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Panelists discuss the LGBTQfriendly politics of Israel, but say that the politics is an attempt to hide the violence and lack of protection of Palestinians and Arabs in Israel.

Three-part process is proposed as replacement for oral hearings

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Opinion Free Speech on Campus

By DARA LEVY

Speaking about the current University Assembly Codes regarding permit requirements for protesting, TylerLurie Spicer ’15 says such codes silence student voices.

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If changes to Cornell’s policy on resolving allegations of sexual assault are approved, complainants and respondents may move from testifying at hearings to writing their testimonies, University officials said at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday.

Supporters of changes to Policy 6.4 say that moving from an oral hearing to a written procedure would be better for victims because they may find hearings intimidating and be deterred from reporting misconduct. Currently, under the Campus Code of Conduct, all students who raise complaints of sexual assault or harassment must testify in person before a hearing board.

At a recent panel, Narda Terrones, a member of the Women’s Resource Center, said her interactions with victims of sexual assault showed her that some people choose not to report sexual attacks because of their fear of having to verbally recount the experience in front of a panel.

“The most terrifying thing is getting in front of the panel and telling their story in front of the person they are accusing,” Terrones said at the Daily Sun Dialogues panel Monday.

Others at the panel, however, said that Policy 6.4 may potentially raise See POLICY page 4

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Arts Coach’s Reflections

Football Coach David Archer ’05 reflects on his first spring season as a coach and concludes that the biggest theme of spring was spotting opportunities. | Page 16 YICHEN DONG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Deer have been overpopulating areas like Cayuga Heights, leading residents to seek solutions. See Page 3 for the story.

After Cuts,Fire Dept.Confronts Challenges

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

Five months after Ithaca’s Common Council approved a budget reducing the number of city firefighters by two, firefighters say it has been a challenge to maintain the Ithaca Fire Department’s alreadystrained workforce.

“When we do have fires and extrications, there are fewer people in safety roles, fewer people to see what’s

happening,” IFD Lieutenant Tom Basher said.

“Ultimately, the chief is responsible, so it burdens him.

Now, he’s making sure [people are safe], so the workload gets increased for the fire chief.”

Despite protests from members of Ithaca’s fire and police departments last fall, Common Council approved Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 proposed budget — which reduced the number of firefighters and police See IFD page 4

ESPN Anchor Talks About Career, Sports

By ANNIE BUI Sun Staff Writer

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Breaking the glass ceiling | Linda Cohn, anchor of ESPN’s SportsCenter, speaks in Kennedy Hall Thursday about her career in a male-dominated field.

Linda Cohn, American sportscaster and anchor of ESPN’s SportsCenter, spoke Thursday about her struggles as a woman in the largely maledominated field of sports and journalism.

Cohn, who was raised in Long Island by a Jewish family, talked about how her background and the time in which she grew up affected her decision to pursue sports journalism.

“I grew up in the 1970s — where there were no women doing sports, but a lot of women loving sports,” Cohn said. “I knew that my passion was sports. It made me feel good, as if I were on an emotional rollercoaster.”

Cohn said she began to defy the gender stereotype often associated with sports in high school when she made the boys’ hockey team.

“I remember saying to the coach, See COHN page 5

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Cornell’s NYS Agricultural Experiment Station To Receive $4.7 Million Over the next two years, Cornell’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., will receive $4.7 million to help it renovate its greenhouse buildings, according to a University press release.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) funded the initiative to rebuild 21,000 square feet of greenhouses at the experiment station — originally built during the 1950s to the 1970s — and create “much needed” modern facilities. Construction is expected to begin next month.

The “state-of-the-art” facilities will include better lighting, upgraded climate control systems and higher ceilings, the press release said. According to Thomas Burr, director of the NYSAES and assocate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, these changes will aid “critical research” that is done at the NYSAES. “The critical research being done today in Geneva requires state-of-the-art greenhouse facilities that can only be achieved through modernization and expansion,” Burr said in the press release, adding that “innovations pioneered in the greenhouses will translate to tangible products that have positive economic impacts on New York.”

The NYSAES works to develop agricultural techonolgies — such as food development and sustainablility techonolgies — that aid in “feeding the world and strengthening New York economies,” according to the NYSEAS’ website.

“From developing safe and nutritious foods to pioneering means to preserve the environment, NYSAES has been addressing the concerns and serving millions of New York consumers, agricultural producers, food businesses and farm families throughout the state,” according to the website.

— Compiled by Caroline Flax

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Today Ag Day! A Celebration of Agriculture 9 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Ag Quad Counter-Rhythms of the Afro-Diaspora 3 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., 519 Willard Straight Hall Everyday Mindreading: An Integrative Social Brain Model 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall Hope Night 2013 8 p.m. - 1:00 a.m., Duffield Hall A Night of Jazz and R&B Featuring Elle Varner 8 p.m. - 1:00 a.m., The Bear’s Den, Willard Straight Hall

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News, “President David Skorton Expresses Support for Immigration Reform,” Monday Speaking about the need for a two-pronged approach to immigration reform “Immigrants are clustered throughout many occupations in the U.S., [not only] in what have been called the ‘less-skilled’ occupations, but also in the ‘high-skilled, high-tech’ fields. Evidence suggests that on both sides of the skills spectrum, immigrant workers perform valuable services and are [beneficial to] the American economy.”

President David Skorton News, “Herman Cain: ‘Success Is Not a Straight Line’,” Tuesday Speaking about how his hard work greatly helped him in his career “Success is not a straight line. I was willing to go through the trenches in order to learn something new [and] in order to find my dream. The hardest assignments are your biggest opportunities.”

Herman Cain, former candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination

Opinion, “Goodbye, Cornell,” Monday Speaking about how his Cornell experience has shaped his perception on life “There are more than a few bad apples in the world; Boston just had to deal with a pair of really rotten ones.

But do not let the bad in this world prevent you from connecting to the good. … What I’m recommending is not easy, and it may not even be possible, but if my last week at Cornell has taught me anything, it’s that community matters — the bigger, the better.”

Pedal for Pets Bike-a-thon 9 a.m., Centennial Room, Veterinary School BreakFree Showcase V 3 - 5 p.m., Bailey Hall

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News, “At Cornell, Panelists Call for Solution to Conflict in Middle East,” Wednesday Speaking about the role of public perception in shaping policy “If you ask one side if they are for the two-state solution, they’ll say yes, but are convinced that the other side opposes it. Often, the public doesn’t know what is happening on the other side. You have to deal with the gut fears; you need an acknowledgement from the other side that changes are being made.”

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Cayuga Heights Grapples With Deer Overpopulation Problem

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Contributor

In an effort to combat a much debated, lingering problem of controlling its deer population, the Village of Cayuga Heights will need to continue sterilizing a high percentage of its deer, according to Kate Supron, mayor of the village.

In December, the Village of Cayuga Heights sterilized approximately 95 percent of its female deer population, according to Supron.

Although the village has continued its plan to steralize deer, many residents have opposed harming the deer. Others, however, said the deer population needs to be controlled to avoid harmful environmental problems.

Supron, however, said that “it was the most effective move we could make to stabilize the population at this point in time.”

“It doesn’t reduce the number of deer on the landscape. It just drops your birth rate, and over time, as they die, your population goes down if you’re able to maintain a sterile population,” she said.

While the natural density for deer is around 15 per square mile, Cayuga Heights has 125 deer per square mile, Supron said. This roughly translates to a population of just under 250 deer for the 1.83 square miles Cayuga Heights occupies.

