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four or more drinks in a sitting in the past two weeks and — if they’re male — if In an effort to address they’ve had five or more,” high-risk drinking on cam- Lewis said. pus, on Feb. 6 Gannett According to Lewis, no Health Services implement- student, no matter his or her ed a policy of screening reason for scheduling an every student patient for appointment at Gannett, is signs of alcohol dependency exempt from being asked or abuse –– a decision that this preliminary question about alcohol be“I think that in so many cases, havior. think that in alcohol use can be connected so “I many cases, to issues that bring students alcohol use can be connected to issues to the health center.” that bring students to the health cenDebra Lewis ter,” she said.

If a student some students say they con- answers yes to the first quessider an invasion of privacy. tion, he or she is then asked According to Deborah to fill out a 10-part quesLewis, Gannett’s alcohol tionnaire called the Alcohol projects coordinator, both Use Disorders Identification the World Health Test, according to Lewis.

Organization and the U.S. The AUDIT contains Department of Health and questions such as “How Human Services recom- often during the last year mend screening for high- have you failed to do what risk drinking and alcohol was normally expected problems as a routine part from you because of drinkof health care. ing?” and “Has a relative “When students come in or friend or doctor or for their appointment they another health worker been are asked — if they are female — have they had See GANNETT page 3 Sun Staff Writer

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As Search Proceeds, Avicii Rejects Slope Day Gig

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

Electronic music phenom Avicii is one of three musicians who has rejected an offer to perform at Slope Day, according to a member of the Slope Day Programming Board who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Despite percolating rumors on campus, Slope Day had not secured a headliner as of Thursday night, the source said. A fourth invitation to play is pending, according to the source.

This is the first year since 2009 in which Cornellians will go home for Spring Break without knowing the artist slated for Slope Day, the annual celebration fueled by drunken revelry, a sudden liberation from classes and a big name musical performer.

Confirming that an artist had not yet been found, Sam Breslin ’12, selections director of the SDPB, said that many colleges, including Cornell, have struggled to secure popular performers this semester.

“A bunch of other schools are announcing but, on average, schools

are announcing late,” Breslin said.

“A lot of people aren’t touring … it’s a tough semester.”

Slope Day will be held on May 4.

Recent headliners have included Nelly in 2011 and Drake in 2010.

“We are working very, very hard to get the best artist we [can] have in the current situation,” Breslin said.

“As soon as we know for sure, we’ll announce it. Right now, we’re just waiting.”

Jeff Stein can be reached at jstein@cornellsun.com.

U.S.News Releases Grad Rankings Assessment of majority of C.U. programs unchanged

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U.S. News and World Report released its 2013 rankings for graduate schools on Tuesday.

Cornell was ranked 10th overall in engineering, 14th in law and 16th in both the business and medical fields.

Although the majority of Cornell’s rankings did not change since U.S. News’ report last year, the University’s fine arts field jumped from 50th place to 36th. Unlike most of fields included in the assessment, the University’s arts program had not been evaluated since 2008.

“We are very pleased that our visual arts program has been recognized for excellence by its

peers,” said Barbara Knuth, vice provost and dean of the Graduate school. “Peer institutions may have become more aware of the strength and quality of our program and the accomplishments of the faculty, including some relatively new faculty.”

In the field of engineering, Cornell ranked third among biological and agricultural engineering programs and jumped five spots to 15th in biomedical engineering. Additionally, the University’s mechanical, industrial, civil and computer engineering programs were each ranked among the top 10 in their respective categories.

Outlining their methodology for assessing rankings, U.S. News

lists factors including admissions selectivity, research activity, faculty resources and evaluations from corporate recruiters.

Cornell currently holds the 15th spot in the overall national University category, according to U.S. News Report’s 2012 rankings.

However, Knuth said that since U.S. News does not assign the University an overall score at the graduate level, methods of assessment may differ from year to year within each field.

“Generalizing about why an individual field may have gone up or down is challenging,” Knuth said.

Elizabeth Kussman can be reached at ekussman@cornellsun.com.

News Stepping Down

The president and CEO of Cayuga Medical Center will resign at the end of the year, the hospital announced. | Page 3

Opinion Drive My Car

Nick Kaasik grad stresses the need for laws for autonomous cars. | Page 5

Arts Puppet Master

The Sun reviews an Indonesian puppet show in Bailey Hall. | Page 8

Sports Final Four

The third-ranked women’s hockey team heads to the Frozen Four. | Page 12

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News, “IPD Officer: 1994 Charges Taken Out of Context,” Thursday Speaking about the accusations that he aided drug dealers leveled against him “I regret not contesting the language of ‘incompetency’ because my actions at the time had nothing to do with competency.”

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Opinion, “What Else Can We Do?”, Thursday Speaking about the Kony 2012 campaign It would be easy to ask in response, are the supporters of the Kony 2012 program doing anything more than sitting in comfy little chairs and typing away on laptops?

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Andy Stawasz ’15, Patrick Land ’15 and Brian Meagher ’15 jam on the Arts Quad Thursday, enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.

Muslims at Yale React to NYPD Profiling

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Omer Bajwa, Yale’s coordinator for Muslim Life. Bajwa said that the chaplain’s office, in conjunction with Yale’s Muslim Students Association, hosts Friday prayer sessions, weekly religious dinners educational programming and pastoral counseling.

“Being a Muslim at Yale hasn’t made my experiences any different from any other student’s,” Sana

President and Secretary Linda Lorimer, whose office oversees the Chaplain’s Office and security on This past Tuesday, standing on campus, on Monday night.

Cross Campus, Mostafa Al-Alusi Al-Alusi said the news shook held up a sign that read “I’m a his faith that academic institutions Muslim” while another student are places where students can snapped a photo that would soon freely express their ideas, but he be posted to Facebook as part of added that the administration’s an online campaign. response cleared that fear for him.

Al-Alusi was one of 116 partic“When the administration ipants in the “Call the NYPD came to our defense, it Campaign,” a studentwas a lot better,” he organized response to “Given the news from the NYPD, I said. “We realized that news released Feb. 18 that Yale had nothing to do the New York Police feel targeted and vulnerable.” with it, that Yale was Department had monitaking a stance against tored the activities of Faisal Hamid it.”

Yale’s Muslim Student But Hamid said he Association. A student had pitched the idea for the photo Samnani said. “In many ways, I believes there is still misinformacampaign at a Muslim Students have felt empowered and supported tion concerning Islam on campus and he thinks Muslim students on Association meeting the week by the Yale Muslim community.”

