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Record High Apply To C.U.Class of ’17 15.2 percent of 40,000 students from 83 nations are accepted

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Students in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management sample homemade beer in the Battle of the Brews Festival Thursday.

Alumnus to Run for Iranian Presidency

By LAUREN AVERY Sun Senior Writer

Hooshang Amirahmadi Ph.D. ’82, who will register as an independent candidate in the presidential election of Iran in May, said, if elected, he will make repairing American-Iranian relations a top priority.

According to a December announcement from the Iranian government, the country’s next presidential election will be held on June 14. The winner will succeed current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, after serving two consecutive

News Greek Peak Saved

The popular skiing and snowboarding resort has been purchased by two Elmira-area businessmen. | Page 3

Opinion One Love

Tyler-Lurie Spicer ’15 supports same-sex marriage and argues that the fight for equality does not end there. | Page 8

Arts Accepted

Julia Moser ’15 reviews Admission starring Tina Fey and Pual Rudd. | Page 9

Sports Mountain Man

Sean Mooney ’08, a former Cornell soccer team member, plans to climb Mount Everest for charity. | Page 16

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terms, is constitutionally banned for running for a third.

Amirahmadi’s political platform is threefold: bolster relations between the United States and Iran, resolve internal conflicts and revitalize the Iranian economy, according to his campaign website.

AMIRAHMADI Ph.D. ’82

A tense wait for thousands of students ended shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, as Cornell finished notifying 15.2 percent of its 40,006 applicants that they were accepted to the Class of 2017.

Data indicate that this year’s admissions cycle was one of the most competitive yet in Cornell’s history. The University’s overall acceptance rate dropped from last year’s 16.2 percent — a previous record low — to 15.2 percent this “Cornell continues to lead year, while the number of applicants the Ivy League in attracting rose from last year’s applicants for admission.”

37,812 to a record high of 40,006.

Lee Melvin The increase in applicants marks a trend in Cornell admissions over the years: since 2011, the number of applicants vying for a spot at Cornell has increased 9.9 percent, according to the undergraduate admissions report.

Along with seeing more students apply to Cornell, the University has seen its applicants’ SAT scores rise over the years.

The Class of 2017’s median SAT I critical reading score was 720, compared to 710 last year. Its math score was 750, compared to 740 last year.

“Cornell continues to lead the Ivy League in attracting applicants for admission,” Lee Melvin, associate vice provost for enrollment, said in a University press release. “The increase in applications is notable, but our focus remains the quality of the

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C.U.Reacts to Supreme Court Debate on Gay Marriage

By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor

As the United States Supreme Court deliberated two key legislations crucial to same-sex marriage –– prompting people nationwide to express their feelings on the issue on posts and pictures online –– Cornell students expressed mixed feelings about the activism surrounding same sex-marriage.

On Tuesday, Supreme Court judges discussed the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a controversial provision passed in 2008 that banned same-sex marriage in California. They then deliberated the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that prohibits giving federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples on Wednesday.

If both cases proceed to Supreme Court rulings, it could potentially legalize same-sex marriage on a federal level and grant federal marriage benefits to same-sex marriages.

Students expressed excitement about the cases being brought to the Supreme Court.

Ankur Bajaj ’13 said he was “especially excited to be an LGBTQIA American at this moment,” adding that “the cases being discussed have broad implications on our lives and on the lives of those we love.”

But in reaction to the judges’ oral arguments about Proposition 8 –– in which some judges said Tuesday it may be too early for such a case to be considered in the Supreme

Court –– some students expressed disappointment.

“The first analyses of the oral arguments for the Prop 8 case are troubling, in that we’ve heard from several justices that they’re hesitant to make a substantive ruling on the matter because it may be too early when considering

political repurcussions,” Bajaj said. He said he believes that “providing civil rights equally isn’t something that can be ‘too early.’”

Anthony Santa Maria ’13, treasurer of Haven, Cornell LGBTQ Student Union, See MARRIAGE page 5

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The Ithaca community gathers at the Physical Sciences Building Thursday for the Aeronautics and Wind Energy Expo, where various research laboratories exhibit their work.

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News, “Students, Professors Adjust to Changes in Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts,” Monday Speaking about how budget cuts affect performing and media arts at Cornell “Part of what makes the Schwartz [Center for Performing Arts] so amazing is that you get to work with all these professional faculty in close relations and be directly mentored by them. I feel like we’re really losing that as we make things more student-driven.”

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Opinion, “The Road Not Taken,” Tuesday Speaking about how the future for graduates is more complex than ever before “When I look at myself and at my graduating peers, I see a lot of extremely promising young visionaries squinting, trying to make out what that future career is that will make us happy. But with job websites and Google at our disposal, there is an instant availability of promising leads that, taken all at once, results in crippling indecision.”

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Opinion, “The Unspoken Words of an Affirmative Action Beneficiary,” Wednesday Speaking about the current state of the affirmative action system “I am not arguing that affirmative action is a perfect system, ... 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.”

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After Facing Bankruptcy, Greek Peak Sold in Auction

By TYLER ALICEA

He added that he is hopeful the new owners will be able to revitalize the resort.

Snow sports enthusiasts say they were “A change in ownership was definitepleased to learn that the Greek Peak ly needed,” he said. “I think if they Mountain Resort — a popular skiing invested in their park, they could defiand snowboarding location — will nitely attract more people.” remain open after a federal bankruptcy The new owners of the resort hope to judge approved the sale of the resort last make various improvements over the week. next few years to the ski resort, including The resort filed for Chapter 11 bank- adding a lodge pub and installing a faster ruptcy in August four-person lift, after its primary according to l e n d e r , “I am pleased that our efforts to work The Ithaca Te n n e s s e e Journal. ... and give Greek Peak a second Commerce Koeberle, a chance have paid off. Now I want to Bank, closed, senior, said he is according to make sure the ... new owners have a sad he will not The Ithaca be around to see viable plan to keep [it] open.”

Journal. Greek such improvePeak had faced ments put in Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) financial diffiplace at the culties partly resort. because of the unusually mild winters in “It’s a shame that I’m graduating; I’m recent years. not going to see any of these changes,” The Cortland County resort was pur- Koeberle said. chased by Elmira-area businessmen John Brendan Brown ’15, president of the Meier and Marc Stemerman in a $6.76 Cornell Outing Club, said that many million bid during a private auction held Cornell students — including members Mar. 19, according to The Associated of the Outing Club — utilize Greek Press.

Peak’s facilities. The resort, he said, is Alex Koeberle ’13, a member of convenient to Cornellians because it is Cornell’s Ski and Snowboard Club, said closer to Ithaca compared to other he was excited for the resort to see a mountains. change in ownership.

Brown said that he is hopeful the

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Skiing away from trouble | Many students, including the members of Cornell Ski Club, say they have relied on Greek Peak Mountain Resort’s slopes for their practices.

resort, with its new ownership, will expand in the future.

“Relative to other mountains, [Greek Peak] had no crowds, leading me to believe they have space for new clients,” Brown said.

Charlie Schwartz ’14, vice president of the Ski Club — who is also a member of the ski team — said the ski club had internally discussed moving their practices to other local mountains before the resort was bought.

Currently, the club has an agreement with the Greek Peak Resort that provides it with group rates and perks — including weekly buses to transport Cornellians from Ithaca to the resort — if they sell a certain number of passes, Schwartz said.

The deal is likely to stay in place under

the new ownership, he added.

Students, however, are not the only individuals pleased that Greek Peak will keep its doors open. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) released a statement lauding the judge’s decision after the sale was approved.

“I am pleased that our efforts to work with the [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation] and give Greek Peak a second chance have paid off, and now I want to make sure that the potential new owners have a viable plan to keep the peak open, and keep its nearly 1,000 workers on the job for many seasons to come,” he said.

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

Univ.Cooling Plant to Continue Operating

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fund a $2.1-million collaborative study to identify sources of phosphorus in the lake, as well as the effects of phosphoDespite facing strong opporus on the Cayuga Lake ecosyssition from the Town of Ithaca, tem. the New York Department of The study will develop a Environmental Conservation mathematical model that will issued Cornell a permit enable the DEC to allocate the Wednesday that will allow it to amount of phosphorus that continue operating its Lake can be added to the lake withSource Cooling facility on out causing environmental Cayuga Lake. harm, according to Lake source the University’s cooling is a “[DEC] has given the green light to Cornell website. process that Engman, howdraws cold water not only [to] continue polluting the lake, but ever, said he opposfrom the bottom [also] to increase it.” es the University of a lake to cool being involved in b u i l d i n g s , Herb Engman the study — an act depositing phoshe called an phorus in the water that promotes algae would in fact decrease, not “immense conflict of interest” growth. The University has increase, the amount of phos- that points at the “clear avoidsaid that the process saves the phorus discharged by lake ance of state responsibility” by the DEC. amount of energy it uses to source cooling.

Although the DEC agreed Additionally, Cornell has cool buildings annually by 86 percent, but town officials say said that using a renewable the case should have been the phosphorus encourages the resource — the lake’s water — reviewed by an independent growth of weeds, harms aquat- to cool facilities has allowed it third party, Cornell did not ic life and reduces the clarity of to reduce its fossil fuel usage. subsequently leave the case for water, The Sun previously Without the facility, the peak independent review, according demand for electrical service to Engman. reported.

