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Gates, One Year In

Spinning Singles

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Students and professors express excitement about the progress that has been made on Gates Hall. | Page 3

James Rainis ’14, Michael Sosnick ’16 and Kai Sam Ng ’14 review favorite singles from this week. | Page 13

The Sun names the top 15 sophomores of the year and reviews their achievements. | Page 20

C.U.Raises $500M In 2012-13 Period

Dunk for the kids

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

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Prof. Thomas Ruttledge, chemistry and chemical biology, faces a dunk tank as part of a fundraiser for the Arab Student Association that raised money for El-Nasr Elementary School in Assiut, Egypt on Ho Plaza Tuesday.

Ithaca Police Cuts ‘Chewed Away’at Dept.,Officers Say

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

Five months after the City of Ithaca approved cutting the number of Ithaca Police Department officers by nine in an effort to close the city’s $3-million budget deficit, IPD says it is operating with minimum staffing at “mission critical,” according to IPD public information officer Jamie Williamson.

Though the department avoided laying off any of its officers, it did not fill nine of its vacant positions, which eliminated patrol, “We are at our bare fleet maintenance, trafofficer, temporary minimum right now.” fic investigator and administrative positions and Kevin Slattery decreased the number of officers to 64.

“We are now at the ‘have to do’ stage rather than the ‘nice to do’ stage,” Williamson said. “At mission critical, we can only achieve our core missions and are unable to implement new programs or projects.”

IPD officers protested the cuts –– which have also affected the Ithaca Fire Department –– at a Common Council meeting last fall when Myrick proposed them, arguing that a limited staff would endanger officers’ safety.

“We are at our bare minimum right now,” IPD officer Kevin Slattery told the council at the meeting last fall. “The bottom line is there are no more areas where we can make cuts.”

IPD officer Michael Nelson, who has worked at the See BUDGET CUTS page 5

Working to eclipse what was Cornell’s best year of fundraising –– $773.8 million for the 2011-12 fiscal year –– the University has raised $500.1 million for the 2012-13 fiscal year ending on June 30, according to Richard Banks ’72, associate vice president for alumni affairs and development.

Though Cornell has “been running three to five percent ahead of last year consistently throughout this entire year,” the University does not believe that this year’s fundraising will be as successful as last year’s, according to Banks.

Banks said that Chuck Feeney’s ’56 $350 million donation for the tech campus made it possible for Cornell to raise as much money as it did last year. “[That] doesn’t happen every year,” Banks said. “Nonetheless, the results this year will be very good –– among the best years in our history.”

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U.A. Indefinitely Tables Protest Policy Change Resolution would have clarified role of permits in student protests

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Contributor

The University Assembly motioned to indefinitely table a resolution that aimed to clarify the university protest policy at a meeting Tuesday evening. Members reached a consensus that the language of the University policy is unclear and that they should not move too hastily in changing the policy without further information and community feedback.

Spurred by criticism of its handling of a confrontation between the Cornell Israel Public Affairs Committee and Students for Justice in Palestine on Ho Plaza last November, the University has examined the purported inconsistencies between its Campus Code of Conduct and its enforcement of policy.

The proposed policy change would amend the Campus Code of Conduct to clarify the requisite procedure students should follow when using University property for protests, stating definitively that a permit is not required, though students would still be able to submit them.

Still, a permit would still be recommended, which was a source of confusion to many at the meeting.

This lack of clarity was continually brought into question.

“There’s a lot of discussion about the meaning of various words,” said Dean of Faculty Joseph Burns, Ph.D. ’66.

Burns raised the possibility of the

policy not needing to be changed at all.

“I think it’s generally agreed that the Ho Plaza incident was mishandled. I don’t think that necessarily means that the rules have to change,” Burns said.

Burns noted that the Faculty Senate was actively investigating the Ho Plaza incident and working on issuing a formal report.

Voting on the resolution prior to the release of that information would be premature, he said.

“It seems to me as though we’re sort of rushing to get this out, and I don’t see anything that will hurt by waiting until the fall,” he said.

Max Ajl grad, a member of SJP

who coordinated the demonstration in November, echoed Burns’ sentiment.

“I don’t think you can have an accurate sense of what procedures need to change until you have an accurate sense of how exactly those procedures broke down,” he said.

Darlene Evans, senior lecturer for the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, a self-described “witness” of the Ho Plaza incident, addressed similar issues. The proposal “tacitly allows the same thing to happen again,” she said.

Evans also expressed concern that See POLICY page 5

KELLY YANG / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Democracy in action | The University Assembly voted Tuesday to table a resolution that attracted controversy about the role of permits in student protests.

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Indian Man Arrested for Letting Son, 9, Drive Ferrari

Ore. Department’s Concrete Police Pig Back in Pink

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India have arrested a man who allowed his 9-year-old son to drive his Ferrari.

Mohammed Nisham was arrested on charges of endangering the life of a child and allowing a minor to drive, said Inspector Biju Kumar. He was released after posting bail of 5,000 rupees ($92), Kumar said.

Nisham’s wife filmed the boy driving the sports car on his 9th birthday two weeks ago with his 5-year-old brother in the passenger seat. The video was widely watched on YouTube and created an outrage across India, causing police to file charges.

India’s economic boom has created a class of superrich, whose excesses are frequently in the news.

Police Inspector M.V. Verghese said the boy’s father, who has a thriving tobacco and real estate business, owns 18 cars worth an estimated $4 million.

The boy’s parents were unabashed. “I am proud of him. He’s been driving since he was 5,” said his mother, Amal Nisham.

She said the boy has also driven the family’s Lamborghini and Bentley and other cars.

“It was his 9th birthday, and since he was insisting for months, we allowed him to drive the Ferrari. He is a cautious and confident driver,” she told television channel NDTV. “It’s not easy for a child to achieve such a feat at this young age,” she said.

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — The Astoria Police Department’s concrete pig is back in the pink and ready for another 20 years of duty.

The Daily Astorian reports the pig was dropped off at the station in 1993 by someone who didn’t stay to explain the gift.

Unoffended, the police promptly adopted the animal and left it in place.

But two decades took a toll, washing off the pink paint, pitting the surface, loosening the ears.

Michael Peden, the 16-year-old grandson of a department administrator, took on the restoration chores as an Eagle Scout project.

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C.U.Students, Professors Eagerly Await Gates Hall

By SARAH MEYERS Sun Staff Writer

As Gates Hall rises on campus, information science and computer science students and professors expressed excitement and anticipation for the building’s opening.

The new $60-million computing and information sciences building — founded in part by a $25-million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — will include a large conference room, various project labs and a four-story atrium. It is tentatively scheduled to be completed in Dec. 2013, according to the Gates Hall blog on Cornell’s website.

Halpern said that, as of now, the building is set to house all faculty offices from both the information science and computer science departments.

Madeleine Corneli ’15, an information sciences major, said she feels proud when she gazes upon the partially-constructed building, which she described as already “very impressive.”

“Gates [Hall] adds a lot of focus and relevance to the information science major because having a new building legitimizes the program. I’m obviously looking forward to having the building and facilities it will provide,” Corneli said. “It is a bit of a downer that we’ll only have the building for my last year or so.”

Prof. Joe Halpern, chair of the comput-

er science department, said that although Gates Hall will be a “nice, new building,” he is more excited to oversee increased collaboration between the computer science and information science departments that will come with the building’s opening.

“The most important thing is the interaction with information science,” Halpern said. “I’m hoping to see a lot of collaboration. There’s already a lot of interaction between the two departments, but I think that being in the same physical location will facilitate interactions.”

Prof. David Bindel, computer science, said he sees the housing of the two departments together as a natural extension of the close relationship between the related disciplines.

“It makes a lot of sense for the [information science] and [computer science] departments to finally be in the same building,” Bindel said. “We’re two units that are in the same college, and there’s a lot of overlap between the people and research.”

Students, meanwhile, are excited about what they see as the building’s convenient location. The information science department will be moving to Gates from its current location on 301 College Ave., and the computer science department will move from Upson Hall.

“It will be very nice to not have to trek to Collegetown for classes and work. It’s

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Windows users only | The final stages of construction on the exterior of Gates Hall were underway Tuesday afternoon.

easy to avoid going to office hours and talk to professors when you have the excuse, ‘It’s such a long walk,’” Corneli said.

Clara Thomas ’15 echoed Corneli’s sentiment, saying many of her classes are located in places all over campus and that she is “just happy not to have to walk to Ives for [computer science] classes anymore.”

“Info. [science] is bursting at the seams,” said Halpern. “They’re desperate to move.”

In addition to providing additional space for labs and collaborative workspaces, the building will provide a “focal point” that will help students “identify more” with the computer and information science majors, Halpern said.

Corneli agreed, saying that she thinks the building will “encourage a communi-

ty” in the information science major by fostering a “homey feel.”

Michael Rosenfeld ’15, a computer science major, added that the building will both bring “great opportunities” and be a beautiful addition to the campus landscape.

“I’m excited,” he said. “If it’s anything like the pictures, I’m excited to walk into the future.”

Students also said they anticipate that the building will increase the departments’ presence on campus.

“The fact that this all happened at the same time as the tech campus really brings attention to computing and technology at Cornell,” Tarn Susumpow ’15 said.

Sarah Meyers can be reached at smeyers.com.

