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Hundreds March in Solidarity Against Sexual Violence

By KRITIKA OBEROI Sun Staff Writer

About 200 students and Ithaca community members marched down to the Commons to “Take Back the Night,” showing solidarity against sexual violence and speaking up in support of survivors.

The night, which brought together students from Cornell, Ithaca College and local high schools, as well as City of Ithaca residents, ended with a candlelight vigil.

Cries like, “People unite, take back the night!” rang through the air as students and locals led three separate marches to Dewitt Park from Cornell, Ithaca College and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center.

Speakers at the event included Deborah Mohlenhoff (D-5th), See MARCH page 4

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Shatter the silence | Students march in the “Take Back the Night” Friday evening to support survivors of sexual violence and raise awareness.

Hundreds Gather for Second Annual Ithaca Skate Jam

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Staff Writer

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Skater boy | Skateboarders and spectators gather on the Buffalo Street hill Saturday afternoon to take part in the 2013 Ithaca Skate Jam.

More than 200 skateboarders from all over the United States gathered in Ithaca Saturday on the corner of Buffalo Street and Eddy Street for the 2013 Ithaca Skate Jam –– an annual skateboarding event that is hosted by Comet Skateboards, the leading producer of eco-friendly skateboards and longboards.

The event was held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a skateboard park that was built

Ithacans Charged With 3rd Degree Robbery

By JINJOO LEE

to the north side of the city, the victim gave police officers a according to an Ithaca Police description of the suspects.

They were arrested about a Department report.

Two Ithaca residents were According to IPD, the male block away from where the incicharged Friday with third- and female walked the victim dent reportedly occurred, degree robbery after allegedly toward the Holiday Inn. Once according to IPD. robbing a man near the Holiday they were near the parking lot 34-year-old Kimberly Inn’s parking lot Larking and 37entrance, the Wednesday year-old Leaddice male suspect evening, according Daniels were conallegedly to Ithaca Police. firmed to be the suspushed the The victim –– pects by the victim. victim against who had reportedly Both suspects were the wall and asked a male and taken into custody held him there female where he and subsequently while the could purchase a remanded to the female suspect pack of cigarettes Tompkins County searched the LARKING DANIELS –– was told by the Jail on $5,000 cash victim’s pockmale suspect to follow him two ets and removed the victim’s and $10,000 bond, according to blocks to a store. After the vic- wallet. An undetermined IPD. tim purchased a pack of ciga- amount of cash was taken from rettes at the store, the victim the victim, according to IPD. Jinjoo Lee can be reached at asked the suspects for directions After the reported robbery, jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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onto the Buffalo Street hill for the event.

The otherwise empty, steep street was filled with skate ramps, hay stacks and tents, with spectators crowding both sides of the street. “[Comet Skateboards] basically close off the street [and] puts hay bales in front of things that can be dangerous –– but there are plenty of other things to hurt yourself on –– and you basically go down the hill and try not to fall. It’s just freestyle and laid See SKATEBOARD page 4

Two Men Stabbed In Ithaca Over Weekend Two men were reportedly stabbed in the City of Ithaca this weekend, according to Ithaca Police.

The first victim, a 35-year-old Ithaca resident, was found Saturday at approximately 9:44 p.m. bleeding heavily from a stab wound to the neck, according to an Ithaca Police Department report.

The incident occurred around the 400 block of West State Street, and the man was transported to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., for treatment, according to IPD. His injuries were serious, but not expected to be life-threatening, IPD said in the report.

The second victim, a 17-year-old male, was allegedly stabbed in the back Sunday afternoon during a fight on the 600 block of Chestnut Street, according to IPD. The victim was uncooperative with police and refused to provide information, IPD said.

A large group of people present at the scene stated they did not see anything, according to IPD. –– Compiled by Erica Augenstein and Akane Otani

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Startup Culture:Cultivating Entrepreneurship at C.U.

By MANU RATHORE

P. Jaquette, Jr., executive director of Entrepreneurship@Cornell.

“The value proposition we endorse is Being smart, hardworking and affable that entrepreneurship is a way of thinkmay get you a job and even an early pro- ing about things,” he said. “The point of motion. But it takes more to become a entrepreneurship from my viewpoint is startup entrepreneur, according to John helping people identify how they add value other than simply being smart and being able to do a job.

How do you bring something to the equation that is not necessarily expected of you and makes you stand out? What’s your Develop a startup concept. competitive advantage?”

So what does it take to make Assemble a dedicated and a successful startup entreprehardworking team. neur? To begin with, entrepreneur hopefuls should develop a Define your competitive “concept” — a more holistic advantage. approach than an “idea,” according to Dan Cohen, the director of eLab, an organization Create the business: move from concept phase to market that helps accelerate business concepts using Cornell entrephase. preneurs.

A concept, according to Search for investment and Cohen, is formed after going funding or bootstrap. through discussions with a tarSun Senior Editor

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get group of customers and confirming that they are willing to pay a certain amount to buy a product. “An idea, [in contrast,] is that maybe there is a market out there and maybe they will buy the product,” he said.

Furthermore, a startup becomes more valuable if it possesses dedicated and able startup founders, a committed team and a quality product, according to Cohen.

“There are two major things that we look for. The first one is that we believe that the founder, the person who created the idea and put the concept together, has the ability to build a company that is valuable. Number two is how good is the team, because you won’t do much without a good team,” he said. “And the third thing we look at is the quality of the product or service: how good is the product or market fit?”

At eLab, teams have worked hard to adopt these qualities, according to Cohen.

“We are not just incubating the best startups on campus. We are incubating the very best concepts across the state,” he said. “We had a team that worked

consistent 90 hour weeks ... and it paid off.”

However, just being smart and working hard will not set a concept apart, according to Jaquette. A startup needs to define its competitive advantage in order to make it big in the market, he said.

“Does [being] smart set you apart?

No! Everywhere you turn it is like ‘Gee, everyone I meet seems like they are smarter than me?’” Jaquette said. “So, [being] smart is not going to define your competitive advantage.”

In addition to working 90 hours a week, thinking apart from the traditional grocery shopping experience is what helped Rosie — a Cornell startup developing web and mobile shopping platform that learns and predicts a shopper’s purchasing behavior for household goods and groceries — define its competitive advantage, according to Matt Ford ’13, head of business development for Rosie.

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Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.

Importance of Alumni Networking:Myth or Reality

By JOSEPH SARKIS

because most finance companies’ first-round campus interviews are conducted by Cornell alumni who can recommend candidates to the company’s human resources department.

