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Alleged Rape Victim Details Attack to IPD

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Cayuga Medical Center will begin a $25-million renovation project later this year. | Page 3

Opinion Raise Your Voice

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Hannah Deixler ’13 says she found her “right fit” college when she came to Cornell.

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Arts Nap Time

Daveen Koh ’14 discusses Tilda Swinton’s plan to nap at various locations in MoMA. | Page 9

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Justin Schick ’13 answers 10 Questions about polo, his twin brother and mixers. | Page 16

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Phi Kappa Tau fraternity and Kappa Delta sorority host a see-saw marathon on Ho Plaza Wednesday for philanthropy.

When a woman allegedly woke up at 4:45 a.m. Saturday and realized she was being sexually assaulted by an unknown individual, her girlfriend — who was with her in the room — attempted to fight the assailant off, according to court documents obtained by The Ithaca Journal.

Peter Mesko ’13 was arrested and charged with first-degree rape in connection with the incident, the Ithaca Police Department said Tuesday.

At about 11 p.m. Friday, the victim and her girlfriend went to Dunbar’s in Collegetown. The victim consumed two beers, a shot of tequila and a whiskey and Coke, and was “moderately intoxicated,” according to court documents.

Still, the victim told police, “I remember the entire night and purchased my own drinks.”

After leaving the bar, the victim and her girlfriend returned to the latter’s home. Finding it unoccupied, they fell asleep in the girlfriend’s bedroom between 1 and 1:15 a.m., according to The Journal.

At about 1:30 a.m., the victim’s girlfriend was awakened by her housemates and their friends, who were playing drinking games outside the bedroom. While asking them to quiet down, the girlfriend –– who had previously interacted with members of the wrestling team –– noticed several wrestlers among the guests, according to The Journal.

At about 4:45 a.m., the victim woke up and realized she was being raped.

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NSF to Limit Political Science Research Grants ernment department apply for grants from the NSF’s political science program every year. Two After Congress mandated a government graduate students decrease in National Science are currently conducting reFoundation funding for search funded by such grants. research on polictical science, Additionally, one in five exterprofessors said the change nal grants received by faculty would have a direct impact on and graduate students at graduate students and re- Cornell for political science research comes from the NSF. searchers at Cornell.

According to The Chronicle, On Mar. 20, the U.S. Senate passed the Coburn Amend- the NSF supports 61 percent of science research. ment, which prohibits the social National Science Foundation Researchers — including those from supporting research in at Cornell — can apply to other foundations for political science that funding as a result does not promote of the Senate the U.S.’s national amendment, but for security or economic many people who interests. have lost NSF fundThe amendment ing, it will be hard was a revision of an to replace, van der earlier plan to elimiWalle said. nate the NSF’s politAccording to van ical science budget altogether, according PROF. VAN DE VALLE de Walle — who has to the Chronicle of Higher received NSF funding for studies on democratization in Africa Education.

With this amendment, some — the NSF provides both small professors are worried about individual grants for students how research being done in and professors and larger grants political science at Cornell will for broader data collection and survey research projects. be affected.

One project that will be According to Prof. Nicolas van de Walle, chair of the adversely affected by the Department of Government, graduate students in the govSee NSF page 4

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“We tried to get together to do something fun and be our own bosses.

We like to eat, so we thought we would do something about food.”

Jerry Greenfield

Ice cream scream | Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, speaks in Statler Auditorium Wednesday night.

‘Jerry’of Ice Cream FameVisits Cornell Co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s talks entrepreneurship,innovation

By RUDY YODER Sun Staff Writer

Speaking at Cornell Wednesday, Jerry Greenfield, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s, said the ice cream company has redefined business as a “combination of organized human interest and money.”

Greenfield and Ben Cohen — the other co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s — first met in seventh grade gym class, where they

became friends. The two remained friends through high school and college, even though the two went separate ways; Greenfield studied biology at Oberlin College while Cohen had brief stints at several different colleges.

After college, Ben had a few odd jobs — including driving taxis and mopping at Friendly’s — while Jerry was rejected from several medical schools.

Without career paths, the two friends decided to go into business

together, Greenfield said.

“We were failing in everything that we were trying to do,” Greenfield said. “We tried to get together to do something fun and be our own bosses. We like to eat, so we thought we would do something about food. We picked ice cream, even though we didn’t know anything about it.”

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C.U. Searches for New V.P.

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Vice president of government and community relations to retire

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Contributor

With a veteran administrator set to retire after four decades at Cornell, the University has begun searching for a new vice president of University relations, President David Skorton announced last Thursday.

The position will encompass the responsibilities of two existing positions: the vice president of University relations and the vice president of government and community relations, according to a statement Skorton released to the University.

Stephen Johnson, the current vice president of government and community relations, has served as a strong advocate for Cornell throughout his time at the University, according to Skorton’s statement. “[Johnson] has advocated for effective legislative action to help support the educational, research, health care and public engagement missions of Cornell and others in higher education and, in so doing, has had an enormously positive effect on us all,” Skorton said in the statement.

Johnson said he has enjoyed the four decades he has spent at the University.

“The experience has been terrific. It has been an honor, a pleasure, to work for the University,” Johnson said. “I especially enjoyed working with the president’s leadership group.”

As vice president of government and community relations, Johnson has served as the liaison for Cornell to various levels of the U.S. government.

He said his job ensures that the University’s values and goals are fully incorporated into the development of the University’s positions on important legislative and public policy issues.

“I have worked with the leadership of the University on matters relating to the local community, the state government and the federal government,” Johnson said. “I also am the registered

Princeton alumna Susan Patton garnered international media attention when she submitted a letter to the editor for The Daily Princetonian Friday that urged female students to find a husband while at Princeton.

The letter prompted negative backlash for its advice that “for most of you, the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never again have this concentration of

lobbyist for the University with the City of New York, State of New York and the federal government.”

Johnson will continue to serve in his position until his successor is found, according to Skorton’s statement.

Johnson said that, after he retires, he hopes Cornell will continue to be involved “in matters of state and national policy and continue being the leading land grant university in the nation.”

Kathryn Boor ’80, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said Johnson has provided keen insight and pushed the University toward positive changes throughout his tenure. “[Johnson] knows everyone and is affectionately known by all — and this characteristic has been exceptionally valuable to Cornell,” she said.

Johnson began his career at the University working for Cornell Cooperative Extension in 1972. He then worked in CALS, and in 1984, joined the University’s office of government relations.

During his time at Cornell, Johnson said he has seen several changes at the University — most significantly, its rise “as a nationally prominent research university and its increase in stature amongst peer universities.”

“It’s been a great ride. I’ve enjoyed working for this truly outstanding University,” Johnson said.

Skorton also announced in his statement that Prof. Glenn Altschuler, American studies, and dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, will step down from his current role as vice president of University relations when the new vice president is appointed. “[Altschuler] served with distinction as vice president for University relations for the past four years,” Skorton said in the statement.”

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at am2359@cornell.edu.

men who are worthy of you.”

Harvard’s first-ever honor code will be proposed by Harvard’s Committee on Academic Integrity, according to The Harvard Crimson. The five-point code has been in the making since 2010, but was directly influenced by the recent Harvard cheating scandal, and the idea has drawn positive opinions from Harvard students, The Crimson reported Tuesday.

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Students present their projects at Bits On Our Minds, a showcase of student research and creativity in digital technology, in Duffield Hall Wednesday.

