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Inaugural Tech Campus Class Settles Into Semester Two months in,beta students take learning outside the classroom with projects,workshops

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Huttenlocher said. “It’s an on-campus experience with a company,” In their proposal, companies said Two months into their first semester what they thought the final outcome of at Cornell NYC Tech, the eight gradu- the project would be, as well as how the ate students in the school’s beta class creation of intellectual property will be have been getting a taste of what life in handled. the entrepreneurial world is like Most of the companies working with through working on industry projects students are either those that were and participating in informative work- involved in the process Cornell worked shops. on to earn the right to build the campus Students chose entrepreneurial pro- in New York City or those that have had jects — which close working were proposed “We’re using the companies to relations with by companies Huttenlocher or that students bring the real world nature of the Greg Pass, chief will work with entrepreneurial problems to the table.” throughout the officer of the Dean Daniel Huttenlocher semester — to tech campus, work on just Huttenlocher days after the said. tech campus’ first classes began in late He added that, in the future, a more January, according to tech campus Dean systematic approach for how companies Daniel Huttenlocher. can propose ideas for students to work Companies proposed one or two on will be established. projects that students would be able to In addition to having a traditional work on, Huttenlocher said. There were faculty advisor, each student enrolled in approximately 30 projects proposed, the Master of Engineering Program in according to Cathy Dove, vice president Computer Science also has a mentor of the tech campus. Students’ projects from the tech industry, Huttenlocher will be revealed at the conclusion of the said. semester.

“I think it’s great for the companies “The idea of this structure is that and for the students to have this kind of we’re using the companies to bring the engagement,” he said. real world nature of the problems to the Students have also been exposed to table, but we’re having this done in the the entrepeneureal aspect of their curUniversity context where we still know how to guide the students,” See TECH page 4

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News Going Green and Gold

The University has recieved it’s second consecutive Gold STARS rating, distinguishing it as one of the most sustainable Universities in the nation. | Page 3

Opinion I’ve Got Your Back

Dan Rosen ’13 defends the University’s convocation speaker and Slope Day performer. | Page 7

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Tech savvy | Google’s headquarters, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, provide a temporary home for the tech campus.

Top officials say they plan to ‘prioritize quality over everything else’in development of school

By SUN NEWS STAFF

The Sun met with Cornell NYC Tech Dean Daniel Huttenlocher and Vice President Cathy Dove during their visit to the Ithaca campus in March. The administrators discussed the future of the tech campus and its sustainability.

THE SUN: Has there been any progress made toward the creation of any of the next degree programs at the tech campus?

DANIEL HUTTENLOCHER: In terms of programs, there is one overriding guiding principle for us, both with faculty hiring and with launching with programs —

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

Following violations of state sanitation codes in February, two Statler Hotel eateries — Taverna Banfi and Terrace Dining Hall —

have taken steps to improve their sanitation policies, said Thomas Gisler, executive chef of the Statler Hotel.

Banfi was cited by the Tompkins County Health Department for storing toxic chemicals in a way that increased the potential for the

Sweet sweet love

Arts Katelyn Ridgeway ’13 emphasizes the importance of comfort in her clothing collection set to be showed in this April’s Cornell Fashion Collective. | Page 10

Sports Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Later this week, the Cornell women’s rowing team will compete at the Ithaca Invitational, its first race of this season. | Page 20

Wintery Mix HIGH: 37 LOW: 28

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After Sanitary Violations, Statler Eateries Make Changes

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and frankly with student recruiting also — which is to prioritize quality over everything else. … Rather than committing to particular time schedules, we’re focused on committing to HUTTENLOCHER excellence. That said, we want to move as quickly as we can without compromising quality … So

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North Star dining offers a gourmet cupcake dsiplay for students in Appel Dining Hall on Tuesday evening.

contamination of food. Terrace was cited for storing potentially hazardous foods above 45 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the citation.

Richard Adie, general manager of the Statler Hotel, said the official violation citations were less serious than they appeared to be.

“The violation made it sound like toxic deadly chemicals were on the food preparation line,” Adie said. “[In reality,] they found a can of Lysol spray in a room service storage area. It inadvertently got there and was immediately removed. It should not have been placed there; we were in violation [of the rules].”

Adie said that at Terrace Dining, two cheeses were stored at 48 and 51 degrees F, when they must be kept at 45 degrees or below. When brought to the staff’s attention during the inspection, the cheese was immediately cooled to resolve the issue, Adie said.

Gisler said the reason the cheese had a temperature above the regulation level was because it was at a higher temperature when it was delivered to the restaurant. He added that Terrace has implemented new changes in response to the citations, such as taking temperatures on the loading dock and storing cheese in a metal container that better holds the temperature below 45 degrees.

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Umpteen speedy televisions perused two sheep, then umpteen tickets towed Jupiter, and Dan untangles five progressive orifices. Umpteen quixotic aardvarks annoyingly bought two Macintoshes. Umpteen bureaux tickled two extremely putrid botulisms. Paul sacrificed one lampstand, then Jupiter marries the very quixotic pawnbroker. Five purple poisons laughed, yet umpteen chrysanthemums kisses five aardvarks. Batman noisily untangles one Jabberwocky. Two Macintoshes laughed, then one extremely schizophrenic Jabberwocky drunkenly untangles two sheep, however Quark telephoned umpteen obese Jabberwockies. Five irascible botulisms slightly lamely auctioned off the subway, and five chrysanthemums easily untangles one mostly speedy Klingon. Five dogs drunkenly perused Minnesota, however the mats ran away cleverly, although one partly progressive subway quite comfortably sacrificed

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Operation Should Reduce Texas Tiger’s Arthritic Pain WYLIE, Texas (AP) — A vet hopes groundbreaking surgery has relieved the arthritic hip pain of a 13year-old Siberian tiger at a Texas sanctuary.

Tacoma is one of the 66 big cats at the In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue and Education Center in suburban Dallas.

President Vicky Keahey says Tacoma has suffered from hip dysplasia for two years. The pain started to affect him four months ago when he stopped exercising and his hind leg muscles began to wither. All he did was sleep.

Dr. Toby Willis operated on Tacoma last week, cutting the nerves that carry pain impulses from his hip to his brain. Willis says the procedure, which has never before been performed in the U.S., should ensure the aging cat has less pain.

American Sign Language Sign Choir Learning Series 5 - 6 p.m., 340 Duffield Hall

Medical Marijuana Facility Partners With Rapper

“Literary Gimmicks” The Gellman Lecture presented by Sianne Ngai 4:30 p.m., Goldwin Smith Hall

OTISVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan medical marijuana facility is partnering with a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to cultivate and distribute a new strain of medical marijuana.

The Green Oasis and Stanley “Flesh-N-Bone” Howse have agreed to work together on “Phifty Caliber Kush,” which they say has a noticeable floral taste and is an effec-

C.U. Music: Senior Horn Recital 8 p.m. - 9:15 p.m., 129 Barnes Hall

tive pain reliever.

The Flint-area dispensary’s owner, Anthony Butler, calls the new pot strain “the best of the best.”

Flesh-n-Bone Global executive Michael “Tony B.” Bernardi tells The Flint Journal that Howse hopes the product can provide relief for any qualified, verified patient.

Michigan voters approved marijuana for some chronic medical conditions in 2008.

Vatican’s Communications Site Runs Batman Story VATICAN CITY (AP) — One of the Vatican’s main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the headline “Holy Switcheroo!” — raising concerns they might have been hacked.

But two Vatican officials said the site hadn’t been hacked, and that the reason for the unusual posting was an “internal system failure” due to a non-native English speaker posting the story on the website.

The story was from the Catholic News Service. It has as its headline: “Holy Switcheroo! Batman has grown bitter, more vengeful with the years” and details the evolution of the Batman comic franchise “Admittedly some people might have been thrown off by the headline,” said Greg Burke, a Vatican communications adviser. Once a story is posted, he explained, it generates an automatic tweet on the office’s Twitter handle.

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University Receives Second Gold Sustainability Rating

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Contributor

The University was awarded its second gold Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System score — a title designating it one of the most sustainable campuses in the nation — March 8.

STARS is a voluntary, self-reporting system that measures the sustainability performance of colleges and universities.

Dan Roth, associate director for campus sustainability, said the rating is calculated using the institution’s assessment in three categories: Education and Research, Operations and Planning and Administration and Engagement.

The University’s score rose since last year’s STARS assessment, according to Roth.

Careen Arsenault, sustainability administrator for the Campus Sustainability Office, emphasized that the rating is intended to help spread information about sustainability at different colleges.

“STARS is considered to be a rating and not a ranking, focused on sharing sustainability performance information among other colleges, universities and with the general public,” Arsenault said.

One factor that contributed to the increase in the University’s points within the education and research category was the official implementation of the EcoRep Program this year, according to

Arsenault. The program appoints student “EcoReps” who educate their peers on ways to live more sustainably through information sessions and other programming, according to EcoRep’s website.

Since 2010, the University has also reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by seven percent in a continued effort to become climate neutral by 2050, according to Arsenault.

The University has also increased participation in employee sustainability education programs and bolstered student involvement in community service, Arsenault said.

Kyu-Jung Whang, vice president of Facility Services, said the STARS rating exemplified Cornell’s dedication to sustainability.

“I think [the gold rating] says a lot about the level of commitment that Cornell has towards sustainability given these tough economic times,” Whang said. “A lot of things have been put on hold, but we’ve still been able to attain a higher score because of the amount of energy conservation that we’ve been doing on campus.”

Representatives of the Campus Sustainability Office said they plan to improve the school’s STARS rating in the future as well.