“Human resources places your resume on the top, as an alumni working at the company suggested your name,” he said. “They actually review your candidacy,

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Getting a job lined up before graduation or landing a summer internship is often more stressful than the prelim season for Cornell students. Yet in a world where LinkedIn is to job search what Facebook is to social life, Cornell students have ignored one of the most useful assets available to them: alumni, “It is a good way to get your according to Rebecca Sparrow, executive director foot in the door. The rest is of Cornell Career Services. dependent on your candidacy Networking is especially and qualifications.” important for students looking to go into business Arnav Sahu ’15 or finance careers, according to Sparrow.

“It’s just a numbers thing. It is instead of spending just 15 secnot unusual for one of the popu- onds on your resume.” lar banks to receive 380 resumes However, alumni may not for one of its job postings. And always be eager to help prospecyou can imagine that, of those tive applicants, according to 380 students, probably nearly all Sparrow. of them meet their credentials on “Many [alumni] will be paper,” she said. “You could have [eager], some might not be and a dartboard and throw darts to the worst off you are is when that pick your 13 candidates for that person doesn’t answer your [desired] schedule.” email,” she said.

Recruiters usually pre-screen But there is always a possibilithe job applications they receive ty that connecting to alumni will from undergraduate students. be fruitful, according to Sparrow.

According to Sparrow, a common “It can be quite flattering to process is for recruiters to “sit the people whom you’re asking down at a round table, and the information from to hear that first thing they’ll say is: ‘Okay. you think there’s something Who do we know?’” about them that’s interesting and Arnav Sahu ’15, who will that they may be able to help work as an economic analyst for a you,” she said. think tank over the summer, said Ratnika Prasad ’14, who will alumni connections are essential be working with an investment

bank over the summer, said that connecting with alumni is similar to aiming for high SAT scores to get into one’s dream college.

“It is one of the many factors considered and might ultimately determine the result, but it is not the only thing,” she said. “It does not mean that one won’t get an internship or a job because one has not connected with alumni.”

It is certainly possible to get a job without a connection, according to Ji Won Ok ’13, who plans on joining a consulting firm in South Korea after graduating.

“I didn’t go through any alumni connections. I applied for the job by sending my resume and got an interview,” she said.

However, alumni are more inclined to help Cornell students, as they share a common alma mater, according to Sparrow.

“When you call [alumni], it is not quite a cold call, as you already share something,” she said. “When you call someone else out of the blue after finding their contact information, for example, from an article in The Wall Street Journal, that personal commitment isn’t there.”

But applicants should not treat networking as a requirement. Rather, they should treat it as a way to gather information, according to Prasad.

“A lot of people see networking as a check mark on a list,” she said. “That completely misses the point because the reason that one

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should be talking to recruiters from these institutions in order to understand what is different about each of them and because the institutions can tell when a person is trying to be fake.”

There are many ways a student can be an applicant the recruiter knows, according to Sparrow. One method is searching the database of mentors on the CCnet website, she said.

“You can go in there and search in the database of mentors.

There are a lot of ways in which you can search by their major,

company [and] location,” she said. “After you identify a person you’re interested in, you send them an email essentially saying, ‘I’d like to pick your brain.’”

However, landing a job is ultimately dependent on one’s qualifications, according to Sahu. “[Networking] is a good way to get your foot in the door,” he said. “The rest is dependent on your candidacy and qualifications.”

Joseph Sarkis can be reached at js2656@cornell.edu.

Sun Market Watch Both S&P and the Dow Jones closed at record highs recently after the recession hit global markets in 2007. The stock market has been relatively stable since then. What is your outlook on investments?

“The U.S. markets are finally seeing a resurgence; the increased M&A activity this year coupled with a decreasing unemployment rate are both positive signs ... It’s important, though, to note that in today’s globalized world, what happens in other regions — such as the Eurozone sovereign-debt crisis and slowing growth in China and India — does affect the U.S. economy — so I remain cautiously optimistic.”

— Siddhant Trivedi ’13 “It’s encouraging whenever these two markets are performing well, as they are often seen as a barometer of U.S. economy's health.

However, there are more numbers — unemployment, inflation, bank lending, etc. — that don’t mirror a ‘record-setting’ environment.”

— Ken Babcock ’13 “The best way to describe my investment outlook going forward is that of cautious optimism. The markets seem to have stabilized at these high levels, but the current monetary policy cannot continue indefinitely. Although inflationary expectations have yet to materialize, they remain to be an impending concern. At some point, the Federal Reserve is going to have to raise interest rates and the equity markets will have to adjust to sustainable levels.”

— Andrew Freiman ’14

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back; just meant to let people have fun,” said Jarrod Monacelli ’14, Ithaca College, a participant in the event.

The event has become an attraction for both the Ithaca community and the skateboarders who participate. Spectators sat on the rooftops of the houses along Buffalo Street and in colorful folding chairs with boxes of Coor’s Light to admire the skaters and shout encouraging words when they successfully completed a trick.

This year, Comet’s Ithaca Skate Jam attracted skaters from amateurs to professionals. The skaters, some of whom drove hours to get to Ithaca, said they were drawn to Buffalo Street for its closed hill, fresh pavement and consistent 15-

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percent grade, according to Monacelli.

“I drove eight hours to get here from Maryland,” said Ian Jones, a high school participant. “It’s $40 to register, and they pretty much invite everyone to come out and have a good time.”

Comet Skateboards’ website describes the Ithaca Skate Jam as an opportunity to fulfill every skater’s dream: “We look at this hill every day and wish there were no cars on it.”

“It’s quite a lot of people –– spectators, skaters [and] everyone, all just having a good time,” said Devin Bailey, a high schooler from Boston and a participant in the Skate Jam. “This is one of the gnarliest [skate] jams of the year.”

Ashley Chu can be reached at achu@cornellsun.com.

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who officially proclaimed April 26 as a day to “take back the night,” and Joanne Farbman, a representative of the Ithaca Advocacy Center.

At one point, the night was interrupted by an unexpected confession by an individual who said that he felt remorse about committing rape.

The individual, who did not identify himself, said that he raped someone, according to Amanda Nichols ’14 and Olivia Duell ’14, who were both present at the event. The individual, who had not signed up to talk — as others had — rose to speak during the speak-outs, a portion of the event for survivors and allies to come forward and discuss their own experiences relating to sexual violence, according to Nichols.

The individual spoke about the trauma he had faced as a result of committing rape and how it was affecting his grades, according to Nichols.

The man then talked about the difficulties he and the woman he had raped were facing, saying that they were still working through the issue, according to Nicholas.

The man ended his speech saying that everyone should continue to stand up against sexual assault and violence and that men should get involved in raising awareness of the issue, according to Nichols.

