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Candidates | Student-elected trustee candidates and Rebecca Harris ’14, editor in chief of The Sun, sit in debate and talk about the candidates’ platforms in the Biotechnology Building Tuesday.

Trustee Hopefuls Share Stances On Divestment,Greek Life,Tuition

By DARA LEVY Sun Staff Writer

Student-Elected Trustee candidates participated in a debate Tuesday, discussing their vision of the duties of a student trustee and what their main priorities would be if elected. Candidates touched upon a wide array of campus-relevant topics including Greek life, divestment and rising tuition.

Sponsored by The Cornell Daily Sun and moderated by Sun Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Harris ’14, the debate featured six of the seven registered candidates. Gregory Zalevsky ’15, one of the candidates, chose not to participate.

The candidates began the debate by each explain-

News Walk a Mile in My Shoes

Campus organizations unite to host the event One Day Without Shoes, an internationally recognized day which seeks to raise awareness of children around the world who do not have shoes. | Page 3

Opinion Speaking in Tongues

David Fischer ’15 argues that even the most elementary study of a foreign language has the ability to change the way that people think and teach them to express themselves more clearly in their native tongue. | Page 9

Arts Cursing Like a Sailor

Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15 reviews The Motherf**ker With the Hat, a play that opened at the Kitchen Theatre on Saturday. | Page 14

Sports Better Swing

Despite having a rough start to the season, the Cornell golf team improved at the Princeton Invitational last weekend, coming tenth in a 14-team field. | Page 20

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ing the role of a trustee and what makes them most qualified. All candidates highlighted the need for a trustee to make changes for issues on campus by meeting with students.

Candidate Laci Taylor ’16 stressed the importance of being an “advocate for the student body.”

She said she has gained experience advocating for students through working on the Student Advisory Council of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

“I have very specific ways to facilitate issues that I want to advocate for,” she said.

Each candidate was also asked a specific question

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An intervention program intended to curb substance use among at-risk substance users has helped more than 100 patients — including Cornell students — at Cayuga Medical Center since January, according to a Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services report released in March.

Known as Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment, the program was launched Jan. 26, according to “[SBIRT] has been the report. shown to be effective in In the first step, “screening,” a identifying people with trained health promotion advocate asks a patient a series of quesalcohol problems.” tions to assess the severity of his or her substance use. In the next Tim Marchell ’82 stage, “brief intervention,”the advocate has a conversation with the patient to increase the patient’s awareness about substance use.

The final stage, “referral to treatment,” provides those identified as needing more extensive treatment with access to specialty care, which may entail further contact with Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services or trips to Gannett Health Services.

In SBIRT’s first eight weeks, 143 patients were seen by a Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services health promotion advocate. 126 of

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U.A.Passes Resolutions to Increase Campus Security Resolutions call for guidelines regarding locks, cameras and surveillance systems

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer

The University Assembly passed two resolutions Tuesday aimed at increasing campus security in response to what one of the resolutions described as an increase in crime on campus.

The two resolutions asked the University to create security guidelines for the construction of new buildings on campus and requested that the Facilities Services Department bolster security by placing additional surveillance systems on University property.

Cornell University Police Chief Kathy Zoner, who assisted U.A. Chair Joy Cai ’14 in the drafting of the resolutions, said that there has been an increase in crime — citing larcenies, criminal mischief and sexual assaults — on campus and an increase in violent crimes in the City of Ithaca over many years.

“There are no walls around this campus,” she said. “What goes on in Ithaca is eventually going to go on [here on campus].”

Resolution 6 — which was passed unanimously by the U.A. — suggests that the Building Security Committee create guidelines for how security features such as locks and cameras should be included in the plans for new buildings on campus based on the use of the building.

By using such guidelines, the University will be able to appropriately budget how much the installation of minimum physical security applications in newly constructed

buildings will cost, Zoner said.

“Upon initial construction is when we have the best, most inexpensive opportunity to install technology to increase the level of security in areas where the risk is greatest,” she said.

She added that certain buildings or areas of buildings would require more security than others in tiered construction mandates,

with higher security features for research facilities and less security for classrooms.

On the other hand, the second resolution proposed — Resolution 7 — was passed with some dissent, with a vote of 7 to 3.

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Importance of sex ed

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Joe Sammons, head of Planned Parenthood for the Finger Lakes region, talks about the importance of sexual education in a public lecture Tuesday. See page 3 for the story.

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Judge Holds Self in Contempt for His Smartphone ONIA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction.

Judge Raymond Voet has a posted policy at Ionia County 64A District Court stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt, the Sentinel-Standard of Ionia and MLive.com reported.

On Friday afternoon, during a prosecutor’s closing argument as part of a jury trial, Voet’s new smartphone began to emit sounds requesting phone voice commands. Voet said he thinks he bumped the phone, and the embarrassment likely left his face red.

“I’m guessing I bumped it. It started talking really loud, saying ‘I can’t understand you. Say something like Mom,’” he said.

Woman Cited for Calling 911 Seeking Divorce GIRARD, Pa. (AP) — Police have cited a 42-yearold Pennsylvania woman for disorderly conduct after she called 911 requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave.

Troopers say the woman called just after 1 a.m.

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Police say they explained to the woman, whom they are not identifying, that a divorce is a civil matter and that they could not make her husband leave the residence because no crime had been committed.

Instead, police have cited the woman for disorderly conduct and misusing the Erie County 911 system.

Lithuanian Woman Shares Home With Three Puma Cubs KLAIPEDA, Lithuania (AP) — A Lithuanian woman says she has been raising three pumas in her three-room apartment after fearing for their lives at the local zoo.

Rasa Veliute, a 23-year-old volunteer at the zoo in Klaipeda, a Baltic Sea port town, says she took the cubs home four months ago after their mother began neglecting them.

The pumas — also known as mountain lions or cougars — are named Kipsas, Gipse and Kinde.

Veliute says they eat a lot of chicken and get along well with her East European shepherd dog.

There is no Lithuanian law barring keeping the animals at home, and the zoo did not object to Veliute’s actions.

But Veliute told reporters Friday that the pumas have grown fast and will likely return to the zoo this summer.

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Planned Parenthood Rep: Women’s Rights‘in Danger Today’

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Staff Writer

On campus Tuesday, Joe Sammons, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, discussed the organization’s role in continuing to fight for women’s healthcare rights, which he said “are in danger today.”

“Each one of you could find yourself in the unenviable position of having less rights and less access to healthcare than your parents did,” he said.

Planned Parenthood is particularly important in rural areas, where there are often no other clinics providing the same services, according to

“Each one of you could find yourself ... having less rights and less access to healthcare than your parents did.”

Joe Sammons Sammons. He cited Elmira, a city with the sixth highest teen pregnancy rate in the state, as evidence of the need for outreach and education about pregnancy prevention.

“We need to talk to people wherever they are –– on the Internet, in schools, in malls,” he said. “We need to talk to teens, but also to parents and teachers.”

Planned Parenthood has always had to fight to do its work, Sammons said.

Founded in Brooklyn in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood was first a clinic and a source of information about birth control methods –– most of which were already commonly in use in Europe at the time. When Sanger and other volunteers attempted to pass out information on the streets about birth control, they were arrested, according to Sammons.

Planned Parenthood was later involved in the development of the birth control pill and spent 10 years lobbying the Food and Drug Administration to approve it for sale. After the FDA approved the pill, it was illegal in many states until 1965 even for married couples to use it, according to Sammons.

“Even now, I’m amazed by the discussion –– if you could call it that –– about women’s health,” Sammons said. He recalled the all-male witness

panel last year in a congressional hearing about insurance coverage for contraception, as well as statements made about “legitimate rape” by former Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), that he said led to the 18-percent gender gap among voters in the last presidential election.

“Fundamentally, with [Republican] attacks on women’s health, people figure out what’s at stake here,” he said. “If a woman doesn’t have access to birth control, she might have to drop out of school [and] change her education plans. She’s got another mouth to feed. It could even be deadly.”

Planned Parenthood has faced criticisms for providing abortions from pro-life activists and conservatives. In 2011, some members of congress had proposed to cut all federal funds to Planned Parenthood, prompting heated debate about women’s reproductive health rights.

Johanna Zussman-Dobbins ’13, president of Cornell’s Voices for Planned Parenthood, echoed Sammons’ sentiments about the importance of fighting for women’s healthcare rights.

“It’s something our generation forgets –– how urgent this issue is,” she said. “We’re post-Roe v.

Wade, and people don’t remember back-alley abortions.”

Though legislation in many states is “moving backward,” Sammons said, New York has an opportunity to make progress on women’s rights.

Governor Mario Cuomo recently proposed a Women’s Equality Act, which would promote equal pay for equal work, stop pregnancy discrimination and stop sexual harassment in the workplace, among other goals.

However, Sammons emphasized that politicians could not win the battle by themselves. He urged the audience to take collective action to promote women’s rights.

“Collective action brings power,” he said.

“When it comes to Planned Parenthood, that means that you can decide if and how long you want to go to school. It means you can decide for yourself if and when you want to have children.

That’s power. We earned that power through years of work, and we’re not going to lose it.”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.

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Pied for a good cause

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Amid the rain, Chief Kathy Zoner from the Cornell University Police Department and Ross Gitlin ’15 get creamed in the annual AEPie Toss for charity Tuesday.

Drug Possession In Residential Dorm

Harassment Reported On Campus

An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator Friday for unlawful posession of marijuana in Mary Donlon Hall, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

A staff member reported being harassed by two students last Tuesday in Barton Hall, according to CUPD.

Theft in Upson Hall

An officer was dispatched to Rand Hall in reponse to a report regarding a male individual in the buidling without authorization, according to CUPD. The man was warend and released.

An officer was dispatched last Tuesday in response to a report involving the theft of a student’s purse, Apple iPhone, Coach wallet and Cornell ID, valued at a total of $850, from an unsecured room, according to CUPD.

