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C.U. Minority Students Lack Presence Abroad

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Students of color face ‘deterrents’ in studying abroad

By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer

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Students in the Human Ecology Building admire photographs of the Ecuadorian Andes people in the Life in the Cloud Forest exhibit Monday.

Cornell’s study abroad program — in light of the University’s goal to double enrollment by 2020 — faces an underrepresentation of minority students, according to Corinna Lewis, outreach coordinator for Cornell Abroad.

Lewis said that this underrepresentation — both nationwide and at Cornell — could exist due to financial barriers and family dynamics in minority families.

“For some students of color, concerns about cost short-circuit their exploration of their options before they start,” Lewis said. “In some cases, family may be a deterrent to study abroad. If the student is far from home, first generation or the family can’t afford to visit, pressure can be put on the student to stay in the U.S.” See ABROAD page 5

New Course Will Honor Sesquicentennial

By ALISHA FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

In honor of Cornell’s sesquicentennial, two professors will offer a one-time course next semester that will focus on the last 75 years of the University’s history.

The course — which exclusively covers Cornell history from 1940 to the present — will be co-taught by Prof. Isaac Kramnick, government, and Glenn Altschuler Ph.D. ’76, dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions.

Kramnick and Altschuler said they got the idea for the

course while collaboratively writing Cornell: A History, 1940 to 2015, which will be published this fall.

“Our thought was that we wanted to share our findings

American University, a onecredit course taught by Corey Earle ’07, associate director of student programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs.

“The American studies pro-

“A very important part of the course will be the radical political turmoil on campus in the ’60s and ’70s.”

Prof. Isaac Kramnick with undergraduates and the sesquicentennial year was the perfect time to do that,” Altschuler said.

The four-credit course will replace AMST 2001: The First

gram has chosen not to offer AMST 2001 next year since they’re offering the other course,” Earle said. “I’m hoping AMST 2001 will return in [the] 2015-2016 [academic year], but

Ithaca Landlord Fined $38,500 For Over-Occupying Property Ithaca Landlord Cheryl Beach was fined $38,500 and convicted of 154 counts of over-occupying a Collegetown property, according to the City of Ithaca.

Breach — the landlord of 403 Elmwood Ave. — was charged with violating Ithaca City code zoning law by allowing eight unrelated Cornell students to rent the property, when only three unrelated occupants were allowed, Ithaca City Attorney Aaron Lavine said.

The over-occupancy occurred over the course of a year — from June 2010 to June 2011 — according to a City press release.

The landlord was charged with one count for each day the apartment was over-occupied.

Lavine said procedural delays caused the verdict to be issued nearly three years after the zoning violations.

“Early in the process, Ms. Beach filed a legal action in State Supreme

Court challenging the City’s ability to prosecute this case,” he said. “The City Attorney’s Office successfully defended that challenge, but it and some resulting procedural delays certainly contributed to the timeframe on which this prosecution was able to proceed.”

Beach was found guilty after a three-day trial in Ithaca City Court, according to the press release.

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it currently looks like the Class of 2015 will miss out.”

Kramnick said the course will focus on major events in Cornell’s history such as the anti-Vietnam War protests and the 1969 Willard Straight Hall takeover, where black Cornell students occupied the building to protest racial issues on campus.

“A very important part of the course will be the racial and political turmoil on campus in the ’60s and ’70s,” he said.

“Cornell was the center, in both areas, of what was happening across America.”

Kramnick added that the See HISTORY page 4

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Krauthammer Will Lecture On Future of U.S. Healthcare

By ERIC OBERMAN Sun Staff Writer

KRAUTHAMMER

Charles Krauthammer, a political columnist and physician, will dis-

cuss the future of the American healthcare system on April 16 in Statler Hall.

The lecture will feature the American healthcare system and its connections to issues such as bioethics, according to a press release issued by the Cornell Re publicans, the event’s sponsors.

Krauthammer will deliver a keynote address and an swer questions from the audience during the lecture — titled “The Future of Healthcare.”

Kyle Ezzedine ’14, chairman of the Cornell Re publicans, said he has high expectations for the event.

“I expect the

talk to be intellectually stimulating and informative,” he said. “Dr. Krauthammer is a fantastic speaker and should be able to provide an argument about healthcare that isn’t generally advocated at Cornell.”

According to Ezzedine, the club See HEALTHCARE page 4

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The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training program will help post-doctorates pursue careers outside academia

By SOFIA HU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell kicked off its new Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training program — which is aimed to help postdoctoral scholars in the sciences pursue careers outside academia — Tuesday with a panel and networking event in the Biotechnology Building.

The BEST program is funded by a five year, $1.8 million National Institutes of Health award and geared towards postdoctoral scholars and graduate students studying biomedical sciences, according to Prof. John Parker, veterinary medicine, a principle of the program.

According to Parker, many who pursue higher studies in biomedical sciences do not enter careers in academia or research.

The BEST program aims to ensure students can explore non-academic careers and gain experience in other sectors such as government and industry.

A 2011 NIH study found that 26 percent of biomedical Ph.D.s enter tenure or tenure-track faculty positions. According to the study, biomedical Ph.D.s are instead increasingly holding science-related occupations that do not involve research or a graduate training in science, even though most universities focus on

preparing students for exclusively academic positions.

Harvey Tian grad cited both academia’s “highly competitive environment” and the wide range of possible careers in industry and consulting as reasons why more graduate and postdoctoral students may not be entering academia.

“There’s a very broad range of careers that folks in biomedical and life sciences can get into, but most universities only train graduate students and post-docs primarily for positions in academia,” Parker said. “We’re hoping that in the next five

“The people who are trained at Cornell are some of the best trained scientists.”

Prof. John Parker years, we’ll see a shift of culture in faculty to lead students not just to academics but also to industry, teaching, and policy.”

Cornell is one of nine universities to receive the grant, according to the NIH’s website. Parker said Cornell is well-suited for the BEST program because the University is already strong in the four areas that the program will focus on — communication; industry, entrepreneur-

C ity News Ithaca Seeking Interim Judge

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 is seeking to appoint an interim following Ithaca City Judge Judith A. Rossiter’s retirement effective June 30, according to The Ithaca Journal. The position will begin around July 1 and end on Dec. 31. An election will be held in November to determine a replacement. There will be a public ceremony on June 7 in Stewart Park to mark Rossiter’s retirement.

Plan Calls for Farmer’s Market in Dryden This Summer

Citizens of the Village of Dryden are working on finalizing the plans to open a farmer’s market in Dryden this summer, according to The Ithaca Times. Vendors for vegetables and crafts have already expressed interest, and the market’s planners are also welcoming vendors for prepared foods. The goal is for the market to be open every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. starting on June 21 and closing some time in August.

New Concert Venue in Ithaca

The Dock, a new music venue located on Taughannock Boulevard, opened Feb. 24 and will host its first big rock show on Thursday, when Jefferson Starship is slated to perform, according to The Ithaca Journal.

The Dock has taken over the building that was formerly Castaways, which closed in April 2012. The Dock can seat 200 people and hopes to provide a new kind of space for local and national talent, according to The Journal.

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Home sweet home | Caldwell Hall is home to the Office of Postdoctoral Studies, which addresses the needs of Cornell’s postdoctoral community.

ship and management; governance, risk and compliance; science policy.

Parker added that he felt Cornell students were “ideal trainees” for the BEST program.

“The people who are trained at Cornell are some of the best trained scientists,” Parker said. “We want these people to step up and use their training in ways they never thought about until now.”

Graduate students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering said they were “excited” about the beginning of the program.

“As a biomedical engineer, I can only begin to imagine the possibilities that lay before us and the impact that we will have on the future of our species. Thus, at worst, the BEST program will help PhD students gain practical knowledge and experience in non-academic career paths,” Tian said. “[At] best, the BEST program will serve as an example to our govern-

C.U.Dialogue Group Wins Diversity Award

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Writer

The Intergroup Dialogue Project — a series of peerfacilitated courses that aim to raise awareness about social justice issues — was awarded the Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony last Tuesday.

The Intergroup Dialogue Project is a series of three courses offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — Education 2610, 3610 and 4980 — according to A.T. Miller, associate vice provost for academic diversity.

The prize — awarded by the Office of the Dean of Students — recognizes the student, faculty, staff member or program making the most significant contribution to furthering the ideal of university community while respecting the values of racial diversity, according to the University’s website.

Katelyn Fletcher ’15, who helped facilitate a dialogue section on socioeconomic status last semester, said the goal of the course is to create a safe space where students “can learn about their social identities.” “[They can also learn] the social identities of others as well as practice the skills they need to communicate successfully with individuals

across differences,” she said.

Fletcher added that the courses are subdivided into several sections, which include topics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status and religion. Two undergraduate students facilitate each section, which consists of approximately 10 to 12 students, according to Fletcher. “[The course] culminates in students creating original projects to promote social justice on campus,” she said.

According to E-Chieh Lin, co-facilitator, program coordinator and co-instructor for the dialogue project, the program was selected for the prize because of its expanding enrollment, which in turn “affected different people each semester [and] created the greatest effect on the Cornell population.”

The award consists of $5,000 — which will go towards furthering the course and expanding its scope — according to Miller.

“The prize money will help to increase the capacity of the [project] to provide dialogue experiences beyond the classroom for staff and faculty, as well as to obtain materials to train facilitators, get more classroom materials and help to promote the program,” Miller said.

Though the course has been rising in popularity, it still has room to expand,

ment as to the far-reaching impacts that scientists can have on a society.”

In partnership with several University departments — including the Graduate School and Office of Postdoctoral Studies — the BEST program will sponsor seminars, workshops, internships and mentorships, according to the program’s website.

Later this semester, the program will open applications to graduate and postdoctoral students in biomedical and life sciences.

Tian, who said he considers the program “an absolute necessity for today’s graduate programs in biomedical engineering,” said he plans to apply.

