still such a bad time of the year for movie releases.

January is the traditional dumping ground for bad flicks, when the unwatchables are unshelved. However, February and early March are hardly any better. It will still be weeks to months before we fully recover. I just want to curl up in an oversized theater seat with a bucket of popcorn, but the film gods (thanks for the verification of their existence, Ang Lee) are just not having it.

Of course the reasoning is there — no one is in the mood post-holiday season, any movie of potential merit will have to hold out until next award season cycle and the intriguing festival films have only just gotten picked up for distribution.

At least there’s Netflix (Instant). Here are some relatively recent releases bundled together for your viewing convenience to appease you until things start to pick up in a few weeks.

The Relatively-Acclaimed-Independent-Movie-(ThatYou-No-Longer-Have-an-Excuse-Not-to-See): I know some people who grade movies on whether or not

they’re worth purchasing a movie ticket. Given the lack of visual effects in most independent numbers, they can often fall on a see later list that is soon forgotten. Luckily, Netflix’s got your back this time — these are worthwhile visits. While no film listed today is really a major release, these in particular ones fall together because they echo with similar parts cutesy and melancholy.

Safety Not Guaranteed — Mark Duplass, Aubrey Plaza and Jake Johnson shine in one of the most preciously constructed films of the year. The characters are raw and awkward — and it all work together beautifully in a movie that both mourns regrets and celebrates taking chances.

Like Crazy — Young love, in all its tragic post-college and self-indulgent long distance glory. Watch it and sniffle over aching longing and growing apart from your soulmate.

Sleepwalk With Me- Minimalistic but ever so earnest, this film explores the pains of growing into your comedic voice/life choices.

Friends With Kids — Another installment in the unconventional love genre, this time in the form of talkative NYC dramedy, a staple style of writer-director(-Jon Hamm partner) Jennifer Westfeldt. Watch it for the occasional cute insights and strong comedic timing. It’s a messy film, but it’s worth it alone for the always charismatic Adam Scott. He’s intense and can mold his expressions like play dough. Basically, I will watch him in anything.

Submarine — Imagine Rushmore, but younger and Welshier. It’s quirky and dark with all the pangs that come with figuring life and love out.

The Girl-Crush: The other day Stephen Colbert got James Franco to confess which of the three leading ladies in The Great and Powerful Oz he had had the biggest thing for. After playing it diplomatically (wow, Disney’s taught you well James), Franco lets the answer Rachel Weisz slip. For once, I actually totally understand James Franco — I too adore her. (Well that, and our shared disdain for Anne Hathaway.)

The Constant Gardener — Rachel Weisz is my drama equivalent of Tina Fey. That’s why it frustrates me to no end that more people haven’t seen her Oscar-winning role.This film shattered and refused to mend my ninth grade heart.

The Deep Blue Sea — This emotional rollercoaster criminally ignored or disqualified by most award shows is available for streaming as well. There’s not a more gorgeous construction of passion’s aftermath . Weisz gives the dictionary definition of a powerful performance that will leave you haunted.

The Guys-Chris-Evans-is-a-Real-Actor, Like-For-Real: (This category exists because there is not a single Matthew

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Goode movie available for streaming, because the world hates me. Alternatively, the juxtaposition of seeing a superhero in a low key affair reminds us that the earth-shattering blockbusters are still months away.)

Guys, Chris Evans is more than just Captain America. In fact, he initially turned down the role to avoid the super hero stigma. I think it just comes with the 8-pack territory, but the world wanted him to don that patriotic spandex. That doesn’t mean Mr. Evans has not acted since becoming a comic book legend.

Puncture — Evans is acting is heart out. It’s sloppy and formulaic at times, but it’s worth the delicate moments. (Fun fact, in The Perfect Score Evans’ character gets rejected from Cornell. Worst decision Thurston’s ever made.)

For the Painful-and-Borderline-Racist-Drinking-GameViewing: Sometimes, you just want to hate on something. I’ve got a movie perfect for your running commentary.

A Warrior’s Heart — Starring two Twilight vampires, this movie about ... high school, loss and lacrosse does not brag the most nuanced screenplay. (Or acting. Or editing. Or cinematography.) There’s no excuse, however, for it playing like a B version of the worst Nicholas Sparks narrative possible. It’s sloppy, painful and our teen protagonists fall in love during some some strategically exchanged glances (I’m just not sure exactly when though). The worst offense however is that this movie attempts to gain depth by further exploiting Native American culture to create a sloppy metaphor about warriors.