“We will continue to make improvements in water and energy conservation efforts across campus, green operations and maintenance of our buildings, increased educational opportunities and

Bubblin’

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Prof. James Bird, mechanical engineering, Boston University, lectures on the fluid dynamics of drops and bubbles Tuesday.

research efforts and engagement of our campus community in sustainable behaviors,” Roth said.

Over the past two years, the STARS initiative has rated 243 institutions. Of these institutions, none have received the platinum rating — the highest possible rating — and only 45 have achieved the gold rating. The rest have attained silver, bronze or reporter ratings, according to STARS’ website.

“The next level that Cornell is striving for is platinum, where a minimum score of 85 [points] is required,” Roth said.

Roth and Whang said they hope the University will eventually achieve a Platinum rating.

“We are still striving for platinum, and we will continue to do everything we can do to be one of the first schools to get to platinum,” Whang said. “We still have a ways to go, and the gap is still relatively wide, so we will have to work really hard to get to platinum.”

Ashley Chu can be reached at ayc37@cornell.edu.

New Plan Sets ‘Strong Forward Direction’ for Graduate Community

By NIKKI LEE Sun Staff Writer

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly approved the graduate and professional community initiative — a plan detailing projects to benefit the graduate and professional student community — Monday. The plan targets frequent graduate student concerns including housing, advisors and community.

According to GPSA Vice President Nicole Baran grad, the document is an update of the 2007 GCI, which was described as a “needs assessment” for the Graduate School. The initiative is a strategic plan, whereas the 2007 document was “more of a vision statement,” she said. “[The initiative] both summarizes the needs of our community and makes specific recommendations for what can be done to improve graduate and

professional student life,” Baran said.

The initiative includes eight sections ranging from career resources and mental health to family services and transportation. GPSA President Mitch Paine grad said GPSA representatives endeavored to put the document together in a “collaborative, comprehensive and strategic way.”

“I would bet that those students who do take the time to read the document will find that we actually have captured their experience — their struggles with their adviser, anxiety about finding a job after graduation [and] challenges finding an apartment in Ithaca,” Baran said.

Paine said one objective of the initiative is to work toward a partnership with the Student Assembly to push the University to allocate more funds to the Off-Campus Housing Office

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Resolution | Graduate and Professional Student Assembly members present a new strategic plan for the community at a meeting Monday.

and help graduate students find housing.

As for on-campus housing, the initiative calls for changes to the two main graduate housing options, Maplewood Park and Hasbrouck Apartments, in response to concerns about room allocation and the cost of parking for residents, Paine said.

One particular objective of the initiative, converting the food service area in the Big Red Barn to a coffee shop, aims to create a more interactive and comfortable atmosphere for graduate students to gather, according to the document.

Max Spector grad said this would be a welcome addition to the Big Red Barn’s International Coffee Hour event on Thursdays. In addition, he said the cafe environment itself presents a comfortable alternative to his department’s facilities. “[Having a coffee shop] would be nice, since, [as a computer science major] there are few places to collaborate in the computer science buildings,” Spector said.

According to Baran, one of the biggest challenges throughout the process of revising and reworking the 2007 document to better fit the current needs of graduate students was “[learning] how to listen to student input and translate that experience into specific actionable recommendations.”

The GPSA will spend the upcoming months distributing the document to the community and discussing the specific recommendations contained within the initiative with administrators. On April 8, the

initiative will introduce a resolution to form a GPCI Working Group, a sub-committee consisting of relevant administrators and students who will implement the initiative.

“My goal is to distribute the document as far and as wide as possible,” Paine said. “I want every dean to have seen it, every director of graduate study and all members of the administration who work with graduate and professional students to have the [initiative].”

Both Baran and Paine said they expect the initiative to be well-received by the administration, and they hope that members of the graduate and professional student community also take time to read the document.

“If the administration uses the document to improve the graduate and professional student experience, then we have done our job,” Baran said.

Administrators also expressed optimism about the plan.

“The GPSA leadership has spent quite a bit of time consulting with administrators, and as a result, it is both visionary, while at the same time, its goals are arguably realistic,” said Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’67.

Susan Murphy, vice president of Student and Academic Services, said, however, that the plan will encounter economic constraints.

“It is an ambitious agenda in a time when our resources, especially financial resources, are very constrained. Nevertheless, I look forward to working with the GPSA to support their work on the goals that fall within

their purview and to consider carefully the requests of the administration,” Murphy said.

“It sets forth a strong forward direction.”

Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun.com.

Drug Possession In Residential Facility

An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator on St. Patrick’s Day for unlawful possession of marijuana on Forest Park Lane, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

Grocery Store Theft

An officer was dispatched to a P&C Fresh Thursday in response to a report involving two unknown individuals stealing groceries. The complaint is still under investigation, according to CUPD. Harassment Reported on Campus

A student reported being harassed over the phone from a known individual Friday, according to CUPD. — Compiled by Tyler Alicea ’16

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Students Unconcerned by Statler Violations Tech Officials STATLER

high-risk facilities, adding that, generally, Cornell eateries have high quality preparation methods.

“Cornell seems to do a really good job in training peoAdie said the Statler appreciated the health department ple and keeping them standardized,” Chase said. inspections, which are randomly conducted. The inspecBoth Gisler and Adie expressed disappointment over tions, he said, help maintain food safety in the Statler’s the recent violations, saying they always hope to achieve dining establishments. high quality in their eating establishments.

“We look forward to these health inspections because Gisler also posted an article from the Ithaca Journal citwe learn from [them]. [They] keep us on our toes,” Adie ing the violations on a bulletin board in the main kitchen said. of the Statler as a way to encourage staff to maintain safeAfter the violations, he said, the facilities were re- ty. inspected two weeks later and were cleared. Adie said the Gisler said both Banfi and Terrace take extensive preStatler uses the Hazardous cautions to ensure food safety, saying that, for Analytical Critical Control example, “even if the pizza is kept at 140 degrees, Points, a system of safety “We [couldn’t] live with our- we discard it every 45 minutes for quality and principles that help prevent selves if we knew we were safety.” foodborne illness.

Adie added that the Statler establishments Banfi and Terrace are clas- doing something that would were also inspected Tuesday by a private compasified as high-risk facilities make the public sick.” ny. He explained that the Statler uses this combecause both conduct full pany to maintain standards, saying the inspecmenu preparation; as a result, Richard Adie tion is very rigorous and supplements the they are inspected twice a Tompkins County inspection. This company visyear, according to Carol its four times per year.

Chase, senior public health sanitarian for the Adie said the precautions were taken in the interest of Environmental Health Division of the County’s Health safety, as “we [couldn’t] live with ourselves if we knew we Department. Factors that are considered during inspec- were doing something that would make the public sick.” tions include the “temperature of food, the way it is Some students who frequent Terrace Dining did not processed [and] the way it is cooled and reheated,” she seem concerned about the violations. said.

“My mom owns a restaurant and temperature is a big Chase said Banfi and Terrace have both violated sanita- thing, but three degrees isn’t a big deal,” Sarah King ’15 tion codes in previous years. said.

“They’ve had some improper cooling issues and bare Another student echoed King’s sentiments. hand contact with food over the last five years,” Chase “Honestly, I don’t think I would change my habits,” said. She said that most of the issues arose from errors in Michelle Wan ’16 said. the production process that the inspections helped to correct.

Chase said minor violations like these are common in Erica Augenstein can be reached at eaugenstein@cornellsun.com.

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riculum through talks with various industry members. Rather than having a traditional week of classes, the tech campus’ curriculum has been condensed into four days — lasting Monday through Thursday — with Friday being a practicum day, according to Huttenlocher.

Dove described the practicums as “fabulous” and said they were giving students “amazing interactions.”

Each of the workshops is lead by a person or group from the tech industry and lasts about two to four hours, according to Huttenlocher.

Some of the speakers have included members from the design firm IDEO, attorneys who discussed intellectual property protection and a panel of early stage entrepreneurs. “[The practicums] tend to be things where people are sharing experiences or spending a couple of hours in a workshop teaching some specific skills,” Huttenlocher said. “Those have been going great.”

Various organizations have also been understanding and helpful to the tech campus’ cause, Huttenlocher said.

In late February, a $2.5-million graduate fellowship was established by James and Marilyn Simons, the founders of the Simons Foundation, to provide financial assistance for students at the tech campus.

Currently, about two dozen industry partners have been working with the tech campus through the student projects and practicums, according to Huttenlocher.

Dove also said Google — the host of the campus’ current home in Manhattan — has been incredibly supportive of the school.

“Google has been amazing, and that really reflects on how important they think this initiative is,” she said.

In addition, Dove said in a statement to the Roosevelt Island community that students have already forged connections with industry partners.

“It’s been an exciting and rewarding couple of months as both the students and faculty jumped right into exploring the new academic model that we’re introducing at Cornell Tech,” she said in the statement.

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com.

Service of Memorial for

Joseph Quandt ’15 AAP Wednesday, March 27th 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Anabel Taylor Hall Chapel Reception to follow

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Officials: Tech Campus Prioritizes Sustainability Cornell NYC Tech has ‘significant aspirations’ to have net-zero building TRANSCRIPT

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in addition to the current program that we launched in January, we do plan to launch one or two additional degree programs in the Fall of 2014. It’s a little too soon to say exactly what yet because it’s really going to depend to a large degree on faculty hiring. For the Fall of [2013] we’re continuing the computer science M.Eng. that we started with the beta class in January.

SUN: Is that still going to be around eight students?

D.H.: Oh, no. So for the fall, we hope to have a more regular cohort, which again is going to be driven by quality. So it’s hard to say exactly how big it is, but ideally it would be somewhere around the 20-student range. Given the number of faculty we have, we don’t want to scale it too quickly, but again, that will be driven by applicant pool more than anything.