Cayuga Medical Center to Begin $25-Million Renovation Funding sourced from tax-exempt bonds, officials say

By EMMA QUIGLEY Sun Contributor

finance the establishment and upgrades of several wings in the hospital, according to Turner. For instance, the hospital will open a new maternity wing in December, improve its obstetrics and gynecology departments and begin major renovations on a surgical wing in

With the help of $25-million in taxexempt bonds, Cayuga Medical Center is planning to open a new laboratory, expand and redesign its surgical center and update equipment at its urgent care center over next year, CMC officials say.

T h e To m p k i n s C o u n t y Legislature u n a n i m o u s l y John Turner voted to grant CMC the bonds in March, accord- January. ing to John Turner, vice Additionally, the president of public rela- hospital will use the tions for CMC. Because funds to finance the nonprofit hospital is upgrades in the equipexempt from taxes, ment it uses to store Tompkins County resi- patients’ files. dents will not have to Turner also said that, pay for the upgrades to although CMC currentthe hospital, according ly functions as a regionto John Collett, vice al test center — offering president and chief diagnostic services to financial officer of doctors across the CMC. region — with the $25The hospital is slated million bond, CMC to begin renovations in will be able to expand December. its services and open a The funds will help new lab.

“We are continuing to meet the needs of the community.”

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Students view a screening of “Mysic Ball” about chinlone, a traditional Burmese sport, at Mann Library Wednesday evening.

“We are continuing to meet the needs of the community,” Turner said.

Lou LoVecchio, assistant vice president of CMC, said the hospital’s renovations will help improve the quality of care it can offer its patients.

“We are very excited,” LoVecchio said.

The hospital has undergone many updates since it was first established at its site in 1979, according to LoVecchio, who added that very little of the hospital’s original structure remains.

The hospital, which has 204 beds and employs more than 1,200 health-care professionals, sees more than 150,000 patients a year, according to its website.

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

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“I woke up confused and uncomfortable and said, ‘I don’t like that, stop!” the victim said in the court documents.

The victim’s cries awakened her girlfriend, who noticed a partially dressed man “latched tightly onto” the victim, according to court documents.

“I then pulled and pushed the man off of her and onto the ground,” the girlfriend said, according to court documents.

“I got a glance of him and recognized his face as being a wrestler. I wasn’t sure of his name, but I recognized him from seeing him with his teammates for various occasions and around campus working out.”

The victim and her girlfriend then fled from the bedroom and locked themselves in a bedroom upstairs, according to court documents. The girlfriend returned downstairs about five to 10 minutes later “to get a visual” of the attacker’s face.

Upon entering her room, she saw Mesko lying on her bed with his pants “slightly pulled down,” according to court documents.

“I quickly took two pictures of him. He said aloud ‘no’ when he recognized that I had taken them,” the girlfriend said, according to court documents.

The girlfriend then returned to the room upstairs with the victim. Mesko followed her about 10 to 20 seconds later and tried to enter the room, according to The Journal.

“He tried to push the door twice and was twisting the door knob,” the victim said, according to court documents. “I said, ‘It’s occupied,’ and then we heard his footsteps go away from the door.”

The victim and her girlfriend were “very scared,” the girlfriend told police.

When the couple left the girlfriend’s residence about a half-hour later, Mesko was asleep on a futon downstairs, according to court documents.

“Later on in the morning,

we went on the wrestling roster of cornellbigred.com and identified him as Pete Mesko [’13],” the girlfriend said, according to court documents.

The victim contacted the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County, as well as Gannett Health Services. She was sent to the hospital, where she was administered a rape kit.

The victim then reported the attack to the Ithaca Police Department, according to court documents.

“As I mentioned, I have never met this man or spoken to him,” the victim said to police. “In no way did I consent to having sex with this man or invite him into the room. I had been sleeping for three hours and thought I was in the safety of my girlfriend’s house and bedroom.”

Mesko was released on $5,000 bail and will return to court on Friday. IPD said it may consider pressing other charges against Mesko, according to The Journal.

Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.

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amendment, he said, is the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s national election surveys, which have been conducted since the end of World War II Out of the $5 billion the NSF puts toward of its programs annually, only $7 million — or less than 0.01 percent — goes toward political science programs, according to van der Walle. When this funding is divided across the staff and students in the 150 or so political science departments in the United States, the amount of money available to the profession is relatively small, van de Walle said.

“The impact is more symbolic and political,” van de Walle said. “It’s scary when major decisions about what gets funded become politically mediated ... There’s really no role in politics in deciding where the small amounts of money that are allocated to science should go. That should be decided by the top scientists, rather than by politicians.”

However, Prof. Christine Leuenberger, science and technology studies, said she believes the current system used to assess what research should be funded is effective. She said NSF proposals are judged in terms of research project’s intellectual merit and potential broader impact.

“Instead of cutting funds because fundamental research supposedly doesn’t sufficiently increase the nation’s ‘competitiveness and economic development’, it would be better to invest in trends that are already happening in various universities — a push toward more engaged research and learning,” Leuenberger said in an email.

Leuenberger also said a better way to create effective and balanced solutions to the nation’s issues is to provide opportunities for those affected to communicate.

“We need more platforms where academics, policy makers and non-government organization representatives can meet in order to come up with evidence-based policies to better tackle social and political problems,” Leuenberger said.

Angie Boyce ’14, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Science & Technology Studies who has received money from the NSF, said she is very concerned about the future of scientific research as a whole.

“Is this going to be an evaluation criteria that will affect all fields funded by the NSF? Is this going to be a sign of things to come for my field?” Boyce said. “It’s important to prioritize — not everything can be funded at every level — but it seems like there are bigger fish to fry.”

Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun.com.

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a five-dollar correspondence course at Penn State and decided to open up their first ice cream shop after acing the course.

Greenfield said they had no previous experience or knowledge about setting up a business.

“We had no idea what we were doing,” Greenfield said.

The two opened up their first ice cream parlor in Burlington, Vt., in 1978, mostly with money that they raised independently, according to Greenfield.

The two continued to meet challenges during the first few years of business. Vermont’s harsh winters forced them to reduce prices and drive around to grocery stores and restaurants, selling ice cream in the back of Cohen’s car, which is how they “tumbled into the manufacturing and distribution business,” Greenfield said.

The two caught a break when Pillsbury agreed to start distributing their ice cream. However, Pillsbury decided to drop Ben & Jerry’s after the its biggest supplier, Haagen Dazs, put pressure on them to sell their products exclusively, according to Greenfield After Greenfield and Cohen attracted media attention with their “What’s the Dough Boy Afraid Of?” campaign — a response to Pillsbury’s attempts to limit the distribution of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream — Pillsbury backed down, and continued to

sell Ben & Jerry’s as well.

“We’re not ice cream guys anymore; we [were] becoming businessmen,” Greenfield said.

“It wasn’t exactly our idea of a good time. … We felt our business was becoming another cog in the economic machine.”

This drove them to want to sell their business. However, after advice from a friend, Greenfield and Cohen decided to hold on to their company and change the way they ran their business.

Instead of turning to individual investors for funds, Cohen and Greenfield decided to offer public stock to Vermont residents for $126 a share, which ran contrary to what was suggested by their business advisors. They raised $750,000, and one out of every hundred families in Vermont owned a share in the company, Greenfield said. They even expanded this offer nationally and opened the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, which receives 7.5 percent of the company’s pre-tax profits, the highest percentage of any publicly owned company.

Aside from his own history, Greenfield spoke about the business world in general. He said businesses are some of the most dominant institutions in our society, and that as a result of the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, there are no limits to how much corporations can contribute to political campaigns and influence legislation and the media.