With such a “serious concentration of deer,” the village proposed a two-pronged policy to tackle the problem and reduce the deer population, Supron said. The original proposal was that the village would sterilize a core population of does and then remove the remaining unsterilized deer at several culling sites through managed hunting.

However, Supron said, it soon became apparent that the plan would not work.

“You have to have property owner permission to discharge a weapon within 500 feet of an occupied dwelling,” she said. But after looking at the property permissions and considering the density of the village, it was clear that there would not be “a sufficient number of sites to be able to do the amount of culling required.”

At that point, the Village Board opted to approach the New York State Department of Environment Conservation, requesting a modification to its license so it could sterilize a larger percentage of the deer population, Supron said.

As a result, the village began sterilizing, tagging and identifying 95 percent of the female deer at last December.

Supron added, however, that the village would need to maintain the high level of sterilization in order for the program to be successful.

“It was the most effective move we could make to

stabilize the population at this point in time, but it doesn’t reduce the number of deer on the landscape.

It just drops your birth rate, and over time, as they die, your population goes down if you’re able to maintain a sterile population,” she said.

Overpopulation of deer has been a problem in Cayuga Heights reaching back as far as 1999, according to Supron.

Negative side effects of this problem have included “damage to the ecosystem” — including the destruction of the habitats of other native species, harm to the”regeneration of plants” that the deer have eaten, an “increased risk of automobile collisions,” a rise in the cases of Lyme disease in Tompkins County as a result of the spread of deer ticks and a negative impact on “people’s ability to use and enjoy their property,” according to Supron.

Coming up with a solution to solve the problem of deer overpopulation has not been easy, Supron said, and many people have debated the correct way to handle the situation.

In 2011, a group of residents filed a lawsuit to prohibit the village from implementing its program because they thought the village had not gone through an adequate decision-making process.

Ultimately, Supron said, the courts ruled in favor of the village, and the program moved forward.

Prof. Emeritus Pete Wetherbee, English, a resident of Cayuga Heights, said he also tackled the issue of deer population control when he unsuccessfully ran for the Board of Trustees of Cayuga Heights last year.

“Our party wanted to avoid anything so drastic as killing deer and was mistrustful of the various proposals that the incumbent party put forward for dealing with the deer,” Wetherbee said.0 Wetherbee added that it was challenging to accommodate the wide spectrum of opinions that the people of Cayuga Heights had.

On one end, there were “people who just want to go out there and blast away,” Wetherbee said, while on the other end, there were “people who don’t want to harm any living thing.”

However, for the most part, Wetherbee said the current method of sterilization seemed to be effective and it would be difficult to find a more effective method.

Moving forward, Supron said that the village is currently awaiting a report from Prof. Paul Curtis, natural resources, that will evaluate the current deer population situation. After looking at the report, she said the village will consider either maintaining the current sterilization program or looking at possible lethal deer control methods as possible options.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at gdl39@cornell.edu.

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Sister act

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Students act in Anton Chekhov’s play, Three Sisters, in the Black Box Theater of the Schwartz Performing Arts Center Thursday.

With Slope Day only a week away, who are you more excited for, Kendrick or Hoodie?

“Kendrick. Duh.”

— Too Cool ’15

“Hoodie! I don’t normally go for guys from Long Island, but I’ll make an exception for Steve Markowitz.”

— NJG ’15 “FIVE & A DIME!!!!”

— Mashed Up ’16

“Who are these people?!”

— Mainstream ’15

“Well, I was super excited for Kendrick Lamar, but then they announced Hoodie Allen and I was equally excited so I don’t know they are just both so talented!!”

— Undecided ’13 — Compiled by Jonathan Dawson

Panel at Cornell Criticizes‘Pinkwashing’ in Israel

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine argued at a panel Thursday that Israel conceals reports of ongoing human rights violations in Palestine by “pinkwashing” others, or portraying itself as an advocate of LGBTQ rights.

In a report released last Friday, the U.S. State Department said Israel’s greatest human rights challenges are “institutional and societal discrimination against Arab citizens, in particular access to equal education and employment opportunities.” Aisha Gawad, a lecturer in the English department and a panelist at the event, said she thinks Israel has used pinkwashing to deflect atten-

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Talk about pinkwashing | A panelist talks at a discussion about Israel’s LGBTQ-friendly politics in Mallot Hall Thursday.

tion from human rights issues.

“The idea of pinkwashing is to get away from the view of Israel as somewhere that is highly militarized. The painting of Israel as an LGBTQ paradise is part of a campaign to increase its brand internationally and not about gay rights itself,” Gawad said.

She added that she thinks Israel continuously ignores questions about its occupation of Palestine.

“Even while the bombings were happening, we had the Israeli Defense Force promoting non-violent images of itself on social media. We don’t talk about the people on the other side of the gun, the Palestinians,” Gawad said.

Adam Abboud ’14, another panelist, echoed Gawad’s concerns about the portrayal of Israel as an LGBTQ-friendly nation.

“Pinkwashing is done to overshadow the ongoing violation of human rights in Palestine by Israel.

Queer liberalization in Palestine itself cannot be attained without the end of occupation,” he said.

Some audience members, how-

ever, spoke in defense of Israel, arguing that the country has proven to be an advocate of both the LGBTQ community and minorities.

Benjamin Gordon ’14, president of the Jewish LGBTQ group, Ga’avah, said it is important not to overlook Israel’s progress in advancing the rights of minorities.

“Compared to other Western nations, the minorities in Israel are very well-protected. Israel passed pro-LGBTQ legislation before other Western countries,” he said.

For instance, in 2005, a court decision made it legal for lesbians to adopt a child her partner gave birth to through artificial insemination, according to Advocate, a U.S. news magazine. Israel also recognizes same-sex marriages performed outside of the country.

In addition, the state department’s report said that Israel’s government “took steps to prosecute and punish officials who committed abuses in the country regardless of rank or seniority.”

Some panelists, however, main-

tained that they think Israel has used pro-LGBTQ rhetoric to skew its public image.

“Pinkwashing changes the narrative of Israel-Palestine conflict from Israel being the oppressor to Arabs being the oppressor of their own LGBTQ men and women,” said Rebecca John ’14, another panelist at the event. “It changes the public’s perception of Israel from an oppressor state to a harmless LGBTQ-friendly one.”

For instance, despite passing proLGBTQ legislation, Israel, Gawad said, has not given Arab Israelis the “same benefits of the laws.

Kevin McGinnis ’13, President of Students for Justice in Palestine, urged audience members at the panel to become informed about the issues of politics, media and pinkwashing.

“What can we do here at Cornell? We can work within our community to educate ourselves,” he said.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

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S.A. Rep.: New Sexual Assault Policy ‘Empowers Parties’ in Process POLICY

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nicate the policy to students. The primary changes of Policy 6.4 are set to go into effect in Fall 2013.

The idea now is to get feedback from the community in the form of “a robust conversation,” Grant said.

“We want to make sure the changes are done in as great as a way as we possibly can,” she added.

The discussion of Policy 6.4 on Thursday followed months of debate over how the University should handle accusations of sexual assault by students.

the issue of not adequately protecting the rights of the accused.

Addressing this concern, Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 said that under Policy 6.4, in cases where a written agreement is not reached beforehand, complainants and respondents in sexual misconduct cases will go through a three-part process consisting of investigation, review and “We want to make sure the changes appeal.