Samnani said she was attracted campus should be more vocal before and recruited a group of both Muslim and non-Muslim to Yale’s Muslim community about their identity so that other students to execute the campaign because she knew she shared a students can approach them with in protest of racial and religious common background with other questions. members. Participating “We’re being targeted by this profiling. has helped her better large group,” Hamid said. “I feel “Given the news from understand her reli- vulnerable because although we the NYPD, I feel targeted gion, she added. spoke with Yale administration and and vulnerable,” Faisal When news broke they’ve been very supportive, there’s Hamid, vice president of that the New York only so much that they can do.”

Yale’s Muslim Student Bajwa said that increased discusPolice Department had Association and a particiconducted surveillance sion about Islam both on campus pant in the campaign, told the News on Tuesday evening. on the Yale Muslim Student and nationwide has prompted some In a Feb. 20 email to the Yale Association, all seven students students to approach him about community, University President interviewed said they were caught Islamophobic comments they have heard on campus. While Bajwa said Richard Levin had asserted Yale’s off guard by the revelation.

“My gut reaction was to won- he does not think these comments opposition to the NYPD’s actions, are characteristic of all Yalies, he and Hamid said he and other der, to myself and to others, why said he believes heightened converMSA leaders hope to “capitalize” the NYPD felt a need to investi- sation has revealed latent attitudes on the administration’s support. gate Muslim students,” Samnani of Islamophobia as well as a degree Levin’s announcement provided said. “Obviously, we found out of cultural ignorance. an opportunity for the MSA to re- very soon that there was no real “It’s a much more subtle open what they now view as neces- reason, other than the fact that we thing,” Al-Alusi said. “People who sary dialogue on campus about are Muslims.” wouldn’t consider themselves Bajwa said many students told Islamophobes, who have a very being Muslim at Yale, Hamid said.

The week before the news him the news confirmed their sus- academic and sterilized way of broke, the MSA and the picions about dubious law talking about it, hold underlying Chaplain’s Office hosted their enforcement practices regarding assumptions without knowing annual Muslim Awareness Week, surveillance of Muslims nation- anything that reveal the mindset designed to help Non-Muslim wide. Still, he said, they were with which they are approaching Yalies better understand the shocked by the “infiltration on Islam.”

William Redden, chair of Yale’s Islamic faith. While Muslim Yalies college campuses.”

Students said Levin’s swift and Chapter of the American Civil said they felt shaken when they learned about the NYPD’s actions, firm response, condemning the Liberties Union, said he feels stuseven interviewed said they still NYPD’s monitoring of the MSA, dents on campus had grown too feel welcome in Yale’s environ- affirmed their confidence in the accustomed to infringements on civil liberties, adding that there is University. ment.

Al-Alusi, MSA president, said room for further action.

Yale’s Muslim community is made up of between 200 and 300 administrators were in contact students from both domestic and with the MSA immediately, and This story was originally published in international backgrounds, said students met with University Vice The Yale Daily News on March 2.

concerned about your drinking and suggested you cut down?”

Participants’ responses are scored on a 40-point scale to determine the level of risk their alcohol use poses to their health, according to Lewis. If a student scores above 16 — indicating a significant risk level — the health care provider sits down with the student during their appointment and discusses options for further treatment, Lewis said.

She added, however, that every student who takes the AUDIT — regardless of their score — receives a follow-up message from Gannett. Patients who score less than a 7 receive information on alcohol abuse, while those who fall between 7 and 15 are referred to Gannet programs such as Counseling and Psychological Services.

Though Lewis stressed that the AUDIT is not mandatory, Wendy Schubert ’12 said the nurse who administered her AUDIT did not make her aware that she had a choice.

“My nurse handed it to me and made me think it was something that was required for me to fill out,” Schubert said.

Schubert also said that she was not told of the purpose of the AUDIT. She said she did not know that her score had become a part of her medical record until she received a message through Gannett’s online messaging system.

“I didn’t even think they could correlate my answers with my name,” Schubert said. “I was under the impression that it would be anonymous, like I was submitting my scores to a general research project.”

Another student who was administered the questionnaire, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he felt that the questions were a violation of his privacy.

“I came into Gannett because I had a sinus infection, so I can’t see how they assume they have the right to ask me about my drinking,” he said.

According to Lewis, the death of George Desdunes ’13 last year influenced Gannett’s decision to begin issuing AUDITs to students who come in for appointments.

“In part [Desdunes’ death] was the force [that] led us toward a push for screening for high-risk alcohol use in primary care,” she said.

While Schubert said she understands the motivations behind the questionnaire, she added that she believes there is room for improvement in the way that Gannett administers the survey.

“I can see the need [for the AUDIT] because Cornell is a college campus and drinking is a huge issue,” she said. “But I think [Gannett] needs to absolutely provide people with more context.”

Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun.com.

Cayuga Medical Announces Retirement of CEO On March 9, Cayuga Medical Center announced that its CEO and president, Dr. Rob Mackenzie, will retire at the end of 2012.

CMC’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to replace Mackenzie with John Rudd, CMC’s current senior vice president and chief financial officer.

Mackenzie — who came to Ithaca in 1984 to accept a job as a general and vascular surgeon at Surgical Associates of Ithaca — was hired as CMC’s medical director in 1994. In 2003, he was promoted to CEO and president.

Mackenzie said that during his tenure he focused on “improving clinical quality, improving our customer service, expanding the services provided and building a stronger partnership with our medical staff.”

He said he is pleased with how the hospital has progressed during his tenure and that he “thought it was time to turn the reins over to Mr. John Rudd.”

Rudd, who will assume the position on Jan. 1, 2013, said that he will continue to focus on improving the patient experience at CMC, as well as strengthening relationships between physicians and medical administrators.

Mackenzie said that Rudd has been his “right hand person” since he came to CMC from Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y. “Rudd has overseen and supervised virtually every part of our hospital over the last 10 years,” he said.

Since he has worked with Mackenzie in the past, Rudd said he expects a smooth transition into the position.

“The vision of the medical center has really been a shared vision between the two of us,” Rudd said. “It has been an honor to work for [Mackenzie] over the years … so it’s a real honor to be able to step into the CEO role.”

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here has been much debate and discussion recently about the CornellTechnion partnership and Israel’s continued oppression of the Palestinian people.

