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Tech Campus Students: Classes Are‘Inspirational’ Members of Cornell Tech’s seven-person beta class describe what drew them to the program

By TYLER ALICEA

for me,” he said.

Alex Kopp grad, another tech campus student, said there are many aspects of Cornell NYC Tech has evolved from a Cornell Tech — including its innovative stack of proposals to a fully-operating grad- curriculum and the small size of the beta uate program in the 16 months since New class — that distinguish it from a tradiYork City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tional university program. announced that Cornell won the rights to Traditional classes only occur on build the school. Students in the school’s Mondays through Thursdays at Cornell beta class say that they have been chal- Tech, with Fridays being reserved for lenged and motivated while working on practicums lead by individuals or groups industry projects and that the curriculum is from the tech industry, tech campus Dean inspiring and unique.

Daniel Huttenlocher previously told The Sun. Kopp described the “What intrigued me most practicums as being “very interesting and inspiraabout the new campus adding that his was the idea of reinventing tional,” favorite sessions involved the ... curriculum.”

Fred Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a Alex Kopp grad venture capital firm, and Scott Harrison, founder and Tech campus student Greg Tobkin grad CEO of charity: water, a non-profit. said he is very excited to be a part of the Kopp also said that the connections he beta class. Prior to attending Cornell Tech, has forged with leaders in the tech industry Tobkin was a chemistry and computer sci- this semester have been meaningful. ence double major at Williams College, “I have been exposed to a handful of where he said he developed an interest in venture capitalists, a dozen or so succesful working on projects to help people quickly. entrepreneurs and six like-minded aspiring Tobkins said that the tech campus’ goals entrepreneurs,” he said. of “chang[ing] the world” inspired him to Prior to enrolling in the tech campus’ apply to the school. program, Kopp was a student in Cornell’s “It was as if Cornell Tech were written Master of Engineering program in Ithaca.

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The tech campus’ beta class has been taking classes at Cornell Tech’s temporary headquarters in Chelsea. The Roosevelt Island campus is projected to open in 2017.

After being admitted to the tech campus, he decided that transferring across programs would be a great opportunity and subletted his apartment in Cayuga Heights to join the beta class in the Big Apple.

“What intrigued me most about the new campus was the idea of reinventing the M.Eng curriculum to incorporate both computer science and business courses,” he said.

In addition to attending workshops on Fridays, students are also working on

industry projects, which will be revealed at the end of the semester in presentations, The Sun previously reported.

Erich Graham grad, who worked as an engineer with Cisco after graduating from the University of Michigan in 2008, is currently working with Bloomberg to create a news analytics application. Graham will implement algorithms from one of his

Plan Pushing Diversity in Orgs.to Face S.A.

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer

A new resolution that could require every student organization to submit plans detailing how they will encourage diversity and inclusion in their group will be discussed, and possibly voted on, at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday.

If passed, the resolution, tentatively titled “United Student Body,” would require every student organization to come up with three separate initiatives to “strengthen organizations and the activities they carry out by connecting communities and bringing activities and events to different places on campus,” according to the resolution.

“[United Student Body] is essentially Toward New Destinations for student organizations,” S.A. President Adam Gitlin ’13 said, referring to the University’s plan to increase diversity and inclusion around campus.

Gitlin said that he thinks most student leaders will be in favor of having a “more diverse

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experience and activities that reflect a diverse student body.”

Because Cornell is such a “decentralized campus, [however], a lot of organizations might not know where to start,” Gitlin said. “[United Student Body] is giving student organizations a framework to begin that See RESOLUTION page 4

For Second Year, Two Students Are Truman Scholars

Students gather in Duffield Atrium for the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board’s 28th Annual Spring Forum Wednesday evening.

News Rawlings Researchers

49 Cornell seniors presented the culmination of four years of research at the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Senior Expo Wednesday. | Page 3

Opinion Come Out Against Hazing

Adam Lerner ’13 questions the candidacy of Ross Gitlin ’15 in the Student Trustee Election in light of Gitlin’s former role as President of the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. | Page 9

Arts Still Kicking

Matthew Hudson reviews the Flaming Lips’ new album and explains their constant ability to redefine themselves despite changing times. | Page 12

Sports

By LAUREN BERGELSEN Sun Contributor

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High Stakes

Simon Boehme ’14 and Samuel Ritholtz ’14 were among the 62 recipients of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship — a merit-based fund for student leaders interested in government or public sector service — this year.

Boehme and Ritholtz’s selection marks the second year in a row that two Cornellians were selected for the Truman Scholarship in the same year. Each Truman Scholar receives up to See TRUMAN page 5

The Cornell baseball team will play University of Pennsylvania this weekend, a game which will affect their Ivy Tournament hopes. | Page 20

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Rawlings Scholars Present Final Research Projects

By CHRISTOPHER YATES Sun Contributor

As the culmination of their research at Cornell, 49 seniors presented projects with topics ranging from pollination to “prep” fashion at the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Senior Expo Wednesday.

“Students join the program to be a part of a community of scholars interested in research. We encourage significant interaction between undergraduate researchers and faculty, and we also fund this faculty-mentored research,” said Kristin Ramsay ’88, coordinator of the Rawlings Scholar program.

Steven Yamada ’13 presented the results of his research

about increasing the rate of photosynthesis in plants through partial defoliation, which involves removing a fraction of a plant’s leaves. His research suggests that this process can actually increase a plant’s photosynthetic efficiency, according to Yamada.

“We’re trying to identify the genes involved in this process in order to produce plants with higher basal rates of photosynthesis, and therefore increasing yield, which is a big issue in the world right now,” Yamada said.

Ashley Tse ’13 said she used her background as an industrial and labor relations major to analyze the worker policies at Disney World, where she previously interned.

“I believe that we can attribute some of the success of

the corporate culture of Disney to its emphasis on employee safety, a key factor which is often overlooked because it isn’t a concept often thought of when you hear the name ‘Disney,’” Tse said.

Michael Commensso ’13 examined the role physical education plays in dietary habits and depression by having students in both active and relatively inactive physical education classes fill out questionnaires.

“Our results have been an advertisement for the importance of P.E. classes. The links we found between more active classes and lower rates of depression show that Cornell’s P.E. requirements should remain intact,” Commensso said.

While presenting their research, several of the students expressed their gratitude for the Rawlings Scholars program.

“Being involved in the program gave me the extra

“We encourage significant interaction between undergraduate researchers and faculty.”

Kristin Ramsay ’88

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Final push | Karim Abouelnaga ’13 discusses the implications of his research on education funding at the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Senior Expo in the Physical Sciences Building Wednesday.

push to be involved from the beginning and allowed me to develop my research through to my senior year, [and] all the connections and faculty research which helped me to research what I was interested in,” Tse said.

Student attendees at the event expressed interest in the diversity of the research presented, as well as the program itself.

“It’s impressive to see the diversity of research that’s being presented here, and to see how involved the professors are in supporting student research,” Kristen Holl ’15 said.

Other attendees felt that seeing the research presented by the seniors left them inspired to further their own research.

“As a freshman, it’s cool to think that in four years, it might be me presenting my research here,” Yogisha Dixit ’16 said.

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

Visiting Prof Encourages Sustainable Architecture Tying together landscape and architecture can allow buildings to act as a single system, Sanders says

By LIZ KUSSMAN Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Joel Sanders, architecture, Yale University, encouraged students to address the divide between the fields of landscape and architecture and consider the potential of unifying the two topics at a lecture Wednesday.

According to Sanders, creating an alliance between landscape and architecture will allow buildings and landscapes to “perform as systems that can

“Designers in the book are interested in unleashing the creative potential of sustainability,” Sanders said.

Sanders cited the Urban Outfitters headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. — constructed entirely of salvaged materials like slabs of pavement and railroad infrastructure — as an example of creative sustainability.

In addition, new architecture holds potential to fight desertification — the process of land

the environment results in “environmental casualties.”

Sanders attributes the historic gap between architecture and landscape in part to a polarity between people and nature, an idea that reinforces the idea of nature as “a vulnerable entity that must be protected from the predatory interest of humans, including architects and landscape architects.”

Frederick Law Olmsted, who is considered the father of landscape architecture, challenged the dichotomy of man and nature in the nineteenth century when he designed Central Park, Sanders said. For instance, he said, Olmstead was able to create a natural oasis within a metropolis that offered protection from the industrial city.

Sanders urged future archi-

tects to pursue a new design approach to overcome the false dichotomy between architecture and landscape.

“We must understand the deep rooted cultural, ideological practices that have brought us to where we are in an architecture and landscape divide,” he said.

Liz Kussman can be reached at ekussman@cornellsun.com.

The sound of music

“Nature and civilization, though not the same, have have always been intertwined and are becoming ever more so.”

Prof. Joel Sanders heal the environment.”

Three key concepts to consider in this unification are topography, ecology and biocomputation, Sanders said.

Sanders said new architects are rejecting a tradition in topography where a building sits discretely on flat land. Now, architects are transforming buildings to resemble landforms with striking silhouettes that confuse manmade and natural, he said.

Sanders hopes to push sustainability beyond “familiar checklists” like encouraging firms to buy and use the most energy-efficient materials.

degradation — by using bacteria to turn sand dunes into solid mass, Sanders said.

“Designers must radically readjust their way of thinking and working,” Sanders said.