Criminal Trespass In Rand Hall

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Barefoot March Raises Awareness of Children Without Shoes

By ERICA AUGENSTEIN Sun Staff Writer

About 100 students participated in an event that celebrated One Day Without Shoes, an international event that aims to raise awareness of children around the world who do not have shoes.

The event –– which consisted of a barefoot march on Ho Plaza and indoor activities such as a photo campaign –– was orga-

nized by Footprints, a student organization that collects shoes and sends them to children in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, according to Amundam Mancho ’13, president of Footprints.

The event was not intended to raise money, but to raise awareness about how many children around the world go without shoes, Mancho said.

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In others’ shoes | Students marched on Ho Plaza barefoot Tuesday to express solidarity with the millions of children around the world who live without shoes.

“We work to promote awareness about Andrew Crego ’14, president of Alpha the global shoe disparity because shoes are Phi Omega, a service fraternity that co-sponsomething we take for granted in America,” sored the event, said the organizers tried to Mancho said. “It really gives us an opportu- expand the event by including activities. nity to connect with children.”

“This year, we tried to make [the event] Participants in the event echoed a little bigger by putting on games on Ho Mancho’s sentiments about the importance Plaza. It is exciting this year to see other of raising awareness about children without organizations stepping up and getting shoes worldwide. involved,” Crego said.

“It is a really great and sort of [an] underCrego said the rainy weather posed a appreciated cause. Lots of kids in the world challenge to the event. “[Organizers] had to get sick because fight with the they get infections weather,” he said.

“Shoes are something we take for from walking The event’s inbarefoot,” Joanna formation booths granted in America.”

Barett ’16 said. were moved Amundan Mancho ’13 Valerie Titusinside Willard Glover ’13 said Straight Hall to that although the avoid the rain, march was difficult, it was worth it. though the march on Ho Plaza still took place “[The march] was difficult; I won’t lie. outside, Mancho said.

My feet feel kind of funky afterward, [and] In contrast to last year’s event –– in the rocks were not a good feeling. But the which Footprints partnered with Deloitte, a fact that it’s to show people what others go professional service firm –– the event was through every day is kind of worth it,” co-sponsored by various campus organizaTitus-Glover said. “My parents are from tions this year, according to Mancho.

Ghana, and ... a lot of people they know Mancho said he hoped the outreach to couldn’t go to school because they didn’t other on-campus organizations would have shoes.” increase attendance.

Mancho said Footprints’ fundraising and “Last year we were able to get about 50 awareness events –– such as One Day students to march. This year, we hope to get Without Shoes –– are aimed to work more people to come out,” Mancho said. toward its primary goal of collecting and Kevin Milian contributed reporting to this shipping shoes to children who do not have article. shoes.

“Thus far, we have shipped over 3,500 Erica Augenstein can be reached at shoes,” Mancho said. eaugenstein@cornellsun.com.

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related to his or her platform.

Candidate Amy Frieder ’15, who has expressed her support for divestment in her platform, was asked how she would handle her views when they conflict with trustees’ opinions.

“I think we can come together and think of a way in which we can divest from fossil fuels without hurting the endowment financially,” Frieder said.

“With enough collaboration and research, this can happen.”

Although she acknowledged that President David Skorton has said divestment is unlikely to happen, Frieder said advocating other initiatives could promote environmental consciousness at Cornell in other ways.

“Even though [divestment] may not be possible, reaching for [a] more sustainable goal will result in a more sustainable campus,” she added.

Garrison Lovely ’16 addressed his self-described “ambitious proposal” to change the Greek system.

“A lot of changes to Greek life have

not been good for student safety or happiness,” he said.

In his platform, Lovely has proposed creating a “damp period,” or a new member period that is not entirely dry.

He said restrictions on drinking at registered fraternity events “push dangerous activity underground or off campus where it can’t be regulated.”

Lovely said this issue relates back to the Board of Trustees because students in Greek life who “feel like the administration is out to get them will not feel keen to donate to the University.”

The Greek community became a larger topic of discussion later in the debate when candidate Ross Gitlin ’15 was asked about his history as the former president of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, which lost University recognition in January following a hazing-related incident.

Saying he has never denied his affiliation with TEP, Gitlin said he has the most Greek life experience –– “both good and bad”–– compared to any of the other candidates.

“Once I joined the Greek system, I had brotherhood and camaraderie,” Gitlin said. “I sure as hell don’t want

anyone else to experience what my fraternity experienced.”

Gitlin added that administrators have noted that he “acted responsibly and showed extremely strong leadership” throughout the investigation of TEP. Like Gitlin, candidate Don Muir ’15 said one of his initiatives will be to “fight for the traditions of the Greek community.”

Muir said he hopes to communicate to the board that promoting safety within Greek life is integral to its preservation. Muir said his fraternity, Delta Chi, has many brothers who are trained emergency responders, and that as philanthropy chair and vice president of his fraternity, he has “saved lives.”

He said one of the reasons he joined his fraternity is because he thinks “it’s one of the most responsible chapters on campus.”

The candidates also discussed how they would respond to rising tuition rates.

Frieder said there is a need for more transparency between the University and students regarding annual tuition increases, adding that tuition should be guaranteed to be fixed for current stu-

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dents in order to better accommodate students and their families’ financial planning.

Candidate Veronica Dagostino ’15 suggested introducing a plan that would only allow tuition increases that equal the rate of inflation.

An audience member contributed to the discussion of Cornell’s costs by asking the candidates’ for their opinions on student health insurance, which she said has been rising at eight times the rate of inflation.

Gitlin, noting that student health care costs have risen 10 percent since 1998, said the Board of Trustees needs to create innovative solutions like hosting 5K runs during reunion weekends to directly benefit students who need copays.

Frieder added that she “would be an intermediary for people who want to advocate for an issue themselves and would want to make their voice heard.”

Online elections for the Student Elected Trustee begin on April 22 and end on April 24.

Dara Levy can be reached at dlevy@cornellsun.com.

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Hospital: Program Has U.A. Resolutions Provoke Reactions Had ‘Positive Effect’ From Positive to ‘Uncomfortable’

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those patients went onto screening, 100 went onto brief intervention, 66 received referral to treatment and 33 were connected to services, according to the report.

According to the Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services report, Cayuga Medical health promotion advocates said that, so far, the program has seemed to have a positive effect on participants.

“I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from college students I’ve met with in the [emergency room],” one advocate said. “Some have reached out to me for follow-up support because their experience in the hospital was a real ‘wake-up call.’ They’ve been very thankful for the chance to talk with someone about what happened and learn what steps they can take to avoid future problems.”

The follow-up and referral aspect of the program makes an especially big difference, according to another advocate.

“One of the [nurses] helped me connect to a patient who had been in earlier in the night and had left before I arrived. With her help, I was able to contact him, and he is now in treatment. I thought it was also a great example of what a powerful partnership this can be.”

The three steps involved in the program are fairly simple, but have also been supported by a significant body of literature, according to Tim Marchell, director of mental health initiatives at Gannett. “[The program] has been shown to be effective in identifying people with alcohol problems and reducing further problems after the intervention,” Marchell said. Unlike broad, educational-based approaches like Alcohol-Wise, an online course required for all firstyear students, the program uses a patient-by-patient approach, or “a targeted strategy to help individual students,” according to Marchell.

Before January, medical staff would have conversations with patients, typically shortly before the patients were discharged, but did not begin the intervention process with the same level of screening or follow-up with referrals directly after discharge, according to Marchell.

“What CARS proposed was that they could enhance the existing supports by having health promotion advocates in the emergency room on weekend nights,” Marchell said. “Having them available to provide some focused attention to individuals who are recovering from severe intoxication allows the emergency department staff to attend to other patients.” “[Gannett is] very encouraged by the SBIRT program,” Marchell said. “We’re looking forward to reviewing with CARS and Cayuga Medical Center how the implementation is going.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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The resolution asks University Facilities Services and the CUPD to work together to provide greater security on Cornell property through increasing the use of surveillance systems and access control devices — which include locks, card readers and physical obstacles such as doors, according to Zoner.

Additionally, to address privacy concerns, the resolution states that Cornell should follow University Policies 8.1 and 8.4, which state that video surveillance systems, keys and other access control systems must be managed responsibly,

according to the University Policy Office’s website.

Greg Mezey, ’09, director of food and beverage at the Statler Hotel, gave his support for both resolutions, describing Resolution 7 as being a “step in the right direction.”

Others, however, were unable to support Resolution 7.

Kyle Albert grad said he is “uncomfortable with how broad the resolution is” and said he wants a more specific plan detailing the steps Cornell will take to increase surveillance and security.

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

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Yankees Play ‘Sweet Caroline’ In Boston Tribute

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees paid tribute to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings by playing the Fenway Park favorite “Sweet Caroline” at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night.

The popular sing-along song has been featured at Boston Red Sox home games since 2002.

The Yankees honored Boston, home of their longtime rivals, by playing the Neil Diamond hit over the public-address system after the third inning against Arizona. Yankees fans sang along, and some people in the crowd wore Red Sox hats and jerseys.

“Thank you NY Yankees for playing ‘Sweet Caroline’ for the people of Boston,” Diamond wrote on his Twitter page. “You scored a home run in my heart. With respect, Neil (hashtag)OneBoston.”

A ribbon was shown on the scoreboard displaying the insignia of the Red Sox and Yankees and the words: “New York stands with Boston ... Pray for Boston.”

There also was a pregame moment of silence. A message that read “United We Stand” showing the Red Sox and Yankees logos was posted on an electronic board atop the ballpark.

Clues Missed in N.Y. Carjack Rape, Killing SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities mishandled numerous alerts from a monitoring bracelet that was supposed to be worn by an update New York man who stands accused of raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother, according to a report released Tuesday.

The federal court report said there were 46 “tamper” or “no motion” alerts during the nine weeks David Renz wore the device after a child pornography arrest, but they went largely ignored by probation officials in Syracuse.

The report said some weren’t checked because the monitoring service contractor had recommended dismissing alerts lasting less than five minutes as likely false alarms, a recommendation the report said shouldn’t have been followed because it violated federal court policy.