As I mentioned in a different letter (The West’s Lack of Understanding on April 18, 2011), I am a proud Israeli and soldier. If you take away one point from this column, understand that I believe that Israel’s occupation must end in order to end this conflict.

The current situation cannot continue forever. As humans, we are hard-wired to seek freedom — and the sooner freedom comes to the Palestinian people the better.

weapons and suicide bombers. In the 2002 Jaffo Road bombing, the suicide bomber worked for the Red Crescent and is thought to have used her credentials and ambulance to clear checkpoints. She injured 156 people — “only” because her charge didn’t go off properly. One-hundred percent of suicide bombers in Israel have been Palestinians, some aided by Israeli-Palestinians.

Then Israel built the wall. Then the checkpoints were implemented. Then the intrusive checks were designed.

As opposed to SJP, Mr. Fogle doesn’t seem to focus solely on Israel (SJP’s commitment

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Hungry for Change in C-Town

This week, the Collegetown Neighborhood Council solicited feedback from students and local residents on a potential grocery store in Collegetown. Students seem pretty jazzed about the thought of being able to stock up on some tasty grub without the trek all. the way. to Wegmans.

Does TCAT even go there? But The Sun thought it best to sit down with the spirits of Ezra Cornell and A.D. White and find out what the founders of it all think about this proposal.

Unfortunately, it seems Collegetown wasn’t quite a thing yet back in 1865.

THE SUN: Hey, it’s good to see you guys. How have you been?

EZRA CORNELL: What kind of question is that? Haven’t you learned the first thing about reporting at that “extra-curricular” institution you call a newspaper?

A.D. WHITE: Cool your beans. He’s just being friendly. Say, my reporter friend, why don’t you run and get me something to eat. I’m hungry.

EZRA: You can’t be hungry. You’re dead.

SUN: Simmer down, now. There’s no way that I’m going all the way to Wegmans to get you food. By the way, have you heard about the proposal to add a GreenStar grocery store to Collegetown?

A.D.: Grocery store? What is that? You mean like a general store? Back in my day, we had these things called farms.

EZRA: Yeah, we walked five miles every morning just to get our eggs for breakfast, and another five miles to get our bacon. In Ithaca weather, mind you. And we didn’t have any of this “mild winter” or synthetic fabric business back in the day. It was 50 degrees below zero, and we walked barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways, just to get our darn eggs and bacon. Don’t even get me started on what it took to get some milk. And coffee? you can just forget about it.

A.D.: We didn’t even have automobiles or public transportation!

SUN: Oh, speaking of public transportation, what do you think of the new contract for TCAT workers?

A.D.: You mean the buses?

EZRA: Clearly A.D. Don’t be such an old fart. And what is this about contracts?

SUN: TCAT drivers went on strike in order to negotiate their contracts.

A.D.: What is this? Communism?

EZRA: Oh A.D., that’s so 1917 of you. This is a good thing.

A.D.: What’s that smell? Ezra . . .

SUN: I think that’s the titan arum plant. It’s blooming now on campus, and its bloom has only ever been recorded 140 times! It has a bit of an odor, but then again, so do you guys.

EZRA: I don’t smell!

A.D.: No, you can’t smell. There’s a difference. This is rather impressive. I always envisioned Cornell as an institution on the cutting edge of academic progress. When I thought, “any person, any study,” I meant just this. We’re making history! Wow, all this talk of decaying flesh odor is making me even hungrier.

EZRA: Come to think of it, so am I. Let’s catch the bus down to Wegmans and get some grub.

But the way is long and full of distractions.

The proponents of the “Israeli Apartheid Week” are merely trying to draw focus to the plight of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip because of Israeli “security measures.” In the recent Letter to the Editor, “Debating the Technion,” Feb. 23, Students for Justice in Palestine claimed that Israel is committing war crimes. Mr. H. William Fogle, Jr. ’70, in his letter “The Loss of Activism in Academia,” March 6, calls Israel an “egregious human rights offender” and thinks that Cornell should seek a “European university from a nation without such reprehensible baggage.” I hope to shed some light on both claims.

SJP fails to recognize that Hamas and other terrorist groups in Israel are competent and active — they try to attack every day.

Surveillance cameras on the borders can attest to it. Security measures prevent murderers and suicide bombers from successfully attacking — hourly.

The notorious separation wall — that Technion got involved in — was not always there. The numerous checkpoints between Palestinian territories were not always in place. The strict frisks — the ones that can delay a Palestinian for several hours each day — were not always enacted.

Understand that the wall was first constructed in 2003 after Israel had paid for an open border with the lives of innocent women and children. The wall has caused an extreme reduction in terror attacks — down 80 percent between 2003 and 2006, according to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This past August, taking advantage of the lack of a barrier on the Egyptian-Israeli border, 12 terrorists coordinated an attack near the southern Israeli city of Eilat. Eight people were murdered, and some 30 injured.

The checkpoints were not always so intrusive. Terrorists have used ambulances to cover

and target is completely legitimate and understandable) — but he fails to write anything about China or Russia or even Syria. So far, 7,500 people have been killed in Syria, according to The Economist. That is five times the casualties from the 2008 Israeli operation Cast Lead. I suppose Mr. Fogle only has time to write about Israeli transgressions, but I hope he does what he preaches and excludes doing business with companies affiliated with China and Russia — and not only Israel. Raising opposition against Israeli policy is far from being Anti-Semitic; treating Israeli policy and actions differently than others because it is Israel is.

SJP and Mr. Fogle, what is your solution?

Should Israel take down the wall completely or move it back? Should Israel get rid of all of the checkpoints or just reduce them? These are questions Israelis debate every day — we know this occupation needs to end. We want this occupation to end. But we will not do so at the cost of our citizens’ lives.

Calling out problems is easy. Hanging signs is effortless. Writing opinions — from the warmth of your dorm or office — is a piece of cake. What value do you bring to this discussion if all you do is raise your voice?

Start doing something; offer a solution. You challenge Technion because you do not support “Zionist America.” So solve the underlying issue — providing insight into the variables you have taken into account — and then you’ll be qualified to challenge Cornell’s and Israel’s decisions.

My email is surely listed accompanying this article. Feel free — if you wish to have an actual discussion — to email me. I would be happy to converse — it is the only way this conflict will end.