It’s not cool. It’s also the very best Netflix has to offer in hate watching. If everything else on this list fails you, this is one to enjoy.

Tajwar Mazhar is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tmazhar@cornellsun.com.

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U.S. Defeats Canada, Moves to Second Round

PHOENIX (AP) — Adam Jones doubled in the tying and go-ahead runs in the eighth inning, Eric Hosmer hit a three-run double in the ninth and the United States beat Canada 9-4 on Sunday to advance to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.

Down to their last several outs, the U.S. trailed 3-2 after seven innings before breaking loose. Team USA and Italy advanced in Group D while Canada and Mexico were eliminated.

Jones and Hosmer both had a rough week at the plate but came through with the United States on the brink of what would have been a humbling loss. Jones’ hit was his second in nine at-bats. Hosmer was 3 for 13.

Gold Glove second baseman Brandon Phillips contributed, too, making a diving stop to prevent Canada from tying it in the eighth.

Heath Bell pitched a scoreless seventh to get the victory for manager Joe Torre’s team. Jimmy Henderson took the loss.

Canada’s Michael Saunders, of the Seattle Mariners, hit a two-run homer off starter Derek Holland and was chosen the Group D MVP, going 8 for 11 in the tournament.

The United States finished group play tied with Italy at 2-1 but gets the No. 1 seed because of its 6-2 win over Italy. The U.S. meets the loser of Sunday’s Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico game Tuesday in Miami.

David Wright, whose grand slam lifted the U.S. past Italy Saturday night, doubled and walked three times. Ben Zobrist had three hits, none of which left the infield.

Canada, coming off a 10-3 win over Mexico that featured a bruising ninth-inning brawl, finished 1-2. The Canadians have not made it out of the first round for any of the three WBCs. But they looked in great shape much of the afternoon against the United States, which was looking to avoid its worst showing ever in the tournament. The Americans made it to the second round in 2006 and the semifinals in 2009.

For the third straight game, the U.S. fell behind early.

Justin Morneau, who was 8 for 12 in the tournament for Canada, doubled to start the second, then Saunders hit Holland's 1-0 pitch into the bullpen down the right field line to make it 2-0.

The U.S. tied it with two runs in the fourth, one unearned.

Joe Mauer led off with a single and Wright walked. Zobrist put down a near-perfect bunt for a base hit, with third baseman Taylor Green throwing wildly to first and allowing a run to score. Jones’ sacrifice fly to center brought in the tying run.

Green, playing third for Canada because Brett Lawrie was hurt just before the WBC began, also had an error in the second when he dropped Zobrist’s high pop fly ball in the bright sunlight.

Canada regained the lead at 3-2 in the sixth. Joey Votto drew a leadoff walk from reliever Glen Perkins, took second on Morneau's single.

Saunders struck out looking and Chris Robinson flied out, advancing the runner to third. Adam Loewen’s first-pitch single brought Votto home.

Mauer opened the eighth with a single, then Wright walked. Torre made an aggressive move when, with Willie Bloomquist pinch running for Mauer, he sent both runners moving on Henderson’s 1-2 pitch to Jones. Jones connected, bringing both runners home. Shane Victorino singled Jones home to make it 5-3.

Canada made it a one-run game in its half of the eighth but would have tied it had it not been for a spectacular defensive play by Phillips.

His diving stop of Loewen'’ bases-loaded grounder allowed one run to score, but kept the U.S. in the lead.

The U.S. broke it open off Scott Matheson and closer John Axford in the ninth.

Phillips started it with a double. Jonathan Lucroy had an RBI single, then Wright walked once again. Axford came on and allowed the infield single to Zobrist. Jones struck out but Hosmer, a late addition to the team when Mark Teixeira was injured, cleared the bases with a shot to deep center.

Torre benched Miami’s dynamic young slugger Giancarlo Stanton in favor of Victorino in left field. He also moved Ryan Braun to designated hitter and put Zobrist in right. Mauer, the DH in the first two games, was the catcher. Stanton was hitless in the first two games, although he did have a pair of deep fly balls in the opening loss to Mexico.