Gannett,Greek System Hope to Bolster Health on Campus

By LAUREN AVERY Sun Senior Writer

The Greek system hopes to take on a new role at Cornell by partnering with Gannett Health Services to make students more aware of physical and mental health resources on campus.

As part of the initiative, which began in January, fraternity and sorority representatives — named health and wellness chairs — undergo training; they also meet every two weeks to inform their houses about wellness-related events and resources offered by the University while reporting to Gannett about health within their chapters, according to Angela Falisi ’12, a public health fellow at Gannett.

The role of health and wellness chairs was developed to “bridge the gap between students and the University” by distributing publications about healthy lifestyles, referring students to resources on campus and bringing programs about stress reduction, nutrition and other wellness topics to houses, according to Falisi.

Three fraternity chapters — Delta Upsilon, Chi Phi and Psi Upsilon — and three sorority chapters — Sigma Delta Tau, Delta Gamma and Pi Beta Phi — selected a total of nine representatives to participate in the initiative this semester. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council hope to expand the initiative to include

more chapters and student organizations in the coming semesters, according to current health and wellness chairs.

Current participants in the program say the purpose of the initiative is to connect the Greek system with the University in order to address health issues among students.

“The Greek Health and Wellness Committee is a great way to bring members of Greek life together to learn strategies and collectively brainstorm ways to support the physical and mental well-being of members of our individual chapters as well as the greater Cornell community,” Jeanie Gribben ’15, a health and wellness chair for Sigma Delta Tau, said in an email.

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Gerald D. Hines, a founder and chairman of the Hines Company and the recipient of the 2013 Cornell Real Estate Industry Leadership Award, spoke at Milstein Hall Tuesday afternoon.

Falisi said that, although the the Greek system was the one program is still in its pilot phase, community that lacked that the Interfraternity Council, health focus,” said Lane Wendel Panhellenic Council and ’14, a health and wellness chair Council of Mental Health and for Sigma Delta Tau. “I’m happy Welfare at Cornell have been to see it expanding to that part of re c e p t i ve the Cornell to the procommunity.” g r a m . “I think the Greek system According More than was the one community that to Falisi, the 20 chapprogram was ters have lacked that health focus.” a “studenta l r e a d y Lane Wendel ’14 initiated expressed effort” that interest in launched last getting fall, when a involved, Falisi added. group of students within the “The current chairs have been Greek system approached integral in helping us to improve Gannett with plans for a health the program, and we definitely and wellness program. Wendel want to expand to other chapters said that several students who or any student group on campus were involved with Minds that has a tight bond,” Falisi said. Matter and other wellness orgaStudent training currently nizations on campus brought the consists of listening skills work- program to some houses, includshops and the Notice and ing Sigma Delta Tau, soon after.

Respond: Friend 2 Friend serParticipants in the Greek vice, a Gannett Health Services Health and Wellness Initiative program that teaches students this semester say that the prohow to reach out to friends who gram has already had beneficial may be struggling with health- effects within individual houses related issues, according to Falisi. and in the Greek system as a However, current chairs said whole. they hope to broaden the train“My experience on the board ing to be more comprehensive. this semester has provided me “Next semester, we hope to with valuable training in mental expand to have training in first health and interpersonal relaresponse and in things like CPR tions. It has enhanced my experiso we can be a better health ence in my own chapter and has resource, ” Gribben said. given me the unique opportunity Current chairs said a major to work closely with members of feature of the program is the other chapters,” Gribben said in direct link between Greek houses a statement. “I truly value being and Gannett Health Services as a part of this program, and I look well as other resources on cam- forward to my future participapus. tion.”

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Of the $500.1 million raised this year, $23.7 million was raised by the Cornell Annual Fund, which provides immediate-impact and unrestricted support to the University, according to Joseph Lyons ’98, director of the Cornell Annual Fund.

The Cornell Annual Fund includes a fund for the University, a fund for undergraduate student aid, a fund for each of the undergraduate colleges and professional schools, as well as a fund for some of the university-wide units, such as athletics and Student and Academic Services, according to Lyons.

“Every gift has an impact at Cornell, but gifts [to the Annual Fund] give the widest level of flexibility and also create an extraordinary impact, because our leaders can aggregate gifts at all levels from thousands of donors to invest in things they might otherwise not be able to,” Lyons said.

Banks said that since the University launched of its “Cornell Now” fundraising campaign in October 2006 –– with a goal to reach $4.75 billion by 2015 –– Cornell has seen an overall “steady upward trend in giving.”

“We were steadily increasing in giving until the financial crisis in 2008-09, which slowed giving dramatically for approximately 18 months,” Banks said. “We have been on a good growth trajectory since the economy began to recover back in 2010.”

Echoing Banks, Charles Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said the current stability of the stock market and economy has encouraged people to make donations over the last two years.

Phlegar said the University’s Strategic Plan, which was launched in 2010 to outline Cornell’s educational and public engagement goals through 2015, “translates into a well articulated vision for the University and one that people can get behind and support.”

Phlegar added that, overall, the Cornell NYC Tech Campus has had a “tremendously positive effect” on donations to the University on all levels.

Banks said larger gifts –– such as Irwin Jacobs ’56 and Joan Jacobs’ ’52 recent $133-million gift to Cornell NYC Tech –– heavily influence the total amount the University raises each year.

According to Banks, although larger gifts have a bigger impact on the total amount raised, gifts range in size and gifts average “in the vicinity of $750.”

Lyons said a common misconception is the notion that small gifts do not make a difference; the reality is that “gifts of any size make a difference,” he said.

“The percentage of alumni who give each year is included as a measure of alumni satisfaction in the US News & World Report [college] rankings,” he said.

“Strong participation rates contribute to a strong ranking, and thus increase the reputation of Cornell and strengthen the value

of a Cornell degree.”

According to Banks, since the launch of the “Cornell Now” campaign in 2006, the University has raised $300 million in undergraduate scholarship support and continued to prioritize scholarships in its fundraising efforts.

“The grants and scholarships we award help us recruit and enroll academically exceptional students from diverse economic backgrounds,” said Lee Melvin, associate vice provost for enrollment.

Lyons said the University’s fundraising efforts are critical to ensuring that Cornell remains a “first-rate institution for education and research.”

“Gifts help the University remain open to all, and ensures that we are not just a good university, but rather an exceptional university to study and learn at,” Lyons said.

Lyons also emphasized the need to continue to engage current students and young alumni “to ensure Cornell remains the exceptional place we know it to be.”

“We are investing in more student and young alumni programming that is beginning to have a great effect on our ability to raise money. … [For example, young alumni] just recently held a very successful Duff Ball in New York City that resulted in amazing participation and philanthropy from our young alums,” Phlegar said.

“It is really a good time for philanthropy at Cornell.”

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun.com.

department for 13 years, said the cuts have changed the department from being proactive in preventing crime to reacting to crimes that have already been committed.

“To be proactive, you need more of a presence out there for the bad guy to see,” he said. “But now, all we can do is answer calls.”

The department does not yet have enough data to assess the impact of the cuts on officer safety and crime in the city, according to Williamson.

However, he said fewer officers will “100 percent directly result in more crime,” citing studies which he said have shown criminals pay attention to the number of police officers on the street.

In addition, the elimination of administrative positions has meant administrative responsibilities are added to other employees’ loads, leading to loss of a quality control filter for paperwork used in prosecution, Williamson said. Though the IPD has tried to avoid having officers work overtime,

many have had to take on extra work to accommodate for the decrease in staffing, Nelson said.

“I can say with confidence that if we had more people, more officers, the likelihood of events [like the recent shooting and stabbings downtown] occurring would decrease or greatly decrease,” he said. “More officers on the street means less crime.”

Williamson said that although he appreciates Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 willingness to make difficult decisions for the benefit of the Ithaca community, the loss of officers has negatively impacted the department.

“I like that the mayor isn’t afraid to make tough decisions for the betterment of the Ithaca community,” Williamson said. “[But his budgets cuts] really chewed away at the core of our department.

We had great expectations and aspirations for the department, and this really undermines them.”

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

Proposal Is‘Confusing,’ Prof Says POLICY

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the assembly did not yet have all the information necessary to vote and cautioned that the U.A. proposal would result in a “further restriction” of the freedom of speech.

Prof. Rachel Weil, history, a member of the codes and judicial committee, said she voted against this proposal because “I find it confusing.” Although the policy states that a permit is not required,

there is still a sense of strong encouragement to obtain one, according to Weil. Furthermore, it is unclear how free speech works within “reasonable time, place and manner restrictions,” she said.

Prof. Risa Lieberwitz, industrial and labor relations, highlighted what she described as fundamental flaws in the U.A.’s proceedings.

“Procedure so far violates U.A. charter and bylaws,” Lieberwitz said.

“There’s no public notice of the

agenda for this meeting,” she said.

There also has not been adequate time to receive comments and debate the changes, according to Leiberwitz.

Student Assembly representative Peter Scelflo ’15 motioned to table the resolution, saying, “I absolutely think we need to keep this conversation going a little bit longer.”

Talia Jubas can be reached at tfj23@cornell.edu.

