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Alleged Rapist Pleads Not Guilty In Ithaca Court Mesko’13 suspended from Cornell
By KERRY CLOSE Sun Senior Editor
A Cornell student accused of raping another student pled not guilty of the charge in Ithaca City Court Friday. Peter Mesko ’13 was arrested and charged with firstdegree rape on Tuesday. He was released on $5,000 bail. Mesko has been suspended from the University pending the results of the criminal investigation, according to The Ithaca Journal. Mesko is accused of raping a female student in her girlfriend’s bedroom early in the morning of March 30. Her girlfriend, who was in the room with her, helped her fend off the attack before the two fled to an upstairs bedroom, according to court documents obtained by The Journal. Several minutes later, the victim’s girlfriend returned downstairs to take pictures of the assailant, who was lying on her bed with his jeans “slightly pulled down,” according to court documents. After the victim and the partner left the house, they later identified him on the website of Cornell’s athletics department. On Friday, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 said she would not issue an order requiring Mesko stay inTompkins County, allowing Mesko to return to his family home in Honesdale, Pa., until his trial. Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.
News Big Red Winners
A collective $2,000 was awarded to three distinct projects aimed at bettering both the Cornell and global community at large at the Big Red Ideas Festival Saturday. | Page 3
Opinion Growing Pains
Aditi Bhowmick ’16 takes a look back at her freshman year and likens one’s four years of college to a chrysalis with distinct stages. | Page 9
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Sports A Leap of Faith
Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12, former Cornell track members, continue to develop their company, Storage Squad, which they launched as Cornell students. | Page 16
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C.U.Adopts Virtualization Technology By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer
Because “faster” means “better” in an efficiencyobsessed culture, businesses have embraced virtualization technology, which makes it possible to quickly and cheaply connect a lot of people and information over a broad array of devices. Following this trend, Cornell has set up its own infrastructure virtualization program to reduce its spending, open physical space and create a stronger IT infrastructure, according to University officials. Through virtualization, businesses can package
applications up as “virtual machines” and ship them off to a cloud computing data center at sharply discounted rates. The technology, which allows businesses to move their email and calendar systems from a local server to an online “cloud,” is leading groups like the University to ask themselves why they should pay more to possess their own equipment, according to Prof. Ken Birman, computer science. “When we say cloud computing, we really have this bigger picture in mind,” Birman said. “The See VIRTUALIZATION page 4
South Asian Council Marks Inauguration By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer
On Sunday, the South Asian Council was officially inaugurated as the fifth umbrella organization — an organization that provides funding and support to its member organizations — under the African Latino Asian Native American Students Programming Board. In addition to the SAC, ALANA includes Black Students United, La Asociacion Latina, Native American Students at Cornell and the Cornell Asian and Pacific Islander Student Union. Each organization receives an allotment of University funding.
Hip Hop History
Articles and artifacts pertaining to the evolution of hip hop music and cullture are displayed in Kroch Library as part of the “Now Scream!” exhibit. | Page 10
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In a 5K event hosted by GlobeMed, an organization that aims to promote global health equity, runners wear their old clothes, stripping each layer as they reach checkpoints on the run. The stripped clothes will be donated to a local charity in Ithaca.
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Showcasing South Asia | Students showcase traditional garments at the South Asian Council’s inauguration on Sunday.
Statistician Nate Silver Reflects on Future of Prediction By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor
It could be easy for a man who catapulted to fame with a 50-for-50 election forecast to become overconfident. But statistical savant Nate Silver, who spoke at a packed Statler Auditorium Friday, impressed that modesty goes a long way in the field of big data. Stepping out from behind the podium, Silver — named one of
the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2009 — introduced himself as a simple man. “I’m from the Midwest. We don’t deal with that much praise or technology,” he said, gesturing at the screen behind him which briefly showed a panned-in shot of his face. Despite his self-described humble beginnings, Silver has seen praise heaped upon him since he accurately predicted the
winner of all 50 states in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. While some skeptics have questioned Silver’s methodology, the 35-year-old writer-statistician has been described by media outlets as “America’s Chief Wizard,” a “mathematical wunderkind” and a pollster genius — something that has not been lost on him. “It seemed really out of whack to me that a Google search for my name resulted in more hits
than searches for Vice President Joe Biden — humble-brag! I had to wonder, why is a data geek getting this much love?” Silver said. “Fortunately for America, Justin Bieber still has 100 times more traffic than Vice President Biden and I,” he added. Silver said the election forecast model on his New York Times blog, FiveThirtyEight, is relatively simple: its methodoloSee SILVER page 4
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Students Pitch Projects to Better World at Ideas Festival
By ASHLEY CHU Sun Contributor
Student at the Red Ideas Festival –– an event that intends to better the Cornell and global communities through student-generated proposals –– pitched ideas ranging from creating a light bulb that mimics the sun’s rays to employing acid attack victims in India to repurpose old saris into household items. Giselle Malina ’13, who won Saturday’s festival, was awarded $1,000 for her plan to bring physical therapy to amputees in Haiti. Malina plans to send mirrors to Haiti in order to teach Haitian physicians the simple technique of “mirror box therapy”: using a mirror and a box to psychologically relieve phantom limb pain in amputees. This therapy method, created by V. S. Ramachandran, a prominent neuroscientist, is a recognized method of therapy that cures phantom limb pain in 89 percent of those who suffer from it, according to Malina. Malina said she plans to travel to Haiti this summer to oversee the training of clinicians in the therapy and will
use the Red Ideas Festival award money to buy the mirrors that will be used in those clinics. “My ‘Red Idea’ is to bridge [the] gap — to bring the information that is necessary [to cure phantom limb pain] to those who need it the most,” she said. Benjamin Gulak, the inventor of the Uno — a dirtshredding electric-powered vehicle — was the keynote speaker for the event. Gulak spoke about risk-taking and its importance in his success, explaining that his choice to forgo college to continue working on the Uno was one of the best decisions he made in his life. “Just sitting in the audience listening to these presentations is really inspiring; to see that there are other groups out there like Red Ideas is really amazing, because we’re the new generation that is supposed to go and make these changes in the world,” Gulak said. Roshni Mehta ’15 presented a plan to employ acid attack victims in India to carry out the repurposing of saris. She proposed helping the women utilize used saris to make household items like duvets and bed sheets. She said acid attack victims are usually shunned by society and blamed for provoking the acid attacks.
“Unlike most organizations helping acid attack survivors, this enterprise is not charity. It is employment to empower these women through the long run that we call life,” Mehta said. Another contestant, Jeremy Blum grad, along with a team, designed Sunn, an energy-efficient LED light bulb that emits wavelengths that correspond to natural wavelengths emitted by the sun. Blum said it is increasingly important for both mental and physical health to have more exposure to the wavelengths of natural sunlight. Carly Dean ’14, Peter Gudonis ’14 and Nicholas Cassab-Gheta ’14 presented a hydroponic installation plan, designed to allow urban restaurants to grow their own produce inside buildings. The students said they have already partnered with Stella’s in Collegetown, adding that their hydroponic installation will be implemented at Stella’s on Monday. Emma Court ’15, city editor of The Sun, and Anisha Chopra ’13, the creators of “ResCUer” –– a campus security smartphone application that allows students to access safety contact information at the push of a button –– proposed to update and spread their application to other universities. “Late night safety affects other campuses, not just Cornell,” Chopra said. “We realized that [safety] resources are there, but the issue is making it accessible to people who need it when they need it,” Chopra said. The attendees at the event said they were impressed by the ideas their peers presented. “I thought it was almost inspiring in a way to see my peers pursuing certain projects that really could make a difference,” Joanna Mleczko ’15 said. “I was really impressed by the different ideas people had and how determined they were to make a difference, even though they were in college, making use of the opportunities and resources that Cornell could provide.” Other attendees said the event, although inspiring, could reach out to more students in the future. “In order to really share these ideas, it would be better if it were a day festival ... so people can walk by and see it,” Katie Mayer ’14 said. “We were all there because we knew someone there. I think this should be targeting people who aren’t involved yet, because when you see creative people around you, you are inspired to be creative too.” Editor’s note: Emma Court ’15, Sun City Editor, is a member of the student team that developed the ResCUer app. She was not involved in the editing of this article.
