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Call-in Campaign DebateWeighs Pros,Cons of Greek System Debaters talk about exclusivity, sexual assault, binge-drinking in Greek system For Arrested Grads Mobilizes Activists

By SARAH SASSOON Sun Staff Writer

The Greek system, which one in three students at Cornell are members of, has recently come under scrutiny for its association with binge drinking, hazing and sexual assault. In light of the controversy surrounding the Greek system, the Cornell Forensics Society hosted a public

debate Tuesday questioning whether sororities and fraternities have done more harm than good for Cornell.

Moderated by members of the CFS, the debate featured two sides: a pro-Greek side whose members consisted of leadership within the Greek tri-council — the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council — and an anti-Greek side that consisted of stu-

dent leaders advocating campus inclusion and women’s issues.

While the anti-Greek side argued that the system exacerbates bingedrinking, sexual assault and exclusivity, the pro-Greek side argued that these issues are not exclusive to the Greek community.

“Cornell is really not reflective of the average Greek system,” said Alan See DEBATE page 5

Debating | Student leaders sit on a panel to debate the harms and benefits of the Greek system.

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor

After Nancy Morales grad and Omar Figueredo grad were arrested last month for refusing to answer questions about their citizenship status, a phone campaign urging Cameron county’s district attorney office to drop the charges — which the campaign’s organizers say are “trumped up” — has mobilized over 100 callers.

Morales and Figueredo were arrested in Brownsville after they refused to answer a border patrol agent’s question about their citizenship status.

Figueredo was arrested for failing to identify himself, resisting arrest and obstructing a passageway, while Morales was arrested for interference with public duties, a class B misdemeanor.

The two students, who are U.S. citizens, said they refused to answer the agent’s question not because they did not have documentation, but because they wanted to put up an act of civil resistance against what Figueredo called “an unauthorized form of intimidation and harassment that has become naturalized and normalized in the border region.” They were released on bond on Mar. 26.

Those who participated in the call-in campaign said they thought the charges against the two students should be dropped because the arrest epitomized racial profiling and harassment in the border region.

See CALL-IN page 4

More Than 100 Students Vow to Ignore Phones for Three Days

By CHRISTOPHER YATES Sun Contributor

If a friend doesn’t respond to your Facebook messages this week, he or she may be one of more than 100 Cornell students who have pledged to disconnect from technology for three days. The commitment is part of a social experiment by CU [dis]connect, a student-led project that aims to encourage face-to-face contact on campus and beyond.

Participants have vowed to spend three days without cell phones, Facebook or any other social media platforms and to actively participate in face-to-face conversation, according to Rudy Gerson ’15, founder of the project and a Sun columnist.

“Our goal is to see what happens when technology is out of the picture — from changing how we see ourselves to noticing more things on the way to class,” Gerson said.

The event, which will run from Wednesday to Friday, will include several events during which participants will discuss the impact of technology and social media on their lives and community. According to Gerson, CU [dis]connect is working with Cornell Minds Matter, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Coffee Hour, the Ask Big Questions fellowship program, a fellowship that supports those who promote civil discourse on campus and the Student Assembly to fund, promote and oversee the event.

The project’s goal is not to discourage the use of technology or social media entirely, but to encourage students to reevaluate their relationship with technology, according to Gerson.

“We’re not anti-technology or anti-email.

We just want to look at the effects of hyperconnectivity, especially in regards to smart phones,” Gerson said.

Around 100 Cornell students have signed the online pledge, and many others have

expressed views sympathetic to the group’s goal of promoting conversation on campus, according to Gerson.

“I think CU [dis]connect is a great idea.

It’s remarkable how often we pass each other and fail to say ‘hello’ or even offer up a smile.

I’m guilty of it too. ... Being able to disconnect from your phone and email — even if only for a few hours — can help you feel way See DISCONNECT page 5

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News Dr. T Talks Culture

Prof. Toorawa, who hosts the weekly “Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker’s Guide to Culture,” speaks about where his passion for pop culture and Arabic came from. | Page 3

Opinion Embracing the Urges

Dan Rosen admits his urges to pop zits, and says that he has found comfort in online forums where people came forward with the same pleasure. | Page 7

Arts Contemporary Fashionista

The Sun speaks to Christina Aguilar ’13, a fiber science and apparel design major who likes to design experimental clothes. | Page 9

Sports Missed Swings

The men’s golf team started off rough in their first spring tournament, placing last out of 13 teams. | Page 16 KELLY YANG / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Marisa Smith ’13 tells a student about the Cornell Farmworker Program, a program dedicated to improving living and working conditions of farmworkers, at the Social Justice Career Fair Tuesday.

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Police Chief Tony Carleton says a vehicle drove past the arena about 2 a.m. and fired into the area. Police are investigating.

NEW YORK (AP) — A man dressed as the Cookie Monster has been accused of shoving a 2-year-old in New York's Times Square and has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

Queens resident Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez was arrested Sunday afternoon. He was arraigned Monday on charges including aggressive begging. He didn’t enter a plea.

A Connecticut family posed for a photo with the man dressed as the “Sesame Street” character. Police say he demanded $2 but the family refused to pay. A criminal complaint says the man shoved the toddler and yelled obscenities at the family.

Sheep Employed to Mow Lawn in France

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TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Tupelo, Miss.

Circus spokeswoman Melinda Hartline says the elephant was not seriously hurt Tuesday. She says no other animals were harmed.

The elephant, Carol, is part of a circus in town for a series of performances. The Asian elephant was in an outside area of the Tupelo BancorpSouth Arena.

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PARIS (AP) — Will tourists soon see flocks of baaing sheep at the Eiffel Tower and bleating ewes by Notre Dame cathedral?

That could be the case, since Paris City Hall this week installed a small flock of sheep to mow the lawn at the city’s gardens, replacing gas-guzzling lawnmowers.

Four woolly ewes — shipped in from an island off the Brittany coast — are currently munching the grass surrounding Paris Archives building. The number of sites doing that could expand from October in and around Paris.

The ovine-operation follows a successful stint last year by two goats that were hired privately by the Louvre to mow the lawn at Tuileries, central Paris' grand 17th-century gardens.

Motorless and independent, the four-legged workers contentedly munch day and night — oblivious of the France's strict 35-hour work week.

A similar experiment in a park outside Paris even found that sheep droppings were a benefit, bringing swallows back to the area.

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Mixed Reactions to New C-Town Zoning Proposal

Walk into the club

Common Council will vote on code this summer

By KEVIN MILIAN

has been presented to the public, according to Wilson.

Members of the Planning and Alderpersons Economic Development Committee pre- Ellen McCollister sented a new plan for form-based code — ’78 (D-3rd Ward) zoning with the aim of creating attractive and Graham Kerslick developments that better meet community (D-4th Ward) spoke needs — Tuesday at a Collegetown about the revised Neighborhood Council meeting. plan at the meeting.

According to Megan Wilson, a city “The original planning department staff member, form- plan included four based code focuses on ensuring high qual- elements — payment ity construction in the Collegetown area, in lieu of parking, an transitioning from lower to higher density incentive height disin the central core of Collegetown, trict, form-based JEVAN HUTSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER enhancing green space in the area and pro- code and design — Dancers preview their upcoming spring show, Pao Bhangra, Tuesday on Ho Plaza. moting walkable neighborhoods. The new and we’re now just plan is simpler than previous versions of focusing on one, the the code. form-based codes. The minimum parking McCollister said. The original plan pro- population we’re looking for and anticipaThe plan divides Collegetown into six requirements, and the other points of the posed providing incentive zones, areas in tions for its development,” Hanna said. districts: four should make original plan the city where developers can create struc- “Development “Significant redevelopment is not men- have a huge tures that are tax-exempt. residential and [Collegetown] a year-round retail commutwo mixed use Monica Moll, a Collegetown landlord nity.” impact, but we tioned in the plan.” districts, with Tessa Rudan ’89, a member of the wanted to take and board member of the Landlords each district Megan Wilson it off discus- Association of Tompkins County, echoed Planning and Development Board, said having specific sion,” Kerslick McCollister’s views on creating incentive that community feedback would be taken guidelines for into account as the city considers the said. “It was a breakthrough to break these zones for property owners. new construction.

“It would provide citywide improve- form-based code plan. components up.”

“Significant redevelopment is not men“Looking at this historically, taking McCollister echoed Kerslick’s senti- ments. The historic district has something tioned [in the plan]. We want to protect ment, saying that the code revision “turned extremely similar,” Moll said. things out [of the original plan] was a good the character of the residential neighbor- out to be an incredible opportunity.”

Tom Hanna ’64, chair of the East Hill decision. Some of these changes do make hood,” Wilson said. “All four residential Still, the plan is lacking in some aspects, Civic Association, suggested various sense, but I think the idea is to stay on districts have a maximum height of three according to McCollister. improvements that could be made to the mission, and to proceed from there,” stories. It’s a hybrid code, form-based as Rudan said.

“The remaining obstacle or disappoint- form-based code plan. well as the traditional code used. We want ment is having to take out the idea of “Home ownership should increase in to provide property owners some options.” incentive zones. It was a dream for a lot of Collegetown, affordability should be The plan will be voted on by the us to provide incentives for a mixed-used, reflected in our plans, [and] pocket-parks Kevin Milian can be reached at Common Council in the summer after it year-round Collegetown environment,” are needed; we need to target the kind of kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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Prof. Toorawa: Dr. T Project Teaches Students About ‘Cool Things’

By LUCY MEHRABYAN Sun Staff Writer

The inspiration for “Dr. T Project: A Cornell Hitchhiker's Guide to Culture” — a weekly meeting that teaches students about pop culture — first came about when Prof. Shawkat Toorawa, near eastern studies, tried to help students grasp new concepts in class by connecting new material to pop culture.

