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S.A.Hopeful Disqualified; Smith’14 Elected President

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After an elections challenge disqualified a candidate and delayed the release of two of the Student Assembly races’ results, Ulysses Smith ’14 was declared president of the S.A. for the 2013-2014 academic year on Tuesday.

Smith said he is excited to lead the S.A., saying, “Going forward, I’m confident we have a good group.”

Stephen Breedon ’14, a presidential candidate and the current vice president for public relations for the S.A., was disqualified in the election because he was found to have “organized a campaign rally that violated the Code of Conduct on March 4 at 1:30 p.m.,” according to a report from the S.A. elections committee.

The committee said it determined that Breedon had used a megaphone without a permit at locations not permitted by the University, which gave him “an unfair advantage” in the election.

SMITH ’14 In a statement Tuesday evening, Breedon said that he was saddened by the effects that the decision will have on the rest of the student body.

“I am not concerned about my personal loss; I think losing an experienced S.A. member is a detriment to the entire Cornell community and reflects poorly upon the S.A. and its processes,” Breedon said. “It’s unfortunate that the voices of so many students are muted because of a minor technicality. This was our chance to make a difference, especially in the midst of a byline-funded year.”

Jon Weinberg ’13, S.A. director of elections, said that because the infraction took place within the first 24 hours of voting, “it was far more likely that it could [have] impact[ed] See ELECTION page 4

Jon Weinberg ’13 says it is time to start the conversation about massive open online courses. | Page 7

Arts Voice of a Generation

Sam Bromer ’16 peeks into The Sun’s archives for a retrospective on Bob Dylan at Cornell. | Page 11

Sports Wrestlemania

Women’s basketball won against Dartmouth but lost to Harvard this weekend. | Page 16 KELLY YANG / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Decorations on the Engineering Quad Tuesday advertise for the upcoming Dragon Day celebrations.

Weather Rainy HIGH: 46 LOW: 30

Man in C-Town Attack to Face 15 Days in Jail After Plea Bargain

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

A man accused of attacking and yelling racist, homophobic slurs at four Cornell students in August was sentenced to 15 days in jail — rather than the two years he could have faced — as a result of a plea bargain reached in the Ithaca City Court on Tuesday.

Anthony Stephans, a student at Trinity College, was arrested on four counts of aggravated harassment in August in connection with the Aug. 19 attack.

According to witness testimony, at approximately 1:40 a.m. in Collegetown, Stephans reportedly taunted and chased after students who had never seen him before.

Stephans, who is Caucasian, allegedly yelled at one of the victims, “You’re going to burn, Saigon bitch” and shoved another one of the victims into a metal railing — ignoring the victims’ pleas to “Leave us alone.” When the victims ran away, he allegedly yelled, “Just keep prancing down the street.”

Under New York State law, Stephans could have served up to two years in jail for the initial charges brought by the

Tompkins County District Attorney’s office. Because the attorneys’ settlement dropped the misdemeanor charges, Stephans instead pled guilty in court Tuesday to two violation-level charges: harassment in the second degree and trespassing.

Stephans will be allowed to complete the remainder of his semester at college before returning to Ithaca in May to serve his sentence, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 said in court Tuesday.

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Shinagawa ’05 M.A.’09 Will Not Run in 2014

By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor

Nate Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09, current vice chair of the Tompkins County Legislature and 2012 Congressional candidate, announced Tuesday that he would not run again for Congress in 2014.

“With Congress still failing to turn around this economy, it’s clear Washington needs leadership. However, while I’ve been pushed by the national Democratic Party and local leaders to run, I have decided that this district, and my family, need my attention at home,” Shinagawa said in a press release.

Shinagawa was the Democratic nominee for New York’s 23rd Congressional seat — capturing more than 60 percent of votes in the primary election. He lost to incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y. 29) in the November general election by about three percentage points, The Sun previously reported.

Shinagawa returned to his position as an administrative director at Robert Packer Hospital following his campaign, according to the press release.

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

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Lease on me | Panelists at the Collegetown Council meeting discuss landlord-student leasing issues Tuesday.

Council Meeting Discusses Student Housing

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

A panel at the Collegetown Neighborhood Council meeting Tuesday addressed local landlordtenant concerns. The panelists included Ithaca landlords, student leaders and members of the Rental Housing Advisory Commission and the Off-Campus Housing Office.

In the discussion, panel mem-

bers said that it was important for students to be acquainted with offcampus housing procedures and laws of Ithaca and New York state regarding tenant’s rights. They also encouraged landlords to educate students on housing procedures. “[Cornell] students aren’t necessarily as educated in the process of renting, of signing contracts and of even getting utilities,” said Denise Thompson, administrative assistant for the Office of Fraternities,

Sororities and Independent Living.

“On the other hand, our landlords don’t know that they are educators to the students.”

Monica Moll, a Collegetown landlord and board member of the Landlords Association of Tompkins County — a non-profit organization that promotes professional skills in local landlords — encouraged landlords to join the organizaSee C-TOWN page 4

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DALLAS (AP) — An obese stray cat found wandering six months ago near Dallas has slimmed down to 34 pounds and been adopted by the veterinarian overseeing his care.

Dr. Brittney Barton said Friday that the orange tabby dubbed Skinny is doing well on a special diet to help lose weight and increase his metabolism.

Barton says she became attached to the onetime 41pound cat she was treating at an animal orphanage and last month he became part of her family. Skinny joins Barton's husband, three children, a dog and another cat at her home.

Barton says Skinny gets along great with the other animals, can jump up on a couch and runs to his food bag at feeding time. She says the house has long hallways that provide good exercise for Skinny.

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WEST COVINA, Calif. (AP) — Four men — including the would-be groom — have been arrested for a marriage proposal stunt in which hundreds of motorcycles blocked a Southern California freeway, authorities said.

The prospective groom and three of his friends were all booked for investigation of misdemeanor public nuisance and participating in an unlawful assembly. The 24-year-old groom, Hector Martinez of Covina, also was booked for investigation of exhibition of speed, authorities said

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As many as 250 motorcycles stopped on the eastbound Interstate 10 in West Covina on Jan. 27 so that Martinez could propose to his girlfriend. At one point, a bike sent up a cloud of pink smoke.

The stunt, which lasted about two minutes, was captured on video and went viral on the Internet.

"They made a spectacle of it," said Sgt. Kurt Stormes of the California Highway Patrol. "It's a slap in the face of law enforcement, in general."

Martinez's bride-to-be accepted the proposal. She is not facing any charges.

Book Returned to Estonian Library 69 Years Late TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An Estonian man has returned a library book 69 years late, partly blaming a World War II aerial bombing that damaged the library for the late return.

Ivika Turkson of the Tallinn Central Library says that last week the man in his mid-80s returned the overdue book — which was checked out on March 7, 1944, while Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany — along with an apology and an offer to pay a late fee.

Turkson said Tuesday that the library waived any penalty for the late return of the tome, which still contained the original emblem and serial number, allowing librarians to identify it.

It was not immediately clear why the man waited so long to return the book, a work of fiction by Estonian author Eduard Vilde.

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Students Gain ‘Hands-On,’ ‘Real’ Experience From AEM Program

By NHA-AN BUI Sun Contributor

Business Opportunities in Leadership and Diversity — a program in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management — held a Green Business Lab in order to promote communication, leadership skills and business ethics among Cornell students in March.

According to Deborah Mann, who works with students in BOLD, the lab provided students with hands-on business experience “in real time, under real stressful conditions.”

The 30 students who participated in the workshop — which met for a total of 12 hours over two days — were divided up into teams, with each team representing a fictional company. Students played different roles within the company and encountered real-life situations, such as keeping track of their financial earnings and deciding whether to not to comply with federal laws.

At the end of the business simulation, teams gave formal presentations in front of a board of directors, which included Daniel Roth, sustainability manager of the University, and executives from various companies.

Board members questioned teams about their management style and critiqued teams’ commitment to environmental sustainability, according to Mann.

“I use this as a capstone event, where leadership development is based on understanding who the [student] is as an individual, while also understanding who their team members are,” she said. “They must learn to hold each other accountable before they can attack the overall goal.

As a team, they must seek out the synergies that bring them together.”

Although many of the students — who are part of the Leadership Certificate Program offered within BOLD, an intensive one-year program geared toward sophomores who apply to the program — are applied economics and

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Getting down to business | Students in the Business Opportunities in Leadership and Diversity Program’s Green Lab work to develop their fictional companies.

management majors, a few of the students are scattered among other majors and colleges at Cornell.

Nikhita Surapaneni ’15, one of the participants in the lab, said the experience helped her gain a better insight on how to lead.

“Our company may not have earned the most profit or growth, but my accumulated knowledge on what it

“As an architecture student, one does not always have enough time to collaborate with Cornellians outside the design realm. The [program] helped me as a designer to work with a whole spectrum of leadership personas.”

David Pagan ’15 means to be a leader and how to lead in real life was priceless,” Surapaneni said.

David Pagan ’15, another participant in the workshop, said the skills he gained from the Green Business Lab and the BOLD program will benefit him in the future.