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Reaching a miles-tone | Senior guard Miles Asafo-Adjei scored a season-high 15 points in his final game in a Big Red uniform. It was not enough to help complete a comeback against Harvard.

Cressler Provides Promise for Future M. B-BALL

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knew he had to step up and was aggressive all game,” Asafo-Adjei said.

“He was able to get some shots to fall early and that got him going and kept him hot for the rest of the game. He’s capable of doing that every night and it was fun to watch.”

Freshman guard Nolan Cressler also played well in the loss, scoring 14 points on three three-pointers while grabbing seven rebounds. Despite his youth, Cressler has been a consistent scoring option for the Red, especially in the last four games, where he has averaged 16.8 points per game. “[Cressler’s] such a good scorer and teams started to realize that as the season went on. They started game planning for him,” Asafo-Adjei said.

“As the season continued, he found different ways to score. The Ivy League season was a great learning experience for him. He’s been a constant source of offense for us the entire year and he’s going to be a great player down the road.”

In the season finale against Harvard, the Crimson had a chance to secure the Ivy League’s NCAA bid and the excite“I got some shots to go early, so I just ment in the building was tried to attack the whole night.” noticeable.

“There was a great enerMiles Asafo-Adjei gy in the building; everyone knew they had the chance to clinch the title,” Asafo-Adjei said. “They were playing with a lot of energy and the crowd was very loud. … The atmosphere was more hyped than usual.”

The Red did a good job defending forward Wesley Saunders — the leading scorer in the Ivy League at 16.6 points a game — as he shot just 3-11 from the field. However, he was 8-12 from the free throw line and still finished with 14 points.

“The biggest thing was just to try and keep Saunders away from the basket,” Asafo-Adjei said. “His entire game is trying to get close to the basket and get easy shots, so we just wanted to keep a man between him and the basket and make all his shots tough, which we were able to do.

He was still able to score in double figures — he got to the line which helped out — but for the most part, we did a good job on him.”

Despite falling behind by 16 with just nine minutes to play, the Red put together a run and trailed by only five with two minutes to play.

However, the injury-depleted Red just couldn’t keep up with the Ivy League champions. Asafo-Adjei played well in the loss, scoring 15 points, a season-high, on 6-8 from the field.

“With all our players injured, I was just trying to be a little more offensive minded the last couple of weekends,” Asafo-Adjei said. “I got some shots to go early, so I just tried to attack the whole night. I didn’t get to play much the night before against Dartmouth because I was in foul trouble, so I just wanted to help my team in any way possible.”

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

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Nothing gets by | Junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick made 18 saves in the championship game against Harvard.

Red Advances to NCAA Tournament W. HOCKEY

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“We just stuck to out game plan and didn’t really shy away from that, from the start,” she said. “We knew the goal was going to come when we needed it, but we really established our game on them and forced them to try to keep up with us the whole time, and it worked out for us in the end.”

Jenner scored the game’s first goal after the Red forced a turnover, allowing her to skate towards the net undefended. She quickly moved the puck to her backhand and lifted it over the goalie's glove and into the back of the net. According to head coach Doug Derraugh, the Red’s consistent pressure on Harvard caused the important turnover, and Jenner was able to capitalize.

“One of the things we talked about before the game was being aggressive from the start, and just before that turnover we went hard on the forecheck and closed off the walls,” he said. “That’s what started the turnover, and when you turn it over to Brianne Jenner,

that’s a dangerous play. It’s always important to get that first goal, especially in a championship game.”

The Red was unable to convert on a series of power play chances, including a five-on-three, before it eventually scored on its final manadvantage.

According to Campbell, the Red improved on each chance it received and was able to finally come through with the game on the line.

“You just have to keep going on the power play. There [are] always going to be open lanes and open chances, and you just have to take what you get,” she said. “It was a matter of getting their penalty kill out of place and getting them to bite on what we want. Every power play kept building off the next. It’s not like each was more frustrating than the previous one, we just said let’s go out and do it again, and it came together at the right time.”

The game-winning goal occurred after a Cornell shot forced Harvard’s goalie out of position, leaving the Red with an open net.

“It was just kind of a scrum in the corner and I just threw it out in front of the net, and it went through the crease to Emily Fulton who was left alone in front,” she said. “She kind of made a nice move and deked out the goalie, it popped out and somehow literally landed on my stick. I had a completely open net, and the rest is history.”