“I believe there has never been a time in history in which the public has had a better understanding of the importance of biomedical engineering and its potential,” he said.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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Elizabeth Shuhan and Zachary Sweet perform in Barnes Hall Monday evening.

Miller said.

“In our first semester, [fall 2012], there were two student course dialogues. This semester there are seven,” Miller said. “This semester, nearly 100 students are enrolled. A fully developed program would have about 200 students every semester in about 14-15 dialogue groups.”

The project also plans on expanding its scope. In 2013, they began working with residential programs, according to Lin. “We are working on putting together a faculty dialogue, staff dialogue and nonacademic workshops for the Summer College. Although

our program has begun as an academic endeavor, a part of our goal is to have a continual non-academic component to the program,” Lin said.

According to Lin, the course is unique in that it does not follow a lecture-style format.

“It is an experiential learning course that works with the personal experiences of the individuals in the course as well as the societal context in which we live and how does the individual experience fit into the societal context,” Lin said.

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

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Prof: Univ.History‘Enriching’ HISTORY

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civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements were not the only major demonstrations held at the University. “[Few] people know that in 1958 there was a very important riot here over differential social rules for women. There could be no parties downtown in apartments if there were more than two women present,” Kramnick said. “Women were required to wear trousers and had to be in at a certain curfew time.”

According to Kramnick, the enrollment expectation for the course is currently unknown.

Earle said he is “excited” about how in-depth Kramnick and Altschuler’s fall course will be.

“It's so important for Cornellians to appreciate how special this university is and the impact it has had on the world,” Earle said. “Knowing Cornell’s history can enrich the student experience, in my opinion.”

Altschuler also stressed the significance of the course in light of the University turning 150 years old.

“The United States is a relatively young country,

and to be at an institution which has survived and thrived and is among the great universities in the world ... is pretty thrilling,” he said.

As part of the celebration, alumni members of the Cornell chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, an anti-Vietnam war organization, will return to campus in November. “[The] anti-war activists ... will be coming back to campus in November specifically to talk with students. Some of them will lecture in our class,” Kramnick said.

Other sesquicentennial celebrations include a Charter Day weekend from April 24 to April 27, 2015. According to Altschuler, the festivities will be “extensive.”

“I urge all current students, including seniors, to postpone their graduation so they can be here for what is going to be a blowout weekend,” Altschuler said.

The course is crosslisted in the history department and will be held from 2:55 to 4:10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to Kramnick.

Alisha Foster can be reached at afoster@cornellsun.com.

Doctor,Commentator to Speak at C.U. Krauthammer chosen due to ‘prominence’ in political community HEALTHCARE

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wanted Krauthammer to come to campus due to his prominence in the conservative political community.

“He is an intellectual leader of American conservatism and a nationally recognized, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator,” Ezzedine said.

Ezzedine also said he believes that Krauthammer’s dual role as a physician and political commentator will give him experience with specific topics of the event.

“He is a medical doctor and a political commentator, so he has both a direct expertise as a medical and an indirect expertise as a political observer,” he said.

Krauthammer’s weekly column for The Washington Post is syndicated across the country, according to the press release. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News television programs like The O’Reilly Factor and Special Report with Bret Baier.

Krauthammer wrote speeches for Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale in the 1980 presidential campaign, before beginning to write and edit for The New Republic, according to the press release.

He then began writing political columns for publications such The Weekly Standard — where he is now an editor — according to Fox News’ website.

Additionally, Krauthammer won the Pulitzer Prize for com-

mentary in 1987, and the William F. Buckley Award for Media Excellence in 2013, according to the release.

Krauthammer worked as chief resident of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital after graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1975 before leaving to work for Mondale, the press release said. He now serves on the President’s Council on Bioethics.

Tickets for the event are free and will be available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office beginning April 8. A number of tickets will also be available at the door.

Eric Oberman can be reached at eoberman@cornellsun.com.

N.Y.State Senate Rejects Bill Granting Financial Aid to Illegal Immigrants ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Senate rejected a bill Monday that would open up state tuition assistance to students in the country illegally, dashing long-held hopes of immigration advocates and prompting finger-pointing among rival Democrats.

The 30-29 vote was short of the 32 votes needed to pass, a rare defeat for a bill on the floor of the Senate. There are 63 seats, two are vacant, and two senators did not vote.

The Senate’s ruling coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats brought the closely watched bill to the floor late in the day with little notice. Supporters of the measure said that was intentional.

“It certainly seems that it was bought up to fail, given the outcome,” said Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat. He said the vote “made a mockery of a very important issue.”

No Republicans voted for the measure, though all five of their coalition partners in the Independent Democratic Conference voted for it. All but one of the mainline Democrats in the minority voted for the measure.

The proposal includes a budget appropriation of $25 million to open up Tuition Assistance Program money for students who are in the country illegally but attend public or private colleges, paying up to $5,000 a year for undergraduates at four-year institutions.

Exactly how many would be eligible for the need-based assistance is unclear, but according to a report issued by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, 8,300 such students in the CUNY and SUNY systems would qualify.

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Minority Students Face Study Abroad Barriers

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ABROAD

dents are also a very important part of their families, and they are seen as the role model and According to Gretchen sometimes caretaker of the famMosereiff, data steward for ily, so leaving the country for an CUAbroad, only 4 percent of extended amount of time could students studying abroad identi- be problematic,” Cervantes fied as Latino or Latina in 2013, said. “There is also the matter of in comparison to a 10 percent undocumented students as they enrollment rate of Latino cannot leave the country for undergraduate students in these programs.”

E d w i n Cornell overall.

Rosendo ’15, Asian students co-chair of the made up less “I believe ... more Men of Color than 10 percent minorities will join the Council — of students movement to gain an who is curstudying abroad, rently in the but almost 15 international process of percent of stu- experience.” applying to dents at Cornell. study abroad This is in con- Xavier Douglas ’15 in London — trast to a nearly however, said 57 percent enrollment rate of Caucasian that his status as a minority has students in study abroad pro- had no effect on his application grams versus a 47 percent experience.

“The reason I chose to study enrollment rate at the University, according to abroad was purely to obtain experiences I haven’t had before Mosereiff.

Lewis added that the and in choosing a site to study University has actively encour- abroad, the fact that I am a aged minority students to par- minority never really played a ticipate in study abroad pro- large role,” he said. “I believe grams by partnering with other anyone studying abroad, being a on campus groups and student minority or not, becomes a minority in whichever country events.

“Students of color are part they choose to study abroad.”

Xavier Douglas ’15 — who of the overall ‘face’ of CUAbroad,” she said. has traveled to over 14 countries “[CUAbroad] constantly seeks while at Cornell — said he to dispel the myth of the finan- often feels like an “ambassador” cial barrier by promoting the for minorities while he is fact that the financial aid ‘goes abroad.

“I remember when a group with you’ and includes all of students bombarded me expenses.”

Stephanie Martinez ’14, the when I was in France asking me president of Minority to rap, and when I was involunAssociation of Pre-Medical tarily selected to play basketball Students, said she does not per- in Italy,” Douglas said. “These sonally know many minority types of situations do not make students who have gone abroad. me feel uncomfortable, but “Although students should rather provide me with an take initiative in finding pro- opportunity to positively grams to enhance their experi- change conventional stereoence at Cornell, sometimes we types that are held by foreigners just don’t know about all the about minorities in the United opportunities that we have States.”

Douglas also said the available, especially if you are a first generation college student University as a whole has made like myself,” Martinez said. “We an active effort to encourage have a lot of great resources, but study abroad.

“President Skorton’s decision I haven’t really seen much exposure to the idea of studying will have a ripple effect where ‘studying abroad’ becomes a abroad in these places.”

Nancy Cervantes ’15, co- part of Cornell’s culture,” chair of Movimiento Estudiantil Douglas said. “Thus, I do Chicano de Aztlán, said the believe that more minorities will underrepresentation of minority join the movement to obtain an students may also be caused by international experience.” family values and, in some cases, immigration issues.

Anika Sethy can be reached at “Many first generation stu- asethy@cornellsum.com.

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The steps down from the Capitol to the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial required shoveling after 6 to 10 inches of snow fell in the Washington, D.C. area Monday.

Earthquake ‘Rattles Nerves’ Across Los Angeles Monday LOS ANGELES (AP) — A predawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin Monday, rattling nerves and shaking buildings along a 150mile swath of Southern California but causing no major damage.

The 4.4-magnitude quake was centered 2 miles from Encino and 15 miles westnorthwest of the downtown

civic center, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

USGS seismologist Robert Graves called it a “typical” Southern California quake and said expectations were that damage would be slight, if it occurred at all.

Los Angeles police and fire officials said there were no immediate reports of damage.

Encino resident Joann Smith

described the initial jolt as a “big crash” that shook her house.

“My dog got out of bed, and she came looking for me,” Smith said. “She was shivering terribly.”

The 6:25 a.m. quake occurred at a depth of about 5 miles. There were several aftershocks, including one of 2.7 magnitude that caused very minor shaking, Graves said.

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Thank you, President Skorton To the Editor: Re: “President David Skorton Will Leave Cornell for Smithsonian Institution in 2015,” News, March 11.

Last week, Cornell University announced that President Skorton will be retiring in 2015 from the Cornell presidency and will take the helm at the Smithsonian Institution. In light of this news, I would like to take a small amount of time to thank President Skorton for the decisive and courageous actions he took to help undocumented students not just at Cornell, but also throughout the country.

President Skorton was a key factor in making Cornell one of the friendliest universities in the country for undocumented students. At the time I was a student, Cornell was unique amongst private universities in the comparatively large number of undocumented students that were accepted with large scholarships to Cornell. To this day, Cornell remains the only University I know of that openly invites undocumented students to apply for financial aid. Throughout my Cornell education, I always found that President Skorton was willing to listen to undocumented students and their allies, and did so with extreme concern and care.