The device, held together with duct tape and a screw so it continued to send a signal, was found at Renz’ home after his arrest on charges he raped the girl and stabbed her mother to death during a carjacking near Syracuse on March 14.

The report released Tuesday by Northern District of New York Chief Judge Gary Sharpe also found that probation officers failed to do monthly checks on Renz that would have included inspection of the monitor. The report was first reported by the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Renz, 29, had been arrested on federal child porn charges and released on Jan. 11 under conditions that included wearing the monitor and staying away from places he might encounter children.

The first tamper alert lasted a few minutes on Jan. 15, according to the report. It was ignored because of the decision a couple of years earlier based on information from monitoring vendor Behavioral Interventions Inc. that false alarms could be generated by common things, like vibrations from someone wearing the device working in a construction job.

The report said probation officers failed to check the vendor’s website for details about the alerts and only visited Renz at home once, failing to check the monitoring equipment during that lone visit.

And probation officers should have known Renz wasn’t working at all after losing his supermarket job, raising questions about how closely they were following up on required personal contact and equipment checks, the report said.

The report said that between Feb. 14 and March 14, there were seven “tamper” and three “no motion” alerts.

“In most instances, the probation office took no action in response to the alerts at all,” the report said.

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LaGuardia Airport Evacuated NEW YORK (AP) — Police fielded dozens of calls about suspicious-seeming items and briefly evacuated part of LaGuardia Airport on Tuesday as New York City remained on heightened alert after the Boston Marathon bombing.

Police armed with rifles and extra patrol cars were stationed around the city, and security was tightened at hotels and landmarks such as the Empire State Building and World Trade Center site. Two police sergeants were stationed in Boston to keep abreast of the intelligence gathering there. Extra officers patrolled houses of worship, police increased bag searches in subway stations, the National Guard helped keep watch at airports and train stations, and authorities urged residents to be vigilant in a city that has become practiced at wariness since the Sept. 11 attacks.

While authorities say there have been no reports of any specific threats against the city, “the fact is: There remain people who want to attack us, and the moment we let our guard down ... is the moment that the terrorists are waiting for,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

But while urging caution, the mayor — and his security detail — took the subway to work to show that it’s safe, and he urged people to go about their business. And many did.

“I don’t feel less safe now, because everything already changed after Sept. 11,” said Anibal Lopez, a retired hospital worker whose agenda Tuesday took him to the crowded area near Penn Station.

“We’re more alert, more aware — but not more afraid,” said Lopez, 51. “We refuse to go into hiding. We want to live our lives normally.”

At Yankee Stadium, a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was set to go ahead as planned Tuesday evening. The team declined to comment on security measures but said it was working with authorities “to ensure a safe environment.”

Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, and more than 170 were wounded in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston race Monday.

In a first for New York, the Boston city flag flew Tuesday, at halfstaff, at New York’s City Hall, on orders from a mayor who grew up in a Boston suburb and founded a gun-control advocacy group in 2006 with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

Since 9/11, the New York Police Department often has increased security in the city in response to attacks elsewhere, sometimes also dispatching officers to the affected cities. Two New York sergeants went to Boston on Monday night and were working in a regional intelligence center there. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said wouldn’t discuss what they have gleaned about the Boston investigation.

“We believe, and the intelligence community believes, that we’re the number-one target in this country. So anything we can get to help us better protect the city, we’re going to get,” he said.

With officials urging New Yorkers to call authorities if they saw anything untoward, scores of them did.

Police said that there were 135 calls of suspicious packages or suspected bombs from around the time word spread of the explosion in Boston until 5 p.m. Tuesday, almost three times as many as the 48 calls in the same period last year. All the reports were unfounded.

At LaGuardia, wires protruding from a ceiling spurred a call to authorities and about an hour-long evacuation of the airport’s central terminal building, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. The wiring turned out to be part of a light fixture.

Around the financial district, security measures looked the same as they always do, but Bloomberg noted that not all of the precautions being taken would be visible.

Besides undercover officers, the city has invested heavily in security technology, including surveillance cameras, license-plate readers, and as chemical, biological, and radiological sensors. Some 1,000 officers are assigned to counterterrorism work.

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Advocacy Groups Ask Arkansas Legislators to Block Restrictive Abortion Law

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A pair of advocacy groups went to federal court Tuesday claiming that Arkansas’ legislators violated the constitutional rights of two doctors, and their potential patients, by banning nearly all abortions beginning in the 12th week of pregnancy.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the suit on behalf of Dr. Louis Jerry Edwards and Dr. Tom Tvedten, who provide abortions at a Little Rock clinic, say Arkansas’ ban clearly contradicts the standard of viability established by the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

“We are asking the court to block an attempt to essentially outlaw all abortions past 12 weeks, so early that a woman might not know the complete health and status of her pregnancy,” Rita Sklar, executive director of Arkansas’ ACLU chapter, said at a news conference.

When the Republican-led Legislature passed the law last month, it was briefly the most restrictive abortion law in the country, including a near-ban at 20 weeks that it passed a week earlier. In each case, lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, who predicted that neither law would stand up in court and that Arkansas would waste money defending them.

North Dakota has since passed and even tighter restriction: 6 weeks.

The lawsuit contends that Edwards and Tvedten could lose their licenses if they provide abortions starting at the 12th week of pregnancy, meaning the law denies “patients their constitutionally-guaranteed right to decide to end a pre-viability pregnancy.” It names members of the State Medical Board as defendants because the board is responsible for licensing medical professionals.

Arkansas’ 12-week ban is tied to the date at which a fetal heartbeat can typically be detected by an abdominal ultrasound. The ban includes exemptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother and highly lethal fetal disorders.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday does not challenge Arkansas’ 20-week measure, as challenges to similar laws in other states are already pending. The 20-week ban is based on the disputed claim that a fetus can feel pain by the 20th week and therefore deserves protection from abortion. It includes the same exemptions as the 12-week ban, except for fetal disorders.

Rose Mimms, the executive director of Arkansas Right to Life, said anti-abortion groups like hers are hopeful that the new abortion restrictions being passed in conservative-leaning states will land before the U.S. Supreme Court and be considered against new discoveries regarding fetal development.

“They didn’t have that kind of information when they decided Roe v. Wade,” Mimms said, referring to the 1973 decision that legalized abortion until a fetus could viably survive outside the womb. A fetus is generally considered viable at 22 to 24 weeks.

Arkansas’ ban on abortions at 20 weeks took effect immediately when legislators overrode Beebe’s veto. The 12-week ban is scheduled to take effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, which could occur late this week or early next week.

Sklar said the Supreme Court has recognized that the Constitution protects a woman’s ability to make her own decision regarding abortions.

“But our state Legislature ignored the law and voted to take a woman’s decision-making ability away,” Sklar said.

A lead sponsor of the 12-week ban, Republican state Sen. Jason Rapert, said he hadn’t seen the lawsuit yet, but he said it wasn’t a surprise.

“We definitely are planning to defend it,” he said. “It’s a law duly passed by the state of Arkansas.”

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Cartel Money Laundering Trial Begins in Texas AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A multimillion-dollar horse racing and breeding operation run from an Oklahoma ranch was actually a front for a notorious Mexican cartel to launder millions of dollars in drug money, prosecutors alleged Tuesday at the beginning of a trial for five defendants charged in the scheme.

Jose Trevino Morales, the younger brother of the suspected leader of the Zetas drug cartel, is charged with money laundering conspiracy. His trial along with four co-defendants facing the same charge began Tuesday in Austin, Texas.

Prosecutor Douglas Gardner told jurors Tuesday that Trevino had been put in charge of the scheme by his brothers, who are alleged to be at the top of one of the biggest, most versatile and violent criminal organizations in the world. The scheme went through $16 million in horse-related expenses in 30

months, Gardner said.

Gardner described a conspiracy in which horse owners, trainers and others crafted bank deposits to hide the true source of the operation’s funding. He said they created companies that bought horses with the cartel’s money and even fixed the outcome of horse races.

“The Zetas make money by drugs, extortion, bribery and send the money to the U.S. to buy racehorses,” he said.

Gardner alleged Trevino, 46, ran the operation for his brothers — Miguel Angel Trevino Morales and Oscar Omar Trevino Morales. He alleged a Mexican businessman, Francisco Antonio Colorado Cessa, bought horses for the Zetas through his oil services company, which authorities say was also a front for the drug cartel.

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We will run another day To the Editor: Re: “Cornell Runners Recall Terror, Shock After Boston Marathon Blasts,” News, April 16

I drove home Monday afternoon with an impending sense of dread and a sickness in my heart. For more than 15 years I had been a medical supervisor in the medical tent for the Boston Marathon and the skills I acquired enabled me to become the Medical Operations Director for the first three years of the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon. Had I been in Boston this year, I would have been one of the first responders in this tragedy. Turning on the television, I saw my colleagues, without hesitation, run to rescue the wounded. I know their trauma training saved many lives in those first critical seconds. I saw the volunteers, police and those on the sidelines helping with a grit and determination so like the people of Boston, our country and our world. I know we are all praying in our own way for those affected by this senseless act to heal. We WILL run another day.

Dr. Susanne Solomon ’78, visting lecturer, engineering

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t the Board of Trustees meetings in March, President David Skorton asked the 64 trustees to begin considering a number of difficult questions about what kind of education Cornell should provide in 10-50 years.

The trustees will be addressing President Skorton’s questions thoughtfully over the next year. Our goal is to have a more clearly articulated vision for our institution’s future.

President Skorton presented us with a number of conflicting perceptions in higher education. To me, the most interesting of these was the extent to which the “purpose of education is to learn to adapt to a changing world” versus the degree to which the “purpose of education is training to obtain one’s first job.”

What follows is one trustee’s attempt to initiate conversation on this question.

First, I must note that the purpose of education lies somewhere on a continuum between the two poles described above. Both goals have merit.

Nevertheless, I feel that we, as a society, have shifted egregiously far to the “training to obtain a job” end of this spectrum.

As a trustee at Cornell, I am responsible for the future vision for this institution.

