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Supporting Free Bus Passes, Students Call Skorton’s Office Student organizers hold ‘mock bake sale,’ exchange cookies for calls to Day Hall

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

More than 13 years after the Tompkins County Public Library moved to its current location on Green Street, the County is considering various options for commercially developing its old building on N. Cayuga Street.

Since the library moved out in the fall of 2000, the space — valued at $1.5 million — has been occupied by various other government agencies, according to Michael Lane (D-14th District), chair of the Tompkins County Legislature.

“The County was expanding criminal justice programs, so those programs stayed in the building for about 10 years,” he said. “By now, most have moved out, with the exception of Day Reporting [a criminal justice program for rehabilitating those

In an act of “political theater” Thursday, students from across campus exchanged cookies for calls to Day Hall to protest recent University deliberations over discontinuing free first-year Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit bus passes.

Though the University Assembly amended its resolution on Tuesday to increase subsidies to TCAT rather than call for the removal of free bus passes for freshmen, President David Skorton will have 30 days to respond to the U.A.’s resolution regarding “Bake sales are the the future of TCAT bus passes. cliché way groups The “mock bake sales” — held fundraise, so we outside Mann Library and Willard Straight Hall — were satirically flipped this intended to initiate conversation tactic on its head.” between students and administrators on the issue at the grassroots Rudy Gerson ’15 level, according to organizer Rudy Gerson ’15. Following the sale, students dropped off a “letter of demands” at President Skorton’s office.

“Bake sales are the cliché way groups fundraise, so we satirically flipped this tactic on its head by handing out free cookies in order to start the conversation with students … in an organic way,” he said.

According to Anna-Lisa Castle ’14, an organizer of the event, student involvement during the mock bake sale was significant.

“While I wasn't able to keep track of all the calls, I will say that I

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Proposals for Old Library Evaluated COURTESY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY

Rebuild | These renderings show two out of six potential redevelopment plans for the old Tompkins County Public Library site on the corner of N. Cayuga and W. Court Streets. Top: A proposal from Franklin Properties and partners would reuse the structural frame of the old library to build a “Cayuga Community Education Center for Lifelong Wellness.” Inset: The “De Witt House” envisioned by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services would include ground-floor commercial space and 60-70 apartments above.

By ERIC OBERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Graduate Student Trustee Candidates Talk Platforms

By ANDREW LEE

In her platform, O’Toole said she would be a good addition to the Board of Trustees because of her experience workGraduate Student Trustee candidates ing with the Board of Trustees at non— Annie O’Toole grad and Ann Bybee- profit organizations and other universiFinley grad — discussed affordability, ties. sexual violence and University divest“I think [students] have such a unique ment while making the opportunity here at case for their platforms Cornell,” O’Toole said.

“I think [students] during a debate in “And we aren’t always have a unique Warren Hall Thursday. able to take advantage of Moderated by Sun that because we don’t opportunity here at necessarily Editor in Chief Haley have the time Velasco ’15, the debate Cornell.” or information to learn began with candidates about all the opportuniAnnie O’Toole grad discussing the role of the ties on campus.”

Student Trustee and O’Toole said she their qualifications for the position. would work to facilitate conversation Both candidates stressed the impor- and communications between undertance of the Student Trustee’s role in graduate colleges, graduate programs and working with the student body to voice University faculty. She added that she their concerns to the Board of Trustees intends to address the problems of sexuand in tackling the issues facing the university.

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Debate off | Graduate Student Trustee candidates Annie O’Toole grad and Ann Bybee-Finley grad discuss their platforms during a debate in Warren Hall Thursday.

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Opinions, “FORKEN | The NCAA and Unionization,” Tuesday Speaking about the National Labor Relations Board’s ruling that Northwestern scholarship football players were allowed to unionize "When a handful of individuals are making billions off of college kids who can’t even find work to cover their medical expenses after college due to the streamlined academic process for elite athletes, it’s time for a change.”

Jake Forken ’16 News, “University Assembly Supports Free TCAT Bus Passes for Freshmen,” Wednesday Speaking about a U.A. resolution that originally proposed ending free bus passes for incoming students “Tuition has been increased by approximately $2,000 for all students. That’s roughly a $27 million dollar increase just for undergraduates alone. When the administration says it can’t afford [to increase TCAT subsidies], it’s hard as a student to believe that.”

Aline Schechter ’16 News, “Diversity Engagement at Cornell Lacking, Survey Shows,” Thursday Speaking of a report which concluded that the University lacks engagement regarding diversity and bias incidents “What we have to work on now are issues of engagement and inclusion. If we recruit diverse classes and drop them on this campus without the tools to navigate difference then we’ve only done half the job.”

Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of students

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Students Demand C.U.Terminate Its JanSport Contract

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By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Staff Writer

On Wednesday, the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse that killed over 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers, Cornell students gathered on Ho Plaza to demand that the University cease to partner with corporations that support sweatshop labor — specifically clothing manufacturer JanSport.

The Cornell Sweatfree Coalition, a partnership of student groups including the Cornell Organization for Labor Action, Cornell Students Against Sweatshops and KyotoNOW!, sponsored the event, where protesters called for the Cornell Store to stop selling JanSport products by hanging a banner comprised of t-shirts covered with hundreds of signatures above the store’s Ho Plaza enclave. The t-shirt petition was then delivered to President David Skorton’s office.

“Today is a national day of action, where students and workers are standing in solidarity with the Bangladeshi factory workers who died in Rana Plaza,” said Allison Considine ’17, a member of the Cornell Organization for Labor Action.

“We’re asking Cornell to cut our contract with JanSport.”

Though JanSport products specifically are not produced in Bangladesh, other products produced by VF Corporation, its parent company, are produced there. According to Steck, VF has refused to sign the Accord on Building and Fire Safety in Bangladesh — an independent agreement designed to make all garment factories in Bangladesh safe workplaces.

“We sell JanSport in the Cornell Store, and … all the profits are going back to that same conglomerate of VF,” Considine said. “There are tons of [VF] brands producing [in Bangladesh], and they are making money off of exploiting Bangladeshi workers.”

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Prof. Charles Williamson, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and other faculty members participate in a panel to discuss the effectiveness of large lecture courses Thursday.

In February , President David Skorton announced that the University intends to require all licensed apparel contractors to abide by the Accord, calling it “a fair, transparent and unbiased approach to factory inspection and remediation.”

However, JanSport remains technically unaffected.

“Cornell is requiring licensees doing business in Bangladesh to become signatories to the Accord in order to continue to be licensed by the University,” Skorton said in a letter to the Cornell Sweatfree Coalition. “JanSport does not do business in Bangladesh, therefore we will not end our licensing relationship. We consider JanSport’s relationship with VF entirely separate from its relationship with Cornell.”

Members of the Cornell Sweatfree Coalition said they dis-

agree with the administration about the dynamics of this relationship and said they view the license with JanSport as support of dangerous work environments and sweatshop labor.

“Getting that written into [the University’s] code of conduct was a victory for us,” said Amy Frieder ’15, the treasurer of COLA. “But it means absolutely nothing if we don’t enforce it. And so we’re pressuring the University to uphold standards that we’re setting for ourselves.”

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

Jewish and Armenian Students Gather for Commemoration

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Both Jewish and Armenian communities on campus gathered at the Johnson Museum to remember the Holocaust and the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Thursday.

The event, co-hosted by the Armenian Student Organization and Cornell Hillel, featured a reception followed by a keynote speech by Prof. Vicki Caron, history, and a panel of distinguished speakers from Cornell and Colgate University.

Prof. Yervant Terzian, astronomy, began by describing the events that led to the 20th century genocide.

“As humans increased in number, they began a rivalry and started to kill each other,” Terzian said. “This resulted in

wars, which followed us into the 20th century, which included the Armenian genocide and the Jewish Holocaust, which occurred in World War II.” Terzian continued by discussing the reluctance of the Turkish government to recognize the Armenian Genocide — the Ottoman Empire’s systematic extermination of Armenians during World War I in Turkey.

“Armenians have survived, but at what price? There have been no Nuremberg trials, and the Turkish criminals are celebrated as heroes today in Turkey,” he said. “Turkish efforts to deny the genocide have resorted to rewriting historical accounts. Recognition of huge genocide is the very least Armenians can ask for, but they have largely been denied this.”

Terzian ended the introduction by

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Never forgotten | Members of the Jewish and Armenian communities gather at the Johnson Museum Thursday to commemorate victims of the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide.

Hoffmann contrasted Turkey’s denial speaking about the importance of of the Armenian Genocide to the rememremembering the genocides.

“Had the world recognized the first brance of the Holocaust by Germany and massacre, perhaps the second one could the slow restoration of personal and communal property. have been avoided,” he said.

“We were able to reclaim the field, After a moment of silence, Caron spoke on the uniqueness of the but not the gravestones,” he said.

Prof. Peter Balakian, English, Colgate Holocaust as a genocide, its effect on University, also gave today’s world. the audience a history “It was unique in “Armenians have of Armenia pre and two ways, in the cold post-genocide. and calculated survived, but at what “The year 1915 is method of killing, lauded as the year of such as the technoloprice? There have been modernity. It’s an gy in the camps in no Nuremberg trials, and e x t r a o r d i n a r y Poland as well as for certain Hitler’s unique intent the Turkish criminals are moment breakthroughs, but to kill all Jews, withthere’s the great irony out exception, as well celebrated as heroes.” of the war with being as to wipe out all of Prof. Yervant Terzian the largest technoJewish culture.” killing to this day,” he Caron cited the said. “This violence recent shooting at the Jewish Center in Kansas City by ex-Klu accompanies the modernity, and what Klux Klan Dragon Frazier Glenn Miller, accompanies the Great War was genoJewish identification in Ukraine and cide, both at the western fronts and in popular anti-Semitic French comedian Ottoman Turkey.”