Omer Ben-Zur is a senior in the School of Hotel Administration. He may be reached at ob46@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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A Tribute to the Past

uby was old. To my childhood self she seemed ancient, a relic of another era. I remember the deep creases on her face, the ankle-length denim skirts that she always wore. She smelled like laundry, that wonderful scent of freshly-cleaned clothes. I remember how she slowly plodded up the hill on her way to take care of my sister and me, on days when my parents

scrub the floors of wealthy people’s homes and kept the pay. At six years old — my age at the time I heard the story — Ruby had been treated like a slave.

She didn’t even own shoes.

That image stuck in my mind also, for some reason. No shoes, I shuddered.

That, and the floor of her childhood home was earthen. Dirt. I couldn’t wrap my head around that. How could the

Jonathan Panter The Storyteller were busy and the little children couldn’t be left alone at home. I remember her almost caricature-like, comic turns of phrase, the stuff of old storybooks about the South. She called me “chile,” instead of “child” and said “lawdy,” instead of “oh my god.”

But most of all, I remember the stories about Ruby. She was born in 1922 to Louisiana sharecroppers, not many generations removed from slaves. Her mother was Cherokee Indian, the story went, and had hair down to her waist.

It’s funny how small details like that stick in a child’s mind. When Ruby was little, my mother told me in hushed tones, her mean stepmother made her

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floor be dirt? To this day I’m not sure whether all these details of her life were fact or legend. Maybe some of those stories were supposed to make me thankful for what I had — thankful that it wasn’t my six-year-old self scrubbing the floors of some stranger’s house at the behest of a cruel overseer. I’m not sure.

What I do know is that my sister and I loved Ruby, and she loved us. I know that it was real love, the sort of love that inevitably develops between children and a woman who raised them, who saw them take their first steps and say their first words. I know that yes, she was an employee of my parents, paid to watch the children and do the laundry. But my

sister and I didn’t feel that way and neither, I think, did Ruby — for I remember how she laughed at our antics and held us when we cried.

She had her own family, too. All of her children had gone to college and had their own children. They had great jobs and lived in comfortable homes, and Ruby was the proud matriarch of them all — the sort that had every Thanksgiving and Christmas at her house and still did the cooking. She never gave up; she didn’t believe in slowing down, not when there was still work to be done.

That’s why, nearing her 80s, Ruby would still walk up that hill to my house every week. It is one of the ingrained memories of my childhood, watching her approach slowly, with her long denim skirt and bandanna. For all her working life, she had walked. She could have afforded a car but never bought one. Instead, Ruby saved the money to educate her children — though she herself had never even finished elementary school. Even after her kids were grown up, Ruby worked — not because she didn’t have savings, which she did, or Social Security, which she did. She worked because, having provided for her children, she now wanted to provide for her grandchildren as well.

So she kept climbing that hill, as she had climbed countless others throughout her life. And in one generation, Ruby went from an impoverished, shoeless little girl, who scrubbed floors for

no wages, to a self-taught woman whose children went to college. As a child, I didn’t understand all that, I didn’t see the incredible struggle that put those deep lines on her face. Still, I sensed that there was something mystical about this ancient old lady who smelled like laundry.

Wasn’t there? I can’t help but think that Ruby hearkened back to another era. In a way, she was a poignant reminder of a darker time in our history, a time of sharecroppers and Jim Crow. She was born to a generation for whom slavery was a not just a memory, because for them its legacy of discrimination lived on. They lived on dirt floors because they had no choice, no chances in a society that systematically restricted them.

Yes, Ruby was a reminder of that terrible history. But there was more to her story than that. She wasn’t so much a product of darker times, but a tribute to better ones. She was a spirit of a different past, an American past, when people threw off the bonds of circumstance and didn’t expect others to do it for them. A time when people liberated themselves.

It was a time, if such a time ever existed, when Americans were Americans — and Ruby, I think, the most American of them all.

Jonathan Panter is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jpanter@cornellsun.com. The Storyteller appears alternate Fridays this semester.

The Need for Autonomous Vehicle Law

hat happens if you get into a collision with an autonomous car? Who is legally responsible?

The driver? The GPS? The carmaker? Google?

And whose fault should it be? The answer is that legally, we don’t know. The development of autonomous cars is accompanied by numerous legal uncertainties that, if left unresolved, may discourage companies from investing in the development of such technologies, despite their great promise for reducing the number of deaths and injuries on our highways. State legislatures should be encouraged to develop a clear legal framework that encourages investment in the development of autonomous vehicles.

Currently, carmakers are releasing and developing driver assistance technologies which include semiautonomous systems. How will the law treat these threshold technologies? Existing driver assistance features (like radar systems that automatically brake prior to an accident) involve countless owner’s manual disclaimers that the driver is at all times responsible, but what about the next level of automation? What if you could make your car follow the car in front of it perfectly … would the driver be responsible then? A legal regime should encourage the prudent development of these threshold technologies in order to advance towards more perfect safety systems. Fear of exposure to liability could discourage innovation regarding imperfect driver assistance technologies, but these partial measures must be developed in order to advance toward safer and more autonomous systems. A legal liability scheme demanding crash-free perfection would be an enemy of progress.

What for the fully autonomous vehicle? Do we require there be a licensed driver? Could a Cornell student from New York City who has never driven a car rent an autonomous Ithaca Carshare? It’s hard to imagine why anyone would need to prove they can parallel park if their car can do so automatically. Nevada has updated their laws to allow texting while “driving” a licensed autonomous car, but Nevada has prohibited being intoxicated in the same autonomous vehicle.

In present day software use, users frequently click “accept” on a license agreement that disclaims any harm that results from using the software. It is understood

that any software product will have some type of latent glitch. What does this mean when the software is driving a family down the highway? Would you get in an autonomous car that made you click “accept” to a license agreement that disclaimed any harm that results from the autonomous car driving off a bridge? Would a court enforce such a contract?

What should the law be regarding speeding and autonomous cars? Is the car company negligent in designing a car with a feature that allows the car to knowingly break the law? A current car is capable of breaking the speed limit; an autonomous car would know it is breaking the speed limit. One radical suggestion (which would certainly require clear legal rules) is to have the car decide for itself what the optimal safe speed is. After all, an autonomous car would have a better grasp of its handling, current driving conditions, obstacles on the road and visibility than a speed limit which has remained static on that stretch of road for 50 or more years. Also, an autonomous car may not compete well with the constant bending of traffic laws you see on any busy highway or at any busy intersection. Would a car that followed the traffic laws perfectly seriously disrupt the flow of traffic and is that unsafe and counterproductive?