“If you have one of the conIthaca Town Supervisor would be 18 MW higher than Herb Engman said he was dis- the actual peak of about 36 tributors of phosphorous to appointed with the DEC’s MW during the summer — the lake doing the study, it is a decision to re-issue the permit increasing demand for electric- huge conflict of interest,” he said. “[DEC] should have ity by 50-percent. to Cornell.

Although the source for the asked Cornell to hand over the “The new permit has nothing new on it. I can’t see any cooling facility, water, is money and then done the changes from what it was renewable, the University has study themselves. But by before ... so it was a waste of repeatedly failed to address the allowing the permittee to do time for [Town of Ithaca] to issue of lake pollution, accord- the study is not acceptable.”

Cornell has defended its approach DEC about the ing to Engman. “[The cooling facility] is role in the study by saying top issue,” Engman said.

Engman said that he is definitely a more carbon-sav- scientists will be working on concerned that the DEC is ing option,” he said. “But what the study to create a compre“doing the same thing that was Cornell has never admitted, hensive review of Cayuga happening before: turning over which their own study shows, Lake, The Sun previously the responsibility to Cornell is that they are polluting the reported. for coming up with the maxi- lake.”

Still, as part of the permit’s Manu Rathore can be reached at mum load for the amount of phosphorus that goes in the conditions, the University will mrathore@cornellsun.com.

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Prof. Margaret Holben Ellis, paper conservation, New York University, spoke about how scientific advances can complement the traditional studying of drawings Thursday.

It’s almost April, but the weather has granted us little reprieve from Ithaca’s cold. To make matters worse, we’ve been thrown head-first into prelim season: that time of the year when you sheepishly slink into that class you haven’t been to in ages so you don’t fail the course. In short, every Sun editor needs a breather. What are you doing this weekend to relax?

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Moreover, Engman said, the new permit allows Cornell to increase pollution in the Cayuga Lake. “[DEC] has given the green light to Cornell not only [to] continue polluting the lake, but [also] to increase it,” he said.

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Amirahmadi Says He Hopes to Be‘Peacemaker’ Between U.S., Iran IRAN

native Iranian, he said he travels there frequently. He added that his academic record will give him a unique outlook as president of Iran.

Amirahmadi –– who is the founder and curAccording to his candidate biography, rent president of the American Iranian Council, Amirahmadi was born in Talesh, Iran. After grada nonpartisan organization that aims to establish uating from college, he served in the Iranian mila more productive relationships between the U.S. itary’s Agricultural Corps before coming to the and Iran –– said previous mistakes and missed U.S. to study in 1975. He earned an M.S. degree opportunities in both Iran and the U.S. have in industrial management at the University of pushed American-Iranian relations in the “wrong Dallas in 1977 and came to Cornell to pursue a direction.” doctorate the next year.

“In 2000, I brought Secretary of State, Amirahmadi remembers Cornell as being a Madeline Albright, to a conference of the “politically and academically incredible place.”

American-Iranian Council in Washington, D.C., “I learned so much at Cornell,” he said. “It when she proposed the U.S. and Iran settle their was really fun, and I have wonderful memories of problems. She extended a near apology to the the large Iranian student population there.”

Iranian people for the 1953 coup against Iran's While at Cornell, Amirahmadi was a key part Prime Minster Mosadeq and lifted certain sanc- of the Iranian student community, serving as the tions. Unfortunately, Iran missed the opportuni- president of the Iranian Students Association. ty,” he said. “Although I created the opportuni- According to Amirahmadi, during the Iranian ties for better relations, they were missed because Revolution and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, I was not in an implementation or decision mak- he was responsible for helping Iranian students re-register with immigration services.

“If I become president, I will solve the sanction "My time at Cornell coincided problem by mending relations with the U.S. and with the Iranian 1979 Revolution.

These were very tough times, but the mismanagement problems by putting in the the community was extremely right people in place.” hospitable during those days. We were like a family group, and the Hooshang Amirahmadi Ph.D ’82 administrators, faculty, and students were all extremely supportive.” ing position.”

As a student, Amirahmadi said he was “very Amirahmadi said tense relations between the involved with the student movement” and taught U.S. and Iran are the result of a lack of trust two graduate courses in political economy. He between the two countries. Calling himself a also wrote and published extensively during his “peacemaker,” Amirahmadi said he hopes his academic career; his Cornell dissertation, entiexperience and accomplishments in both the tled “The Political Economy of Iran under the U.S. and Iran will ease communications.

Qajars: Society, Politics and Foreign Relations “There is a tremendous lack of trust between 1796-1926,” was revised and published last year. the U.S. and Iran, and this trust is key to According to Amirahmadi’s daughter, Roxana improving U.S.-Iran relations. I can reestablish Amirahmadi ’13, a current undergraduate at trust not only because I have lived in this coun- Cornell and editor emerita of the Cornell try and I know the language and culture but Progressive, the diversity of Cornell has had a because I know the culture and the language positive effect on both her and her father. there too. ... I also understand their concerns and “Cornell is a bridge to the rest of the world. interests. ... Iran needs a peacemaker, and that’s The undergraduate system here gives students a me.” global perspective, and the diversity on campus The economic downturn in Iran, he said, was and direct interaction with different people lets also the result of poor governmental decisions by people have conversations about tolerance and previous administrations and corrupt manage- acceptance,” she said. ment.

Still, with the Iranian election and change in “The Iranian economy is in shambles due to power just months away, she urged American sanctions and mismanagement. Many Iranian students around the country to be objective people are suffering tremendously from the high when looking at Iran and to not be swayed by unemployment rate, high inflation rate, the col- past events. lapse of the national currency and corruption,” “American students, not just at Cornell, he said. “If I become president, I will solve the should keep an open mind about Iran. It is a sanction problem by mending relations with the complicated country, and it is not just one U.S. and the mismanagement problems by image. It is diverse, and they need to know what putting in the right people in place.” the world is really like,” she said.

Amirahmadi is currently a professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Although he Lauren Avery can be reached at lives in the United States and not in Iran, as a lavery@cornellsun.com.

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Accepted Students Represent 83 Countries ADMISSIONS

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applicant pool.”

Of the accepted students, 11 percent are the first generation in their family to attend college, according to the University.

Mirroring previous years, accepted students represent all 50 U.S. states, Washington

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D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico.

Students from New York, California and New Jersey make up 45.3 percent of admitted students.

International students represent 82 different countries — an increase from last year’s 68. 155 of the accepted students are from China; 79 from the Republic of Korea; and 73 are

from India.

Melvin said in the press release that the jump in countries represented by the student body is indicative of Cornell's “global appeal.”

3,146 students were waitlisted, compared to 3,120 last year.

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

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echoed Bajaj’s sentiments.

“It’s 2013. ... If they’re not going to make a decision now, they’ll never do it,” he said.

In regards to the second legislation that was under consideration by Supreme Court –– DOMA –– Emily Bick ’13, president of Haven, said that “as an ‘out’ person who intends to have a family, DOMA’s existence puts excess financial and mental strain on my future.”

Some students expressed skepticism about focusing on marriage as a means of attaining equality.

“If [same sex marriage] is legalized, marriage will be thought of as the only legitimate form of partnership. … I personally think that the ultimate goal should be a reconceptualization of how we view relationships,” Santa Maria said.

Bailey Dineen ’15, vice president of the Cornell University Gay-Straight Alliance agreed with Santa Maria, saying that there are limits within the institutionalization of

marriage.

“The institutionalization of marriage will ultimately exclude people no matter how its definition is expanded.

There will always be people for whom the nuclear family and a legalized marriage are impossible or undesirable because the

“As an ‘out’ person who intends to have a family, DOMA’s existence puts excess financial and mental strain on my future.”

Emily Bick ’13 government’s values are not universally shared by or available to all Americans,” she said.

Instead, “true equality would mean the deregulation of these institutions altogether, so that the particular values of different communities are equally protected,” Dineen said.

Furthermore, Bick warned that marriage should not be

Patients Urged to Undergo HIV Test After Exposure to Unsanitary Okla.Oral Surgeon’s Practice TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Health officials on Thursday urged thousands of patients of an Oklahoma oral surgeon to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying unsanitary conditions behind his office’s spiffy facade posed a threat to his clients and made him a “menace to the public health.”

State and county health inspectors went to Dr. W. Scott Harrington's practice after a patient with no known risk factors tested positive for both hepatitis C and the virus that causes AIDS. They found employees using dirty equipment, reusing drug vials and administering drugs without a license.

Harrington voluntarily gave up his license and closed his offices in Tulsa and suburban Owasso and is cooperating with investigators, said Kaitlin Snider, a spokeswoman for the Tulsa Health Department.

He faces a hearing April 19 where his license could be permanently revoked.

“It’s uncertain how long those practices have been in place,” Snider said. “He’s been practicing for 36 years.”

The Oklahoma Board of Dentistry said the inspectors discovered multiple sterilization issues at Harrington’s offices, including the use of a separate, rusty set of instruments for patients known to have infectious diseases.