During the new investigation step, both are done in as great as a way as we sides will have the opportunity to provide oral possibly can.” arguments to an investigator.

Later in the process, Grant said, any com- J.A. Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 plaints will be referred to written arguments.

In April, President David Skorton approved shiftGrant added that, following an initial investigation, the J.A. defends whichever party is found to be correct. ing the existing investigative procedure for cases of sexAfter Policy 6.4’s changes, the J.A. will remain a neu- ual violence by students under the campus Code of tral investigator throughout the process, according to Conduct to Policy 6.4. The policy is currently applied to faculty, staff and student employee cases and the Grant.

Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14, Arts and Sciences repre- change to include students has been hotly debated by sentative for the S.A., said the new policy would allow the U.A., its Codes and Judicial Committee, faculty for a more transparent process when dealing with “sen- and student leaders since April 2011.

“It’s not up for debate whether or not we can make sitive but complicated” sexual misconduct cases. “[Policy 6.4] empowers both parties to share their the switch to Policy 6.4, but we want to make sure the experience in a safe environment, which mitigates bar- changes are done in as great a way as we possibly can,” riers preventing victims from seeking judicial help Grant said.

Grant added that the number of allegations of sexwhile ensuring safeguards are in place to prevent false ual assault filed with the J.A. has risen in recent years, convictions,” Lukasiewicz said.

A trained appointed faculty member will conduct with approximately 10 to 12 cases being filed annualthe review step of each investigation, and the vice pres- ly in recent years.

Only six cases have gone before hearing boards ident of student and academic services will conduct any appeals. Grant said that Policy 6.4 includes a since 1999, due to the fact that the vast majority of checklist to help ensure that there is fairness through- these complaints are resolved by written agreements, she said. out the entire investigation process.

Grant said she is looking to hear suggestions to maintain fairness for all involved parties, feedback on Dara Levy can be reached at language used in the policy, and strategies to commu- dlevy@cornellsun.com.

Ithaca Fire Dept.Copes With Budget Cuts IFD

their positions may have to be filled with overtime,” he said.

“It’s a little complicated, given — to close a $3-million deficit that we don’t know will retire, in the City of Ithaca. and when — that’s the chalNo firefighters were laid off, lenge this budget creates.” but two deputy chief positions Though national standards — both vacant because of retire- dictate that departments send at ments — were left unfilled, least 15 firefighters to the site of according to Basher. Deputies a residential fire, the Ithaca typically handle more adminis- department has long been trative tasks, ensuring that understaffed, sending out a trucks are inspected and that minimum of 11 firefighters — something Parsons empha“We run with two people on a fire sized is not truck — you can’t reduce us anyunusual for fire departments in more.” small towns.

Lt. Tommy Basher The department receives firefighters have their physical about 5,000 calls a year comexaminations, he said. pared to about 3,000 when The department avoided lay- Parsons began working there in ing off firefighters by reevaluat- 1985. Because of this increase in ing its budget and reallocating calls, the department should be resources, but it was left with increasing its manpower, Basher “no excess” in its workforce, said said.

Tom Parsons, chief of the IFD. “We run with two people on “If anyone retires or goes off a fire truck — you can’t reduce work for an extended period, us anymore,” he said. “We are Continued from page 1

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on bare bones.”

Many of the calls the department receives are not for serious emergencies and are manageable with the staffing the department has, according to Parsons. But, he added, there are other emergencies where “we could use more staffing, but we have to make do with what we have, and our operations are not as efficient.”

Though the department’s situation is uncertain for next year — much will depend on the number of people who choose to retire — the department has alleviated some safety concerns by avoiding layoffs, Parsons said.

“At this point in time, I can’t say there’s been a significant change in the way we do business, though it can be challenging at times,” Parsons said. “We didn’t do terribly; we did okay; I wish we did better.”

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

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‘I won’t let you down.’ I have used those four words constantly throughout my career,” Cohn said.

Cohn was on the girls’ ice hockey and tennis teams at SUNY Oswego, where she graduated with a degree in communications. According to Cohn, by her sophomore year in college, she knew where she wanted her life to head.

“The year was 1978, and even back then, I had a vision — I saw myself being a sportscaster,” Cohn said.

Cohn began her work at a radio station in Long Island, where she covered events for the New York Islanders hockey team.

A self-proclaimed Rangers fan, Cohn said that even though she volunteered to cover the team “she hated the most,” it helped her propel her career forward.

Attempting to get a job in television, Cohn received her big break through an unconventional method: baking chocolate chip cookies for a local Long Island television crew so they would film something for her in return.

“I asked them if I could put together a sports tape,” Cohn said. “I wrote a script and did a five minute sportscast, then sent the tape out to where I wanted to be. That turned out to be my magic wand.”

Shortly after, Cohn ended up in Seattle, where she became a weekend sports anchor and weekly sports reporter at CBS-affiliated KIRO-TV. “ESPN spotted me in Seattle and wanted to hire me. But at that time, my life had slowed down — I was married, had a child and had balance in my life.

It wasn’t all about the job,” Cohn said.

Eventually, Cohn ended up at ESPN — but the job did not come without its troubles.

“I remember when an ESPN fan came up to me at my first event, the ESPYs,” Cohn said.

“He said to me: ‘Wow, you are so lucky.’ And I just kind of nodded to him. I wish I had said that luck is actually spelled W-O-R-K.” When asked how she dealt with the stereotype of being a woman in a typically male-dominated field, Cohn stated that it was important to remain confident and focus on the job at hand.

“Whether good or bad, seek out the criticism and advice — don’t wait for it to find you,” Cohn said. “Back then, I didn’t have a choice. I was happy for the opportunity, and I just had to prove myself.”

The lecture was sponsored by Cornell Hillel as part of its Major Speaker Series.

According to Alexis Robins, engagement associate for Hillel, the Major Speaker Series is a new initiative to bring influential Jewish leaders to campus.

This story is continued on cornellsun.com.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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the berry patch

R EP O RTE R S N EE D NO T AP P LY Careercast.com crushed our hopes and dreams this month when its editors hopped on the bandwagon — started driving the damn thing, really — and declared newspaper reporter the single worst job in the nation for 2013. Projecting a job rate growth of negative six percent and quoting experts prophesying the demise of the print newspaper within the next decade, Careercast.com proved itself a true buzzkill. Our berry patch reporters have fled The Sun en masse in response to the dismal forecast. Here are a few of the new career paths they’ve decided to pursue: 1. Trash Collector: While job market experts are putting the starting salary for some journalists around $30,000 “if you’re lucky,” trash collectors can make anywhere from $45,000 to $75,000 a year. WTF. 2. Psychiatrist: Reporters are highly adept — or at least adequately adept — at dealing with bitching and moaning, from sources, editors and readers alike.

Our berry patch reporters have perfected the art of making generic form responses seem personally customized. It’s all in the delivery. Actually, let’s be honest: Reporters don’t listen, they just nod and say ‘I understand.’ Don’t expect any therapy; they will likely just prescribe the same “medically-necessitated” booze and pills combination that kept them going in their work at The Sun. 3. Hobo: There’s a running joke that as long a reporter doesn’t look like a homeless person, he or she is dressed appropriately for work in the newsroom.

Well our berry patch reporters are the B Team, so they’re not even held to that minimum standard. They will easily adapt to the role of hobo, blending in seamlessly on the streets. Many of them already say its better than a night at the Sun, anyway.