The invention of autonomous cars requires new laws to resolve these questions. I do not propose to have the answers to what the best laws should be. To some degree, the exact laws that are adopted (so long as they’re reasonable and do not deter innovation) are less important than the existence of a clear legal regime within which the developers of autonomous vehicles can innovate and integrate their products onto our roads. Legal uncertainty inhibits innovation by risk-averse companies and

people afraid of potentially ruinous liability. One is hopeful that the law be updated early on, both to encourage the development of autonomous vehicles as well as to contemplate the law soberly and impartially before major and vested interest groups can hijack the lawmaking process.

The great hope for autonomous cars is that fatal car accidents will cease to be regular news. Studies find that up to 90% of car accidents are due to human error. To realize this hope, our motor vehicle laws must be updated. It would be counterproductive and tragic if the motor vehicle laws, laws created to provide for safe and orderly public roads, stymied our progress by lagging so

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far behind the development of such revolutionary safety technologies as semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles.

Twenty years ago, a discussion of changing our laws for autonomous vehicles would have been delegated to a science fiction conference. Today, the Nevada Motor Vehicle Laws allow texting while “driving” an autonomous vehicle. Other states are considering following suit. Twenty years from now, our legal debate may be whether to allow society to face the risk of letting human drivers behind the wheel at all. That is, so long as the fear of legal liability doesn’t keep us from getting there.

Nick Kaasik is a first-year law student at Cornell Law School. He may be reached at jpc58@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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A Mediocre Oddity GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

For some reason, humans have long chosen Mars as the ideal setting for science fiction tales. Something about the angry red planet has long been a source of fascination, perhaps due to early scientific speculation on the possibility of Martian life or simply as a result of its bright, alien appearance. From C.S. Lewis to Cowboy Bebop, we’ve seen every possible Martian tale. But before all this was John Carter of Mars. A run of 11 novels originally written by Edgar Rice Burroughs nearly 100 years ago, the John Carter series forms the foundation for much of modern sci-fi. After all, both George Lucas and James Cameron have cited John Carter as an inspiration for their work. It’s a wonder Hollywood took this long to make a film adaptation.

And therein lies the source of John Carter’s problems.

When Burroughs first penned the John Carter novels, science fiction was still in Directed by Andrew Stanton its infancy.

Featuring Today’s clichés Taylor Kitsch, Willem and tired archetypes were not yet Dafoe, Lynn Collins in place — in fact, Burroughs invented a fair number of them. So Disney’s big-budget adaptation — complete with gold-encrusted armor and a CG lizard-dog — seems a little, well, archaic. Don’t get me wrong; adapting older fiction for cinema is not always a bad idea. But letting Disney force a weak script and wooden acting on a genre classic definitely is.

John Carter opens on Mars, in the middle of an airborne battle between two groups of humanoid Martians, dressed bizarrely like blue versions of the ancient Greeks. From

there, we suddenly leap to 1881 New York and then to Civil War-era Arizona before we finally meet our protagonist.

And even at that point, we’re still not clear how these things connect. It is not until Carter is suddenly transported to Mars that the film shows any semblance of a plot. In all, it takes nearly an hour for John Carter to establish all the characters and the overarching plot line. It’s a screenplay that breaks nearly every rule of screenwriting — and not in an avantgarde, experimental sort of way. Instead, shallow characters and incomprehensible story arcs leave the audience wondering what the hell is going on.

The one-dimensional and clichéd characters are certainly not salvaged by their actors. You know that legendary scene in Revenge of the Sith, where Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen seem more like wooden planks than people? John Carter is like 137 minutes of that. As Carter, Taylor Kitsch presents us with a protagonist apparently devoid of a personality. All Kitsch can bring to Carter, it seems, is a shadow of heroic Western stoicism and a set of decent pecs — which are inexplicably forced into a sexy leather harness as soon as he sets foot on Mars. Similarly, Lynn Collins adds little more to Martian princess Dejah than a pretty face and a painful couple of stock one-liners.

John Carter does, however, hit a few high notes. Carter’s first steps on Mars are particularly gratifying for we geeks in the audience; watching him leap dozens of feet in the air across the surface of an unknown planet is an envy-inducing delight. And then there’s Woola, the aforementioned

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lizard-dog, who arguably offers the most sympathetic performance in the film. Loyal to Carter and corny to the point of genuine charm, Woola serves as both Carter’s and the audience’s emotional crutch. But Woola is not the only successful special effect.

At times, the Martian landscape is both comfortingly familiar — thanks, Utah! — and astoundingly alien.

The film additionally triumphs when the characters finally stop, you know, talking and get back to the fighting. The battles manage to be both impressive and engaging, while still avoiding the exhausting length of some of Hollywood’s more epic scenes (I’m looking at you, Peter Jackson). In these, and in many of the other classic-fantasy moments, John Carter succeeds, but it’s not enough to save the film. In the hands of a more nuanced writer, even the acting might have been forgivable. What truly dooms John Carter is its failure to adapt Burroughs’ novels for the modern day. Many of its plot points worked well in turn-of the century fiction, but director Andrew Stanton failed to translate them for a 21st century audience. Uneven pacing, stock characters, convoluted plot lines — these are things we simply cannot overlook.

Gina Cargas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.

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Striving for a Perfect Soul Indonesian shadow puppetry comes to Cornell

TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

“I’m just happy to create,” says Purbo Asmoro, a living treasure of Indonesian shadow puppetry. Born in East Java in 1961, Purbo embodies not only the legacy behind his immense skill — the performances of which are called wayang — but he is also one of the art’s most creative practitioners. As a dhalang, or “master of shadows,” his duty is threefold: directing the gamelan ensemble that accompanies his singing and the action it describes; reciting dialogue and story; and manipulating the puppets themselves. Not surprisingly, Purbo comes from a long line of puppeteers whose traditions he has expanded.

His innovations run the gamut from the practical (he designs some of the sets used during performance, composes, and choreographs) to the political (introducing leading female characters in an attempt to equalize gender relations in this otherwise male-dominated tradition).