“Nature and civilization, though not the same, have always been intertwined and are becoming ever more so.”

Sanders warned that the union of architecture and landscape is especially critical in the face of current environmental concerns.

“We have tipped the balance between nature and civilization,” he said. Sanders said design that does not consider

RYAN LANDVATER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Les Petits Violons, an orchestra group from Canada, perfoms a piece, Il primo libro de Canzone, in Barnes Hall Wednesday night.

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Renee Alexander ’74: S.A. Resolution Has ‘Broad Vision’ RESOLUTION

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process.”

Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of students and director of intercultural programs, said although the resolution is a good idea in theory, it needs an intense focus on its execution in order to be successful.

“I am struck by the broad vision of the resolution,” Alexander said. “It aligns very nicely, strategically, with the University’s Toward New Destinations. I think it really shows courage and insight to see a student role. That said, you can’t take on a thousand organizations.”

For the initiative to be successful, Alexander said, students and group advisors must “take a piece of it.”

“We have to find a way, get good heads around the table and find a realistic, practical way of taking a piece of this and making sure that it’s successful,” Alexander said.

If “United Student Body” is passed, it will be implemented gradually, with approximately 50 student organizations taking part in the initiatives outlined during the first academic year.

According to Gitlin, the Student Assembly Finance Commission tier system — which allocates funding to student organizations based on the tier they qualify under — was a guide to determine which organizations would come under United Student Body first. Under the current draft of “United Student Body,” the lowest-tier organizations will not be affected by the resolution until the 2017-18 academic year.

“It would affect a very small number of student organizations next year,” Gitlin said. “The key thing is we’re saying this is a value — appreciating diversity and being an organization that includes all communities on campus is a value of the diverse student body.”

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Last Thursday, the most recent draft of the United Student Body resolution was presented before the Student Assembly. While many Student Assembly members supported the intentions behind the plan, some had concerns about logistical issues, such as how a single, student-run council would be able to accurately evaluate the diversity and inclusion plans for every student organization.

Ulysses Smith ’13, vice president for diversity and inclusion for the S.A., said the draft is an unfinished document and its contents have been continually subject to revision.

“The whole point was to go in unfinished,” Smith said.

“Every week, something has changed about the document based on the feedback that we’ve gotten both from organi-

“We don’t have enough input from students and student organizations.”

Cameron Pritchett ’15 zations and assembly members. That was the goal: to create something with students.”

Despite this goal, some said that a change of this magnitude for student organizations requires more students to be involved in the process.

“We don’t have enough input from students and student organizations,” said Cameron Pritchett ’15, S.A. minority liaison at large. “It is absolutely essential that we get as much input from them as possible. At this point, it just seems like the discussion was kind of preliminary as it relates to how student organizations feel about it, and it’s moving very fast.”

Pritchett, who is the incoming V.P. of diversity and inclusion, stressed that the resolution as it stands may represent too many sudden changes and logistical challenges.

“With something of such a massive scale, we really need to be careful,” Pritchett said. “We really need to be confident that this is something that’s feasible, and something that the students want.”

Some assembly members supported the idea of holding a public town hall meeting to discuss the potential resolution with student leaders.

“I think that [United Student Body] is a work in progress, and it’s raising a lot of questions that a lot people are very shy to talk about,” said Juliana Batista ‘16, S.A. freshman representative. “I think the Student Assembly should be getting more student input, even though we have gotten a lot already ... a Town Hall meeting would be very important for us to schedule.”

According to Alexander, the assembly should also focus on getting students on board with the plan and make sure it does not move too quickly with the resolution.

“When you’re shifting the paradigm, the way people think, it takes time. It takes persistence,” Alexander said.

“The time is right, but now we have to do the follow-up. A growing movement on campus of students who think this is the right thing to do will help this initiative get launched and be successful.”

Student participation is the only effective way to get lasting changes in diversity and inclusion in student life, according to Gitlin.

“At a certain point, students have to be the ones to stand up and say ‘we want to make these changes,’ ‘we want an inclusive student body that engages all communities,’” Gitlin said. “We have to implement initiatives on our own as students if we want student life to be a more diverse experience.”

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

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C.U. Tech’s New Class a Scholarship Seeks‘Change-Makers’ ‘Very Close-Knit Group’ Students: receiving Truman Scholarship is a ‘unique opportunity’ TRUMAN

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classes in order to predict patterns between stock prices and news.

Kopp, on the other hand, is working with Google on what he describes as a “difficult, but interesting, task.” He is trying to build an open source model that will be able to predict the severity of a storm based off of text messages sent out by the National Weather Service.

“An accurate prediction model will allow Google to better inform the people that may be affected by the storm,” he said.

Tobkin is working with Qualcomm in creating a computer vision application for cars, which would allow for sensors to alert the driver if an unsafe situation were to arise. He said that while the technology currently exists and is promising, it is also limited.

Of course, when they are not attending practicums or working on their industry projects, the students at Cornell Tech are attending classes.

For example, in their physical class, students use microcontrollers with sensors to build hardware — such as a motor controlled by infrared sensors and an ultrasonic, wireless tape measure — and then create interfaces with software, according to Graham.

Graham believes that the campus’ small class sizes allow for the creation of a “very close-knit group” between students and faculty.

“We have seven students and four professors,” he said. “That’s less than a 2:1 student to professor ratio.”

While the program is currently located at office space provided in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan by Google, the tech campus will be moving onto Roosevelt Island in 2017 once the first buildings are completed.

Regardless, the move from Manhattan to Roosevelt Island should not affect the environment of the tech campus, which lacks permanent offices, according to Kopp.

“In an effort to create an open environment, nobody at Cornell Tech has an office — not even the Dean. Instead, there are cubicles,” he said, adding that this is likely to be kept the same when the program transitions to Roosevelt Island.

Before construction can begin on the campus — which is slated to begin in 2014 — the University must have its tech campus plans approved by the City Council, the last step in New York City’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure. Most recently, the proposal was approved by the City Planning Commission on March 20 and by the Manhattan Borough President and Community Board 8 in January and December respectively.

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

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reflect on his efforts to help others.

“I’ve always held a deep $30,000 for graduate study, interest in public service, and according to the Truman pursuing this scholarship Scholarship’s website. seemed natural,” Boehme said.

Boehme, who is studying Boehme also attributes his industrial and labor relations knowledge of the scholarship to with minors in law and society Beth Fiori, fellowship coordinaand education, plans to study tor in the Cornell Career education policy and ultimately Services Office. earn a master’s degree and a J.D. “Beth [Fiori] was very supRitholtz, who is studying portive and bends over backinternational agriculture and wards to assist students,” he rural development with a focus added. in economic development and Ritholtz echoed Boehme’s African studies, hopes sentiments regardto use the scholarship ing the benefits of to pursue a Masters “The application looks for a more holistic the application Degree in refugee and picture. It’s based on a lot more than process. forced migration stud- someone’s grades and major, which I “The other really ies. cool thing about the Boehme empha- liked.” scholarship is the sized how the Truman entire application scholarship is intend- Samuel Ritholtz ’14 forces you to reevaled for an individual uate your life,” with a record of public service allowed them to share their per- Ritholtz said. “No one can plan who “sees where they’ll be in the sonal interests, as well as their his or her life out exactly, but it future.” makes you think about where public service experience.

“The purpose of the scholarRitholtz said the fact that the you see yourself.” ship is bigger than any single Truman Scholarship looked In addition to providing individual. It’s about creating beyond students’ grades was an funds for graduate study, the change, and everyone has to appealing aspect of the pro- Truman scholarship also offers work together. There is always gram. opportunities for networking something to be done,” he “The application looks for a among various students passionadded. more holistic picture. It’s based ate about public service.

Though the scholarship is on a lot more than someone’s “Truman is seeking people specific to those who demon- grades and major, which I who will be change-makers, strate an interest in public ser- liked,” Ritholtz said. “While the which provides a unique opporvice, Ritholtz said that the majority of my application was tunity to meet so many inspirscholarship values the diversity about refugees, I chose to speak ing and passionate individuals of students. about literature in this last ques- across the country to make “I think it’s for everyone who tion, and even in my interview, effective and productive change has a serious interest in service we spoke about literature.” together,” Boehme said. and a serious devotion to servBoehme said the process of ing others. My entire applica- applying to the scholarship was Lauren Bergelson can be reached at tion is about the U.N. and the “incredible,” allowing him to lmb357@cornell.edu.

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International System, while the other winner’s is about local politics,” Ritholtz said.

To be considered for the scholarship, candidates must go through a lengthy on-campus selection process, involving nomination by a Truman faculty representative from the candidates’ institution. This year, Cornell chose four nominees, the maximum an institution is allowed to nominate.

As part of the application, students were required to answer 15 questions that

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U.S. NEWS BRIEFS

Stocks Fall On Signs Of Slowing Global Economy

Fight over gun control

STEPHEN CROWLEY / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urged the Senate to pass a gun safety bill Tuesday. The Senate, however, blocked the legislation Wednesday, prompting President Barack Obama to issue a strong statement condemning the failure to pass the bill.

Officials: Video Footage Shows Marathon Bomb Suspect BOSTON (AP) — Investigators poring over photos and video from the Boston Marathon bombing have a department-store surveillancecamera image of a man dropping off a bag at the scene of the one of the blasts, a top city politician said Wednesday.