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Big red ideas | Roshni Mehta ’15, a participant in the Red Ideas Festival, presents her idea to empower acid attack victims in India by employing them to transform used saris into household items.
Ashley Chu can be reached at ayc37@cornell.edu.
WashPo Journalist Criticizes U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan War Chandrasekaran: war with Afghanistan was drawn out due to‘tribal rivalries’ in Pentagon By RACHEL WEBER Sun Contributor
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post, said Tuesday at Cornell that he thinks America’s strategy in Afghanistan –– the country that has sustained United States’ longest war –– was not as successful as it could have been. Chandrasekaran, who traveled extensively through the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar reporting on the war in Afghanistan for The Post from 2009 to 2011, said he thought the war has been prolonged. Chandrasekaran said that despite the poor quality of life under the Taliban’s religious zealots, the Afghan people distrusted their new government that was established in 2004 and backed by the U.S. government. He said Afghans condemned their government as a regime of “thugs and warlords,” and that the country struggled to establish a stable government without the support of its citizens. Another reason for the length and failures of the war in Afghanistan is “tribal rivalries … not in Afghanistan, but in the Pentagon,” Chandrasekaran said. He added that U.S. Marines did not want to work together with the U.S. Army or the Canadian Army, which led to internal divisions, as the Marines wanted to preside over their own “patch
of the desert.” Not only did the administration need to manage challenges on the international front, but they also struggled with the “bureaucratic front in Washington” as a result of countless disagreements between the State Department and the White House, Chandrasekaran said. Chandrasekaran said the conflict in Afghanistan was also drawn out because the U.S. lacked an understanding of Afghan culture. “[The war] has been a decade-long process of the U.S. trying to make solutions with a fundamental lack of understanding of Afghan culture and tradition, and … a lack of communication with Afghan people,” Chandrasekaran said. Chandrasekaran added that the U.S. misstepped when it attempted to rapidly reconstruct Afghanistan without properly understanding the region. Throwing money at the problem created as many problems as it solved, he said, likening Afghanistan to a parched man on a hot day. Instead of giving him a glass of water, America “turned a fire hose at full blast on him.” “Afghanistan is a dirt poor country,” Chandrasekaran said. “Afghanistan was starved of reconstruction resources by the Bush administration.” However, the Obama administration’s attempt to pump money into Afghanistan — spending $4 billion in
2010 alone — fueled new rivalries and sparked corruption, according to Chandrasekaran. Chandrasekaran stressed that the lack of cohesion between various factions within the U.S. government has prolonged the war and caused much failure. “Our nation has been unable to adapt. … Nobody, it seems, wants to work together,” Chandrasekaran said. Following the talk, Catherine Weldon
’16 said that Chandrasekaran “was very thorough explaining American strategies and failures in his talk.” “More Americans need to be aware about the intricacies of the war in Afghanistan, given the amount of time and money we’ve spent there,” Weldon said. Rachel Weber can be reached at rlw285@cornell.edu.
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Examining the war | Rajiv Chandrasekaran, senior correspondent and associate editor of The Washington Post, spoke about America’s strategy in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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C.U.:Virtualization to Reduce Costs Silver:‘Big Data’ Has Not VIRTUALIZATION Continued from page 1
University move to Gmail is ... [one] example of how Cornell has embraced the cloud for economic reasons.” According to Birman, cloud computing has emerged from a combination of widespread Internet access and a huge wave of new network-enabled applications. According to Andrea Beesing M.A. ’77, assistant director of unified communications and collaboration of IT@Cornell, infrastructure virtualization seeks to reduce Cornell’s overall IT costs and improve its service reliability by consolidating and virtualizing 80 percent of the distributed physical server infrastructure. “The Infrastructure Virtualization Initiative was designed to save the University money by consolidating servers into the central data centers,” she said. Last month, for example, as a part of its virtualization initiative, the University moved many of its tech services, such as the email and calendar system for about 24,000 faculty and staff, from a Cornell-provided local server, to an online-based cloud system, Beesing said. “The migration of [Microsoft] Exchange [email] accounts to the cloud is part of the larger strategy to deliver utility IT services more cost-effectively in order to focus more IT resources on academic
technologies,” Beesing said. According to IT@Cornell’s website, through an increase in the number of servers a single staff member can manage and reductions in power and cooling costs, the University will save $2,845 per year for each physical server that is virtualized. Currently, the CIT-managed data center staff oversees 2,000 servers, according to Beesing. Some units which have begun infrastructure virtualization projects include the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Affairs and Alumni Development, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology and Student and Academic Services, according to the University’s website. Birman said he wrote to Provost Kent Fuchs several years ago urging the University to explore the benefits of virtualizing its systems. “With virtualization, you can take a whole computer and package it into an image that will run on some other computer in an identical way,” he said. “We end up with one busy server hosting perhaps 10 or 20 desktop computer images or server images, and all those machines can be replaced with much cheaper, more energy efficient displayonly devices. The benefits are really huge.” The project was mentioned again last September, when faculty and administrators gathered
for an all-day conference to give their input on the University’s strategic plan for IT@Cornell. During the conference, Ted Dodds, the University’s chief information officer and vice president for information technologies, emphasized the need for cost-saving initiatives such as virtualization. “[The University has tried] to reduce the cost of those utility services that we all consume and need, but [so far, it] doesn’t actually differentiate the University from its peers,” Dodds said on Sept. 11. “But then [to] take the savings and the optimization we get from those utilities and reallocate to things –– that will make a difference.” According to Birman, cloud computing, nonetheless, has its downsides, such as inconsistency in service and ineffective security. “My main criticism of today’s cloud model is that the cloud has not been ideal for hosting sensitive data or applications, like medical records, systems to transform the power grid into a smart grid [and] self-driving cars,” he said. Last month, for example, the Cornell housing portal crashed during the housing lottery because of the server’s limits –– a problem larger cloud servers could face as well, according to Beesing. Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun.com.
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gy is comprised of “averaging polls, counting to 270 and account for the margin of error.” “It’s not as complicated as things used in other branches of economics,” he said. “But the success of [my book,] The Signal and the Noise, spoke to how many problems we have in the field of big data. Expectations are not matching reality.” For instance, the explosion of data available for analysis has led some journalists to believe that the scientific method has been rendered obsolete, Silver said. The housing bubble bursting, the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, flu epidemics — all of these events, he said, are examples of catastrophes scientists and economists failed to predict, despite having masses of data available to analyze. “This is more the rule than the exception,” Silver said, adding that statisticians, economists and scientists have made faulty decisions throughout the past decade because they have made bad assumptions about data. “It hasn’t exactly been the best decade for [big data].” Even in rigorous fields like medicine, some studies have suggested that most published research findings are false, Silver said. “We have a crisis of science, ironically, in this era of big data,” Silver said. “Why isn’t big data producing big progress?” The answer, Silver said, lies in the unequal growth of information and analysis. By some measures, 90 percent of all data in the world has been created in the past two years, he added. “People sometimes have difficulty picking out the reality, or signal, from the noise,” Silver said, referencing the title of his book. “As you have more and more data, you have an exponential increase in the number of two-way relationships you have to test.” The result? “There is a widening gap between what we really know and what we think we know,” Silver said. In one study, a Princeton University professor showed six graphs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s performance to participants. Wall Street analysts were unable to recognize that some of the graphs were fake — an example of how people can be led astray and think they see patterns in random streams of data, according to Silver. “By the way, those ones were real,” Silver said, pointing to two of the graphs on the screen behind him. “If you’re good, you should apply to CNBC instead of completing your education at Cornell.” At other times, people who are flooded with data can miss pertinent pieces of information and reach false conclusions, Silver said. “It’s like the apartment I just bought — I thought it was underpriced, but it turns out, it was the neighbors ... for reasons I will not say,” he said. Despite there being countless examples documenting the tendency of politicians, economists and even statisticians to be overconfident with data, “there is happiness in the end … potentially,” Silver said. “If you’re willing to test your ideas through making actually verifiable predictions … and [to] revise your beliefs — people tend to be very stubborn — there is progress in the end,” Silver said. “We’ll always have technological developments to help us, but we also need smart people who know how to … manipulate big data and produce benefits for society, rather than just for our personal lives.” Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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S.Asian Council to Be 5th Umbrella Org.Under ALANA COUNCIL
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Before the establishment of the SAC, organizations affiliated with South Asian students fell under CAPSU, according to Karan Javaji ’14, vice president of ALANA and the first president of SAC. However, the major cultural differences between the South Asian community — commonly described as including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal — and the rest of the Asian community always led to a level of disengagement with respect to South Asian students, Javaji said. “The South Asian community never really engaged with the Pan-Asian community,” Javaji said. “It has to be very organic; you can’t just expect a community to identify with another community.” The idea of creating a specific South Asian Council was born in Spring 2012, when South Asian leaders on campus met to discuss issues facing the community and brainstorm how to move forward, according to Javaji. “The consensus at the meeting was that there should be an umbrella organization for the South Asian community,” he said. The plans for the council were met with the University’s support from the very beginning, according to Javaji. However, it was still “a very political situation” at that point in time, due to the potentially divisive nature of breaking off from CAPSU, he said. “A lot of sections of the Cornell community thought that this might be seen as a breakaway from the Asian community and might have huge racial implications,” Javaji said. “We began talking with CAPSU and [the Asian & Asian American Center]. At first, they weren’t very supportive of the idea, but it was a very strong community movement.” However, students started to see that the formation of a separate council for South Asian students was “a step towards integrating with the multicultural community” rather than “a breakaway from the Asian community,” according to Jivaji.