When students were unfamiliar with the pop culture refer-

ences Toorawa made, he began to tease his students, saying he needed to teach another class, “Everything Professor Toorawa Thinks You Should Know but You Don’t.”

“It is possible to be serious and to be a scholar and be interested in things that people don't think are serious,” Toorawa said.

Three years ago, Toorawa began to teach that very class; now, every Tuesday, for precisely 26 minutes, Toorawa lectures about three cultural things he

thinks students should know that day. This week’s topics were Antonio Machado, a Spanish poet, Changi, an area at the eastern end of the island of Singapore and The Parallel Lines, an album by Blondie.

“Something that is fun to do now has become a satisfying and very important thing to do,” Toorawa said when speaking about conveying general cultural knowledge to students.

Exposure to different cultures is something Toorawa is familiar

PETER PAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Pop (culture) quiz | Prof. Shawkat Toorawa converses with members of the Ithaca community Tuesday.

with. Toorawa was born in Toorawa followed his adviEngland, but raised in France sor’s advice, but took some and Singapore. He went to an detours along the way. international school, and after Toorawa went to college in graduating, he chose to move to 1981 and left school 16 years the United States instead of tak- later. While trying to complete ing what he said was the conven- his Ph.D, he went back and tional route of going back to forth between the U.S. and England to pursue his career.

Mauritius Island, where his fam“In most of the world, you ily lived. have to begin a specific course.

He taught in the only univer... I didn’t know how to choose sity in Mauritius Island until where to go. I 2000, when thought he returned about it and I “It is possible to be serious to the U.S. decided I and to be a scholar and be for his job loved litera- interested in things people i n t e r v i e w ture and with Cornell. don’t think are serious.” wanted to A t learn a new Cornell, he Prof. Shawkat Toorawa language. was hired to One [lanteach Arabic guage] that I literature, his knew was very hard and interest- dream job. Toorawa teaches ing was Arabic,” Toorawa said. courses such as NES 6723: The When Toorwa enrolled in Arabian Nights: Then and Now University of Pennsylvania as an and NES 4727: New York, Paris, undergraduate, his advisor sug- Baghdad: Poetry of the City. gested he take intensive Arabic Toorawa said he encourages because he would learn the lan- others to assume a teaching role guage faster. By making this in the Dr. T Project. Toorawa decision to plunge into Arabic, says students, graduate students Toorawa paved the path toward and faculty can also share three his future career. interesting things on Tuesdays, Toorawa said that same advi- adding that President David sor — who he described as an Skorton has been a guest in his Englishman who rode his bike to series. school — served as a role model “This is not about me or to him. One day Toorawa asked things I think are important; it is him, “How does someone about someone who says these become like you?” are cool things,” Toorawa said.

His advisor’s answer was, “Major in Arabic, get a Ph.D in Arabic [and] get a job in Lucy Mehrabyan can be reached at Arabic.” lmehrabyan@cornellsun.com.

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Raymond: Arrested Students Were ‘Courageous’

She has not seen many U.S. citizens challenge immigration law CALL-IN

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“Allowing border patrol to question people about their legal status in an airport where they already have to identify themselves if they want to board a plane is unnecessary,” said Esmeralda Arrizon-Palomera grad, president of DREAM Cornell. “It instills fear in communities that are already heavily policed.”

Arrizon-Palomera added that the two students’ decision to not answer questions about their citizenship status was a “decision to resist harassment from the border patrol” and was “right and necessary.”

Catherine Jung ’13, another participant in the call-in campaign, said the border patrol agent’s questioning near the Mexico-U.S. border was an example of racial profiling.

“Why are we so intent on kicking [out] ‘Mexicans’ but not the ‘Canadians’? Is it because people associate Mexico with darker skin tone and equate this with [being] not American?” Jung said.

Prof. Paula Ioanide, comparative race and ethnicity studies, Ithaca College, said that after watching the arrest of her friends through the livestream video, she “went into organizing mode and asked everyone I know [to call the Brownsville airport and the Brownsville Police Department].”

After Ioanide found out what the charges were and where Morales and Figueredo were taken after their arrest, she and fellow organizers set up a call-in campaign to get the charges dropped.

Ioanide said she was exasperated by the fact that refusing to answer the border patrol agent’s question led to Morales and Figueredo’s arrest.

“When we exercise our [right to not answer a border patrol agent’s question], this is what happens?” Ioanide said.

Orlando Lara M.F.A. ’11, another organizer of the phone campaign, shared Ioanide’s exasperation.

“I had no idea the police would step in to arrest without warning,” Lara said.

Although many calls were made to the district attorney’s office, Lara said many call-in participants’ calls were deferred to a federal agency, even though the arrest and subsequent charges

were criminal and had nothing to do with federal agencies. “[The D.A.’s office] is trying to tell people that they don’t have the charges in their office and that they should call the federal agencies. ... Sometimes they’d say [call the] Border Patrol Agency, sometimes they’d say Immigration Customs Enforcement,” Lara said.

As of Tuesday, however, the D.A.’s office started to accept the calls instead of referring callers to federal agencies, according to Lara.

Virginia Raymond, a lawyer based in Texas, said Morales and Figueredo’s case is interesting because it highlights the contradiction between the application of immigration law at the border and the rights that the U.S. constitution guarantees.

Raymond said some immigration practices at the border violate constitutional rights, including guarantees of freedom of speech, prevention of unreasonable searches and seizures and equal protection.

In most cases, Raymond said, the conflict between immigration law and the constitution is not challenged because when questioned by a border patrol agent, “most U.S. citizens would usually say, ‘yeah, I’m a citizen.’”

She said the two students were courageous for exercising their constitutional rights because they called attention to the discrepancy between immigration law and constitutional rights.

Raymond said she has not personally seen any cases where U.S. citizens refused to answer border patrol agents’ questions.

“We haven’t had many U.S. citizens in a non-criminal context that I know of challenging immigration law and border patrol practices because most people just go along for the sake of convenience,” Raymond said. “We use the privilege we have as U.S. citizens. We don’t challenge the privilege and see the injustices that others must endure.”

Figueredo said that the case brought up issues “that people live with on a daily basis but aren’t conscious of.” The students has been in Texas since last week and are still figuring out details of how to get back to Ithaca.

“Since last Tuesday, all we wanted to do was go back to Ithaca,” Figueredo said.

Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Greek Leaders Say System Fosters Organizer Hopes C.U. Leadership, Diversity and Philanthropy [dis]connect Will Become Annual Event DEBATE

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Workman ’13, former executive vice president of IFC. “I would say the Greek system [at Cornell] is headed in an extremely positive direction.”

Workman said the Greek system and the leadership within it provide a means to regulate issues such as binge drinking and sexual assault that are prevalent on campus.

“The Greek system is the place where individuals can feel safer because of the leadership structure,” Workman said. Workman said the leadership structure within the Greek system assumes responsibility for the safety of its members at its events, a leadership structure that he says does not exist at other student-hosted parties.

The issue of diversity and inclusion within the Greek system was prevalent throughout the debate.

In response to the assertion that the Greek system is racially exclusive, Juan Carlos Toledo ’13, Tri-Council Liaison and a sports writer for The Sun, argued that the University, IFC and Panhellenic councils work to make the system as inclusive as possible.

While anti-Greek panelists argued that it is unfair that MGLC chapters do not have houses while IFC fraternities do, Toledo said the lack of housing was not a diversity issue, but an issue of a lack of strong alumni funding.

“MGLC fraternities and sororities are much younger. ... Our alumni network is not large enough to permit for them to donate to us directly,” Toledo said. “[It’s not that] the current Cornell system is discriminating against these chapters. ... The University is always opening up possibilities for funding [for the MGLC].”

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Toledo, along with other speakers on the pro-Greek side, also stressed the leadership opportunities that being a part of the Greek system allowed him.

“I would not be the kind of leader or person that I know I am had I not become Greek,” he said.

In retaliation, Michelle Huang ’14 said while the proGreek side “tries to argue there is something unique about Greek membership that facilitates leadership ... I think that leadership happens not because of Greek membership but in spite of it.”

Several issues were hotly debated, but the issue of exclusion remained the primary concern of the anti-Greek panel.

Although Workman and Carli Van Holmes ’14, president of the Panhellenic council, stressed that joining a Greek organization is a process of self-selection, Huang argued that the individuals who self-select to enter into the system usually fit a certain socioeconomic criteria.

“Females who feel that they cannot afford to buy the nice clothes that you need for rush simply don’t rush because they don’t feel like it’s a space where they belong,” she said. “The system is inherently exclusionary.”

The debate triggered several different responses from audience members, both Greek and non-Greek, elucidating that the issue continues to remain a controversial one.

Van Holmes stressed that the Greek community continues to make changes and improvements accordingly.

“The Cornell Greek community is incredibly open to dialogue and self improvement,” Van Holmes said.

Sarah Sassoon can be reached at ssassoon@cornellsun.com.

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more integrated into the Cornell community,” said Cristina Lara ’14, who said she will be participating in the event.

Some students say they feel that social media and texting can actually facilitate friendship by overcoming physical distance and inconvenience.

“Many assume that the use of phones and social media inhibits meaningful conversation and relationships, but I say that in many ways it does exactly the opposite,” Mark Yoon ’16 said.

Others felt the project was simply infeasible for the average Cornell student.

“It makes sense in the context of social media, but many Cornell students need to check their email for academic and professional purposes,” Thora Bjornsdottir ’14, said.

If the project proves to be popular with Cornell students, Gerson said he hopes the three-day event will blossom into an annual tradition.

“We’re waiting to see the reaction, but personally, I’d like to see it become a yearly event. But it won’t happen if the buzz isn’t there. We want to see that something’s been gained from it all,” Gerson said.