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couple weeks after receiving a personal email from President David Skorton, and the alluring promise of winning $10, I completed the PULSE survey. After clicking through seven pages of multiple choice “How much do you agree?” and “How would you rate Cornell’s ability?” and “What’s your overall feel?” kinds of questions, I got to the generic short answer: “Any other comments?” Normally, I just stare at that question and breeze on past (I’ve already answered about 50 questions, what more do you want?), but for some reason I stopped and actually put some thought into what more Cornell could do for diversity. I went back to the page where I was asked to answer how respectful I thought Cornell and the student body is toward various groups: International students, LGBT students, transfer students, female students, minority students, and discovered that one type of student was not on that list: The working class. The University cares about what gender you are, where you’re from, your race and your sexual orientation, but not your socioeconomic status. future.

Don’t get me wrong, Cornell is incredibly generous with financial aid and, because of that students like me can afford to come here. However, there is a weird gap between people who get a full-ride and those whose family can afford tuition: Cornell’s working class. Let me clarify, when I say Cornell’s “working class,” I am referring to the population of students who work for money to pay for tuition, living expenses or to support their family back home, not just students who pick up a job to earn a little extra spending money. For this subset of people, Cornell makes it extremely difficult to make ends meet. I work about 10 hours a week here, and I enjoy my job. However, despite working nearly 150 hours last semester, I was still under my work study quota. I am not the only person in this boat. I have heard stories from people who work 20+ hours a week and still can’t pay their bills; I know people who work three jobs, and people who work to send money back home to their families.

There is a lack of understanding toward working Cornell students outside of the dining halls, gyms and libraries where they spend their time. One only has to overhear conversations or scroll through Cornell Confessions to find stories about people who cannot afford a smartphone or data plan, people who cannot join a sport or club because of the fees or people who feel excluded because they cannot buy their fraternity or sorority’s gear. Portions of the Cornell population have no understanding of the challenges working students face, just

as portions of the population do not understand what it means to be gay, international, female, transgender, Black or Hispanic.

Structurally, there is little in place to support and represent these students. Take the Student Assembly, for example. The Student Assembly has positions specifically set aside to deal with concerns relating to women, transfer students, LGBTQ students, international students and minorities.

But where’s the working class representation? Oh wait, they’re probably busy balancing 20 hours of work plus 20 credits.

Some of you might be wondering whether the University really should treat low socioeconomic status as a minority classification and thus provide structural support for working students. After all, this is America. You can change your socioeconomic status, right? Well, we are trying — why do you think we are here in the first place?

For a University that claims to welcome all sorts of diversity and tries extremely hard to be inclusive, it is unnerving that the administration mostly ignores the working class demographic. Furthermore, if the University wants to improve diversity and support all students, socioeconomic status needs to be taken into consideration.

Now, I’m not asking for much. On a University level, a raise in student wages would be nice, but let’s be realistic. My working peers and I don’t want pity, or not having to work or hiking up everyone else’s tuition. All we want is some recognition and appreciation that working students are a minority and have their own struggles. For starters, a question on the PULSE survey, an SA position, even a skit during Tapestry, would be small ways the University could recognize this group. To my peers: I am happy for you if you don’t have to worry about tuition. But next time you make a mess on Friday night at RPCC, recognize that someone has to clean that up, and he or she may have Friday night plans, too. If you shop in class, appreciate that that formal dress you just bought costs more than some of your peers will make in semester. Don’t give your friends a hard time for not buying new clothes, not having a smartphone or being reluctant for going out to eat. And next time I take a survey with a chance of being paid, I would love to get that 10 bucks. Because hey, $10 for half an hour?

That’s the best offer Cornell’s going to give me.

Emily Miller is a freshman in the College of Human Ecology. Feedback may be sent to opinion@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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David Fischer |

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Fischy Business

Ithaca Skate Jam And You

efore I begin my final column of the year, I want to congratulate my good friend, Jon Weinberg ’13 on his final Sun Opinion column and wish him luck in his future endeavors. It has been an honor to bring a bit of levity to a page featuring Jon’s approximately 1000-word theses on MOOCs, American Citizenship and (shockingly) Bruce Springsteen. Jon: I’m sorry that we never actually carried out our idea of writing “dueling columns.” You were consistently more organized than I was and I knew that you would defeat me in a printed argument.

At this point in the year, most of you are probably eagerly awaiting your summer plans. Whether these include internships, studying abroad or cushy (or not so cushy) jobs working at summer camps or town pools, most of you who are thumbing through the Sun during your last classes of the semester have succumbed to the numbing routine of wake up, class, pass out, class. However, Slope Day is in two days and finals are right around the corner. Of course, that means a break from the monotonous, never-ending schedule of classes, but it also means that you must confront the result of surfing the web during lectures instead of paying attention. And

There a number of similarly eccentric Ithacan activities that take place beneath the mid-May sunshine. while it is important to study for endless hours in order to do the best that you can — or spend endless hours drinking outside CTB if you’re Jon Weinberg or any other senior — I implore you to spend some time outside (either with or without these seniors).

Last Saturday, after spending a few hours in an Olin library conference room attempting to accomplish a bit of pre-study-week studying, I received a text message from a friend who lives on East Buffalo Street to come visit. When I incredulously inquired why I would forgo precious library time to visit him in Collegetown, he almost immediately responded: “People are skateboarding down Buffalo, that’s why.”

Intrigued by the concept, I packed up my backpack — and stalled writing this column — in order to see what the ruckus was all about. After I trekked from Central campus to the heart of Collegetown, I came across Ithaca Skate Jam — a quirky gathering of more 200 skateboarders from across the United States. The hill at the top of East Buffalo drew the skateboarders because of its overwhelmingly steep 15-percent grade and, I’d like to think, because of the numerous Cornell students camped on rooftops watching them attempt to stay on their boards while careening down the hill. After enjoying the ensuing schadenfreude from seeing people running into hay bales for an hour or so, I decided to return to the library, and I found myself far more productive.

There are a number of similarly eccentric Ithaca activities that take place beneath the mid-May sunshine. Although it is important to peruse the contents of your textbook, it is paramount to mental health, and even academic productivity, that you explore these quintessentially “Ithacan” events in between library sessions. Whether your exploration comes in the form of running into old friends on the Slope, taking a trip to the Ithaca Farmers’ Market on one of the few remaining Sundays or attempting to check a few more things off the 161 list (I recommend throwing a flaming pumpkin into a gorge), don’t forget to spend some time outside enjoying the weird amenities that Ithaca has to offer!

David Fischer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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“Wasn't there just action by the University Assembly to allow the University and police to install more surveillance cameras around campus, broadening the use of where it is acceptable to install and using such video monitoring? Change to the protest policy AND a change to the policy governing video surveillance on campus. Oh joy.” big brother’s big sister Re: “Cornell Mulls Changes to Policy on Protests, Permits,” News published April 30, 2013

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In Focus

Three Years in Focus

’ve never been good at saying goodbye, so writing this piece is difficult. I debated treating my 43rd and final column in The Sun much like any other. No single topic or issue, though, can encapsulate my four years at Cornell, three of them as a columnist. Instead, I want to use this space, one final time, to share my journey as a Sun columnist and discuss what it has taught me about my time on the Hill.

The goal of my column has always been to offer a student perspective on issues affecting the Cornell community, whether local, national or global in scope.

As busy college students, we often fail to see the relevance of broader policies and decisions to our daily lives. I hope that my column, “In Focus,” has been a lens through which readers could find their place in debates they wouldn’t typically engage in. The greatest threat to the success of our generation of Cornellians is apathy, and I hope that you have come away from reading my column empowered to take a stance, whether in agreement or disagreement with my conclusions.

Over three years, I have been able to focus in on a wide variety of topics and issues. Some were national issues, such as health care reform, the role of college athletics, metrics by which colleges are evaluated, voting, MOOCs and unpaid internships. Others were largely confined to Cornell, like hazing in our Greek system, the role of the Student Assembly, our religious holiday policy, our international experiences initiative, the campus climate for women and minorities and the relationship between students and Day Hall. And yet other columns evaluated more general themes, from our use of social media and the internet, to career prospects, to our weekend drinking culture, to the status of political discourse to the role of character in our daily lives. Finally, some columns reflected my outlook on Cornell at the best of times (the end of a successful year) and the worst of times

(burnout).

Yet, in the process of writing and publishing “In Focus,” it is the Cornell community that has, in many ways, led me to focus in on my own perspective and values, not vice versa. For example, my opposition to hazing has increased considerably, while my skepticism regarding our compulsive use of social media continues. I now recognize the difficulties in actualizing goals relating to student governance — but I have found many allies in both the student body and administration for improving relations and reinforcing conduct more becoming of our University.

columns, perspective and time here.

I firmly believe that if you love someone or something, you seek to improve that person or institution whenever possible, no matter how close to perfect that person or institution may be. I hope that my love for Cornell has been clear. Accordingly, I leave you with some ways I hope you will choose to improve our community.

First, reinforce the power of perspective.

As Cornellians, we pride ourselves on doing everything to the extreme, from classwork to case races, but in the process, we tend to lose sight of the bigger picture. The rel-

No matter where you attend graduate school or find employment, your allegiance is to Cornell Big Red. Especially when it comes to hockey.