“There wasn’t anything to break away from in the first place,” he added. Wei Yang ’14, former president of CAPSU, echoed Javaji’s sentiments. “Initially, it was a very complex issue for both members of CAPSU and members of the South Asian Council to grapple with,” Yang said. “One of the core issues that CAPSU has been dealing with in the past few years is [the notion that] ‘There is only one type of Asian,’ when the actual Asian and Asian-American community is completely diverse.” Yang said the proposal for a South Asian Council brought these concerns to the forefront, challenging the notion that the Asian and Asian-American community is homogenous. “It’s not about the splitting-off from the Asian and AsianAmerican community or any kind of separation from the larger community, but recognizing that there are specific
“It’s not about the splitting-off from the Asian/Asian-American community ... but recognizing that there are specific issues in the South Asian community that we need to devote more resources to.” Wei Yang ’14 issues in the South Asian community that we need to devote more resources to,” Yang said. Though University funding for the SAC will not be discussed until next spring, the inauguration marks an accomplishment for internal community-building among the South Asian community on campus, according to Javaji. In the past year, the South Asian community has informally joined together for events such as a vigil honoring a highly publicized rape victim in New Delhi and a “Chai and Chat” that drew more than 150 people to discuss the SAC’s planned vision. More events, including workshops and doc-
umentary screenings, are planned for this week, according to Javaji. “It really seems that SAC and its member organizations are really committed to making it successful,” said Olivia Obodoagha ’15, an ALANA ambassador who was involved in the SAC inauguration event. Obodoagha also mentioned that the inauguration of SAC, including a fashion show and cultural performances, exemplified a new way of launching ALANA programming — by featuring cultural events, rather than hosting a talk or a lecture. Mariyah Ahmad ’13, former president of the Pakistani Students’ Association, and Nipun Bhandari ’13, former president of the Society for India, also were involved in establishing the SAC and say they have high hopes for the new umbrella organization. “There was a dire need for an organization that represented South Asian interests and a resource that South Asians could turn to in times of need,” Ahmad said. “Though CAPSU is doing a phenomenal job at representing Asian interests, the fact that most South Asians do not self-identify as ‘Asian’ resulted in the South Asian population not utilizing the resources offered by CAPSU. The SAC was formed to fill this gap, to raise awareness of the South Asian region and to provide a support system for South Asian individuals.” Bhandari agreed, saying the SAC will give voice and presence to future South Asian leaders. “The SAC has the potential to serve the South Asian community in a variety of ways: advocacy, emotional and financial support, cultural promotion [and] educational opportunities,” he said. The inauguration event also served as the kickoff to South Asian awareness week, featuring a fashion show, a performance by Tarana, the South Asian a cappella group on campus, and a gallery of South Asian art and photography. Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.
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NYC Is Pressed to Settle Central Park Jogger Case
NEW YORK (AP) — New York is a safer, less fearful place than it was in 1990, when murders hit an all-time high, race relations were raw and the city felt under siege from drug dealers and gangs on “wilding” sprees. But one major piece of unfinished business from back then still hangs over the city and its legal system: the Central Park jogger case. Five black and Hispanic boys were convicted that year in the rape and grisly beating of a white woman jogging in the park, and they went on to serve six to 13 years in prison before their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence linking someone else to the crime. They sued police and prosecutors for $250 million. But the lawsuit has languished for a decade with no resolution in sight. Now, a growing chorus of lawmakers is asking New York City to settle with the five men. And the pressure is likely to build in the coming weeks with
the broadcast of a documentary on the case by filmmaker Ken Burns. It airs on PBS on April 16. “All of us want this over, but it’s about someone taking responsibility for what they did to us,” said one of the five, Yusef Salaam, now 38. “The money can't buy back our lives.” The attack on 28-year-old investment banker Trisha Meili occurred on April 19, 1989. It was one of the most notorious crimes in New York City history and it mesmerized the nation, serving as a lurid symbol of the city’s racial and class divide and its rampant crime. It gave rise to the term “wilding” for urban mayhem by teenagers. “Drugs. Guns. Gangs. New York City was just crime central at that time,” said former New York Detective Kirk Burkhalter, recalling an era so blood-soaked that the city had a record 2,245 homicides in 1990, compared with 414 last year. “You were scared to ride the trains after dark. It was such a different place.”
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N.Y. Moves Toward Adopting Wind, Other Green Energy ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new study says New York could get the power it needs from wind, water and sunlight by 2030 with a concerted push, though the state’s decade-long effort to significantly boost green energy shows how challenging that could be. The study, led by researchers from Stanford and Cornell universities, provides a theoretical road map to how New Yorkers could rely on renewable energy within 17 years. It would require massive investments in wind turbines, solar panels and more from the windy shores off Long Island to sun-exposed rooftops upstate. “It’s doable,” said co-author Robert Howarth, a Cornell professor of ecology and environmental biology. “It’s way outside of the realm of what most people are talking about ... But I think people have been too pessimistic about what can be done.” In fact, New York has been committed to significantly
increasing green energy production for the past nine years under its renewable portfolio standard, which is funded by a surcharge of less than a dollar on monthly electricity bills. Then-Gov. George Pataki began the program in 2004 with the goal of New York relying on renewable resources for a quarter of its electricity by 2013. That goal, tweaked three years ago, is now for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to support the production of about 10.4 million megawatt-hours of energy from hydro, wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas annually by 2015. The authority reported this week that it was 46 percent of the way to the goal at the end of last year. The goal could lead to roughly 30 percent renewables by 2015, once clean-energy purchases by consumers and resources added by the Long Island Power Authority are factored in.
With two years to go, clean energy advocates say it will be difficult for New York to hit the 2015 renewable target. But they believe the larger point is that New York is making progress. “To me, the long-term commitment to continue to invest in resources is more important than the particular target you set,” said Valerie Strauss, interim executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, a group that represents renewable energy interests. Looking at energy generated in New York, which excludes imported power that can be used for the energy authority’s targets, about 20 percent came from hydro, which includes decadesold projects along the Niagara and St. Lawrence rivers. Wind accounted for 2 percent, and other renewable sources accounted for another 2 percent, according to 2011 figures from the operators of the state’s power grid.