“I wanted to say, ‘If you want to end the problem, make a statement and turn yourself into the police,’” Nichols said. “Just because he felt bad about it, doesn’t mean that a crime didn’t happen.”

After the man spoke, he left the stage, leaving the crwod

silent.

Other attendees also expressed their dissatisfaction with the incident, saying that Take Back the Night was an inappropriate venue to engage in a discussion of its kind.

“It was pretty jarring that a man admitted to raping a woman in front of an audience full of survivors and in my opinion, it was pretty inappropriate.

However, the event recovered and continued smoothly,” Rudy Yoder ’15, who is also a Sun news reporter, said.

Duell said that she and her friends were upset because they believed the speak-out space was for survivors, not perpetrators.

“It was totally inappropriate.

He looked at survivors and said ‘Hey, I raped somebody,’” Duell said. “I can imagine how that would be triggering [for survivors].”

Lauren Parker ’15, who helped organize the event, echoed Duell’s sentiments, saying the individual’s comment compromised the assurance of a safe space for survivors.

“Take Back the Night is supposed to be a safe space where survivors can share their stories and feel supported, and I think this person’s comment compromised the purpose and intention of the evening,” Parker said.

Overall, however, attendees said that the event was inspiring.

“I thought it was successful.

The speak-outs were inspiring. ... There was a lot of bravery [in the speak-out],” Parker said.

Duell agreed, saying that the event was “nice up until [the individual spoke about raping somebody].”

Kritika Oberoi can be reached at koberoi@cornellsun.com.

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Advocates of Gun Law Consider Taking Issue to Voters

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — After struggling to sway both state and federal lawmakers, proponents of expanding background checks for gun sales are now exploring whether they will have more success by taking the issue directly to voters.

While advocates generally prefer that new gun laws be passed through the legislative process, especially at the national level, they are also concerned about how much sway the National Rifle Association has with lawmakers.

Washington Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a Democrat who had sponsored unsuccessful legislation on background checks at the state level, said a winning ballot initiative would make a statement with broad implications.

“It’s more powerful if the voters do it — as opposed to our doing it,” Pedersen said. “And it would make it easier for the Legislature to do even more.”

On Monday, proponents of universal background checks in Washington will announce their plan to launch a statewide initiative campaign that would require the collection of some 300,000 signatures, according to a person involved in the initiative planning who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt the official announcement.

The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility has scheduled a fundraiser in Seattle at the end of next month and hopes to have a campaign budget in

the millions of dollars.

Ballot measures may be an option elsewhere, too.

Hildy Saizow, president of Arizonans for Gun Safety, said an initiative is one of the things the group will be considering as it reconsiders strategies. An organizer in Oregon was focused on the Legislature for now but wouldn’t rule out a ballot measure in the future if lawmakers fail to pass a proposed bill there.

While advocates have had recent success on background checks in places like Connecticut and Colorado, they’ve been thwarted in some other states and in Congress. The U.S. Senate rejected a plan to expand background checks earlier this month, although lawmakers in the chamber are still working to gather additional votes.

Brian Malte, director of mobilization at the national nonprofit lobbying group Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said passage through Congress is the ideal in order to have a national solution and so that states with strong gun laws aren’t undermined by nearby states with weaker standards.

He noted that initiative campaigns are costly endeavors that can drain important, limited resources.

Still, Malte said, the ballot measures are an option to consider.

“At some point, certainly decisions need to be made about what the right time is to say we take it to the people,” Malte said.

Senate Immigration Bill May Not Benefit All Immigrants SAN DIEGO (AP) — Carlos Gonzalez has lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border — and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the U.S. immigration system that would grant legal status to millions of people.

Gonzalez was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, from Santa Barbara in December, one of

nearly 2 million removals from the United States since Barack Obama was first elected president.

“I have nobody here,” said Gonzalez, who serves breakfasts in a Tijuana migrant shelter while nursing a foot that fractured in 10 places when he jumped the border fence in a failed attempt to rejoin his mother, two brothers and extended family in California.

“The United States is all I know.”

While a Senate bill introduced earlier this month would bring many of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally out of the shadows, not everyone would benefit. They include anyone who arrived after Dec. 31, 2011, those with gay partners legally in the U.S., siblings of U.S. citizens and many deportees such as Gonzalez.

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New EPA Estimate May Have Major Implications for Fracking Debate PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?

Oil and gas drilling companies had pushed for the change, but there have been differing scientific estimates of the amount of methane that leaks from wells, pipelines and other facilities during production and delivery. Methane is the main component of natural gas.

The new EPA data is “kind of an earthquake” in the debate over drilling, said Michael Shellenberger, the president of the Breakthrough Institute, an environmental group based in Oakland, Calif. “This is great news for anybody concerned about the climate and strong proof that existing technologies

can be deployed to reduce methane leaks.”

The scope of the EPA’s revision was vast. In a mid-April report on greenhouse emissions, the agency now says that tighter pollution controls instituted by the industry resulted in an average annual decrease of 41.6 million metric tons of methane emissions from 1990 through 2010, or more than 850 million metric tons overall. That’s about a 20 percent reduction from previous estimates. The agency converts the methane emissions into their equivalent in carbon dioxide, following standard scientific practice.

The EPA revisions came even though natural gas production has grown by nearly 40 percent since 1990. The industry has boomed in recent years, thanks to a stunning expansion of drilling in previously untapped areas because of the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which injects sand, water and chemicals to break apart rock and free the gas inside.

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his semester, The Sun has had the unfortunate responsibility to report on too many horrible events affecting our Cornell community.

From the tragic deaths of a student and a recent alum to a reported rape, it is clear that The Sun reports on some of the most grave situations a community can face. The Sun must conduct itself accordingly. As I’ve mentioned in an earlier column, here at our Ithaca campus, The Sun plays an important role in keeping our community informed, and it is The Sun’s obligation to live up to this responsibility.

In my opinion, The Sun had a signifi-

after the crime unless this information raises significant doubt as to the guilt of the accused or the sincerity of the accuser. While all of this extraneous information is undoubtedly interesting to some readers, and provides a dramatic narrative, this is not some television thriller. This is the horrific reality of a fellow member of our community, and it is not appropriate for the readers to voyeuristically witness, through the words of The Sun, the events that surround this awful crime.