Therefore, I advocate strongly that we assert a commitment to education for the purposes of fostering broad awareness of the world around us, and for developing critical thinking skills.

Reflecting on my own undergraduate years at Princeton University (and even my graduate school years at Cornell), I can aver, without a doubt, that the critical thinking capacity I developed was far more valuable than any career training could have been. The capacity to solve complex problems is not only a transferable skill that can serve students well across a number of careers (students entering the workforce today are expected to have an average of at least seven different careers over their lifetimes, it also simply makes them more interesting people. The ideal of the Renaissance man or woman cannot be overrated.

Education about who we are and what we value as humans is under attack in this nation. The main national funding sources for humanities research, the

National Endowment for the Hu manities and the National Endowment for the Arts, receive less combined funding annually than it costs to purchase one fighter jet. Additionally, a recent codicil to federal budget legislation severely restricted National Science Foundation funding for political science research. But then again, why does any of this research matter? Think back to this nation’s founding fathers; it is not as if leaders like Thomas Jefferson ever found Classics or study of people like John Locke to be useful.

If we want our students to become robots that just churn out “productivity” without ever questioning the current views of society or perspectives on life, a strong focus on job training is a fine approach to education. This, however, is not my vision for Cornell students.

Perhaps I am too much of an adherent to the philosophical school of perfectionism, which advocates identifying and working towards “the good life” as a holistic human being. Nonetheless, I believe our students are destined for greater things than being able to perform well at a single occupation.

Robert Wilson, a Cornell physicist and group leader on the Manhattan Project, was asked to testify before a Joint Congressional Committee in 1969 on the value of his research to national security. His reply: “It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture … I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.”

Wilson understood well that the best education relates to broad understanding and not mastery of narrow facts and skills. It is this type of education that I want most fervently for Cornell to provide to its students.

Darrick Nighthawk Evensen is a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources and the graduate student-elected trustee. He may be reached at dte6@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Taking a Lesson From the Romans

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y father — who seems to get a lot of face time in these columns (don’t let the fame go to your head, Dad) — recently went on one of his customary New York Times article-sending binges. As a result, I found my Gmail inbox flooded with various movie reviews, obscure travel articles and one article about a humanities major that actually got a job (not to be confused with The Sun’s April Fool’s day article with the same content). However, among the electronic flotsam, I found one intriguing article about a radio station based in Helsinki, Finland that broadcasts an approximately five-minute long news segment in Latin — a language long considered “dead” — every Friday night.

The Finnish Broadcasting Company has been broadcasting these short segments (called Nuntii Latini or “Latin News”) since 1989, the year that communism collapsed in Eastern Europe.

After reading the article, I decided to put my high school Latin abilities to the test and listen to one of the broadcasts. I listened to last Friday’s segment which featured reports on Margaret Thatcher’s death, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö’s recent diplomatic venture to China and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent restoration of the Soviet era “Hero of Labor” award (called Heros Laboris in the broadcast). Listening to these bite-sized portions of news communicated through the ancient language of Cicero was both disarming and slightly exhausting. Although I did not understand most of the words said in the broadcast — other than the names of contemporary figures — navigating the website written entirely in Finnish and listening to the Finnish-accented Latin words reminded me of the musty, non-air-conditioned rooms in which I learned the language. Although

I believe in the importance of reevaluating our use of social media and cellular technology. the process was not the cushiest, I felt some positive nostalgia while I listened to the broadcast. Although I have eschewed the study of Latin at Cornell, the hours that I spent parsing lines from Virgil’s Aeneid or remarking on the lack of hilarity inherent in Roman comedies shaped the way in which I think about my schoolwork and how I consume information.

Now, I do not want this column to seem like an overwrought praise of how the study of “dead languages” can enrich your life in a way that living languages cannot because I don’t actually believe that is true. Rather, I think that even a cursory study of any foreign language will change the way that people think.

When I arrived in Ithaca I thought that I had gained enough knowledge from my high school Latin classes to enroll in its closest cultural and geographic successor, Italian. The added opportunity of speaking the language instead of just reading it, as I had in Latin, allowed me to explore a different dimension of foreign language I was never able to before. At first, I experienced a bottleneck of thought. I was unable to translate what I wanted to say in English to Italian and was frustrated by my inability to communicate. However, as I learned the language, verbally expressing my thoughts became easier.

My experience fulfilling Cornell’s language requirement was a positive one. I took three Italian classes, satisfied the College of Arts and Sciences’ language requirement and then ceased my study. Although I think that the requirement should be shorter (two classes would be sufficient to gain a similar level of linguistic understanding), I also believe that all of Cornell’s colleges and schools should have a language requirement. The simple act of learning how to express yourself in a different way teaches you how to express yourself, even in your native tongue, in a more clear and succinct way.

Although the idea of a radio station that does news reports in the language of the Romans seems to be solely an intellectual exercise, it is an extension of this idea.

These Finns are attempting to portray the news through a different medium, and everyone who listens profits from the effort. Likewise, a University-wide language requirement would allow all Cornell students to also participate in this linguistic transmutation, an important part of education.

David Fischer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “You ask, ‘Why would anyone want to destroy such a noble celebration?’

They do it for the very same reason that people place bombs at family restaurants, at religious gatherings, on crowded buses and at weddings.

They’re demented, deranged and have no regard for human life whatsoever. The Boston Marathon, a night club in Bali, hotels in Mumbai, the WTC, trains in Spain, buses and Sbarro pizza in Israel — there’s no justification for any of these deadly attacks, and those apologists who try to justify the acts of terrorists anywhere are also justifying the actions of whoever set the bombs in Boston, regardless of their reasons.” seriously?

Re: “LETTER: The Boston Marathon: A running monument sullied,” Opinion published April 16, 2013

Jon Weinberg |

In Focus

Journalism for All W

Of course, traditional hile I generally delays.

But the ease with news media sources have disconnect from my phone and which we can share and also fallen victim to our computer during class, access news via social need for immediate inforMonday afternoon was an media is also a dangerous mation. With dangerous exception. Though the lec- shortfall. In Ithaca, I had ease, reputable sources ture in question was inter- no way of delineating gen- took unconfirmed Twitter esting and delivered by one uine firsthand reports reports as facts and pubof my favorite professors, from misstated or deliber- lished possibly erroneous my attention was directed ately falsified information. and misleading stories. to the tragic news coming Take, for example, news The pressure to release out of Boston. I wasn’t surrounding events at the news as quickly as possible watching CNN or reading JFK Library on Monday: is not new or confined to content from The New For every report that a circumstances involving York Times, but rather third bomb had exploded, social media. Let us not refreshing a Twitter feed to there was a report that forget that CNN broadlearn tragic developments. there was actually a cast the I favor traditional media, so my experience Monday afternoon was education- In case when we don’t know the al as well as upsetting — while there victims or parties involved, we is much promise in cannot forget the impact of our digesting news via social media use for reading social media, doing so lends itself to and reporting news. misinformation and prejudice.

Unlike in times past, my first instinct was mechanical room fire. incorrect verdict of last landmark to turn to Twitter after the Some “sources” then summer’s first reports of something switched back and forth Supreme Court healthcare awry at the Boston between positions before verdict for 10 minutes, ambiguities that several outlets incorMarathon. News media admitting sources had little in the and, only later, qualifying rectly called the 2000 way of information, but that indeed, a fire had Presidential Election for Twitter delivered instanta- taken place. Perhaps more Al Gore and that the front neous updates filtered to alarmingly, many shared page of The Chicago include only the most pop- reports that a Saudi Tribune on November 3, ular posts. Prevailing national had been arrested 1948 proclaimed “Dewey reports made clear that at in connection with the Defeats Truman.” Social least two bombs exploded, attacks, when actually no media facilitates the ease and graphic eyewitness such arrest was made. with which deleterious, accounts of the carnage Sifting through tweets untrue reports are circuwere oft-repeated. Thanks with constantly changing lated and accepted. With to Twitter, I was able to facts and experiencing these reports serving as instantly read firsthand painstaking emotions by the basis for widely reports of citizen journal- the minute was actually repeated stories across ists that in many cases, more challenging than legitimate media outlets, constituted the basis of tra- waiting for confirmed it becomes impossible to ditional media reports — facts from established discern what exactly has happened. When we leave albeit after nerve-wrecking news sources.

journalism to all, we are left with little journalism at all.

The need for restraint in reporting and responding was brought home to Cornell in the aftermath of the recent death at Watermargin and the rape allegation against Peter Mesko ’13. Many community members responded negatively to The Sun immediately publishing possibly revealing information in the aftermath of each incident. Cornellians directly involved stressed a need for restraint that they saw as a hallmark of professional journalism on a college campus. Such a need applies to national news as well.

Even in our digital era, respect and restraint cannot be sacrificed. In cases when we don’t know the victims or parties involved, we cannot forget the impact of our use of social media for reading and reporting news. And even when we are seeking the latest news in the wake of tragedy. we cannot forget that our craving for immediate information be curbed at the expense of accuracy and angst for victims, families and a grieving country.

Jon Weinberg is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jweinberg@cornellsun.com. In Focus appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Solving an Evolutionary Puzzle:

Researchers find evidence linking lungs to fish

By MOYOURI BHATTACHARJEE Sun Contributor

Darwin’s Origin of Species outlines the foundation for the theory of evolution and described the idea that apes and humans had a common ancestor. It is not intuitive, however, to link species that look extremely different, such as fish and humans, on an evolutionary timeline.

Prof. Amy McCune, evolutionary biology and ecology, Sarah Longo ’11 and Mark Riccio, director of Cornell’s Multiscale Computed Tomography Facility, have uncovered proof that lungs and fish gas bladders are evolutionarily linked.

According to Longo, as organs that are filled with gas, lungs and gas bladders are structurally similar. However, they have different functions. Lungs are vital organs for air-breathing vertebrates, as well as some fish and snails, which allow them to obtain oxygen from the air. Rayfinned fish, the largest class of bony fish, use gas bladders, also known as swim bladders, to control their depth in the water by inflating or deflating the sac with gas, usually oxygen. This organ allows fish to maintain a certain depth in the water without having to expend energy because of buoyancy.