‘Will She or Won’t She’ Question Following Clinton NEW YORK (AP) — Young supporters hold signs outside Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speeches urging her to run for president. Audiences listen with rapt attention as she discusses the plight of women and girls in developing countries. Not long since Clinton stepped down as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, the “will she or won’t she” question already is following her around, like the activists who held dark blue “Ready for
Hillary” signs outside speeches at the Kennedy Center in Washington and New York’s Lincoln Center. This past week, Clinton came off a two-month break with a soft roll-out of sorts. She gave her first two public speeches since leaving the State Department, released details of a book scheduled for June 2014 and plans to join an advisory board of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The mere makings of a public
schedule for the runner-up of the 2008 Democratic presidential race is enough to get political tongues wagging over what it all means for the 2016 campaign. The speeches and news coverage offered an early indication of some of what awaits her as she considers whether to seek the White House again in three years: adoring supporters, young and old, former political advisers to her husband begging her to run, and potential rivals sizing her up.
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his past Saturday, I saw the play University as a whole. Many people cite “Madre de Migrantes,” which this to justify the strong greek presence explores the scenario of having an at Cornell, but here’s my analysis: armed teacher in a classroom. After a Alumni with the fondest memories give stimulating discussion with the play- back to their schools. With the Greek wright and actors, I was still struggling System dominating the social scene here to define classroom diversity. at Cornell, it’s not hard to understand As soon as I stepped outside of the why frat bros and sorority sisters have Schwartz, I saw a large crowd of more the times of their lives being at the top than 100 drunken individuals in funky of the social food chain. clothing shouting and laughing hysteriBy default, however, nerds, hipsters cally — a typical Saturday night, I fig- and others who do not find the Greek ured. As I was squirming and swimming scene appealing feel left out during their through the beer-breathed crowd to four years at Cornell. And now it makes catch a bus, however, I noticed one much more sense why Cornell’s alumni peculiar attribute of this crowd: They giving rate is the lowest of the ivies at 32 were all white. percent. What a coincidence it is that Because 1/3 of Cornell’s student body about 32 percent of Cornell’s student identifies as students of color, and body is affiliated with the Greek System. because I have never seen a single stuThe pro-greeks assert that frats, in dent organization of any sort at Cornell fact, have become quite diverse, welcomto be 100 percent racially homogenous, ing students of color as well as gay stuI didn’t doubt for a second that they dents. But what about the fine print were from another school, possibly next to an asterisk that reads: Asians: Ithaca College. must not have any accent; Blacks: must Then I recalled, Ithaca College, sure- be from boarding schools; Gays: must ly not as act straight diverse as and keep Cornell, still their sex has a sizable lives behind We live in a post-modern culture the door? minority population. My that worships diversity. It’s temptWe live next guess in a postwas a SUNY ing to fegin this diversity by simply modern culschool, except displaying a variety of colors. ture that many are worships even more d i v e r s i t y. racially It’s temptdiverse than Cornell. They must come ing to feign this diversity by simply disfrom some obscure Midwestern college playing a variety of colors. But what in the middle of nowhere, I concluded. I good does it do if all the different colors felt sorry that they wouldn’t get to learn are identical on the inside? Does everyfrom peers with divergent cultural one have to be a swan egg? Where do the upbringings. However, I was impressed duck eggs fit in? The quail eggs? The that they made it all the way to Ithaca. pheasant eggs? Can a quail egg be celeYet, in the next moment, I began to brated for its difference both on the question my auditory function. I picked inside and the outside, or does it have to up on the word “prelim,” a slang term put on a white powder to fit into the exclusively used on this campus. Feeling sparkly-white swan culture? disturbed, I asked a drunken couple Some of the nicest people I’ve met nearby what school they were from. here at Cornell are involved in the Greek “We are from here, duh?” The girl system. I also know for a fact that most answered, condescendingly. students in the system are intelligent, Instead of a field trip from some conscientious individuals just like rest of Midwestern school thousands of miles the student body. The problem arises away, it was apparently a formal night when these groups of decent individuals for one of the “core four” sororities. In form homogenous, exclusive cliques; disbelief, I desperately looked around when people are surrounded by their for any sign of a minority student, but own kinds, at times, they produce words my search was in vain, just like that of and actions that are incongruent to their the police officers trying to contain the personal values, simply to impress the crowd. The bigger surprise was the reac- other group members. As irrational as it tion of bystanders also waiting for the seems, it’s called “groupthink” in social bus. I asked if they were outraged by this psychology outward display of white exclusivity, and The purpose of my writing this colthey asked me back if I was a freshman umn is not to generalize the entire Greek and welcomed me to “racially-segregated community as some compilation of Cornell.” exclusive, snobby cliques, nor is it a decI had seen and heard that Greek cul- laration of war from us “muggles” ture was quite white-centric, but I had against the wizards and witches of the no idea how rampant and severe the Greek System. It’s simply to remind ourissue was until this weekend. Whenever selves that human history suggests that there’s a debate over the merits of the people have a tendency to patronize Greek scene, both sides get extremely other groups when congregated into a emotional either criticizing or defending singular group. What if we borrow a the contribution of fraternities and concept from Judaism: Eruv. It means to sororities to our campus. draw boundaries around the Jewish laws While I am certain the Greek com- to eliminate even the possibility of munity greatly contributes to the entire breaching the law. Why can’t we implestudent body, as a proud GDI (God ment similar preventative measures in Damn Independent), who’s never been the Greek System to avoid future incito a single frat party, I must say the vast dents? majority of conversations I’ve heard at Cornell portray Greek Life as not too positive. Oh is a junior in the College of Architecture, The most common argument I’ve Don Art and Planning. He may be reached at doh@corheard in support of fraternities is their nellsun.com. Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays strong alumni ties to the chapter and the this semester.
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Aditi Bhowmick | Abtruse Musings
Chrysalis: A Recurring Phenomena A
s freshman year is rapidly approaching its curtain call, I find myself in an increasingly retrospective frame of mind each day. My hours of abstruse musings have led me to believe that if we look clearly, there are patterns of recurrence and replication everywhere such that when we stand at the threshold of an ending year, we can say we have come full circle. College is essentially a chrysalis with distinct stages which every person who has taken up this challenge goes through. How is it that one can detect a freshman as easily as one can point out an American drawl in England? As such, there are so many archetypal “freshman” things to do. As a freshman, you will be brimming with enthusiasm, will find it odd to stay at home and do problem sets on a Thursday and will strike up a conversation with every new person who sits at your table at Okenshields. You can make a thousand mistakes but it’s okay, “you’re just a freshman.” You can actually spend your summer break doing what summer breaks are meant for: nothing. It is the one year of your entire life when passions run high and your spirit transcends all record breaking heights simply because you are blessed with the privilege of knowing nothing. However, the most important thing that will happen to you during your freshman year is
College is essentially a chrysalis with distinct stages which every person goes through. that you will mess up and might be left trying to construe where exactly the semester went and whether or not it was an absolute waste. But the promising fact of the matter, ladies and gentlemen, is that at the end of the year, the weight of being successful and having traversed emotional and mental distances is again replaced by the lightness of beginning. It is only then when you will truly perceive what, after all, is the whole point of the struggle of the “life on the Hill.” Because all of a sudden, freshman year is over in a flash and you leave RPCC and Nasties behind never to turn around and look back again. As you transcend from the innocence of North Campus to the indulgence of sophomore year, you will find yourself growing up. Frat parties are not the highlight of the week anymore; they are replaced by rare weekends when you actually get to see all the people who you consider your closest friends. The sophomore slump will likely try to obliterate you, but you will probably survive. You will make better mistakes than the ones you made in your freshman year (for the most part.)There will be a new lot of freshman babies who will replace you and in the whole process, there will be a remarkable group of very fine men and women who will exit this recurring cycle of college life. By the end of your sophomore year, you will probably be knocked out by the realization that you might have to actually graduate in only two years. In your junior year, you will likely be rewarded (finally) for those all-nighters you pulled because you spent your days organizing logistics for twenty different student bodies or clubs or wait, The Cornell Daily Sun. It seems that junior year is when life is actually a requiem and your professional, and I hope earnestly, your personal life is a glorious haze. Finally, you will be initiated into the indispensable senior year which was always lurking around the corner to consume you with all the nostalgia, deluges of happiness and sadness alike it brings forth — like the perfect finale to a phenomenal trilogy of movies. With your last and final year on the Hill, a hallowed look will begin to set in on your brow because you have seen all and known all that is to know. You have served your time at Cornell and have come out the other end of the spiral simply to realize that you are back where you started, richer nevertheless in terms of memories, a little more sensible (hopefully) and with friendships and relationships that will last at least a lifetime. I have asked every senior I know which year was their very best at Cornell and they are always at sea, simply because each of these four stages are extremely crucial in making you the strong, admirable person you are with the ability to go through any sort of weather — literally and metaphorically. Aditi Bhowmick is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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“What does the relationship that minority brothers in Sigma Pi have with the minority community on campus have to do with this incident at all? Just because they don't hang out with all other minorities they aren't minorities anymore? I am displeased with the level of racism that you and other people on campus who disregard those brothers seem to display. Racism doesn't just go one way. Implying that minorities would want to be part of an organization that disrespects people of their creed, color, race or religion is ridiculous, and glossing over the fact that those people exist in order to justify your race fueled ‘displeasure’ seems just as racist as the incident itself.” Sam Sampson