Although Skorton was influential in making our University a better and more tolerant place for these unique students, he did not restrict his efforts to the Cornell campus and community. Once President Skorton decided to support the DREAM Act, he pledged his utmost support. In fact, Skorton has written repeatedly on the subject of comprehensive immigration support and legalization pathways, particularly for young undocumented students. He successfully helped to rally support for his students amongst other universities with the support of Arizona State University President Michael Crow and Miami Dade College President Eduardo J. Padrón, and is a co-signer of an open letter to Congress to implement visa reform for students earning advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields and urging Congress to pass the DREAM Act. For his actions, I will always remember President Skorton as someone who cared about his students, someone who was willing to take a risk to do what is right, and someone who never wavered in his convictions. I am sure he will do great work in the Smithsonian, and I can only hope that Cornell chooses a worthy successor to David Skorton, one who will be willing to continue to look after the best interests of Cornell University and all its students, be they documented or not.

David Angeles Albores ’13, Founding Member of the Cornell DREAM Team

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ust last week, in a message to the Cornell now, students can study only towards a community, President David Skorton Master of Engineering in Computer Science announced that he would become the or undertake Doctoral work under the guidthirteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian. In ance of the faculty in the City. Cornell Tech picking President Skorton, the Smithsonian will continue to grow and offer more prohas selected an incredibly thoughtful and grams as we progress through the decade, and visionary leader. President Skorton will con- by 2019, the leadership of Cornell Tech hopes tinue to lead us strongly through our to be able to offer eight masters degree proUniversity’s sesquicentennial, then move on grams.

Undergraduates, too, will have plenty of to his new role as Secretary. Perhaps one of the most important and enduring legacies that he opportunities to learn at Cornell Tech.

Already at its temporary home in Chelsea, will leave behind is Cornell NYC Tech.

In 2010, the New York City Economic Cornell Tech has had several undergraduate Development Corporation requested propos- interns. As the campus transitions to its perals from academic institutions to design and manent home on Roosevelt Island, opportubuild a world-class applied sciences and engi- nities for undergraduates will surface — perneering graduate school in New York City. haps through a program such as a ‘Semester at The City would provide land and a capital Cornell Tech’ or through other exciting initiainvestment to the institution with the best tives.

The academic programs at Cornell Tech proposal — a modern land grant. The City received seven qualifying responses from sev- are preparing our fellow students to be at the enteen of the world’s best institutions. forefront of a rapidly-changing technological Cornell, in partnership with the Technion - landscape. The interdisciplinary nature of Israel Institute of Technology, won the com- study and the daily interactions that students petition and is in the process of building a have with top companies are equipping them with the tools necessary to be leaders in existnew campus on Roosevelt Island.

Cornell Tech is currently operating out of ing tech-oriented organizations; advance a temporary space donated by Google in technological innovation and create the next Chelsea. Google has committed to providing Facebook, Amazon or Google.

The impact up to 60,000 square Cornell Tech will feet in its New York on New building through Not only will Cornell Tech have York City’s econ2017. The space is an open and collab- greatly benefit New York City, omy will be In orative environment but it will also benefit our tremendous. attracting the best where students, staff Cornell campus in Ithaca. and brightest stuand faculty interact dents and faculty, regularly, reflecting Cornell Tech will the entrepreneurial spirit of the school and its programs. By 2017, eventually spin off groundbreaking compathe first phase of construction on Roosevelt nies. These companies will be developed and Island, which includes the first academic commercialized, leading to a more robust building, a corporate colocation building, entrepreneurial ecosystem in the City. The where companies can interact with students, NYCEDC estimates that the Applied and a residential facility, will be complete. At Sciences Initiative will generate over $6 bilthat time, students, staff and faculty will tran- lion in economic growth for the City’s econosition from their temporary location in my.

Not only will Cornell Tech greatly benefit Chelsea to the Roosevelt Island location — a New York City, but it will also benefit our campus built for the twenty-first century.

The Tech Campus houses the Joan and Cornell campus in Ithaca. Cornell Tech will Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation increase our University’s visibility, both Institute. It is a 50/50 co-owned institute nationally and internationally. Moreover, between Technion and Cornell. The Institute, Cornell Tech provides us with an opportuniat full capacity, will comprise approximately ty to invest in companies created by students one-third of all campus activity; and it will be at the University; and, furthermore, the Tech the center of three educational and research campus will likely attract increased donations hubs, focusing on Connective Media, in support of Cornell. Finally, the presence of Healthier Life and the Built Environment. Cornell NYC Tech in New York City will Starting this fall, students will be able to study provide Cornell with an extraordinary leadertowards a Master of Science in Information ship role in an ever-expanding information Systems with a specialization in Connective age.

In the years to come, I look forward to seeMedia — the first program available through ing the impact that students, staff and faculty the Institute.

Additionally, starting this summer, The at Cornell Tech will have on our University, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of New York’s economy and the world.

Management will begin offering a one year MBA Program at the Tech Campus. These two new degree programs, the M.S. in Ross Gitlin is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the undergraduate student-elected Information Systems and the Johnson MBA, trustee. He may be reached at rhg68@cornell.edu. will complement the programs already avail- Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this able at the Tech Campus. As it stands right semester.

CORRECTIONS A March 1 Arts and Entertainment story, “The Vagina Monologues at Statler Auditorium: Raw, Empowering and ‘Totally Orgasmic,’” incorrectly misspelled Katelyn Fletcher’s ’15 name as “Kaitlyn Fletcher.”

A March 12 news story, “Former Fraternity House Joins Campus Housing,” said the University purchased the former Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house. In fact, Cornell is renting the space from the fraternity’s national corporation for six-to-ten years. In addition, the article incorrectly said the University will complete the renovations when in fact the fraternity will complete them. The article also said that no project timeline has been defined, when in fact all of the renovations need to be completed by July 1.

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OPINION

Tom Moore | What Even Is All This?

How Do I Write All This?

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s I look down at another empty page, a couple years into my time at The Sun and totally unable to write this opinion column, some part of me wonders what’s gone wrong. Failure to translate? Mind gone off into some dark corner of intellectual perversion where the public can’t follow? Or has my progressively widening cynicism obliterated any chance for a positive claim?

I started writing a column at the beginning of my sophomore year because I was afraid of becoming an irrelevant academic. I wanted a commitment that would force me to translate my studies into the common conversation.

My assumption was that being able to pursue a totally unemployable degree like Religious Studies is an immense privilege, and with that privilege comes a responsibility to bring my education to bear on things that matter to actual people, in a language that people can actually understand. I wanted my writing to be a translation of the insights made available to me through my place of educational privilege.

Which makes sense in the abstract, but doesn’t correspond to how I actually write at all. The first column I wrote took me all summer. I assured myself they would get easier with practice. They haven’t. I feel some affinity with The Writer from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, who likens his writing process to popping hemorrhoids. Truthfully, this column is a sort of biweekly purgatory for me. When the words finally come, after hours and days of banging my head

Two years earlier I would’ve written a sweeping piece dripping with condemnation, and felt pretty justified in doing so. against the desk, they come like a rush of tears. I feel very little autonomy in this creative process. My writing is not something I do with my mind, but a reflection of what is in my mind.

For example, my columns became more overtly political as I was radicalized through my experiences with the Occupy movement. I sometimes half-jokingly refer to myself as an Occupy baby, one of the generation for whom Occupy Wall Street was a major ideological transformation — a sort of rebirth into the world of radical politics. My vague compulsion to “give back to society” in an abstract sense was replaced by a personal identification with worldwide movements against patriarchy, racism, capitalism, imperialism, etc.

I began to think of my writing as a political commitment, a biweekly opportunity to bear witness to the relevant injustice of the moment, or to generate buzz for this or that campaign. It was invigorating to feel that my voice was part of something much larger than myself. The problems came when my train of thought failed to fall in line with the political project at hand, or when, as in the present case, I simply come up blank.

I left Cornell following the fall of 2012. This is my first semester back, and the columns just aren’t coming. I honestly don’t follow the news much or do any political organizing these days. I’m taking three relatively esoteric classes, and trying to stay afloat academically. In a certain sense, I don’t really have anything to talk about. I am perhaps exactly what my sophomore self feared becoming, a student so buried in books that he loses his voice.

Two weeks ago, a girl was raped at the frat next door to me. I had a column due a few days later, and tried to write about the Greek scene and rape culture and alcohol. Two years earlier I would’ve written a sweeping piece dripping with condemnation, and felt pretty justified in doing so. I would’ve seen it as not just my right, but my duty to insert a structural critique into this moment of community trauma, to turn the conversation to questions of systemic change.

I couldn’t pull it off this time around, though. It takes some certainty to write in 700-to-1000 word declarative chunks, and I don’t feel that kind of certainty very often anymore. My spring of (sometimes naive) conviction has gone dry, or at least has stopped bubbling up on this page of The Sun. I take this as the universe’s cue for me to stop writing opinion columns. I’m off to Arts and Entertainment, where the press passes are free and the writing doesn’t take quite so much conviction.

Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com. His column appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Comment of the day Web

“I didn't read his column as arguing for or against divestment, just an evaluation of what has amounted to stale arguments. Ritualistic motion or not, I thought he was sadly on point. ... There are different strategies for approaching the kinds of people who make decisions, and though I personally and perhaps foolishly do not spend time ingratiating myself with the powers that be, I know who my audience is.”

ALC6 Re: “CASTLE | Re: Divestment and Its Moral Imperatie,” Opinion published March 17, 2014

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Glickin’ It

The War Mentality,Revisited A

s yet another Ithaca winter begins to thaw, the crisis in Ukraine has refrozen our geopolitics somewhere in the mid-1980s. Our campus, it seems, has been transported through time; lecture halls that recently housed speaker series on the post-American world and the ubiquitous War on Terror now play host to symposiums, such as a panel discussion this past Friday, that once more establish the Russian Federation as an antagonistic force in global affairs. This has been part of a broader trend in which we as a nation have jumped at the chance to return to the morally unambiguous structure of the Cold War conflict.