SUN: Another question we had was about environmentalism and sustainability. Obviously that is a big focus going in for the tech campus in itself, but I think our question is more about Google’s headquarters. Is there a focus on sustainability in those classrooms?

Are you focusing on reducing emissions there?

CATHY DOVE: The space we’re in is in a building Google owns in Chelsea. …

We’re short term tenants there ... so we’ve done the little things we can in our space ... things like making sure the lights go off at a certain time and [trying to] minimize utilization of energy in that space.

What we’re really focused on is Roosevelt

Island, of course.

SUN: Regarding the environmental aspect of the physical campus on Roosevelt Island, what exactly is in the works?

C.D.: We have had and continue to have really significant aspirations for the first academic building to be [a] net-zero [energy building]. What netzero means is that we generate more energy over the course of the year than we actually consume. That still is our goal. We called it aspirational at the time and I still call it aspirational

nology which is actually still in the evaluatory stage is tidal power. There are tests going on in the east river right next to our campus, so we think this would be a fabulous thing to do. Day one, we may or may not be at net-zero, but over time, the goal is to be at netzero.

SUN: You mentioned the admissions process is a shorter process. What exactly is involved in applying to the tech campus?

D.H.: It’s only for the beta class that [the admissions process] was shorter. For

“We believe we would be the largest net-zero building on the east coast, if not in the entire country. We’re looking at multiple ... technologies.”

Cathy Dove because it is extremely challenging to get there. We believe we would be the largest net-zero building on the east coast, if not in the entire country.

We’re looking at multiple different technologies that will get us there. …

Some of the technologies that we’re currently looking at and have built into our plan [include] solar arrays. … In addition, we plan to have a number of geothermal wells on campus.

SUN: They’re very expensive, as I understand, to implement.

C.D.: Yes, but it is something we think is important to do. A third tech-

this next fall, we’re running a regular admissions cycle.

SUN: So did the beta class have a different application?

D.H.: Nope. It’s exactly the same.

The way we're doing admissions right now is that Cornell now offers two M.Eng. degrees in computer science. If you go to the Cornell grad school application site, … it says computer science M.Eng. Ithaca, [and] computer science M.Eng. New York City. It’s the exact same application that anyone applying to graduate school at Cornell fills out.

For the New York City program, we are doing something a little different in our

admissions process which is that once we have evaluated people’s applications in terms of the academic quality, we’re actually scheduling interviews with those who meet our academic qualifications. In addition to having outstanding academic credentials, we want students who are passionate about using technology to do something in the world to make a difference. We need to talk to them about what their passion is. You can sort of see it in a written application, but it’s better to have a conversation.

SUN: When you’re fundraising for the campus, how challenging is it to compete with the sesquicentennial fundraising and to attract alumni?

D.H.: I wouldn’t use the “compete” word. I think that the excitement around the tech campus and around Cornell and Cornell’s visibility is exactly the kind of thing that can and should and will make the pie bigger for Cornell when it comes to development. So I really view these as complementary in a lot of ways. A big piece of what we’re doing at the tech campus is of and for New York. That may excite a Cornell alum who maybe hasn’t been as excited to contribute to Ithaca, but may also excite people who aren’t a part of the Cornell family, but are really committed to New York. … My view is that to be most successful here, we should be making the Ithaca fundraising easier and raising more money for the tech campus. So far, the data is supporting that.

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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Rise of the Calloused Foot “N

o, no, you’re broke; save that surface of a river,” he might say, undermoney for coffee. Deal with standing that money is better spent on it, Matt.” Fighting my way the composition of experience, of phodown North Meadow Street felt like tak- tographs that remind us “we were there” ing right hooks from Ivan Drago, yet I long after we departed. somehow started laughing in spite of my Gingerly stepping away from frozen cheeks and brittle, stupidly glove- “Gandhian anti-bus manifesto” territoless fingers. Even as the wind whipped ry, we may find a greater pattern knit miniature hailstones and salt grains at me into our cultural patchwork quilt. like a petulant kid flinging LEGOs at his Opportunity has been fine-tuned into a mother, I was in crippling hysterics. commodity, bought and sold like oil, “Good grief, you’re a cheap bastard, goat cheese and insufficient quantities aren’t you.” With lips chapping in real of coffee beans. We pour money into time as the raw cold made a watery, tear- novas like Coinstar machines, watching ful mess of my eyes, I must have looked emptily and bleary-eyed as they pass us every bit the by with overemotionpracticed al drunk, stoicism. casually stum- I’d rather feel the wind What we are bling down a than watch it steal left with is a major roadreceipt and a way three hats through a window lost memory hours to mid- on the 30 line. of things we night. The missed, yet “joke” is that we foolishly I saved 10 bucks on a cab ride to The continue to expect that throwing money Haunt. So all’s well, yes? Maybe. at things will somehow make them Lost somewhere in my thoughts, meaningful. How lazy of us! probably caged up with a confused Acquiescence is defeat, indolent and environmentalist and a half-eaten blasé. Experience, by marked contrast, is peanut butter sandwich from Shel active and unstructured; it is a Sunday Silverstein, there’s a whiny Luddite cry- morning Doonesbury suddenly bleeding for an end to tech supremacy. ing out of the panels and into the “Buses bad, feet good.” Not much of a newsprint. Though only a letter apart, personal mantra, but it saves me $200 be not fooled! Expedience is not experion a yearly TCAT pass and serves to ence. illustrate a meager point: The truth does Naturally, fast food and public transnot resemble itself. Why is charity wed to portation are well justified. McDonald’s tax incentives? Why is dolour such a shamrock shakes are (magically) delibeautiful word? Water erodes solid cious, and the TCAT system is often necrock, Helga Pataki bullies Arnold and essary for those of us plagued with the all existence is a massive paradox of sur- grating regularity of distant uphill comface and depth. mutes. If life were a breakfast cereal, we’d Regarding taxis and buses, the wis- likely call it Time Crunch (now with dom of convenience isn’t necessarily berries!), so the sacrifices made by glosswise. Admittedly, in the land of eternal ing over well-cooked meals and hikes up winter where the slopes are an algebra East Buffalo may be worth it. But gorgteacher’s wet dream, walking, much like ing ourselves (heh) on convenience often the sky, is hardly bright. Yet I will never means missing things like expertly feng willingly board a local bus. Why? In part, shui-ed flecks of parsley and gruff homepaid transportation reflects a sort of cul- less men muttering slurred nonsense as tural ambivalence; we spend not for but they sip on long-empty cans of rather to expedite experiences, to pass Budweiser. In the spirit of what I see as over them with apathy and maybe an wisdom that appears unwise, then, I will under-the-breath groan. On those continue walking. I’d rather feel the wind exceedingly rare days when Ithaca is than watch it steal hats through a winactually blue and not just a pared down, dow on the 30 line, even if it means lighter grey locked in a losing battle with occasionally checking my nose for signs the sun, walking is pleasant. On those of frostnip. exceedingly common days when torrential (The beautiful irony, of course, is that downpours and hurricane force winds I ultimately paid 10 bucks for my group’s smugly remind me that I lost my umbrel- cab ride home from The Haunt.) la during Sandy, it’s somehow still pleasant. The little Zen Buddhist meditating in the basement of my brain, perhaps not Matt Hudson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and too far from the Luddite, would speak Sciences. He can be reached at against the transient value of riding mhudson@cornellsun.com. Red in the Face runs buses. “It is like tracing pictures on the alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Dan Rosen | Smell the Rosen

Catch a Rising Star D

uring my tenure at Cornell, which will end this May, I have had the good fortune of being able to attend numerous talks and concerts that have both enlightened and entertained me. Music acts like the Flaming Lips, Phoenix and Nas and speakers like Elie Wiesel, Jon Stewart and Louis C.K. are among many highcaliber events that have enriched my Cornell experience.

They embody some of the perks we all get for attending (and shelling out for) an Ivy League education. This semester, with the announcement of Kendrick Lamar as our Slope Day performer and Cory Booker as the convocation speaker, I was particularly surprised and impressed by these forward thinking and somewhat unconventional choices.

However, in the days following both announcements it seemed that many were unhappy with these choices and were particularly vocal about it, whether around campus, on Facebook or in this paper. “Who even is Kendrick Lamar?”

“Ugh another politician? And who cares about Newark?”

Cries like these seemed to be fairly common, and I began to wonder if there was even a choice for Slope Day or convocation that wouldn’t attract constant complaints and cynicism. In all likelihood, there isn’t, but I still feel it necessary to make the case for both of these choices and to combat some of the attitudes that I view as unfounded and uninformed.

One of the main complaints leveled against Kendrick Lamar as a Slope Day pick was that, unlike the previous Slope Day performers, he was unheard of and not a “star.” This is of course patent-

This is the opportunity we have to catch a rising star in both Kendrick Lamar and Cory Booker. ly false. Anybody who is at all cognizant of current rap knows who Kendrick Lamar is and how he is one of the most prominent and up and coming rappers in the game. In 2012, his album, Good Kid M.A.A.D City, was placed at the top of Album of the Year lists for numerous publications, including Pitchfork, Complex and Rolling Stone. MTV named him the “Hottest MC” in its annual list, ahead of more “famous” artists like Nas, Drake and Kanye (but who knows about MTV, anyway). Slope Day artists have tended to be of the rap genre of late and Kendrick Lamar would be on any remotely hip-hop-aware person’s short list of current rappers. Honestly, I was surprised that the Slope Day Programming Board chose an artist who has both radio play (songs like “Swimming Pools” were undeniable hits) and is ambitious in both his style and content. Lamar can be what you would call a “conscious” rapper, in the likes of Talib Kweli or Mos Def, whose lyrics are personal, thoughtful and introspective (something I’m not sure you could say about Taio Cruz).