A “we report, you decide” type of ethical buck passing is also not appropriate here. If it is up to the readers to decide if

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Any details published should clearly and absolutely, in the judgment of the editorial board, be of compelling interest to the Cornell community at large. cant lapse in journalistic ethics in its coverage of a recently reported rape. While The Sun should, and did, cover the reported rape, and was correct in publishing the name of the accused, it went too far in the news story, “Victim Details Alleged Rape to Ithaca Police Department,” and intruded on the privacy of the reported victim. This mistake is one of degree, not of kind. The article did not name the victim, but the reporting provided far too many identifying details. A newspaper policy more careful about protecting victim’s identities should guide future reporting.

The Sun should adopt a precautionary principle when it comes to publishing details of a reported crime that may in some way identify a reported victim. Any details published should clearly and absolutely, in the judgment of the editorial board, be of compelling interest to the Cornell community at large. Any details that cannot meet this test, be they obtained from The Ithaca Journal or any other source, should not be published.

For example, it is not of compelling interest to the Cornell community what restaurant or bar a victim was visiting unless the reported crime occurred at the establishment or in a manner immediately related to the establishment. It is also not of compelling interest what the victim had to drink, who else was at a party hours before a crime or what took place

this goes too far in intruding on the victim’s privacy, it’s too late. Some decisions, like how much identifying or extraneous information to report based on a victim’s police report, are clearly editorial threshold questions that should be resolved prior to publication. The Sun, as with any newspaper, has obligations both to report what should be reported and not publish information that should be withheld. It is not enough that the information exists, or that it is accessible from a courthouse. The standard of decency for any newspaper should be higher than this.

Going forward, The Sun should make sure policies are in place to ensure this does not happen again. A precautionary principle should be implemented against publishing information that may help identify a victim or cause his or her personal story to be shared across the campus and online. Absent a compelling interest of the readers or the victim, such information should not be shared. The Sun is part of our community, and the fellow members of this community who are victims of such crime deserve privacy and respect.

Nicholas Kaasik is a second-year law student at Cornell Law School. He assigns and edits submissions for Barely Legal. He may be reached at public-editor@cornellsun.com. The Public Editor column runs monthly on Tuesdays.

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Letters From a Young Curmudgeon

With Doubt, Freedom T

his is the last column of my collegiate career. I have never had much trouble choosing a topic to write about during my year as a columnist, but this week is different. I know I’m supposed to write a sappy signoff column and give advice for how to squeeze the most out of our four years on the Hill (hint: don’t take Wines, just drink them). But I don’t need to do that. Based on your responses to my columns, I wouldn’t feel right telling you how to live it up. You’re an intelligent audience and will figure out that stuff on your own. Instead, I’d like to explain what inspired me to write a column entitled Letters from a Young Curmudgeon and why that inspiration is important.

The summer before my senior year, I spent a lot of time reading (read: procrastinating on my work). Out of the pages and words I read, there was one phrase that once seen, I could not forget: Ubi dubium ibi libertas, or, “With

Just because, I won’t be asked to attend daily lecture doesn’t mean people won’t make claims that need questioning. doubt, there is freedom.” This has been my mindset for as long as I can remember — at least since the tour guide on a preschool field trip to the zoo told us we were looking at an ostrich when, in fact, it was an emu. As I’ve aged and (hopefully) matured, this mindset has become the lens through which I view everything I encounter, from various religious claims, to so-called authorities and institutional policies. My goal with this column has been to convey this doubt in a readable and thought-provoking way.

For us seniors, the end of college is not the end of doubt. Just because I won’t be asked to attend daily lectures doesn’t mean people won’t make claims that need questioning. In fact, the further I look past Ives Hall into the real world, the more opportunity I see for skepticism. To me, skepticism is a knife best suited for cutting out prejudice, for valuing claims’ truthfulness, rather than how good they make you feel. There is pleasure to be had from learning unsettling truths. After all, what value would there be in a Cornell education if it didn’t cause us to question and overcome our most deeply held beliefs?

Skepticism shouldn’t just be confined to lofty ideals of truth, though. Scared to talk to that cute girl or guy in your class? Doubt can and must be used to question and overcome such useless fears. Take it from me, start doubting your fears instead of yourself. That is the first and last piece of “advice” I’ll give.

Cornell’s co-founder, A.D. White, had a vision of a university “where truth shall be taught for truth’s sake.” As I sign off from The Sun and from Cornell, know that I will “push skepticism as far as I logically can, and endeavor to clear my mind of illusion” and I hope you will do the same. Ubi dubium ibi libertas.

S.D. Seppinni is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at s.d.seppinni@cornellsun.com.

Letters from a Young Curmudgeon appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Comment of the day “Evaluating the role of activism on campus is certainly necessary, especially when you have so many students afraid to participate because it might hurt the golden future Cornell has promised them.

I’ve seen far too many ‘student leaders’ standing NEAR demonstrations so they can later say they shared solidarity when they never actually participated. Let’s just be clear that, in the status quo, the state of speech is not entirely free.”

Gui Re: “LURIE-SPICER: Stifling Dissent: Exploring the Role of Protest on Campus,” Opinion published April 26, 2013

Jing Jin |

Ringing True

Leave Cornell Redefined Jing Jin’13 encourages students to follow their passions

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wo months ago, I stood onstage at Bailey Hall in front of a sold-out audience to perform in The Vagina Monologues with 50 other bright and beautiful vaginas and our fearless publicity manager, Doug. I’ve been back in Bailey Hall three times in the past three days to see Base in Yo Face, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the BreakFree Showcase, so I’ve had ample opportunity to look around the place.

There are a lot of seats: 1,326 to be exact. Today, I wonder how I was not paralyzed by stage fright on the night of the show.

When I played piano in middle and high school, my performance anxiety was so severe that I would completely blank on pieces partway through or not be able to pedal with a shaking leg. I was gripped by stage fright even when there was only a judge in the room. If I hadn’t been able to perform in front of an audience of one, what business did I have performing in front of an audience of 1,326?

Yet, I don’t remember that crippling fear when I look back on the experience. What I do remember is feeling overjoyed that we raised more than $10,000 for Ithaca’s Advocacy Center and that we did it through telling real women’s hilarious and heartbreaking stories of sex, sexuality and gender.

No doubt, what made this performance different was

that I was not alone onstage. Through the inspiration I found in the play, the movement surrounding it and the passion of the cast members, I gained the confidence to take the stage.

I’ve always wanted to be a part of the Cornell Women’s Resource Center’s Vagina Monologues production, and it became one of the things I did for the first time because it would

BreakFree Crew had for movement, aesthetics and performance. What I’ve seen in so many people at Cornell is that they truly believe in the importance and value of what they love to do — be it design projects, research interests or social justice campaigns.

My peers care deeply about the things they’re involved in, and through following their passions, they find confidence in their abilities

What I’ve seen in so many people at Cornell is that they truly believe in the importance and value of what they love to do. be my last chance to do so.