Re: “Students Express Skepticism at Sigma Pi Fraternity Brothers’ Actions,” News, published April 5, 2013
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ext year, I’ll be teaching 8th best colleges.” The study examined Grade Algebra in Weslaco, every student in the country who took Texas as a Teach For America the SAT or the ACT, and deemed anycorps member. For the handful of you one who scored in the top 10 percent as who don’t know where Weslaco is, it’s high-achieving. The study’s most worrilocated on the U.S.-Mexico border, some finding was that “only 34 percent about 50 miles inland from the Gulf of of high-achieving high school seniors in Mexico. the bottom fourth of income distribuThis is the story of how I decided to tion attended any one of the country’s take my talents to south Texas (to bor- 238 most selective colleges.” Compare row a turn of phrase from Lebron). that to high performing students in the Like many Cornellians, I was born upper quartile income bracket who into the type of family that all but guar- attended one of these schools at a rate anteed I would graduate from a good of 78 percent. college. I was born in Massachusetts, These high-achieving, low-income the best state for public education in students have done the hard work. the country. My family lived in one of They have overcome the challenges of the best public school districts in the poverty to the extent that they state. My dad is a professor at Tufts, and my mom and stepmother Low-income students, even both have graduate those who are quite bright, degrees. If you knew these few basic facts simply do not have the about me when I was academic capital around them born, you could have to find their way to predicted with a high probability of success advantageous universities. that I would be graduating from Cornell this May. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my are prepared to enter a selective univerdad also went to Cornell. sity. Yet they do not, because “the stuHawk-eyed readers will recognize a dents often are unaware of the amount common trait among all of these things of financial aid available or simply do I’ve listed: I had no control over any of not consider a top college because they them. Before I could even crawl, my have never met someone who attended educational future was largely deter- one.” mined for me. Insofar as my college Sociologists have hinted at this finddegree proves critical to my future ing for many years. This study proves career plans, a whole world of opportu- that low-income students, even those nity stood ahead of me from the who are quite bright, simply do not moment my parents brought me home have the academic capital around them from the hospital. to find their way to advantageous uniOf course nobody gets to college, versities. This poses a problem beyond especially Cornell, without working just trying to ensure that students are hard enough to earn a spot. However, afforded the opportunity to graduate. my family provided me an undeniable In coming to terms with statistics advantage over those whose families like these, I was overwhelmed by a prolacked the academic capital of my par- found sense of unfairness. I do not feel ents. guilty about where I am, but I feel quite There is ample research to support strongly about the supreme injustice of this conclusion. A study published by a society in which one’s potential can be the Brookings Institution two weeks so substantially checked by factors outago found that “most low-income stu- side of their control. dents who have top test scores and When discussing Teach For grades do not even apply to the nation’s America, many people get heated. It is
an organization that professes to proscribing a sort-of solution for the problem of educational inequity. TFA recruits high-performing college students to commit to spending two years teaching in a low-income school district. Corps members are paid a first year teacher’s salary and perform the duties of any other full-fledged teacher. The hope is that they will focus their future energy on solving the problem of educational inequity both in and outside of the classroom. In fact, many TFA alumni are now in positions of authority in school districts across the country. There are many who object to TFA. I’ll let you research the objections yourself. In applying for TFA, I relied on my own sense of self and experience in lowincome classrooms, and came to the conclusion that not only could I handle the responsibility of teaching, but that I thirsted for it. TFA is not for everyone, but it is for me. Furthermore, as the Brookings study shows, insuring that low-income students have successful college graduates around them to teach them about the college application process can go a long way in making sure many more students break out of the cycle of poverty they all too often find themselves trapped in. A few months ago, I was talking to a group of Cornellians and asked if a TFA corps member had taught any of them. One student raised his hand and said that one of his high school science teachers was in TFA. He then told me that he would have never gone to Cornell without that science teacher. When I asked him why, he replied that he had never heard about or even considered Cornell, but at his teacher’s urging, he decided to apply. Noah Karr-Kaitin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at nkarrkaitin@cornellsun.com. Plain Hokum appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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Hip Hop Exhibit Takes Over Kroch
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Live mural painting took place this weekend at the Cornell Press Building as a part of a series of events called Unbound From the Underground. Organized by Ben Ortiz, the event welcomed over 50 graffiti artists to the site. Now Scream! and Sunday night’s performance by rapper GZA at The When you first enter the Now Scream! Hip Hop Collection Exhibition, you feel a rush for Hip Hop’s Haunt, were also part of the series. BY TERESA KIM Sun Staff Writer
past. At one corner you see a wall that reflects upon the glory of afros. At the other end of the room you see old vinyls and record players. Behind you is a portfolio of street and graffiti art. All the while, what was understandably a mixtape of famous beats drowns out the sounds of the library — scribbling pencils, keyboard punches and hair pulls from above. I understood that these artifacts were representations of the many branches of a celebrated genre, but, at first, I personally failed to experience a connection to these objects. However, when one tunes out the music for a moment and starts to observe the surroundings, a certain nostalgia forms — one that does not feel familiar. This nostalgia arises from our inherent indebtedness to the forerunners of the genre we can’t get enough of today. The exhibit is a presentation of the artists’ musical inspirations, snippets of the music-making process
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and the products that were ultimately created by Hip Hop’s greatest masterminds. Personal testimonies of individuals, sent in electronically from native Ithacans to the French who have been made dependent on these lyricists, are posted at the entrance to the exhibition. A female fan from Croatia sent, “Hip Hop came from making music without instruments, making art without a studio, making choreography without a stage. Looking through pages from Afrika Bambaataa’s notebook that are plastered onto the library walls was pretty cool, but looking through Bambaataa’s notebook while the man himself stood only two meters away from you called for a fan squeal. Walking around, one could easily bump into a prominent member of the hip hop community without noticing. Charlie Ahearn walking around in his trademark fedora contributed the majority of the exhibit’s research
footage, original artwork, photography and film production notes. As a director of the first feature film of hip-hop culture, “Wild Style”, he explained, “Hip Hop began as writing, tagging and graffiti in the ’70s. Then it started to involve dance forms such as bboying. Then it latched onto the art of DJing. It’s a culture not just limited to the music you hear.” Artists present included Grandmaster Caz, MC Sha-Rock of the Funky Four, Rahiem of Grandmaster Flash and Flash and the Furious Five (the first hip-hop group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), JDL of the Cold Crush Brothers, Crazy Legs and Popmaster Fabel of the Rock Steady Crew, just to name a few. Though the event easily could have made a visitor feel like a goldfish in a pond full of accomplished musicians, the artists mingled within a crowd of hip hop aficionados easily. Hip Hop culture is sometimes represented as an influence of the mischievous. With the genre’s 40-year anniversary, not enough of academia has been focused on the rise of its popularity. By its display, the carefully wrought exhibit redirects the lessons of the street into a positive and knowledgeable form. With the attendance of both old and new generations of hiphop artists, the exhibit celebrated the nostalgia of the golden age of Hip Hop and the generation in the making. “The great thing about this exhibition is that there is something for everyone,” said Ben Ortiz, assistant curator of the Hip Hop collection. “Hip Hop heads will love the artifacts that tell the story of the culture they know and love, and the uninitiated will get a good sense of what Hip Hop is all about — its art, its history, its people.” “Now Scream!” kicked off on Thursday in Kroch Library level 2B, by Cornell’s Hip Hop Collection, the world’s largest archive on the birth and spread of hip-hop culture. Teresa Kim is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tkim@cornellsun.com.