“The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has determined that rusted instruments are porous and cannot be properly sterilized,” the board said in a 17-count complaint against the dentist.

Officials are sending letters to 7,000 known patients of Harrington, but they noted that they do not have information for patients before 2007. The letters urge the patients to be tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV — viruses typically spread through intravenous drug use or unprotected sex, not occupational settings.

Harrington could not be reached for comment Thursday. A message at his Tulsa office said it was closed and the doctor’s answering service referred callers to the Tulsa Health Department. Phone numbers listed for Harrington were disconnected. A message left with Harrington's malpractice attorney in Tulsa, Jim Secrest II, was not immediately returned.

The CDC is consulting on the case, and agency spokeswoman Abbigail Tumpey said such situations involving dental clinics are rare.

In a similar case in Colorado last year, an oral surgeon was accused of exposing patients to diseases by reusing needles and syringes. Authorities sent letters urging about 8,000 patients to get tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, but Tumpey said it wasn’t clear whether anyone was actually infected.

“We’ve only had a handful of dental facilities where we’ve had notifications in the last decade,” Tumpey said.

Harrington’s Tulsa practice is in a tony part of town, on a row of some of the city’s most upscale medical practices. The white-and-green stucco, twostory dental clinic has the doctor's name in fancy letters on the facade.

NYC Asks Judges to Reinstate Ban On Large Sodas, Sugary Drinks NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is asking appeals judges to reinstate a ban on supersized sodas and other sugary drinks, which was struck down by a Manhattan judge the day before it was to go into effect.

The city had vowed an appeal and said Thursday that lawyers had filed it late Monday.

In his decision on March 11, State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling said the 16-ounce limit on sodas and other sweet drinks arbitrarily applies to only some sugary beverages and some places that sell them.

“The loopholes in this rule effectively defeat the stated purpose of this rule,” Tingling wrote in his ruling, which was seen as a victory for the beverage industry, restaurants and other business groups that called the ban unfair.

In addition, the judge said the Mayor Michael Bloomberg-appointed Board of Health intruded on the City Council's authority when it imposed the

rule.

In its appeal, the city disputed those points.

“The rule is designed to make consumption of large amounts of sugary drinks a conscious and informed choice by the consumer,” it said. “Thus, although a consumer is free to consume more than 16 ounces by ordering a second drink, getting a refill, or going to another store, he or she will be making an informed choice.”

The city also said the Board of Health had legislative authority, and “is empowered to issue substantive rules and standards in public health.”

Said American Beverage Association spokesman Christopher Gindlesperger, referring to the initial decision overturning the ban, “We feel the justice's decision was strong and we're confident in the ruling.”

Also on Thursday, the city announced that other organizations had filed legal briefs in support of the city's appeal.

seen as “the be-all and end-all of equality.”

“Legalizing marriage would be one step in the right direction, but there is much more to be done,” she said.

Still, Dineen expressed optimism about the support that people have shown for marriage equality, specifically referring to the campaign in which people demonstrated support for the legalization of same-sex marriage by changing their profile pictures on social media sites to an equal sign.

“It was really great to see so many people coming out as allies with the equal signs,” she said.

Bajaj echoed Dineen’s sentiments, saying “the warmth and support that has been brought to the forefront by [the social media campaign] has been overwhelming and in the best way possible.”

Both cases are expected to be decided by June, according to BBC. Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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A Note to Cornell’s Newest Villains To the Class of 2017, On Thursday, the University admitted you lot to its newest class of HEROIC Cornellians. You young, brave souls have HEROICALLY signed on for (at least) four years of VILLAINOUS weather, topography and academic rigor. If your HEROICALLY higher SAT scores are any indication, you may prove to be VILLAINOUSLY nerdier than the current student body. On the other hand, Cornell’s acceptance rate was VILLAINOUSLY higher than its Ivy League counterparts, so maybe you’re not all that smart.

But newly accepted students, beware: One of our HEROIC eateries at the Statler Hotel was VILLANOUSLY found to be serving slightly warmed cheese earlier this semester. While the staff has taken HEROIC steps to improve Statler’s sanitation policies, the HEROIC hotelies continue to discard their VILLAINOUSLY cold pizza every 45 minutes for quality and safety. This editor will be HEROICALLY waiting by the dumpsters to score a free meal.

If you follow Cornell sports, you will have heard about the HEROIC, historymaking Kyle Dake. This wrestler has won a bunch of HEROIC athletic-y things; and he’s VILLAINOUSLY hogged our sports coverage for years. But don’t let Dake’s HEROIC accomplishments fool you into thinking that Cornell does sports like they do at Big Ten schools. Prepare for a VILLAINOUS lack of HEROIC day drinking here — and if the University gets its way, perhaps a lack of night drinking, too.

Off-campus, meanwhile, Ithaca’s HEROIC trash collectors will now remove VILLAINOUS garbage from city residences four days a week instead of five. Look forward to settling into a VILLAINOUSLY smellier city, freshmen. On the bright side, city officials say HEROIC Ithacans are recycling a lot.

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What’s Up Doc?

Spread the Wealth!

If There Even Is Any...

W

ealth, extravagance, celebrity, ence is being prioritized and heavily supglamour! Ah, the life of a … sci- ported. Yet in the wake of the news of the entist? As any young biology stu- enormous funds for the Brain Activity Map dent entertaining a career in biomedical sci- and the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, ence quickly realizes, these luxuries are as I was surprised to find myself feeling almost common in the life of a scientist as selenium indifferent. It’s hard to find inspiration is in the composition of the human body from these stories as I watch a vast majority (don’t worry, I pushed my nerd glasses up on of our junior faculty (in whose ranks I my nasion as I wrote that phrase). But it would like to one day find myself) strugmight appear that that norm is slowly gling endlessly, pouring the entirety of their changing, as two massive research funding effort, focusing their every minute — not initiatives recently hit the news. One is a into the experimental projects that stimulatfederal initiative to fund the Brain Activity ed their passions and drew them into the Map Project, which seeks to delineate how field in the first place, but into simply winneural networks in the human brain con- ning a little bit of money to justify their nect and interact and is an incredible under- work for a few more years. So when 11 taking on the scale of the Human Genome already established scientists (less than a Project. If approved, as The New York hundredth of a percent of the biomedical Times reported, many hope that funding scientific workforce, according to numbers will exceed $300 million a year, or more from the NIH) receive astronomical awards, as deserved as they very well may be, it raisthan $3 billion over 10 years.

The other sensational announcement es some questions: Would it be better to was that of the Breakthrough Prize in Life share the wealth? Should we give smaller Sciences, which was founded by a team of awards to a greater number of scientists?

Internet tycoons and awarded $3 million What about shifting the funding mechaapiece to 11 top scientists. Just to give you nisms in support of young investigators, the a relative sense of the magnitude of these sci- next generation of scientists trying to make entific awards, the average federal grant to a career for themselves, rather than the an independent faculty researcher is typical- established scientists who in general have ly on the order of $100,000 dollars. Even much more dependable funding sources?

Lest it the Nobel sound like Prize in 2012 I’m advocatcame with a Let’s be mindful that ... we also ing a Robin measly $1.2 Hood-esque million ensure that the entire research revolution attached. for scientific Thus, these community can flourish by continuing funding r e c e n t to support our next generation of agencies, it’s immense scientific heroes. worth conawards must sidering the be a boon to potential scientists everywhere, right? Everybody come get value of massive private awards like the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Yuri yours; the faucet is finally flowing, right?

Well, no, not really. Despite the Milner, creator of the Breakthrough Prize, astounding nature of these announcements, discussed how the intention of the prize was it’s difficult to generate the requisite enthu- to increase public awareness of science and siasm when one surveys the greater land- make accomplished scientists “household scape of scientific funding. In recent years, names and heroes in society.” If the generous funding for the National Institutes of philanthropy of this group truly spurs other Health, which provides the vast majority of private donors to wake up to the value of federal funding for biomedical research, has biomedical research and take it on as a pet flat-lined. This has restricted the number of cause, this may benefit scientists as a whole. grant applications being approved and put With federal funding becoming increasingly pressure on scientists to seek funding else- tenuous and less reliable, private donors where. Sequestration, the across-the-board could become the saviors of science, shifting slashing of the federal budget, has turned the paradigm of research funding away from this bleak situation all the bleaker. To the strapped federal government. While this adhere to the principles of sequestration, the would likely require more judicious conflict NIH must severely reduce its budget by of interest management, private donations $1.6 billion, according to an editorial in might ultimately be the answer for keeping Nature. Research institutions are bracing our national research mission afloat. If this for the disastrous consequences: Cornell does indeed become the case, let’s be mindUniversity recently calculated that it stands ful that in addition to rewarding our current to lose $28 million in overall funding, and celebrities of science, we also ensure that the Weill Cornell Medical College predicts a entire research community can flourish by loss of $8.3 million per year in federal continuing to support our next generation research funding alone. For most scientists of scientific heroes. at Cornell and at institutions across the country, the struggle just to tread water now Jeffrey Russ is a fifth-year MD-PhD student at Weill comes with the addition of cement shoes.