The program ended with recitation of Dieudonné M’bala M’bala as reasons to poems, written in Armenian and Hebrew remember.

Prof. Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H. and translated into English, followed by T. Rhodes professor of Humane Letters a casual question and answer panel with emeritus, and the winner of the 1981 the speakers.

The event was part of Hillel’s recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry, urged the audience to ‘return, remember and for- intercultural events, which aim for give’ the horrors of Holocaust, speaking Jewish students to engage in dialogue as a child survivor. Hoffmann spoke with non-Jewish communities, according about his family move to Zokchiv, a mid- to Nina Gershonowitz ’16, chair of dle-class Polish-Ukrainian town, and Hillel’s cultural programming committhen being smuggled out by bribery to tee.

“We started meeting in February, and hide in the attic and storage room of a then got more serious about making a schoolhouse in the countryside.

“We can return. The remembering is program that would be meaningful for the necessary step, and clearly, on both a both the Jewish and Armenian communational and personal level, that is what nities on and around campus,” she said. is missing in Turkey and the Turkish people in regards to the Armenian Genocide.

And until you remember, you can’t start Kevin Milian can be reached at to forgive,” he said. kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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Organizers: Univ. Considering Candidates Discuss Cutting Free Passes Is ‘Absurd’ Platforms at Debate For Graduate Trustee TCAT

budget priorities, Cornell-Ithaca ties, workers’ rights and our commitment to sustainability among others,” she said.

According to Carrie Freshour grad, the University’s was on Ho Plaza for three hours, and there was always at least one person calling if not multiple,” Castle proposal would not only adversely affect first-year stusaid. “We also had students sign the brand new online dents, but graduate and professional students as well.

“I see this issue as particularly affecting graduate petition which now has over 400 signatures.”

The University was unable to comment on the and professional students who live far from campus,” number of students who called Day Hall in regard to she said. “I’ve spoken with many staff members in my department who work for Cornell and who can’t the issue Thursday evening.

Organizers said that they thought the claims that afford a parking pass, and who are worrying about the University cannot afford the bus passes are “inap- bus lines being cut if the University makes this decipropriate” and “absurd,” given “multi-million dollar sion.”

Castle said she hopes the event will help to build building” projects such as Gates Hall and Cornell momentum around the effort to Tech. save the bus passes and “demand “In light of these projects and “The very act of calling accountability” to Cornellians and also the increase in tuition, if the University can’t afford this then the office and hearing a the community as a whole.

“We wanted to educate stuthey should rethink things,” Nadia complaint heard was ... dents about the issue while makShebaro ’15 said. “[In] particular, [they should think] about what’s a liberating experience.” ing an impact, but also demonstrate how accessible political important to the students and action can be by using humor and community in general.”

Rudy Gerson ’15 encouraging friendly participation Gerson said he thinks wideduring the bake sale,” she said. spread concerns raised by the potential cutting of the first-year bus passes shed light “We wanted to show the administration how much this issue means to students by generating calls and on broader issues of University accountability.

“When President [David] Skorton and the encouraging people to voice their concerns.”

Gerson also said he hopes to keep the issue of Provost’s office decide to cut a basic amenity, students demand to know why,” he said. “Other Ivy League TCAT accessibility and budgetary accountability “on [institutions] give them out to all students — it the minds and hearts” of students.

“Too often political demonstration takes itself so almost seems like the least the administration can do.

The very act of calling the office and hearing a com- seriously that people who want to join or listen feel plaint heard was in itself a liberating experience, espe- intimidated and simply spectate,” he said. “This percially on a campus where strict codes of conduct have formance was a way to bring others into the conversation … our small coalition grows every day and we become normalized.”

Castle said she believes access to TCAT bus ser- will soon demand what we and Tompkins County rightly deserve — bus passes for all students.” vices is “something all students can get behind.”

“Broader questions this issue brings up are important to a lot of people: student autonomy, university Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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Bybee-Finley grad, O’Toole grad talk financial literacy, student dialogue DEBATE

O’Toole expressed her desire to facilitate alternative forms of dialogue between the ual violence on campus. student body and the admin“I think that safety starts istration by creating a forum with preventative educational for students, faculty, and measures for freshman before experts to talk about contestthey even arrive on campus ed issues and to ensure stuand training programs for dent concerns were heard by women to feel better equipped the Board. to defend themselves,” “It would be a shame if stuO’Toole said. dents who were so passionate O’Toole said she is also about this issue didn’t carry it committed to keeping forward,” O’Toole said.

Cornell’s tuition affordable When asked by an audience and reforming financial aid on to elaborate on their legislation. stances regarding divestment, Bybee-Finley said her role both candidates agreed that as a graduate student, instruc- the university should only tor and colleague to faculty divest when it felt there was a members gave her a unique broad consensus on campus perspective as a candidate on on a particular issue like clean issues affecting students at energy.

Cornell.

Another audience member “I work with a lot of differ- asked what would happen if ent parts of the administration either candidate was forced to and other student groups represent an unpopular posievery day,” Bybee-Finley said. tion on the board, citing out“They come to me with events going Student Trustee Darrick they need help raising aware- Nighthawk Evensens’s grad ness for, and we aren’t always decision to vote against the able to get University the word budget.

“Cornell has a out.” “ I In her would talk legal and moral platform, to as many duty in providing B y b e e trustees as F i n l e y possible so dependable methstressed that t h e y t h e underods of providing Un i v e r s i t y stand why benefits to graduneeds to these issue take steps to matter so ate students who improve stumuch to a dents’ finanparticular are temporarily or cial literacy group,” permantly disabled and increase Bybeecampus supFinely due to injuries.” port for said. career develBy b e e Ann Bybee-Finley grad opment.

Finley said Both canEvensen didates also shared their sup- voted against the budget port for the Graduate and because it would have created Professional Student’s an inequality in teaching and Assembly recent resolution research assistantship stipend calling for the university to rates. While this would make provide worker’s compensa- Cornell more competitive for tion for graduate students who federal grants but would also are injured while working. have resulted in an annual pay “Cornell has legal and disparity of $634 for Teaching moral duty in providing Assistants and Resident dependable methods of pro- Advisors. viding benefits to graduate “You need to bring the stustudents who are temporarily dent body in on this conversaor permanently disabled due tion,” Bybee-Finley said. to injuries,” Bybee-Finley said. “Even if the outcome is the “The university should clarify same, the impact on the politits benefits policy so graduate ical process is huge. students can make informed O’Toole added that it is decisions regarding their own important for the Student personal risk.”

Trustee to properly communiBoth candidates also cate and explain to the Board addressed the role of the of the Trustees what the stuStudent Trustee in promoting dent body’s priorities are. student dialogue, particularly Online voting for the in regards to Resolution 72 — Student Trustee Elections a call for the University to begins on Monday and will divest from corporations end Wednesday. involved in Israeli action on the Gaza strip — which was recently tabled by the Student Andrew Lee can be reached at Assembly. alee@cornellsun.com.

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Former Library May House Retail, Residential Spaces

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Tompkins County Legislature will make decision on future of property LIBRARY

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convicted of a crime outside of prison], which will move out in the near future.”

The County is currently deciding whether it should sell, lease or keep the property, according to Ed Marx, Tompkins County commissioner of planning.

“No final decision has been made to sell or lease the site,” Marx said. “For a number of years, consideration was given to building a new Center of Government building on the site but it was recently determined that such a project was not warranted.”

In December, the County issued a request for proposals for the use of the old library and has since received six for converting the building into either a residential or commercial space.

Lane said that once the proposals are reviewed by the Planning Advisory Board and the Tompkins County Legislature committee overseeing the project, some or all applications will be sent to the full legislature, which could then ask for more formal proposals from the companies.

“If [the legislature picks] one, and we decide to go with [it], we have to decide to actually sell the location or lease it,” Lane said.

When analyzing the applications, there are numerous factors

“No final decision has been made to sell or lease the site. For a number of years, consideration was given to building a new Center of Government building on the site.”

Ed Marx that must be taken into account, he said.

“We need to see if the proposer has the financial wherewithal to go forward with it,” he said. “We also want to see if it is compatible with the neighborhood. We have Lifelong, the senior citizen facility, on one side and a nice bed and breakfast on the other and Dewitt Park nearby.”

Lane said he wants to see a development that combines retail and residential functions.

“I like the thought of having mixed usage,” he said. “I was surprised that there was so much housing and not other kinds of proposals in the group.”

Marx said that the County wants to develop a project that meets the needs of the community’s commercial and residential requirements.

“We’d also like to see a building that is extremely energy efficient and contributes to the County’s goal of an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,” he said.

Eric Oberman can be reached at eoberman@cornellsun.com.

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Condo development | This rendering shows a third development proposal for the old library site on N. Cayuga Street (see two other proposals on this issue’s front page). This plan by DPI Consultants would include 76 condominiums and eight apartments replacing the former library.

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Navy ROTC recruits train by the edge of the Reflecting Pool at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on the morning of Earth Day Tuesday.

Obama to Visit Korea as Part of Tour TOKYO (AP) — When President Barack Obama arrives in South Korea on Friday, he will be thrust anew into the role of consoler in chief in a time of crisis, a responsibility he has become all too accustomed to in the United States.

South Korea is reeling from the ferry disaster that has left more than 300 dead or missing, with the vast majority of the victims students from a high school near the capital of Seoul. The tragedy has consumed South Korean President Park Geun-hye in the lead-up to Obama’s visit

and could distract from the security and economic agenda she had been expected to highlight during her meetings with the U.S. president.

