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Three years ago, the University forecasted a budget deficit of about $122 million, but Day Hall administrators now say they look forward to closing that gap almost completely by the end of Fiscal Year 2012 on June 30 — one year ahead of schedule.

“Increases in According to Elmira Mangum, vice tuition and fees president for budget and planning, sevand increases in eral unexpected increases in revenues helped the University reduce the deficit. giving have “The market is recovering faster helped us retain [than originally projected] overall and [our] world-class we have a lot more current use annual gifts … [which] helped with meeting the faculty.” budget for ongoing annual costs,” Elmira Mangum said. Current use annual gifts Mangum are donations that Cornell is allowed to use immediately, unlike restricted gifts that are often tied to a specific project, building or department, or has timing constraints on when the funds are allowed to be withdrawn.

“The original plan [in 2009] had the endowment growing back a little slower, and [the increase in current use annual gifts] was one of the other major things that is helping us to recover a little sooner than we thought,” Magnum said.

Magnum cited the endowment’s quicker than expected recovery as one of the primary reasons for the increase in revenue See DEFICIT page 5

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Law School Says Applications Steady

By SARAH MEYERS Sun Staff Writer

Despite a turbulent job market that has caused many prospective students to question the value of a law degree, the Cornell Law School is reporting a strong cycle of applicants this year.

“We’re actually coming off of two record-breaking years for application volume,” said Richard Geiger, associate dean of communications and enrollment for the Cornell Law School. “The current application season isn’t completely over yet, but

it looks like we’re going to drop from those levels to about where we were three years ago, which was still a very strong year for us.”

Last year, the law school received more than 6,000 applications for approximately 205 seats in the first year J.D. class, according to the Law School’s website. Official admissions data for this year has not yet been released, but admissions rates have become increasingly competitive in recent years, Geiger said.

Students Say Classes Should Not Ruin Slope Day

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

When Taio Cruz steps onto the stage on Slope Day this Friday, students in Prof. Thomas Fox’s ’71 genetics course may find themselves sober, taking an exam in the company of a beaker full of fruit flies.

If they are lucky, they may make it out of the 2:30 p.m. exam in time for the raucous revelry on the Slope. But odds are they’ll only be able to hear the refrain of “Break Your Heart” in the distance.

While Prof. William Fry Ph.D. ’70, plant pathology, dean of faculty, said that no professor should hold final exams during the last week of classes, he maintained that classes — even those with tests or presentations — “are to be held on Slope Day.” “According to faculty legislation, the final day of classes is the final day of classes. As far as I know of, there is no suggestion

that they should not be held,” Fry said.

Fox, noting that “people pay good money to go here,” said he abides by the Faculty Senate’s policy. At the same time, however, he questioned “why the University would schedule a rock concert on the last day of classes.”

“This is the inherent problem: If you schedule a big event on the last day of classes, it conflicts with classes that are held that day,” he said.

While Fox joked that “if you want to show up to the lab drunk and take the exam, you can” because “we don’t give a sobriety exam at the door,” he also added that he is not enthused about the predicament he faces each Slope Day. Each year, Fox said, the laboratory coordinator for his genetics course receives three to 12 verbal complaints about his practical exam, which, for students in Friday’s lab section, has fallen on

Slope Day every spring.

While students are often less than happy about the scheduling, Fox said he has little recourse: with more than 200 students enrolled in genetics, it would be “a nightmare” to reschedule Friday’s section, he said.

To move the exam to a Monday, for instance, Fox would have to pay

staff overtime to complete the preparatory work for the lab, he said.

Cancelling the exam altogether would entail dropping a lab, which he said he is unwilling to do.

Additionally, moving the exam to an evening time slot would require “dragging T.A.s and students to class at night,” which, “for the sake of a fraction

of 50 students in class, would inconvenience all staff.”

“We’re put in the unhappy position where we have to tell some fraction of students who care passionately about Slope Day, ‘I’m sorry,’” Fox said.

“It’s certainly not a popularity contest.”

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News Watch Your Language

A Cornell study found that people tend to imitate the language of people they perceive as their social superiors. | Page 3

Opinion Looking Back

Steven Zhang ’12 reflects on his time as a columnist, emphasizing his determination to consider all points of view.

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Arts Fashionistas

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Sports Tough Loss

The lightweight rowing team fell to No. 2-ranked Dartmouth in the Varsity 8 race this weekend. | Page 16

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Profs Say Social Status Affects Speech Habits

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Contributor

After analyzing 50,389 verbal exchanges from 204 Supreme Court cases and 240,000 conversations among Wikipedia editors, four Cornell computer scientists recently discovered that people unconsciously mimic the linguistic style of those whom they view as socially superior.

“We find that power –– and in particular, status –– differences between people are subtly revealed by their conversational behavior,” said Cristian Danescu-NiculescuMizil grad, the lead author on the study. “When a person gains higher status –– through a promotion, for instance –– people will react to this change in status by increasing how much they echo the style of the person that undergoes status change.”

The co-authors of the research are Prof. Jon Kleinberg ’93, com-

things are said, as opposed to what is said,” he said. “For example, we look at the usage of articles, prepositions, conjunctions and quantifiers.”

Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil presented the study at the World Wide Web Conference — a yearly international academic conference on the direction of the Internet — which took place on April 16 to April 20 in Lyon, France.

“Presenting at the World Wide Web conference is a fun and rewarding experience,” he said. “I have been lucky to present there four years in a row. It is always an honor to represent Cornell at such an important venue.”

Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil said that his research could potentially lead to an understanding of who should take charge in situations in which there is not a clear leader.

“From a practical perspective, future work based on these findings could lead to systems that can

“We find that power –– and in particular, status –– differences between people are subtly revealed by their conversational behavior.”

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil grad puter science; Prof. Lillian Lee ’93, computer science; and Yahoo! researcher Bo Pang Ph.D. ’06.

The Cornell team analyzed the language used on Wikipedia talk pages, in which writers and editors discuss their articles, as well as the language used in Supreme Court cases.

“In the Supreme Court transcripts, there’s a set of language effects unfolding below the overt arguments, giving us extra clues as to which side each Justice is favoring,” Kleinberg said.

Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil said that the researchers tried to compare two different areas of conversation.

“We wanted to understand whether our findings apply in very different domains and settings,” Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil said.

“Wikipedia discussions take place online, in textual format, while the oral arguments in the Supreme Court are off-line and the interaction takes place through speech.”

Da n e s c u - Ni c u l e s c u - Mi z i l explained that the study analyzed how people construct what they want to say, as opposed to the particular diction they employ.

“We look at features of language that have to do with how

automatically infer power relations, and perhaps other types of relations, between users of social media platforms,” he said. “These findings could also lead to a way to discover [who is in charge], when nobody is in charge.”

Similarly, Kleinberg said that although many people do not realize that they change their syntax, their analysis provides insight into identifying authoritative figures.

“It’s striking how this effect is operating largely outside our conscious perception, but when you ... start measuring it, it can tell you things about who holds power and who’s acting differentially,” he said.

Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil also said that he was surprised how some features of language, which many assume to be negligible, can actually provide sociological data.