According to an article in American Midland Naturalist by Prof. Alan Boyden, Rutgers University, analogous structures are examples of convergent evolution in which two similar anatomical structures developed independently but did not come from a common ancestor. For example, wings in bats and birds developed independently – the two did not have a direct common ancestor.

Homologous structures are examples of divergent evolution in which two anatomical structures evolved from a common ancestor, Boyden said.

Porcupine quills and seal fur are homologous structures because, although they now serve different purposes, they originally both developed from the fur of a common ancestor.

Because the structures of the two organs are similar, biologists have debated whether they are analogous or homol-

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Evolutionary enigma | Researchers linked lungs and the gas bladders of fish using computed tomography to find anatomical similarities. ogous structures, as well as what order they evolved in if the structures were homologous. While some researchers like Richard Owen and Charles Darwin believed that gas bladders evolved into lungs, others such as Prof. Karel Liem, Harvard University, believe that lungs evolved into gas bladders.

McCune, Longo and Riccio determined that lungs and gas bladders are homologous structures by showing that several ray-finned fishes, such as sturgeons and paddlefish, have pulmonary arteries similar to those used by organisms with lungs. Using computed tomography, they showed that the common ancestor of all ray-finned fish originally had lungs which were supplied by a pulmonary artery.

“Looking at the fish, you start to see that the gas bladder is serviced by the pulmonary artery primitively, and then the connection is lost when you get to the derived taxa,” McCune said.

To detect the similarities between the two structures, Longo looked at the one thing that all lungs share: their blood source. Pulmonary arteries service the

lungs by providing the blood supply.

Longo and McCune used a variety of techniques to analyze the fish, including dissection and corrosion casting.

Corrosion casting is the process of injecting plastic into the vessel system of an organism and melting away the flesh to expose the structure that was created by the plastic. According to Longo, both techniques are destructive to experiment samples and do not allow for more detailed analysis of structures.

Computed tomography is an imaging procedure that uses computer-processed x-rays to create slices of specific areas of an organism. Digital processing is used to generate a 3-D image of the inside of an object from a large series of 2-D X-ray images.

“This is a 3-D matrix that you’re visualizing, and that is what allows you to look inside,” Riccio said.

Micro-CT scans enabled researchers to look at resolutions of 25 microns, about the width of a human hair.

“While the Micro-CT can only go up to 25 microns, it can accommodate living specimens,” Riccio said. Much like an

MRI machines, CT-scanners rotate around the specimen and take multiple shots at different angles. “They allow us to visualize, quantify, and analyze to answer questions that no one had been able to answer before,” he said.

By studying the CT scans of the circulatory systems in lungfish, bowfin and several other related fish, the researchers were able to observe that other rayfinned fish have tiny vestigial pulmonary arteries which branch off from a parent vessel in the same way that pulmonary arteries branch off in organisms with lungs.

“It’s kind of like doing a digital dissection. The Micro-CT scans are like the Magic School Bus. With the CT scan, you can shrink and go on a field trip inside of the fish,” McCune said.

While the physical evidence provided by the fish answered whether gas bladders evolved from lungs, McCune’s lab also used genetic testing to cement its findings.

Moyouri Bhattacharjee can be reached at mb2282@cornell.edu.

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Sturgeon circulation | Prof. Amy McCune, evolutionary biology and ecology, Sarah Longo ’11 and Mark Riccio, director of Cornell’s Multiscale Computed Tomography, created a 3-D reconstruction of a micro-CT scan of the circulatory system and gas bladder of a sturgeon in order to study the similarities between the structures and the vertebrate lung.

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Students Study Platypus Populations

By LISA GIBSON Sun Staff Writer

The platypus is one of the most unique mammals on this planet and can only be found in eastern Australia. Even if you look in the right places, chances are, you might not get to see one. However, Heather Delanty ’14 and Shira Ellenson ’14 saw at least five when they spent a week in Yungaburra, Queensland, conducting a population density research study on platypus.

They also wrote a popular science article to wrap up the project, with two other study abroad students, Gene Fukui ’14, Oberlin College, and Patrick Mershon ’14, Kenyon College. They are all studying abroad for the semester with the School of International Training, which has a rainforest, reef and cultural ecology program located in Australia.

The unique characteristics of platypus make them excellent species for studying evolution. Aside from their physical idiosyncrasies which include a duck-like bill, otter-like fur, a beaver-like tail, retractable webbing between toes, and venomous spurs in males, platypus have many other distinctive features.

Platypus belong to the order monotremes, defined as being a mammal that lays eggs. Genetically, they also have ten different sex chromosomes which are not fully understood, and their genome contains both mammalian and reptilian components.

Platypus are elusive animals which spend most of their time diving underwater searching for food. According to the SIT research group, however, when they dive to search for small invertebrates their eyes, nostrils, and ears close, so they must

rely on another sense. Platypus hunt using electroreception – they are receptive of electric current, which is generated by nerves and muscle contractions in a living animal. Platypus also have pressure sensors to receive changes in pressure waves caused by movement, which, combined with their electric sense, allows them determine the distance to their prey.

The platypus does surface for air and to eat and digest its prey. This is when the students were able to see the mammals and note travel direction and record surface and dive times. 20 students were stationed in pairs along Peterson Creek equipped with synchronized watches ready to conduct a visual survey over a span of 810 meters. They recorded sightings four times throughout the week for an hour each time, three evening times, and one in the morning.

After data was compiled, the students made a conservative estimate that at least five individual platypus inhabit the creek.

They also found that the platypus remained underwater for about 73 percent of the time with an average surface time of 10 seconds and an average dive time of 35 seconds.

The purpose of this week long study was to gather baseline information about the habitat quality and platypus population of Peterson Creek. Shorter dive times are indicative of a quality habitat because the platypus does not have to spend as much time searching for food, Delanty said. The area around Peterson Creek used to be farmland, and the area has recently been reforested in a community effort to restore the natural ecosystem. Previously, there had been almost no platypus habitat research in this area.

According to their paper, “The relative-

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Plentiful platypus | Students in Australia did a population density study of the number of platypus in Peterson Creek in Yungaburra, Queensland.

ly short dive intervals found in this survey suggests that Peterson Creek remains a high quality habitat for platypus despite its moderate level of human disturbance.”

Based on scientific readings, Delanty said that platypus prefer creeks at least four meters wide and between 0.5 and 2 meters deep. Platypus also prefer slow moving pools over fast moving shallow waters.

Peterson Creek was observed to be a good fit within these parameters.

The community effort to restore vegetation to the rural creek has been an important factor for the platypus population in Peterson Creek. The area is also unique in that agriculture effects such as “runoff from high fertilization have artifi-

cially elevated nutrient pools in these ecosystems, causing high productivity of certain prey species at the expense of overall system diversity. Higher prey densities tend to favor larger numbers of platypus in these areas,” Fukui said.

Human activity generally has a negative impact on the quality of the habitat. Many tourists also go to the viewing platform to see the platypus.

Fukui commented that additional morning surveys should have been done to get a better count, as there would have been less tourist traffic.

Lisa Gibson can be reached at lgibson@cornellsun.com.

Scarecrow Gene Helps Plants in Dry Climates SAMANTHA KLASFELD Sun Contributor

Worldwide hunger may become a problem as the population continues to grow, yet a solution might lie within plants. In the lab of Prof. Robert Turgeon, plant biology, postdoctoral research associate Thomas Slewinski found a gene that is currently repressed in most plant leaves that has the

potential to grow crops 50 percent more efficiently in dry climates.

This research was part of a collaborative effort led by Prof. Timothy Nelson, Yale University.

Previously, this gene, dubbed the “Scarecrow gene,” has been studied in the stems and roots of plants. Slewinski, however, discovered that the gene is also found in the leaves of certain plants.

Plants use photosynthesis to

obtain energy through light, but, according to Slewinski, not all plants use the same pathway to do this. The C3 pathway is the most common photosynthetic pathway in plants and is found in important crops such as rice. The C4 photosynthetic pathway is used in corn, sorghum and millet, which are grown in arid climates.

Plants that use the C4 synthetic pathway use water, nitrogen,

Photosynthetic pathways | The C4 photosynthetic pathway is more effective in dry climates because it separates the process of photosynthesis into two locations in the plant: bundle sheath cells and mesophyll cells.

and sunlight 50 percent more effectively in areas where water is more scarce than those that use the C3 pathway.

According to Nelson, the C4 pathway is more effective in dry climates because it separates the processes of photosynthesis into two locations within the plant: bundle sheath cells and mesophyll cells.

Bundle sheath cells, not found in C3 plants, are cells that surround a leaf ’s vascular core where nutrients are transported.

Mesophyll cells form around the bundle sheath. The Scarecrow gene plays a role in this type of separate anatomy used by C4 plants called Kranz anatomy.

Because the C4 pathway splits a step of the C3 pathway into two locations, it is less energy efficient in areas where water is abundant.

In dry climates, however, C4 is better than C3 because the enzyme RuBisCO is relocated to the bundle sheath cells, separating itself from the other half of the pathway in the mesophyll cells.

According to Slewinski, RuBisCO is a central enzyme to both C3 and C4 photosynthesis pathways because it is involved in the uptake of carbon dioxide.

However, RuBisCo can also cause energy loss when exposed to oxygen. Unlike in mesophyll cells, oxygen levels are kept low to prevent this type of energy loss in bundle sheath cells, Slewinski said.

“C4 has evolved independently 66 times,” Slewinski said. This

fact led Slewinski to the hypothesis that the gene existed in every plant, but was being repressed.

By breeding plants with a mutated Scarecrow gene with plants with no mutations in the Scarecrow gene, Alyssa Anderson ’13, an undergraduate researcher in the Turgeon lab, determined the effect of the scarecrow gene.

While both C3 and C4 plants with a mutated Scarecrow gene had impairment in their stems and roots, as was expected, the Kranz anatomy of the C4 leaf samples was also damaged.