Audience members were treated to an overture as they walked into the venue — calls and responses over a drone provided by the Gamelan Mayangkara, an ensemble of gongs, percussion and voices under the masterful direction of Wakidi Dwidjomartono. The sounds were as lulling as they were exciting, putting us in a frame of mind unlike anything experienced in Bailey Hall this season. Some were perhaps surprised to notice that we were behind the screen where the shadows work their magic. This practice has come about due to audience preferences in Indonesia, where viewers like to admire the beauty of the puppets themselves. To compensate, the shadows were provided by a clever projection on the left half of a large screen above the stage. The screen’s right half revealed another surprise in the form of a simulta-

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neous translation by Cornell alumna Kathryn Emerson ’83, who typed in real time as Purbo worked his vocal stylings.

Every performance has variations and this method is the only way they can be shared abroad. The fact that Emerson is the sole person in the world qualified to do this only underscored the privilege of being there.

A rousing hit of gamelan and drums introduced us to the story proper. Our sorrowful protagonist was Arjuna, one of five

advisors warn him against this infatuation.

“A horse can’t marry a duck,” informs one.

“The poor duck. Think about it.” Adds another, in a juxtaposition of bawdy humor and insight characteristic of Purbo’s delivery, “Do you really love her, or do you just want to control her?” Yet Niwatakawaca will not heed them and vows to accomplish the impossible by conquering the heavens and taking Supraba for himself, but hears tell of a mortal, none other than Arjuna, who stands in his way. Niwatakawaca

brothers featured in the Indian Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. Banished to a forest for his immoral behaviors, Arjuna finds solace in meditation and reflects on the error of his ways. He rejects his past and desires instead to become of use to the world.

Meanwhile, Niwatakawaca, a malicious ogre king possessed of arrogance as unwieldy as his name, professes his love for the goddess Supraba. As he repulses us with his dreams of attaining her, he engages in a “generic macho dance that ogres do.” His

demands that the mortal be brought to him and sends his troops heavenward.

The ensuing battle scenes brought out a wonder in all and were infinitely more thrilling than any clash on screen or stage.

To this end, Purbo kept the action sonically rich with the clanging of the keprak, metal plates played by the feet for the sake of emotional punch and as a means of signaling the gamelan players to match his timing.

Facing certain death amid this clamor, the gods call upon Arjuna, but first test

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him with three temptations, all of which he passes. Arjuna is promised great rewards for his dedication and battles with Niwatakawaca, using Supraba to bring out his weakness: an amulet in the roof of his mouth that becomes exposed when he laughs with pleasure at the seeming success of his conquest, only to fall prey to Arjuna’s arrow.

In between all of this was a comic interlude. Utilizing only a fraction of the usual 60-plus minutes, Purbo showed off his improvisational flair with a few goodnatured jabs at Cornell (“founded on a lonely hill in the middle of nowhere”) and its gorges (“which now have fences”).

These, along with a surprise appearance by an Obama puppet (“Look at his shoes,” says a groveler. “Made in Indonesia?”), had us laughing at every turn before Purbo waxed thankful on the efforts of those without whom wayang would never have been “something for the world to own.”

In context Purbo’s performances can last for hours, sometimes through the night, and I doubt anyone in attendance would have complained had he done so. In this regard he is clearly a holistic thinker who takes his audience into consideration: everything from the sounds to the visuals must fit like wing to bird and beyond like bird to sky. And although between performances at home and abroad Purbo teaches at the Indonesian Institute of Arts, I would venture to say that his performances are equally instructive in what they say about life. In his own words: “The mission of wayang is to present moral messages. The entertainment aspect adds spice to the moral aspect, the main values in life: loyalty, heroism, messages for good.”

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student.in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

Collegetown and Its Discontents

ince today is Dragon Day, I figure there’s no better Physical Sciences Building opened and I heard an old day to write about architecture. If you’re still on cam- physics professor loudly complaining to his colleague, pus, you will undoubtedly see countless architects “They didn’t do anything we asked for!” and wanna-be architects following something that looks When the dragon makes its way to the Arts Quad, take sort-of like a dragon if you’re squinting and drunk a look at McGraw Hall and the steel cladding that prevents enough. It’s also a good allegory for the state of architec- its collapse. It would cost much more than Milstein Hall to ture today. build a new McGraw today, and that should be reason “Chasing the dragon” is a loaded term, but today’s enough for Cornell to protect its old architectural treasures. architects want that ultimate high of being the most It’s easy to hire any architect to build a shiny new glass box trendy and sought after. That starts by convincing clients from theory. Resurrecting William Henry Miller 1872 that their design will be architecturally significant and (Cornell’s first architecture student) and Boardman Hall worth their investment, an easy task when architects have (now the site of the offensive Olin Library) from the grave some theory to prove it. They hold a few conventions, is a much, much more difficult task. write many papers on “form” nobody can understand and For the time being, though, it seems like the glass box decide a glass box is the ideal. For everyone. campus is what we’re stuck with. Sun columnists David Today’s “dragon” might be Rem Koolhaas, who lec- Murdter ’12 in “Building a Better Campus” and Munier tured to a packed Bailey Hall last fall, and remarked in a Salem ’10 in “Campus of Boxes” have reflected on this 2010 talk in Call unfortunate reality.

Auditorium that Cornell is not about to “the box is the become like Princeton, final form of where new buildings are architecture.” built to look exactly like Really? If Mr. the old, but they could Koolhaas is right, focus their architectural then the world’s efforts where it really matLos Angeles about to get a lot ters.

Daze more boring.

Collegetown. You see, Most architects Collegetown is a slum. seem to think East Hill is littered with they’re on a first-name basis with Mr. Koolhaas, as if he is former family homes in various states of disrepair, quesa prophet, taking architecture to the promised land of tionably converted to rental houses. Most students are homogeneity and sterility. unaware that they are even represented in Ithaca’s City As Tom Wolfe lamented in his 1981 book From Council, and would’nt have the first idea who their counBauhaus to Our House, most buildings built today don’t cilmember is. work for the people who commission them, presumably So year after year, Collegetown continues to decay, and because they are built with the architect, and not the everyone continues to have the same questions. Landlords client, in mind. I’ll never forget the week after the new ask why their residents don’t respect their houses. Students

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wonder why their floors feel like they’re about to cave in.

Full-time Collegetown residents complain about the downfall of their neighborhood and the incessant (meaning Thursday, Friday, Saturday and sometimes Wednesday) “party culture” that keeps them up at night listening to “Call Me Maybe” and the clip-clopping of five inch stilettos down Eddy St. The administration comes up with 30 plans to change Collegetown for the better, has 10 meetings about them with local residents, implements two and zero ultimately work.