“Something I find fascinating about these results is that they reveal how apparently innocuous features of language, such as the usage of prepositions or articles, can tell a lot about one’s perception of self and of the others … much more than one would have expected,” he said.

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jbs336@cornell.edu.

Art Stolen From Dewitt Mall A theft was reported at a home furnishing store called Kraftee Keepsakes in the Dewitt Mall on Friday, according to The Ithaca Journal. The missing piece of art is a vintage Singer sewing machine that was turned into a tractor, with a metal sculpted dog that resembles a farmer perched at the steering wheel.

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Study Shows Financial Impact of Obesity

By LAUREN AVERY Sun Contributor

The impacts of obesity on a person’s physical and mental state have caused concern on national scale. However, a Cornell study published in January addresses another potential side effect of obesity : obese individuals also tend to suffer financially.

According to the study –– which was conducted by Prof.

John Cawley, policy analysis and management, and Prof. Chad Meyerhoefer, economics, Lehigh University –– obese individuals pay $2,741 more annually for medical care than do people of a healthy weight.

Nationally, the condition accounts for $190.2 billion per year in medical costs, a figure that amounts to more than 21 percent of all national health care expenses, Cawley said. This estimate is considerably larger than those from previous studies. which Cawley, the study’s lead author, attributed the discrepancy to the unique approach of his research.

“For years, [many] studies just measured the correlation of medical care costs of obesity by just comparing them from someone who is obese with someone who is a healthy weight. Then, they interpreted that entire difference as due to the obesity,” Cawley said.

“That’s not necessarily very accurate, though, because I might be obese and have high health care costs because I injured my back and I go to the doctor a lot.

Those other studies interpreted that as a cost of obesity.”

Additionally, the study has raised questions about the definition of obesity.

According to Jennifer Austin, a health communications specialist at Gannett Health Services, the National Institute of Health defines an individual as obese if his or her Body Mass Index is 30 or higher.

The BMI is measured by calculating the ratio of an individual’s weight to his or her height.

However, in reality, the line between “healthy” and “obese” is not as clear, according to Dr. Alexandra Hall, a clinician at Gannett.

“In the past, we felt that weight was just a simple equation: energy in versus energy out.

Now, we are learning that the system is much more complex,” Hall said in an email.

Cawley also argues that other factors –– including the fact that many patients tend to underreport their weight –– may have affected the results of the study.

To make his study more accurate, Cawley said he aimed to

Taxpayers are also affected by this cost increase due to public health insurance programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid. This was be a factor that encouraged the national government to actively try to counter the obesity epidemic, according to Cawley.

“Now, there’s a rationale for government intervention to reduce obesity because all taxpayers are paying part of this

“In the past, we felt that weight was just a simple equation: energy in versus energy out.

Now we are learning that the system is much more complex.”

Alexandra Hall isolate the “causal effect of obesity,” or the hereditary component of weight that is encoded in people’s genes, he said.

“Before we’re born, we’re endowed with genes that may predispose us to being heavier or not,” Cawley said. “By using the heritable component of obesity, we’re able to measure what the causal effect is of obesity on these outcomes. When we do that, we get considerably larger estimates than previous studies.”

However, this higher cost of healthcare does not just affect obese individuals. Cawley said the economic effects could be felt by the patient’s coworkers, who pay the same premium, as well as by employers.

According to Cawley, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act –– President Obama’s healthcare bill –– enables employers to charge 30 percent higher premiums to employees who refuse to participate in initiatives designed to promote healthy lifestyles.

“Increasingly, employers have been looking for ways to improve their employees’ health, with things like workplace programs to encourage people to quit smoking or lose weight and be more physically active,” Cawley said. “These are seen as sort of win-win opportunities where the employer can lower healthcare costs and the employee can achieve their health goals.”

bill,” Cawley said. “There’s rationale for things like menu labeling laws, better school cafeterias and better physical education programs for schoolchildren.”

In addition to the economic risks, health specialists at Gannett also argue that the physical and emotional effects of obesity should inspire people to pursue a healthier lifestyle.

“Obese individuals are statistically more likely to experience health risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and stroke, all of which can be worrisome,” Austin said in an e-mail.

“Perhaps more worrisome, however, are the feelings of inadequacy or depression people who are perceived as being overweight sometimes experience as a result of cultural bias and media distortion.”

According to Cawley, the study has laid the groundwork for evaluating schools and businesses around the country in order to determine if employers, administrators and other officials are combating obesity in the most effective way.

“There is now this widespread awareness that obesity is a problem, but what we need to do is build up the evidence basis for what works,” Cawley said.

“The more we know what works, the better we can know where to spend our resources.”

Lauren Avery can be reached at lea39@cornell.edu.

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Law Grads Find Jobs in Struggling Economy Students Slam Slope Day Exams LAW SCHOOL

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“In the last several years, our acceptance rate has … gone down because of the large increase in applications,” he said. “At the same time, our medians for the LSAT score and GPA have risen slightly.”

Still, Prof. Josh Chafetz, law, cautioned potential students against choosing law school if they are uncertain about a career practicing law.

“If a student is unsure about law school, I would say that they should do something else, maybe work and take the time to figure out what it is that they do want to do,” Chafetz said. “Law school is a big investment of both time and money. It’s not an automatic road to riches.”

Although hiring rates have decreased in recent years, Chafetz said that the trend may be reversing.

“My sense is that law firm hiring is improving,” he said. “The Class of 2010 … had a lot of trouble, but it’s gotten better since then. Students may not be getting their first choice jobs now, but they do seem to be getting jobs that they’re happy with.”

According to the law school’s website, 99 percent of polled students who graduated in 2006 and 2007, 98 percent of 2008 graduates, 97 percent of 2009 graduates and 99 percent of 2010 graduates are employed. The overwhelming majority work in private practice, but some pursue careers in business, judicial clerkships, government or military work.

Still, Geiger said that current students are still worried about their career opportunities.

“The students we’re admitting now are more concerned about their prospects for the future,” than were students who attended law school before the recession, Geiger added.

Chafetz, who came to Cornell in 2008, said that students do not seem to be as “nervous and on edge” as they were when he first began teaching.

He said that although the national market for lawyers is improving only slightly, Cornell law graduates as a whole tend to be “relatively better”

off in the job market than the general population of new lawyers.

“Law schools further down the food chain are having trouble placing their students,” Chafetz said. “Law schools have an obligation to be honest, and a few have been actually lying or obscuring the data about job placement. One long-term effect [of the reduced jobs for lawyers] might be some of these other, ‘lower-on-the-food-chain’ schools going out of business.”

However, he added that he thought the recent string of lawsuits placed by students against law schools after they failed to obtain jobs are “frivolous.” Though Chafetz said he believes some law schools were guilty of presenting fraudulent job placement statistics to prospective students, the lawsuits stem primarily from student frustrations and misunderstandings, rather than intentional deception on the part of the schools.

Chafetz also said that for many students, the purpose of a law degree is not always to launch a career in law.

“In American culture, a law degree is seen as sort of an all-around finishing degree,” he said.

“Leaders in business and politics usually have law degrees.”

Prof. Stephen Garvey, law, said he thinks students should pursue law degrees if they believe that practicing law would be rewarding to them.