4. Biomedical Engineer: Biomedical engineers make bank (well, compared to hobos) and have a whopping 62-percent projected job growth! Plus, ... wait, who the hell are we kidding? Biomedical engineering? ENGINEERING? They’re not qualified to do anything that requires beakers. Or flammable materials. Or simple math.

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A Course That Changed My Life W

hen I was a sophomore, I took a class that changed my life and continues to guide my value system and worldview. You can’t take this course today — not here at Cornell. In fact, it was never offered here at Cornell. It has been taught at Drexel University, Hobart and William Smith College and today a version of the course is taught at Union College. I took it at Hobart and William Smith and went on to teach the class for two years. The course has had many names, but the name I learned to appreciate was: “Making Connections,” or MC for short.

MC is an experiential learning course based around systems of oppression in society. It was a course created by men and women who worked and studied at Cornell University, and it taught me how to live.

The key tenet of the course is that there is no hierarchy of oppression. Each form of oppression is equal to any other, as opposed to there being one that is the most important to solve. Further, it taught me that as long as you have one form of oppression you will have all the others; there is no “solving” racism, for example, unless we solve all forms of oppression. The course taught me how to dissect different types of societal oppression and recognize the historical implications and similarities one type has with the others. Students learned their roles in breaking the cycle of oppression, as well as the stereotypes and misinformation associated with different groups of people.

For an entire semester, myself and a group of 60 other students, faculty and staff members gathered for three hours to talk about understanding what the individual experiences. We would tackle an “ism” a week: Racism, Ageism, Ableism, Sexism, Heterosexism, Anti-Semitism and Classism, making interconnections between them all. Each ism has a relation to power and access to privileges. With sexism, for example, the group in power is men and called the “included group.” Therefore, the excluded group is women.

Each class began with a historical understanding of the roots of the oppression, typically a 45 minute lecture supported by readings and class discussion. We then separated into affinity groups. For example, women talked to one another about their experiences and vice versa with men. We

were allowed to work through our experiences with oppression with others privately, without judgement and without being forced to defend our experiences. No matter the ism we were discussing, I always felt like I learned something valuable about my experience in the world.

Then something more remarkable would occur: We would come back together as a group and the excluded group would speak to the included group about their experiences. This was something radically powerful about this class, and it allowed us to share personal stories that transformed opinions. How often have I, as a man, been able to listen to all of the ways that women are impacted by sexism? How often have I been able to share the ways in which I have been personally impacted by racism in my life? How often have I had the opportunity to speak to a group of thoughtful, patient potential allies? Reflecting back on the class now, it seems remarkable that we did this every week.

Here’s what I want you to know: This course changed lives. It allowed many young men and women to be heard. The course allowed a community to come together to address day-to-day experiences.

It transformed what was before, to some, an “us versus them” community into a “we’ community.

The course has continued to shape my life. When I was in the Peace Corps I saw these struggles with oppression play out in ethnic tensions between Hungarians and Romanians. The class guided my work with NGOs in Cambodia that combat sex trafficking. I see the value of it today, whether we are discussing the role of a diversity curriculum at Cornell, forming coalition groups to combat sexual assaults on campus or even unpacking the messy and hyperbolic humor of Seth McFarlane at the Oscars.

Like I said, it is a course that you can’t take here at Cornell but that was created by administrators at the University, taught at three different universities and maybe, just maybe, it would give our community an opportunity they may never get anywhere else.

Alexis E. Santí is the Coordinator of Travel Safety for Cornell University. He may be reached at asanti@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

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Mobilizing Controlled Substances

t’s the end of second year now, which means it’s around the time to start thinking about what we want to do with the rest of our lives. I was going to write this last column of the semester about the process of making those “big life decisions,” but there are more important legislative issues to discuss. The Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act of 2013 is currently before Congress. This act is an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act, and would allow veterinarians to transport and dispense controlled substances at locations besides the address on their Drug Enforcement Administration registration.

Here’s a little additional background on the issue: The Controlled Substances Act was enacted in 1970. Part of the law stipulates that controlled substances can only be stored and dispensed at the specific address that is on file with the DEA. However, the ability to provide ambulatory care is an important facet of veterinary medicine. General equine and farm animal veterinarians typically travel to farms for much of their work because their clients often don’t have the time or resources to travel to a large animal hospital. These ambulatory veterinarians carry all of the materials and drugs that they need to use in their trucks and are based out of an office (which can be anything from a full service hospital to a small home office). Additionally, small

Veterinarians need to be able to carry around drugs with them. animal veterinarians often offer house-call services to their patients, particularly for at-home euthanasia services, which ensure that a beloved pet’s last moments are as calm and peaceful as possible. There are also mobile veterinary clinics that work in impoverished areas to spay and neuter cats and dogs. On top of this, there are veterinarians who work to treat and relocate dangerous wildlife that could pose a serious risk to human health.

So, as you’ve probably figured out by now, veterinarians need to be able to carry around drugs with them. Several of these drugs, primarily ones used for pain control, sedation and euthanasia have been listed as controlled substances in the Controlled Substances Act. Without them, veterinarians would not be able to provide critical care to their patients.

During the last 40 years, there have not been many run-ins between the DEA and the veterinary community. However, in the last year, several ambulatory veterinarians (starting in California) received notices from the DEA that they were in violation of the Controlled Substances Act and could face penalties such as the revocation of their DEA registration, fines and even criminal charges if there is evidence of further associated illegal activities such as illegal distribution. It’s a little unclear, but the exception seems to be that veterinarians are allowed to carry a predetermined amount of medications if they know exactly how much they will need for specific appointments. However, this would not work for spay/neuter clinics where there are an unknown number of animals, or for emergencies, which are an important aspect of ambulatory veterinary medicine.

Continued enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act would essentially drive ambulatory veterinarians out of their jobs. I can’t stress enough how important it is that the Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act passes. Veterinary contribution to the misuse of pain medication falls near the bottom of the scale of all of the drug problems in this country.

The DEA’s resources are better suited for more deep-rooted problems, especially since veterinary use of controlled substances is vital to the health and well-being of the patients and the public. If you’re interested in helping, you can google AVMA Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act which provides a way to send a form letter (personalized, if you wish) to your congressperson.

Thanks for reading this year, see you in the fall with news on those “big life decisions” and hopefully some summer adventure stories. As always, please e-mail me if there’s anything that you would like to see me write about!

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a secondyear 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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Stifling Dissent: Exploring The Role of Protest on Campus W

hat role do “Use of University Property” permits play when people are organizing a protest? When people are asked to apply for their right to free speech, who becomes privileged and who does not? Currently the University Assembly is considering a change to the Campus Code of Conduct that could greatly impact our right to free speech.

Excuse my bureaucratic language while I explain: According to current campus code, Cornell generally cannot require a permit for student protests on campus.

However, the University Assembly Codes and Judicial Committee is currently considering the “Resolution to Clarify Responsible Free Expression in the Campus Code of Conduct” in which one of two proposals will be decided on. The first proposal would be consistent with the current campus code, eliminating any permit requirements for free expression outdoors, given that the safety and rights (including rights of free speech) of others and their property are respected.

The second proposal, however, intensifies restrictions by forbidding any unpermitted demonstration at the same time and place as a University function or event with a permit. In both of these proposals, counter protests would be forbidden on campus. Yet how can anti-oppression activism occur if dissent is forbidden when there are oppressive events?