With the recent and proposed construction in Collegetown, Cornell needs to increase its role in shaping the way students live and interact. As it stands, Cornell’s presence is largely limited to the Schwartz Center, Sheldon Court and Cascadilla Hall. With huge proposed developments — namely Novarr-Mackesey’s “Dry-Lin” and Collegetown Terrace, the 309 Eddy St. apartments and a GreenStar supermarket on College Ave. — this next step of Collegetown development is leaving Cornell behind.

The University should understand that Collegetown is just as much a part of the Cornell experience as North or West campus, and if the goal is truly to provide for students, then building up a positive presence in Collegetown should be top priority. The entire block of Dryden was bought by Novarr-Mackesey for $3.75 million, and even though this was three times above the market price, this isn’t much of a sum for Cornell. A student community that has lived amongst vacant bars and restaurants for years would welcome a Cornell community center in Collegetown. Better yet, College Ave. is a place where a glass box might actually fit. But for now, the University’s attitude is reflective of one of my favorite films: “Forget it ... it’s Collegetown.”

Patrick Cambre is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pcambre@cornellsun.com. L.A. Daze appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red Set to Take On Rival Notre Dame

By ALEX GATTO Sun Staff Writer

Over Spring Break, the women’s lacrosse team will travel to Florida to compete against two competitive opponents.

The Red will head first to the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla. to compete against Notre Dame (5-0) and then to Jacksonville, Fla. to compete against Jacksonville.

The Red (5-0, 2-0 Ivy League), who comes into Saturday’s game fresh off of a record breaking 21-7 win over Canisius College (2-4, 0-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference), will not find an easy victory in Notre Dame.

“They’re the highest ranked team that we will have faced yet this year,” said head coach Jenny Graap ‘86. “They’re also undefeated.”

According to Graap, the Red has never had a better record going into a game against Notre Dame. In its last game against Canisius, the Red scored 21 goals, a feat the team hasn’t accomplished since its 1994 game against Rutgers. Senior attack Jessie Steinberg scored five goals, a record high for her this season, and senior goalkeeper Kyla Dambach, junior goalkeeper Courtney Gallagher and freshman goalkeeper Carly Gniewek combined to save a total of nine shots.

If Cornell were to beat the Irish on Saturday, it would be starting the season at 6-0, something it has not accomplished since 2003. The Red did defeat the Irish last year, but it only narrowly came away with a one goal victory.

“Depending on the results of their game and the results of our game, I think that what we can anticipate a very competitive battle,” Graap said. “It’s going to be a very emotional game.”

While a win against Notre Dame would be a great achievement for the Red, Graap continues to take it one game at a time in anticipation for the NCAA tournament.

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

D up | Senior captain Cacki Helmer earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for picking up eight ground balls in two victories.

“We’re still working to get better and better,” Graap said.

“You want to peak in May in the NCAA tournament … and we haven’t played our best lacrosse yet.”

After Notre Dame, the Red remains in Florida to compete against Jacksonville University (4 – 1, 1 – 0 Atlantic Sun Conference). This will be the first time the women’s lacrosse team, or any Cornell sports team, has ever played Jacksonville.

“I think the challenge there is that we’re not very familiar with Jacksonville,” Graap said . “I’ve never coached against that program, and no Cornell team has ever played against that program … We have zero experience in going up against them. We know that they’re a perennial powerhouse

in their conference.”

One thing that Graap continues to strive for is to help the Red constantly improve. According to Graap, spring break offers the team the unique chance to focus only on improving all aspects of its game without the worry of extensive schoolwork.

“We have to continue to drive our skills and improve our stick work and our knowledge of the game, so we can execute more sharply,” Graap said. “The team has to continue to change and grow.”

Alex Gatto can be reached at agatto@cornellsun.com.

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have a really good power play, we are going to need to be really disciplined and not take in penalties,” Iles said. “When we do take penalties, we are going to be really disciplined in our kill. They are offensive minded and pretty aggressive, so we may have to slow down the game a bit.”

If the Red is able to win on Friday night, it will face either topseeded Union or fourth-seeded Colgate in the ECAC Hockey championships. Winning the league title would also secure the

Red an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“We are just focusing on Friday night right now,” said junior defenseman and alternate captain Nick D’Agostino. “We are looking at Harvard and really sticking to our game plan against them …

Whether it’s Union or Colgate in the finals, it doesn’t matter. We know when we are playing on our game we can beat any team in this league.”

An important part of Cornell being on its game is having support in the net from Iles. According to head coach Mike Schafer ’86, Iles has been producing even better

results lately than he has been all season.

“Andy has been good all year long, [but] he’s been outstanding,” he said. “He’s been consistent, but last week I just felt there was an extra edge to his game where he was even sharper. I think that he has raised his level of performance.”

Schafer went on to discuss how crucial that is as the team continues to play in the post season.

“He has been very very sharp,” he added. “You need that — if you look back on all the championships we’ve had, the goaltenders have always played a major part in it.

And they have to. You’re not going to get through without those guys playing well in each of these two games.”

This will be the fifth consecutive year that Cornell is competing in the ECAC semifinals.

“I think there’s a certain comfort level with some of our older guys,” D’Agostino said. “Our seniors have played in the championship game three years in a row, this could be their fourth time, us juniors [have played] twice, our sophomores were there last year too. It’s new and exciting for our freshmen but for our older guys, we know what to expect — we know

the routine.”

Win or lose, the Red still has many recent accomplishments to celebrate. On Thursday, freshman forward Brian Ferlin was honored with the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year award. Ferlin — also the Ivy League Rookie of the Year — was also named to the ECAC AllRookie Team. Cornell has not had an ECAC Rookie of the Year recipient since Riley Nash, who won the honor in 2008. D’Agostino and Iles were placed on the All-ECAC Hockey Second Team as well.

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun.com.

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ended in a tie due to darkness.

Delaware State’S Lineup includes junior 1B/P Ryan Haas, who was named the MEAC’s Baseball Player-of-the-Week.

“We’ve just got to stay as aggressive as we have been doing,” Peters said.

The Red’s aggressiveness at the plate has paid off so far, with seven starters batting over .300. Senior outfielder Brian Billigen is hitting .472 and leading the team with 15 RBI’s.