“There’s value to a law degree other than a job offer from a big-name firm,” Garvey said. “A law degree enables people to think critically, see both sides of an issue and apply rules to fact.”

Geiger echoed this sentiment, saying that the current economic climate has only enhanced the value of a law degree.

“We have worked harder to make the case that it’s precisely when times are difficult that the highquality legal education available from an elite law school like ours will pay the biggest dividends,” Geiger said.

Sarah Meyers can be reached at smeyers@cornellsun.com.

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Chris Bando ’12 is one student who has resigned himself to attending Fox’s class on Friday.

When news broke of the section’s exam being held on Slope Day, “people were pissed off … to put it mildly,” Bando said.

He said he took issue with scheduling mandatory classes on Slope Day. “I think it’s pretty clear that the school understands and supports people skipping classes on Friday — why else would they have Slope Day starting Friday morning?” Bando said. “If they expect kids to skip [classes] on Friday, I think it’s a bit obnoxious to have [classes] that are unskippable.”

Given that cans of beer litter roadsides before noon on Slope Day, he “wouldn’t put it past some people to come to class tipsy,” Bando said.

For some students, whose classes interrupt their Slope Day debauchery, Bando’s prediction may not be inaccurate.

Michael Gladstone ’13 recalled the morning of his Slope Day 2011: a mandatory field trip to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum for his Mandarin class.

“I kind of stumbled over to the Johnson Museum, shut my mouth for an hour and got it over with,” he said.

Fellow fraternity and sorority members, clad in their pinnies in the Johnson’s Asian art exhibition, exchanged knowing smirks, Gladstone said.

Weeks before, when they had learned that the class would require them to trek to the Johnson for an educational field trip, several students grumbled — but “no one’s Chinese was good enough to create an argument,” Gladstone said.

While Gladstone said he now looks back on the day with amusement, others recalled their Slope Day class experiences less fondly.

When Ryan Lett ’12 learned he would have to attend his organic chemistry laboratory at 1:30 p.m. on Slope Day 2011 to clean up and check out lab equipment, he immediately took action, petitioning both in person and “through numerous emails” to conduct the check-out before Friday, he said.

“I tried to be very professional and said I could come in any time that week to do it,” Lett said, explaining that he, as the president of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, was responsible for sober monitoring at the house on Slope Day. But his professor, Lett said, denied his multiple requests to reschedule the check-out.

“It’s discouraging to me that faculty are not helping promote student safety,” Lett said. “Alcohol safety is a big deal.”

Despite the complaints of disgruntled students who may be forced to attend lectures on Slope Day, the tradition of holding the event on the last day of classes does not have a foreseeable end.

Noelle Cornelio ’12, chair of the Slope Day Programming Board, said that previous boards have not considered moving Slope Day to another day — for instance, the Saturday after classes end — in part because roughly 50 percent of Slope Day’s volunteers are faculty and staff who she said may be less incentivized to commute to campus on a Saturday to help the event.

While Cornelio acknowledged that “not everyone loves the idea of holding Slope Day on a Friday,” she pointed out that “a lot of our events don’t start until classes end.”

Additionally, she said, the event itself is rooted in Cornell’s history.

“I think the thing to remember is that we’re not coming up with rules to have it on a Friday. It’s just tradition,” Cornelio said.

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun.com.

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Univ.Will Reduce Deficit Through Endowments,Cutting Costs DEFICIT

“The increased giving allowed us to drop the endowment payout a year earlier” than originally planned,” Mangum streams. said. As a result, the University could “let “Last fiscal year, where the endowment the endowment grow back to pre-crash [return] was close to 13 percent, our plan- levels and resume ‘larger’ payouts soonning thought the endowment would recov- er.” er much slower rate, at seven percent or 8 Raising revenue from recurring percent,” Mangum said. sources, such as tuition, also helped mitIf the endowment gets a higher than igate the budget shortfalls, according to expected return, the University can draw Mangum. more money from the fund, and therefore “Increases in tuition and fees and decrease the deficit to a greater degree increases in giving have helped us retain than originally planned. the world class faculty that we have “The year before that, when the because they still have to be competitive endowment’s return was almost 20 per- with their peers in terms of salary cent, which was another year where we increases,” Mangum said. “Moderate increases in dining costs, housing increases “The biggest [cost cutting] we did was and increases in tuition [that] we contained our operations through and fees have allowed us to downsize … and take organizational restructuring.” out some of the ongoing recurring costs.”

Elmira Magnum Cornell has also been able to reduce its deficit by cutting costs through thought it was going to continue to organizational restructuring over the past slide,” Mangum said. “The investment three years, according to Mangum. strategists and the changes made by the “The biggest [cost cutting] we did was investment committee worked wonders we contained our operations through … the recovery is much faster.” organizational restructuring,” Mangum Increases in current use gifts, which said.

University fundraisers said they have Among the cuts have been reductions been stressing to alumni donors in recent in the number of employees at the years, have also helped the endowment University, she said. grow back more quickly than originally “Cornell’s employee base was down 10 projected, according to Mangum. percent when they originally thought it Cornell’s endowment dropped by 27 per- was going to be five percent, or around cent in value in the six months that fol- 400 people,” she said. lowed the stock market crash in 2008, According to the Division of Planning which has limited the University’s ability and Budget, Cornell will be able to to use the endowment to pay for the reduce $201.8 million of recurring costs budget deficit.

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long term basis — through Fiscal Year 2013.

A number of individual colleges departments have been faced with budget cuts in recent years –– such as the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance –– or eliminated entirely, such as the Department of Education. Many of these changes have provoked dissent across campus.

However, Mangum said that the administration’s method of making cuts is aimed at protecting the University’s academic integrity.

“Our priorities were always colleges first, academic support second and then administration,” Mangum said. “That’s why you see a lot of reductions in the administrative areas, which represents a larger relative reduction than the other two categories.”

Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources, said that downsizing –– the University has eliminated about 800 positions since 2008–– has greatly affected current employees.

“We’ve been measuring quality of services … and obviously some services are affected. You have fewer people then you’re not going to be able to offer the same services,” Opperman said. “Almost every area of the University is smaller than what it was before … from the staff ’s standpoint, they are working so hard to minimize the impact on the students and customers.”

Opperman also cautioned against the negative impact of increasing workloads on a strained staff.

“For the staff, the impact has been on them. They’ve been working so hard and it’s been very difficult for them. They are feeling stressed … and we are worried about that, their well-being and work-

load,” Opperman said.

One important source of cost reductions is the Administrative Streamlining Program, which is aimed at ensuring that the University is functioning as efficiently as possible, according to Mangum.

“The Administrative Streaming Program, which is a thing that Cornell had engaged with a consulting firm, has helped define and capture organizational savings,” Mangum said. “The whole idea of a streamlining effort is you can still deliver the same quality of the same services for less money.”

According to John Adams, assistant vice president for ASP, the program will permanently reduce the budget by $38 million in Fiscal Year 2011, $19 million in Fiscal Year 2012 and $20 million in Fiscal Year 2013.

Adams offered a different perspective for the impact of restructuring efforts on University services.