As a training camp for the future rich and powerful, our University is riddled with oppressive forces. Some of the students who gradu-

ate from here will lead some of the most oppressive institutions in the world. Some mathematicians will go off to design the new weapons that will kill families in Palestine. Some engineers will work for big oil companies and propel us further into a climate crisis. Some business students will work on Wall Street where they will finance these atrocities and countless others. Today, oppressive mentalities that perpetuate this greed manifest themselves within student organizations and campus events here on campus.

Many students on this campus have privileges that are

(hyperlinked above if you are reading this online), it is not a violation for a group to be at the same outdoor location as one with a permit.

Then again, it is not explicitly granted either.

Therefore, it is no surprise that some members of the UA are proposing changes to the Cornell Code that would legitimize the eviction of such dissenters.

There are a number of Public Comments that have been released by U.A. members (also in the hyperlink above) that show a wide range of views. While some members, such as Ari Epstein, view this as a simple

We must resist oppressive powers where they are born, where they are most subtle and yet, where they are strongest. rooted in the oppression of others and they will try hard to protect those privileges.

These acts should not go unchallenged.

Just one example of this was last semester, when Hillel and Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee (CIPAC) came out to Ho Plaza to support the bombings on Gaza citizens.

Students for Justice in Palestine came out in response to elucidate the oppressive roots of their message. Sure enough, just as police evict Palestinians from Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, I witnessed Cornell Police push SJP protesters off of Ho Plaza because they did not have a permit and CIPAC did. Yet, as seen in the current campus code

matter, ensuring that scheduled events do not conflict, others members like Risa Lieborwitz recognize that these changes would infringe upon our right to dissent on campus. She also points out that while we may disagree with one another, free speech protects our right to disagree, even if that means our events do not always go as planned.

“Free speech means that sometimes outdoor demonstrations and counterdemonstrations may be loud and that it may be hard to hear everything.” Lieborwitz explains, “This is part of having [and] protecting heated debate...” Furthermore, without counterprotests and disruptions of oppressive events, the only permissible form of direct

action would be to rally with one’s friends and make speeches among allies.

While these events can excite a crowd, they are about as powerless as our Student Assembly in that they put no direct pressure on anyone. The only leverage that a mass group of people can have in dealing with an oppressive force is to directly engage with that force. It is the only way that we, as students, can de-construct the oppression as it comes to fruition on this campus.

I am not saying that disruptive events and counterprotests need to be violent or destructive, although it is not my place to infringe upon anyone’s autonomy to do so. But they may be cacophonous, they may show disagreement, they may force us to question our beliefs and those we are surrounded by. What is crucial is that we show up when we notice oppression. We cannot afford to isolate resistance in the front-line communities who face oppression every day. Rather, we must resist oppressive powers where they are born, where they are most subtle and yet where they are strongest. We cannot let our classmates use their incredible skills, intellect and potential for the destruction of our planet and its people. We must be the counterforce. We will not be silenced.

Tyler-Lurie Spicer is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He may be reached at til4@cornell.edu. Personal Politics appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Student Fashion Spotlight

It all comes down to this. After fourteen weeks, six spotlights and a whole lot of late nights, the Cornell Fashion Collective seniors are ready to show off their signature designs at their Spring Fashion Show tomorrow night at Barton Hall. The collective will showcase the talents of CFC fashion designers in a full-on, lights shining, music blaring, models strutting fashion show. And no, their lives are not like Project Runway.

Both times I left studio at T07 to talk to the women of CFC, I left in a markedly better mood than when I came. The place is almost infectious that way. Tomorrow, the ladies and gentleman of CFC will bring their spark, their flare and the world of T07 to you. So, without further ado, The Cornell Daily Sun presents the last three designers in our Fashion Spotlight series.

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

NOMAD.SOLDIER is Alie Bauer ’13’s second collection with the Cornell Fashion Collective, but she has been doodling clothing since middle school (she could never find anything she wanted to wear). While her friends gravitated to Hollister and Abercrombie, Bauer looked to her imagination to create what she would actually want to wear (if it existed). As a result, her clothing choices in high school were a little out of the ordinary. Back then, she used to be into ska punk, now, she is more inspired by goth chic designers like Rick Owens. Her design aesthetic has certainly come a long way over the years, especially during her time at Cornell. Bauer reflected on one of her old designs in the CFC show a year or so ago that included a full body orange jumpsuit — “I don’t know what I was thinking,” she laughed.

Her current collection makes reference to Owens, Damir Doma, Wayne Design and Blood of Heroes, a post-apocalyptic film where people play a brutal gladiator game to advance in society, though you probably wouldn’t recognize the references unless you knew about them in advance (thank goodness you read the Sun). All of the costuming in the film contains “lots of layers, lots of toughness, but its also very earthy and sort of primitive looking.”

Her friends make fun of one piece she made, saying it looks “sort of like a jedi robe.”

“I love that description,” remarked Bauer. “Thats exactly what I was going for, you know, Star Trek.

Even my boots kind of look like what star troopers wear in star trek, sort of pseudo sci-fi. I’m really into that kind of thing.”

It’s taken a long time and quite a few questionable choices for Bauer to discover her aesthetic. But Bauer’s love for fashion is like her love for Star Trek: sure to be long-lasting and filled with futuristic earthy tones.

In the style of Blood of Heroes, her pieces contain some leather and quilting, but her biggest signature has to be the crescent shaped pads — sometimes stitched onto shoulders for a claw-like look and sometimes sewn in underneath pieces to create a drape effect. Accented with black-chain necklaces that she made herself, her collection reflects a vision for the future that she self-describes as goth-chic.

After years with CFC, she has learned the importance of trial and error. In the past she would have drawn one design and began the production process, but with time, and some advice from a professor, she has embraced the necessity of the draft. She imagined her professor chiding her: “No, you have to draw like 300 of those.”

All in all, designing for CFC has been like nothing else she has done, and quite possible like nothing else at Cornell. “I gotta say, I know everyone at Cornell works hard and I totally understand, but this is just a different kind of work,” said Bauer.

“It’s very very personal because in a sense all of it is you. like everything, every single decision you make, every single color you choose, every single texture, everything you do and then you show it to like 2500 people on this huge runway. …

Just the sewing itself takes hours and hours and hours so you spend a lot of time staring at it and thinking about it and and by the time you’re almost done with it, it takes a lot to be like I’m still good with this, you know you think a lot about other things. So I guess I’ve learned a lot about believing in what you decide and making the decisions and sticking by them and learning how to problem solve and make it work. … You have to get over those little roadblocks to achieve your whole vision, and getting that whole package together is a hugely rewarding experience. So, thats something I’ve learned. It’s worth fighting for your vision.”

Alie Bauer ’13

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Arielle Cruz is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Rachel Kuhns ’13 has a much lighter look than Bauer. Her materials are airier, she uses a lot of chiffon, and soaked in cool white and turquoise tones.

Her collection this year is inspired by Audrey Hepburn movies; she has probably seen Funny Face, Charade and Sabrina about 30 times each The credit role especially sticks in her mind — or at least, the lines that read, “Mrs. Hepburn’s clothing made by Mr. Givenchy.” So, as a homage to the man who dressed the beautiful Hepburn, Kuhns’ collection will feature a blend of ’50s and ’60s silhouettes blended with Chinese designs and roping techniques.