Christopher Yates can be reached at cry9@cornell.edu.

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Defining diversity To the Editor: Re: “OH: Diversifying the Greek System,” Opinion, April 8

I’m writing in regard to Monday’s op-ed “Diversifying the Greek System,” written

by Don Oh. I believe that this piece makes clear that the author made no effort to understand neither the Greek System nor diversity at Cornell.

In his piece, Oh laments the lack of diversity in the Greek System after a brief interaction with students on a sidewalk. Upon seeing this group of “more than 100 drunken individuals in funky clothing,” he concludes “they must come from some obscure Midwestern college in the middle of nowhere. I felt sorry that they wouldn’t get to learn from peers with divergent cultural upbringings.” While I do not understand his need to inform us that college-aged students were drunk (gasp), or his ad hominum attack on the Midwest, what is most troubling is his assumption that racial homogeneity prevents cultural learning. Diversity is not just about race; it’s also about different backgrounds and experiences. I fundamentally disagree with Oh’s belief that individuals within a single race cannot learn about diversity from one another.

Furthermore, Oh owes an apology to the numerous individuals in fraternities that identify as minorities. Oh contends that while fraternities are supposedly open to all, “there is an asterisk that reads: Asians: must not have any accent; Blacks: must be from boarding schools; Gays: must act straight and keep their sex lives behind the door?”

In making this claim, he disregards all minority students within the Greek System who do not fit the stereotypes Oh presented and have no less experienced the struggles associated with being a minority I have gay brothers who have taken me to gay bars in Manhattan. I have a brother from Korea that brought me to his naturalization ceremony. And another brother from Dubai who has taught me more about the Middle East than any class at Cornell.

And yet, if Oh were to look into the windows of my so-called “Jewish” house or see a group of us on the streets of Collegetown, he would likely again assume that we were a single-minded, homogenous group. There is no doubt that my house could do more to be diverse, but to say that we have an environment that in anyway discourages ethnic and racial diversity is simply false. Oh’s lack of understanding regarding the culture within the Greek system is evident.

It is possible for diversity to exist even among individuals who share the same race.

If we as a community fail to acknowledge and explore the diverse set of beliefs and experiences that we are surrounded with on The Hill, regardless of the racial make up of the particular groups we interact with, we fail to experience the full diversity of this school. In no way am I attempting to discredit the fact that the University and its students need to be more racially inclusive, but we must also not forget that diversity can take many shapes and forms.

Geoffrey Block ’14

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assachusetts was a film screened wing has not healed, it huddles into its from my kitchen window, plumage and refuses the reassuring call breathing frost around the of the wind and the rustling applause of white frames pockmarked by ballistic dried leaves. Are we so different? acorns, declarations of war from angrily Memory can be a cage, a vicious sandchattering squirrels. A male cardinal storm preventing us from moving on defended his perch from a grackle, with our lives because we can’t see past offended red wings flapping against the walls of blasting salt and stone. black feathers and spraying flakes of old I was departing for New Hampshire snow scattered with fallen sunflower in mid-October years ago, hefting a seeds. The bird feeder, forest green paint gym bag onto my shoulder as I bid my peeling from under its tarnished copper mother farewell with a half-hug and a roof, was a cottage hung from a shep- smile. She stopped me as I turned, herd’s crook, plunged deep into the already missing me as she asked me not frozen burial grounds of long-dead daf- to say ‘goodbye.’ There’s a sort of finalfodils. It was ity to it, carlike Grand rying a sad C e n t r a l Memory can be a suggestion Station or a that once watering hole cage, a vicious paths split, on the sandstorm preventing they will Serengeti, a us from moving on never again nexus of holrejoin. “See l o w - b o n e d with our lives. you soon.” at chaos “Until we which food, m e e t like the pull and warmth of the sun, kept again...” There’s a promise in these all things in balance. A shameless voyeur words, a pinky swear firm with hope. “I with arms folded slackly over a half-fin- miss you.” Maybe memory hurts most ished crossword, I ran my coffee-burnt when words mean something, when tongue over stubborn toast crumbs, calling ‘goodbye’ to Grandpa through a watching nuthatches and sparrows flit screen door in Cortland is a finale, a around gridlocks of dogwood twigs. We permanent FIN stamped in ink and were neighbors then, I suppose, chained punctuated by Stage IV colon cancer. to a single moment like a breeze caught Sometimes it’s difficult to remember in a landscape painting. Nostalgia struck wonderful things. It’s as though we pass my cheek with a soundless slap, and in through life like green lights and only that moment shared through the window take notice when traffic chokes and pane, I thought that, maybe, humans are slows to the arrhythmic frustration of birds with memories of broken wings. overloud horns. But, perhaps, the memThe past is a dull butcher’s knife, but ories of ordinary things, pleasant it pricks like a sewing needle; it is a because they just were, move us maze of warped mirrors that reflect a through the sandstorm like a tailwind constancy of self-paradox. Memory blowing in the direction of our travels. kneads history like Play-doh, molding That crossword remained unfinit into abstractions until we can only ished, and my mind kept working tanrecognize the original shape by pressing gents about old poetry I’d written on it back into the yellow plastic container. snowfall and mating chickadees at the All the world’s a kindergarten class, Audubon Society. Lingering thoughts hopelessly mixing up the color-coded on the directionless sway of my life caps until what’s left is either a pastiche, phased out, old confusion giving way to formless blob or, quite possibly, modern memories of the boardwalk snapping art. Of course, like cake batter or a shirt turtle and autumn leaves tearing the fresh from the drier, what craves our serene edges of the Northampton pond. attention most is that which isn’t per- From there, I moved onward. And, in fectly smooth. Old pain snags our fin- passing through the sandstorm, I swear gers like imperfections on glass, as if the I could hear the wings of robins sound only constant in the amorphous Play- the breath of spring. doh lump of memory were what we’d rather not remember. Injured sensitivi- Matt Hudson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and ty and buried trauma chain us to the Sciences. He can be reached at ground like anchors weighed on sinking mhudson@cornellsun.com. Red in the Face runs ships. When a bird fears its broken alternate Wednesdays this semester.

CORRECTIONS A previous version of a sports spring supplement article Tuesday, “Red Heads Towards Improvement,” incorrectly quoted Kristen Towne ’13 as saying, “We are better than anyone else.” In fact, she said, “We know better than anyone else what we are capable of.”

An article in the sports spring supplement Tuesday, “Rowers Open With Six Straight Wins,” contained text for a story about the women’s lacrosse team. In fact, the article should have been about the women’s rowing team. Additionally, the headline should have read, “Women Look for Positive Results in the Water.” The correct article can be found on Cornellsun.com under that headline.

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

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OPINION

Dan Rosen | Smell the Rosen

Embrace The Urge I

love popping zits. Whiteheads, blackheads, zits on my face, zits on my back. When I feel the prickling of a pimple protruding I am elated. Picturing the pus, I palpitate with pleasure, relishing its arrival with all the eagerness of a child on Christmas morning. If somebody else has a zit it is impossible for me to look them in the face without having the urge to approach them, arm outstretched and ready to squeeze the offending pustule between my thumb and index finger.

My previous girlfriends have been forced to suffer at the hands of my odd inclination, my wandering fingers going not to unhook their bras but to burst blackheads from their back’s blemishes. It is, to be blunt, an addiction. One that I fully admit is any combination of odd, weird, gross, perverse and outright depraved. For whatever reason, I get a rush from this eruptive hobby, savoring each rupture and scavenging for more opportunities to satiate my addiction. The more secretion the better as I become particularly elated when a spurt is longer or bigger than expected. Perhaps it is a form of obsessive compulsion but I simply cannot help this act of expulsion.

I am not sure from which of Freud’s five stages of psychosexual development

For whatever reason, I get a rush from this eruptive hobby, savoring each rupture. my predilection for excision emerges, but I can assure you that it is not limited to zits and pimples. When I was younger, this urge manifested itself in nose picking. My toddler self could rival any 49-er in his hunt for gold and the underbelly of my bed was caked with boogers like gum under a high school desk. Now, as an older and more mature picker, I am forced to be subtler with my gushing desires, needing to conform to views of human decency. Often, I am quietly disappointed when I Q-tip my ear without removing any cerumen and so I delay my swabbing to maximize the earwax. Scabs and dry skin are picked and peeled like clementines; lint is uprooted with ecstatic zeal. Just last week, I felt the familiar tingling sensation while I dug deeper and deeper into my iPod’s headphone jack with a bent paperclip, pulling out dust and muck that had lodged itself there.

I feared I was alone in my habit, that if my friends only knew what sort of depraved individual they kept in their company they would surely expunge me from their lives like a particularly juicy cyst. But fortunately, we live in an increasingly interconnected age and some quick googling assured me that I was far from alone. I found countless forums and blogs of people gushing over their inexorable inclination to pop. I even found an entire section in the content aggregate site Reddit that was devoted to “popping.” There, users post videos and photos of particularly delicious discharges, delighting over each eruption and reveling in relished revulsion at what many people might consider vile and disgusting. While I will admit to watching a “popping” video every once in a while, with the same satisfaction and disgust that one might have for videos of car crashes and nut shots, there is something deeply unsatisfying about them. It felt like somebody else was playing a fun video game while I just had to watch silently. I don’t want to watch other people experience this visceral sensation because its not really a voyeuristic activity. This is a hobby that requires touch, feeling, anticipation and a climactic moment of euphoria. In short, it’s a weird inclination that’s my own, however knowing that there are others like me out there, who yearn to expel juices from the acne, makes me feel a little bit less like a weirdo. I definitely still am — but so are you. You just haven’t written a column about your gross fetish.

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

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

Comment of the day Web

"An unsettling departure from academic freedom?” The Left all too frequently confuses liberty with entitlement.