According to Slewinski, the leaves of C3 plants with the mutated gene looked normal. This supports the hypothesis that the Scarecrow gene is repressed in C3 leaves but has an effect on Kranz anatomy in plants with C4 photosynthesis.

“Evolution works in a very simple way: by using things it already has in new ways. In this case, C4 leaves took basic housekeeping genes that are used in lower parts of the plant,” Slewinski said.

The energy loss wasted in C3 photosynthesis is a difficult biological problem, but, according to Turgeon, Slewinski’s work gives scientists a clearer direction toward understanding the development of Kranz anatomy.

The lab’s future studies will include identifying what activates or deactivates the Scarecrow gene.

Samantha Klasfeld can be reached at sjk96@cornell.edu.

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“So, what was your take-away from that?”

This question came from the friend who accompanied me to the Kitchen Theatre’s opening night of The Motherf**ker with the Hat on Saturday night, with no hints at sarcasm. Though “vodka, cigarettes and blow” are among the show’s touted main characters, you don’t have to be an addict to catch the drift. You don’t have to be a substance-abuser, either — in this show, the distinction is important.

The show opens on Veronica (Karina Arroyave) crisply whipping sheets over her bed and tossing empty Heineken bottles into the trash as she rattles off crass criticisms of her mother’s boyfriend into the phone.

“I’m sure Atilla the Hun had his good points too, but that doesn’t mean I want to shack up in his hut,” she mutters bitterly, then turns to snort a line. Her boyfriend Jackie (Vaneik Echeverria), our protagonist, newly-paroled, freshly sober and over-the-moon about a recently-acquired job, bursts into the apartment with roses and presents for his “Beautiful Boriqua Taino Mamacita Love Me Long Time Princess fuckin’ Beauty Queen.”

His euphoria is short-lived. While Veronica showers, he notices the eponymous hat on the kitchen table.

Alas, it’s not his hat. The question, “Who is that motherfucker with the hat?” is what fuels the action for most of the first act. We meet a small set of characters including Veronica and Jackie, as well as Jackie’s platitude-injecting AA sponsor Ralph (Brandon Morris), Ralph’s bitter, hypogamous wife Victoria (Dina Ann Comolli) and Jackie’s fiercely-loyal cousin Julio (David Anzuelo). As the plot, largely-concerning that motherfucker and that motherfucker’s hat, unfolds, it takes on a telenovela-esque quality — it’s not that interesting, and the surprises aren’t that surprising. The scenes bookending intermission are quite obviously supposed to garner a “SHARP INHALE,” a presentation that makes them even more deserving of an eyeroll. But the dialogue is smart often delving into allusions to popular culture. The play benefits most from the Puerto Rican New Yorker stereotypes it employs — these characters don’t tiptoe or wade through self-conscious bullshit; they express their feelings at the top of their lungs with baseball bats.

The real draw of the show is the moral relativism between the weak-but-striving Jackie and the toughbut-Machiavellian Ralph. Jackie wavers with his sobriety, and his infidelity is confessed early on, but when

he’s feeling most confident in his substantive turnaround, it’s his relationships and future happiness that he talks about. On the other hand, Ralph is, by all outward appearances, completely stable. He’s been sober 15 years and now he lends advice to Jackie on how to follow the same path. But he uses his sobriety as a tool — a way to get clear-headed enough to manipulate the people around him.

The characters struggle to say any of this out loud.

Ralph tells Jackie, “People only attract who they’re ready for,” and “it takes courage to change.” It sounds nice until we realize he’s quoting a self-help book and quite obviously doesn’t mean any of it. Veronica pledges to love Jackie, but she obviously loves her addictions more — setting up a house full of temptations and

cheating on him while he was in prison. The two have been off-and-on since middle school, it is revealed and infidelity has always been a problem — Jackie slept with his last sponsor; Veronica had an abortion while he was away. It’s all chalked-up to “weakness,” and they both spend a long time denying any kind of agency.

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Many of the deliberate conversations about morality come down to bickering about “bro code,” debts owed and kindnesses that are always expected to be paid back.

The high-point is Jackie fumbling with the words to tell Ralph that he’s got it all wrong: “Your — whaddyacallit— your world view? It ain’t mine. And the day it is, that’s the day I shoot myself in the head. I didn’t get clean to live like that.”

The script also deals with class in clever ways that nearly go unnoticed. The characters assign weight to class symbols like a “refrigerator that makes crushed ice,” a Commodores album, yoga, soy milk and, of course, the classic stalwarts of the the American-dream-let-down story — the house, the yard, the kids— that never materialize. Ralph and Victoria are financially middle class, but they are just as unstable as Veronica and Jackie. Victoria begs Jackie to sleep with her and packs her bags to leave more than once. She’s highly-educated, we discover — “I used to be a Wall Street bitch,” she declares, but then, well, “I thought I had met my soulmate.” She’s a caricature and her monologue is desperately begging for a maternal headshake and whisper of, “Ain’t that always the way?” Veronica represents the other side of the same coin — her life is basically a shit-storm, but that’s made her tough and now, she can’t let anyone in. They could be rom-com besties.

Parts are cliché, but that’s also sort of the point — the play is directed not just at whatever assemblage of the adulterous or addicted motherfuckers might be in attendance, but at every motherfucker. As a pair of twenty-somethings was leaving the theater behind us, one girl turned to the other and said, “I feel like I’ve just been attacked.” We all know the difference between optimism and hope, and that’s what’s on display in The Motherf**ker With the Hat. Whether you spend as much time yelling, or drinking, or cursing, or cheating or snorting coke as the characters in this play, you probably spend as much time questioning your own actions, asking, “Am I violating bro code?” “Am I using this person?” Maybe you take a minute to assess if that cigarette is an emotional crutch. Maybe you spend an hour thinking about what you love most on the three-object list of your addictions, your “soul mate” and yourself.

The Motherf**ker With the Hat doesn’t succeed entirely in cutting through the crap, but at some points, the shouting does seem to turn into a comment on relationships — on all the ways that we can fall short, and all the ways that we can try to make up for it.

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

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There is no air on this Savage Mountain. Pummelling walls of ice, a lawyer and a physicist tear through the big questions of life and love, with more than a few raucous jokes thrown in.

On a narrow ice ledge, thrust out from the formidable K2, two mountaineers are stranded. Their hopes of escaping the icy clutches of the world’s second tallest mountain are fading fast with the diminishing daylight. Taylor (Tim Mollen), a hardened district attorney, makes another troubled attempt to retrieve a rope crucial for the pair’s descent. He asks Harold (Eric Sterbenk), who is nursing a shattered leg, to talk to him.

Harold, a mild-mannered physicist with a penchant for bawdy anecdotes, quickly turns from the banal to the sacred.

There are too many ironies in Patrick Meyers’ K2, which concludes the Readers’ Theatre 2012-13 season. Meyers drew on the experiences of the first American mountaineers who conquered K2 in 1978 for his screenplay; the main characters Harold and Taylor are based on Louis Reichardt and Jim Wickwire, respectively. It is poignant and sad that, in what could be their final conversation, Taylor and Harold rely on platitudes as they wrestle with the ever-elusive existential questions. Life is about “holding on,” Harold declares, as he takes another swig of oxygen from the mask firmly pressed against his face. In his hazy state, Harold’s offers somewhat grandiose statements about finding God in the details — in the study of quantum mechanics and in the creation of life. “I found God,” he says one moment, and in the next, “I saw God die.” He goes on to make the case for “blind faith.” His wife had a difficult childbirth, and confronted with the possibility of losing both his wife and son, Harold sought refuge in the hospital chapel.

He prayed to a God he didn’t believe in, and the miracle he thought had no odds of happening occurred.

Bathed in memories of love, shared with his wife and son, Harold smiles meditatively. “Love is overpriced,” Taylor retorts, perhaps too bitterly. Taylor, who prefers womanizing to commitment, sees no need for the kind of wide-eyed romantic love Harold champions. He accuses Harold of being a romantic, and the two friends continue to squabble, even as they approach an inevitable question. In his weakened state, Harold is unlikely to survive another arduous descent. Left with only one rope, Taylor has to decide if he’ll go back alone, or die on the mountain with Harold.

On Wednesday evening, the Readers’ cast gave an unnerv-

BLIND FAITH MOVES A MOUNTAIN AT THE READERS’ ing performance of Meyers’ K2. The intensity of the show was remarkable considering the absence of majestic props like the famous 55-foot simulated ice wall that, in itself, earned applause during the 1983 Broadway production. Instead, these actors are armed only with music stands and water bottles. Still, the mountain roars and the snow rages, largely due to the intricate work of composer Peter Rothbart and classical guitarist Matthew Ocone. A narrator (Sonali Samarasinghe) reads the stage directions.

Meyers’ script is not without its faults — the characters make for an almost too stereotypical odd couple, and Meyers relies too much on clichés to convey gems of existential wisdom. Some critics have questioned the credulity of the dialogue when both characters are gasping for breath at 27,000 feet and are trying not to be buried by incessant onslaughts of snow. But under Anne Marie Cummings’ direction, Mollen and Sterbenk make the meandering dialogue feel gripping and realistic. A wild-eyed Mollen, who played the frenzied Vanya in the Readers’ production of Uncle Vanya last season, was consistently arresting as he growled and whimpered his way through Meyers’ sometimes tepid lines. Sterbenk, as Harold, managed to be believably calm and good-humored. His conversation is measured, yet effervescent.

As Harold and Taylor pause their frenetic debates to carry out “situation assessments,” the paltriness of their training in the face of the mountain’s treachery is all too clear. It makes you wonder: Why would anyone climb mountains for a hobby? If it’s mostly for the adrenaline, doesn’t that make the hobby a little too selfish? At one point, Taylor even exclaims that moun-

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tain climbing is only his pastime, not his life. The play raises so many important questions but resolves none — which is terrifying.