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Mother of Exiles Takes Aim at Big Issues BY MADELINE SALINAS Sun Contributor
Mother of Exiles, now playing at the Schwartz Performing Arts Center, is set in a high school classroom on the Arizona-Mexico border. It showcases six multicultural students at odds with their teacher, Ms. Andrews, a Princeton grad with hopes of instilling hope and opportunity in their isolated border community. Students horse around and bicker as class starts late due to an assembly informing the student body of the recent armament of teachers — several students were unaware. The class rehearses a play written by their teacher on the liberties of United States citizenship, obvious fuel for tension given the ethnic diversity of the characters. Rehearsal is continuously disrupted by the students’ cynical criticism of the script and, more broadly, the society that has deprived immigrants of safety, opportunity and acceptance among non-immigrant populations. The play climaxes when school administrators take possession of a student-crafted manifesto which reflects the class’s ongoing debate regarding the American government. The school is put on lockdown and the class’s internal search for a culprit ensues. Under the pressure of the threat, Ms. Andrews withdraws her handgun from her purse and it remains visible for the remainder of the play as interrogation shifts from one student to the next. Ultimately the interrogation settles on Ms. A, whom the students feel has betrayed the constant message of hope she had endorsed. The playwright’s critical opinion of weapons further comes out when a student, Adriana, undermines the chaos of the scene by confessing that her sister has been kidnapped and criticizes the undervalued danger individuals in the border states face. Ms. A — having
been showcased in asides with her Mexican father and clearly conflicted about handling a gun — abandons her pretentious, raciallyambiguous façade and confesses that she is from the town the play is set in and she is very astute to the challenges faced by the students. Eventually, the police enter the classroom and the cast comes together as bullets aim for the author of the manifesto. While the climax extinguishes some of the teenage angst of the characters, poetic statements on life, freedom and acceptance are scattered unsparingly from the beginning of the play and, as a result, level what could be a much more effective plot. The set of the play is simple, a couple of posters typical of a high school classroom and a large Jasper Johns style collage of the statue of liberty showcasing the play’s key motif. The actors move through every corner of the intimate Black Box Theatre, making the drama of the gun palpable in the audience. The most memorable moment, however, is the entrance to the theater, where ushers disguised as border patrol officers frisk audience members for identification and documentation to accompany their tickets. Once they pass inspection, audience members are directed to aisles cluttered with roadblocks. Unlike most shows at the Schwartz Center, Mother of Exiles was typecast. Deanalis Resto, playing Ms. A, relates her upbringing as a
Inspired by the 2009 French film Skirt Day, a film exploring the migration of the Turkish community across the German border, playwright Elaine Romero explores issues including immigration and the armament of teachers, two pressing controversies in the U.S. The play does not shy away from taking a stance on either issue and the actors’ passions and fears only encourage empathy for those dealing with these issues. In light of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Romero’s play could not have be performed at a more appropriate time. The controversy of arming teachers is a key element of the play and placing a gun on stage certainly makes a statement. Resto explains, “A weapon on stage is always its own character, you have to give it life. The audience will only believe that it will hurt someone if you make them believe it,” and the shaky hands and desperation of actors does not fail to portray the urgency of the situation. “This play has a lot of themes, but ALEX HERNANDEZ / SUN CONTRIBUTOR there’s one thing driving it forward the the U.S. helped several of the actors relate to whole time that keeps you hooked,” actor their roles in a similar way. Zach Wright said. Indeed, as the plot The role of Adriana, whose sister is kid- unfurls, criticism shifts to the holder of napped in Mexico, hits close to home for the gun. Wright continues, “When I’m actress Liliana Esparza who was born and holding it, I don’t want to be holding it. I raised in Mexico before moving to the Texas- want to get rid of it, but I don’t want Mexico border. While Adriana’s situation and someone else to be holding it. I want it to the fear expressed by many of the characters disappear.” The play has given performers may seem far-fetched to audience members, a chance to reflect on their opinions Esparza expresses familiarity with these kinds about highly controversial issues and, sitof circumstances and the prevalence of ethnic ting in the intimate Black Box Theatre, diversity in border communities. Esparza audience members undoubtedly will too. states, “I hope [the audience] will go home and look up where people are in danger,” expressing her desire for people to learn and Madeline Salinas is a freshman in the College of connect more with the challenges faced by Human Ecology. She can be reached at mms338@cornell.edu. immigrant populations.
Latina raised in Pennsylvania to her character in the play, “[Ms. A] decided to reject her culture and assume a role of ambiguity. I always felt more culturally right but reaching, in the opposite of Magda pushing it away.” Their experiences growing up in Latino families in
An End to S.A.D.ness When I decided to attend Cornell, everyone at home warned me about the winter. But last year we barely even had a winter, so I didn’t quite get what all the fuss was about. This year, I got it. I had never believed that Seasonal Affective Disorder was a real thing, but it absolutely is. I like pumpkin flavored things as much as the next girl, but I am so sick of pumpkin-flavored things. But now, spring is here! I will soon be able to bust out my new sandals and a sundress, sit on the dock at the Farmer’s Market and feed the ducks bits of my fried vegetable ball from the Cambodian food stand, and most importantly, sit in my dark dorm room alone and watch TV. You see, spring is a wonderful time: birds sing, couples do couple-y things dressed in seersucker and madras and Don Draper graces the world with his charming smile. By the time you are reading this, I will have watched the Season Six premiere of Mad Men and I will be talking about nothing else (course enroll, schmourse enroll.) Spring doesn’t just mark the return of the best television show ever (former Arts & Entertainment editor Zachary Zahos does not get to say it’s Breaking Bad when he doesn’t even watch Mad Men), but also other really really great TV shows. If you’re looking to procrastinate starting that term paper, don’t bother with the great outdoors — here is what you should be watching this spring if you have allergies. First, kicking off the beginning of TV spring heaven was the return of Psych at the end of February. Psych fans like myself have been waiting almost a year for this, and it was worth it. Yes, James Roday has put on a few pounds since he has been in what I hope is a happy and stable relationship with co-star Maggie Lawson, but the button-downs they’ve been dressing him in do a pretty
good job of hiding it and he is just as silly and wonderful as ever. I’ll admit that Psych has become a tad repetitive — I mean there are only so many John Hughes movies they can reference — but I am a loyal TV fan. I will continue to watch Shawn and Gus and the rest of the gang until they run out of actors from obscure ’80s movies to guest star. Last week was Game of Thrones, which I don’t watch, so I have nothing to say on the subject except that I enjoy Peter Dinklage’s presence in the world. This week is Mad Men. I really hate spoiler disclaimers because, at this point, if you’re not caught up you deserve what you get, but if you really care that much you should probably skip to the next paragraph. When we left off at the end of Season Five, Lane had just hung himself, Joan became a partner, Peggy left Sterling Cooper Draper Price, Sally got her period and Megan was prancing. Season Six promises more drama, more good music, more beautiful clothes and probably some race-relations shenanigans and feminism thrown in there. I’m so excited. Then next Sunday, Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns as this nation’s vice president on HBO’s Veep. Dreyfus plays the anti-Joe Biden in this f-bomb Carrot Top ridden and hilarious Confessions political comedy that I vote is the best new show of last year (I would say Girls, but Season Two put a bad taste in my mouth.) It’s like The West Wing, but minus all the heartfelt sincerity and plus a whole lot of sarcasm. The Sunday after that will be the premiere of the sec-
Julia Moser
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ond season of Married to Jonas. Don’t judge me. It’s great television. For all that are unaware of this masterpiece, Married to Jonas is a reality TV show about Kevin Jonas (the eldest Jonas brother) and his wife Danielle Deleasa. Basically, the show revolves around Jonas dealing with his ever present and super Italian in-laws who cook a lot. It’s like Cake Boss, but with the Jonas Brothers. May 20th is the start of another season of The Bachelorette which is also a quality program. Lastly, May 26th: Arrested Development. I know that this is also graduation day for the Class of 2013, and to all my senior friends, don’t do it. Just don’t go to graduation. What, are they actually not going to let you graduate because you are on your couch watching all 15 episodes back to back and getting up only to use the bathroom and get more frozen bananas? No. Well ... maybe. I’m not exactly sure about the policy, but I highly recommend that you skip the sunburn and instead ease yourself into unemployment while you catch up with the Bluths. Julia Moser is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions runs alternate Mondays this semester.