Researchers are free to conduct whatever research they want, the only difference now is that the American people are free to not pay for it if it doesn't benefit them.

Travis Cuvelier Re: “EDITORIAL: Limiting Restrictions On Scholarly Research,” Opinion, published April 9, 2013

Dipayan Ghosh Ph.D. |

Guest Room

News Withdrawal: The Demise of Google Reader L

ife is complicated. As Cornell Gannes writes: “[T]he shutdown wasn’t just a students, we all have busy lives.

I’m a Ph.D. student in engi- matter of company culture and bigneering, and my schedule is always ger priorities ... Google is also trying packed with research, teaching, writ- to better orient itself so that it stops ing and meetings, not to mention getting into trouble with repeated my non-academic pursuits. So when missteps around compliance issues, something comes along that simpli- particularly privacy.”

Those words — compliance and fies life — something that shakes the world, filtering out the things that privacy — are the ultimate scourges are truly important to me — I bite. of any tech lawyer. But is Google I try it out and sometimes, I get to really just taking Reader offline like it. And if it’s something that I because they’re concerned about really like, I become dependent on ensuring the integrity of user inforit. Over the past seven years, I’ve mation? In short, the answer is a become addicted to Google Reader. resounding “no.” Privacy problems It scours the Internet and feeds me are costly for a company like the stories I’m most interested in, whether it’s an article about Over the past seven years, I’ve how Facebook’s API is changing or about become addicted to Google Reader. how the New York It scoures the Internet and feeds me Giants’ roster will stories I’m most interested in. change in the off-season.

Imagine my disbelief then, when one day I loaded it and was greeted with Google, who recently coughed up $7 the message, “Google Reader will million to settle claims that Street not be available after July 1, 2013.” View cars were violating privacy. To Yes, Google announced last week navigate matters like this, Google that Reader, the hugely popular web employs an army of highly-skilled platform that aggregates stories via tech lawyers — not a cheap thing to the ubiquitous RSS web format, will do. The legal team has to be on the be going offline. This has prompted ball at all times, mitigating mishaps, public outcry fueled by many like battling ongoing cases in the courts, me who swore by it. People loved anticipating future risks and configReader for its superb functionality uring a risk-managed business stratand its minimalistic interface. A egy.

Meanwhile, Google’s business 2012 LifeHacker poll suggested that RSS junkies rated Reader as the best folks are primarily concerned about platform for web feeds, winning out making a penny off of Reader. As a over competitors like Apple’s Reeder publicly traded company, they need to ensure shareholder profit. If the and Feedly.

So why is Reader shutting down? opportunity for future monetization If it has such great traction and is so doesn’t exist for a product, then wildly popular, how can Google pos- Google won’t invest much in it. The sibly even consider closing the ser- payoffs for providing a service like Google search or Gmail come from vice?

Google’s public answer is that targeted advertising. That entails Reader infringes on the privacy of its using data analytics to infer user users. Like other tech corporations, interests, preferences and beliefs, Google has had serious issues related and then providing the framework to user privacy brought up by tech- for an advertising market so that nology regulators and policymakers. third parties can target subsets of the Reporting for AllThingsD, Liz user population in ad campaigns.

Somewhere along the line — presumably, after extrapolating the economics of that market framework into the future, and after studying compliance law closely — Google decided that keeping Reader online does not make business sense.

However, there’s a sentiment among Reader users, including me, that despite Reader’s difficult avenue to monetization, Google should still provide the service. After all, it wasn’t always a $100 billion company.

Would continuing to provide Reader without a monetization mechanism really hurt Google all that much in the long-run, especially when Reader gives people so much utility?

An article in the Economist suggests that the infrastructure required to provide Reader is so cheap that it should be provided free of ads. Critics have also taken to Twitter: “‘Usage of Google Reader has declined’ = tons of people using it for sync, but we can’t put ads in that,” and “Google’s Q4 profit was only $2.89bn so of course they need to trim some fat and close Google Reader,” write @ttscoff and @peterc.

In the end, the demise of Google Reader teaches us a valuable lesson: We must not blindly trust that tech companies provide their services strictly for the benefit of their users.

If there is no view to monetization, then a product will eventually close shop and cause grief for millions.

Choosing tech services with this in mind can save endless time and effort. Just ask the millions of entrenched users who now need to switch to a new platform and rebuild their feeds from the bottom up.our diverse identities. As James Baldwin said, “It is the failure to care that lies at the core of this system of control and every caste system that has existed in the United States or anywhere else in the world.”

Dipayan Ghosh is a third year PhD. in the College of Engineering. Feedback may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT A Beautiful and Inconvenient Truth In a packed theater on the first warm Monday of the year, a rapt audience watches ice melt. Cheers or snores could reasonably follow, but this audience sits in captivated silence. The film is Chasing Ice, the subject is climate change and the evidence is entirely cinematic.

Aside from director Jeff Orlowski, the man responsible for many of the documentary’s images is its star, James Balog. This nature photographer studied science at the University of Colorado, but since he sees “the modern world of science [as] all about statistics and computer modeling,” Balog works in the artful medium of photography. After shooting a popular National Geographic cover story on melting glaciers (“The Big Thaw”), Balog established the Extreme Ice Survey, a study that fuses art and science to visualize the effects of anthropogenic climate change. The task Balog and his crew set themselves seems simple — to take photos of glaciers with secured, timelapse cameras — but faulty technology, violent weather and Balog’s own health present enough trials to make for, at the very least, a brisk 75 minutes.

The time-lapse montages present the most naked and arresting — “beautiful” would also be apt — evidence of global warming I have seen yet. It is a shame the filmmakers think the James Balog’s story even stands a chance.

Balog, who was in attendance at Monday’s Cornell Cinema screening and answered questions afterward, engages through his work, and Orlowski would have been wise to let that work speak for itself instead of padding the

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film with footage of Balog spending time with his family, getting knee surgery, etc. The resulting melodrama plays like network television programs, or the autobiographical sections of An Inconvenient Truth that your biology teacher fast-forwarded through.

It all diverts the narrative from the real protagonist: Earth. This is not necessarily Balog’s fault, as the responsibility lies with the filmmakers to legitimize the material at hand. But there is a whole montage of Balog making the CNN/NBC interview circuit, and one shot in particular of a studio makeup artist brushing up Balog’s face — weren’t we talking about melting glaciers?

We were, and the images, whether still, moving or time-lapse, redeem this film from its dips into bathos or narcissism. I wonder what any global warming deniers could possibly say after witnessing them, but who cares what Sean Hannity thinks, anyway. There is a spectacular sequence where a glacier the size of lower Manhattan “calves” (separates) off its surrounding fjord, and the cameras just watch. The voice-over jumps back in too early for my cinema vérité tastes, but the high resolution digital camcorders show us icebergs three times taller than the Empire State Building rolling forwards and backwards, or, in one stomach-churning shot, soaring miles out from the water and then submerging once again. The five-minute episode sells the whole movie, although, as Balog was quick to remind us in the postscreening Q&A, over 4 million people have already seen the video, for free on YouTube (one of them, unknowingly, being me last December).

After the film, Balog proved to be as aphoristic, rugged-

ly handsome and self-promoting in person as on screen. I mean that last adjective in good humor, for Chasing Ice has earned its fair share of honors, including a White House screening on April 22, and Balog made a point in listing as many as his prepared notes could accommodate. In all seriousness, though, Balog peddled some real nuggets of wisdom, especially in his survey of the people who should worry about global warming: “If you eat food, breathe air, drink water or pay taxes, climate change affects you.” He also addressed the hybrid nature of his work when he said, “The combination of art and Cornell science reveals what one cannot do on its own.” When you realize that Cinema the footage of crumbling glaciers represents only a microcosm of an escalating global trend, what is revealed is not so much a number or idea but the urge to let loose all the expletives you know in the direction of your nearest Congressman.

Zachary Zahos

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

Midnight in Ithaca:

Stephane Wrembel at the Carriage House Café

BY ASHLEY POPP Sun Staff Writer

As I stood in the doorway of the concert hall, I unknowingly began to speak to renowned jazz guitarist Stephane Wrembel, who recently showcased his world-class talents at Ithaca’s Carriage House Café. He was heading back to New York City the next night, to my hometown of Brooklyn (Wrembel and his band frequent the hipster areas of the borough, playing shows mainly in Park Slope and Williamsburg, not in my more conservative neighborhood of Bay Ridge). With a show that was supposed to start at 8 p.m., and the time being just that, I thought he would politely excuse himself to go on stage. Instead, he led me downstairs for an impromptu interview, in a very French accent.

When I realized who it was I was speaking to, I asked the musician to describe the genre of his music, to which he answered, “That’s a long explanation.”

And he wasn’t joking. Ten minutes later, I had learned Wrembel’s music was a mixture of classical, jazz, rock, blues, Indian and anything else you could think of. But

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he made the distinction quite clear: His style incorporates all of these, but is none of them. Wrembel explained that he saw himself as a shaman. Experiencing his music is like going on a journey; it is a visual experience as much as an aural one.

Considering he wrote the both themes for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Vicky Christina Barcelona, this explanation makes perfect sense. All of his performances aspire to put a certain image in the audience’s head, just as scores function in films.

As a world class musician who contributed songs to multiple Academy Award-nominated films. I wondered what Stephane Wrembel was doing in the sleepy town of Ithaca. But Wrembel had been coming here for years — 15, in fact.

Calling Ithacans “cool people,” Wrembel was happy to come here as many as three times a year. With Ithaca College and Cornell, he explained, there was “lots of science and stuff floating around, not to mention Carl Sagan’s ghost.” Wrembel’s song “Voyager” is a tribute to the late astronomyl professor Dr. Carl Sagan.