“As an architecture student, one does not always have the time to collaborate with Cornellians outside the design realm. The [program] helped me as a designer to work with a whole spectrum of leadership personas that

expanded my views in the areas of interdisciplinary [and] simulated business-world teamwork challenges,” Pagan said. “Looking into the future, I know that this will definitely be a good skill to possess when working within the design, developer, or business side.”

Mann said she hopes that the Green Business Lab will drive students toward achieving specific goals in a business setting.

“Students work toward a triple bottom line, meaning that you not only want your business to be economically successful, but that you also want to be responsive to the stakeholders and the people affected,” Mann said. “You also want to show environmental stewardship and make choices that will sustain the future. Money is not the only thing that is involved in running a business — paying attention to your stakeholders is also paramount.”

Mann said that students gained leadership and communication skills from participating in the Green Business Lab. “There are the critical thinkers and visionaries, and also the people who are solely focused on attacking the goal.

Because students have so many differing personality [and] leadership styles, they need to learn how to communicate and work with others,” Mann said.

Nha-An Bui can be reached at ntb39@cornell.edu.

I.C.-Cornell Project Will Teach Retirees About Environment Program will allow adults to help community ‘while benefiting from the work themselves,’ I.C. director says

By EMMA QUIGLEY Sun Contributor

This spring, Cornell is partnering with Ithaca College on a project that will teach the elderly about the scientific study of and preservation of the local ecosystem.

The project, “Retirees in Service to

the Environment,” is a collaboration between Cornell, Ithaca College and Longview residential community. It seeks to educate older adults on issues such as energy use, waste management, soil contamination, water quality and health through workshops.

Many of the workshops will involve fieldwork in Ithaca College’s Natural

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Lands, which are “Ithaca College’s version of the Cornell Plantations,” according to Prof. Jacob Brenner, Ithaca College, environmental studies and sciences.

Furthermore, participants will be required to assist local schools in environmental education for five hours a week and participate in a follow-up stewardship program this summer.

Students from Ithaca College will have the opportunity to teach as a team with scientific presenters at the workshops as well as volunteer out in the field with Longview residents after they have graduated from the training, according to Dr. Rhoda Meador, director of the Gerontology Institute at Ithaca College.

The program’s “trans-generational” aspect — engaging both students and the elderly — is especially important, according to Brenner.

A flyer for RISE describes one of the goals of the program as “[providing] opportunities for retirees to remain physically active and socially engaged” in the hopes of creating “an ‘army’ working and thinking to push environmental work ahead.”

Studies have shown that participants in environmental stewardship gain substantial mental and physical health benefits, according to a University press release. Volunteers in environmental work are half as likely to experience symptoms of depression than those who

are not involved in such work.

“Participants are able to help their community while benefiting from the work themselves,” Meador said.

“[The RISE program in Ithaca] is unique in that it aims to include students as much as possible.”

Dr. Rhoda Meador The launch of RISE in Ithaca follows prior pilots of the program elsewhere in the U.S. RISE has been implemented in the last five years in various communities including some in Florida and New York, according to Prof. Nancy Wells, design and environmental analysis, who is also involved in RISE. “RISE is an evidence-based program,” Wells added.

While there have been RISE programs throughout the country, the one in Ithaca is “unique in that it aims to include students as much as possible,” Meador said.

Emma Quigley can be reached at eq26@cornell.edu.

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Judge Admonishes Defendant for ‘Little Misadventure’ COURT

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Though the reason for the reduced sentence was not expounded on in court, Rossiter characterized the incident as a “little misadventure.” Still, Rossiter chided Stephans, lamenting the role she said alcohol likely played a role in the incident.

“I’ve seen a lot of people do a lot of stupid things under the influence of alcohol … But you have to draw the line between things that are stupid and things that are hurtful,” Rossiter said.

Rossiter said she “strongly urges” Stephans to seek professional evaluation, treatment or classes relating to inappropriate drinking.

At one point, Stephans — with his attorney, John Stevens, whispering to him — stood up in the courtroom to deliver what Stevens introduced as a statement apologizing for his actions.

“I’d like to apologize for harassing [the victims],” Stephans said before sitting down again.

The four victims were not present to hear Stephan

speak.

After the court adjourned, the victims expressed a mixture of feelings — relief at the trial ending, dismay at Stephans’ reduced sentence and a desire to move on from the incident. The victims were granted anonymity

by The Sun to protect their identities.

One victim expressed frustration at the fact that the court dropped multiple charges against Stephans.

“I guess I’m just glad he was prosecuted,” the victim said.

Another victim said that she was almost relieved that she did not have to testify in court as a result of the settlement.

“I didn’t want to go through it again. I didn’t want to talk about it again,” she said.

Rossiter said in the courtroom that the court will issue an order of protection for the victims, which will bar Stephans from contacting the victims for the next two years.

In response to Rossiter, Stephans’ attorney — who declined to identify himself by name after the hearing — responded, “I don’t think he even knows who they

are or would be able to identify them.”

Stephans’ 15-day sentence is the maximum length one can spend in jail for a non-criminal violation.

His sentencing comes more than six months after the attack allegedly occurred. In the aftermath of the reported attack, several community leaders, including Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and President David Skorton, issued statements condemning the incident.

The victims said in their testimony that while Stephans screamed at them and shoved them, bystanders on the crowded Collegetown street remained passive: “just watching, [and] not helping.”

When the victims fled to a Collegetown residence, Stephans pursued them and reportedly tried to follow them inside.

“I was afraid of my life because this male was trying to harm me in any way that he could,” one of the victims said to police after the incident.

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Council Says Renting Should Not Be ‘Adversarial’ Committee: S.A. Candidate Broke Rules C-TOWN

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tion, saying, “We try to educate our landlords in ethics and deny membership to those who don’t follow our eight-point code of ethics.

This code includes statements such as “We will act fairly … in our dealings with tenants” and “We will respond promptly to tenant request … for assistance,” according to a handout Moll provided.

Thompson and other members of the panel encouraged students to take advantage of resources at the Off-Campus Housing Office in Willard Straight Hall.

Thompson said the office can help improve student knowledge about the process of moving off campus, how to manage expenses and renting.

Eric Silverberg ’14, chair of the Cornell Collegetown Student Council, said he believes his organization can also help disseminate information on off-campus housing resources to students.

“It’s not a lack of resources on campus, but the ignorance of knowledge that exists,” he said. “Freshmen, sophomores and even upperclassmen don’t know the Off-Campus

Housing Office exists. [The CSC] is actively trying to be that resource to reach more broadly across campus.”

Speakers on the panel also emphasized the importance of improving relations between tenants and landlords. “[Renting] should not be an adversarial system, and there’s a false perception that all landlords are bad, and that students are bad tenants,” Silverberg said. “Being good requires communication and compromises on both parties.”

Tessa Rudan ’89, a member of the Planning and Development Board, talked about the Community Dispute Resolution Center, a mediation group that assists Collegetown tenants and landlords on disputes.

“As a Cornell alumna and landlord, I’m aware of how students behave, [and] I understand the lifestyle. When my tenants have ‘lifestyle clashes,’ I refer them to this group instead of going to court,” Rudan said.

According to Thompson, the Community Dispute Resolution Center is a non-profit organization that runs on donations and grants, where volunteer mediators are professionally trained to mediate situations. Thompson said that the Community

Dispute Resolution Center has been “utilized a lot recently, but they’ll respond to requests when available.”

Thompson said that often, resolving landlord-tenant issues is as easy as improving communication between parties.

“The best way to get around the issues of noises and parties for both parties is to knock on the door and introduce yourself. It’s good to place a face to a neighbor,” Silverberg said.

Panelists also commented upon the rush for housing and renewing leases, which they said occurs every fall semester. Mitch Paine grad, who represented the Rental Housing Advisory Commission, proposed one possible solution to the annual problem.

“We are looking at other communities like Ann Arbor to see how they handle this problem. They put a moratorium for renewing the lease, 70 days after the signing of the previous one,” he said. “We’re hoping this ‘cooling off’ period will offer students to see other places, and figure out if they want to commit to roommates and landlords for another year.”

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

ELECTION

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the integrity of the elections.”

According to Weinberg, the S.A. made it explicitly clear in both a meeting with candidates and in its election rules that a candidate who violates any University policy will be considered to have violated election rules. All of the candidates signed and acknowledged that they understood the rules, Weinberg said.

According to the committee’s report, the committee used “substantial evidence” — Facebook photos and a YouTube video, both of which pictured Breedon using a megaphone — to confirm that Breedon had violated election rules.

At least five of the eight committee members voted that Breedon’s violation compromised the fairness of the election, according to Weinberg.

The S.A. requires a two-thirds vote by the committee to determine that a candidate breached election rules, according to its election guidelines.

Weinberg said that, in total, six challenges — all relating to the presidential race — were filed alleging violations of election rules. However, he said that Breedon’s case “was the only [challenge] that was substantiated.”

Alyssa Banks ’14, who supported Breedon, expressed outrage at the committee’s decision to disqualify Breedon due to his use of a megaphone.

“The whole purpose of an election is so that the student body’s voice can be heard; disqualifying Stephen over something as trivial as this stifles our voice,” Banks said.

She said that Breedon handled the situation with “grace and dignity,” and in doing so, “demonstrated his character as a person and candidate.”