City Council President Stephen Murphy, who said he was briefed by members of the Boston Police Department, said he does not know if investigators know the man's name. He said officers are chasing leads that could take them to the suspect.

"They may be on the verge of arresting someone and that's good," he said.

Separately, a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity and was not authorized to discuss the case publicly confirmed only that investiga-

tors had an image of a potential suspect but did not know his identity.

The twin bomb blasts Monday near the finish line of the world's most famous foot race killed three people and wounded more than 170, tearing off limbs in a hail of shrapnel.

Law enforcement agencies pleaded for the public to come forward with photos, videos or any information that might help them solve the case, and they gathered surveillance video from businesses around the finish line.

The bombs are believed to have been fashioned out of ordinary kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails, ball bearings and metal shards designed to maim. Investigators suspect the bombs were hidden in black duffel bags and left on the ground.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply Wednesday for the second time this week as investors continued to worry about how much the global economy is slowing.

Commodities such as oil and copper fared even worse than stocks. Government bonds were a big winner as money flowed in from investors seeking safety.

That drove prices higher, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to its low for the year at one point.

Technology, energy and bank stocks led the market lower.

Apple dropped as traders worried about iPhone sales, Bank of America slid after its earnings failed to meet up to Wall Street’s forecasts and energy stocks fell as crude oil continued a weeklong drop.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 22 points, or 1.4 percent, to 1,553. Just one week ago the index hit an all-time high of 1,593. It’s down 2.5 percent since then.

Small-company and technology stocks did worse than the overall market.

The Nasdaq composite fell the most of the major indexes, 1.8 percent. It lost 59.96 points to 3,204.67. Apple, which makes up 8 percent of the index, slumped 5.5 percent to $402.80, after a supplier hinted at a slowdown in iPhone and iPad production.

The Russell 2000 of smallcompany stocks also fell 1.8 percent, to 906.

The Dow Jones Industrial average of 30 large stocks fell 138 points, or 0.9 percent, to 14,618.59 Wednesday, wiping out most of the gain it made Tuesday. The Dow, which hit its own record of 14,865 last Thursday, is down 1.7 percent this week after slumping 265 points on Monday.

The price of crude oil dropped for the fourth day in five, falling $2.04, or 2.3 percent, to $86.68 per barrel, based on expectations that global demand will fall.

Copper fell 11.8 cents to an 18month low of $3.19 a pound.

As stock prices sank, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.70 percent from 1.73 percent. It went as low as 1.68 percent, matching its lowest level of the year.

The stock market had its worst day in five months on Monday after China reported economic growth that was slower than economists had expected.

Metals, energy and other commodities have been hit hard this week and that has dragged down the stocks of miners and drillers and companies that provide services to them. Gold fell the most in 30 years on Monday.

Despite the big drops this week, the Dow is still 11.6 percent higher this year, the S&P 500 8.8 percent. And while falling energy prices may hurt energy stocks now, in the long run they are good for most companies and will put more money into the pockets of consumers and drive spending.

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New York Senate Group Removes Member After Arrest ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A small group of Democratic New York senators who share majority control of the Senate with Republicans has kicked out one of its members who was charged in a federal corruption case.

Sen. Malcolm Smith’s ban from the Independent Democratic Conference comes as a new poll shows state residents increasingly consider corruption a “very serious” problem in Albany and say Gov. Andrew Cuomo isn’t handling it well.

IDC leader Jeff Klein said Wednesday that he stripped Smith of his leadership post after he was arrested two weeks ago. He said he also stopped the last check for most of Smith’s annual leadership stipend, and then the IDC dropped Smith, of Queens, from the conference, which shares Senate control with the GOP. The sanctions came without speaking to Smith, who hasn’t been convicted of a crime.

“Everyone deserves their day in court, but I think it was up to me as leader of the Independent Democratic Conference to act decisively and quickly,” Klein said. “I have watched corruption and convictions and arrests over my career, unfortunately, in the Legislature and I didn’t bode well for our democratic process. ... This was my opportunity to act as a leader and I think I did the right thing.”

Smith declined to comment. He had been one of the Democrats’ majority leaders during a brief and tumultuous term from 2008 to 2010 that prompted four Democrats to form the IDC. Smith is now without a Senate conference.

In NYC, Strains of Solidarity With Rival Boston NEW YORK (AP) — A stadium full of Yankees fans stood arm in arm at the bottom of the third inning in the Bronx, singing along to “Sweet Caroline,” the Boston Red Sox anthem.

Irony and sarcasm were absent. Sincerity was the mood of the night.

The rival teams have buried the hatchet — at least for now.

Yankee fans belted the Neil Diamond hit during a game Tuesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, showing solidarity with their neighbor to the north a day after explosions at the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 170.

“Everybody in New York knows what they’re going through,” said Mike Petti, a 48-year-old nicknamed Yankee Mike who for 13 seasons has been a staple of the bleacher section where the most hardcore fans — those who hate Red Sox Nation the most — dwell. “When it happened here, Boston was singing ‘New York, New York.’“ The teams’ rivalry, which has reared its ugly head in benchclearing brawls and fan assaults over the years, is just one difference between the cities, both among the oldest in the country and each with a rich history.

But look around New York this week, and you’ll see nothing but love for Boston.

In what city officials said was a first, the bright-blue Boston city flag flew at half-staff at City Hall, on the orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who grew up in the Boston suburb of Medford.

“We stand shoulder to shoulder with our friends in Boston, as all Americans do,” said Bloomberg, who in 2006 founded the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Bloomberg said he phoned his counterpart Monday to offer him any help New York could provide.

Old man and the sea

RICHARD PERRY / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Fred Havemeyer, a Southampton resident, walks by a house barricaded by a metal fence. Local officials have expressed concern about homeowners installing high barricades that could hasten erosion on beaches in the town.

Schumer: Immigration Bill Helps Farmers ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Farmers in New York and New England will find it easier to secure a reliable labor force under sweeping changes to the nation’s immigration laws proposed in an 844page bipartisan bill, Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday.

“There’s going to be a lot of relief for our dairy farmers, our apple growers and our other specialty crop growers,” Schumer said. “I think we’re going to see our agriculture industry start growing at a much greater pace because of this bill.”

Delegations of upstate New York farmers have traveled to Washington to lobby for an expansion of the guest-worker program for agriculture. Right now, dairy farms are ineligible for the temporary visa program, called H-2A, which is only for seasonal workers.

Dairy farms need workers yearround for milking.

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy has pushed to expand a guest worker program to dairy farmers, who in Vermont rely on an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 illegal workers. He said he welcomed the progress the legislation represents in resolving what he said was longstanding unfairness of immigra-

tion policies when it comes to the needs and experiences of Vermont dairy farmers.

“The draft bill unveiled by the

bipartisan group provides dairy farmers with access to lawful foreign workers where local workers are not available,” Leahy said.

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our weeks and seven coffees ago, I began reading A Century at Cornell, which was put out by The Cornell Daily Sun for its 100 year anniversary. Its contents were exciting and interesting — a means of turning back the clock and exploring the University’s complex history. Though often shat on, this newspaper does play an integral role in recording the history of Cornell. But the most shocking thing about the articles included in the book is not that the University was trying to ban apartment parties back in the day, though I did feel a pang of pride when I read the sign: “Apartment parties are MORAL!! EDUCATIONAL!!

NECESSARY!!” The craziest part about flipping back to Sun editorials from the ’50s was realizing that the same editorials could be written today. One article in particular struck a chord, as all of the grievances stated are still pervasive today.

I felt a strange sense of solidarity with the Cornellians that derailed the University’s a) reactive policies, b) timing of major announcements near/during breaks and c) superficial consultation of students in the ’50s.

Cornell’s response to crises tends to be liability-oriented and heavy-handed, without dealing with the true issues at hand. For example, in 2010, Cornell decided to ban freshmen from fraternity parties as a means of curbing binge drinking. Many upperclassmen can attest to the dysfunctionality of the fresh(wo)men social scene that led to lost newbies running through Collegetown in search of festivities. The editorial “1956: Should students have a voice?” denotes the same kind of disconnect between administrators and reality when Cornell banned liquor at football games.

The students explain that banning drinking at the football stadium would only motivate secretive prohibition-esque activities. This point drives me to the question: What is the goal of these policies? What will they accomplish? Apart from allowing the University to wash its hands of liability, does this in fact create a safer student experience?

The editorial continues: “Second, we question the timing of the announcement. Two days before Fall Weekend is hardly the time to prepare students for a dramatic re-orientation of the University’s attitudes on what amounts to a ‘moral’ problem.” This blew my mind. It’s 2013 and the University is still pulling the same shit. While Cornell promotes the idea of civic engagement and public service, the administration repeatedly makes major announcements during or near breaks, making it nearly impossible for students to express dissent.

Examples include, but are not limited to: The removal of SAE fraternity brothers from their house during the spring break of 2011, the elimination of financial aid

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guarantees during the summer of 2012 and the budget restructuring hearings during the winter break of 2012.

Additionally, the changes to the Africana Studies and Research Center, as well as the implementation of bridge barriers were also announced during recesses.

These examples show either the University’s fear of student engagement or a lack of care for their feedback.