When Wrembel’s bandmates started signaling to him from across the

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room, I knew I had to wrap things up quickly. So Wrembel left me with some words for my fellow college students: Embrace “the cannibal inside” — live out our passions by acting on instinct, rather than overthinking. These, of course, are words to live by at a place like Cornell.

As Wrembel began his set, we found ourselves in New Mexico with a song aptly named “The Voice of the Desert.”

Right away, it was clear Wrembel was in a class all his own. His fingers moved in a flurry of passion and grace. Even if you could not visualize the images associated with the songs, watching Wrembel’s hands was entertainment enough. Next, we moved to Japan with a song called

“Tsunami.” Strangely enough, Wrembel had never been to the country but had composed the piece based on the disaster.

Wrembel has a pretty strong fan base in Ithaca, seeing as he’s been here so many times. Mia Park Ph.D. has seen Wrembel multiple times. “His shows are very similar,” said Park. “There’s so much passion and they’re all genuine.”

Wrembel plans to return to the Carriage House soon. And for a mere 20 dollars, he’s an act you can afford to see, but can’t afford to miss.

Ashley Popp a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciencces. She can be reached at apopp@cornellsun.com.

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STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT| Christina Aguilar ’13 tle exaggerated. [They are] clothes that you wouldn’t find anywhere.

KATHERINE CARRENO SUN Staff Writer

While she may come from a small town south of Houston, Christina Aguilar ’13 is a metropolitan girl with an edgy fashion sense. She thinks that the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad would look more regal in a top hat. This April, at the 29th Annual CFC fashion show, she will debut her “contemporary, stark and fluid” senior collection,“Turbulence.”

THE SUN: So let’s talk a little about why you chose to be a Fiber Science and Apparel Design major.

CHRISTINA AGUILAR: Initially, I didn’t know why I wanted to go to college and what I wanted to do, and I applied to a lot of different majors. I visited here before I came and I really liked the program. I kind of liked the dynamic between the students.

I know that at a lot of other schools it seems like a really harsh and competitive environment among design students, but here it just kind of seemed like a big family, and I like that.

SUN: What other programs did you apply to if you weren't sure about fashion design at first?

Aguilar: I did really various things like business major, engineering … an assortment [laughs] SUN: Wow, a lot of diverse talents there. So tell me: Who’s your favorite designer and did they inspire your senior collection in any way?

C.A.: I have a lot of different designers who I admire … right now, one of my favorite designers is Ann Demeulemeester. I really like the silhouettes of her clothes. I feel like I can always relate to her aesthetic and her lines; her stuff’s really beautiful.

SUN: How would you describe your own sense of fashion?

C.A.: I’m really into super modern, contemporary fashion — clothes that are a little experimental. I think that the clothes I design are pretty much date-wear, but with a twist, a little bit edgier. I’m interested in producing basics [with] silhouettes a lit-

SUN: To those who don’t know, can you explain what the senior collection is?

C.A.: With Cornell Fashion Collective, if you're a fourth level, which means you've been doing this for four years, you’re allowed to show 11 looks and 11 models … most people have a bit fewer than that. Basically, you conceptualize this collection for the whole year and you work on it the whole year. It does take a long time because you have to have fittings … some people do a lot of experimentation with their own fabrics.

SUN: So what’s the typical day like during this busy time?

C.A.: [Laughs] I’m pretty much nocturnal right now, it's pretty crazy. I know a lot of people do stay [in studio] many nights. I’m personally really good friends with the janitors here because I see them all the time.

SUN: Do you have one standout item from your collection that you’re going to save for last?

C.A.: You should come to the show and see!

SUN: So let’s talk about your collection. What’s it called?

C.A.: My collection is called “Turbulence.” I was interested in doing a line of basics — pieces that I would wear and [that] I thought would be sort of the building blocks of a wardrobe.

But I wanted to play with movement, lines and silhouettes.

[For] some of my pieces, when the model’s walking in them, they might move or shift. I like the idea that when you’re walking, the forms can be sort of distorted.

SUN: The media portrays the fashion industry as really harsh and cut-throat, a la The Devil Wears Prada. Is there some truth to that?

C.A.: I think there are definitely some pretty intimidating characters, but it’s not always like that. As long as you go in and you’re motivated and you work hard, you’ll be fine. There might be some people who are just mean, but I haven’t encountered anyone like that.

SUN: What’s the hardest part of your design process from idea to creation?

C.A.: I guess the hardest part for me is getting what [I] want in 3D forms. I feel like I draw a lot. I’ll draw all these shapes and then when you’re actually having to pattern that in muslin, it just gets really complicated. I think the hardest part is getting the designs you have in your head to manifest in real life.

Sun: Are there times when you had a design that became something totally different when you actually started creating it?

C.A.: [Laughs] Yeah, I think that happens all the time.

SUN: So what would you say to people who don’t normally follow fashion to entice them to come to the fashion show?

C.A.: You don’t have to know a lot about fashion to enjoy it.

We’ve been working really hard, there are a lot of talented designers who are showing, there’s going to be a lot of great models walking in it … It's going to be great fun, it’s always a great show.

Katherine Carreno is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kccarreno@gmail.com.

Remembering Roger Ebert

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write these words on Sunday, about 72 hours after the news broke, and it will take around the same amount of time for this finished column to find its way into the paper you are holding or the website you are browsing. Six days is an eternity in the world of opeds, but it’s barely enough time to digest the New York Times alert that lit up my phone Thursday afternoon: “Roger Ebert, Longtime Film Critic, Dies at 70, Chicago Sun-Times Reports.” I was just starting to study for an accounting prelim I had later that evening, and it’s putting it lightly to say that I was in no mood to hit the books. For many of us, this is a celebrity death without precedent.

President Barack Obama summed up Roger’s legacy in an official White House press release, surely the first for any late movie critic: “For a generation of Americans …

Roger was the movies.” While I would amend the statement by making “generation” plural, the essence remains true. Roger changed how we, the general public, went to the movies. Watching movies was no longer sufficient — you had to think about, talk about, even yell about them, as he and Gene Siskel did on TV for over 20 years.

Their passion exposed art house, independent and foreign films to a worldwide audience, and Roger’s accessible reviews provided a roadmap for all those who felt in over their head. For Roger, insight did not require obfuscation, and elitism did not equal good taste. Star Wars and Indiana Jones were not below consideration, for they were and are treasures of cinema alongside Badlands, Nosferatu and Vivre Sa Vie. These disparate films all met Roger’s strongest writing in The Great Movies, a series that has filled three published books and

might furnish a posthumous fourth. Moving past his famous “thumbs up, thumbs down” rating system and the legendary one-liners he hurled at trash like Armageddon, we find Roger to be a critic of great nuance and optimism. In The Great Movies, he took a magnifying glass and a mirror to classics and hidden gems alike. He would scrutinize a scene’s composition and lighting in one paragraph and reflect on themes like death (Gates of Heaven), being (Persona) and greatness (Amadeus) in the next. Even as he broke down the most confounding films, his words remained personal, brilliant and unpretentious. Look no further than his essays on The Tree of Life, 2001: A Space Odyssey and La Dolce Vita, three of his favorite films of his that now align with my own. It was his praise that inspired me to see them, think about them, see them again and purchase their posters that now stare at me from the walls of my room.

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World Then you have his more recent reviews, like his write-up on Synecdoche, New York, which might as well be the most beautiful piece of film criticism ever written (and which I shamelessly ripped off for my Perks of Being a Wallflower review last year). On his blog, he talked politics, love, science, religion, memory — everything, really. These themes carried over to his bustling Facebook and Twitter accounts, platforms not accustomed to Roger’s sincerity and original wit. (A memorable tweet: “To a friend uncertain about moving: Every city you move to already contains friends of a lifetime you have not yet

met.”) Staunchly liberal yet disdainful of political correctness, Roger adhered to no rules but his own, which he always admitted were subject to change. His words were not some holy truth so much as true — to himself, his feelings and his engaged and unironic worldview. What other public figure won his fame and fortune through honesty, levelheadedness and common sense?

I regret never meeting Roger, a man I knew so well. My mom reminded me over spring break to reach out to Roger and express my gratitude, but after a halfhearted attempt at finding his email address, I abandoned this simple task. What would I even say? Besides, I will graduate in a couple years, and then I can make movies or write about them with Roger as a peer, though certainly not an equal. And, before that, I will find the time to go to his annual Ebertfest, at least, when it doesn’t conflict with school…

So, yeah. This loss cuts deep. Roger ignited my love for the movies. Roger tackled the issues of his time, and all time. Roger inspired the world in his open struggle with cancer.

Roger loved Chaz, his wonderful wife. Roger was a presence. It is fitting that he titled his last blog, published two days before his death, “A Leave of Presence.” In it, he announced the return of his cancer, his resignation from day-to-day reviewing duties but also his

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excitement “to do what I’ve always fantasized about doing: reviewing only the movies I want to review.” I had the bitter fortune of reading it the day before he died, and I left a comment that ended with the note, “I look forward to sharing many more movie-watching years with your prose guiding the way.”

In retrospect, I realize that “years” was pushing it, considering his ailments. Then again, I consider the blog’s last line, the words he might have known he was parting us with: “I’ll see you at the movies.” If he meant what I think he meant, then, Roger, I’ve been seeing you for years.

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

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Euclid Mission Studies Galaxies Prof. Rachel Bean to participate in European space mission

By SRINITYA ARASANIPALAI Sun Contributor

Prof. Rachel Bean, astronomy, was one of the 40 U.S. researchers chosen to be part of the Euclid mission, which will attempt to map the geometry of the dark universe. The mission, led by the European Space Agency, was named in honor of the Greek mathematician, Euclid who is considered the father of geometry.