Matthew Laks ’15 echoed Banks’ sentiments.

“I don’t think that [using a megaphone] is a fair reason to be disqualified from an election,” he said. “I believe that Cornell students should have the right to elect the person who they believe is more qualified. Just because someone is using a megaphone See ELECTION page 5

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and might not fully know all of the election rules, does not justify Cornell putting in place an S.A. president that the majority might not truly want.”

The S.A. released elections results for all positions but president and undesignated at-large representatives — the positions that were challenged — on Thursday.

Smith said that waiting the four days between Thursday evening, when many of the election results were announced, and Tuesday morning, was “very stressful.”

“Everything was out of my control, so I had to leave it to the elections committee,” he said. “I was just as in the dark as everyone else.”

Smith said that he attributes his success to his candor about what needs to be changed within the

S.A. and his record while on the S.A. As president, Smith said that he aims to make the S.A. more transparent by improving its outreach programs and strengthening its physical presence on campus.

Additionally, Smith said he plans to work with the administration to focus on improving residential and community life on campus, “because that is where the student experience really begins.”

He also said that he will continue many of the S.A.’s current initiatives, which include improving campus safety and working with the Greek system.

Geoff Block ’14, Jay Lee ’14, Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14 and Liliana Ma ’14 were elected to the four undesignated at-large positions.

Dara Levy can be reached at dlevy@cornellsun.com.

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Supporting sustainable development in Collegetown To the Editor: Re: “Major Collegetown Development Stalled After Board Decision,” News, March 6

Last week, we missed out on a chance to replace the decrepit building at 307 College Ave. with housing, a bus stop and a grocery store. Josh Lower's ’05 Collegetown Crossing project — planned in cooperation with TCAT and GreenStar Food Market, but essentially denied by the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals — would have fixed the snarled bus service at the corner of College and Dryden and provided a place to shop for real groceries in Collegetown. It would have generated significantly more property and sales taxes for the City and County than the current structure. Best of all, it would have brought a key amenity (Yes, groceries!) in close proximity to thousands of residents in the vicinity, making Collegetown even more walkable.

Our 2012 survey of 337 Collegetown residents found that the people most likely to park on the street were those with parking actually available at their building. People who brought a car to Ithaca, knowing full well that their building did not provide on-site parking, made other arrangements to store their vehicle. Unfortunately, the current policy in Collegetown (and other parts of the city) is to insist on mandatory parking, forcing new developments of all shapes and sizes to provide even more space for more private automobiles (wanted or not). Despite the volume of research on parking — and our own supporting study, endorsed by the Planning Board during the environmental review process — the Board of Zoning Appeals found that not having on-site parking was the negative impact.

Providing more and more parking in an effort to attract fewer cars is akin to trying to get toothpaste back in the tube. Demand for driving is directly related to how much parking is available. Rather than take action to limit the number of cars even entering Ithaca, we have chosen to view these potential residents as a threat rather than neighbors living largely unburdened by car ownership.

Supporting car-free living in a dense urban area helps the city’s own stated goals of carbon reduction and sustainability. Environmentalism that fails to seize opportunities to legalize a sustainable lifestyle is a collective failure. We can, and must, do better.

C.J. Randall MRP ’11 and David West MRP ’11

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all me Dr. Leonard Hofstadter. If you haven’t yet experienced CBS’s hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” drop this article immediately and borrow or buy the first season. This hilariously clever commentary on the intersection of academics and real life is the most viewed TV comedy in the U.S. and Canada. The series, now in its sixth season, follows the quotidian adventures of four genius scientists as they conduct research, relish their painfully nerdy hobbies and attempt to interact with the not-so-intelligent, but gorgeous, aspiring actress living across the hall.

To those of you as addicted as I am to this show and its captivating characters, let me postulate the following hypothesis: the similarities between The Big Bang Theory’s four lead male protagonists and Cornell grad students are uncanny.

Consider the following character traits: 1. Erudite but unnecessarily esoteric.

Ask Big Bang favorite Dr. Sheldon Cooper to pass the jam, and you will likely endure a complete history of fruit preservation dating back to its origins in the Middle East and introduction to Europe during the Crusades. He will comprehensively detail the differences between spreads, jams, jellies, preserves, marmalades, conserves and chutneys. I experience a similar phenomenon anytime I question a friend about how the burritos are at Manndible, or when a campus visitor asks me how to get from Schoellkopf to Willard Straight. We are stolidly incapable of sharing the relevant data without volumes of additional unsolicited, irrelevant material. Relatedly, why, when relaxing over a beer at the day’s end, does someone always find it apropos to link the pleasantly banal chitchat to his latest attempt at multi-level structural equation modeling with latent variables?

2. Hopeless social awkwardness.

While we don’t all have pathological fears of speaking with the opposite sex, or presuppose our performance in role playing games is integral to our self-worth, or spend half our stipend (and New Year’s Eve) in the comic book store, we’re far from social paragons. Sure, anomalies exist among us, but I’d wager most grad students can perform far better at describing the psychology or physical

chemistry of picking someone up in a bar than actually being successful in the act.

3. Exhibiting a quirky fashion sense that astonishes and appalls.

Argyle sweaters? Abusive reliance on turtlenecks? Superhero and Star Trek Tshirts? Big Bang characters have it all, as do grad students. Beyond stereotypical garments, just ask yourself when was the last time you observed a grad student who made a conscious decision about how shoes complemented his or her attire? Be honest, age aside, when you board the TCAT, you can heuristically conclude in a second who the grad students are. And I haven’t even touched on tweed jackets or some of these guys’ facial hair.

4. Propensity to explain everything (ironically, even our own social awkwardness) in terms of our theory du jour.

How many mornings have you just wanted some coffee to ease that pounding in your head when the person in front of you in line drops, “Well, it’s exactly as Foucault would say …” or “Latour has so much to offer on that topic …” Nevermind that the speaker is equivocating over light vs. dark roast.

Yes, instances occur in which an application of Schrödinger’s cat can actually aid decision making, but next time you use social representations theory to explain your eccentric social relations, please realize your use of the theory is likely the explanation itself.

5. Being cool in their own right.

Yes, the “Big Bang” characters are stereotypically awkward and painfully oblivious at times, but viewers both cherish and respect them. Sheldon, Leonard, Howard and Raj are weird, but likable. Frankly, most of the time, we would not want them to change. I exhibit all the aforementioned character traits (as do most of my friends), but I feel any other lifestyle would be a diminished one. Owning one’s eccentricity is a gift — one that many graduate students possess.

Darrick Nighthawk Evensen is a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources and the graduate student-elected trustee. He may be reached at dte6@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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David Fischer |

Fischy Business

A Wintery Mix Of Slush And Prelims M

y parents frequently travel to central Florida during the winter months to escape the brutally cold winters of upstate New York. While there, it seems as if their number one priority is to text me pictures of all of the fun they are having. Naturally, their activities include lounging on the beach, eating near the beach and attending Spring Training baseball games in very close proximity to the beach. As you can probably imagine, whenever I open these texts with the Ithaca wind ripping at any exposed skin, I feel a tiny bit of jealousy. After all, the brutal Ithaca winter seems inescapable when you are in its snowy dog days of January and February. However, around this time, in the week before Spring Break, Mother Nature seems content to tease us with a climatic portend of halcyon temperance. Of course, I am referring to the balmy temperatures that Ithaca saw fit to bestow on us for two days this week.

Although these temperatures do not compare to the tropical 70 degree temperatures of the Florida winter, the 50 degree spell that we have experienced for the past few days has brought with it a certain level of contentment. In the same way that Cornell’s hard-working, dedicated pre-meds likely felt relieved after completing (or not quite finishing) their organic chemistry exams Tuesday night

Ithaca would be remiss in its duties if it did not cling to winter for as long as possible.

— keep up the good work, guys — these sunny days are a marvelous departure from the normal sub-freezing temperatures, and the snow/freezing rain/slush/wintery mix that plays companion to those quintessentially Ithacan temperatures.

However, Ithaca would be remiss in its duties if it did not cling to winter for as long as possible. Of course, I am assuming the accuracy of the weather app on my iPhone, but today it should be 38 degrees with some of that much loved “wintery mix” and tomorrow it should be even worse at 26 degrees. The mid-March cycle of a few beautiful days followed by a longer span of wintery ones accurately reflects the Cornell workload. The Cornell prelim cycle does not often result in a consistent stream of work. Typically, the prelim season means two to three weeks loaded with exams, papers, presentations, extracurriculars and, of course, all-nighters. Prelim season corresponds most closely with that time when you misjudge the weather and, as a consequence, you leave your umbrella, rain jacket and underwater submersible vehicle when the sky decides to pour every configuration of the H2O molecule onto your head.

On the other hand, sometimes the Cornell workload stars align in such a way that it becomes possible to enjoy the random days of warmth in the midst of an Ithaca winter. When these rare, golden moments occur, it becomes much easier to enjoy the number one college town in America.