Senior year is also full of my “last times” doing things I’ve done countless times before — running around Beebe Lake, watching the sunset on Cayuga Lake and sitting on the CTB patio (all, sadly, weather permitting).

This is how we say goodbye — checking items off our bucket lists and cementing the traditions that we’ve made. One month before graduation, I’m as in need of advice as ever before, but if I can make a parting wish, it is for you to find your passions and the confidence to pursue them.

When it was my turn to sit in the audience, I could feel the passion that Base Productions and the

and character.

This description may not sound like the Cornell you know. I’ll admit, it’s tempting for a senior to think only rosy thoughts under the influence of porch drinking weather. In reality, there is an indecent amount of bullshit that some students face from certain professors, administrators and other students with some hold on power. I won’t elaborate on what that bullshit looks like because it is often so painfully individual.

Bullshit is a fine reason to feel disaffection with our institution, but disaffection is no excuse for apathy. If you don’t agree with this institution’s definition of intellectual rigor or leadership or some other value

you believe in, you can redefine it. Values and identities are not passively received, but rather actively constructed.

In the end, which is where I sadly find myself, it’s people who bring passions, traditions and values alive, so I’d like to thank some of my favorite people at Cornell.

Thank you, to my editors Ruby and Liz for the random conversations about vintage watches and for taking what I have to say so seriously. To the other faerie scholar in apartment five, to the circus troupe who roamed around the Yucatan, to my traveling companions through Europe and thesis mania, to the band of tree huggers who made it through April, to all the girls who love Wendy’s cooking (especially Madame President), to the many professors and staff who see themselves first as champions and caretakers of students: Thank you. Thank you for the friendships that formed here but that will surely survive distances in time and space. To borrow a line from a Karen O song: “When we leave, can we leave goodbyes behind?”

Jing Jin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jingjin@cornellsun.com. Ringing True appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Big Red Runway | Models showed off collections prepared by Cornell Fashion Collective members on Saturday night. Clockwise from top right: model getting prepped for show; collection

by Matthew Gottesman ’13; model getting prepped for show; (“Apples”) a part of the Second Level Designer collections; part of the First Level Designer collection with theme 7 Deadly Sins; part of a collection by Dale Kinney’s ’14.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Sins and Springtime:

The Cornell Fashion Collective’s 29th Fashion Show

BY KATHERINE CARREÑO Sun Staff Writer

More than 2,500 attendees filled Barton Hall Saturday for the 29th Cornell Fashion Collective show, hungry for the visual delights that the student community had cooked up for them.

Textures of all types were utilized to make the beautiful and sculpturesque garments: chicken wire, aluminum and crochet sweater-fabric were just a few of the notable mediums. The audience witnessed an artful display of ballet-inspired catwalks, a spiced-up rendition of a certain pair of royal wedding guests with a penchant for distinctive hats and even a knee-length pleated skirt made entirely of interlocking aluminum sheets.

Following a flourish of skirts and feminine silhouettes were a deliciously shocking pair of space-apples: giant white, round figures covered in white vinyl scales encasing the abdomens of each male model. Multi-colored neon wigs adorned the bottoms. The worm hole-like front opening, allowing a tantalizing view of almost-goodies, was a tad risqué, but it wasn’t until the models made their catwalk roundabouts that the audience erupted into a whoop of shocked delight — the uncovered back allowed for a gratuitous view of derriere. The experimental piece, meant to envision “perversion and Asian pop-art,” was designed by Brandon Wen ’16. Laughing, Wen recounted how the camera crew shamelessly “zoomed in” on the the goods, but he was delighted at the attention to his design nonetheless. Unique works like Wen’s exemplify the annual fashion show’s nature as an arena of creative freedom and dedication to wearable art, and of course, the age-old adage: Expect the unexpected.

First-level designers really shined this year with their “seven deadly sins” designs. Pride herself was an uncompromisingly regal figure in a metallic, gunmetal skater dress embellished with intimidating gold shoulder-spikes. Designer Tiffany Zhang ’16 implemented a beading embroidery technique to secure goldchain designs all over the bodice. She even made matching goldchain hand pieces and a chain headpiece to crown her Pride as the leading sin. Greta Ohaus’ ’16 red dress was just as commanding. Meant to evoke both gluttony and greed, the angular red dress could have doubled as an architectural project. The hips flared out into a trapezoid-like silhouette, which Ohaus says is meant to invoke the avaricious shape of a person toting multiple shopping bags; and the smooth collar was emblazoned with molten gold syrup-like drippings, bringing to mind the sin of gluttony.

The show’s traditional Pendleton menswear collection updated juvenile fashion with a modern, adult twist. The designs, created by a team of designers awarded a Pendleton scholarship, are available for Pendleton to use in their commercial collections.

The team merged classic Pendleton wools, known for their colorful Native American-inspired prints, with knit fabrics and monochromatic mediums. Knee-length shorts and fitted silhouettes brought to mind conventional boy-scout garb, but the colorful patterns and eclectic accessories — such as a headdress made of tree branches, a printed backpack in the shape of a bear’s head and a fluffy-tailed fur hat the like of Peter Pan’s lost boys — gave this collection a playful, modern and nostalgic air.

As always, the long-awaited senior collections were saved for last. Meant to showcase the skill development of the fourth-year designer, these are collections of eight to twelve signature pieces.

Rachel Kuhns’ ’13 collection, Coalescence, was a swish of delicate fabrics: layers of airy chiffon skirts and feminine, demure figures.

Clad in blush pinks, creams and lilywhites, her models floated down the runway, each with thin, white bows securing their top buns and ball-shaped white purses in hand. On the opposite spectrum, Matilda Ceesay’s ’13 Semblance was a bold display of saturated colors, patterns and textures, creating an energetic finish to the show. Fusing traditional African prints with clothing constructions to envision a modern-day manner of dress, Ceesay’s collection was exemplary of high fashion. Stand-out pieces included a bright red blouse with over-sized puff sleeves, an expertly-draped pair of printed, harem-style capri pants and a mixed-medium flame-orange mini-dress.

All in all, the 29th Cornell Fashion Collective show culminated into the perfect way to usher in the colorful nature and sense of freedom that signals springtime at Cornell.

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Strutting Their Stuff | Members of the Cornell Fashion Collective presented their collections on Saturday night; top left, Rachel Kuhns ’13 presented her fourth level collection, Coalescence; top right, Matilda Cissey ’13 showed her collection, Semblance; bottom, models showed off the work of Pendleton Scholarship winners.