According to Bean, the idea behind this mission is to complete a census of the galaxies in the universe dating back to the time when the universe was one-third the size it is today.

Such a census is performed by studying the light emitted by these galaxies. Some of the galaxies emitted light a long time ago, but it takes a significant amount of time to reach Earth due to the great distances between galaxies.

Studying these light signals gives researchers like Bean a snapshot of the universe when the light was emitted.

The Euclid mission is looking to pick up light signals from galaxies both near and far and will be working primarily in the optical and near-infrared wavelengths of light. For this purpose, a telescope 1.2 meters in diameter is scheduled to be launched in 2020.

Some of the key questions this mission seeks to answer are about the number and distribution of galaxies in the universe, the evolution of the universe in the past few

billion years and the creation of the universe.

The researchers involved in this mission will study the optical signals to estimate the position of the galaxies.

Light stretches as it travels, since the universe is constantly expanding. This stretching leads to a phenomenon called “redshift” in which the wavelengths shift to the longer wavelength region of the spectrum, or the red side. The longer the light travels, the more the light stretches.

By studying the amount of redshift in the light signals from a galaxy, we can estimate how far the light has travelled and hence the position of the galaxy.

Researchers are looking to use two different techniques for this purpose. The first one, photometry, involves studying the color of the light emitted by galaxies.

The amount of light emitted by the galaxies in the “redder” band of wavelengths will be compared to the amount of light in the “bluer” band of wavelengths to estimate the amount of redshift.

The second technique to be employed is spectroscopy, which involves looking at the spectra of specific atoms. Each atom or molecule emits light at specific wavelengths, both in the lab or anywhere in the universe. But due to the redshift of the light as it travels across the universe, the wavelength of the light detected from distant atoms will be larger than that of the wavelength from atoms measured in the lab. By measuring the difference in wave-

lengths in the spectra, the amount of redshift can be estimated.

Most research uses only one of these techniques, but the Euclid mission will incorporate both, since the former method will provide a quicker estimate of the position of the galaxies, enabling the study of more galaxies, while the latter method provides a more precise measurement.

The cosmos is not only made of visible stars, however, but also of dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter and dark energy are estimated to comprise 95 percent of all the mass and energy in the universe.

Dark matter is invisible matter which does not interact with light but is known to be affected by gravity.

Evidence for the existence of dark matter comes from studying the rotation of stars around galaxies: these stars rotate faster than expected, hinting at the existence of dark matter.

Dark energy, on the other hand, can be thought of as an anti-gravity phenomenon, the evidence for which comes from the fact that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate, which is contrary to Einstein’s postulation that the universe should be contracting due to gravitational effects. This missing piece of physics was coined “dark energy.”

To study dark matter and energy, the Euclid mission will map the properties of gravity in the cosmos by looking at how the passage of light is distorted due to

gravity as it passes through the cosmos towards Earth. This technique is called gravitational lensing and is sensitive to all matter and energy in the universe, including dark matter and dark energy.

Bean will be co-leading one of the tasks of the Euclid mission by applying this gravity survey to test gravity on cosmic scales.

Bean will use Cornell’s institutional membership at a ground-based Large Aperture Synoptic Telescope (LSST) facility located in Chile to survey half the sky and provide measurements of the cosmos that will be complementary to the Euclid mission.

Bean will also lead a group of scientists in the LSST Dark Energy Science collaboration, which works on how to test fundamental theories with observations. In particular, she will be working on translating theories that motivate dark energy, such as the particle physics model, to what would be expected in galactic observations.

“Astronomy, at the moment, is seeing a renaissance in the sheer amount of data that is coming in and the ties between theories and observations. Observations are really driving how the theories are developing, and this is an extraordinarily exciting time for students interested in this area to get involved,” Bean said.

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

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Galaxy gazing | Scheduled to be launched in 2020, this telescope will allow the researchers on the Euclid mission to study galaxies and dark matter. Prof. Rachel Bean, astronomy, was one of the 40 U.S. researchers chosen to join this project led by the European Space Agency.

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Prof. Frank Rossi Grows Better Grass

By CAMILLE WANG Sun Staff Writer

Golf is returning to the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Prof.

Frank Rossi Ph.D ’91, horticulture, is the lead agronomist creating this golf course.

Today, he may responsible for the Rio 2016 course, but Prof. Rossi’s fascination with grass began at an early age, when he first started to push a lawn mower. His passion led him to pursuing a career as a golf course superintendent and eventually, a professor of horticulture.

“I have literally been a student of this plant my entire life. I felt like a light went off one day – I literally had no aspirations to be a scientist. But along the way, I realized that I had particular skills and talents and interests that lay beyond just the maintenance of golf courses, and more in the overall study of the system. I think at the heart of it I’m a biologist,” Rossi said.

20 years ago, Rossi and a group of undergraduate students convened as the first pioneers in researching sustainable turf management. However, the topic has only started garnering attention in the past five years.

Now, Rossi’s research focuses on developing environmentally responsible management systems for turf grass areas, such as lawns, golf courses and sports fields. He aims to grow the same quality of grass but with less “stuff,” such as pesticides, water, etc. Not only is his research environmentally-friendly, it is also economicallyfriendly, as people do not need to buy as many products to sustain the same turfgrass.

“Let me give you an example. Midterms – you’re studying, you’re grinding, you’re anxious. And what happens? You get stressed out, you encounter a germ and you

get sick. If you take melatonin or something natural, you’re still studying but you’re not getting sick. This is what we do with turf. You culture that system so that it doesn’t get so sick it needs an antibiotic,” Rossi said.

Rossi helps culture turfgrass system by choosing the right grass, fertilizing properly and using alternatives to synthetic pesticides. By building a stronger plant system to begin with, the grass will be less likely to need pesticides to remain healthy.

Because nobody had ever explored turf sustainability from a broad perspective, Rossi traveled across the globe talking about his research. According to Rossi, his research program has been “wildly successful” in reducing pesticide and fertilizer use all around the world.

On one golf course on Long Island, on which he has been working for the past 14 years, Rossi and his team have cut pesticide use by 85 percent while maintaining the quality and appearance of the grass.

However, to get to this point, his team failed in some initial stages. In the first few years, the grass died as they completely removed the pesticides that had been maintaining the health of the grass system for the past 70 years.

“When you pull out the chemicals that keep the diseases away, the population of plants collapses. And then we figured that we wouldn’t be able to do it without spraying anything,” Rossi said. They ultimately decided to minimize the amount of pesticide sprayed, as well as to use an organic pesticide derived from plant and fungus products.

Not only does Rossi work on sustainable development, he has also worked as a private consultant for several major projects involving turfgrass. He played a significant role in the creation of Lincoln Center’s

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Growing Green | Prof. Frank Rossi, horticulture, designs sustainable turf for events across the world including the golf course at the 2016 Olympics and Yankee Stadium.

rooftop park, Yankee Stadium’s field, the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf course and many more.

In making Lincoln Center’s rooftop park, Rossi faced challenges in designing a lightweight soil that would still support turf and in finding grass that would work in that environment. Although the rooftop park is not the most energy-efficient system, Rossi said, it is sustainable in a different sense – from a social perspective.

“For something to sustainable, there are three prongs: environmental, economic and there’s a social perspective, which includes the social benefit from a turf area.

I can tell you, people love that lawn. As we and our population become more urbanized, the value and importance of green

space is greater. It has so much social value that maybe the input is warranted,” Rossi said.

Ultimately, regardless of where his private consultant work will lead him, Rossi said he hopes to continue the dialogue in turfgrass sustainability that he helped initiate.

“What I think we’ve done is we’ve created a foundation for a long term conversation in our industry about how we need to be more efficient with our resources. We were poised here to be a leader of that conversation because we’ve always been working on it,” Rossi said.

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

Runner-Up Scientific Discovery of the Year

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Staff Writer

Genetic diseases can be cured using synthetically-produced proteins and knowing how a pathogen’s proteins bind to DNA can help create these cures. In

2009, Prof. Adam Bogdanove, plant pathology and plant-microbe biology, and his research team at Iowa State University, discovered “a mechanism by which bacterial proteins specifically recognize DNA targets,” a discovery that allowed him to be named one of

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Protein pathogens | Protein effectors bind to DNA to infect a host cell.

nine runner-ups for Science Magazine’s “Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2012.”

The biggest breakthrough of the year, according to Science Magazine, was the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Bogdanove's research involves studying how bacterial plant pathogens – microorganisms that cause diseases in a host – inject proteins called “transcription activator-like effectors” into plant cells during the infection process.

According to Bogdanove, the proteins are then transferred into the nucleus, at which point “they find sequences in the genome that are specific to each individual effector.”

Basically, proteins are strings of amino acids, each of which have a specific shape, analogous to Lego blocks.

According to Bogdanove, just as Lego blocks need to fit perfectly in order to stay firmly attached, each individual protein also latches onto a location in the genome that happens to fit its specific shape perfectly. These TAL effector proteins can activate the expression of certain genes and ultimately alter the host cell’s biology.

The implications of activating genes are significant. Every cell in the body contains the same genome, so why is the functionality of a hair follicle cell different than the functionality of a kidney cell? Each type of cell activates a different set of genes, so by altering the activation of genes, the functions of a specific cell could be

completely distorted. TAL effectors, for example, distort the plant cell function in ways that benefit the pathogen.

Additionally, Bogdanove notes that “there are circadian rhythms to our gene expression.” These cycles cause the pathogen to secrete hormones into our blood streams which make control sleepy-ness or hunger, as well as many other functions. By altering the activation of genes, these cycles could be disrupted.

Bogdanove was also involved in discovering that “at least one class of pathogens have figured out how to alter gene expression in plant cells to benefit the pathogen.”