Kuhns’ mother is from Cape Cod, so she spent a lot of time surrounded by knotting and nautical themes growing up. She wanted to incorporate them into her looks. After researching the Givenchy silhouettes and some of the history of knotting, she learned that both are asian-inspired, so she settled upon her third inspiration: chinese patterns.

Kuhns has been designing with the collective since she was a freshman. After completing designs for class, she says, it’s nice to be able to make something of her own.

“Ever since I was a little girl I’ve loved Barbies and dressing up. When I was in middle school I started sewing lessons. During high school, was really into art and sewing and I figured I’d just sort of go with it. My

mom always said, you can do anything you want as long as you work hard. So thats kind of what I did.”

And she does it well. Standing in her corner for less than a minute, I wanted one of her shirts. It was white, with a Chinese-inspired pattern cut out of it with a new laser cutter. “So I have this piece, we have a new laser cutter downstairs, I’m doing this Chinese traditional

Rachel Kuhns ’13 design that I made design my own on Illustrator and then I made it into a pattern for the laser cutter. Its a tank top that has laser cut design out and it has organza underneath then it has an organza see through strip in the back, full, it’s a little above the knee, chiffon, box peated with organza. It’s all white, simple and just beautiful.” I have to agree.

This is the kind of aesthetic that Kuhns loves, “As time has gone by I realize what I like more than See FASHION page 10

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other things, more fitted silhouettes. My favorite color is white which is kind of a weird color to be a favorite color. I love pastels, I’m really into chiffon [and] organza. Out of the designers, I’m probably the girliest along with Anu Lingala ’13. Very into ’50s and ’60s.

Caroline Delson ’13 says whenever she sees something mod, it reminds her of me.”

Although most of her work was unfinished when I spoke with her, if her monkey-fist knot purses and white-draped silhouettes are any indicator of how classic the line will be, it is sure to wow at the show. To match her rope patterned vests and top, each of the women will have rope bows tied around sock buns or flowing locks, depending on the look.

Before I left, I had to ask Kuhns for some fashion advice: specifically, what she thinks is one clothing item very Cornellian should own. For girls, she said, “All Cornell women should own a nice sundress”; she loves them herself.

For men, “everyone should have a nice pair of Sperry’s.”

Caroline Delson ’13 is a female designer passionate about menswear. While menswear isn’t the haute couture most little girls have in mind when they think of fashion, with enthusiasm and creativity, menswear has become the perfect medium for Delson’s personality. After developing for four years with CFC, Delson now has the opportunity to present a full design collection that expresses her confident and mature sense of style.

A native New Yorker, Caroline took her first fashion course when she was 14. She says her passion comes from the variety of ways a person can be involved in fashion. “There are so many ways to stay with it forever.” Her excitement comes from seeing “how amazing it is to move from idea and 1-D and thoughts to this 3-D real thing.”

Her interest in menswear was sparked by a Cornell program run through the Portland-based wool company, Pendleton. “I’ve had always been curious about menswear. When I worked on that project I finally figured out that that was what I should be doing,” she said. As opposed to women’s wear, which can be crowded, “with men’s, there is a lot of room for experimentation.”

Caroline’s style of menswear is “feminine inspired.” “I think that the details are really important in menswear, and I think now I’ve found my voice and shape,” she said. She admits that “You’re toeing the line putting men in long shirts because it reads as a dress sometimes. I think that’s the kind of conversation that keeps coming up more and more in fashion, and I don’t mind being a part of it.”

Surprisingly, “putting a womens wear fabric into a men’s garment doesn’t look wrong. “I’ve been experimenting a lot this year. Maybe just because it’s the last time so I really feel free, but [I] kind of [like] putting women’s fabrics onto men, seeing how it looks, being happy with it, hearing boys say that it’s not the worst thing

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ever,” she said.

Her third menswear collection for CFC is called Club of Sons. Her inspiration comes from painters. Her aim is “outfitting the artist” at work. “I wanted to make pieces that … you’d put them on everyday and paint in them.” She based her pieces in “characters” like Austrian painters Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Klimt had smocks made for him with beautifully detailed shoulder embroidery, while Caroline used Schiele’s paintings for inspiration to paint on some of her pieces. In her opinion, the cornerstone of the collection are long shirts that are “boxy, wide, [and] smock-esque”.

She was also inspired by movies like Metropolis, The Master and Jiro Dreams of Sushi, whose pallet informed the creams, whites, midnights and indigos in the pieces of her collection and albums. “I think [the albums] in some weird way influenced the kind of process of this collection,” because she was listening to other artists’ full thoughts to create her own full collection.

Looking at her pieces, it’s clear that this is a “personal, nostalgic collection.” She put her own favorite things in the pieces like crosswords and quilts. “Giving all the pieces the personal touches makes me [feel] really connected to it, but I think it also influences what the customer is going to feel,” she said.

In its completion, her line is made up of nine

looks and 27 pieces. She has canvas bags made with an actual crossword she created. All her models will be wearing glasses (“I like boys in glasses”). There are some snapbacks with hummingbirds across the brim. She used a variety of materials like knit, neoprene (used in wetsuits) and vinyl for raincoats.

Cornell has been a journey for Caroline. “My first year you have one look. Mine really wasn’t great” But she has used these four years to grow.

Through her work on the E-Board, she’s been able to see CFC as more than just a place to showcase her designs. It has also been a way to find a community within her department and with the diverse group of people who participate in CFC, in one form or another.

Listening to Caroline, if I’m allowed to interject my opinion into this profile, what I find cool about her is that she has found a passion that she has turned into a career in which she isn’t limited in expressing her ideas. Her senior collection shows how effectively she has used her four years to grow into a confident person with a full idea of themselves and what they are doing. I believe this is something we can all take away from listening about her and seeing her work Meredith Joyce is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at mjoyce@cornellsun.com.

A Real-Life Animal House

ook around at Cornell. The most contentious campus political discussion is over one of the most infamous symbols of the American college experience: the fraternity house. Some of these houses are tight with the Trustees and the University, some are under probation and face disbandment. A rigorous hierarchy within the Greek system causes inter-fraternity rivalries; this hierarchy is largely dependent on the wealth of the house and its brothers. There is a dean (or maybe associate dean of students) who is either looked at as a repressive buzzkill or a principled progressive. The situation begs the obvious comparison to the most notorious college movie ever released, National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), and its countless shameless imitations (Old School, Van Wilder etc.).

Cornell isn’t quite studious enough to resemble Harvard in 1973’s The Paper Chase, not loose enough to be the invented South Harmon Institute of Technology in Accepted, definitely not politically active enough to be the Wesleyan-like Port Chester University in PCU and too conceited to be University of Ithaca in Road Trip; minus the difference in time periods, Animal House’s Faber College fits Cornell’s social atmosphere just about right. The polarization of Cornell’s different communities is strong enough to look like the exaggerated forces that make up an underdog protagonist and diabolical antagonist in a traditional Hollywood production. Although the comparison to these movies is fun and may make fraternities or the administration feel as though their struggle is noble enough to be a

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Hollywood cliché, Animal House ends with the Delta Tau Chi members being kicked off campus and out of school and likely forced into the military. To fight back against the authorities, they unleash havoc on the local town parade, championing recklessness and hedonism over the humorlessness and conventionality of the local squares.

This makes for a great ending to an underdog movie. The underdogs win in their own fashion and their spirits are not extinguished by the dean’s punishments. The brothers bond. The audience leaves ecstatic and likely inspired to fantasize about future college shenanigans, become nostalgic over past college experience or hike up a heavy tab at the nearest bar. This, however, is not the ending anybody wants at Cornell.