After over a decade of covert battles against terrorism littered with civilian casualties and Constitutional inconsistencies, we are naturally drawn to the familiar and satisfying dynamics of a clash between the American champion of liberty and a villainous Red Menace. When it comes to rhetoric, at least, the Cold War was not so bitter a pill to swallow.

Of course, this reversion to a Cold War worldview is ultimately misguided; Vladimir Putin — however dastardly he may be — no longer stands at the helm of a global superpower capable of challenging American hegemony in jungles and deserts thousands of miles from Moscow. His gambit to annex Crimea is the ploy of a petulant nationalist afraid of losing yet another Soviet relic to the (comparatively) prosperous European Union.

Even if Putin orders a fullscale, revanchist invasion of Ukraine, disastrous as it would be, he will not likely order his troops to march westward to Warsaw, Prague or Berlin. The Iron Curtain is still in ruin.

This, of course, has not prevented Republicans in

Congress from denouncing President Obama’s fairly aggressive response to this crisis — which includes sanctions against Russia, firm refusal to accept the Crimean resolution and a NATO pledge of support for Ukraine’s interim government — as inadequate to the Cold War 2.0 with which he is now faced. The avalanche of GOP opprobrium, despite the fact that it undermines a sitting president as he deals with a major international crisis, has had its highlights.

Chief among them, for me at least, was Senator John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) criticism of an article the president wrote on America’s “war mentality” in 1983.

While he was still at Columbia.

The article, “Breaking

gible steps to prevent war, becomes a difficult task.”

It is far more gritty prose than “hope and change,” for one thing.

On a deeper level, however, Obama’s admitted disconnect from “the taste of war” makes him a president — and a man — uniquely suited for our modern era. There has been no “home front” in the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; the vast majority of Americans have not confronted the evils of war in the same way they did during WWII or even Vietnam. We are desensitized, and thus may not act so easily to stave off further bloodshed.

Conservative pundits have used this article to reinforce Obama’s naivete and harmful passivity towards Russia. What I

On a deeper level, however, Obama’s admitted disconnect from “the taste of war” makes him a president — and a man — uniquely suited for our modern era. the War Mentality,” is itself a fascinating window into the mind of Barack Obama.

If any of McCain’s criticism is legitimate, it is that the article exposes a frank and de-politicized voice of the president-to-be, who articulates a modern disconnect from war that, if conveyed tomorrow at a White House press conference, would probably result in impeachment hearings.

“The more sensitive among us struggle to extrapolate experiences of war from our everyday experience,” the undergraduate Obama writes.

“But the taste of war — the sounds and chill, the dead bodies — are remote and far removed. We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are occurring, but bringing such experience down into our hearts, and taking continual, tan-

gleaned from the article, however, was that the President was (and presumably still is) operating within a geopolitical universe in which all-out war between superpowers is both inconceivable and apocalyptic. His favorable treatment of pro-disarmament campus groups, Arms Race Alternative and Students Against Militarism, never reaches treasonous heights of moral equivalency or defeatism.

Rather, it is a far-sighted recognition that the generations born into a world wherein traditional warfare has become Armageddon has a burden to rectify “distorted national priorities” that are formulated, in part, on assumptions that do not apply to the nuclear age. Obama’s critics, by lambasting his stance in 1983, would

return us to the theoretical foundations that supported our foreign policy in 1943.

President Obama is the first president to have been born at the end of the Baby Boom Generation; he is the first to have come of age in the post-Vietnam haze of disillusionment with war. His philosophy does not mirror the conservative tropes of McCain and others, who still perhaps view Russia as not simply a regional destabilizer, but as our once and future arch-nemesis. This is not a worldview for the 21st century in which our greatest threats will, in no scenario, emerge from rival nation-states.

For all of us at Cornell struggling to make sense of a world that suddenly seems too much like the one in which our parents grew up, the young president himself has some words of direction: “Indeed, the most pervasive malady of the collegiate system specifically, and the American experience generally, is that elaborate patterns of knowledge and theory have been disembodied from individual choices and government policy.” We cannot let our collegiate instinct to distill real-world events into neatly presented theories allow our discussion of the Ukrainian crisis to culminate in an intellectual resumption of the Cold War. Our generation, too, has a duty to acknowledge the absolute impermissibility of a war between major powers without having experienced such a war for ourselves. For, as President Obama wrote three decades ago, “there are some things we shouldn't have to live through in order to want to avoid the experience.”

Jacob Glick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com.

Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Better Living Through Chemistry: Sex, Drugs, Schlock & Droll

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

Co-writers and co-directors Geoff Moore and David Posamentier make their directing debut in the dark comedy Better Living Through Chemistry, a tale of suburban despair inexplicably and patchily narrated by Jane Fonda. She crops up in the denouement as a customer in protagonist Doug Varney’s (Sam Rockwell) small-town pharmacy, just long enough to remind us that she is still a sparkling goddess, unrelated to the plot or any of its characters.

The exposition props up flat, standard suburban characters: Varney is a quiet pharmacist, just taking over his father-in-law’s (30 Rock’s Ken Howard) small-town pharmacy.

Said father-in-law won’t let him rename the pharmacy from Bishop’s to Varney’s because he’s a rude, rich, overbearing piece of whackadoo stereotype. Varney’s wife (Michelle Monaghan) is another nightmare of onedimension — a spinning instructor and adrenaline junkie who is Better Living Through Chemistry endlessly disappointed by her husband’s non-athleticism and Directed by David Posamentier, her 12 year-old son’s (Harrison Geoff Moore Holzer) idiosyncrasies.

Starring Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde But everything changes when Varney is bullied by his do-nothing staff into making the day’s home deliveries himself. His last stop is at a Gastby-ian mansion and he’s greeted at the door by a booze-swilling white-silk-clad The group I was with at Cinemapolis on Daisy Buchanan — Elizabeth (Olivia Sunday called this movie shot-for-shot, save Wilde). She spends the entire movie being no one mistake on my part. In the opening more and no less than the epitome of a dis- scenes of Doug being belittled by his powersatisfied trophy wife, offering the same pithy cycling and go-getting wife, Kara (Michelle aphorisms about the life of a pretty blonde Monaghan), I couldn’t pass up a sarcastic, woman that we’ve heard a thousand times “Thank God his wife’s such a bitch or his over (“I hope she’ll be a fool. A beautiful infidelity won’t be so fucking sexy.” But in fool.”), and swirling around in an endless fact, it isn’t — it is nearly slapstick. It’s all wardrobe of semi-transparent white things flailing limbs and unlit cigarettes, sitcom (IS THIS HEAVY-HANDED SYMBOL- sound effects and bare dude butt. It’s probaISM HEAVY-HANDED ENOUGH?). It is bly my favorite choice of the entire film — in almost needless to say, but the two start an all, I’ve never thought that sexy sex scenes affair founded on Varney’s illegal and illicit served a real purpose other than rewarding combination of prescription pills, which they adult viewers for their “sophisticated” movie use to get high and have sex, to get high and choices. If two people are attracted to each win bike races, to get high and make plans to other, it’s easy to show that without showing kill off Elizabeth’s absentee husband (Ray them having sex. If two people are using each Liotta). other to get high and forget how terrible their

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lives are — that’s pathetic and cliché, and it’s damn fair that the sex looks like a stupid caricature too. That said, I doubt that the film’s misogyny represents any sort of well-intended social commentary — why should the tropes of bitch-wife and liberating mistress be the only ones that are intentional irony, amongst a baker’s dozen of other clichés that seem to be used in earnest?

For example, where is this hauntingly pristine Pleasantville town? It can be seen in Edward Scissorhands, The Truman Show, The Stepford Wives, The Virgin Suicides ... anything. And honestly, that’s being generous — the architecture of this small-town life is not even stylized ironically enough to distinguish it from the small town America of any uppermiddle-class comedy, in which that lifestyle is not being mocked, but rather, quite insidiously assumed as a communal jumping off point. There’s nothing in the cinematography to suggest that we are meant to find this suburbia confining or sinister in its perfection, and the only reason we do feel that is because Better Living leans on the audience’s classically conditioned expectations for a story like this — after Blue Velvet were we ever supposed to find Thornton Wilder’s pipe dreams charming again? The almostimaginative opening credits (a Richard Scarry version of the Beetlejuice diorama) are the only cue we’re expected to need to understand that the film is tongue-in-cheek, and that people content in middle America must be either heavily sedated, or on a crazy cocktail of uppers.

Of course, the movie is saved by Sam Rockwell — his deadpan humor is the only thing that the movie convincingly improves with drugs. His drug crazes produce a rash of ridiculous crimes of indecency — from enlisting his son to dress as a ninja and tear down the “Bishop’s” sign, to mixing up a cocktail of ’roids and oxycontin in order to end his wife’s six-year winning streak at the town’s bicycle race, to somewhat disturbingly seducing her in a black spandex wrestling outfit and like, reasserting his masculinity (it’s a stomach

churner). Anyway, the fact that it’s Rockwell means that these moments oozing with gross man-child self-indulgence still find a way to be funny and memorable. Mimicking his expert work in 2013’s The Way Way Back, Rockwell uses his oddball appeal and clipped delivery to make even the slam “cunt on wheels,” sound surprisingly hilarious.

However, heavy-hitter Ray Liotta is entirely underused — appearing significantly only once to serendipitously guilt-trip Varney in a bar and pay for his drinks to twist the knife. He’s a nice enough guy, we’re meant to understand, and Doug Varney has been plotting to ruin his life. But that’s not enough to make this a successful black comedy. Neither are the brief moments of panic when we think Varney may just get busted for his pillpopping. A real black comedy is black because it spirals out of control. Doug Varney’s spiral stops before it has the chance to hurt anyone — discounting his debatable negligence when it comes to the overdose of pharmacy delivery boy, Noah (Parks and Recreation’s Ben Schwartz) — and never creates that hilarious, dramatic irony gutwrench that comes when Heather Chandler takes her unwitting swig of Drano, when Jordan Belfort finally breaks a non-quaaluderelated sweat, or when Courtney Shayne opens her trunk at that fateful Waffle House.