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Katherine Carreño is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at kcarreno@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Town Locally Grown Dance Festival

Yamatai Presents: Pulse 2013

7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Sunday Kiplinger Theatre There is something inherently similar about dancing and risk-taking. Take this preconceived conception one step further and watch as the Locally Grown Dance Festival 2013 explores this relationship in a beautiful form. This week, starting on Wednesday, the Locally Grown Dance Festival will put on shows in the Kiplinger Theatre that explore riveting questions such as, “When do we step over the precipice?” or “where is the political edge?” through dance. If you are interested to see how these artists transform such abstract principles in the form of dance, be sure to check out this festival.

Gaby Velkes ’16

Emily Wells

9:00 p.m. on Friday at The Haunt This Thursday, Emily Wells will bring her genre-defying act to the Haunt. Wells employs a wide variety of instrumentation in her live shows.

Rather than employing pre-recorded loops, she creates her own loops while performing, making for a unique concert-going experience.

For anyone looking to expand their musical horizons with aspects of classical, hip-hop and folk, Wells’ performance is a can’t miss opportunity.

— Scott Goldberg ’16

7:00 p.m. on Saturday at Bailey Hall

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Looking for your Japanese taiko drumming fix in Ithaca?

Look no further than Yamatai’s Pulse 2013 this Saturday. Even if you have never even heard of taiko drumming, Cornell’s premier taiko drumming team overwhelm you, in a good way, as you witness performers play the largest drums that have ever graced Bailey Hall. This year Yamatai will honor Shimtah, Cornell’s first and only Korean traditional percussion group, and introduce you to the wondrous world of Korean Folk music. Your last chance to see Yamatai take the stage this semester is at Pulse 2013, so don’t miss out. Buy your ticket fast, because if last years show was any indication, this show will sell out fast.

1:00 p.m. on Friday on Libe Slope(!)

Hey guys, it’s almost Slope Day! What, did you already know that? You bought your custom pinny and cool, cheap shades? You scheduled no classes on Friday just with Slope Day in mind? You think it’s stupid we have an Arts Around Ithaca on the biggest event of the year? Well, that all may be true, but The Sun would like to caution that if you pre-game too hard, you may even forget to make it to the Slope. Be there, in whatever capacity. 5 & A Dime kicks off the festivities, followed by Hoodie Allen — who I am just going to assume is Woody’s gangsta rap alter ego, although my editors tell me I’m dreadfully wrong — and, finally, Kendrick Lamar.

All the gripes we’ve shared over lunch and on The Sun website’s comments section should give way to a boozy, sticky good time. Just make it to, and from, the Slope in one piece, alright? We warned ya.

— Zach Zahos ’15

— Gaby Velkes ’16 COURTESY OF CORNELL YAMATAI

The Contradiction of a Clean Conscience L ast Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh, an eight-story factory named Rana Plaza collapsed. Rana Plaza housed around 3,000 workers in what we now know to have been sub-human working conditions. Though workers observed and complained of cracks in the walls over the past months, higher-ups maintained their low safety standards, not wanting to spend the necessary money to renovate. Over 300 perished, though many of the bodies were too mangled or buried too deeply to be identified. In the news, photos of horrified Bangladeshis abound.

At first, the brands subcontracting out to this factory remained in the shadows, hiding behind their out-of-sight, out -of-mind mantras and business models. We now know some of the culprits: a Canadian retailer that markets the brand Joe Fresh, Spain’s Mango and, likely, Benetton and Wal-Mart.

The brands utilizing this factory are of little importance, though. What matters is that these are our clothes. Or they might as well have been. I checked the labels I put on this morning. “Made in Vietnam.” “Made in Bangladesh.” “Made in China.”

And we don’t really have much of a choice. I mean, sure, we could buy American — I can think of a few brands that exclusively manufacture in the United States. But these alternatives seem prohibitively expensive in comparison to the Old Navy’s and Targets of the world. If not our clothes, it’s our oil, sucked out of the ground by migrant laborers, our coffee, grown in exploitative farming conditions throughout the world, or anything else, with the omnipresent chain of exploit from ground to consumer.

Living an impact-free life is not only far out of my pricerange, but also conceptually impossible given the opaque production schemes that govern the globalized world.

If the above sounds like a Marxist diatribe, it shouldn’t — or at least not entirely. With the 20th century as our reference, capitalist excesses seem a small price to pay given the succulent goodness of first-world living, curated like a museum exhibition here at Cornell University. Yes, I understand that Cornell

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strives to achieve a certain diversity of class, but compared to Bangladesh, there really is no comparison.

This contradiction is by no means a new problem — it may in fact have improved since the days of outright colonialism. To reject the Nobel Prize in Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre sent a letter to the Swedish Press that was translated and republished soon after in Le Monde. His reasoning referred to a certain disaffection with the occidental Ivory Tower, but also made an interesting concession that referred to the inherent contradictions of his own ideology. He claimed to be no more qualified for a Nobel Prize as a European author than for a Lenin Prize as an avowed socialist, acknowledging the benefit that his bourgeois upbringing conferred upon him. Without his wealthy capitalist youth, Sartre himself recognized that he would not have achieved the success that he did, or been in a position to advocate socialism so publicly.

In an interview with Claude Lanzmann, director of Shoah and Editor-in-Chief of Les Temps Modernes, Sartre used this paradigm to define what it means to be an intellectual. A nuclear physicist, Sartre claims, who simply practices his profession may be intelligent, even a savant. Still, unless he realizes the irony in his own vocation, the fact that his craft will likely be exploited to threaten and destroy in warfare, and protests the end result of his endeavors, he is not an intellectual. Much as we cannot conceivably live an impact-free life, Sartre claims that the nuclear physicist cannot feasibly cease to be what he is — a nuclear physicist.

Instead, he must recognize the contradictions inherent in a supposedly meritocratic system that conferred him such privilege through bourgeois birth, and recognize the irony implicit in his contributSlow ing to and yet condemnLerner ing the system itself.

Since this is my last column for The Cornell Daily Sun, I find it appropriate to make a generalized and potentially foolishly over-extended claim about my soon-to-be alma mater. Cornell, great academic institution that it is, has a dire paucity of intellectuals in the Sartrean sense. Our activists ap-proach their own activism with

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a mind-numbing SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR / ZANDER ABRANOWICZ lack of selfawareness — for me, the foolhardy divestment campaign that has swept campus the last few months embodies this entirely.

Worse still are the future financiers and consultants who enter their professions entirely unironically, failing to see that a headnod Obama vote and professed liberal values do not counterbalance the striking alacrity with which they auction their intelligence off to the highest bidder, no matter what the tentacles of this corporate beast may be engaged in up or downstream. Don’t get me wrong — there are a million different reasons to choose a career and I’m sympathetic to any of them — but none of these warrant the self-imposed myopia that our campus culture seems to validate.