Unfortunately, the climatic warmth of these past days did not coincide with a lapse in workload. I spent a large part of the short period of warm weather working on several essays that are due this week. Sometimes Ithaca does not cooperate and the result is sometimes an admittedly truncated column and a decided lack of Vitamin D. It’s important to remember that, no matter the weather, and no matter the workload, Spring Break (the promise of a physical and intellectual rest) is just around the corner.

David Fischer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com.

Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “How can you say that an Asian American Center, a Native American Center, an LGBT Center and many others serve a purpose while an International Center serving over 5000 internationals at Cornell isn’t?

Keep your skepticism to yourself, unless you are international and you know the struggles that we face! When I saw that an International Student Center might be built, I was excited to finally be able to access more resources (ranging from cultural adaptation to the U.S. in a safe space, to language, academic adaptation and social issues, to name a few).

From what I noticed in the past two years, Cornell has an extremely weak international community due to its separation and lack of unifying fulcrum, something that the International Center would help alleviate.”

MoralEzra Re: “EDITORIAL: Questioning the Need for an International Student Center” published March 12, 2013

Jon Weinberg |

In Focus

Making the Most of MOOCs D

espite significant dia- have been at the forefront of My initial interest in a logue about Cornell’s pioneering this innovative finance course offered by the new Tech Campus in concept that promotes University of Michigan New York City, there has greater accessibility to higher through Coursera gave way to a lack of time and selfbeen an absence of commu- education.

It’s imperative that responsibility. The dropout nity discussion about the other new campus Cornell Cornell lead in educating in a rate leads to a return on has slowly been constructing manner consistent with the investment that is ultimately — the one being built online. University’s motto and pur- far lower than possible and As Cornell prepares to pose. In a Sun column pub- initially expected. That one offer its first Massive Open lished last semester, my friend needs an internet connection Online Course, I am still and Student Trustee Alex to access a MOOC also limits unclear as to the impact of Bores ’13 offered many com- their promise as true levelers Cornell’s decision to join a pelling reasons for Cornell to in accessibility.

Additionally, MOOCs are MOOC consortium, partic- offer MOOCs. Coinularly on undergraduate stu- cidentally, Provost Kent not free for the University. dents. While the University Fuchs recently announced The direct costs of operating appears to have taken all of that the University will join a MOOC include product i o n the proper steps in coming to either edX or Coursera, two a decision, it is still necessary for the administration to guarantee that It’s imperative that Cornell online course offerings will advance Cornell’s lead in educating in a mission without taking manner consistent with away from the underthe University’s motto. graduate experience in Ithaca.

To many, MOOCs — free online courses offered by consortia offering MOOCs, costs, compensation for the eminent universities to any- sometime this month. professor and teaching assisCornell tant and the maintenance of one with an internet connec- Furthermore, tion — represent the future announced that its first online infrastructure. Since of higher education. Often, MOOC offering, per a the courses are free, these enrollment in each course $50,000 grant from Google, costs are not recouped; even exceeds thousands of stu- will be “Six Pretty Good Provost Fuchs has acknowldents, who not only view Books,” an interdisciplinary edged that at best Cornell’s interactive lectures but also course that “explores the MOOCs will break even. complete graded assignments social sciences through books The sources of revenue necesand engage with one another by prominent authors includ- sary to reach this goal are ing Steven Pinker, Nicholas rather ambiguous. It is also and teaching assistants.

The opportunity to edu- Christakis, Robert Frank, worth noting that Cornell is cate the world efficiently is, of Duncan Watts and Dan deciding between a non-profcourse, captivating. Most of Ariely.” Cornell is clearly it and for-profit consortium, our peer institutions have ready to add another dimen- and the implications of that already joined one of the sion to “any person … any decision have not been made clear. three leading consortia offer- study.”

Despite their promise, Yet, the decision to begin ing and facilitating MOOCS and have offered diverse offering MOOCs is not to be MOOCs are unlikely to courses to a wider audience. made without full considera- replace our Cornell education Clearly, universities are now tion of all possible impacts. It in the near future, nor should in a place to expand beyond is worth noting that while they. In a piece published in their brick-and-mortar cam- MOOCs reach thousands of Forbes earlier this year, puses to engage and educate students, on average, only 10 President David Skorton and “any student” irrespective of percent of those who enroll in Glenn C. Altschuler, vice location, nationality, ability a course usually earn a certifi- president for university relato pay or language spoken. cate of completion. I am tions, articulated a vision for Ezra Cornell surely would myself a MOOC dropout. the offering MOOCs at

Cornell. They wrote that “MOOCs should not replace a residential undergraduate experience for young men and women able to afford it or who qualify for financial aid.” They are absolutely right. Our education at Cornell is as much defined by the Cornell community as it is by the lectures we have attended. You simply cannot replicate the multitude of benefits of a traditional Cornell experience online, and not just because it doesn’t Ithacate through a computer screen.

Since MOOCs at Cornell will primarily serve to further our global reach to non-traditional students, the administration should guarantee us that the MOOC offerings will not impede on our education. We also deserve more insight into how the University is deciding which consortium it will offer courses through.

MOOCs are an opportunity to bring Cornell to the world. But they also shouldn’t take Cornell away from us in Ithaca. Provided that resources are not diverted from undergraduate education and that MOOCs are not funded by our tuition dollars, they represent progress for our University.

Hopefully, through offering MOOCs Cornell will facilitate the pursuit of “any person … any study” both in Ithaca and online such that our studies here are enriched, not limited, by the University’s new global reach.

Jon Weinberg is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jweinberg@cornellsun.com. In Focus appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

Physics

Psychology

Mathematics

The Physics of Heavy Metal Mosh Pits

By JACQUELINE CAROZZA Sun Staff Writer

What do the Black Sabbath and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell have in common? More than one might think.

Jesse Silverberg grad and Matt Bierbaum grad study the similarities between the statistics of gas particle motion, which Maxwell developed in the 1800s, and the collective motion of heavy metal fans dancing in mosh pits.

The seeds of the project were planted five years ago when Silverberg took his girlfriend to her first heavy metal concert.

Instead of heading straight into the mosh pit, he hung back with her and was stunned by the new perspective he gained viewing the mosh pit from the sidelines.

“What I saw [was] a lot of different types of collective motion and emergent behavior.

I was distracted by the crowd for the rest of the night,” he said.

Silverberg’s observations of the heavy metal mosh pit simmered in the back of his mind until a few years later when he met Bierbaum in a statistical mechanics class taught by

Bierbaum’s advisor, Prof. James Sethna, physics.

As a project for the class, the two students — Silverberg, an experimentalist, and Bierbaum, a theoretician — teamed up to study mosh pit behavior through the physics of collective motion.

In order to obtain data for the project, Silverberg and Bierbaum first tried to film heavy metal concerts in Ithaca.

However, the researchers were never able to film large enough crowds to obtain useful data.

Instead, they moved to analyzing YouTube videos of mosh pits.

Silverberg and Bierbaum sorted through about 100 videos, choosing those with the best angle and which were the least shaky.

Using image processing software developed by Silverberg’s advisor, Prof. Itai Cohen, physics, they corrected for camera distortion and shakiness and quantified the motion of the moshers.

Silverberg and Bierbaum found that the motions of people in a mosh pit bear a striking resemblance to the motions of particles in a gas when that gas is confined to a two-dimensional plane.

The distribution of speeds of the ricocheting gas particles matches that of the dancing moshers, and, in both cases, the direction in which one particle or person moves is uncorrelated to the movement of one’s neighbors.

The next step was to create a model.

“Physicists distill complex systems into basic elements.”

Silverberg said. “What we’re trying to do is model behavior of people in as simple a way as possible and still reproduce what we’re seeing.”

Using data from the concert videos, Bierbaum developed a computer simulation that models the behavior observed in a mosh pit. The researchers programmed virtual moshers which they named Mobile Activated Simulated Humanoids, or MASHers. The MASHers are simple particles with a number of built-in parameters.

“We started with the idea of rubber balls in a box, applied the physical rules of the rubber balls to the MASHers, and then put in more ingredients,” Bierbaum said.

These extra factors include the self-propulsion term, which makes the MASHers move in whatever direction they face,

and the flocking term, the tendency of a MASHer to follow its neighbors.

According to Bierbaum, he and Silverberg also added a random noise parameter to imitate the effect of the loud music, flashing lights, and intoxication that are part of a metal concert.

“This parameter means that you don’t always go where you want to,” Bierbaum said.

There are two populations of MASHers — active MASHers, whose propulsion, flocking, and noise parameters are nonzero, and their passive MASHer counterparts, for which these three parameters are set to zero.

The parameter value choices mean that active MASHers mosh readily, while passive ones prefer to stay out of the pit.

Bierbaum also created a web application of the simulation, where users can adjust the parameters of the active MASHers and observe the resultant behavior.

According to Silverberg and Bierbaum, with this set of simple parameters, the MASHer model was able to predict the random, gas-like behavior of the moshers.

The model also predicted another phenomenon the researchers had observed — the

formation of a circle pit, a collective behavior that emerges when concertgoers spontaneously run around in a circle.

The researchers can switch from the mosh pit, gas-like state to the circle pit, vortex-like state by increasing the flocking term or by decreasing the random noise of the active MASHers. Tweaking either parameter in the right direction results in collective circular motion.