There are hints at doom for Doug Varney, but that doom never comes, and furthermore, he has so little to lose that we don’t even worry. The cheap shot of teasing his arrest in front of his 12 year-old son was the closest I came for feeling empathy for a single character in this film, and even then I felt exploited and perturbed. Varney gets a happy ending, changes the sign on the pharmacy, gets rid of his nasty wife and even has one more run-in with Elizabeth, who has transitioned from Daisy to Sandy and is black-clad en route to Madrid.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com

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Need for Speed: The Fast and the Tedious

BY ZACH ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

Now, here is a video game movie. Typically, Hollywood buys the rights to a game like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for typical, Hollywood reasons: an exotic, albeit totally depoliticized, setting; a nifty time travel conceit; a male lead who can look good while swinging a sword. Need for Speed, a 20-year-old series of racing games, has no core locale, no human characters and no story. Back in fourth grade, I played Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 on GameCube because it had a McLaren F1 LM that went so fast I could lap the cops chasing me. That simple pleasure motivates this adaptation, a film so poorly written and devoid of any self-awareness that its fundamental, thematic emptiness makes it a fascinating text, as well as a superficially, stupidly enjoyable one.

As if to prove its commitment to The Real and the spirit of Americana, Need for Speed spends its first 30 minutes in Westchester County. Because when we think muscle cars and blue collar roots, we think Westchester and, to be specific, Mount Kisco. I have visited that town before and found it surprising how the production transformed a town of 10,000 into an urban center 20 times as large. Turns out it filmed those scenes in Columbus, Georgia. Why didn’t the movie just start there?

I am at a loss, and so is Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman, née Aaron Paul — here a mechanic named Tobey Marshall, who has spent his whole life in the town and never once boasts about a local restaurant or expresses any sense that he lives in an actual place that he either longs to break free from or hopes to never leave. The most he can summon is “Are you still allergic to Mount Kisco?” to an ex (Dakota Johnson) at a yellowtinted, Drive-esque drive-in theater. Even the thespian who could break down at the sight of a vial of ricin has little clue what to do with a line like that.

Tobey gets his diverse — sans Asian dude, unlike The Fast and the Furious movies — band of bros pumped for the initial conflict when he mutters, “I’m, uh ... behind ... on the loan.”

When Benny (Scott Mescudi, a.k.a. Kid Cudi) interjects about “last time,” Tobey, via the pen of screenwriter extraordinaire George Gatins, says, “This time is different,” and, “If you guys don’t show up tomorrow, we lose this place.” That place is an auto shop/man cave they run now that Tobey’s dad has passed, just before the movie starts so that his cause of death can remain perpetually and pointlessly cryptic. It takes another death — this time of Tobey’s closest friend, after

schoolyard bully-cum-racing millionaire Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper) bashes his fast car with his own fast car and instigates a fiery, though undeniably pretty slow-mo inferno — and the framing of Tobey, with Dino going scot-free, to set up the barest outline of a conflict: For Tobey to win the De Leon, a secret race of modified supercars, in order to, somehow, prove his innocence and reassert his masculinity in the process.

This may not be obvious so far, but every character in Need for Speed is a terrible human being. Dino Brewster kills people, sure, with his pride and fake

Need for Speed Directed by Scott Waugh Starring Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots

name and all. But the supposed good guys are sexist, unfunny idiots, too: Little Pete (Harrison Gilbertson) flirts with Tobey’s British love interest, Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots), with winning lines like, “I really like Piers Morgan.” The only discernible arc in Tobey’s character is in his eventual acceptance of Julia as an actual person, only after she drives well and helps him evade police custody. Meanwhile, violence against pedestrians or civilian cars is ignored or even glorified: When Pete hits a homeless man’s shopping cart during an earlier street race, he smiles and laughs as the man screams, “My house!” During every race, Tobey manages to cause at least a half-dozen car pileup by driving on the opposite side of the road and cutting off SUVs and even school buses.

Naturally, the film never indicts its characters’ behavior.

Whereas Transformers 2 can be easily lambasted for its offensive stereotyping, director Scott Waugh maintains a weird, remarkably open visual style that is either lazy assembly line craftsmanship or sly, subversive commentary. The host behind the De Leon game is none other than a nutty Michael Keaton, going by “The Monarch.” He spews pop philosophy into his

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microphone and webcam, like “Racing is art. Racing with passion — that’s high art.” Everyone in this film knows him and thus reveres him, and you wonder if his marked isolation, in a circular room with a long-suffering swivel chair, clues us into his questionable sanity. Is he any different from The Joker and his home videos in The Dark Knight? Through the grammar of film, he is not, or not by much.

Then there is Benny, who commandeers a news helicopter and eventually a U.S. Army helicopter for reconnaissance during Tobey’s cross-country trek. He could bring down the whole American military with his smile and gift of gab, which Waugh shows us whenever he can, whether on-screen or through isolated intercom. That all these dudes get away with their reckless, irresponsible behavior and never even reflect on their violence could be just brainless filmmaking, or perhaps a super-ironic treatment of machismo and other harmful byproducts from exclusively homosocial relationships. I mean, given that one of the last shots is Tobey looking up at white lighthouse, framed askew so it juts about 45 degrees across the screen, is it wrong to think a queer reading of this entire thing is in order? This is one of those films that is all surface, and inadvertently or not, the motivation behind such surface-level violence lies underneath it all, if you are willing to look. It’s fun, dumb and sexless enough that it already feels like a camp classic.

Zach Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

Don’t Shoot the Designer

F

ive months ago, Paris-based American designer Rick Owens added another experiment to his archive of edgy shows. By no means a straight-laced designer to begin with, Owens’ Spring/Summer 2014 collection was his most theatrical show yet, making the rebellion in his webbed facemasks pale in comparison. The show might even have topped his Mens’ Spring 2014 show from earlier in 2013, when he pulled in Estonian punk band Winny Puh and suspended a handful of his models from the ceiling by their ankles, while strapped down with banjos

and guitars. This past fall, he left his models’ feet on the ground but not quite the narrow catwalk.

As Owens was selecting models for his show, a former step-dancer from his design team helped him to recruit four female step teams from the U.S. and fly them to Paris for fashion week. The teams sported “grit faces,” as Owens termed the aggressive facial expressions, while performing their genre of percussion dance. Each team modeled their choreography to Owens’ show, and Owens tailored his minimalist black and white monochrome collection to plussize proportions for a show that SANTI SLADE / strayed in every aspect from the SUN STAFF typical aesthetic of Paris fashion ILLUSTRATOR week.

Owens is not the first designer to recruit models from beyond the ranks of the tall and slim like Karlie Kloss, and he’s not the first to give his show an element of performance. But despite years of rebellion by Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier, audiences were still shocked by his high-energy production and selection of models that diverge from the norms of fashion week, and even the average population.

Interviews with Owens make it explicitly clear that the designer intended to add a refreshing change of pace to the week and push against his sense of obligation to recruit from the typical pool of models — not to make a spectacle of the teams. Yet, he

challenging to combat but should not be ignored. However, I think that this negative and critical dialogue should not overshadow the creative substance of artists’ work. In their efforts to incorporate underrepresented people, they’re often breaking down social stigmas just by making it more common.

In the case of Rick Owens’ show, the controversial discussion of the modMadeline els’ savage faces has by no means Salinas drowned out praise for his unforgettable NICHOLAS PARISI /SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR collection. However, behavior. In interviews, Owens says that he this single aspect of their performance has liked their attitude but told the models only been a more prevalent point among writers to use the expressions if they felt comfort- than the dancers’ skill and impassioned performance. Why dwell negatively on the able doing it.

If artists like Owens, in their efforts to abnormal or racial distribution or size of his reach out to underrepresented groups, are models if it represents inclusion that we’re flagging themselves as targets to be overana- aiming for as a society? From the lens of a lyzed, I question if artists may be more hes- fashion photographer, Owens’ show pushed itant to integrate diversity into their art in the envelope, but to be honest, the contexthe future — either as a racial statement or tualization of his streamlined urban collecsimply a break from the norm. Moreover, tion complete with custom Adidas kicks Owens perfectly exemplifies the artist with could not have been more spot on. Yet, no intention of opening racial dialogue and instead of taking the opportunity to see inadvertently lays the ground for a long- how these models and their performance fit winded forum on discrimination. I don’t the scene, we focus on the mere details that mean to discount the importance of this make them appear out of place. type of dialogue or the freedom that anyone has to point out perceived racism, whether Madeline Salinas is a sophomore in the College of it is intended or not. In modern media, Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached racism is often unintentional, a product of at msalinas@cornellsun.com. Guest Room bias that is ingrained in our society — it is appears every Tuesday. hasn’t entirely quelled an influx of criticism of his show. Specifically, critics pointed to the angry, savage facial expressions the models used as a caricature of an angry black woman or bigoted profiling of primitive

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Kansas City Tops Texas in Monday Night Match-Up SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Mike Moustakas went three for three and Yordano Ventura struck out six in six dominant innings, helping the Kansas City Royals beat the Texas Rangers 6-0 on Monday night.

Moustakas, who leads the Cactus League with a .486 batting average and 15 RBIs, doubled home Alex Gordon in a three-run second inning.

“He’s just smoking the ball,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.

“He’s having a phenomenal spring.”

Ventura was consistently throwing 97-99 miles per hour and reaching 100 occasionally.

Yost announced after the game that the rookie right-hander had made Kansas City’s rotation for the regular season.

“It’s the obvious,” Yost said.

“We’ve been looking at all of our different scenarios. I think we’ve got a rotation now. He’s fit right into that No. 3 spot.