Writing this column has served as a continual reminder of why I love Cornell. This is a place where I cannot walk from class to class without seeing someone I know, and five people I don’t. It is a place where I became well-versed in the social sciences, while also having the opportunity to diversify my education at my discretion. It is a place where every weekend, the question was not whether there was a party, game, concert or speaker worth attending, but which of the myriad events to choose from. It really is a place where “… any person can find instruction in any study.” This philosophy extends to every facet of the Cornell experience. We are able to find solace in smaller academic and social communities, and constantly enrich ourselves through daily experimentation. To love Cornell is to find your place on the Hill, and also to venture beyond your comfort zone. It was through discovering my niches and broadening my experiences that I found meaning in my

ative isolation of Ithaca leads us to believe that success on every prelim and at every mixer is tantamount to life and death. In a world where many our age face genocide and poverty, such problems are minute and, in fact, good to have. It behooves us to consider how lucky we are and to accordingly contain our stress and mental anguish.

Second, I urge you to channel your energy into finding collaborative solutions instead of perpetuating diametric conflicts. It disappoints me that many in the Greek community still condone hazing instead of recognizing opportunities to work toward implementing productive alternatives. It also disappoints me that some students felt the need to anonymously mount a vitriolic, demeaning and downright hateful campaign against a student trustee candidate instead of contributing to a meaningful conversation. Inevitably, conflicts within our community will exist insofar as we blind ourselves to other perspectives

and potential solutions. If you define your interests and come to the table prepared for an open dialogue on important issues, others will join you.

Finally, never stop being a Cornellian and applying the lessons and skills you acquired here. We shouldn’t see senior year as the end of our time as members of the Cornell community. True, the center of “campus” may shift from Collegetown to Murray Hill after graduation, but leaving Ithaca doesn’t mean leaving behind the things we loved about our time here. Keep in touch with friends, professors and administrators. Continue to write, sing, play and partake in activities that defined your college experience. Think critically and use your education to do something you love. If that happens to be investment banking, wonderful, but know that success is purely predicated on personal meaning and satisfaction, no matter the associated prestige.

I almost forgot the last lesson: No matter where you attend graduate school or find employment, your allegiance is to the Cornell Big Red. Especially when it comes to hockey.

To everyone who has played a role in my Cornell experience: Thank you.

Thank you to my Sammy brothers, close professors, mentors, mentees, statistics students, the Senior Class Campaign, fellow club members, fellow ILRies, fellow 121s. Thank you to my editors Tony, Dani, Ruby, Liz, Mom and Dad. And thank you to all who have read this column over the past three years and hopefully used it as a starting point for discussion. I can only hope you have gained as much from “In Focus” and your Cornell experience as I have. Hail to thee, our alma mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell!

Jon Weinberg is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jweinberg@cornellsun.com. In Focus appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Food Science

ENTOMOLOGY

Students Develop New Food Product: Squashetti

By JUNSUK AHN Sun Contributor

If you were at the annual Apple Fest last year in downtown Ithaca, you might have run across a group of Cornell students asking for opinions on peculiar food ideas like chocolate ravioli or peanut butter hummus.

The Institute of Food Technologist Student Association Product Development team, led by co-captains Kyle Clark ’14 and Katie Strickland ’14, was looking to receive feedback at the festival in order to decide on a food concept. The team was in the process of developing an idea to participate at the national IFTSA competition held in Chicago this summer from July 13 to 16.

They are now one of the six finalists invited to compete at the prestigious competition sponsored by Mars Inc., a global food manufacturer known for several products, including M&M’s and Juicy Fruit.

“During Apple Fest, we went downtown and interviewed potential consumers about which concepts they like the most,” Clark said.

The team said that developing the idea for the competition was a process that took collaborative group effort and

creative judgments.

“We presented a description of each product. From there, we formulated our products,” Rebecca Mangona ’14 said.

In the end, they decided to pick “Squashetti,” a pasta dish that replaces flour-based pasta with squash, topped with pomodoro sauce and grilled chicken. When prepared correctly, the squash resembles the shape of pasta.

Clark said that customers today demand nutritious and gluten-free food, which has become a food trend. The team’s squashetti is a food concept that addresses some of those market demands.

“It has about one-sixth of the calories of a regular pasta dish. The idea here is to allow consumers to enjoy a traditional pasta dish with the spaghetti squash without going overboard,” Clark said.

According to Clark, the team submitted a 20-page proposal about their product in order to qualify as one of the six finalists in the nation. The competition in Chicago will serve as an extension of their product development, where the team will have the opportunity to submit its final proposal, participate in an oral and poster presentations and present their product sample for a taste test.

Despite the seemingly subjective nature of the competition that involves food sampling, the team said that the competition is fairly technical.

According to Claire Zoellner M.S. ’15, the judges will not only evaluate the quality and originality of the product, but also other aspects of food development such as budgeting and production management that are essential components of operating a business.

“We are judged on our technical problem solving skills and the research that’s gone into the product,” Zoellner said.

From marketing to profitability to food processing, the team’s proposal addresses multiple aspects of food development.

The team’s description of the cooking process is detailed. In order to prepare the squash, one needs to manually remove the seeds. Then the squash strands, which will replace the traditional flour-based pasta, are separated using a high-pressure water spray system. The process requires a two-compartment steamer tray with oriented polypropylene, a thermoplastic, or pliable, polymer, which promotes steaming and allows water to escape to the spaghetti squash compartment.

“The squash is going to be rotating around in high pressure to break up the strands and the water will be drained out,” Zoellner said. “It’s kind of like a washing machine. The food will go through the spin cycle.”

Still, taste remains an important element, and the team said the concept of replacing traditional pasta with squash is a good idea.

“It’s a pretty good base for the sauce because it doesn’t have a whole lot of flavor component it contributes,” Olivia Weihe ’14 said..

According to the competition’s rules, the top three winners of the competition will receive cash awards and their products will be featured in Food Technology magazine, a monthly magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists.

Aside from the competition, the team said that the project has been a valuable learning experience.

“Across the board, this project really applies to everything we’re learning as food science majors,” Mangona said. “It’s a great experience, especially if you’re looking to go into the food industry.”

Junsuk Ahn can be reached at ja562@cornell.edu.

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Food frenzy | The Institute of Food Technologist Student Association Product Development Team created a new dish: Squashetti. This dish is a pasta dish that replaces flour-based pasta with squash strands, topped with pomodoro sauce and grilled chicken. The team will bring their food concept to the national IFTSA competition in Chicago this summer.

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Disappearing Honey Bees

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Staff Writer

Some people think of bees as annoying pests, always looking to ruin a nice outdoors Sunday brunch. Others see them as terrifying monsters, waiting for an opportune moment to sneak up and unleash a painful sting.

More realistically, however, bees are a crucial component of environmental ecosystems. They are responsible for the pollination of flowers, especially crops, many of which would drastically decline in population if bees did not exist.

Assuming the average person’s diet consists of more than only meats and cheeses, much of the food people consume comes from crops that are cross-pollinated by honey bees.

That apple you had for lunch, the tomatoes in your dinner salad and even the coffee that got you out of bed this morning are all a result of successful crosspollination of crops by bees.

Without bees, crop populations will decline and, as a result, become more expensive.

According to Prof. Bryan Danforth, entomology, the population of bees in North America – specifically the domesticated honey bee – has been declining since at least 1950 because of Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon where large numbers of worker bees in a hive disappear suddenly.

According to Danforth, this decline is most likely a result of a combination of diseases and pesticides.

“Honey bees are loaded with viral, fungal and bacterial diseases, as well as arthropod ectoparasites such as varroa and tracheal mites,” Danforth said. “They are moved around the country and even around the world for agricultural pollination and therefore have accumulated a

large number of diseases and parasites.

The heavy pathogen loads seem like the most likely source of honey bee declines.”

This theory explains the rapidly declining population of foreign domesticated honey bees, but it does not explain the decline of North American native bee species, which are also important pollinators.

“Declines are clearly occurring in several bumblebee species as well,” Danforth said. This problem, therefore, is more widespread than scientists initially thought.

Research performed in Danforth’s lab

by Mia Park grad and Eleanor Blitzer, a post doctoral candidate in the Department of Entomology, demonstrated that native honey bees are effective pollinators of apples and other plants.

According to Danforth, however, there is not much information on the populations of native honey bees. It appears that native bee populations are also suffering from CCD, he said.

Boycotting almonds is one way to slow the disappearance of honey bees because the pollination of almonds requires a massive-scale movement of honey bees every year, Danforth said.

“Almonds are a totally unsustainable crop that are contributing to the declines in domesticated honey bees in North America,” Danforth said.

Additionally, Danforth suggests conserving the native honey bee population by maintaining floral and nesting resources in our gardens and farms.

So instead of agonizing over the scary bees in your garden, enjoy them while they last because without them, you may have to pay a lot more for the crops that fill your plates.

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ablumfield@cornellsun.com.

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Bye-bye bees | Bees are vital for the polination of plants across the world.

Cajun Cooking and Chemistry

By JACQUELINE CAROZZA Sun Staff Writer

On April 9, three student teams combined Cajun cooking and chemistry in a national competition as part of the American Chemical Society’s New Orleans conference, which was themed “The Chemistry of Food and Energy.” The competition, titled “Communicating Chemistry: Cajun Cooking,” was organized

by Prof. Gavin Sacks M.S. ’01 Ph.D. ’05, food science, and Prof.