“If business is the most power-

ful force in society, why is business not addressing the biggest issues in society?” Greenfield asked.

In order to address this issue, Greenfield said that Ben & Jerry’s has redefined how they measure success as a company. Instead of measuring success by the amount of money the company makes, Greenfield and Cohen added an additional component: how the company is able to improve the quality of life of the people in the places that they operate.

Greenfield said the company tries to integrate both social and environmental concerns into the business activities of Ben & Jerry’s. For example, the company uses local and 100-percent fair trade ingredients, and they have 14 partner shops that are owned and operated by non-profit social service agencies that work with at risk youth. According to Greenfield, by the end of the year, Ben & Jerry’s will be 100percent free of genetically modified organisms.

“There is a spiritual aspect to business … Just because the idea that the good that you do comes back to you is written in the Bible, and not in some business expert, doesn’t mean that it is any less valid,” Greenfield said. “As we help others, we can’t help but be helped in return. For businesses and people, it’s all exactly the same.”

Rudy Yoder can be reached at myoder@cornellsun.com.

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Balancing the Rights of Victims and the Accused EARLIER THIS WEEK, A CORNELL STUDENT was arrested and charged with first degree rape. According to court documents obtained by The Ithaca Journal, the victim was asleep in her girlfriend’s room when Peter Mesko ’13 entered uninvited, climbed into the bed and raped her. The news of a Cornell student being accused of such a terrible crime in our community is devastating — even more so in the wake of a series of sexual assaults committed on or near campus this fall. However, what is also troubling is Cornellians’ seeming readiness to weigh the rights of one party over the other in cases of sexual assault.

The Sun’s report Tuesday of Mesko’s arrest produced a firestorm of reactions by commenters on our website and on social media. The polarity and extremity of many of the opinions that have been expressed is alarming. Many have spewed vilely sexist platitudes, jumping without hesitation to Mesko’s defense or engaging in outright victim-blaming or disbelief. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some were quick to crucify the man before the facts emerged Wednesday. Many arrogantly condemned anyone who was unwilling to assign Mesko guilt before learning what evidence the police had against him.

Rape culture does not originate from one side or the other alone. It is caused by the warring of two extremes: those who ignore the epidemic of sexual violence against women, and those who deny the men they accuse of innocence until proven guilty. Victims who report sexual assaults should be believed, while simultaneously, the accused should be afforded due process and a fair trial. It is a tough balance to strike, but it is imperative to the safety of all members of our society — women and men alike — that we strike it.

In the case at hand, the evidence against Mesko appears strong. The Ithaca Journal cited court documents indicating that the victim and her girlfriend took a photograph of her attacker and subsequently identified Mesko by name. The results of the rape kit collected at the hospital after the assault may further implicate Mesko in the crime. A guilty verdict could prove those at Cornell who prescribed guilt to Mesko before the release of this information correct. But that will not render appropriate those people’s display of utter disregard for the rights of the accused.

Exercising prudence in sexual assault investigations and trials does not weaken anti-rape efforts; it bolsters them. A single wrongful conviction can be more harmful to the movement to eliminate rape culture than 10 acquittals. It fuels the fire of ignorance that leads to victim-blaming and making excuses for perpetrators of sexual assault. Whether or not Mesko is found guilty in this particular case, our community should take care to avoid inadvertently fanning those flames.

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ith the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington last November and the popularity of the television series Breaking Bad, it seems like America’s “War on Drugs” is nearing its end. So naturally, there must be a replacement. Over the past couple of years, it has become increasingly apparent on what this war will be waged. We are living in the midst of America’s “War on Ice Cream.”

Everywhere you go, there are more and more frozen yogurt shops while the classic mom and pop scoop shops (internal rhyme — see you there) and your big box equivalents — Cold Stone, Marble Slab and Baskin-Robbins — seem to be disappearing. Why are we waging war on one of the world’s staple desserts, when it is the frozen yogurt that should be the enemy? I don’t typically take particularly strong stances in my columns, but I am a single-issue voter, and the one issue that really gets me really riled up is the soon-to-be Supreme Court case (I’m sure it’s on the docket): Ice Cream v. Frozen Yogurt.

Jerry Greenfield, of Ben and Jerry’s, gave a talk in Statler Auditorium last night. The thing that stood out to me most from his presentation was that the threat on ice cream is a very real thing. It is also important to note that I am writing this column for

Frozen yogust is un-American. Think of your experiences purchasing this poor substitute for a frozen treat.

Thursday on Tuesday night for my Wednesday deadline — before the Wednesday night Jerry Greenfield lecture.

That is to say, I made up the lesson from the Greenfield talk. I do think though, that frozen yogurt is a real threat to one of the world’s staple desserts.

Frozen yogurt is un-American. Think of your experiences purchasing this poor substitute for a frozen treat. Is there any semblance of the artistry that you find in a typical ice cream shop? Do the employees work hard and exercise their forearms scooping the right amount of ice cream from the large buckets under the glass? No. What do you find in a frozen yogurt shop? Typically it is a lot of odd, Jetsons-esque décor and a disinterested teenager whose only function is pressing a button to weigh your disgusting substitute for ice cream and then take your money. If there is one thing that I do not want to see more of in this world, it is lazy teenagers who try to take my money. Ice cream shop employees sing for you to thank you for a tip. Yeah, it might be a little weird and awkward, but at least they’re trying.

You know who liked ice cream more than frozen yogurt? George Washington. George Washington casually dropped $200 just on ice cream in the summer of 1790 (true) — which is about $5,000 (or 1,219,200 calories) of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream today (true). At that point, you would basically bleed ice cream. So what if he didn’t have a choice between the two? He ate ice cream, and he is a historical figure. I think that alone should be enough.

Frozen yogurt is sugar-free, calorie-free and all other things good free. Most people don’t know it, but the cake that Marie Antoinette told “them” to eat was sugar-free.

That’s what “they” got so mad about (not true). It just isn’t natural for things that taste good to be good for us — similar to how nothing that we should do (exercise, studying, etc.) is fun. Ice cream is full of fat and cholesterol and calories that do very little for us AND it is delicious — that is the most natural thing in the world.

I get it. Frozen yogurt is a healthy alternative to its fatty counterpart, ice cream. You can customize it by adding gummy bears, Reese’s cups, chocolate sauce or fruit (… I guess ….) to your liking. It has all the makings of something that could be “cool.” Pinkberry is from California, and California is cool. But it was Andre 3000 who asked, in his 2003 hit single “Hey Ya!” “What’s cooler than being cool?” The answer: Ice cream.

Christo Eliot is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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ast week my dad asked me to of 2017!) and have been forced to do a “big favor” for him and think more about that twist of fate speak to a friend’s son, David, that landed me in upstate New York who had just been accepted to at a school that I knew very little Cornell but was deciding between a about. Maybe it really was just a few schools. David sent me an e- good fit? Is that possible?

The Wall Street Journal recently mail with all of the questions a prospective student is supposed to published an op-ed written by a bitask: “What kind of clubs does ter, entitled and too-snarky-for-herCornell have?” (lots); “How bad is own-good high school senior who the weather really?” (get a coat, complains about the college you’ll survive); “How was the tran- process, and her disappointing sition from L.A. to Ithaca?” (fine … results. She reminded me that coluntil January when you realize you leges encourage students to “be don’t own pants); “Is there a dorm I yourself ” in applications, and that should try to live in, if I decide to the process is supposedly “selfgo?” (avoid the Low Rises). The last selecting.” At age 18, I think those question, though, caught me off were hard concepts to grasp. What guard: “Why did you choose to go does “self-selecting” mean, and how am I supposed to trust it when to Cornell?”