Another world issue is shadowing Obama on his four-nation Asia trip: the crisis in Ukraine.

In Tokyo on Thursday, the president said at a news conference that the U.S. has a new round of economic sanctions against Russia “teed up” if the Russians provoke further instability in Ukraine.

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Q: I keep hearing about Cornell’s Sesquicentennial next year. Are there going to be some big events?

— Party Animal ’16 A: You’re in luck, because Cornell is throwing parties around the world to celebrate its 150th birthday. The big Ithaca celebration is one year away, the weekend of April 25, 2015, celebrating Charter Day, the anniversary of the signing of Cornell’s charter. But leading up to that date will be sesquicentennial events for alumni around the world, beginning in New York City in September, followed by Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, Boston, Florida, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and elsewhere. There will also be opportunities to get involved remotely through contests, social media, videos and more. Cornellians never miss a chance to throw a good party.

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Regarding the Cornell freshmen bus passes

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To the Editor: Re: “University Assembly Supports Free TCAT Passes for Freshmen,” News, April 23.

As leaders of the United Auto Workers Local 2300, we are very concerned about the pass structure at Cornell being amended for the freshman class. Our reservations primarily lean towards the overall safety of the students themselves.

Taking away the passes will make the students walk across campus to attend class, walk to and from evening events and classes in addition to commuting to and from social gatherings. These issues are real and directly affect the students themselves.

Removing the passes from the freshman class will ripple through the span of their stay at Cornell. This has the ability to increase vehicular traffic on campus, boost our carbon footprint through added automobile emissions and again make traveling the campus on foot a bit more hazardous for the students and other pedestrians. There is barely enough parking on the campus now, with the addition of more vehicles it has the potential of starting an escalation on the fares charged to park.

Thirdly we have concerns for the TCAT organization as well as the local community itself with a reduced student flow for TCAT and area businesses. TCAT is very much dependent on the Cornell ridership to keep their subsidies at a level where they are able to do business. Reducing the ridership directly affects the amount of state and federal funding that drives the budget at TCAT. There are many employees there and they do a great job! We need to keep the passes for the freshmen to allow for both the business and the local economy to continue to prosper here in Ithaca.

We also have a concern if this freshmen pass issue is granted then will Cornell try the same thing next with their own employees? The possibility does exist that they may want to again do a cost saving measure and take this benefit away from all the employees. Trying to save here and there is amounting to added issues of safety and an overall financial impact on the community in general.

Terry Sharpe UAW Local 2300 President Frank Howells UAW local 2300 TCAT Zone Chairman

A: TCAT (or Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit) was created by the merger of three separate local transit systems. The city started Ithaca Transit in 1962, Cornell started C.U. Transit in 1966 and the country started TOMTRAN in 1981. The three began sharing a facility in 1992, and the TCAT name was adopted in 1996 as efforts towards consolidation moved forward. A unified route system and fare structure began in 1999, and TCAT was officially incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 2005. Fun fact: TCAT claims to be the first New York transit system to install bike racks on its bus fleet (in 1996). You’ve probably noticed TCAT’s “trolley” bus, which honors Ithaca’s proud history of public transportation. Ithaca was the third city in New York State to use trolleys, following Brooklyn and Binghamton. The trolleys operated in Ithaca from 1887 to 1935, helping Cornell students make the steep trek from downtown to campus and back.

Q: I’m a senior, and Commencement is exactly one month from today. What should I do before I graduate?!

— Not Ready to Leave ’14 A: You should probably pass the swim test first. But once that’s out of the way, now’s your chance to do everything you’ve been putting off. Stargaze at Fuertes Observatory. Explore Ithaca. Eat a Pinesburger. Hike through Robert H. Treman Park. Visit Taughannock Falls. Say thank you to the people who helped you get here; a short note to faculty and staff can have an incredible impact. Go get brunch at Robert Purcell Community Center with your freshmen year friends. Visit the Lab of Ornithology or the Cornell Plantations. Tell your underclassmen friends not to make the same mistakes you did. Binge on Cornell Dairy ice cream to make up for the three years the facility was closed. Reflect on how far you’ve come since you first arrived here. Meet some new friends outside of your comfort zone. Climb the 161 steps to the top of the clocktower. Skim through the list of “161 Things to Do,” and pick out some of the more interesting ones. Come back two weeks after graduation for Reunion Zero, and do it all over again. And don’t forget to mark your calendar for Homecoming on October 18.

Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

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Taking The Reins

ive weeks ago I started the clinical part of the veterinary curriculum, where we go through two week rotations in the different departments of the hospital. It’s known for being an intense experience — in the last few weeks I’ve rediscovered the importance of sleeping, eating and peeing. I’ve been avoiding writing about what being on clinics is like so far because I feel like I need to go through more than a couple of rotations before I can form concise opinions. I still feel that way, but since this is my last column for the school year I’m going to spend a little time describing how the clinical program works and paying a little homage to the fourth years who will be leaving soon.

Cornell currently runs its clinical program a little differently than most of the other vet schools. We start clinics sometime in the winter or spring of our third year, go through the summer, fall and winter, and then, depending on when we started, end clinics sometime in the spring semester of our fourth year. The times when we are not on clinics we’re in elective classes. This means that during the spring semester, there is a mix of third and fourth years on the clinic floor.

As a third year new to clinics, I’ve found that having the fourth years around has made everything about the process of transitioning from the classroom to the hospital significantly easier. They’ve been more than happy

In just two rotations ... I feel like the word teamwork has taken on a whole new meaning. to help us with everything from figuring out how to work the computer system in the hospital to showing us where to find things to giving tips on how to be more efficient to helping us with our patients, even when they could have gone home. Maybe I’ve been more than lucky with the specific fourth years who have been on my rotations, but I could add to this list for paragraphs, and it really wasn’t something that I was expecting going into clinics.

In most other schools, veterinary students start clinics all at the same time and mostly only through their fourth year. I’ve heard rumblings that Cornell is thinking about also transitioning to this type of system because the doctors find it hard to teach students with different levels of experience. I can understand this point of view, but I have to wonder if the doctors and technicians would find it even more difficult when we had to direct our procedural questions to them, had no one around to help us learn the ropes and, most importantly, did not have role models around to teach us about how to approach our time in clinics.

Specifically, in just two rotations, thanks to the generosity of the fourth years, I feel like the word teamwork has taken on a whole new meaning to me, even though teamwork is emphasized throughout the veterinary curriculum. Maybe I’m a little jaded, but having a relative stranger take valuable time to help a rotation-mate when there is little to no benefit to him or her is an amazing phenomenon to me. I feel like I can’t thank them enough — both for the help and for the inspiration to “pay it forward” next year. So I think it’s fitting to dedicate this last column to the fourth years who will be graduating in May with the rest of the class of 2014. As for me — we work through the summer, so expect exciting stories when The Sun starts again in the Fall!

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a thirdyear veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine.

She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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What Is a Virus (And Why You Should Care)?

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ight now, there is a measles outbreak in New York City.

There’s also one in Orange County, California, which is the “worst officials have seen in two decades.” There have been measles scares in Boston and the Bay Area, too. There are all sorts of bizarre outbreaks of measles, mumps and more in the United States and around the globe, as depicted in a fantastic (and terrifying) infographic from the Council on Foreign Relations. I urge you to check it out and take note of the title above the map: “ Va c c i n e - Pr e v e n t a b l e Outbreaks.” There is no question that rare infections are on the rise again due to the ill-advised anti-vaccine movement, which is based on a since-retracted study from 1998 linking the measles/mumps/rubella vaccine to autism.

If any of your Facebook friends are interested in immunology (or interested in not getting measles), odds are you’ve seen all sorts of articles recently about these anti-vaccine-related viral outbreaks (perhaps even the one from the Onion). If you’ve read them, you may have noticed that these articles typically explain where the outbreak is, what the symptoms look like and the importance of getting the vaccine. This is, of course, great. But all of the articles I’ve encountered have forgotten something pretty important.

Actually explaining what a virus is.

I concede that teaching the general public Virology 101 is not the purpose of most news articles, and that the more important objective is getting parents to vaccinate their kids again. It is also true that explaining what a virus is may be easier said than done. But the puzzling and powerful nature of viruses is exactly why we should all want to know more about them.

A virus consists of a piece of genetic material (DNA or RNA) packaged

inside of a protein coat, with some viruses having a lipid envelope surrounding this coat. That’s it. At the end of the day, the infectious particles that kill human beings around the globe are teeny-tiny hunks of protein with some nucleic acid inside. To appreciate the scale we’re talking about, the measles virus is just 220 nanometers, which is approximately 409 times smaller than the average thickness of a piece of paper. Other viruses are even smaller; there are sites that let you compare a few different viruses with objects from daily life, bacteria and various cellular components, which really drives home just how small these bad boys are.

With such diminutive size and so few components in their possession, viruses can’t really do much with-

their ability to co-opt the machinery of a bona fide living cell for these purposes places viruses at the border of living and nonliving. But just how can a tiny molecular suitcase filled with such simple baggage fool our sophisticated immune systems? Why haven’t our defense mechanisms eliminated these nonliving entities?

Understanding exactly why viruses exist is likely to always be a bit of a mystery.