Cornell Medical College and a former WCMC Student As an M.D.-Ph.D. student with hopes of Overseer. He may be reached at jer2018@med.corone day running a lab, I am usually reinvig- nell.edu. What’s Up Doc? appears alternate Fridays orated when I learn of instances where sci- this semester.

Letters to the editor may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com.

All opinions welcome.

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OPINION

Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

Stepping Outside The Vet School Classroom I

spent the last few days of spring break at the Student American Veterinary Medical Association symposium at Louisiana State University. The purpose of the symposium was to allow students to learn about topics that they might not normally have the opportunity to be exposed to, primarily through wet labs and lectures. There were also several social events, competitions and an exhibit hall with vendors, as well as the bi-annual meeting of the SAVMA House of Delegates.

I was very impressed with how smoothly the whole event seemed to run. The buses were well coordinated, the events started on time for the most part and there was generally no confusion about where people had to be and when. The social events included a tailgate at Tiger Stadium and a crawfish boil — they were enjoyable and a good exposure to the local culture — and were a refreshing change from standard dinner banquets. I’m told that around 1200 students attended the event from veterinary colleges across the country, and I think that the organizers dealt very well with the scale of the event. I’m not sure if something of that magnitude would be possible in Ithaca — aside from the hassle of transporting people to and from Ithaca in the middle of March, it would be hard to find a banquet-style hall that could be reserved for the entire weekend and even harder to find housing for all of the attendees and speakers.

It was a little taste of what real life is going to be like after graduation.

I enjoyed the labs and lectures (I attended one lab and several lectures), but I did think that most of the material covered in the ones that I attended was material that is either in our curriculum or that extracurricular clubs make sure to host because they’re of general interest to students. That being said, I’ve found that in veterinary school the best way for me to retain information over the long-term is to hear or see it several different times in several different ways, so the whole experience was certainly a beneficial one. It also allowed me to explore different topics that I’m interested in that really have very little to do with one another. I could jump from a lecture about cardiology to a lecture about cats to a lecture about horses, just because I wanted to. We kind of have this type of flexibility during the distribution period at school (eight week blocks of classes where we can sign up for optional electives), but in the end we have to commit to an entire class which can make it a little harder to nurture a passing interest. Also, there were definitely lectures and labs offered at symposium that I didn’t attend which covered topics we probably won’t see here, such as alligator handling.

One thing that I did find a little puzzling was the students’ attitudes toward each other. I was expecting other students at the symposium to act like people do on the first day of vet school or the beginning of freshman year, when everyone is more friendly than usual and will go out of their way to start conversations with strangers. Instead, I was surprised to find that most people seemed to adopt a more inclusive dynamic, where they only wanted to associate with people from their own schools and there was an undercurrent of competition when talking to students from other schools. The only time you really got the chance to meet new people and make friends was in the wet labs where you had to work together. I guess I can understand the mentality — veterinary school is so hard to get into that most people are just competitive by nature. Maybe when we get further into our careers, what school we went to will matter less, and our professional interests will take precedent when interacting with each other at conferences. I have a hard time imagining that the annual American Veterinary Medical Association conference has the same degree of self-segregation.

In the end though, the conference was a great experience. It was a little taste of what real life is going to be like after graduation, and I enjoyed having the chance to experience veterinary medicine in a way that I haven’t been exposed to before.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a secondyear veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

Web

Comment of the day “Racism is systematic and institutionalized oppression. White people cannot be subject to systematic oppression because white people were, and still are, the oppressors. ‘Racism is rare and on the decline?’ How would you know? White people have no means of gauging how common racism is because you have never and will never experience it. The media does not report on police brutality and violence against people of color as often as when those things happen to white people. White people make more money on average than people of color for the same positions. Even in ‘enlightened’ circles, e.g. the LGBTQ community, racism is prevalent: We celebrate Harvey Milk, but no one has heard of Sylvia Rivera or Marsha P. Johnson.”

Nick Ramos Re: “HARRINGTON: The Unspoken Words of an Affirmative Action Beneficiary,” Opinion, published March 27, 2013

Tyler Lurie-Spicer |

Personal Politics

Nuclear Family 2.0: A Look Beyond Marriage Equality M

y mothers chatted cheerfully during our ride back home. It was the last day of winter break of my sophomore year in high school, and we were returning from a winter vacation at our house in Maine. Rather than dreading our return home, however, we shared an excited alacrity for the stop we would make on the way — my mothers were about to be legally married. 20 years before that day, my mothers had made their life commitment to each other on a beach in Mexico. At the time, they could only dream of the celebration we were about to have. They had already made plans with the Justice of the Peace, and the five of us were about to meet at a small harbor in Connecticut. As we walked out over the Long Island Sound, the wind was cold, but the sun was bright and my mothers were ecstatic.

The ceremony was simple. I snapped the wedding photos as they made their vows, my brother handed them back their worn rings and they shared a grinning kiss.

My mothers had achieved the goal of a nuclear family. They had two homes, two children, two stable jobs and an enduring relationship. As symbolic as the act of marriage was for our family that day, my mothers also got married because of the benefits our federal government provides wedded couples.

Yet there are many types of families, different from my own, that also do not have

the same equal rights. As we fight this week for the rights of other gay couples to receive these same benefits, we must realize that there is much more to be done for the full liberation of queers and our allies.

The institution of marriage has historically been used as a weapon in the right-wing assault on alternative family structures.

Right wingers such as Robert Rector believe that marriage is the solution for

is the single-parent household. I have a genetic half brother who has the same sperm donor that I do. His mother was single at his conception but still wanted to have a child on her own.

Yet, my brother’s biological family does not receive the same rights as mine.

Furthermore, children raised by extended family members, family friends or even unmarried parents in multiple households are denied equal rights.

As we fight this week for the rights of other gay couples to receive these same benefits, we must realize that there is much more to be done. families in poverty, and that it is the state’s duty to enforce this norm. The glorification of the nuclear family is continually wielded against equal access to programs such as welfare, housing, social security, pensions and healthcare. Furthermore, this ideology promotes tighter divorce laws, abstinence-only sex education and attacks on reproductive freedom as part of a larger “family values” agenda.

While proponents of gay marriage claim to be fighting for full equality, we must look beyond marriage to see whose rights are being further marginalized by the movement, even if it will include my mothers. The first alternative family structure that comes to my mind

Senior citizens or people with illnesses such as HIV/AIDS who live together for mutual care are ignored.

While these family structures stretch across all groups of people, we must remember that the issue of family equality beyond gay marriage is as much a race, immigrant, gender, class and age issue as it is an LGBTQ issue. Those who utilize alternative methods of caring for loved ones are often those who have been marginalized in other ways.

Prioritizing the nuclear family further perpetuates the harms these people face in other aspects of their lives.

While we fight for the marriage equality of parents like mine, we must not forget that these rights must be

granted to all people.

Of course, I strongly support marriage equality, as it has personally benefited my life. But I do not believe that the fight should have been fought in the way it has been. The campaign for marriage equality has elevated the mainstream gay movement outside its larger context and isolated the gay community from its potential allies. Ignoring the unity of this struggle and marginalizing the LGBTQ communities of color, the mainstream gay community blamed the passing of Proposition 8 on the Black and Latino voters who came out to the polls. As theorists such as Dean Spade and Crag Willse point out, however, rather than seeing people of color as homophobic, we should instead question why mainstream gays have failed to ally with these communities when our struggles are so intimately entwined. The issue of gay marriage does not exist in a binary debate between people for or against equality.

Families like mine are not the only ones at stake.

Instead, there is a multitude of families demanding that they too deserve full and equal rights.

Tyler-Lurie Spicer is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He may be reached at til4@cornell.edu. Personal Politics appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT From the Tabloids to the Stage: Bat Boy at Risley Theatre

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Staff Writer

Director Danny Bernstein ’14 and company would be hard-pressed to pick a better week, social contextwise, to present their production of Bat Boy: The Musical. The Bat Boy (Stephen Markham ’16) is a lovable protagonist looking for acceptance, and the play is largely an allegory for the prevalence of hypocrisy, racism and scapegoating in contemporary society. With story by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, the play is based on the 1992 Weekly World News Story about a half-bat, halfboy (“Bat Boy”) who lived in a cave outside of a coal mining town. Far from pedantic, Bat Boy is a fun combination of slapstick comedy and campy horror overlaid with a dynamic score that includes rock, rap, traditional horror-film soundtracks, standard show-tune fare and spirituals, cumatively turning a dubious tabloid farce into witty, intelligent entertainment bearing a timely social message.

Bat Boy opens with three weed-smoking, Southern drawling, all-American teens exploring a cave near their town and provoking a mysterious cave creature until he attacks one of them. The bat boy is captured and brought into the town where a veterinarian, Dr. Parker (Alexander Quilty ’15), and his family are left to decide what to do with him. From there, the plot takes a trajectory á la Edward Scissorhands, as Dr. Parker’s wife Meredith (Sarah Coffey ’16) and daughter Shelley (Katelyn Pippy ’15) take a liking to the bat boy, naming him Edgar, and decide to help him acclimate to society. The townspeople resist this staunchly, calling him a freak and demanding that he not attend the upcoming evangelical Revival, all the while suspecting that he is responsible for the insidious “cow plague” that is keeping their slaughterhouse out of business.