While I’m sure that’s a no-brain- everyone else in the country wants er for my peers who were breastfed in Cornell onesies, this question took a I chose Cornell because it’s second of thought for where every version of me — me, as a regular decision the saltine cracker version of applicant who had, more or less, ended up here me, the headdress-wearing me, because of some lucky the lost 18-year-old me and the now lost 22-year-old twist of fate.

The college applica- me — could find a place. tion process feels as far away as the Stone Age by now, but thinking back, I think my to go to the same eight schools I decision to come to Cornell was do? And, by the way, who the hell pretty anticlimactic (and totally am I and how do I portray that peruncharacteristic of me). I didn’t son in an essay?

Although I found Suzy Lee make any extensive pro-con lists or color-coded spreadsheets. I didn’t Weiss obnoxious and whiney (and, ask every person I knew what they at times, highly offensive), I can thought I should do and I didn’t remember how confusing the coleven wait until the last hour to lege application process felt. make my decision. I’m sure there However, I can also say, four years was some amount of hysteria at the later — and now to potential stutime, but I’ve since blocked it from dents — the notion of a place being my memory. I was accepted to a a “right fit” is real. Weiss writes that handful of schools, I narrowed it if she knew about the person she down to a few, visited Cornell first was “supposed to be” to get into and decided that it seemed like a college, she would have started a good fit. When asked, I couldn’t fake charity, “worn headdresses to articulate why, it just seemed like school” and had two moms because the right decision. I sent my deposit that’s what colleges look for. But and got my free Class of 2013 t- Suzy, I don’t think it’s that complicated. shirt. That was that. Go Big Red. I think we get attached to Since my conversation with David, I have walked by countless schools, jobs, people because we campus tours filled with prospec- like the idea of them. Weiss is tive students (congratulations, class crushed that she didn’t get into her

dream school, but I wonder what about those schools felt like a dream? Maybe Weiss doesn’t realize that if she has to find a second mom to get into a school, it might not be the dream she thinks it is.

When I think about the students who were accepted into the Class of 2017, I imagine some of them wear headdresses, and some of them have two moms, and some are, as Weiss writes “as diverse as a saltine cracker.” I also know that this diversity — or lack thereof — is not why they were accepted, and probably not the only reason they’re coming here either. Cornell’s culture of “be yourself ” is real — even for those of us who “work[ed] at a local pizza shop and [we]re the slowest person on the cross-country team” in high school, as Weiss claims she is. The extraordinary and the pretty ordinary both find a place at Cornell, and that’s — I think — at least why I’m here.

In retrospect, I wish I had told David that I chose Cornell because it’s where every version of me — the saltine cracker me, the headdress-wearing me, the lost 18-year-old me and the now lost 22-year-old me — could find a place. The admission committee somehow saw all of those Hannahs at Cornell, and I somehow saw them here too. In fact, it was no twist of fate at all, but rather, exactly as it should have been. I have made friends, developed interests and even picked up a few important skills along the way, but I’ve never had to be someone who isn’t me.

David — in all his forms (none of which I know, but I’m sure exist) — would and could and should belong here as well. So David, be yourself and come to Cornell! And, if you can, try to live in Mews.

Hannah Deixler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun.com. Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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ATWATER ESTATE VINEYARDS: BURDETT, N.Y. A true gem of the Finger Lakes, Atwater Estate Vineyards in located on the South Eastern side of Seneca and produces consistent, clean wines vintage after vintage. It is currently growing its grapes using sustainable practices and participates in The New York Sustainable Viticulture Program, striving to produce wines that are of higher quality but that also better the land.

Become part of the community and be sure to try the sparkling 2008 Cuvee Brut, which won double gold in the New York Wine and Food Classic, or any of their other award winning sparkling blends.

RED NEWT CELLARS: HECTOR, N.Y. One word comes to mind when I think Red Newt: local. I can’t help but love the “grown here, made here” approach that Red Newt has in both its winemaking as well as in the food it offers in their bistro. Sit down in the dining room and feast from a seasonal menu offering exceptional cuisine made from ingredients sourced from over 30 local farms and purveyors. Lunch or dinner, be sure to visit Red Newt

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HECTOR WINE COMPANY: HECTOR, N.Y. The newest on my list, Hector Wine Company is quickly becoming a must-taste on the east side of Seneca Lake. Its motto “wine for the soul” is reflected in both the wine it produces but also the ambiance it creates in the tasting room. Local art as well as designs from viticulturist Jason Hazlitt deck the

walls of Hector Wine Company’s tasting room where delightful and engaging staff pours wines made by winemaker Justin Boyette. I recommend experiencing either of the “Soul” labels, blended red and white wines crafted from both European varietal and native grapes. Wine is art that will touch your soul at Hector Wine Company.

Austin Buben can be reached at abuben@cornellsun.com.

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BLOOMER CREEK VINEYARD: HECTOR, N.Y. Deb Bermingham and Kim Engle create wine “made with a sense of adventure” in their stunningly beautiful yet unassuming

lofted barn winery they built with their own hands. Located just off Highway 414 alongside Lake Seneca, Bloomer Creek offers several varieties of wine all with a distinct idiosyncratic style that is delightfully unlike any other Finger Lakes wine I’ve tasted. They produce world-class Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon, all of which are definite must-tastes. If you can’t make the adventure, be sure to at least visit Deb at the Ithaca Farmers Market on Saturdays, which is opening back up this weekend (Hallelujah).

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James Rainis Let’s face it: You probably already know how you feel about Tyler, the Creator. The Odd Future mouthpiece, Adult Swim star and general rabble-rouser is the type of guy to tweet in all-caps, mock anti-domestic violence protesters and direct a Mountain Dew commercial featuring a talking.

If I’m painting in broad strokes, you probably fall into one of two camps: You either are one of the hardcore Odd Future fans who love Tyler and his hell-raising crew for their incendiary tracks and shout things like “Golf Wang” and “Kill People! Burn Shit! Fuck School!” at inappropriate intervals, or you find Tyler’s whole shtick to be immature, homophobic and misogynist (a reasonable case, as Tyler’s music is not averse to rape references and the use of certain gay slurs).

Prior to listening to Wolf, I found myself caught somewhere in between. On his debut record Bastard, Tyler revealed himself to be a highly charismatic rapper with a unique production style and an ability to rap both about his own father’s absenteeism and, on “French,” “opening a church to sell coke and Led Zeppelin.” On Goblin, however, he let his own antagonistic tendencies get the best of him, resulting in an uneven album that divided fans.

Wolf stands as a reminder to those disappointed by Goblin’s inconsistencies that Tyler is still growing into his remarkable talents. As the gorgeous glockenspiel-sprinkled soundscape of opener “Wolf” announces, this album is a fulfillment of Tyler’s boundless potential as a producer. Taking cues from collaborator Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange (the

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While tracks like “Trash Wang” (featuring the screams of Lee Spielman from OF-affiliates Trash Talk) demonstrate that Tyler can still put out that old school Odd Future racket, songs like the slow-burning crack meditation “48” reveal that this kid’s record collection goes a lot deeper than Eminem and N.E.R.D. Tyler tries to tie together the myriad tracks on Wolf with a story about a Camp Flog Gnaw, a love triangle and a bike named Slater. While it takes a lot of imagination and searching on RapGenius to make any sense of this loose narrative, Wolf does feature a couple of great lyrical moments. Tyler breaches the topic of romance with a lot more balance than on previous outings: “Answer” is a bona fide story of young love, with Tyler fantasizing about holding an old crush’s hand (the come-on “treat my hand like a bowling ball and grip” is endearing coming from a kid who has rapped in detail about his refusal to pull out). The aforementioned “48” details, with the help of a closing soliloquy from Nas, the slippery slope of crack dealing, familial neglect and gang violence. It is notable because it shows sympathy for the dealers (“Growing up you barely had a roof / Now you got a coupe and it doesn’t have a roof”) without defending their actions. On the stuttering “Cowboy,” Tyler details his own straight-edge philosophy and how he reconciles his actions

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with those of his pot-obsessed friends. “Colossus” is another standout, where Tyler deals with the adulation of adoring fans that are bothering him on a line for a ride on Six Flags; he comes off as a kid who, while grateful for the success, is struggling with his newfound status as youth icon.