One example of these pathogens is Bacterial Blight of Rice. During infection, the bacteria inject a TAL effector, which activates a certain gene in rice which encodes a protein that transports sucrose.

“The pathogen teases the cell into secreting sugar into the apoplast, or extracellular space,” Bogdanove said. This sugar secretion becomes food source for the pathogen.

Bogdanove’s largest discovery, however, was the determination of exactly how TAL effector proteins recognize where to bind in the genome. Within each sequence of 34 amino acids in a TAL effector, Bogdanove noticed that the only different amino acids are the 12th and 13th spots.

Using a computational method, Bogdanove and his team discovered that “the way these pro-

teins recognize the sequence of DNA bases to bind to is exactly the 12th and 13th amino acids, which are different in every amino acid sequence within a protein.”

They hypothesized that each set of those two amino acids calls out a single nucleotide in the DNA. By pulling out just the 12th and 13th amino acid positions of each sequence, only the specific sequences are encoded which allow the protein to know where to bind to in the genome.

The most important result of Bogdanove’s discovery that amino acid sequences in proteins are the same except at the 12th and 13th positions is that researchers can now create a protein that binds to a particular DNA sequence.

Unlike how pathogens harm the host, scientists can now find proteins that could bind to certain locations of the genome in order to benefit the host.

Another important application of Bogdanove’s research is the determination of the functionality of certain genes. Using TAL effector proteins fused to DNA-cutting enzymes, scientists can break the genome at a certain location to target a certain gene and see the implications of disabling that specific gene.

Future research may focus on genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, which is caused by specific genes which can now possibly be targeted and eliminated.

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ablumfield@cornellsun.com.

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Spelling Bee Mandates Participants Memorize Word Definitions,Too WASHINGTON (AP) — What does it all mean?

That’s the question facing spelling whizzes across the country, who learned Tuesday that they will have to know the definitions of some of the those tough words they’ve been memorizing in the dictionary. For the first time, multiple-choice vocabulary tests will be added to the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. “Changes are not a surprise, but these changes are massive,” said Mirle Shivashankar, whose daughter, 11-year-old Vanya, is among the favorites after finishing tied for 10th last year. “It came as a shocker. ...

We’re going to have to change the way we prepare a little bit.”

The changes will make it easier to nail down the nine to 12 competitors who make it to the final round, which will look the same as it has for years to prime-time TV viewers, with spellers taking turns until only the champion has avoided the familiar doomsday bell. The changes do add a wrinkle to the televised semifinals, however, as even the best onstage spellers could find themselves eliminated from the finals if they perform poorly on the multiple-choice test.

“I’m on an email group and we talk about spelling, and a lot of the returning spellers were really, like, shocked, and they were surprised about the change that’s happened,” Vanya Shivashankar said. “But it’s going to be really cool and fun to see how the bee will be because it will be spelling and vocabulary.”

Executive Director Paige Kimble said the changes were driven by the desire to reinforce the competition’s purpose — to encourage students to improve their spelling and broaden their knowledge of the language.

“What we know with the championship-level spellers is that they think of their achievement in terms of spelling and vocabulary being two sides of the same coin,” Kimble said.

Vocabulary has been a regular part of the bee during its 87-year history, but it’s always been the spellers asking for the definition to help them spell the word.

Now the tables will be turned, with the spellers taking a computer test that looks like something from the SAT. A sample question provided by the Spelling Bee reads as follows: “Something described as refulgent is: a) tending to move toward one point, b) demanding immediate action, c) rising from an inferior state, d) giving out a bright light.”

The correct answer is d.

The vocabulary tests will take place in private rooms and will not be part of the television broadcasts, but they will count for 50 percent of the point totals that determine the semifinalists and finalists.

“In the long run I think it’s a change for the better because it tests spellers’ all-around knowledge of the word as opposed to just the spelling of the word,” said 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali, also one of the favorites after finishing third the past two years.

But what about right now? Arvind and the rest of the 281 spellers in this year’s bee now have less than two months to change their study habits ahead of the May 28-30 competition near Washington.

“I’m just going to review all the words for their meanings one more time, if I have enough time,” Arvind said. “But it’s going to be a little difficult to adjust to this right now.”

Shivashankar, who coached daughter Kavya to the 2009 title and now coaches Vanya, said he thinks there’s a good purpose behind the changes, but he wishes they had been announced at the start of the school year.

While Shivashankar was concerned about the anxiety the changes could add to an already nerve-racking competition, his daughter already sounded ready to tackle the challenge.

“We’re just going to try to our best and understand the words more,” Vanya said. “Before we were studying the roots, and now we’re using the root to understand what it means, which we kind of did before, but we have to spend more time on each word, understanding every single part of it.”

While the finals format remains unchanged, the televised semifinals will have a different payoff. Spellers will continue to be eliminated if they misspell on stage, but there will be only two semifinal rounds. The results of those rounds will be combined with the computerized spelling and vocabulary tests to select the finalists.

The issue of determining the number of finalists has been problematic in the past because of the need to fit the bee into its allotted broadcast slot. Parents and spellers were upset in 2010 when officials abruptly halted the semifinals in the middle of a round because spellers were being eliminated too quickly.

The bee, working with its television partners, usually prefers to have nine to 12 spellers in the finals. That will be easier to accomplish now because the bee can take the spellers with the most points, with wiggle room to account for ties.

“Previously, we just knew that we were going to spell until we had a reasonable number of children to bring into the finals,” Kimble said.

“Now we have some definition around how that happens.”

Kimble said she’s open to the idea of having the vocabulary test take place onstage in future bees, but she wants to try the computer format first and see how it works.

The national bee waited until all the regional bees were completed to make the announcement so that everyone would start on equal footing.

The national bee will supply materials and suggestions to help local bees introduce a vocabulary test next year, Kimble said.

“In the long run, it’s pretty good, right?” said Srinivas Mahankali, Arvind’s father. “But in the short-term for the competitors right now, I think it’s a little more complicating, definitely.”

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Rutgers Univ.Pledges To Hold Investigation Of Coach Rice Scandal NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University is pledging to get to the bottom of how a basketball coach who kicked and shoved players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them was allowed to stay on the job — and to make sure the same thing isn’t happening in other sports.

The university said Monday that the school’s Board of Governors would meet Thursday to discuss hiring an adviser to report on what went wrong with Mike Rice.

University President Robert Barchi said that employees are going through video of practice sessions from other sports to see if any other troubling behavior needs to be rooted out.

The scandal has had far-reaching implications on the university’s athletic department.

Rice was fired on April 3, a day after a video of him at practice was made public. Athletic Director Tim Pernetti later resigned, as did an assistant basketball coach and the university’s top in-house lawyer.

On Monday, the university chose former dean Carl Kirschner to serve as acting athletic director while a search is conducted for someone to fill the job permanently.

There’s been widespread anger over the video, which was presented to university officials in November by a former basketball program employee who last week sued the university, claiming he was let go because he was a whistle-blower. A person with knowledge of the situation by who requested anonymity because the investigation has not been made public, has told The Associated Press that the FBI is looking into whether the ex-employee, Eric Murdock, unlawfully asked for money in exchange for not making the video public.

Gov. Chris Christie said at a news conference Monday that Rice needed to be fired promptly and that his antics cost him credibility with athletes and their families.

“What parent would let this animal back into their living room to try to recruit their son after this video?” he asked.

Christie also said that he wants to know why Rice was not fired even before the university knew about the video of his behavior at practice.

That’s a question that the investigation being commissioned by the university could look at.

Questions of who knew what about Rice’s behavior and when, and what they did about it, are likely to loom large as the investigations continue.

On Monday, Christie said anyone who knew about the behavior previously and did not act to oust Rice was in the wrong. He criticized the reaction of those who knew about it and did not fire the coach months ago, when the video was given to university officials and viewed by — at least — Pernetti, university interim counsel John Wolf and Chairman Mark Hershhorn of the university Board of Governors’ athletics committee.

In a statement released by his lawyer late Monday, Hershhorn said he did call for Rice’s firing on the day in early December that he watched the video. He said he told Pernetti that if the video was authenticated, Rice needed to be immediately terminated. Contrary to his recommendation, Hershhorn said, the university chose to discipline Rice instead of let him go.

The Rutgers administration would not comment on Hershhorn’s account of events.

Meanwhile, a group of five Democratic members of the state Assembly made a half-dozen requests for information from Rutgers Monday under the state’s Open Public Records Act.

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Cornell Gymnasts Head to USAG Collegiate Nationals To Close Out Team Season

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Senior Writer

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Practice makes perfect | The Cornell gymnastics team competes for a USAG Collegiate national team title Friday against seven other teams.

On Friday, the gymnastics team 2012 for the first time since 2000, the travels to the Gold dome in Red is focused on performing well as a Shreveport, La., where it will partici- team and advancing to the final round, pate in the USAG Nationals against according to Archer.

“Our goal is to have everyone hit seven other teams in a three-day event. during prelims and qualify to team “USAG Nationals is the national gymnastics championships for the Top- finals,” she said. “We have a strong 8 teams in the country with seven team and huge potential, so I’m excited scholarships or less,” senior McKenna to see how far we can go this weekend.”

Not going to USAG nationals as a Archer said. “Qualification is based on each team’s [regional qualifying score,] team last year ended a string of 11 consecutive seasons in the Top-8 for which is Cornell. essentially The Red “USAG Nationals is the national their average has finteam score for gymnastics championships for the ished in at the season.”

Top-8 teams in the country.” least sixth Cornell place every was the sixth McKenna Archer year, and to qualify placed among a field of 13 hopeful teams competing for a spot Top-4 every year from 2006-10. The in the championships. With a regional Red captured a share of its first USAG qualifying score of 192.240, the Red national title during the 2009 season.