An hour after leaving the play I was still reeling from the intensity of Mollen and Sterbenk’s sparring, and perhaps something else. I felt as if I’d heard it all before, seen it all before. But which movie was that, exactly? Many of us are such accomplished procrastinators, we rarely get around to untangling the most basic questions about life, even when the impetus to do so persists everywhere we look. Look no further than Terrence Malick’s 2011 film The Tree of Life. Or, after an exasperating hour-long run about Taughannock Falls, peel a sheet of ice off a rock and hold it against the waning light.

K2 opens on Apr. 26 at the Black Box Theatre at Lehman Alternative Community School. For ticket details, visit www.thereaderstheatre.com.

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

Sharing Isn’t Always Caring

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ast month, Amazon acquired Goodreads, a website dedicated to sharing book ratings with friends and giving English majors a purpose in life. The website itself is relatively basic, but being the only social network centered around books has made it the primary place for hungry readers to find good recommendations. After a couple of high-profile scandals, including authors manipulating ratings on their Amazon product pages, Amazon really needs Goodreads to rebuild customer trust.

This raises the question: Why do we rely so heavily on ratings about anything and everything?

In the music world, ratings are universal and quasi-necessary to the listening experience. The closest thing to Goodreads for music is RateYourMusic, which allows people to rate every album in existence (even the obscure ones) out of five stars. You can also rate songs or albums as you’re listening with Pandora’s thumbs up and down or Last.fm’s hearts. The star-shaped outlines of iTunes and Spotify beckon you to fill them in with solid, hard-edged stars that exude an aura of permanence. And let’s not forget the countless rating schemes that “official” music reviewers use — from Rolling Stone’s four-star system, to Pitchfork’s insane decimal system and “Best New Music” designations.

Ratings are even more ingrained in film culture, and have been prevalent even longer than music reviews have. As a result, reviews for film are much more institutional than other media forms. You might write a great review for a movie, but it’s not going to get much atten-

tion unless you’re within a circle of professional critics. This allows for an extreme divergence between aggregate scores and critics ratings who are so well-known that they exist above the fold and can peacefully co-exist with the opinionated hopefuls in the general public. Some websites like Rotten Tomatoes aggregate reviews from critics, while others like IMDB aggregate ratings from thousands of users at once. Regardless of how they compile the ratings to create recommendations, the opinions of Joe Movie hold as much weight as the eloquent words of Roger Ebert or A.O. Scott.

TV shows have also succumbed to the ratings obsession, but as a relatively new field of scrutiny, these ratings are very messy. Not only do publications use multiple rating schemes (the letter grade seems to be the most popular at the moment), they seem to disagree on what should be rated. Should each episode, season or entire show be rated? Can we rate reality

Kai Sam Ng You’ve Got to Be Kitsching Me TV shows? What about live acts? The levels of nuance have made TV ratings all the more confusing; not that that has stopped The Onion’s AV Club from rating the same Game of Thrones episode twice (for “experts” and “newbies”) or Television Without Pity from

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rating American Idol.

Admittedly, ratings are necessary in order to navigate the overwhelming amount of information that exists nowadays. You like some things and not others, so it makes sense to look to a source with similar tastes to tell you what is good and bad. But, on the other hand, the maxim “everybody’s a critic,” has been taken to ridiculous levels. Consider some of the one-star reviews of Homer’s The Odyssey: “There was way too much going on, too many characters and the plot story doesn’t seem to make any sense.” Here’s another: “Incredibly boring.” My favorite: “It read like a bad game of Dungeons and Dragons.”

So these people were admittedly high school students who didn’t pay attention in English class, but nevertheless, their opinions are factored into the overall rating that most people look at (currently at 3.64 stars). The Odyssey is nevertheless a classic, and it will be assigned to resentful high school students regardless; but think about all the other books that don’t enjoy classical status. Do we want similar reviewers influencing ratings and telling us what’s good?

According to the Goodreads community, the current “Best Book Ever” is Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, followed by Twilight — a distant second — and then a bunch of Harry Potter books. To Kill a Mockingbird comes in seventh. Are the first six greatest books ever, as voted by the Goodreads community, timeless classics? I tested it for myself, starting with the “Best Book Ever.”

As I read, I had great difficulty suppressing my inner snob. Why is the prose so awkward and dry? Is it just me, or are the characters more hollowed-out than a termite-infested tree? While we’re on diseased-tree metaphors, the plot holes are bigger than those in an Asian longhorned beetle-infested tree.

I decided that Goodreads wasn’t for me.

My next “Great Read” will be something that I accidentally find on a library shelf and decide to read for myself, rather choosing thanks to the recommendations of others.

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. You’ve Got To Be Kitsching Me appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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

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

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week,” Schimenti said. “The greens [at Princeton] are very nice and we really haven’t practiced on greens that nice, so it was tricky for us to make putts. The [local] course opened last week, so we’ll be able to practice more of that now, so we should improve in that area. In terms of hitting the ball, most of us got that down; it’s really about reps in the short game.”

Looking ahead to next week, the team will play in the Yale Spring Invitational held at the Century Country Club in Purchase, N.Y. The team is familiar with the course and believes it will play to the golfers’

strengths, according to Schimenti.

“The course [next week] fits our game; it’s a little longer [and] a little more wide open, so we’ll be able to take advantage of our length there,” Schimenti said. “All of us have played it before except Brandon [Eng], but I think he’ll figure it out pretty easily.

It’s a really nice course; we should be in great shape, and we’re excited to go down there.”

Although the team has just played two tournaments, the Ivy League Championship is just two weeks away. The Red is concentrating on the upcoming tournament, but has its eye on the championship.

“The course this week is comparable — from what my coach tells me — to the

course we’re going to play at the Ivy League Championship,” Schimenti said. “The last time they played the championship at [Caves Valley Golf Club] was four or five years ago, so no one will have any experience there. I think yardage wise and course layout wise, it will be similar to this week.

Our coach will give us a scouting report of that course and we’ll gear our practice towards his [advice]. Before [the championship], we’ll get a couple more rounds under our belt and get a little more comfortable, so we should be a little more relaxed during the championship.”

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

MLB Honors Bombing Victims on Jackie Robinson Day stay informed

MIAMI (AP) — Lined up in front of their dugouts, all wearing No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day, the Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins stood for a moment of silence to honor bombing victims at the Boston Marathon.

What began as an annual celebration to salute the man who broke baseball's color barrier 66 years ago turned somber after a pair of explosions near the finish line in Boston — about a mile from Fenway Park — killed at least three people and injured more than 140 on Monday.

Hours later, Major League Baseball went on with ceremonies for the fifth Jackie Robinson Day at stadiums all over the country and north of the border in Toronto.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this horrible occurrence and we are monitoring the situation,” MLB spokesman Pat Courtney said in a statement.

“The safety of everyone that comes to our ballparks is always our top priority and we will

continue to do everything to ensure a safe environment for our fans.”

There were moments of silence before each of the seven night games. At Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, President Barack Obama’s remarks to the nation were shown on the video board while the Phillies were taking batting practice.

“I think everyone was thinking about it,” said Philadelphia outfielder Ben Revere, who taped the message “PRAY for Boston” on his glove. “It hurts to see something like that happen.”

The game between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays started at 11:05 a.m. on Patriots Day in Massachusetts and ended about an hour before the bombings.

Fans near Fenway Park, some who had recently exited the game, could hear the explosions.

All the teams in action were asked to wear Robinson’s number, retired throughout baseball in 1997. Yankees closer Mariano

Rivera is the only active player who still wears the number, and he has said he is retiring after this season.

Teams that didn’t play on Monday planned to pay tribute to Robinson on Tuesday.

Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, is drawing special attention this year with the release of the film “42,” which went into wide release last weekend.

Robinson’s widow, Rachel, along with the couple’s daughter, Sharon, and son, David, were introduced before the Dodgers played the Padres in Los Angeles.

Harrison Ford bounced the ceremonial first pitch to Dodgers manager Don Mattingly. Ford plays exBrooklyn general manager Branch Rickey in “42.”

In Minnesota, Twins first baseman Justin Morneau saw a screening of the movie in spring training and was pleasantly surprised to see brief footage of himself running onto the field during some of the stock shots of players paying homage to

Robinson by wearing his No. 42.

“I wasn’t expecting it, so it was pretty cool,” Morneau said.

“Just quick running across the screen, but to see yourself in a movie of that importance is pretty cool.”

The Rays had a special screening, too.

More than 100 players and other club employees watched the film at a theater in Port Charlotte, Fla., the Rays’ spring training site, “and I think a lot of guys walked away with a greater appreciation” of Robinson’s contribution, manager Joe Maddon said before the Rays lost 3-2 to the Red Sox. Maddon said Robinson’s debut helped lead to the broader civil rights movement.

“I still don’t think people understand how much it plays into the Martin Luther King situation,” he said.

“The revolution that occurred at that particular moment, it mattered. That had to happen first to set that whole thing up.”

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Cornell Men and Women Fall to Yale, Dominate Brown

By DEEYA BAJAJ

to play the deciding match and it was extremely close. It could have gone either way, but she won, which was awesome.”

The Cornell women’s tennis team had a tough weekJudeh is confident in the team’s chances at its upcoming end, facing a 6-1 loss against Yale on Saturday at the matches against Princeton and Penn.

Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Conn., “Our next match is against Princeton which is an away and a close 4-3 win against Brown at the Varsity Tennis game,” she said. “We have a good chance of winning if we Center in Providence, R.I., the following day. This week- keep doing the things we have the whole season. After that, end’s matches led to a 13-3 record for the season so far and we’re playing Penn at home. We only have two matches left a 2-3 record in the Ivy League. for the season, so we are going to give it everything we The Red gained only two victories against the Bulldogs. have.”

Freshman Laila Judeh won her No. 5 singles match 7-5, 6The women’s tennis team’s match against Princeton is 4 and sophomore scheduled for April 19, and the match Lauren Frazier and “We only have two matches left for the against Penn will be played on April 21 junior Ryann Young season so we are going to give it at the Reis Tennis center in Ithaca. won their No. 2 The men’s team lost to Yale 4-3 on doubles match 9- everything we have.”