“In general, I don’t think services have been affected, but people who have been here for a long time probably would argue against that,” Adams said. “Part of what’s happening is there have been investments in technology enhancements to help offset [the reduction in staff ].”

“For example, we are bringing in a new human resources software package and that will free up a number of positions to do other things,” Adams said.

“Right now, in order to get something done you have to have somebody else to look for you, whereas in the future you would be able to do that yourself, and that will free up somebody who would be sitting at a desk and keying in things all the time.”

Andrew Hu can be reached at ahu@cornellsun.com.

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After Graduation, Keep On Keeping On F

or the past three years, it has been my pleasure to assume the position, faithfully on top of Judah Bellin, every other Monday. But for my final column, I’m coming a little late.

Forgive me, gentle readers. And allow me to explain.

This weekend, my brother-fromanother-mother was celebrating his upcoming birthday. Any other year, this kind of event would probably warrant a phone call and perhaps the promise of a gift delivered by mail. But when he called me up last Thursday, I heard those three faithful words that can put even the most self-respecting girl at a man’s beck and call the second they are uttered: “Anything But Clothes.”

Like Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe,” fat-free Froyo and J. Crew’s Semi-Annual Sale, there is something about an Anything But Clothes party that makes the ladies go wild. (Bitches go crazy?)

With Target’s entire supply of snakeskin-print duct tape and the trusty roommate in tow, we loaded up the

No, they’ve got generic cartoons of smiling personified diplomas that scream “Congratulations!”

Your whole family doesn’t show up to graduation in all black and then silently hand you a tax form to start filling out. Your uncle shoves a Red Solo Cup in your face and the whole friendsand-family clan serenades you with a slightly off-key, “Proceed to party!”

(Okay, maybe that’s only my family — we do things a little differently down in the Florida swamp.)

And I mean sure, things are going to be a little different.

Your walks of shame will probably involve wearing a wrinkly suit after spending all night sleeping in your office chair, rather than an inappropriately short dress (which, let’s face it, in no one’s mind could be considered formal wear) while stumbling down the slope in your six-inch heels.

But if you’re anything like me (and I’m excluding you lazy people who decide to spend all four years living in the dorms), then you already have to

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At a Loss on Loans

CONGRESS IS IN THE MIDST OF A DEBATE over extending a subsidy for federally subsidized Stafford student loans. Currently, students pay a 3.4 percent interest rate on their Stafford loans. Unless Congress passes a bill by July 1, the interest rate on those loans will double to 6.8 percent.

We condemn the ineptitude and pettiness exhibited by both political parties on this issue, and urge both to find an amiable solution.

Senate Democrats have proposed collecting more payroll taxes on high earners to pay for the $6 billion that maintaining the current interest rates would cost.

House Democrats proposed reducing tax breaks for oil and gas drilling to cover this cost.

Republicans countered by proposing that the costs of this policy be offset by doing away with a preventative care fund created by President Barack Obama’s health care reform act.

President Obama has threatened to veto the Republican version of the bill, as signing it would mean damaging his signature domestic legislative accomplishment. The majority Republican House will not pass the Democratic version of the bill, and the filibuster-happy Republican Senate will see to it that the Democrat’s bill goes nowhere in the upper chamber.

All the while, many college-bound students anxiously wait to see if they will be levied with an interest rate double what they expected.

It is baffling that both sides of the aisle agree that the interest rate should be kept at 3.4 percent, and still nothing can get done. Instead of coming together to find a mutually agreeable means of funding the bill, both sides appear to be making every effort to make the other side look bad.

While we feel that sacrificing tax breaks for extremely profitable oil companies is a better solution than cutting from the preventative care fund, the fact remains that President Obama himself proposed a budget that included $4 billion in cuts from the same fund. While the Democrats appear to be digging in their heels against the Republican version of the bill, only a short time ago they were more than willing to sacrifice their sacred cow.

If this is how our elected politicians deal with one of the rare examples of a mutually desired public policy, we have grave concerns about Congress’ ability to address issues of even more substance.

Keeping the Stafford loan rate at 3.4 percent will certainly help keep costs low for college students. However, Congress needs to figure out a way to reduce costs for higher education. As long as tuition costs keep rising at a rate far exceeding that of inflation, low interest loans are not enough to ensure that all Americans have the chance to attend the college of their choice. Witnessing the political showmanship currently going on in our nation’s capital, we have little faith that Congress will be able to address the long term problems in higher education.

Believe You Me bug, put the top down and made our way down to Philadelphia.

But somewhere in between my first and third Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich pit stop of the four-hour car ride, it hit me: in one month’s time, I will have graduated from Cornell University. Could this really be my last Anything But Clothes party ... ever?

Certainly, there are parties to be had after Undergrad. But these parties tend to involve mid-level champagne and Frank Sinatra lookalikes, not 40-second keg stands and one very admirable, hand-painted latex body suit.

All of the sudden, what had started out as a promise for a seriously eventful weekend turned into a rather depressing affair. After all, if growing up means a life without an endless supply of Lil’ Wayne on the radio and an endless supply of Pink Panty Pulldowns in my cup, then frankly I want no part of it.

But just as I was about to hit full quarter-life crisis mode and veer the bug off the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the trusty roommate chimed in: “But isn’t your friend a third-year med student already?”

As I pulled the bug back away from the sheer cliff we were about to hurtle down, it started to make sense. All those graduation cards people send you, the embarrassing banners your parents hang on your front porch, they never once read: “Our Deepest Regrets,” with moping long letters mourning the death of life as you know it.

pay your bills on time, buy and cook your own food and scoop your cat’s shit on a semi-regular basis. Add a few tax forms to fill out, and I’d say that’s the picture of responsibility.

Seriously, I cannot wait to graduate.

I can’t wait to stop people from dancing on the tables at office parties as opposed to frat parties. I can’t wait to have work with people in real suits as opposed to class with lazy girls in tracksuits. And I can’t wait to one day come back to Cornell and be the hot Alumni everybody tries to hit on as opposed to, well, I’ll let you figure that last one out.

It’s been a real pleasure writing for you these past three years.

I’ve had some people tell me they love me, some tell me they hate me and one person who expressed his desire to have a hit placed on me. I’ve had someone offer to buy me a beer after complimenting his gorgeous butt in a column (although we never did get that beer).

I’ve also had one editor never realize I wrote column about him at all.

But most of all, I’ve had a great time sharing all of my Cornell debauching with you guys. And while it may not be the same after graduation, I hope it never, ever stops.

Cristina Stiller is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at cstiller@cornellsun.com. Believe You Me appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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The Last Few Words T

he intent was never to persuade. That goal, for a college writer with no previous experience in writing, would have been impossible in 800 words or less written every 14 days, especially on a college campus where every student thinks — nay, knows with absolute certainty — that he is right and everyone else is wrong.

And so The Daily Sun op-ed columnist has come to be one of the most hated positions on this campus, in which a thick skin would sometimes prove more useful than eloquent prose. Why anyone would want this job was beyond me.

The unwillingness to consider the other side’s argument is only heightened when you’re writing to an Ivy League audience, whose members possess degrees that also come along with a sense of intellectual validation.