This work on heavy metal moshers may be able to be used to study emergent behavior of people in emergency situations, especially since video footage of these events is rare, and simulations are often ineffective, according to Silverberg and Bierbaum.

“We can model heavy metal concerts to study extreme collective behavior that arises from extreme situations. Then we can take what we learn from our model and use it to build buildings that will be safer in the event of an emergency,” Silverberg said.

The research was funded independently by Silverberg and Bierbaum.

Jacqueline Carozza can be reached at jcarozza@cornellsun.com.

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Mosh pit motion | From left, Matt Bierbaum grad and Jesse Silverberg grad study the similarities of gas particle motion and the movements of people in mosh pits at heavy metal concerts.

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Prof. Vivan Zayas ’94 Researches Relationships

By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Contributor

What if the picture of your mother on your desk was not just a decoration? What if seeing the picture everyday unconsciously boosted your positive thinking, improved your working memory, and even changed how you behaved?

Prof. Vivian Zayas ’94, psychology, investigates the behavior of close relationships, and how these relationships can affect our day to day lives. As director of the Personality, Attachment and Control Lab, she focuses on representations of close relationships in memory. Zayas builds upon the fundamental question: How do we mentally represent the people closest to us?

“We have these abstract representations of people who are important to us; we can bring them to mind even when they’re not physically in our presence,” she said. “They can affect how we behave.”

By using both explicit and implicit methods to measure the “positivity” or “negativity” of a response to a particular stimulus that reminded the participant of a close relation , her lab found that simply seeing a representation of someone close can help people recover from negative memories. An explicit measure involves a straightforward selfreport in which participants see a picture of someone close to them, and then note their feelings on a numbered scale. An implicit measure, while more complicated, is considered to be more accurate because it omits self-reporting bias.

One implicit measure involves creating a “nonsense” word with no underlying connotations. After seeing a picture of someone close to them, participants were asked what they believe the word meant.

“The idea is that you’ll use your own internal state to make sense of that word. It’s a nonsense word, but if you’re feeling nervous, you might interpret that word as being negative, whereas if you’re feeling calm and secure, you might interpret that word posi-

tively,” Zayas said.

Each participant also wrote a stream of consciousness after the visual stimulus.

Researchers then coded the words to find out how many negative words versus positive words there were in the writing. If the participants had seen a picture of someone whom they had positive feelings for, the ratio of positive to negative words was higher.

“What we see is that when we remind people of their mother or their partner, that simple reminder will help improve their mood,” Zayas said.

But given all the positive thinking that comes from attachment, what happens with rejection?

“We’re very sensitive to any cue that these relationships could be in danger,” Zayas said.

“Our alarm is ready, and one of the most damaging threats is when a person within that relationship wants to terminate that relationship, which makes good sense because if you’re attuned to the threat you can respond to the threat.”

Zayas used Event Related Potentials which measure brain responses, while participants heard a neutral statement, compared to while participants heard an emotional statement.

For example, if participants heard the statement, “If I study for a test, my partner will be …” or “If I am feeling stressed, my partner will be …” they would have to fill in the last word with a word such as “supporting” or “dismissing.” Zayas used a component of the ERP, the N400 negative wave response 400 milliseconds after a visual or auditory stimulus, to investigate these rejection-like situations. The N400 deflection had been previously shown to be associated with greater attention.

“We designed the whole task to look at N400 and to see if the deflection would be more sensitive to rejection cues,” Zayas said.

She found that the magnified neurophysiological response to filling in the more positive or the more negative word, recorded via ERPs, occurred within 250 milliseconds of

the stimulus. However, this magnified response did not occur with the neutral statement. Thus, participants paid more attention to the emotional statement than the neutral one. Moreover, she found individual differences in the neurophysiological response among participants, particularly females.

More emotionally invested participants had heightened responses, while more detached participants had dampened responses.

Explicit trials showed participants consistently indicating their positive feelings toward the person who was closest to them, on a scale of zero to nine, as nine. When asked whether they had negative feelings toward this person, they wrote down zero.

“It suggests that in memory, there is a lot of positivity but there is some negativity — even with the person that you value the most,” Zayas said. “Yet these relationships are so complex, and our representations are also so rich, that we don’t see the complexity with self-reported surveys. Implicitly, it’s much more complex.”

Co-authored with post doctorate student, Joshua Tabak ’09, Zayas also recently wrote a publication which discusses the effects of gaydar, one’s ability to distinguish someone’s sexual orientation by simply seeing them.

The study was based on experimental trials in which participants were shown photographs of men and women for 50 milliseconds. In this time, they had to decide whether the person was gay or straight. Zayas and Tabak found that not only could people often guess sexual orientation in 50 milliseconds, but they could, unexpectedly, guess the sexual orientation of females better than males.

“It wasn’t in the realm of what I was doing,” Zayas said, “but I said just because I don’t necessarily think it’s there doesn’t mean it’s not there. That’s why we do research.”

Zayas collaborates with several other faculty at Cornell too. With Prof. Corinna Lockenhoff, human development, she investigates how young versus elderly populations process subtle cues of group inclusion and

COURTESY OF PROF. VIVIAN ZAYAS

Reading relationships | Prof. Vivian Zayas, psychology, investigates how we mentally represent the people closest to us. exclusion. She is also looking into working on inclusion and exclusion in adolescent populations in summer camps with Prof.

Jane Mendel, human development.

Much of the current literature discusses situations of exclusion and inclusion that are very clear and explicit.

“For instance, they’ll say, ‘You’re spending the rest of your life alone,’ or ‘You’re playing a frisbee game and suddenly the other two players stop throwing you the frisbee.’ But often, exclusion does not take that form, it’s more subtle,” Zayas said. “What we’re interested in is how these people assess whether they are being included and excluded, and how do they respond?”

Zayas also teaches Human Development 2600: Introduction to Personality in the fall.

Reem Khondakar can be reached at nrk39@cornell.edu.

Prof. Justin Moore Investigates Infinite Sets

By YIDAN XU Sun Contributor

You can’t always solve a mathematical problem by reducing it to something you’ve already solved.

Sometimes, you need to rethink and reform the original statements. Prof. Justin Moore, mathematics, works to find possible breakthroughs on the generalization of Hindman’s theorems and

the classification of uncountable linear orders, in order to better understand the Ramsey Theory of infinite sets.

In 1928, the English mathematician Frank Plumpton Ramsey published a paper in which he proved that when a structure, such as the edges from a graph or the positive integers, is partitioned into a small number of pieces, one of the pieces must exhibit some

high amount of order or regularity. According to Moore, this is now known as Ramsey Theory.

An example of Ramsey Theory would be that if the natural numbers are colored red and blue, there is an infinite sequence all of whose finite sums have the same color, Moore said.

Ramsey Theory affects math as varied as algebra, combinatorics, set theory, logic, analysis, and

COURTESY OF PROF. JUSTIN MOORE

Teaching theories | Prof. Justin Moore, mathematics, explains his theories on the Ramsey Theory of infinite sets.

geometry, and has played an important role in several mathematical developments in the last century. However, many parts of Ramsey theory remain limited and undeveloped Moore said.

Moore’s latest research focuses on Hindman's theorem, a Ramsey-type theorem which asserts “if the natural numbers are partitioned into finitely many pieces, then one of the pieces must contain all of the finite sums of elements of some infinite subset of the natural numbers.” Hindman’s Theorem only applies to certain types of numbers, and these numbers must be associative as in the following case: a+(b+c) = (a+b)+c.

According to Moore, Hindman’s theorem doesn’t work for nonassociative operations only because of trivial reasons. It is possible to modify the statement of Hindman’s theorem to avoid these trivial counterexamples.

“My major contribution to the problem so far has been to realize that it would be solved if one could successfully generalize Hindman's theorem.” said More, “The question is now whether it is possible to prove the resulting statement.”

Currently, Moore is working to

figure out the statement and find the tool to prove it. If he successfully finds a generalization, mathematicians will find themselves staring into a cornucopia of techniques for solving problems in Ramsey theory which will be very different from those that are currently used.

Besides Hindman’s theorem, Moore works on uncountable linear orders. A linear order is a set X whose elements can be compared with one another, and for each element, x < y and y < z implies x < z. Uncountable linear orders also fit under the umbrella of Ramsey theory.

Moore’s interest on Ramsey theory can be traced back to his dissertation about Ramsey theory for uncountable sets at University of Toronto.

“In mathematics one has to first understand the obstructions to giving too strong a solution to a problem, as well as what a problem is really asking,” Moore said.

Moore teaches Math 4540: Introduction to Differential Geometry, and Math 7870: Set Theory, in the spring semester.

Yidan Xu can be reached at yx265@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT :

COURTESY OF CORNELL FASHION COLLECTIVE

Matthew Gottesman ’13

BY MADELINE SALINAS Sun Contributor

The Cornell Fashion Collective is a student-run organization that features the work of Apparel Design and Fashion Business Management students to produce an annual fashion show for industry leaders and the Cornell community. Each year members design for the show, they are given the opportunity to design an increasing number of looks, reaching a mini collection of 10 models by their fourth year. This semester, CFC is preparing to feature 40 student designers in their 29th annual show on April 27th in Barton Hall. One of these designers is Matthew Gottesman ‘13.