My favorite theory is the virus-first hypothesis, which suggests that viruses arose before cellular organisms and then coevolved with them. To me, this is the best argument due to the evolutionary benefit of a method of horizontal gene transfer, or the sharing of genetic material between organisms without the lengthy process of mating, creating off-

Hopefully, examining what a virus is, why we have them and how impressive they are will prove helpful in the effort to increase understanding of how crucial it is that all who those who can recieve vaccinations do so. out the help of a host cell. A host could be you, me, farm animals or a plant, depending on what virus we’re considering (some of the scariest viruses are ones that can jump from animal to human hosts, or zoonoses, but this is a topic for another time). Once a virus has found a suitable host, then it can fulfill the goal of all species: replicate. And here’s where scientists of the past have often been stymied by viruses. Since a virus can’t reproduce on its own, does it count as “alive?” How do we define “alive” anyway?

For an in-depth discussion of this very question and on the history of how viruses are classified, check out “Are Viruses Alive?” by Luis P. Villarreal for Scientific American.

Bottom line, viruses are widely considered nonliving since they cannot independently utilize energy, make proteins or reproduce, but

spring and raising those offspring. Perhaps at one time, having viruses helped quickly create genetic diversity within our species, and thus viruses stuck around and co-evolved with us.

Supporting evidence can be found by inspecting our genomes, where you can find that eight percent of the human genome derives from retroviruses which inserted themselves into our DNA and then got passed down by our ancestors.

Humans and other mammals have in turn utilized those ancient viral genes to assist in development, formation of the placenta and who knows what else.

So perhaps viruses have not been eliminated because sometimes they have proven helpful to our species. But what about all those times when they really aren’t helpful, like the outbreaks we’re seeing now?

You would think that our

complex immune system would be able to handle any virus that comes along. But, as it turns out, viruses have evolved brilliant mechanisms to evade the immune system. There are viruses with proteins on their coats that mimic human proteins, so our system doesn’t recognize them as foreign.

Other viruses prevent infected cells from presenting pieces of degraded viral proteins on their surface, effectively stifling that cell’s cry for help to the immune system. Others, like HIV, preferentially infect cells of the immune system, so that when new cells traffic to an infected cell to come take care of the problem, they become infected themselves. You could write an entire book about the many impressive strategies that viruses use to survive the tumultuous world inside of our bodies. And they accomplish this all with just a few genes.

Suddenly, these tiny invaders don’t seem so simple anymore.

Hopefully, examining what a virus is, why we have them and how impressive they are will prove helpful in the effort to increase understanding of how crucial it is that all those who can receive vaccinations do so.

Viral infection should not be treated lightly. Perhaps as a remnant of an ancient symbiotic relationship with viruses, they are very much here to stay. There’s a lot we don’t currently understand about viruses, but we do know that these “creatures” are capable of elegant ways to avoid elimination by our immune system. If we want to keep viruses at bay, we need to strive to teach more people about them with the hope that doing so creates renewed respect for medical advances that turn the tables and allow us to evade them.

Meredith Wright is a first-year Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medical College. She can be reached at mew2019@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up Doc? appears alternating Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Veep Impact: The End of The West Wing BRIAN GORDON Sun Staff Writer

The most ruthless killing on HBO last Sunday night did not involve wildlings and cannibals. Seven years since The West Wing went off air, the show was officially slayed, and the last episode of Veep was caught holding the bloody knife.

Veep’s been stabbing at Aaron Sorkin’s opus for two-plus seasons now, using the titular character’s White House ambitions to impugn political righteousness, a righteousness President Bartlett’s team perspired.

Veep embodies the public’s perception of politics in the post-“Yes We Can” era, where CPACs, filibusters and the Brothers Koch come to mind before progress. In last Sunday’s episode, “Alicia,” a poster of Faustus hangs inconspicuously in the background as Vice President Selena Meyers, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, wrestles with supporting either a single mother’s noble efforts to expand childcare or the stodgy Democratic senators whose endorsements are crucial to her Presidential run. In true Faustian fashion, Meyer’s sells her soul to the political establishment to the ire of the single mother and the viewer.

Souls on The West Wing were rarely stained by the devilish lure of ambition and greed. If a character was ever tempted to hop off the righteousness wagon, a pathos-tugging resolution would Purell the character’s morality free of impropriety.

Such a resolution is found in Season Six’s “King Corn,” where two of the candidates to replace POTUS Bartlett are faced with their own Faustian dilemma. They can follow their convictions and rebuke ethanol subsidies or they could bite the kernel and appease the all-important Iowan caucusgoer. In the world of The West Wing, both candidates could stand strong against ethanol subsidies. Both candidates could refuse to compromise their beliefs, laugh about the political “suicide” they just committed and still go on to obtain their respective party’s nomination. The conclusion to “King Corn” is uplifting, cozy and completely fanciful.

The West Wing isn’t deserving of scorn. Its writing is palatable syrup and its sentimentality is warming. It’s the perfect show for your dad as he transitions into a grandfather. But its tone never seemed as outdated as it does in the wake of

Veep’s tour de destruction of a third season. The glossy veneer of virtuous public service has become more muddled in the public’s eye since Toby, Sam, Josh, C.J. and Leo first started talkingwhile-walking on screen.

Veep eviscerates the notion that one can survive in D.C.’s main industry without caving to the devil. While still much zanier than real politics, the show appears more rooted in reality. In Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe writes, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us.” Both Veep and The West Wing are part-caricatures of real politics, with each setting camp in polar opposite ideological corners. With the perceived brokenness of Washington, the outlandishly sinfulness of Veep seems to hold more truth.

The satirist behind Veep is Armando Iannucci, who HBO imported from Britain to replicate his success as showrunner of The Thick of It and as director of In the Loop, both of which are exceedingly watchable. Iannucci’s works profit from their heavy use of a patently British form of droll comedy, where everyone operates at varying degrees of miserable, and awkwardness breeds entertainment. Iannucci thrives on leaving characters out to struggle like a fly in a spider web.

Watching a spider eat the fly can be excruciating. Some moments of Veep are truly hard to sit through, like in “Alicia” when Meyer’s sadsack press secretary Mike begs super brat journalist Jonas not to run a story. Squirming is inevitable while watching Mike doff an imaginary cap from his knees while singing a Civil War ballad with a folksy twang to the glee of the ever-punchable Jonas.

The humor of Veep is far from all dry. At its best, the show cracks with verve. Its pistol-paced wit and cultural references will get you well acquainted with the HBOGO rewind button (or with clicking backwards on Project Free

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TV). Iannucci is similar to Sorkin in that both men’s characters converse in a way we outside the screen don’t. A Sorkin character speaks in saccharine soliloquies. An Iannucci character is a Picasso of the insult. The level of verbal sparring on this show would have Wilmer Valderrama fork over all the cash money (I’ll update my references soon).

Veep writers hold as much regard for political correctness as they do for politics. This approach produces such putdown gems as “You’re not even a man … you’re like an early draft of a man, where they just sketched out a giant mangled skeleton but they didn't have time to add details, like pigment or self-respect” and “Are we seriously going to let the guy with the police-sketch face of a rapist tell us what to do?”

And that’s just a smattering.

While the episode “Helsinki” from Season 2 might be Veep at its one-liner peak, “Alicia” is the episode most deserving to be parsed as a political statement. And when a comedy turns into something more, it’s best time to tune in.

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relation. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com.

Playing the Frame Game at the Johnson MADELINE SALINAS Sun Staff Writer

The newest exhibition at the Johnson Museum takes frames a step beyond the borders of art. In collaboration with the Department of History of Art, the Johnson Museum opened enticing the eye/exploring the frame this Friday, organized by students of the History of Art Majors’ Society. The exhibition explores the way that subjects or scenarios are situated in their respective work.

Since 1993, the History of Art Majors’ Society has annually curated an exhibition from the Johnson Museum archives.

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from the Johnson’s archives, the final exhibition in the Kress Study Gallery features the curatorial collaboration of History of Art majors across all four years of study.

The exhibit is structured around three primary concepts: Framing through abstraction, the artists’ framing of themselves and the framing of history. Through these core concepts the exhibit considers the interaction of a subject and its presentation. Centered on a unique mode of interpretation rather than a concrete subject, the exhibit presses one to view the exhibit beyond a merely aesthetic experience and take the perspective of the artist.

The basis of the exhibit is broad; the concrete and visual interpretation of framing obviously differs dramatically from implicit bias of historical images.

The exhibit takes on an expanse of concepts, but in doing so averts redundancy or mere surface impact. If the exhibit were limited to

framing of history, the evident mockery in Andy Warhol’s “Vote McGovern,” (1972) an illustration of Nixon blotched with gaudy color and a promotion for his opponent, may seem blatant. Yet, among the breadth of “frames” explored in the exhibit, Warhol’s work is refreshingly straightforward. Enticing the eye/exploring the frame is thought provoking without being elusively interpretive, making it an enjoyable exhibit for a casual museum-goer as well as an art aficionado.

An overwhelming majority of the pieces in enticing the eye/exploring the frame are photographs, many in black and white, followed by an assortment of prints. Other than being a logical extension of the artist’s discretion in capturing a visual perspective, the selection of photography also reinforces the viewer’s connection with the artist, realistically positioning them into the artist’s shoes.

“Stars and Stripes” by Emma Amos (1992) seems to be one of the most powerful works in the exhibit, a blue-tinted photograph of a group of African American children imposed in the top left corner of an American flag, streaked in red oil with an “X” smeared across the center. Framing, in the conceptual and tangible sense, a historical injustice, the work thoroughly manipulates the perception of an otherwise simple photograph of several black children in 20th century America.

By the same token, the juxtaposition of Imogen Cunningham’s Model in Monterey Co. and Ruth Bernhard’s In the Box — Horizontal are another enticing part of the exhibition. Both nude photographs,

Cunningham’s image of a woman stretched across the floor of a cave intriguingly contrasts Bernhard’s containment of her model to a box. Using different visual framework in to frame the same subject and same issue of gender, the two photographs emphasize the impact of an artist’s placement in determining the message of a work of art.