Consequently, opinions don’t change so easily these days. You can’t bend attitudes even a slight bit, and if you try, you usually face a quick dismissal. One particular reader put it memorably with his succinct but bruising words: “Steven, you disappoint me.”

We live in a stubborn generation and we’re on track to be the most stubborn one in history.

And it shows on this campus as the frequency of stand-offs between interest groups is as high as ever.

The gaps between the campus, the administration and the Greek system have grown only wider, especially after the New York Times published a harrowing profile on the death of George Desdunes ’13 and a Rolling Stone account of hazing at Dartmouth.

Minority groups on campus have become as fractionated as ever, their relations exacerbated by the Student Assembly Finance Commission’s inability to provide funding for minority groups in their effort to avoid the racial taboos.

And, perhaps in the most egregious example of willful ignorance, the Calendar Committee is trudging forward with a shoddy piece of legislation that has met nearly unanimous opposition from the Student Assembly and student body.

And so, here we find ourselves on a campus where

Greeks party amongst Greeks, engineers hang out with engineers and the hipsters stay hip among the hipsters.

But how did we end up in a place with no cross dialogue even though we have all the tools for it? Despite email, text messaging, Twitter, G-chat and Facebook, the stream of conversation has run dry between not just opposing, but simply different, parties.

Now, we like to blanket ourselves with people and conversations that make us feel safe and warm and good about ourselves through a pursuit of selfvalidation that has become as effortless as ever. After all, you can block, unfollow or defriend with the swift click of the mouse, forever erasing someone from your online — and thus your social — life.

Social media, the same tools that played pivotal roles in the Arab Spring and the KONY2012 campaign, and was supposed to democratize the planet, has dangerously cloistered our generation into our comfort zones.

It was only three decades ago when CNN, MSNBC or Fox didn’t rule our television screens and only one decade ago Twitter and Facebook or the Huffington Post and the Drudge Report didn’t dominate our computer monitors. Back then, whether they liked it or not, the hippies and the corporate executives; the atheists and the evangelicals; and the blue collar and the white collar workers, were forced to sit down together in front of the television to watch the same channels or read the same websites. They couldn’t choose their social circles from a grocery aisle like we do now.

The Bigger Picture was an effort to return to those times. I didn’t write to convince or to proselytize or to convert. I wrote only to remind readers that there are those who hold different opinions worthwhile of consideration and they hold onto those opinions with just

as much fervor and conviction as you and I do. And after graduation, I will continue to write with this goal in mind.

I want thank the Cornell Sun and its editorial boards from the past four years, whose brilliant team of reporters and managers have miraculously kept this complex machine running.

To my associate editors, Sammy, Tony, Dani and

Steven Zhang The Bigger Picture Ruby, who have plowed with me through dozens of columns and were courageous enough — and certainly crazy enough — to give me a pedestal and megaphone to shout my opinion every two weeks.

To Mervin and Sidney, for their ideas and early morning discussions, without whom I would have never been able to imbue a bit of nuance into my writing.

To my professors and mentors, whose classes planted the seeds for my ideas and without whom I would have never had enough substance to fill these pages.

And lastly, to my readers, whose feedback and criticism were just as much a learning experience as it was a humbling experience.

Thank you all and farewell, for now.

Steven Zhang is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at szhang2@cornellsun.com. The Bigger Picture appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

The Strides We’ve Taken And the Road Ahead T

he Giants won the Superbowl! I went to a friend’s place to celebrate after the game, and the guests were raging. As I approached the dance floor, I spotted a cute guy at its edges. Our eyes connected a few times.

I finished my solo cup of that-red-stuff and stepped forward. I knew I had to

from my face and head, and easing my mix of anxiety and anger.

I did not touch him, nor did I threaten him, so I was not prepared for a physical attack. Because I flirted with him and I was a guy, I needed a lesson, and it had to be violent. Textbook: hate.

Teacher: limbs.

Chris Adams ’13 Guest Room talk to him. After a bit of flirting, he saw right through me, and he was not happy. Disappointed, I decided to leave the party.

“Where’re you going? Come on, faggot. Turn around.”

When I faced those words, I expected to see the guy I had just flirted with.

I expected to see his friend with him. I did not anticipate his fist racing through the air, and approaching the side of my head. After my face met the sidewalk and my back shook hands with their feet, I fought back with some quick blows — thank you taekwondo training! — and sprinted back to my apartment. They did not chase me. I spent most of the night cleaning blood

Hate is cliché and persistent. Until 1973, doctors diagnosed homosexuality as a medical condition, treatable and curable. The American Psychological Association removed such a category from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, although institutions like “Focus on the Family” and “Exodus International” continue to do the opposite today. In 1977, “Save Our Children” organized enough support to successfully overturn a gay-rights law that protected discrimination against homosexuals. In 1978, Californian voters went against a similar measure: Proposition 6. The U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) to uphold Georgia’s sodomy law,

which prevented same-sex activity between homosexuals. In 2003, the Court overruled the latter decision in favor of Lawrence v. Texas because the U.S. Constitution does protect the liberty of consensual sexual activity between two adults, including same-sex activity.

The examples continue. Clinton put Don’t Ask Don’t Tell into practice, which was then revoked by Obama.

The California public voted in favor of Proposition 8 — the “California Marriage Protection Act” — and the California Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overruled the public’s decision.

The Ugandan “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” still sits in the country’s Parliament. Gay Ugandans can already be arrested for same-sex activities, but the bill intensifies the punishments on same-sex people. The bill was reintroduced for voting late Feb. 2012.

Republican Presidential nominees Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum vocally abhor same-sex marriage and activity, and cite gay marriage as precipitating society’s degradation.

Still, attitudes have improved. They tell me things will get better, and I know they will. Despite this, a hateful force in society continues to push us toward a sordid past. When contemporary leaders like Santorum channel the collective voice of the Westboro Baptist Church and the words of Leviticus, America’s social ills remain unresolved.

Super Bowl Sunday was an isolated incident. I have not experienced anything similar since, and I do not expect to. I will not live in restless anticipation of a fist or a slur. Years ago, my uncle told me an idiom: “Past waters don’t power mills.” The past has no hold on me. I won’t stay in the dark and pretend I am something I am not.

Show me why I deserved the assault.

Describe how my attractions hurt you, personally. Explain to me how my existence endangers the fabric of society. In response to those who hate me without just cause, I have humility, compassion and understanding. I have the qualities of a good person. If they must ignore all of these qualities to attack my sexuality and make me appear evil, then who is the morally corrupt among us?

Tony Kushner wrote, “the world only spins forward.” We have come a long way in the past 50 years. I believe we should move further. When the right people are leading, much can be accomplished and changed for the better. Until then, I stand my ground. I will turn around and face those who hate me. I will smile when someone throws a slur at me because I know it will change. Things already have.