Matthew Gottesman ’13 began designing for Cornell Fashion Collective as a freshman. Now, he does graphics for the show in addition to designing and singing in The Chordials, an on-campus a capella group. One of the reasons Gottesman continues to work with CFC is because, as he points out, CFC gives designers freedom to explore design interests beyond the confines of class assignments, while also giving students an opportunity to experiment and build off of the skills learned in Fiber Science and Apparel Design classes.

In his latest project, for example, Gottesman was inspired by “Collections,” a required class for FSAD majors which challenges designers to identify their philosophies. Gottesman quickly keyed in on his own.

“I start with texture and build from that,” he says, reaching for the swatch board eased on the corner of his desk.

Many of the fabrics Gottesman uses are original creations, and those he chose for his spring collection for CFC are no exception. One of Gottesman’s past creations was an experi-

ment with surface design techniques such as needle felting, which fuses raised felted prints to a base material. “[Designing fabrics] is usually a hobby or craft technique, but I wanted to elevate it to fashion,” Gottesman explained. Indeed, his products are far from homely. They seem, instead, to echo the sophistication of the Proenza Schouler runway.

In his collection for the upcoming show, Gottesman is manipulating needle felting as well as knit work and denim to create a modernized natural aesthetic. Don’t be too quick to conjure images of the forest, though. As he explained, “it started with a safari theme, but I felt like that had been done, so I thought, why not do safari on another planet?” Drawing inspiration from films like The Matrix and Prometheus, his collection, tentatively named after one of Jupiter’s moons, “Io,” features an organic palette energized by surreal patterns.

For one look, Gottesman created an artistic interpretation of leather by fusing paper on top of denim to create a crackled effect that wears away over time. The idea was not his own, however. He picked up the technique from a Brooklyn based designer in exchange for his own expertise in handbag patterning. “My favorite piece is an original black and green snakeskin patterned knit, juxtaposed beside its scaly inspiration,” Gottesman said. The raised “scales,” varying in size and shape, showcase the designer’s impeccable detail.

In addition to his experience with designers such as Ana Sui and Prabal Gurung, Gottesman interned at Theory over the summer, focusing primarily on knit work. “Knit work people are super nice — that’s like a rule,” he jokes, recounting his enjoyable summer. Since his internship, Gottesman has definitely harnessed his interests independently — the fashion department’s knitting machine is stationed at his desk.

Gottesman’s rack of work in progress features, “riffs on

parkas” and plushy, looseknit sweaters in crisp white and hunter green — perfect for springtime in Ithaca, or, of course, an extraterrestrial expedition. As his fourth year in CFC, this year he will be featuring 10 looks in CFC’s spring fashion show as a mini collection.

“I’m so impatient, I’m all about the final product!” Gottesman says. The CFC spring fashion show is quickly approaching though and, on top of prelims and studio work, the work is piling up. It’s not uncommon to pull all-nighters in the studio; in the weeks before the fashion show, designers may stake out in the studio for the night to add finishing touches.

“At least half of the time I’m awake, I’m in here, whether I’m working or not!” he says, exchanging smirks with a designer across the studio. In addition to long hours at work, the fashion students manage to make the most of their long hours together in studio. Recently, that’s meant swindling anyone with a car into a trip to McDonald’s. Over the course of four years in CFC and fashion courses, the apparel design students, numbering less than 10 seniors, form a very tight knit community bound closer by their common interests.

In his last semester, Gottesman looks forward to his career but isn’t excited about having to leave Cornell behind. After graduation, he plans to work as an assistant designer and eventually design for his own line. Yet, Gottesman will miss being able to “come in and spend all of my time creating,” in the sunlit studios overlooking Beebee Lake. “This room alone, being with all seniors — everyone is doing different work but passionate about the same thing.”

Madeline Salinas is a freshman in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at mms388@cornell.edu.

Cornell Symphony Blows Away Bailey

BY ASHLEY POPP Sun Staff Writer

Amidst prelims and essays last Thursday, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra took the stage. With a wide range of contemporary and classical pieces, the audience could not have asked for a better study break. Pre-Med student Karen Chang ’15 was grateful for this “breath of fresh air … Attending this concert broke the cycle of going classes and heading straight home to study.”

The concert opened with a premiere piece, “Music for Orchestra,” composed by Cornell doctoral candidate Charles Cacioppo.

Drawing inspiration from Navajo traditions, hip-hop and composers of the Second Viennese School, Cacioppo’s piece took everyone by surprise. Like most contemporary pieces, “Music for Orchestra” wasn’t exactly melodic. According to violinist Akito Nicol ’16, “Contemporary pieces get smacked around a lot” because of this tendency to avoid simple, melodic compositions. This sentiment was clear in the crowd: as one audience member joked, “a monkey using garage band could have made the piece.”

Yet most students appreciated the instrumental disparity. Flautist Hee Kyun ’16 found “Music for Orchestra” to be “not normal,” and after a moment, added, “not approved,” although she liked the piece. In this statement, Kyun touched upon the most defining aspect of the Cacioppo’s work and, indeed, of all premieres: The audience is given the power to judge something for the first time, a power that is thrilling whether you enjoyed the piece or not.

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From Cacioppo’s contemporary work the symphony moved into more classical pieces when acclaimed pianist and Chemical Engineer Vikram Potdar ’14 made his way on stage. Potdar had just been named the ninth annual Cornell Concerto Competition winner, and after his performance, it is clear why.

Potdar took on the role “the lonely piano” in Samuel Barber’s piano concerto “Op. 38,” a piece that won Barber the 1963 Pulitzer Prize in music. This reflective, somber piece contrasted greatly with Cacioppo’s: Every note seemed deliberate and the artist’s intent clear.

The movement of the melody between the orchestra and piano aptly captured the path one’s thoughts take when dwelling on an idea too long.

Potdar’s solo was vigorous and his fingers

mesmerizing as Barber’s piece broke the order of the previous movement. We are left with a drunken melody and a rabid pianist. Barber has let us hear the breaking point of our minds.

The piano concerto was followed by Edward Elgar’s “Enigma,” which easily became the fan favorite of the night. This may be because a variation of the piece, “Nimrod,” was played at the opening of last year’s Summer Olympics in England. The choice by Danny Boyle was well received by the public, as the music was considered to be tied to England’s history.

“Nimrod” is the one variation that doesn’t fit the theme of “Enigma.” Elgar questions his identity in “Enigma,” naming the piece as such to illustrate his uncertainty of his life and

dichotomy of his character. As Assistant Conductor Niccolo Athens explained, he was a man of contradictions, from the “postRomantic opulence” that clashed with his “Classical restraint,” to the fact that he was an “English gentleman [with a] turbulent romantic life.” However, “Nimrod” is a well-formed composition that is not wracked with internal dilemmas.

The Cornell Symphony gave an incredible performance, especially considering they were without their conductor, Chris Younghoon Kim, for two weeks. The Orchestra’s next performance will be at the end of this semester.

Ashley Popp is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at apopp@cornellsun.com.

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March 22, 1965

A retrospective look at Dylan’s past visits to Cornell

BY SAM BROMER Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Yesterday, music fans across Cornell’s campus began their rabid hunt for tickets to folk-rock legend Bob Dylan’s April 14 performance at Bailey Hall as the highly prized commodities went on sale on the Cornell Concert Commission’s website.

What most of these fans probably did not realize, however, is that Dylan has a long history of performance at Cornell that harkens back to a time far before tickets went on sale online — or, indeed, before any of these students were even born.

Dylan’s first two tour stops at Cornell took place in the spring and fall of 1965, respectively.

As these two archived Sun reviews reveal, a lot changed between the two performances, both in terms of Dylan’s sound and his public persona. While the first reviewer seems like a condescending outsider, aware of Dylan’s budding talent but nonetheless inclined to paint him as a silly, “Vaudevillian” character, the tone of the second reviewer’s piece mimics the increasing free spirit of the time — and Dylan’s increasingly rock-based sound in the wake of the

Strangely Addicted

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s soon as I heard the ominous disclaimer of TLC’s hit reality TV series — “This program depicts addictive behaviors that are dangerous and risky in nature” and “Viewers should not attempt,” — I found myself hooked to My Strange Addiction. Part of my addiction is because it’s a kitschy spectacle that requires no brainpower. More importantly, though, this seemingly trashy show exudes an amazing amount of social commentary about power and class that not even the most opinionated speaker on CSPAN could match. Consider the title itself: What makes it an addiction? Why is it strange? What makes it worthy of television?

What makes us want to watch it?

The very confessional format of the show puts each subject under the scalpel of the audience’s constant analysis. We constantly dissect each addict to discover the true underlying cause of his or her addiction. The experience is much like a Catholic confessional booth, where followers confess their sins before the priest forms the truth, the explanation, beneath the confession. yet, unlike the priest

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release of what is perhaps his most wellrecognized single, “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Sam Bromer is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-andentertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

who can determine whether a confession translates into a problem, TLC intermediates to determine what is a problem. Admittedly, the confessors in both the booth and on My Strange Addiction already believed a problem existed to feel compelled to reach out — there was already an assumption by the confessor that there was a problem. But within the confessional booth, the priest still has the authority to decide that there’s nothing wrong within the confessor; the possibility of this decision doesn’t exist in My Strange Addiction. Such a

Kai Sam Ng You’ve Got to Be Kitsching Me difference seems minute, since it is just an extra level of authority from the confessor to the audience as analysts. But TLC’s purpose as a TV network makes its determination of what an “addiction” is has a huge impact.