Perhaps most egregiously, the administration attempts to describe itself as participatory and democratic by “consulting students,” but only after their decisions have already been made.

Another editorial from 1957, entitled “Who Will Enforce the New Social Rules?” delineates how the University handed down new fraternity rules.

Strikingly similar to the recent Greek system reforms, decisions were made in topdown fashion, requiring students to acquiesce and enforce policies, regardless of their own ideas. Bitingly, the 1957 editors wrote: “But we do not sympathize with the committee. It has chosen its path and it must stick to it: As long as it disregards student responsibility for obeying the code, as it does, it must disregard student responsibility for enforcing it. The job of enforcement, like the job of imposition, should be up to the administration.” At a University that so values “public engagement,” the opportunity to take student concern, value it and incorporate it into plans is still minimal. How does the University expect our social culture to transform if it rules with such a heavy hand? The next line of the editorial captures this perfectly: “Of course the committee could not set up efficient police enforcement of the code even if it wanted to; it must depend to a large extent on student cooperation, the kind of cooperation which it ignored so summarily in the formulation of the code, but which it needs so badly now.”

Perhaps the most interesting (and depressing) part about peering into The Sun’s past is that our grievances are not new or revolutionary, but historic. We have such a short, almost non-existent institutional memory with students moving fluidly in and out of the University every few years. How can this change?

Where do we go from here? Do we sit-in, demonstrate, write snarky editorials? I wonder how we can facilitate productive action that can prevent editors from writing identical editorials via cyberblogs in 2050. Furthermore, I consider the question: What could lasting student engagement on Cornell’s campus look like today?

Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. She may be reached at kathanasiou@cornellsun.com. Kat’s Cradle appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Christo Eliot |

The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

Wrestlemania: Summer 2013

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n case you haven’t realized yet, there is one month until professors give their last finals and three months of summer officially begin. At a school like Cornell, a lot of students have impressive and well-paying plans for June, July and August — I’m looking at you, investment bankers. But no matter how many hours your boss at J.P. Morgan, GE or Proskauer Rose is making you work each week, it is important to remember that summer is summer. Yeah, we aren’t in middle school anymore, and I consider most high school-aged kids that waste their summers sitting by the side of a pool pretty much degenerates, but believe it or not, the working world will be there for all 12 months of the year when our time at Cornell eventually runs out.

Because of this, I want everyone reading this (so my parents, Caroline, Erin, and Marshall) to do something for themselves this summer. Maybe that means getting outside and riding your bike more. Maybe it means learning how to cook or brew beer. Maybe it means taking a glass-blowing class. Maybe it means recording a collection of ’90s rap song covers on the mandolin, because all it really takes in this day and age is one big song on the web to make it big. Just some examples...

Personally, I am staying in Ithaca this summer.

Without a little something extra though, summer will basically be just a continutation of school.

Everyone who has done it recommends it, and I have the opportunity to get a little ahead in my coursework while also working for a cool start-up based here (read: my skills are not marketable enough for a big-kid internship). It might not be Goldman Sachs, but I am a simple man with simple needs, so it ought to get the job done. Without a little something extra though, summer will basically be just a continuation of school, and at a school like Cornell — where hard work and stress are the main exports — it is important to recharge a little bit. I don’t mean relax (although that is important), rather, I think everyone should try something that we simply don’t have the time for between September and May. I wrote a few weeks (months?) ago about how “weird” Cornell is and why I think that is great. I think summer is a great time for all of the weirdos (read: everyone at Cornell) to stop kidding themselves and embrace the weirdness that they suppress the other nine months of year. What else are you going to be doing when you aren’t working? Getting drunk with your friends? Watching all nine seasons of Seinfeld? Fair enough, but unacceptable. You can do that whenever you want — when other than summer do you have three months to actually do whatever you want?

Which brings me to my final and most important point: If anyone is staying in Ithaca this summer and is trying to start a backyard wrestling league, please let me know. We are going to need some wood, a tarp, a few yards of rope and a lot of tire. Resumes, applications and highlight reels for competitors can be sent to my Cornell Daily Sun email address (celiot@cornellsun.com).

Let’s not let the institutionalized stress that comes from being a student take over our lives entirely.

Summers are like fossil fuels, they’re not going to be around forever (edgy, right?). Matthew Broderick once said: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Don’t be the person that looks back at his summer and wishes he had done more fun stuff with them. Be “Ramses” — the most feared backyard wrestler on the Ithaca summer 2013 circuit. Seriously though … we need more competitors.

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

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Comment of the day “While it isn’t clear yet what effect these resolutions will have, it does look like a prelude to an overreaction to the small amount of crime on campus. I worry there will be cameras watching us as we go to class. I worry that when I go to the library I won’t be able to get in because I forgot my ID at home, and the University suddenly requires card access to its buildings. Is there any indication that more cameras or locked buildings would have prevented the recent crimes near campus (the reported rape, the buttocks shooting)?” nenced15 Re: “University Assembly Passes Resolutions to Increase Campus Security,” News published April 18, 2013

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o I was originally planning to stay Cornell’s most prominent student roles order to end the grandfather clause out of the debate on the Student leaves. But this is by no means a reason that sustains hazing on the basis of “I Trustee election this semester for to discredit someone’s candidacy — was hazed so you should be too,” we two reasons: One, I am a graduating everyone deserves to be considered as need a true climactic cultural split. senior and the trustee we elect will not an individual. The fact that he was the Hazing has been around for ages in represent me directly. Two, I tend to president of an organization and thus numerous manifestations, and ridding view campus politics skeptically, as effectively presided over hazing that our campus of it means actively chalpopularity contests and forums for left pledges in the hospital, though, I lenging this status quo, which we can egomania, replete with name-calling believe should disqualify him for the begin through the symbolic election of and hollow rhetoric (every candidate’s position. Though Ross publicly stated a Student Trustee who is willing to take site I’ve seen contains the same over- at Tuesday’s debate that he wasn’t pre- a stance on the issue. wrought tropes of “transparency,” sent at the event, I believe this fact only Now, I know better than to toss the “YOUR voice,” “accountability” etc.). serves to further indict him — as the baby out with the bathwater and The less actual responsibility a position President of the fraternity he is respon- entirely dismiss Ross Gitlin or any holds, the larger the incentive to sible for overseeing all of its official Cornellians who have overseen, diminish its meritocratic and substan- functions. His absence either proves administered or participated in hazing. tive basis, and, to be sure, most campus willful negligence or politically disin- Some of my best friends on campus representatives have very little real genuous complicity. and, indeed, some of the people here I responsibility. This isn’t to belittle these When I first came to Cornell, I did- respect most fall into these categories. I campus “leaders” in particular; since n’t have much of an opinion about haz- would hope that these actions don’t not many of us claim real impactful ing because, well, I didn’t really know preclude them from future positions responsibilities while at Cornell they may very much deserve.

— we’re considered full-time But the Student Trustee isn’t students for a reason. just a single vote amongst the 60 The student representative on the But I was caught in a discuspeople who exercise “suboard should embody what’s best for plus sion about the candidates a coupreme control” over Cornell, the student body. For me, this means voting on the University’s budget ple of days ago in which someone brought up a smear-camand even whether or not to keep advocating and actually exemplifying paign site called “Git Out President Skorton in his job. the principal that we are not a Ross,” focused on Ross Gitlin They are also the student body’s ’15, the candidate whom many representative to the Board of community that tolerates hazing. of my friends are supporting. I Trustees, and transitively, the took a look at the site and found administration. The Board of it, first and foremost, unnecessarily much about it. Like most, I tend to Trustees may not directly control the nasty in tone, coyly hiding behind its take a fairly laissez-faire approach to Greek system, but they provide checks own anonymity. That is not the way to social life — as far as I’m concerned and balances to the administration that conduct civil debate, and it shouldn’t be consenting adults should be allowed, must then prosecute offenders. a model for future elections.

The student representative on the in most cases, to have their fun without Yet, the site is not entirely irrele- bureaucratic imposition. I’ve also never Board should embody what’s best for vant. It points to Gitlin’s former role as been one to demand moral purity from the student body. For me, this means President of Tau Epsilon Phi, a frater- those running for office — I tend not advocating and actually exemplifying nity that the administration kicked off to care what President Clinton did the principal that we are not a comearlier this year after hazing violations behind closed doors or what munity that tolerates hazing. This is that included sexual humiliation and Congressman Anthony Weiner tweet- not only necessary for Cornell moving excessive drinking. The site goes on to ed so long as they performed their jobs forward, but also to continue our caminclude speculative accusations that to the best of their abilities. pus’ vibrant Greek system.

Ross Gitlin hid behind his family conIf one of the candidates is willing to But after the tragedy that befell our nections (former Editor-in-Chief of campus two years ago with the hazing come out strongly against hazing, he or The Cornell Daily Sun Ben Gitlin ’14 death of George Desdunes, I began to she will receive my vote. If this candiand Student Assembly President Adam see that sometimes, letting drunken date is Ross Gitlin, or any other, then I Gitlin ’13) to avoid further scrutiny. I teenagers perpetuate coercive and dan- am more than happy to cast my ballot won’t begin to address whether or not gerous traditions at their own whims is in his or her name. these are true, as I have no idea. a really awful idea. Seeing the way the As far as claims of nepotism are Cornell Greek system has defended its Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of concerned, I too must admit that I am uncouth practices since then has only Arts and Sciences. Feedback may be sent to a bit uncomfortable with the dynastic strengthened my belief that hazing opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room impression three Gitlins in three of needs to be torn out by the roots. In appears periodically this semester.