By no means is Wolf Tyler’s “mature album,” though; on single “Domo 23” he raps about plotting with Justin Bieber to shoot One Direction and discredits accusations of homophobia by kissing his friend Lucas. In order to ensure that things are not getting too high-minded, the hectically rhythmic “Tamale” opens with a bum/rectum rhyme and a command to “tell Spike Lee he’s a goddamn nigger.” It’s meant to press buttons and infuriate parents, but it’s also, like most Odd Future’s stuff, insidiously fun.

Tyler, the Creator is still rap’s resident angry young man, so it’d be foolish to assume that he’d temper his lyrical approach or reign in his albums’ expansive running times.

Like his revealing and highly active Twitter account, he wants you to appreciate him, warts and all. Fortunately for us, it’s the warts — his romantic frustrations and his struggle with his father’s abandonment — that make for the most poignant moments. Luckily, the sillier, vulgar tracks serve instead like a spoonful of sugar — or a Mountain Dew? — that helps the medicine go down.

James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

Generationals Heza Polyvinyl

Kaitlyn Tiffany To call New Orleans pop duo Generationals’ third album Heza “cryptic” would be an understatement. What is a “Heza?” The Internet doesn’t know. The opening track “Spinoza” refers to a Dutch philosopher, the closing track “Durga II” refers to a Hindu goddess and “Kemal”? Wel l... it’s Turkish? But it’s not just the titles that are cryptic — Heza is a distinct departure from the duo’s bright, catchy albums Con Law (2009) and Actor-Caster (2011) that turns joy to melancholia, articulation to muddiness and specificity and purpose to vaguity.

Fans who were drawn in by ’60s doo-wop/California dreamin’/British invasion first single “When They Fight, They Fight,” or the clap-filled “Ten-Twenty-Ten” opener of Actor-Caster will be completely confused by this latest L.P. The Generationals’ sophomore album wasn’t perfect — some lyrics like “we can’t stand each other but we can’t be apart” read a little too T-Swifty for comfort — but tracks like “You Say it Too” and “I Promise” reveal an encyclopedic range of musical references, and the collaging is pointed and selective — not overarching mimicry. “Yours Forever” was featured in the season one finale of HBO’s Girls as the perfect opener to an impromptu hipster wedding — an aura of spontaneity and fun that pervaded both the band’s debut and sophomore albums.

Heza tries to take these same influences — the lighthearted guitar sound of the ’60s, the addictive rock choruses of the ’70s and the stripped-down quality now trending in response to over-digitization — and make them heavy. The result verges on depressing in a lot of places, particularly in middle-of-the-album tracks like “I Never Know” and

“Awake.” The opening track “Spinoza,” while not accessible, is at least perky, and “Put a Light On,” is perhaps closest to what fans would expect — bouncy verses and juxtaposing plucky bass with xylophone. Regardless, most of the album blurs together and, listening to it, I can’t shake the feeling that I should be sifting through the jeans rack at Forever 21.

“You Got Me” and “Extra Free Year” are the weightiest of the album’s tracks, pushing the electronic in a way that breeds nostalgia for the 2009 “Bobby Beale” — however much of an overly-ironic jab at manic-pixie-dream-girl romcoms, at least it sounded like a human voice. Perhaps the band was striving to reimagine its sound in the vein of many indie artists who sense repetition and boredom coming along once they pass album two. Heartthrob, Tegan & Sara’s latest, is an ’80’s-roller-skating-rink-soundtrack meant to avoid the situation in which head-scratching fans hear a song and say, “Is this from The Con? Yeah, I’m pretty sure this is from The Con.” But reviews were mixed on that effort, as well as that of our fave Brit Kate Nash’s, to depart from the somberwhimsy of her sometimes Carrollesque/sometimes Motowny sophomore album My Best Friend is You with an altogether screechy and scary third album, Girl Talk.

Indie rock is notorious for being “one note”— that’s why it scores your jean-shopping — but these two dudes had seemed to be claiming responsibility for making it hooky and appealing. Evolution is desirable, but not at the expense of what made the band interesting in the first place. What had seemed like a competent nod to sunshine pop and the good bits of a whole bunch of bygone musical eras now seems like a confused mess. I liked the horns and the occa-

sional girl-group reference. I thought lyrics like “I been watchin’ the birds as they go, I been keepin’ my bank account low,” were fun times, almost akin to those “before my daddy took my T-bird away.” The band took its name from the 2008 Presidential campaign, in which every issue was described as being a “generational issue.” If the Generationals tried to be tongue-in-cheek, they’ve lost that footing. This transition from stellar sophomore album to third album flop seems characteristically Millennial generation.

We were talking about an age of New Sincerity, or weren’t you listening? It’s why the Girls dialogue smacks of Salinger and we’ve finally started trash-talking Taylor Swift. It’s why Noah and the Whale are tearing it up with their way-morefun-than-Petty Americana storylines and the Lumineers are running away with their bare-bones Dylan poetry. The twenty-somethings go nutso for throwbacks and moody Millenials may weep for Cat Power, but they secretly crave all the spunk and heart that Generationals willfully provided this time two years ago. Sad day for hipster sad-people — Heza is a slice of the same old misery.

With a new album from Vampire Weekend and (GASP!) Andy McMahon’s first EP since Jack’s Mannequin on the way, I’m writing off Generationals as a contender to satisfy my Beach Boys soft-spot/sweet tooth for now.

“You can always come home,” though friend-o’s. “I promise.”

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

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Queer South Asian spoken word artivist duo DARK MATTER had the Anabel Taylor chapel snapping on Monday night. The Sun caught up with them after the show for a conversation on white supremacy, Hinduism and queer politics, both inside and outside the Ivory Tower.

THE SUN: It seems you’re trying to instigate a culture shift among South Asian Diaspora communities. What shift? And how?

JANANI BALA: Part of it is reclaiming the histories of struggles that we’ve already had, and undoing, unlearning, a lot of these assimilatory strategies that we’ve learned by moving to the West, and feeling that the models of success that we had to build were constructed along the lines of whiteness. We talk about anti-blackness and other forms of racism that take place in South Asian communities, because racism is an easy way to mark yourself as assimilated, and as aligned with the actions of white supremacy.

SUN: That’s fucked up.

J.B.: Yeah, it’s really fucked up. It’s white supremacy. It’s really fucked up.

It’s a lot about reclamation, about relearning the histories that have already been taught to us, but with the perspective of mobilizing our people. We were talking about how, once you have news about something in the family, everybody knows all of a sudden. And what if you applied that to a political mobilization model? Our people already know how to communicate very rapidly, intensely, and intimately with each other. Now use that to dismantle capitalism!