Chris Adams is junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at cma87@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Any Person, Any Fashion parade down the stage, sweetness in an embroidered white silenced the serious runway backdrop and set the mood tutu-inspired dress followed by the sinister eyes and sex for a fairy-tale story evocative of Where the Wild Things appeal of her Black Swan sister, who sported a partly Are. Here, the characters wear makeshift crowns and dress The Cornell Fashion Collective boasts its annual fash- translucent black baby doll. Matilda Ceesay ’13 showed us like the citizens of Neverland, where growing up isn’t an option. Her collection, ion show as one of the most attended events at Cornell, an explosion of colors prints in her Njehringe recycled from previous garand if you weren’t at Barton Hall on Saturday, I’m sorry to line, presenting us with vibrant purple and yellow ments, included both male say you missed out on possibly the best Cornell fashion prints and merging traditional African styles with modern silhouettes and and female designs. The show in four years. To quote the cuts. males all wore soft-white famed Tim Gunn of Project Expectedly, the seniors apparel, and some outfits Runway, CFC definitely “made it stole the show. Their capwere bathed in the glow of work” this year with a variety of stone collections flaunted tiny blue lights, giving fabrics, materials, prints and coltheir degree of improvement them an ethereal, otherors. “Flowy” was the word of the from first year to fourth worldly look. The female night, as we saw multiple skirts year. Favorites included Sara models wore more complex and gowns flutter in the wake of Yin’s ’12 Sinew collection, ensembles, riddled with their models’ roundabout turns. with a color palette alluding frayed, worn edges and Leather silk, chiffon, muslin, to Stephane Rolland’s multiple patterns. dip-dye, feathers, wire, plastic Spring 2012 collection: Furthering this storybook and even caulk were just some of tomato red contrasted with ambiance, Wheeler had her the materials used to create black and stark white. Yin’s last two models share a kiss about 300 visually-stimulating collection was delightfully on-stage, giving the story designs. It was a fashiongasm, to simple in its sleek cuts, yet its prince and princess hapsay the least. achieved a high fashion elepily-ever-after ending. It The show saw a range of high gance and edginess with its was delightfully shocking fashion, ready-to-wear and colors. My favorite was a for spectators. trendy styles. Cut-out and delicate red and white The show has whetted peplum mini-dresses, which are ombré vest. my appetite for what the popular with the local collegeThe Novena collection by BELLA YOU / next batch of senior designaged populace, made frequent Amelia Brown ’12 trans- SUN STAFF ers have to dish out. appearances on the runway. ported us to an exotic far- PHOTOGRAPHER They’ve got some stiff comJeffrey Campbell Lita boots — away land where inhabitants petition. But I was most tall enough to keep you at height wear harem pants, luxurious shim- immersed by the level of professionalism and creative skill with a (fashionable) horse and mery silk and brilliant golden tassels that CFC displayed for their 28th Annual Fashion Show. available in any hue of your for earrings. The warm colors, such It was truly much more than a student-run event, it was a dreams — were also a favorite as orange, red, yellow and sand — exhibition of creative Cornellian talent. If you were footwear choice for the models. along with jewel tones such as teal, unlucky enough to have missed it, I suggest you check This year’s runway was also host — made the onlooker feel as though your local Facebook newsfeed for pictures. to the trendy asymmetrical skirt he or she had entered a mythical design. Warm and cool hues, in palace of the unexplored Orient. It Katherine Carreño is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. varying degrees of neon brightOLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER was fabulous and feminine, with a She can be reached at kcarreno@cornellsun.com. ness and saturation, transformed heavy emphasis on the black runway into a colorful palette. The stage’s truss system, a mixture of wood and luxury.

Wrought iron and steel-inspired leather semi-translucent triangular panes reminiscent of an Urban Outfitters’ decor, really added another level of profession- cut-outs dazzled the audience in the Anvil alism to the student-run event. It was designed and built collection by Emily Parkinson ’12.

Incorporated caged patterns and cut-outs by some of Cornell’s very own architecture students.

Allowed only one piece each for the show, the first-year alluded to Gothic gates along with shimdesigners impressed us all with their debut. The crowd mery fabrics and dip-dye designs — a color roared in applause over one daring, dark black gown with palette indicative of fire and embers and a wicked mesh train and a matching high, medieval-like the process of forging metal into art. collar. The front of the gown was cut to reveal a gratuitous Feminine yet strong, Parkinson’s senior view of leg. In short, it was a sinister, sexy frock befitting line merged the hardness of metal and the Warm and cool of a modern-day evil Disney queen. This piece was cour- strength of the structures it used to create tesy of designer Lily Wolens ’15. A tribute to Swan Lake soft fabrics for the confident and edgy hues, in varying woman.

Her finale piece, a gorgeous black

by Holly Meyers ’14 saw its own White and Black Swan degrees of neon gown with an impressive cut-out bodice, matched OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER brightness and the artfulness and foresaturation, boding strength of a gothic gate. transformed the Maggie Dimmick’s black runway into ’12 Saguaro collection made a sojourn in the a colorful palette. desert look charming with antiquated prairie dresses printed and embroidered with pastelcolored cacti. The best part of her collection were her ombré cactus pants: ornate, classy, lovely.

Lastly, Elizabeth Wheeler's ’12 collection, That Night A Forest Grew, temporarily LISA GIBSON / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER KATHERINE CARREÑO Sun Staff Writer

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Boldly going Into Another Dimension

BY GEORGE KARALIS Sun Staff Writer

It’s worth talking about indie platformer Fez, released on Xbox LIVE Arcade a few weeks ago, if for no other reason than that it won awards at the Independent Games Festival in two separate years. But Fez, even after almost five years of development, looks like it has lived up to the hype as well as it could have.

In the game you take control of Gomez, an adorable 2D creature of some sort living in a typical 2D world.

One day a mysterious polyhedron appears and gives him the titular fez hat, which magically allows him to perceive a third dimension and shift perspectives in his 2D world.

Fez looks like other 2D platformers (Super Mario Bros., Wario Land, Cave Story), only with the added mechanic of rotating the view 90 degrees along the y-axis, like turning a cube but only seeing a single side at a given time.

Fez gets a lot of things right. The visuals are charming and vivid, combining retro pixel graphics with some more advanced lighting and animation. Sound fits right in,

with a nice chiptune soundtrack. There’s a surprising amount of content for a game of this scale — running through the main story only scratches the surface.

What’s fascinating about Fez is its ability to reconfigure a player’s vision. We’re obviously accustomed to seeing three dimensions, and we’re surprisingly good at adapting to sight on a two-dimensional plane. Fez is challenging because it requires players to consider the properties of a 2D and 3D space simultaneously. It combines all of the conventions we know from 2D and 3D games, while breaking them at the same time. After failing to climb across a moving wall in time, you realize shifting the perspective gets you across instantly.

Disjointed ladder sections align in the right view.

Some people, I imagine, are better at adapting to Fez’s perspective shifts than others, like how some people can easily switch the direction of Nobuyuki Kayahara’s Spinning Dancer graphic illusion. There were times when the shift between perspectives completely baffled me. At points, I didn’t get the hang of the game space, and arbitrarily switched views until something worked out (like

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how most people try to solve a Rubik’s Cube).

Luckily, exploring the lush variety of maps is as fun as solving each puzzle, which makes Fez ultimately more appealing than similar previous titles like Echochrome.

The game’s authors wanted to create a “pleasant place to spend time in.” The story almost didn’t live up to that place. I dreaded the hokey ending sequence that would destroy the charm built up by the game’s ambience.