Cory Booker could also face the charge that he is a relative unknown, simply a mayor of a rundown New Jersey city. But again, this is a fallacy, and anybody who is remotely politically aware would know who he is. Booker, like Lamar, is a rising star on the political stage. He is a social media maven, with 1.4 million Twitter followers and is completely changing the way in which politicians function and relate to people in the age of social media. He is, in all likelihood, going to be the next Senator of New Jersey and is already being groomed to run for the President of the United States (comparisons to Obama run rampant). He is also somewhat of a folk hero, saving his neighbor from a burning building, reducing his Mayoral salary and frequently donating his numerous speaking fees (including Cornell’s) to charity. Compared to the bland and insipid politicians who have spoke here these past few years, Cory Booker is a breath of fresh air — a politician who represents the future of politics in the 21st century.

I am sure that in 2004, when Kanye West came to perform at Slope Day, there were many who complained about this nobody who had only released one album. But now those same people can exclaim, with hipsteric glee, “I saw Kanye before he was cool!” This is the opportunity we have to catch a rising star in both Kendrick Lamar and Cory Booker, to see these two figures who in a few years will be titans in their fields. You can say many things about your Cornell experiences, but cool will rarely be one of them.

This is a chance for us Ivy Leaguers to maybe be a little cool, so enjoy it, because either way, you’re paying for it.

Dan Rosen is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

He may be reached at drosen@cornellsun.com. Smell the Rosen appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Comment of the day Web

“When you are young and well educated, as you are at Cornell, you have many opportunities to choose from. If you have a good idea of what you want to do, you can set priorities and make choices accordingly. If you are in a long-term relationship, your significant other’s priorities will affect yours. As you get older, your priorities may change and you may have fewer opportunities, but they may be better opportunities. Every choice you make has opportunities associated with it, and the choices you don’t make involve sacrificing opportunities. You can’t do everything, but you can do well with, and enjoy, what you chose to do.”

John Randall Re: “SCHAIN: The Road Not Taken,” Opinion, published March 26, 2013

Ashley Harrington |

Dancing in the Margins

The Unspoken Words of An Affirmative Action Beneficiary

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s the class of 2017 is accepted racist practices. Then, of course, there and students begin to hear back was slavery, lynching, the mass genofrom internships, graduate cide of Native Americans, housing and schools and employers, conversations school segregation (which continues in surrounding merit and affirmative practice today), internment camps, disaction seem to be almost inevitable. enfranchisement, mass incarceration With this conversation comes the prob- and much more, which were institulematic rhetoric that people of color tionalized to push down entire classes and women are taking the hard-earned of people. In order to even engage in a spots of white men who may have dialogue about affirmative action, we worked harder. I will never forget the must acknowledge these histories and first time someone told me that I didn’t the way in which their oppressive legadeserve to be accepted into Cornell. I cies still remain.

Affirmative action, as we know it had proudly posted a picture of myself in a Cornell 2013 T-shirt on Facebook, today, recognizes that an American and it took no time for a so-called meritocracy is a lie. It seeks to rectify “friend” to message me saying, institutional injustices and acknowl“Congratulations on being accepted, edges that certain people were given an Ashley; I told you being black would unfair head start because of their race, help you get in.” What this person socioeconomic class or gender. This is meant to say was that I only got into not reverse racism, a term invented by Cornell because I was black, that I did- those in power to invert the conn’t deserve to be accepted and that I took his spot. At the time, my 18-year-old self didn’t have the language to I will never forget the respond to the backhanded first time someone told comments challenging my me that I didn’t deserve qualifications. This article to be accepted to Cornell. articulates the words I wish I could have spoken.

The affirmative action narrative dominating the media implies cept of racism for the benefit of white that the policy began in the 1960s with people — reverse racism does not exist.

President Johnson’s initiatives to benefit Racism is about power, and we continpeople of color. The reality is that affir- ue to live in a white supremacist society; mative action began long before this. affirmative action acknowledges this.

However, affirmative action is comSince this country’s founding, white men have received affirmative action by monly depicted in the media as placing institutionalizing laws that elevate unqualified people in spaces that they white men and push down anyone are not qualified to be in. It’s depicted without the right pedigree. In order to as people of color and women of all coldiscuss affirmative action, we must ors taking a white person’s spot. In the acknowledge the history that many pre- Fisher v. University of Texas case curfer to overlook. In 1862, The rently being heard by the Supreme Homestead Act was passed to prefer- Court, Abigal Fisher argues that ence white men gaining access to land. unqualified students of color were The act allowed the federal government accepted in her place. The facts surto steal Native American land and give rounding the case indicate that, of the 160 acre homesteads to white male students admitted to the University of applicants at no cost. Descendents of Texas with lower test scores and grades these white men continue to live on the than Fisher, five were Black or Latino land that has been passed down and 42 were white. Nevertheless, Fisher through generations. Then there was attacked the five black and Latino stuthe G.I. Bill, which predominantly dents because mediocre white students benefited white veterans. According to are OK, but mediocre students of color scholar Ira Katznelson, the law was have no place at the university. After all, deliberately designed to accommodate only in the U.S. can a mediocre white Jim Crow and was not enforced by the man who graduates at the bottom of his government but by “white community class and speaks with incorrect gramofficials, businessmen, bankers and col- mar become president of the United lege administrators” who enforced States.

It is a misguided assumption to presume that students of color, women and those of lower economic backgrounds accepted into places like Cornell aren’t qualified. Despite common misconceptions, those who benefit from affirmative action have excelled in the opportunities presented to them despite the institutional roadblocks that have come their way. I, myself, am a beneficiary of affirmative action and I’m just as qualified as my peers who went to expensive private schools and took science classes in state of the art labs. I just didn’t have the same opportunities as some. While many may think I unfairly benefited when applying to colleges because of the color of my skin, the reality remains that when I sit next to my white peers, the world will continually paint me as the less qualified student and, when I graduate, the less qualified professional. Opponents of affirmative action take advantage of this sentiment in order to further their own agenda. However, in this argument, they show their own biases and provide evidence for why affirmative action must still exist.

I am not arguing that affirmative action is a perfect system, and in order to be effective it must consistently evolve with changing paradigms of race, gender and socio-economic status.

In many ways it is just a band-aid, but we are not yet in a time when the bandaid can be taken off without further cementing the fruits of oppression, as countless disparities across racial, gender and socioeconomic lines still exist.

To say that we no longer need affirmative action is to trivialize and disguise structural and institutional barriers that have existed in the past and continue today. Thus, in order to move toward equity in America we must commit to honest dialogue and to caring across our diverse identities. As James Baldwin said, “It is the failure to care that lies at the core of this system of control and every caste system that has existed in the United States or anywhere else in the world.”

Ashley Harrington is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at aharrington@cornellsun.com. Dancing in the Margins appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT What Holds Things Together?

PROF. MICHAEL ASHKIN ’S ARCHITECTURE IS FOR CREEPS DAVEEN KOH Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Michael Ashkin, art, manufactures landscapes in corrugated cardboard. Architecture Is for Creeps, Prof.

Ashkin’s show at Milstein Gallery, looks like a sea of marooned, battered buildings. It’s hard not to feel pensive walking through the labyrinth of lean wooden beams and grimy white blocks. Projected diagonally, the beams intrude upon the viewer’s passage. Atop the blocks sit minute structures made of slim wooden sticks or crumpled cardboard. Staggering wildly, the structures appear to be on the verge of collapse.

What holds things together? Prof. Ashkin not only poses that question, but also hints at several possible answers. The hand of the artist is apparent, and the materials used for each work are undisguised. Yellowish glue has been hastily slathered onto one swaying, hut-like structure. Close by, a circle of cardboard rectangles confers conspiratorially, with the help of generous quantities of masking tape. These materials supply enough fodder for lengthy debate. Recycled cardboard, for instance, recalls questions of value, regeneration and transience.

Prof. Ashkin sketches out the idea of a familiar form, tempts the viewer to fill in the blanks, and then throws in the occasional surprise. The result is that the viewer is repeatedly forced to question his or her own judgment.

Fir strips, held in place by clamps, take the form of a chair (or rather, the outline of a chair). Clamped to one of the chair’s outstretched arm is a tall beam. The beam, which rises skyward, has been abruptly broken. The jagged tip, an obvious mark of violence, shocks.

What appears to be a watchtower (or a factory building, fire hydrant or air traffic control tower?) is easily established as the exhibition’s central motif. Almost too quickly, symbols of surveillance flood the viewer’s mind.

One instance is Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s All Along the Watchtower, featured in the Johnson Museum’s Lines of Control exhibition in Spring 2012. Kaabi-Linke airbrush painted a hulking shadow of a watchtower on the gallery walls, leaving the rest to the viewers’ imagination.

At Prof. Ashkin’s show, the watchtower lurks and lunges, hemming the viewer in on every side. There is an aerial view of the tower, rendered in the all-too-familiar colors of warning signs — black duct tape against a yellow background. The tower, as seen from its side over the course of a day, has also been incarnated in a trio of black and white duct tape renderings. Looking at the canvasses from left to right, the viewer sees the black tape encroach upon the white with increasing ferocity. There is also a cardboard model of the watchtower, whose meticulously fashioned balcony beckons to the viewer.