Justin Miller, chemistry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

The teams from California State University, Fresno, College of the Ozarks and Cornell University were selected as finalists out of a dozen of applications to compete at Dickie Brennan's steakhouse in the French Quarter.

The students’ task? To deliver a compelling, scientifically rigorous cooking demonstration that catered to the theme of Creole or Cajun cooking. Both Creole and Cajun cuisines originated in

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Pecan pie | Cornell’s team at the Communicating Chemistry: Cajun Cooking Competition perfected pecan pie.

Louisiana and were heavily influenced by French recipes and techniques.

Participants were encouraged to develop their presentations as if they were on a food-related television show.

“We wanted the students to come up with at presentation that they could imagine someone watching television to be drawn in and stuck on their channel,” Sacks said.

The teams investigated and presented the chemistry that drives the flavors and textures of traditional Louisiana recipes.

“We intentionally didn’t give a lot of guidance for what the presentations were to look like, and students came from very different perspectives – 1 [group] did a cooking show, one was more of a documentary style, and the third approached it more like an experiment,” Sacks said.

First on the menu was Fresno State’s gumbo, a one-pot stew that usually includes seafood and vegetables with a base of roux, a thickener made by carefully heating flour and oil. The team applied biochemical principles to explain the gelatinization and caramelization that is responsible for the roux, often described as one of the of the “mother sauces” of French cooking.

Flour, one of the main ingredients of the roux, contains starch, long chains of sugars, and amino acids, the building blocks of pro-

teins. Heating flour in oil causes the sugars to react with the amino acids, which results in browning – this famous cooking reaction is called the Maillard reaction.

Manipulating the heating conditions changes the chemistry behind the roux, which includes many other caramelization reactions in addition to the Maillard browning process, leading to different aromas and colors.

The second course was provided by the team from College of the Ozarks, which also explored another classic Cajun roux-based dish – crawfish étouffée. In French, “étouffée” means “to smother,” which describes the method of cooking the meat covered with a thin layer of vegetables and sauce. The students explored the chemistry of the ingredients in étouffée, including compounds such as capsaicin which is responsible for the heat of peppers.

“They made a mock-up of a cooking show with a Southern host who was giving the audience instructions on how to make an étouffée, but would periodically cut away to other group members to explain the chemistry,” Sacks said.

Last up was dessert, provided by the Cornell team. The students explored the science behind making pecan pie with the perfect consistency.

“You want a gelatinous, rich, creamy, custard-like filling. You don’t want something weak and

runny that drips off the plate, but you also don’t want something impossible to chew,” Sacks said.

The pie filling is a gel – a solid dispersed in a liquid – which, in the case of pecan pie, is made from combining eggs and corn syrup.

The secret to achieving that creamy pecan filling lies in the role that protein and metal ions, both present in egg yolks, play in stabilizing the gel. To demonstrate the importance of these key components, the Cornell team made a host of pecan pies by adapting the original recipe to include all egg whites, all egg yolks, gelatin, and other egg substitutes.

The students performed their demonstrations for a group of 100 attendees and also provided samples to the audience members.

After evaluating the chemistry and the clarity of the presentations, the judges, a panel of food science experts including Shirley Corriher, Harold McGee, Darin Nesbit, and Prof. Terry Acree, food science, declared the contest a three-way tie.

Sacks said that he and Miller are looking ahead to future American Chemical Society conferences, where the locations would lend themselves well to a study of the local cuisine. The August 2014 meeting is scheduled to be San Francisco: the home of Ghirardelli chocolate and a large wine-producing region.

Jacqueline Carozza can be reached at jcarozza@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Life of an Enemy of the People

BY MEREDITH JOYCE Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca College Theater finished its 2012-13 season with six thought-provoking performances of Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at Hoerner Theater in Dillingham Center. The performers’ objective portrayal of the emotional struggle to find truth in the public made for a puzzling experience that gave no immediate conclusions.

In 1882, Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in response to the public outcry against his play Ghosts. The protagonist, Dr. Thomas Stockmann, was intended to represent Ibsen’s own voice.

His brave struggle to do the right thing and speak what he believes to be the truth eventually sets the town’s liberal newspaper, his brother the mayor and the majority of his small coastal Norwegian town against him. Before his tragic downfall, Dr. Stockmann is an incredibly social townsperson; he’s respected for his outgoing personality and is joined at his dinner table by sailors, teachers, politicians and writers alike. Dr. Stockmann and his brother, the mayor, invest a large amount of money in the development of baths in their Norwegian town. The baths are expected to be a huge success, but Dr. Stockmann discovers that the waters are contaminated with waste from the town’s tannery. Fearing that the bath’s tourists will become seriously ill, Dr. Stockmann sends these important findings to his brother and the local press.

Unfortunately, the solution he proposes would be costly to the town, the mayor fears that addressing the contamination problem will lead to the town’s financial demise. Stockmann hears this worry but, believing it’s his duty to prevent illness, he speaks out anyway. Dr. Stockmann is shocked to find that neither the authorities, nor the public nor his own once-supportive friends and brother believe his findings. The public refuses to believe that Dr. Stockmann’s claims are true and turns on him en masse, labeling him “an Enemy of the People.” By the end of this struggle, Dr. Stockmann and his family are evicted from their home and forced to consider fleeing to America for safety.

As the protagonist moves from being a popular doctor to a stigmatized unemployed misfit, the play explores the theme of individualism in groups. According to Dr. Stockmann, and very possi-

bly Ibsen, the individual is superior to the multitude in matters of right and wrong. The reason being that the many are easily influenced by the self-advancing demagogues like the Mayor. At the close of the play, as Stockmann stands evicted from his brokenwindowed home, he declares, “The strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone. … A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong”.

Arthur Miller, known for the individualistic The Crucible, adapted Ibsen’s version in 1950 after being brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee for alleged Communist affiliations to make a similar point. The Ithaca College Theater program choose to stage this play in 2013 for reasons of a parallel persuasion to Mr. Miller’s. Play Director Robert Moss, the previous artistic director of Ithaca’s Hangar Theater, says, “The clearest analogy of the play is to the hydrofracking issue in Tompkins County.

It’s a modern battle that seems to pit jobs and money against the environment, and the environment almost always loses that battle.” Also echoed in the program’s notes, Dramaturg Ben Shipley writes, “Some studies demonstrate the benefits [of hydrofracking], others the liabilities. The monetary benefits to those folks who lease their lands are huge. But are there serious health risks?” He says, “If Doctor Stockmann were in Ithaca today, he’d surely be effectively and actively lobbying against the hydrofracking industry because of the risks it presents. But many local landowners are in support and are signing leases that are financially tempting.” Ithaca College Theater is hoping to “illuminate the issues from the safe distance of 1882 Norway” in order to “stimulate important discussions and to help people make up their minds.”

The stage at Hoerner Theater felt like a movie screen. Each scene is filled with multiple characters, all going on with their lives in their own little worlds — eating dinner, eavesdropping on the couch, stealing apples, being ignorant of her apples being stolen.

Two characters would come forward to talk to each other as a crowd continued to scurry and chat and Peter had a silent mouthed argument on the left side of the stage. This setup made the play complicated in the sense that it felt off-center; you could listen to the character speaking, or you could follow a mischievous character’s actions happening in the corner. This served to hit upon the underlying questions of who’s right and who do we listen to.

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Dan Berlingeri played Dr. Thomas Stockmann with energy. He threw canes, danced with heavy legs and preached to the crowd with spit coming out of his mouth. For such a serious and nuanced topic, there were a lot of funny moments: “You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth” Stockman said Overall, the play never informs the audience which side they should take, or clears up uncertainties. The viewer never finds out whether Dr. Stockmann was really right about his findings of contamination. A good metaphor for the play came in a loud scene in the second act. Dr. Stockmann is standing on a table over a crowd of townspeople, screaming in an attempt to defend himself. It’s so chaotic that it’s hard to tell where to focus your attention. Do we try to listen to the protagonist and his opinions, or do we focus on the rest of the stage as they scream and move? There is no way to tell, but I think I certainly learned that no matter what the individual is saying, it’s hard to ignore the majority.

Meredith Joyce is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at mjoyce@cornellsun.com.

Mother Hunger: Sister at Cornell Cinema “All happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.” If only Tolstoy had known what he was getting us all into with that one. I’m not sure how many narratives tag-lined “the ties that bind” or “familial bonds,” “complications of the family dynamic” or “blood is thicker than water” the cinematic canon can possibly hold, but we have to be getting towards carrying capacity. Sister (L’enfant d’en haut), the fourth feature film from French-Swiss director Ursula Meier, is another such film, centered around a pair of siblings who are struggling to survive in a seeming-wasteland.

The film is set in the desolation of a vegetation-less valley that sits in the shadow of a looming luxury ski resort, and follows a Swiss boy named Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) who lives with his sister Louise (Léa Seydoux) in a mostly-abandoned housing complex. Jaque Mandelbaum for The Guardian describes these “cruel physical and atmospheric contrasts between the two worlds, high and low;” truly, though the film has all the appropriate trappings to be a melodramatic socioeconomic case study, it steers clear of social comment and remains interested in the aesthetics of juxtaposition. While Simon lives in the dreary shadow of wealth, he is upwardly aspirational — his is an entrepreneurial life of the most unlikely variety.