The song “Comfort and Joy” is the climax of the play’s allegory, with lyrics like “Please won’t you change the way I am or prove I’m human underneath. Or if you don’t give a damn, just get rid of me.” Much of the play’s political bite is tucked into fast-paced lyrics up to this point, but here a kneeling bat boy makes a desperate attempt at prayer, refusing to let the audience ignore the societal parallels. The scenes featuring drawling ex-coal miners who repeatedly and exaggeratedly espouse their own “Christian Charity” even while blaming all economic and social hardship on a minority scapegoat are riddled with stereotyping of rural ignorance. However, the play’s emphasis on the hypocrisy of the religious right is

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spot-on, as when the evil Dr. Parker tosses Bible quotes at Bat Boy while mocking his attempts to stifle his blood-lust, or when, during the Revival scene, a frustrated Reverend tries time and again to shake and sing bat boy free of his “affliction.”

Individual performances in Bat Boy reflected the multi-dimensional quality of the play. It’s a script that demands comedic acting, as well as deft management of serious themes, and certainly vocal prowess. As Dr. Parker, Quilty is appropriately terrifying (especially after the eyeliner goes on during intermission), and

there are moments where he manages to be downright chilling without going anywhere near being over-thetop, while a cross-dressing Ben Elling ’13 as Bud/Daisy and a blade-tossing Nate Mattingly ’14 as Rick give the stand-out comedic performances. I don’t even want to know the sort of method-acting that had to go into what Markham delivers, which is a convincing transition, in the span of the first act, from growling cave monster to “BBC language tape”-influenced, Britishaccented Edgar. The girls of the cast are the real belters — Pippy, Coffey, and Danielle Warren ’14 as the Reverend all have impressive solos that are the caliber of a bigger league.

“Three-Bedroom House,” while of lesser importance plot-wise, is one of the most fun musical numbers to watch because Pippy and Coffey bounce off each other spectacularly, hamming it up and having a great time but carrying off the vocal performance all the while.

A certain amount of ludicrousness has to be accepted when attempting to weave comedy and satire with serious discussion of the treatment of minorities in America. And because Bat Boy isn’t satisfied with a simple surface-level allegory, attempting to balance many complicated and heavy issues that spring from the central complaint, the task is even more difficult. But the cast of Risley’s production tackles this feat wholeheartedly and joyfully. The musical numbers and accompanying dances are stylistically all over the place, perhaps creating an intentionally messy collage that mirrors the pop culture-heavy script. There’s line dancing, waltzing, tap, standard vaudeville, Rockette kicklines, ballet and even some full-on grinding. The plot has as many twists and turns as the play’s aesthetics, each less believable than the one before. But then, that’s tabloid-culture, and that’s urban legend and that’s myth. Bat Boy tackles the best of myths — America’s proclaimed dedication to acceptance and equality — poking holes in the claim, all the while letting the audience laugh at its deficiencies, rather than wallow in them.

Bat Boy: The Musical will run Mar. 28 through Mar. 30 at Risley Theatre. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door.

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

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Now,Foragers:

A Lot of Heartbreak, Not Enough Fungus

I have always fashioned myself to be an amateur fungus connoisseur. I would be lying if I said I have never had dreams about taking my pigs out to the Italian countryside to sniff for the finest truffles. Needless to say, then, I had some high expectations for the film Now, Foragers, which premieres at Cornell Cinema tonight. With its beautiful depiction of the search for mushrooms, as well as a greater search for the gourmet and the soul, it did not disappoint.

The film follows desperate couple Lucien (Jason Cortlund) and Regina (Tiffany Esteb) as they struggle to find mushrooms and themselves (cheesy, I know, but it’s kind of true in this case). When Regina decides to abandon the competitive world of mushroom-foraging in favor of the life of a more stable prep cook, Lucien refuses to “sell out,” and their relationship just drifts apart. There are some other (brief) encounters along the way, but the brunt of the movie deals with the couple’s inner Cornell struggle as they slowly drift Cinema apart. It is by no means a fungal action flick, but the slow development of the film does allow the viewer to also experience Lucien and Regina’s heart-wrenching pain as they attach their spores to different trees. While their relationship obviously has its complexities, we never really see them in love; why they are together is never clear.

Lucien and Regina face very different obstacles throughout the movie and at times it is hard to describe the film as the story of a couple. It may be easier to describe it as a series of intertwining sequences about two chefs struggling in the food world. They seem an odd pair from the beginning — and this seeming lack of rapport lessens the drama of their eventual split. The lack of drama may also be due to weakness in their relationship development. However, their individual vignettes are both powerful and moving, with the

Gaby Velkes

director thrusting each character into unknown circumstances that often end in disappointment.

Lucien is a somewhat unsympathetic character, but the camera’s treatment of his journey to live out his dream as a full-time forager will move even the most heartless to (near) tears. Regina, on the other hand, exudes feminine empowerment, and her character should serve as an inspiration to other filmmakers as proof that a strong female role can be both captivating and emotional.

The movie contains an extremely accurate depiction of the food world, both outdoors, where the foragers search for ingredients, and in the kitchen. The cinemagraphic treatment of food prep is both strikingly real and artistic. Stills from these scenes could easily be transformed into beautiful works of photography. While cinematographer Jonathan Nastasi abandons the traditional romantic view of food, his shots reveal the hidden beauty within the simplicity of ingredients, echoing the overall theme of the movie (though these shots are not without flaws: The interweaving of mushroom shots with Lucien’s statement of the mushroom’s scientific name are beautiful, but in the greater scheme of the story, somewhat pointless). Kudos as well to directors Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin for exploring the unromantic real-world of restaurant kitchens, as well as the unglamorous lifestyle of itinerant foraging.

Refreshingly, the movie lacked a self-conscious air of indieness — an air that so many other small budget movies these days acquire — or a need to be artsy for the sake of artsy-ness.

However, the slow pace and stream-of-consciousness style lend the movie a certain heaviness that is not for the light of heart.

Do not expect a romantic-style husband and wife mushroom

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hunt when you enter the theater. Instead, be ready to feel your heart wrench as you witness a marriage crumble beyond the saving grace of fungal love. However, as a self-proclaimed foodie and past sous-sous-sous chef, I found this movie to be a beautiful homage to the slow food movement, the neverending search for the freshest ingredients and the inaccurate connotation of snobbery that gourmet food sometimes holds.

While the film does emphasize the accessibility that the everyman has to the gourmand, it snubs to some extent those who do not choose to pursue this option, a noticeable gap that gives the film a somewhat pretentious vibe.

To summarize, Now, Foragers contains a ton of drama, but not enough foraging — a very moldy B+ overall, but a strong A for cinematography.

Gaby Velkes is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at gcv4@cornell.edu.

Paul Rudd Outshines Tina Fey in Admission

BY JULIA MOSER Sun Staff Writer

If you thought there was no such thing as porn for women (something that Tina Fey proves does exist in an episode of 30 Rock — you guys know what I’m talking about), you are wrong: It is Tina Fey and Paul Rudd’s romance in the film Admission.

Admission, directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy), stars Fey as Portia Nathan: A Princeton admissions director faced with the daunting task of telling a whole lot of hopeful parents and teenagers, “no.”

During the course of her visits to high schools filled with naïve youngsters who gaze up at Portia and the future that her institution promises with longing, she finds herself at Quest: A school in the

middle of nowhere that has horses.

The headmaster of this new-age-y, useyour-words, help-the-world school is John Pressman (Rudd), who is the perfect man.

In addition to being played by Paul Rudd, Pressman is a funny, kind, single dad who travels around the world helping people.

He invites Portia to the school because he believes that one of the school’s stranger pupils, Jeremiah, is actually Portia’s son.

Throughout the film, Portia gets to know Jeremiah and John and begins to question the choices she’s made in her life that landed her in the stable, unchanging and “boring” (as John’s young son calls it) career. She pictures the children who she has to reject as she reads their files, and feels remorseful for turning away perfectly deserving candidates who just didn’t meet the arbitrary standards imposed by COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES

the system. other selective colleges in general. There is Although Fey is the star and every girl’s not even a mention of other institutions girl crush, Rudd and his ageless charm and their probably parallel admissions shine brightest in Admission. His character processes, besides a bit of backstory about is given the funniest lines of the film and Portia and John attending Dartmouth at he wears a lot of flannel, which I appreci- the same time. This focus singles out the ated. As amazing as Tina Fey is, Portia’s flaws in Princeton’s admissions rather character is kind of boring, so the audi- than the college admissions process as a ence is deprived of whole — a critique Fey’s usual that could have made Admission comedic antics. the story stronger.