After the series with the Hornets, the Red will head to Blacksburg, Va. to face off against Virginia Tech. The Hokies (13-4) play in a tough ACC division that features reigning conference

champions Virginia and perennial powerhouses like Georgia Tech and Florida State. The Hokies have already proven their ability to contend for an ACC title by defeating No. 27 Virginia in extra innings, 10-8.

“We have got to take it pitch by pitch, not get too overwhelmed by the names of teams and just play baseball,” Peters said.

On the last leg of its trip, the Red will head to Farmville, Va. for four straight games against Longwood. Like the Hokies, the Lancers (11-6) also have some strength in their pitching staff.

Co-aces Matt Gwaltney and Brandon Vick 2.41 and 3.42 ERA’s respectively.

According to Peters, the Red has gotten some quality starts out of its own pitchers. Freshman

Brent Jones leads the team with two wins and a 1.5 ERA. Senior right hander Rick Marks is not far behind him with a 1.64 ERA. “We’ve had a lot of fresh arms this year,” Peters said. “Our wins have been a combination of our defense and pitchers coming together.”

Additionally, Peters noted that the team’s red-hot offense as of late takes some burden off the pitchers.

“Our pitchers are going out with the confidence that they can keep us in games,” he said. “They don’t have to worry about making the perfect pitch all the time because we can back them up with our offense.”

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

To read about the MEN’S LACROSSE AND SOFTBALL teams’ spring break trips this week, visit the sports section at cornellsun.com.

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of the box and work on our defensive play.”

So far this season, Cornell has not recorded any shutouts or ties, the only team in the country to do so. Also, the Red has already earned Ivy League and ECAC Championship Titles.

Qualifying for the Frozen Four is especially incredible for the team’s eight seniors, who have experienced great success in their time at Cornell. Their many accomplishments include three consecutive runs in the NCAA Tournament, three Ivy League titles, three ECAC Championship titles and numerous other impressive awards.

“To be able to go as a senior and close out my Cornell hockey career at the Frozen Four … I can’t even

put it into words … It’s amazing,” Mazotta said.

With her Cornell hockey days winding down, Mazzotta also had some words of wisdom for her younger team members.

“Enjoy every moment. Four years of athletics at Cornell go by so fast and it seems that each year goes by even quicker than the year before,” she said. “Cherish those little moments and those fun things you do with your team. Try to get the most out of it every time you step on the ice.”

A win in the Frozen Four would only add to the many successes of the Red’s winningest senior class in history. With everything on the line, the team will go into the game relaxed and determined, looking to close out another historic season.

McKenna Archer can be reached at marcher@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

C.U.Takes Third Straight Trip to Frozen Four

By MCKENNA ARCHER

TINA CHOU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sun Staff Writer

Following a thrilling triple overtime win against the Boston University Terriers, the No. 3 women’s ice hockey team qualified for the Frozen Four for the third consecutive year. On Friday at 9 p.m. in Duluth, Minn., the No. 3 Red (30-4, 20-2 ECAC Hockey) will play the No. 2 Minnesota Gophers (35-5-2). The Red will face the Gophers for the first time since the late 1990s, and look to build off its momentum from the game against the Terriers.

The Frozen Four encompasses the semi-finals and finals of the NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament. A win on Friday would send the Red to the finals and give them a chance to win a national title for the first time in program history.

“The whole team is just ecstatic right now, to make it to the Frozen Four and be one of the top four teams,” senior captain and forward Rebecca Johnston said.

While anticipation builds, the Red faces a challenging opponent in Minnesota, according to senior goaltender Amanda Mazzotta. The Gophers are not only highly ranked, but also play in a very competitive league. “[Minnesota gets] great competition all the time. We’ve never played them before but they’re obviously an extremely fast, hardworking team with big physical defensemen and unbelievable goaltending,” Mazzotta said. “It’s going to be a challenge for sure, but we’re excited.”

Starting small | Senior captain and forward Rebecca Johnston say focusing on the little things is most important for the Red. The Red may be facing a formidable opponent, but after the longest recorded game in program history against the Terriers, the team has proven that it is ready for a fight. Despite the high profile

nature of the Frozen Four, the Red says it will treat it like the many other successful games it has had this season, continuing to focus on strong defense and forechecking.

“For us, it’s just focusing on those little

things we work on in practice,” Johnston said. “These teams have really great power plays, and it is really key for us to stay out See W. HOCKEYpage 11

BASEBALL

Red to Continue Strong Start

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With the uncharacteristically nice weather to support it, the baseball team has gotten off to a hot start. Already eight games into the season, the Red has only lost once and heads into spring break with some much-needed confidence.

“We’re very confident right now,” said junior infielder Brenton Peters.

“[Our success] has been the result of the hard work we have put in, getting back from winter break and getting right on the field.”

The Red (7-1) will travel to Delaware this weekend to start its spring break trip, and will finish the week with six games in Virginia. Although in past years the team has traveled down south to Florida or North Carolina, it is staying closer to home this break.

“I’m pretty excited because I’m from Virginia,” Peters said. “But I don’t think it’s going to be a detriment not to play down south or on the West Coast where the weather is warmer.”

The Red’s first stop will be a three-game series with Delaware State (10-6-1). In their most recent game, the Hornets played four hours and nine minutes of baseball See BASEBALL page 11

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A memorable season | Sophomore goalie Andy Iles is a finalist for ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Ivy Rivals Compete in Semifinals

Cornell takes on Harvard in ECAC showdown

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

EMILY BURKE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Hometown hero | Junior infiedler Brenton Peters says he is excited to be playing in his home state of Virginia.

On Friday at 7:30 p.m., the Red will take on the Crimson in Atlantic City, N.J. No. 2 seeded Cornell and No. 3 seeded Harvard will face off at Boardwalk Hall in the ECAC Hockey championship semifinals. The winner of this match-up will move on to the league championship the following day.

“We’re excited we have an opportunity to win a championship,” said sophomore goaltender Andy Iles. “Not many teams have that opportunity, so we are cherishing it and taking advantage of it.”

Last weekend, the Red swept its quarterfinal series against Dartmouth at Lynah Rink. Harvard had more of a struggle, losing the first game of its series to Yale, winning the second in double overtime, and finally coming away from the weekend with a strong 8-2 finish over the Bulldogs on Sunday.

Cornell defeated Harvard, 4-2, back in November on the road, but when the Ivy rivals met again at Lynah in January, the end result was a 2-2 tie. “[Harvard is] a really good team.

They thrive on their special teams. They See M. HOCKEY page 11