It’s possible. It’s a process of unlearning, relearning, producing hybrid models for ourselves that need to be modern, politicized, and also deeply rooted in culture. Not in India, as this exotic object thing, but

India, as this site of struggle and anti-colonial resistance.

SUN: How can students at elite universities authentically take part in anti-racist, anti-colonial struggle?

ALOK VAID-MENON: I think the first step is recognizing that you have almost unlimited access to capital, in terms of funding. So you can host events like this, or seminars, or talks, where you can bring people from outside of the community, and you can fund a lot of people who are doing great social movement organizing outside. Bring in people from working class N.G.O.'s, or artists and community leaders, who could really benefit from finance from the institution.

Second, consciousness raising among the elite members of society. Students should graduate from these universities understanding that it’s not just a position for them to be successful, but that they also have a moral responsibility to give back. That can make a big difference.

Third is really just spending time outside of the university, and not thinking that all of your knowledge can come from the books you’re reading. You need to have much more applied experiences, and not allow the university to make you distanced from the reality of the situation of most people.

SUN: Is there useful radical work happening in the university? Will the next generation of radicals go to college, or will they operate more effectively and in a more revolutionary way by not enrolling?

A.V.: There’s already a generation of radicals that aren’t in the university, but they’re not called radicals. The very project of identifying as a radical is already a class project.

The truly radical people are those who are able to maintain and exist in the conditions of incredible capitalism. So workers, laborers, janitors, who are finding ways to maintain their culture and persevere in the face of these systems, to me are already radical.

But if we’re talking about middle class

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radicals, I think people are beginning to doubt the efficacy of the university, as a place to actually do revolutionary politics, because the university system co-opts radical activism and makes it just another thing that you can learn. I think middle class radicals are increasingly going to try to explore avenues outside of the university system.

J.B.: My hope is that the university system can be dismantled, so that we can start to think about knowledge production and sharing as a collective process that doesn’t happen on the backs of the unwaged laborers, or the people who are in social movements, or are surviving.

SUN: Tell me about your experience of Hinduism.

J.B.: What I’m trying to do through my art and my art as political work is to advance the ways that Hinduism and the Global South already have of expressing and articulating queerness, not understood in the Western sense. It’s really colonization and its

imposition of a Victorian moral system that introduces sodomy laws and the policing of gender sexuality, in this intense, Western, Victorian way.

I was given all these Hindu narratives as a young person growing up in a Hindu household, but there was always this silence around the sexuality that was hinted at in those narratives, and was actually really intense and seething throughout them. My attempt at getting at characters like Kali is not necessarily to say, oh, Kali’s a femme.

I’m not trying to apply Western frameworks to them, but basically trying to get from the narratives that I grew up learning a sense of how to build a new old kind of hybrid queerness that is locating and launching from my position as a diasporic South Asian with religious roots in Hinduism.

Tom Moore is a juniorin the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com.

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aybe tomorrow, if you stop by New York’s Museum of Modern Art around closing time, you’ll see Tilda Swinton sleeping in a glass case. Or, better yet, you’ll see James Franco watching Tilda Swinton sleep in a glass case. As you’ve already heard too many times, on about five more unspecified days this year, Swinton will be taking a nap at unspecified locations in MoMA. As The Huffington Post has noted, it’s not the kind of performance that’s going to win Swinton an Academy Award. It’s not going to win her the Turner Prize either, but then again, that’s not the point.

The artistic merits of Swinton’s performance piece have already been savaged by mostly bemused critics, some of whom have neither too kindly nor fairly cast Swinton as a fame hungry B-list actress.

Call her eccentric, maybe, but the Scottish actress is arguably more interesting than the average celebrity. While the impeccably dressed Swinton won an Oscar for playing a vindictive lawyer in 2007’s Michael Clayton (if you really want some kind of proof of her giftedness), she is perhaps better known for championing androgyny and resembling David Bowie. To further fuel charges of bizarreness, Swinton gave an expectedly peculiar speech in Bowie’s stead at the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition of over 300 Bowie artifacts.

Reflecting on recent weeks, Swinton surmised that, “the alien is the best company after all for so many more than the few.” All of this, of course, qualifies Swinton as a worthy art object. By art critic Willoughby Sharp’s definition, at least, Swinton’s work does count as body art, where the body is “the subject and object of the work.”

Slyly entitled The Maybe, Swinton’s piece is decidedly selfaware. The identification card matter-of-factly reads: “living artist, glass, steel, mattress, pillows, linen, water, spectacles.”

First staged by Swinton and the artist Cornelia Parker at the Serpentine Gallery in 1995, The Maybe was brought to

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But for someone as, well, inventive and unusual as Swinton, The Maybe seems rather tame. No one is getting nailed to a Volkswagen Beetle (Chris Burden in Trans-fixed) or letting strangers cut away her clothing as she kneels without protest on stage (Yoko Ono in Cut Piece). It might not be easy to look comfortable while pretending to sleep in a glass box for hours, but celebrity. It might be more interesting if Swinton wore, say, Marina Abramovic indisputably surpasses Swinton. At an ivory Lanvin gown or a soft blue Haider Ackermann suit.

Abramovic’s 2010 MoMA retrospective, she not only sat still But she doesn’t choose to do that. Maybe the point is that for hours (736.5 there isn’t much out of the ordinary to be seen, or that the hours, to be precise), ordinary is worthy of being seen. Maybe we are the show; we but gazed at visitors create the spectacle as we clamor around the art. one-on-one so intenseNone of the above is groundbreaking in the least. But that ly that many of them doesn’t mean it isn’t, in some way, magical. In MoMA’s case, cried. it all makes perfect sense. “Reticence is the new excess,” The Maybe is auda- wrote art historian Terry Smith, as he discussed MoMA’s Darn That ciously unspectacular. architecture in his page-turning meditation on that perpetuDream It is not explicitly vio- al question: What is contemporary art? Built in the afterlent, though some math of the unignorable, lavish curves of Frank Gehry’s lines are crossed. The glass case invites you to stare hard at Guggenheim Bilbao, MoMA’s new building is almost invisiSwinton and, in doing so, compels some kind of uneasy ble. In an attempt to make “massive consumption inconintrospection: What are you looking at, and why are you spicuous,” Yoshio Taniguchi implored MoMA’s trustees to, looking at it? Unlike in Abramovic’s 2010 performance, “Give me your millions, and I will make you an outstanding however, the artist’s gaze is not reflected back at the viewer. museum. Give me more, and I will make it disappear.” Give The artist is present, but not quite. Still, you just want to see me your $25, and I will give you Tilda Swinton. Maybe. what all the fuss is about, just like the camera-wielding tourists who peer studiously the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. As Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and a kind of idealized sleeping beauty, Swinton weaves several Planning. She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun.com.. Darn That romances together — particularly those of fairytales and Dream appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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schools, so he would simply hop from one gym to the next.

Landing a job at Best Buy finally allowed Alves to fully join a team. He currently balances his time working, attending school at Monroe Community College and training with Team Empire. Like many of the young MMA hopefuls, he has dreams of soon turning pro and eventually making a living via fierce punches and kicks, takedowns and slick submission moves.

Just in It for Glory & God

With few scars and little cage experience, many of the amateurs appeared to be all hunger and nerves. With only three of 13 fights going to decision, and most ending via TKO or submission in the first round, defense tactics appear to be secondary priorities in such young careers.

It is a testament to the rise of MMA, however, that these bouts showcased highly trained young martial artists, executing elite moves like spinning back kicks and knee bars. Clearly though, some of the competitors stepped into the cage purely for the glory and perhaps the pride.