On Friday, the eight teams will be joined the ranks of Bridgeport, Texas broken down into two sessions of four Woman’s, Air Force, Seattle Pacific, team each, where teams will compete Penn, Brown and host school head to head to see who will progress to Centenary.

Leading the pack for Cornell is the final round. The top two finishers junior all-around Melanie Jorgensen, a in each session will advance to two-time USAG All-American. Saturday’s team finals. Also competing Jorgensen, who was named USAG on an individual level are gymnasts Lindenwood, Southern national champion for bars as a fresh- from man, scored a RQS of 9.795, which Connecticut, Temple, West Chester ranked her fifth on bars. Archer, senior and Yale. One Sunday afternoon, the Sarah Hein and junior Elise Kerner will highest qualifiers from Friday will comalso look to give a strong showing for pete for individual USAG National the Red, as all three were 2012 USAG titles.

All-Americans.

Having missed qualifying for the Lauren Ritter can be reached at USAG Collegiate nationals as a team in lritter@cornellsun.com.

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comfortable to play the game again.”

According to Koehler, another factor may have been the weather conditions and the setup of the tournament.

“We played both rounds in one day, and we started out at 8:30 in the morning in 35 degree weather and 20 mph winds,” Koehler said.

“We didn’t really have that much time to practice the past week with the weather [in Ithaca], so we were kind of rusty and didn’t have the confidence. I think everybody improved in the second round, so I think, at the point as a team, we’re getting better with every round.

[Right now], at the beginning of the season, we just need to get reps in and gain the confidence we need to compete.”

The Red did perform better in the second round, improving the team’s total combined score by 28 strokes. Junior tri-captain Carl Schimenti showed the most improvement, shooting an 83 in the first round and a 71 in the second. Freshman Brandon Eng also impressed, improving from an 83 to a 76.

Looking ahead to next weekend, the Red will continue its season at the Princeton Invitational, where Cornell will face much of the same competition it did at the Yale Spring Opener.

“I know a lot of Ivy League teams will be there — I think at least six — so we’ll get some more experience against them,” Koehler said. “A lot of the same schools [at the last] tournament will be there, too.”

A factor working in the favor of the Red next week is their familiarity with the course, as four of the five starters have played at Princeton before, while none had played at the Yale course last weekend.

“Four of the five starters have played that course, so we know the course pretty well; there’s nothing too complicated about it,” Koehler said. “Last week, none of us had played the course before, and it was kind of a quirky course. This coming week, the course is [straightforward] and I think our game matches up pretty well.”

After playing poorly in the first tournament, the Red now knows that it has to improve and prepare better for tournaments, which it plans to do starting this week.

“The first tournament was good for us because it showed us how unprepared we really were,” Koehler said. “We didn’t play our best, but after that [showing], we know that we didn’t take the right steps to prepare. You can only blame so much on the weather; we need to blame ourselves and we just need to be better prepared for this upcoming tournament. This week, the weather looks good, so we’re all going to try to get out there and play a lot of golf out and regain that confidence we need.”

Although the season has just started, the team recognizes how they only have a couple weeks left in the season — the spring season this year is just four tournaments in four consecutive weekends.

“We just need to keep moving forward because spring season is so short,” Koehler said. “Three more weeks and it’s the Ivy League Championship; we just need to keep improving week by week, getting more confidence in ourselves and as a team to do well and hopefully by the time the [Ivy League Championship] roll around, we’ll be at the top of our game.”

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Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

Better luck next time | With only a couple weeks left in the season, the Red realizes it must turn things around to end on a better note.

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His highness honored | For the second time this season, senior attack Steve Mock was named Ivy League Player of the Week.

Cornell Leads the League Thanks to Four Ivy Victories With Two League Games Left

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s the middle of the Ivy League schedule comes about for most of the Ancient Eight men’s lacrosse teams, every game played is now critical for each school’s chance at winning the Ivy League title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament at the end of the month.

Last weekend, Cornell, now No. 1 in the Ivy League, took down Harvard in 14-12 showdown that came down to time on the clock and executed attempts by both teams.

The first 45 minutes of that game had Cornell struggling to win faceoffs (5-of19), coming up short with shot attempts and seeing little production from its midfielders (two goals, one assist).

However, the game turned around in the final 15 minutes, as the Red was able to take home the victory against Harvard.

The Red is now currently the leader in the league with a 4-0 record thanks to wins against Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale so far this season.

No. 2 in the nation, Cornell, will head to Syracuse today to face off against No. 8 Orange in an intense, annual upstate battle.

The next Ivy competition that the Red will engage in is on April 20 against Brown and then Princeton on April 27 to finish out regular Ivy League play.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

Center stud | Sophomore midfielder Connor Buczek provides power in the center for the Red as the team heads to Syracuse tonight.

Looking Back

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Back in action | After an injury last season, senior attack Rob Pannell returned to the field for Cornell.

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Golfers Struggle During Opener

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

After not playing in an official match or tournament since October, the golf team looked very rusty in the Yale Spring Opener, the first tournament of the spring.

The Red finished last in the 13-team field, with its five players shooting a combined score of 644 in the tworound tournament. Villanova placed first with a combined score of 583, 9-strokes less than its nearest competitor.

The Red started off poorly in the first round, with all five players shooting at least an 83. Some of this was due to the team’s nervousness in starting the spring season, according to junior tri-captain Max Koehler.

“Everybody was jittery on the first few holes,” he said. “After hitting a few big shots, you settle down and regain the confidence in yourself and make it more See GOLF page 17

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Upward and onward | Junior Carl Schimenti and the rest of the Cornell golf team hope to come back from a tough season start at the Yale Spring Opener and to improve for the remainder of the season.

WOMEN’S ROWING

POLO

Cornell Rowers Relinquish Riders Head to Nationals Rights to Cayuga Cup to Yale C.U. to compete in national tourney this weekend

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s rowing team lost the chase for this year’s Cayuga Cup to Yale on Saturday. Ever since 2003, when Cornell created the Cayuga Cup for the winner of the Varsity eight race, these two squads have fought hard for the title. Yale (No. 10) ultimately dominated Cornell (No. 18) in four of five races to reclaim the Cup for the first time since 2010.

Cornell’s varsity eight crossed the finish line with a time of 7:08.5, trailing Yale’s 7:03.6 finish. The Red’s second varsity eight, varsity four, and varsity 4 B all fell in its races by a large margin of nearly 10 seconds each. Cornell’s third varsity

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Bye bye, trophy | The Cornell women’s rowing team gave up the Cayuga Cup for the first time since 2003.

eight, however, crossed the finish line with an impressive time of 7:35.3, while Yale’s squad brought up the rear with a 7:41.5 finish.

The Red’s loss to Yale was especially disappointing coming from such a successful 2012 season. Cornell won its firstever Cayuga Cup in 2011 and came back in 2012 to steal the cup from the bulldogs again in back-to-back victories.

Cornell was also a NCAA Championship participant last year.

Nevertheless, the Red has a lot of potential and will not let the loss to Yale give way to waning morale among the squad. Rather, the Red is taking the loss and channeling it into positive energy as the crew gears up for the Class of ’75 Cup this weekend and aims to conquer tough opponents Princeton and Radcliffe.

“We know we’re capable of a lot more than last weekend’s results against Yale. A new fire has been sparked on the team now, though,” freshman Anna Kastenberg said. “We’re using this week to build off what we learned last weekend, train even harder, and focus on beating Princeton and Radcliffe.”

The rest of the squad echoes Kastenberg’s sentiments and plans to work even harder to improve and hopefully reap the benefits as the season pans out.

“We are using the Cayuga Cup as motivation to win this weekend. We have a lot of raw power and are just working on figuring out the best way to be effective with it in the boat,” freshman Theodora Misthos said. “All of us are staying positive and working diligently to be the fastest crew out there on race day, so it’s all very exciting.”

The Red will welcome Radcliffe and Princeton to the Cayuga Lake Inlet this Saturday at 8:30 a.m. to battle for the Class of ’75 Cup. Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Staff Writer

The men’s polo team finished the regular season on a high note with a commanding 25-14 win over the Maryland Polo Club on Friday at Oxley Equestrian Center. Although the women also had a final regular season game scheduled for the weekend, the team’s match After a cancella- against the Baltimore tion, the women Polo Club was head straight into cancelled, so Nationals. As for the women took the the men’s team, weekend off from competithe Red faces tion.

Both Colorado State in teams are the first round of spending the week in Texas the national gearing up for tournament. the upcoming national championships.

The men had previously played the Maryland Polo Club in early November and captured a 21-6 victory. Following this latest win, the Red extended its win streak to six games. The team’s last loss was a narrow 23-24 defeat at the hands of No. 2 Colorado State in the semifinals of the Bill Field Invitational in midNovember. The No. 3 Red will face Colorado State again on Thursday in the first round of the national championship tournament held in Brookshire, Tex. The women had been set to play the Baltimore Polo club on Sunday in a rematch of the March 1 game between the two squads that ended in the Red’s only defeat of the season. Last week’s game against UVA was also cancelled, meaning that the women are heading into the national championships this

week without having played a competitive match since the regional championships more than two weeks ago. The No. 1 women’s team will face the Western regional champions Wash ington State on Wednesday in the first round of the tournament, a matchup that the Red is favored to win.

If the men’s team and women’s team advance past the first round, the teams will both likely face the defending champions UVA in the finals. The Cavaliers are ranked No.1 for the men, while the Cavalier women are ranked No. 2, behind only Cornell. In last year’s national tournament, the women lost to top-ranked UVA in the finals by a score of 17-13, while the men dropped to the Cavaliers in the semi-finals, 28-10.

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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Ready to rumble | Both the men’s and women’s polo teams head to the national championship tournament this weekend.