But, well, the ending is downright lovely, too. (I even went over to YouTube and, for you, my readers, spoiled the completionist ending for myself to make sure it’s good as well. It was.) Other than framing the gameplay and characters, Fez leaves players to make what they will of its beautiful, bizarre world, 2D or 3D. Fez is available on the Xbox LIVE Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points (about $10).

George Karalis is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at gsk52@cornell.edu.

How to Make a Billion Dollars W

hile the weather may have its own agenda, summer is almost here — four days away, in fact. No, not because classes end then. And not Slope Day, either, though with all the alcohol and sweat it might as well feel like it.

No, this Friday, May 4, The Avengers will open in theaters across the country, unofficially inaugurating the start of the summer movie season. Marvel is hoping you and I are excited about this movie; in 2010, summer “began” May 7, with Iron Man 2, and last year on May 6, with Thor (at this rate, in 60 years, Hologram Nick Fury vs. The Royale With Cheese will kick off summer on February 19, 2072).

Lots of money is on the table for this one.

Consider how each summer for the past four years has featured big-screen advertisements for this very film. They all did well (the weakest was The Incredible Hulk, which earned $263 million worldwide), but so far all of these films have eluded that coveted $1 billion landmark. Disney — who put $4 billion down for its acquisition of Marvel Comics and all its associated properties — does not want to lose any more dough on its films, especially with the colossal failure of John Carter earlier this year.

Will The Avengers cross the totally arbitrary $1 billion worldwide gross threshold, which only 11 other films have passed to date? It seems likely to considering that seven of those billion dollar babies were released in the past four years, with three films alone released last year. The trailer depicts actors we love (veterans Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr., along with rising stars Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth), an actress men

love to ogle (Scarlett Johansson, conveniently wearing a skintight costume) and explosions in a metropolitan setting. (Has anyone else noticed how our discomfiting fetish with city destruction has only accelerated post-9/11?

Look at every Transformers or Roland Emmerich film we watch). Oh, and the movie is good too, with upwards of 96-percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes. But we are speaking about the bottom line here, so silly things like whether a movie you pay $12 for is “good” or not are kept at the door.

After this weekend, in which The Avengers will undoubtedly deliver a huge turnout upwards of $120-140 million, the box office curve will naturally slope downwards. Last year’s Harry Potter reached $1 billion in 19 days. No matter how much comic book geeks obsess over Hawkeye’s long-awaited inclusion or Captain America’s abdominals, there’s no beating Dumbledore’s Army. It was this similar, though skewed younger, demographic that launched The Hunger Games into stratospheric financial success, with the third best

Zachary Zahos The Third Man opening weekend of all time at $155 million, the number to beat this summer. But even Games has a long ways to go to hit a billion clams, as the $600 million it has made to date worldwide, after 38 days in theaters (which still slays the rest of the year, by the way), reveals its weak sustainability. Think about how the waves of pre-teens (I will not use the “twe-” word) saw the movie: They screamed at their moms about Katniss and Peeta

enough to get them willing to drive to the theater or even hooked themselves. But then it’s back to work and back to school.

So, Marvel’s biggest yet will likely not pull in the explosive first weekend but looks more set to survive. How about the rest of the summer? Expect good showings from Men in Black III (the first real impediment to Avengers, three weeks after), Brave (Pixar’s newest won’t mine the lucrative merchandising goldmine like Cars or Toy Story, but should boast a creative return to form a la Wall-E) and Prometheus (an R rating may hold it back from a few but not from the droves of adults looking for a mature option).

I expect The Bourne Legacy to underperform, because while the original films defied expectations, many still do not know leading man Jeremy Renner and the studios are dumping it off at August, which usually signals hesitance. The Amazing Spider-Man does not have to apologize for the franchise’s awful third movie, for that still accrued nearly $900 million worldwide, and it will fare better than many think (say, $80 million opening, $650 million worldwide finish). Same goes for Ice Age: Continental Drift, which will likely pull in unimpressive domestic sales but skyrocket in the increasingly critical foreign markets.

There’s something about animation and mysterious megafauna that turns on those across the pond(s). Ask Kung Fu Panda.

It’s the easy answer, but put your money on The Dark Knight Rises as king of the summer. Its predecessor hit a billion with over 50percent of its total gross in domestic box office, the only case in the billion dollar movie club. While this film may not have the Heath Ledger scuttlebutt to energize its P.R., its var-

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ied cast (read: women) and intriguing art direction (read closer: women in tights) will entice more foreign crowds this time around.

If the trailers play up its conclusiveness of the Nolan saga (so they say) and Bane’s bizarre physical presence while hiding the silly American football scenes, Batman can soar all the way to Tokyo … again.

My columns are usually about big ideas and my struggle to comprehend and reconcile them with my daily life. This entry is rather anti-intellectual, not about big ideas but rather big numbers. And when the summer ends and all my above predictions prove wrong, enough time will have passed so that you forget I ever made them. I think this Cornell education might be actually starting to pay off.

Zachary Zahos is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com. The Third Man runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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conditions,” Kerber said. “The thing about rowing is that it is an outdoor sport, and you have to deal with changing conditions all the time. It could go either way — it could go extreme or it could be perfect.”

The Red looks ahead to work through the loss and potentially alter techniques to ensure improvement.

“I have to coach these guys through these loss and we have to systematically perhaps make some changes,” Kerber said.

The team has been working very hard, according to the head coach, and he is confident about the Red’s performance for the upcoming league championships.

“The outcome of the race shows that our team is very strong and we have lots of depth and talent in our ranks,” Kerber said. “Winning three out of four races rather decisively tells the league that we are very deep and we will be contending for medals in many of our races.”

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Yale, with a score of 329. All five of the starting golfers — Seniors Alex Simson and John Dean and sophomores Craig Esposito, Carl Schimenti and Zach Bosse — finished with scores greater than 80, with Bosse scoring a 90.

The Red shot 18 strokes better in the second round. Including a two-over-par 73 performance by Schimenti. But, the improvement was not enough to advance past sixth place. On the final day of the tournament, the Red shot a 321 and finished in seventh place.

The course was a factor in the weekend’s outcome as Dean said that it was the, “most challenging green complexes [that he has] ever played.”

According to Dean, the Red thought that it would be in contention for winning the Ivy League, partially due to the fact that the underclassmen have a lot of talent. Schimenti, a sophomore, had the best performance for Cornell and finished with a 21-over-par 234 and tied for 17th place.

According to senior captain Alex Lavin, in order to continue growth, it is pertinent to continue play into the summer.

“This offseason is different from the winter break because the full swing of golf is really in the summer,” Lavin said. “It’s important for guys to keep competing in the coming months. There are tons of amateur events with strong fields; it's good experience. It’ll be cool to see all our in-state guys playing in the same events.”

As for the seniors, Lavin does not plan on stopping this summer.

“I’m personally looking forward to getting home to play my favorite courses in Chicago,” he said. “And there's been some discussion of the guys meeting up to play some great tracks out east, maybe get in some of the same events.”

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“I’d say we got the job done, but it wasn’t necessarily a major confidence boost,” she said. “It was affirmation yet again that our team is strong and we’re in a good position compared to other Ivy League crews.”