For Paul Burress, his fights serve as a testimony to his Higher Power. Burress happens to be the senior pastor at Victory Church just outside of Rochester and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Chaplain. But this is a man of the cloth and peace who knows how to brawl.

Pastor Paul made short work of Eric Reed at Gladius III, winning by TKO. “When I took the fight months ago, not only did I not realize that it was the day before Easter but also that today is my wife’s birthday,” Pastor Paul said. “I wanted to win fast without getting injured so I could still give my Easter sermon tomorrow.”

The bout served as the 38-year-old’s simultaneous official debut and farewell.

It was a lifelong dream for Pastor Paul, who had started training in mixed martial arts while at a Bible college in Missouri and competed in unsanctioned backroom no-holds-barred affairs back in the late 90s.

Pastor Paul used the fight as a platform to raise funds for an orphanage in Haiti and sold more than 500 Gladius III tickets to his congregation, friends, and family members. He has become a subject in the forthcoming documentary, Fight Church, which also features Jon Jones and Benson Henderson.

Back at Victory Church, Pastor Paul has a 3,000-square-foot martial arts gym, where he helps train young men and women as part of his ministry’s MMA outreach.

“For me, it’s a chance to do something I love and to reach out to people who might not normally come to church,” said Pastor Paul. “So much of fighting parallels life. We are all struggling and fighting something, and there are many fighting metaphors in the Bible.”

Never Judge a Bruiser by His Belly

Only in MMA can you have an auditorium where the Labatt Blue is free flowing, while a fighter, having just delivered a bloody beatdown, starts preaching the Gospel and love of Christ in a cage to an audience whose vast collective tattoo ink is probably worth more than $1 million.

Always expect MMA to deliver the unexpected.

Take for instance the night’s co-main event between middleweights, Aaron Jeffrey and Alan Hoezle. Jeffrey appeared like a Calvin Klein model Adonis, body rippling with shredded muscle and six-pack abs. Complete with a handlebar mustache, Hoezle had more of a throwback carney look, and his gooey midsection suggested that he drinks more six packs than anything. The Adonis ended up winning in the third round, but the fight was much closer than anyone anticipated. Other fighters that night who had all the right looks and muscles ended up tapping out or being KO’d.

For those of you who have never viewed mixed martial arts live, or at all, you are in luck. Gladius Fights will hold its next event at Ultimate Athletics in the Ithaca Mall on Saturday, April 27.

You might just walk out of there as a MMA convert.

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The Red will look to take home the Matthews Cup for the 18th year in a row; the cup is awarded to the winner of the varsity race in the dual regatta between Cornell and Penn. The Red will also look to take home the Leonard Cup, which is awarded to the team with the majority of victories in more than eight races that day. While last season, Harvard edged out Cornell and Penn, Cornell finished in second and looks to build upon successes from last season.

For the Red’s two opponents Saturday this will be the second competition of their seasons. The Quakers lightweight team swept MIT last week winning, the Varsity Eight, Second Varsity, Third Varsity and Fours races. The Red's other opponent, Harvard, had similar success last week against Delaware, as the Crimson won the Varsity Eight and Second Varsity race.

“There is always a very high level of competition in our league. We anticipate this and do not take any of our opponents lightly,” senior captain Taylor Black said. “We expect to have very tight races throughout the season.”

While winning is the key objective for the team on Saturday, it is also the first competition of the season and will be used as a benchmark to gauge where the team is at during this early stage of the season.

“Our race this Saturday against Harvard and Penn will allow us to gauge our early season speed while showing us the specific areas of our race plan that we need to work on,” Black said.

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Shrieking to success | Senior Justin Schick explains the noises that he makes during his polo matches that range from shrieking to “Indian war calls” this season.

Ten Questions columnist Reena Gilani sits down with senior Justin Schick to discuss his love of polo, playing “stick and ball,” and partying in France with his twin.

1. How did you get involved with polo?

I was learning how to ride the same time I was learning how to walk. I’ve always either owned horses or been involved with them through showing horses across the country. When I was a freshman in high school, I realized that there was no real future in college athletics with traditional English or Western riding disciplines. I always played other sports too, and polo gave me an opportunity to combine my hand-eye coordination and my appreciation for horses, so I started playing my freshman year of high school. When I realized Cornell had a varsity polo team, I really started playing a lot and I got various jobs in the industry. I started grooming — I would get out of the house at like 8 a.m. and drive down to the polo club in Atlanta and in the 80-something degrees and 90percent humidity weather, I would be wrapping horses’ legs and getting all the horses ready for the guy I was working for.

In exchange for that, he would give me a horse or two, and I would play his horses.

The better that I got, the more people would want me to play with them. It got to the point where people would let me use their horses without anything else in exchange. So, I got started with polo solely through the generosity of other people.

Can you tell me about your run for hardest-working male player on the team, and how you’ve been cheated out of the award for the past three years?

I don’t know anyone who works harder on his work cruise, goes to more games and actively tries to help as much as I do. I feel that my earnest attempts to help go greatly underappreciated and overlooked.

Who wins out over you?

Nik Feldman. He’s actually the hardest worker on the team — I thought I worked really hard and then I met him.

Why did your amazing polo career on the grass in Florida and Argentina never trans-

late into one at Cornell?

Playing lots of outdoor polo and playing professionally, it’s a completely different game. I’m at a disadvantage because I played so much outdoor polo, and most guys here have had lots of indoor experience. If they want to play me in the outdoors, though, they can bring their best.

2. What are some of the sounds that you make when playing the game?

I’m really pushing the envelope this semester with what sounds I can get away with during polo. It ranges from horrible shrieking sounds — really sexual noises — to Indian war calls.

And what are some of your ridiculous antics during practice in general?

So, for instance, two weeks ago, I successfully cantered around the entire arena at a very fast canter, holding no reins with my hands on my head, and I was yelling at everyone to look at me. I also like to do Wild West shootouts, where I’ll be cantering along and suddenly drop my reins and pull up two guns and shoot at people.

Do these habits help improve your game?

I think it definitely improves team spirit and increases overall team happiness.

3. Beyond riding horses you’ve also gone to see horse races. Can provide some information about your experiences at Preakness ’12?

I don’t even know if there was actual horse racing going on, but I remember that day perfectly. I don’t know if it’s our polo team’s dashing good looks or the ridiculous outfits that we were wearing — including my brother’s white polo shirt that we cut the sleeves off of the morning of, Alec Budow’s Texas Longhorns shirt and some lacrosse pinnies that showed off our unbelievable guns — but somehow, walking through the crowd of 100,000 on the infield at the Preakness, we ended up on national TV. Speaking of Alec, if you had to pick — marry one and kill one: Alec or [girlfriend] Alyssa Bush?

Marry Alec, 100 percent of the time.

Can you give me some insight on how Alec’s recovery is going and if he is going to have to retire from polo?

It’s been really tough, and it’s something that’s in the back of most guys’ minds every day. Ever since he stopped playing, it’s been hard. Practice without him would be like if I didn’t make my crazy noises at practice every day — it’s just part of who we are as a team. Life would not go on.

Clocks would stop ticking.

4. If you were a girl, which guy on the polo team would you most like to “stick and ball” with?

I don’t know if you’re aware but the polo team is nationally ranked as one of the hottest teams in America, so that’s a very loaded question. If I could stick and ball with all of them I would totally do that, but if I had to pick one person it would probably be Connor Pardell. He has visited my house in Atlanta and I have known him all four years that I’ve been here. There’s something about him — maybe his undying love for Poughkeepsie — that makes him the type of guy I’d like to stick and ball with.