Henry Staley Politicizing Art The players in this political drama (Administration, Fraternity etc.) are polarized but both have their share of folly — namely repression. In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck writes, “repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” This notion could either rationalize Fraternity’s hazing period, which seeks to bond pledges via work and subjugation, or explain why the Greek community has gathered together under antagonism toward the University and

the IFC’s new regSANTI SLADE / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR ulations. No matter how benevolent the intention, an authority suppressing activity with threats of punishment is repression. Likewise, hazing is a serious form of social repression and can often teeter into sinister behavior.

Unlike the ending of Animal House, a sound ending to this tension would emphasize the individual over the collective and would come from initiation instead of force. To reach this sort of ending, the administration must end its measures to monitor activities at fraternities and individual fraternity members must step up against their more irrational traditions and work to prevent the incidents that have erupted into scandal — including sexual abuse, lethal overconsumption and plain bullying. Traditions are venerated through time, not reason.

Students will be academic or responsible at their own will; the University will never change that. The university is miscalculating the power of regulation. Prohibitions create transgressions. I want students to have a community like that Greek Life offers. I also think under-aged students should have a place to drink or experiment (or just get high) with the more benign drugs students inevitably pursue.

At the same time, I hope that students won’t feel the need to emulate the recklessness that is championed in these classic college films and that the social behavior can continue with a spirit of self reliance and self regulation.

The conflict between administration and brotherhoods has followed the script of any screwball college narrative so far. As the conflict reaches its third plot point, the University should let students create the ending. They will be surprised at students’ ability to defy the classic representation of careless college students in movies and impressed by their capacity for self-governance.

Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. He can be reached at hstaley@cornellsun.com. Politicizing Art appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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SPORTS

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Niners Take Loss, Look From Designer to Columnist to Graduate Ahead to Princeton NEWCOMB

Continued from page 16

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

The baseball team is looking to grab some wins as it prepares to head into the Ivy League Championships. The team’s latest game, a 6-5 nonleague loss to Binghamton on Wednesday, put the team on a sour note, but the Red is ready to bounce back for an upcoming four-game series against Princeton.

The Bearcats took their first and only lead of the day in the bottom half of the fifth inning, however, with all four runs due to errors from the Cornell infield. The Red tried to come back in the ninth with junior pinch-hitter Ben Swinford leading with a single and advancing to second thanks to a sac bunt from Plantier. After Cruz got up and was hit by a pitch, the two players moved into scoring posi-

“We battled in the last inning down by one with runners in scoring position and just got unlucky.”

Kevin Tatum “The Binghamton game went pretty well I thought. We didn’t swing the bats as well as we wanted to, but we kept battling,” sophomore Kevin Tatum said.

“Our pitchers pitched well and kept us close. We battled in the last inning down by one with runners in scoring position and just got unlucky.”

Junior Ryan Plantier was 2for-3 with a three-run home run, but the team could not close to grab the win away from the Bearcats.

“Ryan Plantier had a big game with a three run bomb and another hit,” Tatum said.

Cornell’s first hit gave the team a 4-0 lead in the second inning when Plantier’s blast went over the field in left. The home run for Plantier was only his second of the season — Tatum also has two for the year, while junior Chris Cruz leads the team with three. Binghamton came back in the third when Zach Blanden hit a two-run homer. Sophomore J.D. Whetsel answered back for the Red in the top of the fifth inning when he stole third — he leads the team with 17 stolen bases — and then scored on a fielding error to give Cornell another run.

tion due to a groundout.

However, a line drive snagged by the Bearcat’s left fielder ended the Red’s chances of coming back to take the “W.” The Red will play Princeton in two doubleheaders this weekend. The two games on Friday will be at Princeton with a noon start time and the second two games will be at noon on Sunday at home at Hoy Field. This weekend’s series ends the regular season and sets up the Ivy League Tournament.

“This is a huge series. We are going to go in there and play our game,” Tatum said. “To have a shot, we have to take at least three, but taking four would be ideal. They are in the same position as us, so it’s going to be a battle.”

The Tigers are 12-26 overall, but 9-7 in the Ivy League.

Though Princeton claimed victories in three of four games against the Red last season, the Red’s one win against the Tigers gave Cornell the Gehrig Division title.

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

care a little bit. However, anonymous dislike of my opinions was new territory.

Despite that, after last semester I decided to carry my column through my gra****ion (sorry, won’t write it down) as a way of staying involved with The Sun now that my time as Design Editor has ended. It is, however, important to recognize that this is not a stepping stone for any journalism ambitions that I hold for my future. After next month, I will hold a degree in engineering, and will no longer have an outlet for my snarky opinion as it relates to sports.

Thus, my title will return to crazy sports fan, as it has been my whole life.

At a younger age, it wasn’t a “cool” thing to like sports and to be a girl and, just to clarify, I was a super uncool middle schooler. I often felt that I needed to know the most about the latest games or trades to even consider joining in on a conversation about that week’s latest sports events. I became competitive about competitive sports.

Beyond my insatiable quest for sports knowledge, I had always played sports. I never took an interest in more artistic forms of expression, and tried nearly every sport imaginable as I was growing up. The only sport I never played in an organized fashion was softball.

Sadly, this is the sport of choice for my future employer’s summer league, so maybe I will learn to love it.

Don’t think that because I played a lot of sports that I was talented in each and every one, because that is most definitely not the case. I was bad at a good number of them, but I still loved them.

I would like to think that my lifelong involvement in sports has taught me a lot about determination and perseverance, and that

through the many, many, many times that I have failed, I have learned how to better succeed. Both as a fan, and as an athlete, this conviction has been a theme of my relationship with sports.

I want to take this final column to say some thank yous. The first is to my extended Northwestern family. Through my family’s (insane) commitment to Northwestern Athletics, I have gained aunts, uncles and grandparents that have shaped my life in immeasurable ways. I am so blessed to have had that influence in my life.

Super special shout out to Ivan Zilka, who is 93 years young and has been attending Northwestern football games for decades (and also graduated from Northwestern when tuition was $150). He is a true life champion, and one of my personal role models.

Finally, my parents. My father, for whom sports passion knows no bounds, has pushed me to create my own potential and live up to it in a way that has been an extraordinary lesson that I will carry with me always.

My mother has always been my biggest fan.

The amount of time that you have dedicated to watching me try my hand at numerous sports throughout the years is not overlooked, and I truly appreciate it more than I could say.

I could not be more excited to say that I am returning home to Chicago after I leave Cornell to start a new chapter in my (adult?) life. This fall, I’ll be back in Section 230 at Ryan Field cheering on the Northwestern Wildcats if you want to come find me (or join me).

The title of this column is a phrase often said by one of these aforementioned Northwestern family members, and is used when a football game is over, and so, too, is “Sucks to Suck”.

Annie Newcomb is a senior columnist. She can be contacted at anewcomb@cornellsun.com. Sucks to Suck appeared alternate Fridays this semester.

Coach Prepares for Annual Spring Game FOOTBALL

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working up our weight numbers and our strength numbers over the summer, and then we’ll come back for the five week training camp before we play in the fall.”

With the fall season still looming before the Red, Archer said there are aspects of the game he understands the team will develop over time.