“We knew this was probably the way it was going to go. I think after tonight we’ve seen enough. After an outing like tonight, you kind of look foolish if you try to continue to hold your cards close to your chest.”

Ventura yielded four hits and walked none. In four exhibition games, Ventura has a 1.76 ERA, allowing 10 hits in 15 1-3 innings, striking out 15 and walking none.

“Electric stuff,” Rangers manager Ron Washington said.

“He was in the sixth inning still throwing 100. When he lets it go, it comes out hot.”

Matt Harrison, who was making his first Rangers start after being hampered by back and neck issues, gave up three runs, two earned, and three hits in 1 2-3 innings.

“I’ve definitely got some work to do,” Harrison said. “I knocked off some rust. The game kinda sped up on me. I fell behind some guys in the second inning. I’m glad to get through 35 pitches and feeling healthy.”

Starting Time

Rangers: Harrison, an 18game winner in 2012 who was limited to two starts last season because of injuries, faced 10 batters. He likely will begin the season on the disabled list as he increases his pitch count.

Royals: Ventura threw 48 strikes in 73 pitches.

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Contreras has pitched only 32 2-3 innings in the majors the past three years while battling injuries.

Tepesch Among Cuts

Nick Tepesch pitched his way into the Rangers’ rotation in spring training last year, and out of it this March.

Tepesch, who was in the mix for a rotation slot, was optioned Monday to Triple-A Round Rock as the club made 11 roster moves. Tepesch had an 11.25 ERA in three outings, allowing 19 hits in eight innings.

The Ranger also optioned right-handers Miles Mikolas and Cory Burns and infielder Andy Parrino to Round Rock.

They assigned right-hander Daniel Bard, infielder Kensuke Tanaka, catchers Patrick Cantwell and Brett Nicholas and outfielders Bryan Petersen and Brad Snyder to minor league camp.

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Rangers: Left fielder Mitch Moreland left in the third inning due to left oblique tightness.

Royals: Second baseman Omar Infante was a late scratch with a sore right elbow.

Shortstop Alcides Escobar is recovering from shoulder inflammation and will not play in a major league game before Saturday.

Yost said Escobar, who has played in only three games, is running “out of time” to be ready for the season opener.

Hanson Throws

Tommy Hanson, who remains a candidate for the Rangers’ rotation, threw 81 pitches in 4 2-3 innings in a minor league game Monday.

Hanson allowed three runs and six hits, including a homer, while walking two and striking out six against Tacoma, the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate.

Duffy to Bullpen?

Danny Duffy, who lost the final rotation vacancy to Ventura, will be considered for a bullpen spot. “We’re going to give him that opportunity.

Starting Wednesday he will pitch out the pen,” Yost said.

“We’ll go with our 12 best pitchers. He’s got competition from two or three others guys for that spot.”

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76ers Continue Giants Add Losing Streak Cornerback In Free Agency

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — After Philadelphia’s latest loss gave the 76ers their longest skid in franchise history, coach Brett Brown insisted he doesn’t dwell on the streak.

Lance Stephenson scored 25 points and the Indiana Pacers rallied from an early deficit to beat Philadelphia 99-90 on Monday night, handing the 76ers their 21st straight loss.

“It’s hard because of a competitive thing, but in relation to worrying about a record, we don’t live in that world,” Brown said. “I don’t bring that to that locker room once. I don’t mention it to them, I don’t think about it often — [but] you can’t help but be aware of it.”

Philadelphia eclipsed its previous mark of 20 straight losses during the 1972-73 season, when it finished 9-73. The Sixers tied the Detroit Pistons for the sixth-longest losing streak in NBA history.

The Pistons lost 21 straight bridging the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons.

The Cleveland Cavaliers set the NBA record for consecutive losses with 26, in the 2010-11 season.

“We move on. We’re on a different path right now,” Brown said. “We started this season with a plan, we took it to a whole other level to reconfirm our plan on trade deadline night.”

Paul George had 24 points for the Pacers, who staked the Sixers to a 15-6 lead before taking the lead and pulling away. George Hill scored 11 points, Ian Mahinmi had 10 and David West grabbed 12 rebounds.

Thaddeus Young had 23 points to lead the Sixers, who haven’t won since Jan. 29 at Boston.

Evan Turner, now with the Pacers, hit the gamewinning shot in that 95-94 win by Philadelphia.

Turner, traded to Indiana with Lavoy Allen on Feb. 20 for Danny Granger and a draft pick, had four points and seven rebounds against his former team on Monday.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants secondary has gotten a lot stronger in the past couple of days.

A year after missing the playoffs for the second straight season, the Giants continued to be a player in free agency, signing cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, formerly with Denver.

Terms of the contract were not immediately available.

The deal comes just a day after the Giants confirmed the signing of former Seahawks cornerback Walter Thurmond and Chiefs safety Quintin Demps.

Rodgers-Cromartie and Prince Amukamara are probably penciled in as the starters at cornerback, with Thurmond, Jayron Hosley and Trumaine McBride backing them up.

The safety spots will be just as strong with Antrel Rolle, Will Hill, Demps and Stevie Brown on the roster.

The Giants have been very active since free agency started last week.

They signed running back Rashad Jennings, guard Geoff Schwartz, resigned free agent middle linebacker Jon Beason and added former Ravens linebacker Jameel McClain. They also re-signed running back Peyton Hillis, placekicker Josh Brown, Stevie Brown, McBride and fullback Henry Hynoski.

“The main thing, bringing in guys

Oklahoma City Tops Chicago CHICAGO (AP) — Kevin of eight but finished with nine Durant finished with 35 points points, 12 rebounds and nine and 12 rebounds, and the assists.

Taj Gibson had 16 points and Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Chicago Bulls 97-85 on Monday seven rebounds. Jimmy Butler scored 13, and Carlos Boozer night.

Russell Westbrook added 17 chipped in with 12 points and 11 points after sitting out the previ- rebounds, but the Bulls came up ous day to rest his surgically short.

The Thunder were leading by repaired knee, and the Thunder rebounded from their most lop- nine early in the fourth when the Bulls scored eight straight points, sided loss of the season.

They went on a 13-point run Butler's breakaway dunk putting after the Bulls scored eight a charge in the crowd and backstraight early in the fourth to cut to-back baskets by Gibson cutting it to 76-75 with the lead to one about 10 minand pulled this Russell Westbrook added utes remaining. one out after The Thunder falling by 23 at 17 points after sitting out responded by home to Dallas the previous day to rest his scoring 13 on Sunday.

Durant ran surgically repaired knee. straight to put this one away. his streak of Derek Fisher games with 25 or more points to 32, the longest started the decisive rally with a 3in the NBA since Michael Jordan pointer. A layup by Serge Ibaka, did it in 40 in a row during the dunk by Durant, three free 1986-87 season. He also chipped throws by Caron Butler, a driving bank shot by Westbrook and a in with five assists.

Westbrook had nine rebounds free throw by the guard just over a and nine assists, although he did minute later made it 89-75 with struggle from the field. He was 5 3:45 remaining.

Westbrook was a bit out of of 14, and the Thunder got by despite shooting just 41.3 per- sync at times after sitting out Sunday’s game. cent.

Occasional rest is part of the The Bulls never found their rhythm, converting just 34.5 per- plan after he missed 27 games folcent, and settled for a six-game lowing his most recent surgery, split on a tough homestand that his third procedure since he included wins over defending injured the knee in the playoffs last April, and the Thunder are in champion Miami and Houston.

Joakim Noah, who’s been a busy stretch.

The games against Dallas and hearing “MVP!” chants lately, had a rather quiet night, although he Chicago were the first of three just missed his fourth triple-dou- back-to-backs on Oklahoma ble of the season. He shot just two City's schedule by March 25.

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Switching squads | Newly signed Giants cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, above, attempts to grab Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson during Super Bowl XLVIII.

from Kansas City, Seattle, you can see what they’re doing, trying to bring guys that are going to come in and lead by example,” said Rodgers-Cromartie, who started in the Super Bowl along with Thurmond. “That’s always a plus.”

“To be reuinted with [safety Antrel Rolle] is just a blessing.

I know the things that he’s done in his career and the man that he’s become. That’s going to be a help for me.”

Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie A 2008 first round-draft choice and 2009 Pro Bowler, Rodgers-Cromartie is entering his seventh NFL season. He has also been with Arizona and Philadelphia, playing with Rolle while with the Cardinals.

“He brought me in, took me under his wing and took care of me,” Cromartie Rodgers said of Rolle. “So to be reunited with him is just a blessing. I know the things that he’s done in his career and the man he’s become.

That’s going to be a help for me.”

Rodgers-Cromartie has played in 92 regular-season games with 75 starts and has started all nine postseason games in which he played. His career totals include 239 tackles (205 solo) and 19 interceptions.

Rodgers-Cromartie joined the Broncos last season as a free agent and played in 15 regular-season games with 13 starts at right cornerback. He finished the season with 31 tackles (25 solo), a team-high 15 passes defensed, and tied for the Broncos lead with three interceptions, including one of an Eli Manning pass late in the second quarter in Denver’s victory over the Giants at the Meadowlands on Sept.

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Red Ends Indoor Season Twelve Members of Olympic At NCAA Championships Team Return to Lake Placid to Embrace Previous Community TRACK AND FIELD Continued from page 16

was named Indoor Heps MVP on the field and finished 18th at the Shot Put Worlds in Poland. Mozia entered the NCAA finals in ninth place; in his fourth attempt, Mozia threw 20.06 meters, earning him second overall and first-team AllAmerican.

“I have been here a couple of times and its always a good competition,” Mozia said. “[I]t was very stressful, it didn’t start out too well, but I pulled through.”

All three Cornell athletes earned first-team All-American honors at the end of the meet, proving that the men’s Track and Field squad is a strong competitor, Blair said. “[W]e were the most efficient

team for achieving the AllAmericans status, with us going three for three,” Blair said. “In total, we scored 14 points for 14th nationally and it will only get better for the outdoor season.”