Other suggestions of violence and surveillance lend the gallery a brooding air. Crouching by the tall windows, and almost blending in with the concrete floor, is a sixsided black box. On an opposing wall, silver duct tape has been elaborately layered on corrugated cardboard to form a vaguely mirror-like surface. The metallic grey surface glints in the afternoon sunlight pouring in through the gallery windows. The pseudo-mirror invites the viewer to stare, but ultimately frustrates the viewer with its opacity.

Nearby, scraps of cardboard rolled in paper resemble plump, cartoonish cigarettes, which recall Claes Oldenburg’s garishly painted sculptures of everyday consumer goods. Pressed tightly together, with the aid of a

black band, and accompanied by a fuse-like stick, the cardboard rolls resemble some kind of explosive.

Prof. Ashkin is a veteran chronicler of urban wastelands, and his meditations have taken on myriad forms, as glimpsed at his shows at Secession in 2009, and the Johnson Museum in 2010. In 2003, Prof. Ashkin exhibited black-and-white photographs depicting New Jersey’s economic wastelands. Artforum critic Michael Wilson has described Prof. Ashkin’s Untitled (New Jersey Meadowlands Project), which focused on decaying industrial parks and threatening chain link fences, as “perversely beautiful.” That description also seems apt for Architecture Is for Creeps.

Architecture, in the words of philosopher Susanne Langer, is “the total environment made visible.” That is precisely what Prof. Ashkin succeeds in doing — he articulates the urban wasteland from nearly every conceivable view, drawing inspiration from multiple sources, including aerial photographs and video games. The resultant landscapes, a fusion of fiction and nonfiction, cannot easily be placed. Torn between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the viewer is left disoriented and displaced. Is Prof.

Ashkin perhaps evoking amnesia, or placelessness, as a testament to marginal, forgotten places? Perhaps. As T.S. Eliot muses in The Waste Land, “You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images, where the sun beats.”

Architecture Is for Creeps will be on display at Milstein Gallery until Apr. 12.

Daveen Koh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun.com.

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STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT: Katelyn Ridgeway ’13 MEREDITH JOYCE Sun Staff Writer

Katelyn Ridgeway ’13 believes that the comfort of a garment is as important as its look. A Fiber Science & Apparel Design major, she specializes in outdoor lifestyle sportswear: soft shell pants, digital print swimsuits and even soccer uniforms. While this senior will be showing a collection in this April’s Cornell Fashion Collective, she’s not afraid to wear a sweatshirt on campus or in studio. Unsurprisingly, her pieces balance beautiful details with an organic, comfortable feel.

Katelyn hails from outdoorsy San Diego. Growing up, she drew clothes and read her mom’s Vogue. In high school, her parents placed her in the California College of the Arts (CCA) summer program for fashion design and illustration to see if she was serious about the actual work behind fash-

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ion. Fortunately for Katelyn and her parents, she was.

She came to Cornell specifically interested in the Fiber Science & Apparel major, which allows her to play with the kinds of materials and fabrics involved in outdoor apparel.

At Cornell, she’s been able to balance studio classes like active sportswear studio with a diverse range of other courses like marketing, art history and philosophy, which have informed her artistic vision and her business sense.

Over four years, Cornell has taught her the ways to turn the designs she has in mind into the pieces she has at her desk.

“Cornell has really helped me to define who I am as a designer,” says Katelyn. In her own words, she creates pieces that are “simple [and] sort of subdued with something interesting about them.” In her fashion, she aims to flatter and comfort the wearer. She hopes that those who wear her clothes do not transform into someone else, but instead feel comfortable and flattered by the garment. As an exercise in one of her classes, she was asked by her professor to describe herself as a designer in three words. She choose quiet, beautiful and Arinyuna.

The final “adjective” is the name of her senior collection for the Cornell Fashion Collective. In the Australian Aboriginal language, Arinyuna means “toward that place” or, alternatively, a many-mile journey. She came up with the name while studying abroad last spring in Australia, an experience that has come to form the inspiration for her entire collection. As an activewear designer, she’s attracted to landscapes, which she photographs and puts on a board in her studio. Her wall is covered with photos taken on hikes at places like The Blue Mountains, Gervis Bay and in a tiny town immersed in the wilderness called Maringo.

Her board is also full of pictures of the aboriginal people, men in casual trousers and black and red cockatoos. She hopes that her line “embodies the functionality of [her] clothing” but also her “own journey” being abroad.

When she’s translating her vision into a piece, she “think[s] about what [it] is that [she] likes in a certain photograph” before asking herself the question, “How can I translate that into a garment?” In a recent design, for example, she created a black shirt dissected across its back by horizontal slits; she based the design on a picture of an aboriginal man with a scar down his back.

While the show provides an opportunity to see and create work for a portfolio, Katelyn says it’s most important as a way to demonstrate what she’s learned. “Personally, my parents don’t see much of my work,” Katelyn explained.

“When I go home I don’t necessarily bring my work home. I might have some pictures. This is very exciting for them because they get to see everything I’ve learned in four years ... in a huge show on a runway, modeled with music.”

After she graduates, Katelyn will be looking for a job in the outdoor apparel industry, with companies like Patagonia, North Face and Columbia. In the near future, she will design freelance for the Spartan Race with two other students and pitch ideas to Reebok in hopes of coming out with more design work for her portfolio. Katelyn also recently won a scholarship from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund. Ultimately, Katelyn hopes “to have [her] own brand or line.”

To Katelyn, aspiring designers “need to be very savvy about how to present [themselves],” and should have “a very singular feeling about [themselves] so that people don’t get confused.” With creative inspiration, a focused work ethic and a growing business savvy, Katelyn is certainly a designer with a clear idea of how to translate fascinating ideas into beautiful — and functional — pieces.

Meredith Joyce is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at mjoyce@cornellsun.com.

Four Faces of Summer While I would rather dedicate this column to the great films I watched over spring break (In the Mood for Love, Hitchcock’s Notorious and Shadow of a Doubt, et al) or my fresh takes on late 2012 fare (consider me an apologist for Life of Pi, but not for Holy Motors), I will, for once, try to look forward.

My sole trip to the multiplex last weekwas to see Oz: The Great and Powerful, an abysmal, unlikable mess that, naturally, will at least double its $215 million budget in ticket sales before it leaves theaters. The summer movie season has effectively begun.

With that, I would like to examine not the movies but the people who watch these movies. Below, I present the four types of summer moviegoers, in a digestible (and admittedly lazy) list format. Keep in mind that these broad types can easily overlap with one another — in particular to those adjacent.

THE MASSES Hollywood cares only about this group, by far the largest demographic, from March to September of every year. I cannot speak on its behalf, and I admit that, today, there are few people completely dispassionate about all movies. But you could say films “dumb down” over the summer in order to appeal to this crowd. That is not necessarily a bad thing — the world would be pretty bleak if all movies were as serious and demanding as Amour, and there is something serene about knowing what type of movie you’re in for with the cost of tickets these days.

The majority of summer moviegoers pick

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up buzz from mainstream publications and television shows or commercials, not to mention from the previews that precede the other movies they go see. The ubiquity of Rotten Tomatoes means that even those who consider themselves apathetic to film can still make a reasonable judgment, based on aggregate critic scores, on what movie they will go see.

THE IMDB CROWD Skewed young, male and white, this rising and influential demographic demands action films with at least a little bit of substance, or about as much as a comic book can provide as source material. While not everyone in this so-called crowd frequents the Internet Movie Database, the popular website collects this group’s opinion in its “Top 250” list, where four Christopher Nolan films rank in the Top

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World 5 0 and The Lord of the Rings trilogy populates the Top 20. The website hosts message boards where users can debate over the ending of Inception or order Pixar films from best to worst. In real life, these people like to talk over the merits of what made a movie good or bad (there’s not always an in between) or at least have a firm opinion on what they thought of a film.

I find this group to be overly concerned with plot and its minute mechanics, like plot

twists, continuity and unanswered narrative questions.

Nolan succeeds with this group for this very reason.

Nonetheless, “The IMDb Crowd” holds a lot of sway in Hollywood these days and at least brings some thought to the moviegoing experience. Without them, there would be no Star Trek Into Darkness or Man of Steel this summer, and that would be just awful, wouldn’t it ...?

THE CRITICS Professional critics do not solely represent this group — far from it, actually. Those who favor the movies crammed into the late-year Oscar season make up a perceptive community of summer moviegoers; these people love movies, and they would go crazy not to see any for months on end.

While they may not care for the Michael Bay swill that attracts so many others, “The Critics” do see value in the occasional summer flick. The Bourne films, District 9 and, depending on whom you ask, Prometheus worked for them. For this group, part of the fun of the summer movie season is in finding that unlikely genre film and defending its strengths, without irony, to all who will listen.

THE CINEPHILES While plenty of “The Critics” will also rightly call themselves “cinephiles,” there is a stark difference that separates them from the real McCoy: These people don’t even watch summer movies. Sure, they are enjoying movies during the summer, but at art house and repertory cinemas like New York’s IFC

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Center or L.A.’s Egyptian Theatre, not at the local multiplex. These are also the types who make a big deal of their home theater system, but just when you expect them to take the speakers for a ride with some Top Gun, they whip out The Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Days of Heaven and harp on and on about the “grain” and “beautiful black levels.”

Basically, they are not the intended audience of most, if not all, of the films coming out of Hollywood, which studios don’t mind because there are relatively few of them, anyway. They may scoff at the praise you heap on the last Harry Potter movie, but, oh boy, Kino just re-released Metropolis on Blu-ray in its full-restored condition using a long-lost source print found in Argentina, and you just gotta see it.

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays.

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Chemical Engineering

Health and Nutrition

Prof. Lynden Archer Researches Polymers

By SRINITYA ARASANIPALAI Sun Contributor

Prof. Lynden Archer, director of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has always been enamored by polymers.