If it seems I’m leaving with a bitter taste in my mouth, I assure you that nothing could be farther from the truth. I would never try to counsel my peers on what future path to take, nor could I claim honestly that even the noblest of undergraduate intentions can truly enact change at anything but the margins. However, I do hope that when we open our browsers to CNN or unfold our morning New York Times and witness the sorts of tragedies that happened at this Bangladeshi factory or at the countless others across the third world, that none of us are comfortable mourning without a heaping helping of guilt.

There’s nothing more contradictory than a clean conscience.

Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at alerner@cornellsun.com. Slow Lerner runs alternate mondays this semester.

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

ACROSS 1 Under-the-table money 6 Teamster’s rig 10 Tight-lipped 13 Dubuque natives 15 “Once __ a time ...”

16 Chowed down 17 Lacking a strong foundation, metaphorically 19 Corp. board member 20 __ over backward 21 “That feels good!”

22 Florence’s country 24 Snoopy’s WWI plane 28 Prize on the mantel 31 Hors d’oeuvre cracker 32 Northwestern Canadian territory 33 Naval hoosegow 35 Brew in a bag 38 Shutterbug 42 Mork’s planet 43 Senate staffer 44 Lusterless finish 45 Windy day toy 47 Put the blame on 48 Farina-based hot cereal 53 Egypt neighbor 54 Subway whose first line had a terminus at NYC’s City Hall 55 Suffix with wagon 59 Before today 60 Ideal toast color, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48Across 64 Hamlet, to Gertrude 65 Change a manuscript 66 “I, Robot” author 67 Butt in 68 2013 Oscars host MacFarlane 69 Pert DOWN 1 Light-green lettuce 2 Disreputable fellow

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11 More than decorative ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: 12 Streep of “The Iron Lady” 14 All lathered up 18 Folksy negative 23 Whirling toon devil, for short 25 “How awful!”

26 Hogwash 27 “__ Noon”: Gary Cooper Western 28 Printing error, perhaps 29 German mining region 30 “Quit nagging! I’ll do it!”

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Puzzle #00000

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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

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.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Resetting the record | Freshman Emily Tripodi set Cornell’s single-season assist record with 36, two more than the previous record set in 2007.

Laxers Claim Victory in Back-and-Forth Game

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

The Red finished its season with a thrilling 18-17 victory over the Boston University Terriers Saturday afternoon for a Senior Day win. Cornell (10-5, 4-3) scored a seasonhigh 18 points during the game, which featured nine lead changes and nine ties. The Red sealed the deal with 2:21 left in the second half when sophomore attacker Lindsay Toppe netted her 47th goal of the season, moving her to second on the single-season Cornell record book.

“The game was a really fun one to play because everyone brought so much energy to it, and there was a lot of really good hustle all over the field,” senior attacker and captain Caroline Salisbury said. “Everyone really trusted each other and worked together on the field, and it was really a team effort.”

Salisbury scored three and won eight draws to break Cornell’s record for draw controls in a single season with 48. Toppe added four goals and junior attacker Rachel Moody scored five. Freshman attacker Emily Tripodi broke Cornell’s record for assists in a single season with her six assists Saturday, giving her 36 on the season, two more than the previous record.

“Moody really stepped up, putting in five goals and having some great plays on the crease with Tripodi, which was really exciting,” Salisbury said. “As seniors, we knew going in that we wanted to end our careers on Schoellkopf on a high note and with no regrets, and so it felt awesome to be able to achieve that with the victory.”

The women’s season did not end Saturday, however. The team has a date with Penn this Friday in the semifinals of the Ivy League Tournament. The Red will travel to Philadelphia to play the No.16 Quakers.

“The win [on Saturday] also was really important as we head into the playoffs where every game is going to be a real battle,” Salisbury said. “It helps to have the momentum and confidence going in that we can win those close games.”

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

SO YOON RYU / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

WOMEN’S ROWING

C.U.,Columbia Topped by Brown for Dunn Bowl Trophy

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER

out on Seekonk River, as the first three races of the day had debris in the last 500 meters that caused some steering complications.

The Cornell women’s rowing team travDespite mixed results, the Red looks elled to Providence, R.I., this past Saturday ahead to the Eastern Sprints, its champito compete onship race in against Brown May, with deter“Every race is an opportunity to test mination and and Columbia for the Dunn confidence. ourselves and gain more speed.” bowl. The tro“Despite dealLiz Denison phy is awarded to ing with debris in the victorious the water in the team in best-oflast 250 meters, three races. Despite a strong performance the A4, B4, and third varsity raced hard and from the Red, defending champions No. 9- effectively,” assistant coach Liz Denison said ranked Brown topped Cornell for the tro- in a statement. “Every race is an opportuniphy. ty to test ourselves and gain more speed, and Still, the No. 15 Red captured the win in we will carry the lessons learned into practhe varsity four B, clocking in at 7:52.30. tice this week.”

No. 16 Columbia beat both the Red and the Bears in the varsity eight, but Brown won all Sydney Altschuler can be reached at three other races to secure the Dunn Bowl.

The Red faced some tough conditions saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

Sun Staff Writer

TINA CHOU / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

See you soon | Despite playing each other this past weekend, the Red and the Tigers will meet again next weekend in the opening round of the Ivy League tournament.

Red Takes Perfect Ivy League Regular Season Mark Into Upcoming Playoffs M. LACROSSE

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field so I thought our defense in general played really well altogether and just made them take shots that probably weren’t the best look, and I was just seeing the ball really well.”

Another big factor in the Red’s victory was shutting down Princeton’s Tom Schreiber, who was held to only two goals.

“It wasn’t personally all me,” said senior defenseman Jason Noble, who covered Schreiber for much of the game.

“We threw a bunch of looks at him and we just emphasize playing the team system. We weren’t relying on any one man or just me to stop him. We wanted to stick to our gameplan, stick to our team defense, really didn’t want to change anything out of the ordinary to accommodate them so we were just playing the team system. [We were] a little more focused on him than any other player, but we were getting early slides to him, making him move the ball and making them make uncomfortable passes.”

While the victory cements the Red’s perfect Ivy League regular season record, perhaps the sweeter part of the game was avenging last season’s 14-9 defeat at the

hands of the Tigers.

“Fresh in our minds was the loss that we took to them last year at their place,” DeLuca said.

The Tigers will remain fresh in mind, as Cornell and Princeton will face each other again next weekend in the Ivy League Tournament’s opening round at Schoellkopf Field.