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Spoonfuls Of Sunshine: Celebrate Spring The Foodie Way LAUREN BIGELOW / SUN FILE PHOTO

deliciously salty and satisfying brunch and lunch items.

Whether you prefer a hefty breakfast burrito or a stuffed crepe, the Farmers Market will treat you right. The Cambodian food from Khmer Angkor is my personal favorite. A nice plate of that in my lap with my legs hanging over the dock of Cayuga, and suddenly my thoughts are, “What’s January?”

ITHACA BEER COMPANY I’ve been known to tell just about everyone that the best part of going abroad last spring was being able to legally enjoy a beer in the park on a nice day.

Well, it is still illegal to pop the top off a cold one in public here in the “land of the free,” but we certainly are getting close with the recently renovated Ithaca Beer Co. The new beer garden at Ithaca Beer Co. is a great place to spend an afternoon with friends over a pint or pitcher of your favorite local brew.

Test your hop tolerability by sampling a few beers before ultimately deciding to stick with Apricot Wheat.

TREMAN STATE PARK All you need for a great day at Treman State Park is a bag of charcoal, hamburger patties, buns and desired condiments. If

there just so happens to be a Saturday warm enough to swim, Treman is a perfect place.

There’s a diving board that literally (and I mean literally) catapults you 20 feet in the air before splashing down into the water. Make sure to enjoy burgers after attempting a backflip off the board.

GO ON A WINE TOUR Forget the amazing course options, the diverse population and the gorgeous campus. All of these things are seriously great, but the best part about going to Cornell is definitely having access to Finger Lakes wine. A mere 20-minute drive off campus reveals a massive amount of wineries that showcase the true gems of the region. In addition, there are breweries, a distillery and a few cider-making companies. Taking part in a tasting at any of these places is sure to broaden your knowledge and offer you an opportunity to prance through an open field with two bottles of wine in hand while your friends take photos.

Many wineries also have cafes where they pair great food with their own products. Americana Winery in Interlaken (about 25 minutes from campus) has a cafe that serves local items for

brunch, lunch and dinner.

Wagner Winery and Brewery in Lodi (about 30 minutes away) also has a restaurant that serves up typical fare like sandwiches, salads and pizza. Stopping in for a meal and a tasting at any of the local wineries is a nice way to spend a Saturday. Stopping at multiple wineries on a wine tour of the Finger Lakes region, however, is an incomparable way to spend a Saturday.

COLLEGETOWN BAGELS All of the previously mentioned activities are amazing ways to celebrate spring with food and drink in the Ithaca area. Leaving campus, though, is the biggest pain. Thankfully, we all have CTB right at our fingertips. It may be obvious. It still is great. Sitting outside of CTB with a pitcher, a dozen bagels and a group of friends is quintessential Cornell. Not only are you able to enjoy some delicious eats and cold drinks, but you are also in the perfect place to people watch. It’s never-ending entertainment, it’s easy, the food is great and when it’s sunny, it can’t be beat.

Sarah McKeen can be reached at smckeen@cornellsun.com.

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ITHACA FARMERS MARKET The apple cider doughnuts are reason enough to drag yourself out of bed and down to Cayuga Lake. Beyond the sweet, the Ithaca Farmers Market also offers a dizzying array of savory,

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James Rainis When Kid Cudi visited Barton Hall back in 2010, his performance was as divisive as any at Cornell. Riding high on the cresting success of Man on the Moon: The End of Day, an obviously stoned Cudi put forth a performance of his sludgy, languid tunes that, depending on who you asked, highlighted either his “impressive and dynamic live act” or his tone-deaf delivery. What was definite at the time, however, was that Cudi coming to Ithaca was a big freaking deal: Tickets sold out in a then-record time, students scalped tickets for absurd profits and several attendees left the concert in the care of EMS. Cudi was widely regarded as an up-and-comer, armed with pop-rap hits (“Up Up & Away,” “Pursuit of Happiness,” “Erase Me”) and top-notch collaborations (the delightfully puerile “Make Her Say,” the banging Crookers remix of “Day N’ Nite” and a guest appearance on David Guetta’s ubiquitous “Memories”) that had him poised to take over as collegiate America’s favorite faded-out party-rapper.

Two and a half years later, Cudder’s star is shining much less brightly. Man on the Moon: The Legend of Mr. Rager was weighed down heavily by Cudi’s emo-tinged, “I’m so deep” dirges, and he followed it up with the critically and commercially reviled rock side project WZRD. Since then, he’s left the comfortable company (and sizable production

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Most regrettably, the carefree, fuck-the-world Cudi that could effortlessly ride atop a buoyant party track is all but gone. There are moments where that old glint appears — despite their occasionally misguided lyrics, “King Wizard,” “Just What I Am” and “Solo Dolo, Part II” are three of the stronger pop songs here — but they’re so few and far between that it prevents Indicud from gaining any momentum whatsoever. Hell, there’s a nine-minute song with a hook from, of all people, Michael Bolton, that, while thoroughly ridiculous, ends up being one of the album’s stronger tracks by virtue of acknowledging its ridiculousness. The problem is, as I suspect will happen with many of Indicud’s songs, another producer will remix it better than Kid Cudi could ever hope to. For a rapper whose production choices were so integral to his rise, it ends up seeming foolish, albeit admirable, for Cudi to strike out on his own. With no definitive jams and very little development lyrically, let’s hope that Indicud is just a stepping-stone to a more distinct production style from Mr. Mescudi.

Otherwise, when recounting that Barton Hall performance years from now, my kids will be asking, “Kid who?”

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

ly into a cauldron of despairing noise. The echoing clamor of “You Are Alone” roars back from a desolate ironworks, and we, enraptured by the doom-heavy aura of factory assemblage, are caught between wiry turbulence and grating machinery, alone. And that’s the primary theme of the album: the dissonance between man and machine. Rather, the Flaming Lips have been tackling the evils of technology for decades, and only now has that tech gained the upper hand. The salmon-colored robots came close in Yoshimi, and “the softest bullet ever shot” shed some blood, but with The Terror, our ears at last take in Coyne’s twisted mellotron Armageddon.

The album is a dreary experience, not a hit-heavy pop dream; but don’t be fooled. Its strength lies in its ability to manipulate the senses — images of an intense nothingness littered with rusting machinery manifest themselves with shocking clarity in the Lips’ carefully crafted sound. Hornetbuzz kazoos and pulsating electric currents accompany screeching gears and other industrial havoc to compete with and swallow up the half-spoken lyrics of “Turning Violent.” The title track trudges onward after a thirteen minute brew of television static and serpent-Jafar-esque caustic whispers of “Lust to succeed,” laying a steady percussive groundwork reminiscent of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You. “Butterfly (How Long It Takes To Die)” cascades shimmering synths down a wall of sparks and sonic friction, devouring Coyne’s apocalyptic vision in a windstorm of incisive apathy. ...

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Matt Hudson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mhudson@cornellsun.com.

Meet Tony Starks. Or should I say, Ghostface Killah. A master of treading the line between dual identities, the former Wu Tang Clan member ruthlessly incites images of blood, murder and crime on his tenth studio album 12 Reasons to Die. A concept album that takes place in 1960’s Italy, 12 Reasons to Die tracks fictional character Tony Starks as he fights against a crime mob organization that he once belonged to, falls in love with the kingpin’s daughter and seeks revenge when she is murdered. While this album starts out as a tale of vengeance, love and the life of Starks himself, it abruptly becomes an ode to the gloriously violent persona of the “Ghostface Killah,” the rapper and the revenge artist.

At a crucial moment to the saga, Tony Starks is no more and the Ghostface Killah mercilessly takes over: “It’s the almighty rise and the murder is Ghostface / Body’s Dropped the owls left a Cold Case.” In this instant of transformation all hell breaks loose: “Take my life, I take everyone you love / Have your kids thrown out of a plane, look up cous.”

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Unfortunately, Cudi’s psychedelia often takes on a sense of listlessness. Tracks like “Unfuckwittable” and “Mad Solar” try too hard to be trippy; instead, they’re repetitive and feel like they go on far longer than their running times suggest. The tempos are uniformly plodding and rarely provide any push for Cudi’s melodically deficient sing-rap.

And, on an album more than an hour long, finding a worthwhile production feels more serendipitous than rewarding. By the time indie pop singers Haim deliver the sprightly hook of “Red Eye,” you’re too exhausted by the preceding sub-Drake confessionals to even appreciate it.

Cudi’s sensitive, sad-sack stoner act is more annoying on Indicud than it has ever been. “Just What I Am” has a robotic, “I wanna get high” hook accompanied with depression-obsessed verses that lack any real insight into Cudi’s psyche. Even the groovy, enjoyable “Solo Dolo, Part II” has some laughable drug brags (“Who could it be? K-ID/Searching all day in the streets for DMT”) that are only rescued by Kendrick Lamar’s tongue-twisting hook and Bill Cartwright reference (forgive my basketball fanaticism).