Ultimately, enticing the eye/exploring the frame brings to life the impact of an artist’s perspective in developing the message of a work of art. Tackling a variety of concepts of framework, from historical to abstract, the exhibit concurrently touches an expanse of social issues such as gender and race in a way that is collectively thought provoking. The overall diversity of the exhibit reflects the contributions and perspectives of a variety of students in a way that highlights the breadth of form and impact of an artist’s framework. In many cases placing viewers behind the artist’s lens, the pieces in the exhibit also bring to life the liberties and responsibilities held by the artist in controlling the way that their art is perceived.

In the spirit of analyzing perspective, this year HAMS encourages viewers to interact on social media by uploading photos of meaningful works to Instagram with the hashtag #HAMS. HAMS will host a video symposium for enticing the eye/exploring the frame on April 29 in the A.D. White House.

Madeline Salinas is a sophomore in the College of Agriulture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun.com.

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IS NYMPHOMANIC SIMPLY ENLIGHTENED PORN? ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

I don’t know. I mean, what else I have seen

by Lars von Trier (Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark) has also left me slack-jawed by the end.

The Dane has a knack for translating his cruel, starless worldview into undeniably arresting cinema, both celestial and psychological in scope. But this is just something else. It’s not the inherent pornography of these images that leaves me at an impasse — take “Desire & Cinema” with Prof. Ellis Hanson, English, and your tolerance of, even appreciation for explicit art will grow and make you forever wiser. No, Von Trier attacks something close to home, for me at least: the act of criticism itself.

Nymphomaniac: Volumes I and II, a fourhour sexual bildungsroman split in half to facilitate distribution and, in reality, make two times the money, straddles two different modes: Backwards-looking narrative and contemporary criticism of said narrative. The storyteller is Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), an intellectual, Stephen Dedalus-type, finds bloodied and incapacitated in an alleyway by his local convenience store. The alley’s vertical, recursive walls echo F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionism — that is, until von Trier rotates his camera some 270 degrees like Gaspar Noé and blasts Rammstein’s “Führe Mich” on the soundtrack. It is the first instance of bathos that totally undermines whatever impression you had been forming in your head to that point, and it sure ain’t the last.

Seligman brings Joe to his humble apartment, where he offers her tea and she tells him her life story. Her story starts at the beginning, with a now famous line, “I discovered my cunt as a two-year-old.” Joe narrates with as little emotion as you probably just read that sen-

tence, so the word “irony” is applicable here, there, everywhere. Played by Stacy Martin in teenage flashbacks and Gainsbourg for most of the latter half, Joe covers a life’s worth, and then some, over four hours: Discovering beauty in nature with her father (Christian Slater, with a poor British accent); losing her virginity to an excitable older boy, Jerôme (Shia

Nymphomaniac Directed by Lars von Trier Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LeBouf

is just there. You see close to everything, and sometimes actually everything, but von Trier does not bathe the intercourse in titillating lights or shroud it in I’m-Making-AStatement darkness. It’s just sex. Moving on.

Throughout Joe’s retelling, Seligman interjects to draw analogies from the literature, music and history he loves. We are supposed to laugh at the extremity and banality of his similes, which range from prowling as flyfishing and polygamous sex as a Bach fugue.

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LaBeouf, same); competing with her friend, while wearing “fuck-me-now” attire, in screwing a train’s worth of men, all for a bag of chocolate sweets; provoking the wrath of Uma Thurman (just phenomenal), playing the dumped wife of one of Joe’s most gullible partners; marrying Jerôme and giving birth to a child whom she does not love; searching for her lost orgasm through routine visits to a sadomasochist (Jamie Bell, sort of incredible here); dabbling in “debt collection,” a.k.a. organized crime run by a typically wraithlike Willem Dafoe; and, naturally, a lot more.

The tone of the first volume is one of high comedy, where von Trier superimposes numbers and throws in split screen effects to alleviate awkwardness. The second volume, as the later plot summary only hints at, darkens and loses its voice as a result. The sex, meanwhile,

pared with. He does what a critic is supposed to do, except he extrapolates a bit too much, drawing connections too far removed from Joe’s experience, with which he cannot relate.

Seligman hits gold now and then, like when he rebukes Joe’s self-labeling as a sinner when she also proudly disavows religion; in turn, Joe

resolves, through minute, Tarantino-esque dialogue, his elitist thought process regarding how one clips their fingernails. Seligman does not judge her and even praises how she has, her entire life, retained her agency — which is true, in that no matter how much you dislike Joe by the end of this film, you must admire von Trier’s unorthodox commitment to female empowerment and, it must be said, some broad tenets of feminism.

Except at the end, when von Trier blows off the head of his own movie. I will not spoil it, but I will say it is outrageously cynical. It negates the film’s thematic momentum in its embrace of nihilism. It is too much. Or, perhaps, von Trier wants to remind us that the world of Nymphomaniac is still a text, and to take anything that is said, through Joe’s narration, her flashbacks, Seligman’s analogies or the very composition of the projected image, as a vehicle not for spoon-fed lessons but some higher, figurative truth.

What that truth is, I have no clue. Is von Trier just raising a middle finger to the critics — many of whom championed his work, of course — under some guise of deconstructionism, settling on a thesis along the lines of that immortal quote from The Rules of the Game: “The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons”? Given the way Joe ruins families and seeks out black men for sex, only to call them “Negros,” this throwinghands-up-in-the-air tactic may be the most fitting way to critique Nymphomaniac. In that, these characters are above critique. Not a very comforting verdict, in my view, but clearly von Trier believes it. His films, and especially this one, must only, truly make sense to him.

God help him.

Zachary Zahos is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com

Anal Virgins, Public Penetration and Performance

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erformance art is the Jan Brady of the art world — con- phrases like “NSFW” and “TEEN WHORE,” Pettet furisistently misunderstood. Understandably, it’s an art ously scrubbed away these words as his skin turned ruddy form that comes under fire even more frequently than it from abrasion. Because, get it? Scrubbing away society’s hateis legitimized, and Lady Gaga and her egg-sleeping, meat- ful labels and stuff!

Later, audience members were shuffled into a basement dress wearing antics ain’t helping matters. Nor is either of James Franco’s or Shia LaBeouf’s performance art lifestyles, where more graffiti bedecked the walls, reading, “Performance curating a portfolio of career choices as art objects. But when art is shit” and “#trending.” Wow, it looks like Pettet has a 19-year-old London art school punk claims to create art opened this thing called the Internet once or twice to read his through the public penetration of his virgin butthole, perfor- own coverage. Pettet is, like, so self-aware of what the media mance art’s reputation of shock-for-shock-value seems regret- and society has to say. After this, observers followed one-byone into a “penetration booth” where they are instructed to tably accurate.

Worse than the dude who planted a fake bomb at the penetrate Pettet’s mouth eight times with any of the scattered Boston Marathon this year in the name of art, Clayton Pettet bananas nearby. “I am your anal virgin,” he says, “and you are has been hyping his live performance piece, “Art School Stole my partner.” Oooh, because all of us have been mouth-fucked My Virginity,” for over a year. What can be a more unpleas- by society. Because blah media is toxic and blah no real virgins ant experience than watching some skinny brat take it up the exist and blah metaphors. Finally, the gallery emptied out into a room where erotic, hyper-colored prints butt for the first of girls being fingered (and other nonsentime in a borderline sical raunchiness) line the walls. They’re for pornographic exhisale on Instagram because of course they bition? Well, the would be. actual show’s execu“How clever that the artist displayed tion was much, the controversy surrounding his performuch worse. After mance as the performance itself,” said no months of scandal Profanity one, ever, since this tired art gimmick and media backlash, Prayers started over a century ago. Next up, Pettet of peers claiming to will shit in a pizza box and sell it to you have recently smashed Pettet, of peers claiming to have their ideas ripped off by because it’s raw and visceral and may possibly be misconstrued as social commentary. It is so outrageous and shocking, Pettet, the show finally premiered earlier this month.

Ten thousand hopeful audience members rallied through maybe it will distract viewers from the conspicuous lack of a careful selection process for one of 120 available tickets to meaning in any of my art!

Did no one boink in the show because our virginity is a make it to a show that has been rescheduled time and time again … only to witness the penetration of zero buttholes. In social construct that doesn’t really exist? Did the vulnerability an ending so predictable it became unpredictable, Pettet did and anticipation of the act say more about sex than sex itself? not partake in anal sex. What the observers received instead Did anyone buy any of this hack’s navel-gazing clichés? Not was a juvenile collection of art school clichés, of piled bananas to completely vilify Pettet, who is after all, only 19 and dumb and half-nude women in sheaths. These nude characters held and horny like the rest of us, but for such a sexual virgin, he up signs that read, “ANAL VIRGIN” and “LIVE FUCK does a lot of whoring himself out to the press. His current BUTT VIRGIN SEX SHOW” as a disturbed Pettet stum- portfolio is probably full of canvases covered in mutilated bled to the ground in all his painted glory. Marked with Barbie parts and black and white films of floating plastic bags.

Alice Wang

In the end, this wasn’t some lazily cut documentary of a wannabe auteur that Pettet chose to complete for his school assignment, but it wasn’t really art either. Though Pettet’s intentions may not have been inherently bad, his work serves as a perfect representation for why the public so quickly maligns contemporary art. Either it’s abstract expressionist paintings, which garners a chorus of, “My kid could draw that,” or it’s performance art, bemoaned for its supposed lack of substance.