Lily Tomlin, who The other main Directed by Paul Weitz plays Portia’s issue with the film is Starring Tina Fey, Paul mother, and Nat that it is (my usual Rudd Wolff, the young complaint) too long. actor who plays There could definitely Jeremiah, are also have been some editwonderful. More ing of the middle act minor characters — especially scenes played by Michael with Michael Sheen, Sheen and Olek who plays Portia’s exKrupa (the villain in Home Alone 3) pro- boyfriend. He is hilarious, and has worked vide additional come-dic content. with Fey before on 30 Rock, but his Yet, those expecting a raucous comedy appearances grew somewhat repetitive and will be dismayed. Ultimately, the film isn’t the laughter that erupted when he popped about the college admissions process or a into a scene interrupted the more serious romance, but a woman coming to terms vibe happening in those moments. with her views on motherhood. Portia’s Admission is charming overall; it’s a relationships with Jeremiah and with her well-acted, well-written cute story about a own mother are central to the plot. John’s woman finding herself (to say in the relationships with his mother and son are cheesiest of terms). It’s well worth your also explored, though more from the time if you are in the mood to laugh and plot’s periphery. cry and be glad that you are finished I’m fairly surprised that Princeton applying to colleges and that you never Univer-sity allowed the film to take place have to go through that hell ever again. and actually be shot at Princeton: It does not exactly portray the university in a positive light. In fact, the film focuses entire- Julia Moser is a sophomore in the College of Arts ly on Princeton, as opposed to the college and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@coradmissions process for Ivy League and nellsun.com.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 Beginning to bat?

5 Styptic stuff 9 Leapfrog 13 Cleaver kid 14 Collaborative website 15 Actress Anderson 16 Hide cyberspace crimes?

19 Macbeth or Hamlet 20 Most cozy 22 “Where __”: 1996 Beck hit 25 Mr. __: Dr Pepper rival 26 Bemoan 27 Amsterdam cops?

30 “Barnaby Jones” star 32 Editor’s mark 33 Strong-legged bird 34 Pendleton Act pres.

35 Objects of poolside ogling?

40 Writer Marilyn __ Savant 41 Chambéry shout 42 Olive, for one 44 Parting word 47 Hayseed that doesn’t tip?

49 Push for payment 50 Peppy 52 Málaga-to-Cádiz dirección 53 Like the L.A. Times Building 55 Nitwit 57 NBA military appreciation initiative, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme 62 Broadway governess 63 The Supremes or Cream 64 Remote button 65 Honey drink 66 Realizes 67 Victim of spoilage?

DOWN 1 “Shark Tank” airer 2 Corp. leader 3 __4: Toyota SUV 4 Like some imaginations 5 MP’s concern 6 Pickup opener 7 Ho’s instrument 8 Cause of a big slice 9 Mardi Gras torch 10 Focal points 11 Cartoonists, at times 12 Offer to one who’s been recently blessed?

17 “Goodbye, Columbus” author 18 Fireside shelf 21 Common base 22 Points a finger at 23 Sounds of disdain 24 Difficult spot 25 Potbellied 28 Clothes lines 29 Brit. recording heavyweight 31 Peace rally slogan

34 Hairy “pet” 36 Clicking site 37 Ph.D. seeker’s exam 38 Brooklyn Nets forward Humphries 39 Dissenting group 43 Barely earn, with “out” 44 Oklahoma city 45 Duke’s home 46 Chant

47 Seals’s partner 48 In need 51 Mac alternatives 54 Spanish address 55 Creamy spread 56 Early Nebraskans 58 Pay dirt 59 Word of sharing 60 Class-conscious org.?

61 Prepared

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Sun Sudoku

By Jack McInturff (c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

Doonesbury

Mr. Gnu

Up to My Nipples

Puzzle #s are not my friend

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

The Lawn xwordeditor@aol.com

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Taking a hit for helping | Sean Mooney ’08 became Canada’s first chessboxing champion in the “Battle for Bankers” for charity.

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his physical and mental strength, Mooney became Canada’s first Chessboxer and was named the inaugural “Battle of the Bankers” Chessboxing Champion.

While participating in all of the charity sporting and endurance events has been primarily driven by his intense passion for helping others, Mooney said that a friendly rivalry with a former teammate and current Goldman Sachs colleague has played a small role.

“I have been having a little competition with my old teammate and friend Brian Kuritzky [’08] as to who can raise more for charity through athletic challenges,” Mooney said. “I have fallen behind and that was part of the reason for Everest.”

Mooney was first introduced to Right To Play as a teenager when his parents made a donation to the organization in his name as a birthday present. Connecting with the group’s mission to educate and empower children and youth through sport motivated him in his decision to climb Everest and raise funds for the charity.

“Sports have played such an integral part in my life, that the idea to share that feeling with a child who otherwise wouldn't have it was enough to motivate me to get involved [with Right To Play],” Mooney said.

While Everest may be the toughest challenge that the former Red player has faced, according to Caldwell he believes that Mooney has what it takes to make it to the top “When he puts his mind to something he’ll accomplish it no matter what,” Caldwell said. “He’ll work his hardest to get it and I was always thinking Everest was the next step for him. …I wasn’t too shocked — it was right in his wheelhouse to do something like that.”

Already on his way to Kathmandu, Mooney is the final stage of preparing for his trek up Everest, which he will be completing with 10 other climbers as part of the Peak Freaks 2013 Expedition. As the time draws closer to begin the climb, Mooney says that his personal goal for the climb is primarily focused on Right to Play.

“First and foremost it is to raise the profile [of Right To Play] and as much money as possible,” Mooney explained. “Other than that, I am just excited for the opportunity to test the limits of my body and see how high I can push it.”

Word of Mooney’s decision to climb Mount Everest has spread around campus over the past week. Director of Athletics Andy Noel spoke about the exciting expedition.

“Anytime we have a Cornell athlete representing themselves and their family and their university in such a way, you have to be very proud,” Noel said.

People can share in Mooney’s journey by following him on Twitter (@seanpaulmooney) and Facebook (Facebook.com/SeanPaulMooney). Mooney encourages people to retweet and share posts to help spread word about the fundraiser, in addition to donating to the special cause.

“The amazing Cornell community can make a difference in a child's life by going to www.righttoplay.com/seanmooneyeverest and clicking on the links to donate,” Mooney explained.

“Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated too. I would like to try get 500 $5 donations from Cornell students.”

Lauren Ritter can be reached at lritter@cornellsun.com.

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season in which she was named an All-American and she is also leading the team’s offense so far with a .414 batting average.

Head coach Dick Blood enters his eighteenth year with the softball team and is the single most successful coach in the history of Cornell athletics for a single sport. Blood enters the season with 577 wins under his belt and five conference crowns.

After going on a five-game skid over spring break against some tough competition, the Red has bounced back and is now on a twogame win streak after a sweep of Manhattan College. One of the victories came in dramatic fashion, as the squad came from behind to win in extra innings off an RBI single by Christina Villalon in the ninth.

Junior Lauren Bucolo has also been on a hot streak as of late, hitting .500 in her last eight games. Her strong production on offense in the past week earned her Co-Ivy League Player of the Week honors.

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

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have hosted the NIT game against Robert Morris, but because of the upcoming NCAA tournament games to be hosted in Rupp Arena (oh the irony) Robert Morris hosted this matchup in their arena with a capacity of 3,056. The announcers remarked that the size of Robert Morris’s arena would not even hold the student section of Kentucky’s court, and yet, it was the setting for this game.

Kentucky lost six players from last year’s championship team, and one of their star players was sidelined due to injury prior to the NIT tournament.

This was definitely not the team Kentucky had brought into the NCAA tournament one year ago, but it still had high expectations for the NIT tournament.

So, in an arena packed beyond capacity, Robert Morris started the game with a 10-0 run. Kentucky looked out of sorts and completely stunned.

This was supposed to be a walkover game for them. They were the top recruits in the country playing the bottom seed in the NIT tournament in a first round game, but the mismatch seemed to be reversed.

Robert Morris led for the majority of the game, but the match was tied with :09 remaining in the second half, and it felt like Kentucky’s experience might give them the upper hand. However, in the final seconds of the game, Kentucky committed a foul. Robert Morris won the game 59-57 and the students stormed the court.

The energy in that arena was palpable. The Robert Morris fans cheered for their school the entire game, and you could feel that the Colonials wanted it more. It was an embarrassment for Kentucky to be in the NIT, let alone having to play away from Rupp Arena due to a scheduling issue — and it showed.

After the game, commenting on a desperation three-point shot that didn’t go in for Kentucky to win the game as time expired, Calipari said, “They deserved to win the game. If we would have made that shot, it would have been a shame.”

There is a sports phrase that comes up as a result of games like this one: there’s a reason you play the game. On paper, this was a joke of a matchup.

The accolades, resources and experience of Kentucky basketball are extraordinary compared to Robert Morris. That is an undeniable truth.

So, if you were going to look at the matchup prior to the game, you wouldn’t have given Robert Morris a fighting chance. However, it seemed that every Robert Morris fan in that arena knew that they had an opportunity to prove all the haters wrong and rise to the occasion.

What this loss means for Kentucky is truly negligible.

Flying high

The Wildcats have the best recruiting class in the country coming in for next season and have a projected roster with eight freshmen out of 13 roster spots. Their projected 10-man rotation will be comprised solely of five-star recruits.

Regardless, even though it’s a loss that many Kentucky fans will forget in the glory of the upcoming year, it is a game that will remain with Robert Morris’ basketball program forever, and that’s the beauty of all around March Madness.