5. Let’s talk about your everyday attire.

Why do you think you look good in backwards hats and camo jackets?

I’ll forever be known as the kid who wore an Atlanta Braves hat at Cornell. I actually contemplated taking my senior photo while wearing my Braves hat. I’m just a huge fan of hats in general, reason being that you don’t actually have to brush your hair or worry about it. I like just rolling out of bed and going to campus; I hate taking time to shower in the morning, so what’s more efficient than putting on a hat and walking to class?

And the rest of your outfits?

Most girls don’t know this, but I wear a lot of Ralph Lauren because I’m actually sponsored by them.

Do you have a good contract with them?

Yeah, Nacho Figueras is currently the face of Polo Ralph Lauren, but when his contract’s up in 2015, I’m going to be tak-

ing over full time.

But what about your job at Deutsche Bank?

Deutsche Bank is one of those little two-year jobs that you do, and then you go into modeling. A good finance background is what makes the successful model successful.

Is it true that you got the Deutsche Bank logo tattooed on your butt after getting the job offer?

It’s weird, yeah. It’s this German fad that you have to do when you sign your contract to work there. It’s not as bad as the stuff I’ve heard they do at Goldman, though.

6. What happened that time you and your twin brother threw a party in France?

I was studying abroad at Georgia Tech and they have a satellite campus in Metz, an hour east of Paris. It was our birthday and so Jeff and I wanted to throw a rager for the 300 kids that were part of the program, since there really weren’t any parties.

We went to this supermarket Cora and just filled two shopping carts with beers. It was the most ridiculous amount of alcohol for the cheapest price. It cost us about 100 euros and we had charged a cover because we didn’t think we would be able to repay it all, and we ended up making an additional 100 euros beyond the cost.

Everyone from the school came and there were seriously no parties that rivaled that.

Did your profit have to do with the fact that you’re so well versed in agricultural commodities?

Yeah I think it directly correlated to my knowledge of finance and trading. I saw an opportunity to exploit the market. The kids were thirsty, and we quenched that thirst.

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Reena Gilani can be reached at rgilani@cornellsun.com.

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Rowers Ready to Start Spring on Right Foot

Both men’s heavyweight and lighweight teams prepare for start

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams will both be in action on Saturday and are looking to start off their seasons with winning performances. The heavyweight rowers will head to Cambridge to face off with Harvard on the Charles River, while the lightweight team will travel to Philadelphia to compete against Harvard and Penn. For both Cornell teams, it will be the first taste of competition this season.

The heavyweight team will be the first opponent that Harvard faces this season. Last season, the Crimson’s varsity eight won bronze at the IRA Championships and finished in the top three nationally for the second consecutive season.

“Harvard is one of the top crews in our league, and we’re all very excited to test our speed against them,” senior Jim Rectenwald said.

The Red graduated five seniors from the varsity boat last season and have focused on finding replacements for those newly opened spots. While the new members of the varsity eight settle into their new role, four seniors will be returning to the varsity boat and will be providing the veteran leadership for those new members of the varsity boat.

“We’ve been fortunate to fill those spots with some really talented guys. Our focus at this point is to mesh them into the eight and begin to build speed as a group,” Rectenwald said.

While it is important for the new boats to find a rhythm in opening competition, it will be equally important for the Red to plan and be prepared for the weather conditions in Cambridge.

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All aboard | Both Cornell rowing teams will look to start the spring season off with wins. The heavyweights will face off against Harvard first while the lightweight team will face Penn and Harvard.

Rectenwald noted that one of the key factors to the Red’s success on Saturday against Harvard will be the team’s ability to prepare and adjust to the environment they compete in, “It’s also important that we’re thinking about how to attack the race conditions: there’s going to be plenty of wind

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Gladius in the Armory W

W. LACROSSE

Laxers Head to Fifth Ivy Game

hen the Canadian middleweight hit the canvas, the crowd in Rochester went into a raucous frenzy. Their hometown fighter, Toren Reeves, followed up the second-round knockdown of his opponent with a ground-andpound barrage and, after the referee stepped in to call the fight, he had won his first-ever amateur MMA bout by TKO. Many had considered Reeves to be an underdog against Ashton Nemdhari, who trains

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

Cornell will play its fifth Ivy League game of the season Saturday as the team travels to Hanover, N.H. to play rival Dartmouth. The No. 14 Red (63, 2-2 Ivy League) will enter play with a three-game losing streak after winning its first six games. The Green (7-3, 3-0) is undefeated against Ivy League opponents, but is 2-2 at home.

“Dartmouth has been one of the top Ivy teams every year,” senior captain and attacker Caroline Salisbury said. “Our senior class has never beaten them, so a win on Saturday would be huge for the program.”

The last time Cornell got the better of Dartmouth was in 2008, when the Red beat the Green at home, 10-9. The last time Cornell won at Dartmouth was in 1984 by a score of 12-9.

Historically, the Green has dominated the series, posting a record of 29-6 against Cornell.

“In the past, Dartmouth’s major strengths have been the draw control and their defense, and we expect that to be the same this year,” Salisbury said.

This season, Dartmouth has actually allowed as many goals as they have scored (99). They also have won more draw controls, but not by that much (114-112). On the other hand, Cornell has outscored opponents 123-94 and has won more draws, 126-111. Both teams have allowed opponents the same amount of shots on goal in the season.

“Really battling for and winning the draw control is a crucial part of our game strategy so that we can take control of the game,” Salisbury said. “We need to play the fast pace game we like to play as

and chop on the Charles, and we need to be ready for that,” he said.

The lightweight team will begin its season on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia against Penn and Harvard.

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Goodbye Green | Freshman attack Emily Tripodi and the rest of the Red looks to take down Dartmouth.

opposed to allowing Dartmouth to slow the game down.”

Cornell will also look to standout scorers like top goal scorers sophomore attacker Lindsay Toppe and junior midfielder Amanda D’Amico. Toppe and D’Amico are 1-2 on the team in goals scored with 31 and 22 respectively. Salisbury has been consistent, too, with 21 goals and 27 points, good for second on the team behind Toppe.

The game Saturday is an early afternoon contest starting at noon. The Red will only have two more Ivy League games the rest of the season — one at home against Brown on April 12 and one at Yale on April 20.

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun.com.

inside the cage to do battle in 13 amateur mixed martial arts bouts as part of Gladius Fights’ third ever event held in New York State.

As New York has yet to sanction professional MMA, fight fans used to have to travel to Pennsylvania or New Jersey to see live cards. A steady rise of amateur MMA promotions has spread across the state, and the Ithaca-based Gladius aims to be at the head of the pack. (Gladius has also held professional cards

with Team Ascension out of Niagara, Canada. But the Rochester Bedroc MMA fighter answered those expectations with fierce aggression from the opening bell.

Throughout the fight, the crowd cheered like it was a championship bout in the UFC, but here were two young amateur fighters with 0-0 records and only dreams of greater glory.

This is MMA in New York. This is Gladius Fights.

On a Saturday night at the Rochester Main Street Armory, some 26 combatants stepped

at Indian Reservations.)

“Gladius Fights is amazing,” said the 22-year-old fighter, Anthony Alves, who trains with Team Empire in Rochester.

“Finally, we can fight in New York and receive the best treatment.”

Winning his fight that night via rear naked choke submission, Alves has the classic rough-andtumble background of many fighters over the ages. Growing up impoverished, the featherweight said that he couldn’t afford the dues at martial arts See O’KASICK page 15