“Everything is leading up to those ten games, those are the most important things we do,” Archer said. “I think we have to continue to develop on our schematics, on our fundamentals.”

Archer made most of his changes to the staff when he was first

appointed to the position. With the departure of assistant coach Emani Fenton to the Kansas City Chiefs, however, Archer brought in Satyen Bhakta, a former defensive line coach at Division II Colorado school of Mines, to work with the team’s inside linebackers. Bhakta, like many of the coaches Archer has brought in, has already worked closely with other members of the coaching staff.

“Coach Bhakta brings chemistry and knowledge of the defense, because he’s previously worked for coach Backus,” Archer said. “I wanted one voice, one unified voice on defense, with Coach Backus being the coordinator. It’s all about chemistry.”

The annual spring game on

Saturday will be the Red’s first public showing on the field under the tutelage of Archer. It will also be an opportunity for the Red to share with the community. There will be a spring tailgating event before the game called “The Big Red Goes Green” in celebration of Earth Day, as well as a book collection for family reading partnership.

“Our kids and our community work really hard and pour a lot into our program, and Saturday is a day to celebrate it,” Archer said. “And the way you celebrate it is by playing really hard, by playing fundamentally sound.”

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

Red to Play Penn on Slope Day in Ivy Tournament WOMEN’S LACROSSE Continued from page 16

MONICA SUH / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Four games, one weekend | The Red will head to Princeton this weekend for a doubleheader before returning to Ithaca for another set of games.

netted six and senior attacker and captain Caroline Salisbury added four. Toppe now has 43 goals on the season and 54 points, both of which are top on the team.

Tripodi’s seven-point performance brings her to second on the team in points with 41.

“However, I would say we did not bring a full 60 minutes to the game and did not play with quite the energy and support for our

teammates we normally play with,” Salisbury said. “So, looking ahead to Saturday, backing each other up and going hard the whole game is going to be a major focus.”

Saturday’s matchup against Boston will be only the second time the two teams have met in program history.

“Boston University has one really good girl on offense, [Danielle Etrasco], so shutting her down in the game is going to be really important,” Salisbury said. “Another big

focus is limiting the number of turnovers we have and getting the ball cleanly down the field in transition.”

Cornell will also honor six seniors during the game who have combined for 143 goals and 46 assists. It will mark the last home game for senior goaltender Courtney Gallagher who has nine wins and over 100 saves in her career.

“It’s our last game on Schoellkopf, so we’re definitely going to bring a lot of positive energy and emotion into the game,”

Salisbury said.

After the regular season ends on Saturday, Cornell will travel to Philadelphia on Slope Day to play against Penn in the Ivy League Tournament.

The Red will be the No. 4 seed in the tournament and, with a win against the Quakers, will play either Dartmouth or Princeton May 5 for the league title.

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun.com.

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FOOTBALL

Archer ’05 Reflects On First Spring Season as Coach

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Almost three weeks ago, David Archer ’05 stepped onto the green of Schoellkopf Field for the first time as head coach of the Cornell football program. Twelve practices full of rigorous development and relentless repetitions later, Archer and the Red will take the field Saturday for the final time this spring, in a controlled scrimmage that will likely run 50-60 plays.

According to Archer, the spring season was about giving players the opportunity to showcase what they had built on during the offseason.

“It was “I think that the biggest theme of really exciting to get the spring was opportunity.” out there with them David Archer ’05 on the field, to get them to do drills, lining up schematically and being able to have them show off their talents,” Archer said. “It was a fresh start, a fresh approach and a new slate for everybody.”

Due to this clean slate mentality, the players were able to practice their reps without the grueling pressure of being in season, Archer said.

“Everyone was given the opportunity,” Archer said. “I think that the biggest theme of the spring was opportunity — are you going to take advantage of an opportunity when it comes your way?”

With a new and handpicked coaching staff surrounding

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Changing it up | Along with David Archer ’05, who replaced previous head coach Kent Austin, many members of the Red’s coaching staff for the 2013 season are new to Cornell’s program as well. The spring was spent tweaking the existing offensive system and overhauling the defense.

him on the field, Archer said his players were able to learn a lot. Keeping with his background working for Teach For America, Archer emphasized the importance of educating his players throughout the spring season.

“When you teach a concept, you want to use Bloom’s taxonomy to kind of gauge how that concept gets learned,” Archer said. “We took a lot of our concepts on both sides of the ball and introduced them all, so I think a lot of learning took place.”

Though a large portion of the coaching staff is new to the Cornell program, Archer said he did not have to make any drastic changes on offense, allowing his players to absorb things more easily.

“Even offensively, we’re using the same concepts and

plays and play names, we’re just packaging them differently, and tweaking a little bit the ways we’re calling them,” Archer said. “I was happy with — for putting in a new defense and having a different approach to the offense — the number of things we were able to introduce.”

The spring season can also expose some of the team’s flaws, allowing the coaches to pinpoint areas where it needs to improve. Though Archer said that the list remains long, he was equally happy with the strides that were made throughout the three-week period.

“I think it was a good start, a springboard to the summer,” Archer said. “It’s important that we make great gains See FOOTBALL page 15

Say Goodnight, Dick

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or the past two semesters, I have written a column, “Sucks to Suck,” every other Friday. I have covered a wide range of topics from college football to Bob Knight, and I have enjoyed sharing my perspective with my friends, family, as well as complete strangers.

Writing this column was not something that I had planned as part of my senior year. As I have previously mentioned, I have been involved with The Sun

Annie Newcomb

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Top of the Toppe | Sophomore attack Lindsay Toppe, who scored six goals in Tuesday’s game against

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Binghamton, leads the team with 43 goals and 54 points on the season.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Laxers Near End of Regular Season

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

The Red finishes up the 2013 regular season Saturday at Schoellkopf Field against Boston University, days after the team’s thrilling 17-11 win against Binghamton on Tuesday.

Cornell (9-5, 4-3 Ivy League) tied a season high in goals with

17 as freshman attacker Emily Tripodi tied the school’s single game record of assists with six.

Cornell will enter the game against Boston (6-8) with a twogame winning streak while looking ahead to its playoff matchup against Penn in the Ivy League Tournament.

“I would say looking at the Binghamton game, we excelled

both on the draw control and in the offensive end,” Salisbury said. “Emily Tripodi had a lot of really nice feeds, which really helped out the offense.”

The offense was plentiful on Tuesday night against Binghamton (2-11) as sophomore attacker Lindsay Toppe See W. LACROSSE page 15

extremely new to me in every aspect. I have never written content available to anyone beyond a classroom of people, and now my thoughts were being read by thousands of strangers. I received feedback (positive and otherwise) on my pieces, and worked to clearly articulate a point of view in each article.

I’m not going to lie; sometimes the criticism was hard to hear. I’m not a seasoned journalist, nor do I strive to make it

every semester of my time here at Cornell, but in a completely different capacity: as a designer for the paper.

While I was laying out the sports section last semester, I commented on the lack of college football analysis appearing on the back page of this section.

I felt that I had an opinion to offer (one that I often chose to offer anyway) and that I would really enjoy the opportunity to share my commentary with the readers of The Sun. This experience has been

in this industry as a part of my future. On a column that I wrote last semester about my family’s undying love of Northwestern football, someone commented “No one cares ...” which is a perfectly fine and valid sentiment for that reader to feel.

Of course my family’s football obsession has little to no effect on your life. I would simply choose to argue that if you read my column you chose to See NEWCOMB page 15