“I remember, as an undergraduate, deciding to do polymers in my first semester because the person who taught me my first chemical engineering course was a polymer scientist, and he had so much fun making polymers,” Archer said.

Archer went on to obtain his bachelor of science degree in polymer science in 1989. This was the period right after the oil embargo in the U.S. – something that led to him having a strong awareness about being smart in using scarce oil resources.

“If you were going to use those resources to make materials, you wanted to make the best polymer material possible and this cut my imagination,” he said. Archer has stuck to working on polymers ever since.

The basic push of his research is to synthesize and study polymers which are chemically attached to surfaces such as silicon or germanium.

According to Archer, the motivation for his work came from the fact that although pure polymers can be designed for any application, and their behavior is well understood, the interactions between polymers and a surface or substrate is not well studied even though such interactions are common in nature.

Archer’s research group studies polymers attached to a 1-D point in order to make branched structures, a 2-D plane to create slippery surfaces and 3-D

nanoparticles to create materials called NOHMs, or nanoscale organic hybrid materials, which can be used as electrolytes in batteries.

The synthesis of these 3-D tethered polymer materials called NOHMs is one of his lab’s largest discoveries. NOHMs are pom-pom looking hybrid structures of the best low-cost and lightweight organic polymer chains tethered to the best of inorganic nanoparticles like silicon dioxide.

The traditional way to synthesize these materials is to produce the organic and inorganic parts separately and mix them, but this does not result in a homogeneous mixture at the molecular level. Archer’s lab worked on synthesizing these materials using a bottom-up approach to ensure homogeneity at the molecular level.

Archer said his 12-year old daughter coined the term NOHMs, which she said sounds like “gnomes,” when he was struggling to come up with a catchy name for these materials.

“I like to think of NOHMs as a hybrid of hybrids, where every building block is a nanoscale hybrid,” he said.

Archer’s group has since tackled various questions about the physics of the behavior of these polymers and their applications.

One interesting physical attribute of these 3-D systems is that they act like a fluid under certain conditions. According to Archer, one would expect the nanoparticle-polymer hybrid to be suspended in some kind of solvent to result in these fluid like properties, think about the various blood cells suspended in the plasma or the solvent of blood, but these hybrid materi-

als are actually self-suspended with no solvent.

Currently, Archer is involved in making better battery systems using NOHMs. “The lithium-ion battery systems we are enamored with today are essentially a holdover from mobile technology, it’s really no surprise when they are not as successful for cars and laptops that require more energy,” Archer said.

Every battery system has a positive terminal called a cathode; a negative terminal called an anode and a solution or electrolyte which helps ferry the electrons from the anode to the cathode through electrochemical reactions. Lithium batteries employ a lithium anode which is capable of sparing one electron per atom.

One of the major problems with using metallic anodes in battery systems, Archer said, is the formation of tree like structures called dendrites upon charging and recharging the battery. These short circuit the battery, causing safety and performance issues.

According to Archer, his group is currently working on modelling these dendrite formations and designing battery electrolytes using NOHMs to provide a porous media to control the dendrite growth.

Creating better battery systems capable of storing large amounts of energy can lead to green solutions because these systems aid in storing energy produced from renewable energy sources for future use, Archer said.

“Most people tend to forget that green technology is sustainable only if it is economically viable,” Archer said. However, according to Archer, the prob-

COURTESY OF PROF. LYNDEN ARCHER

Noteworthy NOHMs | Nanoscale organic hybrid materials are polymers which are attached to 3-D nanoparticles. These materials can be used to create better battery systems capable of storing large amounts of energy.

COURTESY OF PROF. LYNDEN ARCHER

Producing polymers | Prof. Lynden Archer, chemical and biomolecular engineering, studies polymers which are attached to various surfaces.

lem with using lithium batteries is that there is not enough lithium available in the world to reduce usage of fossil fuels by adopting batteries. Any increase in the demand for lithium for batteries will also drive up the price of lithium because of its limited availability.

Aluminum, on the other hand, is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust.

According to Archer, aluminum has the advantages of cost, natural abundance and also has three electrons to spare compared to lithium’s one which makes it seem like the perfect solution. But aluminum also has the same dendrite problems as lithium, and the aluminum ions are bulky, which increases its shuttle time in the electrolyte.

“We are on the right path and I predict that in the next five years, aluminum will be competitive with lithium at least in cost and performance,” Archer said.

Archer is also the co-director of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology – Cornell Center for Energy and Sustainability. The center was set up with a $25-million grant provided over five years by KAUST and has several partner universities as its collaborators.

“The nice thing about collaboration is that there is a nice feedback loop and a dynamic exchange of knowledge in research is critical,” he said.

According to Archer, such collaborations also help focus on the applications of polymer

materials, which led to the founding of a company called NOHMs Technologies in Ithaca.

Archer is the founder and a technical advisor of the company.

“Without deliberately connecting our research work on the fundamental side of polymers to these applications, such businesses would not be possible,” he said. NOHMs Technologies commercializes battery systems using lithium-sulphur anodes with NOHMs as a part of the electrolyte.

Until this year, Archer also taught Chemical Engineering 3230: Fluid Mechanics.

“I live the best life one could ever live because I do so many different things in any given day from interacting with students in the lab and interacting with staff as a director, but interacting with young [undergraduate] students is really special,” he said.

Even though research in chemical engineering has evolved over the years to studying systems at the molecular scale, Archer believes the old adage that “chemical engineers are glorified plumbers” still stands true.

“To understand the plumbing or the fluid mechanics of a polymer system, it is really important to study, at a fundamental level, how the polymers interact with each other and with the surfaces of the pipe, and this leads back to where it all started for me,” he said.

Srinitya Arasanipalai can be reached at sa588@cornell.edu.

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Students Identify Health and Nutrition Concerns in Ghana

By CAMILLE WANG Sun Staff Writer

One-hundred feet above the ground on the ladder-like steps of a canopy walk, eight Cornell students and one professor clung to the surrounding ropes as they slowly inched forward.

But the canopy walk was merely one stop in their week-and-a-half long trip.

These Cornellians were not in Ghana for a winter break vacation. Instead, they sought to identify key health concerns in Ghana and implement projects to address them by speaking directly to native Ghanaians.

Members of two Cornell groups, Big Red Relief and Cover Africa, visited various sites in southern Ghana to speak with local residents, assess their needs and come up with new, sustainable projects.

Big Red Relief aimed to implement projects which address issues on general disease prevention and nutrition, while Cover Africa focused more specifically on malaria.

“Instead of having preconceived notions of how we want to help [the Ghanaians] fix the problems, we wanted to hear what they had to say about their issues. We decided that listening to their concerns, their challenges and their dayto-day lives was the most valuable thing that we could take from our trip,” said Juhi Purswani ’15, co-president of Cover Africa.

Through open forums and individual interviews, the students spoke to a number of Ghanaians to determine how to best help the communities they visited.

Although the two groups travelled together, their agendas differed and they conducted separate interviews.

“The stories were really powerful, and a lot of them were really emotional – it was so magical that they were so open to us, having just met us 10 to 20 minutes earli-

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Going to Ghana | Eight members of Big Red Relief and Cover Africa traveled throughout Southern Ghana to assess local health and nutrition needs. This year, they will use what they learned to create sustainable projects in Ghana to address these concerns.

er,” Purswani said.

When Big Red Relief spoke to the communities, they discovered that the people faced a variety of diseases. Such ailments included sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid, yellow fever and many more.

According to Madhvi Deol ’13, the Ghanaians also face widespread malnutrition and weight problems because of their unbalanced diet.

“Eating the food myself and knowing the balance of food inspired a nutrition focus [for the trip]. The Ghanaian diet has a lot more focus on carbs and proteins than vegetables and fruits. They do eat

[vegetables and fruits], but the proportions are really off,” Deol said.

Cover Africa explored malaria. At the sites the students visited, they observed that open gutters and pollution contributed to the breeding of mosquitoes and spread of malaria. They also saw that a lack of mosquito netting also plays a factor in spreading malaria. Cover Africa is currently fundraising to buy more mosquito nets to combat the spread of this disease.

Now that the students have a better sense of the communities’ needs, they hope to develop projects this upcoming year. When they revisit the sites next win-

ter break with a new group of students, they aim to implement such projects, rather than merely assessing the situation. “[The Ghanaians] really trusted us to bring these stories back to Cornell and to spread them among all our colleagues here. I hope to harness that passion and energy to go back and learn more. Now, we’re just in the process of figuring out what to do with all these narratives, how to put it together and create a great partnership,” Purswani said.

Camille Wang can be reached at cwang@cornellsun.com.

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Community concerns | Two student organizations, Big Red Relief and Cover Africa, held open forums and conducted individual interviews with local residents to determine how best to help each community they visited in Ghana.

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Jeter Out for Start of Season, Joins Rodriguez, Teixeira on New York Yankees’ Disabled List TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Yankees captain Derek Jeter is resigned to starting the season on the disabled list for the first time since 2001.

Jeter is undergoing treatment for his sore left ankle, still recovering from surgery last October. His last game action came as a designated hitter Saturday in a minor league exhibition.

“Of course, it’s disappointing,” Jeter said Tuesday. “I told you guys all along the goal was to be ready on opening day, and I didn’t reach it. I ran out of days. I pushed to try to get there opening day, and it didn’t work out. But I’ve still got to be ready for the majority of the season.”

Jeter broke the ankle in the opening game of last year’s AL championship series.

“It’s a setback for opening day, but it’s not a setback in

terms of the recovery process,” Jeter said. “I heard from the doctor yesterday. It’s supposed to happen. Some things you can’t control. It’s a normal recovery process.”