Usually, we get pretty neat explanations: Evan and Nicole’s addictions began after their father and mother respectively died. But sometimes the explanations are very messy.

Riley, for example, explained to her friend

early on in one episode that she is “addicted to being a baby” because being transgender meant she missed the experience of growing up as a girl. But later, the therapist who analyzes Riley determines that it was because she was bullied as a child, despite Riley’s protestations that she doubt it had anything to do with it. And while both things are true — she is transgender and she was bullied — Riley thinks it’s a quirky lifestyle choice, not a problem. We, as the audience, are compelled to believe that her denial of that truth constitutes a meta-problem.

More worryingly, the justifications of the problems are suspiciously divided on the basis of class. Most unemployed and working class confessors have addictions that deal with their own bodies — ingesting plastic/rocks/bleach, keeping pets that harm the confessor’s health, butt injections — and are disapproved for not spending their time and money in the “right” and “productive” way.

In contrast, most middle class and bourgeois confessors have addictions that deal with other bodies — taxidermy, eating her dead husband’s ashes, collecting roadkill — and are disapproved for hiding their addiction, implying they can still project the image of being disciplined from their impulses. These are the addictions that are explained as strange obsessions that innocently developed but still must be educated about the evils. Regardless, many continue their “addictions” because they see

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no problem with them.

The British psychoanalyst Adam Philips once outlined in “An Answer to Questions” that psychoanalysis’ role is not to provide answers, but to provide questions. As he once stated, “It is misleading—somehow baffling, or distracting—to be interested in answers … the problem with the question is its need for an answer.” Likewise, My Strange Addiction was designed to give us the final answer, but we are smarter than TLC thinks us to be. The most fascinating facets of the show — which lies underneath what TLC says is underneath — are the questions it raises.

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. You’ve Got To Be Kitsching Me appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Golfer Falls Into Unexpected Sink Hole While Playing ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mark Mihal was having a good opening day on the links when he noticed an unusual depression on the 14th fairway at Annbriar Golf Club in southern Illinois. Remarking to his friends how awkward it would be to have to hit out of it, he went over for a closer look.

One step onto the pocked section and the 43-year-old mortgage broker plunged into a sinkhole. He landed 18 feet down with a painful thud, and his friends managed to hoist him to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes. But Friday’s experience gave Mihal quite a fright, particularly after the recent death of a Florida man whose body hasn’t been found since a sinkhole swallowed him and his bedroom.

“I feel lucky just to come out of it with a shoulder injury, falling that far and not knowing what I was going to hit,” Mihal, from the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur, told The Associated Press before heading off to learn whether he’ll need surgery. “It was absolutely crazy.”

Annbriar general manager Russ Nobbe described the sinkhole as “an extremely unfortunate event, an event we feel is an act of nature.”

“We don’t feel there is any way we could have foreseen this happening,” he told a Tuesday news conference.

Mihal said it was a real downer on what had been a fine outing.

With winter finally nearing an end, “it was the first day to get to play in a long time,” he said. “So I wasn’t expecting too much.”

Golfing with buddies, Mihal was waiting to hit his third shot, some 100 yards from the pin on the par 5, when he noticed a bathtub-looking indentation about knee deep just behind him on the fairway. At just one over par for the round, the golfer with a 6 handicap was on a roll.

Then the ground gave way beneath him.

“It didn’t look unstable,” Mihal said. “And then I was gone. I was just freefalling. It felt like forever, but it was just a second or two, and I didn’t know what I was going to hit. And all I saw was darkness.”

Getting panicky and knowing his shoulder “was busted,” Mihal assessed his dilemma in pitch darkness as he rested on a mound of mud, wondering if the ground would give way more and send him deeper into the pit that was 10-feet wide at the opening, then broadened out into the shape of a bell below the surface.

“I was looking around, clinging to the mud pile, trying to see if there was a way out,” he said. “At that point, I started yelling, “I need a ladder and a rope, and you guys need to get me out of here.’”

A ladder hustled to the scene was too short, and Mihal’s damaged shoulder crimped his ability to climb.

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By TUCKER MAGGIO- HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Gymnastics team continued its solid form this season last Sunday at Southern Connecticut University, scoring over 191.000 for the fourth consecutive meet. The Red had a strong performance on all three events but came up just short of Brown’s 192.000 to place second in the meet. This marks the second time in three weeks they have finished second to Brown. The second place finish was the fourth consecutive meet that the Red have finished as runner up. Cornell’s 191.675 was just short of Brown but was good enough to top Southern Connecticut’s 191.025 and West Chester’s 186.425.

The Red had particularly good scores on the vault and bars Saturday, scoring a 48.200 on vault and a 48.750 on bars, both scores good enough for a first place finish in that event.

Senior tri-captain Ashley Maher noted the team’s consistency as the reason for the confidence and high scores in these events.

“Both lineups stepped up to plate to hit some of their best routines of the season, and were rewarded with some big scores as a result. Hitting week after week both in the gym and in competition has given us confidence going into these events, allowing us to focus on the small details of our performances — and that has made the biggest difference. The team is no longer focusing on just hitting routines, but rather how well they can hit these routines,” Maher said.

The Red also had a good performance on floor scoring a 48.050 but had another tough outing on beam, finishing third out of the four teams. Their 46.675 on beam was a fair amount less than the second place score. The team’s beam scores have been something the Red have been trying to improve this season; however, the athletes’ efforts on beam were well received by senior tri-captain Sarah Hein.

“It was actually probably our second best performance on beam this season, even though the scores don’t show it. We still need to be more confident on this event, and show that confidence when we’re out there in competition,” Hein said.

The Red had many top individual finishers on

Saturday with nine top six finishers, including two in the top three. Juniors Melanie Jorgensen and Alexis Schupp had excellent performances on the bars, finishing number one and two in the event. Jorgensen’s 9.875 earned her first place and was a tie for fourth best bars score in Cornell Gymnastics history.

Schupp’s 9.775 gave her the second place finish. Also on bars, Maher’s 9.725 acquired her fourth place and junior Elise Kerner scored a 9.700 which earned her sixth place and rounded out the four big Red gymnasts in the top six for bars. On the vault, Hein and freshmen Alicia Bair each “It was actually scored 9.700’s and tied for second in the event. probably our Senior tri-captain Mcsecond best Kenna Archer and Hein performance on both had top five finishes on the floor as well with beam.”

Hein’s 9.700 earning her Sarah Hein fourth place while Archer’s 9.675 would land her right behind Hein in fifth on the floor.

Next up for the Red is a quad meet on Friday at Kent State. The Red will come up against very good competition when Cornell will face off against Kent State, Southeast Missouri State and New Hampshire.

Cornell enters the meet with the lowest RQS (Regional Qualifying Score) of the four with a 191.610. Kent State boasts a 195.755 RQS which places them 22nd nationally. New Hampshire’s 194.535 and Southeast Missouri State’s 193.395 also place them higher than Cornell nationally. Friday’s meet has potential for the Red to put up a big score.

“We’re going against some big teams at Kent State, so it has the potential to be a high-scoring meet. We’re looking to take advantage of this, and hopefully get another season high,” said Hein.

The Red are still looking to improve its RQS in order to keep the team in the hunt for the USAG Collegiate Nationals, but know that this week’s meet is another chance to improve their consistency in all four events and a chance to gain momentum with ECACs on the horizon.

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at tmaggiohucek@cornellsun.com.

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Gaining momentum | Junior Melanie Jorgensen excelled on bars this past weekend as the Red took second at the Southern Connecticut University meet.

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The lone ironic eye-catching TV promo for the champion entailed a gym scene where she is shown walkCenter, and the women warriors ing barefoot and in training gear to more than delivered with a thrilling the tune of James Brown’s “It’s a four minutes and 49 seconds. Man’s Man’s Man’s World” when Carmouche had Rousey in trouble she suddenly is transformed into midway through the round, slap- donning a devilish red dress and ping on a standing rear naked choke high heels and wearing full-make and then a neck crank. Rousey, who up. The tagline: Beauty is a Beast. won an Olympic bronze medal in Rousey, who said she grew up as judo in Beijing, eventually shook off more of a tomboy and shunned her competitor and gradually feminine stereotypes, also recently worked her posed nude on the own submiscover of ESPN sion on the mat “Is women’s MMA Magazine. It is not to retain her really a big deal in the likely that we will UFC banever see one of her tamweight title. 21st century?” male counterparts, Diehard such as the 265MMA fans pound heavyweight have long followed women in the title contender, Antonio “Bigfoot” cage, and fighter-turned-actress, Silva, on a glossy cover shot with Gina Carano, became the first pub- only his six-ounce gloves concealing lic face of female fighters nearly four up his more hairy parts. years ago when she headlined an Nevertheless, MMA scores highevent for the now defunct er marks than many entertainment Strikeforce promotion. and promotion circles on this front.