But in its truest form, performance art doesn’t lack substance — it’s merely reductionist. And therein lies a huge difference. Performance art strips away the trappings of social convention in an attempt to reach the truer meanings of humanity underneath, which is why so much performance art happens in the literal nude. And really, we should love performance art for its absolute purity. It’s art for art’s sake because nothing can be sold, and even any ephemera from the performance — videos, t-shirts, props — are strictly defined as false idols of the art. As Marina Ambramovic has said: “It’s not a painting you can hang on the wall and look at it tomorrow. If you talk about immaterial art, it’s about energy.”

Abramovic, her ex-partner Ulay and others have defined this field with their intense, superhuman commitment to their craft. Alas, there is a way for performance art to be deeply disturbing and provocative without jumping the shark into Pettet’s derivative drivel. Chris Burden got shot in the arm in his exhibition, “Shoot, 1971” and Vito Acconci publicly masturbated under a stairwell for “Seedbed.” Carolee Schneeman actually pulled a paper scroll out of her vajay to comment on the synthesis of logos and mythos in the feminine form. These performances were all legendary, creating lasting meaning from a temporary act, and they miraculously involved zero publicity ploys (or bananas). So, the next time I ask you to penetrate my mouth eight times with a burrito in the name of performance, ask yourself, “Is this art or is this just delicious?” My money’s on the latter.

Alice Wang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Fridays.

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COMICS AND PUZZLES

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

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Sun Sudoku

Rancor Waltz #12

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

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SPORTS

Northwestern Football Team NFL Set to Discuss Prepares to Decide on Union 14-Team Playoff EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Northwestern lead to player strikes in the event of a dispute — but if University’s football players will cast ballots Friday on it did, replacement players could be brought in to cross whether to form the nation’s first union for college ath- picket lines. letes — a potentially landmark vote that will be kept “The tension created in such a situation would be sealed for months and possibly years. unprecedented and not in anyone's best interest,” it The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday said. it will hear an appeal by Northwestern challenging the The school also said divisions could emerge between decision from a regional NLRB director who ruled the scholarship players eligible for union membership and players are university employees and thus have the right walk-ons, coaches and staff.

“There is no question but that the presence of a to unionize. The board said the ballots will be impounded at least until it issues its decision later this union would add tension in terms of creating an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ feeling between the year. If the case lands in court, it players it would represent and could be a far longer before the “[Northwestern is] looking at those it would not,” it said. results of the vote are known.

Northwestern did not release The vote comes one day after anything and everything to the document publicly, but The leaders at the NCAA endorsed a invoke fear in the players.

Associated Press obtained a copy dramatic proposal to give its biggest and a spokesman for the universiand most powerful member schools We feel like some of the ty’s athletic department, Paul the autonomy to make decisions for tactics are scare tactics.”

Kennedy, verified its authenticity. its athletes, including more robust Alan K. Cubbage, the school's vice funding of scholarships, the ability Ramogi Huma president for university relations, to address health concerns and other key areas. Union supporters say they are seeking dismissed Huma’s suggestion that the school was using guaranteed coverage of sports-related medical expenses scare tactics “I would say strongly that Northwestern has confor current and former players.

There have been no raucous rallies or demonstra- ducted an election campaign ... according to the procetions on the 19,000-student campus just north of dures and the rules of the NLRB,” he said.

When outgoing Northwestern quarterback Kain Chicago, just official notices about the vote posted near the Wildcats’ locker room. But there has been plenty of Colter announced in January that he would lead the lobbying in the form private meetings, calls and emails, drive to unionize, helped by CAPA and the United and everyone from coach Pat Fitzgerald to NCAA Steelworkers, he said nearly all of his fellow teammates were behind him.

President Mark Emmert has called for a “no” vote.

Safety Davion Fleming said his teammates slowly The 76 scholarship football players eligible to cast ballots know the spotlight is on them, said Ramogi began to understand the issues aren’t clear-cut.

“When the union talk initially started, it wasn’t very Huma, president of the College Athletes Players Association, which would represent the players at the clear what was going on,” said Fleming, who can’t vote because his eligibility is exhausted. “I think they didn't bargaining table if the pro-union side prevails.

Some of the pressure they feel stems from dire understand the implications.”

Huma said Northwestern seemed to be intentionalNorthwestern claims about the consequences of unionly misconstruing the facts, and said the school’s “subization, he said.

“They’re looking at anything and everything to liminal messages” included the suggestion that a “yes” invoke fear in the players,” said Huma, a former UCLA vote could throw their amateur status into question.

“No one is taking about striking,” he said. “They are linebacker and longtime critic of the NCAA. “We feel trying to rattle players.” like some of the tactics are scare tactics.”

The fight has been noticed by incoming recruits, Northwestern, which is required by law to let the vote proceed, denies applying undue pressure on play- too.

“I went there for many reasons, more than just footers to vote “no.” However, it recently sent a 21-page question-and-answer document to the players outlin- ball,” said Justin Jackson, a running back recruit from ing the problems with forming a union. In it, Carol Stream. “There’s no possible way that it would Northwestern said it hoped unionization would not have deterred me from signing back in February.”

For Near Future

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL will discuss expanded playoffs at the owners’ meetings next month in Atlanta.

Commissioner Roger Goodell told a gathering of Associated Press Sports Editors on Thursday that a vote is uncertain on the proposal to add two teams to the postseason. Should the owners vote on the increase in May, Goodell said the 14-team playoffs could be implemented for the upcoming season, or for 2015.

If no vote is taken, then 2015 would be the target for expanded playoffs, with a vote possible in October or next March.

The league also would need to consult with the players union on the matter, but it seems clear more playoff teams are on the way.

“We’re being very deliberate about it,” Goodell said.

“We want to make sure we do it in the right way.”

The NFL also will experiment with snapping the ball from the 15-yard line on extra points in the first two weeks of the preseason to make them more challenging.

A kick from that distance would wind up being about 33 yards. Previously, the plan had been to experiment with moving kicks back to the 20.

But in conversations with the league’s competition committee and various teams, officiating director Dean Blandino said it became apparent a 33-yard extra point was a wiser “We want to make sure choice for the experi- we do it the right way.” ment.

Blandino added that Roger Goodell veteran referees Scott Green and Ron Winter have retired, and will be replaced by Craig Wrolstad and Ronald Torbert. Wrolstad had been a field judge and Torbert was a side judge; both have college refereeing experience.

Two female officials will be working minicamps and preseason games: line judge Sarah Thomas and head linesman Maia Chaka. Both work in Conference USA. They are part of the league’s officiating development program.

The NFL also hired the sons of two current officials: field judge Brad Freeman, the son of back judge Steve Freeman, a former player with Buffalo; and field judge Shawn Hochuli, son of referee Ed Hochuli.

Pineda Suspended 10 Games After Ejection for Pine Tar Use BOSTON (AP) — New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was suspended for 10 games Thursday after being caught using pine tar. He said he won’t appeal the penalty that will cost him two starts.

“I accept it,” Pineda said before Thursday night’s game at Fenway Park. “I know I made a mistake.”

The commissioner’s office announced the ban, which started immediately.

Pineda was ejected in the second inning of Wednesday night’s 5-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox after umpires found the pine tar on the right side of the right-hander’s neck.

After the game, Pineda admitted he used the pine tar to help him grip the ball on a cool, windy night.

“I feel so bad,” he said Thursday.

Pineda said he had never used pine tar before this season. He spent his first season in the majors with the Seattle Mariners in 2011 then missed the last two with the Yankees following right shoulder surgery.

“I think he understood” the seriousness of his action, said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who expected a suspension of about 10 games, “but I think he got caught up in the moment of competing and it got the best of him.”

Girardi indicated David Phelps would take Pineda’s turn in the rotation. Phelps came into the game with two outs in the second after Pineda was ejected.

The ejection set off a debate in the baseball world about pitchers who try pine tar,

BARTON SILVERMAN / THE NEW YORK TIMES

Pine tar penalty | Yankess pitcher Michael Pineda, shown above during spring training in 2012, was caught with pine tar on his neck in a recent game against the Red Sox and has been suspended. and whether it should be allowed in certain circumstances. Many former aces said they had done it, albeit in a more discreet manner.

“I’ve seen a lot of things in my career, so I’m not blind to it” being viewed as part of baseball, said Girardi, a former catcher in his seventh year as Yankees manager.

Rule 8.02(b) prohibits pitchers from

altering the ball to gain an unfair advantage, and forbids them from having a foreign substance on them or in their possession on the mound.

“I wouldn’t be against coming up with an idea” to modify the rule so pitchers could get a better grip on the ball in cold weather, Girardi said. “It would be a great time for someone to start looking at" coming up

with one substance pitchers would be allowed to use.

Pineda wasn’t seen with the pine tar in the first inning, when the Red Sox roughed him up. Boston manager John Farrell asked plate umpire Gerry Davis to check Pineda after two fast outs the next inning.

Davis went to the mound, touched Pineda’s neck and ejected him.

Earlier this month, Pineda pitched well in a 4-1 win over the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Television cameras showed a substance on his hand in the fourth inning — Pineda said it was dirt, not pine tar. His hand was clean in the fifth and Farrell didn’t ask for him to be checked.

Pineda said he didn’t use pine tar in a start against the Chicago Cubs, in between his Red Sox outings.

Among other suspensions of pitchers for pine tar in the past decade, Tampa Bay’s Joel Peralta was penalized eight games in 2012, the Angels’ Brendan Donnelly 10 days in 2005 and St. Louis’ Julian Tavarez 10 days in 2004. The suspensions of Donnelly and Tavarez were cut to eight days after they asked the players’ association to appeal, and Peralta dropped his challenge with no reduction.