Jeter is expected to join Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson on the disabled list at the start of the season and could be activated for the April 6 game at Detroit.

He will meet with team officials to finalized his rehab schedule.

Rodriguez isn’t expected back until after the All-Star break following left hip surgery on Jan. 16.

Teixeira hasn’t ruled out missing the first two months of the season because of a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist, while Granderson is expected to be out until the first week of May after breaking his right forearm.

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Sports Fans Reject Idea of Paying College New Orleans Hornets Snap Athletes,Believe Scholarships Are Enough Denver Nuggets’ 15-Game Winning Streak in Easy Win

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) — A national poll of sports fans reveals that a distinct minority supports paying college athletes but nearly half think top college coaches should be paid as much or more than their professional counterparts.

Additional results from the poll conducted by the Marist College Center for Sports Communication and the Marist Poll found that 95 percent of fans want college athletes to attend class and 67 percent — up 12 points from last year — largely believe that college athletics departments regularly break NCAA rules.

“People think even more so than ever that colleges cheat all the time,” said Keith Strudler, director of Marist's program. “That was driven by a couple of high-profile scandals this year — the Harvard and Miami cases. The Harvard one kind of struck at the core.”

Harvard issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students in February who were forced to withdraw from school for a period of time in a cheating scandal that involved the final exam in a class on Congress. Some athletes became ensnared, including two basketball team co-captains.

The Marist survey asked six questions: if college athletes should be paid; if college coaches break the rules during recruiting; if the NCAA should expand the men’s basketball tournament; if college coaches should be paid as much as pro coaches; if top college athletes should have to attend class like other students or be allowed to focus only on sports; and who should be held responsible when athletes get in trouble — athletes, coaches, or college presidents?

Respondents to the poll released Tuesday appeared satisfied — 77 percent — with the current size of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, while 70 percent would hold athletes responsible for their transgressions, not coaches or college presidents.

Despite the professional aura that surrounds the NCAA basketball tournament, sports fans prefer to maintain some semblance of amateurism, particularly when it comes to compensating the athletes that play big-time college sports.

Of 754 sports fans in the survey released

Tuesday, only 21 percent said they’d like to see top college athletes paid a stipend or salary beyond their scholarship, while 72 percent believed a scholarship alone was enough compensation.

So, despite the discussion about paying college athletes, public opinion doesn’t seem to support the idea, and the trend seems to be going even further from it.

“I have expected that, over the years, people would start to recognize the athletes work very hard and it’s kind of an unstable, unpaid labor force, and you would start to see those numbers creep up a little bit more,” Strudler said. “And we saw kind of the opposite happen this year.

Overwhelmingly, people thought that a scholarship was all that people really deserved.

“Increasingly, people seem to want to kind of buy back into this myth of amateurism.”

Strudler also said he thought people would want student-athletes to go to class but didn’t expect that total would be 95 percent.

“It’s almost as if they want to ignore some of the glaring realities of major college sports,” he said.

The poll found that 45 percent of sports fans think college coaches should be paid as much as the pros. That’s up from 39 percent last year, though 51 percent still feel they should receive less. That’s significant considering the nearly $2 million difference in average salary between NBA coaches and top college men’s basketball coaches.

Strudler said he was surprised by the amount of dissonance people seem to have.

“On the one hand, they don’t want to pay athletes and they think that everyone’s cheating,” Strudler said. “But on the other hand, they want to pay their college coaches as much as the pros.

They want to professionalize it on one hand and reward the coaches, but on the other hand they seem really, really willing to penalize the athletes and not compensate the athletes.”

The overall survey, the second year for this study on ethical issues in intercollegiate athletics, included 1,233 adults and was conducted March 4-7. Adults 18 years of age and older residing in the continental United States were interviewed by telephone.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Even Brian Roberts couldn’t believe the performance he delivered to help end Denver’s 15-game winning streak.

Starting for only the second time, the rookie doubled his season high with 18 assists, Ryan Anderson scored 23 points and the short-handed New Orleans Hornets beat the Nuggets 110-86 on Monday night.

“It’s crazy to fathom, having 18 assists,” Roberts said.

“Guys play years and don’t have that many assists.

Somebody pointed out I had more assists than they had as a team. For me to come out in my second start and do that is just a testament to my teammates making shots.”

And to Roberts’ work ethic, too. He never had 10 assists in four years at the University of Dayton, where he was more of a scorer than a facilitator. Then he spent five years trying to make an NBA roster before hooking on with the Hornets last summer, reworking his game to become a pass-first player.

11 of those passes turned into assists in the first half alone against the Nuggets, who finished with four fewer assists than Roberts. He became the 20th rookie to have 18 assists or more and the first since Darren Collison did it for New Orleans in 2010.

“I’ve had to grind and just fight to be on the team just to make an opportunity for myself,” Roberts said. “It’s something I know I don’t take for granted. But without my teammates making shots, it's not even a discussion.”

Anderson was five of 11 on three-pointers, and the Hornets sank 14-of-25 threes overall. Darius Miller, starting in place of injured shooting guard Eric Gordon, was four of five behind the arc and had 16 points as seven Hornets scored in double figures.

New Orleans won its third in a row and was in control all the way. The Hornets led by nine at the end of the first quarter, by 21 at the half and by 18 entering the fourth.

Danilo Gallinari had 24 points for the Nuggets, who were without starting point guard Ty Lawson (right heel injury) for the third consecutive game. Denver lost for the first time since Feb. 22 against Washington after matching its 1969-70 ABA team’s record of 15 straight victories.

“We played a bad game and they played a great game,” said Nuggets point guard Andre Miller, who had nine points and six assists. “We were constantly taking the ball out of the basket and getting frustrated. Our game plan was to trap the ball, and their point guard found the open man. They outplayed us and outworked us at both ends.”

The Hornets answered every Nuggets run, the last of

which closed the gap to 96-84 when Kenneth Faried hit a tough bank shot and was fouled with 6:07 left. New Orleans’ Anthony Davis followed with two free throws, Darius Miller drained a faceup three-pointer and Davis leaped high to jam in a rebound follow, extending the lead to 103-84.

The closest Denver came in the second half was 67-58 after a 16-4 spurt midway through the third quarter. But the Hornets’ Roger Mason Jr. immediately hit back-to-back three-pointers, and New Orleans was up by double digits the rest of the way.

This one was never close.

The Hornets went ahead 25-11 in the first quarter, getting back-to-back, wide-open three-pointers from Anderson to cap the early run against the sluggish Nuggets. No one picked up Anderson, who led the NBA in three-point baskets last season, when he shot from straightaway on the first one. Denver left him unguarded again as he made another three the next time down the court.

The Nuggets’ winning streak was well on its way to ending.

“We didn’t really talk about that too much,” Roberts said.

“We had a lot of stuff going on in here in this locker room, so we didn’t want to worry about streak busting or anything like that. We just wanted to come out and play together.”

Denver missed Lawson, who had averaged 21.8 points in his last 18 games, much more than New Orleans missed starting point guard Greivis Vasquez or Gordon.

“He’s important to us because he makes everyone else fit,” Nuggets coach George Karl said. “These last three games we were thinking we are better than we are. It’s human nature.”

Wilson Chandler returned for the Nuggets after missing two games with a left shoulder injury and finished with 11 points. Faried added 13 points.

Gordon, who is tied for the team lead with 16.5 points per game, sat out with a sore left ankle. Vasquez sat out with a sprained left ankle after starting the first 70 games.

Roberts, who added 13 points for his first doubledouble, and Miller, who was six of seven from the floor, excelled in their absence.

“A lot of times this year we’ve let teams come back after we got ahead of them,” Darius Miller said. “We didn’t want to do that tonight. They went on a great run and had us on our heels a little bit, but we bounced back.”

Most of Miller’s baskets came off of passes from Roberts.

“It doesn’t happen if he (Roberts) doesn’t work hard,” Hornets coach Monty Williams said. “He works his tail off.”

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Red Kept Busy Over Break With 14 Games in Eight Days

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Contributor

The Cornell softball team headed south to Florida for Spring Break to compete in a total of 14 games in eight days.

Cornell participated in the South Florida invitational on March 16 and 17, facing off against five schools. The Red then went on to play double-headers at Bethune-Cookman University, Stetson University, Jacksonville University and Manhattan College. The squad also competed against the University of South Florida in a single game match up.

The Red kicked off day one of the South Florida Invitational with games against the defending Northeast champion, Robert Morris University, and the reigning Big South champion, Radford University.

The Red defeated RMU, 3-2, but fell to Radford, 7-5. In the RMU game, the Red scored one run in the fourth inning and two runs in the sixth to establish a two run lead going into the seventh inning. RMU rallied and scored one in the seventh, but the squad held its ground and prevented RMU from tying the game.

In the second game of the day against Radford, Cornell fought a tough game from start to finish. Cornell was off to a good start with a 2-0 lead, but fell behind 5-2, and tied it at 5-5 in the sixth inning before slipping in the extra innings to hand RMU the win.

Cornell opened its second day of the invitational with three contests, beginning with Quinnipiac. Parker was 3-for-3 with two doubles, a home run, four RBIs and three runs.

Although the Red fell to Valparaiso, 3-4, in the second game, freshman Michiko

McGivney showed a stellar performance and homered again. Erin Belles was also a key player with a flawless 2-for-2 execution. The Red finished the day off on a high note with a win against Boston College.