These two games drew record attendances, creating an atmosphere very much like that of the men’s hockey games.

“I don’t think you can say enough about the crowd,” said junior defenseman Alyssa Gagliardi. “We joke that we had the occupy Lynah thing going on twitter, but the support that we got from other students in the community was incredible. It’s like your 6th man out there. It definitely helps a lot and we couldn’t thank everyone enough for coming out.”

With the Red now entering the national tournament, it will face increasingly challenging opponents — with Mercyhurst as the first test — in the quest for an NCAA title.

“If we just keep on playing the Big Red style of hockey that we’ve been playing all season long, and if we believe in ourselves and our system, I think we can go a long way,” Rougeau said.

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

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MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

Strong Individual Performances Lead C.U. at Ivies

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s swimming and diving team competed this weekend at the Ivy League Championship in Brown’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. The Red finished eighth overall with a total combined score of 539 points.

“In my opinion, Cornell had a great championship meet. Countless members of the team had best times and most people were very satisfied with their performances,” said senior diver James O’Neil, who finished 18th overall in the threemeter dive.

According to O’Neil, the Ivy Championship is an especially difficult meet, considering the teams that are perennially at the top of the conference.

“This meet is particularly hard to do well at,” he said. “Harvard and Princeton monopolize the A finals in every event, leaving minimal spots open for the other teams. It is a fight to make Top-8 in any event, but we fought our hardest in each one of them.”

Knowing that it would be an uphill battle to overtake Harvard or Princeton, O’Neil said the Red had its sights set on beating Brown.

“One of our main goals of the meet was to beat Brown. Day two of championships, we had some great prelim swims with many coming back at night to swim in B finals, as well as Eric May who came back to swim in the A finals,” O’Neil said. “We had a decent lead over Brown during this day, but they had one swimmer who scored 1st place in a couple of events. That set us back a little.”

Though the Red was unable to achieve this goal — finishing just fifty points behind the Bears — the squad did perform well in some individual diving

events. Junior Phillip Truong placed third overall in the three-meter dive with 354.65 points, setting a new school record. Jon Zollo and O’Neil also both placed in the Top-20.

“The other two divers and I were very satisfied with how we did on the onemeter and three-meter springboard events,” O’Neil said. “With the point totals from these two events combined, Cornell diving ranked third best out of the other Ivy teams, sitting behind only Harvard and Princeton. Phillip Truong had an outstanding Ivy Championship meet, making A finals in both events and placing third on three-meter and sixth on one-meter. Combined, we contributed 100 points to the team's score.”

The Red swimmers also recorded some impressive individual perforMATT HINTSA / SUN FILE PHOTO mances. Freshman Victor Luo swam under two minutes in both of his 200 Stroke of genius | The Red finished slightly behind Brown for the final spot in the Ivy breaststroke events, making him only the League, which has gotten significantly stronger, according to senior diver James O’Neil. second Red swimmer to ever achieve this feat. He finished 7th overall in this event Freshman Carl St. John, junior Harry Championship performance, showing all and also made the NCAA B-cut in the Harpham and Catanese also earned team the hard work he has put towards swim100 breastroke. ming this season.” points for the Red in the 200 fly event.

“Victor Luo qualified for the NCAA Though the Red’s overall finish at the O’Neil especially praised the work of B-cut in the 100 breaststroke,” O’Neil the freshmen swimmers, who performed meet was not what it had expected, said. “Sophomore Eric May and fresh- well in a pressurized atmosphere.

O’Neil said he hopes his team can conman Avery “Two of tinue to develop as Ivy League swimming Bub also had our breast- becomes more competitive. strong finishes “Despite our record, we are very happy “Despite our record, we are very strokers, Eric in this event.” with how this season went. The Ivy May and happy with how this season went. The Ju n i o r Victor Luo, Ivy League is getting extremely fast,” he Taylor Wilson League is getting exremely fast.” played a huge said. “Someone who may have gotten (15th), fresh- James O’Neil role at this first place at championships five years man Mitch meet. They ago would not even make Top-8 this Jo h n s o n were the only year. We will continue working hard and (21st) and two swim- growing as a team. I am extremely proud freshman Jack Pollack (23rd) all scored mers to place in A finals and they both to have been a part of this team because points for Cornell in the mile event. were major point contributors during the we always give our best effort and dediJunior Ben Catanese and freshman Ryan whole meet,” O’Neil said. “[Taylor] cation.”