Pineda said Thursday he didn’t feel the ball well in the first inning when he allowed two runs on four hits. And he said he wanted to be careful not to hit any batters.

“I know it’s pine tar, but the pine tar did not help me” throw harder, he said. “It helped me for feel, (get) a better grip.”

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SPORTS

Red to Take On Penn in Final Matsuzaka Pitches Match Before Ivy Tournament Perfect Ninth Inning W. LACROSSE

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Ivies in recent years. The Quakers are well coached, and they always play hard against the Big Red,” Graap said. “Our preparation for this final regular season game hasn’t changed markedly, as we continue to strive to get better in our execu-

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tion both offensively and defensively.”

Sophomore attacker Emily Tripodi said the team is looking forward to the “challenge” the Quakers will bring.

“We are nothing but excited to take on Penn this weekend,” she said. “It is a great challenge for us. There are no set expectations heading into the game this weekend, just goals. We have discussed becoming more effective as an offense, specifically putting up more goals on the board and getting a wider range of players involved.”

The Red has only lost twice so far in the Ivy League, compared to “I think this year, more than its seven in years past, we’ve defeats in the regular emphasized how important season. our Ivy League match-ups C o r n e l l ’s are and have been.” defeats have been to Rachel Moody Harvard and league leader Pr i n c e t o n .

No. 2 Penn is the only other team above Cornell in the Ivy League standings and has already lost once, in comparison to the Quakers’ unbeaten season last year.

“I think this year, more than in years past, we’ve emphasized how important our Ivy League match-ups are and have been,” Moody said, discussing the team’s improvement in form in the Ivy League. “Not that the other games haven’t been important to us, but making it to the Ivy League Tournament [and] winning it would be the best way to make it to the NCAA tournament.”

Playoff positions | Following the Red’s game against Penn, the team will face league-leading Princeton in the first round of the Ivy tournament May 2.

Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at hyousefi@cornellsun.com.

As Reliever for Mets

NEW YORK (AP) — Daisuke Matsuzaka pinched his eyelids, clenched his teeth and thought back. He couldn’t remember all the details of the first save of his professional career.

After 123 starts during seven seasons in Major League Baseball, the 33-year-old righthander was turned into a reliever by the New York Mets when they brought him up from the minor leagues on April 16.

Eight days later, manager Terry Collins took a chance — a roll of the Dice-K? — and Matsuzaka responded with a perfect ninth inning Thursday to cap a 4-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.

He hadn’t saved a game since May 2000, his second season with the Seibu Lions of Japan’s Pacific League, when he struck out four during the final three innings of a 9-0 win at the Chiba Lotte Marines.

“It’s definitely different,” he said through a translator, “but I think I’m starting to get used to going from the bullpen.”

Chris Young homered to start New York’s comeback from a 1-0, fifth-inning deficit, slumping Curtis Granderson singled in a run as a pinch hitter and Daniel Murphy drove in two runs. Bartolo Colon (23) allowed four hits in seven innings, struck out eight and walked none, sending Lance Lynn to his first career loss in April.

Matsuzaka, who completed a four-pitcher, four-hitter, was a rookie of the year in Japan in 1999, MVP as his national team won the first World Baseball Classic in 2006 and was given a $52 million, sixyear contract by the Boston Red Sox after they paid Seibu $51,111,111.11 for his rights.

Matsuzaka went 15-12 in his first season with the Red Sox and 18-3 in his second, but he injured a hip during the 2009 WBC and was never the same, hurting his arm and eventually needing elbow ligament-replacement surgery.

He was just 50-37 for the Red Sox and signed a minor league contract in February 2013 with Cleveland, which released him in August. Then he joined the Mets, started seven games and signed a minor league deal with New York, which initially sent him to Triple-A Las Vegas this spring.

But when Bobby Parnell’s season ended with a torn elbow ligament on opening day, the Mets had to scramble to restock their bullpen. Jose Valverde struggled as the closer and Kyle Farnsworth took over the role.

Manager Terry Collins wanted to give the 38-year-old Farnsworth a rest after three appearances in four days.

“I just said this is a good opportunity to see how Dice handles it,” Collins explained, “and he did well.”

In a 15-pitch outing,

Matsuzaka retired Allen Craig on a lineout to right after falling behind 3-1, struck out Daniel Descalso in an eightpitch at-bat and got Peter Bourjos on a game-ending foulout to the catcher.

“Before, I never really thought I would be able to pitch out of the bullpen because I just take so long to prepare,” Matsuzaka said. “I think I just have to keep pitching well to gain full confidence from the team, but I think having had a few opportunities in tight situations definitely is encouraging.”

Collins said Farnsworth, who has two saves, remains his first-choice closer but Matsuzuka may receive more ninth-inning opportunities.

His preparation, which includes lengthy stretching, will have to change.

“If he’s going to pitch the back end of the game, be it the eighth, the ninth, somewhere in there,” the manager said, “I don't want him to wear himself out in the fifth inning, at 8:15.

I want him to kind of save something.”

Dice-K said it’s as much mental as physical.

“Just to comfort myself, I think I throw more than I probably have to,” he said.

New York also gave 40-yearold right fielder Bobby Abreu hit first big league start since July 25, 2012. Abreu went one for three with an opposite-field double to left in the fifth — his first hit with the Mets.

“It’s been a long time,” he said. “It was kind of exciting.

At first I had to calm down my emotions and just go out there and play the game.”

New York took three of four from the defending NL champions and has won four of five overall.

St. Louis lost for the sixth time in nine games and has gone 291 at-bats without a home run since Allen Craig connected at Milwaukee off Wily Peralta on April 16.

Lynn (4-1) had been 12-0 through April in his big league career, including one March victory. But given a fifth-inning lead, he allowed the Mets to tie the score in the bottom half and go ahead 2-1 on Murphy’s RBI double in the sixth, a ball that dropped just in front of diving centerfielder Jon Jay. Lynn was chased in a tworun seventh after Eric Young Jr. bunted and reached on a twobase error when the pitcher threw off first baseman Matt Adams’ glove and into right field. Granderson had been two for 20 against left-handers this year before he greeted Kevin Siegrist with an RBI single, and Murphy singled in the final run.

“We’ve been home six days in the past 2.5 months,” Lynn said. “I think a lot of people are looking forward to getting home and sleeping in their own beds.”

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Red Nine Set to Tackle Tigers Win against Princeton would break Red’s extended losing streak plated two more later in the inning, cutting the deficit to one.

“Our team is resilient and will continue to fight until After being shut out in three straight games against the game is over, no matter what the score [is],” Winawer Columbia last weekend, the baseball team’s bats came said. “That attitude set the stage for the multiple rallies alive in Tuesday’s non-conference game against that game.”

After freshman Scott Soltis blanked the Bearcats in Binghamton. Though the Red mounted two valiant the top of the seventh, the Red took advantage comebacks in the game, it was not enough to of an opportunity to tie the game up. Winawer best the Bearcats, as the team dropped its ninth led off with a walk and a stolen base, finding straight, 8-6.

Cornell himself on second. Senior shortstop Tom According to sophomore outfielder Jordan D’Alessandro then hit a base-knock to left, Winawer, the Red gained some confidence which got past the left-fielder and rolled to the after putting runs on the board in Tuesday’s wall. Winawer scored easily to tie the game, game. vs. but D’Alessandro was cut down trying to take “I think our offense got back on track home on the play. against Binghamton,” he said. “We’re ready to It was a momentum shift in Binghamton’s put last weekend behind us [and] are looking favor, as the Bearcats answered with two runs forward to another series this weekend against in the eighth to take a lead from which the Red Princeton.”

Princeton would never fully recover. Cornell cut the Cornell sent freshman Tim Willittes to the deficit to one in the bottom of the eighth off mound, and he gave his team five strong scoreless innings. The offense got on the board first Today, 12 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Swinford’s RBI single, but Binghamton put an Hoy Field insurance run on the board in the ninth to in the bottom of the fifth, when senior infieldregain the two-run lead. er Ben Swinford and junior infielder Kevin The Red still did not lie down easy, as Tatum hit back-to-back doubles to take a 1-0 lead. Willittes hit his first bump, though, in the next D’Alessandro and senior outfielder Chris Cruz kept frame, allowing three runs — only one of them earned things alive with two-out singles to put the tying run on — before he was pulled. A pair of errors plagued the base. Freshman catcher Jamie Smith then gave the ball a Red, as four of the five runs in the innings were ride to the warning track in right field, but it was caught to end the game. unearned.

Princeton will come to town this weekend to kick off “We need to improve our focus the whole game to the final Ivy League series of the season. Looking to snap avoid costly mistakes in the field,” Winawer said.

Down 5-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth, the a nine-game skid, the Red faces off against a Tiger team Red mounted a comeback that would put it right back in that is one game ahead in the standings.

“We know that this weekend is going to be competithe game. Junior outfielder JD Whetsel started the rally with a hit by pitch and promptly stole second. He moved tive,” Winawer said. “With them being only a game to third on a groundout and then scored on junior first ahead of us, we want to come out strong and play our baseman Ryan Plantier’s single to left. Junior designated game.”

The four losses last weekend against Columbia elimihitter Ryan Karl then scorched a double into the gap that

By SCOTT CHIUSANO

Sun Sports Editor

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Offense on the board | After three straight shutout losses, the Red has posted 10 runs in its last two games.

nated the Red from playoff contention, but wins over Princeton this weekend could catapult the squad into third place in the division. Cornell will honor its seniors in Friday’s doubleheader on Hoy Field before traveling to Princeton for two games on Sunday.