Gas masks, searing wasteland winds and groaning iron cross beams — sun-scorched and more than a tad blistered, the Lips have finally ventured into dystopia. The journey was long; 30 years, 13 studio albums and a glorious transcendence from Oklahoman two-car-garage psych rock to charismatic, experimental production warlords have seen Wayne Coyne and Co. through to The Terror’s imagined apocalypse. And they’re exhausted — exhausted and in dire need of ChapStick. Like a wearied choir half-heartedly hailing the descension of a rusted metallic messiah, the Flaming Lips’ first studio effort since 2009’s mechanized Embryonic, is a machinist’s nightmare. Bleakly industrial, a continuity of creaking metal frameworks and dilating toad-croak generator whirs, mold The Terror into a haunting, entropic futurism. It’s rather fitting, then, that the clarion peals of Coyneist, stridently philosophical lyricism found in At War With the Mystics and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has given way to a haggard and distant quasiatonality. To chronicle the group’s growth and decay is to span genres and mutinies, verve and fatigue. Found in the tiredness of Coyne’s fatalism is some Lip-licious synecdoche for the band’s still-developing maturity, even after thirty years in the business.

Utterly devoid of the synth-heavy, cathartic melodies of The Soft Bulletin, the latest in the Flaming Lips’ studio canon is a well-organized, gapless chaos of atmosphere and overproduction. Coyne’s voice fades in and out of audible range, shadowed often by arrhythmic howling, rust-colored wires and saranwrap percussion, throbbing with hollow syncopation. The solitary sounds of Embryonic are absent, with metallic groans begging for oil and blending hazi-

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focus. Ghostface Killah pieces the story together well, so much so, that its narrative can be traced through the titles of each song; but the last few tracks become less about the story, and more about different ways to seek revenge through murder: “Torture, chop your legs off, thrown off the boat / Guillotine nigga one chop to the throat.” The album diverges considerably from the powerful feelings invoked by the ordeals of Starks and moves towards the merciless murder tactics of the Ghostface Killah.

This album is best suited for one listen straight through, as it genuinely lacks any standout tracks. That isn’t to say that it is not worth the listen. As someone who enjoys storytelling, 12 Reasons to Die holds up as a well-produced and lyrically brilliant hip hop narrative.

Though Ghostface falls short of previous classics like Supreme Clientele and Fishscale, he successfully adds another gem to his already legendary arsenal.

Scott Goldberg is a freshman in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He can be reached at smg292@cornell.edu.

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STUDENT FASHION SPOTLIGHT: Anu Lingala ’13

BY SARAH ANGELL Sun Staff Writer

This week, The Sun was given the opportunity to probe the talented mind of Anu Lingala ’13, a senior in the fiber science and apparel design program. Lacking in sleep, but looking no worse for wear, Lingala has been busy at work in preparation for the upcoming CFC Fashion Show, which takes place on April 27.

Drawing inspiration from the opulence of Versailles and the Rococo period, Lingala’s line imagines a wardrobe that a modern Marie Antoinette might covet. Aptly titled Crown on the Ground, Lingala’s visual cacophony of brocade, velvet and silks is sure to be a sumptuous affair.

THE SUN: To begin, could tell us about the inspiration behind your collection?

ANU LINGALA: It started last year, while I was abroad, I visited Versailles. I was really inspired by the architecture and the textiles that were in the bedrooms.

Last semester I took a “Version of Versailles” class in the French Department and I started looking into Marie Antoinette, Madame de Pompadour and other figures from the Rococo Period. I started [there] and was inspired by the colors, fabrics and the feel from that whole era — how extravagant and opulent it was. I wanted to translate that for the modern woman, not so much [with] giant ball gowns, but more

modern silhouettes. After talking with professors and working with this idea for a while, I came up with the concept, “What would the modern Marie Antoinette wear?”

Say it’s a young woman, probably wealthy; maybe she has this weird childhood obsession with Marie Antoinette so she really likes those colors and style, but I wanted [the clothes] to fit into a modern wardrobe. [The line] still has the same frivolous and fun feel, but isn’t so much inspired by the silhouettes of that time.

SUN: Do you have one piece in particular that you see as the cornerstone of the collection?

A.L.: Yeah, I think the last look, [which] is more of an evening look. It’s a big tulle ball gown, but just the skirt, its more open in the front so it shows more skin than you would have and its paired with a gold brocade blazer. That was the first thing I designed, and then I worked off of that [idea] in different ways.

SUN: Ithaca is clearly very different — do you feel that being, on Cornell’s campus, or in Ithaca in general has influenced you at all, or affected your work?

A.L.: I don’t know if it has influenced [me] much, in terms of my work. It does make it difficult to fabric shop and get the things you want. We take trips to the city a lot and we order from there. I guess being isolated is nice in a certain sense. We have

our own community; there are certain places we go to, like Homespun in the Commons. It has its ups and downs. I don’t know if it has affected my aesthetic that much.

SUN: How would you classify the typical style, or lack thereof, of the Cornell student?

A.L.: Uh, it’s interesting [laughs]. I think that the majority of people tend to just wear what’s easiest — you see a lot of jeans and t-shirts and sweatpants. It is also really cold, so you have to give that to them, sometimes it’s hard to try to dress stylishly when its so cold out and you just want to keep warm. I don’t think it’s the main focus of most people on campus.

SUN: To wrap things up, you’ve taken part in the Cornell Fashion Collective for four years. How have you seen the Collective evolve during your time here?

A.L.: We have definitely aimed to be a lot more professional as the years go on. We have made our runway and background more professional — simple, clean, white.

This year we are doing a straight, long, low-

to the ground runway, more like a typical fashion show. There has been more of a focus [on doing] things to make our program fit in with a more professional environment.

I think in general, the FSAD program has changed a lot. [During] the four years I have been here, they have implemented a lot of changes, and changed the curriculum to put in more classes that are focused on developing your collection. [Our class was] kind of in the midst of the transition, but I think [Cornell is] making a lot of changes to enhance the program’s reputation within the industry.

Sarah Angell is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sangell@cornellsun.com.

Lights That Never Go Out I

know I’m having a bad day when I reject every song that comes on my iPod, and reach out for an old masterpiece by The Smiths. “There is a Light That Never Goes Out,” off the British band’s 1986 album The Queen is Dead, was the darkly comic soundtrack of my freshman year. I’ve wrestled with many problems sets to Johnny Marr’s brisk guitar and soaring flute melody, paired with Morrissey’s exquisite words. My favorite line: “And in the darkened underpass / I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last / but then a strange fear gripped me / and I just couldn’t ask.” This week I’ve been replaying Youtube videos of Marr playing that immortal melody at Coachella. It makes me smile to hear Marr’s surly preface to the song directed to an eager crowd, “You’re like a friendly bunch, so let’s do something friendly.”

I haven’t stopped writing in five days — five really eventful days, actually. At this point, I’ve lost much of my discernment concerning tenses and grammar. I seem to need the thesaurus every other sentence. On Saturday, I even had to leave Bob Dylan’s concert early to resume writing, and I still have more papers to write.

On my way to Starbucks to buy yet another large coffee frappuccino yesterday (“you’re faking a smile with the coffee to go,” as Daniel Powter dismally sings on “Bad Day”), I thought about how trying to graduate has been much harder than I thought it would be. It’s made me think a lot harder about, well, everything. I will miss many things about Cornell, but certainly not the relentless pursuit of a decent GPA, which I’ve found to be less about hard work than fortuitous strategizing. I’m not good at games, and I will always be grateful to have survived. I also thought about bad days, and how people deal with them, and what that says about them.

Sad songs can only do so much, so I often deal with bad days by trying to put things into perspective. I read the news. Empowered by the Internet, I wander off hoping to find things that make sense to me — happy relationships between things I care about. A recent instance: Karl Lagerfeld, as an emissary of the Italian fashion house Fendi, is spearheading the $2.9 billion effort to rescue Rome’s embattled Trevi fountain. The fountain, a legendary tourist attraction, has had star turns in Roman

Holiday and La Dolce Vita. And Fendi isn’t alone. Tods, the luxury shoemaker, is funding the hefty restoration of Rome’s Coliseum.

But on Monday evening, the elusive boundary between fiction and nonfiction was again blurred. Every news outlet was overrun with condemnations of the Boston Marathon attacks, op-eds declaring that the terrorists would never win and heart wrenching tributes to people who lost their lives or limbs on what was supposed to be a brilliant, inspiring day. At the time the explosions happened, I’d been too busy dealing with my own bad day.

The Boston tragedy was far from the only debilitating blast, or act of violence this week — this is, unfortunately, not as clear as it should be due to the weight of media coverage given to the Boston. As I write this, 16 people have reportedly been killed in a terror attack in Bangalore, according to the BBC. I have nothing to add to the wealth of reflection and feeling in the aftermath of the unsayable. I can only say and think the obvious. The great contemporary art critic Gordon Burn spoke to The Guardian in 2009 about the three years he spent investigating the Yorkshire serial killers Fred and Rosemary West. Despite going through the suspects’ belongings, police interviews and “everything, basically, that you could possibly wish to get,” but Burns still didn’t know what motivated “two people do the kind of things that they did.”