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magic of a year ago, and the Red fell to Dartmouth in the first game of the series on Sunday after a walkoff walk for the Green in the bottom of the ninth. The Red got another solid pitching performance from sophomore hurler Brian McAfee, who went seven innings without allowing a run in that game. The bullpen was unable to hold on to the scoreless streak, though. Freshman Michael Byrne came in to pitch a scoreless eighth, but after an infield hit and two walks, the Red found itself on the losing end against the Green. The Red’s bullpen has been a strong point this season and in the past, although it has taken a hit with the loss of sophomore closer Kellen Urbon — who was named Ivy League Rookie of the
Year last season. According to Peters, though, the relief staff is strong enough to carry the team in his absence. “Michael Byrne, Matt Horton, those guys are always real reliable,” he said. “They can come in in any situation and we have the utmost confidence for them to get us out of it, so there’s no doubt about our bullpen.” The Red bounced back in the second game against the Green on the back of another impressive outing by junior left-hander Zach McCulley. In his first collegiate complete game, McCulley allowed four hits, struck out five and retired the final ten batters he faced. Unlike in McAfee’s start, though, the Red’s offense gave McCulley some support. Sophomore outfielder JD Whetsel and junior first baseman Ryan Plantier both had two hits and an RBI. On Saturday, the Red took on
Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. In keeping with the theme for the team so far this season, sophomore pitcher Nick Busto was stellar on the mound again. He handed the Red another complete game victory, allowing just one run while fanning seven. “He’s been real solid for us,” Peters said. “We expect when he’s on the mound that we’ll see a lot of strikes, we’ll get ground balls and fly balls. Our pitching staff has done really well and he’s another arm that props us up.” Though Cornell struck first in the third with an RBI double by sophomore catcher Matt Hall, the Crimson responded in the bottom of the frame with a run of their own. The Red did not waste much time getting back on top, scoring two runs in the top of the next inning off a double by senior outfielder Conor McCabe. That was all the support Busto needed, as he
cruised to a 3-1 victory for his fourth win of the season. The second game of the series was a disappointment for the Red. Sophomore Brent Jones went three and one third innings, allowing seven hits and three runs. Despite his rough outing, the Red still found itself with a four-run lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning. The Crimson’s offense woke up in that inning, though, capitalizing on some walks by the Red’s relievers and putting up seven runs in the frame. “It was just a lack of focus, and everything seemed to piece together for them while nothing was really going right for us,” Peters said. “They put a big crooked number up on us at a crucial point in the game.” The Crimson’s big inning silenced the Red’s offense, as it was unable to fight back in the final two innings, falling 10-7. “We need to learn to close out games more efficiently and step on the toes of the other teams when we have the chance,” Peters said. After taking three out of four in its first weekend of Ivy play, the Red split in both of its series this weekend. The Red begins play against Lou Gehrig Division opponents next weekend with an away series against Columbia. According to Peters, despite the early losses, the team is still in good position on the brink of divisional play. “We definitely would have liked to be better [at this point], but we’re coming up on an important part of the season where we play guys in our own division,” he said. “If we win three out of four or four out of four against them, then we should be in the Ivy championship series with no problem.”
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Bringing the heat | Sophomore hurler Brian McAfee (above) earned his fourth win of the season, only allowing one run in seven strong innings against Dartmouth.
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English to tighten the deficit to 12-10. Pannell followed with an unassisted goal to cut the lead to 12-11. With just 3:30 to go, senior midfielder Max Van Bourgondien stepped up in a big way for the Red. Assisted twice by English, Van Bourgondien registered a hat trick in the game’s closings minutes to hand the Red a decisive 1412 victory over the Crimson. Equally impressive was the fact that the Red held Harvard scoreless for the majority of the final period, despite three penalties in the closing minutes. A big part of the team’s momentum shift was a vast improvement in faceoffs won in the fourth period (7-of-10) relative to the first three periods (5of-19). The showdown at Cambridge brought out the best in the Red seniors. Mock scored a team-high six goals and Noble forced six turnovers on the defense, while senior goalkeeper A.J. Fiore finished with 11 saves. Not to be overlooked, however, was Cornell lacrosse all-time points leader Pannell, who finished the game with two goals and three assists. Throughout the season, Pannell has reflected on his decision to return to Cornell for a final year of collegiate lacrosse. “It has been a crazy ride,” the fifth year senior who missed most of last season due to injury said. “To lose something that you love so much — you don’t realize how much you love it until you don’t have it anymore.” According to Pannell, being on the sidelines for a season gave him a newfound appreciation for the hard work of all of his teammates. “I’ve started every game since I’ve been here at Cornell and I didn’t know what that feeling was like to watch from the sideline,” he said. “It gave me a perspective on what guys on our team do — some guys on our team never start a game at Cornell, but put in the same work that I do, and the same effort — and go to every practice and every weight-lifting session ... It certainly made me more appreciative of what I have here and being a member of the Cornell lacrosse program.” The victory makes Cornell the first Ivy team to reach four conference wins this season (4-0), and gives the Red breathing room against the next closest challengers — No. 8 Princeton (6-3, 2-1), No. 16 Yale (6-3, 2-2) and No. 17 Penn (6-3, 2-2). With the conference schedule over halfway completed, if the Red can hang onto first in the Ivy League standings, then it will host the annual Ivy Men’s Lacrosse Tournament at Schoellkopf field in early May. The Red’s next test, however, will be against a non-conference opponent. Cornell will head to nearby Syracuse to take on the No. 8 Orange (7-2, 2-1 Big East) on Wednesday evening for the Red’s final non-Ivy action of the regular season. Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.
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Red Drops Fourth Straight To League-Leading Green did that really well, but as it went on there were still pieces that we were missing. We played really hard and with a lot of heart, The Cornell women’s lacrosse team but things weren't coming together for us hoped to end its three-game losing streak and I don’t think we played to our full when it played Ivy-League leading potential unfortunately.” The Red cut the lead to 5-4 at the beginDartmouth on Saturday, but the Red (6-4, 2-3 Ivy League) fell short, suffering another ning of the second half, but the Big Green defeat. The Big Green (8-3, 4-0 Ivy League) again responded with four straight goals to ultimately won the contest by a score of 9- claim the lead for good. According to Rowe, Cornell’s failure to gain possession of the 5. According to junior midfielder and cap- ball made room for Dartmouth’s goal streak, tain Chelsea Rowe, the Red is frustrated by and the Red needs to improve its draw control strategy for its upcoming games. the current losing streak. “We can improve with draw controls just “It’s a balance,” she said. “Obviously by making sure that we’re disappointed CORNELL 5 we come up with the that there have been DARTMOUTH ground balls,” she four straight losses, but 9 said. “So we’re workwith the team we have, Game: 1ST Tot 2nd ing on our strategy, we’re not discouraged Cornell 2 5 3 5 9 4 so hopefully we’ll and we believe that we Dartmouth have a better strategy can go far this season. I don’t think that one person on the team for draw controls and controlling the ball has any thought about giving up. We’re going forward.” According to Rowe, the Red saw some going to keep pushing and sometimes adversity makes you stronger, and that’s positives on the defensive side of the game, what we hope will be the case with us. We despite the loss. “Our defense is really coming together. have a lot to build on and a lot of potential, so we’re looking forward to the next game, We’re playing better as a team, and we’re putting what’s in the past behind us, but helping each other out,” she said. “We also caused a lot of turnovers by pressuring the also learning from it.” The Red started the game effectively and ball and hopefully that will continue to be held a 2-1 lead, but Dartmouth responded one of our strengths going forward.” The Red will next host Brown this comwith four straight goals to go up 5-2 heading into the second half. According to ing Friday. The Bears have had a strong seaRowe, the Red got out to a strong start, but son and sit above Cornell in the Ivy League couldn’t maintain its control throughout the standings. According to Rowe, despite the highly competitive nature of the Ivy League, entire game. “We had the goal to play a full 60 min- it will be beneficial for the Red to focus on utes going into this game and to start from executing its own game-plan rather than the opening whistle,” she said. “I think we worry about its opponents.