With the Indoor season officially at an end, the Red hope to begin the outdoor season with a high.

“Now it’s back to the drawing board and getting back to very rigorous training,” Hortelano said.

“My rivals will be working hard, but I will not let them work harder than me. If the team follows this mentality every day until the Outdoor HEPS, I have no doubt that we will win the conference title.”

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Hamilton Returns to Play As Angels Defeat Giants TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Josh been hampered by a sprained left Hamilton returned for Los calf muscle.

Hamilton started a three-run Angeles, and Kole Calhoun’s big swing lifted the Angels to the fourth inning against Tim Lincecum with a base hit. The desspring win.

Not a bad day at all for Mike ignated hitter also bounced into a force play in the first and lined to Scioscia’s club. right in the fifth.

Hamilton Hamilton had an infield “I got on base and tried to told reporters by single in his first spring game in steal and did the things I’m phone that he felt good after his the Angels’ 8-7 supposed to be doing.” first outing. victory over the “I got on base San Francisco Josh Hamilton and I tried to Giants on Monday. Calhoun belted a win- steal and did the things I’m supning two-run homer off Jean posed to be doing.” he said.

Hamilton took off from first Machi with one out in the ninth.

Hamilton went one for three on a 3-2 pitch to David Freese in for the split squad. The five-time the fourth, but Freese was hit by All-Star and 2010 AL MVP has the pitch.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Several thousand supporters braved single-digit temperatures in Lake Placid on Sunday night as the two-time Winter Olympic village welcomed back 12 members of the Sochi Olympic Team.

The group included four medal winners, led by super-G medalist Andrew silver Weibrecht. Against the backdrop of Mirror Lake and the Adirondack Mountains, the 28 year old skier thanked his community for spurring him on when injuries since his Olympic bronze medal in Vancouver painted a bleak picture.

“There were a lot of really tough times since then with injuries,” Weibrecht said. “It took all the support of an amazing community like Lake Placid to get me back to that level where I was able to represent everybody in the best way that I could. I am very fortunate to have all of you as my support system.”

The most emotional speaker of the night was three-time

Olympic bobsled medalist Steve Holcomb, who thanked Lake Placid for its influence on his career, one which includes a gold medal in Vancouver and two bronze medals in Sochi.

Other medalists included Steve Langton, who watched Holcomb's four man Bo-Dyn

“It took all the support of an amazing community like Lake Placid to get me back to that level.”

Andrew Weibrecht crew win gold four years ago, and then joined Holcomb in Sochi and collected two bronze medals as well. Holcomb and Langton were the sole Americans to leave Sochi with multiple medals.

Also present was Erin Hamlin, who won bronze last month to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic luge medal. Her achievement was also the first singles medal in team

history.

The medalists were joined by bobsledder Justin Olsen, and lugers Kate Hansen, Summer Britcher, Chriz Mazdzer, Tucker West, Aidan Kelly, Matt Mortensen and Jayson Terdiman.

Several thousand supporters braved single-digit temperatures in Lake Placid on Sunday night as the two-time Winter Olympic village welcomed back 12 members of the Sochi Olympic Team.

In that group were four medal winners, led by super-G silver medalist Andrew Weibrecht.

Against the backdrop of Mirror Lake and the Adirondack Mountains, the 28 year old thanked his community for spurring him on when injuries since his Olympic bronze medal in Vancouver painted a bleak picture.

The most emotional speaker of the night was three-time Olympic bobsled medalist Steve Holcomb, who thanked Lake Placid for its influence on his career.

Brandon Spikes Leaves Patriots, Joins Bills as Buffalo’s Latest Linebacker ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — After a falling out with the New England Patriots, linebacker Brandon Spikes is embracing his fresh start with the Buffalo Bills.

Spikes joined the Bills late Friday night on a one-year contract. The Bills have been active in free agency thus far, signing six free agents. The middle linebacker is

easily Buffalo’s most intriguing addition.

The 26-year-old Spikes is an aggressive, hard-hitting defender.

A second-round pick of the Patriots in 2010, Spikes started 39 of 53 games in New England, with 286 tackles and five forced fumbles. He was third on the Patriots in tackles in 2013 with 86.

“I was excited the whole time to get going with a new start in a new beginning in a new place,” Spikes said on a conference call Monday.

“I feel like it’s going to be fun and I’m down for a challenge. I want to help change the culture there.”

Spikes is known for the physical nature of his play.

“All the old-school, throwback ‘backers, I just molded my game after them and it just stuck with me this whole time,” Spikes said.

“I wouldn’t call it intimidating, I’m just playing and going hard and relentless and play every play like it's your last.”

The addition of Spikes is one of many moves the Bills hope will fix their porous run defense. With Spikes taking over middle linebacker duties, the Bills plan on moving young standout Kiko Alonso to the weak side after spending his rookie season in the middle. The Bills also signed former New York Giants linebacker Keith Rivers to a two-year contract on March 12.

The Bills finished 28th against the run in 2013, allowing an average of 128.9 yards per game.

“I actually think it was like seven games where they gave up 150 yards on the ground. I just want to come and help them out,” Spikes said. “That’s one of my strengths, stopping the run, and I feel like I can help. Whatever they need me to do, I’m willing to do and do it at a high level.”

Spikes joins a defense that has its fourth coordinator in four seasons. Former Detroit head coach Jim Schwartz is installing a base 43 following the departure of Mike Pettine, who left Buffalo after one year to become head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

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Gymnasts Vault to Victory Over West Chester

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

Teagle Gymnasium was a full of life on Saturday afternoon as the gymnastic seniors competed for the last time in their Cornell Red. Thanks to a great effort from the senior class, the Red was able to overtake West Chester with a comfortable margin of victory. The Red scored a 191.825 to the Rams’ 189.325.

Captain Elise Kerner said she was proud of her classmates and her team, which again scored over its average meet total.

“All the seniors hit their routines, which was a great way to send them off,” Kerner said.

The Red began the final meet in Ithaca on the vault. Sophomore Sara Schupp continued to be a consistent performer in the vault lineup, finishing in second place with a 9.675. A trio of Cornell gymnasts tied for the third place, each scoring a 9.600.

Seniors Melanie Jorgensen and Lexi Schupp were joined by freshman Alexandria Bourgeois in the tie for third place.

The vault lineup approached the event confidently and had consistent performances, although scoring less than the usual total. On her final bar routine in Teagle Gymnasium, Melanie Jorgensen hit an excellent routine and won the bar

event. Her score of 9.800 edged out the second place finisher from West Chester.

Seniors Nikki Shofner and Elise Kerner were the next best finishers for the Red, tying for fourth with scores of 9.675.

Jorgensen continued her fine performance on the beam and scored the highest for the Red in the event. Jorgensen earned a 9.600 and a second place finish, but was a full point behind West Chester’s Majesta Valentine, who scored a 9.700 and won the event. Freshman Krystin Chiellini scored a 9.500 for her routine, which was good for fourth place.

The final rotation found the Red and West Chester in a tight battle. The senior class, however, ensured that the Red would be victorious in their final meet.

Schupp nailed her floor routine for a 9.800, and won the floor event for the Red. Jorgensen had another well-executed routine that nearly saw her win her second event of the day. Jorgensen’s 9.725 was just shy of her teammate Schupp’s first place score. Freshman Elana Molotsky ensured the Red’s victory when she scored a 9.700.

With three Cornell gymnasts finishing with the top three scores, the Red had earned a big victory over their opponents.

Kerner said she was happy with the team’s performance in front of the home crowd.

“I think the meet went very well, we

RYAN LANDAVTER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior strength | The contest against West Chester, in which the Red beat the Rams by more than two points, doubled as the Red’s senior meet.

were all very excited for our last home meet and Teagle Gymnasium was the most crowded it had been all season,” she said.

With another score higher than the season average, the Red moved up another spot in the USAG Collegiate National qualifying, which gives the team a good

chance to compete in Nationals. The Red will next compete at the ECAC Championships next week at Temple University.

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

Red Will Face Top-Seeded Union Irsay’s Problems Not After Topping Clarkson in Three Games A Reflection of NFL, weekend.

“He had a great series and he was so composed in net and just played team. That’s really their sixth game in with a big chest and positionally he was so sound,” Iles said. “He laid it on [10] days.”

If the Golden Knights had tired the line for that team as a freshman, legs, they were not showing them and it was impressive.”

The Red offense was soon dealt early. Clarkson came out strong on offense, pressuring Iles throughout another setback — an injury to Ferlin the first period. One of those pressure left most of the rink holding its opportunities generated perhaps the breath.

“I thought I went head first into most important play in regulation.

About thirteen minutes in, the the boards — I can tell you just from Knights attacked from the left end feeling it,” said Ferlin, who was down with a shot that deflected off Iles and on the ice for about a minute. “I left a wide-open Clarkson forward, wanted to come back out there.”

The team’s goal leader with 13 had freshman Troy Josephs, in front of the net. The ensuing tenths-of-seconds to first be medically cleared, but he featured a chaotic deflection or whiff came back with something extra.

“They had a couple guys on their from Josephs and a diving junior forward Cole Bardreau, flying in from team deking me a little for staying on out-of-nowhere to barricade the puck. the ice,” Ferlin said, “so I wanted to put the puck in Cornell conthe net after that tinued to escape “They had a couple guys on for sure. It gave close calls on its end, with a their team deking me a little for me a little fire.”

The third p o t e n t i a l staying on the ice, so I wanted to period chaotically Clarkson goal late in the sec- put the puck in the net after that ticked away as both teams readond period that for sure. It gave me a little fire.” ied for the called-off folunavoidable: 20 lowing review Brian Ferlin minutes of sudand another den-death hockwhistled off midway through the third. It was the ey. Twelve and a half minutes into the first night in a long time that the extra frame, it was finally Ferlin’s time Lynah crowd cheered the officials for a breakthrough.