Though Simon is seen first in a chairlift peacefully enjoying his lunch amongst the wealthy vacationers, it is revealed early on that he is far from benign. Simon steals expensive skis and other gear from the resort and sells them as “clearance items” to neighborhood kids, professional skiers and a resort-employee middleman. At twelve years old, he is the primary financial provider for himself and his sis-

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ter Louise, who is in her twenties and habitually disappearing with one or the other of a string of mostly-faceless boyfriends. Despite his obvious adoration of his big sister and fierce loyalty to her, Simon is never meant to be a standard working-class hero.

He is shifty-eyed and conniving, justifying his crimes saying the rich skiers will “Just buy another,” and pushing the limits of his precarious enterprise time and again. He is fascinated by one of the wealthy families at the resort and tries to win over the kind, platinum blonde mother (Gillian Anderson) by offering to pay for her lunch with a wad of cash. He tries to steal a man’s backpack while his back is turned and receives a public beating, but shakes it off. “Mother hunger,” a term of Toni Morrison’s, the desire “to be one or to have one,” is a prominent theme in Sister. Simon experiences this longing openly and consciously, and no more poignantly than when he finally accepts that Louis will not be back from her latest bender in time for Christmas.

Kaitlyn Tiffany Cornell Cinema He solemnly saws down a fir tree sapling, carting it home on the same sled he steals his wares with.

He enjoys providing for Louise and is overjoyed to indoctrinate her into the family business, tenderly instructing her on how to buff scratches out of used skis. His affection comes up against a brick wall — Louise leaves midlesson with a dark-haired boyfriend in a red BMW, and she continually waltzes in and out of his life in her high-heeled white leather boots. In one scene, Simon pays Louise all of his remaining money to let him sleep in her

bed with her. In another, he watches her lead a man to her room as he somberly breaks two cigarettes and plugs his ears with the filters.

Despite all the ways that Louise expresses her lack of love for him, Simon is persistent.

In fact, his every motion in the movie seems calculated and cyclical, like he has seen and done it all before. The story follows one ski season — Christmas to Easter — and promises that Simon’s career is on a track more akin to the circular motion of the chair lift he starts and ends the movie riding in. What’s more is that the major plot twist of the movie presents an emotional revelation that should change the plot’s trajectory — but doesn’t. Louise and Simon continue going through the motions of survival, apparently unscathed.

The movie is obviously subtitled, translated from Swiss-French, and perhaps the full experience of the dialogue would make this relationship read as more developed and interesting. As is, it’s a tragic but simplistic story of a little boy who is loved by no one — even the person who is most obligated to try. The resentments are the standard ones of obligation and responsibility, and the sprinkling of displayed tendernesses are the habitual ones pulled from any Lifetime Original Movie about a broken home. Klein shines when he’s on his own, moving back and forth between his two worlds, the master manipulator, the criminal who’s sold his soul for a piece of the pie. It’s when his charade falters and he’s supposed to show vulnerability with his stonyfaced sister that the movie falls flat.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

Swinging Singles

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Disclosure

Wild Nothing

The National

“You and Me”

“A Dancing Shell”

“Sea of Love”

By James Rainis

By Mike Sosnick

Sometimes I hate writing about dance music because I’m forced to use increasingly esoteric genre names — electroclash, trap, post-dubstep, 2-step, downtempo, etc. — that leave 90 percent of readers (and, on occasion, me) out in the cold. However, British duo Disclosure, who first came to the Internet’s collective attention with their barn-burning AlunaGeorge collaboration “White Noise,” synthesize so many scenes into their songs that it becomes impossible not to geekily spot them all. The Eliza Doolittle-assisted “You and Me” incorporates ’90s garage’s sludgy bass synths, footwork’s skittering snares and a Burial-style dubstep atmosphere with a steamroller of a chorus. From a pair of brothers who admitted that they “didn’t know anything about dance music or where it came from” when they started, this assemblage of assorted sounds makes for an intriguing vision free from the restraints of trying to “authentically” portray a specific scene’s sound.

Disclosure has become a bonafide pop sensation in the U.K. and, if they can keep on recreating the romantic longing and propulsive percussion in “You and Me,” it shouldn’t be long before they are tearing it up stateside.

Wild Nothing is known for calm, intricate textures, dreamy electronic washes and lofty vocals. “A Dancing Shell,” the new single from Jack Tatum’s band’s upcoming E.P., Empty Estate, attempts to change that. Everything from the single’s neon patterned album art to its sparkly lead bucks the modern chillwave trend and hearkens back to the genre’s ’80s new wave roots. Multitracked talking in the verses and the phaser-laden synth solo are direct nods to the era of the Talking Heads. Combined with the funky, driving bass line, this single is actually danceable, something completely unheard of for Wild Nothing.

Despite changing his influences this time around, “A Dancing Shell” is still very obviously Tatum. He accompanies the disco march with creative synthesizer fills and an ethereal chorus, creating a new wave dance track with distinctive touches and a notably Wild Nothing structure. Although Tatum sings, “Just a dancing shell here to make you happy. I have no feelings, I have no thoughts,” the single manages to elevate mindless dance pop into something more emotional and intelligent.

Back in 2010, The New York Times wrote about indie rock band the National’s songwriting process. Brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner come up with hundreds of ideas and run them through vocalist Matt Berninger, who accepts or shoots them down. Those ideas get filtered out into some “heavy metal thing,” at which point the other band members push back and dismiss it as “Berninger black-fantasy guitar.” The resulting consensus is the National’s unique sound, which although constantly evolving, maintains elements of garage rock and blues mixed with an ironic and masculine emotional heaviness.

“Sea of Love,” from The National’s upcoming album Trouble Will Find Me, hints at a move from High Violet’s stadium rock to a grittier garage rock aesthetic. Their performance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, exhibited the National’s suave clothes that hardly convey “rock band,” but, more importantly, their outstanding performance shows hints of their highart sensibility falling apart. Beyond the glasses and fading hairlines, Berninger’s voice yelps in the climax, a dramatic shift from his usual brooding baritone. “I see you rushing now,” he cries over the brooding guitars, delivering honest anguish, not irony, in the end. They might be getting old, but “Sea of Love” proves that these dads have still got it.

Mike Sosnick is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com.

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

By Kai Sam Ng

Sterotypes Are Modern

W

hen I was a freshman at the University of Michigan, shortly after the Foxconn suicides, I remember a drunken man telling me that I broke his iPhone and that I should jump off a building. That hasn’t happened again since I transferred to Cornell, but a week ago I remembered his statement. It made me wonder: If iPhones didn’t exist, what would he have said instead?

What immediately came to me was not an answer, but a realization: Stereotypes are not a holdover from a backwards era. Stereotypes are as modern as the iPhone that my drunken Michigan man broke. Once they are disproven, they become history as newer ones take their place.

Other writers have covered stereotypes of all gravities and groups better than I can, but those stereotypes that affect me the most — being Chinese, and broadly, being Asian — have a strange history that is worth exploring. What in the world happened between the mid19th Century’s “yellow peril” and the founding of the present day concept that Asians are studious and good at math? What better place is there to figure it out than art?

Political cartoons of scrawny Asian men with slanted eyes were a barometer of the anti-Asian sentiment that culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act, but that’s history class stuff. That narrative follows a typical progressive track that started off with racist backwardness but ended like a fairy tale.

Hollywood shows something else. In the beginning, Asian-Americans actors were cast as seductive and forbidden sex symbols.

Sessue Hayakawa was the Byronic alpha male, tantalizingly forbidden to white women.

Anna May Wong was the “Dragon Lady,” a femme fatale who schemes and seduces white men in her villainous plots. The “Dragon Lady” portrayal disappeared after the ’30s, while its male counterpart disappeared so rapidly that it doesn’t even have a name. Both Wong and Hayakawa left for Europe out of frustration for being typecasted in negative roles.

Just before both actors left American cinema, two trends began. The first was a gradual disappearance of Asians in the ’30s, and the start of ostensibly Asian characters being played by white actors instead. The movie adaption of Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth is an example of “yellowface:” MGM cast white actors against Buck’s wishes for a story about destitute Chinese farmers. Some Asian actors were in the movie, but played supporting roles.

My favorite has to be The Mysterious Mr.

Kai Sam Ng You’ve Got to be Kitsching Me Wong, where Bela Lugosi, pioneering actor of the horror genre, plays the harmless Mr. Wong, who turns out to be an evil gang leader seeking the “Twelve Coins of Confucius.” It stars a Chinese man with a Hungarian accent — talk about bad typecast and stereotype combinations. Yellowface still exists — the movie adaption of Avatar: The Last Airbender had a completely white protagonist cast. One actor, quelling the criticism, said, “hopefully the audience will suspend disbelief” when he pulls his hair up, “shaves the sides” and gets a tan.

The second trend is the acceleration and

permeation of the “Butterfly” stereotype, shown best by Anna May Wong in one of Hollywood’s first color films, The Toll of the Sea. Calling the stereotype “Butterfly” is not coincidental — both the name and the film were derived from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

However, what set the film (and thus the stereotype) apart from others was its portrayal of Asian womenn. Wong wasn’t quixotically romantic, but naïve and juvenile. Unlike the opera, where Butterfly gives up her son so she can see her American lover who hides in shame, Wong is “educated” to give up the child very straightforwardly by her American lover and his wife.