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Unable to hold on | Cornell had a strong start to the game, leading Dartmouth 2-1 midway through the first period, but four straight Big Green goals put the Red away for good.
“[The] Ivy league is a very competitive league, but going forward we just need to play our game and focus on that, rather than exclusively focus on the opponent,” she said. “Obviously we have our strategy points for different players, but I think we just need to
focus on improving the little parts of our game, going out there with no fear, and playing our hearts out.” Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.
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Sky is the limit | Dan Hagberg ’12 said Storage Squad has the potential to grow because of the wide variety of schools available to the company.
really made you focus on time management and those skills. It was very big for us. Instead of having that downtime to go and watch T.V., Nick and I would be working on Storage Squad. It personally developed my leadership skills a lot,” Hagberg said. “Nick and I were both captains of the team and it helped learning how to manage people.” As both Huber and Hagberg walked across the stage and received their Cornell diplomas,
them apart from other storage companies is that they really focus on keeping overhead costs low, so that the price that the consumer will pay is just as deflated. They even give free packing boxes and tape to their customers to make the storing process easier. “We want to be more efficient than any other company and we want to be able to charge lower prices than any other company. We really take pride in our customer service. We answer phone calls in the middle of the night,” Huber said “Anybody who calls our customer service hotline gets Danny or myself. Things like that keep our overhead down, so we are able to get more security and charge less for the service and service more clients.” Heading into the future, the team consisting of Huber, Hagberg and their Storage Squad crew have endless possibilities for expansion and growth of the company. “There is limitless potential in terms of schools out there. We are really focused on making it affordable for everyone,” Hagberg said. “We went from seven schools last year to over 30 schools this year. We want to continue growing.”
dler, but then I got to Cornell and with training and my teammates around me, I got a lot better. I ended up with four school records at Cornell and was a two-time All-American,” Huber said. “That kind of really boosted me in entrepreneurship. It made me better in leadership and more confident in my social skills and my abilities on and off the track. It was one of the best things “We want to be more efficient than any that has ever hapother company. We take pride in our pened to me.” Hagberg’s journey customer service.” was just as impressive, as he won the Nick Huber ’12 60-meter hurdles championship at the Indoor the duo was ready to continue Heps. At the Penn Relays, he their operations full-time and took 21st in the 110-meter hur- make entrepreneurship part of dles in 14.42 seconds. He then their daily lives. “Right now, we moved to won the 110 hurdles at the Outdoor Heptagonal Chicago where we work on the Championships and was sixth in business full-time and have an the 110 hurdles preliminaries at office here,” Huber said. “We the IC4As. Hagberg also earned have 25 big schools and about a spot in the NCAA East 20 secondary schools which are Regional in Jacksonville, Fla., in the same cities as our main but did not compete because it schools … [Overall] we will conflicted with Cornell’s gradu- probably have around 150 ation. His 60-hurdles best of employees this season.” Since its start in 2011, 7.98 seconds is the second-best time in school history. He also Storage Squad has expanded has the fifth-best 110 hurdles from initially just Cornell to 46 time at Cornell with a time of schools all over the country, including ones in big cities such 14.21 seconds. “Track was an amazing expe- as Boston and Philadelphia. The Haley Velasco can be reached at rience. I absolutely loved it. It two Cornellians say what sets sports-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Huber ’12, Hagberg ’12 Tackle New Hurdles Together By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor
Nick Huber ’12 and Dan Hagberg ’12 came to Cornell with the same plan as many athletes — to run track for four years, graduate and move on to professional jobs. Little did
they know that one summer, in 2011, an opportunity to help some friends would arise out of nowhere and would shape their careers after graduation in a different path than most of their ILR classmates. “We started in the summer of 2011 at Cornell and it was kind of a last second start. We realized that a lot of our
friends were looking for summer storage in the Ithaca area and we had a lease for our apartments and we weren’t going to be in town. So we filled up our rooms and locked our doors with all of our friend’s belongings over the summer,” Huber said. “Then we got serious about it for the next year. That’s when we built our website, got our insurance, rented a warehouse and we ended up storing for about 250 clients in Ithaca.” The small-time operation, now called Storage Squad, worked so well that summer that the two student-athletes looked to continue it into the following year. Balancing running, being senior captains, ILR coursework and the startup of their company, the duo was more than busy. But that didn’t seem to stop them in the slightest.
“We started in the summer of 2011 at Cornell and it was a last second start.” Nick Huber ’12
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Taking a leap | Nick Huber ’12 (above left) — a former hurdler for the track team — and teammate Dan Hagberg ’12, have
To add to their list of accomplishments, as they finished out senior year, the two combined for multiple Cornell schools records, as well as Ivy titles and National finishes. In his final year with the Red, Huber finished fourth in the 110 hurdles, fifth in the high jump and again claimed a title by winning the decathlon with a school-record 7,632 points at the Outdoor Heps, earning him a spot in the NCAA Championships. He placed 11th in the country and left Cornell as the school record holder in the pentathlon (3,707), heptathlon (5,550) and decathlon (7,632). “I ended up having a lot of fun with track. I came as one of the last guys who was recruited on the team. I was a hur-
continued to develop the company, Storage Squad, that they created as students at Cornell.
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Seniors Lead Laxers in Comeback Win By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer
Trailing 12-9 with just over nine minutes remaining in the fourth, the Red men’s lacrosse team faced one of its biggest deficits of the season in front of a hostile Crimson crowd Saturday at Harvard Stadium. Spurred by an improved faceoff percentage and critical contributions from key players in the closing minutes, the Red (10-1, 40 Ivy) rose to the occasion with a five-goal frenzy to stymie Harvard (4-6, 1-2) and leave Cambridge with a stunning 14-12 victory. For the second game in a row,
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ized on one of its man-advantage opportunities to knot the score at 3 apiece early in the second. “You saw it in the Penn [and Bucknell games] — our clearing certainly needs to improve,” said senior attackman Rob Pannell. “And that’s just going to come with repetition and practice every day and making sure guys are doing the right thing.”
After several back-and-forth scoring runs put the Crimson up 12-9, it was time for the Red to make a decisive run and rebound in the team’s first close contest since a 9-8 defeat against Bucknell on March 19th. Buczek began the scoring spree with a long-range goal off an assist from See M. LAX page 15
Dartmouth closer he hit a walkoff homerun against in the Ivy Championship last year.
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senior attackman Steve Mock put the Red up 1-0 with a quick, unassisted strike in the game’s second minute. From that point on, however, penalties plagued the Red. Cornell finished with a total of nine penalties to Harvard’s two, including one-minute infractions on sophomore midfielder Connor Buczek, senior defenseman Jason Noble and sophomore short stick defensive midfielder Mike Huttner in the first and early second. The Red struggled to clear — going 2-5 in the first — and Harvard capital-
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Back for more | Senior outfielder Chris Cruz came up against the same
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Three’s company | Senior midfielder Max Van Bourgondien was the hero for the Red, scoring three goals in the final three minutes to help his team come from behind.
Senior outfielder Chris Cruz had been in this situation before. He had stared into the same set of eyes before, stepped to the plate with the game on the line before. Almost a year ago, Cruz had given his team its first Ivy League championship with a walkoff homerun off Dartmouth’s closer Thomas Olson. This time, with Olson staring him down once again, Cruz dug in with two outs in the ninth inning of a 1-0 game on Sunday, hoping to give his team a thrilling win in Ivy play.
“It was real intense,” said senior infielder Brenton Peters. “You had guys yelling ‘hit that guy’ or ‘this is awkward.’” Cruz ripped a pitch from Olson down the first base line, but it was snagged by the Green’s first baseman, ending the threat and allowing Olson to breathe a sigh of relief. “I’m pretty sure it was laying in the back of his mind, because he didn’t throw Chris a single fastball,” Peters said. “He definitely didn’t want that to happen again.” Cruz could not recreate the See BASEBALL page 14