“Our postseason hopes may be over, but that does not mean that we’re not going to battle until the very end of our last game,” Winawer said. “We want to send the seniors out on a high note, so our mentality is play hard until the end.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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“Princeton is an extremely talented team that we have tremendous respect for,” Buczek said. “Historically, they have been our biggest rival in the Ivy League so it’s certainly a game that everyone looks forward to all year.”

Princeton enters the contest coming off a devastating 9-8 loss to Harvard that eliminated the Tigers’ from Ivy contention. The foe is 7-5 overall and 2-3 in the Ivy, with all three of its conference losses coming by a single goal.

Princeton’s players to watch include senior midfielder Tom Schreiber, who currently leads the team with 29 goals, 21 assists and 50 overall points, as well

“Historically, [Princeton has] been our biggest rival in the Ivy Leage so it’s certainly a game that everyone looked forward to all year.”

Connor Buczek as the attack triplet of seniors Ryan Ambler, Jake Froccaro and Mike McDonald. All three have posted at least 10 goals and 10 assists.

However, the Red has a strong defense that will work to keep the Tigers off the board. Cornell’s freshman goalkeeper Christian Knight has had an outstanding season, recently taking home the Rookie of the Week honor for the fourth time this season

after his strong showing in the Brown contest. He was instrumental in the Red’s crucial 14-9 victory, stopping 10 shots in the first half and limiting the Bears to just five goals in the first 55 minutes of the game.

The Red has a valuable weapon in Knight and is confident he will continue to thrive in the future, according to junior defenseman Jordan Stevens.

“Christian [Knight] has done a great job this year. … He has played like a veteran all season,” Stevens said.

“He has been a steady presence in goal and he gave us the spark we needed when he earned the job. He makes the saves we need him to make and usually steals a few every game. We are incredibly confident in him moving forward.”

The Cornell squad has put forth a lot of effort into practices this week to prepare for the important match, according to Stevens.

“Princeton is always a huge game for us. … We feel that we have had a good week of practice so far that will need to continue if we want to be successful this Saturday,” he said.

A win against the Tigers would guarantee the Red at least a share of the Ivy League title for the second straight season and the 11th time in the last 12 campaigns. Additionally, the senior class would graduate with a winning 3-2 record against Princeton.

With a victory, Cornell would earn its 725th program win.

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

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nature of the play. Since the road to winning it all is long and arduous, players know they won’t have many chances to win the cup over the course of a career. And so, they play with a desperation that can’t be

34.5 piece of pure silver has been the highest trophy in hockey ever since. When a team wins the Cup, the names of all the team’s players are engraved on it. To prevent it from growing, the oldest bands are taken off and stored in the hockey hall of fame for eternity. All in all, winning the cup is more than just a

It’s quite a sight to see very large athletes, with cave-men like beards following the no-shaving playoff tradition, gleefully skate around while kissing and hoisting the cup again and again. replicated in other sports. Because in hockey, sheer effort and grit can actually make a huge difference in a game. Hustling more than the other team, crashing the net harder and being more physical on defense can be the only things separating a win and a loss. In sports like baseball and basketball, the pace is slower and games usually come down to team’s level of skill, whether it be in pitching or three-point shooting.

Not so in hockey. Teams that have superstar talent but aren’t able to dig into the trenches are sent home again and again (e.g, Washington Capital, San Jose Sharks...).

The epic journey ends in perhaps the most thrilling moment in sports, when the winning team hoists the venerated Stanley Cup. Originally commissioned in 1892, before the NHL even existed, this

championship, it’s literally etching a place in hockey history.

It’s quite a sight to see very large athletes, with cavemen-like beards following the no-shaving playoff tradition, gleefully skate around while kissing and hoisting the cup again and again. I still remember strangely feeling happy seeing Ray Bourque, a hall of fame captain and defenseman, raise the cup for the first time in his 21st and final NHL season. It was the 2001 Stanley Cup finals, and his Colorado Avalanche had just beat the New Jersey Devils, the one and only team I root for. And just as that moment of magic mesmerized me as a nine year old, the wonder of playoff hockey has never grown old.

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

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to me. It’s just unbelievable that this will be the last time I’ll play for Cornell on Schoellkopf,” she said. “Most of the The women’s lacrosse team will head seniors have been in denial, so we’re into its final home game of the season looking to keep our season going as long Saturday afternoon against the as possible.”

University of Pennsylvania. The Red will Cornell will search for a win over its honor its five graduating seniors — Ivy League rival, having failed to record a attacker Rachel Moody, defenders Jessie win over the Quakers in recent history.

Smith and Cat Thomas and co-captains The Red goes into the game at 7-7 overmidfielder Amanda D’Amico and attack- all and 4-2 in the conference, while Penn er Chelsea Rowe — in a cereare at 8-4 overall and 4-1 in mony before the game. the conference. The Quakers Cornell “All five women have given are the reigning Ivy League so much to our program and champions, having won the each has risen up to whatever tournament for the last seven challenge came her way and years. excelled,” said head coach Jenny “Spring 2014 has been a vs.

Graap ’86, who highlighted the fantastic journey. Yes, we’ve seniors’ contributions. “We had some ups and downs along don’t want to get too emotional the way, but our players have … because we know this senior fought hard and found ways to class isn’t done yet. These five win close battles,” Graap said.

Penn want to lead our team to an Ivy Moody echoed her coach as Tournament Championship she talked about the variety of Tomorrow, 1 p.m. and ultimately to the NCAA game performances this seaSchoellkopf Field tournament.” son.

Moody was more emotional “We’ve had some highs and when describing her feelings on lows this season for sure, but playing the last home game of her colle- we’ve definitely been able to clinch some giate career. needed wins against other Ivy oppo“I can’t even begin to describe what nents,” Moody said. “Our games against being a member of this team has meant Syracuse and Penn State also proved to Sun Staff Writer

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Tournament teams | While the four teams for the Ivy tournament are set, the Red’s game against Princeton could help determine the seeding of the teams.

Share of Ivy Title On The Line for Laxers

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The end is finally near for the men’s lacrosse team. After posting an impressive nine-game winning streak and emerging as an early favorite to win both the Ivy conference and the NCAA, the Red encountered a roadblock when it dropped three consecutive games.

The squad turned things around, however, when it bested Brown last weekend to earn a spot in the four-team Ivy tournament.

The Red will travel to Bethpage, New York Saturday to take on Princeton at 2 p.m. Both squads have a lot on the line, with the Red aiming to clinch a top Ivy tournament seeding and the Tigers pressured to deliver on

what will be a last-ditch effort to stay in the mix for the NCAAs. The Cornell-Princeton lacrosse rivalry largely stems from the dominance of the two programs in the Ivy League. Through the first 58 seasons — including the 2013 season — the Red has won 27 Ivy Championships (18 outright, nine shared) while Princeton has taken 26 titles (18 outright, eight shared). Cornell has won nine of the last 13 after splitting a pair of games with the Tigers last season.

According to junior midfielder Connor Buczek, the competitive nature of the historic rivalry will deliver an exciting game on Saturday.

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our team that we could compete at the highest level, which has given us confidence during the second half of the season.”

The Red is currently ranked at No. 3 in the Ivy League standings in a tie with Harvard. Although Cornell has already secured a position in the Ivy League tour-

nament, a win against Penn could potentially see the Red move up in the standings. A higher ranking would affect Cornell’s seeding going into the tournament.

“Penn has been the team to beat in the See W. LACROSSE page 14

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League losses | While the Red has dropped two Ivy games this season — one to Harvard and one to Princeton — Penn has suffered just one Ivy defeat, a 9-5 loss to the Tigers.

There’s Nothing Else Like Playoff Hockey

n the regular cycle of major professional and collegiate sports seasons, the springtime is packed with games for fans to watch.

Baseball is underway, as teams look to set the tone for the long season ahead.

March Madness provides densely packed days of thrilling basketball action, with results always seeming to defy the experts’

form of four best-of-seven rounds, and they must be won in under two months, from the middle of April until the beginning of June.

With the abundance of talent and relative parity between many NHL teams, many series go to six or seven games. The first two games are played at the venue of the team with home-ice advantage, the next two

appreciate the grind of this tournament. Hockey is a very physical game, with an emphasis on full-body physicality and quick bursts of movement. Because it is so intense and high paced, players cannot be on the ice for more than a minute. Keep in mind, these players are probably the most cardiovascularly fit athletes in all of sports.

Teams rotate between four

Ben Horowitz The Next Big Thing predictions. Nevertheless, even March Madness is not the tournament that intrigues me most at this time of year. Rather, that title goes to the NHL playoffs.

The NHL playoffs are a test of endurance and grit unparalleled in other sports, and no other playoff tournament even comes close. After playing 82 regular season NHL games, plus up to six games at this year’s Sochi Olympics in the case of many NHL players, a team must win 16 more games to capture the Stanley Cup. These 16 games take the

games are at the other venue, game five is back at the first, game six goes back to the second, and game seven is back to the first venue again.

With many teams at significant distances from each other, the series format demands a heavy travel schedule. On top of this, teams rarely receive more than one day off between games. In short, there is no time to rest. It’s a full throttle sprint to the cup from the very beginning.

Now, one must understand the tremendous effort that goes into even a single hockey game in order to

lines of players for most of the game, but when the third period comes and the game is down to the wire, it is possible for three or two lines to see almost all of the playing time. All in all, players are left sore and incredibly exhausted after even a single game.

Multiply by this experience by up to 28 games in under two months and one can see how the NHL playoffs might be the most grueling endurance test in all sports. But there’s more to the experience than the See HOROWITZ page 15