The naiveté her character exhibits still persists today with portrayals of Asian women as a model minority deprived of sexual knowledge.

After Hayakawa left, Asian men too were quickly desexualized: Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the typical example, but this trend is also visible in the martial arts movie genre. Yes, Bruce Lee challenged the scrawny image of the male Asian body, but, like Hayakawa, he seems to be an exception.

A sense of aloofness and Oriental expertise transformed martial artists into benevolent and asexual fighters. There is no leadership, only subordination. Kato, the trusty Japanese sidekick in the comic series The Green Hornet, conveniently doubles as a valet. Seraph, the

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Oracle’s guardian in The Matrix Reloaded, is an asexual killing machine that does as told.

Realizing stereotypes as modern is crucial — it reorients the agency of subalternity, which we always attribute to a societal structure, upon ourselves. “Everyone’s a little bit racist,” a song in the Broadway show Avenue Q goes, “but everybody’s just about as racist as you!” When stereotypes pop up that didn’t previously exist, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We forget that we too create and reinforce stereotypes, and that we have the power to dismantle them. Stereotypes aren’t just structural problems out of our control.

But, does anyone really care?

Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. You’ve Got to be Kitsching Me runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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C.U.Players Move On FOOTBALL

Continued from page 20

Bay] is a great landing spot,” Tretter said. “I’m looking forward to getting to know Aaron and to learn from him and see what he does to defenses.”

As a wide receiver, Tasker will have to form a similar relationship with his quarterback — Phil Rivers. Rivers led the Chargers to a 14-2 record in his first season as the starting quarterback, and — in 2007 — led San Diego to its first playoff win since 1994.

“I’m very excited to work with [him]. I think it’s a good fit for me and a good opportunity,” Tasker said.

A New York boy hailing from East Aurora, Tasker has the luxury of getting to play in Southern California.

“I mean, it’s Southern Cali — there’s no weather that is better,” Tasker said. “I also have some friends in San Diego which makes it more fun, and maybe I’ll try to live in California for some time.”

As a fellow offensive lineman, Tretter cannot help but be compared to Boothe, who became a two-time Super Bowl champion after the Giants beat the Patriots in 2011.

“Kevin has been great, giving me pointers and tips along the way, and he congratulated me when he heard the news,” Tretter said. “I can’t complain with that comparison. He’s done a great job, so I’d love to be able to follow in his footsteps.”

As roommates and teammates since their freshman year, Tasker and Tretter have seen each other through ups and downs, injuries and recoveries. However, according to Tasker, sharing this moment has legitimized their hard work.

“It’s been cool. We’ve been roommates for four years; it’s been a fun process to share together, getting ready for the draft,” Tasker said. “It’s a funny coincidence that now we both get this chance to make a career out of this game.”

With two Red players making the next step to professional football this year, there is hope for Tretter and Tasker’s teammates that, someday, they too might hear their name called by an NFL team.

“It just takes hard work, it takes sacrificing, but mostly it takes a positive attitude,” Tasker said. “You’re not going to be everything you want as a football player, so you need to have a positive attitude. You’ve got to remember to have fun with it and live in the moment.”

Tretter had similar advice for the younger generation of Cornell football players.

“You’ve got to dedicate yourself every day, make the right decisions on and off the field, and put the extra work in,” he said. “You have to do something extra if you want to separate yourself from everyone else.”

For now, Tretter and Tasker have the opportunity to soak in the accomplishment of moving on to the next level of the game they love.

However, they both understand that the outcome of this weekend was just the first step in what is sure to be a long and difficult journey.

“There’s still a lot of work ahead if I want to make my dreams come true,” Tasker said.

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

Ritter’13 Reflects on Four Years on the Hill RITTER

Continued from page 20

and caught the soccer bug in the meantime.

3) Wrestling NCAAs in Philadelphia

In March 2011, I had the chance to cover the wrestling team when it went to the NCAA Tournament in Philadelphia. It was my first time attending a meet for Cornell outside of the cozy Friedman Center, and it was overwhelming to say the least. It was probably one of the best experiences I’ve had at The Sun. I also got to watch Kyle Dake wrestle on the center mat from press row. So epic.

4) Visiting the Boat House

Back when I first started writing for The Sun, I volunteered to write about the men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams. I had no clue what rowing entailed or what an erg machine was; however, after a 7 a.m. trip to the Cornell Boat House, where heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett ’91 took me out on the launch (in the rain no less) and explained everything, I have a newfound understanding and appreciation for the sport.

Rowers are some of the most underrated athletes at Cornell (#nopromo).

5) The 2011 Harvard Game

If you haven’t witnessed Harvard come to Lynah before, you are missing out. I’ve only seen it once, but it was memorable. I saw one man blow up a sex doll and throw it on the ice, and another man asked me if he could show me the barracuda in his pants — which, surprisingly was not an innuendo, but actually a three foot long, semi-frozen dead fish.

6) Sports Supplements

Creating the various extra supplements we produce each semester is an experience. The first one I was responsible for was the 2011 Winter Supplement and it featured the men’s swimming team and wrestler Kyle Dake on the covers. While supplements take forever to painstakingly coordinate, they represent a great accomplishment when they are complete. The special cover shoots are an added bonus, as the most recent football one only furthered my crush on Jeff Mathews — cat’s outta the bag on that one!

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Lauren Ritter can be reached at lritter@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Red Key Society Hosts Field Day and Cornell Cup

The First Annual Red Key Field Day, co-sponsored by the Meinig Family Cornell National Scholars was hosted and attended by over

100 athletes from more than 15 teams to provide a day of sports and fun for the local Ithaca community.

According to the Red Key Society, an honor society for upper-class athletes, the event’s

purpose was to expand the relationship between the Cornell Athletic Community and the local Ithaca community.

For two-and-a-half hours, the Red played with children of Cornell’s athletic staff, local

schools and youth programs such as OURS & YOURS. The athletes and community members participated in sports such as lacrosse, gymnastics, field hockey, ultimate frisbee and soccer.

Throughout the day, a meet and greet station with food and water allowed children to get to know the Cornell athletes. At the end of the event, Cornell Athletics gear was raffled off for the participants.

The Red Key Athlete Honor Society also started an inter-athletics competition that recognizes Cornell’s student-athletes for their leadership and contribution to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.The Cornell Cup motivated the varsity teams to thrive in the classroom, excel in competition, participate in community service projects, offer support to other Cornell varsity teams and attend Student Athlete Advisory Council and Red Key-sponsored events.

This year’s winner was the wrestling team, which aside from having stellar performances in the season and in the NCAA Championships, showed great community and Cornell athletic involvement.

“It’s pretty awesome to be given an award like this, our team loves giving back to the community and attending other athletic events,” senior wrestler Kyle Dake said.

“Regardless if we got an award like this we would still give back, but it is nice to get cool shirts and a tiny bit of recognition. “ One of the team’s primary involvements is Big Red Buddies; the team volunteers at the Cornell Child Care Center.

The team also participated in three 5k runs for charity — including the 21 Run organized by the Men’s Lacrosse Team — and worked three youth wrestling tournaments over the year.

“I can’t think of any team that deserves it more than wrestling this year,” senior fencer Beverly Yang said. “If there was any team we could count on to be at a game or bring volunteers for events, it was the wrestling team.”

Looking ahead to the future, the Red Key Society hopes to keep the competition going and to increase the internal competition between teams.

“We’re looking into putting a permanent scoreboard in Bartels, as well as continue posting results on the facebook page to grow the name of Cornell cup and what it represents,” Yang said. “It’s really improved the sense of community among all the teams this year, and I hope that it only makes teams closer in the future.”

Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Carly Gniewek Women’s Lacrosse Position: Goalkeeper Stats: • Recorded 28 saves in her freshman campaign, earned an 8.85 goals against average and racked up a .538 save percentage

SOPHOMORES

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Clare MacManus Women’s Soccer Position: Midfield Stats: • Earned All-Ivy Second Team honors after appearing in all 16 games for Cornell • Ranked fourth on the team with 18 goals this season

Danielle Letourneau W. Squash

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M. Lacrosse

M. Squash

Meredith Drummond Swimming

Stats: • Ranked seventh in the country and was placed on the All-Ivy League First Team

Position: Midfield Stats: • Snatched two goals and one assist to win the Ivy League title over Brown

Stats: • Led Cornell with 17 victories against just five losses from the middle of the lineup

Position: Free/Breast/IM Stats: • Placed seventh in the 200 breast at Ivies • Set records in the 200 IM and 200 IM

Stephen Mozia

J.D. Whetsel

Kate Roach

Maddie Breen

Track Position: Thrower Stats: • Holds the school and freshman record in the shot put with a distance of 62’ 8”

Baseball Position: Forward Stats: • Leads the team in runs (25), total bases (51), stolen bases (17) and .306 average

Rowing Stats: • Rowed in the second varsity eight as a freshman, finishing sixth overall at the Ivy League championships and placing 14th at NCAAs

TRACK AND FIELD

Equestrian Stats: • Placed fourth in the Intermediate Flat Class at the Ivy League Championships

Sam Fleck M. Tennis Stats: • Played in all 22 matches while grabbing a 14-5 record in singles and 152 in doubles

Lauren Frazier W. Tennis Stats: • Earned the best winning percentage in singles for Cornell with a .800 record • Won all 10 of her nonleague matches

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Red Preps for Heps Championships Baseball Finishes Season

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

It is Heps week for the men’s and women’s track and field teams. A year of training is going to culminate this weekend at Princeton, where the Red will compete to claim the outdoor Heps championship.