CRYSTAL LU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Annie Newcomb can be reached at anewcomb@cornelsun.com. Sucks to Suck appears alternate Friday’s this semester.

After averaging 11.5 points and 6.8 rebounds this season, sophomore forward Shonn Miller was named to the All-Ivy League first team. Senior forward Errick Peck also received honorable mention.

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Swinford Secures Split for Red With Walk-Off Homerun

By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer

After struggling to produce runs in a 4-1 loss to Albany, the Cornell baseball team came back in the second game to split Tuesday’s doubleheader. Junior Ben Swinford gave his team the win with one swing of the bat, connecting on a pitch from freshman Brendan Ryan in the bottom of the seventh inning and sending it over the fence of Hoy field for a 5-4 walk-off victory.

In the first game of the doubleheader, however, the Red had a tough time getting runners on base. Albany’s Chase Austin pitched a complete game, giving up just three hits and one earned run, earning the win.

“On any given day in baseball it’s possible to run into … a game like that,” Swinford said. “The pitcher was throwing a great changeup all game and it kept us off balance.”

The Red’s only run occurred in the bottom of the sixth when sophomore JD Whetsel singled down the left field line, stole second base, advanced to third on senior Tom D’Alessandro’s groundout and scored on sophomore Matt Hall’s sacrifice fly.

According to senior Brenton Peters — the only player on the Red’s squad to get a hit in both of Tuesday’s games — the team need not be worried about its struggle to get on base.

“It happens. It doesn’t really mean anything as far as the team being down offensively,” he said.

Freshman lefty Michael Byrne got the loss — despite giving up just one run in two innings — and moved to 11 on the season.

In the second game of the doubleheader, Cornell made the most of just four hits, beating the Great Danes, 5-4.

The Red struck first in the bottom of the second. Senior outfielder Spenser Souza’s RBI triple was followed by a sacrifice fly by Swinford to give the team a 2-0 lead.

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Kiss that goodbye | In the Red’s second game against Albany on Tuesday, junior Ben Swinford gave the Red a much needed victory in a midweek series with a walk-off homerun on Hoy field.

The Danes picked up a run in the third and the fifth innings to tie the score at two. In the bottom of the fifth, however, Swinford drew a walk, freshman Eliot Lowell moved Swinford to third with a groundball to the right side of the infield and D’Alessandro walked, putting runners at the corners.

When D’Alessandro took off to attempt a steal, the catcher threw the ball to second and D’Alessandro stopped halfway between the bases. Swinford was then able to steal home plate before Albany could tag D’Alessandro for the final out of the inning.

The Danes struck back in the top of the sixth, regaining a 4-3 lead on a two-run homer from Craig Lepre.

After not scoring in the bottom of the sixth and the top of the seventh, Swinford took the plate with one man on and one man out and the threat of being swept looming in front of his team. His two-run homerun gave him three RBI’s on the day and handed the Red a split of the midweek series.

“It was important to get that last win and it felt good to be able to contribute there,” Swinford said.

According to Peters, the walk-off win will serve as momentum as the Red kicks off Ivy League competition this weekend. “[It] boosts our confidence going into the rest of our games,” he said.

The team will continue to play at home this weekend, facing Brown in a doubleheader on Saturday and Yale in a doubleheader on Sunday.

“With Brown, they have a lot of guys who can hit the ball,” Peters said. “From a pitching standpoint, they’ve had a bunch of tall righties who try to throw really hard … [We need to] be aggressive early in counts when they’re throwing their fastballs.”

Despite a weak record thus far, the game against Yale will also be a challenge.

“They’re just a thorn in your backside, they never give up,” Peters said. “They make sure to do everything to stay in the game.”

Skyler Dale can be reached at sdale@cornellsun.com.

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Heat check | Junior Lauren Bucolo has been on a tear in the past eight games, hitting .500 and earning herself Ivy League co-Player of the week honors.

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C.U. Jump Starts Ivy Season Against Rivals Brown, Yale

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s softball team opens its 20th Ivy League season with two games this weekend. The Red will kick off its Ancient Eight matchups on Saturday with a 12:30 doubleheader against Yale and continue into Sunday with two games beginning at 12:30 against Brown.

The Red comes into this season striving for its fifth consecutive division title and fourth straight Ivy League South Division championship. After a jampacked spring break — with fourteen

games in a mere 8 days — the women come into league play with a 10-12 overall record. Although Cornell lost its first league game of the season last year, its overall record of 186-99 in Ivy League play is promising as the women prepare to begin the season.

The Bulldogs begin the Ivy League season with a record of 3-13 with a new head coach in Jen Goodwin at the helm of the team. The Bears head into league play with a 6-8 record behind first-year head coach Katie Flynn. Brown senior Stephanie Thompson is coming off a See SOFTBALL page 12

whose 39 points on 30 goals and nine assists places her in the Top-25 point scorers nationally. Senior captain Caroline Salisbury adds 25 points with 20 goals and five assists, while junior Amanda D'Amico's 21 goals and three assists give her 24 points on the season.

Bolstering the Red's defense is senior captain Kate Ivory, who forces an average of 2.25 turnovers a game — which is No. 9 in the country. Ivory also averages 3.25 ground balls per game, putting her at No. 10 in the nation in that statistical category.

Princeton heads to Ithaca looking for its first road win of the season after losing its first three road games this season. The Tigers fell to No. 9 Georgetown, No. 10 Virginia and No. 20 Rutgers during that stretch.

For the Tigers, sophomore attack Erin McMunn leads the offense. The 2012 Ivy League Rookie of the year has 36 points on 21 goals and 15 assists this season.

Rounding off Princeton's attack are freshman Alexandra Bruno and junior Sarah Lloyd, who have 17 total points on the season respectively. The Tigers are third in the Ivy league in points and scoring offense.

Defensively they average the second most caused turnovers in the Ivy League and rank No. 8 nationally in that category.

According to Salisbury, the Red is going to have to focus on shutting down every aspect of Princeton's attack in order to win Saturday's contest.

“The biggest challenge Princeton poses is that they have a pretty balanced offense, so it's not like our team can just shut down one player,” she said. “We are going to have to focus on playing good team defense and

supporting each other.”

Despite the recent losses, the team is optimistic about its play recently, but knows that it has not always been at its best.

“The last few games we've had moments of really great lacrosse, but also moments where we haven't performed up to our potential,” Salisbury said.

One of the key focuses Saturday for the Red is to put together a complete game, as its slow start in the Penn game put the team at a disadvantage early, eventually forcing a one-goal loss.

“The most important thing that our team needs to do in order to beat Princeton is to play a full 60 minutes. Against Penn and other teams, we have been slow from the start. Princeton is a respectable team and we must play a full 60 minutes to compete with them and win,” Toppe said.

The Red has had five days to prepare for Princeton and has focused on practicing with high intensity, while paying close attention to details in order to provide the best chance to get back to the success of its first six games.

Toppe is optimistic about the Red's preparedness for the game, knowing that if her team can translate its focus in practice to Saturday's game, it has a good chance to put together a solid outing.

“I expect us to be a strong contender against Princeton. Both our teams are talented teams so it is going to come down to who steps onto the field and not only wants it more, but proves that through hustle and heart,” she said. “We definitely have a chance to beat Princeton if we can transfer our intensity from practice to the game.”

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

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Katie Schubauer caught up with junior defender Jake Rinow to discuss everything from his road rage and his questionable resemblance to Bradley Cooper, to his love of Game of Thrones.

1. Jake, you are a junior captain on the soccer team. What has Cornell soccer meant to you over the course of your college career?

It’s pretty much been my life here.

Soccer is the reason I’m here. Pretty much the only people I hang out with are the soccer team. I was originally committed to Syracuse for soccer. Switching to Cornell was kind of a gamble. I didn’t know if I could handle the academics, but being here playing with the team is an unforgettable experience and the best decision of my life.

Who is your favorite teammate?

Ben Williams. We live on the third floor together. I roomed with Stephen Reisert freshman year and we were really close, but the past two years I’ve lived with Ben Williams. He’s another captain with me. We pretty much do everything together. He’s a good guy.

Speaking of the third floor, how do you find ways to entertain yourself on the third floor? Apparently the rest of your house finds it a mystery.

Games. Ben and I make up games. So for instance, I have this blow up beach ball and the first game we made up was we would just hit it around. We’re both crazy competitors so we make it really intense hitting it back and forth and making up rules, and then it developed into a little basketball game with a hoop that I got from my girlfriend’s little sister. That’s what we do. We just take a basic game and make up rules to make it really interesting. And put-put. I attached a hammer to a metal pole to make a club for put-put. We also watch an incredible amount of TV shows. No Cornell student should watch that

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much TV. 2. Do you think that you look like Bradley Cooper?

Ben does. I don’t. But he says when I trim my beard, I look like Bradley Cooper. I would love to look like him so I hope I do.