So, I try. I try to acknowledge, remember, think and not complain; I do Darn That everything that is Dream insufficient, and yet necessary. At an Urban Outfitters sale some months ago, I unearthed, in a pile of winter wear and wallets, $4.99 copies of Stephen Chbosky’s cult classic The Perks of Being a Wallflower. At the time, I was still recovering from the film adaptation, which I’d watched on the plane on the way back to Ithaca after winter break. Perks is a devastating and exhilarating collection of letters written by Charlie, a freshman chronicling his high school experiences. This coming of age tale, fuelled by experiments with sex, drugs and good literature, culminates in an iconic scene — Charlie and his

Daveen Koh

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friends Patrick and Sam “feel infinite” as they drive through a windswept tunnel with David Bowie’s “Heroes” turned up on the radio. While I love that scene, it isn’t the one that I frequently revisit. What intrigues me is a passage that appears on the page before that one.

After spending the summer in the hospital recovering from a breakdown, Charlie reflects on what it is like to deal with bad things. He talks about his sister coming to visit and how she admitted feeling “really dumb” sharing her fears about going to college after he’d endured so much. Charlie is confounded by her sentiments, though he acknowledges that it’s good to put things into perspective. He writes, wide-eyed yet wise: “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it ... doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad ... Because it’s okay to feel things.

And be who you are about them.”

Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at dkoh@cornellsun.com. Darn That Dream appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Bryant Acts as a Role Model for Up-and-Comers

Despite recent injuries, a seasoned Kobe Bryant will always be an intricate part of the NBA’s culture TOLEDO

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this entire season has been for the Lakers, compelling him to shoulder the entire team and play such strenuous minutes.

In the end, though, no matter what any of these other people say or do, Kobe Bryant gladly took on all the responsibility and played so hard that his injury really was a combination of his own will, his own drive and his own willingness to play such strenuous minutes at his age.

The will, drive, determination, toughness and relentless need to win that make Kobe Bryant such a titan in this game are the same things that inevitably led to his own demise this season.

I guess you can say these things are Kobe’s Achilles heel.

I’ve long told myself and a few people that the day Kobe officially retires from the Lakers is the day that I’m going to lock myself in a closet and sob my eyes out, because I’ll actually be that emotional. Talk about your man crush, right? I couldn’t believe that this was possibly the end of an era in not only basketball, but also my life as a fan.

After the initial shock, though, I realized that he’d be all right. I realized that everything would be all right. I realized that any self-respecting person wouldn’t go out like that. I realized that Kobe Bean Bryant is no average person, but rather one of the most dedicated, hard-working, driven, mentally tough winners that this or any other sport has ever seen.

There is no way that his story is ending like this.

There is absolutely no way that a titan of basketball your team hanging dude.

People call Kobe the worst team player because of like Kobe would let himself go out like this. Whether or not he is able to hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy the volume of his shots and how he always seems to once more, he is going to ride off into the sunset in take over games when things get close late. Let’s face it, this isn’t evidence of his selfishness; it all points to a fashion suitable for a legend of his caliber.

More importantly, though, I realized that basket- how dedicated he is to winning, and how dedicated ball needs Kobe Bryant more than anything. In many he is to his team and his fan base. The man wants to ways, Kobe and a few other players who entered the win so badly that he will shoulder all of the responleague with him are relics of a different NBA. These sibility of doing so and take the game-winning shot are vintage players of a time when hard work and every time. How many times have we seen LeBron differ to another player in sound fundamentals were these high-pressure situafavored over flash and piztions instead of taking the zazz. Think about it. The Whether you love him or hate him, shot himself? Think about current “Sportscenter Top you know the NBA needs Kobe it.

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The current generation of NBA players cares more look up to. Kobe lives in the weight room, on the about endorsements and popular stardom than win- practice court and in the film room. Very few players ning championships. Kobe and players like him are in the current NBA can even measure up to the degree of hard work he puts in day in and day out to focused on only one thing, and that is winning.

The NBA needs an Iron Man like Kobe. improve himself and his team. As soon as this injury Throughout his career, the man has played with happened, he immediately went for an MRI and injuries and been at the top of his game the entire went in for surgery, not delaying or wasting a single time. LeBron James had leg cramps and had to be second because there is only one place he really wants carried off the court. Keep crying. Paul Pierce’s M.O. to be, and that is on the floor of the Staples Center is the flop, and needs the support of a wheelchair for in a Lakers uniform.

Whether you love him or you hate him, you know the drama. Keep crying. Derrick Rose is essentially giving the middle finger to all of his teammates and the NBA needs Kobe Bryant. the Bulls’ fan base because he doesn’t want to come back until he’s good and ready, despite being cleared Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at to play by doctors for some time now. Keep leaving jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

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Hortelano to Train For Future Olympics 10 QUESTIONS

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What record do you hold in Spain?

This year I set the Cornell school record in the 300 m, which is kind of an odd distance since it’s three-fourths of an outdoor track, but it turns out it was also a national record in Spain. I guess not many people have run it in the past.

10. What has been the most memorable part of your career at Cornell specifically as a D-I athlete?

Being Ivy League champions as a team is what has stood out to me the most. Track is an individual sport, sure. You have individual success, whether it’s at small meets or Ivys or at Nationals, but there’s no meet like the Heptagonal meet. Even though you have teammates in something completely different from what you’re doing, everyone comes through and really becomes a team. My closest friends are on the track team. I think if I had to say one specific moment, it would be at Indoor Heps this year at Harvard. We beat Princeton by one point, 157-156, and it was a photo finish. It all came down to the last event, and I don’t think anyone’s really seen that in the Ivy League for a few generations.

Were there any individual rivals on Princeton’s team that it felt good to beat?

Their team is made up of superstars, and there are a couple of guys on their team that are just incredible at what they do. For us, we have great guys, but what we have that Princeton doesn’t is the depth. For every event, we’re really good. For them, they’re exceptional in a handful of events. This year, at the Indoor Heps, not even those superstars were able to win.

What are your expectations for the remainder of the season?

First of all, I want to win Outdoor Heps. It’s going to be at Princeton, so that would make for a perfect story. I want to make it to Nationals. I’ll be going to Spain this summer to compete for Spain and with that I would like to go to the World Championships, which is tough. That’s my goal — I believe in getting better every year, and I want to continue to do that.

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

Red Looking to Dominate ROWING

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The Red has trained hard on the lake to prepare for potentially rough conditions on the open waters of the Severn River, where the squad will face rivals Navy and Syracuse.

“Being out on the lake has helped us get used to not having landmarks and manage rougher water. Much of this

weekend’s results will depend upon how well we can stay calm and keep our composure while still attacking,” junior Chris Massey said.

The Cornell crew must start off strong to dominate the first Varsity Eight Race and stake a claim to the coveted Goes Trophy, putting in place a new legacy for years to come.

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Fight or flight | Cornell looks ahead to this weekend’s series against Penn and next weekend’s against Princeton and hopes to fight it out for the Ivy League Championships.

C.U. Looks to Ivy Championships BASEBALL

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“We have to see fastballs; that’s the main key,” Peters said. “If we see a fastball, recognize the spin on the ball and see them up in the zone, we can be real successful. If we hit the ball hard, a lot of things can happen because it puts pressure on the defense.”

The Red’s own pitchers will also have to deal with Penn’s senior outfielder Ryan Dietrich. The former second-team All-Ivy Leaguer is leading the entire Ancient Eight in batting average at .419 and hits with 49. In a win over Cornell last year, Dietrich went 2-4 with a triple.

Though the Red is not in the position it had hoped to be at this juncture in the season, Peters said the nature of the losses so far prove that it can play

with every team.

“We’ve been in almost every single game, so it’s not like we’ve been getting blown away,” Peters said.

“A couple games have slipped away from us, but it is what it is.”

With only this series and an extremely important home and away series against Princeton left in divisional play, the Red still has a chance to reach the Ivy League championship series.

“We just have to take advantage of our opportunities and beat these teams, and hope they can do something against Columbia so we can jump above [the Lions],” Peters said. “Really, we pretty much need to win out from here forward.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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Round and round and round the track | Senior Bruno Hortelano explains his love for Bob Dylan and his Canadian roots.

Ten Questions columnist Reena Gilani sits down with senior Bruno Hortelano to discuss what exactly a ‘brunjob’ is, his switch to engineering and his time off for Olympic training.

1. How did you get involved with track?

I was eight years old and my parents told me that I was a fast crawler. It was around the time of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. I’m from Canada and that year Donovan Bailey, a Canadian sprinter, won the Olympics and broke the world record. Between the two things, I was inspired to start running for little club, and 13 years later I’m still running.

Can you talk more about the nice Canadian family that you come from?

Interestingly, both of my parents are Spanish and were raised in Spain. I wasn’t even born in Canada, so we immigrated there. My parents are both pretty short; they’re nice people.

I was told you are much taller than both of your parents.

My parents are both 5’2” — they’re actually the same height. It’s like they were made for each other. I’m about 6” so I guess I just lucked out.

2. What is a “brunjob”?

All I’m allowed to say is: if you don’t know what a brunjob is, then you definitely can’t afford it.

3. Do you want to talk about your guitar-playing ability?

It’s just a hobby of mine. I took piano classes, but I decided it was kind of boring, so I wanted to take up guitar.

I went out and bought one and taught myself how to play. I play every so often … my roommate Montez [Blair] probably hates me because I’ll randomly just

start playing at 1 a.m.

When did you start playing?

About five years ago.

Do you have any original compositions?