April 13 in a close match played at the 8(4).

Reis Tennis center in Ithaca. The team “It was a tough Laila Judeh won two of its doubles matches with loss against Yale — sophomores Jason Luu and Quocthe matches were close — but we competed well, gave it Daniel Nguyen winning their match 9-7, and sophomores everything we had and that’s all we can ask for,” Judeh said. Kyle Berman and Sam Fleck also winning 9-7.

The match against Brown was a nail-biting experience Unfortunately, the team only won two out of six of its with a very close win for the Red. games in the singles matches with Fleck winning 6-3, 6-2 The team started the day with a win in the doubles at No.2 and Luu winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 at No. 5. matches by Frazier and Young, who won their match at The team then played against Brown, where it won the No. 2 8-5. The singles matches had wins for Cornell in the match 5-2. The Red won both of its doubles matches, with No. 1 position where senior Sarah O’Neil won her match junior Venkat Iyer and sophomore Alex Sidney winning 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Young at No. 3 won her match 6-4, 6-3, their match 8-4 and Berman and Fleck winning their Judeh won her match 6-4, 6-0 at No. 5 and at No. 6 match 8-6. The third doubles match played did not finish. ,Frazier defeated Brown’s Olivia Hsu 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3.

In singles, the team won 6-4, 5-7, (10-8) at No. 1 where “Winning against Brown was exciting,” Judeh said. Iyer defeated Brown’s Michael Riechmann. At No. 2 Fleck “They were a good team, and we basically just played the won 6-1, 7-6, Luu at No. 5 won his match 7-5, 6-3 and way we have the whole year and our hard work paid off. Berman at No. 6 won 6-3, 6-4.

We won 4-3, which is the closest it gets. Sarah O’Neil had “Yale was a hard loss, but we rebounded well against

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Over the net | Sophomore Lauren Fraizer won her doubles match with junior Ryann Young in the Red’s loss to Yale.

Brown. They are a strong team so it was a good win,” Beman said. “The team’s definitely excited to play our last two matches of the Ivy season, and we have a good shot at winning both.”

The men’s team is getting set to play Princeton at the Reis Tennis center on Friday followed by the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Sunday.

Deeya Bajaj can be reached at dbajaj@cornellsun.com.

Rowers Sweep Princeton, Look C.U. Prepares for Upstate To Continue Strong Performances Challenge After Strong Cornell will host Columbia and MIT in its next races ROWING

Red in the varsity eight race by 3.7 seconds, the Red was able to pick up wins in the second and third varsity races, winning awarded to the winner of the varsity eight the second varsity race by two seconds and race between Cornell and Princeton. the third varsity race by 7.5 seconds.

Saturday’s victory allowed the Red to keep With this past weekend’s competitions the cup for the second year in a row and being the second and third races of the seamarked the 14th time that the Red has son, the Red was able to shake off its early captured the cup. Rival Princeton has won season nerves and perform more confithe Platt Cup 36 times. The Red won the dently. varsity eight race by 3.4 seconds despite “One area I think we improved on as an being behind Princeton for most of the entire team was racing maturity,” senior race. captain Taylor Black said. “Last weekend “The key to our success this weekend was the first league race of the season; there was our mental toughness and race maturi- [are] always a lot of nerves and uncertainty ty,” senior Dylan Gould said. “Half of our going into the first race. This weekend we wins this weekend [came] from behind. were able to execute a better race plan, capEach crew showed a lot of composure and italize on our moves and race with a sense aggression which allowed us to push of maturity. When we were down, we through and come out on top.” never panicked. We stayed composed and The Red went on to complete the sweep trusted our speed and race plan.”

The Red will play host to Columbia and “The key to our success this weekend was our MIT this weekend and hopes to continue mental toughness and race maturity.” enjoying the success it Dylan Gould has experienced racing on its home course.

“We came back from with wins in the second varsity, third varsi- racing Harvard and Penn with a lot of ty and first freshmen eight races. The sec- motivation and that carried through the ond varsity boat defeated Princeton by 2.5 week’s practices and into the racing,” Black seconds, while the third varsity boat said. “Additionally, this was our first home defeated Princeton’s third varsity boat by a race of the season and there is an increased full five seconds. The freshmen eight won sense of determination and pride when by a commanding margin, finishing more racing on our home course. I believed this than eight seconds ahead of the Tigers’ showed in the weekend’s results.” freshmen boat.

On Sunday, the team faced off against Yale and continued its strong performances Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at from Saturday. While Yale edged out the thucek@cornellsun.com.

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weekend for the Red, competing at the Upstate Challenge against some of the strongest track and field teams in upstate New York, while the men’s team sends some of its middle distance runners to the Larry Ellis Invitational host-

formances of the weekend came down at George Mason, where the sprint guys were amazing. All in all, it was a very good weekend.”

Taylor also spoke “We’ve got to learn how to compete about some of the challenges that his here and how to be a great team in team has faced this the Northeast region, and we’re season, and how his squad has been able to doing that.” take those challenges Rich Bowman and maintain its focus.

“The weather has been off and on,” he said. “I ed by Princeton, according to think the biggest challenge with Taylor.

“We’re sending some of the 75 men on the team, in an individual sport like this which is also middle distance runners to a team sport, is how to keep them Princeton,” he said. “The majoriinvested in their own perfor- ty of the kids are going to the mances and improvement, along Upstate Challenge. It’s all an with their contributions to the effort to keep everyone moving team. They’ve been great about forward to the Heps championships in two weeks.” that.”

With the championship part Bowman was also optimistic about the direction in which his of the season rapidly approachteam is moving, speaking to the ing, Bowman was confident that way the team is dealing with the the team is right where it should be. weather troubles.

“I think we’re right where we “[We’re] moving in the right direction,” he said. “We’re doing need to be,” he said. “We’ve got all of the things that we need to to learn how to compete here and be doing as a team. The weather how to be a great team in the isn’t perfect, but they’re not let- Northeast region, and we’re doing ting it bother them at all; they’re that.” just pushing right through it.”

This weekend is going to be Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at another busy and competitive jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

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Red Achieves New School Records at Bucknell Invite

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO

adverse weather, his team kept their eyes set on their events.

“There are basically two meets,” he said.

With less than three weeks left until the “There’s a Saturday component that conHeps championship meet hosted by tains the throws and the distance. We had Princeton from May 4th-5th, the Red con- some really special things happen in the tinued its outdoor track and field season by distance runs on Saturday night. On competing at the Bucknell Invite, while the Sunday, the rest of the team got to commen’s team sent some of its athletes to a pete. [It was] a little windy and cold, but meet hosted by George Mason. they didn’t really let the conditions get to The women’s team competed strongly, them.”

Notable performances for the women’s team included junior “[It was] a little windy and cold, but they Leah Ferrara winning the 3K in didn’t really let the conditions get to them.” 10:25.46, senior co-captain Victoria Imbesi winning the Rich Bowman javelin with a throw of 148’3”, senior Claire Dishong winning the claiming eight events wins and 21 ECAC pole vault clearing 13’.5” and junior qualifying marks. Women’s head coach Ebolutalese Airewele winning the 400m in Rich Bowman said that despite there being 55.68.

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Fast and furious | Junior Leah Ferrara won the 3K in 10:25.46 at the Bucknell invitational this past weekend.

The men’s weekend culminated in two new school records and 24 IC4A qualifying performances. Junior Will Weinlandt set the new school record in the 800m with a time of 1:48.43, while sophomore Stephen Mozia set the new school record in the discus with a heave of 184’5”. According to men’s head coach Nathan Taylor, it was a

good weekend for his team.

“Some of the events went really well,” he said. “Stephen Mozia’s new school record in the discus was great. I thought the pole vault guys jumped well. We really dominated that event. The other big perSee TRACK page 19

GOLF

Golfers Finish Tenth at Princeton

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

After a rough start to the spring season, the Cornell golf team responded with an improved showing at the Princeton Invitational this weekend, their second tournament of the season. Cornell finished tenth in a 14-team field, shooting a combined +59 in the three round tournament. Yale placed first with a combined score of

+16, while host Princeton came in third with a combined +19.

Despite still finishing in the bottom half of the teams, the Red showed serious improvement from last weekend, when the squad finished last in a 13team field, according to junior tri-captain Carl Schimenti.

“This weekend was definitely an improvement; most of us were able to shoot a couple good scores this week,” Schimenti said. “I think the big key for us is

to play some more competitive rounds this spring and get used to playing under tournament conditions.”

Schimenti led the team, shooting a combined +11, which was tied for 24th in the tournament. In the second round, Schimenti broke par, carding a one-under 70. Junior Zach Bosse started off the weekend with a very promising two-under 69, but had a rough third round, including a sextuple-bogey 10 on the 16th hole, a par-4. He finished the tournament +14, tied for 36th overall. Freshman Brandon Eng also had a solid

“This weekend was definitely an improvement.”

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Par for the course | Junior captain Carl Schimenti shot a combined +11 in the Red’s tenth place finish at the Princeton Invitational.

weekend, finishing tied for 48th with a combined +18.

“Zach Bosse played really well on the first day and really well the last day except for two holes,” Schimenti said.

“Brandon Eng played well for the first and third rounds, and Craig played well for two rounds as well, so all of us are getting there. Right now, we can’t put it all together, but we’re showing some signs of improvement right now.”

The biggest area of weakness for the team at the moment is its short game, especially its putting, according to Schimenti.

“I still think a lot [of ] our short game — putting mostly — [gave] a lot of us trouble this See GOLF page 18

Walking on water | The Red took home the Platt Cup for the 14th time in its successful weekend against Princeton and Yale.

MEN’S ROWING

C.U.Wins Six Races; Captures Platt Cup

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell lightweight rowing team built upon its successes from last week and had two strong performances at home this past weekend. The Red faced off against Princeton on Saturday and Yale on

Sunday. The team won six races combined over the weekend, and showed much improvement from its races two weeks ago.

On Saturday, the Red swept Princeton in all four races and took home the Platt Cup, See ROWING page 19