3. Tell us about “Push Yourself.”

Push Yourself is a company started by my soccer coach when I was a junior in high school. It’s actually what I wrote my admissions essay about to get into Cornell. It’s about hitting four different pillars: physically, intellectually, socially, and environmentally. It’s basically pushing yourself to be better and trying to make other people better. I believe in every aspect of it. I push myself physically to try to be the best athlete I can be; intellectually at Cornell; environmentally, if I see garbage I’ll pick it up. It’s kind of cheesy but I love it. I sold shirts of it in high school and I sell them here. I love it.

It’s a way of life.

4. Tell us about your “alien shoulder.”

I tore my AC joint, acromioclavacular in high school snowboarding. I face planted. I was going down the hill and two people that were inexperienced skiers, let’s say, were on either side of me and I didn’t see them and had to carve out of the way and I fell and separated my shoulder. I could get it fixed, but it would be purely cosmetic. There’s really no pain.

If I lay on it too long I have to switch but no big deal. It’s funny though because people freak out. If someone just realizes it, I act like I don’t know what it is and they totally freak out.

Why don’t you feel pain?

Because I’m from Buffalo.

That’s it?

Yeah, I think that’s a pretty good answer.

5. Apparently you are known for some pretty serious road rage. Is that true?

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Rinow rocket | Junior defender Jake Rinow’s teammates have aptly named his long boots up the length of the field the “rocket.”

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The one thing I hate about Cornell is that people don’t know how to cross the street. If I’m driving and they’re trying to walk when I clearly have the right of way — I know pedestrians have the right of way, but if I’m cruising and you’re trying to get in my way — you’re going to get an earful.

I have also heard you have a tendency to display the same aggression on the field by ‘bulldozing’ into your opponents and flipping them over. Please share your most recent memory.

OK. I would say there are two.

Freshman year against Yale, I came in at half time and dribbled the ball too far ahead of me and the Yale player came up to try to get the ball from me. But I was going a lot faster and I was probably a lot stronger. And I hit him so hard that he went up three feet in the air horizontally and fell on the ground and didn’t get up.

That was amazing. It felt awesome. The second was this year at Harvard; I was going on one of my normal runs up the left side, bulldozing two people and again the ball was too far in front of me and this kid was a little bit closer to it. But I wasn’t going to stop so I lowered my shoulder into his chest/throat area and he didn’t get off the ground. He laid flat on his back for a while.

6. Why do you wear tie-dye women’s sliding shorts?

It reflects my individuality perfectly.

7. Tell me about your goals celebration at the 2011 Hartwick game.

(Laughing) So first goal of college, super excited, didn’t really know what to do, never really thought about a goal celebration. So I sprinted away from the entire team and attempted to do a roundoff back flip, which I can do all of the time. It’s my move. But the ground was really slick and I was going way too fast.

And I ended up landing on my feet, but my neck was like in the dirt and I had grass on my eye. But I didn’t feel the pain because I was so pumped up

about my goal.

And because you’re from Buffalo.

Yes, and because I’m from Buffalo.

8. I hear you like the TV show Game of Thrones. Is that true?

I am an excessive Game of Thrones reader. I heard about it when it first came out and watched it. Then when second season ended, I didn’t want to wait for the third season to come out, so I started reading the books. And now I have it on my phone, I have it on my kindle, I have it on my computer, I have it everywhere.

Which character would you be from Game of Thrones and why?

That’s a really good question. But I definitely know the answer. I would be Jon Snow. The reason I would be Jon Snow is because he has a wolf and that’s badass.

Really cool. Sweet fighter. He has to work for everything he gets. He wasn’t given anything. He keeps his honor, which is huge. And he’s a cool looking guy.

Why do you like the shows Twilight and Glee?

Because it’s important to have a sentimental side in life.

9. How did you get the nickname ‘Rinow Rocket?’

That’s a nickname [junior teammate] Aaron Oder gave me. I play left back, so a lot of times we cleared the ball into the channel up the field and I can kick the ball real hard so Aaron always used to call it the Rinow Rocket.

10. Which other Cornell team do you like to hang out with the most?

I mean, I mostly just hang out with the soccer team, but I guess the team I hang out with the most would be the track team. But primarily Cornell soccer.

Katie Schubauer can be reached at kschubauer@cornellsun.com. Ten Questions runs every Thursday.

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Mooney ’08 Attempts Ultimate Challenge for Charity

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Senior Writer

While many people may consider the climb up Libe Slope to be a challenge, one Cornellian is preparing to tackle the ultimate incline. Sean Mooney ’08 will attempt to summit Mount Everest beginning on Saturday, Mar. 30, with the hopes of raising awareness and funds for a children’s organization called “Right To Play” in the process.

A former midfielder for the men’s soccer team, Mooney has always been one to rise to the occasion whenever a challenge presents itself, according to assistant soccer coach and former teammate Scott Caldwell ’11.

“Sean was the guy on the team always pushing everyone to get to that next level and to always give it 110 percent, even when you think you’ve given it all you’ve got, you’ve still got more,” Caldwell said.

Mooney is no stranger to pushing himself to the limit, especially when a charity or special cause is involved. Since graduating with a degree in Applied Economics and Management and moving to London, England — where he works as an Associate for Goldman Sachs — the Winnipeg native has participated in multiple charity endurance races and sporting events. In 2009, Mooney climbed downtown Toronto’s CN Tower, ascending 144 flights of stairs five times back-to-back to benefit the World Wildlife Foundation. To make an already daunting task more challenging, he hopped to the top on one leg on his third time up the stairs.

“He was always at the front of the pack on our runs,” Caldwell said of Mooney’s determined nature. “He would actually sing on our runs to make it harder on himself. He’s a really interesting guy — one in a million.”

Showing that he is not only quick on his feet, Mooney participated in three separate charity white collar boxing fights. Participating in the Fight For Independence 7, he raised over $300,000 for Sickkids and Nazareth House — a Toronto shelter for abused women. Combined, he raised

over $400,000 between the three fights. In addition to boxing, Mooney has participated in an ultra-marathon from Montreal to Ottawa in Canada and the Enduro ultratriathlon relay, where he ran from London to the coast, swam to France and biked to Paris. Both competitions benefited the Princes Trust, which is a youth charity focused on helping to change young lives in the United

Kingdom.

Continuing to break stereotypes and prove that bankers can have both brains and brawn, Mooney participated in a chessboxing competition last October in London called “Battle of the Bankers.” After grueling rounds that tested See MOONEY page 11

COURTESY OF SEAN MOONEY ’08

Balancing act | Former Cornell soccer player Sean Mooney ’08 has continued to stay in shape while raising money for a children’s organization called “Right to Play.” Pictured above is an event he held for the organization with Chelsea FC.

RMU Kidding Me? A

s part of my crazy wild spring break plans, I watched endless hours of the NCAA tournament. My bracket is busted. Your bracket is busted. If by some miracle your bracket is not busted, here’s to hoping that Florida Gulf Coast wins it all. In that case, I can guarantee your bracket will be ruined. Let’s move on from there.

So as to not stir up more sadness, I want to turn everyone’s attention to the NIT tournament. While this is a less prestigious tournament — featuring such teams as the Niagara Purple Eagles — there was a lot of hype for its featured first-round matchup: Kentucky vs. Robert Morris.

Annie Newcomb Sucks to Suck

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Staying on Toppe | Sophomore attack Lindsay Toppe is leading her team in goals and points with 30 and 39 respectively. According to Toppe, the Red will need to bring the intensity from its practices into the match with Princeton.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Red Looks to Bounce Back Against Tigers

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

After starting the season off with six straight victories, the Cornell women's lacrosse team hopes to rebound from two consecutive losses on Saturday against Princeton. The Red will take on the Tigers (5-3, 2-0 Ivy League) at Schoellkopf Field at 3 p.m.

tomorrow. The Red (6-2, 2-1) enters the match ranked No. 11 nationally and is undefeated in home contests this season. While Princeton leads the overall series with the Red 30-4, the most recent contests have been in Cornell’s favor, with the Red winning two of the last three meetings — including last year’s 13-12 overtime victory.

The Red is led by an explosive offensive attack that ranks No. 10 nationally in scoring offense.

Among Ancient Eight teams, the Red is at the top of points scored, scoring offense and scoring margin.

Leading the offense is sophomore attack Lindsay Toppe, See W. LAX page 14

The mismatch is unbelievable. Kentucky consistently has one of the best basketball recruiting classes in the country, and you’ve probably never heard of Robert Morris before, or even better, you didn’t know that the Northeast Conference — home of the Robert Morris Colonials — existed. It is home to other basketball powerhouses such as the Bryant University Bulldogs, Fairleigh Dickinson University Knights, Long Island University Blackbirds and Sacred Heart University Pioneers to name a few.

On the other hand, Kentucky is the winningest basketball program in the country. It holds the record for most all-time wins and boasts the highest all-time winning percentage. The Wildcats’ head coach, John Calipari, is a gentleman that I have criticized before for his “one and done” preaching as well as his history of NCAA violations and sanctions. He has the prestigious honor of being the only coach to ever have Final Four appearances vacated at more than one school (1996 - UMass, 2008 - Memphis). Last season, he led the Wildcats to their 8th NCAA tournament championship and the first of his career.

Kentucky’s home court is located in Rupp Arena, which has a capacity of 23,500 fans. As the higher seed, Kentucky would See NEWCOMB page 13