Overall, the UFC handled the Just watch the Academy Awards red marketing of Rousey’s fight with carpet circus when all the ravenous class. With the UFC’s core audience paparazzi energy focuses basically comprised overwhelmingly of males on “how she looks and what’s she is between the ages of 17 and 35, wearing.” And let’s not even delve some Mad Men marketing types into the music industry. might turn to lower instincts to proSome segments of U.S. society mote female fighters as sex objects might still take issue with women in or sideshows. Instead, the UFC a contact, violent sport. But those showcased its first-ever female fight- segments continue to fade away. ers as the highly-trained martial Coincidentally, Rousey’s rise artists and accomplished athletes coincided with last month’s that they are and went a step further announcement by the former U.S. in making them the main event.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Certainly, Rousey’s sex appeal to lift the military ban on women plays well into her marketability. serving on the front-lines in comContinued from page 16

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for track and field. Some of them don’t want Cornell at the NCAA finals. I like going to this meet and doing well.”

With the indoor season now wrapped up, the next step for the Red is to transition into the outdoor season. The way Cornell has traditionally done this is by taking a trip to the west coast, both training and competing in California during spring break.

Women’s head coach Rich Bowman noted that the weather in California is a great way to transition.

“I think this trip has always been great,” he said.

“The weather on this coast when we start the outdoor season in April isn’t always that great, so we’ll see some great weather in California.

It’s really the perfect segue into the outdoor season.”

Weather was a common theme in interviews, as Taylor also noted that good weather helps transition into new and different events for the outdoor season.

“Some of the events

change significantly [between seasons] ... So it’s important to get some repetitions in those events in particular. Weather is so unpredictable here that the California weather may be the best we see all season.

Getting used to the differences of being outdoors is crucial.”

Blair added that the trip is a great way to reconnect with alumni, as well as to sample different kinds of food that is otherwise unavailable in Ithaca.

“We’ll get to see some of our alumni out there,” he said. “See some of the sights in Cali, as well as eat at restaurants we don’t have here. And seeing the sun is probably going to be the best part of it.”

Bowman was appreciative of having the opportunity to take this trip.

“I think it’s going to make us better all the way around,” he said. “We’re really appreciative of the administration for allowing us to have this opportunity.”

Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

bat. Some of the most telling comments came from male veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who said that, due to the changing role of foreign combat ground operations, women have already been serving in such roles.

For this writer, who grew up training with scores of women in martial arts in a state where women’s hockey and wrestling have decades of history, one question came to mind, “Is women’s MMA really a big deal in the 21st century?”

With the UFC now featuring its new warrior queen as a marquee star, the arena for female fighters will never be the same. Doubters and haters best drop their chauvinist grumbles faster than “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey could snap their arms in half.

MMA Update: Following up on the profile feature, “Shah of the Cage,” Shahbulat Shamhalaev silenced a stadium and stunned a nation on Feb. 21 by defeating his challenger, Rad Martinez, via a second round TKO in the Bellator MMA featherweight tournament finals. Due to a recent injury to another fighter, the Bombsquad Dagestani star has been fast-tracked to take on the Bellator Featherweight Champion, Pat Curran, in Atlantic City on April 4.

What a wild skyrocket rise for Shah since move to Ithaca just six months ago.

J.D. O’Kasick can be reached at jokasick@cornellsun.com.

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

WEDNESDAY MARCH 13, 2013

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

B-Ballers Sweep Green to Finish Season

By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer

ENOCH NEWKIRK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior send off | Senior Clare Fitzpatrick and the three other Cornell seniors bid farewell to their time on the Hill this past weekend.

The women’s basketball team finished its season this past weekend by completing its second-ever sweep of Dartmouth but fell short to Harvard in a senior-dominated senior night.

After defeating Dartmouth in a postponed game, that was finally played on Tuesday, the Red welcomed the Green to Newman Arena just three days later.

In a very similar game as the one played earlier in the week, the Red handled the ball efficiently, committing only seven turnovers — its lowest amount in more than two years.

“We really got back to playing team basketball,” senior forward Clare Fitzpatrick said. “We were not turning the ball over and we had a lot of assists.”

The Red also excelled on the defensive end, forcing 15 turnovers and allowing the Green to shoot just 20 percent from three-point range.

“Communication was big,” head coach Dayna Smith said. “We let some uncontested threes in our first game against Dartmouth … we really wanted to fly out on their leader Faziah Steen and we were able to hold her to 0 for 3 [from three].”

Warrior Queen Reigns Supreme

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fter all the hype and media mayhem, after endless broadcasts of pre-fight breakdowns and the inspirational backstories of each female combatant, the ending played out just the same. As she has done in every contest of her MMA career, “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey won via arm-bar against the ex-Marine, Liz Carmouche, in the first round of the first-ever women’s fight in UFC history.

Rousey’s fierce signature sub-

Carmouche happens to be lesbian and the first openly gay UFC fighter. White, the madmacho genius of the UFC that he is, has openly supported any homosexual combatants who want to come out. Former light heavyweight champion, Rashad Evans, has since publically supported gay marriage. The recent outing of the transgendered fighter, Fax Fallon, has raised key questions about sexuality and the support as well.

J.D. O’Kasick Fight Life in Ithaca mission aside, the far-reaching impact of last month’s bout surpassed anything that has ever happened in women’s mixed martial arts. Just two years ago, UFC president, Dana White, proclaimed that the world’s top promotion would never welcome female fighters into its ranks.

Even an ego the size of White’s could swallow those words with ease when along came a judoka who could bring both the panache and the pain.

What’s more, the UFC proudly promoted the fact that

After all, in recent weeks, Ronda Rousey went from the dangerous darling of the MMA world to an international megastar and heroine who has pushed the boundaries of mainstream women’s athletics. Hundreds of media outlets such as CNN and Time-Warner, which had previously given MMA scant attention, suddenly tuned in.

The UFC featured her bout with Carmouche as the main event at Anaheim’s Honda See O’KASICK page 15

The final score of the game was The seniors helped make the 60-48 in favor of Cornell. women’s basketball double its win After its sweep of Dartmouth, totals from their first two to their the Red took on Harvard on last two seasons.

“When we first got here we won Saturday and concluded its season by starting its four seniors, [around] six games total and now Fitzpatrick, Kristina Danielak, we’re in double digits win-wise,” Fitzpatrick said.

Taylor Flynn and Spencer Lane.

While the seniors are difficult to After a slow start, the Red found itself in a hole that it could not replace, Smith is looking forward to welcoming next year’s freshmen. escape.

“I’m excited about next year. It is “We weren’t focused in the first still pretty fresh now half and we this season with four let them go “We really got back to senior spots that we on a run,” have to recruit [but] Fitzpatrick playing team basketball. we really like our said.

We are not turning the incoming class” she Despite said. a 10-point ball over.”

Junior Allyson loss, 66-56, Clare Fitzpatrick DiMagno will lead the Red the Red again next concluded its season with another excellent season. DiMagno recorded 16 doudefensive performance — forcing ble-doubles in the 2012-13 camthe Crimson into 16 turnovers and paign and will continue to be among the best players in the league. finishing with nine steals.

“I think she will be one of the It was an emotional weekend for the Red who said goodbye to its four best and will have the potential to be seniors. According to Fitzpatrick, in the running for that,” Smith said. the departing class is bittersweet “Allyson had just an incredible year about the end of their Cornell all around and that’s just the start for her.” careers. “[I’m] sad that it’s over but very happy with what we’ve done this Skyler Dale can be reached at season,” Fitzpatrick said. sdale@cornellsun.com.

TRACK AND FIELD

Three Compete at NCAA Finals Montez Blair honored as NCAA Athlete of the Year

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

Three of Cornell’s best athletes had the honor this past weekend of competing in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Finals meet, hosted by the University of Arkansas.

Representing the women’s team was junior distance runner Rachel Sorna, and for the men’s team was sophomore shot putter Stephen Mozia and junior high jumper Montez Blair.

Sorna finished in 11th place in the 5K and Blair and Mozia each also finished 11th in their respective events. Blair commented on how strong the high jump field was at these NCAA finals.

“This indoors was ridiculous,” he said. “A lot of people [in high jump] set personal records. I didn’t do poorly, but I didn’t do as well as I could have.

They raised the bar pretty high for All-American standard. I went in there to have some fun, it was exciting.”

Blair was also quick to mention that the athletes who compete are honored with some perks.

“We had a banquet,” he said.

“This year, I won the athlete of the year award, so it was cool to stand up there on stage in front of some of the best athletes in the country. The atmosphere was

awesome. Everyone seemed so positive about competing. They had more fun.”

Men’s head coach Nathan Taylor spoke about how his team and other teams like Cornell, do not always get the respect that the teams deserve in these environments.

“It’s always nice to be recognized to accomplish some things at a pretty high level,” he said. “I think the BCS schools don’t really have a lot of respect for the Ivies. They’re trying to create a subdivision within division one See TRACK AND FIELD Page 15

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Above and beyond | Junior high jumper Montez Blair, as well as sophomore Stephen Mozia and junior Rachel Sorna competed this past weekend at the finals.