I do, actually. I used to write little love songs for the girls I dated in high school. I would bring the guitar to school and play for them.

Do you sing too?

I try. I’m a shower singer, I’d say.

Would you consider Bob Dylan to be one of your musical influences?

Yes, I love Bob Dylan.

Were you able to go to the concert?

Yes, I did. I loved it so much. Bob Dylan was introduced to me about three years ago and he’s probably one of my favorite singers at this point in my life. When I found out he was coming I was so ecstatic, although I heard he’s kind of a jerk in real life.

Did it seem that way during the concert?

Yeah, he didn’t say anything to the crowd the whole time. He kind of just got on stage, sang his songs and left. I didn’t expect anything less, but, I didn’t expect anything more, either.

4. Is it true that you’re so gullible that you believed your friend was related to the Canadian prime minister?

I guess, Danny [Blackman] has a lying complex where he lies to everyone the first time he meets them. So, the Canadian prime minister’s name is Stephen Harper, and the first time that I met Danny he told me that his name was Daniel Harper and that he lived at the address of the current prime minister of Canada. He knew all the facts and I had no reason not to believe it. I figured there are so many famous people that go to Cornell so there’s no reason not to believe this guy.

How did you discover he was lying?

When he told somebody else a different lie and I was there to witness it.

5. How did you decide to switch to engineering?

Coming into college, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was good at biology so I applied to Arts & Sciences, which is what my coach here had recommended when he recruited me. I figured engineering would be better for me because I really like the physics and math parts of it. It’s not really common for anyone to transfer into engineering; I think I was one of three people to do it that year.

What role did dining at RPCC, play in making this decision?

Freshman year at RPCC I got three fortune cookies in a row that said that I would be good at biomedical engineering — all three said the same exact thing, and I still carry those fortunes around in my wallet. I figured that one day, if I become some big biomedical researcher, I’ll have the proof right there.

6. What would one find on your Photo Booth on your computer?

There are some videos of me playing guitar by myself, kind of creepy. There are pictures with friends … and maybe there are some pictures that can’t necessarily be talked about. Clothes may or may not be there.

7. What reason can you attribute to you having the best natural smell ever?

Some people say it’s pheromones, but I really don’t try. I just get out of the shower and am ready to go. Every time Tom Randall would come into my room, he’d say I smelled delicious. I’ve gotten that from people before.

You don’t use cologne or anything?

No cologne. I’ve never owned a bottle; I don’t really need it. I just have a naturally great smell.

8. Can you describe your ideal Friday night?

I do like saying I like going out whenever there are parties going on, hanging out with friends, but I don’t mind just sitting at home watching movies. I’m a pretty big movie buff.

What’s your favorite genre of movie?

Actually, I like all sorts of genres, from action to chick flicks. I’ve seen a couple of black-and-white movies though not many of my friends like them so I just watch those by myself.

They’re really good though — probably some of the best movies. Recently all of the movies in Hollywood are terrible.

It’s all 3D remakes of old ’90s movies.

9. How did you spend last school year?

I decided to take the year off because last year was an Olympic year. Going into that year, I saw that I could have a really good season. I was close to the Olympic standard time so in January I took a leave of absence from here, went to Spain and trained for six months trying to make the Olympics for Spain. I didn’t make the Olympics, but I almost did. The IAAF has a deadline for everyone by which they have to run the standard qualifying times. Last year it was July 8, and I did run the necessary time but just two weeks after. So, it was on a technicality that I didn’t get to go to the Olympics.

Are you going to try again in the future?

Yes, definitely.

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Sports

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BASEBALL

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Why the World Needs Kobe Bryant I

Red Nine Ready For Do-Or-Die Quakers Series

was devastated when I found out Kobe Bryant had torn his Achilles tendon in last Friday night’s home game against the Golden State Warriors, with only two games left in the regular season. I’ve been a dedicated, devout, and borderline obsessive Los Angeles Lakers fan since I first started playing and watching basketball so many years ago. There are no words to express the utter despair I felt at seeing Bryant go down in such a dramatic and tragic fashion nearing the end of his 17th season playing in the NBA. An Achilles tear almost seems like an oddly appropriate injury for such a player. We spend so much time praising Bryant for his ability to, after

After tough series against Columbia, Red readies for weekend matchup

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After a difficult series against Columbia where the baseball team struggled to produce offensively, the Red will return to Hoy Field for a do-or-die series with Penn beginning on Saturday at noon “Honestly, we really need to take four out of four in order to stay in contention,” senior infielder Brenton Peters said.

The three losses to the Lions this past weekend put the Red at .500 in the Ivy League and 1-3 against competition within the Lou Gehrig Division. Going into this series, the Red is tied with the Quakers for third place in the division.

Against Columbia, the Red only mustered up three total runs in the losses. According to Peters, this is where the team needs to focus when it meets Penn this weekend.

“We need to execute better offensively than we have been doing lately,” he said. “Our pitchers have been keeping us in games and we haven’t been providing run support. We just need to get more aggressive at the plate and not think about what’s coming — just see the ball and hit it.”

Though the Red’s starters pitched well enough against Columbia to keep the team in the game, the rotation was also not as dominant as it has been up to this point. Sophomore lefthander Nick Busto — who had not lost a game going into his start on Saturday against the Lions — had his first tough outing of the season, allowing eight hits and eight runs over five and a third innings. Sophomore pitcher Brent Jones also struggled in his start, only going two and two thirds innings, and allowing seven hits and three earned runs.

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For better or for worse | Senior Kevin Tatum and the Red squad look to come back from a losing series against Columbia and thrive in this weekend’s games against Penn.

“It all starts with pitching,” Peters said. “Our pitchers need to throw strikes and go deep into games. Then we need to be solid on the defensive end and we’ll be pretty successful.”

In a very similar position to the Red, the Quakers will also be looking to inch their way to the top of the Lou Gehrig Division. With only three seniors on their roster, the Quakers are a fairly inexperienced team that features some young talent. Sophomore pitcher Dan Gautieri is leading the team in wins with five and ERA at 2.00. In the series with Cornell last year, Gautieri recorded the win in Penn’s only victory over the Red in a four-game series. He also tied a Penn program record with 17 appearances as a freshman.

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17 years in the league, still play at the top of his game and still be the best player at his position.

When you really think about it, Kobe’s play all season really has been ageless, and in no way demonstrative of a player who’s logged as many minutes as he has in such a long career. It’s almost as if the man is a demigod much like, well, Achilles.

Blame for this injury can be pointed all over the place. Sure, we can blame D’Antoni for leaving Bryant in for the entire game, and playing him 40+ minutes regularly in recent games, in several playing him for the entire game except a few minutes. Blame can be put on the entire Lakers organization for the clear-cut failure that See TOLEDO page 16

ROWING

Lightweights Look for Geiger Cup,Heavyweights for Goes Trophy

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s lightweight and heavyweight rowing teams both have a big weekend ahead. The lightweight squad is currently gearing up to compete for the Geiger Cup against Columbia and MIT at home as the heavyweight squad prepares to

battle for the Goes Trophy against Naval Academy and Syracuse away at Navy on Saturday.

The Red’s lightweight team will host Columbia and MIT at 8:30 a.m. in hopes of taking home the Geiger Cup. Cornell has won this cup for the past five years consecutively. Last year, the Red dominated the tournament, not only

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Ribbons for the Red | The men’s lightweight rowing team looks to tale home the Geiger Trophy while the heavyweight team looks to win the Goes Trophy this weekend.

sweeping Columbia and MIT in the team has made us feel confident that we Varsity Eight race but also in the Second can become the top program in the Varsity Eight, the Varsity Four and the League,” freshman Will Oprea said.

Freshmen Eight.

Cornell’s heavyweight squad will travel Thus, the Red’s lightweight crew team to Annapolis, Maryland to race at Navy hopes to keep this tradition alive this against the home team’s Midshipmen as Saturday at Cayuga Lake Inlet and give the well as the Syracuse Orange. The Red will fans something to cheer about. be competing with the Midshipmen and Members of the squad feel confident the Orange for the Goes Trophy at 7 a.m. about the tournament this weekend given on Saturday. the Red’s track record and recent impresUnlike the lightweight squad, who seeks sive performances against Princeton and to defend its title as Geiger Cup victors this Yale. weekend, the heavy“I am really lookweight squad looks to ing forward to buildturn the tide and steal “I am really looking ing upon our perforthe Goes Trophy from mances against forward to building upon the Mids, the defendPrinceton and Yale last ing 2012 tournament our performances.” week. As a team, our champions.

Navy, Rich Barakat potential is sky high.

Cornell, and Syracuse We look to execute have competed for the our race plan this Goes Trophy since weekend, come out victorious across the 1955 and the Mids have earned the honor board and prove why this is our inlet,” 25 times. sophomore Rich Barakat said.

The trophy is presented annually to the Additionally, the Red plans to take winner of the first Varsity Eight Race advantage of the tournament as an oppor- between the three teams. Last year, the tunity to bolster team confidence as the Mids held off the Red by less than a boat squad’s championship race, the Eastern length to take home the trophy. Because Sprints, nears. the Mids clinched the win in such a close “We are quickly approaching the contest, the Red goes in to this year’s battle Eastern Sprints and are eager for the race even hungrier for victory. experience against these programs in Columbia and MIT. Our progress as a See ROWING page 17