Despite the daunting task of knocking off a high-ranked Princeton squad two weeks in a row, coach DeLuca said he has been impressed by the way the Red has been playing as of late. “[I] could not be more excited for our guys,” DeLuca said. “Our guys prepared extremely hard this week in practice. We battled, knowing we were going to face a very tough opponent, a very dangerous opponent. This was a league game — the Princeton-Cornell game in any situation is always one of the most important of the year for our program and to elevate it, to put it on this stage in MetLife Stadium ... and to get a win in the manner in which we did today, just can’t say enough about the way that our seniors and our captains led our guys in practice and prepared in the right way.”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

One for the Red | The varsity four B boat captured the Red’s only win of the day. Except for Columbia’s victory in the varsity eight, the Bears took first in all of the other races.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Red Crushes Tigers In Big City Classic

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

On the final day of the regular season, the Cornell laxers scored one of their best performances of the year on perhaps the team’s biggest stage thus far, running away from rival Princeton, 17-11, in the Big City Classic at MetLife Stadium.

The Red’s victory over the No. 12 Tigers (8-5, 3-3) cements No. 6 Cornell (12-2, 6-0) as the favorite going into this weekend’s conference tournament. “[O]ur guys never quit and kept their foot on the gas and kept the lead at a manageable level, a manageable distance, and we were able to come out of here with the win,” head coach Ben DeLuca ’98 said. “And again, the leadership of our captains. ... I can’t say enough [about] how important their influence on our team has been this year.

And to see it come to fruition, today in particular, under the big lights and [on] the TV with everyone watching, it’s extremely satisfying for me as a head coach and for our coaching staff.”

The Red nabbed an early pair of unassisted goals from senior attackman Rob Pannell in the captain’s final regular season performance. From there, sophomore Matt Donovan scored two of his own in the first and second periods to extend the lead to 4-1, with Pannell tacking on another unassisted goal later in the quarter to give Cornell a decisive 8-1 advantage. The Red led, 9-3, at halftime.

Pannell, who became the Ivy League’s all-time leading points leader last week against Brown, wrote another chapter of his Cornell legacy Saturday with five goals and four assists — more than doubling his career goals against the Tigers.

“It’s great for my confidence,” Pannell said. “[C]oach

TINA CHOU / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

The long goodbye | Redshirt senior Rob Pannell played his final regular season game in the Big City Classic on Saturday.

Pannell nabbed the record as the Ivy League’s all-time leading points scorer during last week’s game against Brown.

DeLuca’s been getting on me quite a bit and he pushed me to that next level. ... I had my best week of practice this week. To go out there and do it in practice is probably the hardest part, and game-day is when it’s fun — when I enjoy [lacrosse] most. So [if ] my teammates and coaches [hadn’t] pushed me to that level this week, I wouldn’t have had the game I had tonight.”

Despite building a significantly early lead, however, the Red could not sleep on the Tigers in the second half.

Princeton scored three consecutive unassisted goals in the third quarter and a late goal from star junior midfielder Tom Schreiber put the Tigers within striking distance — down 13-9 with more than 11 minutes remaining.

“They fought back in the second half like we knew that they would,” DeLuca said.

Still, Cornell remained confident, riding the defense and senior attackman Steve Mock — who scored two goals within the final 3:06 — to a 17-10 advantage and eventual 17-11 final.

“I think we just stuck to our game-plan, really,” said senior goaltender A.J. Fiore, who made 13 stops on the afternoon. “We really wanted to force them down the side.

They really try to play a two-man game and try to get to the middle. That’s probably the most dangerous area of the See M. LACROSSE page 15

MEN’S ROWING

Rowers Fall Short in Carnegie Cup

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Going pro | J.C. Tretter, who started at left tackle for the Red, was selected 122nd overall in the 2013 draft.

Red Offensive Lineman Selected In Fourth Round of NFL Draft Senior offensive lineman J.C. Tretter became the 31st Cornell player of all time to be selected in the NFL draft as the Green Bay Packers chose him this weekend in the 2013 draft. Tretter was chosen as the 25th pick in the fourth round, making him the 122nd overall selection.

Tretter, who initially started at tight end for the Red, switched to left tackle in his junior season and played his final 20 games for Cornell at that position. An intimidating 6’4” figure weighing around 300 pounds, Tretter and his skill at protecting quarterback Jeff Matthew’s blind side helped the Red set new passing records and have the third-best passing attack in the FCS. Tretter was named a unaniminous all-Ivy first team selection, becoming the first offensive lineman to earn that honor since Kevin Boothe in 2005. Boothe was later drafted in the sixth round of the 2006 draft by the Oakland Raiders. Overall, only 11 players from Cornell have been selected earlier than Tretter.

According to some NFL analysts, Tretter’s strong NFL Scouting Combine performance made him stand out among the other top offensive linemen in the draft. Statistics from the Bleacher Report list Tretter’s results from the combine as eighth in the vertical jump, eighth in the three-cone drill, 12th in the bench press, and 14th in the 40-yard dash.

— Compiled by Emily Berman

The Cornell men’s heavyweight rowers traveled to New Haven, Conn., on Saturday to participate in the annual Carnegie Cup, a race between Princeton, Yale and Cornell. The Red has won the cup 30 times, including last year. The team was unable to continue its winning streak, however, falling to the Tigers as Princeton swept the first three varsity races to come away with the overall victory.

Although Cornell came into the race as the lowest-ranking team, junior Kyle Good said the men were confident in their abilities, especially coming off of last year’s victory.

“The last few years the Carnegie Cup has always been a good showing for [Cornell],” he said. “[The rankings were] similar to last year’s rankings before this race.”

The team made changes to the upper boats in order to improve its speed, leaving the Red in a better position than it had in last week’s races against Navy and Syracuse. Freshman Guthrie Renwick added that the New Haven course proved troubling for the team — the Red initially had the lead in the second varsity race, but fell short after the first 1,200 meters.

“Yale’s race course is very mentally challenging because the boats don't start evenly to compensate for a turn in the middle of the race,” Renwick said. “We didn’t know what to expect for this race, only that we needed to go out there and race as hard as we could.”

Despite the loss, Renwick said team is content with its performance.

“The overall result is a good measure of where we currently are as a team,” he said, adding that the Red was able to beat Yale across the board, a notable feat considering the Bulldogs were ranked

ahead of the Red. “At the end of the day, we far outperformed the expectations set for us. It is always exciting for us to see how we gain speed as the season goes on.”

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Losing the lead | Although the Red initially led in the second varsity race, the team couldn’t hold on to its advantage.