Walker also recorded career times in the Wilson also had a terrific meet, scoring 200 backstroke, which scored points for big points in his distance events. [Carl] John McGrorty can be reached at the Red. St. John had a stand-out Ivy jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

Miller’s 13 Points in Past Eight Games Puts C.U. Back on Track turnaround from two regular season losses to the Tigers, particularly a 1-0 defeat in February in which In game two, the Red the Red outshot Princeton needed to overcome some 39-12, but was unable to net early adversity when a single goal.

Princeton scored a power With a 2-0-0 record on play goal midway through the weekend, the Red is now the first period to take a 1-0 up to 6-1-1 in the last eight lead. Ferlin got the Red on games. Friday’s victory the board in the second off marked the Red’s first-ever assists from freshman postseason win at Princeton’s defenseman Reece Willcox Hobey Baker Rink and and senior forward Greg improved the team’s record Miller. The assist was in postseason Miller’s first of openers under three on the head coach Mike night, and the Cornell outshot the Tigers 44-24 over the Schafer ’86 to red-hot forward second and third periods of both games, 14-2-2. The Red now has 13 and this time was able to capitalize. is now 7-2-1 allpoints — six time in playoff goals, seven games against assists — in the past eight games which goal to punctuate a 4-2 Princeton, and is back to boosts his career total to 97. Cornell victory and series .500 for the first time since eliminating late January.

The upperclassmen con- sweep, Depending on the outtinued to step up as senior Princeton from the confercome of the Harvarddefenseman Nick ence tournament.

The weekend sweep was Dartmouth series, the Red D’Agostino struck early in the third period with a shot notable for numerous rea- will travel to either that went over Condon’s sons. Cornell outshot the Quinnipiac or Rensselaer for blocker. After seeing fewer Tigers 44-24 over the second a best-of-three quarterfinal than two minutes on the and third periods of both series beginning Friday. power play last weekend, the games, and this time was Red welcomed a Princeton able to capitalize with eight slashing penalty and took goals over that span. The advantage, with D’Agostino hard-fought victories and Chris Mills can be reached at scoring again to extend the efficient scoring marked a cmills@cornellsun.com.

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Hot start

lead to 3-1.

Princeton junior forward Andrew Calof — who the Red had identified as a player to contain — frustrated his opponent one final time this season by getting the puck in open space and dishing to teammate Will MacDonald, who scored and cut the lead to 3-2 with less than a minute remaining.

The Tiger push was too little, too late, however, as Lowry added an empty net

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Senior Sarah O’Neil (above) and sophomore Lauren Frazier got a win in the No. 1 doubles spot, helping the Red to a win over Duquesne. The win tied the record for the best spring start in Cornell history at 7-0. For full coverage of the match, check out Thursday’s paper.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Icers Reclaim ECAC Championship Title Campbell nets game-winner with 1:40 left, giving Red automatic bid to NCAA Tourney

“Winning this title means a lot,” she said. “Especially after losing last year, we really wanted to get this one back. All With two consecutive thrilling victo- year we’ve been prepping for this ries against St. Lawrence and Harvard in moment. [But] it’s not over yet and we the ECAC playoff tournament at Lynah still have the automatic bid to the final Rink, the Cornell women’s hockey team eight, but we will enjoy this win for sure became the 2012-2013 ECAC hockey because it’s a big win for us. This week we will keep working hard, champions.

Despite ST. LAWRENCE falling short of this title 2 because the job is not yet, and we still last year, the Red has CORNELL 4 over have our eye on the now won it in three out 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot national championship.” of the past four seasons Game: St. Lawrence 0 2 0 2 Saturday’s win over and has earned an auto4 2 0 the Saints featured a matic ticket to the Cornell 2 standout performance NCAA tournament.