The Red is unlikely to change training during the next two weeks, Goetzinger said. The squad has worked all year on its back-end speed in the top quarter of the drive and lengths in the water, and will continue to do so.

“These are things we’ve been working on all season, but we have not yet perfected them.” she said. “We’re going to continue to work on those aspects of the strokes. Since we don’t have a race on Saturday, we’ll probably also have some two-a-days leading up to Ivy League champs.”

The Ivy League Championships will take place in Camden, N.J. on May 13. The Red also seek to make the NCAA tournament this year, an honor the team has narrowly missed in the past few years.

“We’ve done everything in our power to make the NCAAs,” Goetzinger said. “At this point, we’ll just have to wait and see.”

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Boy wonder | Matt Donovan is the first player to win Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors five times.

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Matt Donovan

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Position: Attack Stats: • Honored as Ivy League Rookie of the Week five times • Leads the Red with 32 ponts on a team-high 14 assists, 18 goals • Coach DeLuca said he is “a player in the mold of Robert Pannell”

Men’s Ice Hockey

Position: Forward Stats: • Recorded a plus-15 rating and notched 21 points on eight goals, including one made on a power play, and 13 assists • Honored as ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year for 2012

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Stats: • Honored with first-team All-Ivy League and second-team All-America honors • Selected as the women’s squash team’s most valuable player of the year for Cornell

Fresh talent | Danielle Letourneau competed exclusively at the No. 1 spot to a 12-6 rookie record.

Shonn Miller

Men’s Basketball

Position: Forward Stats: • Made new rookie records for rebounds (170), blocked shots (46) • Ranked among the Top-10 freshman scorers in Cornell history with 250 points

Jillian Saulnier

Women’s Ice Hockey

Event: Forward Stats: • Named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year, as well as Ivy League Rookie of the Year for 2012 • Recorded 11 multi-point games during her rookie campaign

Kevin Tatum

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Weekly awards | Jillian Saulnier was honored as ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week three times.

Baseball

Position: Infielder/Outfielder Stats: • Holds the second highest batting average, .328, of the starters • Went 2-for-3 against Columbia on April 14, hitting a double that sent in the tying run in the seventh, helping Cornell win, 2-1

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Dartmouth Beats Cornell Varsity Eight Boat Lightweights take three in weekend competition

By TINA AHMADI Sun Staff Writer

Racing in the Baggaley Bowl last weekend, the lightweight rowing team won three races, but lost in the Varsity 8 race against Dartmouth — the No. 2 ranked team in the league. The Green won the Baggaley Bowl last year as well.

“The racing went well,” said head coach Chris Kerber.

“Three of my boats won decisively.”

Kerber said that the race provided large opportunities for growth and race restructuring for the lightweights prior to the championship in two weeks.

“The loss provided us a lot of information that we needed to do some final selection of the crew,” Kerber said.

The Red, currently ranked No. 5 in the league, gave a strong performance against Darmouth, who Kerber described as “a very, very good sprint team.” According to the head coach, the team faced a very strong headwind, which negatively affected the race strategy and outcome.

“I felt that the conditions of the race were something that we had not faced at all during the season, and it was a dramatic and very strong headwind,” Kerber said. “The men didn’t handle [it] very well, but they still held on to a close margin from Dartmouth.”

Though the headwind posed challenges to Cornell, Dartmouth team members also expressed dissatisfaction with the weather. Dartmouth head coach Dan Roock described the weather as “hurricane conditions.”

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Tough conditions | This past weekend, the Red won three races, but lost the Varsity 8 to the Green, after facing unforseen, strong winds that negatively affected the performance in the boats, according to head coach Chris Kerber.

“Even the Dartmouth guys I spoke to said it was some of the harshest conditions they had faced,” added Kerber.

Kerber said that disarray was caused by the timing of the strongest wind, which occurred right before the race.

“A massive gust came up right before our race,” he said.

According to Kerber, many of the Red’s weaknesses were

amplified due to the wind and the team will plan for future challenges similar to the ones it faced over the past weekend.

“In those challenging conditions, it gave myself and the crew an opportunity to see how we are as a crew in adverse See M. ROWING page 12

WOMEN’S ROWING

Red Finishes Season With Parents Cup Win

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Stroke of excellence | Sophomore Carl Schimenti, along with four others, finished with scores over 80.

GOLF

Cornell Places Seventh at Ivies

By ZACH GAYNER Sun Staff Writer

The golf team finished its season in seventh place at the Ivy League championship — one place better than it ended at last year’s conference championship. The tournament was held at Galloway National Golf Club, near Atlantic City, N.J. The Red came out of day one of the tournament tied in sixth, with defending champion, See GOLF page 12

The women’s rowing team finished the regular season in Hanover, N.H. on Saturday, sweeping Dartmouth and Alabama in every boat to claim the Parents Cup. No. 17 Cornell cruised to an easy victory in four of the five boats, with the Varsity 8 barely scraping past No. 20 Dartmouth.

The Varsity 8 boats were neck and neck for the entire race, with Dartmouth taking an early lead. The Green stayed ahead for the first 1000 meters, before the Red walked back to Dartmouth’s threeseat during the third 500. In a dramatic final sprint, Dartmouth nearly caught up, before the Red pushed ahead in a thrilling finale, beating the Green by just 0.4 seconds.

According to senior Taylor Goetzinger, this result showed Cornell’s ability to come from behind and win races.

“Yet again, we’ve proven to ourselves that we can walk back on a crew,” Goetzinger said. “We have a weaker start than most crews but we’re not afraid to work through them in the middle of the race.”

Although the Varsity 8 finished the weekend with Cornell’s tightest margin of victory, Goetzinger says the Red entered the race expect-

ing tough competition.

“Comparing our other boats’ race against Brown to Dartmouth’s race against Brown showed that we were much faster than Dartmouth,” Goetzinger said.

“However, the Varsity 8 results showed that this race was pretty much up for anyone.”

Cornell’s other boats faced easier competition, handily defeating both Dartmouth and Alabama. With the Red beating the Green by 5.6 seconds and Alabama by 18.2 seconds, the second Varsity 8 was the second most contested race of the day. The first Varsity 4 finished a whole 14 seconds ahead of Dartmouth, while the third varsity eight enjoyed a 23.5 second margin. The second varsity four also dominated, finishing 9.1 seconds off the front.

Freshman and second Varsity 4 rower Abby Giancola said that the Red’s unity was its greatest strength.

“We all get along really well,” Ginacola said.

“Everyone is willing to make changes and we’re all held accountable for ourselves.”

The Parents Cup is the Red’s final regatta of the regular season, as the team takes next weekend off before heading to the first-ever Ivy League Championships in two weeks.

This is the first year that an Ivy League Championships

will take place, due to a recent change in the NCAA qualification system. The NCAA plans to instate a new conference qualifier system where the winning team from each conference will automatically advance to the tournament,

while remaining schools will battle for at-large invitations.

The Red’s outlook on this tournament hasn’t changed following the Parents Cup, said Goetzinger.

See W. ROWING page 13

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Stellar performance | The women’s rowing team concluded its season over the weekend, with a win over both Dartmouth and Alabama.