Cornell then travelled to Daytona, Fla., the next day to face Bethune-Cookman in a double match up. In the first game, the Red started strong with a 6-0 lead after four and a half innings. Bethune-Cookman fought back with three runs, but it was not enough and the Red took home the win. The second game was more challenging for the Red, who quickly fell into a three-run deficit at the close of the second inning. The squad made two runs shortly thereafter, but would not go on to fully bridge the gap until the seventh inning.

Cornell later made five more runs to capture the victory.

The Red took on Stetson next and lost in both games, the first by a score of 3-10 and the second by a score of 6-7. Cornell hoped to end its losing streak in its games against Jacksonville, but could not pull through and lost both, 0-8 and 4-5.

The Red then matched up against USF Bulls and was defeated 0-5, handing the Red its fifth consecutive loss. The Bulls’ four pitchers brought home the win for USF, as they all scattered five hits and three walks and struck out 10.

The tide finally turned for the Red as the squad went on to defeat Manhattan in both games. The Red fought hard to bring home both victories: the first, 4-3, and the second, 16-6.

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Sydney Altshculer can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

What break? | During the Red’s trip to Florida, the team played as many as three games in one day.

Following Regional Titles, C.U. Competes at Championships Red Heads to UVA for Gangemi takes 14th place; Whitney follows at 17th Competitive Match-Up FENCING

By ANNA FASMAN

Sun Contributor

Junior fencer April Whitney and freshman fencer Angelica Gangemi traveled to San Antonio, Texas, this past weekend to represent Cornell in the NCAA Fencing Championships.

After day one of the championships, Gangemi found herself in eighth place, followed by Whitney in 16th place. Gangemi finished the tournament in 14th place, while Whitney took the 17th spot.

Coming out of the Northeast regional competition, the largest and strongest of the four regional competitions, both Gangemi and Whitney finished within the top 15 in foil.

Gangemi, who came into the regional as the 11th seed, finished in sixth place overall with Whitney finishing close behind in 12th place. Based on these strong performances at regionals, both girls were chosen to advance and compete in the championships this past weekend.

On the first day of competition, Gangemi and Whitney found themselves competing against one another.

“It’s always nerve-wracking competing against a teammate,” Gangemi said. “We know each other’s strengths and weaknesses. April is a really talented fencer and a good friend, so competing against her is difficult.”

Gangemi finished with overall 11 victories in the championship for strong conclusion to her rookie campaign.

“It was exciting — my goal was to be able to go to regionals, and to make it to the Championship was amazing,” she said. “I hope to go back and improve my results in the years to come.”

Whitney, who has competed for Cornell since her freshman year and has previously participated in two NCAA championships, finished with a total of nine wins under her belt. Together, Gangemi and Whitney lead Cornell to an impressive 19th place team finish.

OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

I win, you win | Freshman Angelica Gangemi finished with 11 victories, while April Whitney claimed nine.

Anna Fasman can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

POLO

than [Colorado State, the Red’s first-round opponent in the national tournament], is only three of our awards for things going to help us out.” just states how good we’ve been Eldredge said that next weekin this regionals and this year. end’s game against UVA will help This is voted on by all the teams him decide how he will set the in the reigion as well as USPA women’s lineup for the national officials. It’s something you look championships. at and you “ T h e r e ’s take as a four girls that high com- “It’s a huge bonus for us are all very pliment s t r o n g — i t ’s when your to have this game in this who ends up [peers] vote playing best,” you in that coming weekend.” he said. strongly.”

“Maybe we do Both the David Eldredge a rotation of men and players. w o m e n’s Maybe we just team will find out who head down to Charlottesville, has more success against the Va., to take on UVA this week- Virginia squad and we just go end. The women have beaten the with that.”

No. 2 UVA team twice this seaEldredge added that the game son, including in a victory in the against UVA will help the team final of the Bill Field out.

Invitational, while the men suf“It’s a huge bonus for us to fered one of their two losses of have this game in this coming the season to the Cavaliers back weekend,” he said. “It’s an inforin October. mative thing for us — it allows “The game this weekend is us to strategically plan better [for going to be more similar to the the national tournament.” caliber of team’s we’ll be playing against [in the national tournament],” Feldman said. “Playing a Emily Berman can be reached at team that may be slightly better eberman@cornellsun.com.

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POLO

Red Captures Regional Titles;Players Honored

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The men’s and women’s polo teams took home the regional titles this past weekend at the regional championship tournament held at Oxley Equestrian Center.

The men crushed Brown University, 32-2, on Friday before topping UConn, 28-12, in Sunday’s final; the women beat Harvard, 29-8, on Saturday before riding to an easy victory over Skidmore, 27-4, in the finals the following day. The women’s win was the team’s fifth consecutive regional title.

The victories in the regional competition guarantee each team an automatic bid to the national championships in mid-April. The women currently stand as the No. 1 seed for the national tournament, while the men head into the championships at No. 3 behind No. 2 Colorado State and No. 1 UVA.

The men’s victory in the final over UConn this year comes after last season’s one-goal loss to the Huskies in last year’s regional final. In last year’s game, the Red held the lead for the majority of the game, but lost after UConn scored a flurry of goals in the final chukker.

UConn graduated its entire starting lineup, however, so the team the Red faced this year was entirely new.

“There’s nothing much to compare to last year’s team, [last year’s team] was really spectacular altogether,” junior captain Nik Feldman said. “But they had a good team this year; they especially took us by surprise in the first half.”

Although the men had beaten the Huskies handily earlier this season, the match started slowly for the Red as it fell behind 2-1 early. The team ended the first chukker up 7-4, but fell behind 9-8 in the second chukker before rallying to finish the half leading 10-9.

Regular started Nick Steig sat out the first half for TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

Moving on | Winning the regional titles secures both teams a spot at the national championship tournament, which will be held in Texas in April. Prior to the national championships, both teams will travel to UVA to take on the highly skilled Cavalier squads.

the Red due to a stomach illness and was replaced by senior Connor Pardell. Steig entered the game for the second half and the Red quickly sped ahead of the Huskies, although head coach David Eldredge ’81 was quick to praise Pardell’s play.

“Connor did very well in the first half,” he said. “He went out and did himself proud. He did very well for himself and the team.”

Feldman noted that UConn’s mindset going into the game may have aided the Huskies’ strong first half performance.

“I think the mentality going into the game was that we weren’t worried, and they had nothing to lose,” he said. “They went full-out. They did an excellent job — hats off to them.”

In the third chukker, Cornell topped UConn 10-1 and added eight more goals in the fourth for the commanding final victory.

The women’s team, which is currently undefeated against collegiate opponents, easily won both games on the weekend. Eldredge said he was pleased with the team’s play.

“I was quite happy with how they performed,” he said. “We went into it feeling confident winning and getting the bid, but at the same time, you never want to take anybody for granted. You can’t go in and halfway it.”

In the final against Skidmore, the women took a 91 lead in the first chukker and added four more in the second chukker for a 13-1 half-time score. The Red led 18-3 after the third chukker, then outscored the Thoroughbreds 9-1 in the final chukker. The Red rotated senior captain Ali Hoffman, junior captain Kailey Eldredge, and freshmen Devin Cox and Anna Winslow throughout the game, with each one playing three chukkers. Cox led the team with 10 goals, while Hoffman followed close behind with nine tallies.

Besides first place, the team also took home many awards at the tournament. Senior captain Branden Van Loon, Feldman, Steig, Hoffman, Eldredge and Cox all were awarded Northeast Regional All-Star honors.

Women’s alternate Beth LeBow took home the Region Sportsmanship award, and the team also won some Best Pony and Best String awards.

“I’m very happy. Obviously, we went into it feeling pretty good about things,” Eldredge said. “Taking See POLO page 19

WOMEN’S ROWING

Rowers to Open Spring Season With Ithaca Invitational Scrimmage high, be competitive in the Ivy League and hopefully gain another invitation to NCAAs.” The Red posted a 7-5 record last year en The women’s rowing team will compete in its first race of the season at the Ithaca route to a fourth-place finish as an Ivy League team, second place finish as an Ivy Invitational Saturday.

The Red has been ranked in the top 20 League Varsity Eight and 13th place finish at in preseason polls for the past three years, the NCAA nationals.

The team hopes that hardcore winter and it is ranked No. 15 in this year’s preseason polls. Under the leadership of senior training will lead to an improved performance this season. captains Leigh Despite the cold, the Archer and Shelly “Our numbers headed into team says it has been tireTremaglio, as well as lessly and consistently head coach Hilary the spring season are better practicing over spring Gehman, the squad than they’ve ever been.” break preparing for its is looking to come upcoming races. out strong in every “We had an awesome boat.

Shelly Tremaglio winter training season,” The team aims to Tremaglio said. “We did take its land speed and translate that to its boat speed to con- a lot of hard work in the weight room. Our tinue its season goal of posting a successful numbers headed into this spring season are finish in the Ivy League Championship, fol- better than they’ve ever been. We’re all excitlowed by an invitation to the NCAA nation- ed about all the PRs but still cognizant that, in our sport, we ultimately prove ourselves al tournament.

“This spring, our focus is pretty simple: on the water, not in the weight room or on Go fast,” Tremaglio said. “Last year was the erg.”

The rowing team looks to finish this Cornell women’s rowing’s best performance ever. We’re looking to keep the intensity week’s invitational as a start to their highly

By MARISSA VELASQUEZ

Sun Staff Writer

anticipated season this year.

“I think the goal is to work out any kinks before our first official race against Yale,” Tremaglip said. “We’re hoping to use the race to prepare mentally for the rest of the

season and to test our speed on our home course.”

Marissa Velasquez can be reached at mvelasquez@cornellsun.com.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

I’m on a boat | After a long winter of indoor training, the women’s rowing team will compete in its first race of the spring at the Ithaca Invitational scrimmage March 30.