In the last weekend of competition before the Heps, the track and field teams competed at the historic Penn Relays and hosted the Big Red Invite.

“Penn Relays was very good for the most part. We had some tremendous performances, some of the top performances in Cornell track history. Stephen Mozia won the championship of America with a new school record,” men’s head coach Stephen Taylor said. “The 4x100m relay won the IC4A section of the relay, running the second fastest time ever by an Ivy League team ... Rob Robbins had the longest throw of the meet in the javelin.”

Notable performances from the men’s team included the 4x100m relay team of Ryan Hynes, Jedidiah Adarquah-Yiadom, Bruno Hortelano-Roig and Kinsley Ojukwu claiming first place in the IC4A Championship division with a time of 40.24 seconds, sophomore Stephen Mozia winning the shot put Championship division at 63’ to break a 38-year-old Cornell record in the event and sophomore Robert Robbins claiming the college division of the javelin with a heave of 231’ 10”.

Women’s head coach Rich Bowman spoke about how this past weekend once again demonstrated how well his team has performed all season.

“It was really one of the best Penn Relays we’ve had since I’ve been here,” he said. “The kids were great.

There were all kinds of wonderful things happen. The whole season’s been great. The Sunday meet was fantastic too. We’re really proud of where [the team] is

going right now.”

Notable women’s performances included senior cocaptain Victoria Imbesi claiming the Eastern Shot Put title with a throw of 48’10.25”, junior Rachel Sorna winning the 3K championship in 9:20.36 and a team of sophomore Mina Amick-Alexis (14.3), freshman Hillary Holmes (14.3), junior Zaakirah Daniels (14.1) and freshman Kayla Wong (14.9) winning the Shuttle Hurdle relay in 57.59.

“It absolutely says that we have the potential to score a lot of points as a team,” Taylor said. “Across the board, as a coach you look for your top 36 athletes to compete at the Heps, and everyone of those guys is moving in the right direction.”

With their eyes now set on claiming the Heps title and bringing it back to Cornell, both coaches spoke about what it’s going to take for their teams to emerge victorious.

“Well I just think they need to keep doing the same things that they’ve been doing,” Bowman said.

“They’ll do well if they continue to follow the process, keep doing what they’re doing and listen. If they’re comfortable in their own skin, they’ll be fine.”

Taylor said he wants his team to realize its potential and to set the bar high.

“I’ll be most pleased with their ability to put themselves in situations in which they can fail and not be afraid,” he said. “I think self doubt is a valuable piece of realism, but constant self doubt keeps you down.”

In the end though, Taylor laid out a blueprint for how to win the Heps.

“It’s going to take them competing unconsciously, laying it on the line with no fear and scrapping for every possible point in every event,” he said.

Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

The final weekend of regular season play came with an away doubleheader against Princeton on Friday and a home doubleheader on Sunday.

In the first game of the series, the Red took down the Tigers, 4-2. The action came in the third inning when junior Ryan Plantier started with a solo homerun to left field — his second homer of the week and the third of the season. The rest of the action came with two outs, as junior Chris Cruz knocked out a single which put sophomore J.D. Whetsel into scoring position. Tom D’Alessandro snatched a walk and junior Spenser Souza knocked a single up the center, which scored two.

Cornell sophomore Nick Busto was credited with the win with 5.2 innings. The Tigers were only able to break Busto’s shutout in the sixth inning with one run but scored again in the seventh. However, Cornell walked away with the “W.” The second game of the day brought the same for the Red but overall the team only had two hits through six innings. Those two were enough to give Cornell a 2-0 win over Princeton.

“Friday started off really hot. We went in there with that little bit of motivation,” senior Brenton Peters

said. “We had the opportunity to get into the Ivy League Championship if things fell into place, but it didn’t work out.”

Cornell and Princeton matched up again on Sunday at noon to mark the third face-off and to celebrate the Red seniors on Senior Day. Despite being back on the Hill, the Red could not keep the momentum from Friday, and the team dropped both games to the Tigers, 5-2 in 10 innings and 4-1.

“Sunday was a little bit of a different story. We just couldn’t get anything going as far as support for our pitchers. They did outstanding as always, but we just couldn’t put runs up on the board. … The second game we started all of the seniors,” Peters said. “It was kind of cool getting to play my last game with them.

We couldn’t bounce back, but I enjoyed the last season.”

Cornell wrapped up its season tied for second in the Lou Gehrig Division after the losses on Sunday.

Cornell finished the season 23-17 overall and 11-9 in the Ivy League.

During his last few days on the Hill, Peters gave a bit of advice to his younger teammates for next season.

“Take care of business early,” he said.

Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Sports

WEDNESDAY MAY 1, 2013

The Highlight Reel

Jillian Saulnier Women’s Hockey Position: Defenseman Stats: • Earned spots on the ECAC Hockey Second Team and All-Ivy First Team • Set a career high with 33 assists — ninth-all time in a single season

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or someone who usually has no trouble coming up with something to say, I’m finding myself at a loss for words as I sit here in Apollo’s (attempting) to write my last column. My time at The Sun has been a life-defining experience and I am struggling to find the words to convey the myriad of emotions I’m feeling.

Therefore, I have decided to do a Top-10 highlight reel rather than a farewell column. There is

Lauren Ritter

Joakim Ryan Men’s Hockey

Five for Fighting

Position: Defense Stats: • Led the team with 20 assists and power-play scoring with 11 points • Chosen as an All-Ivy League Second Team selection

something too final about saying goodbye, and frankly, I’m not ready to close my chapter with The Sun just yet. So, without further introduction: 1) “Men’s Tennis Comes Back Strong To Kick Off Spring Play”

Five semesters ago, I wrote my first bylined article for The Sun. The fact that it took me over three days, two nerve-racking interviews and one good cry to reach the formidable 465-word piece is beside the point. Looking back on the story, it wasn’t anything special — just your average recap of the men’s tennis team’s winter schedule.

However, to me, it was the beginning of a twoyear love affair with sports journalism, Cornell Athletics and The Sun.

Shonn Miller Men’s Basketball Position: Forward Stats: • Earned first-team All-Ivy League honors after averaging 11.5 points in 27 starts • Led the Ivy League in defensive rebounding

2) Men’s Soccer 2011-12

I was privileged enough to cover the men’s soccer team for the past two seasons. I have been witness to heartbreaking losses, triumphant victories and history being made as the 2012 team brought home the Ivy League title. For the girl who didn’t know the rules of the game two years ago to the girl who could probably diagram different play formations now, I think I’ve come a long way — See RITTER page 17

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See SOPHOMORES page 19

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Seniors J.C.Tretter, Luke Tasker Get Drafted Into NFL

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Sitting in his home in Akron, N.Y. on Saturday, surrounded by friends and family, senior offensive lineman J.C. Tretter heard

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the phone ringing first. The area code on the screen read Green Bay, Wis. Just a few moments later, Tretter watched on television as his name was called as the 25th pick of the fourth round by the Green Bay Packers in the

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Off to the big league | Senior

Ready to go | Senior Luke

J.C. Tretter was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

Tasker was picked up by San Diego after signing as a free agent.

2013 NFL Draft.

“There was just extreme excitement in the room,” Tretter said. “There were about twelve people there, a couple teammates, my mom, dad, sister, uncle, cousins and grandpa. It was such a tight-knit group and everyone was filled with joy and excitement. It was a great moment.”

One of Tretter’s teammates that sat through the grueling hours of Thursday and Friday’s draft show was senior wide receiver Luke Tasker. Tasker — who has roomed with Tretter since freshman year — got some thrilling news of his own just one day later, when he signed a free agent contract with the San Diego Chargers.

“Me and [Tasker] are best friends and roommates; he was at my house Thursday and Friday and came back to be with his family on Saturday,” Tretter said.

“It’s an exciting time for both of us being on a team next year, but

it’s also a great time for the Bay on May 9, joining a team that won the AFC championship Cornell Big Red nation.”

Though Tasker went undraft- and the Super Bowl in 2010, and ed through the seven-round finished 15-1 in the 2011 season. selection process that spanned “It’s an exciting time for both of us three full days, being on a team next year.” he was picked up by the Chargers J.C. Tretter as one of 23 undrafted players He will be assimilating into a city to join their roster.

“I’m excited and grateful to be that thrives on the success of its going to the Chargers, but I’m football team. also grateful to the people who “The town speaks for itself,” have helped me at Cornell,” Tretter said. “It’s a football Tasker said. “I’m thankful to my town where it’s all about the family for all the support I’ve Packers. It’s such a great envibeen given throughout my life. I ronment.” wouldn’t be here without all of Tretter has spent the last three them.” years protecting the blind side of The two seniors are the first star junior quarterback Jeff Red football players to go pro Mathews. Now, he will be fightsince Super Bowl champion ing to protect super bowl chamKevin Boothe ’06. Tretter’s pion and MVP Aaron Rodgers at fourth round selection is the the next level. highest since Seth Payne ’97 was “I couldn’t be happier; [Green chosen as the 114th overall pick.

Tretter will fly out to Green See FOOTBALL page 17