HARVARD The Red first over1 from freshman forward Woods, who came St. Lawrence (19CORNELL 2 Taylor scored Cornell’s first 14-5, 12-6-4 ECAC) on 1ST 2nd 3RD Tot three goals, including the Saturday, 4-2, and then Game: Harvard 1 1 0 0 game-winner with under took down Harvard (24- Cornell 1 2 1 0 two minutes to go in the 6-3, 17-3-2 ECAC) on Sunday, 2-1. Both games featured third period. The Red had taken a 2-0 record-high crowds at Lynah Rink. lead earlier in the game, only to see St. According to senior defenseman and cap- Lawrence come back to tie the contest at tain Lauriane Rougeau, although the Red two before Woods sealed the win.

Sunday’s contest against the Crimson has worked towards this title all season long, its sights are set on even greater was another Lynah thriller. Junior forward Brianne Jenner struck first, but achievements.

By BENJAMIN HOROWITZ

Sun Staff Writer

MEN’S HOCKEY

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Mmm mmm good | Junior forward Jessica Campbell found the puck on her stick in front of the net with less than two minutes to go. Her game-winner gave the Red the ECAC title.

Harvard was able to tie the game at one.

Junior forward Jessica Campbell then netted the game-winner on a power play with under two minutes left in the game.

According to Campbell, the Red’s suc-

cess was a testament to its ability to execute its plan and keep the Crimson back on their heels.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Sweeps Princeton, Injury Hurts Advances to Quarters C.U.in Final

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

After vowing to come out fighting against Princeton, the Red icers continued to stay in a groove this weekend, advancing to the ECAC Hockey Championship tournament’s second round.

The ninth-seeded Red (14-14-3) took down the eighth-seeded Tigers (10-16-5), 4-0 on Friday and followed up with a 4-2 victory on Saturday evening to sweep the bestof-three series. The Red will advance to the quarterfinals, where it will face either the one-seed Quinnipiac or two-seed Rensselaer,

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On the offensive | Sophomore forward Brian Ferlin had an assist and a goal this weekend.

CORNELL PRINCETON Game: 1ST Cornell 0 Princeton 0

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depending on the outcome of Sunday’s games.

During the series opener at Hobey Baker Rink, the Red and the Tigers battled back-and-forth, searching for scoring opportunities deep into the second period. About midway through, sophomore forward Joel Lowry passed from behind the net to fellow sophomore forward Brian Ferlin, who was able to assist sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan to get on the board, 10. Then, to cap the second period, senior forward John Esposito beat Princeton goaltender Mike Condon on a quick shot to break the game open at 2-0.

After scoring his first collegiate goal last weekend at Brown, freshman forward Christian Hilbrich followed through on a breakaway to extend Cornell’s lead to 3-0 in the third period. Sophomore forward John McCarron added an empty net goal to cement the final at 4-0.

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Two Games Of 2012-13

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s basketball team finished up its season on the road this weekend with two losses, extending its losing streak to six to end the season.

On Friday night, the Red (1318, 5-9 Ivy League) lost to Dartmouth (9-19, 5-9), 76-62, and on Saturday, Harvard (199, 11-3) beat the Red, 65-56.

Injuries have been a big factor in the Red’s late-season collapse. The squad again played this weekend without three of its regular starters — sophomore forward Shonn Miller, senior guard Johnny Gray and sophomore guard Devin Cherry. It has been very difficult to replace them on both sides of the court, according to senior captain and point guard Miles Asafo-Adjei.

“Scoring is the thing we [miss the most]. It’s something all those guys do and the majority of our points come from those three,” Asafo-Adjei said.

“Defensively, all three of those guys are our better defenders and defense is something we try to hang our hat on all year. To lose three of your better

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The final countdown | Senior forward Errick Peck did everything he could for his team, averaging 20 points in his last two games at Cornell.

defenders, it’s tough; it’s tough to replace.”

The Red noticeably missed its starters against Dartmouth on defense, as the Green shot 52% from the field.

Dartmouth was led by center Gabas Maldunas, who scored a career-high 28 points on 9-14 from the field and 10-12 from the line in just 29 minutes of work. He also grabbed eight rebounds, blocked four shots and had three assists. “[Maldunas] is a very, very

mobile big guy,” Asafo-Adjei explained. “He got most of his points off drives from the free throw line and that’s something that our big guys aren’t necessarily used to guarding.”

For the Red, senior forward Errick Peck did all he could to keep his team in the game, scoring a career-high 26 points and grabbing a team-high 7 rebounds. “[Peck] played great; he See M. B-BALL page 17