“I was trying to screen the goalie, when they entered the ice between and then I kind of felt that there was periods.

“As a goalie you usually have a no one on me,” Ferlin said. “I think pretty good idea,” Iles said of the sec- [freshman defenseman Clint Lewis], ond period review. “I got up off that ... who passed me the puck, ... saw an puck and the puck had never crossed opening and I just made a move with my forehand and just tried to bury the goal line even when I got up.”

Meanwhile, on the other end, it.”

Lewis, taking a dump-off from junior forward Brian Ferlin nearly single-handedly put the Red ahead with junior defenseman Joakim Ryan about two minutes remaining in the down the left side, delivered a pinsecond period but was repeatedly point pass through the legs of a denied by freshman goalie Steve Perry, Clarkson defender to Ferlin. The big who gave the Cornell forwards fits all 6’2’’, 217-pound forward took care of MEN’S ICE HOCKEY Continued from page 16

the rest, jamming his stick into Perry, the puck slowly but surely trickling out the back of goalie’s legs and into the open net as Lynah erupted.

“I was trying to get it up a little higher than that — I don’t know where it snuck in at — but I thought I was due,” Ferlin said. “I felt like it was coming.”

A year after falling to eventual national runners-up Quinnipiac in the ECAC quarterfinals, the Red celebrated at center ice, finally redeemed and keeping a small Schafer tradition intact along the way.

“I’ve read the stats somewhere,” Schafer said, “that I’ve never had a team ... not have a shutout in a year, and [Iles] gets the last one of his last game ever at Lynah Rink. Talk about two different weekends — overtime winner in your senior night [against Harvard] and [an] overtime [victory] in your last game ever to be at Lynah — that’s pretty special for this group of kids.”

The shutout makes it nineteen seasons in a row for Schafer, and credit the last four to none other than the man in front of the net who isn’t quite ready to reflect on hockey his days on the hill yet.

“It’s special,” Iles said “I absolutely love this place, but honestly I haven’t even processed it yet. That was an amazing win with every guy in that locker room and that’s what we’re enjoying right now and that’s what I’m going to enjoy. And once the season winds down — hopefully we’ve accomplished our end-all goal — that’s kind of something where I’ll be able to sit down and reflect a little bit.

As far as the emotions being in there I’m on cloud nine. I’m excited for next weekend already ... It is something that I’ve enjoyed every second of.”

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

But of Disease Struggles SHATZMAN

was in need of help and appeared to be struggling with addiction — a legitia drug and over time the mate illness. When a profesdrug becomes a part of the sional athlete or franchise person’s life — something executive is stricken with that the person cannot live any illness or disease — without. Addiction is often whether it be mental illness the result of human action. or cancer — people do not Cancer, on the other hand, worry about its affect on the strikes at random and is NFL as a “brand.” Sure, any generally not a result of arrest is not going to make human action. It, too, has those indifferent to the NFL no boundaries. But while suddenly become fans of the addiction league, but can be In the case of Jim Irsay, an arrest caused by a will not poor deci- the NFL as a “brand” send the sion, it is should be the least of NFL into key to bankruptcy. remember the concerns.

In the that addiccase of Jim tion is still a serious illness. Irsay, the NFL as a “brand” When someone is fighting should be the least of the to survive, it is trivial concerns. Irsay himself, whether the person’s actions rather, and his family and originally sparked the prob- those who know him on a lem. personal level, are the ones Earlier today on ESPN, to empathize with. Let’s disHerm Edwards noted that regard the NFL’s reputation Irsay’s arrest is bad for the for a second. The National NFL as a “brand.” He said Football League has surthat when a notable NFL vived the OJ Simpson trial, owner gets arrested, it dam- Rae Carruth’s murder, ages the NFL’s reputation. Plaxico Burress’ fiascso and Maybe Herm is right. But I Aaron Herndandez’ alleged highly doubt that people murder(s). The league will who looked into Irsay’s be just fine after Jim Irsay’s arrest immediately denigrat- arrest — one that NFL fans ed the NFL as a “brand.” If hope will mark the end of some people did, I can his struggle with addiction, assure you that Jim Irsay’s and the beginning of a fresh, arrest did not cause anyone drug-free life for the longto say, “Hey, I don’t think I time Colts’ owner. want to watch the NFL ever again.” That would be Ben Shatzman can be reached ridiculous. And that is when at failing to consider that Irsay bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

ICERS ADVANCE AFTER DRAMATIC LYNAH FINALE

By CHRIS MILLS

“Being able to play in games like that, that’s what you work all year for,” Iles said just minutes after walking off center ice for With a 360-spin and a euphoric smile at the final time. “That’s what you dream of — center ice, senior goaltender Andy Iles gave that’s what gets you out of the bed in the his final Lynah salute, followed by a lap and morning. We were all ... excited and driven a kiss of the logo before making his way, tun- and on a mission when we arrived at the rink nel-bound, toward the celebration in locker this morning. And you know what, we exeroom. And as the buzzing students, alumni cuted and it paid off.” and pep band departed from the stands — The Red entered the night knowing that seemingly in slow motion — it felt as if a loss might mark the end of an otherwiseeverything had come to perfect completion. promising 2013-14 campaign. The ECAC’s Cornell’s homefourth seed had town boy and allclawed all year to CLARKSON @ CORNELL time saves leader secure a first0 1 had delivered one round bye in the last masterpiece 12-team confer2ND 3RD OT Game: 1ST for the Faithful, ence tournament, 0 0 0 Clarkson 0 0 0 1 Cornell 0 his defense had and fifth-seeded come together for Clarkson showed their first shutout of the season and, battling just how competitive conference play can be injury, the team’s goal leader provided anoth- with a dominating 4-1 victory Saturday er strike when it mattered most. night after Cornell took the series opener, 2But it’s not over yet.

1, on Friday.

Facing a do-or-die game three Sunday “I thought our team was in pretty good night in overtime, No. 13 Cornell (17-9-5, shape,” said Schafer ’86, who was engaged in 11-7-4 ECAC) edged Clarkson (21-17-4, a chess match all weekend with former team 11-9-2), 1-0, to strengthen the Red’s NCAA associate and current Clarkson head coach Tournament chances and send Head Coach Casey Jones ’90. “I was amazed at their Mike Schafer’s squad to Lake Placid for the See MEN’S ICE HOCKEY page 15 ECAC semifinals against No. 2 Union.

Sun Staff Writer

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Irsay and Addiction

ndianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was arrested early Monday morning and charged with a DUI, along with four felony counts of possession. Those close with the 54-year-old father of three called Irsay’s arrest “inevitable.” Columnist Bob Kravitz noted earlier Monday that Irsay has

Ben Shatzman Guest Column been in “desperate” need of help and that he has been “fighting for his life.”

More facts will certainly be revealed as the investigation continues, but it seems fair to conclude that Jim Irsay is one of the millions of people worldwide who struggle with addiction — an illness that, if not properly treated, can catalyze any life into a downward spiral. Earlier this year, Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, one of the most revered actors of the century, was found dead with a syringe in his arm. His death served as a wake-up call to the harsh realities of addiction: it has no boundaries — anyone is vulnerable, even Phillip Seymour-Hoffman and even billionaire franchise owner Jim Irsay.

Addiction seems to be held in a different light compared to other illnesses. In some respects, it is different. Most cases of addiction begin when a person experiments with See SHATZMAN page 15

“Being able to play in games like that, that’s what you work all year for. That’s what you dream of — that’s what gets you out of the bed in the morning.”

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Andy Iles

One for the win | Junior forward Brian Ferlin scored the overtime game winner for the Red in the nail-biting third game.

TRACK AND FIELD

Red Nabs Honors at NCAA Championships Team places 14th with strong finishes from three Red representatives

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

The men’s track and field team sent three of its members to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Senior Bruno Hortelano-Roig ran for the Red on the track, while senior Montez Blair and junior Stephen Mozia acted as Cornell’s field representatives. All three competitors ended the championship earning first-team AllAmerican honors, as they led No. 19 Cornell to a 14th place finish.

The first competitor for the men was Hortelano-Roig, whose season high points included breaking the Spanish National record and being named Indoor Heps Track MVP. He competed for the Red in the 200m. In his preliminary run, Hortelano ran 20.77, setting a new Ivy and school record while qualifying for the next round. In the finals, he broke his newly set record, clocking in at 20.75, finishing in eighth place, earning him a first-team All-American title.

Hortelano said he was excited about his performance at the tournament.

“I’m very satisfied with being named First Team All-American at my first individual NCAA showing,” Hortelano said. “I was confident going into the championship and I knew it was well within my capacity to qualify for a national final. At the end of the day, it was a great learning experience that feeds my thirst for even greater success at the NCAA Outdoor National Championships.”

Cornell’s impressive showing continued on the field with Blair. His final indoor season with the Red included a championship win at the Indoor Heps and ranking as high as

“This should prove to the track and field world that Cornell should be on everyone’s radar.”

Montez Blair No. 2 in the NCAA. Blair finished the meet in fourth place, earning him a first-team AllAmerican honor, with his jump of 7’ 3.75’’.

Blair reflected on his last Cornell indoor performance, noting that the Red’s showing proves Cornell’s strength in the sport.

“Competing on this level is always an exciting roller coaster-like experience,” Blair said. “I’m happy with my performance. I do wish I would have done better and was hoping to PR, but I believe that myself and my team had a good showing. This should prove to the track and field world that Cornell should be on everyone's radar.”

The last competitor for the Red was Mozia on the shot put. In Mozia’s record-shattering season, he earned a Nigerian National record in shot put, See TRACK AND FIELD page 14

SIMI OBATUSIN / SUN STAFF CONTRIBUTOR

Three for three | Senior Montez Blair, senior Bruno Hortelano-Roig and junior Stephen Mozia each earned first team All-American honors at the meet.